The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 4/ 7 /25

Good morning kids. Of course the leading story is the aftermath and reactions to President Trump's tariff regime announcement last week. Of course. Despite the doom casting and politicization from the usual sources, already 50 countries are crying Uncle Sam and want to negotiate with Trump and team.There are other potentially massive benefits if this is given the chance it deserves to work.

Trump’s economic team has subtly suggested the impact of the import duties could extend to increasing foreign direct investment in American industries, incentivize a shift in economic investment away from market speculation and into industries focused on producing tangible value, and put downward pressure on interest rates by lowering the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield.The myriad economic objectives the Trump White House hopes to achieve through its tariff policy are ambitious, to say the least. However, if the policy succeeds, President Trump will have fundamentally moved the United States into a position to dominate the global economy for the foreseeable future. . .
One of the more important secondary policy goals that the Trump White House likely hopes to achieve is a reduction in the 10-year Treasury Bond yield. While most people focus on the Federal Reserve Bank and its interest rate policy, the yield of long-term government bonds impacts interest rates on types of debt held for longer durations, including mortgages, credit cards, and, most importantly, government debt.The tariffs are anticipated to push the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield lower, meaning the cost of the federal government’s payments servicing the national debt will be reduced. Notably, the inflationary cycle that set in under the Biden government—and was exacerbated by former President Joe Biden’s reckless spending policies—caused the cost to service the debt to increase dramatically and made it difficult for the government to take on any new debt.

I don't know the exact figure, but the amount of money from the budget each year that goes to just the serving of internets payments on the debt and not the debt itself is insane. And the total debt now stands at 36 Trillion dollars. Regardless of who was and is in offie, that is and always has been unsustainable.

Just to reiterate a point I tried making on Friday, while it's great that numerous countries are now signaling a willingness to drop their tariffs and trade barriers on US goods, but in order to really bring jobs back home, along with the dismantling of as much of the regulatory state and bureaucracy that can be accomplished, How about major tax holidays and reductions for any enterprise, or person who opens a factory on US soil and employs actual US citizens. While the dismantling and off-shoring of our manufacturing sector has been going on since the 60s, it was the granting of Red China most-favored nation trading status and a seat at the WTO in the 90s that accelerated the death spiral of America's industrial base. And the blame rests both with the Clinton Dems and Bush era GOP that followed, with the headlong rush towards globalization, mixed with domestic power politics, despite what it did to the nation and people who elected them and their parties. But somehow Trump is an inept, dangerous fool for attempting to put things right.

And while that is going on, we still have to contend with this insanity:

Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday his “Politicon” podcast that those who cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration were comparable to Nazi collaborators in World War II.
Carville said, “How disgraced must these law firms feel now? How disgraced must these companies that are sucking up to him – that are giving him tens of millions of dollars for access. Do you know what’s going to happen? Do you know how this ends? Do you know these collaborators, what the country is going to feel towards collaborators with this regime? Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was liberated. They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No. It was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.” He added, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States. What their comeuppance is I can only guess. I don’t believe in any kind of, don’t believe you should assault anybody.”

Except that by carefully and consciously making this analogy, it's exactly what he's saying! There's a direct line to what he is saying, to what Bill Ayers believed once he and the Weathermen overthrow the government that he'd have to liquidate 25 million citizens who refused to recognize his power straight down to the actual Hitler and his Nazis he equates Trump and MAGA Americans with.

And on that note, we have this item that also revolts without necessarily being surprising.

Gov. Josh Shapiro attended an ‘iftar’ dinner at a mosque where an imam had previously declared that “Jews are the vilest people”, and announced a huge grant for the hate mosque.The $5 million grant, described as the largest ever given to a Muslim institution, came only 5 years after the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in Philly was forced to apologize for posting hateful Islamic sermons by an imam delivered at its mosque declaring that the Arabs were superior to all races, that Jews were the “enemies of Allah” and the “vilest of all people”.
The imam also appeared to call on Muslims to take over the world.“By Allah, if faith had taken root in our hearts, things would have been different. We would have imposed the word of Islam upon the world, like those before us did,” Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab told the congregation at Al Aqsa.
He also quoted a Hadith describing the eventual Muslim extermination of the Jews.

With Jews like Josh Shapiro, we don't need Nazis. Can we ask Carville about what he thinks of those who cooperate with this Imam and all who think and act like him. Of course not.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

In Colorado, and around the country, parents can be stripped of their rights to oversee their child’s medical decisions by government courts. (Hat tip to commenter Muldoon - jjs)
Exclusive: Colorado Father Fights To Keep Government From Sterilizing His 14-Year-Old Son
(Although) Roberts actually stayed in the official U.S. Ambassador's residence in Prague back when Norm Eisen was representing us there. This would be between 2011-2015 . . Roberts has strong ties to numerous rabid anti-Trump radicals, including James Boasberg, Beryl Howell and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Roberts appointed Boasberg to the FISA court. Boasberg's approval of the FISA warrants against Trump, made possible by Kevin Clinesmith's falsification of FBI documents, proved to be utterly corrupt. (And Boasberg is a crucial hack-in-black sabotaging DOGE and the deportation efforts - jjs)
John Roberts flew to the Czech Republic to spend a week with Trump-hating Leftist lawfare strategist Norm Eisen? (And Norm Eisen insists that John Roberts "is not corrupt?")
Would you hire Bill Clinton to be your marriage counselor?
Hillary Clinton Can Go Straight to Hell

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

"I got a report from the USTR last night (the office of the US trade representative) that more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation."
Over 50 countries contact White House to negotiate trade deals after Trump ramps up trade war
If successful, this policy will: Reshore U.S. production jobs . . .Encourage foreign direct investment into real industry...Lower long-term interest rates to reduce debt costs...Shift the economy from financial engineering back to tangible production... Realign the value of the U.S. dollar to support exports.
Trump’s Tariffs Are About a LOT More Than Just Reducing the Trade Deficit.
Classical theory may not care where the steel mills, chip foundries, shipyards, research labs, aircraft plants, oil fields, and supply chains are, but the real world of power politics does.
Is Bipartisan Nationalism Possible?
President Trump’s concern lies not with international trade in itself but with the systemic manipulation that has come to define it.
The Price of Reciprocity: Why President Trump’s Tariffs Make Strategic Sense
Trump’s take on taxes and the Great Depression bends history, but his critique of government growth post-1913 isn’t entirely off base—even if his solution belongs to a vanished era.
What Trump Got Right—And Wrong—About the Income Tax
The shrillest critics of Trump’s tariffs are not defenders of the American worker or champions of industrial renewal, but the high priests of a globalist order.
We Didn’t Start the Trade War—We’ve Just Finally Joined It
Tariffs have always had an appropriate place as a revenue source for our federal government, when done in moderation, like any other sales or excise tax.
Navarro Tariffs are Too High
Daniel Greenfield: California is "ready to talk" with global trading partners.
Gov. Newsom Treasonously Asks for Separate Tariff Deal With China
"We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before."
‘HANG TOUGH’: Trump Calls On Americans To Ride Out Tariff Storm, Predicts ‘Historic’ Investments
Why do politicians (on both sides of the fence) keep asking how tax cuts are going to be paid for?
Tax Cuts (and Tariffs) Need Not Be Paid For
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Senators voted 51 to 48 to advance the Trump-backed budget resolution to the House for consideration with Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine joining with Senate Democrats to oppose the fiscal framework. The budget blueprint’s passage at roughly 2:30 a.m. came after a marathon series of votes known as a “vote-a-rama” during which Senate Democrats forced their Republican colleagues to take politically contentious votes on amendments related to entitlement program spending, Department of Government Efficiency actions and Trump’s tariffs.
Senate GOP Advances Tax Cuts, Border Security Spending After Marathon Session
Miranda Devine: Blakeman and Patel’s meeting follows a letter from Rep. Eric Burlison to Patel and AG Pam Bondi last week accusing New York of “violating federal Medicaid law and intentionally breaching contracts with the federal government, specifically in relation to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program.”
Nassau County Exec Bruce Blakeman, FBI Director Kash Patel discuss cooperation over Medicaid fraud allegations, sources say
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES AFTERMATH
Los Angeles County has hired a consulting firm associated with anti-Trump retied general Stanley McChrystal to handle public engagement about recent wildfires — rather than simply listening to the public — among other duties.
Los Angeles County Hires Anti-Trump McChrystal Group for Public Input
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The Obama-appointed judge in March blocked President Donald Trump from using wartime authorities to send suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to a mega-prison in El Salvador, prompting incredible pushback from the president himself. As the challenge to the deportations play out in court, some legal experts have argued Boasberg should recuse himself from the case entirely, while others say he appears to be “making policy from the bench.” (RELATED: ‘The Border Is Closed’: Trump Admin Claims Historic Low In Migrant Crossings)
‘Should Have Recused Himself’: Legal Experts Sound Alarm On Obama-Appointed Judge Blocking Trump’s Deportations
Despite the claim that cases are “randomly assigned,” what she found in the transcript shows he already knew the case was coming and had planned accordingly. “He wanted this case. He wanted to stop the deportations and most importantly—he wanted to set a contempt trap for the Trump administration,” Kelly explained in a devastating thread exposing the judge's machinations.
Activist Judge Caught Red-Handed in Setup Against Trump in Bombshell Revelations
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
The Jerusalem Post: “The terrorists were struck while attempting to restore Hezbollah infrastructure in the South.”
Israeli Airstrike Eliminates Hezbollah Operatives Rebuilding Terrorist Infrastructure in Southern Lebanon

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Armstrong will now take sabbatical to 'spend time with family,' university says
‘No Specific Memory’: Columbia University’s Armstrong Tells Feds She Can’t Recall Specifics of Any Anti-Semitic Incident on Campus
American Muslims for 'Palestine', Hamas's 'propaganda arm,’ organized the rally
Murals at DC Protest Honor Terrorists
Silencing an infamous group’s account will make it harder to hold them accountable.
Instagram Shouldn’t Ban Pro-Hamas Students
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ narrative hardest hit.
Muslim Vows to ‘Bomb Every Synagogue in Toronto’
Connolly's posts were up for less than four hours, though this was long enough for someone to take a screenshot and for authorities to get involved, leading to her arrest.
UK mom jailed for deleted social media post after Southport attack denied temporary release to care for sick husband, troubled daughter
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Greenfield: Gov. Shapiro promises to defend antisemitic mosque against Trump administration.
Jewish Governor Gives $5M Grant to Mosque That Called Jews ‘Vilest People’
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“She literally tried to abort me,” cried Craven in an Instagram livestream recapping the incident. “It’s not just about babies,” she determined. Leftists “don’t care about human life.”
Pro-life Influencer Brutally Beaten to the Ground By Pro-Abortion Radical
He added, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States. What their comeuppance is I can only guess. I don’t believe in any kind of, don’t believe you should assault anybody.” (No you're saying more than half the nation should be gassed and cremated, or shot en masse into mass graves - jjs)
Carville Compares Those Cooperating with Trump to Nazi Collaborators
Democrats are defending wasteful government spending, protecting dangerous criminals from removal, standing against the domestic production of critical medications, and rejecting basic parental rights.
Staged or Not, Republicans Ignore the ‘Hands Off’ Protests at Their Own Peril
As another weekend of protests against Tesla is planned, it will be good to review one of the most egregious cases of leftist violence in this current cycle. Davis Nafshun, a Portland man, has been charged with using a laser to assault Tesla employees during a protest at a Tesla dealership near the South Waterfront in Portland.
Portland Man Arrested, Charged for Shining Laser into Tesla Employees’ Eyes
The uninhibited Id of the Democrat party has now weighed in with a view on interracial marriage that would make George Wallace (circa 1963) proud.
Jasmine Dixiecrat
Today, in the Democrat Party, a new truth is being revealed. You can see it in its latest marketing; it’s unmasked via the rhetoric of liberal politicians and leftwing pundits. And this “truth” says something deeply disturbing about the direction of the Democrat Party:
‘Go Back to Africa!’ How the Democrat Party Became the Party of Xenophobes and Racists.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Much like every other major story, the dying news media have managed to take a really interesting topic and thoroughly dumb it down to a limited set of monotonous slogans. In this case, variations of “tariffs hurt working people the most” and “the cost is passed onto consumers.”
Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Tariffs ‘A Tax On Consumers’ Edition
Thad McCotter: AI may promise efficiency, but as studies show, it’s quietly eroding our critical thinking—turning users into passive observers in their own cognitive decline.
AI: One Flew Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
The press seems to be in a constant state of childish petulance.
Media, Please Grow Up, Part II
'We put on notice those companies like Pepsi Cola that we will withdraw patronage,' Sharpton says on PoliticsNation
Al Sharpton Uses MSNBC Airtime To Promote DEI Boycott Against Pepsi
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Once America's golden dream factory, California's progressive utopia now produces soaring costs, fleeing businesses, and fading hope for its middle class.
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet’s legal fees after spending more than a decade locked in defamation litigation against the organization, and Mann subsequently requested a stay to postpone the payments. On Thursday, the court denied Mann’s request, meaning that he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a “threat to our children.” (RELATED: DC Jury Found ‘Hockey Stick’ Critics Defamed Scientist. What Does That Mean For Scientific Discourse Going Forward?)
Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics
Oil production has increased to 13.6 million barrels per day under Trump, just shy of an all-time record
Trump Admin Announces First Offshore Oil Lease Sale in Gulf of America
The government is outsourcing the 'crown jewel' of climate change research to liberal climate consultants.
Meet The Government Consultants Raking In Millions To Spread Climate Doom
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
In a letter issued Friday, Daniel Morton-Bentley, who serves as the counsel and deputy commission for the NYSED argued that while they “understand” the Trump administration is seeking “to censor anything it deems” DEI, “there are no federal or State laws prohibiting the principles of DEI.”
New York State Education Department Refuses to Eliminate DEI Practices
Mike Miles is proving that traditional methods—not trendy educational fads—can improve academic performance.
Houston’s Superintendent Is Turning Around Struggling Schools
ABORTION
Why Trump’s new directive is long overdue.
Defunding Planned Parenthood
A British judge has convicted a pro-life campaigner, Livia Tossici-Bolt, for breaching a “buffer zone” around an abortion clinic. The 64-year-old woman was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay the equivalent of $25,700 toward court costs, alongside a $33,400 victim surcharge, for her actions outside the abortionist facility in March 2023. The so-called buffer zone, established by the municipal government, spans 10 streets.D
Trump Admin Raises Concerns After Pro-Life Activist Fined Tens of Thousands for Violating Clinic ‘Buffer Zone.’
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson claims noncitizen voting is “very rare,” despite permissive practices enabling it in the past.
Michigan Secretary Of State Discovers 15 Possible Noncitizen Voters, Insists It’s No Big Deal (If she admits 15, multiply that by hundreds? Thousands? - jjs)
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
A: new report from the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on House Administration, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reveals “serious gaps” in Democratic fundraiser ActBlue’s fraud prevention systems.
House Judiciary Committee: Dem Fundraiser Made Its Fraud-Prevention Rules ‘More Lenient’ in 2024
Senate Republicans obviously shouldn’t outsource their legislative prerogatives to the parliamentarian.
No, The Senate Shouldn’t Let Even More Unaccountable Bureaucrats Decide What The Law Says
POLITICS
The poll was taken by DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners of over 1,000 registered voters between March 31 and April 3.
Media Fail — Trump Job Approval Rises 4 Points to 53%
Victor Davis Hanson: The left rages against Trump but offers no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while results quietly pile up.
The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda
Roger Kimball: Trump is a political paradigm-shifter, taking bold action where others only talk—disrupting norms, slashing DEI, imposing tariffs, and redrawing the rules of governance.
Actions v. Words
Clarice Feldman: The Trump Administration prevails against both trade barriers internationally and out-of-control courts at home.
The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies
Miranda Devine: In a CNN poll last month, Obama received only 4% support from Democrats who were asked which leader best represents the party, lagging behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. Ouch.
Democrats refuse Barack Obama’s election meddling — as former prez’s influence within the desperate party withers
Despite polls showing a tight race between Harris and Trump in 2024, the president won both the Electoral College and the popular vote for Republicans, leading Democrats to question their mistakes. While on “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker began by bringing up a new book by author Chris Whipple in which it is alleged how Biden had repeatedly been “struggling to focus” before withdrawing from the race.
‘Could Not Run Away’: Adam Schiff-for-brains Says Harris Lost Race Due To Being ‘Status Quo’ Candidate
According to a report from the Daily Mail, which received an advance copy of the book, Harris's staff couldn't even properly connect the phone call. Her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles were reduced to literally pressing two phones together to make the connection work. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
Kamala's Staff Went Bonkers After Her Concession Call To Trump
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Ahead of the demonstration, Mrs Le Pen vowed that protests against the election ban would be a “peaceful” and “democratic fight” that would be inspired by the peaceful civil disobedience of figures like Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States.
Marine Le Pen Vows ‘I Won’t Give Up!’ as Thousands Rally in Paris Against Election Ban
Call it a "Greenland Action Plan," or, "'pulling stones from the ice.'
Greenland: How Trump Can Deal with the Raging Danes to America's Advantage
Giving Greenland’s sovereignty to the U.S. benefits all parties: the U.S., Greenland, and Greenland’s colonial overlord, Denmark.
Greenland at the Crossroads: Why U.S. Leadership is Crucial
Peace for the Czech Republic means partnership with the USA.
Vondráček: The American Story Is Back.

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The U.S.-led Golden Dome aims to counter hypersonic missile threats with cutting-edge tech and allied support, redefining North American defense for a new era.
Golden Dome: America’s Answer to the Hypersonic Threat
"So it really did get sucked into Mike Waltz phone ..."
‘So Damn Dangerous’: Signal Chat Breach Linked To ‘Automated Suggestion’ Feature On iPhone
The now infamous mix-up involving White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, resulted from an automated contact update prompt in Waltz’s iPhone, according to The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell. The illustration, provided below, is indicative of the type of function that Waltz apparently used when receiving a message from his colleague Brian Hughes.
‘Forensic Review’ Reveals How The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Ended Up in Mike Waltz’s Houthi Signal Chat.
This interview was taped before the Atlantic magazine released the so-called Signal-gate messages, where that publication’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added inadvertently to a group chat among the senior-most members of President Trump’s administration in which they discussed details relating to the president’s decision to authorize these strikes.
Exclusive — Inside Trump’s Jihadist Elimination Unit at the White House: Senior Director Gorka Details How POTUS ‘Has Done a 180 on Counterterrorism Policy’ Compared with Biden
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The skyrocketing rate of autism may not be because of vaccines but because of deeper problems in modern American culture.
RFK Jr. wants scientific analysis of autism, but maybe society is the problem
It is undeniable that the public has become more accepting of fluoride in the generations since it was added to the water supply.
States move to ban water fluoridation as conspiracy theorists are again proven right
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The thing that "never happens" happened again.
After Poor Showing On Boys Team, Male Switches To Girls Varsity And Takes First
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Mike Myers returns to far-Left show to laugh about terrorist-style attacks
‘SNL’ Mocks Elon Musk, Not Democrats Torching Teslas
Somewhere in our rush to modernize, we traded safety for surveillance, values for virality, and community for convenience.
From Mayberry to Mayhem
“Keep people from their history and they are more easily controlled.” - Karl Marx
Reclaiming Cultural Literacy
As we approach the 50th anniversary of Pasolini’s death, anti-colonial queer activists would do well to follow his example and grapple more seriously with the limitations of their position.
The Limits of Queer Anti-Colonialism
HITHER & YON
He played the young mischief maker on the CBS comedy for four seasons and was in 'Maya,' a movie and TV show.
Jay North, ‘Dennis the Menace’ Star, Dies at 73

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Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2025 07:30 AM (e5NfL)

2 Good morning Hordelings

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2025 07:31 AM (kpS4V)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 07:34 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Good morning, one and all. More coffee, then read the headlines.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 07:35 AM (+4yJ5)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

6
I guess being married to a screeching harridan was not satisfying enough, so Carville decided to become one himself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:36 AM (xG4kz)

7 Good morning all!!

My 20 year old son is officially twitterpated.
The girl he likes wanted to see him last night, but I was adamant that he had to mow at some point this weekend. He mowed the yard in the rain yesterday morning. He’s got it bad.

Posted by: Jmel at April 07, 2025 07:37 AM (RWHIh)

8 Bravo, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 07, 2025 07:37 AM (/Ghsb)

9
Mike Myers' career is still ...

glub, glub, glub

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:38 AM (xG4kz)

10 “ But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.”

1 Timothy 1:16

Posted by: Marcus T at April 07, 2025 07:39 AM (ugKWv)

11 Interest paid on the debt was $881 billion last year, and it is projected to be $1 trillion this year.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 07, 2025 07:39 AM (UUa/N)

12 Trump's greatest test will be how he handles the judicial seditionists, from the Boasbergs to Roberts.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 07, 2025 07:39 AM (h/ffs)

13 those who cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration were comparable to Nazi collaborators in World War II.

"Batboy! Come get your grandpa and tell the nurse to make him take his meds!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (+4yJ5)

14 The first thing that has to happen is that the price of fuel needs to be driven down to at least 2.50, which means production has to go way up.

That alone would have so many beneficial effects, that it could help get us through the economic re-calibration period we are going to be in for the short and long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)

15 I've got a Man Crush on Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary. Dreamy eyes ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (Gqoy+)

16 democrat, murderous, nation destroying scum since, at least, when they fired shots at Fort Sumter to begin a war in an effort to keep slavery.

NOTHING has changed since then.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (gxokI)

17 It's Monday morning and JJ comes out swinging!

What a crazy, upside down, mixed up world.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 07, 2025 07:41 AM (Aqu9a)

18 Morning, news folken,

Someone on the Tech Thread asked me about my relocation plans, "Is West Virginia still in the mix?" I hadn't thought about it recently, but mountains are something I love and would like to be able to see every day.

When I suggested it, Miss Linda said something about West Va. "being crazy" and "removing colors from food," but my research says it's an order to remove various possibly unhealthy food dyes from school lunches and, later, all food sold in the state. RFK Jr. lauds the legislation re: Make America Healthy Again. Doesn't sound that bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 07:43 AM (omVj0)

19 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2025 07:43 AM (44tnV)

20 Helllooo, Mr. Wilson!

Posted by: Jay North at April 07, 2025 07:43 AM (Aqu9a)

21
According to a report from the Daily Mail, which received an advance copy of the book, Harris's staff couldn't even properly connect the phone call. Her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles were reduced to literally pressing two phones together to make the connection work. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

A very Venn diagram ending to a Venn diagram candidacy.

In "Venn"ese, the intersection of Kamala with the Presidency remains the null set.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (xG4kz)

22 Would you hire Bill Clinton to be your marriage counselor?

Marry yourself a woman who'll arrange the death of anyone who gets between you and power and doesn't care about all the other women you sex up. -- Bill Clinton

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

23 Exclusive: Colorado Father Fights To Keep Government From Sterilizing His 14-Year-Old Son

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Sorry, bud. You're boned.

The CO government will not permit you any rights. They will chop off your son's dick, and you'll be lucky if the judge doesn't order the bailiff to castrate you for questioning them.

If you want rights of any kind, you need to leave CO. Too late now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (BI5O2)

24 Trump hatred has, or had at some point, a semblance of comprehensible political etiology. But Musk hatred is a level of stupid that defies all logic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (h/ffs)

25 "Trump's greatest test will be how he handles the judicial seditionists, from the Boasbergs to Roberts."

He's already been boxing Roberts to do the right thing for the wrong reason, protecting the prerogatives of SCOTUS. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2025 07:45 AM (Gqoy+)

26 Whoops.

>>@JDunlap1974
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>>1h
CHINA'S STOCK MARKET JUST
SAW A WORST SINGLE-DAY CRASH
SINCE 2008.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 07:45 AM (LkLld)

27 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 1h
BREAKING: Jim Cramer has said: Now is not a time to panic.
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RUN!! RUN!!

PANIC!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 07:46 AM (/tzYP)

28 According to a report from the Daily Mail, which received an advance copy of the book, Harris's staff couldn't even properly connect the phone call. Her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles were reduced to literally pressing two phones together to make the connection work. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

A very Venn diagram ending to a Venn diagram candidacy.

In "Venn"ese, the intersection of Kamala with the Presidency remains the null set.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (xG4kz)

Don't need no man, nohow!

Posted by: 3rd Wave Fem at April 07, 2025 07:46 AM (Aqu9a)

29 15 I've got a Man Crush on Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary. Dreamy eyes ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (Gqoy+)

Bessant's description to Tucker of the DOGE worker he hired, and his profile of DOGE in general, is delightful.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 07, 2025 07:46 AM (h/ffs)

30
"Batboy! Come get your grandpa and tell the nurse to make him take his meds!"
Posted by: NR Pax

Batboy's grandpa describes Carville to a "T".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:47 AM (xG4kz)

31 I thought Snakehead said the Trump Administration would collapse in 30 days.

Thirty days in the hole
Thirty days in the hole
Thirty days in the hole
That's what they give you
Thirty days in the hole...

Posted by: Humble Pie at April 07, 2025 07:48 AM (ekEaX)

32 - Jack, thanks for reply willowed.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 07, 2025 07:49 AM (L8+qQ)

33 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ
The Dow is only down about 800. Time to panic , again. Calm down leftists, but they wouldn't be leftists if they did that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 07, 2025 07:49 AM (6TePA)

34 Trump hatred has, or had at some point, a semblance of comprehensible political etiology. But Musk hatred is a level of stupid that defies all logic.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (h/ffs)

Count's Unfamiliar Word of the Day - Etiology.
Etiology is a term used to describe the study of the causes, origins, or reasons behind the way that things are, or the way they function.

I learn so much reading here. Thanks!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 07, 2025 07:51 AM (Aqu9a)

35 From the article about the father in Colorado:
“Around the time the twins were 5 years old (2016), [Nancy] decided that they were gay,”

AWFLs are a bigger existential threat to this nation than anything else.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 07:51 AM (+4yJ5)

36 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 1h
Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in 2025
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So not just the income tax.

I still think it won't work and that gutting Big Government, ending the income tax [and cap gains apparently], forcing a much-smaller budget [like 2015's??] through Congress etc. should have come first before tariffing the world as his Administration's main income source.

[Surprised to see that 'tariffing' is a real word, according to Brave's spellcheck dictionary.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 07:51 AM (/tzYP)

37
No Duke butthurt 'round these parts? No "broken bracket' wailing?

Good. Keep it that way.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:52 AM (xG4kz)

38 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 2h
JUST IN: Hong Kong's stock market closes down 13.2%, the biggest one-day drop since 1997.

unusual_whales @unusual_whales 1h
JUST IN: Thailand stock exchange temporarily bans short selling.
===
Bangkok in pain; no word on the dong yet.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 07:53 AM (/tzYP)

39 Greenland: How Trump Can Deal with the Raging Danes to America's Advantage

Awesome article. It's about time we got a career Bushite "diplomat" to lay out how Trump is a loose cannon who doesn't understand the nuances of international diplomacy. That's been sorely lacking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

40 According to a report from the Daily Mail, which received an advance copy of the book, Harris's staff couldn't even properly connect the phone call. Her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles were reduced to literally pressing two phones together to make the connection work. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

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The worst part is the pretending.

If they're honest everyone knows this is how it is, and it's not a (D) or (R) thing. It's a workplace thing. If something especially difficult or demanding needs doing it will be avoided for as long as possible, done poorly and accepted because people aren't allowed to notice things, or done badly enough that eventually a man is asked to stop with his regular duties and do it in addition to what he's expected and absolutely required to finish by the end of the day/week, too. And if he doesn't also finish his normal work he'll catch some level of crap for it.

Step outside of yourself and look at your workplace. Don't get offended at it as some sort of personal attack. It's not, it's just a social observation. If you've never noticed, start noticing. It will help everyone involved.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 07:57 AM (qSMcm)

41 Was hoping for Actual Science and Technology. Alright then.

Posted by: Don Black at April 07, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

42 >>>and put downward pressure on interest rates by lowering the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield.
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Trump said rates should be lower when he was running. Powell is in the way. Not helpful. He should be drop kicked out; However, that would only scare the cats more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 07:58 AM (9pHx8)

43 I've got a Man Crush on Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary. Dreamy eyes ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2025 07:40 AM (Gqoy+)

Well, I believe he's gay so make your move.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

44 "We thought changing the name, dumping the mascot and losing Tito would make everything hunky dory. Boy, were we wrong".

Worried Cleveland front office, even with the season still young

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 07, 2025 07:58 AM (gm9Sb)

45 Thank you JJ. Morning all

All the drama queening about how tariffs will end the world is so tiresome and just one more manifestation of obvious TDS

Serpenthead… if I ever hear one more word from that bitter old clown it’ll be too much

Josh Shapiro… I thought he was the sensible moderate choice for VP last year. Maybe not? His judgement is in the Walz range

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 07, 2025 07:58 AM (ANuwa)

46 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 2h
JUST IN: Hong Kong's stock market closes down 13.2%, the biggest one-day drop since 1997.

unusual_whales @unusual_whales 1h
JUST IN: Thailand stock exchange temporarily bans short selling.
===
Bangkok in pain; no word on the dong yet.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 07:53 AM (/tzYP)

No more yankee its wankee. The dong needs food!

Posted by: Wisdom From Sixteen Candles at April 07, 2025 07:59 AM (Aqu9a)

47 Oil is down sharply over the last few months.

Gee, I wonder if that will help the economy?

I guess I'll ask a 24-year-old journalism major his thoughts.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 07, 2025 07:59 AM (UUa/N)

48 morning horde, happy monday

made it through the weekend and the Gloucester militia successfully musted and brought in a number of young recruits.

i tell you, one nice thing about reenacting the 250th anniversary at this moment in time, is there's a number of kids, and fair number of adults, who are suddenly very interested in our founding, our history, and what the words of the founding documents really mean.

it's an interesting time to be alive...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 07, 2025 08:01 AM (v6XNT)

49
"It's a workplace thing. If something especially difficult or demanding needs doing it will be avoided for as long as possible, done poorly and accepted because people aren't allowed to notice things, or done badly enough that eventually a man is asked to stop with his regular duties and do it in addition to what he's expected and absolutely required to finish by the end of the day/week, too. And if he doesn't also finish his normal work he'll catch some level of crap for it."

Miss us yet?

Posted by: Fifty year old white guys at April 07, 2025 08:02 AM (dg+HA)

50 I thought he was the sensible moderate choice for VP last year.

The Democrats found out that he was Jewish so that killed his chances.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 08:02 AM (+4yJ5)

51 Trump's tariff gambit might upset the globalist's piggy bank. Disrupting that cabal's ability to fund dumbfuckery would be swell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

52 >>>Classical theory may not care where the steel mills, chip foundries, shipyards, research labs, aircraft plants, oil fields, and supply chains are, but the real world of power politics does.
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and Medicine

We are not a self-sustaining nation. It's OK for other nations to have those things but we must produce enough of everything we need ourselves. To not do so is insanity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:03 AM (9pHx8)

53 Oil is down sharply over the last few months.

Gee, I wonder if that will help the economy?

I guess I'll ask a 24-year-old journalism major his thoughts.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 07, 2025 07:59 AM (UUa/N)

Women and children hardest hit!

And that is they's thoughts. How dare you assume my gender and mispronoun me!

Posted by: a 24-year-old journalism major at April 07, 2025 08:04 AM (Aqu9a)

54 If China wanted to kill us and the western world all they need to do is cut off chemical supply for the manufacture of medicines. Bam. Hospitals become morgues.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:05 AM (9pHx8)

55 I can't believe the NYT and the Washington Post are totally ignoring the massive rallies Saturday. I unsuscribed to NYT 2 years ago and my WaPo subscription is teetering after this wanton treachery against Democrats!

They are wholely owned subsidiaries of the reich wing. We do not have a free press any long, at least not in the traditional form.

I'm loathe to defend WaPo, but their whole front page is negative to Trump. If their articles about the mass protests are fighting for space, it's because the rest of the front page is about Trump's tariffs, dismantling agencies, rewriting history, etc.

Sadly, I've seen very little. I had to work a double Saturday, I kept checking the news but didn't find much of anything until I signed on here

Might be related to why Eugene Robinson left WaPo. He was on MSNBC on Friday. Said their change of editorial policy was the reason why.

WP treachery happened way back in october before the election when Bezos forced the editorial board not to endorse Kamala. They lost 250K subscribers so what are you waiting for?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ycI94)

56 It seems like a lot of countries are willing to quash their tariffs if Trump quashes ours. Is that something he is doing? Pardon my dumbness.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 07, 2025 08:06 AM (SfhV1)

57 How about major tax holidays and reductions for any enterprise, or person who opens a factory on US soil and employs actual US citizens.

Not to be a Downer here, but there must be a dramatic cultural shift in order to pull this off.

Basically, we need a restoration of the good ol' WASP work ethic. That can't possibly happen because we have had three generations of the worst education system that the developed world has to offer, the Church has been taken over by the Dispensational Free Will Enthusiasts with their ethos of Come As You Are, Stay As You Came, Don't Worry, When It Gets Bad Enough Jesus Will Rapture You - But Lets Party.

I'm hoping that AI assists the 20 in the 80/20 Rule to be able to accomplish more with less, because this nation's skill set is video games, twerking, and drug abuse (both legal and illegal).

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 07, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

58 If prices keep going down I'm going to be forced to buy more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:08 AM (9pHx8)

59 I'm going to repost something that folks may have missed regarding tariffs and Trump's plan.

Dworkin Barimen posted this on the ONT:

" Trump's tariff plan is nearly an exact implementation of the ideas in a book called Balanced Trade: Ending the Unbearable Costs of America’s Trade Deficits. He definitely is not flying by the seat of his pants here, regardless of the shitlib tantrums to the contrary."

Hew also referenced an excellent substack where this is discussed in detail:

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/balanced-trade

Great reading.

Posted by: pawn at April 07, 2025 08:08 AM (QB+5g)

60 Oil is down sharply over the last few months.

Gee, I wonder if that will help the economy?

I guess I'll ask a 24-year-old journalism major his thoughts.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 07, 2025 07:59 AM (UUa/N)

this is the one that's got me confused for the moment. oil is down a fair amount but the price of gas keeps rising. i don't know that they've made the switch to summer blends yet, but something seems to be artificially raising prices, at least in the tidewater.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 07, 2025 08:11 AM (v6XNT)

61 I worked on my tax return last night. The cobbler needs to have his shoes in order before waiting on the line of customers stretching out the door and around the block.

Anyways, looks like not a bad time to make my IRA contribution. Stocks are on sale!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 07, 2025 08:11 AM (Aqu9a)

62 I'm loathe to defend WaPo, but their whole front page is negative to Trump. If their articles about the mass protests are fighting for space, it's because the rest of the front page is about Trump's tariffs, dismantling agencies, rewriting history, etc.

So a day that ends in Y... Morn' all...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM (VE6XX)

63 Today is National Beer Day. 🍺

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

64 - Don Black
Since you asked for it, some Actual Science brought to you by the JWST Technology.
Can't remember how long. Maybe around an hour.

https://tinyurl.com/5n94a6ms

Posted by: TeeJ at April 07, 2025 08:13 AM (L8+qQ)

65 Carville is trying to remain relevant. He saw where the party is / has gone and wants to ride the crazy train.

Shapiro is running in 2028. He's buying the Muslim vote.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2025 08:13 AM (JkCto)

66 No Duke butthurt 'round these parts? No "broken bracket' wailing?
Good. Keep it that way.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 07:52 AM (xG4kz)

I remember Uncle Duke from Doonesbury. Wonder if he's still around.

Posted by: Zonker at April 07, 2025 08:13 AM (ekEaX)

67 "Never give up, never surrender."

President Boasberg should be judicially disciplined but that will never happen, because John Roberts agrees with him.

We are in a battle for the country. Fight!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 08:13 AM (BJnaE)

68 If you want rights of any kind, you need to leave CO. Too late now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 07, 2025 07:44 AM (BI5O2)
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There's another way to save your loved ones.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:14 AM (2lp6s)

69 Last Minute Leak @LastMinuteLeak 3h
TRUMP: NOT INTENTIONALLY ENGINEERING MARKET SELL OFF.

TRUMP: SPOKEN TO EUROPE, ASIA LEADERS ON TARIFFS.
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You know, it's just working out that way.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:14 AM (/tzYP)

70 @60

>>but something seems to be artificially raising prices, at least in the tidewater.

A lot of states have their gas taxes indexed to inflation and the kicker is they are not reidexed when inflation goes down, ironically enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2025 08:15 AM (XV/Pl)

71 >>>Technology.
Can't remember how long. Maybe around an hour.

https://tinyurl.com/5n94a6ms
Posted by: TeeJ
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That looks a lot like math.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:16 AM (9pHx8)

72 >>>A lot of states have their gas taxes indexed to inflation and the kicker is they are not reidexed when inflation goes down, ironically enough.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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It slipped their mind when they were passing the buck..er passing the bill.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:17 AM (9pHx8)

73
Teej thanks for that

when I think about the universe, I always consider Rumsfeld's quote about there being 'things we don't know we don't know'

Posted by: Don Black at April 07, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

74 Everyone has probably seen this entertaining speech already but, just in case, here is Nancy Pelosi agreeing with Trump on China, and on tariffs

https://tinyurl.com/yc6x8f4v

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 08:17 AM (cGRqT)

75 made it through the weekend and the Gloucester militia successfully mustered and brought in a number of young recruits.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler
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Are you an AWI reenactor, Sturmtoddler?

I have a number of friends who are 1812, and French & Indian War reenactors.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:18 AM (/tzYP)

76 So, Dennis is a menace no more. Sad.
Gloria Henry, who played his Mom on the series, was a cute little starlet in the years before aging to Mom roles.

Posted by: I Don't Wanna Grow Up at April 07, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

77 I often wonder what Monty would be making of all this. Perfect Doom Thread fodder.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (MvZ7K)

78 good morning JJ, Horde

* skims content *

Dang, that's a lot of crazy. Especially so early in the week.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (76ftI)

79 - Braenyard
His explanations make it so easy, even a Teej can understand it,,, mostly.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (L8+qQ)

80 this is the one that's got me confused for the moment. oil is down a fair amount but the price of gas keeps rising. i don't know that they've made the switch to summer blends yet, but something seems to be artificially raising prices, at least in the tidewater.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 07, 2025 08:11 AM (v6XNT)

Part of it is that we have insufficient refining capacity for our needs so we import gasoline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

81 There's another way to save your loved ones.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

And I hope I would be chosen as a juror for a case like that.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (+4yJ5)

82 Today is National Beer Day. 🍺
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Ben Franklin

And shut yo mouth, MS CoPilot. I Don't Care if it's a misquote that was never said. It needs to be true.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 07, 2025 08:20 AM (Aqu9a)

83 "Anyways, looks like not a bad time to make my IRA contribution. Stocks are on sale!
Posted by: Count de Monet"

Yep. An upside to the trauma.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 07, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

84 “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, but I'm not, not saying it either

Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at April 07, 2025 08:22 AM (l9BCz)

85 >>It seems like a lot of countries are willing to quash their tariffs if Trump quashes ours. Is that something he is doing? Pardon my dumbness.

For years, many if not most other countries have had significant tariffs on our exports. Not just countries like China but our supposed allies in the EU and Australia. In some cases we were even allowed to enter their markets while we had low if any tariffs on their products and allowed them almost unfettered access to the US market. They protected their markets and made it more attractive in many cases for US companies to offshore manufacturing rather than produce in the US.

Trump said no more and put reciprocal tariffs on them, they will pay the same tariffs they have been charging us and he's taken steps to stop countries like China from cheating by passing through their products in a 3rd country to avoid the tariffs.

This is an attempt to rebalance our massive trade unbalance that is bankrupting the country while bringing jobs back to America. There will be short term pain but it's the only way forward.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:23 AM (LkLld)

86 "Today is National Beer Day. 🍺
Posted by: redridinghood"

Beer should get a whole month. Around here, every day is National Beer Day.

Posted by: fd at April 07, 2025 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

87 Shining a laser into someone's eyes, yeah, for me, that's a huge "types-deletes" moment.

Purposely trying to blind someone is evil.

Morning, J.J.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 07, 2025 08:23 AM (tT6L1)

88 And I hope I would be chosen as a juror for a case like that.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 08:19 AM (+4yJ5)
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Worst case scenario: justified homicide.

Best case scenario: makes it back over state lines to a sanctuary state, where they throw you an old fashioned hero's ticker tape parade.

And "homicide" on its own is not a dirty word.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:24 AM (2lp6s)

89 - 'things we don't know, we don't know'

Oh, but we (they) just KNEW the JWST would show us distant galaxies in their earliest stages of formation.
Oops.
Dr Lisle predicted and posted his prediction of fully formed galaxies months before the first images came back.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 07, 2025 08:24 AM (L8+qQ)

90 I caught an article over the weekend which indicated there may be some deflationary pressures being pushed into the economy. If true, that could be interesting, in the long run. Americans suddenly find out prices relax a bit across the board means they don't need raises in order to pay the grocery bill and mortgage.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 07, 2025 08:26 AM (tT6L1)

91 We're talking about the debt, how much it is, and how much interest is paid that doesn't lower the debt.

The question I have is not "How much?". It's "Who is owed?"

It was said that China owns a lot of it. But it can't be all $36 trillion of it. And it cannot be the same kind of loan as a mortgage or a pawn shop.

If interest is being paid, it's being paid to someone. Several someones. At those astronomical numbers, it isn't just one bank or billionaire.

We've already seen the self-dealings of the NGO, who are assigned funny money, then turn around and shuffle it back into the wallets of the Democrats, including some that snuck into the Republican party. What's the chance that they took money in various forms, and turned right around and 'loaned' the money back to Uncle Sam, with heavy interest? Money that never was actually in their physical hands, now turned around into an income stream.

Kinda like how the West donated all those N5 masks to China, who turned right around and sold them back to westerners.

Wonder if DOGE and DataRepublican have delved into that side of things yet. See who owns what treasuries and IOUs from the USA, and how it maps to the USAID crap.

Posted by: Another Anon at April 07, 2025 08:26 AM (4h45B)

92 Carville Compares Those Cooperating with Trump to Nazi Collaborators

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I absolutely cannot comprehend how devoid of anything rational, how incredibly stale these types of statements have become. The stupidity is shocking, and it's hard to believe people like Carville continue on with this hogwash. I get it. Their voters are violent, yes. But they're also gullible, useful idiots who willingly open their beaks to have this nonsense shoved down their throats. Same tired name-calling. Same tired chants. Same tired canards. Same tired accusations. Over and over and over again.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 07, 2025 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

93 >>>The Texas Education Agency appointed Miles to lead the Houston ISD in 2023 as part of a state takeover that saw the district’s elected school board replaced by an appointed board of managers.
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Something similar the state did to Harris County where Houston resides. The Harris county judge (the mayor of the county) will be under indictment, three of her subordinates are in prison, there is a re-do of a 2020 election in the works (if it hasn't been done).
Houston level of corruption was on a path to Chicago before the state stepped in. If Abbott doesn't follow through and assure honest elections in the county and state the city will be a cesspool and could be instrumental in the state going blue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:27 AM (9pHx8)

94 Is there some sort of sportsball tournament going on that I should know about? I have been wrapped in in the chase. Chase is now over and now OVI sits on top of the world. Bravo

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 07, 2025 08:27 AM (1FWWQ)

95 What I can’t figure out, what is the plan here with the expert economists. The US government just keeps borrowing and spending, trade deficits keep increasing. Eventually the interest payments alone consumes everything. Then what? “Here, a miracle happens”? I don’t get it.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM (qofwC)

96 Gov. Shapiro needs his head examined.

That way the muzzies can predetermine eactly on what line they can saw it off when his time comes.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM (2lp6s)

97 'things we don't know, we don't know'

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It's okay. They can just make something up to magically explain it and then insist that the believers increase their faith.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM (qSMcm)

98 It's also...
National Coffee Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

99 >>>Purposely trying to blind someone is evil.

Morning, J.J.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
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It's an assault worthy of lethal defense.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:30 AM (9pHx8)

100 It's also...
National Coffee Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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Coffee cake and beer.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:30 AM (2lp6s)

101 Dr Lisle predicted and posted his prediction of fully formed galaxies months before the first images came back.
Posted by: TeeJ

Childhood trauma! We were so poor we couldn't afford a Galaxie, only a Custom 500. Ever try to parallel park a 4500 lb. beast with no power steering?

Posted by: Deserve Reparations at April 07, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

102 It's an assault worthy of lethal defense.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:30 AM (9pHx

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A well armed militia...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:30 AM (2lp6s)

103 made it through the weekend and the Gloucester militia successfully mustered and brought in a number of young recruits.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler
-------
Are you an AWI reenactor, Sturmtoddler?

I have a number of friends who are 1812, and French & Indian War reenactors.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:18 AM (/tzYP)

I'm Rev War. it's a great time, and this 250 stuff is insane. I'm stoked for Bunker Hill this year.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 07, 2025 08:32 AM (v6XNT)

104 And "homicide" on its own is not a dirty word.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Get enough of these cases dismissed with prejudice and the freaks who support mutilating kids will back off.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (+4yJ5)

105 SCOTUS just slapped down a Federal District judge in Taxxasschewshits.

They sent the case back to the circuit in question with multiple footnotes showing why this Biden judge was totally off base. Along with pointing out the obvious that the APA was not the correct venue, that this matter of the Dept of Ed and grants should have been taken to the Federal claims court.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (cUqk2)

106 Why have National Beer Day on a work day? You'd think they'd set it on a weekend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)

107 >>What I can’t figure out, what is the plan here with the expert economists. The US government just keeps borrowing and spending, trade deficits keep increasing. Eventually the interest payments alone consumes everything. Then what? “Here, a miracle happens”? I don’t get it.

That's exactly who Trump and team are doing what they are doing. Rebalance trade using tariffs and driving down interest rates.

Lowering interest rates lowers the debt payments. If we don't get them under control we will have a real depression.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (LkLld)

108
I think Mike Myers is funny, however-

it's sad that he has to prance around in the typical Leftard Minstrel Shows just to stand a chance of reviving his career.

Less brainless support for violent, antiAmerican propaganda that loses you most of your audience, Michael,

and more bringing the funny, please.

Or have you lost that ability?

and more bringing the

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (iJfKG)

109 What I can’t figure out, what is the plan here with the expert economists. The US government just keeps borrowing and spending, trade deficits keep increasing. Eventually the interest payments alone consumes everything. Then what? “Here, a miracle happens”? I don’t get it.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 08:28 AM

It's called modern monetary theory and all of the top economists have bought into it.

Basically it's the underpants gnomes theory of money.

1. Print as much fiat money as you want. Ignore debt.
2. ???
3. Profit.

The rest of the world is being dragged along with us as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (e5NfL)

110 Oddly, I would prefer Bonnie and Clyde:

https://tinyurl.com/23enfauf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (2lp6s)

111 Is there some sort of sportsball tournament going on that I should know about? I have been wrapped in in the chase. Chase is now over and now OVI sits on top of the world. Bravo
Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 07, 2025 08:27 AM (1FWWQ)

The Shuffleboard Nationals are taking pace in The Villages in Florida this week I believe...so exciting! Pickleball cannot compare to the drama and excitement of a good old fashioned Shuffleboard brouhaha!

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (ekEaX)

112 >>>The Texas Education Agency appointed Miles to lead the Houston ISD in 2023 as part of a state takeover that saw the district’s elected school board replaced by an appointed board of managers.
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Something similar the state did to Harris County where Houston resides. The Harris county judge (the mayor of the county) will be under indictment, three of her subordinates are in prison, there is a re-do of a 2020 election in the works (if it hasn't been done).
Houston level of corruption was on a path to Chicago before the state stepped in. If Abbott doesn't follow through and assure honest elections in the county and state the city will be a cesspool and could be instrumental in the state going blue.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:27 AM (9pHx

And the HISD parents are vocally unhappy with every decision and action the TEA-appointed Superintendent has taken to fix things. Firings, closings, re-focusing. Every step is met with protests and pitchfork/torch uprisings. SMH.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (Aqu9a)

113 Good morning, Hordelings!

Today is National Beer Day. 🍺
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM

It's a little early, but OK - I'll have one!

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (vf0Y9)

114 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Why have National Beer Day on a work day? You'd think they'd set it on a weekend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)
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You're working wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (2lp6s)

116 It's a little early, but OK - I'll have one!
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (vf0Y9)
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Beer in the coffee mug?

Morning, sir!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 07, 2025 08:35 AM (tT6L1)

117
My comments:

Now with Random Echoes. For your pleasure!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 08:35 AM (iJfKG)

118 Carville has long since proven himself an old blabbering buffoon.

Why does anyone still listen to him?

Snakeface McShedskin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

119 Good morning, Hordelings!

Today is National Beer Day. 🍺
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM

It's a little early, but OK - I'll have one!
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:34 AM (vf0Y9)

\Drop a raw egg in and you have the Breakfast of Champions!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (iJfKG)

120 Is there some sort of sportsball tournament going on that I should know about? I have been wrapped in in the chase. Chase is now over and now OVI sits on top of the world. Bravo
Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 07, 2025 08:27 AM (1FWWQ)

Saw a great post on X yesterday afternoon. Photo of 80s era Gretzky and it said "Wayne Gretzky needs just one more goal to tie Alex Ovechkin's record"

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (vf0Y9)

121 US GNI approx $27 trillion.

Debt service $1 trillion (that we know about)

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (Mmf4/)

122 Some days coffee tastes better than others.
Today it's brewed just right. mmm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (9pHx8)

123 Ian Miles Cheong is throwing a hissy fit about tariffs. He keeps bringing up jobs that he claims no one will do. Latest is sewing factories. So far, everything he brings up is a job I've actually done. And the folks working in the sewing factories with me in Spokane did not want to lose those jobs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (cvWHI)

124 So....

When is someone going to inspect Fort Knox?

And when will the bigwig arrests and trials begin?

And when will the regime judges be disrobed and dishonored?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (2lp6s)

125 Today is National Beer Day. 🍺
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

April 7th is also International Beaver Day.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 08:37 AM (aBgBM)

126 - @97 Boron Cobbie
"They can just make up something to magically explain it..."

Oh, they did. And he predicted those "explanations," too.

Galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought.
The universe must be much older than we thought.

I must be leaving.
Leofb

Posted by: TeeJ at April 07, 2025 08:37 AM (L8+qQ)

127 This is an attempt to rebalance our massive trade unbalance that is bankrupting the country while bringing jobs back to America. There will be short term pain but it's the only way forward.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:23 AM (LkLld)

Thanks JackStraw

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 07, 2025 08:37 AM (SfhV1)

128 Some days coffee tastes better than others.
Today it's brewed just right. mmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (9pHx

Who are the others that you are tasting?

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:38 AM (vf0Y9)

129 Trump again calls on 'slow moving' Fed to cut rates. 10 min ago

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (9pHx8)

130 Breaking911 @Breaking911 14h
TREASURY SEC. BESSENT: "The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt, they have credit card bills, they rent their homes, they have auto loans, & we've got to give them some relief." 🔥
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Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (/tzYP)

131 April 7th is also International Beaver Day.
Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 08:37 AM (aBgBM)

I've had international beaver. It was quite, umm, exotic.

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (vf0Y9)

132 Interesting analysis of the economic plan. Trump smells Soros:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4f9vjv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM (2lp6s)

133 First, Yellen fucked up. Royally.

Monetary theory tells us that the money supply must ebb and flow according to economic needs. Too much and you have inflation. Too little and you have unemployment.

The Fed apparently decided that the money supply drives the economy, not the other way around. Dumping a ton of money into the economy, esp during COVID, is stupid.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM (Mmf4/)

134 Finding a coffee you like is a good thing.

Posted by: Don Black at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM (AOsQT)

135 Just saw on Fox that Bibi is in DC today to sign zeroing out tariffs for Israel in both directions and Italy and the UK have said they’re coming.

Leverage, it’s a wonderful thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:41 AM (QZThv)

136 Breaking911 @Breaking911 14h
TREASURY SEC. BESSENT: "The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt, they have credit card bills, they rent their homes, they have auto loans, & we've got to give them some relief." 🔥
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Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (/tzYP)
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Bessent is using the language of the left against them to get tax cuts for the middle class. Or at least get Congress to make the Trump cuts permanent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 07, 2025 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

137 This one tweet helps explain what's going on with debt.

Almost 1/3 of our debt needs to be refinanced this year.

>>@tanvi_ratna
·
>>Apr 3
Start with the debt: $9.2T must be refinanced in 2025.

>>If rolled into 10-yr bonds, every 1 basis point drop in rates saves approx $1B/year; so a 0.5% drop would save $500B over a decade.

>>Lower yields free up fiscal room—without them, core spending gets crowded out.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:41 AM (LkLld)

138 Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (/tzYP)
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Do you or I own or play with blocks of millions of shares at a time?

I remember watching it done way back when I was still living in the US.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:41 AM (2lp6s)

139 The Shuffleboard Nationals are taking pace in The Villages in Florida this week I believe...so exciting! Pickleball cannot compare to the drama and excitement of a good old fashioned Shuffleboard brouhaha!
Posted by: Morty Seinfeld

Shuffleboard at a high level is thrilling, but could be made more exciting by adding sweepers with brooms. It is the icing on the cake of our sport. Besides, many residents of Del Boca Vista are already hunched over in sweeping position.

Posted by: International Curling Conglomerate at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

140 First, Yellen fucked up. Royally.

Monetary theory tells us that the money supply must ebb and flow according to economic needs. Too much and you have inflation. Too little and you have unemployment.

The Fed apparently decided that the money supply drives the economy, not the other way around. Dumping a ton of money into the economy, esp during COVID, is stupid.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM

This all accelerated with QE-infinity. QE supercharged the debt machine and it was all done on purpose under the mistaken belief that we could inflate our debt away.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (e5NfL)

141 We are in so much debt that the powers that be will simply ride it until it finally all comes crumbling down in insolvency, violence, revolutions and death. Of course, the greed heads responsible will all be dead and long gone by the time that happens. I say no later than 2076. No plans to pay anything off, that's just crazy talk.

Posted by: 50 Years Tick Tock at April 07, 2025 08:44 AM (ekEaX)

142 Finding a coffee you like is a good thing.
Posted by: Don Black at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM (AOsQT)

Recently landed on Sprouts organic French roast coffee. Tried the non-organic version too, but it wasn't quite as good.
Sometimes I'll mix in a little bit of Cafe Du Monde coffee/chickory. I did so today.
*takes another swig*

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:44 AM (vf0Y9)

143 Just saw on Fox that Bibi is in DC today to sign zeroing out tariffs for Israel in both directions

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:41 AM (QZThv)
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I'm sure that's part of the visit.

The rest is about Iran.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:46 AM (2lp6s)

144 I'm Rev War. it's a great time, and this 250 stuff is insane. I'm stoked for Bunker Hill this year.
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Very good.

One of my friends even has a small boat's swivel gun [I don't know - 1pdr or 1.5pdr??]

I want to buy a/some black powder weapon/s but I'm too fat to be a reenactor especially as neither the Duke of Cumberland nor Frederick William II are known to have come to North America as far as I know!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:46 AM (/tzYP)

145 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 07, 2025 08:46 AM (53oGX)

146 The imam also appeared to call on Muslims to take over the world.“By Allah, if faith had taken root in our hearts, things would have been different. We would have imposed the word of Islam upon the world, like those before us did,” Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab told the congregation at Al Aqsa.

He also quoted a Hadith describing the eventual Muslim extermination of the Jews.

In Trump's first term there was an FNM news cycle because a Christian minister endorsed Trump who also evangelized to Jews. The argument was that talk to Jews about Christianity and trying to persuade them to convert is genocide.

And here we have an Imam preaching genocide and world conquest to boot and...its no biggie.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:46 AM (t0Rmr)

147 This all accelerated with QE-infinity. QE supercharged the debt machine and it was all done on purpose under the mistaken belief that we could inflate our debt away.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (e5NfL)

--

In a way that kind of sort of works at a micro scale, maybe. Paying off your legacy debt (credit cards, loans, etc) with inflated dollars is one thing, but that assumes wages are keeping pace. Hell of an assumption and one that requires a shitload of faith. If wages don't keep pace, as now, you're fucked.

At a macro scale it's idiotic.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:46 AM (O5Ote)

148 Insty has an MSLSD article about Leftists filing lawsuits today claiming it is unconstitutional for a President to impose tariffs. Because Article I says Congress has sole authority on tariffs.

Because, of course! Democrat in the White House? Ignore the Constitution when it gets in the way of Holy Progress! Republican in the White House, especially Trump? POTUS can do only what Leftist judges declare can be done, per the Constitution.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (aBgBM)

149 Who are the others that you are tasting?
Posted by: Doof
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New residents coming into the neighborhood all the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (9pHx8)

150 The whole shootin’ match of $38 Trillion rolls over every 4 years or thereabouts. It made sense to re-invest at low interest rates in the 1990s and made the balance sheet look better.

How is it though, that the Fed or Treasury gets to dictate the interest rate that others will lend to them? That never made any sense to me, they have to raise rates to entice buyers for their imaginary wares?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (qofwC)

151 How are Houthis doing? Are they back in the mountains yet, or still hanging around Sanaa ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)

152 First, Yellen fucked up. Royally.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:40 AM (Mmf4/)
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I'm convinced that she's a communist old bat.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (2lp6s)

153 Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (/tzYP)

There was, before the election IIRC, a joint proposal to scrap IRA/401k from both right and left on the basis that almost half the country didn't make use of it.

It's entirely possible that the bottom 50% do not own stocks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

154 Doof thinks that "organic" coffee comes from different sacks than "non-organic coffee! What a rube!

Posted by: Big Coffee at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

155 124 So....

When is someone going to inspect Fort Knox?

And when will the bigwig arrests and trials begin?

And when will the regime judges be disrobed and dishonored?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:36 AM (2lp6s)

This...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

156 I'm sure that's part of the visit.

The rest is about Iran.

Oh, 100%. Probably also watching videos of Palestinian protesters getting deported and laughing. Or maybe that’s just something we do here.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (QZThv)

157 I've had international beaver. It was quite, umm, exotic.
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None surprisingly with dongs, I hope, Doof!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (/tzYP)

158 All Kensians are commies ! Prove me wrong....

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

159 139 Besides, many residents of Del Boca Vista are already hunched over in sweeping position.
Posted by: International Curling Conglomerate at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

That got an actual laugh out of me. Then I got self-concious about my posture.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (f1epl)

160 How are Houthis doing? Are they back in the mountains yet, or still hanging around Sanaa ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)
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They're not going anywhere fast:

https://tinyurl.com/mrypdvny

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (2lp6s)

161 Would you hire Bill Clinton to be your marriage counselor?
Hillary Clinton Can Go Straight to Hell

Inhsallah, I feel Mr Clinton would have some insights into my relationship with Aisha. I mean how do you get your wife to understand sex is important...when all she wants to do is play with dolls!

Posted by: Muhammed at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (t0Rmr)

162 Sometimes I'll mix in a little bit of Cafe Du Monde coffee/chickory. I did so today.
*takes another swig*
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025

***
When my local Winn-Dixie was closing to make way for a new Aldi, I grabbed two 12-oz. bags of the Community coffee & chicory. That was during the Snow Surprise in January. I had other coffee supplies, but bit by bit I've nibbled away on this until it's almost gone.

The new Aldi has yet to open. I like their coffee and its prices, and I could walk to the store. But there's no sign yet that it's actually going to open.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)

163 138 Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:39 AM (/tzYP)
*******
Depends on what the definition of rich is.
We own a lot of stocks.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

164 158 All Kensians are commies ! Prove me wrong....
Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

Are Kensians some sort of Barbie cult?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (f1epl)

165 This all accelerated with QE-infinity. QE supercharged the debt machine and it was all done on purpose under the mistaken belief that we could inflate our debt away.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (e5NfL)

Yeah, I love the Idiot's Paradise of this "theory".

Hey! Hey, if we just Inflate our currency till it's worth nothing, then we can pay back Our Debtors with worthless money!!!!

Ha ha ha! Those stupid debtors!

Then we can roll along debt-free with no secondary effects or anything. It's genius! I see no way this can go wrong.

...

They've been pushing this since the 90s. And a lot of so-called conservatives of the time were buying in on it.

Idiots.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (iJfKG)

166 >>>And here we have an Imam preaching genocide and world conquest to boot and...its no biggie.
Posted by: 18-1
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Deport him and his very extended family immediately.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (9pHx8)

167 but that assumes wages are keeping pace. Hell of an assumption and one that requires a shitload of faith.
———

Wages have been stagnant since 1975, balance of payments went negative in 1974 deficits increased every year since 1958

I’m sure everything will be fine

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (qofwC)

168 Well pooch walking time is upon me.

later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

169 Doof thinks that "organic" coffee comes from different sacks than "non-organic coffee! What a rube!
Posted by: Big Coffee at April 07, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

Hehe, hehe - you said "sacks"

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (vf0Y9)

170 Insty has an MSLSD article about Leftists filing lawsuits today claiming it is unconstitutional for a President to impose tariffs.

Lemme guess, Roberts’ good friend Noam arisen again?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (QZThv)

171 It's entirely possible that the bottom 50% do not own stocks.
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And the top 50% aren't all billionaires.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (/tzYP)

172 160 How are Houthis doing? Are they back in the mountains yet, or still hanging around Sanaa ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)

Crazy Eddie (Eid?) It's Insaaana!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (x0n13)

173 Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?

The dependent class and some of the working class don't certainly.

I suspect there are also a non trivial number of people that have stock holdings in their 401ks and don't realize it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)

174 Deport him and his very extended family immediately.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more

equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 08:50 AM (9pHx

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In the past, Americans have been stripped of their citizenship for less.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (2lp6s)

175 I'm still laughing that kids being accepted into Harvard are so dumb that Harvard is now requiring all students to take remedial math in their freshman year.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

176 139 Besides, many residents of Del Boca Vista are already hunched over in sweeping position.
Posted by: International Curling Conglomerate at April 07, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

You think you could keep us out of Florida? We're moving in lock, stock and barrel. We're gonna be in the pool. We're gonna be in the clubhouse. We're gonna be all over that shuffleboard court! And I dare you to keep me out!

Posted by: Frank Costanza at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (ekEaX)

177 Once I-ran to you (I-ran)
Now, I'll run from you
This fuel you've given...

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

178 >>I'm sure that's part of the visit.

>>The rest is about Iran.

It's definitely part of the visit. He announced the zeroing of tariffs over the weekend.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (LkLld)

179 The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000

You ever see a ball game where you hope both sides lose and have injuries.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

180 Hey! Hey, if we just Inflate our currency till it's worth nothing, then we can pay back Our Debtors with worthless money!!!!
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Trillion-dollar coins!!! Then start over from scratch with the amero!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (/tzYP)

181 do over!

"Once Iran to you (I-ran)
Now, I'll run from you
This tainted fuel you've given..."

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

182 HAHAHAHAH!!

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:53 AM (g47mK)

183 It's definitely part of the visit. He announced the zeroing of tariffs over the weekend.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (LkLld)

It is... Trump had a plane presser and said as much yesterday

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

184
Celebrating Beer and Beaver should happen every day.

Tomorrow should be June Cleaver admonishing Ward day.

Posted by: Auspex at April 07, 2025 08:53 AM (j4U/Z)

185 Always said, 3rd market fuel is ever to be trusted!

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:53 AM (g47mK)

186 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

The pro-choice thug who punched a pro-lifer started a GoFundMe to “hire professional counsel.” One woman who donated to her campaign left a comment: “Do it again! LMAO, thank you for your service.”

People are fvcked up!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

187 I totally forgot about the trillion dollar coin! Yeah, I don't know who thought of that one but odds are it was someone who...went to Harvard before they provided the remedial courses.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 08:54 AM (O5Ote)

188 Why do politicians (on both sides of the fence) keep asking how tax cuts are going to be paid for?
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Because the Byrd Rule (Budget Act) requires it. The Byrd Rule governs the Reconciliation process, which is the mechanism being used to get the tax bill through the Senate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 08:54 AM (O0Ro+)

189 And the top 50% aren't all billionaires

Billionaires aren’t even the top 1%. More like the top 0.01%.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:54 AM (QZThv)

190 They're not going anywhere fast:

https://tinyurl.com/mrypdvny
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (2lp6s)

While not on the level of Israel selling pagers to terrorists, this is still masterful.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 08:54 AM (N39Ws)

191 Apparently, the entire world economy is fake and gay.

Seems they need the US to not only send them millions in "aid" and grants but also we must prop them up will billions in one-sided tariffs.

Otherwise, the whole thing collapses and we're the assholes.

Note well, all these other countries were happy to go along with Biden's claims that the whole world economy was great.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 07, 2025 08:55 AM (xFA3k)

192 Well that didn't take long.

>>@DeItaone
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>>4m
🚨 U'S VON DER LEYEN: WE ARE READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH US ON TARIFFS

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:55 AM (LkLld)

193 J.M. Keynes was in fact a communist kiddie fucker, a lot of the IMF and UN founders were communists too.

Don’t be fooled, the globalists, the large banking firms financed the Russian Revolution and the Nazis and everybody else. The spook outfits before, during, and after WWII and the cold war have their fingerprints everywhere. CFR, Bilderberg, Rockefeller, the media outlets, yadda yadda yadda.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 08:55 AM (qofwC)

194 192 Well that didn't take long.

>>@DeItaone
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>>4m
🚨 U'S VON DER LEYEN: WE ARE READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH US ON TARIFFS
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:55 AM (LkLld)

It has been a whole 5 days after all...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)

195 Billionaires aren’t even the top 1%. More like the top 0.01%.

Queue the young women demanding a guy making 6 figures...

I mean it is more common now due to Bidenflation but still its about 15% of HOUSEHOLDS (which means often two incomes)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (t0Rmr)

196 Lemme guess, Roberts’ good friend Noam arisen again?
Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (QZThv)
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It would be funny if Trump starts referring to the chief justice as "Norm Eisen's good friend, Justice Roberts".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (Dv3i1)

197 I've mentioned this a couple times, but I do think Trump's plan with regards to the tariffs is to disrupt the globalists money flow as much as it is to set right the various trade imbalances.

It's a carrot and stick approach, and the recalcitrant ones are also the countries neck deep in the globalization effort. Pulling the US out of the dregs Obama and *biden put the country in is going to take effort and time.

A strong America is the antithesis to globalization.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (Q4IgG)

198 "Once Iran to you (I-ran)
Now, I'll run from you
This tainted fuel you've given..."
Posted by: runner at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

Ugh....I can't STAND that song......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

199 It's definitely part of the visit. He announced the zeroing of tariffs over the weekend.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 08:52 AM (LkLld)
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I read somewhere that one of the tariffs is Israel's over 200% customs duty on imported US cars.

We suffer terribly here from the cost of cars. This is one of the government's biggest rip-offs of us citizens here. There are so many others, including the control release of land.

I'm just curious to know whether Israel's customs on US auto imports is at a different rate than for auto imports from everywhere else. Based on prices here, I would assume it's across the board.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:57 AM (2lp6s)

200 148 Insty has an MSLSD article about Leftists filing lawsuits today claiming it is unconstitutional for a President to impose tariffs. Because Article I says Congress has sole authority on tariffs.

Because, of course! Democrat in the White House? Ignore the Constitution when it gets in the way of Holy Progress! Republican in the White House, especially Trump? POTUS can do only what Leftist judges declare can be done, per the Constitution.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 08:47 AM (aBgBM)

PS - There are laws dating back to FDR that give tariff authority to POTUS. Perhaps this a Chevron sort of case? If SCOTUS ever rules tariffs can only be established by Congress passing bills to be signed into law (or not) by POTUS, guess what? There will be no longer be US tariffs. Because you know why.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 08:57 AM (aBgBM)

201 Insty has an MSLSD article about Leftists filing lawsuits today claiming it is unconstitutional for a President to impose tariffs.
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Background here, pre-phoney 'reciprocal tariffs' announcement.

Who Controls U.S. Tariffs? The Constitution vs. Presidential Power
Feb 11, 2025; by Eleanor Stratton; U.S. Constitution.net

Constitutional Basis for Tariff Authority
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution vests the power to lay and collect tariffs with Congress. The Founding Fathers intended for legislative oversight on taxation, tariffs, and related financial matters, viewing tariffs as strategic levers to be used with caution and prudence.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (/tzYP)

202 The irony of thinking you can “inflate the debt away” - this is *exactly* the policy followed by Weimar Germany in the early 20’s, to deal with heavy war Reparations. This was the original horrible government decision that set in motion all of the terrible events that followed for the next 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (ngbZu)

203 So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

204
https://tinyurl.com/mrypdvny
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 08:49 AM (2lp6s)

That's quite the ensemble.....gun on hip, cell phone and big ass knife tucked behind a belt.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

205 They're not going anywhere fast:

https://tinyurl.com/mrypdvny
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Tainted gas? Like BP? I had a couple of cars with massive mis-firing with BP gas. The second time was not because I forgot about the first time, it was because no other gas station was available. Plus I was lulled because I had no problems of a few other times I used BP.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

206 So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

The used market.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Ugh....I can't STAND that song......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

*takes notes*

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (vf0Y9)

208 >>So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?

Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (LkLld)

209 202 The irony of thinking you can “inflate the debt away” - this is *exactly* the policy followed by Weimar Germany in the early 20’s, to deal with heavy war Reparations. This was the original horrible government decision that set in motion all of the terrible events that followed for the next 20 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (ngbZu)

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You say that, but it worked really well for Revolutionary France.

And the Confederacy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

210 PS - There are laws dating back to FDR that give tariff authority to POTUS. Perhaps this a Chevron sort of case? If SCOTUS ever rules tariffs can only be established by Congress passing bills to be signed into law (or not) by POTUS, guess what? There will be no longer be US tariffs. Because you know why.
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Foreign lobbying filling political campaign war chests and relatives of politicians bank accounts?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 09:01 AM (Dv3i1)

211 Do you or I own or play with blocks of millions of shares at a time?

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Yep. It's an effective use of psy-op type language and manipulation to make little nobodies convinced they're the same as the big boys and stop messing with the big boys, h8rs.

I'm pretty sure it's similar to why we've been told for years that the "disability fraud" folks have been what's broken the back of SS. Nope. It's the outright fraud by the fully functional and completely healthy government employees, but they've got to establish something useful for the Two Minutes Hate so that the attention wouldn't be on them.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 09:01 AM (qSMcm)

212 The irony of thinking you can “inflate the debt away” - this is *exactly* the policy followed by Weimar Germany in the early 20’s, to deal with heavy war Reparations. This was the original horrible government decision that set in motion all of the terrible events that followed for the next 20 years.

But the problem is there are no good solutions for paying down massive debt.

Honestly I would argue you should just consider inflation to be another type of tax, specifically one that is best for connected political insiders because they get first access to inflationary dollars.

But...there will have to be some kind of taxes baring some sort of aggressive war (which honestly would almost be funny - conquering Europe to seize and sell their assets which were paid for by the US anyway)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

213 PS - There are laws dating back to FDR that give tariff authority to POTUS. Perhaps this a Chevron sort of case? If SCOTUS ever rules tariffs can only be established by Congress passing bills to be signed into law (or not) by POTUS, guess what? There will be no longer be US tariffs. Because you know why.
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My #201 has the background of all of those too -- something in 1962 for example too, Gref.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:02 AM (/tzYP)

214 >>>It is... Trump had a plane presser and said as much yesterday
Posted by: It's me donna
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Trump doing a plane presser, Trump in farmland autographing a tractor, Trump at a fair or on a boardwalk eating hot dogs and shaking hands. Trump at the Oval Office signing new EOs. Trump pushing Powell to straighten up. Trump causing Thune to do a 180. Trump and Putin on the phone. Trump conference with 50 world leaders.
Call me, not worried.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:02 AM (9pHx8)

215 The usual culprits are pushing for congressional power over tariffs with their bipartisan Trade Review Act: Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis, Warner, Klobuchar, and more.

They say they're looking to reassert congressional control over tariffs, yet these same people have not lifted a finger to help put an end to the outlandish judicial overreach we've been seeing.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 07, 2025 09:02 AM (3ImbR)

216 212 But the problem is there are no good solutions for paying down massive debt.

Honestly I would argue you should just consider inflation to be another type of tax, specifically one that is best for connected political insiders because they get first access to inflationary dollars.

But...there will have to be some kind of taxes baring some sort of aggressive war (which honestly would almost be funny - conquering Europe to seize and sell their assets which were paid for by the US anyway)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

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I don't consider austerity a bad thing at all.

Government created "wealth" is not wealth, and ending it is a very positive thing.

Yes, people will hurt who rely on it, but they'll be better off in the long run.

Inflation just hurts everyone without actually fixing anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

217 I'm still laughing that kids being accepted into Harvard are so dumb that Harvard is now requiring all students to take remedial math in their freshman year.

But Camera Hogg still matriculated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (cUqk2)

218 Ugh....I can't STAND that song......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

***

! 877 KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (1FWWQ)

219 210 PS - There are laws dating back to FDR that give tariff authority to POTUS. Perhaps this a Chevron sort of case? If SCOTUS ever rules tariffs can only be established by Congress passing bills to be signed into law (or not) by POTUS, guess what? There will be no longer be US tariffs. Because you know why.
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Foreign lobbying filling political campaign war chests and relatives of politicians bank accounts?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 09:01 AM (Dv3i1)

That's one of several reasons. All involving $$$$$$$$$.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (aBgBM)

220 You’d think if someone was going to publish a piece on Presidential tariff authority, they’d do a little bit of research and add this:
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 1934
“Presidential Authority: The Act granted the President the authority to negotiate trade agreements, which previously required Congressional approval for each tariff reduction.
Reciprocity: The agreements were based on the principle of reciprocity, meaning that tariff reductions by the US would be matched by tariff reductions from other countries.
Flexibility: The Act provided the President with the flexibility to negotiate agreements quickly and efficiently, without the need for individual congressional votes on each tariff reduction.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (ngbZu)

221 203 So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

Cadillac CT4 and CT5

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:04 AM (N39Ws)

222 So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?

Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Nope. IIRC not even 20% American.

An Accord or VW is probably more American made than those Caddies charging "American made" premiums, which is what I think Trump is after.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (qSMcm)

223 Only the rich own stocks. Bessent channeling AOC?
Posted by: andycanuck

I think he's saying it's not "every day" Americans taking it in the backside via Wallstreet the last 4 days.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (JkCto)

224 220 You’d think if someone was going to publish a piece on Presidential tariff authority, they’d do a little bit of research and add this:
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 1934
“Presidential Authority: The Act granted the President the authority to negotiate trade agreements, which previously required Congressional approval for each tariff reduction.
Reciprocity: The agreements were based on the principle of reciprocity, meaning that tariff reductions by the US would be matched by tariff reductions from other countries.
Flexibility: The Act provided the President with the flexibility to negotiate agreements quickly and efficiently, without the need for individual congressional votes on each tariff reduction.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (ngbZu)

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Which is why Congress is making noises about laws now instead of anyone relying on lawsuits (the one I've seen has no chance of going anywhere because of...laws).

But, Trump would veto anything which means they'd need 2/3 of both chambers to pass it, and Johnson has already said that the House won't pick it up at all.

So...failure theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

225 Billionaire Trump Supporter Bill Ackman Begs Him For '90 Day Time-Out' on Tariffs to Avoid 'Economic Nuclear War'. If that doesn’t happen and instead the U.S. launches “economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate,” Ackman wrote.

75 million of us warned you for MONTHS that this was a disaster in creation. We warned you that Project 2025 was a ROADMAP to our destruction. Leopard/Felon/Face

Today, Bill Ackman resorted to defending the tariffs by posting: “Sometimes the best strategy in a negotiation is convincing the other side you are crazy”

Ackman did not care about women or children, or disabled people, or Ukrainians being menaced by Putin. He cared only about himself and money for himself when he became a backer and cheerleader for Trumpism.

Now he must let the leopard nibble dangerously on his face because he must carefully beg Trump to have mercy on him and give him time to get his finances secured.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (JCZqz)

226 I think he's saying it's not "every day" Americans taking it in the backside via Wallstreet the last 4 days.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (JkCto)

Then he's wrong.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 07, 2025 09:06 AM (SfhV1)

227 So here's a question - if I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?

Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (LkLld)

Eh, unless Caddies have seriously improved in the last few years...

They start dying at around 50K and after that it's expensive repairs until you get tired of it and buy something else.

Until 50K or so, they're pretty great. But the cost/longevity ration blows.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 09:06 AM (iJfKG)

228 225 75 million of us warned you for MONTHS that this was a disaster in creation. We warned you that Project 2025 was a ROADMAP to our destruction. Leopard/Felon/Face

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (JCZqz)

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And yet...we don't have government mandated apps for women to track their periods and federal guards at every toilet in America to look up girls' skirts.

Project 2025 is a bust!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

229
75 million of us warned you for MONTHS that this was a disaster in creation. We warned you that Project 2025 was a ROADMAP to our destruction. Leopard/Felon/Face

Delusional

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (VE6XX)

230 I want to buy a new sedan, not an SUV or Truck, and NOT an electric, what American made options are there?
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1952 Buick Roadmaster

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (qofwC)

231
*takes notes*
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (vf0Y9)

The original, I can tolerate. That shit remake from the 90's? Fingernails on a chalkboard causing violence and mayhem everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

232 225 Ackman did not care about women or children, or disabled people, or Ukrainians being menaced by Putin. He cared only about himself and money for himself when he became a backer and cheerleader for Trumpism.

Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 07, 2025 09:05 AM (JCZqz)

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How is demanding a war continue until an unrealistic scenario magically comes to happen caring for women and children?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

233 Morning JJ. Your gubmint debt theory is spot on.

Sadly somebody needs to tell Globalist, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and the WSJ tell all of this

Posted by: Jonah at April 07, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

234 And the top 50% aren't all billionaires.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 08:51 AM (/tzYP)

That's correct. Seems like the most recent thing I saw on the topic, assuming their info was correct, was that $6M (net worth) gets you into the top 1%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

235 The end result of this tariff push is going to be fewer and lower tariffs in general.

The market is going to bounce back hard.

No one will remember the great crash of Spring 2025.

The Democrat messaging in 2026 will be about mean tweets and not much else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

236 >>An Accord or VW is probably more American made than those Caddies charging "American made" premiums, which is what I think Trump is after.

You're ignoring the awesome factor.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 09:08 AM (LkLld)

237 I suspect there are also a non trivial number of people that have stock holdings in their 401ks and don't realize it.
Posted by: 18-1 a

That makes zero sense

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2025 09:09 AM (JkCto)

238 Bill Ackman @BillAckman 15h
The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.

President @realDonaldTrump has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.

And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.

But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.

The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.

https://tinyurl.com/kwk8ku96
...more...

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:09 AM (/tzYP)

239 One of the more important secondary policy goals that the Trump White House likely hopes to achieve is a reduction in the 10-year Treasury Bond yield. While most people focus on the Federal Reserve Bank and its interest rate policy, the yield of long-term government bonds impacts interest rates on types of debt held for longer durations, including mortgages, credit cards, and, most importantly, government debt.The tariffs are anticipated to push the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield lower, meaning the cost of the federal government’s payments servicing the national debt will be reduced.

lol.

Economists now quote 4chan.

Posted by: Bizzaro World at April 07, 2025 09:09 AM (b34po)

240 Trump needs to institute the "Great Reset" by paying off the national debt, student debt, primary residence mortgage debt and individual commercial debt (credit card, auto loans, etc.). This can be accomplished by establishing an autonomous agency to sell U.S. assets in a 100 year timeframe while accessing 50% of the cash now.

Posted by: jwest at April 07, 2025 09:09 AM (JRfbP)

241
The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.

How about no...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

242 Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing.
Posted by: JackStraw
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GM products are usually crap. Cadillac lost my heart when it came out with the Cimarron.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (9pHx8)

243 The Czech Republic is moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.

https://tinyurl.com/9xtnvsn2

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (paSBy)

244 1952 Buick Roadmaster
Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (qofwC)

Love those cars. Truly a work of art.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (N39Ws)

245 Inflation just hurts everyone without actually fixing anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

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The keepers of the money supply must walk a tight line between inflation and unemployment. This line is often politically defined. This said, policy here is to accept a relatively small inflation rate (like 2%ish) and err on that side instead of heightened unemployment ("all else equal" of course 🙄

. That's a subjective policy but one that is likely the least bad owing to deficiencies in, among other things, data giving us a better analysis.

Point being, the money supply does not create wealth and no reputable economist would ever argue that it does. It is apparently a lesson we must learn from time to time that the money supply is a tool to address a certain circumstance (Great Depression comes to mind) but it is not a panacea to address ALL economic ills. It may enable wealth creation but if that is moribund under different circumstances (like, say, people being under lockdown for a couple of years) then it isn't appropriate.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 09:11 AM (doeWO)

246 Cadillac needs to bring back the V8-6-4.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 07, 2025 09:11 AM (1FWWQ)

247 I believe Nissans and Mazdas have more American content than GM or Ford.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2025 09:11 AM (lTGtQ)

248 Not only are Colorado's courts actively willing to trample a parent's rights in medical decision making regarding gender "treatments, the Colorado Legislature is advancing a number of pro-transgender bills, including HB-1312.

https://is.gd/LGvbmN

House Bill 1312, among other things would recommend family courts [adversely] consider action against a parent who refers to their child by their given birth name and biologic sex.

Colorado, as do most other states, has adopted a "gender-affirming" approach rather than a "buy time while the child matures mentally and emotionally" approach. This means that prepubertal children who express any confusion about gender is socially transitioned (preferred name and pronouns, clothing choices, hairstyle, preferred bathroom) as the first step. This has the effect (as shown in the Dutch and Tavistock programs) of locking them into a fixed path to eventual medical/surgical transition. Starting them on the Yellow Brick Road so to speak, which leads to only one destination.

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:12 AM (/iMjX)

249 >>>But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.
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LOL GF'd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:12 AM (9pHx8)

250 This can be accomplished by establishing an autonomous agency to sell U.S. assets in a 100 year timeframe while accessing 50% of the cash now.
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We can help. Call us now!
- J.G. Wentworth

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)

251 GM products are usually crap. Cadillac lost my heart when it came out with the Cimarron.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (9pHx

You left out the Allante, 4100 engine, and V-8-6-4 technology.

Posted by: Deadly Sins at April 07, 2025 09:13 AM (G5+As)

252 242
GM products are usually crap. Cadillac lost my heart when it came out with the Cimarron.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:10 AM (9pHx

Post Covid, I would agree. Reading of a lot of issues with their 5.3L and 6.2L engines (trucks).

I have a 14 Silverado CC 4wd LT with Z71 package. 107k miles are on it. My daily driver but has done several road trips to FL, OH and MI. Been a great reliable truck.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:13 AM (N39Ws)

253 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 52m
NEW - Major garment producer Bangladesh says US buyers halting orders

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:13 AM (/tzYP)

254 lol.

Economists now quote 4chan.
Posted by: Bizzaro World

Probably more researched, realistic and accurate than listening to Jim Cramer.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (JCZqz)

255 What I'm absolutely laughing about:

1) The world now knows Trump is serious; he went full Paul Anka on them
2) Yesterday's price isn't today's price; the time to make the best deal was before he imposed the tariff.
You bluffed, you got crushed. Shut the fuck up--take your medicine.
3) the liquidity flushed out and the amount of capital sidelined for the last 4 years? Hope you bought.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (xFA3k)

256 247 I believe Nissans and Mazdas have more American content than GM or Ford.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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If one wants more than 2yr of trouble free driving it's Toyota or Honda. ymmv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (9pHx8)

257 How is demanding a war continue until an unrealistic scenario magically comes to happen caring for women and children?

Well absent the men those women and children are willing to do just about anything to survive if you know what I mean...

Posted by: Some Coyote specializing in Uke sex slaves at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (t0Rmr)

258 Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday his “Politicon” podcast that those who cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration were comparable to Nazi collaborators in World War II.

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"COLLABORGATE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 09:15 AM (Juo5P)

259 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

260 Then he's wrong.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Somewhat disagree.

The 10% who own 88% are the ones leading the selling.

They aren't losing money and neither is anyone else who's been in the market since covid.

Its taking profit right now because of inflated dollars.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 07, 2025 09:15 AM (JkCto)

261 I have a 14 Silverado CC 4wd LT with Z71 package. 107k miles are on it. My daily driver but has done several road trips to FL, OH and MI. Been a great reliable truck.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:13 AM (N39Ws)

I've got a 96 Ford Ranger with 207k on it. Still fires up every day and gets me 22 mpg back and forth to work.

Of course I've had to replace wear and tear items, but I'll drive that damn thing till it pukes, then likely rebuilt it and keep on truckin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

262 Colorado, as do most other states, has adopted a "gender-affirming" approach ...

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To clarify, I meant most other pro-trans states...

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (/iMjX)

263 If one wants more than 2yr of trouble free driving it's Toyota or Honda. ymmv
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (9pHx

Its getting time to reply Mrs OCiS car. That is where we'll be looking.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (N39Ws)

264 I'm at my mother in laws where she watches network news. It's all gloom, doom, and panic there.

Doom!

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (bdhKV)

265 This said, policy here is to accept a relatively small inflation rate (like 2%ish) and err on that side instead of heightened unemployment

That’s all bullshit. “Relatively small”?

Your purchasing power of the currency is cut in half every 20 years. That’s at minimum. Official Inflation numbers have been complete fairy tales for decades. So have unemployment numbers for that matter.

You also technically owe tax on the “gains”.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (l4gBO)

266 253 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 52m
NEW - Major garment producer Bangladesh says US buyers halting orders
Posted by: andycanuck

Don't Buy Judy Bond Blouses!

Posted by: ILGWU, 1970 at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (G5+As)

267 So it you surgically modify someone's genitals, what exactly are you affirming?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (dg+HA)

268
"COLLABORGATE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 09:15 AM (Juo5P)

Carville is of the mindset that he's rich and you shouldn't have the opportunity to be.

He's pissed that his elite fraternity is being infiltrated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

269 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 12h
NEW 🚨 US jury orders Chevron pay $745 million for pollution
A US jury has ordered oil giant Chevron to pay $745 million for polluting marshland near New Orleans and subsequently failing to rehabilitate the affected region.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (/tzYP)

270 Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (LkLld)

Also Dodge Charger.

But then you have to ask what does it mean manufactured in the US because a significant portion of those cars come from Canada. Not the whole car, the component parts. And Honda Accord and Toyota Camry have similar "domestic content"

Posted by: blaster at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (xhfG9)

271 Carville has really gone off his rocker since Trump won. Of course there’s a big market for crazy on the left. My guess is it’s a reaction to seeing him and all of his friends being tossed out and knowing there’s nothing real any of them can do about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 07, 2025 09:18 AM (ngbZu)

272 GM products are usually crap. Cadillac lost my heart when it came out with the Cimarron.
Posted by: Braenyard -

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The saddest part is that the 3.8L was discontinued after being pretty much made bulletproof. Those engines are trivially easy to get 200-300K from.

If manufacturers didn't have to constantly try to play whack-a-mole with emissions and MPG ratings, we could have economy cars with reliable engines that would last 500K miles without much effort. The top-tier cars could still exist and chase performance and the like, but there could be good, decent transportation for folks who wanted it.

But we can't have that.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 09:18 AM (qSMcm)

273 264 I'm at my mother in laws where she watches network news. It's all gloom, doom, and panic there.

Doom!
Posted by: Grump928

Hey now, Doom isn't all bad.

https://tinyurl.com/49kf95jw

Posted by: Gaming Moron at April 07, 2025 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

274 At ChiTrib: "Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would make a resentencing possibility for inmates serving lengthy sentences for crimes committed when they were under 21 retroactive. ... Last month, the bill, which so far has 27 House Democratic sponsors, passed 7-3 in the House Restorative Justice and Public Safety Committee.

Illinois is too stupid to exist.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:19 AM (JI10i)

275 I've got a 96 Ford Ranger with 207k on it. Still fires up every day and gets me 22 mpg back and forth to work.

Of course I've had to replace wear and tear items, but I'll drive that damn thing till it pukes, then likely rebuilt it and keep on truckin.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

Thats a great truck. I had an S10 from that era. 4cyl manual transmission. Had the jump seats in the back. I do miss that truck.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:19 AM (N39Ws)

276 @212

>>But the problem is there are no good solutions for paying down massive debt.

The issue is we largely owe our massive debt to ourselves and the money we pay interest is simply our left hand giving it to our right hand.

Dealing with the debt could be as simple as chanting the words Abra-Cadabra and wiping half the debt away, and hoping the rest of the world appreciates the magic trick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (XV/Pl)

277 That’s all bullshit. “Relatively small”?

Your purchasing power of the currency is cut in half every 20 years. That’s at minimum. Official Inflation numbers have been complete fairy tales for decades. So have unemployment numbers for that matter.

You also technically owe tax on the “gains”.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:17 AM (l4gBO)

"Relatively." And as I said, it's a political decision. And I also said there's a dearth of better data and analysis to really do otherwise.

So not bullshit, at least no more than yours.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Mz0Jz)

278 The Democrat messaging in 2026 will be about mean tweets and not much else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

And some "innocent" Venezuelan dock worker ripped from his family and deported.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (h/ffs)

279 Happy Monday

. . . I think?
Will check the links.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Cki93)

280 If one wants more than 2yr of trouble free driving it's Toyota or Honda. ymmv
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Its getting time to reply Mrs OCiS car. That is where we'll be looking.
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It's not true any longer, sadly. Nowadays they're no better than Ford or GM. Look at the new Toyota trucks and the problems they're having. Starting issues exist with the Honda sedans.

All because of federal regulations.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (qSMcm)

281 Gov. Josh Shapiro attended an ‘iftar’ dinner at a mosque where an imam had previously declared that “Jews are the vilest people”, and announced a huge grant for the hate mosque.

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"If he fell under the sword of that murderer, it might be his] head in a basket. And not his gentle kin."

-- obligatory Longshanks

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Juo5P)

282 Anudder Female Cop oopsie

https://tinyurl.com/mrxf39ve

Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (Tn7Ji)

283 Next Trump needs to announce the development of a fee-less government digital currency processing system, that works alongside with regular paper currency.

Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, these companies scrape 3% or more off of our retail sector, which is rather huge.

$100 spent at a store becomes $97 to a restaurant owner. When he takes his family out to dinner and uses a credit card, that $97 becomes $94.09. When that restaurant owner uses the $94.09 to fill up on gas, his $94.09 becomes $91.26, and so on and so forth,

The same $100 in cash passed between those three businesses is still $100 floating in the economy.

Posted by: One Man's Opinion at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (b34po)

284
Thats a great truck. I had an S10 from that era. 4cyl manual transmission. Had the jump seats in the back. I do miss that truck.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:19 AM (N39Ws)

Yep. T-5 trans and the 4 cyl. Not a lot of power, but fun. I've replaced the cat twice (currently running one meant for an Expedition) and added a Flowmaster muffler.

It sounds quite funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 52m
JUST IN - Fed announces "closed board meeting" for today.
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To discuss yoga and grandkids, undoubtedly.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (/tzYP)

286 Happy Monday

. . . I think?
Will check the links.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Cki93)

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"It's a trap!"

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 09:22 AM (Juo5P)

287 I've got a 96 Ford Ranger with 207k on it. Still fires up every day and gets me 22 mpg back and forth to work.
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Same here. '97 with 175K on it. They're great, reliable trucks.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2025 09:22 AM (paSBy)

288 271 Carville has really gone off his rocker since Trump won. Of course there’s a big market for crazy on the left. My guess is it’s a reaction to seeing him and all of his friends being tossed out and knowing there’s nothing real any of them can do about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

He's in a tough spot. He's a true Democrat believer, and not only does he see Trump destroying the party, he sees the unhinged Lefty youth activists destroying it from within, and the party has no effective way to control and stop them anymore.

Everything he's worked for his whole life is being destroyed, right at the end, by cluesless radical socialist gender/race hustlers. Probably pretty infuriating and discouraging.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 07, 2025 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

289 >>Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday his “Politicon” podcast that those who cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration were comparable to Nazi collaborators in World War II.

Translation: More Cowbell is all the Dems got

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:22 AM (Cki93)

290 285 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 52m
JUST IN - Fed announces "closed board meeting" for today.
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To discuss yoga and grandkids, undoubtedly.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (/tzYP)

Probably gonna raise the interest rates to spite Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

291 "Next Trump needs to announce the development of a fee-less government digital currency processing system"

Maybe not.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:23 AM (JI10i)

292 282 Anudder Female Cop oopsie

https://tinyurl.com/mrxf39ve
Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (Tn7Ji)

Hesitated on clicking the link, thinking we were going to see another case of a female cop enjoying Five Guys.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:23 AM (N39Ws)

293
Hesitated on clicking the link, thinking we were going to see another case of a female cop enjoying Five Guys.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 07, 2025 09:23 AM (N39Ws)

She attempts to remove a pistol from a perp's pants pocket and pulls the trigger.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

294 Trump’s economic team has subtly suggested the impact of the import duties could extend to increasing foreign direct investment in American industries, incentivize a shift in economic investment away from market speculation and into industries focused on producing tangible value, and put downward pressure on interest rates by lowering the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield.
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The "this is designed to compress Treasury yields so that the major rollovers will be more manageable" stuff smells a bit like 12-D chess to me. It could end up being a consequence, but I doubt it was the cause/plan.

increasing investment is also a consequence. I think it is as simple as it looks: the US economy is tapped out, the US government is bankrupt and most of the US's trading partners are the beneficiaries of unfair trade policy. So stop the strip-mining of the US economy, rebalance trade policy, add a revenue stream.

That will probably work. The questions are whether the fall in the equities market will matter and how much price increases will be - and what the effects will be on the midterms. I think it guarantees defeat in '26, but that might not matter if things are in place by then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (WkNQM)

295 And yet...we don't have government mandated apps for women to track their periods and federal guards at every toilet in America to look up girls' skirts.

Project 2025 is a bust!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM

I was promised a handmaiden to crank out my white cisgendered ubermenschen. Still holding out hope.

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (bdhKV)

296 Yes, it’s bullshit. It’s always been bullshit.

The ordinary course of events is for things to get less expensive. Not more expensive. The “expert economists” and Keynes treatise on economics were all apologia for imposing a world government on everyone.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (NqWk4)

297 Had a '97 Dakota. Unfortunately had to take it to the junk yard a year ago. Rust finally won. Damn salt on the roads in the winter.

Posted by: davidt at April 07, 2025 09:25 AM (i0F8b)

298 Someone should look into Carville's shadow companies and see how much he's losing from Trump and Musk stopping USAID fraud.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

299 Leading Report @LeadingReport Apr 6
BREAKING: Idaho has authorized the death penalty by firing squad for pedophiles.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:25 AM (/tzYP)

300 BREAKING: Idaho has authorized the death penalty by firing squad for pedophiles.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:25 AM (/tzYP)

#Winning

However, it will be halted by rando Hawaiian judge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

301 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 6h
Boeing is poised to face a jury trial from Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the first civil case related to the disaster to reach court. - AFP

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:26 AM (/tzYP)

302 *takes notes*
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:00 AM (vf0Y9)

The original, I can tolerate. That shit remake from the 90's? Fingernails on a chalkboard causing violence and mayhem everywhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

*adds detail to notes*

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:26 AM (vf0Y9)

303 "We thought changing the name, dumping the mascot and losing Tito would make everything hunky dory. Boy, were we wrong".
Worried Cleveland front office, even with the season still young

Why do fans always bring brooms to the park when we go on the road?

Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 09:26 AM (GhFyc)

304 >>Everything he's worked for his whole life is being destroyed, right at the end, by cluesless radical socialist gender/race hustlers. Probably pretty infuriating and discouraging.

That's: cluesless radical socialist gender/race hustlers***that he created***

Must be wild starting a plethora of obviously false but useful party narratives you've deliver with a wink, such as "blacks can't get ID," only to realize that the next generation has taken them to heart as absolute facts, making them the dumbest, most destructive generation so far.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:27 AM (Cki93)

305 276 @212

>>"But the problem is there are no good solutions for paying down massive debt."

The U.S. government has between 95 and 175 trillion in assets. Just like a wealthy family that wants to pay off debt, maybe it's time to sell the art collection and some of the excess property. Problem is, nobody has the money to make such large purchases right now. Solution, backed by the unquestioned assets, establish an agency that will spend the next 25 years cataloging, then the next 25 years pricing the items. Declare that half the estimated return on the sales be available now. This isn't just fiat currency, it's backed by actual assets. Use the cash to not only pay the national debt, but almost all other private debt (based on balances prior to announcement) in order to gain almost total support for the program.

Posted by: jwest at April 07, 2025 09:27 AM (JRfbP)

306 the aging/dying silents will have a lot of cars to sell

I know of three hardly used ones about to hit the market! of course they're being priced unreasonably, but as things progress and they don't sell (and more of them pass on, sorry to be blunt) the prices will decrease.

and then there's second homes/vacation homes ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 09:27 AM (Pv3Rg)

307 Your purchasing power of the currency is cut in half every 20 years. That’s at minimum. Official Inflation numbers have been complete fairy tales for decades. So have unemployment numbers for that matter.

You also technically owe tax on the “gains”.
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A good news story from this weekend. I noticed that Nutrageous was offered in candy aisle at 7-11. The price was $2.99 for one but if you bought two it was $4 for the pair. Buying two is equal to $2 a bar, which is somewhat worth it. This is yuge that the best candy bar in the world is lowering prices and hopefully growing consumers. This augurs well for the near term. Oh, and try a Nutrgeous candy bar. You will thank me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:28 AM (pZ64F)

308 Yes, it’s bullshit. It’s always been bullshit.

The ordinary course of events is for things to get less expensive. Not more expensive. The “expert economists” and Keynes treatise on economics were all apologia for imposing a world government on everyone.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (NqWk4)

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"All else equal." Which they aren't.

Is this the part where someone says that people who have studied this in depth and have trained actually know nothing and ZeroHedge is the font of all wisdom?

Speaking of which, I believe I'm still waiting on that cite from Samuelson and Nordhaus about how Communism will rule the world because it's more efficient. Supposedly this was in Economics. I see exactly the opposite in the 17th ed, so editon/page/quote would be helpful.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 09:28 AM (cIOlQ)

309 264 I'm at my mother in laws where she watches network news. It's all gloom, doom, and panic there.

Doom!

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at April 07, 2025 09:16 AM (bdhKV)

The core Democrat political messaging for as long as I can remember is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) about the Republicans. They are dialing it up to thirtyeleventy now out of desperation.

Posted by: Gref at April 07, 2025 09:28 AM (aBgBM)

310 However, it will be halted by rando Hawaiian judge.
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Or jury nullification in every case by any anti-CP holdouts, as suggested last night in the ONT.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:28 AM (/tzYP)

311 The ordinary course of events is for things to get less expensive. Not more expensive. The “expert economists” and Keynes treatise on economics were all apologia for imposing a world government on everyone.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:24 AM (NqWk4)
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it puts inflation into an entirely different perspective.

If the natural order of things is for prices to gradually decline - rapidly at first, then slowly as marginal utility gets harder to eek out - then what does that say about inflation?

Because the natural tendency *is* for decreases. Better efficiency, better machinery, better manufacturing, etc. - as things improve in production, prices are incentivized to decline (and profits with them, if you're one of those "profits are evil" people, in which case you're a 'tard but you should *still* be on board).

What's the natural price change rate? No clue, but it almost certainly *is* a negative number. So the fact that it is always a positive number shows the extend of the engineered value extraction and transfer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:29 AM (WkNQM)

312 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 10h
Tel Aviv and Berlin are now twin cities, the mayors of the two cities announced on Sunday. The news came a week after Berlin's state parliament unanimously approved a motion to establish a twin town relationship with the Israeli hub. (Jerusalem Post)

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:29 AM (/tzYP)

313 Maybe not.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:23 AM (JI10i)

Why not?

Apply every argument against it to your current credit card company.

Can Visa decide to stop processing your payments? Do you want Visa executives monitoring your spending habits and collecting that data?

And if Visa decides to do nefarious things to you, who will you turn to for redress?

Posted by: One Man's Opinion at April 07, 2025 09:29 AM (b34po)

314 "establish an agency that will spend the next 25 years cataloging, then the next 25 years pricing the items."

America does not do well with N-Year Plans. The electorate is too fickle to stay focused on one goal for more than a couple years.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:29 AM (JI10i)

315 313 Government lies to me. So far, Visa and Mastercard have not.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (JI10i)

316 Know a PT who puts a lot of miles on her vehicle. She went unhappily through two new Hyundais. Then purchased a used Toyota - its lasted longer than the two Hyundais with no problems.
Buddy had a Lexus SUV for 100k w/no problems. It was built on a truck chassis. That appeals to me, maybe not others.

Honda's rep speaks for itself but they are a little softer than Toys.

If Ford would put a decent motor in their trucks. Similar to Sponge, I have 168k on my F-150.

I'm waiting for Trump so smack CAFE and manufacturers to wake up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (9pHx8)

317 ...maybe it's time to sell the art collection and some of the excess property.
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I call dibs on the Smithsonian's Marilyn Monroe dress collection!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (/tzYP)

318 That’s what all this is about anyway. If you hadn’t noticed. Destruction of the US.

A great way to destroy any country is debauching of the currency. This has happened many times in history.

Remember in the 1960s The “experts” claimed that it was absolutely impossible to have high inflation and high unemployment, they had it all figgered out. Anyone who lived through the 1970s learned otherwise.

They can save the dollar, or they can save the markets. They can’t save both.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (NqWk4)

319 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Nood.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (f1epl)

321 I went and applied for a concealed carry permit in my new state of residence. I also got fingerprinted to apply for an out-of-state permit in my former state. I still have a non-resident permit from another state and I live in a constitutional carry state anyway. But you should make sure you are prepared when the lunatics that Carville and Soros and Bloomberg are mobilizing. I was shocked to see a crowd of about 200 to 300 in my small town on Saturday during the latest "LGBTQ+IA2S Day of Rage." If they can find 300 people out here then they have clearly mobilized a large number of purple-haired lunatics. This isn't likely to end well for anyone. Make sure you are clinging to your guns and religion.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (YcfMX)

322 Nood, in more ways than one.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (f1epl)

323 Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Tariffs ‘A Tax On Consumers’ Edition
Even Steven Green was mouthing this nonsense on the Bill Whittle Youtube channel. Dude, tariffs are indeed a form of tax, but might be the LEAST hurtful of taxes.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (XMwZJ)

324 "America does not do well with N-Year Plans. The electorate is too fickle to stay focused on one goal for more than a couple years."
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:29 AM (JI10i)

The public is out of the picture after the first 24 hours. Everything after that is totally up to the 3 person board of the agency.

Posted by: jwest at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (JRfbP)

325 322 Nood, in more ways than one.
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Woohoo!!!

[Hoping it's not naked Ottoman guy.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (/tzYP)

326 >>>Berlin's state parliament unanimously approved a motion to establish a twin town relationship with the Israeli hub. (Jerusalem Post)
Posted by: andycanuck
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Leave it to the Prussians.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (9pHx8)

327 I call dibs on the Smithsonian's Marilyn Monroe dress collection!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (/tzYP)

See, there's a buyer for everything the government "owns".

Posted by: jwest at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (JRfbP)

328 Pudinhead is spot-on. Nutrageous is our favorite treat!

Posted by: Pete and Chasten at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

329 324 Let's create more Fed govt agencies. We just can't get enough of em.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (JI10i)

330 “Around the time the twins were 5 years old (2016), [Nancy] decided that they were gay,”

AWFLs are a bigger existential threat to this nation than anything else.
Posted by: NR Pax

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That mother had the twins evaluated by a "specialist" to determine if they were gay when they were five years old.

In what sane culture is that a normal request?

P.S. The therapist determined they were "normal" five year olds. Mother then shifted to grooming both kids to be "transgender". Fortunately the daughter was able to resist and apparently now presents as a heterosexual female. The son is quite possibly utterly broken at this point. I pray that he comes through the other end with a healed spirit. He's. a kid more likely to commit suicide if he goes through with the treatments than if they were withheld.

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (/iMjX)

331 That 15 year old boy is a victim of Munchausen's syndrome by progesterone.

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM (/iMjX)

332 Anudder Female Cop oopsie

https://tinyurl.com/mrxf39ve
Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 09:21 AM (Tn7Ji)
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That's a twofer. Good on her!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 07, 2025 09:39 AM (2lp6s)

333 On $36 trillion, each basis point interest rate reduction saves $3.6 billion. Good start.

Posted by: oopsie . . . too late at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (kvDvI)

334 -

That's a twofer. Good on her!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Yep, female's have superior manual dexterity to males.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (9pHx8)

335 Why a Minnesota police chief says a female Tesla vandalism suspect won't be charged — and even 'may have been a victim'

Posted by: SMOD at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (RHGPo)

336 If one wants more than 2yr of trouble free driving it's Toyota or Honda. ymmv
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 09:14 AM (9pHx

'06 Mustang GT with over 372,000 miles on the clock.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 07, 2025 10:24 AM (dgRL6)

337 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. This is some Monday Morning (Wake-up) Report.

"Gov. Josh Shapiro attended an ‘iftar’ dinner at a mosque..."

Philly aka "The Mecca of the West." Seriously. 'Iftar' dinners are thing for Pennsylvania Governors. Plural. (At the beck & call of CAIR, don't cha know?)

Year in, year out for example:
Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro
The last few days of the holy month of Ramadan bare a special significance to our Muslim neighbors — and last night, Lori and I had the honor of hosting an Iftar dinner at the Governor's Residence and breaking fast with our fellow Pennsylvanians.
To every one who has fasted, reflected, and prayed during this holy month: Lori and I wish you peace and happiness.
Ramadan Kareem and Eid Mubarak.
March 27, 2025

After all, it's essential for a socialist democracy and a people's democratic dictatorship they so wish to have. (See Gavin Newsom.) Like China, and they do really like China.

But even here, a Nazi poster waiving, Musk despising, turning to garbage county, there are wee victories: Jewish Exponent dot com: Opinion, A Victory for Pennsylvania Taxpayers, Feb. 20, 2025

It begins: (Continued)

Posted by: L - No nic, adores both Musk and Miller. at April 07, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

338 "The Philadelphia Branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations will hold its annual fundraising banquet on Feb. 22, and for the first time in 13 years, it will not be held at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pennsylvania, after its support for Hamas was revealed.

The venue sits on property owned by Delaware County, a suburb of Philadelphia. After efforts by groups like the nonprofit Middle East Forum exposed the local CAIR chapter’s ties to terrorism, the venue chose not to host the event this year. ..." (More)
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OTOH, Philadelphia Tribune, 'Hundreds of public health jobs at risk in Philly after city loses federal grants'
Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza, WHYY, hrs ago

In part, "Those COVID-19 related grants included money for expanding the city’s epidemiology and laboratory capacity to enhance the detection of diseases, immunization and vaccines for children, as well as the Philadelphia Equitable Access Project to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities, according to the letter. These grants were not slated to expire until mid-2025, 2027 and 2029, according to USA Spending grant information."

Yup. WHYY, PBS keeps them hopping 'round here, the land where DIE won't.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores both Musk and Miller. at April 07, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

339 Did I have it right, or...? Norm Eisen runs the show and Carville, etal, provides color commentary?

Cofounder of CREW (non-profit); founder and current executive chair of the States United Democracy Center (non-profit); co-founder & Board member of States Democracy Defenders Action (ditto, somewhere in there); served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee majority during the impeachment proceedings and trial of President Donald J. Trump in 2019 and 2020; a retired US Ambassador; a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings Institute, yada, yada. (Has several impressive bios online.) Even more fascinating are the board members, partners. This is our civil society? (All imo.)
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🙏 Hamas hostages & all of the Horde in need.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores both Musk and Miller. at April 07, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

340 Carville is a crazy old man, off his meds, and baying at the moon. Now he may be correct that the Democrats have screwed themselves, but otherwise he's just nutso.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 07, 2025 12:00 PM (cB7nX)

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