The Morning Report — 4/ 29 /25

Good morning kids. Well, the entire Iberian peninsula was suddenly plunged into complete darkness yesterday for some unknown reason – nudge nudge wink wink. Actually the reason is quite clear. Insanity:

Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cave-people times with no electricity. . .
. . . Sure, they are looking into a cyberattack, or a terrorist act, or a rare weather event involving magnetic fields, or maybe some bad maintenance, and they should. But they have gone remarkably quiet lately, making one think of the one possibility they might want to be quiet about.
The blackout was unprecedented, and it happened just shortly after this happened:
. . . For those keeping score at home:
April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.
April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

Meanwhile, the Chi-Coms are building every coal-fired, fossil fuel fired and nuclear power plant they can while using gullible environmentalist stooges in the West as their agents to help destroy their own economies, in the guise of saving the planet, of course!

European officials are seemingly not very concerned about the possibility that the continent’s green energy agenda may leave it vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the future, according to Politico.
Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.

It's a multi-front global assault on American international diplomatic and economic preeminence that we have enjoyed almost uninterrupted since the end of the second world war, which has allowed America to steer the course of global events and keep the peace (more or lesss). Naturally, from Mao until now, the Chi-Coms could not abide by that.

American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over.
Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.Undercutting, stealing and dumping its way to manufacturing supremacy was how China got its foot in our door. Americans came to think of China as an assembly line for cheap junk, but the cheap junk built China’s production capacity. The next step was moving up to components for bigger products and then the products themselves. Once the components were being made in China, it made more sense for the companies to simplify by moving everything to China. . .
. . . China has assembled all the building blocks for taking over our economy. It has hijacked our manufacturing from the ground up. What began with 99-cent store fare now includes high-end smartphones, ebikes and laptops. Its hackers and employees from Silicon Valley to our defense industry provide pipelines of stolen techniques, trade secrets and R&D to supplement whatever we haven’t exported already to provide China with assured manufacturing supremacy. After swallowing our manufacturing, China began consuming our retail sector. Amazon cannibalized our brick and mortar retail by dumping Chinese products in America on a massive scale, but Chinese retailers cannibalized Amazon and turned it into a front for their products. China’s retailers have been figuring out how to rapidly move products into this country, how to set up warehouses and eventually how to master rapid last-mile delivery. And then Amazon will have nothing more to offer Americans than a billion-dollar woke version of Lord of the Rings.

Kind of ironic that the same Red-Green commie stooge fifth columnist idiots in our country who complain about consumerism and fossil fuels destroying the planet are the greatest mass consumers of Chinese crap as well as electric vehicles and other Green technology that rely on strip mining and leave behind oceans of toxic waste once batteries and other components can no longer be recharched etc. To say nothing of the fact that slave and child labor in China and all over the third world are used and abused in the initial manufacture of these goods and their components. But America as founded is evil, illegitimate and white supremacist and so must be destroyed. I guess Greta Thunberg finds it more enjoyable these days goose-stepping all over the world and railing against Israel.

In any case, before long I fear we shall see who comes out on top, the Chi-Coms or Islam, the legacy of President Trump and the movement to restore America notwithstanding. Unless the world, us included, can shake off so many delusions in the next decade or so, we're in for some very interesting times indeed. And we are living through them right now!

. . . . So insidious and unrelenting has been the Leftist encroachment upon our basic civil liberties that only lately are we starting to understand that the America we thought we knew is on the verge of -- perfectly legal! -- dissolution.
. . It's guerilla lawfare at its deadliest, waged under the false flag of "restoring norms" when by norms they mean simply: their way. They're hoping for a provocation that will force Trump into a Jessep-like confrontation with the Tom Cruise character, perhaps played by Chief Justice Roberts himself, in which Trump will openly thumb his nose at the Court and its minions and thus trigger the "constitutional crisis" the Left is trying so hard to provoke.
They have, they say, a "higher loyalty"; we are nation of laws, not men. But what they really mean is that their "higher loyalty" is not to the country or the constitution but to themselves and their guild, and that the laws of this nation are to be written, litigated, and enforced not by its citizens but by lawyers. Our duty is to explain to them by any means necessary that they're wrong. And for that we'll need more than a few good men.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Lawmakers, alumni of these schools, and the public must demand accountability, defund schools with ideological mandates, and restore medicine to its core mission: saving lives through reason and evidence.
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Heather Mac Donald: Disparate-impact theory preserved the hegemony of the civil-rights regime long after the original impetus for that regime had all but disappeared. One would be hard-pressed today to find any mainstream institution that discriminates against black Americans in admissions, hiring or promotion. The reality, in fact, is the opposite: Every mainstream institution is desperate to hire and promote as many remotely qualified blacks as possible; it is white males who are disfavored and excluded from positions based on their skin color.
Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination
Michael Walsh: . . . the enemy has done of the courtesy of naming himself: the legal profession. The Resistance 2.0 is now being fought by white-shoe law firms in the halls of justice and Congress, its Lilliputian hordes attempting to hamstring Donald Trump's second term -- not in the streets and with a phantom electorate, as they did the last time -- but in the courtroom. Call it by its name: lawfare
THE COLUMN: Can We Handle the Truth?

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Not surprisingly, Democrats back the selling of Tesla vehicles and stock by 53% “support” to 26% “oppose,” while independents give the boycott 40% support to 29% opposition. But perhaps most surprising are Republicans, who support the call to protest Musk by 40% but oppose it by an equal 40%.
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“President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with traffic safety officers, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station personnel, and provide and receive feedback and directions in English,” the document notes.
Exclusive: Trump to Sign Order Ensuring Truckers Speak English
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Daniel Greenfield: We still don’t understand China’s plans for our economy.
China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail
The powers that be are firing squarely at their feet.
Corporate America’s Trash-Talking Tariff Temper Tantrum
Here's the entire video if you'd like to watch and learn exactly how government overreach hurt the fishing industry in the U.S.
Making the U.S. Seafood Industry Great Again?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Before WWII, America faced the same internal threats, but the law passed to address them is inadequate for the situation in which we find ourselves now.
We’ve Been Here Before
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz expressed his dismay that “thugs are regarded as heroes, just like that thuggish judge who allowed people to walk through her back door to escape from prosecution, she’s a hero,” and said that “there’s something wrong with a country that values judges who violate the law,” students who break the law, and people like the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Dershowitz: ‘Something Wrong with a Country’ that Turns ‘Thuggish’ Judge Dugan Into a Hero
Then he did something unexpected—he invited the protesters to be his special guests at the dinner, which was held at the Greystone Event Center in Wooster, Ohio. "All right, if some few of you want to come as my guests, you're welcome tonight. All I ask is keep an open mind," he said. "We'll do the same. We're not going to agree on everything, but as long as we're talking to each other in a respectful, civil way, then I do think that we're going to be successful as a state."
Protester Confronts Vivek at a County GOP Event. What Happened Next Was... Unexpected.
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Ninety percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents approve, while just 22 percent of Democrats approve, according to the survey conducted April 23-25. The poll asked about illegal migrants, not about illegal migrants who committed crimes.
CBS Poll: Trump Deportation Policy Gets 56 Percent Support
Rosado on Friday temporarily barred the opening of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center on Rikers Island despite the agreement between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration. (Immediate arrest and disbarment - jjs)
New York’s Mary Rosado Latest Judge with Democrat Activist Resume to Halt Trump Agenda
Robert Spencer: It's going to be entertaining to see leftist “journalists” stand up for the “rights” of these criminals, but after they made heroes out of the likes of Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, there’s no stopping them. If Trump is against it, the left is for it, and vice versa. Trump could cure cancer (as Old Joe Biden actually promised to do more than once), and suddenly Democrats would discover that hey, they really like the wasting disease after all, and isn’t it terrible for Orange Man Bad to deprive the cancer community of its raison d'être. (After all, this is already happening with autism and RFK Jr.)
Still More Winning: Trump Sends Back 4,000 Foreign Criminals Who Were Here on Student Visas
Cuellar, who represents a district bordering Mexico that is three-quarters Hispanic, criticized his Democrat colleagues’ decision to make their defense of reputed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia a focal point in their disagreement with the administration’s deportation policies. Congressional Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to press for Abrego Garcia’s release from the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison and return to the United States despite his alleged ties to a criminal gang.
Cuellar Says Democrats Made The Wrong Choice In Case Of Deported MS-13 Suspect
Bringing illegal immigration home to the Democrat judges and politicians, and an “Illegal Alien Snitch Hotline,” should go a long way to solving the problem.
Two Powerful, Creative Ideas to Help President Trump With Mass Deportation
"Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border."
Tom Homan: Biden First [so-called quote-unquote] President To Intentionally Leave Border Unsecured
Montecino-Sanzana, who was detained and arrested in Miami on Sunday, had previously received an order for “expedited removal,” but was instead released into the United States in January of 2021. Montecino-Sanzana and Bustamante-Leiva are believed to be members of an organized East Coast criminal organization comprised of illegal immigrants who have executed a number of notable robberies and thefts.
Second Illegal in Noem Purse Theft Identified, Freed Into U.S. Despite Expedited Removal Order.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Defending Israel against politicized human-rights attacks is vital to preserving both human rights' integrity and America's founding principles.
Human-Rights Bodies Corrupt Human Rights To Vilify Israel
Natalie Sanandaji loved dancing to music. On Oct. 7, 2023, the music stopped. Sanandaji was running for her life.
EXCLUSIVE: Nova Music Festival Survivor Shares Her Story, Calls Out Music Artists For Political Messaging

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Daniel Greenfield: Hamas supporters can invade Jewish neighborhoods and still play the victim.
Media Blames Jews After Muslim Mobs Attack 2 New York Synagogues
In Los Angeles, apparently, there’s absolutely no issue with calling for the genocide of Jews, attacking Jews, or enthusiastically cheering on murderous Islamic terrorists. But it is a problem if you as a Jew try to defend yourself and give the jihad-lovers a taste of their own medicine. It is deeply disturbing that such a situation could be happening in America and that Democrat politicians, leftist universities, and woke media are normalizing and even praising violent Jew-hatred.
L.A. Drops Charges for Hamas Rioters, Charges 2 Jews Instead
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
“If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot."
Kenya: Jihadists Target Majority-Christian Country
They do so because theft is baked into their culture.
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OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Greenfield: Civil rights has become a farce.
DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Resign Rather Than Fight Antisemitism
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
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FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Does the propaganda press want us to forget Trump was shot and that there are still unanswered questions?
ABC Reporter Pretends Trump Wasn’t Shot While Accepting Award For Assassination Attempt Coverage
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.
Europe’s Bureaucrats Whistle Along As They Barrel Towards China’s Green Energy Trap
So, while scaremongering and propaganda campaigns can help the politically-tied clan get more of our tax cash, their claims help drive onerous government diktats about automobile emissions and natural gas heat that push those products and services higher in price or out of availability altogether. Without oil, gas, and coal, modern agriculture, transportation, and industry would collapse, plunging billions into poverty.
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AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The case could open the door for more religious charter schools across the country.
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These decisions, handed down on April 24, 2025, expose not only the entrenched collectivist mindset of the judiciary but also the deeper, unaddressed issue: the federal government has no constitutional authority to meddle in education funding at all. Worse, the collectivist structure of public education itself fosters a Tragedy of the Commons, where taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for a system that often disregards their values and priorities.
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Christopher F. Rufo: President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.
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ABORTION
A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center released on Monday found that 10.93 percent of women who had mifepristone abortions — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — experienced severe complications including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following the abortion. This percentage is significantly higher than the less than 0.5 percent in clinical trials reported on the FDA-approved drug label.
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DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Clyburn began by saying Biden was, substantively, a great president and no Democrat has had a record as good as Biden’s since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. (Scattered the ashes of what LBJ incinerated - jjs
Clyburn: I Wasn’t Around Biden Enough to Say if He Declined
POLITICS
Connolly, 74, explained his decision to retire in light of his esophageal cancer diagnosis, which he said had returned. The Virginia Democrat defeated New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the top spot on the House Oversight Committee in January, which outlets had described as a generational fight in the Democrat Party.
Top Democrat On House Oversight Committee Announces Retirement
A former FBI analyst who resigned over the Trump administration and boasted about working on January 6 cases is running for Congress as a Democrat.
Dems’ Newest Congressional Candidate Is Proof The Deep State Is Real
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Following a recent meeting in Rome, President Donald J. Trump has commented on changes in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stance in peace negotiations. The discussions, which took place around Trump’s visit to honor the deceased Pope Francis, suggest Zelensky’s attitude toward a possible peace agreement with Russia may be evolving.
Trump Hints Zelensky Willing to Cede Crimea for Peace Deal.
The Trump admin has been ramping up pressure to bring the war to a close.
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With some wars, the immediate post-war narrative (e.g., WWII) never shifts, but with others, history has, or will have, a great deal to say.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The outage affected transportation systems, halted court activities, and disrupted electronic transactions in both countries. Some areas of France and the microstate of Andorra, between Spain and France, also experienced disruptions.
Major Power Outage Hits Europe, Capitals in Darkness.
Spain went to net zero on Monday. It wasn't pretty.
Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity
The results have not yet shown whether the liberals will form a minority or majority government.
Canada: Liberals Projected Winners, Mark Carney Retains Leadership
It remains unknown if the Swiss team’s actions were a bitter display of poor sportsmanship in the face of defeat or if they were protesting Israel for political reasons. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned the behavior as “disrespectful.”
Swiss Fencing Team Turns Backs to Israeli National Anthem After Defeat
India offers significant advantages: a pliable workforce that is both young and tech-literate, and perhaps most importantly, a government eager to accommodate U.S. corporate interests.
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POPE FRANCIS' FUNERAL
The Vatican announced that the conclave to select a new pope will commence on May 7, following Pope Francis’s death last week. The election will occur within the historic confines of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City’s Apostolic Palace. This announcement was made after several informal meetings among cardinals, who gathered to discuss Church matters after the late pope’s funeral.
Vatican Sets Conclave Date for Papal Election.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
As the White House official responsible for the Counterterrorism portfolio, I have a great deal to report.
Exclusive — Gorka: A Hundred Days of Killing Jihadis
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Patients will almost certainly die under this bill who would have otherwise survived.”
New York Must Reject Euthanasia
Fewer artificial dyes is great, but if Americans want to make their country healthy again, they can’t wait for the government to save them.
Getting Rid Of Food Dyes Is Good, But Healthy Eating Is Ultimately Up To Us
100 Days Of Trump: From food and drugs to autism research, RFK is shaking things up.
MAHA In 100 Days: How Trump And RFK Are Transforming Food And Healthcare In America
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 49 to 38. Two more launches are still scheduled for today, one by SpaceX placing more Starlinks into orbit, and a second a classified Angara launch out of its Plesetsk spaceport in northeastern Russia.
ULA launches Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper constellation satellites; SpaceX launches more Starlinks
The theorized formation process of that bar is based on computer modeling using the limited data we presently have, and thus carries a great deal of uncertainty.
Hubble snaps picture of barred spiral galaxy
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Parents sue Montgomery County Schools in Maryland after being barred from opting kids out of lessons promoting LGBTQ+ themes, a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones
Paying for babies doesn’t work. But government could certainly stop making raising kids so expensive and undesirable.
Why Paying Women To Have Babies Is A Terrible Idea — And What To Do Instead
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Political journalists gaslight America during annual DC gala
THAT’S Why WHCA Canceled Amber Ruffin

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Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 29, 2025 07:02 AM (5hfjS)

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Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 29, 2025 07:07 AM (5hfjS)

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Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 29, 2025 07:07 AM (5hfjS)

4 Bravo, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 29, 2025 07:07 AM (/Ghsb)

5 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 07:07 AM (qFAfu)

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Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 29, 2025 07:08 AM (5hfjS)

7 & dry up, hillary!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 29, 2025 07:08 AM (/Ghsb)

8 roll a single D17 for preserving sanity in presence of Great Old Ones.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 29, 2025 07:10 AM (/Ghsb)

9 Surreal video of the massacre in India last week. No gore or blood shown:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7csmnt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 07:10 AM (qFAfu)

10 Happy Tuesday, one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 07:11 AM (NR6c1)

11 Good morning! Happy birfday, JJ!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 29, 2025 07:12 AM (3Ope8)

12 I don't understand why coal is not considered renewable energy.

Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

13 Happy Tuesday

thx JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

14 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:15 AM (Q4IgG)

15 12 I don't understand why coal is not considered renewable energy.
Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

Well, of course coal and oil are renewable as plant and animal life die and decompose. Takes time but eventually, they become coal and oil.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 29, 2025 07:15 AM (x0n13)

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Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 29, 2025 07:08 AM

I hear ya.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at April 29, 2025 07:16 AM (dg+HA)

17 Red China is a lot like we are...all smoke and mirrors and fake ass economic numbers while the money is shit and the debt will bring everyone to their senses sooner or later and most people will starve because they are incapable of feeding themselves and live off of the government teat, Taco Bell and fentanyl.

Posted by: Horsemen Of The Apocalypse at April 29, 2025 07:17 AM (979V4)

18 'Renewable' energy. Seriously. If energy is consumed and simply changes state or form, why isn't all energy renewable?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 29, 2025 07:18 AM (3Ope8)

19 Lawmakers, alumni of these schools, and the public must demand accountability, defund schools with ideological mandates, and restore medicine to its core mission: saving lives through reason and evidence.

Then we have Neurolink. In order to implant the chips in the brain, they had to make a surgery robot that exceeded the capabilities of human surgeons.

While its easy to set one's hair on fire over the 666 implications of a chip in the brain, the point being is that while universities are cranking out DEI monkeys that cut themselves peeling an apple, the development of robotics in the field of medicine is on such a pace that the failure of our universities on top of a completely lazy and entitled culture is almost divinely timed as were breakthroughs in agriculture, fishing and energy to accommodate an 8.2 billion global population.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

20 'Renewable' energy. Seriously. If energy is consumed and simply changes state or form, why isn't all energy renewable?

Make narratives and rumors about Abiotic Oil Great Again

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

21 Please explain the graphic to me. Plus I can't read all the words on the vanes of the windmill.

Posted by: I never read Don Quixote at April 29, 2025 07:20 AM (dg+HA)

22 > Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.
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I think China pretty much owns our economy. And the government. And they've infiltrated the national infrastructure (power/water/etc.) as well.

They've probably got the proverbial on/off switch for it all.

The 10K plus Chinese military age men are here for a reason and it's not picking your vegetables.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:21 AM (Q4IgG)

23 "Please explain the graphic to me. Plus I can't read all the words on the vanes of the windmill"

Don Quixote thinks Greta is a monster and wants to poke her with his pole.

Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

24 Red China is a lot like we are...all smoke and mirrors and fake ass economic numbers while the money is shit and the debt will bring everyone to their senses sooner or later and most people will starve because they are incapable of feeding themselves and live off of the government teat, Taco Bell and fentanyl.

I suppose one could carry around a nihilistic world view and worship at the altar of Doom Pr0n, but I am encouraged, and not as a Premillennial Dysfunctionalist with this "when it gets bad enough Jesus will Rapture me from this world's inconveniences", but a theologically more sound view that the world will still be engaged in commerce, traditional cultures still thriving, human flourishing still happening.

Admittedly it is supposed to get a bit weird right at the end, but I don't think that all of the Elect have been Redeemed quite yet.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:25 AM (a4flb)

25 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 29, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

26 Willowed: Sorry to hear about the Canadian elections. I don't see how the confederation holds together. Was Pierre really that bad a candidate?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 29, 2025 07:26 AM (b294k)

27 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

28 Don Quixote thinks Greta is a monster and wants to poke her with his pole.

What ever happened to Rule #1?†

† don't stick your dick into crazy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:27 AM (a4flb)

29 Was Pierre really that bad a candidate?

He didn't have his own team of ballot stuffers to overcome the Liberal's team of ballot stuffers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:28 AM (a4flb)

30 The case could open the door for more religious charter schools across the country.
Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Landmark Case On School Choice And Religious Liberty
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I'm not convinced it would be good to win that one. We do not need more government entwinement with church schools. I can see where that is headed.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2025 07:29 AM (1bNHn)

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:30 AM (AOsQT)

32 "Renewable energy" is just a catchphrase and it really doesn't mean anything other than there is no end to the supply which requires a certain perspective.

Discussing the relevance of the term is a waste of time.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 07:30 AM (QB+5g)

33 My Internet was out due to a massive thunderstorm, with reported ping-pong sized hail, accompanied with a tornado warning, went over the house. Tornado missed, I only saw pea sized hail, but the tower I depend on for Internet, 10 miles away was knocked out.

Tower came back 30 minutes ago.
I has some breakers pop, but I managed to make a temporary fix by skipping my router and bringing a signal via ethernet straight into my iMac.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 29, 2025 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

34 I don't understand Canada.

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

35 Prediction: Europe learns nothing from this experience, lapses into conspiracy theories as to its cause, and doubles down on net zero.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (UseAb)

36 I don't understand why coal is not considered renewable energy.
Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

Any form of energy that allows ordinary people to live lives of safety and comfort is, by definition, a pollutant to be proscribed.

Any form of energy that allows the elite to control your access to light, heat or coolness is, by definition, a good thing and must be implemented by force for your own good.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (Dg2sF)

37 Willowed:
WaPo says leak investigations at DoD are "creating a climate of fear and harming national security".

Weren't they demanding impeachments, resignations and hangings over Signal Gate?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (a4flb)

38 Make narratives and rumors about Abiotic Oil Great Again

I'm just a crayon eater. Explain to me how biological matter decomposes and changes into hydrocarbons and collects in reservoirs or seams of rock.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 29, 2025 07:32 AM (3Ope8)

39 And now it's time for work preps.

Have a great day, everyone.

May your weather be serene.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 29, 2025 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

40 Any form of energy that allows ordinary people to live lives of safety and comfort is, by definition, a pollutant to be proscribed.

Naturally, the elites are free to use it because they Care So Hard for us and deserve the reward.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 07:33 AM (NR6c1)

41 Dear Mouth Breathing Snow Mexicans:

Way to go morons.

Posted by: Long Time Lurker #482 at April 29, 2025 07:33 AM (4YeCv)

42 well I'm watching letterkenny currently so I kind of get the vote

they're dum

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2025 07:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

43 Any form of energy that allows the elite to control your access to light, heat or coolness is, by definition, a good thing and must be implemented by force for your own good.

That makes no sense at all given home solar and EV. If anything, those who spent the quarter million for the Tesla Roof, batteries and car are untethered from a network of petroleum stations.

With private partnerships and membership subscriptions to producers of non-regulated power generation, the eCar owner is not tethered to their home distribution.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

44 > May your weather be serene.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I think we're in for a couple days of "not serene" weather.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:35 AM (Q4IgG)

45 Good morning JJ and horde
Keep seeing Democrats and Marxists calling for a revolution

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2025 07:35 AM (BpL7I)

46 >Parents sue Montgomery County Schools in Maryland after being barred from opting kids out of lessons promoting LGBTQ+ themes
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All your children are belong to us
to us
to us
to us

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:35 AM (AOsQT)

47 I renew the energy in my truck's fuel tank once a week.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 29, 2025 07:35 AM (dg+HA)

48 morning horde. happy not monday

great write up JJ.

I'd laugh at spain but they can't see it in the dark ...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 29, 2025 07:36 AM (nXhwP)

49 We could just buy Canada and then take the money back once we were in charge.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 07:36 AM (QB+5g)

50 One of the blurbs making the rounds on the intertubes sez Spain experienced an inexplicable loss of 15Gw of juice for 5 seconds, the proximate cause of the Late Unpleasantness - that’s a lot. Their combined nuclear generation capacity of a few different plants is about 6Gw.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 07:37 AM (TgO2L)

51
Alternate post tittle:

Oh Canada

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:39 AM (7D215)

52 Canada: Liberals Projected Winners, Mark Carney Retains Leadership
________
It was obvious that our rhetoric didn't help. And obvious we'd trigger Canadian defensiveness.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2025 07:39 AM (1bNHn)

53 35 I don't understand Canada.
Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

Strange business. Poilievre was trouncing Trudeau, then the liberals switched candidates to a non-descript, charisma-less stiff who promised exactly (and more of) Trudeau's ruinous policies, and liberals zoom ahead of Poilievre. Not sure how Trump's interjections affected the race, or how much Poilievre's attacks on Trump (which seemed like exploitive pandering to nationalist sentiment in response to Trump) mattered. It seemed to me if Poilievre had foregone the attacks and instead insisted on working with Trump to build better relationship he would have done better.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 07:40 AM (UseAb)

54 I'm just a crayon eater. Explain to me how biological matter decomposes and changes into hydrocarbons and collects in reservoirs or seams of rock.

Billions of years ago, primitive societies buried their lawn clippings and kitchen scraps miles below the surface - they learned this technique by watching nature as animals died the survivors didn't just eat them like critters do today, but whales would bury their dead miles below the ocean bottom, and every creature would also bury its dead miles below the surface.

That is how Materialists teach it now - well actually they don't, they wave their hand at the question of how that biological material managed to get itself below bedrock.

The abiotic people have the heat and pressure part down, just not how the methane got there unless there is something going on below the mantel we haven't yet discovered.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

55 That makes no sense at all given home solar and EV.
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Unless one is a dedicated off grid enthusiast, “home solar” requires connection to the grid. Some systems will not operate without external juice, for all practical purposes.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 07:41 AM (TgO2L)

56
President Trump did pee-air pollvee-air no favors with the 51st State bullshit, but Pee-Air failed the Test: showed the people of canada he was a labour-lite pussy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:41 AM (7D215)

57 > Parents sue Montgomery County Schools in Maryland after being barred from opting kids out of lessons promoting LGBTQ+ themes
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How unprogressive of them. MoCo is pretty leftist. Maybe it's only a couple parents.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

58 Every mainstream institution is desperate to hire and promote as many remotely qualified blacks as possible; it is white males who are disfavored and excluded from positions based on their skin color.

--

I simply can't help but flash back to the "All in the Family" episode when Mike and a black guy were up for the same professor job. The black guy got it because he was black. They say it out loud. That was over 50 years ago and we're still at square one. Only I would argue it's even more insidious and highly discriminatory to whites now than ever before...males in particular.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 29, 2025 07:41 AM (qBdHI)

59 Willowed: Sorry to hear about the Canadian elections. I don't see how the confederation holds together. Was Pierre really that bad a candidate?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 29, 2025 07:26 AM (b294k)

I am not Canadian but, if I had to guess, the average Canadian is, likely, just as susceptible to the media's lies as the average American.

Add to that a smaller population which seems like it's more urban located and you get what you get.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

60 Canada: Liberals Projected Winners, Mark Carney Retains Leadership
________
It was obvious that our rhetoric didn't help. And obvious we'd trigger Canadian defensiveness.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2025 07:39 AM (1bNHn)
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Look at the graph:

https://tinyurl.com/2r9yt4h3

I question Canadian IQ average.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 07:42 AM (qFAfu)

61 Imagine some guy just plugging in a toaster the moment the lights went out everywhere.

"¡Mierda!"

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 07:42 AM (QB+5g)

62 53 Canada: Liberals Projected Winners, Mark Carney Retains Leadership
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Our work here is done.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at April 29, 2025 07:43 AM (dg+HA)

63
What's funny is I watched some livestreams of the canada election results and they sounded EXACTLY like the leftists did on our election night: "Canadians hate their country," "Canada is done," "Canadians are stupid," etc.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:45 AM (7D215)

64 "Renewable energy" is just a catchphrase and it really doesn't mean anything other than there is no end to the supply which requires a certain perspective.

"Renewable energy" means purchased from Chynah as opposed to produced at home. Sold to the public as we'll install some solar panels, some cute windmills like you see in the Netherlands, and Jose's your uncle. Left out is that it's a constant circle of installation and then removal and re-installation that involves a constant drain of resources to China for the materials involved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

65 Henry Ford’s Tin Lizzy put Horses out to pasture, it’s true.

But they didn’t have to outlaw our equine friends. This is different. Our “leaders have been admonishing us for decades, we have to go cold turkey on coal, gas, and oil. For some definitions of “We” anyhow. They are now nibbling around the edges at outright criminalization of these energy sources with relentless propaganda, “nudging”, and legislation.

With no workable much less affordable or sustainable alternative. Never mind affordable

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 07:45 AM (TgO2L)

66 WaPo says leak investigations at DoD are "creating a climate of fear and harming national security".

Theoretically, folks at DoD should be able to keep secrets. Consequently, non-leakers should be utterly unconcerned about leak investigations. If there are so many leakers that looking for them is harming national security, it's past time for mass executions.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

67 Unless one is a dedicated off grid enthusiast, “home solar” requires connection to the grid.

If you are leasing the system, yeah, its part of the contract to be attached to the mains - its how the vendors get some of their money by getting a cut of the mandated buy backs.

I explored the economics of off grid solar. It flat out wasn't worth it. While a storm might take out the power around me for a few days, that same storm might pack enough hail to keep me off-line forever.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

68 I have read that most Canadians live in the US-Canada border regions

while the great white north is mostly bears and local indigenous personnel

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:48 AM (AOsQT)

69 Good morning

>>April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

And didn't Klaus just step down from the WEF?
I guess his work is done.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 07:49 AM (KHnV4)

70 Canadians are why I'd never want Canada as a 51st state. What a bunch of numbskulls. Can we tear the northern border off on the dotted line and let them float away?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 29, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

71 So I'm guessing there will be a Popesmoke webcam?

Posted by: Is that how this works? at April 29, 2025 07:49 AM (dg+HA)

72 I'm just a crayon eater. Explain to me how biological matter decomposes and changes into hydrocarbons and collects in reservoirs or seams of rock.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 29, 2025 07:32 AM (3Ope

Then explain why we keep finding hydrocarbons in places where, as far as we know, there'd never been life?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

73 >>WaPo says leak investigations at DoD are "creating a climate of fear and harming national security".

Leaks aren't harming national security, but trying to stop the leaks is?

Alrighty!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 07:50 AM (KHnV4)

74 We should care about Canadian elections because ...???

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:50 AM (g47mK)

75 Canadians are why I'd never want Canada as a 51st state. What a bunch of numbskulls. Can we tear the northern border off on the dotted line and let them float away?

The mentality doesn't simply evaporate at the northern border.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 29, 2025 07:50 AM (McYvC)

76 70 Canadians are why I'd never want Canada as a 51st state. What a bunch of numbskulls. Can we tear the northern border off on the dotted line and let them float away?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 29, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

Alberta alone would've been a great addition. The rest of it? Not so much.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 29, 2025 07:51 AM (x0n13)

77 I'm more concerned with Canada's leftists cozying up to China than I am about most anything else Canadian. I think that will be a bigger issue we'll have to deal with than their fag government.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

78 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

Isn't methane simply hydrogen and carbon? Pretty common stuff, right? Wouldn't subduction of tectonic plates and percolation of water through the surface geology provide a ready source of hydrogen to combine with carbon in the erf's crust or coming up from the mantle?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (3Ope8)

79 barred from opting kids out of lessons promoting sexual deviancy and homosexuality

Notice the passive aggressive BS. Where’s the “inclusion and diversity”? Accepting their premise for the sake of argument they would offer a choice of “opting in”.

This will never do, because participation rates would not be acceptable. One thing I will say about the old school Democrats, they would be roasting these MFers over a spit back in the day. What happened?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (TgO2L)

80 I listened to two men who were let go, one went on Tucker within hours, and the other went on Kelly's show within days. Maybe it's best they let them go. Especially the one who went on Kelly's show.

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (g47mK)

81 >>We should care about Canadian elections because ...???

They are on our northern border, so their dumb decision could spillover?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (KHnV4)

82 74 We should care about Canadian elections because ...???
Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:50 AM

Because they're our largest national park.

Posted by: Nature, eh? at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (dg+HA)

83
Democrats: We are destroying the planet and slavery is bad!

Democrats: We MUST do business with China or everything will end!!

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (hAZeL)

84 Talking about the Pentagon leaks investigation now.

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (g47mK)

85 Spain could not maintain 50 Hertz.

It is that simple that solar and wind are not stable sine waves of 50 Hz.

You need big masses of turbines that maintain a constant signal.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

86 Theoretically, folks at DoD should be able to keep secrets.

Its a loyalty question now. The Left has successfully, through a myriad of programs including destroying the church, community, family and also destroying personal integrity, the abstract concept of accountability, responsibility and negative consequences; then they piled on with DEI and Diversity which goes against all of human nature that seeks out its own tribe and kind.

Basically, there is no defining characteristic of the former United States. We are simultaneously everything and nothing. We have all cultures, yet no defining culture.

This makes it really hard to motivate anyone to think in a form of nationalism or national pride/security. People tend to look at themselves in the mirror and find colleagues who share much of the same.

Its far more likely that military service is now a great way to get training and intel to feed your own tribe and nation of birth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:53 AM (a4flb)

87 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

We finally heard from our son in Spain. He’s got phone service back, at least.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 07:54 AM (77rzZ)

88
Loose lips sink ships, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:54 AM (7D215)

89 Not for nothing, Chinas rise coincided with The GOP taking over congress in 95, accelerated under Bush and continued till Trump in 2016 and then picked up speed during the reign of the junta.

Trump is trying to do something about this trechary against the American people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 29, 2025 07:54 AM (QGOY4)

90 It was a glitch in the matrix that caused the power outage in Europe.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 29, 2025 07:54 AM (e5NfL)

91 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 29, 2025 07:55 AM (53oGX)

92 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 07:55 AM (KP+Ym)

93
"Be Like Dad --

Keep Mum"

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:55 AM (7D215)

94 Poll of Deported Illegal Immigrants Gives Trump Record-Low Approval Rating in First 100 Days

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 07:56 AM (ZoLdO)

95 Bandar Abbas port is still smoldering. Massive damage:

https://tinyurl.com/4p65rzze

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 07:56 AM (qFAfu)

96
BITS OF CARELESS TALK

Are Pieced Together by the Enemy

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:57 AM (7D215)

97 I don't understand Canada.
Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

Nature Vs. Nurture.

Canadians were once a proud, fierce people who had to survive in a hostile environment. Today, they are mostly inbred, pasty, fat, lazy and overfed and run to vote for the nanny state.

Posted by: Zombie General James Wolfe, Spinning In My Grave at April 29, 2025 07:57 AM (979V4)

98 Canadian friend says the tariffs and price hikes made average people upset at America, but also admits most Canadians are unhappy and stuck in lower-middle class with few hopes of climbing that ladder.

Price of housing and terrible healthcare are complained about to me on a regular basis.

Posted by: H at April 29, 2025 07:57 AM (2gjbv)

99 Poll of Deported Illegal Immigrants Gives Trump Record-Low Approval Rating in First 100 Days

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 07:56 AM (ZoLdO)
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Trump seems to have... alienated them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 07:57 AM (qFAfu)

100 Bandar Abbas port is still smoldering. Massive damage:

==

Chinese fireworks...

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:58 AM (g47mK)

101
Careless Talk

Costs Lives

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 07:58 AM (7D215)

102 You need big masses of turbines that maintain a constant signal.

Coal, geo-thermal, hydro and nuclear have high inertia turbines, single cycle Nat Gas does not, especially now as they lighten up turbines even more for load balancing. Combined Cycle has more, but isn't as flexible as SC.

Solar and wind have little and no inertia respectfully.

The problem is often found in the interconnects, how to make the phases work harmoniously.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

103 100 Bandar Abbas port is still smoldering. Massive damage:

==

Chinese fireworks...
Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:58 AM (g47mK)

Jewish lightning?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 29, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)

104 It might not have been Israel. Iran has so few friends...

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:59 AM (g47mK)

105 I'm more concerned with Canada's leftists cozying up to China than I am about most anything else Canadian. I think that will be a bigger issue we'll have to deal with than their fag government.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

So, not unlike Ukraine's government cozying up to the US?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

106 In this day of deep-fake videos and/or deceptive video editing, I'm not sure what to make of the one going around claiming Biden grouped Melania's ass after the Inauguration leading to words between Trump and Biden with Jill and Kamala getting involved.

https://tinyurl.com/5xjd57p7

Posted by: one hour sober at April 29, 2025 07:59 AM (Y1sOo)

107 Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination
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What is reverse discrimination?

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:00 AM (hAZeL)

108 Spain could not maintain 50 Hertz. It is that simple that solar and wind are not stable sine waves of 50 Hz.

AFAIK - they do it with Variable Frequency Drive type systems, but much bigger. Convert the windmill output to DC (the solar already is), the convert THAT back to a 50 Hz sine. But its not a pretty sine wave by any means - and it won't be close to uniform among different systems because of harmonics. And you need a pretty consistent inductive load to smooth it out.

Point being - something as simple as a big load dropping offline is all it would take to crash such a system. Its going to happen there again. And soon.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 29, 2025 08:01 AM (McYvC)

109 Fake news is on the march. Deep state lost quite a bit, still has a hold on US propaganda machine. Our Comintern press is earning its keep.

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 08:02 AM (g47mK)

110 "It is that simple that solar and wind are not stable sine waves of 50 Hz.

You need big masses of turbines that maintain a constant signal."

There are models of the power grid used to determine certain operational conditions used to find the corners of stability.

Models aren't perfect and it's possible that the models didn't take into account the nearly instantaneous ability of power inverters to change frequency. This is because they are slaved to the grid for synchronicity.

If this is a contributing cause the inverters could be modified to react as doggedly as a conventional plant.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:03 AM (QB+5g)

111 A Paypal Erection Concrave?

Posted by: Chinese Scammer at April 29, 2025 08:03 AM (AhF3W)

112 Canadian friend says the tariffs and price hikes made average people upset at America, but also admits most Canadians are unhappy and stuck in lower-middle class with few hopes of climbing that ladder.

Fortunately, an economic fight with the US will fix all that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

113 It's a very, very dangerous assumption the left and their judges are making, thinking that they will have a "anti-nixon" majority roused against Trump if he dare defy the courts.

These are the same people who confidently calculated the first, no the second, no now the third, wait this time for sure the 4th lawsuit manufactured against Trump will finally be the switch that turns the people against him.

The same people that have gaslighted with 100% confidence that this time, this time Trump really is a racist. Or a sexist. A bigot. A white supremacist.

And now the people are really going to turn against him.

They have never been right about a Trump prediction.
But they are recklessly hurling the entire country into lawlessness betting, once again, the public will turn on Trump.
They won't.
They will turn on the courts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:04 AM (NwfFc)

114 “ This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’”

Zechariah 7:9-10

Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2025 08:05 AM (hUAHw)

115 Clyburn: I Wasn’t Around Biden Enough to Say if He Declined
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Biden didn't decline. He was a vegetable in 2020.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:05 AM (hAZeL)

116 Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination
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What is reverse discrimination?
Posted by: ..

DEI

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 08:06 AM (KP+Ym)

117 From the article about med schools:

"These medical schools aren’t graduating healers — they’re graduating ideologues."

It is going to take a 100% private school that takes no federal funding and only admits people based on academic merit to correct the damage that the checkbox doctors inflict.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 08:07 AM (NR6c1)

118 Coal, geo-thermal, hydro and nuclear have high inertia turbines, single cycle Nat Gas does not, especially now as they lighten up turbines even more for load balancing. Combined Cycle has more, but isn't as flexible as SC.

They all have the huge benefit of actually being rotational. As such - their generator sections sync once joined to the grid and self-regulate. Nat Gas is kinda cool - to watch how it it goes from really consistent speed to Holy Shit once synced.

I remain convinced wind and solar, being DC based, can't function entirely on their own - in a stable state - to feed a varying array of AC loads.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 29, 2025 08:07 AM (McYvC)

119 These Democrats, these judges, you need to understand:

They are betting on the permanent destruction of the United States. The republic.

Either they will win. And have permanent, unaccountable power.

Or they destroy all laws and norms attacking Trump.

Their rule or rubble.

That's what they offer.

Bet on Trump. Not because he's Trump. Because of the forces with him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:09 AM (NwfFc)

120
What's next?

david cuck frenchkiss going to write "the conservative case for spies inside the Pentagon?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 08:09 AM (7D215)

121 Happy National Zipper Day. 🤐

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

122 They have never been right about a Trump prediction.
But they are recklessly hurling the entire country into lawlessness betting, once again, the public will turn on Trump.
They won't.
They will turn on the courts.

This particular person will turn on Trump if he doesn't start hammering these black-robed bastards very soon.

And I suspect I am not alone in this view.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 08:10 AM (Dg2sF)

123 My son just texted my wife that everything is back up where he is.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

124 Short of armed violence, lawfare is all they've got. How hard was it to predict they would go this route? Trump, of all people, should have been more prepared.

DC Draino (Rogan McHandley) asked the opening question in yesterday's press briefing (thanks to Leavitt expanding the press pool, I'm sure to the seething wrath of the media), and it was a beauty -- all about Trump invoking habeas corpus to deport without due process. His question was more of a opening prosecutorial statement.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 08:11 AM (UseAb)

125 No such thing as “reverse” racial discrimination. Just racial discrimination.

That was the (implied) point of the rhetorical question.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 08:11 AM (TgO2L)

126 But they are recklessly hurling the entire country into lawlessness betting, once again, the public will turn on Trump.
They won't.
They will turn on the courts.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:04 AM (NwfFc)

Unfortunately win-win for the Left.

Just like undermining people's trust in news and medicine and their neighbors - destroying trust in the legal system is part of the ongoing subversion and destruction of an otherwise healthy society.

Skepticism in authority and either "side" is not inherently bad but what it really ought to be happening is skepticism against the Left. But it doesn't wash out like that, and instead what we get is a culture that is easily molded in a new commie image.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:11 AM (hAZeL)

127
Pete Hesgeth is going to be fired any moment, now!

Posted by: NPR fake news at April 29, 2025 08:11 AM (7D215)

128
Yep.

Any moment.

Posted by: NPR fake news at April 29, 2025 08:11 AM (7D215)

129 My three cats had a conclave this morning and re-elected me as their leader. Withholding food and treats until they voted the right way sealed the deal.

Posted by: Hard Bargainer at April 29, 2025 08:12 AM (G5+As)

130 DU isn't talking about Spain yet, but speaking off tilting at windmills...Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) introduced articles of impeachment against Trump

seven articles of impeachment:
1. Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power: denial of due process, unlawful deportations, defiance of court orders, and misuse of the Department of Justice.

2. Usurpation of Appropriations Power: dismantling congressionally established agencies and impounding federal funds.

3. Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression: imposing economically damaging tariffs and threatening military invasion against sovereign nations.

4. Violation of First Amendment Rights: Retaliatory actions against critics, media, and attorneys exercising constitutionally protected speech.

5. Creation of an Unlawful Office: By establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”

6. Bribery and Corruption: Involving dismissing criminal cases, soliciting foreign emoluments, and extortionate settlements for personal and political gain

7. Tyrannical Overreach: Seeking to consolidate unchecked power, erode civil liberties, and defy constitutional limits on presidential authority.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 29, 2025 08:12 AM (ycI94)

131 “ This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’”

Zechariah 7:9-10

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I'm currently reading the Bible cover to cover. This is exact wording mentioned many times throughout the Old Testament. I just finished Ezekiel yesterday. Completely apropos of nothing, the last several chapters I felt like I was running through quicksand trying to get out. It went on forever!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 29, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

132 This inverter to grid coupled modeling was studies back in the 80s when I was involved in "alternative" energies.

One of the thing that they were worried about was fast moving clouds spiking and the dropping output from localized areas of power production and whether the existing grid could handle this.

EPRI sponsored a lot of research in this area back then.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:13 AM (QB+5g)

133 130: I look forward to mocking them when it fails.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 08:13 AM (NR6c1)

134 I don't understand Canada.
Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

Nature Vs. Nurture.

Canadians were once a proud, fierce people who had to survive in a hostile environment. Today, they are mostly inbred, pasty, fat, lazy and overfed and run to vote for the nanny state.
Posted by: Zombie General James Wolfe

Because Uncle Sugar treated them like a nephew staying for the summer instead of some kid down the block.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 08:13 AM (KP+Ym)

135 Ha. Joe groped Melania and PDT was gonna kick his ass.

Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

136 Morning JJ and the Horde. Only good thing about Canada now, is that his little weasel Carney will have to deliver, after the Canadian TDS wears off

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:15 AM (YCxFk)

137 >>@FBI_Sullivan
For 17 years, I served in secret, protecting us from threats like Russia, foreign terrorists and drug cartels, and eventually the insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol.

Now, I’m stepping out of the shadows to run for Congress.

Duuuuuude, your twitter handle is "FBI_Sullivan" - joined in April 2018. You've not been in the shadows for 7 years now. You're bragging.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:15 AM (KHnV4)

138 [ik]Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) introduced articles of impeachment against Trump

Deport his ungrateful Communist ass back to Chkkodi India.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

139 David Axelrod is a smug elitist fool. Had a easy ride with Obama, now he is off shooting his mouth. Youtube has a video of this Chicago shemp saying multiple times that Trump would lose in a landslide in 2024

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

140 "I remain convinced wind and solar, being DC based, can't function entirely on their own - in a stable state - to feed a varying array of AC loads."

Nah, they can but there has been no guidance in this area so firmware programmers have just let it rip.

This is the purpose of research. EPRI is a non-profit consortium.

https://tinyurl.com/mv5549ku

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:18 AM (QB+5g)

141 "but also admits most Canadians are unhappy and stuck in lower-middle class with few hopes of climbing that ladder."

They aint seen nothin yet. Wait until this Carney gets his fascist, economy-strangling DEI speedwagon going.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 08:18 AM (UseAb)

142 Canada has not done shit since World War 2. Sent a few troops into Afghanistan after 9/11

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:19 AM (YCxFk)

143 Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:15 AM (KHnV4)

When did Russia threaten us? And I don't remember any storming of the capitol. In fact wasn't it the FBI who opened the doors and encouraged people to wander around inside?

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:20 AM (hAZeL)

144 >>Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) introduced articles of impeachment against Trump

Deport his ungrateful Communist ass back to Chkkodi India.

He's a creepy dude, and now seeing he had a failed business where he abandoned about 200 animals, mostly dogs, to starve to death in a lab. How do these people get elected, FFS?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:20 AM (KHnV4)

145 Let us not forget, Carney still has a minority Gubmint. He did not win like Trump last night. He only won because smaller parties and the bloc collapsed last night

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

146 Chinese fireworks...

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 07:58 AM (g47mK)
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No. That was today:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9ndcj6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:21 AM (qFAfu)

147 "Thandar" is a creepy last name. Maybe he has a secret lair somewhere where he does bad things.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:22 AM (QB+5g)

148 All seriousness aside, I don't think we Americans should be making fun of Canada for their electoral choices. Our record is pretty spotty.

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:23 AM (AOsQT)

149 >> Posted by: Lady in Black at April 29, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

There are several good study Bibles that walk through both the Old and New Testament. They have explanations, devotionals and reflection questions. Zondervan makes a good NIV study Bible. That’s just one example.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2025 08:23 AM (hUAHw)

150 What are the practical steps to absorbing Canada as a 51st state? At quick glance, it would seem 1. a popular referendum, 2. a Constitutional convention, 3. an Enabling Act, 4. Congress passing an Admissions Act.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 08:24 AM (UseAb)

151 Creation of an Unlawful Office: By establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”

Where was he demanding impeachment when Obama from out of nothing created the United States Digital Service (circa 2014) from which is the name of the agency before it was renamed under Trump's EO?

It wasn't until H.R. 5372 (2016) that a bill was introduced to continue the agency..... yet it stayed without formal recognition due to dereliction of Congress in their decades long tradition of passing budgets only through CRs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb)

152 He's a creepy dude, and now seeing he had a failed business where he abandoned about 200 animals, mostly dogs, to starve to death in a lab. How do these people get elected, FFS?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:20 AM (KHnV4)
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I've been wondering the same thing.

How many Congress critters have been brought into this country *specifically* to be installed in Congress and therefore influence the globalist agenda?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 29, 2025 08:25 AM (7fElN)

153
Did "Grey Fox" disappear?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 08:25 AM (7D215)

154 "A US Navy sailor suffered minor injuries when an F-18 fighter jet and its tow tractor fell overboard from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the U.S. military said on Monday.

In a statement, the Navy said that all personnel were accounted for. The carrier, the Harry Truman, is aiding strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen."

-REUTERS

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:25 AM (QB+5g)

155 Jewish lightning?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 29, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)
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They blamed Israel at first. But now:

https://tinyurl.com/yp7ppfym

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:26 AM (qFAfu)

156 We do not want Quebec as part of the US in any way, shape, or form.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)

157 Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2025 08:23 AM (hUAHw)

Halley's is good.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:27 AM (hAZeL)

158 What are the practical steps to absorbing Canada as a 51st state?

How about we keep Western civilization alive and not introduce a bunch of God hating Communists into our system so that this 51st State can be reliably Marxist and anti-human in their contributions to the national debates?

They chose to euthanize themselves. I don't want that shit attitude and death cult adding numbers to our already swollen with evil political population.

They don't deserve a second chance. Let Canada die.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

159 "They blamed Israel at first. But now:"

Beirut redux.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:28 AM (QB+5g)

160 >A US Navy sailor suffered minor injuries when an F-18 fighter jet and its tow tractor fell overboard from
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"OOPS! My bad, guys."

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:28 AM (AOsQT)

161 What are the practical steps to absorbing Canada as a 51st state?

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Other than voting they kind of already are. I think their defense budget is something like $4.37 annually because they know we foot the bill for them.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:29 AM (yWTRD)

162
No one else finds it strange we haven't heard more about those 4 men who, they tell us, sank their Humvee in a swamp in Lithufuckingania or wherever during a "training exercise?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 29, 2025 08:29 AM (7D215)

163 How does a F-18 fighter jet fall overboard?

Posted by: dantesed at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (Oy/m2)

164 When did Russia threaten us?

1. @FBI_Sullivan is a homosexual so, not likely to have been secretive about anything.
2. He's, probably, about 40 so "Russia" hasn't been an issue since he was a toddler.
3. He's a Democrat so announcing that he "protected us against Russia" is his way of saying that he was involved in illegal efforts against Trump (presumably).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

165 Congratulations to the Canadians here. Sanity prevailed in your nation!

Posted by: Sid at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (cAV5e)

166 There's a bill in Congress that would require all members of Congress and holders of other high civic positions be US-born. It doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell.

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (AOsQT)

167 Where was he demanding impeachment when Obama from out of nothing created the United States Digital Service (circa 2014) from which is the name of the agency before it was renamed under Trump's EO?

"But when Obama did it, he did it out of love!"

And where was he when USDS didn't do anything for the years before it became DOGE?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (NR6c1)

168 I think it is sponsored by Guy Who Rolls Up His Sleeves.

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (AOsQT)

169 How do these people get elected, FFS?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:20 AM (KHnV4)

Take a look at the elected Democrats. Question answered.

Now look at the elected Republicans and ask the same question.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

170 Just took a look at the barred spiral galaxy picture… incredible. Always makes me contemplate the vastness of space ( and time) of our universe. Our own solar system is billions of years old and is just one of a nearly infinite number of others. Very humbling.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (PCK5/)

171 "A US Navy sailor suffered minor injuries when an F-18 fighter jet and its tow tractor fell overboard from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the U.S. military said on Monday.

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Yikes. Those things can just randomly roll off the deck? Good thing that guy was able to get out of the way.

Wait a minute...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (yWTRD)

172 . Violation of First Amendment Rights: Retaliatory actions against critics, media, and attorneys exercising constitutionally protected speech.

Right, the creator of Truth Social to get around Thandar's party's ruthless endeavor to stamp out free speech through a multi-billion dollar international campaign to cancel, deplatform, delicense and incarcerate (if not outright murder) those who stray from the Democrat Party narratives?

Project much?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:32 AM (a4flb)

173 Okay, the Navy's official statement is kind of hilarious:

"Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:32 AM (yWTRD)

174 Europe’s Bureaucrats Whistle Along As They Barrel Towards China’s Green Energy Trap
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It's more like they know it's an Admiral Akbar link, but are going to click anyway thinking that they'll just close their eyes and be fine, but the Europeans they are leading to their doom will have to endure it's full hideousness.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)

175 How does a F-18 fighter jet fall overboard?

Posted by: dantesed at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (Oy/m2)
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Gravity.

Seriously, the articles say the carrier took evasive action and most probably turned the rudder as far as possible to avoid an incoming Houti something or other.

I assume at the time of the evasion, the jet was not in a secured state.

I don't know what I'm talking about BTW.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:33 AM (qFAfu)

176 **Take bite of giant cinnamon roll and sips coffee**

Mornin, all. I rarely drink coffee at home but we're having breakfast in today.

I want to seriously recommend getting off the beaten path. Take those back roads, folks! Taking the "long" way isn't always a bad thing. You can find real America out there. That tiny, cluttered general store of my childhood is now owned by the descendents and is a cafe. They still serve hand dipped ice cream. And they sell delicious cinnamon rolls! Still have that old pot bellied wood stove too even though they don't use it.

Get out there! Find those odd little gems of America! Enjoy taking the roads less travelled!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 29, 2025 08:33 AM (2J/Lj)

177 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
The Canadians are suffering the same fate as the Europeans . They got fat and stupid intellectually being shielded by Pax Americana. Developed all kinds of bad leftist ideas and walked into a one worlder leftist hell. Great country band great people , Canada, but they appear as doomed as Europe.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 29, 2025 08:34 AM (Er3Q7)

178 MAID will take out all the Canadians within ten years when their economy stagnates and dies pursuing Commie, idiot policies. The vast land will be free for the taking.

Posted by: Moose Out Front at April 29, 2025 08:35 AM (G5+As)

179 How does a F-18 fighter jet fall overboard?

Posted by: dantesed at April 29, 2025 08:30 AM (Oy/m2)
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Gravity.

Seriously, the articles say the carrier took evasive action and most probably turned the rudder as far as possible to avoid an incoming Houti something or other.

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Yeah, I'm betting on a training exercise. It worked.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:35 AM (yWTRD)

180 The case could open the door for more religious charter schools across the country.
Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Landmark Case On School Choice And Religious Liberty
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I wonder if KBJ will be a vote for school choice to be consistent with her comments on the Va school district case where she said parents can opt out of their five year old reading grooming materials by changing schools.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 08:36 AM (Dv3i1)

181 I'm not saying it was aliens... It was aliens

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 29, 2025 08:36 AM (1FWWQ)

182 180 The case could open the door for more religious charter schools across the country.
Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Landmark Case On School Choice And Religious Liberty
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I wonder if KBJ will be a vote for school choice to be consistent with her comments on the Va school district case where she said parents can opt out of their five year old reading grooming materials by changing schools.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 08:36 AM (Dv3i1)

No, consistency is not required for liberal thinking. They are happy to be hypocrites.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 29, 2025 08:37 AM (tOcjL)

183 Shri Thanedar (MI-13) is 70 years old.
Another gem brought to us by the AWFLs, I'm sure.
Those of Ann Arbor, MI.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:37 AM (NwfFc)

184 Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power: denial of due process, unlawful deportations, defiance of court orders, and misuse of the Department of Justice.

misuse of the Department of Justice?

People have been begging for this DoJ to get off the damned TV sound stage and start busting these criminals in government who routinely engage in unlawful actions around deportations, who issue out defiant court orders and misuse the Judicial branch to assume dictatorial powers over the entire nation.

Thandar is utterly delusional and is so steeped in Projection that he is rendered retarded.

Go back to to your own shithole, India, because I'm sure that their system is so perfect and fits your systemically fucked-up idea of governance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:37 AM (a4flb)

185 MAID will take out all the Canadians within ten years

Posted by: Moose Out Front at April 29, 2025 08:35 AM (G5+As)
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That's quite a bill she's gonna run up at the bar!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:38 AM (qFAfu)

186 >How does a F-18 fighter jet fall overboard?
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pilot didn't set the emergency brake
jet was parked in neutral, and ships rock in the water
bada boop bada bip

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:38 AM (AOsQT)

187 Talking about the Pentagon leaks investigation now.
Posted by: runner

Because something is coming. Or a parallel investigation such as the judges in WI & TX.

"Investigations" are bad because it hurts morale line of excuses.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 29, 2025 08:39 AM (JkCto)

188 49 We could just buy Canada and then take the money back once we were in charge.
Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 07:36 AM (QB+5g)

I used to do that all the time to the ladies of ill-repute in Grand Theft Auto III.

Posted by: Congressman Emanuel Cleaver at April 29, 2025 08:39 AM (gsgWV)

189 Have you ever read a website giving information about some event that causes lost power that veers into an ad at the bottom for the site owner's doomsday food pack?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 29, 2025 08:40 AM (0eaVi)

190 >>How does a F-18 fighter jet fall overboard?

The Truman pulled a Crazy Ivan and lost a fighter jet under tow. Saved them from having to shoot it down after the the CAT shot.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 29, 2025 08:40 AM (Y1sOo)

191 April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

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Couldn't happen to more deserving people. They have probably never heard of the Hubris-Nemesis nexus but I think they will experience this many more times.

Posted by: Decaf at April 29, 2025 08:40 AM (unUNN)

192 "Shri Thanedar"
Quick search.

Born and raised in India. You don't understand America and your feelings mean nothing.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 08:40 AM (NR6c1)

193 Karoline Leavitt up doing an early presser with Scott Bessent

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

194 I read that the F/A-18 that went for a swim was being towed in the hanger when the carrier made a sudden, and apparently unannounced "evasive turn." The ship likely tilted quite a bit and the tug and plane rolled out the open hanger door.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (Q4IgG)

195 The Greta Windmill picture up top reminded me of a very good Hitchcock spy thriller "Foreign Correspondent" from 1940. A country's leader is held by bad guys in a creepy windmill in Holland. Joel McCrae, Laraine Day, and Herbert Marshall star. I heartily recommend.

Posted by: Grinding The Gears at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

196 I can see Alberta and maybe Saskatchewan pushing for independence. The whole Canadian experiment might fall if that happens. Maybe Ontario and its Ontards can join with Greenland.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (OO0Yq)

197 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

198 For the first time last night, I listened to an extended speech of Scoldilocks. I'd only suffered seconds-long clips.

That, that fucking stuttering, scripted runt was what inspired the left?

That halting, marble-mouthed, half-wit?

That little, twisted, dripping shart was their voice?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (NwfFc)

199 Whelp. Canada's f*cked.

It was nice knowin' ya!

Shoulda took Trump's offer......

They'll soon be the UK and Germany rolled into one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

200 European officials are seemingly not very concerned about the possibility that the continent’s green energy agenda may leave it vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the future, according to Politico.

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Russia is much closer to them and more belligerent.

Posted by: Decaf at April 29, 2025 08:42 AM (unUNN)

201 Born and raised in India. You don't understand America and your feelings mean nothing.

But he feels perfectly qualified to tell over half of America that their choice in a president is illegitimate, that their vote must be reversed, and that demonic culture must be the defining characteristic of Western Civilization.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:42 AM (a4flb)

202 >Karoline Leavitt up doing an early presser with Scott Bessent

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very pink

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)

203 Fewer artificial dyes is great, but if Americans want to make their country healthy again, they can’t wait for the government to save them.
Getting Rid Of Food Dyes Is Good, But Healthy Eating Is Ultimately Up To Us
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Eating healthy takes time, time to buy fresh ingredients, time to prep and make the meals. All well and good to move in this direction.

But many people just don't have time. It would be great if prepared foods received some attention and processing methods and ingredients improved to make them less poisonous.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

204
That little, twisted, dripping shart was their voice?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (NwfFc)

They're currently risking it all for MS-13 gang members housed in an El Salvadorian prison.......

The left is not smart.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

205 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Now it's a party!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (2J/Lj)

206
very pink

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)

I wouldn't mind kissing her pink.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

207
Now it's a party!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (2J/Lj)

WOOT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

208 1. @FBI_Sullivan is a homosexual so, not likely to have been secretive about anything.

Agreed. He was loud and proud, sucking and fucking other men at every turn. A real homosexual hero! The wonderful man! He did not have to dread the dark, yet inevitable day of being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame...

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (979V4)

209 >Born and raised in India. You don't understand America and your feelings mean nothing.
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he understands being a Democrat

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (AOsQT)

210 Yeah, let's say some genius came along and said "I've invented a miracle photovoltaic cell that actually works at scale and cheaply, too," and we could just power the world reliably on sunlight alone, for pennies on the dollar.

Within one week my Hatefeed would be full of articles saying "Experts are concerned the world will run out of sunlight by 2030," "Solar power will cause the Ecuadorian Shitbird to go extinct," and "Solar power is the hot new MAGA bigotry: why white supremacists worship the sun."

It's never been about the environment.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

211 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (PCK5/)

212 damn she can talk up a storm

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 08:45 AM (AOsQT)

213 Have you ever read a website giving information about some event that causes lost power that veers into an ad at the bottom for the site owner's doomsday food pack?

They must be using former fill-in for Rush, Todd Herman as their content consultant.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

214 For those keeping score at home:

April 26nd: Trump goes to Europe for pope's funeral

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Ministry of Truth at April 29, 2025 08:46 AM (GUOwU)

215 Uh oh.....NOW you KNOW it's bad for Canada.

SID is celebrating.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

216 I want to seriously recommend getting off the beaten path. Take those back roads, folks! Taking the "long" way isn't always a bad thing. You can find real America out there. That tiny, cluttered general store of my childhood is now owned by the descendents and is a cafe. They still serve hand dipped ice cream. And they sell delicious cinnamon rolls! Still have that old pot bellied wood stove too even though they don't use it.

Get out there! Find those odd little gems of America! Enjoy taking the roads less travelled!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

100% agree, MM!

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

217 Why move Apple to India

Move your products to AMERICA

Vance, you are Americas VP

Not India’

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 29, 2025 08:46 AM (nGraA)

218 Agreed. He was loud and proud, sucking and fucking other men at every turn. A real homosexual hero! The wonderful man! He did not have to dread the dark, yet inevitable day of being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame...
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (979V4)

Some of you guys are really, really good at this.

Scary sometimes.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Yeah, let's say some genius came along and said "I've invented a miracle photovoltaic cell that actually works at scale and cheaply, too," and we could just power the world reliably on sunlight alone, for pennies on the dollar.

Current solar panels convert only a very narrow spectrum of light into electricity. By broadening that spectrum or introducing multiple frequency conversions, solar panel output density could dramatically increase.

Its like the 100 MPG car, its doable, but no one can afford it and industry really doesn't want it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)

220 It's a great dig to have press conferences at 8:30 AM two days in a row. You know the hung-over reporter slackers hate being up so early. The "Arrested Posters" on the walk outside the White House were the icing on their shit-cake.

Posted by: Keep Stomping Them at April 29, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)

221
Its like the 100 MPG car, its doable, but no one can afford it and industry really doesn't want it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)

There's just something about having to store enough energy somewhere to power things at night while solar panels sit, useless.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

222 unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (qFAfu)

223
Get off the beaten path:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Highways

Posted by: It's a great book at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (dg+HA)

224 @unusual_whales
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Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (qFAfu)

Wonderful.

Assholes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Why move Apple to India

The US flat out doesn't have the talent in sufficient numbers to even do a 10th of the production that India can perform with the world's largest population.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)

226 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

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Oh man, that's going to backfire BIGLY

"Wait, where are all the American made products?"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:51 AM (yWTRD)

227 I will admit, it's fun to just tour backroads, then coming into a small town, or some off the beaten path BBQ place and sampling the local fare.

Of course, covid ruined that in a LOT of places, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

228 My wife just showed me a picture of what Spain and Portugal looked like from orbit last night. Total darkness. Like North Korea.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

229 The US flat out doesn't have the talent in sufficient numbers to even do a 10th of the production that India can perform with the world's largest population.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)

And this is why we can't have nice things.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

230 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (PCK5/)
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Getting off you phone or tablet and exercising is free. Remember when people did (more of) that, especially kids and teens?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:52 AM (qFAfu)

231 Showing csts of tariffs on their peddled merchandise is a classic virtue signal… essentially pointless, preening for a segment of their customers… Bezos needs to slap a bitch over this one..

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

232 "Wait, so Bezos is personally responsible for 5% of transportation fuel costs and 25% of all household trash in the United States and it's all just Chinese crap?"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 08:53 AM (yWTRD)

233 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (PCK5/)
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And it's all a ruse.

"ORGANIC!!!" = 75% markup

organic in food terms means 'approved pesticides' for the feels.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

234 I stay off the non-beaten path. Too many snakes and ticks.

Posted by: Lyme In The Coconut at April 29, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

235 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (qFAfu)

Some media dunce who was downplaying Trump's assertion that as tariffs go up, income taxes can go down, stated as fact that tariffs would only contribute $64B in tax revenue, whereas income taxes are in the trillions.

I think the point was that tariffs aren't that replacement tax, but in trying to diminish the positive effects of a tariff, he admitted how little it actually produces.

That is, closing down USAID or simply reducing a small fraction of the fraud in social security yields more money than the tariffs add to the costs of goods.

So which narrative is it going to be? Tariffs are the end of the world for the US Consumer, or Tariffs are just a drop in the bucket?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:54 AM (a4flb)

236 Terrible Biz mgmt by amazon. Most customers will now finally realize how much crap comes from Hanoi and Cambodia

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

237 Lots of blackouts in Europe. But the real story is that the grid frequency got so low that the entire continent almost went down. That's what you get when you listen to Angela and Greta. Can't wait until the UK blocks out the sun.

Meanwhile in the US I'm happy to report what I only know because of my day job. Trump has a massive deregulatory effort that's so far below the radar that it's stealth. It builds on favorable SCOTUS decisions in recent years. especially last year's decision in Loper Bright. This is both nerdish and momentous. New York's own Lee Zeldin is a key player at the EPA.

It's intended to reverse 40 years of regulatory bloat in the US. We'll have a huge competitive advantage over the EU. We only need to keep the lights on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 29, 2025 08:54 AM (Gqoy+)

238 >>Get out there! Find those odd little gems of America! Enjoy taking the roads less travelled!

Seconded!
I love road trips.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 08:55 AM (KHnV4)

239 Damn. One of the best one minute clips you'll ever see. Morgan Freeman on Black History Month:

https://is.gd/fvDEIR

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:55 AM (hAZeL)

240 230 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:44 AM (PCK5/)
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Getting off you phone or tablet and exercising is free. Remember when people did (more of) that, especially kids and teens?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 08:52 AM (qFAfu)

You have poked the gorilla in the room with your comment… the majority of the country are oazy-asses that do little or no movement in their day.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:55 AM (PCK5/)

241 I stay off the non-beaten path. Too many snakes and ticks.

So you are spending more time improving your golf swing?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:56 AM (a4flb)

242 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

Why would that be? I think processed food and pre-packaged meals are fairly expensive. Replacing them with fruits, vegetable and dairy seems like an even swap. Unless they're figuring in the cost of extra protein?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 29, 2025 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

243 "BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product"

This is in a way great. Now we can differentiate between US made and shit Chinese stuff.

I've been arguing for a long time for Bezos to offer a tag that allows for people to shop for US made products.

It may help US products by allowing people to spend their money conscientiously but it will definitely educate American as to how bad things are.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 08:56 AM (QB+5g)

244 Sid is back. Cool. He spent all of the Fall of 2024 saying Trump was going to lose in a Landslide

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

245 >>BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID CHINESE KNOCKOFF PRODUCTS BY AUTOMATICALLY PROMOTING IT IN THEIR SEARCH RESULTS -- EVEN WHEN YOU SEARCH BY AMERICAN BRAND NAME.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 29, 2025 08:56 AM (KHnV4)

246 I tried eating "healthy". Only ate organic Circus Peanuts, Candy Corn, and Peeps. I look terrible.

Posted by: Back To Basics at April 29, 2025 08:57 AM (G5+As)

247 Eating healthy costs a lot more.
Posted by: tubal

One can offset cost by growing veggies and some fruits at home. I have plenty of space for veg garden and even fruit trees. Apple does very well here. Cherry does okay. Persimmon trees abound! There are even Indiana peaches! If I had a greenhouse I could grow miniature orange and lemon trees and veggies, of course, year round.
This does require some initial investment and there's a time requirement. It takes work, patience and dedication to weed patrol.
I have space for chickens as well.
Do I actually have a veggie and herb garden? Not any more. Do I have fruit trees? Nope! Do I have a tribe of chickens? Oh hell no!
But I could. And I have been eyeing the yard for a possible spot to put in a new veggie patch. Meh. Who knows what the hell I might do.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 29, 2025 08:57 AM (2J/Lj)

248 Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (PCK5/)

I believe God made the universe so big to give us an illustration of His vastness and size compared to us.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:57 AM (hAZeL)

249 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: oazy-asses at April 29, 2025 08:58 AM (dg+HA)

250 Peeps, much like Pop Tarts, are hideous.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 29, 2025 08:59 AM (pZ64F)

251 Now that the Canadian election is over, the Hosers become old news. Carney is not a pretty boy with Charisma like Trudeau.

Within a month Carney will be begging to visit the White House, as Chinese and Russian Nuke subs are seen near Vancouver

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

252 Terrible Biz mgmt by amazon. Most customers will now finally realize how much crap comes from Hanoi and Cambodia

Go try to buy a Dewalt power tool battery on Amazon. You will come up with a bunch of companies that appears to be named by shaking up and spilling letters out of a Scabble game.

Dittos with light bulbs, car parts or anything not made by Garmin in the consumer electonics realm. Amazon is a website to move Chinese made goods.

I find myself using Amazon less and less as US vendors step up their shopping experience and shipping game.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (a4flb)

253 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

I'm fine with this. Let's get that into the light.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (NR6c1)

254 Seconded!
I love road trips.

It's sunny and 63 degrees right now. I would love to hop in my car, crank up some music and head off to the Berkshires.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Dg2sF)

255
Within a month Carney will be begging to visit the White House, as Chinese and Russian Nuke subs are seen near Vancouver
Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

He's going to make Canada an uninhabitable wasteland.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

256 They gots plenty of F18s

How many tugs do they have, though? Maybe 3 or 4? I betcha it was the “good” tug that went overboard too.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (r+qgd)

257
It's sunny and 63 degrees right now. I would love to hop in my car, crank up some music and head off to the Berkshires.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Dg2sF)

What's stopping you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

258 248 Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:31 AM (PCK5/)

I believe God made the universe so big to give us an illustration of His vastness and size compared to us.
Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 08:57 AM (hAZeL)

Yep. And what he is up to out there is his business, and not ours. We should keep that in mind when we opinionate about, everything, really. God runs Bartertown, not us.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:01 AM (PCK5/)

259 Peeps, much like Pop Tarts, are hideous.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I never got Pop Tarts. I thought they were disgusting. But I knew a girl in high school who seemed to live on them exclusively.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

260
I'm fine with this. Let's get that into the light.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (NR6c1)

I do hope it has the opposite intended effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

261 India offers significant advantages: a pliable workforce that is both young and tech-literate, and perhaps most importantly, a government eager to accommodate U.S. corporate interests.

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"significant advantages" = the population's average IQ is a point or two above "intellectually disabled" That's not racist or a joke. That's a measurable genetic trait.

https://tinyurl.com/4d6fjym3

(The U.S. is 9

You'll be called a racist, but Americans have got to start pushing back against this globalist crap.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:01 AM (yWTRD)

262 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

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Excellent! Now we will finally see how .20 product becomes a $20 product ! Go for it! If only luxury manufacturers would to the same.

Posted by: runner at April 29, 2025 09:02 AM (g47mK)

263 Back roads are the best. There's a little drive-in that is purported to have really good hamburgers about 20 miles from us.

Accessible only by.... back roads.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

264 Thanks for the cool-guy emote there, Pixy.

US is 98

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:02 AM (yWTRD)

265 >>It's sunny and 63 degrees right now. I would love to hop in my car, crank up some music and head off to the Berkshires.

Oh, yes, that would be fun!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (KHnV4)

266
US is 98
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:02 AM (yWTRD)

8 + ) is sunglasses smiley face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Pity that Don Harron is no longer with us. He's the only Canadian reporter I ever trusted.

Posted by: KORN News at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (G5+As)

268 "BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product"

This is in a way great. Now we can differentiate between US made and shit Chinese stuff.

Weren't Libertarians beating off to the idea of a Consumption Tax (aka "Fair Tax")? Here we have the best of both worlds, their precious consumer tax that is applied to only select foreign made goods!

Win/Win.

They should be blind with joy right now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)

269 "significant advantages" = the population's average IQ is a point or two above "intellectually disabled" That's not racist or a joke. That's a measurable genetic trait.

https://tinyurl.com/4d6fjym3

As in Islam, Hinduism has a lot of inbreeding due to the requirement to marry within one's caste.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

270 259 Peeps, much like Pop Tarts, are hideous.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I never got Pop Tarts. I thought they were disgusting. But I knew a girl in high school who seemed to live on them exclusively.
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How hard is it to drop some bread slices in a toaster? Then there is jam and honey and butter. Pop Tarts are hideous by comparison.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (pZ64F)

271 Pity that Don Harron is no longer with us. He's the only Canadian reporter I ever trusted.
Posted by: KORN News at April 29, 2025 09:03 AM (G5+As)

Canada banned Don Cherry. Canada kinda sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

272 Canada's problem is they never bitch slapped the French hard enough.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 29, 2025 09:05 AM (pZ64F)

273 263 Back roads are the best. There's a little drive-in that is purported to have really good hamburgers about 20 miles from us.

Accessible only by.... back roads.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

Know some people in downstate Illinois who talkabout a place called the Blue Moon Cafe… in the middle of nowhere, sells outstanding hamburgers an fries… hard to find but has been in business for, like, ever…

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:05 AM (PCK5/)

274 The last great Canadian was Gordon Lightfoot. RIP.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

275 231 Showing csts of tariffs on their peddled merchandise is a classic virtue signal… essentially pointless, preening for a segment of their customers… Bezos needs to slap a bitch over this one..
Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

This. It's lefty performative bs. Did he ever show the tab on bidens inflationary spending on the cheap Chinese crap he sells on his website.

It funny cause he made a mint marketing that crap so much so he could afford to make a giant penis rocket to shoot his girlfriend and her buddies to space. But now Chyna wants to cut out the middleman with temu.

Might want to cut the expensive hobbies the bezos.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 29, 2025 09:05 AM (OA79/)

276 Legal Phil
@Legal_Fil
Left: photo of the year, according to the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Right: photo of the year , according to anyone with a functioning brain cell.

https://tinyurl.com/2vdw2swv

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

277 >>Get out there! Find those odd little gems of America! Enjoy taking the roads less travelled!

Seconded!
I love road trips.
+++
I used to have a point of interest app on my Garmin GPS called offbeat attractions.
It was great seeing all these cool things on my trips.
You have to get off the interstate if you really want to see the country.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (Lo97M)

278 Imagine what type of work functionally retarded people who literally sh*t in the streets would be able to do for your company.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (yWTRD)

279 Eating healthy costs a lot more.
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Er, no. This is a kind of leftist propaganda, more or less.

Chips and soda, snacks, crackers, frozen, and prepared foods are the highest profit margin “foods”, and it isn’t even close. It may well be the bag costs more than the corn chips therein. I checked, there is about 10c worth of product in a bag they sell for ~ $5

Junk food is way more expensive. Since 90 Million or more on food stamps, WIC or EBT, they care not what anything costs.

See Also: “Food Deserts”.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (r+qgd)

280 >>Go try to buy a Dewalt power tool battery on Amazon. You will come up with a bunch of companies that appears to be named by shaking up and spilling letters out of a Scabble game.

It's that way with every search.
You do a search by brand name, and instead you get a bunch of crap from all caps vendor names.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (KHnV4)

281 I'd consider it an honor to donate my classic Hoyt-Clagwell tractor to serve as a tug to replace the one that went in the drink. Can you hear the fife in the background as I speak?

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (G5+As)

282 183 Shri Thanedar (MI-13) is 70 years old.
Another gem brought to us by the AWFLs, I'm sure.
Those of Ann Arbor, MI.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

We have two many white poeple here, so its important to have a BIPOC representitive as the face of our comunity, representing our values to the World.

Posted by: Margaret Sullivan-Smith of Ann Arbor at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

283 You know you want us. You know you love us and can't get through an I overslept and I gotta leave RIGHT NOW or I'll be late morning without us.

Posted by: Pop Tarts at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (dg+HA)

284 Ironically if we are building EVs we should also be building coal plants to power them.

We have enough coal to last basically forever...so why not use it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

285 Blah Blah loves Amazon! He orders all kinds of stuff like coffee, cat food, little plastic doodads and whatnots, toilet paper, shoes, viagra and even a penis pump or two which we both use when we are in the mood. Shopping on Amazon saves us money being on a fixed income and all and they deliver to all three of our vacation homes, even in Hawaii! Being on social security every little bit helps. Plus we avoid the Poors at places like Wal Mark and the Amazon van gives us the feeling that we actually have a life when they come to our houses.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrat boomers at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (979V4)

286 Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.
Solar's pretty easy - just airburst a big pile of ball bearings over the area to make your own hail storm.
Wind - probably the old fashioned anti-aircraft spray of wires to entangle propellers.

If you want to be more subtle they could be 'terrorist' attacks using drones.

Either way, once you knock out their power they can't really put up much of a fight.

Posted by: KCSteve at April 29, 2025 09:07 AM (bxAlI)

287
Right: photo of the year , according to anyone with a functioning brain cell.

https://tinyurl.com/2vdw2swv
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

LOL... A badly done photo of Biden looking like he's getting ready to walk into the fireplace

Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

288 "significant advantages" = the population's average IQ is a point or two above "intellectually disabled" That's not racist or a joke. That's a measurable genetic trait.

Whatever. So take the top 10% of India's population and that segment is far more intelligent and larger in number than the entire US's legitimate labor force.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (a4flb)

289 It's sunny and 63 degrees right now. I would love to hop in my car, crank up some music and head off to the Berkshires.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Dg2sF)

Get moving, sugar cube! You're burning daylight! You can send us updates from the road.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (2J/Lj)

290 Amazon is going to shoot itself in the foot here I can smell it.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (hAZeL)

291 Imagine what type of work functionally retarded people who literally sh*t in the streets would be able to do for your company.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:06 AM (yWTRD)

Yes. Give ol' AT&T Business internet a call and see if you can get them to stop reading the script for 2 seconds to answer your inciteful question regarding what you're seeing as the issue.

Go ahead. I'll wait.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

292 Green energy is, by definition, non-stable and highly susceptible to failure due to load variation. It's like these new-green-deal retards don't even understand basic physics or the fundamentals of power generation...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (XMwZJ)

293 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

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Oh man, that's going to backfire BIGLY

"Wait, where are all the American made products?"
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Wait! So Bezos is a Chineese shill???

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (KP+Ym)

294 LOL... A badly done photo of Biden looking like he's getting ready to walk into the fireplace
Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

He's going to make a blue flame heat the room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.

EMP

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:09 AM (a4flb)

296 We have enough coal to last basically forever...so why not use it?
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Cuz Houston makes moar money if you don't.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 29, 2025 09:09 AM (pZ64F)

297 New slogan idea:

Amazon Runs on China

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:09 AM (hAZeL)

298 Growing up in west Michigan, CBC's channel 9 out of Windsor, Ontario was on my local cable TV system. I didn't know why and didn't care because Hockey Night in Canada was awesome.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 29, 2025 09:09 AM (Y1sOo)

299 Green energy is, by definition, non-stable and highly susceptible to failure due to load variation. It's like these new-green-deal retards don't even understand basic physics or the fundamentals of power generation...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (XMwZJ)

Solar panels do nothing at night.

Windmills must be locked still if it's 'too windy.'

'Green' energy is shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

300 "It may help US products by allowing people to spend their money conscientiously but it will definitely educate American as to how bad things are.

Posted by: pawn"

For an eye-opener go into Hobby Lobby, a supposedly patriot Christian company or something and look at where the their merchandise is made. Probably 80-90% imported, mostly from China. Especially all their Americana home decor and 4th of July trinkets. All made by the commies in China (and Vietnam.)

Posted by: Riply at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (GUOwU)

301 274 The last great Canadian was Gordon Lightfoot. RIP.
Posted by: Bulg

I am still alive and well.

Posted by: Gale Garnett at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (G5+As)

302 Green energy is, by definition, non-stable and highly susceptible to failure due to load variation. It's like these new-green-deal retards don't even understand basic physics or the fundamentals of power generation...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (XMwZJ)

Don't understand or don't care?

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (hAZeL)

303 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

I moved to a healthier diet over the last few years and the cost difference isn't that notable but there is a TIME cost.

Cutting up a salad takes a lot more time then throwing a thing of fries in the oven...

And those fresh vegetables don't last as long as junk food seems to...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

304 What's stopping you?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

1. I am working.
2. Perhaps Thursday. A nice cruise down the Mohawk Trail would be nice (I'm amazed MA hasn't renamed that yet).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (Dg2sF)

305 It’s both quantity and quality. Overweight, Metabolic syndrome, Obese, Morbidly Obese are epidemic, not just in the USA.

“Eating healthy” is both the kind of food, and the amount. Mostly the latter. If tomorrow everyone started “eating healthy” their grocery bill for most would decline by about 50% or near enough. Whole swaths of the economy would be gutted, Frito-Lay executives jumping out if buildings, and governors activating the National Guard. Only half joking. The restaurant industry would be gutted, most likely.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (r+qgd)

306 Think of the hubris or outright evil of the people who want to shift everyone to solar - and then block out the sun.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (hAZeL)

307 Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.
Solar's pretty easy - just airburst a big pile of ball bearings over the area to make your own hail storm.
Wind - probably the old fashioned anti-aircraft spray of wires to entangle propellers.

You could do wind with the same ball bearings. Doesn't take much to destabilize those vanes. Once out of balance, the whole thing rapidly deconstructs.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (KP+Ym)

308 Don't do fruit trees. Put in berry bushes! They don't take as long to produce and are easier to care for. You'll get strawberries the next year. Raspberries are expensive in the store but easy to grow. Same with blueberries. And setting up space to grow salad and stirfry greens is easy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (cvWHI)

309 "significant advantages" = the population's average IQ is a point or two above "intellectually disabled" That's not racist or a joke. That's a measurable genetic trait.

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Whatever.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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Granted I forgot "whatever"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (yWTRD)

310 2. Perhaps Thursday. A nice cruise down the Mohawk Trail would be nice (I'm amazed MA hasn't renamed that yet).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (Dg2sF)

Make it happen. It'll make you smile.

Also, Mohawk is fine because Mr. T has one and he's black, so they're celebrating.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

311 Don't understand or don't care?

I suspect their long term plan is a two tier power system.

Enough traditional power generation for critical systems, aka government offices/locations where government workers live, and regular brown outs for the normies who use to much electricity anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

312 We have enough coal to last basically forever...so why not use it?

We aren't allowed to use natural magic rocks that burn and heat and power our homes and lives.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:12 AM (a4flb)

313 DU finally has a discussion on Spain!

Interesting news, but no specifics as to why in any of the articles? No signs of cyber-attack, says EU, but ‘impossible’ to know when electricity will be restored.

The Guardian has a report on what caused it: REN said: “Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration’. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”

The risks posed to electrical systems by big variations in atmospheric temperatures are well known in the industry, even if it is rare for problems to manifest on this scale.

This is one of the reasons my wife and I are totally against the so-called "cashless society." Not just because every single aspect of your life can be tracked by a control freak government (think Trump, or the formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe), but also because it leaves those who depend on electronic cash completely are at the mercy of incidents like this.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 29, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

314
Solar panels do nothing at night.

Windmills must be locked still if it's 'too windy.'

'Green' energy is shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

The sun don't shine when I turn on a light switch.

Anyhoo, how down you turn all the lights on in America at night when the sun has gone down?

Other than wind and solar what are these green energies the left think will power the country?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 29, 2025 09:13 AM (OA79/)

315 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (Dg2sF)

Is that Rte 2? That's a fun drive up to North Adams (IIRC). Twisty curly road and a hairpin turn if memory serves.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:13 AM (hAZeL)

316 313 This is one of the reasons my wife and I are totally against the so-called "cashless society." Not just because every single aspect of your life can be tracked by a control freak government (think Trump, or the formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe), but also because it leaves those who depend on electronic cash completely are at the mercy of incidents like this.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 29, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

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Now, apply that thinking to government power in general.

And wonder why you think DOGE reducing the size and scope of government is bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 29, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

317 We use to be smart now we are stupid. Yeah, let's just give it all away. Maybe China will be nice to us.

Who's big idea was this?

Posted by: Case at April 29, 2025 09:14 AM (OrSPY)

318 303 Eating healthy costs a lot more.

I moved to a healthier diet over the last few years and the cost difference isn't that notable but there is a TIME cost.

Cutting up a salad takes a lot more time then throwing a thing of fries in the oven...

And those fresh vegetables don't last as long as junk food seems to...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

You make a good point. A bag of chopped up greens is more expensive than greens you have to chop… pre made hamburger patties are more expensive than bulk hamburger… and so on and on… people say it saves time, but people say all kinds of shit to justify their behaviors.

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

319 Solar panels do nothing at night.

At one point Spain had mobile LNG generators powering lights lights to run their solar panels - that way they could argue they weren't using fossil fuels because the power gave from the solar panels...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:14 AM (t0Rmr)

320 >>Right: photo of the year , according to anyone with a functioning brain cell.

https://tinyurl.com/2vdw2swv

Apart from the obvious, I don't see anything that great about the Biden photo. I would not consider it all that interesting. It's a typical presidential shot, like have been taken of every president since there were cameras. The WH is always a great backdrop, and him walking away from the lectern is cliche: yes, his presidency ended this year. All presidencies end, they all give one last speech. Not particularly poignant.

But yeah, of course they couldn't select the other one when what they really wanted to do was erase it from our memories, from history, within hours of the shooting.

This guy gets it:
@Chris_arnade
I’m a photographer and understand (I think) Trumps popularity, but I’ve got no answer to how the dude has a knack for producing iconic photos almost weekly. He’s a meme machine.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:14 AM (KHnV4)

321 Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.

Don't need munitions. Just need a hail storm. Baseball sized hail will totally destroy a solar farm.
And where do you get 10,000 replacement panels THAT DAY?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:15 AM (KP+Ym)

322 This guy gets it:
@Chris_arnade
I’m a photographer and understand (I think) Trumps popularity, but I’ve got no answer to how the dude has a knack for producing iconic photos almost weekly. He’s a meme machine.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:14 AM (KHnV4)

First off, he doesn't shit his pants and brag when his butt's been wiped.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

323 You make a good point. A bag of chopped up greens is more expensive than greens you have to chop

I've tried that and half the time the stuff is brown by the evening of the day I buy it...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

324 Just because it's comical. From the link above, Gaza Strip:

"The unweighted national IQ of the Gaza-Strip is 81.16 with a
standard deviation of 5.48. It decreased to 79.66 after weightings. TIMSS-2003, 2007 and 2011 were also
administered in the GazaStrip from which a SAS-IQ of 75.72 was calculated. The final national IQ is 77.69."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (yWTRD)

325 Don't need munitions. Just need a hail storm. Baseball sized hail will totally destroy a solar farm.
And where do you get 10,000 replacement panels THAT DAY?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:15 AM (KP+Ym)

I have a feeling that solar farm east of you isn't going to be around for very long.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

326 Granted I forgot "whatever"

You included the entire nation into your average, as if the intelligence curve wasn't a bell or something with tails but rather a square spike where over a billion people share the same IQ.

The tail alone where the IQ is above 120 includes more labor force capable people than the entire US labor force.

The rest of the area under the curve is only rhetorically useful.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (a4flb)

327 It's funny to consider that the everyday dems' love of both illegals and China is centered around one thing:

cheap, exploitable labor

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (KbCG3)

328 And yet its political class drone on and on about their paranoia that someone else is "taking over the world".
Posted by: Pointless at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (gwPRL)

That's because they are in bed with most of them.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (hAZeL)

329 293 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

Leavitt just blasted this in the press conference with Bessant, calls it a "hostile, political act."

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (UseAb)

330 >>Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.

Considering they manufactured the solar equipment. . . ?
They also make all the wind turbines, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (KHnV4)

331 A private school I worked at for 12 years bought a couple hundred US flag pins to hand out at their annual auction. Printed prominently on the plastic wrapper was "Made In China". They weren't handed out, were squirreled away for years. I grabbed a handful because no one else wanted any.

Posted by: Barbara Fritchie at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (G5+As)

332 That's because they are in bed with most of them.
Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:16 AM (hAZeL)

This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

333 And yet its political class drone on and on about their paranoia that someone else is "taking over the world".

During the Biden junta the FNM warned us of the dangers of Putin - he stole elections, looted the treasury, and imprisoned people for protesting against him.

You know, just like the US under Biden...but Putin did it for EVIL reasons like not wanting to trans your kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

334 329 293 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

Leavitt just blasted this in the press conference with Bessant, calls it a "hostile, political act."
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (UseAb)

Did she mention Stupid??? She should have mentioned stupid….

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

335
You know, just like the US under Biden...but Putin did it for EVIL reasons like not wanting to trans your kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

But TRUMP is the 'threat to our democracy!'

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

336 There's just something about having to store enough energy somewhere to power things at night while solar panels sit, useless.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Hmmm - I haz an idea. Solar panels on ships that circumnavigate the globe, always staying in sunlight. Long-ass extension cords to deliver the resultant electric juice to land.

Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (vf0Y9)

337 Crap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

338 Enough traditional power generation for critical systems, aka government offices/locations where government workers live, and regular brown outs for the normies who use to much electricity anyway...
Posted by: 18-1

The French aristocracy thought that. Until the peasants decided it was time for a change.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (KP+Ym)

339 And where do you get 10,000 replacement panels THAT DAY?

Include into that price, the removal of debris, transport of new materials to that location, more site prep, the labor force and the capital to execute.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (a4flb)

340 Hmmm - I haz an idea. Solar panels on ships that circumnavigate the globe, always staying in sunlight. Long-ass extension cords to deliver the resultant electric juice to land.
Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2025 09:18 AM (vf0Y9)

Genius! I didn't know you were a millennial.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

341 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

Leavitt just blasted this in the press conference with Bessant, calls it a "hostile, political act."

The FNM continues to play this odd game that taxpayers don't actually pay income, capital gains, or real estate taxes...only tariffs.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

342 "cave-people"

Groan.
You know if you're going to write an article critiquing Leftist policy you shouldn't start by adhereing to Leftist dogma of trying to remove the word "man" no matter how awkward the result.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (AHHU1)

343 This is one of the reasons my wife and I are totally against the so-called "cashless society."

Amazing. That guy on DU said something coherent.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (NR6c1)

344 Hmmm - I haz an idea. Solar panels on ships that circumnavigate the globe, always staying in sunlight. Long-ass extension cords to deliver the resultant electric juice to land.
Posted by: Doof

Won't work. Earf is flat. When it's night, it's night everywhere.
Posted by: DUmmies

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (KP+Ym)

345 341 The FNM continues to play this odd game that taxpayers don't actually pay income, capital gains, or real estate taxes...only tariffs.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

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Tariffs are big government intrusion on the individual.

Income taxes are just being a good citizen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

346 Granted I forgot "whatever"

You included the entire nation into your average, as if the intelligence curve wasn't a bell or something with tails but rather a square spike where over a billion people share the same IQ.

The tail alone where the IQ is above 120 includes more labor force capable people than the entire US labor force.

The rest of the area under the curve is only rhetorically useful.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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Yep. And no one has any idea because we're all globalists now and not allowed to discuss this kind of thing or have a conversation about why the products and services Americans buy should be made and serviced by Americans.

Which was the point of the link to the data.

I think Apple should look into the Gaza Strip, personally. It would be good to give those folks something productive to do.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (yWTRD)

347 Genius! I didn't know you were a millennial.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Literally!

Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (vf0Y9)

348 Hmmm - I haz an idea. Solar panels on ships that circumnavigate the globe, always staying in sunlight. Long-ass extension cords to deliver the resultant electric juice to land.

Floating platforms where the decks below the panels are devoted to energy intensive work (AI farms, steel smelting, etc) Instead of extension cords, have the energy generated right where it is needed.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (a4flb)

349 343 This is one of the reasons my wife and I are totally against the so-called "cashless society."

Amazing. That guy on DU said something coherent.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (NR6c1)

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And will never, ever apply the same line of thought to any other government power in general.

It's an unalloyed good, government power, unless a Republican has it. Then it's just in the wrong hands.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

350 LOL... A badly done photo of Biden looking like he's getting ready to walk into the fireplace
Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:08 AM (VE6XX)
******
Which basically sums up the entire 4 years of his presidency.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

351
Amazing. That guy on DU said something coherent.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:20 AM (NR6c1)

Right for all the wrong reasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

352 341 BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product

Bezos is gonna shoot himself in the foot with this one... Show the public the extra cost and they will pass on the purchase...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

353 Right for all the wrong reasons.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I'll allow it. They just need positive reinforcement from time to time.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:22 AM (NR6c1)

354 And where do you get 10,000 replacement panels THAT DAY?

Include into that price, the removal of debris, transport of new materials to that location, more site prep, the labor force and the capital to execute.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

And it HAS to be that day, or the next. You can't have cities without any power for days or weeks.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2025 09:22 AM (KP+Ym)

355 >Don't do fruit trees. Put in berry bushes!
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uh hello
BEARS

Posted by: Don Black at April 29, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)

356
Bezos is gonna shoot himself in the foot with this one... Show the public the extra cost and they will pass on the purchase...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

Good. He made Katy Perry an 'astronut.' F*ck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

357
Floating platforms where the decks below the panels are devoted to energy intensive work (AI farms, steel smelting, etc) Instead of extension cords, have the energy generated right where it is needed.

Not sure that would work for AI, but steel smelting...? That could work.

Until the first time one of them sank in heavy seas and the FNM covered the "environmental disaster" 24-7 for a month.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (t0Rmr)

358 Good. He made Katy Perry an 'astronut.' F*ck that guy.

Well, for some definition of "astronaut"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (t0Rmr)

359 356
Bezos is gonna shoot himself in the foot with this one... Show the public the extra cost and they will pass on the purchase...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

Good. He made Katy Perry an 'astronut.' F*ck that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

In particular….

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (PCK5/)

360 330 >>Hmmm. I wonder if China has already developed the munitions to take out solar and wind farms.

Considering they manufactured the solar equipment. . . ?
They also make all the wind turbines, IIRC.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:17 AM (KHnV4

This. Just send a drone over the installation with a Bluetooth transmitter and send the go code to brick all the units using the secret imbedded code put their by the manufacturers.

The Israelis made bomb pagers and sat on them for a decade. How hard would it be to imbed hidden bricking software until there were enough in the country to hamstring us. Hell make every phone in the country emmit the code all at once and then they brick themselves.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (OA79/)

361 > REAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, to show cost of Trump tariffs on each product
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Bold move. Let's see how long it lasts. Measured in hours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (Q4IgG)

362 Bezos is gonna shoot himself in the foot with this one... Show the public the extra cost and they will pass on the purchase...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

Or possibly realize that almost nothing on Amazon is made domestically...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (ZdIyU)

363 There was an employer that once had 2 or 3 cages or pay stations. He paid his employees the full wage, and then had them deduct various taxes and withholdings out. Educational.

Government said “you can’t do that”. So long as we’re going to “label what everything costs” - let’s do this!

Leftists would be screeching like wounded eagles. This is a Great Idea.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:24 AM (r+qgd)

364 Well, for some definition of "astronaut"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (t0Rmr)

No, she's a nut. As my mom would say, 'nuttier than a fruitcake.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

365
Or possibly realize that almost nothing on Amazon is made domestically...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (ZdIyU)

Yup

Posted by: It's me donna at April 29, 2025 09:24 AM (VE6XX)

366 >>Bezos is gonna shoot himself in the foot with this one... Show the public the extra cost and they will pass on the purchase...

Not just that, but look at how he's behaving compared to his fellow billionaire Musk. Because when it comes down to it, this is about his profits.

Essentially, whining vs. Musk who has said repeatedly he will take economic knocks to save this country.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2025 09:24 AM (KHnV4)

367 Bezos has facilitated the separating the sheep from the goats, for those who are interested…

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

368 Other than wind and solar what are these green energies the left think will power the country?
They think they can store the energy in giant battery farms adjacent to the solar farms or windmill farms. Just think of that...the rare-earth minerals and other toxic compounds to build the batteries, the sophisticated electronics to control it, the massive DC-AC converters, etc., etc., and you still have the same synchronization issues, maintenance problems, susceptibility to attack, and on and on... These people are literally insane.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 29, 2025 09:25 AM (XMwZJ)

369 Bezos has facilitated the separating the sheep from the goats, for those who are interested…
Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

I am listening........

Posted by: Achmed Al-Akbar at April 29, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

370 In particular - “health care”.

European restaurants by law often have to have the menu (and prices) posted outside the door.

Let’s do this with Hospitals, for example. Break down where (and WHY) that money goes.

And Police Calls For Service

And the School Districts

By all fucking means, let’s delineate and annotate just who is paying for this and who is getting this.

Please

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:27 AM (r+qgd)

371 Has "Chinesium" been put on the Periodic Table yet?

Posted by: Elementary Skool at April 29, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

372 Other than wind and solar what are these green energies the left think will power the country?

A non-trivial number of them would tell you that they get clean energy from their wall socket and therefore they don't need your dirty fossil fuels

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

373 >>> 36 I don't understand why coal is not considered renewable energy.
Posted by: fd at April 29, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

Any form of energy that allows ordinary people to live lives of safety and comfort is, by definition, a pollutant to be proscribed.

Any form of energy that allows the elite to control your access to light, heat or coolness is, by definition, a good thing and must be implemented by force for your own good.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 07:31 AM (Dg2sF)

*DING DING DING DING DING DING DING*

If there's ever a Moron Dictionary this should be one of the first things included.

... and am I the only one who is reminded of "RENEW!" from Logan's Run?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 29, 2025 09:27 AM (Vqx30)

374 Late to the party. Is the bar still open?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 29, 2025 09:28 AM (bfYvy)

375 Apart from the obvious, I don't see anything that great about the Biden photo. I would not consider it all that interesting. It's a typical presidential shot, like have been taken of every president since there were cameras. The WH is always a great backdrop, and him walking away from the lectern is cliche: yes, his presidency ended this year. All presidencies end, they all give one last speech. Not particularly poignant.
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Selecting a different "president" as photo of the year is just an intentional insult. They also want to maximize a feeling of dissolution and depression where Trump is trying to do restoration, growth, power etc

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:29 AM (hAZeL)

376 Last call before art.

Posted by: Bartender at April 29, 2025 09:29 AM (dg+HA)

377 The Left is NOT rational… has never been rational, from the times of Marx and Engels until now… they are Primitives, totally committed to Magical Thinking… the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment somehow skipped over that tribe..

Posted by: tubal at April 29, 2025 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

378 Late to the party. Is the bar still open?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 29, 2025 09:28 AM (bfYvy)

You are assuming it actually closes at some point

Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2025 09:29 AM (vf0Y9)

379 DUmb Quixote = euro environmentals

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 29, 2025 09:30 AM (17s+e)

380 343 This is one of the reasons my wife and I are totally against the so-called "cashless society."

Amazing. That guy on DU said something coherent.
Posted by: NR Pax
____

I'm guessing this will be classified as wrongthink as soon as Dems are back in power, and that guy will be purged from DU.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

381 Let's get rolling an fire up a shit ton of nuclear power plants.
Also let's get the defense department and Musk together for some new toys to play with.

Posted by: Case at April 29, 2025 09:30 AM (OrSPY)

382 So I assume India's trade status makes Apples gamble on it being long-term cheaper to assemble US electronics there, which would be the only reason to shift from China to India.

Looks like Apple Store employees in India make almost $1200USD / month. That's less than half of US Apple Store employees, so it's safe to assume the no to low skill assembly line workers are similar.

It will be interesting to see how the money shakes out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 29, 2025 09:31 AM (yWTRD)

383 358 Good. He made Katy Perry an 'astronut.' F*ck that guy.

Well, for some definition of "astronaut"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 09:23 AM (t0Rmr)

Astronot

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 29, 2025 09:31 AM (OA79/)

384 Random thing hit me a while back with DOGE.

If that agency had been doing its job when it was created to the extent of what is going on now, the main thing we'd probably hear in the news during the current Administration is one Department was short $20 and the Director paid it in full when it was brought to his attention.

But the rot has festered for so long that we have to rip the bandage off and clean it in the most painful manner.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 29, 2025 09:31 AM (NR6c1)

385 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 29, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

386 Is that Rte 2? That's a fun drive up to North Adams (IIRC). Twisty curly road and a hairpin turn if memory serves.
Posted by: ... at April 29, 2025 09:13 AM (hAZeL)

Yes, and some nice farm country out that way, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 29, 2025 09:31 AM (Dg2sF)

387 381 Let's get rolling an fire up a shit ton of nuclear power plants.
Also let's get the defense department and Musk together for some new toys to play with.
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I just want my Not A Flamethrower Flamethrower.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 29, 2025 09:32 AM (pZ64F)

388 NOOD. Faggot-gathering.

Posted by: Bulg at April 29, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

389 There are inherent losses in charging batteries. And there are inherent losses in recharging batteries. Like a piggy bank that demands interest, it takes about 120% just to get back even.

Then, the inherent problems of temperature. Cold weather reduces the ability to both receive or supply current, and increases the voltage requirements that must be compensated for. This requires more sophisticated chargers. Regulated, temperature compensated “smart” chargers. Rigid quality control and handling throughout the supply chain on the part of the battery bank itself.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 29, 2025 09:32 AM (gptA6)

390 All EMR’s SUCK. And will continue to until Elon takes them over.

Posted by: epador at April 29, 2025 09:33 AM (WjhJJ)

391 They think they can store the energy in giant battery farms adjacent to the solar farms or windmill farms. Just think of that...the rare-earth minerals and other toxic compounds to build the batteries, the sophisticated electronics to control it, the massive DC-AC converters, etc., etc., and you still have the same synchronization issues, maintenance problems, susceptibility to attack, and on and on... These people are literally insane.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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What entrepreneur might have the resources and knowhow to build such a system? Oh yeah, Elon Musk is persona non grata on the left now, so it'll have to be someone else.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 29, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

392 Marx was obsoleted by the establishment of labor unions.

The unions represented the workers collective. No bloody revolution required.

If anyone wants to experience what working is like in a communist county, they could just join a union.

Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 09:40 AM (QB+5g)

393 The US flat out doesn't have the talent in sufficient numbers to even do a 10th of the production that India can perform with the world's largest population.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 29, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)

And this is why we can't have nice things...

And that’s total bs, America has tons of people who can code and do the tech to put the damn phones together

What we don’t have is people willing to work for $5 /day

Up form the 40c /day in China!!!

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 29, 2025 09:41 AM (nGraA)

394 JB "Fat Boy" Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to ‘mobilize’ against Trump: ‘Five-alarm fire

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 09:57 AM (RHGPo)

395 392 Marx was obsoleted by the establishment of labor unions.

The unions represented the workers collective. No bloody revolution required.

If anyone wants to experience what working is like in a communist county, they could just join a union.
Posted by: pawn at April 29, 2025 09:40 AM (QB+5g)

My brother tells me about union elections where the Teacher union boss inspected your ballot beforehand.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 29, 2025 10:07 AM (x0n13)

396 President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs

... the Pennsylvania Turnpike around Philadelphia has signs that state: "No Trucks, Buses or Trailers In Left Lane" but there are always trucks in the left lane.

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

397 Report: Amazon to Display Line-Item ‘Tariff Cost’ in Customers’ Checkout Prices

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

398 Canadian Election: CBC Calls Election For Carney As Canada Remains Totally Screwed As Liberals Remain In Power

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

399 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

A lot to read & ponder today. The latter, mostly how long its taken to plan & coordinate what's been done - and may not be undone - to the nation.

>Reuters, 'Why a major shift to US clothing production is unlikely,' March 13, 2025

In part, "Steve Lamar, president of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, said the industry group expects to see a modest increase in U.S. manufacturing.
"We don't have the labor, skill set, materials, and infrastructure" to manufacture clothing and shoes on a large scale, Lamar said."

(Had no idea of Canada's depth of involvement.)

>Reuters, Tariffs may mean more US steel jobs. Will there be workers to fill them? By Timothy Aeppel
April 23, 2025

"The Land of Steel," Mississippi County, Arkansas)

>'Amazon sellers pull out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs' YouTube | REUTERS, April 28, 2025

"Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day this year due to Trump’s tariffs. They are cutting back to protect profits, which could mean fewer deals and less revenue for Amazon during its major sales event."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 29, 2025 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

400 Dramatic confirmation that the sea ice in the Arctic has been stable for nearly two decades is contained in a recently published science paper from a team led by Dr Mark England from the University of Exeter. The finding is of course obvious to anyone who studies the data but it will inconvenience the activist cranks who continue to promote supposed reductions in Arctic sea ice as an important sign of their imaginary ‘tipping points’ and their fake climate crisis. Despite the data showing the ice has been stable over every month in the year since around 2007, Sir David Attenborough told BBC viewers in 2022 that the region could be summer ice-free by 2035. The climate hysteric Al Gore never quite recovered his authority when he said all the ice could be gone by 2014.

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:44 AM (RHGPo)

401 “This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party,” Chuck Todd whined, brushing off the obvious and accusing critics of “virtue signaling.”

... this is a difference without a distinction

“And I just sort — sort of, the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed the story,” he said before insisting, “They didn't miss this story.”

Excuse me? This is a stunning denial considering how obvious Biden’s issues were from the beginning of his presidency, and how the media went to extraordinary lengths to pretend everything was fine, or insisting videos of Joe Biden appearing frail and confused were “cheap fakes.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

402 Michelle Obama Claims Deportation Issue Keeps Her up at Night – After Her Husband Deported 3 Million Illegals

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 11:02 AM (RHGPo)

403 (Cont'd from 399)

CNBC, Politics, April 29, 2025
White House blasts ‘hostile’ Amazon over tariff cost report; company downplays change

Key Points
>The White House slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
>“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
>Shares of the retail giant founded by Jeff Bezos dropped in premarket trading following the remarks.
>About 70% of products sold by the company are made in China. Trump slapped tariffs as high as 145% on imports from that country.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 29, 2025 11:18 AM (NFX2v)

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