House Passes Trump's Preferred Budget Bill as RINO Senators Balk at Serious Spending Cuts

The Freedom Caucus balked yesterday after seeing the Senate version, which barely trimmed spending at all. Trump and Johnson conferred with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and hammered out an agreement to get at least $1.5 trillion in reductions, although it's not clear what time scale that uses...

I think it's pretty clear they mean that over a 10-year window, which is what they always mean.

Elon Musk was shooting for one trillion in cuts per year. The Senate has promised to find $1.5 trillion in savings -- but note that Grifter Washington always talks about budgets in ten-year windows. So what they're talking about is $150 billion per year, for ten years.

And oh, by the way, they always lie even about that. They tend to claim they're planning for no cuts in the short term, years 1 through 6, but then HUGE cuts in years 7 through 10.

Spoiler alert: We never get to years 7 through 10. Years 7 through 10 always remain 7-10 years away.

Still, passing a budget does allow Congress to use reconciliation to pass a lot of stuff with a simple majority.

It's the bill Trump wanted, at least.

House Republicans on Thursday approved a budget framework allowing lawmakers to start drafting President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
The legislation will implement elements of Trump's domestic policy agenda, which includes tax cuts and increased spending on defense, energy, and border security.

The budget blueprint was approved Thursday by a vote of 216 to 214. Ultimately, two Republicans voted no. The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal hawks within the Republican party to vote for the bill despite their frustration over the level of spending cuts included in the Senate version of the plan that passed on Saturday. The Senate framework outlines only about $4 billion in spending cuts. The House version seeks at least $1.5 trillion.
Now that Republicans have passed identical versions of the framework in the House and Senate, they are able to unlock a special budget tool known as reconciliation -- a complicated process that allows them to avoid a filibuster in Senate and pass a final version of the legislation with a 51-vote simple majority.

The bill includes $4 billion in tax cuts and, of course, an increase in the debt ceiling of $5 trilly.

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 12:17 PM (aHfB6)

2 FIRST

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

3 Get with the program Republicans

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 12:18 PM (aHfB6)

4 Mumble mumble Congress mumble mumble mumble grift mumble flowing

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:19 PM (VNX3d)

5 afternoon all!

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2025 12:19 PM (KRtlO)

6 TRUMP HAS CANCELED CHRISTMAS!!!

Chinese Makers of Christmas Decorations Report No Orders Amid Tariffs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (hjo5/)

7 They also use weasel words like “savings”, which end up being budgetary jiggery-pokery.

Senate GOP has shown its ass on this one. No intent to cut much (if anything.) They want to keep funding things at Biden levels.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (l3YAf)

8 Now, do away with the Income Tax.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (pZ64F)

9 Reconciliation is going to be where the real work gets done. If the senate doesn’t deliver, which they’ve all sworn they will, Thune will be finished.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (GpnAF)

10 Still, passing a budget does allow Congress to use reconciliation to pass a lot of stuff with a simple majority.

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And rescission bills, to rescind previously appropriated funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

11 AOP, I hope you know sarcasm when you see it
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:17 PM (FCbAQ)

Seemed pretty clear and funny.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 10, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

Some of us seem a little tense today. Just didn't want there to be a misunderstanding.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (FCbAQ)

12 So, is it a good thing or a bad thing that we might get back to an actual budget again?

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

13 This is a development worth applauding but not creaming your pants over. I'd much rather see much bigger cuts than this pinprick. But presumably they can get a real budget in place and still let DOGE take a poison flamethrower to the stank nastiness of federal spending.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

14 reconciliation... Just put every hope into that basket!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (CM6iJ)

15 When was the last time we had a budget?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

16 Seems like a lot of procedural inside baseball, but the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (8zz6B)

17 Let me see: An actual spending bill with actual cuts.

Are the cuts nearly what is needed? Or course not.

But, an actual budget bill rather than ongoing CR's is a win.

PDT is probably going crazy, knowing he's trying to save DC in spite of themselves.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (tT6L1)

18 Like a broken record. The GOP is a worthless pile of dogshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (Q4IgG)

19 As with any work of Congress, I imagine the bill is rife with pork and fraud and dirty deeds

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (AOsQT)

20 15 When was the last time we had a budget?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

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The 06/07 budget year, I think.

Then TARP happened.

And then TARP kept happening...for nearly twenty years.

It's part of the CR baseline.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

21 Any word on Line Item Veto's?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (pZ64F)

22 You can't go ovet budget if you have no budget.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (p7mbN)

23 The Congress and Senate are just not serious, there is no good excuse for spending more than you take in taxes and other revenue.

We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

24 Willowed

ICYMI from last night's ONT,

https://tinyurl.com/3frrkv7z

From the astronauts, the long version of how they got stranded at the ISS, which is pretty interesting, if you are into tech or space.

TL;DR - Did you try turning it off and turning it back on?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (i24o9)

25 19 As with any work of Congress, I imagine the bill is rife with pork and fraud and dirty deeds
Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:21 PM (AOsQT)

Not even done dirt cheap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (bss/y)

26 TRUMP HAS CANCELED CHRISTMAS!!!

Chinese Makers of Christmas Decorations Report No Orders Amid Tariffs
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (hjo5/)

Good thing I saved last year's Christmas lights.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (8zz6B)

27 afternoon all!
Posted by: ace

Afternoon, Ace. Got any big plans for the weekend?

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)

28 So, is it a good thing or a bad thing that we might get back to an actual budget again?
Posted by: Bulg

Individual bills are required for our nations continued existence.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (CM6iJ)

29 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)
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Thai Lady boys isn't nothing!

Posted by: congressional junkets to Thailand at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (tT6L1)

30 And oh, by the way, they always lie even about that. They tend to claim they're planning for no cuts in the short term, years 1 through 6, but then HUGE cuts in years 7 through 10.

Spoiler alert: We never get to years 7 through 10. Years 7 through 10 always remain 7-10 years away. Ace-

Also, cuts to the rate of increase are called cuts by the dissemblers while actual spending goes up.

But as to your point, NFL teams routinely give massive contracts to players to assuage their egos, knowing the guy won't be on the team for years 5 and 6, where all the big money is.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (FCbAQ)

31 Are we really going to do this every day?!

Dow down: trolls.

Dow up: trolls shut the fuck up and talk about deflation instead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (bss/y)

32 I'm just going to lazily be happy that there seems to be a change in trajectory. Whatever actually does or doesn't get accomplished, the very fact that the terms of the discussion seem to be changing is welcome enough.

The people are pissed off and paying attention. The gravy trains are all derailing. Let the old guard die off, and the new guard mug for the cameras, so long as the trajectory keeps improving.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (VoAdT)

33 The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal hawks within the Republican party to vote for the bill despite their frustration over the level of spending cuts included in the Senate version of the plan that passed on Saturday.

The Senate framework outlines only about $4 billion in spending cuts. The House version seeks at least $1.5 trillion.

Dear Congress,
Get your shit in order, or we will.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (RNuBu)

34 Good thing I saved last year's Christmas lights.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And the Christmas trees are grown in the USA!

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

35 Doom or no?

Posted by: Grump928(C) holds flame to his locks at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (jc0TO)

36 Do the Dems hate this bill ? That's all I need to know...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

37 4 billion? Mitch has that much in his couch cushions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (bss/y)

38 I am okay with tax cuts but really I think that is a very very tiny priority right now. What we need is cuts, and clearing up the corruption and fraud, and making it stick. Now. We need electoral reform. Now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (RKzci)

39 34 Dear Congress,
Get your shit in order, or we will.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2025 12:24 PM (RNuBu)

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Spoiler:

They won't.

We won't.

The dance continues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

40 Thai Lady boys isn't nothing!
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This is true. Just ask Garrett.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (pZ64F)

41 Congress is about as worthless as a dog's hair stuck in a pile of bleached white by the sun dog mess.

Posted by: Old Texas Saying at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (ekEaX)

42 The Supremes ruled on line item veto long ago

not happening

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (AOsQT)

43 Posted by: congressional junkets to Thailand at April 10, 2025 12:23 PM (tT6L1)

heh.

heheheheheh.

"junk"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (VoAdT)

44 I think I know why Mitch McConnell is glitching so much in public. He's had too many NPC updates, and they aren't taking as well anymore. His programmable memory is breaking down.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (VNX3d)

45 We build city for all these workers and now what we do with them except shoot them? Poor bastards, coulda' been making TVs, now dead. By way, can we buy rice?

CCP

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2025 12:25 PM (gm9Sb)

46 35 Good thing I saved last year's Christmas lights.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Christmas lights are designed to fail every two years.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:26 PM (pZ64F)

47 Posted by: AliasSmithSmith at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (w10co)

Troll is making an ass of himself again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:26 PM (8zz6B)

48 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

Who is "we", Kemosabe?

Posted by: Grifters, NGOs, MIC, and Mysteriously rich politicians at April 10, 2025 12:26 PM (FCbAQ)

49 And oh, by the way, they always lie even about that.

They like to pass cuts to the increases in spending they had planned.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2025 12:26 PM (xRgqO)

50 The Supremes ruled on line item veto long ago

not happening
Posted by: Don Black

I think that was the correct decision, and an example of judicial review done right.

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

51 My position at this point is this is what Trump negotiated and wanted passed. So let it be and move on with the agenda.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)

52 43 The Supremes ruled on line item veto long ago

not happening
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Remind me, how many divisions do the Supremes have?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pZ64F)

53 Inflation rates continue to fall, the budget framework was passed by the House, and the latest national jobs report was excellent. The domestic economy is moving in the right direction, which gives the President significant breathing space to address international matters.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

54 Afternoon ace
This is about as good as can be expected given the GOPe weasels in the Senate. Turning the big government ship around will take a lot of effort, not just one budget.
Trump has to keep hammering away at corruption. That will wake up the GOPe even if it takes out a couple of them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (6TePA)

55 I buy Christmas lights after Christmas when they are like 75% off.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (p7mbN)

56 I saw this on the plane ride out to Utah earlier this week. I hate the term "Yacht Rock" as it's meaningless and dumb -- not even the guys who invented the term can persuasively explain what it means -- but whatevs.

As there seem to be lots of YR fans here, I say it's worth a watch. Most of the guys who started and developed it are still alive and give interviews. (Except for one guy, who seems like a total asshoe.) YR ain't really my thing, but I found this documentary interesting.

Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary

https://www.hbo.com/music-box

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

57 Remind me, how many divisions do the Supremes have?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pZ64F)

I don't know, but stay away from the Diana Ross Brigade. They don't mess around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (VoAdT)

58 Any spending not specifically designated for a particular program or service is spent, or not spent, at the President's discretion.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (UuDzR)

59 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And the Christmas trees are grown in the USA!
Posted by: Bulg

Probably noy in Alberta!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (CM6iJ)

60 So Shifty Schiff demands Trump be investigated for Market Manipulation... Yeah.. We're gonna get right on that...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (VE6XX)

61 Khar cha har chaire hum lar she, bia hum hagha khar we.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (GpnAF)

62 > Spoiler alert: We never get to years 7 through 10. Years 7 through 10 always remain 7-10 years away.

It's like the Five Year Plans in the old Soviet Union.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (W5ArC)

63 58 Any spending not specifically designated for a particular program or service is spent, or not spent, at the President's discretion.
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (UuDzR)

Or the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (bss/y)

64 Dear Congress,
Get your shit in order, or we will.

But will we?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (RKzci)

65 58 Any spending not specifically designated for a particular program or service is spent, or not spent, at the President's discretion.
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (UuDzR)

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The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 says very differently.

I think the law is obviously unconstitutional, but it's still on the books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

66 >>> RINO Senators Balk at Serious Spending Cuts

Probably the really old guys who nobody would question being found dead under a pillow.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:30 PM (UzriI)

67 58 Any spending not specifically designated for a particular program or service is spent, or not spent, at the President's discretion.
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (UuDzR)

Or the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:29 PM (bss/y)
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I thought federal judges now controlled all spending decisions...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2025 12:30 PM (7fElN)

68 friggin auto correct did not recognize the word 'Supremes'

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:30 PM (AOsQT)

69 I fully expect President Trump to challenge impoundment. That should be a fun fight.

I think President Trump has signaled he doesn't believe money has to be spent even though it's been allocated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (tT6L1)

70 Troll is making an ass of himself again.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They are cute, but feeding them is a mistake I'm guilty of making myself.

Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (j4U/Z)

71 >
Chinese Makers of Christmas Decorations Report No Orders Amid Tariffs
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (hjo5/)

I live in Alaska. We've got plenty of evergreens and shit here. No need for plastic ones.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (W5ArC)

72 Wait, is this a real budget, or a gussied up continuing resolution?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (j08vF)

73 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (CM6iJ)

74 Christmas lights are designed to fail every two years.

They're designed to be such a PITA to refold and store that you're supposed to say "Eff it" and throw them in the trash.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (/y8xj)

75 "We need to fire all the RINO Senators."

Out of a cannon? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (NR6c1)

76 72 Wait, is this a real budget, or a gussied up continuing resolution?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (j08vF)

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What passed this morning is a budget resolution.

A preliminary step to an actual budget.

Congressional parliamentary rules suck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

77 >>> So what they're talking about is $150 billion per year, for ten years.

That is right. Saving over the originally proposed increases.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (UzriI)

78 Probably noy in Alberta!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (CM6iJ)

Pretty sure we do have Chistmas tree farms in Alberta. More than half the province is forested. Logging is big business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (8zz6B)

79 I thought federal judges now controlled all spending decisions...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2025 12:30 PM (7fElN)

Well, they are part of the bureaucracy. Unelected government officials.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (bss/y)

80 There will never be cuts made by congress. Everyone needs to understand this basic fact of politics. Nobody wants to cut their constituents’ cheese.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (xHYkz)

81 And some people wonder why the GOP does not track like Trump does.

"How do we increase turn out?" Stupid party.

Posted by: Francis at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (bbuBP)

82 The biggest problem we have with congress aside from the corruption, buggery, and molesting children is that its a place dedicated to doing as little as possible while seeming to act.

They have spent the last fifty years finding new ways to get courts to handle all their work, and acting to pass things that do not require them to take an actual stand on anything that might be criticized.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (RKzci)

83 Wait, is this a real budget, or a gussied up continuing resolution?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (j08vF)

It might be the end of the beginning of the budget process.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (rj6Yv)

84 73 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (CM6iJ)

Saw that. That's fucking nuts.

https://tinyurl.com/4sa64mxr

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)

85 Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
https://www.hbo.com/music-box
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

If you listen or even just bump into the YR station on XM radio, the promos are ridiculously smarmy. Over the top snobbery vocally.
It's obviously so tongue in cheek.

Posted by: Grifters, NGOs, MIC, and Mysteriously rich politicians at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (FCbAQ)

86 The future will care for me when I get older.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (oiGpJ)

87 80 There will never be cuts made by congress. Everyone needs to understand this basic fact of politics. Nobody wants to cut their constituents’ cheese.
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So what inflation rate do you want to live with?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (pZ64F)

88 I see TJM and I are thinking impoundment act.

Not sure if being on the same page as TJM is a good or bad thing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

89 It's the big, beautiful golden dildo bill that Trump wanted to shove up Congress' ass.

Posted by: Roy at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (fO4QD)

90 They are cute, but feeding them is a mistake I'm guilty of making myself.
Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (j4U/Z)

I almost think this one is a sock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (8zz6B)

91 Not sure if being on the same page as TJM is a good or bad thing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

How do you like Ridley Scott movies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)

92 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?

The entire system was been rigged by clever people to move money around to themselves, their allies, and to causes they want to support, disguised as assistance. There's a reason that the usual suspects are out screaming about how Musk is stealing from Social Security to enrich himself and cutting benefits. They want to stop anything being examined closely much less done about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (RKzci)

93 > Pretty sure we do have Chistmas tree farms in Alberta. More than half the province is forested. Logging is big business.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (8zz6B)

I remember seeing plenty of trees in Alberta the times I've been there.

More than Saskatchewan, fewer than British Columbia, but still a respectable amount.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba remind me of Iowa, except with wheat instead of corn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (W5ArC)

94 How many billions in this bill are allocated to USAID? Can Trump just say, we can't spend money on an agency that doesn't exist come up with additional savings?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (j08vF)

95 Not sure if being on the same page as TJM is a good or bad thing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

How do you like Ridley Scott movies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)

Do you like Gladiator movies?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (VNX3d)

96 These fucking guys...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (ufFY8)

97 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (CM6iJ)
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I guess as long as they vote Democrat, they are still eligible for benefits...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (7fElN)

98 >>>The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal hawks within the Republican party to vote for the bill despite their frustration over the level of spending cuts included in the Senate version of the plan that passed on Saturday.

FFS, even the right can't get this straight.

Sure it is a victory for Trump and those other Rs. But it is a larger victory for America and Americans who've been screaming for a full-year appropriations bill (budget) for over twenty years now, even though this is not it either, since the fight will begin again prior to the new FY.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf7j9d9 - Peterson Foundation on CR history.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (i24o9)

99 88 I see TJM and I are thinking impoundment act.

Not sure if being on the same page as TJM is a good or bad thing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)
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Very, very bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

100 Budget should be handled in increments,
Defense first and Legislative budget first (to get them on board by paying them off),

Judicial branch LAST.

Veto every bill after the first if it includes the Judicial branch.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (UzriI)

101 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:28 PM (CM6iJ)

By the way, how are you doing? Are you able to meet up anytime soon?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (8zz6B)

102 At this point if Trump wants it I want it...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

103 How do you like Ridley Scott movies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)

Do you like Gladiator movies?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (VNX3d)

Turkish prisons?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (bss/y)

104 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?----

I think that was Unemployment. They also were paying people unemployment who were over 100 and under 10 years old.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VofaG)

105 87 80 There will never be cuts made by congress. Everyone needs to understand this basic fact of politics. Nobody wants to cut their constituents’ cheese.
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So what inflation rate do you want to live with?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (pZ64F)

What I want is irrelevant. Reality is no politician will vote to cut govt cheese for the people who vote in his district.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (xHYkz)

106 100 Budget should be handled in increments,
Defense first and Legislative budget first (to get them on board by paying them off),

Judicial branch LAST.

Veto every bill after the first if it includes the Judicial branch.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (UzriI)

======

Maybe under Vance.

Trump wants the one, big, beautiful bill and to move on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

107 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7

Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

108 I am so old I can remember Trump asking Russia and China to join the U in cutting military spending 50%.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (MMp6W)

109 They have spent the last fifty years finding new ways to get courts to handle all their work, and acting to pass things that do not require them to take an actual stand on anything that might be criticized.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:32 PM (RKzci)

Don't forget they created all those administrations, wherein the laws they want passed but don't want to do themselves get put in via regulations. Then when constituents bitch, they throw up their hands and say hey, there's nothing we can do.

Little did they know that someday that edifice could be torn down by one man.

Posted by: Grifters, NGOs, MIC, and Mysteriously rich politicians at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (FCbAQ)

110 What is the opinion of the stock market geeks here as to why the market is so down again after being so high yesterday? I would think that big institutional money managers would not be this emotionally driven to buy and sell in such huge quantities as to drive the market into this kind of volatility. Is it foreign investment pulling out individual retail, investors, being hysterical? The economic news is very positive as far as inflation,the bond market settle down a bit overnight and into this morning. any opinions as to why the extreme volatility?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VHO8+)

111 Budget should be handled in increments,
Defense first and Legislative budget first (to get them on board by paying them off),

Judicial branch LAST.

Veto every bill after the first if it includes the Judicial branch.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:35 PM (UzriI)

Judicial and Legislative Branch funding bills must be last. I don't care which, but everything else must be completed before these two.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VNX3d)

112 I think President Trump has signaled he doesn't believe money has to be spent even though it's been allocated.
Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag

Strictly speaking, it is the ceiling.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (UzriI)

113 sockoff

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (FCbAQ)

114 107 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

...

What was a male corpse doing on the subway?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

115 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

*moons thread from submarine*

Posted by: Jim Biden, Epstein Island underwater taxi at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (a7cRB)

116 So what inflation rate do you want to live with?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (pZ64F)

What I want is irrelevant. Reality is no politician will vote to cut govt cheese for the people who vote in his district.
---------------
Given your answer you need to state the inflation rate you can live with. Squeezing a growing balloon changes nothing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (pZ64F)

117 110 What is the opinion of the stock market geeks here as to why the market is so down again after being so high yesterday? I would think that big institutional money managers would not be this emotionally driven to buy and sell in such huge quantities as to drive the market into this kind of volatility. Is it foreign investment pulling out individual retail, investors, being hysterical? The economic news is very positive as far as inflation,the bond market settle down a bit overnight and into this morning. any opinions as to why the extreme volatility?
Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VHO8+)

=======

Well, there's your problem.

Institutional investors are deeply emotional panickers, mostly driven by the fact that they are degenerate gamblers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

118 Oregon has tons of Christmas Tree farms. You can get a tree for a buck a foot or less here. Or free, if you go cut one yourself in some places. The prices people are forced to play for trees in other parts of the country are jaw-dropping. Tons of oak trees in the Willamette Valley, absolutely festooned with mistletoe, its basically free here. Again, costs a fortune elsewhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (RKzci)

119 114 107 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

...

What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

The backstroke in the sewage?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

120 Good thing I saved last year's Christmas lights.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (8zz6B)

What? You don’t throw them out in January and have an Amazon Subscribe and Save set up to ship you new ones every November??

Posted by: Confused American Consoomer at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (l3YAf)

121 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.

We have tens of millions of rapefugees with new Obamaphones and $14K debit cards. That's not nothing!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (t0Rmr)

122 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.
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Highest real estate values in the country inside the beltway... that's something.

Posted by: Pearl jam at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (5RbTe)

123 Any word on Line Item Veto's?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:22 PM (pZ64F)

Not permitted. -- SCOTUS (I don't recall what year - during Clinton, I believe)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

124 Even with the work of DOGE, I still believe this bill will contain tens of millions, even billions of untraceable or misspent dollars

I just do not trust these MFers in Congress

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (AOsQT)

125
What was a male corpse doing on the subway?

Going to register as a Dem voter?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (t0Rmr)

126 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

Getting raped, apparently.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (a7cRB)

127 Hi ace! Has anybody wished you a Happy Thursday yet?

Posted by: muldoon at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (/iMjX)

128 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)
_________

"Fucking amateur!"

-- Edmund Kemper

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

129 Jen, most likely profit taking after yesterday's huge surge.

Posted by: Old Blue at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (X6YhY)

130 Not permitted. -- SCOTUS (I don't recall what year - during Clinton, I believe)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

Yeah, it was right after Contract... so 94/95?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (bss/y)

131 > Saskatchewan and Manitoba remind me of Iowa, except with wheat instead of corn.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (W5ArC)

I remember seeing a hitchhiker taking a piss by the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan. Nary a tree, bush, or house to be seen, all the way to the horizon in all directions. Just wheat. So.... he did his best to conceal his junk behind the pole of a road sign, but the stream arching out on the other side was clearly visible.

I combined being amused with feeling sorry for him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (W5ArC)

132 It's been a rough week for degenerate gamblers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (p7mbN)

133 By the way, how are you doing? Are you able to meet up anytime soon?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes. I've been improving quickly. At the brewery?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (CM6iJ)

134 What passed this morning is a budget resolution.

A preliminary step to an actual budget.
_____

So first Congress must decide how much to tax the suckers, I mean citizens, plus how much to borrow from China before figuring out the details on what to spend it on?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (j08vF)

135 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

They have also arrested the corpse for jumping the turnstile.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (8zz6B)

136 107 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

.....

Say no, Carlos! SAY NO!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (VoAdT)

137 Good morning, coffee will kick in soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (RrIy1)

138 BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

Time for everyone's favorite game...

Illegal, refugee or "dreamer"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (t0Rmr)

139 > 126 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

Getting raped, apparently.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 10, 2025 12:38 PM (a7cRB)

Corpse was asking for it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (W5ArC)

140 Institutional investors are deeply emotional panickers, mostly driven by the fact that they are degenerate gamblers.

Plus the super fast computer-driven microtransactions snowball badly and cause major trends without a single human being even being involved. The entire system is a huge mess that nobody really even understands any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (RKzci)

141 Raising the debt ceiling again? F that.
What the f does ceiling even mean?
How about a zero deficit budget?
That would be about a 2 trillion per year cut.
Eliminate the debt and there is another trillion per year.

How about this? The fed gov is to reduce all expenditures 40%.
Goal isn't a "balanced budget". Goal is a budget 20% below income with the surplus used to retire bonds permanently.
A debt basement. Every year we eliminate 1 trillion and in.... 36 years we'll be solvent.

Posted by: Reforger at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (xcIvR)

142 110 What is the opinion of the stock market geeks here as to why the market is so down again after being so high yesterday? I would think that big institutional money managers would not be this emotionally driven to buy and sell in such huge quantities as to drive the market into this kind of volatility. Is it foreign investment pulling out individual retail, investors, being hysterical? The economic news is very positive as far as inflation,the bond market settle down a bit overnight and into this morning. any opinions as to why the extreme volatility?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VHO8+)

B/c folks are day trading the obvious ups and downs. Yesterday, I said it would be obvious Dow would be down this morning b/c of how high it went in one day. And I'm not a pro.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (tOcjL)

143 Institutional investors saw yesterday’s rally as a chance to further deleverage. Today they’re dumping everything they can. BTW It’s really time they pulled hedge funds under a better regulatory regime.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (GpnAF)

144 122 We're 36T in debt and have literally nothing to show for it.
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Highest real estate values in the country inside the beltway... that's something.
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Yeah, I know.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (pZ64F)

145 The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 says very differently.

I think the law is obviously unconstitutional, but it's still on the books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman

We'll see, Biden had no problem doing it, besides we have a Republican Congress.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (UuDzR)

146 Still, passing a budget does allow Congress to use reconciliation to pass a lot of stuff with a simple majority.

=======

And rescission bills, to rescind previously appropriated funds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

>>

And, hopefully, eliminate what's left of the Department of Education and the empty-husk agencies.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (rj6Yv)

147 osted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VHO8+)

I stayed at a holiday Inn but I think its a combo of foreign investors continuing to sell and people who bought at the recent bottom getting some short term gains .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (VofaG)

148 In the end, though, nothing will change. No one is allowed close to a seat in the House or Senate unless they are corrupt and dishonest to their core.

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (zhWvq)

149 How do you like Ridley Scott movies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)
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Isn't he fond of filming slow motion banking helicopters? If so, no.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (tT6L1)

150 Corpse was asking for it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (W5ArC)

Dressed like that. Decaying so seductively...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

151 BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway
______

Is Mr. Garcia the only one who said he'd be willing to do it?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (j08vF)

152 Every dollar in debt the government takes on is a tax for a future citizen.

Since those future citizens didn't get to vote for current congress/president it is taxation without representation.

Its a shame we don't have an independent judiciary to stop this...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (t0Rmr)

153 Just because you COULD borrow an extra 5 trillion, doesn’t mean you HAVE TO.

Wait, why is everyone laughing?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (TJLr1)

154 >besides we have a Republican Congress.
---

do we?

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (AOsQT)

155 Yes. I've been improving quickly. At the brewery?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (CM6iJ)

Could do. I will give you a phone call.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (8zz6B)

156 The economic news is very positive as far as inflation,the bond market settle down a bit overnight and into this morning. any opinions as to why the extreme volatility?
Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM

Yesterday was a giant run up. I bet on a bit of a sell off last night at the close and have done good.

The bear is my spirit animal so take my notions with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Grump928(C) holds flame to his locks at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (jc0TO)

157 HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

Everybody party time!

Posted by: Uniparty at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (HAZgy)

158 Is Mr. Garcia the only one who said he'd be willing to do it?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:41 PM (j08vF)

Maybe he said he'd haul it away for them afterward.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (bss/y)

159 Well, there's your problem.

Institutional investors are deeply emotional panickers, mostly driven by the fact that they are degenerate gamblers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

Eh.. a lot of their decisions are driven by spreadsheets.

This is probably mostly retail going crazy. This kind of wild up-and-down happened a lot during Trump I, especially during the trade war.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (l3YAf)

160 Maybe it was a Corpse Man

Posted by: Obama at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (VofaG)

161 Market volatility is so bad and largely outside human control that its dumb to either gloat or panic no matter what you see stonks doing. One day you can say "see Trump is a failure" and then look like an ass the next. The only constant is that Jim Cramer is always wrong on CNBC.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (RKzci)

162 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?

His wife got tired of going down and handing him a sandwich through the window every day.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 10, 2025 12:42 PM (/y8xj)

163 I remember seeing a hitchhiker taking a piss by the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan

I'll bet his hair was perfect.

Posted by: Zombie Warren Zevon at April 10, 2025 12:43 PM (4A8xX)

164 That's the one thing about our constitution.
While it's quite democratic and perfect on the recognition of rights, the framers sure did screw up giving the power of the purse to a group of corrupt people who love the idea of getting wealthy by paying off their donors and voters with taxpayer money.

I don't know any other way to come up with a budget in this republic, but ballooning deficits sure has happened every other place and time when the people learned they could vote themselves into getting more "free" cash.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 12:43 PM (6ydKt)

165 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

They have also arrested the corpse for jumping the turnstile.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 12:39 PM (8zz6B)

Not reading the story, is everyone sure he was a corpse when he got on the train?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:44 PM (FCbAQ)

166 116 So what inflation rate do you want to live with?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (pZ64F)

What I want is irrelevant. Reality is no politician will vote to cut govt cheese for the people who vote in his district.
---------------
Given your answer you need to state the inflation rate you can live with. Squeezing a growing balloon changes nothing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (pZ64F)

Ok fine 2%.
But again what I want is irrelevant. I want to cut as much as possible. Then cut some more. I don’t know why you’re arguing with me when we agree.
I’m simply stating the reality of politics. And that reality is it’s damn near impossible to cut anything. The gop has been yapping about cuts for as long a I can remember. They also controlled the house for something like 25 of the past 35 years. And yet here we are with a $36 trillion debt.

But THIS time they’re super serious about it. Right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:44 PM (xHYkz)

167 If you don't want to day trade, and you don't have normal buying days, give the market a couple weeks to die down and then make your money moves...it should be less volatile then...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 10, 2025 12:44 PM (tOcjL)

168 Good.. The troll has been nuked

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2025 12:44 PM (VE6XX)

169 Oh no!

The CALL VOLUME?!?!

He's been shot at by you fuckers, I am thinking his field of fucks is barren.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)

170 Could do. I will give you a phone call.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Great.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (CM6iJ)

171 The RINO's do not realize their is no money to spend? That's all that the Presidents been talking about. They want to spend money let them empty out some of their Swiss bank accounts. Dole that out to their friends in high places.

Posted by: Case at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (OrSPY)

172 If you missed the Dip...

don't worry. Another one will be along shortly.

Volatility is here for a while. That is the key takeaway.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (F30Ty)

173 Speaking of, it's technically not rape (at least under Alaska law, things might be different in New York).

I know this because there was a case many years ago where a highly intoxicated dude out in one of the villages was found in bed with a deceased female (who'd also been highly intoxicated). The case turned on whether she was alive when he started (in which case it would've been rape). The jury decided that there was reasonable doubt, so he was only convicted of "misconduct with a corpse", which is a separate offense.

Now there's a cheery thought for the day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (W5ArC)

174 They also controlled the house for something like 25 of the past 35 years. And yet here we are with a $36 trillion debt.

“But we don’t have 60 votes in the senate!! Waaaaah!!”

~ GOPe

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (TJLr1)

175 I am sure the guys in India were working overtime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (bss/y)

176 What is the opinion of the stock market geeks here as to why the market is so down again after being so high yesterday?
Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (VHO8+)

=======

Well, there's your problem.

Institutional investors are deeply emotional panickers, mostly driven by the fact that they are degenerate gamblers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
____

My advice to all -- including myself -- is to stop obsessing over and tracking the market every 15 seconds. There's no way to make sense of it right now. We are in no-man's land. The market is right now a perverted storm of uncertainty, paranoia, stupidity, greed, pathological FOMO, fear, over-reaction, masturbation, and a very large dose of cult politics.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

177 Saw an ad on the market years ago. Showed a field of brokers, all with their heads in the sand. Then heads started popping up and looking around. Next scene showed all the brokers running as fast as they could in one direction. Last scene showed them all running hard...for the edge of a cliff. That pretty much sums up the market.

Posted by: Old Blue at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (X6YhY)

178 118 Oregon has tons of Christmas Tree farms. You can get a tree for a buck a foot or less here. Or free, if you go cut one yourself in some places. The prices people are forced to play for trees in other parts of the country are jaw-dropping. Tons of oak trees in the Willamette Valley, absolutely festooned with mistletoe, its basically free here. Again, costs a fortune elsewhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:37 PM

Oregon does have tons of Christmas tree farms. However they are charging crazy prices for their trees because all the New-to-towners are used to paying $100 for a tree and fork out the cash like its nothing. I miss the days of a buck a foot. You can still get a permit to cut down your own up in the back country state lands.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (IifOV)

179 TRUMP HAS CANCELED CHRISTMAS!!!

Chinese Makers of Christmas Decorations Report No Orders Amid Tariffs
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:20 PM (hjo5/)

Migawd, how with the Chinese be able to support their slave laborers if the US does not buy the goods they produce? The guards will be forced to kill them to save on their upkeep.

WE ARE CULPABLE IN THEIR DEATHS BY OUR FAILURE TO CONSUME

Posted by: Kindltot at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (D7oie)

180 Now there's a cheery thought for the day.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 10, 2025 12:45 PM (W5ArC)

Imagine being on that jury.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (bss/y)

181 How the "cuts" will be phrased:

Dept "We need 20 billion for our budget"

Govt "Ask for 250 billion"

Dept "OK"

Govt "No, only 20 billion." GOVT SLASHES 230 BILLION!!!!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (WPL6O)

182 Regarding the last thread, is their someone here who can do a wellness check on WitchDoktor?

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

183 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Too many punchlines to process here. Bravo, morons.

Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (j4U/Z)

184 84 73 Did anyone note SS has been paying money to people not born yet?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:31 PM (CM6iJ)

Saw that. That's fucking nuts.

https://tinyurl.com/4sa64mxr

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)

Makes me feel like an idiot for obeying laws these many years.

Posted by: javems at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (8I4hW)

185 TJM, I watched The Last Stop in Yuma County last night. I enjoyed it and was very impressed with Richard Blake's acting. He has a shit ton of range with his face. Interesting.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

186 And the "cuts" are never cuts, they're slowdowns of projected increases...7 to 10 years from now.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (TL7UX)

187
Bring me the head of Carlos Garcia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (RrIy1)

188 If you have a couple bucks, this is the kind of environment where you can make an absolute killing with naked calls and puts. Buy something cheap and cheerful a month or so out and way out of the money, and wait. Think of it as a lottery ticket. Don't bet the farm, but maybe drop a couple bucks and have fun with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:47 PM (VoAdT)

189 >> The market is right now a perverted storm of uncertainty, paranoia, stupidity, greed, pathological FOMO, fear, over-reaction, masturbation, and a very large dose of cult politics.

So a day that ends with ‘Y’..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (l3YAf)

190 How meny Childrin of Coller will suffer because of the meen and ugly Repubiltards who does not care !!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (S8RIM)

191 The market is right now a perverted storm of uncertainty, paranoia, stupidity, greed, pathological FOMO, fear, over-reaction, masturbation, and a very large dose of cult politics.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

I have no quibble with that description.
At no point did you try to connect the market to the economy.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (FCbAQ)

192 131-Rugby pee. On one knee with other leg and dork out.

Posted by: Francis at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (bbuBP)

193 The market is right now a perverted storm of uncertainty, paranoia, stupidity, greed, pathological FOMO, fear, over-reaction, masturbation, and a very large dose of cult politics.
_______________

But ... but ... rational market theory!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (YqDXo)

194 If any to people could put their heads together and for a plan to pressurize the senate.....

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (RrIy1)

195 129. Thanks.If somebody pulled their profits from yesterday I’m assuming they’re going to sit on the sideline expecting the market to go lower and then they’re gonna jump back in buying stocks at the lower price. Isn’t that the timing the market type thing that most people get warned about not doing? This isn’t something I or Mr. Jen are involved in doing as we decided a long time ago we didn’t have the time or the wherewithal to do the amount of research needed to manage our own investment funds and we’re very confident in our longtime FA who manages our funds. I’m not going to lie, we’ve seen a significant drop in the nest egg and we all know what goes up can come down and go back up again, but the volatility extremes seem rather out of the ordinary right now.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (VHO8+)

196 No worries, the WSJ explains why the market is down today: "Stock Selloff Accelerates as China Trade War Sinks In"

Posted by: Oglebay at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (MMp6W)

197 That corpse was probably a voter and a Social Security recipient.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (p7mbN)

198 We had a crash in 198. And 1997. And 2001. And 2008. And 2016. And 2020. And 2022.

Anyone see a pattern?

Peeps need to chill.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (xHYkz)

199 Raping a male corpse on a subway sounds like the Sam Kinison bit about roaming bands of homosexual necrophiliacs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (6TePA)

200 The Supremes ruled on line item veto long ago

not happening
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Remind me, how many divisions do the Supremes have?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pZ64F)

No President (before Trump) has ever actually wanted it. No Congress has ever actually wanted it. SCOTUS gave them an excuse. No troops needed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

201 How meny Childrin of Coller will suffer because of the meen and ugly Repubiltards who does not care !!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (S8RIM)

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The only people suffering are your people. So, I'm not only good with it, In fact, I think your type should suffer even more.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (tT6L1)

202 I find this article so amusing:

https://shorturl.at/GEJZ2

The CEO of Dame, which apparently sells a lot of $90 Chinese made vibrators, has decided to charge their customers an extra $5 tariff surcharge with a graphic of Trump's hair to show all of her menless customers who to blame for it.

Lady, just for that I hope every one of your customers gets angry about that extra $5 for their vibrators and learn about the much cheaper magic of cucumbers and the clothes washer rinse cycle.

Of all the businesses CNBC could showcase for this issue, Aditi Shrikant - Lead Psychology Reporter (lol), chose this lady and this company to interview.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

203 I think the market is being manipulated. I mean it's always been so, but over the last couple days it's been something of a tug-of-war between the various agents of change. Those that are against us seem to be torqued off that Trump is going to upset the globalists grifting operations with his tariffs.

Imagine how much money, globally speaking, there is to grift if you've got resources to manipulate markets.

We know they're out there. State actors or not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (Q4IgG)

204 If you listen or even just bump into the YR station on XM radio, the promos are ridiculously smarmy. Over the top snobbery vocally.
It's obviously so tongue in cheek.

--

We always laugh when the over the top snobbery promos for Yacht Rock come on. I can't help but laugh, and picture the guy with an unbuttoned shirt and lots of chunky gold necklaces on. Whoever does it is pretty good, and funny.

I consider myself definitely more of a rocker gal, but even I admit to liking Yacht Rock.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (qBdHI)

205 There's Gladiator, which is a terrific movie. Spartacus, which is a great movie. I can't name a third, but when you're two-for-two you have to admit that you like movies about gladiators.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (lEahz)

206 193 The market is right now a perverted storm of uncertainty, paranoia, stupidity, greed, pathological FOMO, fear, over-reaction, masturbation, and a very large dose of cult politics.
_______________

But ... but ... rational market theory!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Several entities, each for its own selfish reasons, is driving the market down. I'm fully invested. Wish I had more to put in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (RrIy1)

207 Going off-topic, I think I know the correct venue for White House press conferences: The Kennedy Center of the Arts.

There would be plenty of room for the press corps, and the presstitutes like to act important anyway.

The AP can get its seat(s) in the balcony.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (VNX3d)

208 198 We had a crash in 198. And 1997. And 2001. And 2008. And 2016. And 2020. And 2022.

Anyone see a pattern?

Peeps need to chill.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (xHYkz)

Actually, there was a bad downturn in 198AD. Caracalla became Emperor of the Roman Empire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)

209
"He wasn't using it. He was dead".

Posted by: Subway Dead Body Rapist at April 10, 2025 12:51 PM (IifOV)

210 Spartacus, which is a great movie.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

The 25-speech section really dragged, though.

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:51 PM (77rzZ)

211 Do any of our Congress critter realize we have had $2T deficits for the last few years. We need to cut $2T per year every year, not $1.5T over ten years. And as Ace said, we NEVER get to the out-year savings. They just don't happen.

Go back to the drawing board, GOP!

Posted by: Ralph at April 10, 2025 12:51 PM (8WZD4)

212 Elon's cuts will be in a recission package.

Posted by: MikeN at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (HVZOH)

213 There's Gladiator, which is a terrific movie. Spartacus, which is a great movie. I can't name a third, but when you're two-for-two you have to admit that you like movies about gladiators.

There was some recent Gladiator TV series. I've only seen clips of it but while yes the Gladiators walk around in loin cloths there are plenty of female servants walking around half topless.

Yes, literally one boob covered and one not. I don't know if that was a real Roman thing or not but I'll admit I half like it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (t0Rmr)

214 They had stock markets in 198?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (p7mbN)

215
The 25-speech section really dragged, though.

Really? I wanted a little more

Posted by: Ayn Rand at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (t0Rmr)

216 >>The CEO of Dame, which apparently sells a lot of $90 Chinese made vibrators, has decided to charge their customers an extra $5 tariff surcharge with a graphic of Trump's hair to show all of her menless customers who to blame for it.

US Based Cucumber Growers should do the same.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (F30Ty)

217 It's only money

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (dzZCL)

218 Elric, I think the gentleman you refer to as asshoe is Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame.

Posted by: Al Shabbah at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (eSjyr)

219 214 They had stock markets in 198?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:52 PM (p7mbN)

Well, Caracalla did drive the Empire into the shitter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

220 The uniparty GOPe establishment will be dropping so much money into the Texas primary to prop up Cornyn against Paxton. That would be a huge "one less Rino" win

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (jGJov)

221 >>"He wasn't using it. He was dead".

Death is the Ultimate form of Consent.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (F30Ty)

222 1987 wise asses😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (xHYkz)

223 I day trade as a gambling hobby so I mostly ignore fundamentals. I sniff the animal spirits and go with the trend. On the plus side, I provide liquidity to you smart traders so you should thank me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (jc0TO)

224 >> "Stock Selloff Accelerates as China Trade War Sinks In"

Who let that sink in?!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (l3YAf)

225 202 The CEO of Dame, which apparently sells a lot of $90 Chinese made vibrators, has decided to charge their customers an extra $5 tariff surcharge with a graphic of Trump's hair to show all of her menless customers who to blame for it.

Lady, just for that I hope every one of your customers gets angry about that extra $5 for their vibrators and learn about the much cheaper magic of cucumbers and the clothes washer rinse cycle.

Of all the businesses CNBC could showcase for this issue, Aditi Shrikant - Lead Psychology Reporter (lol), chose this lady and this company to interview.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

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$5 surcharge? That's it? For effect tariffs rates of 145%?

Interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

226 Raping a male corpse on a subway sounds like the Sam Kinison bit about roaming bands of homosexual necrophiliacs
Posted by: Smell the G
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You mean even though I'm dead, life keeps on f%cking me in the a$$?! Oooooooooooh! Ooooooooooh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Posted by: The corpse of Sam Kinison at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (HAZgy)

227 but the volatility extremes seem rather out of the ordinary right now.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (VHO8+)

if your game plan with your Real Money is dollar cost averaging, then stick to your game plan. it's true that it's impossible to reliably "time the market".

In my case, none of what is happening right now has anything to do with my Real Money investing (i.e. IRA, 401k) for actual retirement. But I do have a little side "fun fund" that's getting a proper workout. I wouldn't really cry if one day it completely disappeared, so I make ridiculous moves with it sometimes just to see what happens.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (VoAdT)

228 Well, Caracalla did drive the Empire into the shitter.
Posted by: Aetius451 AD

Well, he had to geta life. So he took his brother's.

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

229 220 The uniparty GOPe establishment will be dropping so much money into the Texas primary to prop up Cornyn against Paxton. That would be a huge "one less Rino" win
Posted by: brak at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (jGJov)

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McConnell isn't in control of that purse anymore, so the massive overspending on primary fights may be at an end.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

230 221 >>"He wasn't using it. He was dead".

Death is the Ultimate form of Consent.
Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (F30Ty)

Except with ace, it's not getting stuck under a couch, washing machine or coffee table, but under collapsed shelving.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

231 He's arguably the best Republican in Congress.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 10, 2025 12:15 PM (rlK7S)

Talk about Damning With Faint Praise.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (RbtEb)

232 We had a crash in 198. And 1997. And 2001. And 2008. And 2016. And 2020. And 2022.

Anyone see a pattern?

Peeps need to chill.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 10, 2025 12:49 PM (xHYkz)

Was it down this morning? I liked seeing green yesterday, but I am at where I was two days ago.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)

233 According to the WSJ, RFK Jr seems to be enjoying his job:

"MAHA Turns on RFK Jr. Over Measles Vaccine Stance"

Posted by: Oglebay at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (MMp6W)

234 USAID was not just for democrats. The GOP approved it all.

Posted by: Francis at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (bbuBP)

235 I saw Recission Package open for The Ken Dolls at the Pustervik Hall and Soup Kitchen in Gothenburg in 2012

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (j08vF)

236 Well, he had to geta life. So he took his brother's.
Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

Right in front of his Mom (who was trying to get them to make up.)

Kid was a major league psychopath.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)

237 Remind me, how many divisions do the Supremes have?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pZ64F)

I don't know, but stay away from the Diana Ross Brigade. They don't mess around.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Hey, I met 3 black girls in Las Vegas, and I thought they were the Supremes.
I asked them, "Hey, do a number for me"
And it cost me $500 !

Posted by: Zombie Steve Landesberg at April 10, 2025 12:56 PM (vcOmj)

238 What is the opinion of the stock market geeks here as to why the market is so down again after being so high yesterday?

At a guess, yesterday they saw news reports that said tariffs were paused and said, "Yay! Back on the money train!" And today they read what Trump actually wrote and said, "Oh, no! We're all doomed cuz... reasons."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

239 AoS, where typos turn into Roman history.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 12:56 PM (tT6L1)

240 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 10, 2025 12:15 PM (rlK7S)

Is Boron Cobbie banned? What happened to this post?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (i24o9)

241 238 At a guess, yesterday they saw news reports that said tariffs were paused and said, "Yay! Back on the money train!" And today they read what Trump actually wrote and said, "Oh, no! We're all doomed cuz... reasons."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

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"When Trump said 'pause' he actually meant 'full speed ahead'? There were more words in that post that 'pause'?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

242
The working poor that don't have 401K, or investments are having a hard time being outraged or made to care.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (IifOV)

243 240 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women only need 1200 calories per day at April 10, 2025 12:15 PM (rlK7S)

Is Boron Cobbie banned? What happened to this post?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (i24o9)
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Comment from the previous thread.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

244 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

https://tinyurl.com/5xsbe8k7
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2025 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

He didn't say no, I took that as consent. -- Carlos Garcia

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (ExV1e)

245 For years the left told me people shouldn't be allowed to buy cheap plastic shit they didn't really need.

Then Trump slapped tariffs on the countries that make cheap plastic shit people don't really need and I found out that makes him Hitler

What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (t0Rmr)

246 Comment from the previous thread.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Ah, thanks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (i24o9)

247 If the Romans had only had crossbows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (p7mbN)

248 wise asses😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

That's not what Garcia said!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (CM6iJ)

249 234 USAID was not just for democrats. The GOP approved it all.
Posted by: Francis at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (bbuBP)

Yeah, everyone's beaks were getting wet. I speculated a while back that some of these things where individuals are getting large amount of money is like vouchers. They spread the vouchers for the benefits around to the important people to launder the money and in smaller amounts, no one pays as much attention.

So Schiff might get 40 vouchers for benefits (which he has an aide collect and launder to whatever.)

But Miss Lindsey might get 20 to say 'Hey, let's ban abortion!' right before an election.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)

250 242
The working poor that don't have 401K, or investments are having a hard time being outraged or made to care.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 10, 2025 12:57 PM (IifOV)

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The median holdings on 401ks is roughly $35,000 at Vanguard.

Losing 10% in a few days means that most people are losing a few thousand bucks that they can't access anyway for 20-30 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

251 Thai Lady boys isn't nothing!

It taint nothing either.

Posted by: DaveA at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (FhXTo)

252 The CEO of Dame, which apparently sells a lot of $90 Chinese made vibrators, has decided to charge their customers an extra $5 tariff surcharge with a graphic of Trump's hair to show all of her menless customers who to blame for it.

Of all the businesses CNBC could showcase for this issue, Aditi Shrikant - Lead Psychology Reporter (lol), chose this lady and this company to interview.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

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$5 surcharge? That's it? For effect tariffs rates of 145%?

Interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
_

Dame is the Dylan Mulvaney of Lumes. I'm sure 99% of these products were imported long ago and thus not subject to any new tariffs. Dame is just squeezing their own customers.

These shitmongers cannot even contemplate fucking their own twats and assholes with cheap China buzzpoles without obsessing over Trump. They are literally shoving dildos in their assholes thinking about OMB.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

253 @226 yup, that would be the one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (6TePA)

254 If the Romans had only had crossbows.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Or 9mms!

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

255 If the Romans had only had crossbows.

Technically they kind of did, but they were enormous and fired huge spears.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (RKzci)

256 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I mean, he can't even jump the turnstiles!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (hjo5/)

257 If you can’t rape a dead man on a subway, who can you rape?

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (ZTJjv)

258 Elric, I think the gentleman you refer to as asshoe is Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame.
Posted by: Al Shabbah at April 10, 2025 12:53 PM (eSjyr)
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Correct you are

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

259 Except with ace, it's not getting stuck under a couch, washing machine or coffee table, but under collapsed shelving.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

Let's be honest, here. With all the horde's expertise at his fingertips, you kind of have to WANT to get stuck under collapsed shelving at this point.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

260 252 They are literally shoving dildos in their assholes thinking about OMB.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

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When they could be doing it to Godzilla movies instead.

So sad...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

261 If you can’t rape a dead man on a subway, who can you rape?
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM

Is this America! or what??

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

262 If you can’t rape a dead man on a subway, who can you rape?

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (ZTJjv)

Let he who has not . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (i24o9)

263 Stocks were in bubble land (for a long time) and tariff talk pricked the bubble. Something had to do it.

"Bear Markets" (we are close to one, if not actually in one) ... have fast movement like this. imo a lot is driven by shorts that take gains when some positive news is released (like Trump pausing some of the tariffs).

A 50% (or more) "retracement" is common in bear markets, I've read. My gold miners are soaring today, but Exxon is down over 6%. The trend is down from bubblemania, but that could be good for a more America Greatness economy.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (Cus5s)

264 Sen. Cruz is a smart guy, genuine credentials, and a skillful debater.

And could never get elected President.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (M1m37)

265 >>The working poor that don't have 401K, or investments are having a hard time being outraged or made to care.

Tax Policy resulted in 401ks with matching...injecting, by force, liquidity into markets.

While watching the numbers rise and fall has predictable results in the psyches of those who have these (forced) investments, none ever apply Taxation and Inflation to these numbers.

All they see is Number Go Up! (Yay) / Number Go Down! (Boo)

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (F30Ty)

266 The meme last year "babe, how often do you think about the Romans?" revealed to me that not nearly enough people think about them every day.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 10, 2025 01:00 PM (lEahz)

267 BREAKING: NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway

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So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 01:01 PM (qBdHI)

268 How do the USAID cuts affect the “Mitch McConnell School for Thai Boys Who Want to Learn Gymnastics and How to Do Other Stuff Good, Too”?

Posted by: Zombie Mitch McConnell at April 10, 2025 01:01 PM (l3YAf)

269 So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 01:01 PM (qBdHI)
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Silence means assent, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (tT6L1)

270 So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 01:01 PM (qBdHI)

Maybe he brought his own. You don't know. Love is love.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (VoAdT)

271 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I mean, he can't even jump the turnstiles!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (hjo5/)

Trump fired the guy who was supposed to keep males' dead corpses off the subways. And the guy who was supposed to keep other guys from raping that dead guy's corpse. Fascist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (i24o9)

272 So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.
____

I wouldn't be caught dead on the NY subway

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (j08vF)

273 My Favorite Beverage Is a 2,000-Year-Old Energy Drink From Ancient Rome

The Romans sure knew how to quench their thirst.

https://tinyurl.com/Gatoradus

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (AOsQT)

274 At least the corpse wasn't set on fire.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (p7mbN)

275 I thought it was $38 Trillion. $36 Trillion was 6 months ago. Try to keep up, people

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (M1m37)

276 All they see is Number Go Up! (Yay) / Number Go Down! (Boo)

********

Which gets real confusing when you mention their Hgb A1c level.

Posted by: muldoon at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (/iMjX)

277 Seriously I love you WitchDoktor. If you are reading. We can't afford to lose quality people. We can't. My wife lost her son to suicide, she will never ever be the same, ever. I have watched part of her just zombify and there is no bringing her back from it.

The sick thing is literally the only people you hurt with it are the ones who actually GAF about you which is crazy because it would be fun to hurt all the ones who don't. Just kidding I would never advocate that kind of thing, and I don't personally keep any sort of lists of even the smallest matters of grievance against those online and off who behave in an untoward manner.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (RbtEb)

278 The bill includes $4 billion in tax cuts and, of course, an increase in the debt ceiling of $5 trilly.
.....

Hell, just make it an even quadrilly.
Go for the gusto.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

279 rape a dead man

Proves he likes a stiff.

Posted by: DaveA at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (FhXTo)

280 So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.
____

I wouldn't be caught dead on the NY subway

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (j08vF)

I wouldn't rape your corpse with Carlos Garcia's dick.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (i24o9)

281 You rape one dead man on the subway and suddenly you’re the bad guy.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 10, 2025 01:04 PM (ZTJjv)

282 At least the corpse wasn't set on fire.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 01:02 PM (p7mbN)

I was just about to type this out.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 10, 2025 01:04 PM (lEahz)

283 So a corpse was just sitting there on the subway and this sicko raped it? Remind me to never go to NY and ride the subway.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 01:01 PM (qBdHI)
____

You might be very surprised how many dead bodies are laying around, especially in big cities. People die all the time. I chuckle every time there's a big story about someone dying on a cruise ship. Hundreds of people die every year on cruise ships. The cruise industry obviously does it's best to keep that on the down-low.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

284 The median holdings on 401ks is roughly $35,000 at Vanguard.

Losing 10% in a few days means that most people are losing a few thousand bucks that they can't access anyway for 20-30 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

A couple years ago, I took a lot of money out of my 401K and put it into gold and silver. Silver hasn't done much, but I bought gold at around $1730 and ounce.
I am not rejoicing at inflation, but I sorta thought this all would happen.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at April 10, 2025 01:04 PM (vcOmj)

285
Is Boron Cobbie banned? What happened to this post?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder

"In my hand, I hold a list of known morons..."

Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 01:05 PM (j4U/Z)

286 I just rode a grayhound bus two hours yesterday, they really have upped their game. The stations are still dumps, but the buses are actually pretty nice now. The seats are fairly comfortable although there's not a lot of leg room still. They have outlets at each seat and free wi-fi. Still the same passengers who cannot afford anything better, but the ride has gotten better since I rode last time in the late 90s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 01:05 PM (RKzci)

287 I saw Corpse Raper open up for Please Jail This Demented Motherfucker Forever at the Felt Forum back in '99.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:05 PM (RbtEb)

288 The problem ins't the RINO senators in this case. Trump doesn't want spending cuts either. He wants tax increases (tariffs).

Trump could say he's going to veto any unbalanced budget that hits his desk. He won't. Trump is a big spender. Don't pretend like he is not.

Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 10, 2025 01:05 PM (5DTn7)

289 Seriously I love you WitchDoktor.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:03 PM (RbtEb)

Well said. Please reach out if you need someone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:05 PM (i24o9)

290 Big Beautiful Bill
.....

That's what she called me at the picnic.
Big Beautiful William doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (v0R5T)

291 Just renew the Trump 1.0 Income tax deduction, declare the victory and let the nation implode.

Posted by: Indifferent 21st Century American at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (wBaIH)

292 Thanks everyone for the comments.There’s no trustworthy place for financial opinions that I can find online or in the media. Everything is colored by someone’s particular politics.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (VHO8+)

293 It's tough enough stepping over a corpse to exit when the train gets to your stop, but a corpse and a rapist together is asking a bit much.

Posted by: muldoon at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (/iMjX)

294 Let's be honest, here. With all the horde's expertise at his fingertips, you kind of have to WANT to get stuck under collapsed shelving at this point.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

Shhhh. He calls it his 'dating strategery'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (bss/y)

295 >> I just rode a grayhound bus two hours yesterday, they really have upped their game.

They even have a separate booth for corpse defiling.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (l3YAf)

296 Honestly I cannot understand why they pretend to have a debt cap. Sure, the concept sounds good but they just raise it or ignore it every year, there's no point in even having it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 01:07 PM (RKzci)

297 295 >> I just rode a grayhound bus two hours yesterday, they really have upped their game.

They even have a separate booth for corpse defiling.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 01:06 PM (l3YAf)

They double as the baby change stations.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:07 PM (bss/y)

298 There’s no trustworthy place for financial opinions that I can find online or in the media.
Posted by: Jen the original

There's always Jim Kramer.

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

299 You rape one corpse and suddenly you're the Corpse Raper.

Posted by: Norm Macdonald at April 10, 2025 01:07 PM (RbtEb)

300 Silver hung around 4 to 6 buck trading range for a long time. Nobody wanted it then. Gold around $300

You make money on the buy

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (M1m37)

301 >> Big Beautiful William doesn't really roll off the tongue.

👀

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (l3YAf)

302 If the corpse was underaged Carlos would have hit the intersectionality trifecta.

Homoneccropedophilia

Posted by: muldoon at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (/iMjX)

303 I thought it was $38 Trillion. $36 Trillion was 6 months ago. Try to keep up, people
Posted by: Common Tater
......

Yeah, pretty soon we'll be talking about serious money.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

304 I'm not sure I want to live in a country where you can't rape dead strangers on trains.

Posted by: Francis at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (bbuBP)

305 Victims of corpse rape seldom come forward.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (RbtEb)

306 >>Victims of corpse rape seldom come

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (F30Ty)

307 Ello Luv.. as me Mum would say

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm no0t at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (+PHes)

308 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The backstroke in the sewage?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Hopefully just the dead-man's float.

If he was doing the backstroke, he wasn't a male corpse, he was a male zombie. And then we have real problems.

Has Doc Fauci announced anything recently?

Posted by: mikeski at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (kVDGB)

309 All they see is Number Go Up! (Yay) / Number Go Down! (Boo)

it did a good job of making the public at large think the interests of Wall Street were aligned with their own

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (jGJov)

310 IF the last thing you do is shit your pants...

Corpse Rape does seem to lose a bit of its appeal, no?

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (F30Ty)

311
$5 surcharge? That's it? For effect tariffs rates of 145%?

Interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
_

Dame is the Dylan Mulvaney of Lumes. I'm sure 99% of these products were imported long ago and thus not subject to any new tariffs. Dame is just squeezing their own customers.

These shitmongers cannot even contemplate fucking their own twats and assholes with cheap China buzzpoles without obsessing over Trump. They are literally shoving dildos in their assholes thinking about OMB.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

WINDFALL PROFITS, YEEEEAAARGHH!

Posted by: Npc at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (ouqG3)

312 I say it looks like as I have stepped into it!

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm no0t at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (+PHes)

313 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Good point. The other guy was probably just trying to move him.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (RbtEb)

314 Silver hung around 4 to 6 buck trading range for a long time. Nobody wanted it then. Gold around $300

You make money on the buy
Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM

That was 25 years ago. Stocks have paid me a lot better over the last couple of decades.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (jc0TO)

315 306 >>Victims of corpse rape seldom come

Fixed that for you.
Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (F30Ty)

How do you know that?! Carlos could be a gentle, considerate lover.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (bss/y)

316 Yet somehow still not the most disgusting thing ever seen or done in a Subway.

Posted by: Eat Fresh at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (VoAdT)

317 Victims of corpse rape seldom come forward.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (RbtEb)
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But who is really the victim here?

Posted by: That guy who always wonders who the victim is at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (6K6Eu)

318
Heya, Auspex!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (+KY4Y)

319 Gah, the shit I type here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (bss/y)

320 Victims of corpse rape seldom come forward.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:08 PM (RbtEb)

What is this victim BS? Look at the way it was dressed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

321 “You calling me a liar!?” has been the start of many a grave misunderstanding.

A lie is when somebody tells a falsehood deliberately, on purpose, to deceive.

Someone can be mistaken about something. That doesn’t mean they are being called a liar. Very common misconception amongst some. Lighten up

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (M1m37)

322 What's more surprising
1) there was a corpse on a NY subway
2) a guy was willing to tape it
3) no one around with phones filming it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (6TePA)

323 >> Yet somehow still not the most disgusting thing ever seen or done in a Subway.

This needs the link of Yoko Ono performing in the Subway.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (F30Ty)

324 That damn Trump!

Teen Vogue Article: Trump’s Trans Surgery Ban for Minors is a "Death Sentence"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (hjo5/)

325 J6 Defendant Ryan Zink Scores Major Victory as Court Lifts Protective Order — DOJ Fights Back to Keep Truth Hidden

I'm sure Bondi is playing 8D chess right now.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (/U5Yz)

326 You rape one dead man on the subway and suddenly you’re the bad guy.
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel
.......

It wasn't rape, he never said "NO!".

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

327 >>Victims of corpse rape seldom come

Fixed that for you.
Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (F30Ty)

How do you know that?! Carlos could be a gentle, considerate lover.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (bss/y)

CPR as foreplay?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

328 They even have a separate booth for corpse defiling.

Yeah I hit post too soon, got distracted by a phone call. I mean to make a comparison to the subway: Grayhound can figure out to make their ride better, and NY's world-famous subway is a horror show

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 01:12 PM (RKzci)

329 Fixed that for you.
Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:09 PM (F30Ty)

How do you know that?! Carlos could be a gentle, considerate lover.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (bss/y)

CPR as foreplay?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)
---------------

I laughed way to hard at that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 01:12 PM (tT6L1)

330 CPR as foreplay?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

If that's what you want to call it. I don't think that breathing tube is going to work though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)

331 That was 25 years ago. Stocks have paid me a lot better over the last couple of decades.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 01:10 PM (jc0TO)

Yes, but PMs are a good hedge bet. I went back in in 2022. Up a lot since then.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (l3YAf)

332 Who let that sink in?!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
---

It was Musk, saw a picture of him carrying it back in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (RrIy1)

333 China complains of ‘irresponsible remarks’ about its role in Ukraine war

China has issued an apparent rebuke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he alleged that Beijing is aware its citizens are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian urged “relevant parties” not to make “irresponsible remarks”. “We advise the relevant parties to recognise China’s role correctly and clear-headedly,” Lin said, without directly naming Ukraine or Zelenskyy.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

334 So yesterday can be called a "dead cat bounce"?
Perhaps.

Now on to actual news. Not really.
Oil going down without an increase in production is really an indicator of anticipated economic slowdown by people who make their living selling it.
Shipping freight rates going down is likewise.

That could be news you can use.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (FCbAQ)

335 Corpse rape is best rape.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (/U5Yz)

336 Victims of corpse rape seldom come forward.

-
Probably deserved it. I wonder what he was wearing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (hjo5/)

337 334 Now on to actual news. Not really.
Oil going down without an increase in production is really an indicator of anticipated economic slowdown by people who make their living selling it.
Shipping freight rates going down is likewise.

That could be news you can use.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (FCbAQ)

=======

OPEC announced an increase in production last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

338 NYPD is looking for Carlos Garcia for r*ping a male corpse on the subway
====
He was asking for it, I tells ya... did you see what he was wearin?!?!!!?

Posted by: Carlos Garcia at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (5RbTe)

339 Teen Vogue Article: Trump’s Trans Surgery Ban for Minors is a "Death Sentence"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (hjo5/)

I am willing to bet that the suicide rate for surgically-mutilated trannies is much higher than that of the mere crossdressers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (8zz6B)

340 It wasn't corpse rape, corpse rape - the genius of Whoopi

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (6TePA)

341 I remember when tootsie rolls were 3 for a penny.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (jc0TO)

342 Music to comment by.

https://youtu.be/yhN8SdulOFc

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

343 There's always talk of "circuit breakers" and various mechanisms to guard against flash crashes... which apparently never kicked in as far as I've heard.

Wonder why.

Too slow of a drop?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (VoAdT)

344 "The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal chickenhawks"

Fixed it.

Posted by: 13times at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (/kpQH)

345 341 I remember when tootsie rolls were 3 for a penny.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 10, 2025 01:14 PM (jc0TO)

No shit.
-Rock Hudson

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (bss/y)

346 The working poor that don't have 401K, or investments are having a hard time being outraged or made to care.
Posted by: Frank Barone

People that have them shouldn't care, either, unless they are taking money out this week in retirement.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (2YxH9)

347 Let's be honest, here. With all the horde's expertise at his fingertips, you kind of have to WANT to get stuck under collapsed shelving at this point.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

We don't kink shame here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

348 That was 25 years ago. Stocks have paid me a lot better over the last couple of decades.
———

You miss the point. If you had held cash, you’d have been losing. As it is, your investments are denominated in an ever depreciated currency.

Gold is not an investment. Gold is money. The unit of account is what matters..

That’s why good was made illegal. Gold bonds repudiated. Gold clause in leases outlawed. Greenspan laid this out succinctly in his 1966 paper “Gold and Economic Freedom”. Check it out.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (XQS41)

349 I remember when tootsie rolls were 3 for a penny.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Fine. I didn't wanna be on your stupid lawn anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

350 >>OPEC announced an increase in production last week.

Deflating pricing to make American Production less profitable is a key component to OPEC's actions.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (F30Ty)

351 No shit.
-Rock Hudson

Probably more than a little, with you

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (RKzci)

352 318
Heya, Auspex!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Heya back!

Shouldn't be hanging around here but the corpse material is golden.

Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (j4U/Z)

353 350 >>OPEC announced an increase in production last week.

Deflating pricing to make American Production less profitable is a key component to OPEC's actions.
Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (F30Ty)

=======

We're still above the $45 mark for shale profitability.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

354 Oil going down without an increase in production is really an indicator of anticipated economic slowdown by people who make their living selling it.
Shipping freight rates going down is likewise.

That could be news you can use.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

OPEC announced a production increase last week.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (2YxH9)

355 University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a surprising “shape-changing” liquid that seems to bend the laws of thermodynamics. The strange compound—made of oil, water, and magnetic nickel particles—was first assembled by a graduate student who was merely curious to see what might happen. To his surprise, when the liquid was shaken, the magnetic particles quickly reformed into a shape resembling a Greek urn.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (RHGPo)

356 Now just imagine that Carlos Garcia has absolutely nothing to do with it at all, but now will be known for all eternity as the Subway Dead Guy Fucker.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (VoAdT)

357 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (2UnvF)

358 354 OPEC announced a production increase last week.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (2YxH9)

====

Amy Schumer, is that you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

359 346 The working poor that don't have 401K, or investments are having a hard time being outraged or made to care.
Posted by: Frank Barone

People that have them shouldn't care, either, unless they are taking money out this week in retirement.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (2YxH9)

401Ks are one large gamble that the stock market won't be shit during the particular year you intend to retire.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (KbCG3)

360 What is this victim BS? Look at the way it was dressed.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

LOL

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (RbtEb)

361 CPR as foreplay?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (i24o9)

If that's what you want to call it. I don't think that breathing tube is going to work though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)

Well sure. THAT is the problematic part of all this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

362 Carlos is one sick bastard. However it is NY so shrug and go about your business.

Posted by: Case at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (OrSPY)

363 Let he who hasn't raped a corpse cast the first stone.

Posted by: Edmund Emil Kemper at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

364 Subway tuna?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (PqYMA)

365 To his surprise, when the liquid was shaken, the magnetic particles quickly reformed into a shape resembling a Greek urn.
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (RHGPo)
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Paging Mrs. Shinn...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 10, 2025 01:17 PM (6K6Eu)

366 Shouldn't be hanging around here but the corpse material is golden.
Posted by: Auspex at April 10, 2025 01:15 PM (j4U/Z)
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Golden? I think closer to puce, yellow with maybe a tinge of necrosis.

Posted by: blake - semi lurkder and scalywag at April 10, 2025 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

367 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Good point. The other guy was probably just trying to move him.
Posted by: ...

And I dropped him, and he landed on little Carlos. Million to one shot, officer!

Posted by: C. Garcia at April 10, 2025 01:18 PM (kVDGB)

368 Imagine if your stocks, denominated in dollars, were based on a dollar that was defined as a fixed quantity of gold.

Your returns would be amazing; see how that works? The dollar has easily lost half its value in 25 years.

Note well you owe tax on the “gains”. This is the problem in accounting, where the unit of account is not defined.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:18 PM (XQS41)

369 Because giving away someone else's money and pocketing a good chunk of it doesn't give them a care of the world.

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 01:19 PM (aHfB6)

370 University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a surprising “shape-changing” liquid that seems to bend the laws of thermodynamics. The strange compound—made of oil, water, and magnetic nickel particles—was first assembled by a graduate student who was merely curious to see what might happen. To his surprise, when the liquid was shaken, the magnetic particles quickly reformed into a shape resembling a Greek urn.
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:16 PM (RHGPo)

Uh, that's not a "compound". It's a mixture, or maybe an emulsion.

And, about 25 drachmas a day, same as in town.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2025 01:19 PM (8zz6B)

371 Teen Vogue Article: Trump’s Trans Surgery Ban for Minors is a "Death Sentence"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 10, 2025 01:11 PM (hjo5/)

———

Funny that using their given name instead of their chosen trans name is called “dead naming”. Pretty much an admission that going trans is a “death sentence” to their old self.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 10, 2025 01:21 PM (UMMMY)

372 Congratulations, kid, you just invented the etch-a-sketch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 01:21 PM (VoAdT)

373 >>We're still above the $45 mark for shale profitability.

Not as much as we were before OPEC increased Production.

And, I will tip my hat to the notion that (re)start up cost for a lot of our production requires a higher bottom than the maintenance cost of a well that is still producing/ in production.

Just going by the input of clients in the industry. But I have no reason to doubt their takes.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2025 01:21 PM (F30Ty)

374 264 Sen. Cruz is a smart guy, genuine credentials, and a skillful debater.

And could never get elected President.
Posted by: Common Tater
------------

I like Cruz. I wanted Cruz in the first election. First debate Trump beat all of them up. I thought that was crude. Trump beat them up in the second debate and it became obvious that he was the man for the task ahead. We needed a winner and he was defiantly so.
I still like Cruz. He and Paxton in the senate will be a force the Thunes cannot ignore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 10, 2025 01:21 PM (RrIy1)

375 “I was home watching everything, and I’m thinking, he’s trying to destroy the country. Why is he doing that? I have a couple of theories,” "The View" host Joy Behar said. She claimed that Trump is trying to "destroy" the economy so that his billionaire friends could buy up other companies' assets at bargain basement prices, an observation born out of ignorance, fear, and shocking stupidity.

... I think she missed this idea a few years ago when the transformed San Francisco into a homeless theme park.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

376 Note well you owe tax on the “gains”. This is the problem in accounting, where the unit of account is not defined.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 10, 2025 01:18 PM (XQS41)

But your money isn't worthless, it's just worth less.
Don't speak quickly, you might catch on, er, get confused.

thx for the update on OPEC numbers, y'all.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2025 01:23 PM (FCbAQ)

377 I remember when tootsie rolls were 3 for a penny.

*********

Millennial: What's a tootsie roll?

Gen Z: What's a penny?

Gen Y: What's a 3?

Boomer: What's remembering?

Posted by: muldoon at April 10, 2025 01:24 PM (/iMjX)

378 It's interesting (only just barely) to see candid moments like this. Behar really, genuinely thinks Trump is trying to destroy the country. Because, from her perspective, he really and truly is. Her country is founded on absurdities and class stratification. Her country is founded on hysteria and lies. Trump very much wants to destroy this fake country which has injected itself into America, hollowed out its core, filled up the dead husk with theft, mental illness, and poverty, and struts around in it like a skin-suit shouting incoherently about a "Law" and "Justice" and "Morality" of which it knows only the opposites.

I voted for him specifically to destroy that country.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 01:27 PM (VoAdT)

379 Millennial: What's a tootsie roll?

Gen Z: What's a penny?

Gen Y: What's a 3?

Boomer: What's remembering?

Gen X: *munching a Tootsie Roll*

Posted by: Ian S. at April 10, 2025 01:28 PM (2ocoG)

380 During an episode of The View‘s official podcast, Behind the Table, Hostin discussed how voter ID laws make it difficult for poor people to vote.

“The reason Democrats don’t want voter ID is because they make it much more difficult for elderly people, people who don’t travel… poor people don’t have cars, don’t have driver’s licenses,” Hostin claimed.

“It’s sort of a vestige, I think, of post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote, and oftentimes they couldn’t vote because they couldn’t pass some crazy test.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:28 PM (RHGPo)

381 Any congressional budget that plans over 10 years is full of shit.

Especially when it's a new Congress every two years..

I know this is something everyone here knows

Posted by: Blanco at April 10, 2025 01:28 PM (q83gU)

382 How meny Childrin of Coller will suffer because of the meen and ugly Repubiltards who does not care !!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 10, 2025 12:48 PM (S8RIM)

Hopefully all of them. Zip it, twit.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 10, 2025 01:30 PM (2J/Lj)

383 Stamps are trying to go up again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 10, 2025 01:38 PM (p7mbN)

384 “It’s sort of a vestige, I think, of post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote, and oftentimes they couldn’t vote because they couldn’t pass some crazy test.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2025 01:28 PM (RHGPo)

Hostin is speaking to Disney board members and rich white people.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2025 01:39 PM (rj6Yv)

385 It doesn't matter how low the crude oil price goes, because crude oil in the ground isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2025 01:41 PM (rj6Yv)

386 On the bright side, Romney is no longer in the honored chamber pot.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 10, 2025 01:54 PM (6PCLE)

387 What was a male corpse doing on the subway?

Thank you for asking that. Was my first question after seeing that headline.

Posted by: Nelly at April 10, 2025 01:58 PM (pSknm)

388 Gold is fine in jewelry. As an investment ?? No thanks. It's a commodity. That does not do anything. Literally, its ups and downs is total arbitrage. China feels a little queer? gold goes up! Russia wants to unload its reserves because of whatever ? It goes down. Complete nonsense. It only exists so cartels can move funds around.

Posted by: runner at April 10, 2025 02:13 PM (g47mK)

389 Pffttt yeah well there's an war going on at a Florida Gay Nudist Camp. It seems women (real women trannys ,or FTM transgenders ???) as women to protest to be included in the Nut Sack Appreciation Day Celebration Picnic.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm no0t at April 10, 2025 02:17 PM (+PHes)

390 Watch the senate load down the bill with more graft and theft. Probably in the name of the "children" and "the environmental cultists."

Posted by: TJ Jackson at April 10, 2025 03:43 PM (bXvrr)

391 Put them all on Budgets if they cant stop

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 10, 2025 04:54 PM (wGqjj)

392 It's hilarious listening to the Briebart morning show, he will have congressmen on ... and they will talk about the 10 year cuts...

and he calls them out... flat out to their face saying "nobody believes you".... stop talking about 10 years, talk about this year, year 1, how much is cut.

These are rock hard Trump style congressman... and even they can't understand why people don't trust this shit.

We need better, smarter.....

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