The Morning Report — 4/ 30 /25

Good morning kids. First up today, I note with a great deal of sadness the passing of David Horowitz. His personal story, from radical red diaper baby to an indefatigable warrior in the cause of liberty and truth and a champion of Western and American values is one I've always marveled at as it does give hope for future generations. His writings as well as his websites, Frontpage Mag and DiscovertheNetworks are invaluable resources, and I hope his contributors and staff will keep them going.

David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.
Multitudes followed in his wake, often without realizing who it was who had blazed the trail for them. We are all in his debt not only for blazing that trial, but for the fact that after he established himself as a voice for freedom, sound values, and patriotism, David Horowitz spearheaded efforts to seize the intellectual and moral initiative from the left, and to articulate a vision for an America that really is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
After decades of the left’s cultural hegemony, David Horowitz played a massive role in establishing a large-scale movement of American patriots who refused to accept the claims of self-anointed “progressives” that their victory was inevitable, that they were on the right side of history, and that surrender was wiser than resistance. Today, that movement is broad-based, and one of its foremost exponents is in the Oval Office. Trump himself called Horowitz his “great friend.”

Godspeed and Rest in Peace David Horowitz. May his memory be for a blessing and here's hoping his life and legacy can help others blinded by Leftism make the scales fall from their eyes and see the light.

Elsewhere, in kind of surprising turn of events in my new home state of Wisconsin, the radical leftist controlled state's supreme court actually did this:

In its two-page order, the court said it was acting to protect public confidence in Wisconsin courts during the criminal proceedings against Dugan. The order noted that the court was acting on its own initiative and was not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3.
“It is ordered … that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state of Wisconsin, effective the date of this order and until further order of the court,” the justices wrote.
Dugan’s attorney, Craig Mastantuono, had no immediate comment. A state court spokesperson said that a reserve judge began filling in for Dugan on Monday for an indefinite period.

Kind of interesting phraseology considering hat that Leftist line is that Trump is trampling on the constitution and due process and that illegal aliens are being deported illegally or lawlessly or whatever crock of shit line they're spouting. After all, if Trump is literally Hitler, than it goes that any and every illegal alien is the moral equivalent of Anne Frank and so there is nothing that is beyond the pale in protecting these little darling rapists, murderers drug- and human-traffickers from being sent back to whence they came.

They may be insane whacko Leftists but even they must understand that the vast majority of sane American people are looking at what the Democrats are doing and are repulsed by it.

Immigration policy, the intentionally erased border and the bloodshed and destruction it wrought is the key issue that propelled Donald Trump to a massive landslide victory last November. And his first 100 days have been nothing short of spectacular, on this issue and on many others, regardless of the what the bullshit polls and propagandists claim.

As a result, the Democrats are tearing themselves apart not knowing wheter to double and triple down on their hard-leftism or to try harder at faking moderation to try and distance the American electorate from Trump and MAGA if not attract them ( a tall order IMHO).

But these first 100 days have been amazing beyond belief. Hopefully the next 1300 or so will be as incredible. In a good way.

1. The Border is Closing—Fast
Day One, the new Trump Department of Homeland Security—under the iron will of Secretary Kristi Noem—reinstated Remain in Mexico, revoked Biden’s reckless parole authority abuses, and began mass processing of illegal entrants for immediate deportation.  Border apprehensions have dropped 41% since January. Trump didn’t need 100 days to act—he needed one. And construction has resumed on key wall segments. ICE raids are back. Sanctuary cities are sweating. And the asylum loopholes are slamming shut.
2. Energy Independence, Round Two . .
. . . 3. America First is Back on the World Stage . .
4. The Administrative State is in Free Fall . .
(And on and on and on). . . But let’s not be fooled: the regime that tried to bury him, that tried to bury us, is still fully operational. The sabotage, the leaks, the censorship, the media gaslighting—it’s all still active.
So we stay active too. Show up. Speak up. Push back. Share the truth. Flood the zone with facts. And above all—stand with the only man in Washington who’s kept every word he’s ever given us.
Trump is proving once again: America can be great when it’s led with strength, clarity, and conviction.
He’s keeping his word. Let’s help him finish the work.

On a separate note, for those old enough to remember, on this day 50 years ago, the Republic of South Vietnam fell after the North Vietnamese army, in complete contravention to the peace deal negotiated by Richard Nixon two years earlier was ripped to shreds and invaded the south and rolled into Saigon. Of course, and once again, the traitorous Democrat party tied Gerald Ford's hands and prevented or scared him into not carrying out our treaty obligations by defending South Vietnam. A political third rail but alas, by allowing the North to roll over the South, it engendered a genocidal communist wave that envelope much of southeast asia, including Cambodia which resulted in the mass murder in the killing fields of several million people.

Of course our involvement in Vietnam and the resulting insane foreign policy of waging wars not to win but to beef up the stock portfolios of the Nancy Pelosi and DIck Cheney set is a legacy of our involvement, to say nothing of 57,000 deadAmericans who perished for nothing. God bless each and every one of them and for all who came home and many who suffered and still suffer because of their service.

Never again, please God.

Fifty years have not eclipsed the tragedy of April 30, 1975, the day on which Saigon and all South Vietnam fell to invading communist forces. Most recently, it was invoked in comparison to the calamitous departure of American troops from Afghanistan, which also had the appearance of a rout. Were the two events points along the same continuum of folly? . . If there is a “lesson of Vietnam,” it is that there can be no half-waging of war, for it guarantees “prolonged indecision.” The brutal acts that victory requires are why war must be absolutely the last resort. Furthermore, the American people can only be asked to make the sacrifice of war in their own vital interest, not as an act of benefaction to someone else. Identifying that interest may not be simple, in the absence of actual attack on the United States, but it is the first prerequisite.
The legacy of the Vietnam War, for all its tragedy and folly, lies also in the example of heroism and devotion set by fighting men, under the most unfavorable circumstances and without the recompense of ultimate victory. “Was there a man dismayed?/ Not though the soldier knew/ Someone had blundered.” Let the devotion of those who fought in a noble cause as much as the awful result be remembered a half century later.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

California state Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced a bill that would eliminate criminal penalties for anyone convicted of welfare fraud, provided they stole less than $25,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits.
California Bill Would Decriminalize Welfare Fraud Under $25,000
We are very saddened to announce the passing of our Center’s founder – a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years. David Horowitz R.I.P.

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

[The AGU] letter reeks of privilege and smug superiority. It assumes that the paychecks from the taxpayers must never end, no matter what.
The American Geophysical Union: the privileges of government-paid scientists must come above the Constitution and the ordinary citizens who pay the bills
DOGE announced Tuesday that Treasury identified and rejected $334 million in improper payment requests due to missing budget codes, invalid budget codes, and budget codes with no authorization.
Treasury Dept. Rejects Over $300 Million in Improper Payment Requests Using New Verification System (Almost a rounding error all things considered! - jjs)
“Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government” was one of Trump’s first executive orders.
100 Days In, Here’s How Trump Has Already Dismantled The Deep State

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Emhoff’s firing is particularly significant because the Biden junta tasked him with leading its so-called “strategy” against antisemitism — a watered-down plan that backed away from previous commitments to consider extreme anti-Israel criticism antisemitic, and which failed to stop anti-Jewish hatred in the wake of the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered a wave of antisemitic protests and attacks.
You’re Fired: Trump Kicks Doug Emhoff off U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The number of private-sector job openings increased in March, helping to more than offset a broader decline in total openings driven by reductions in government hiring. Employers posted 7.19 million vacancies on the last business day of the month, down slightly from a revised 7.48 million in February. Openings remain above pre-pandemic levels, highlighting sustained employer demand for workers even amid broader economic policy shifts.
U.S. Private-Sector Job Openings Rise as Government Hiring Slows
The “Grow with US” program offers a four-step framework to provide U.S. small businesses with training, mentorship, and resources to grow alongside Walmart. John Furner, Walmart U.S. president and CEO, emphasized the benefits, stating, “We’ve seen firsthand how investing in small businesses results in better assortment, better meeting the needs of our customer base, and supporting jobs and growth in communities.” Furner also noted that over 60 percent of Walmart’s U.S. suppliers last year were small businesses, with the company anticipating thousands more will utilize its free resources in the coming years.
Tariffs Win as Walmart Announces Major Investment in American Products and Small Businesses.
The administration also revealed plans to use tariff revenue to reduce income taxes. Specific proposals include eliminating income tax on tips, Social Security, and overtime pay, plus restoring auto loan interest deductibility for American-made vehicles.
Here's What the Democrats Don’t Want You to Know About the Trump Economy
The move is reportedly an effort by Amazon to inform customers cost rises have nothing to do with it and everything to do with the Trump White House.
Update: Amazon Denies Report that ‘Tariff Cost’ Will Be Shown Next to Product Prices
In addition to the workforce reduction, UPS will shutter 73 facilities by mid-2025. This structural change aligns with a previous agreement with Amazon to decrease delivery volumes by over half in late 2026. These developments underscore the significant impact of Amazon’s evolving logistics capabilities on UPS, reflecting broader trends affecting large shipping companies worldwide.
UPS Cuts 20,000 Jobs as Amazon Reduces Shipments.
Treasury Secretary also signals progress with South Korea and Japan.
Sorry, China: Bessent Says Deal With Massive Trade Partner ‘Very Close’

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It’s never enough. For blue states, citizens are endless ATMS, and the state is the bank robber.
Whenever Illinois can burden its citizens with taxes, it will
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In its two-page order, the court said it was acting to protect public confidence in Wisconsin courts during the criminal proceedings against Dugan. The order noted that the court was acting on its own initiative and was not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3.
Wisconsin High Court Suspends Judge Accused of Helping Man Evade ICE
“Let’s strip the politics out of it — this is a crime. If they can prove what happened here, it is a crime. … That is textbook obstruction.”
Some of Trump’s Fiercest Critics Agree That WI Judge’s Arrest was Warranted
Now 100 days in, the border has effectively been closed down to illegal immigrants, as Trump pledged on the campaign trail.
The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
President Donald J. Trump has delivered on his promise to secure the U.S. border, with Border Czar Tom Homan revealing the relevant figures on April 29, 2025. In Trump’s first 100 days, only nine illegal migrants were released into the country, a stark contrast to the 184,000 released during the same period under then-President Joe Biden last year.
Trump Has Slashed Illegal Alien Releases by 99.99% Compared to Biden Era: Homan.
Democrat Reps. Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Garcia of California, Maxine Dexter of Oregon and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona traveled to the capital city of San Salvador to advocate for the release of reputed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 21. They stayed at the Hilton San Salvador, a luxury property situated against a picturesque backdrop of the capital city’s volcano, a source familiar with the members’ accommodations told the DCNF.
EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Enjoyed Luxury Resort’s Comforts While Protesting Deportation Of Alleged MS-13 Gangbanger
Homeland Security agents used facial comparison tools to identify the illegal alien, who they say was using a fake identity.
Feds Say They’ve Captured Tren De Aragua Leader Who Flaunted Grenades On Social Media
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
'I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,' says university president Garber
Scathing Harvard Report Details Pervasive Anti-Semitism Driven By 'Politicized Instruction'
Campus radicals have repeatedly stormed buildings, called for violence, and expressed support for Hamas
WATCH: MSNSDAP Host Says Anti-Israel Student Protesters Are ‘Advocating for Peace.' Roll the Tape.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The threat of a demographic conquest from within.
Will There Be a Civil War in Europe?
Lloyd Billingsley: Brother of Raiders’ pick Jack Bech was one of 14 killed in New Year’s Day vehicular jihad.
New Orleans Terror Attack Replay
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Greenfield: The liberal Jewish establishment comes out against fighting antisemitism.
The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
Are there any real and credible statistics supporting a menacing movement by Christians seeking to theocratize America with neo-Naziism?
Christianity Is The Real Target Of All The Hysteria Over ‘Christian Nationalism’
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Elizabeth Smart Op-Ed: In the fight against human trafficking, awareness without action is worse than ignorance — it’s abandoning victims’ hope.
America’s National Human Trafficking Hotline is failing those who need it the most — there should be federal reform, famous ex-victim says
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
In 2016, weekly sponsorships were ‘expected to cost in the range of $50,000 and $60,000.’
This Week’s Politico Playbook ‘Journalism’ Was Brought To You By Planned Parenthood
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
John Stossel: If you want money and attention, you need to scare people.
Living Hell?
“What we’re seeing stems directly from policy decisions.”
Spain’s Renewable Energy Nightmare
Wright is overseeing the SPR refill-and-repair. Meanwhile, the Dept. of Interior gives the thumbs-up to 100,000 barrels of oil per day production in the Gulf of America.
Energy Sec. Wright Slams Biden for Draining Strategic Petroleum Reserve So Fast
In a letter to California Energy Commission Vice Chairman Siva Gunda, sent days after Valero’s announcement, the governor asked the agency to “redouble the state’s efforts to work closely with refiners,” and to ensure that “refiners continue to see the value in serving the California market, even as demand for fossil fuels continues its gradual decline over the coming decades.”
Newsom Hits The Gas
It’s high time this body of unelected bureaucrats, who put politics and junk science above property rights and citizens’ welfare, and even extract bribes, is disbanded.
Time to End the Tyranny of the California Coastal Commission
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“The DEI Industrial Complex are like survivors clinging to a lifeboat. And their lifeboat right now is the federal judiciary. Their hope is not that they’ll defeat the Trump administration ultimately, but they can delay things long enough for a rescue and the rescue would come in the next midterms or in the next presidential cycle.”
Trump’s First 100 Days: Higher Ed Trying To ‘Rope-a-Dope’ Crackdown On Civil Rights Violations And DEI
“No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights.”
Trump Admin Investigating Harvard and Harvard Law Review for Alleged Race Discrimination
SCOTUS will soon rule on cases involving sex and religion in the nation’s schools.
Education Battles Get National Attention
SECOND AMENDMENT
This is exactly where we said it would go.
Background checks for gun barrels coming soon to California?
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Akeel Abdul Jamiel — a 45-year-old Iraqi man who is not a citizen of the United States — knowingly voted on or around Nov. 3, 2020, in the presidential elections held that year in Saratoga County, New York, according to federal court documents. The accusation follows a renewed push by Republican lawmakers to pass legislation that would require individuals to provide proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Iraqi National Charged With Illegally Voting As Dems Fight Election Integrity Bill
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
It was a "fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates."
DEI At The DNC Could Force David Hogg Out As Vice Chair
POLITICS
“We’re taking back our country from a sick political class that got rich selling America out and bleeding America dry. We don’t let that happen anymore,” Trump said.
Trump Torches Globalist Elites, Politicians in First 100 Days Speech
Which is more plausible: the lying media has suddenly discovered accurate polling data? Or Trump supporters are not being polled?
Stop Getting Psyop-ed By Garbage Polls About Trump
“He’s not in free fall. He’s had a little bit of slippage because he’s doing a lot. He’s breaking a lot of eggs to make an omelet, but he is not dropping in any significant way. I can guarantee you, and I’m just not paying any attention to this nonsense. They were wrong in the elections in the past, and they’re going to be wrong about his approval rating as well.”
‘How Can That Be Possibly Correct?’: Pollster Describes Inconsistency In Report Showing Trump ‘In Free Fall’
So let's help him finish the work.
100 Days In: Trump’s Word Is His Bond
The first hundred days of the MAGA reunion tour have been legendary.
President Trump, Rock On!
The media won't admit it, but Trump's first 100 days laid the foundation for the record-breaking economic growth, energy dominance, and national pride that will define the next three years.
A Gen Z review of Trump’s first 100 days
In other words, Democrats are stuck. They’re trying to oppose Trump without offering voters a real, positive vision—and it’s backfiring badly. According to Luntz, there has been little serious leadership emerging from Washington. He pointed out that with the rare exception of Cory Booker, who “delivered a twenty-five-hour explanation of how they can do better," there hasn’t been much of substance from Democrat senators.
Things Keep Getting Worse for the Democrats
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has warned that the U.S. government will not spend much more energy on mediating peace terms between Russia and Ukraine, reiterating an administration message previously relayed through Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
EXC: Trump ‘Increasingly Frustrated’ at Lack of Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Poilievre’s spectacular crash and burn ended late on Monday night, when he lost the seat from Carleton he held since 2005 to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy. Poilievre became the youngest member of Parliament when he won the seat at age 25.
Canada’s Pierre Poilievre Loses Seat in Parliament, Refuses to Step Down as Conservative Party Leader
Meet Trudeau 2.0.
Bye Bye Canada
Given his narrow victory and the big problems Canada faces, probably nothing good.
What happens now that Canada voted against Trump?
The election is a catastrophic result that could well be the beginning of the end of Canada.
Carney spells catastrophe for Canada
Inside Iran, the resistance is thriving. Over 3,000 anti-repression strikes and 39,000 acts of revolutionary defiance by resistance units signal a society unwilling to bend. Globally, 1,291 protests and gatherings by NCRI supporters highlight the growing prominence of a democratic alternative.
The End Of Iran’s Theocracy: Seizing The Moment For Freedom
Simion’s rise to prominence comes in the wake of the controversial decision to annul the results of the previous presidential election held in December. That election saw Călin Georgescu, another right-wing candidate, unexpectedly win the first round. However, Romanian authorities canceled the results, alleging election interference and Russian “aggressive” hybrid operations, Politico reported.
Romania’s Donald Trump-Supporting Candidate Leads In Polls Ahead Of Presidential Election
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Hegseth fit the bill, fulfilling Trump's campaign promises to drain the Washington D.C. swamp, and nobody should be surprised that the empire is striking back against him.
The military-industrial complex strikes back with Pete Hegseth attacks

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Prescription drug prices have soared 46.2% since 2020—now President Trump has the chance to finish the fight he started and finally deliver lower costs for every American.
Lower Drug Prices: A Great Deal for America

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Alpha has now launched a total of six times, but only two of those launches were completely successful. Two of the other launches got their payloads into orbit, but not at the proper positions. In all the failures but one, the problems were with the upper stage. Today’s failure is another example of this.
Firefly launch fails
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
On Monday, the Education Department’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that UPenn "violated Title IX by denying women equal opportunities by permitting males to compete in women’s intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women-only intimate facilities.” This is directly tied to Thomas’ presence on the swimming team in 2022.
DOE Rules UPenn 'Violated Title IX' for Allowing Lia Thomas on Women's Swimming Team
100 Days of Trump: the president banned child sex change procedures and males from women's sports.
Here’s How Trump Crippled Radical Gender Ideology In His First 100 Days
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
He is black and a man, and our demographic is only tolerated if we’re doing as we’re told.
Saquon Barkley’s Trump meet-up riled the racist left — and he won’t accept their shame
Scapegoating boomers may feel cathartic, but it ignores the deeper historical, cultural, and economic forces that shaped modern America.
The Boomer Apocalypse
Christian Toto: Recovering 'Hawkeye' star shares what keeps him going post-accident
Jeremy Renner, Joe Rogan Agree on This One Critical Thing
HITHER & YON
If there is a “lesson of Vietnam,” it is that there can be no half-waging of war, for it guarantees “prolonged indecision.”
Day of Infamy

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

2 I alerted the tech thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

3 Mooornin!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 30, 2025 07:24 AM (hs7TP)

4 california doesn't go after anyone for welfare fraud now, why do they need a new law to decriminalize it?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 07:24 AM (e5NfL)

5 Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state of Wisconsin

… they never would done this so quickly if they hadn’t arrested her so publicly

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:25 AM (ZoLdO)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 07:26 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:26 AM (gbOdA)

8 Whoa, what a shock at the news of David Horowitz's death! I didn't realize he was 86 either. Rest in eternal peace to this courageous, intelligent man and prayers to all in his family.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:26 AM (qBdHI)

9 Bad things happening in Israel now. Massive fires. People abandoning cars on Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway 1. Calls for international help. Government asking for motorcycle owners to passenger individuals out.

From Jerusalem, I can see the smoke 10s of kilometers away heading skyward.

Today is Israel's Memorial Day. Tomorrow is Independence Day.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:26 AM (qFAfu)

10 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:27 AM (nnn7Q)

11
Fifty years have not eclipsed the tragedy of April 30, 1975, the day on which Saigon and all South Vietnam fell to invading communist forces.

There was no reason why we couldn't have had a Korea situation there. Except the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 07:27 AM (QnmlO)

12 And we have that wonderful New Thread Smell! Good morning, everyone. I'm leaving a bit early today and the weather is perfect for that.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 07:29 AM (RjOoY)

13 “Look, I think people need to suffer. It’s an actual requirement of life. It is the fiber, the DNA of love. Real love and true love … can’t exist without suffering,” Renner said. “Suffering doesn’t have to be looked at as a negative thing. It could be looked at as a beautiful thing. It’s where real love comes out of.”

… maybe this is why the best music comes during economic downturns

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:29 AM (ZoLdO)

14 The threat of a demographic conquest from within.
Will There Be a Civil War in Europe?
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If there is, it may be a triple threat match -- the government vs. its citizens vs. the invaders.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:30 AM (7fElN)

15 Happy HumpDay to all morons, at home and at sea. Blessings and prayers to those who have lost loved ones and health to all fighting for it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 07:30 AM (OIPxF)

16 The other officials who were dismissed include Ron Klain, Mr. Biden’s first chief of staff; Tom Perez, the former labor secretary and senior adviser to Mr. Biden; Susan Rice, the national security adviser to former President Barack Obama.

Susan Rice must have about 73 jobs.
Total Bullshit

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

17 Even as a kid, could see our Leftists here fell in line with the North Vietnam Communists against the war.

Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:32 AM (nnn7Q)

18 Cambodia only needed to kill about 1 out 4 people in the country to get Communism Right.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

19 California Bill Would Decriminalize Welfare Fraud Under $25,000

But they will continue to destroy your life if you are $100 short on your income, sales or property taxes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:33 AM (a4flb)

20 Cronkite needs a good nutpunch for all the lies about Viet Nam.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

21 “ For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”

Ezekiel 18:32

Posted by: Marcus T at April 30, 2025 07:33 AM (OGxeG)

22 But let’s not be fooled: the regime that tried to bury him, that tried to bury us, is still fully operational. The sabotage, the leaks, the censorship, the media gaslighting—it’s all still active.

True Republicans follow the advice of experts who've been wrong about nearly everything for decades and, therefore, must oppose President Trump on matters of great national import... exactly as we've done with precisely zero previous Presidents. Send donations. -- Rand Paul

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

23 Tariffs Win as Walmart Announces Major Investment in American Products and Small Businesses.
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We were told here in the comments yesterday--again and again, ad nauseum--that tariffs NEVER work and that we would be fools to adopt the same economic policies of countries that have a lower standard of living.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:34 AM (7fElN)

24 They may be insane whacko Leftists but even they must understand that the vast majority of sane American people are looking at what the Democrats are doing and are repulsed by it.
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They are insane whacko Leftists. By that very definition they are incapable of the self-reflection required to adjust their behavior.

In their world, THEY are the only sane Americans left. Anyone who deviates from their ideology in any way, shape, or form, is an enemy to be destroyed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:36 AM (7fElN)

25 They are insane whacko Leftists.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:36 AM (7fElN)
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They are evil.

https://tinyurl.com/37uryrbn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:38 AM (qFAfu)

26 20 Cronkite needs a good nutpunch for all the lies about Viet Nam.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)
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He fell in to a burning lake of fire and
It burns, burns, burns
That lake of fire
That lake of fire

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:38 AM (FQLP3)

27 What a way to start the day. RIP David Horowitz. Always recommend his book Left Illusions to lefties and those of us on "the right".

Very sad news.

Posted by: JROD at April 30, 2025 07:39 AM (IlL6s)

28 Tariffs Win as Walmart Announces Major Investment in American Products and Small Businesses.

Well, the threat of tariffs is encouraging me to move up my calendar on replacing one of my well worn out cars.

Other than Tesla, what is actually made in the US?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

29 They are insane whacko Leftists.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:36 AM (7fElN)
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They are evil.

https://tinyurl.com/37uryrbn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:38 AM (qFAfu)
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Yes. Yes they are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (7fElN)

30 Horowitz X threads should be especially vile and classless today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (BuwaS)

31 > Susan Rice must have about 73 jobs.
Total Bullshit
Posted by: rhennigantx
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DOGE needs to widen it's net and start looking for embedded ticks like her in all agencies, bureaus, departments and any FedGov adjacent entity.

Bet there are thousands.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Democratic Reps. Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Garcia of California, Maxine Dexter of Oregon and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona traveled to the capital city of San Salvador to advocate for the release of reputed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 21. They stayed at the Hilton San Salvador, a luxury property situated against a picturesque backdrop of the capital city’s volcano.

Socialism is for the people, not the Socialist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (gbOdA)

33 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 30, 2025 07:41 AM (53oGX)

34 I heard Adam Carolla interview one of Trump's top internet trolls, who also organized his podcast blitz. A young guy named Bruesewitz.

The guy was just throwing out yuuuuge, luxurious buckets of chum about a third Trump term. That's clearly the laser pointer the administration wants the media to chase right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 07:42 AM (BI5O2)

35 DOGE needs to widen it's net and start looking for embedded ticks like her in all agencies, bureaus, departments and any FedGov adjacent entity.

Bet there are thousands.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

Kind of like the BoD ticks that have infiltrated every Corp in the US.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

36 They are insane whacko Leftists. By that very definition they are incapable of the self-reflection required to adjust their behavior.

Some might say that is one of the noetic effects of the Fall. Estrangement from God is a sure fire way to go crazy. (ref: second half of Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter 1)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:42 AM (a4flb)

37 Daniel Greenfield: The liberal Jewish establishment comes out against fighting antisemitism.

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Not knocking on any of our beloved Jewish Horde, but I will simply never, ever understand the majority of Jewish people who seem to have this gargantuan cinder block in front of their faces that doesn't permit them to see reality. Not just in this instance, but in so many others as well. It boggles my mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

38 Bessent said that repatriating businesses can fully deduct the costs. A big boost. And it's also directed toward no income tax on $200K or less.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:44 AM (FQLP3)

39 California state Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced a bill that would eliminate criminal penalties for anyone convicted of welfare fraud, provided they stole less than $25,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits.
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It's SALT with a twist. They expect Iowa farmers to pick up the tab.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (/lPRQ)

40 Morning horde.

happy hump day.

may you be the humper or humpee as you so choose...

now it's off to 3 hours of different meetings...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (v6XNT)

41 Federal agents arrested a Venezuelan illegal alien who flaunted his stash of grenades on social media and is believed to be a leader of the vicious Tren de Aragua.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested Yonaiker Gallegos.

Supplied by Venezuela, no doubt.

TdA is an ARMY.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

42 Democratic Reps. Maxwell Frost of Florida, Robert Garcia of California, Maxine Dexter of Oregon and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona traveled to the capital city of San Salvador to advocate for the release of reputed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 21.

And where is Mike Johnson in setting up difficult votes in the House while the enemy is away on their western Caribbean vacation?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

43 Romania’s Donald Trump-Supporting Candidate Leads In Polls Ahead Of Presidential Election

I assume the Romanian courts already have a ruling throwing out this election also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

44 now it's off to 3 hours of different meetings...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (v6XNT)

Not enuf alcohol for me to do that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

45 Not knocking on any of our beloved Jewish Horde, but I will simply never, ever understand the majority of Jewish people who seem to have this gargantuan cinder block in front of their faces that doesn't permit them to see reality. Not just in this instance, but in so many others as well. It boggles my mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)
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Repeat and rinse: JINOs. Or to quote UDUP in the comment before yours:

" Estrangement from God is a sure fire way to go crazy."

Not limited to Jews.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (qFAfu)

46 Background checks for gun barrels coming soon to California?

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No unapproved gun barrel for you comrade citizen, but how about a nice $25k welfare fraud check?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

47 43 Romania’s Donald Trump-Supporting Candidate Leads In Polls Ahead Of Presidential Election

I assume the Romanian courts already have a ruling throwing out this election also.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

Transylvania is the Hawaii of Carpathia...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:47 AM (x0n13)

48 >>“It is ordered … that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state of Wisconsin, effective the date of this order and until further order of the court,” the justices wrote.

"temporarily"

They wanted to destroy Kavanaugh's entire career over vague allegations of a forced kiss at a HS keggar, but this gal brazenly breaks the law from the bench in broad daylight and they muster a "timeout" for her.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 07:47 AM (KHnV4)

49 Morning, news folken, and a tip of the chapeau to JJ for his hard work!

I'll admit it. I had to look up the quote by Peter Nichols in the American Thinker essay. There are many lines in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that I know, and phrases that have passed into common language, but not "Was there a man dismayed?" Not to me, anyway; whereas "Into the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred" is familiar, along with "Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 07:47 AM (omVj0)

50 37 Daniel Greenfield: The liberal Jewish establishment comes out against fighting antisemitism.

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Not knocking on any of our beloved Jewish Horde, but I will simply never, ever understand the majority of Jewish people who seem to have this gargantuan cinder block in front of their faces that doesn't permit them to see reality. Not just in this instance, but in so many others as well. It boggles my mind.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

I think it is because they believe Socialism is better than G D.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

51 “The DEI Industrial Complex are like survivors clinging to a lifeboat. And their lifeboat right now is the federal judiciary. Their hope is not that they’ll defeat the Trump administration ultimately, but they can delay things long enough for a rescue and the rescue would come in the next midterms or in the next presidential cycle.”
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This is Cornell, to a "T"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (sjpTN)

Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (AOsQT)

53 Christianity Is The Real Target Of All The Hysteria Over ‘Christian Nationalism’

Well, yeah. Xtianity is the biggest existential threat in the history of EVAR! They actually think good and evil exist and they don't have any nuance in that! Even worse, they're all judgy and stuff which goes totally against that sacred book of theirs!!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (RjOoY)

54 Not just in this instance, but in so many others as well. It boggles my mind.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

Like I've always said, Jewish people's politics are weird for a lot of reasons, most of them not very good reasons. I could write a book about it.

But the ones Greenfield are hard Leftists, and that's simple to explain, because it's the same reasoning that drives the other NPCs.

"My phone told me if I don't support Hamas, then I'm Donald Trump."

Fortunately, it seems that this line of propaganda has resulted in a net loss of Jewish support for the Left, not a gain. Surprise, surprise.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (BI5O2)

55 Long times forgotten the comments section was ad free. _sigh

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (FQLP3)

56 David Horowitz's Discover The Networks has been an invaluable tool. May he rest in peace.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 07:49 AM (KHnV4)

57 Transylvania is the Hawaii of Carpathia...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:47 AM (x0n13)
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Sounds like:

https://tinyurl.com/ysjdkhax

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:49 AM (qFAfu)

58 now it's off to 3 hours of different meetings...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 07:45 AM (v6XNT)

Not enuf alcohol for me to do that.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

you and me both. on the bright side, it's a couple different topics, rather than a single 3 hour meeting for one item....

but i'm tempted to put alcohol in the coffee cup and blow in to it because it's "hot"...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 07:49 AM (v6XNT)

59 $10,000 Pyramid >>>"Pyramid of White Supremacy"

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

60 56 David Horowitz's Discover The Networks has been an invaluable tool. May he rest in peace.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 07:49 AM (KHnV4)

If only a fraction of individuals in that incredible compendium/rogues gallery were to disappear, the world would instantly be better and our future rosier.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:51 AM (x0n13)

61 The schadenfreude to beat all shadenfreudes would be seeing that noodle-armed uber twit David Hogg ousted because of some DEI tinkering.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

62 Long times forgotten the comments section was ad free. _sigh
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (FQLP3)

lace wigs say hello...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 07:52 AM (v6XNT)

63 If Judge Dugantor can be arrested, why can't NY AG Tish James?

https://tinyurl.com/47kj4jsz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:52 AM (qFAfu)

64 If only a fraction of individuals in that incredible compendium/rogues gallery were to disappear, the world would instantly be better and our future rosier.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:51 AM (x0n13)
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I know how to delete databases. I'm your man!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:53 AM (qFAfu)

65
Not knocking on any of our beloved Jewish Horde, but I will simply never, ever understand the majority of Jewish people who seem to have this gargantuan cinder block in front of their faces that doesn't permit them to see reality. Not just in this instance, but in so many others as well. It boggles my mind.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

Agreeing with you, but cinder block blindness is not limited to Jews (see also: pro-choice Catholics).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 07:53 AM (QnmlO)

66 After the fall of the USSR in 1991, I always wondered why no former soviet officials where ever arrested for war crimes, promoting genocide and murder for shipping weapons of war all over the globe since 1945. Any commie thug who wanted weapons got them from Mother Russia and her allies including AK's to Jets to Tanks, you name it. Millions died because of the commie madness, yet no one in the USSR has been held accountable.

Posted by: Zombie Republic Of Vietnam at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (979V4)

67 3. The Europeans are disarmed. Their government took their weapons away a long time ago. They’re barely allowed to have sporks. And while immigrants haven’t felt constrained by those laws and have maintained access to weapons, the native Europeans smugly handed over their weapons of self-defense, secure in their moral superiority.

You can take my spork when you pry it from my greasy chicken stained hands.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

68 iPad won't load all the way, phone rolls over on it's back and locks up.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (FQLP3)

69 "My phone told me if I don't support Hamas, then I'm Donald Trump."

But the Svengali App on the phone only has a two week duration of influence per outrage before it fades.

Are we still vandalizing Tesla cars or has that fad moved on?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

70 >>Emhoff’s firing is particularly significant because the Biden junta tasked him with leading its so-called “strategy” against antisemitism —

Clearing out all of these DC boards and advisory panels, such as the one Susan Rice was on at the DOD, at the Kennedy Center, etc. is another way to disrupt the little power centers in the city/federal government. This is where political appointees are deposited at the end of an administration, no doubt where they burrow in to retain power and influence outside of view in between administrations. Given DC's war against Trump, he must purge all of them.

I voted for this.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (KHnV4)

71 64 I know how to delete databases. I'm your man!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:53 AM (qFAfu)

Can you hack Soros' checking account and transfer a few million to the tip jar?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

72
Maybe a subjective observation, but I watched movie trailers this morning and noticed a lot more beautiful women back in starring roles. Maybe Hollywood is learning.

Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (j4U/Z)

73 california doesn't go after anyone for welfare fraud now, why do they need a new law to decriminalize it?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 07:24 AM (e5NfL)

If it passes, Trump should announce that we're forced to assume that the first $25K of welfare payments in Cali are fraudulent and reduce the fedguv payment by 25K/person.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

74 “He’s not in free fall. He’s had a little bit of slippage because he’s doing a lot. He’s breaking a lot of eggs to make an omelet, but he is not dropping in any significant way. I can guarantee you, and I’m just not paying any attention to this nonsense. They were wrong in the elections in the past, and they’re going to be wrong about his approval rating as well.”
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This.

The Propaganda Press is pushing this "polling disaster!" line as hard as possible, making obvious their goal is to undermine his Presidency. As always.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (25m8M)

75 I read something interesting, Pierre Poilievre had to go up against 90 other candidates on the ballot in his election, in a rank choiced voting system, no less, what a farce you are Canada.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)

76 For those who don't know it, Scott Adams is bald:

https://tinyurl.com/57ryj3dt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:56 AM (qFAfu)

77 There was no reason why we couldn't have had a Korea situation there. Except the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 07:27 AM (QnmlO)

That was before Democrats discovered the joys of MIC kickbacks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

78 Netanyahu's Wife Caught On Mic Saying 'Fewer' Than 24 Hostages Alive In Gaza

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:56 AM (RHGPo)

79 68 iPad won't load all the way, phone rolls over on it's back and locks up.
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:54 AM (FQLP3)

Just for the HQ, yes??

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 07:57 AM (PCK5/)

80 If Judge Dugantor can be arrested, why can't NY AG Tish James?

Melanin content and James is a hero to the Left in her crusade against Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

81 Can you hack Soros' checking account and transfer a few million to the tip jar?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)
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/retreats from boast but practices smashing jars

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (qFAfu)

82 Geoengineers Want Boeing 777s To Dump Sulfur Into The Sky, Risking Acid Rain Catastrophe: Study

Plan “would strongly increase side‐effects such as acid rain,” study authors admit

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (RHGPo)

83 Last night on Gutfeld, Tyrus had a beautifully simple solution for the deportations. Just as Biden let them in unchecked and gave them a piece of paper with a future court date, Trump should give them a piece of paper with a future court date , put them on a plane back to their country, and say "You are welcome back to America on your court date, but until then, you must remain at home. We will then be happy to see you for your court date (10-15 years)."

Posted by: MacRadDoc at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (IiVPQ)

84 We were told here in the comments yesterday--again and again, ad nauseum--that tariffs NEVER work and that we would be fools to adopt the same economic policies of countries that have a lower standard of living.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:34 AM (7fElN)

In fairness, I think it was just one person but they were very repetitive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

85 Canada, though I've never been, is such a beautiful country. It's a shame what's happened to it, but unfortunately, they're on a fast track to hell. Sad.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

86 As for the NPCs, when the Jewish ones support Hamas, it's not at all surprising. All NPCs are like this.

NPC v.2020: "beep bop boop, down with Big Pharma, war is not the answer, dissent is the real patriotism, Elon Musk is the one true G-d."

NPC v.2025: "Elon Musk is the devil, the only good Russian is a dead Russian, put the MAGATs in reeducation camps, check out my sweet Pfizer tattoo, click click whrrrrr."

They could spin up the Hatefeed for a few weeks and get the NPCs to drink fish tank cleaner for real, by saying Trump said not to do that, after all.

We're not talking about real people. They're automatons.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (BI5O2)

87 Ah yes, here it is:

WASHINGTON — With three days left in his presidency, Barack Obama made his final appointments to administration positions, including adding 10 members to the Holocaust Memorial Council.

Most notable on that list is Ben Rhodes, a long-time Obama aide and speechwriter who managed the White House messaging on selling the Iran deal and explaining the US decision to abstain on a United Nations Security Council resolution last month that condemned Israeli settlements as illegal. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (KHnV4)

88 > Federal agents arrested a Venezuelan illegal alien who flaunted his stash of grenades on social media and is believed to be a leader of the vicious Tren de Aragua.
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FWIW the US military in conjunction with the CIA has been using Reaper and Global Hawk UAV's (drones) to monitor, classify and in some cases listen-in on cartel radio/cell traffic. This, along the US/Mexican border and along the east and west coasts of Mexico and Central America.

Just the other day one of the UAV's was spotted on ABSDexchange (a flight tracking tool) off Mexico's east coast in the Gulf of America.

Trump's identified the cartels, TdA included, as "foreign terrorist groups." Under that identification they "should" be able to be deported, but we've seen how that worked out. Yet, SCOTUS can't do anything to stop a military operation aimed at destroying these cartels in Mexico or Central America. Operations that are currently being ginned up with this sort of intel.

The CIA's involvement however is disturbing as I wonder how much intel they're providing about all this TO the cartels. Either way there's likely going to be some action on this later in Trump's term.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

89 Other than Tesla, what is actually made in the US?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

Toyotas probably come closest.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

90 David Horowitz was a major influence on me. I've always considered his book, Radical Son, a tour de force and essential reading to understand the American Left. His output was prodigious, from lengthy, forensic examinations of the Left to his many pamphlets. He was a natural and gifted polemicist. Before social media, he was the first choice on Fox to debate a leftist (perhaps his only liability being his basic gentlemanliness and respect for colloquy). Living in Los Angeles, I joined his Freedom Center and attended his "Wednesday Breakfast" gatherings. A great intellect and patriot, and I'm so thankful for his life and work.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 07:59 AM (h/ffs)

91 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend the May 9 parade, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, APA's Moscow bureau reports. According to him, the Indian Prime Minister will not visit Moscow on May 9.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (RHGPo)

92 We were told here in the comments yesterday--again and again, ad nauseum--that tariffs NEVER work and that we would be fools to adopt the same economic policies of countries that have a lower standard of living.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:34 AM (7fElN)

In fairness, I think it was just one person but they were very repetitive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)
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Yeah, I know...He was called out for it numerous times. I suspect we'll see him again today if there's a post on tariffs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (7fElN)

93 Hell is constant re-setting of passwords for eternity. A lot of merchants change their password REQUIREMENTS more often than I order merchandise from them. My former place of work required frequent password changes, but I simply incremented a number, and wrote the last digit on my toolbox.

Posted by: Fenderbender at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (1FEc1)

94 "iPad won't load all the way, phone rolls over on it's back and locks up."

Maybe it's time to break down and buy a cheap laptop?

Think about never having to worry about blown margins again!

Posted by: Kwak! at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (89Sog)

95 Netanyahu's Wife Caught On Mic Saying 'Fewer' Than 24 Hostages Alive In Gaza

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:56 AM (RHGPo)
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Not going to search for the clip but I think I read that Netanyahu said "as many as 24," i.e., that's the maximum possible. The reality is most likely what Sara Netanyahu whispered.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (qFAfu)

96 Only 1 In 8 Afghan Refugees Entering Germany Was Properly Screened

...leading to calls for re-screening and deportations for those deemed to be a risk.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:01 AM (RHGPo)

97 89 Other than Tesla, what is actually made in the US?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

Toyotas probably come closest.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

That seems right, but there is a quibble about “ made” that comes up…

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:01 AM (PCK5/)

98 Other than Tesla, what is actually made in the US?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

Toyotas probably come closest.

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Some BMW models are made right down the road from me here in SC.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

99 @83

>>Tyrus had a beautifully simple solution for the deportations.

I mean, they are not eve due that courtesy, but Tyrus's plan would be shot down in a nano second by a Hawaiian judge for imposing an undue burden on the illegal.

Unfortunately, we are not One Neat Tricking our way out of our predicament.

At some point, judges need to be defied and told in no uncertain terms, And What Army.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)

100 Trump Admin Blocked Around $430 Billion In Federal Funds, Top Democrats Say

.. well, at least we know they can count

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:02 AM (RHGPo)

101 I'm halfway through the Kindle free sample of Zweig's book, "An Abundance of Caution" which depicts the monstrous crime the administrative state committed in closing the schools in 2020.

I am convinced this great tragedy was foisted on us by the leftists in the deep state and their allies in the media, because of Trump hatred. Here is a quote from a page early in the first chapter.

" . . . many progressives, professedly representing the party of science, completely disregarded overwhelming evidence about the safety of schools from around the world, in significant part, as a reaction to Trump and Trumpism."

"Trumpism." Heh. The book will make your blood boil.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 08:03 AM (KiBMU)

102 The Propaganda Press is pushing this "polling disaster!" line as hard as possible, making obvious their goal is to undermine his Presidency. As always.

Always this intended ambiguity:

Its like Representative Ratskin, one of the most wicked and depraved men in Congress saying that this a battle between Good vs Evil. He is correct, but he wants you to think that he is Good. And for a person who has no conscience or soul, we are supposed to believe that he can not only even tell Good from Evil but has the authority to define it.

When the Propaganda Press claims a "polling disaster" they want you to think it is a disaster for Trump, when it is a disaster, just only for the enemies of this country: the Left.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

103 The official explanation for the blackouts is a series of “anomalous oscillations” on long-distance high-voltage lines. This so-called “induced atmospheric variation,” triggered synchronization failures that kicked off power disturbances across the European power system.

So Europe runs on 50 Hz and has about 0.1 Hz tolerance.
> 0.1 Hz (49.8 or 50.1) will cause an auto disconnect for the machine delivering the power.
Solar and Wind injected into the system must be stabilized by large rotating masses that keep the flow at 50 Hz.
These are call steam turbine generators that are powered by coal, gas, water, or nuke.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

104 Return To RFK: Washington Commanders Leave Maryland For New $3.7 Billion D.C. Stadium

Instead of a ticker tape parade if they win the Super Bowl, does this now mean they get a red tape parade?

But will they rename to the "Washington Deficits" with jersey symbol "($)"

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:04 AM (RHGPo)

105 At some point, judges need to be defied and told in no uncertain terms, And What Army.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)

I predict that Trump will not do that, but that is the only solution to the problem. The judiciary needs to be brutally publicly humiliated and sent to bed without its supper. That's been true for about 70 years, though, and it's unlikely to change now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 08:04 AM (BI5O2)

106 America--land of the free because of the brave. Not in any manner merely a catchy slogan, but actual fact, demonstrated repeatedly through the years. We DO live in the most exceptional country on this planet.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 30, 2025 08:04 AM (hKoQL)

107 The link to the Elizabeth Smart op-ed does not work. It brings you back to this homepage.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 08:05 AM (vOJ4/)

108 'Border Czar' Tom Homan: Biden Was The First President Who Ever "Unsecured The Border On Purpose"

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:05 AM (RHGPo)

109 @103

>>These are call steam turbine generators that are powered by coal, gas, water, or nuke.

The paradox of so-called renewable energy sources is that as your reliance on them grows, so to0 must your dependable energy sources grow to backstop them.

or alternatively..

TANSTAAFL.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)

110 I have a copy of Horowitz's "Radical Son" that a friend turned me on to in grad school.

Lots of good stuff in there--learned more about Huey Newton than I ever thought I wanted to know--but for me, the most stirring part is his realization that people are not merely the products of their environment; that they can and do make their own choices.

It takes a lot of guts to go against the conventional wisdom of your day. Salute to a great man.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 30, 2025 08:06 AM (lHPJf)

111 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:07 AM (77rzZ)

112 Other than Tesla, what is actually made in the US?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

Toyotas probably come closest.

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Some BMW models are made right down the road from me here in SC.

The Mercedes GLS is made in Alabama (they still import the AMG drivetrain), dittos with the Genesis GV70. I'm hoping that the since the GV70 and GV80 are so similar, that they will expand into the 80s, particularly since that model is one-third of Genesis' sales volume.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

113 82 Geoengineers Want Boeing 777s To Dump Sulfur Into The Sky, Risking Acid Rain Catastrophe: Study

Plan “would strongly increase side‐effects such as acid rain,” study authors admit
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (RHGPo)

Acid rain, Acid rain
Acid rain, Acid rain
Acid rain, Acid rain
I only want to see you bathing
In the Acid rain

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

114 “We are refilling the reserve now. We will continue to refill the reserve the whole time I’m in office.

“That was just such an irresponsible action, to drain that reserve so quickly for electoral reasons."
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Biden used government owned oil to manipulate the market and improve his election prospects. Even more proof Biden is nothing more than a criminal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 08:08 AM (HalWT)

115 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (xsqwN)

116 TANSTAAFL.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)

Corollary:
If there was
You would not eat what they are serving.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

117 Poilievre’s spectacular crash and burn ended late on Monday night, when he lost the seat from Carleton he held since 2005 to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy.

It isn’t mentioned in the article, but Pierre also had a secondary problem with the election in his riding.

An activist protest group called “The Longest Ballot”, who are in favor of some kind of electoral reforms I’m not familiar with, managed to get enough candidates and support signatures to put 90 other candidates on the ballot.

Poilievre’s race had the longest ballot in all of Canada on Monday, which is the reason the counting took so long.

Pierre can stay on as leader of the Conservatives if the party wants him.

But if he wants to get a seat in parliament he’ll need to find a Conservative in a safe riding who’ll be willing to resign so that Poilievre can stand for that seat and be elected in a by-election.

This is a rare, but not uncommon, event in parliamentary systems.

Jagmeet Singh, on the other hand, is out for sure as he not only lost his seat, but the NDP didn’t get to the 12 seats required to be an official party.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (6ydKt)

118 I am no fan of David Hogg, but if he gets ousted from the DNC and replaced with a DEI-ish woman who checks additional boxes, they will further alienate the demographic they desperately need to capture: Gen Z men.

May they keep shooting themselves in the foot!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (KHnV4)

119 Agreeing with you, but cinder block blindness is not limited to Jews (see also: pro-choice Catholics).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 07:53 AM (QnmlO)

It has been a long time since GOD smote someone obviously and spectacularly. Fedguv has a much more recent record.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

120 yo back rick

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

121 Time to End the Tyranny of the California Coastal Commission
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What a particularly stupid headline. Any time someone says we need to "end the tyranny" of anything Californian, you know you're dealing with - at best - fantasy fiction.

Complaining about California's misgovernment is like wondering why Germans don't have free speech.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (1bNHn)

122 Today is National Oatmeal Cookie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

123 Breakthrough US hydrogen fuel cell promises 200,000-hour life with minimal power loss

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (RHGPo)

124 'Border Czar' Tom Homan: Biden Was The First President Who Ever "Unsecured The Border On Purpose"

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Biden: We can't control the border until we pass a much needed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill.

Also Biden: The border is secure and those saying it isn't are lying.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

125 Rep. Shri Thanedar, who no one had heard of until now, filed seven articles of impeachment against President Trump. He claimed that the President had violated the Supreme Court’s order to return the Maryland dad, Abrego Garcia. We previously reported that Yale scholar Jed Rubenfeld explained that President Trump didn’t violate the Supreme Court order. Shri’s background seems too bizarre to be true. Laura Loomer is researching him and believes he filed the articles of impeachment to get himself out of his $800.000 campaign debt.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:11 AM (RHGPo)

126 "California Bill Would Decriminalize Welfare Fraud Under $25,000"

I assume the bill does not make it a crime to aid and abet welfare fraud (e.g., lawyers, who will take a cut).

So, you get $25,000, and you, too, and you, you, you, you...

Reparations by uncountable relatively small 'contributions' from the Cali taxpayers.

Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (aBgBM)

127 America--land of the free because of the brave. Not in any manner merely a catchy slogan, but actual fact, demonstrated repeatedly through the years. We DO live in the most exceptional country on this planet.

That is why so many people get pissed off when the Left says "we are a nation of immigrants" totally forgetting that the original immigrants came to a land that was wild, had no cities, infrastructure, power, sanitation, roads, communications, etc. and took several wars to remind the world to leave us be.

The new immigrants just come here to plunder all of that and bitch and whine that their reality doesn't match their royal expectations.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (a4flb)

128 Vietnam:

It should be noted that the Deep State kicked Nixon out(Felt) and that the Democrat party who ruled congress immediately defunded the South Vietnamese.

Democrats lost the war that Nixon was winning.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (1E4GV)

129 Trump Slams ABC Correspondent for Saying Abrego Garcia’s MS-13 Tattoos Were Photoshopped

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

130 Bernie Sanders video message: To our establishment friends in the Democratic Party. The status quo is not working and cannot be defended. We will not shrink from big ideas. We are prepared to take on the big money interests who dominate society.

And we know the American people are with us in that fight.

Sanders exemplifies what it should mean to be a "Democrat". He, along with AOC, is doing what THEY ALL SHOULD BE DOING.

There are several other good effective Dems, but to all our detriment, they are still a minority of the party. They ALL need to fight, speak up, and obstruct the MAGAts

All Democratic leaders should be joining with Bernie & AOC to grow a Massive Movement. This last election went fucking gangbusters for us, so maybe a different approach will help.

He's a millionaire politician sitting on a $19,000,000+ campaign war chest nagging working people for their money so he can "run around the country" and recruit and train people to run against Democrats as independents.

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (ycI94)

131 >>Today is National Oatmeal Cookie Day.

Really? I make the best oatmeal cookies - may have to make a batch. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (KHnV4)

132 I predict that Trump will not do that, but that is the only solution to the problem. The judiciary needs to be brutally publicly humiliated and sent to bed without its supper. That's been true for about 70 years, though, and it's unlikely to change now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 08:04 AM (BI5O2)

I agree. Until we bring the same level of ruthless determination to save America as they've brought to destroy it, we will keep losing ground.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (h/ffs)

133 Highly recommend watching:

Drones giving you a migraine?

Take Anduril and enjoy the rest of your day!

https://tinyurl.com/5syj3vem

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (qFAfu)

134 According to court documents, one of the books, Pride Puppy, is a “picture book directed to three- and four-year-olds that describes a Pride parade and what a child might find there.” The book invites students to search for various images, including “underwear, leather, lip ring, drag king, and drag queen.”

I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

135 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

136 I need coffee.

I refuse to search for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Really? I make the best oatmeal cookies - may have to make a batch. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (KHnV4)

con pasas

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)

138 After the fall of the USSR in 1991, I always wondered why no former soviet officials where ever arrested for war crimes, promoting genocide and murder for shipping weapons of war all over the globe since 1945.

You will to try our people? Certainly, we can provide evidence of their crimes. Of course, we'll have to release evidence of your crimes as well. What's that, you just want to let the past be and not dredge up old issues? Probably best.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

139 Breitbart: Trump’s Gaza Vision Gaining Ground: Israeli FM Calls Plan ‘Most Moral, Humane’ Path Forward

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

140 The Boomer Apocalypse
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The whole generational model of seeing culture is 99% bullshit. That said, we were a bunch of teachers' pets posing as rebels, so screw us. And we managed to beat our parents in one way I'd have thought impossible. Even worse at raising kids.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 08:16 AM (1bNHn)

141
I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

They do every day. I mean, rickb223 posted yesterday how Cali has removed language from a bit that makes it a felony crime for solicitation for sex with a 16 year old.

Next, it'll be 12.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

142 bit = bill

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Told ya I need coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

144 129 Trump Slams ABC Correspondent for Saying Abrego Garcia’s MS-13 Tattoos Were Photoshopped
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

What a ridiculous, messy brawl. That "correspondent" should have been shut down in two sentences. These in-close knife fights are not Trump's skill.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:17 AM (h/ffs)

145
I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

When they get to that point, they'll be in charge. "Yeah, we meant what we said." You do not want this in your lifetime. Or ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 08:17 AM (QnmlO)

146 They do every day. I mean, rickb223 posted yesterday how Cali has removed language from a bit that makes it a felony crime for solicitation for sex with a 16 year old.

Next, it'll be 12.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah. Put 12 yr olds on your 2026 bingo card so you aren't surprised.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:18 AM (xsqwN)

147 Bernie Sanders video message: To our establishment friends in the Democratic Party. The status quo is not working and cannot be defended. We will not shrink from big ideas. We are prepared to take on the big money interests who dominate society.

Yet without the big money they get from corporations, they'd be bankrupt.

Hypocrite assholes.

Big money is only good when it's THEIR big money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

148 China is scrambling to find an effective Trump strategy and seem to have backed off their Treasury bond dumps in the meantime. Ten year rates have dropped nearly a quarter point in a week. That's huge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (Ehshq)

149 Biden: We can't control the border until we pass a much needed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill.

And then when the "bipartisan" bill came up during his administration, it had funding for the Ukraine along with it being an impeachable offense if it was removed.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (RjOoY)

150 Colorado has already said "we're gonna rip your kid's dick off, and if you object, we'll see you in court."

Doesn't get much more blatant than that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (BI5O2)

151 Yeah. Put 12 yr olds on your 2026 bingo card so you aren't surprised.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:18 AM (xsqwN)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

152 >>He's a millionaire politician sitting on a $19,000,000+ campaign war chest nagging working people for their money so he can "run around the country" and recruit and train people to run against Democrats as independents.

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

LOL!
He's not even a Democrat, is he? He keeps running for POTUS, just as Al Sharpton did, for the money, not to win. And it's Bernie bros from his 2016 campaign that started the Justice Democrats. Bernie doesn't want to help the Democrats, he wants to replace them - all of them.

Justice Democrats (JD) is an American progressive political action committee and caucus[4][5][1] founded on January 23, 2017, by two leaders of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, Saikat Chakrabarti and Zack Exley, as well as political commentators Kyle Kulinski and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks.[6]

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:20 AM (KHnV4)

153 BabylonBee: Europe Promises To Get The Electricity Back Up ASAP So Everyone Can Hear The Muslim Calls To Prayer

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:20 AM (RHGPo)

154 Canada, though I've never been, is such a beautiful country. It's a shame what's happened to it, but unfortunately, they're on a fast track to hell. Sad.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

Cali is a beautiful state. Demons attack beauty first.

Texas, while beautiful, reminds them too much of home so they leave us mostly alone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

155 Geoengineers Want Boeing 777s To Dump Sulfur Into The Sky, Risking Acid Rain Catastrophe

Or we can cut out the middle-man and use what they deemed in the 1970s as a highly efficient way of pumping sulphur into the skies: Dirty coal power plants.

Its a Win/Win. Generate electricity with dirt cheap non-compliant coal, flood the atmosphere with sun dimming sulphur which pretty much obviates the whole point and purpose of solar energy.

If we burn more trees, the resultant ash will provide enough alkaline to offset the acid rain that is supposed to kill the glycosophene poisoned fish which ruins our food supply.

All that we condemned in the 70s is made cool again.

Also, ask one of these scientists which climate model considers clouds when prognosticating global average temperatures decades into the future.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)

156 I'm not a fan of oatmeal cookies.

Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 08:21 AM (Oy/m2)

157 I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)
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At least they are revealing themselves as the twisted people they really are, for all to see (and condemn!)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 08:21 AM (Ehshq)

158 Jagmeet Singh, on the other hand, is out for sure as he not only lost his seat, but the NDP didn’t get to the 12 seats required to be an official party.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (6ydKt)

Ken, Lonnie, I'd like you to meet Muhammed, Jagmeet, Sydney and Clayton! Now just have a seat and make yourselves at home!

Posted by: Doug Neidermeyer, NDP membership chairman at April 30, 2025 08:21 AM (979V4)

159 DEI At The DNC Could Force David Hogg Out As Vice Chair
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I confess a certain sympathy for Hogg here. What he wants for his party is what I want for mine: a purge of the squishes.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 08:21 AM (1bNHn)

160 I'm just going to say one thing after my drive to work today.

Having a turn signal on does not automatically confer right of way.

Thank you.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:22 AM (64qRd)

161 >>Biden: We can't control the border until we pass a much needed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill.

That's what all of DC had claimed for decades.
None of them wanted to control the border, and they kept playing the American public like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:22 AM (KHnV4)

162 Colorado has already said "we're gonna rip your kid's dick off, and if you object, we'll see you in court."

One day, some father is going to face that problem and his response will be to look those people in the eye and say "Prison and death do not bother me."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:22 AM (RjOoY)

163 "What happens now that Canada voted against Trump?"

Well, Ca election fraud is coming to light, so...

What happens? Trump uses reciprocal tariffs to bring the communists to their knees and he will not allow the "Chinese exception" from the USMCA any further.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 30, 2025 08:22 AM (1E4GV)

164 All that we condemned in the 70s is made cool again.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)
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Not true!

In the 70's, they were all dropping acid.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:22 AM (qFAfu)

165 And yeah, I got to go into the office. Needed to pick up a few things I was missing from my office cave at home.

Kind of didn't miss it. Kind of.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:23 AM (64qRd)

166 I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

They're basically admitting that they've wanted violence all along and want it now even more. If they magically regained power at the moment we'd be fully East Germany-ized within a few months, no hesitation. They'd violate any court ruling that stood in their way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:23 AM (h/ffs)

167 U.S. willingness to share technology and expertise, as Vance emphasized, could enhance Indian autonomy, reducing reliance on adversarial suppliers. This alignment is particularly crucial as China intensifies its trade outreach in Southeast Asia and seeks to blunt the effect of U.S. tariffs.

The Western media will decry the expansion of trading in fossil fuels as a climate catastrophe, as though that will resonate with a serious person. The U.S.-India deal wisely eschews climate moralizing and embraces a symbiotic truth: America’s shale boom and India’s hunger for energy are a perfect match.

This deal is a reaffirmation of energy sovereignty. And perhaps it marks the beginning of a global recalibration, where nations rediscover the courage to assert their right to energy abundance and economic self-determination without apologizing to the corrupt and decrepit climate cartel of Brussels, Davos and U.N. corridors.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:24 AM (RHGPo)

168 I'm not a fan of oatmeal cookies.

Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 08:21 AM (Oy/m2)
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I don't like them mush myself.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:24 AM (qFAfu)

169 U.S. willingness to share technology and expertise, as Vance emphasized, could enhance Indian autonomy, reducing reliance on adversarial suppliers. This alignment is particularly crucial as China intensifies its trade outreach in Southeast Asia and seeks to blunt the effect of U.S. tariffs.

Teach them indoor plumbing, water purification and to not shit in the streets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

170 >>con pasas

Never raisins in oatmeal cookies!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (KHnV4)

171 That seems right, but there is a quibble about “ made” that comes up…
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:01 AM (PCK5/)

I think that a good bit of their parts are made in the US as well, unlike - say - BMW. I'd guess that the big sticking point is going to be computer components but maybe Japan can agree to move some of that production to the US in exchange for killing the tariffs on it while the prep work is done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

172 A cookie should be a cookie and not made out of breakfast food.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (fJiXH)

173
Kind of didn't miss it. Kind of.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:23 AM (64qRd)

Good to see you around regular......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

174 >>One day, some father is going to face that problem and his response will be to look those people in the eye and say "Prison and death do not bother me."

We'll have Killdozer 2.0.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (KHnV4)

175 According to The New York Times’ own agonized reporting, “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country”. Translation: the gravy train of climate catastrophe peddling has hit a brick wall.

The National Climate Assessment has long been a centerpiece in the grand theater of climate fear, projecting dire futures with a laughable level of pseudo-certainty. Despite its authors’ best efforts to scare Americans into submission with apocalyptic visions, most of their “projections” have failed the simple test of reality.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

176 At some point, judges need to be defied and told in no uncertain terms, And What Army.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)

I am currently rallying Senators to vote for conviction at the inevitable impeachment. -- Rand Paul

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

177 Amazing. Pigs are flying in Wisconsin. I suspect trickery.

Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 08:26 AM (i0F8b)

178 Walter Krankheit owned a nice sailboat and would cruise up and down the Intracoastal Waterway to Florida and beyond seasonally, like other snowbirds with time and money. Waterway is visible from my house. I should have torpedoed the Commie, or dropped a flaming trash can on him by a nearby bridge.

Posted by: Missed Opportunity at April 30, 2025 08:26 AM (G5+As)

179 Anyone get a postcard or text with vacay photos from Ace yet???

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

180 Jerome Powell is holding the Fed Funds rate (so far anyway) at between 4.25 - 4.50%, almost a full 2% higher than inflation.

Over the last two decades that rate has been either under the inflate rate ranging to about 1% higher. No wonder the President is Big Mad at Powell.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (jGxgu)

181 Anyone get a postcard or text with vacay photos from Ace yet???
Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

Hell, I'm just happy to not be banned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

182 I hope in my lifetime they admit that all they really wanted was to fuck the children.

They were pretty much along the way on their ideal world with the importation of MS-13.

Biden's FBI waved off an investigation of the death of a thirteen year old MS-13 sex slave who was murdered once discovered she was pregnant and would be offline for a few months.

Your children are like Kleenex to the Left, use them once and then throw them away.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

183 In their recent article, “America’s Climate Anxiety Map”, Axios claims that Americans across the country are increasingly distressed about climate change, and that this emotional distress can be neatly visualized in map form. That claim is misleading at best and politically constructed at worst. Why? Because the “climate anxiety” map itself looks eerily familiar—it mirrors the 2024 presidential voting map, with the most “anxious” areas neatly aligning with Democrat strongholds. The data doesn’t suggest a climate emergency; it suggests a partisan psychological phenomenon manufactured by relentless media messaging.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (RHGPo)

184 We'll have Killdozer 2.0.
Posted by: Lizzy

Or a series of targeted killings that are horrific because of how calm the father was.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (RjOoY)

185 Trump Slams ABC Correspondent for Saying Abrego Garcia’s MS-13 Tattoos Were Photoshopped
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

What a ridiculous, messy brawl. That "correspondent" should have been shut down in two sentences. These in-close knife fights are not Trump's skill.
Posted by: Ordinary American

What WAS photoshopped was the M S 1 3 above each symbol to show what the symbol stood for.

Marijuana leaf = M

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (xsqwN)

186
Your children are like Kleenex to the Left, use them once and then throw them away.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

Where the f*ck are the Epstein files?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Hell, I'm just happy to not be banned.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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Let your Queensryche freak flag fly!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (7fElN)

188 Really? I make the best oatmeal cookies - may have to make a batch. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (KHnV4)

con pasas
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)
******
I make mine with raisins and drizzle with vanilla icing.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

189 186
Your children are like Kleenex to the Left, use them once and then throw them away.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 30, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

Where the f*ck are the Epstein files?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

2 weeks..

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (PCK5/)

190 A cookie should be a cookie and not made out of breakfast food.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (fJiXH)

I agree. And tell those sick freaks who put nuts in cookies to knock it off.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (0eaVi)

191 Good to see you around regular......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

--

Back at you.

I told Taylor that a Sponge was asking about her. I've said some pretty choice non sequiturs over the years but that one was...great.

She asked me if my meds needed adjusting.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (fJiXH)

192 We'll have Killdozer 2.0.
Posted by: Lizzy

Ha ha very funny.......

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

193 Rand Paul has gotten tedious. I feel sorry for him in one sense. He's been nearly killed by the Left three times and will have a lifetime of lung issues because of one of the attacks. And he still doesn't understand who they are and what's required to defeat them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:30 AM (h/ffs)

194
I told Taylor that a Sponge was asking about her. I've said some pretty choice non sequiturs over the years but that one was...great.

She asked me if my meds needed adjusting.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (fJiXH)

Heh. Happy to be of service.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

195 > DEI At The DNC Could Force David Hogg Out As Vice Chair
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He openly declared he'd use his funding op to primary sitting, established Democrats he feels are unworthy. That's pissed off the rank and file.

I hope he stays. He's worthless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

196 Not going to search for the clip but I think I read that Netanyahu said "as many as 24," i.e., that's the maximum possible. The reality is most likely what Sara Netanyahu whispered.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:00 AM (qFAfu)

This should have been obvious to anyone who thinks for a very long time now. Of course most of them are dead, it explains perfectly the reluctance of Hamas to negotiate their release. Why do it when you know your end move will be “uh, sorry, we already killed most of them.”

The Israeli people, encouraged by the Israeli government, have been willfully blind about this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 08:30 AM (QULmo)

197 It's also...
Mr Potato Head Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

198 ----
Let your Queensryche freak flag fly!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (7fElN)

I mean, the boss IS away.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

199 Breakthrough US hydrogen fuel cell promises 200,000-hour life with minimal power loss
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (RHGPo)

Uh-huh.

Even assuming that they've tested their "breakthrough US hydrogen fuel cell" for the almost 23 years necessary to validate that claim, what - exactly - is meant by "life"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

200 197 It's also...
Mr Potato Head Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

Stelter has A Day… who knew.

Posted by: tubal at April 30, 2025 08:32 AM (PCK5/)

201 One day, some father is going to face that problem and his response will be to look those people in the eye and say "Prison and death do not bother me."

Not father. Grandfather. My grandchildren need their father more than they need me. I've lived a good life.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:32 AM (xsqwN)

202 197 Why the heck does Stelter get his own day?

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

203 Stephen Miller makes a good point.

The same people now howling about "children being deported" didn't say shit, and don't care about the hundreds of thousands of children under Biden:
- Sold into slavery, economic and sexual
- Separated from their families in their home countries by trafficking here
- killed and raped as they were being forced here
- killed and raped after they got here, if they didn't pay or perform

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 08:33 AM (NwfFc)

204 He openly declared he'd use his funding op to primary sitting, established Democrats he feels are unworthy. That's pissed off the rank and file.

I hope he stays. He's worthless.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

The best part is, the opponent to Hogg is an American Indian broad, Free, who is protesting they violated their own rules about DEI in vote counting and is gaining support because Hogg is rocking the boat.

She's using the race AND gender cards against them.

Popcorn, please......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

205 There's a possum who comes around to scrounge the cats food on my back step sometimes at night. The cats seem to like xim/xer. Oatmeal cookies are only fit for possums, not people.

Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank at April 30, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)

206 Hopefully, Ace is Vespa-ing away happily in some beautiful resort town.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

207 Also on this date, 80 years ago, the son of Alois Schicklgruber assassinated Der Fuhrer, leading to the unconditional surrender of Germany 8 days later to the Allies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 08:36 AM (Aqu9a)

208 The best part is, the opponent to Hogg is an American Indian broad, Free, who is protesting they violated their own rules about DEI in vote counting and is gaining support because Hogg is rocking the boat.

She's using the race AND gender cards against them.

Popcorn, please......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

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I always enjoy the DNC infighting but this one is going to be the Super Bowl of intramural politics.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (ld07g)

209 And a little Hogette shall lead them.

Posted by: The Book of DNC at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (bRtkC)

210 Also on this date, 80 years ago, the son of Alois Schicklgruber assassinated Der Fuhrer, leading to the unconditional surrender of Germany 8 days later to the Allies.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 08:36 AM (Aqu9a)

I thought they just released that the US helped Hitler flee to Argentina or some shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Not father. Grandfather. My grandchildren need their father more than they need me. I've lived a good life.

Good point. But there will come a point when judges, lawyers, cops and their families start getting targeted by angry people who disagree with the forced mutilation of children.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (RjOoY)

212 >>He openly declared he'd use his funding op to primary sitting, established Democrats he feels are unworthy. That's pissed off the rank and file.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT BERNIE AND HIS SQUAD OF JUSTICE DEMOCRATS HAVE PLANNED TO DO SINCE HIS LOSS IN 2016.

https://tinyurl.com/fna8f4wp

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (KHnV4)

213 I'm kind of fascinated at the idea of CA decriminalizing welfare fraud. I mean, isn't a ton of welfare provided by the FedGov? If so, CA isn't in a position to decide what is and is not a federal crime.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (tT6L1)

214 Morning Horde, thx JJ
Dems will be screeching today. The GDP decreased .3 %vs and expected increase of .3% for the first quarter. That is still the Biden hangover, but it won't stop the left.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Er3Q7)

215 Morning, J.J.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (tT6L1)

216 Hopefully, Ace is Vespa-ing away happily in some beautiful resort town.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

I'm sure he spends all his free time hiding from garrett. Vacations are no different.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

217 It's a little fascinating that Trump has been working to make this term "leak proof". Not so much that leaks never happen, just that when they inevitably do, he can say "yeah, i said that two weeks ago, you nutsacks just weren't listening". If you're whole game plan is laid out in the open, and nothing you are doing is hidden or secretive, then there's really no such thing as a leak anymore, is there? Just trivial "who cares" bullshit that doesn't move the needle and makes the newsfaces look silly and irrelevant.

Just a general impression I'm getting, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (qOVyZ)

218 Today is National Oatmeal Cookie Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

Doof opines...

There is no such thing as an oatmeal cookie.

Said cookies are made with oats, not oatmeal (one does not make oatmeal first to make these cookies).

Therefore, they should be called oat cookies.

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (vf0Y9)

219 I always enjoy the DNC infighting but this one is going to be the Super Bowl of intramural politics.

Given that Hogg is a white male, he better come out as trans if he's going to have any chance of survival.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (RjOoY)

220 Really? I make the best oatmeal cookies - may have to make a batch. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (KHnV4)

con pasas
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)
******
I make mine with raisins and drizzle with vanilla icing.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

We must protect this woman and her cookie recipe at all costs!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 08:40 AM (Aqu9a)

221 I always enjoy the DNC infighting but this one is going to be the Super Bowl of intramural politics.

Given that Hogg is a white male, he better come out as trans if he's going to have any chance of survival.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (RjOoY)

Look at a picture of that woman. Enrolled in a tribe, ok, but she looks white. I see no high cheekbones! Fraud! Fake! Phoney! Ha Ha. Tear yourselves apart, Ds.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 08:40 AM (0eaVi)

222 Since 2019 or so, more BMWs are built in South Carolina than in Deutschland.

Posted by: Car Talk at April 30, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

223 Who you calling a nutsack?

Posted by: Media nutsacks at April 30, 2025 08:41 AM (bRtkC)

224
Given that Hogg is a white male, he better come out as trans if he's going to have any chance of survival.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (RjOoY)

https://youtu.be/arZdeg_fL-I

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Good point. But there will come a point when judges, lawyers, cops and their families start getting targeted by angry people who disagree with the forced mutilation of children.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (RjOoY)

I ask the Lord's blessing that I may be permitted to sit on their jury.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

226 Willlburr, some person named Doof is taking my oats

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:41 AM (Er3Q7)

227 Given that Hogg is a white male, he better come out as trans if he's going to have any chance of survival.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (RjOoY)

Come out? That little pud has been trying to pass for a man for years now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 08:42 AM (qOVyZ)

228 While I'm not crazy about BAKED oatmeal cookies, Mrs. BD started making these NO-BAKE ones a few years ago. They are addictive!

https://tinyurl.com/5xfnkrtu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 08:42 AM (qFAfu)

229 214 Morning Horde, thx JJ
Dems will be screeching today. The GDP decreased .3 %vs and expected increase of .3% for the first quarter. That is still the Biden hangover, but it won't stop the left.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Er3Q7)

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There is ALWAYS a lag effect in Economics. Always. Economies, especially large ones like ours, can't turn on a dime. After the Carter years we still had a recession, and there seems to be one brewing now.

The fundamentals are being addressed but COVID messed up a lot of things that will take time to recover from. Biden or whomever was running the autopen just made things worse.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:42 AM (8dNj/)

230 130 He's a millionaire politician sitting on a $19,000,000+ campaign war chest nagging working people for their money so he can "run around the country" and recruit and train people to run against Democrats as independents.

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 08:13 AM (ycI94)

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Heh.

lol.

lulz.

Also,...call me when AOC or Bernie actually calls out Obama for destroying the party from the top down while getting obscenely wealthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (GBKbO)

231 China is scrambling to find an effective Trump strategy and seem to have backed off their Treasury bond dumps in the meantime. Ten year rates have dropped nearly a quarter point in a week. That's huge.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 08:19 AM (Ehshq)

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If they are going to dump their enormous t-bill holdings they have to do it slowly, because they’d be shooting themselves in the foot if they tried to drop them all at once as they’d lose money on the way down just like everybody else.

The CCP is a lying, mendacious, totalitarian, clique, but they’re not stupid.

Instead, I suspect they’ll start deflating the yuan which is only going to screw then up royally, as they’ll be able to export cheaply but import prices will go through the roof.

Which means every food item not grown in the country, which is a lot, will cost more, along with other things like oil & gas prices.

I suspect the CCP will be kissing some Russian & Brazilian asses soon for that very reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (6ydKt)

232 Come out? That little pud has been trying to pass for a man for years now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I still think he and Greta should be locked in a room together.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (RjOoY)

233 Look at a picture of that woman. Enrolled in a tribe, ok, but she looks white. I see no high cheekbones! Fraud! Fake! Phoney! Ha Ha. Tear yourselves apart, Ds.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 08:40 AM (0eaVi)

A DNC that supports Elizabeth Warren only cares about what she identifies as.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (8dNj/)

234 Given that Hogg is a white male, he better come out as trans if he's going to have any chance of survival.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM

Call me.

Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (bRtkC)

235 Long times forgotten the comments section was ad free. _sigh
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at April 30, 2025 07:48 AM (FQLP3)

Brave is your friend.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (5xuJ/)

236 I'm kind of fascinated at the idea of CA decriminalizing welfare fraud. I mean, isn't a ton of welfare provided by the FedGov? If so, CA isn't in a position to decide what is and is not a federal crime.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (tT6L1)

I can see a judge ruling that the state pays welfare and the feds pay the state so they feds weren't defrauded and cannot prosecute. It's kind of a bullshit argument but, from a legal standpoint, they might be able to make it stick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

237 That DNC "Indian" woman has as much native American blood as Iron Eyes Cody, Chief Wild Eagle, Krazy Kat, and Chief Roaring Chicken.

Posted by: Heap Big Hokum at April 30, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)

238 I make ones similar to this - light, crispy, delicious!

https://tinyurl.com/nf52sf2a

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:44 AM (KHnV4)

239 I don't know if we had this in the links:

Trump makes fun of protester (It's sounds like they might have been a fake transgender) at his 100 days rally in MI.

https://tinyurl.com/3pd77sw5

I think Trump has a sense of humor -even if he is frustrated by these fools. A sense of humor is certainly a blessing in life:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 08:44 AM (42Vb+)

240 How screwed up is our government? Government agents, in the form of CPS, will take children out of a heterosexual home so their genitals are mutilated. But, that same CPS will turn a blind eye to children raised in sketchy a homosexual environment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (tT6L1)

241 Dems will be screeching today. The GDP decreased .3 %vs and expected increase of .3% for the first quarter. That is still the Biden hangover, but it won't stop the left.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Er3Q7)

Doesn't GDP still measure government spending?

I know the Commerce Secretary wants to change how it's calculated but I don't know if that's happened yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

242 Gretchen Whitmer made a joint appearance with President Trump at Selfridge AFB in Michigan yesterday. Grumbling among the Dems, but she did what she had to do. Donny Two Scoops gave her a hug.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (rj6Yv)

243
lulz?

Where's Ace? He'd love this week's Disney/Marvel news.

They came out with a new Marvel superhero movie (that no one asked for) and it's about...

depression! And mental health issues. With lots of typical unfunny Marvelesque quips & jokes intertwined.

But the shills love it! Oddly enough, ALL their early-preview fake reviews say the exact same thing. Weird...

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (GJFfz)

244 Brave is your friend.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 08:43 AM (5xuJ/)

And it works on Android phones, too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (0eaVi)

245 Imagine Hogg telling Thunberg she needs to calm down....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (qOVyZ)

246 214 Morning Horde, thx JJ
Dems will be screeching today. The GDP decreased .3 %vs and expected increase of .3% for the first quarter. That is still the Biden hangover, but it won't stop the left.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Er3Q7)

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I fully expected a fairly deep recession for a quarter or two.

Cutting back on federal dollars (including a lot of NGO money) going out and firing (or, allowing to retire) fed workers was going to be a big net negative on GDP. It's just how GDP is calculated, and for way, way too long, fed spending has represented almost all GDP growth. Since something like 2007. Since TARP. Since the CR process started.

But, deregulation at ludicrous speed was going to make up for a lot really quickly. Also, fed workers leaving fed employment and getting private sector jobs will help as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (GBKbO)

247 I suspect the CCP will be kissing some Russian & Brazilian asses soon for that very reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

So what! I've kissed a bra-zillion asses myself.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)

248 If depression is a superpower then I'm Kal fucking El.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (8dNj/)

249 >>While I'm not crazy about BAKED oatmeal cookies, Mrs. BD started making these NO-BAKE ones a few years ago. They are addictive!

https://tinyurl.com/5xfnkrtu

Hmmm - looks tasty!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (KHnV4)

250 I find this guy at BlendrNews very good. He says here that Canadians voted to destroy their country to spite Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7aemfv

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (vsTPo)

251 If depression is a superpower then I'm Kal fucking El.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (8dNj/)

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

KalElDoktor would make for an interesting AoS inside "baseball" nic, would it not?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (tT6L1)

252 241 Doesn't GDP still measure government spending?

I know the Commerce Secretary wants to change how it's calculated but I don't know if that's happened yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

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I'm in favor of two measures:

GDP+G and GDP.

GDP+G would be our current GDP as calculated while acknowledging that it includes government spending.

GDP would just be that without the government spending (at all levels, from feds to local dog catcher salaries).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (GBKbO)

253 I'm not a fan of oatmeal cookies.
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025

***
I agree if they have those damned raisins in them. But an iced oatmeal cookie is good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (omVj0)

254 Call me.
Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger

I remember when he was given the chance at a discharge for being homosexual and he angrily refused it.

Imagine Hogg telling Thunberg she needs to calm down....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

An evil thought. I approve.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (RjOoY)

255 An amusing thing about Hydrogen fuel cells is that none of their proponents (not that I have seen) understand the supply and storage issues, both of which are far more important than whether the fuel cells work from a technical standpoint.
For a variety of reasons, the only practical feedstock for hydrogen is methane, aka natural gas. The energy bonds in the H2O molecule make it far too costly to serve the purpose. So, hydrogen fuel is just hydrocarbon energy in a different form.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (QULmo)

256 248 If depression is a superpower then I'm Kal fucking El.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (8dNj/)

======

Have you seen Lars von Trier's Melancholia?

Essentially, in that movie, Kirsten Dunst's depression IS a superpower.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (GBKbO)

257 Gretchen Whitmer made a joint appearance with President Trump at Selfridge AFB in Michigan yesterday. Grumbling among the Dems, but she did what she had to do. Donny Two Scoops gave her a hug.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 08:45 AM (rj6Yv)

She hid behind a binder when spotted at the White House.

She can mulef*ck. She's a grifter willing to get in bed with whomever for power. She'll stab him first moment she gets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

258 ***
I agree if they have those damned raisins in them. But an iced oatmeal cookie is good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (omVj0)

Put chocolate chips instead of raisins

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

259 GDP+G would be our current GDP as calculated while acknowledging that it includes government spending.

GDP would just be that without the government spending (at all levels, from feds to local dog catcher salaries).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (GBKbO)
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I want that chart to go back 20 years, too. Rub it in their faces.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (tT6L1)

260 Also, fed workers leaving fed employment and getting private sector jobs will help as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Private sector requires output and quantifiable results. The very thing fed worker's skillsets lack.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (xsqwN)

261
I fully expected a fairly deep recession for a quarter or two.

Cutting back on federal dollars (including a lot of NGO money) going out and firing (or, allowing to retire) fed workers was going to be a big net negative on GDP. It's just how GDP is calculated, and for way, way too long, fed spending has represented almost all GDP growth. Since something like 2007. Since TARP. Since the CR process started.

But, deregulation at ludicrous speed was going to make up for a lot really quickly. Also, fed workers leaving fed employment and getting private sector jobs will help as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (GBKbO)

Speaking of feds leaving - in good news, this department is going to be pretty nonfunctional til Oct 1 (when new hires can finally happen)...in bad news, this department is going to be pretty nonfunctional til Oct 1...aka, don't expect a lot of antisemetic and religious rights cases getting filed anytime soon...or really, if this is all DOJ, for Bondi to be able to do much til the hiring freeze passes...

https://www.washingtonpost. com/national-security/2025/04 /28/justice-civil-rights-harmeet-dhillon-trump/

Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (tOcjL)

262 Meant to post this here, not the tech thread. So...

First time I really paid attention to David Horowitz it was one of his essays reprinted in one of Jerry Pournelle's anthologies in the early or mid-80s. Not long after that, the book he wrote with Peter Collier, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION, which pushed me away from being a good little leftie.

RIP

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (q3u5l)

263 But, deregulation at ludicrous speed was going to make up for a lot really quickly. Also, fed workers leaving fed employment and getting private sector jobs will help as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM (GBKbO)

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Yes, those are some of the fundamentals. But "quickly" is relative. The private sector needs to absorb the available labor which means expanding to meet a demand that doesn't really exist yet. Remember the iron rule of Economics: Demand creates its own supply. Violating that rule gives us a major reason why Communism can't work.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (8dNj/)

264 I find this guy at BlendrNews very good. He says here that Canadians voted to destroy their country to spite Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7aemfv
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (vsTPo)

He's correct. Even their 'staunch conservative' attacked Trump and shot his own campaign in the foot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

265 Old and busted - 54-40 or Fight!
New Hotness - We'll take Alberta, you can have California

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

266 Look at a picture of that woman. Enrolled in a tribe, ok, but she looks white. I see no high cheekbones! Fraud! Fake! Phoney! Ha Ha. Tear yourselves apart, Ds.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 08:40 AM (0eaVi)

Agree. She's about as "indian" as that WOP Iron Eyes Cody. Any honky claiming to be "indian" should have to undergo a DNA test and then that rattlesnake ceremony that Billy Jackoff did in one of his lame movies.

Posted by: One Tin Soldier Rides Away at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (979V4)

267
Incidentally, film-o-phile Chris Gore made a remark I thought was interesting. He said there were about 25 people in the very back rows at the screening for Marvel's new shitty movie (about "mental health") and they were laughing hysterically at Everything. And Chris Gore found Nothing funny about the movie. So what gives?

Chris Gore suspects they were "plants." He's not the type to throw that wackadoo type of stuff out there. Would they?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (GJFfz)

268 >>They came out with a new Marvel superhero movie (that no one asked for) and it's about...

depression! And mental health issues.

OMG, for Gen Z they've been normalizing mental health issues, while pushing drugs on them (ADHD, the pill, anti-depressants, etc.), and to top it off, they're selling this as being . . . a superpower.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (KHnV4)

269 I always enjoy the DNC infighting but this one is going to be the Super Bowl of intramural politics.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:37 AM (ld07g)

can I hope for both sides to lose?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

270 While I'm not crazy about BAKED oatmeal cookies, Mrs. BD started making these NO-BAKE ones a few years ago. They are addictive!

https://tinyurl.com/5xfnkrtu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

make ones similar to this - light, crispy, delicious!

https://tinyurl.com/nf52sf2a
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:44 AM (KHnV4)
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I'll have to try these. Both look delicious and a different twist on oatmeal cookies.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

271 263 Yes, those are some of the fundamentals. But "quickly" is relative. The private sector needs to absorb the available labor which means expanding to meet a demand that doesn't really exist yet. Remember the iron rule of Economics: Demand creates its own supply. Violating that rule gives us a major reason why Communism can't work.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:49 AM (8dNj/)

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100,000 fed workers is a drop in the bucket of the overall employment picture. It'll help, but it's small.

My focus is more on the deregulation.

Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

I can't wait for Democrats and GOPe to give speeches about the poor tax accountants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

272 @246 TJM, wouldn't be surprised. This would be similar to what Reagan did in his first term. It led to an economic recession but by the time of the 1984: election stuff has turned around.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (Er3Q7)

273 > Gretchen Whitmer made a joint appearance with President Trump at Selfridge AFB in Michigan yesterday.
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Her presidential stock just took another hit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)

274
Keep in mind: the govt usually over-estimates GDP for Democrats, and under-estimates for Republicans. Then in their Second or Third "Revision," they give us the real numbers.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (GJFfz)

275 GDP = private spending + government spending + investment spending.

GNP adds exports and subtracts imports.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (8dNj/)

276 I find this guy at BlendrNews very good. He says here that Canadians voted to destroy their country to spite Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7aemfv
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (vsTPo)

He's correct. Even their 'staunch conservative' attacked Trump and shot his own campaign in the foot.
Posted by: Sponge

Who are they expecting to come save them? Chyna?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (xsqwN)

277 Look at Doof getting all technical about oatMEAL cookies.

They don't use pickles in pickleball, either, but he's apparently OK with that name, for some reason.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

278 Who are they expecting to come save them? Chyna?
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Save them? China owns them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

279 Damn, Frost is really coming up in the world. He's gone from living at his adoptive parents house in a upper middleclass neighborhood, driving his Fads car for Uber to get weed money and hanging out as a "musician" to look cool.

Didn't have time for school, just hanging out smoking weed and jamming where ever he can.

Now he has a slick apartment in DC, gets his hair done in the latest styles and travels all over the world, while someone else is paying the bill.

He's every parents dream.

Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 08:53 AM (QB+5g)

280 >>Also, fed workers leaving fed employment and getting private sector jobs will help as well.

Heh, yesterday's WSJ had a story about the poor fedgov workers trying to find employment. You'll never guess where they are applying: state and local government.

I imagine a lot of these lifetime bureaucrats are not built for private sector work. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 08:53 AM (KHnV4)

281 272 @246 TJM, wouldn't be surprised. This would be similar to what Reagan did in his first term. It led to an economic recession but by the time of the 1984: election stuff has turned around.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (Er3Q7)

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Economic numbers are fake and gay and have been for a while.

I suspect we've actually been in and out of an actual depression since about 2020.

Trying to reset that was going to be messy, but the kind of messy that can happen in Q1 of the first year of a presidency and get fixed long before it's an electoral concern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

282 I’m hoping TurboTax goes bankrupt, those thieves.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (qnw3j)

283 273 > Gretchen Whitmer made a joint appearance with President Trump at Selfridge AFB in Michigan yesterday.
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Her presidential stock just took another hit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)

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She's never had a chance.

She's the candidate for a small sliver of Manhattan media, and no one else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

284 Greenfield: They’re (the media) not being honest because their entire line of argument is not honest. When the truth is on your side, you don’t need to lie.
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Et tu Greenfield? Does he not know that even when the truth is on their side they still lie? They lie no matter what. Deception and trickery is their native language.

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (M/gGe)

285 I saw some weird aerial phenomenon this morning.

On a mesa ridge, can see for 25 to 35 miles+ in a broad swath.

At first I assumed it was a car, as the color was similar, and it is routine to see them. But then I realized it was moving way too fast to be a car. And the glow would disappear and reappear.

Commercial aircraft have to use red and green running lights, if it was a plane or helicopter I would have been able to hear it. Judging from apparent size at the distance, it must have been fairly large. Weird!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (nsv7s)

286 OMG, for Gen Z they've been normalizing mental health issues, while pushing drugs on them

Reminds me of a depressing read on Twitter. A woman helping her friend with various issues and asking her when the last time she was at a baseline.

"Oh, I stopped smoking weed three weeks ago and don't drink as much."
"No, I mean no drugs of any kind."
There was a pause and she admitted that she had never done that before in her adult life.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (RjOoY)

287 My favorite part of the first 100 days is Trump ending Biden Hyperflation.

Food prices won't be going up 20% or more a year now.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

288 And Vietnam is still communist with no elections. Neighbors vacationed in Hanoi, and of course I called them crazy

Posted by: Jonah at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

289 Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

They drop that side hustle and focus on their main gig. The lady at H&R Block that does our taxes has a full time job.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (xsqwN)

290

Who are they expecting to come save them? Chyna?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (xsqwN)

Well, they ARE a communist nation now, so.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

291 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Robert De Niro’s son…

THEN & NOW

https://tinyurl.com/vszf7cs2

Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

292 I suspect we've actually been in and out of an actual depression since about 2020.
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Brother, can you spare a dime? er, a 10 grand (adjusted for inflation)?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (Dv3i1)

293 [i[Remember the iron rule of Economics: Demand creates its own supply.

In that case, I demand a harem of beautiful, busty, wealthy single gals who know how to bake delicious oatmeal raisin cookies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (Aqu9a)

294 289 Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

They drop that side hustle and focus on their main gig. The lady at H&R Block that does our taxes has a full time job.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (xsqwN)

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The lady in the future Democrat commercial will be 300 pounds, starving, and need the tax accounting work to feed her babies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

295 I'll give Marvel some due. They started Tony Stark out as an alcoholic. That made for some pretty interesting story lines.

They've been including the private challenges of their superheroes for awhile now (Peter Parker juggling school, etc) but there's such a thing as going too far, especially with nonsense like a depressive superhero. A depressive person isn't generally motivated to get out of bed, let alone put on a suit and beat up bad guys.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (8dNj/)

296 He says here that Canadians voted to destroy their country to spite Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7aemfv
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (vsTPo)

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Considering Quebec has been itching to leave for about 60 years and the province of Alberta is seriously pissed off that their oil & gas revenues support the eastern provinces to the tune of about C$13 billion a year and are also looking at holding a referendum on secession from the federation, then, yeah, I’d say they’re in for a rough time if Carney the globalist banker governs the way I expect him to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 08:56 AM (6ydKt)

297 The future of the Canuck Reich is internal conflict between China, India and Pakistan for control of the country's resources.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 08:56 AM (t0Rmr)

298
"Oh, I stopped smoking weed three weeks ago and don't drink as much."
"No, I mean no drugs of any kind."
There was a pause and she admitted that she had never done that before in her adult life.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:54 AM (RjOoY)

You've never seen the tox report of a tranny shooter.........

Because they don't want you to know the role big pharma has in the destruction of the human brain causing all this sudden increase in debauchery and blasphemy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

299 BREAKING: At the direction of Kash Patel, the FBI has begun administering polygraph tests to employees to identify the source of leaks to media.

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

300 175 According to The New York Times’ own agonized reporting, “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country”. Translation: the gravy train of climate catastrophe peddling has hit a brick wall.

The National Climate Assessment has long been a centerpiece in the grand theater of climate fear, projecting dire futures with a laughable level of pseudo-certainty. Despite its authors’ best efforts to scare Americans into submission with apocalyptic visions, most of their “projections” have failed the simple test of reality.
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

Here is the National Climate Report for March, 2025, as an example -
https://tinyurl.com/ycy6h7kh

They lead these reports with a US map depicting locations and comments for Selected Significant Climate Anomalies and Events. If the average US high-temp for the month isn't scary, the graphic still gets the scare into Media and dupes looking for scary climate stuff. Whether these 'selected significant' items is anomaly or event is buried low in the report. Rigged game.

Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (aBgBM)

301 Look at Doof getting all technical about oatMEAL cookies.

They don't use pickles in pickleball, either, but he's apparently OK with that name, for some reason.
Posted by: Bulg

Technically speaking, oats are the berries.
Once rolled, they become meal.
Then, oat meal can be made many different ways.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (xsqwN)

302 Because they don't want you to know the role big pharma has in the destruction of the human brain causing all this sudden increase in debauchery and blasphemy.

Almost as if pumping someone full of hormones they don't naturally produce causes issues with them.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (RjOoY)

303 I find this guy at BlendrNews very good. He says here that Canadians voted to destroy their country to spite Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7aemfv
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 08:47 AM (vsTPo)

Alberta's provincial government is about to enact an election reform bill that will *ahem* revolutionize the province's election system: Electronic voting machines will be banned, voter 'vouching' will be disallowed, voters will be required to vote only in their districts, unofficial results will be posted within 12 hours after the polls close, etc., etc.,

Most importantly, the threshold for referenda petitions will be set at 10% of the province's turnout for the latest general election. That means that instead of requiring 600,000 valid signatures for a referendum petition, only 177,000 signatures will be required. Whoa. The Canadian MSM went ballistic.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (rj6Yv)

304 I’d say they’re in for a rough time if Carney the globalist banker governs the way I expect him to.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 08:56 AM (6ydKt)

He hasn't lived in Canada for over a decade and is a BIG player in the WEF.

Canada thought Trudeau was bad. They ain't seen nuthin, yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

305 Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

I can't wait for Democrats and GOPe to give speeches about the poor tax accountants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

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TBF, accounting is a pretty general skill that has a consistent demand. Accointants, like undertakers, can always find a job.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:58 AM (8dNj/)

306 @281, true, the Dems ignored the recession in the Biden administration by changing the rules for what constituted a recession.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:58 AM (Er3Q7)

307 The Elizabeth Smart link is FUBAR.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 30, 2025 08:59 AM (pohLc)

308 CRISPY OATMEAL COOKIES ... The recipe by Ree Drummond (Pioneer Woman) is our family's favorite ... Can easily be made gluten-free by replacing the wheat flour with an equal amount of King Arthur Measure-for-Measure GF blend ... For better crispness, we press the rounded dough blobs down somewhat into flat dough blobs before baking.

Posted by: Kathy at April 30, 2025 09:00 AM (qpw89)

309 Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

I can't wait for Democrats and GOPe to give speeches about the poor tax accountants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

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TBF, accounting is a pretty general skill that has a consistent demand. Accointants, like undertakers, can always find a job.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:58 AM (8dNj/)

Count's Real World Axioms:

1. Accounting is only boring when done right.

2. Accounting is never done right.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:01 AM (Aqu9a)

310 Most importantly, the threshold for referenda petitions will be set at 10% of the province's turnout for the latest general election. That means that instead of requiring 600,000 valid signatures for a referendum petition, only 177,000 signatures will be required. Whoa. The Canadian MSM went ballistic.

We might well end up with a 51st state made out of part of Canada...and frankly the most valuable part

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

311 The fumbling FBI pretty much did in Gretchen Whitmer’s grand opportunity by having way to many assets in that “kidnapping fiasco”

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

312 , true, the Dems ignored the recession in the Biden administration by changing the rules for what constituted a recession.

By traditional measures we've been in a depression for two years now.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

313 They've been including the private challenges of their superheroes for awhile now (Peter Parker juggling school, etc) but there's such a thing as going too far, especially with nonsense like a depressive superhero. A depressive person isn't generally motivated to get out of bed, let alone put on a suit and beat up bad guys.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:55 AM (8dNj/)
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A depressive person is far more likely to become a supervillain, to make the world suffer as they suffer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (7fElN)

314 I suspect we've actually been in and out of an actual depression since about 2020.

Has it been a "Great" depression? Or just a "regular" depression? or just a "minor" depression?

Posted by: Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (979V4)

315 Whether these 'selected significant' items is anomaly or event is buried low in the report. Rigged game.
Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (aBgBM)

April 25 about 1.3 C cooler than April 81.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

316 The Canadians embrace of China is going to be problematic for us now that there's (more) animosity between the US and Snow Mexico.

I suppose if China was to dick with Taiwan, Canada would be a pretty good place to stir up shit to dick with the US... keeping our focus there instead of overseas. I know I would try it. Meh... it may never come to it but I still think our norther border is going to be get sporty over the next couple years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

317 We might well end up with a 51st state made out of part of Canada...and frankly the most valuable part
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

If Canada loses Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes take a massive revenue hit.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (rj6Yv)

318 Count's Real World Axioms:

1. Accounting is only boring when done right.

2. Accounting is never done right.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:01 AM (Aqu9a)

Sidebar: in college the Accounting majors were some of the wildest people at the parties.

They were pent up or whatever, but still - when you've spent the night with an Accounting major in her senior year, you're lucky to be able to walk in the morning.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (aYmFI)

319 In that case, I demand a harem of beautiful, busty, wealthy single gals who know how to bake delicious oatmeal raisin cookies.

In this case expect that the definition of "beautiful", "busty" and "gal" might not be want you want...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

320 It should also be remembered that the Atlanta Fed predicted contraction of about 3.5% for Q1 of 2025.

If you ever meet the governor of the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Raphael Bostic, you must mock him mercilessly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

321 The same people that guaranteed and predicted the public would turn against Trump after the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th lawsuit ....

And the same people that manufactured "popular" Harris on a very precisely planned roll-outs of influencers, polls, and celebrity endorsements ....

Were the same people that planned the current "Trump is failing" illusion; lawfare leading to protests, leading polling collapse, leading to a further defeat spiral, all with constant aerial bombardment from their media.

You think the polls they've been pushing lately weren't timed out months ago?
The lawfare was to buy them time to build the rest.
But instead of the public--and Trump voters specifically--turning against Trump, they're turning on the courts.
Which was entirely predictable as that's the result every time the courts have gone against a popular (populist) President.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (NwfFc)

322 Whether these 'selected significant' items is anomaly or event is buried low in the report. Rigged game.
Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (aBgBM)

April 25 about 1.3 C cooler than April 81.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

But, you guys, it's supposed to be over 120 in Pahkeestahn this week.

We're all going to die.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

323 Technically speaking, oats are the berries.
Once rolled, they become meal.
Then, oat meal can be made many different ways.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 08:57 AM (xsqwN)

now do Grapenutz.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

324 If you ever meet the governor of the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Raphael Bostic, you must mock him mercilessly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

So, he's the Paul Krugman of Jim Cramer's?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

325 277 Look at Doof getting all technical about oatMEAL cookies.

They don't use pickles in pickleball, either, but he's apparently OK with that name, for some reason.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

Doof is 100% wrong on those subjects, yet somehow provides entertaining ONTs. I suspect Maryland Man is a savant, on some kind of spectrum of his own design.

Posted by: Celebrate Doof! at April 30, 2025 09:04 AM (G5+As)

326 now do Grapenutz.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

No. I like my teeth where they are, thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

327 A depressive person is far more likely to become a supervillain, to make the world suffer as they suffer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Hitler has entered the conversation. And, frankly, a lot of our present-day leftist politicians.

On the other hand, you did have Lincoln and Churchill, who also struggled with depression, but were able to channel it into more productive directions.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

328
They were pent up or whatever, but still - when you've spent the night with an Accounting major in her senior year, you're lucky to be able to walk in the morning.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (aYmFI)

And I married a chick from the dental industry.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

329 Although...what happens to all the tax accountants if Trump does eliminate the income tax for people making less than $200,000?

I can't wait for Democrats and GOPe to give speeches about the poor tax accountants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

We'll raise our rates. The $200K+ income crowd generally has more complex returns and financial activites. And we'll no longer be faced with the dilemma of billing a client for a tax return that exceeds their refund; said refund being their primary means of paying the tax prep fee.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:06 AM (Aqu9a)

330 If depression is a superpower then I'm Kal fucking El.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 08:46 AM

Hmmm....I'd suggest MP4 for Zod, but that nic is already taken.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:06 AM (QBMHV)

331 On the other hand, you did have Lincoln and Churchill, who also struggled with depression, but were able to channel it into more productive directions.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

Unpossible. I mean, they didn't have pharma to give them every antidepressant available. HOW DID THEY SURVIVE!!!!!???????

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

332 A depressive person is far more likely to become a supervillain, to make the world suffer as they suffer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 09:02 AM (7fElN)

That's what the Left would certainly want us to believe. Anger and envy are far more likely to create a supervillain. Conditions where the depression isnt felt.

Depressed people are lucky if they feel ANYTHING beyond self-loathing, feeling trapped etc.

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 09:07 AM (M/gGe)

333 He's correct. Even their 'staunch conservative' attacked Trump and shot his own campaign in the foot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

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Poilievre didn’t really have a choice.
He had been running against Trudeau for five years and had managed to amass a 20 point polling lead in the process.

Trudeau then waits to resign right in the middle of a tariff dispute and Trump telling Canadians they can either take the tariffs or be the 51st state.

And while Canadians aren’t the most patriotic people on the planet that certainly made them stop and think that maybe the Ol’ Maple Leaf isn’t such a terrible thing to love.

So all the Canadian Boomers, who aren’t worried about anything but pensions and healthcare, decided they were going to go with the new Liberal leader over the guy who reminded them too much of Trump.

Pierre had no choice but to stand for Canada and against Trump, if he hadn’t the Conservatives would have lost seats instead of gaining them and putting the Liberals in a minority government that Carney is dealing with now.

Hopefully, the Liberals will keep screwing up and be forced to call an early election in a year or two.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

334
Hmmm....I'd suggest MP4 for Zod, but that nic is already taken.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:06 AM (QBMHV)

All he wants to do is time travel and bang classic broads.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

335 Zod as a villain always seemed odd.

He was some sort of military hero, found out the idiots running his planet were going to make it blow up and then launched a coup to make them stop.

And...this makes him a bad guy?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (t0Rmr)

336 In 1977 I met a Brit doctor and his wife on a train and when conversation turned to the hell and slaughter in Cambodia she said "that's just CIA propaganda" so I guess lefties supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge as was the fashion at the time.

Posted by: yop at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (RKj5x)

337 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Robert De Niro’s son…

THEN & NOW

https://tinyurl.com/vszf7cs2

To be fair, he looks better as a tranny.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (vOJ4/)

338
Hopefully, the Liberals will keep screwing up and be forced to call an early election in a year or two.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

This is what I think will happen

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (VE6XX)

339 RIP Mr Horowitz. Godspeed.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (gxokI)

340 Pierre had no choice but to stand for Canada and against Trump, if he hadn’t the Conservatives would have lost seats instead of gaining them and putting the Liberals in a minority government that Carney is dealing with now.

Hopefully, the Liberals will keep screwing up and be forced to call an early election in a year or two.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

Showing just how retarded they actually are.

This is why they'll never have nice things again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

341 333 Pierre had no choice but to stand for Canada and against Trump, if he hadn’t the Conservatives would have lost seats instead of gaining them and putting the Liberals in a minority government that Carney is dealing with now.

Hopefully, the Liberals will keep screwing up and be forced to call an early election in a year or two.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

======

"Stand for Canada" included "arguing to continue to import at least 500,000 new people per year."

He was a bad politician who represented almost no actual change other than being of another party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

342 Hopefully, the Liberals will keep screwing up and be forced to call an early election in a year or two.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

They don't have a year or two.

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:10 AM (rj6Yv)

343 https://tinyurl.com/vszf7cs2

To be fair, he looks better as a tranny.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (vOJ4/)

To be fair, it's likely that DeNiro had NOTHING to do with the child's upbringing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

344 Wither Canada?

Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:10 AM (QB+5g)

345 Zod as a villain always seemed odd.

He was some sort of military hero, found out the idiots running his planet were going to make it blow up and then launched a coup to make them stop.

And...this makes him a bad guy?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM (t0Rmr)

--

I recall reading a treatise about how the Empire was actually the positive force in the Star Wars universe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:10 AM (jUN6x)

346 RIP Mr Horowitz. Godspeed.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (gxokI)

I still have my copy of "Radical Son".

Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 09:11 AM (rj6Yv)

347 On the other hand, you did have Lincoln and Churchill, who also struggled with depression, but were able to channel it into more productive directions.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

W. T. Sherman famously struggled with depression, having been relieved of command for a time in 1861 because of it, and having another mental breakdown at a point later in the war. His personal friendship with Grant kept his career going.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 09:11 AM (QULmo)

348 I've been watching Chuck Schumer and Jabba Pritzker go about calling for insurrection while Republicans work systematically to undermine Trump's reforms and wondering whether we have it backwards. What if Democrats are the stupid party and Republicans are evil?

Or Democrats are the stupid evil party and Republicans are the evil stupid party.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 09:11 AM (DIweC)

349 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 30, 2025 09:12 AM (Jwq9Q)

350 Sidebar: in college the Accounting majors were some of the wildest people at the parties.

They were pent up or whatever, but still - when you've spent the night with an Accounting major in her senior year, you're lucky to be able to walk in the morning.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:03 AM (aYmFI)

I rate this as True Fact! They were voracious she-devils. Nigh insatiable, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:12 AM (Aqu9a)

351 I said it weeks ago, when the polls came out that showed near 50% support for impeaching judges who try to stop Trump:

Roberts is playing a deadly game, if he's soothing his ego with the delusion that such isn't popular enough to happen.

What should horrify him--and all sane judges--is that the number is even above 10%. Twenty years ago, no one but the fringe would have supported impeachment of judges.

They have so soiled their reputation and respect that they are now viewed as just another political actor.
But they have none of the tools or power of political actors.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is cold comfort from the grave.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 09:12 AM (NwfFc)

352 I remember the fall of Saigon. I was in the 3d grade. I remember talking about it with my friend as we walked to school.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

353 A depressive person is far more likely to become a supervillain, to make the world suffer as they suffer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

-

Hitler has entered the conversation. And, frankly, a lot of our present-day leftist politicians.

On the other hand, you did have Lincoln...

-

Other hand?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:13 AM (u8PA3)

354 I remember the fall of Saigon. I was in the 3d grade. I remember talking about it with my friend as we walked to school.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

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

https://youtu.be/R5rWUlkKuVM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

355 Well i was going to blot out the sun and enslave humanity into an interconnected grid of brain vats, but, jeez, man, then i'd have to deal with Cluster-B Girl. Ugh. Maybe I'll just take a nap today instead. See if the producers put me up against someone else next year. At least a dude in a cape with his underwear on the outside doesn't make me question my own will to live.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:14 AM (qOVyZ)

356
Maude Family farming on fed land charges being dropped.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 09:14 AM (GJFfz)

357 Look at Doof getting all technical about oatMEAL cookies.

They don't use pickles in pickleball, either, but he's apparently OK with that name, for some reason.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

Doof is 100% wrong on those subjects, yet somehow provides entertaining ONTs. I suspect Maryland Man is a savant, on some kind of spectrum of his own design.
Posted by: Celebrate Doof! at April 30, 2025 09:04 AM (G5+As)

Bulg with the checkmate on the pickleball comment. I withdraw my argument about oat(meal) cookies.

I appreciate that sockmaster "G minor" seems to be warming up to my ONTs. Perhaps he might appear in a Club ONT comment of the week section someday.

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:14 AM (vf0Y9)

358 W. T. Sherman famously struggled with depression, having been relieved of command for a time in 1861 because of it, and having another mental breakdown at a point later in the war. His personal friendship with Grant kept his career going.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yes, that's right. He once said something along the lines of "Grant stuck by me when I was crazy, and I stuck by him when he was drunk."

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

359
I recall reading a treatise about how the Empire was actually the positive force in the Star Wars universe.

A corrupt republic that *embraces* slavery were all real power is held be an unaccountable fanatical religious organization that abducts children to make them slave soldiers and claims the right to kill anyone following other religions.

This is what Palpatine overthrew.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

360 Pierre's candidacy seemed to be "I'm not Trump and I'm not Trudeau". Didn't see him actually standing for much, just like the GOPe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (Er3Q7)

361 I remember the fall of Saigon. I was in the 3d grade. I remember talking about it with my friend as we walked to school.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

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

https://youtu.be/R5rWUlkKuVM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Well done! Or should I say w-w-w-w-well done?

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (vf0Y9)

362 Citing truth and facts I learned from reading David Horowitz to my leftie history professor was a delight in college.

I particularly liked pointing out the Venona Transcripts proved the Rosenburgs were spies.

She sputtered, "but that hasn't been authenticated" or some stupid dodge.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (NwfFc)

363 He was a bad politician who represented almost no actual change other than being of another party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

The man ate a piece of fruit for heaven's sakes, what more can anyone offer you!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (qOVyZ)

364 Canada has a smaller economy than Texas. When the hangover of "winning" wears off they are still going to have to deal with the fact they're kind of boned.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)

365
"You asked for it........"

Don't ask me why I knew what the link was.

Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (QB+5g)

366 I recall reading a treatise about how the Empire was actually the positive force in the Star Wars universe.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:10 AM (jUN6x)

Free Trade or Death Star sounds like a Reason article.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

367 A depressive person is far more likely to become a supervillain, to make the world suffer as they suffer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That explains why certain people become school teachers.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (RjOoY)

368 Is this Pierre dude up in Canada the one who was eating an apple while sparing with a reporter? I think he is.

It was viral at the time.

But he still sort of came across as a douchebag.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (Q4IgG)

369 She sputtered, "but that hasn't been authenticated" or some stupid dodge.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (NwfFc)

Lol, didn't Russia themselves say it was legit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:17 AM (qOVyZ)

370
Well done! Or should I say w-w-w-w-well done?
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (vf0Y9)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

371 Or Democrats are the stupid evil party and Republicans are the evil stupid party.

UniParty. Ruling Class keeping the rest of us under their thumb.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 09:17 AM (McYvC)

372 That DNC "Indian" woman has as much native American blood as Iron Eyes Cody, Chief Wild Eagle, Krazy Kat, and Chief Roaring Chicken.
Posted by: Heap Big Hokum

Chief Dan George is my favorite American Indian of all time. He had the best lines in Littel Bigman.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

373 Don't ask me why I knew what the link was.
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (QB+5g)

Well, it was teed up quite nicely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

374 I recall reading a treatise about how the Empire was actually the positive force in the Star Wars universe.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

-

It's hard not to see the rebels as the bad guys when you re-watch the first three.

Military aged orphan male is groomed into a religious cult by an elderly practitioner with the sole purpose of assassinating the elected leader and helping violently overthrow the stable government that keeps the entire universe functioning?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:18 AM (u8PA3)

375 Canada's apogee as a nation was putting a Maple Leaf on the boom arm (the Canadarm) of the Space Shuttle.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)

376
The Empire was authoritarian and genocidal. Therefore, evil.

The Republic was corrupt, degenerate, and dysfunctional. Therefore, also evil.

That's it. That's the political commentary.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 09:19 AM (DIweC)

377 This is what Palpatine overthrew.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

Runaway girl convinces mentally challenged man, coward, and robot to kill widely known and respected sisters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:19 AM (gbOdA)

378 Pierre's candidacy seemed to be "I'm not Trump and I'm not Trudeau". Didn't see him actually standing for much, just like the GOPe

He played the McCain part- win the candidacy and then disappear so that Carney would win.

Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 09:19 AM (AU+PG)

379 Well that music means we're all out of time for today.
Tune in next week for another exciting episode of Cookie Talk.

Brought to you by the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and "Viewers Like You."

Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (bRtkC)

380 All he wants to do is time travel and bang classic broads.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:08 AM

I meant, to be fair, some of those Gibson gals were smokeshows.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (QBMHV)

381 Trump is tariffing us to make his country financially more stable! What an asshole!!! I'm voting for the guy that doesn't do that and imposes rules that make me less free and pay higher taxes!

Just think about that for a moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

382 "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (M/gGe)

383 Canada's apogee as a nation was putting a Maple Leaf on the boom arm (the Canadarm) of the Space Shuttle.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)

IT'S LITERALLY TRUE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (qOVyZ)

384
I meant, to be fair, some of those Gibson gals were smokeshows.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (QBMHV)

I didn't say I fault the guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

385 This is a fun discussion as I am about to put out a pair of books written from the perspective of an authoritarian, genocidal galactic Imperium and their fight to wipe out a rag-tag rebel insurrection.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (DIweC)

386 382 "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (M/gGe)

=====

Shakespeare?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

387 Runaway girl convinces mentally challenged man, coward, and robot to kill widely known and respected sisters.

I'm seeing Ariana Grande staring in the big budget movie version of this...after she licks my donut of course

Posted by: Some Movie Producer at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (t0Rmr)

388 Canada! Canada-ah-ah-ah-ah! Canada!

Posted by: Van Halen at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (i0F8b)

389 David Horowitz was a national treasure. Ex-communists make some of the best freedom fighters.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (Jwq9Q)

390 The man ate a piece of fruit for heaven's sakes, what more can anyone offer you!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (qOVyZ)

So did Adam and look where it got us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

391 It's like poetry ! It rhymes !

Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

392 Shakespeare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

Yep. A Midsummer Knight's Dream.

Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (M/gGe)

393 To be fair, he looks better as a tranny.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 09:09 AM

And I still loathe DeNiro.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (QBMHV)

394 I meant, to be fair, some of those Gibson gals were smokeshows.

One thing that I have noticed in those pictures is that women were so much thinner, and honestly, uh, had smaller tracts of land.

Also, shaved more then I thought at that point in time...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

395 "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"
Posted by: ...

=====

Shakespeare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From my, point of view, the Jedi, are evil.

Shatner

Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (xsqwN)

396 I didn't say I fault the guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (QBMHV)

397 It's hard not to see the rebels as the bad guys when you re-watch the first three.

Military aged orphan male is groomed into a religious cult by an elderly practitioner with the sole purpose of assassinating the elected leader and helping violently overthrow the stable government that keeps the entire universe functioning?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:18 AM (u8PA3)

--

And they killed how many people on the Death Star? Like Randall said in Clerks, many of them were probably civilian casualties caught up in a war they had nothing to do with.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (jBB4+)

398 392 Shakespeare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

Yep. A Midsummer Knight's Dream.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (M/gGe)

=====

Well, then it's a Marlowe. People often confuse Shakespeare for having written that one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

399 So did Adam and look where it got us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

The real culinary lesson of that story is to never share your ribs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (qOVyZ)

400 The assertion is that Canadians got so mad because of Trump trolling them that they voted to continue the decline and dysfunction of the Trudeau era.

If this is true, it's not a reflection on Trump it's a reflection on Canadians. It means they're retarded.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (DIweC)

401 I appreciate that sockmaster "G minor" seems to be warming up to my ONTs. Perhaps he might appear in a Club ONT comment of the week section someday.
Posted by: Doof

I have made Club ONT comment of the week once. And several times on vintage Mis Hum ONTs. I especially like when you school us on geography. Great fun.

Posted by: National Geography Bee at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (G5+As)

402 Don't ask me why I knew what the link was.
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:16 AM (QB+5g)

Well, it was teed up quite nicely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

A most delightful earworm!

That song is included on a most awesome (tubular, rad, etc) 5-CD set I acquired some years ago.

LIVING IN OBLIVION: THE 80s GREATEST HITS (5-CD SET)

*runs off to find the ripped mp3 files on laptop*

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (vf0Y9)

403 Canada! Canada-ah-ah-ah-ah! Canada!
Posted by: Van Halen at April 30, 2025 09:21 AM (i0F8b)

You didn't hear it in last night's shutout of Toronto by Ottawa, but Toronto's goal scoring song is Panama.

Toronto is 1 - 13 in series winning games since 2018. The Ottawa goaltender had a 4.0 Goals Against Average going into that game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

404 And they killed how many people on the Death Star?

In the 3rd movie, blowing up the Death Star over the Ewok planet would have given them multiple planet killer impacters.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:24 AM (t0Rmr)

405 How do we know Adam was a Lutheran?

Because while standing next to a naked woman he was tempted by a piece of fruit.

Posted by: Old Garrison Kielor joke at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (bRtkC)

406 One thing that I have noticed in those pictures is that women were so much thinner, and honestly, uh, had smaller tracts of land.
Posted by: 18-1

Big boobs were considered slutty.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

407 The five most amazing words in the English language.

Trump's word is his bond.

That simple virtue alone has revolutionized American Politics, and it scares the daylights out of Our Betters.

Somewhere along the line American elections became a constant game of "Fool the Rube" and "Just How Many Lies Will They Believe?".

The Democrats were the worst (ex: Biden's return to "normalcy") but the Republicans weren't much better.

We cannot have a Constitutional Republic if the Voters never know what they are voting for in reality. It's like putting your faith in Con Men and praying that they'll be kind to you out of the goodness of their hearts.

I hope this trend can continue with whichever (probably Vance) Republican follows Trump. And I hope that the Democrats can be honest about their plans as well (I know, I know).

Unlikely, I agree but then I'm a cockeyed optimist.

*cue Rogers and Hammerstein*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (iJfKG)

408 Well that music means we're all out of time for today.
Tune in next week for another exciting episode of Cookie Talk.

Brought to you by the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and "Viewers Like You."
Posted by: NPR Announcer Voice at April 30, 2025 09:20 AM

COOKIE!!!!!!

Posted by: Cookie Monster at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (QBMHV)

409 In the 3rd movie, blowing up the Death Star over the Ewok planet would have given them multiple planet killer impacters.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:24 AM (t0Rmr)

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Even worse. It's under construction so you have a lot of civilian general contractors who were snuffed out by Lando Fucking Calrissian whooping it up with that gdddamned muppet.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (jBB4+)

410 Oh no , 100 attorneys have resigned from the DoJ Civil Rights Division. Anyway...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Er3Q7)

411 Hamas definitely does not conform to the principles of halal as it contains "ham"

Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

412 The Empire murdered a whole planet to get Princess Leia to talk. How are they the good guys again?

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Jwq9Q)

413 Hamas definitely does not conform to the principles of halal as it contains "ham"
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

That's why I call it 'islham.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

414 I have made Club ONT comment of the week once. And several times on vintage Mis Hum ONTs. I especially like when you school us on geography. Great fun.
Posted by: National Geography Bee at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (G5+As)

There just might be some geography nerd stuff in my ONT planning "stack of stuff".

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (vf0Y9)

415 Because while standing next to a naked woman he was tempted by a piece of fruit.
Posted by: Old Garrison Kielor joke at April 30, 2025 09:25 AM (bRtkC)

Only an old fruit would not realize that a woman who walks around naked all day eventually ceases to be tempting.

Naked sneezing is no good for anybody.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (qOVyZ)

416 The Dem Congress cut off military aid to the South Vietnam military which allowed the North to prevail. Prior to that the South was holding their own if not actually winning.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (VofaG)

417
I told you I expected big things from Harmeet Dillon. And it looks like I will be right, as usual.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (GJFfz)

418 410 Oh no , 100 attorneys have resigned from the DoJ Civil Rights Division. Anyway...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Er3Q7)

And a fine group they were working on arresting old Ladies praying outside abortion clinics etc...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (VE6XX)

419 I get the newfound respect for the Empire. Back in the 1970's, people were doing really stupid sh-t, like disco, cocaine, and electing Jimmy Carter. But they did so within a stable, functional society. So, it was easy to perceive the Empire as an evil, violent, authoritarian Empire. (I think George Lucas once compared the rebels to the Viet Cong.)

Now, fifty years on, society is dangerously dysfunctional because the disco cocaine Carter people took charge. So, there's a craving for the order and stability the Empire represents.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 09:27 AM (DIweC)

420 412 The Empire murdered a whole planet to get Princess Leia to talk. How are they the good guys again?

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Jwq9Q)

MAGA planet.

Posted by: The Empire at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (i0F8b)

421 Toronto is 1 - 13 in series winning games since 2018. The Ottawa goaltender had a 4.0 Goals Against Average going into that game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

Party like it's 1967!

Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (vf0Y9)

422 The people of Alderon were a bunch of fags

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (Er3Q7)

423 422 The people of Alderon were a bunch of fags
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (Er3Q7)

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Jar Jar was on the planet at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

424 Baisically the Democrats &uck everything up. Republicans make sure it stays that way. Sometimes the roles are reversed. Republicans looked the other way while Trillions were being shoveled to all manner of fraud. They must be getting a cut. Or extorted into silence.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (nsv7s)

425 @423 reason enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (Er3Q7)

426 There just might be some geography nerd stuff in my ONT planning "stack of stuff".
Posted by: Doof

I hope it includes some stuff about islands. I've really been into islands lately.

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

427 Shakespeare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From my, point of view, the Jedi, are evil.

Shatner
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 09:22 AM (xsqwN)

It is better in the original Klingon.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

428 Jar Jar was on the planet at the time.

Sith Lord Jar Jar?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

429 422 Thank you for the laugh. So The Empire was run by the lawyers from Idiocracy.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM (Jwq9Q)

430 422 The people of Alderon were a bunch of fags.

That was yesterday's art.

Posted by: Try to keep up at April 30, 2025 09:30 AM (bRtkC)

431 The empire was going to vaporize that planet anyway.

They extorted information from a high value caprice basically for free, with no extra cost of life.

That's gotta count for something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (qOVyZ)

432 Gnood

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (Er3Q7)

433 Captive. Stupid phone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (qOVyZ)

434 TBH Lexx did the "evil dictator in unstoppable space base destroys hero's planet in touching scene" MUCH MUCH better then Star Wars.

And I'm pretty sure the guy that wrote that Lexx was high 100% of the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (t0Rmr)

435
ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

436 Nood Eskimos

Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

437 Pretty soon people will be saying the Orcs were the good guys.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 09:31 AM (VofaG)

438
Party like it's 1967!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 09:28 AM (vf0Y9)

Toronto hasn't been shut out in a series clinching game since 1950.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

439 I remember the conversations we had about Vietnam, being jammed into the midst had a way of clarifying the issue of who was winning and could we even be victorious. Answer came out the same every time--let us fight the fucking thing and we'll be going home in 6 or so months. And that is going to be the end of reliving that shit. I left it where I found it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (hKoQL)

440 Sith Lord Jar Jar?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 09:29 AM

"Yousa be comin' to da Darkie Side!"

Nah...doesn't work for me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (QBMHV)

441 Regarding the Empire, they were not that good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBp6PEHV_MU

Posted by: NR Pax at April 30, 2025 09:33 AM (RjOoY)

442 Canada is America's largest National Park.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 30, 2025 09:34 AM (1FWWQ)

443 If this is true, it's not a reflection on Trump it's a reflection on Canadians. It means they're retarded.

The vast majority of people are not logical. They're tribal. It does not surprise me that Canadians - and especially Boomer Canadians - would choose to have less in an expression of tribal pride.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 09:35 AM (McYvC)

444 I hope it includes some stuff about islands. I've really been into islands lately.
Posted by: Bulg

Isthmus be my lucky day!

Posted by: Stymie Beard at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

445 The Empire murdered a whole planet to get Princess Leia to talk. How are they the good guys again?
Posted by: callsign claymore

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I'm not sure they're the good guys, just the not as bad guys since they maintained a functioning government across an entire universe before the elected leader was assassinated and the system thrown into disarray.

See also: Libya, Iraq, etc.

Wait...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:38 AM (yWTRD)

446 (looks to see if the Empire ever dabbled in bioweapons to target elderly people before preventing family members from visiting them while they died)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:39 AM (yWTRD)

447 14 The threat of a demographic conquest from within.
Will There Be a Civil War in Europe?
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If there is, it may be a triple threat match -- the government vs. its citizens vs. the invaders.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:30 AM (7fElN)
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Ultimately got to remember that Government is people and we know where they live, in many case right next door.

Posted by: Ciampino - all I could do at April 30, 2025 09:49 AM (sPQoU)

448 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. 🙏

>The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release, September 23, 2014
FACT SHEET: U.S. Support for Civil Society

In part, "The President also announced a new, groundbreaking initiative to support and connect civil society across the globe through the launch of Regional Civil Society Innovation Centers, in partnership with the Government of Sweden and the Aga Khan Development Network. Over the next two years, up to six networked Regional Civil Society Innovation Centers will be created worldwide. These Centers will connect civil society organizations at the regional and global level to each other, new partners, and resources; encourage peer-to-peer learning; provide civil society organizations and their networks with virtual and physical platforms to access tools and technologies that will bolster their work; and amplify civil society voices around the world. Civil society organizations, academia, and technology partners will provide additional financial and in-kind resources, as well as technical expertise, to enhance the value of the Centers to civil society." (Reading all suggested.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)

449 >AKDN Resources & Media: USAID and FCDO partner with AKF to advance climate education in Tanzania
United Kingdom, 28 June 2024 (Just one example)
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>Khalil Andani, PhD
@ KhalilAndani
Mr President
@ BarackObama

@ POTUS44
- you’re finally catching up. His Highness Aga Khan IV, the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims has been talking about ‘pluralism’ for 70 years.
@ akdn
@ GlobalPluralism
You can read about his vision of pluralism here: (omitted from this post)

Barack Obama
@ BarackObama
Nov 19, 2024
On December 5, the @ObamaFoundation will host our third annual Democracy Forum focusing on pluralism – how we can disagree deeply while still finding a way to live together.

I hope you’ll tune in at: (Also omitted from post).
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>Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 05, 2025: The Aga Khan, Muslim Spiritual Leader Who Juggled Philanthropy, Business, And Faith, Dead At 88

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)

450 >Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan
Condolences on the Passing of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Agha Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Ismaili community
Islamabad, 5 February 2025
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>Frontline dot thehindu dot com - India’s silence on Aga Khan IV’s passing is an insult to his memory and legacy
By ignoring the death of a Padma Vibhushan who enriched India’s heritage, the Centre disrespected both history and the 1.5 million Ismailis Khan led. Feb. 11, 2025
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Godspeed and Rest in Peace David Horowitz. 🕯🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)

451 This Dugan thing harkens back to Reconstruction.

Here's a scenario:
A murder case brought by Federal authorities in a Klan lynching.
Dugan as a Klan sympathizing judge helping the defendant slip out of the courthouse while the pro-terrorist judge stalls the Federals.

Posted by: Peter B at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (rFj/T)

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