The Morning Report — 5/ 13 /25

Good morning kids. So, President Trump is supposedly in hot water because he accepted the gift of a jumbo jet fromQatar. To be fair, does he as a private citizen who via the Trump Organization owns at least one if not more private jets, jumbo and otherwise, and as POTUS has access to Air Force One and the entire damned Air Force at his disposal really need this? Also, why give your/his enemies a way to attack you in the first place? Surely he and his advisers could've handled this more artfully. Or what am I missing.

On a positive note, after a year and a half being held captive by the subhuman bestial Hamas terrorists, Edan Alexander, the last American hostage was released thanks to the efforts spearheaded by the President, and of course to say nothing of the IDF's latest push to plough Gaza into the Mediterranean.

Unfortunately, the Democrats are looking to remove the DNC vice chair David Camera/Hogg from his position? I guess shoving Bernie Sanders, Titty-Caca Ocasio and Jasmine Crockett in front of the cameras is not the best strategy for winning over the American electorate.

This item on the immigration front jumped out at me, for obvious reasons:

Forty-nine Afrikaners — whose lives are threatened in South Africa — landed in Dulles Airport, Va., on May 12. Another 70,000 mostly poor, rural, white South Africans have applied to join the refugee program. The arrival of the legitimate refugees was greeted with hate and disdain by pro-migration groups and media.
“My read of this is that the administration is trolling the left,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News. He added: “Admitting these few dozen Afrikaners is kind of trolling to get the left to find one immigrant, one refugee group that they don’t want. The numbers are small, but the Episcopal migration service dropped out of the refugee business rather than help these guys. So [Trump’s trolling] is already working.”
Many South Africans have already migrated to Australia, amid the Australian government’s invited inflows of Indians, Arabs, and Chinese to the country. “Australia wants them … Let them go there,” Krikoran said.
Donald Trump has frozen the U.S. refugee program, which was scheduled to import another 125,000 migrants in 2025. His administration is instead promoting policies to force more wealth-generating, wage-boosting investment in workplace productivity.

I can't wait for the usual gaggle of racialists, America-haters and others to trip all over themselves and expose themselves to the American people for their hypocrisy in shrieking about this while defending Hamas terrorists and the Tren de Aragua Illegal alien criminals as victims of President Trump's Hitlerite deportation orders.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

71% of likely voters say they think a free-market economic system is better than socialism. Only 12% of voters say socialism is better. 46% of voters say they do not want to “see a democratic socialist candidate win the next presidential election,” compared to just 31% who say they do.
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Democrats Hope China Beats America in Trade War, Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Socialism
Judge Howell blocked Trump’s order targeting Perkins Coie, defending legal speech—while sidestepping the firm’s partisan misconduct in the 2016 election and beyond.
Court Order Blocking Trump From Targeting Perkins Coie Is Overreach

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

A new lawsuit threatens Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court standing.
A Legal Ft. Sumter
The dismissal of Shira Perlmutter came just days after the termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
Trump Fires Top U.S. Copyright Official as Swamp Purge Continues
In a galling display of statism run amok, New York City has demanded that two Brooklyn landlords pay $160,000 to “relocate” squatters who illegally commandeered their properties. You read that correctly. The tax-thieving city government is demanding that the legitimate property owners pay to relocate the people who trespassed and took over THEIR property.
NYC Demands Property Owners Pay To 'Relocate' Squatters
Democrats are using CBO analysis of the hotly debated budget reconciliation bill to fight President Donald Trump’s proposed historic tax cuts for Americans and efforts to reform programs throughout the federal government, including assuring American taxpayers are not on the hook for illegal aliens’ health care.
Nonpartisan in Name Only: Congressional Budget Office Revealed as Hotbed of Unreliable Left-Wing Activists (Say it ain't so! - jjs)

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The deal was reached after a weekend of negotiations in Switzerland.
U.S., China Release Details Of Agreement To Dramatically Slash Tariffs
Trump’s 90-day tariff pause weakens reshoring, fuels market chaos, and helps China and Wall Street—leaving American factories and workers in the lurch.
Trump’s China Trade Deal: All Bark, No Factory
Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it.
Trump’s Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor
From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.
The War on Landlords

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Derrick Van Orden says it’s sad that his family is in more danger now than when he was ‘chasing down and killing terrorists as a Navy Seal.’
Congressman Says His Family Was Threatened As Leftist Rage Rises
The report’s authors say, “support for political violence – including property destruction and assassination – is not expressed in isolation, but as part of a tightly interconnected belief system.”
Who’s To Blame For The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’?
Firms include those that pledged to eliminate DEI programs as part of agreement with Trump administration.
44 Law Firms Hit With Discrimination Complaint Over Race-Based Internship
With an official charge of discrimination filed against SEO and the law firms, the EEOC now has a statutory duty to investigate.
Exclusive: Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned
Trump pulled Martin's nomination as D.C. attorney general and named him the Justice Department's Weaponization Czar.
Ed Martin Planned To Clean Up DC. Now, He’s Setting His Sights On The Whole Country.

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Forty-nine Afrikaners — whose lives are threatened in South Africa — landed in Dulles Airport, Va., on May 12. Another 70,000 mostly poor, rural, white South Africans have applied to join the refugee program. The arrival of the legitimate refugees was greeted with hate and disdain by pro-migration groups and media.
Episcopal Group Quits Refugee Program over White South African Arrivals
“Would’ve fought the Nazis? Now’s your chance!”
Mob of Leftist Protesters in NYC Compare ICE to Nazis
No more lax treatment of violent illegal immigrants regardless of age.
Illegal Immigrant Youth Gang Members Released After Assaulting NYPD Officers
The left-leaning National Immigration Project alleged in its April 24 lawsuit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had detained a mother named Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela, her 11-year-old daughter and her 2-year-old, who is a U.S. citizen. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Lopez-Villela entered the country illegally three times before she signed a letter agreeing to take her U.S.-born daughter with her to Honduras.
Lawsuit Alleging ICE Deported US Citizen Dropped After Central Claim Falls Apart
The shooting occurred on Riverside Road near the town of Lancaster at night during an alleged robbery attempt. Larisha Sharell Thompson, age 40, was found shot to death in her car.
South Carolina: Six Illegal Migrants Charged with Murdering Woman
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international competition in which participating countries – most Eurovision, but also including some outliers such as Australia, Azerbaijan, and Israel – send an artist to perform an original song. A point system using both popular televotes and a professional jury determines the winner. Israel has been participating in the contest since 1973 and has won four times.
WATCH: Pro-Hamas ‘Protester’ Threatens, Spits Towards October 7 Survivor Competing at Eurovision
The 21-year-old was released after 584 days in captivity.
Last Living American Hostage Edan Alexander Released Following Trump Admin Efforts
Why does Tucker Carlson continue favorably showcasing people who say all the same things Israel’s worst enemies do?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tucker Carlson?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
And the somewhat strange choice of the person allegedly leading the charge.
The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Trump DOE slashes rules targeting stoves, ovens, clothes washers, dishwashers, and shower heads
Free the Gas Stoves: Trump's Energy Department Axes Dozens of Biden Appliance, Energy Regulations
The EV charger program is cut from the same collectivist cloth: a federally funded pipe dream propped up by fearmongering, pork spending, and hubris, not science.
Multiple States Sue Trump Over Tax Cash For EV Charging Stations
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The Good, the Bad, and the Controversial.
School Choice Update
SECOND AMENDMENT
It has become in vogue for leftists to target Glock over the illegal use of the switches. For example, on March 19, 2024, Breitbart News noted that Chicago filed a lawsuit against Glock over the switches, although many of the switches in the U.S. originated in China.
California Democrats Push Bill That Could Ban Glock Handguns
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Dr. Andrew Paquette has discovered algorithms that would allow double voting and that enable a hidden voter tracking system.
An Analysis of Wisconsin Voter Rolls Reveals Evidence of Serious Vulnerabilities
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
In 2018, the Air Force contracted with Boeing to produce two new aircraft, but last year Boeing announced they wouldn’t be ready until 2029.
Political Storm Brews as Trump Admin Considers Gift of Luxury Jet from Qatar
POLITICS
Comedy Gold: Christine Pelosi, a member of the credentials committee and daughter of former House Speaker Malig-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), insisted that the vote to void Hogg’s vice chair election win had nothing to do with politics.
DNC panel votes to void David Camera-Hogg’s election to Democrat vice chair
With neoconservative slugs like Senators Lankford and Tillis, it's surprising that they are still in office or that the Trump Administration has not had more problems from their ilk before now.
With RINOs like Lankford and Tillis, who needs enemies?
Paxton is ahead of Cornyn by 16 percentage points — 56% to 40% — in a two-way poll commissioned by the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), Punchbowl News first reported on Monday. Meanwhile, in a hypothetical three-way matchup with Republican Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt, who is reportedly considering entering the primary contest, Paxton notched 44% of the vote to Cornyn’s 34% and Hunt’s 19%.
AG Paxton Leads Sen. Cornyn By Double Digits In Texas Senate Race, Poll Shows
Fetterman has received intense backlash from his Democrat colleagues over growing concerns about his mental health and for reportedly missing committee hearings. Phillips, who ran against former President Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic Primary, said on “Fox & Friends” that his party needs to show some grace toward Fetterman and be more tolerant toward their colleagues who hold “different perspectives.”
‘Cut Him Some Slack’: Former Dem Presidential Candidate Calls Out His Own Party For Attacking John Fetterman
Voters in the Presbyterian Church USA go back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, but 57% of that denomination’s voters broke for Trump in November. Members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) are all over the map in voting for presidential candidates, but Trump garnered 51% of the vote in that (quasi-)denomination in 2024. Even the ultra-progressive United Church of Christ — Barack Obama’s denomination of choice — gave Trump a slight majority of 51% last year.
New Data Reveals Surprising Trends Among Mainline Protestant Voters
Here’s how they reached their cockamamie conclusion:
New Theory on Why Kamala Harris Lost: Guns & Crime Made It Too Scary for Liberals to Vote!
POPE LEO XIV COMMENTARY
Michael Walsh: The early indications, therefore, are good that Leo's papacy could be both transformative and restorative. The name hearkens back to Leo I, the Great, who faced down Huns and Vandals in the fifth century and eased the Church's transition during the tumultuous transformation that followed the conquest of Rome by Odoacer in 476. That his first official Mass was conducted in Latin, with remarks from the pulpit in both American English and Italian, is encouraging, as was his use of traditional papal robes and choice of residences at the Vatican.
THE COLUMN: American Caesar
Based on their histories, the papal name Leo suggests a unifier willing to take the steps necessary to isolate further dangers to fracturing the Church; will Prevost continue the legacy?
Is the New Pope a Francis in Leo’s Clothing?
What we're seeing with this panic over Pope Leo is precisely the reason why progressives can never actually be devout Catholics.
The Left Discovered The New Pope Is Actually Catholic And They’re Horrified
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Who will the Mullahs blame?
A Huge Fire at the Port of Bandar Abbas
The senators' resolution comes amid concerns of Russian meddling and an unclear administration stance on enrichment
GOP Senators Demand 'Full Dismantlement and Destruction of Iran's Nuclear Program' as Trump Admin Negotiates With Tehran
The president's high-stakes foreign visit comes amid the promise of peace and a Qatari controversy.
Here’s What You Need To Know About Trump’s Middle East Trip
President Donald J. Trump’s bold vision to secure Greenland and unlock the Arctic’s commercial and strategic potential is taking shape, with Finland’s world-leading icebreaker industry ready to answer the call. Having built or designed 80 percent of the world’s icebreakers, the European Union (EU) country offers unmatched expertise to help the U.S. construct a new fleet.“Ice is our playground,” said Mika Hovilainen, CEO of Aker Arctic, a Finnish firm designing ships for Canada, Sweden, and now eyeing American contracts. “We want to be involved in every Western icebreaker,” Hovilainen added, noting his role in designing 10 ships, including one that operates sideways.
Trump Turns to Expert Finns to Build Fleet of Icebreakers, Dominate Arctic from Greenland.
“May Trump come, take the canal in his pocket, and remove all those people from its administration. They are thieves,” one unemployed worker told The Telegraph, echoing the sentiment among laborers who claim Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino prioritizes foreign workers, particularly from a Chinese consortium building the canal’s $1.4 billion fourth bridge. Marvin Moreno, a 42-year-old welder, put it bluntly: “Right now [Trump] is the best option because the president we have is putting Panamanians practically against a wall. He is practically acting as a dictator.”
Panamanians Pushed Out of Canal Work by Foreigners Back U.S. Return.
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Daniel Greenfield: President Trump can undo one of Biden’s worst crimes.
$3.5 Billion From 9/11 Victims Being Held by U.S. for the Taliban
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
I’m shocked the order does not mention patent policy. Want to bring down prices? Reform the drug patent policy!
Trump’s EO Aims to Slash Prescription Drug Costs But Should Address More
Now, a new study has found that nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) — a common class of medications for HIV — could dramatically decrease the risk of developing this neurodegenerative disorder.
Doctors discover drug already on the market ‘could prevent 1 million new cases of Alzheimer’s’ a year
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
NASA has long suffered from shifting political winds, its mission rewritten every few years. This move gives NASA the right goals.
Why Trimming NASA To Focus On The Lunar Space Race Is The Right Move
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
HHS’s new review is a comprehensive and sober reevaluation of the science and ethics of the “gender-affirming” model.
A Long Overdue Return to Reality in Pediatric Gender Medicine
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Box office receipts remain strong but industry still producing epic duds
‘Snow White’ Bombs (Again) … So Does This Action Thriller
HITHER & YON
“Suetonius depicts what is under everyone’s clothes. . . The Lives of the Caesars is a portrait of the political world into which Jesus was born.”
The Horror of Unlimited Freedom

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1 Morning folks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 07:30 AM (NwfFc)

2 Hi, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 07:31 AM (OPGS/)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 07:33 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Trump and Musk meet Crown Prince bin Salman in SA.

No bowing, no phony "world cultured" displays of faux respect we always see from the Dems.

Just a few of guys shanking hands.

You wouldn't know it was two of the richest people in the world and the most powerful man in the world.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 07:34 AM (NwfFc)

5 DoD accepting a jet airliner from Qatar is a bad look. Also, why does AF1 need to be a gigantic plane? Plenty of other, slightly smaller aircraft in the inventory.

Posted by: Don Black at May 13, 2025 07:34 AM (AOsQT)

6 Trump's Energy Department Axes Dozens of Biden Appliance, Energy Regulations

And they will be back when a Democrat is running things.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 07:34 AM (OPGS/)

7 Just a few of guys shanking hands

Knife fighting diplomacy? I like it!

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 07:35 AM (OPGS/)

8 what am I missing
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Pretty much everything because you accepted the media's framing.

Posted by: Sigh at May 13, 2025 07:36 AM (YrUlT)

9 5 DoD accepting a jet airliner from Qatar is a bad look. Also, why does AF1 need to be a gigantic plane? Plenty of other, slightly smaller aircraft in the inventory.

Posted by: Don Black at May 13, 2025 07:34 AM (AOsQT)

The look is - "yes, US, we know that you are the world power, and we are not. Here is a nice plane, no strings. We just want to be your friend and help when we can. Friends do that." Now, the look on Boeing is where we have issues, but we know that already.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 07:36 AM (tOcjL)

10
New Data Reveals Surprising Trends Among Mainline Protestant Voters

All 15 of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 07:37 AM (QnmlO)

11 On a positive note, after a year and a half being held captive by the subhuman bestial Hamas terrorists, Dan Alexander, the last American hostage was released thanks to the efforts spearheaded by the President, and of course to say nothing of the IDF's latest push to plough Gaza into the Mediterranean.

I landed in Tel Aviv at 10. Festivities started at 6.

I have still never seen, on American television, the footage that was displayed - within hours - on all the networks in Israel. Including CNN International.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:39 AM (ltlJ/)

12 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

13
Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

It's your turn to bring donuts. Did you forget?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 07:40 AM (QnmlO)

14 Don't need any more immigrants - no matter where they are from or what color their skin is. Sorry South Africa sucks but not our problem.

Posted by: Diabeetus at May 13, 2025 07:41 AM (SawFp)

15 Surely he and his advisers could've handled this more artfully. Or what am I missing.
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That the media reports are flat-out lies.

Check the post by Insty yesterday evening, quoting Buzz Patterson.
The plane goes to the Dept. of Defense, not the Office of President and absolutely not to Trump.

Bottom line: The same people that cheered when Biden left billions of dollars in equipment and dozens of lives littering the ground when he ran from Afghanistan are now pretending to be upset that Trump saved America $400 million on a interim upgrade for AF1.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 07:41 AM (NwfFc)

16 The numbers are small, but the Episcopal migration service dropped out of the refugee business rather than help these guys. So [Trump’s trolling] is already working.”

Hence why I insist on a secular government. Because bureaucrats are awful people. And religious advocates have proven themselves no better.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:42 AM (ltlJ/)

17 The new plane from Qatar, a country that supports terrorism? Wouldn't trust it even if CIA combed it for bugs and DOGE checks every electronic instrument and every line of code.

Posted by: Diabeetus at May 13, 2025 07:42 AM (SawFp)

18 "Or what am I missing."

The media twists everything to suit their agenda?

Posted by: fd at May 13, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

19 I am still not sure who the idiot was that thought Edan Alexander could hop on a plane immediately after being handed over a d fly to Qatar to meet PDT.

The guy could hardly walk.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:43 AM (NVNRw)

20 happy not monday horde

even if it feels like monday part deux, electric boogaloo....

off to the content!

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 13, 2025 07:43 AM (nXhwP)

21 Ah-a-ah!
Ah-a-ah!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

Posted by: Afrikaners at May 13, 2025 07:44 AM (Aqu9a)

22 19 I am still not sure who the idiot was that thought Edan Alexander could hop on a plane immediately after being handed over a d fly to Qatar to meet PDT.

The guy could hardly walk.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:43 AM (NVNRw)

I'm betting Edan asked to do it...you tend to want to thank the guy who saves your life.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

23 I am hopeful that this Quatar 747 gambit is to provide cover for Trump to pay Boeing more money to get the offical upgrade finished more quickly. It would cost who- knows-what to get the Quatar jet into AF1 service. That money could be sent Boeings way to speed things up.

Posted by: crabgrassframer at May 13, 2025 07:45 AM (CTUih)

24 "President Trump is supposedly in hot water because he accepted the gift of a jumbo jet fromQatar."
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Rest easy on the jet it's secure at Kelly AFB, San Antonio.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 07:45 AM (xYplz)

25 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tucker Carlson?

==

I guess people noticed, huh.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 07:45 AM (g47mK)

26 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 07:46 AM (77rzZ)

27 Air Force One is 41 years old.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 07:46 AM (OzWW4)

28 Trump is accepting the plane because Boeing has failed to deliver on a replacement for af1 on contracts it signed sometime in the early aughts.

And pretty much has no delivery date for the replacement.

So this plane will be refitted to turn it into af1 until such time Boeing can get its sh*t together.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2025 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)

29 Nova Local, I have to disagree. His parents were in Israel and there was no doubt he needed medical attention .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:46 AM (NVNRw)

30 "the vote to void Hogg’s vice chair election win had nothing to do with politics."

This is so great all around. What a bunch of holes.

Posted by: fd at May 13, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

31 #16 weren't you the same guy who took 20+ years to finally grasp the meaning of "quagmire?
The first thing the Taliban did when they regained power was to ban all opium production.
Our allies in Kabul were the heroin dealers. Just like in Vietnam

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at May 13, 2025 07:47 AM (rNu4S)

32 nbc was absolutely racist in their coverage of the south african refugee story last night.

it was ALL about how trump is allowing the WHITE farmers in but BLACK africans in.

the reporter practically said he's only letting whites in because he's racist.

i nearly smashed the tv...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 13, 2025 07:47 AM (nXhwP)

33 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tucker Carlson?

The first step is admitting who they are. Rich, and NorthEast.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:48 AM (ltlJ/)

34 It is well and good to celebrate the young soldier freed from the savages in Gaza. But it is all so unnecessary. Wipe out the inbreds in Gaza and prevent them from ever having hostages again. Enough with the back and forth, ping pong, see saw we bomb you you bomb us nonsense going on for over 77 years already. Israel needs to wipe out the vermin and be done with it.

Posted by: Zombie Gen. Curtis LeMay, Jap Killer at May 13, 2025 07:48 AM (xofCm)

35 What food chain?

Posted by: David Hogg at May 13, 2025 07:48 AM (i0F8b)

36 Overreach, the word of our time. Good thing the GOP practices underreach, to balance things out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 07:48 AM (vsTPo)

37 Forget where i saw this, but i think the breakdown was that it would take $400m and an open ended schedule to get the Boeing plane spun up, and $100k and weeks or months to get the Qatari plane into service. And that the current plane is compromised and unsatisfactory for some undisclosed reason. (Fatigue? Obsolete tech devices? Biden fonk all up in everything?)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 07:49 AM (yvnLa)

38 I'm betting Edan asked to do it...you tend to want to thank the guy who saves your life.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

LOL

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 07:49 AM (g47mK)

39 From the "School Choice Update" link:

Groups that benefited most from EdChoice were blacks, boys, students who experienced long-term childhood poverty, and students with below-median test scores before leaving public school.

But since those children are not getting good results from the Holy Agents of the State, such programs must be destroyed and equity achieved.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 07:49 AM (OPGS/)

40 29 Nova Local, I have to disagree. His parents were in Israel and there was no doubt he needed medical attention .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:46 AM (NVNRw)

And he's his own man. Having seen all the other hostage rescues Trump has pulled off, every one has wanted to thank the man. And after what Eden went through, he may have wanted to do it in person.

AKA - no one is telling the just released adult hostage no if he really wants to do something. Instead, they are trying to make it as feasible as possible...I'm sure they offered a phone call, but meeting someone is more. Look at the pope and Easter - he blew off knowing that was a horrible idea...and while he's no longer with us, I'm sure he does not regret it now...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

41 no, it was not Edan, it was Trump who thought it was an excellent photo op. Edan refused to go. He did not know he was being released until the moment when he was released.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 07:51 AM (g47mK)

42 The plane isn't a gift to Trump but to the government, and for subsequent president. Trump isn't taking it with him back to Mar a Lago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 07:51 AM (vsTPo)

43 I can't believe the US let in all those boat people as refugees and not one single Charlie.

Bigots.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (yvnLa)

44 runner, I'll bet it was Witkoff.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (NVNRw)

45 So, President Trump is supposedly in hot water because he accepted the gift of a jumbo jet from Qatar.

The people screaming about this are almost certainly lying. They may have given it to Trump but it would be received by the US. There's some limit on the value of gifts the President can personally receive and, as we all know, Trump is a rule follower.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

46 If they had given the plane to Biden would you think any different?

Posted by: fd at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

47 old and busted : million dollar platinum, diamond and ruby encrusted Rolex

New Hotness : 400B Boeing 747 with gold encrusted doorknobs

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 07:53 AM (g47mK)

48 There's a complicated reason behind the Qatari jet being "gifted" to the administration. It boils down to a multi-year delay in delivery of two, newer 747's that are being converted to Air Force 1's. The contract was originally set to deliver at least one jet last year, IIRC... but now won't deliver it until after Trump leaves office. He's unhappy with that. The existing AF-1's are pretty outdated, requiring extensive maintenance before and after each flight too.

I think the Qatari jet's already tricked out for VIP's so that part's done... unless Trump has it gutted. But the "cost savings" here is that this plane isn't costing the taxpayers anything. And the installation of all the comms, defensive systems, etc. will still end up costing hundreds of millions and take considerable time.

I think in the end it will be the security services that have some say in how this plays out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

49 I like it frankly ... lets have a full accounting of everyone - House, Senate, Supreme Court, Judiciary, that has accepted any foreign gift. Lets do it all now. And let the chips fall where they may.

I don't know how you value Elaine Chow as a gift to Mitch McConnell - but lets get the pencils moving on this.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:54 AM (ltlJ/)

50 I hope Trump rattle cans over the seal with a big gold free-hand T and tries to keep the thing when his term is up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 07:54 AM (yvnLa)

51 You all are matching the weather this morning...
All good news yesterday, so it's a good start to the day.

China is bending, Qatar wants to be friends, Hamas is cowering, refugee services are canceling contracts of their own free will, stock market was up, spring is here, my kid has a job...

I mean, yes, it's raining...but c'mon. Life in Trump's America is good this week. Be happy.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

52 runner, I'll bet it was Witkoff.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (NVNRw)

Maybe..he does not strike me as particularly bright. But Trump must have known about it, since Witkoff was supposed to be with him in Saudi. And then took a detour.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 07:54 AM (g47mK)

53 The 2 current AF1s are 1987 vintage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 07:55 AM (OzWW4)

54 So if David is kicked out of the DNC does he have to move back in with his parents?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 07:55 AM (OPGS/)

55 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 07:56 AM (QMyMX)

56 Trump’s 90-day tariff pause weakens reshoring, fuels market chaos, and helps China and Wall Street—leaving American factories and workers in the lurch.

Ah, Trump is stupid and bad again. Another day ending in 'y' for 'conservative' media.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

57 The 2 current AF1s are 1987 vintage.

I've been reliably told everything in the 80s was perfect.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:57 AM (ltlJ/)

58 Memory lane trip involving airplanes. In the early 70s, the DC Air Guard had a Lockheed Constellation in their inventory, and used it for twice a month logistic flights up and down the east coast. I took a hop a couple times to Cherry Point and back. It was a hand me down from the 89th. I don't know if it ever flew as AF1 but it was very plush, like first class throughout. The Air Guard crew acting as stewards served up beer on the return leg.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 13, 2025 07:57 AM (gm9Sb)

59 Never look a gift airplane in the mouth, or something.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 13, 2025 07:58 AM (Aqu9a)

60 People still watch NBC?

Posted by: Hunh at May 13, 2025 07:58 AM (dg+HA)

61 Never look a gift airplane in the mouth, or something.

If the gift airplane has a mouth, go ahead and take a peak. Just to be sure.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:58 AM (ltlJ/)

62 Regarding the Qatar 747, while I still think it's a bad idea, there seem to be some clarifications here to set things in order:

https://tinyurl.com/468m68ru

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 13, 2025 07:59 AM (lkmGL)

63 Hey y'all

Something tells me the same press that is outraged by this plane won't have any problem flying in it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (NmwHz)

64 61 Never look a gift airplane in the mouth, or something.

If the gift airplane has a mouth, go ahead and take a peak. Just to be sure.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 07:58 AM (ltlJ/)

Trump had a funny Sam Snead golf analogy about "if you get given a putt, you always take the putt" - only idiots try to putt out if your playing partner gives it to you...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (tOcjL)

65 Writers who want to be taken seriously should avoid phrases such as, "a bombshell lawsuit" or 'breaking news' and exclamatories such as 'astounding' and 'fantastic'. Write a good sentence (American Thinker) and your audience will appreciate it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (xYplz)

66 They are running a trillion dollar deficit and we can't afford a new af1 or any support ships for the navy or sealift command.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (OzWW4)

67 Watch that little chinless goober try to get a job at the RNC now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (yvnLa)

68 and your audience will appreciate it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:00 AM (xYplz)

Slam, Blast, and Bonk are right out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:01 AM (yvnLa)

69 > The 2 current AF1s are 1987 vintage.
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I don't even think that there are 747-200's (the model each AF-1 is built from) in service anymore. Certainly not with any US based airline.

Maybe FedEx, UPS or some other cargo company still flies them?

Point being, spare parts for AF-1 are currently hard to find. Unless the USAF is scrounging around the "boneyard."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

70 Good morning JJ, Horde

The hysteria about the Boers isn't just about their skin color.

The serious communists know the Boers shoot the groups of blacks who invade their homes at two in the morning.

Boers are walking, talking examples of people who resist white guilt propaganda and white genocide. And the reds can't have that message spreading in America.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (rrE7W)

71 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

72 Illegal immigration is the suck.

I really don't have much of a problem accepting people who are in real danger of being necklaced though.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (NmwHz)

73 Today is a new day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Being gifted an airplane worth hundreds of millions of dollars sounds like a First World Problem.
Perhaps CBD can que it up for Sunday.

Posted by: But that's just me at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (dg+HA)

75 Trump had a funny Sam Snead golf analogy about "if you get given a putt, you always take the putt" - only idiots try to putt out if your playing partner gives it to you...

Makes sense ... zero reward, all risk.

UNLESS - the "putt" has teeth around the hole. Then I'd take pause.

Although, I'm a man. So teeth haven't scared me as much as they should.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (ltlJ/)

76 And China keeps bending...from Zerohedge (if it's in the digest, I admit, I missed it)...

"China lifted a month-long ban on Boeing jet deliveries for all domestic carriers just one day after a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter."

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:02 AM (tOcjL)

77 They ceased production in like 1991.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:03 AM (OzWW4)

78 DoD accepting a jet airliner from Qatar is a bad look.

Why?

Also, why does AF1 need to be a gigantic plane?

It needs to be big enough for the President to, literally, live aboard for an extended period with family, staff, and media included. It has, I believe, the capability for in-flight refueling, massive secure communications and military countermeasures.

It's not just transport.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

79 On the 747 controversy that has turned last week's due process experts into this week's aeronautical engineering experts: One thing that hasn't been remarked upon is part of the delay in Boeing's delivery of the next Air Force 1 (using airframes which were originally built for Russia!) is the FAA.

Under FAA regulations, those aircraft... even before they have even flown ... will need to be completely taken apart and reassembled as part of scheduled maintenance. The schedule for which is based on when the airframes were constructed, whether they've been flown or not. Boeing tried to get a waiver on the very logical basis that the planes haven't been flown yet, but was denied.

The realistic date for first flight is not 2029, but no earlier than 2032.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 13, 2025 08:04 AM (DIweC)

80 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (53oGX)

81 Regarding this trade "breakthrough" with China, I would invoke and amend Reagan's caution.. "Don't trust, verify."

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (vsTPo)

82 It's your turn to bring donuts. Did you forget?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 07:40 AM (QnmlO)

Bringing donuts if for plebes. Back when I worked in the office, I brought kolaches.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

83 Also, why does AF1 need to be a gigantic plane?

Posted by: Don Black at May 13, 2025 07:34 AM (AOsQT)
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The President needs space:

https://youtu.be/hgqiIIUAj2o

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (lkmGL)

84 Trump caves. China bends.

Is anybody "reporting" this stuff as just plain old boring successful negotiation between two parties?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (yvnLa)

85 It needs to be big enough for the President to, literally, live aboard for an extended period with family, staff, and media included.

Meh ... on this, I agree with the original question. If the President is airborne, and suddenly can't land anywhere in four to eight hours ?

Then I don't give a shit. He's just a man. Shit has become bad enough on the ground that The Preezy up in the air no longer matters in the big scheme.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (ltlJ/)

86 Also idly thinking about the plane...

Some cultures take great offense at refusing gifts. Not sure if that's part of the calculus in all of this.

Whatever though. The Smithsonian has an entire exhibit and archive of gifts sent to the Presidents over the years. This one doesn't bug me all that much. If the Qataris are trying to curry favor then they are bribing the wrong guy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:06 AM (NmwHz)

87 "I'm fine with that. "

"I'm fine with that too. "

"You bastards!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:06 AM (yvnLa)

88 >>>Whether John Roberts can survive such an assault on his ethics and remain on the Court is questionable. Roberts will be forced to consider voluntary resignation or subjecting himself to a potential impeachment if it’s revealed he is deeply complicit in conspiring with the Democrat lawmakers. To be sure, the allegations against Roberts, if not disproved, will continue to hover over him and his legacy as a dark cloud without a silver lining.
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Steven Miller will be a vicious prosecutor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:06 AM (xYplz)

89 I am hopeful that this Quatar 747 gambit is to provide cover for Trump to pay Boeing more money to get the offical upgrade finished more quickly. It would cost who- knows-what to get the Quatar jet into AF1 service. That money could be sent Boeings way to speed things up.
Posted by: crabgrassframer at May 13, 2025 07:45 AM (CTUih)

We could go faster by leaving these retaining bolts out of the doors. -- Boeing

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

90 hether John Roberts can survive such an assault on his ethics and remain on the Court is questionable.

He won't be able to survive the adoption of those two kids. Start there.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 08:07 AM (ltlJ/)

91 His two mail order brides?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:09 AM (OzWW4)

92 AF1 stewards used to frequent the NCO Open Mess casual bar. The guys would always show up with a bunch of Presidential cigarettes, which everybody just smoked. Should have put a few packs away. A pack of Marlboros with the Presidential seal and Nixon's autograph might be worth a couple bucks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 13, 2025 08:09 AM (gm9Sb)

93 ***Who’s To Blame For The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’?
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Leftist DAs, prosecutors and judges who let them get away with it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:10 AM (xYplz)

94 36 Overreach, the word of our time. Good thing the GOP practices underreach, to balance things out.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 07:48 AM (vsTPo)

Reach-Around...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2025 08:10 AM (x0n13)

95 There are some videos on YouTube about AF-1... historical videos, not movies. The amount of comms gear, defensive measures and so on is mind boggling. They're designed to stay in the air, if need be, for days while being refueled by USAF tanker aircraft.

The communications gear alone just staggers the imagination. The defensive measures that are not classified do too.

A buddy of mine flew AF-2 (used by VP and cabinet members) some decades ago. These are not by any means, "normal" aircraft.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

96 >>>Whether John Roberts can survive such an assault on his ethics and remain on the Court is questionable. Roberts will be forced to consider voluntary resignation or subjecting himself to a potential impeachment if it’s revealed he is deeply complicit in conspiring with the Democrat lawmakers. To be sure, the allegations against Roberts, if not disproved, will continue to hover over him and his legacy as a dark cloud without a silver lining.
---

Steven Miller will be a vicious prosecutor.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:06 AM (xYplz)

The gangster of love?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 13, 2025 08:11 AM (Aqu9a)

97 If they had given the plane to Biden would you think any different?
Posted by: fd at May 13, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

Knowing Biden, I'd wonder what the quid was.

Other than that... no.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

98 AF1 stewards used to frequent the NCO Open Mess casual bar. The guys would always show up with a bunch of Presidential cigarettes, which everybody just smoked. Should have put a few packs away. A pack of Marlboros with the Presidential seal and Nixon's autograph might be worth a couple bucks.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 13, 2025 08:09 AM (gm9Sb)

Challenge cigarettes.

"Man, he has POTUS Marlboros. Guess he wins. All I have are cigarettes from the PX at Fort Huachuca."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:11 AM (NmwHz)

99 "Suetonius depicts what is under everyone’s clothes. . . The Lives of the Caesars is a portrait of the political world into which Jesus was born."

I have an illustrated version of the Robert Graves translation. Perhaps I'll re-read it this week.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:12 AM (Dg2sF)

100 What good is 10% of a stolen airplane?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:12 AM (OzWW4)

101 Did they give out Virginia Slims when jugears was in office?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (yvnLa)

102 The NBA has a credibility problem.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (rJ48h)

103 Big Trump Action Goes Mostly Unnoticed
worst hitler ever
Chris Bray
May 13, 2025
https://shorturl.at/NkxNI
Chris Bray substack

About the "Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations" EO. Notice who he quotes...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (Vqx30)

104 And that the current plane is compromised and unsatisfactory for some undisclosed reason. (Fatigue? Obsolete tech devices? Biden fonk all up in everything?)
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How about the red-lined, plane-shaking, over-the-limits frantic midnight flight from Vegas to DC that Biden took?
After lining up every available emergency and police escort on the tarmac at Harry Reid International?
A report that none in the media are willing to discuss?

You take a 40 year old car and red-line it for 3 hours and tell me if you're still going to trust it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (NwfFc)

105 84 Trump caves. China bends.

Is anybody "reporting" this stuff as just plain old boring successful negotiation between two parties?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (yvnLa)

Does China see it as "negotiate" ever? That's not really a societal concept for their version of communism...it's more they bend or you do...and if they bend, they sure don't publicize it, which is why all this news 1st comes out quietly, if at all...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (tOcjL)

106 His two mail order brides?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:09 AM (OzWW4)

Oh, I don't think so. I have no doubt that John Roberts supplies those two little Irish kids as perfect an upbringing as he can.

The only problem is, they whisked the Momma' away to South America. Because Irish law is pretty strict about adoption.

Not the kind of thing you'd expect from a Supreme Court Chief Justice. Exactly the kind of thing I'd ram up his ass ... assuming you wanted to get rid of the guy. Which I do.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 08:14 AM (ltlJ/)

107 Chairman Heshe bent the knee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:14 AM (OzWW4)

108 The NBA has a credibility problem.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 13, 2025 08:13 AM (rJ48h)

What, WWE scripting of the 'lottery' so Dallas gets the #1 pick with a 1.8% chance in return for the worst trade in NBA, if not sports, history to try and get LeBitch and his talent free son in the championship series doesn't seem legit to you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

109 "To deny the appeal leaves the chief justice, the Court, and the Judicial Branch, subject to the appearance of impropriety and of having something to hide."

So what. Do they care? I wonder. With something this close to the bone, denial of the appeal seems automatic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 08:15 AM (vsTPo)

110 Hogg wants to take the money from the DNC then stab it in the back with his PAC. he should do the honorable thing and resign to go run his special interest group.

It is a volunteer position. He's not taking anything from the DNC. He’s also not doing anything against the DNC rules. He’s not even doing anything other vice chairs haven’t done.

Systems resist change and will resort to ratfuckery if necessary. This isn't going to end well for anyone. Hopefully cooler heads prevail.

it was ratfuckery that helped Hogg get elected. Glad to see the DNC might do the right thing and hold another fair election.

The election was rightly challenged, and wrongly ignored. DNC broke its rules on gender diversity in party officer elections, invalidating the election of Hogg and a second vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta.

If he hadn't rocked the boat, there would be no talk of a new election.

The Headline needs to be re-written: DNC tired of shooting itself in the electoral foot and is now targeting more vital organs.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 13, 2025 08:16 AM (ycI94)

111 The 2 current AF1s are 1987 vintage.

I've been reliably told everything in the 80s was perfect.
Posted by: John Murphy

High school girls were.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 08:16 AM (QMyMX)

112 Ten bucks says that the ANC's chant of "Kill the Boer!" gets handwaved away as "part of their culture" when the Left tries to claim Afrikaaners have white privilege.

(Watched a short documentary last month on how a criminal gang basically runs South African prisons. The legal system is pretty much powerless over there.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (Wt5PA)

113 96 Some people call him Maurice.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (rrE7W)

114 They were a lot cuter in those days and didn't dress like hobos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (OzWW4)

115 Hogg wants to take the money from the DNC then stab it in the back with his PAC. he should do the honorable thing and resign to go run his special interest group.

He's already doing that, you fool. Hogg is out for one thing: Hogg.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

116 High school girls were.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 08:16 AM (QMyMX)

Before he went perv - Heinlein wrote in Starship Troopers that he assumed a male armadillo thought the female of his species at the time also could not be improved upon.

Posted by: John Murphy at May 13, 2025 08:18 AM (ltlJ/)

117 "Man, he has POTUS Marlboros. Guess he wins. All I have are cigarettes from the PX at Fort Huachuca."

That reminds me of an old Bennett Cerf story where someone wanted to send a letter to the fort, but couldn't remember how to spell the name. So they addressed it to "Fort Gesundheit, Arizona."

It got there.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:19 AM (Dg2sF)

118 It's National Apple Pie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

119 Stephen Miller is the exact person I've wanted to see in a Republican administration my entire life. A supremely confident, informed, slashing, unflappable and often disarmingly witty bringer of truth and pain.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 08:20 AM (vsTPo)

120 That reminds me of an old Bennett Cerf story where someone wanted to send a letter to the fort, but couldn't remember how to spell the name. So they addressed it to "Fort Gesundheit, Arizona."

It got there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:19 AM (Dg2sF)

Ha! That's awesome.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:20 AM (WfZMN)

121 Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 08:20 AM (vsTPo)

Yes; He's very enjoyable to listen to.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:21 AM (rge5h)

122 And with regards to Leo XIV - Ann Barnhardt, who is utterly rad-trad, despises him and says he's just as bad as Frankie Fabulous, with the added problem that he is smarter and more intelligent than Frank was.

I'm waiting, myself. But I'm not holding out any hope. The Church needs another Urban II, but we'll never have one again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:22 AM (Dg2sF)

123 Hogg wants to take the money from the DNC then stab it in the back with his PAC. he should do the honorable thing and resign to go run his special interest group.

He's already doing that, you fool. Hogg is out for one thing: Hogg.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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The name kind of gives it away...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 13, 2025 08:22 AM (7fElN)

124 “Admitting these few dozen Afrikaners is kind of trolling to get the left to find one immigrant, one refugee group that they don’t want. The numbers are small, but the Episcopal migration service dropped out of the refugee business rather than help these guys. So [Trump’s trolling] is already working.”

Many South Africans have already migrated to Australia, amid the Australian government’s invited inflows of Indians, Arabs, and Chinese to the country. “Australia wants them … Let them go there,” Krikoran said.

This is one cynical mfer.

There have been numerous massacres of white South African farmers on their own property over the last few decades.

If any group on the planet deserves an asylum claim for being threatened, and persecuted it’s white South Africans.

Why in the world shouldn’t we take some when they’ve only been offered asylum by the Aussies and the Russians.

We are going to continue receiving some immigrants every year for the foreseeable future for all kinds of reasons.

Are we allowed to pick and choose who will assimilate the best in this country or do we just let anybody in based on melatonin content and political fashion statements?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

125 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 08:25 AM (ypFCm)

126
Bringing donuts if for plebes. Back when I worked in the office, I brought kolaches.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

I stop at Kolache Factory after Mass, since I fast after midnight. Two Polish hot kolaches and a large coffee. Excellent.

Unsuccessful kolaches have the wrong kind of bread. It has to be that soft, dense, sweet bread for the best results.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 08:26 AM (QnmlO)

127 109 "To deny the appeal leaves the chief justice, the Court, and the Judicial Branch, subject to the appearance of impropriety and of having something to hide."
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So what. Do they care? I wonder. With something this close to the bone, denial of the appeal seems automatic.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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This is portent of more pressure. Layer by layer slowly causing the public to doubt Roberts. Roberts may fold from embarrassment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:27 AM (xYplz)

128 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:22 AM (Dg2sF)

Ann Barnardt has no more sure fire ESP than anyone else. I think it's good to have the wait and see approach.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:27 AM (rge5h)

129 I worked with a guy who would bring donuts to the office every Thursday.

He told me he would get one oddball donut in the mix. You know, the kind with pink frosting and sprinkles. He said he'd time how long it would remain the last donut in the box.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:28 AM (WfZMN)

130 *melanin content

Yes, I’m blaming the autocucumber, again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:28 AM (6ydKt)

131
And with regards to Leo XIV - Ann Barnhardt, who is utterly rad-trad, despises him and says he's just as bad as Frankie Fabulous, with the added problem that he is smarter and more intelligent than Frank was.

I'm waiting, myself. But I'm not holding out any hope. The Church needs another Urban II, but we'll never have one again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 08:22 AM (Dg2sF)

Ann Barnhardt - amusing as she is - is someone you date thinking you've found a nice Catholic girl until one day she burns you at the stake for forgetting her birthday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 08:29 AM (QnmlO)

132 “ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 14:27

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 08:29 AM (MTzAs)

133 Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 08:29 AM

Thank you, Marcus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:30 AM (rge5h)

134 Are we allowed to pick and choose who will assimilate the best in this country or do we just let anybody in based on melatonin content and political fashion statements?

I remember when the Obama Administration denied the asylum application of a White German Christian family whose crime was wanting to homeschool their kids.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 08:30 AM (OPGS/)

135 I stop at Kolache Factory after Mass, since I fast after midnight. Two Polish hot kolaches and a large coffee. Excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Is that why you sit in the last row, because your rumbling, empty, stomach would disturb fellow parishioners?

Posted by: Sit In Own Pew, Myself at May 13, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

136 96 Some people call him Maurice.
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:17 AM (rrE7W)

Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:32 AM (6ydKt)

137 I don't have any apple pie

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 08:32 AM (ypFCm)

138 135 I stop at Kolache Factory after Mass, since I fast after midnight. Two Polish hot kolaches and a large coffee. Excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Is that why you sit in the last row, because your rumbling, empty, stomach would disturb fellow parishioners?
Posted by: Sit In Own Pew, Myself at May 13, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

Yom Kippur, evening service right before going home to break the fast!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2025 08:33 AM (x0n13)

139 Hey, MP4, did you see the art on Saturday? Your kind of woman, methinks.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

140 I remember when the Obama Administration denied the asylum application of a White German Christian family whose crime was wanting to homeschool their kids.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 08:30 AM (OPGS/)

—-

How did that work out for that family?
Last I heard they were fighting their deportation, but I haven’t seen anything since.

Are they still here, or back in Germany?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:34 AM (6ydKt)

141 MSM and “experts” for the past 2 months: Tarriffs will spike inflation

Today: inflation unexpectedly falls

Weird how that works.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 08:34 AM (d4dD2)

142 It's not remotely apple season. Why is Apple Pie Day today? That's stupid!

Posted by: Apple Annie at May 13, 2025 08:35 AM (G5+As)

143 The real story of the Qatar 747.

Not as sexy as Trump corruptly taking a plane from Qatar but it is true so there's that.

https://tinyurl.com/4hyf4kxf

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:35 AM (viF8m)

144 good morning! ok my idiotic FB peeps ... here's one today:

"Crickets on the refugees arriving today? What happened to the outrage of immigrants?
Your silence is deafening"

wtf you insane loon. have you not noticed no one responds to your political posts, ever, at all?

do they all assume no one responds to them because they are SO RIGHT?!? never that no one wants to poke the crazy cocaine bear?

anyway! I'd host one of these families, happily.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:35 AM (Pv3Rg)

145 Good Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at May 13, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

146 > Hogg wants to take the money from the DNC then stab it in the back with his PAC. he should do the honorable thing and resign to go run his special interest group.
---------
"Spaghetti Arms" Hogg made the mistake of publicly saying he was going to use PAC monies to primary sitting Democrats whom he felt were not sufficiently woke. Whether this was something others in the DNC were behind is debatable, but it caused a ruckus.

Rank-and-file Democrats are feeling the heat from their woke ranks and don't like it one bit. TFB

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

147 142 It's not remotely apple season. Why is Apple Pie Day today? That's stupid!

very true

you could do strawberries maybe although mine are for sure not ready

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

148 147 142 It's not remotely apple season. Why is Apple Pie Day today? That's stupid!

It's blackberry season. We've got them everywhere.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 08:37 AM (vsTPo)

149 Would February 29 be Mock Apple Pie day?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (WfZMN)

150 The plane issue is a great sound bite for the media to misrepresent, I do feel like the Trump org should have seen it coming and been more prepared. AF1 is 40 years old. Boeing can’t get their act together and won’t deliver the one on order until something crazy like 2029. Qatar isn’t giving Trump anything, they are loaning it to the US. The next president gets to use it, too, until Boeing delivers the plane they should be making but are doing other things. We should ask why Boeing after the space debacle, but my guess is that the plane is paid for already. By the way, when Vance is on the plane, it will be AF2.

Posted by: Piper at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (QzINz)

151 “ Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:30 AM (rge5h)”

Amen. And may the peace, love, comfort and truth of our Lord and Savior bless you all this day.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (MTzAs)

152 Are they still here, or back in Germany?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:34 AM

Looks like they got an extension to stay here until October of this year.

Posted by: Bert G at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (VARTN)

153 Bringing donuts if for plebes. Back when I worked in the office, I brought kolaches.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Sorry. At $3.95 a kolache, cow orkers aren't worth it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (QMyMX)

154 Polk Salad Annie > Apple Annie

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

155 Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (MTzAs)

And with you also, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:39 AM (rge5h)

156 128 Ann Barnhardt has a 90% plus accuracy rate, FenelonSpoke. She and Alex Jones were the earliest voices warning people against taking the Covid shots.

My top, vetted, go-to people for accurate, early news are all somewhere between concerned to deeply concerned about Leo XIV.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:39 AM (rrE7W)

157 Would February 29 be Mock Apple Pie day?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

February 30th.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 08:39 AM (QMyMX)

158 "Spaghetti Arms" Hogg made the mistake of publicly saying he was going to use PAC monies to primary sitting Democrats whom he felt were not sufficiently woke. Whether this was something others in the DNC were behind is debatable, but it caused a ruckus.

Weight lifting friend of mine refers to such people as "Pasta Guns."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Hey Bulg, are you still around?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:40 AM (WfZMN)

160 As far as the donated plane:
- Air Force is aging, and it can't be replaced for 8-10 years.
- This plane is smaller - gives him a reason to keep most of the press off it.
- Most importantly - as a gift to HIM, he can decide who maintains/pilots it. I've long been suspicious The Deep State would LOVE to arrange an "accident" on AF1. With this plane, HE is in control of who has access.
- ALL donations to a president or his family, above a certain value, go to the government. He can USE it, but he cannot take it with him. So, he is not profiting from accepting it.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at May 13, 2025 08:41 AM (7Rs+y)

161 @124

>>Are we allowed to pick and choose who will assimilate the best in this country or do we just let anybody in based on melatonin content and political fashion statements?

No, the immigration act of '65 altered immigration policy away from first world immigration, ie the Anglosphere and Europe and re-oriented it to the the third world.

So, White South African's are not part of our current immigration paradigm.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2025 08:42 AM (XV/Pl)

162 "Crickets on the refugees arriving today? What happened to the outrage of immigrants?
Your silence is deafening"

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:35 AM (Pv3Rg)

—

These are legal immigrants invited in and facilitated by our government.

The “refugees” she’s trying to compare them to come in illegally, and are then called refugees after the fact, so the Dems can fast track them into voting Dem for the rest of their subsidized lives.

And they’re not even refugees.
They’re economic migrants who are fleeing the shithole countries they helped to create by voting socialist at every opportunity.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:42 AM (6ydKt)

163 My Hate Feed is actually running a headline, "China Calls Trump's Bluff on Tariffs."

That's almost as delicious as the reports that the Democrats are consulting Bil Krystol and other Bulwark luminaries on how to win back middle class men.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (NwfFc)

164 Given Trump's "convicted felon" status, I'm surprised there's no mention of the gifted 747 being "Con Air".

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (Aqu9a)

165 The fact that the new plane started in the Owebama admin and is STILL 4 to 6 years out shows what an incompetent bunch of boobs Boeing is.

IMHO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

166 The plane is not being given to Trump. It's being given to the DOD.

Seriously, how long are we going to go through falling for every dipshit lie the left tells before stopping, taking a minute and letting the real story come out?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (viF8m)

167 No, the immigration act of '65 altered immigration policy away from first world immigration, ie the Anglosphere and Europe and re-oriented it to the the third world.

what if ... what if Big Orange is trying to recenter that policy BACK

how wonderful that would be

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (Pv3Rg)

168 Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:39 AM (rrE7W)

Well, I am really affected by what the Pope says or does. I just know that there are a number of thoughtful, intelligent people here whose posts I appreciate who are saying "I'm going to wait and see." And I'm sure they're also praying which is a very good thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2025 08:44 AM (rge5h)

169 159 Yeah, WD, I’m here.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (77rzZ)

170 you pray for a new pope

yesh Fen - it's wait and see

Augustinians are nowhere near as marxist as Jesuits.

they're good guys usually, especially the ones at Nova

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (Pv3Rg)

171 If president Trump is trolling the left with that gift from Qatar, it also trolled the hell out of me.

Qatar funds Hamas. They fund anti-American activities on our campuses. They are our enemy.

President Trump is making a mistake.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (LjcqP)

172
That's almost as delicious as the reports that the Democrats are consulting Bil Krystol and other Bulwark luminaries on how to win back middle class men.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 08:43 AM (NwfFc)

My fav is the Man Boy Lincoln Project crying about Trump possibly suspending habeas corpus, completely missing the fact that the man their 'movement' is named after did it, and it's perfectly legal.

Rick Wilson is the Bill Kristol of Taylor Lorenz's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

173 @167

>>what if ... what if Big Orange is trying to recenter that policy BACK how wonderful that would be

It would be great, but unless congress codifies what Trump is doing, the next Donk administration will simply fling open the gates again.

And essentially, SCOTUS has given it's imprimatur to the Donks immigration policy, so we are in a tough spot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (XV/Pl)

174 what if ... what if Big Orange is trying to recenter that policy BACK

how wonderful that would be
Posted by: Black Orchid

That's fine, but no French!

Posted by: Norseman at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (G5+As)

175 Looks like they got an extension to stay here until October of this year.
Posted by: Bert G at May 13, 2025 08:38 AM (VARTN)

Then Trump should get on this and make their status official.

Bring them to the White House, make a show of it, and rub the Dems noses in it.

If they want a war of imagery, I’ll take some German homeschoolers, and Afirkaaner families over face-tattoo MS-13 thugs any day of the week,

Let’s see who wins that propaganda battle.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)

176 160 As far as the donated plane:
- Air Force is aging, and it can't be replaced for 8-10 years.
- This plane is smaller - gives him a reason to keep most of the press off it.
- Most importantly - as a gift to HIM, he can decide who maintains/pilots it. I've long been suspicious The Deep State would LOVE to arrange an "accident" on AF1. With this plane, HE is in control of who has access.
- ALL donations to a president or his family, above a certain value, go to the government. He can USE it, but he cannot take it with him. So, he is not profiting from accepting it.

It’s not being donated to Trump, it is being loaned to the military. It’s not a gift, and nothing monetary is going back to Qatar. It would be managed like every other AF1 and 2 plane, it will be outfitted for safety here in the US. The loaner is a DOD contractor. We have bought planes from foreign countries in the past.

Posted by: Piper at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (QzINz)

177 If president Trump is trolling the left with that gift from Qatar, it also trolled the hell out of me.

Qatar funds Hamas. They fund anti-American activities on our campuses. They are our enemy.

President Trump is making a mistake.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (LjcqP)

What if he put a tariff on it?

"Nice plane. We need 55% of the FMV before we can accept it."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (/Uw4P)

178 Qatar funds Hamas. They fund anti-American activities on our campuses. They are our enemy.

according to your argument every single middle eastern country except Israel is our enemy and we can't even work with any of them

literally do not care about this plane thing. happy to take a gift instead of getting reamed as a country as per normal.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (Pv3Rg)

179
Is that why you sit in the last row, because your rumbling, empty, stomach would disturb fellow parishioners?
Posted by: Sit In Own Pew, Myself at May 13, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

No, it's for other reasons. It's become distractingly painful to kneel for the long periods in the TLM, so I no longer do so. I don't like breathing down anyone's neck. And I'm a tall guy and the pews are rather cramped; there's more leg room in the back.

I don't want to scandalize anyone by not kneeling, even though there are no rubrics for the faithful in the TLM. I figure the Mystical Body of Christ can do the kneeling for me. In return, I always wear a coat and tie so none of the other guys have to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (QnmlO)

180 Current Hate Feed headline:
Inflation unexpectedly cooled in April despite Trump's big tariffs announcement.

That's Business Insider. Which is neither.

What a bunch of vile, anti-American losers--inflation is down and they can't help but use negative-connotation words in the headline.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (NwfFc)

181 I'm going to wait and see.

That was the first thing I said when stories started getting released about him. I would have preferred one of the African Cardinals but I can quietly hope that Pope Leo will do a good job.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (OPGS/)

182 A good summary of the 'gifted' plane on X is linked above.....Read it. Learn it. Live it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

183 The pressure on Robert's- not that I've been following it.

Get him to resign - then claim all his decisions should not have "counted."

It's no more than that.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (JkCto)

184 happy to take a gift instead of getting reamed as a country as per normal.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (Pv3Rg)

This - 1000%.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (tOcjL)

185 I wish I could send video to certain members of the Horde. Part of Pookette's current piano practice is playing "Hava Nagila." (I had to explain bar and bat mitzvahs to her, ha!)

Posted by: pookysgirl, raising musical kids at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (Wt5PA)

186 President Trump is making a mistake.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:45 AM (LjcqP)

The man isn’t perfect,
He’s made plenty and he’ll make plenty more.

But on my list of gripes, the Air Force getting a free plane from Qatar is way down on the list.

In fact, i appreciate the ingenuity of the move.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 08:48 AM (6ydKt)

187 For me it's Blueberry pancakes day

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 08:49 AM (ypFCm)

188 btw - the canes beat the caps last night and that Biden thing was apparently a goof I fell for!

nascar guy did the opening horn

was a GREAT game and I loved hearing the announcers and commentators all cry bc they hate the canes

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:50 AM (Pv3Rg)

189 That's Business Insider. Which is neither.

--

BI went the way of Forbes. Basically an open site accepting and publishing submissions from no name people and curated by the clueless.

I love how they proclaim nothing but doom for Apple.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:50 AM (/Uw4P)

190 Pookysgirl, how is L'il Pooky doing?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

191 was a GREAT game and I loved hearing the announcers and commentators all cry bc they hate the canes
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 13, 2025 08:50 AM (Pv3Rg)

Doof hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

192 Camera Hogg has never HAD a job. And he is getting fired from this one!

Posted by: Constantine XI at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (B6vBX)

193 Apparently Bill Clinton is visiting South Korea, and they have elections in 3 weeks. This is why we need to have conservative media asking Leavitt questions -

"Bill Clinton is in South Korea ahead of their elections. Is Clinton coordinating with the administration on this trip or did he receive an exemption the admin for any Logan Act violations while he is there? Or is he there on vacation simply to sample local cuisine and poon?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

194 Jim Cramer is probably the editor of Business Insider.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (/Uw4P)

195 Anybody happen to notice that last week Qatar announced they are finalizing a deal to buy 100 Boeing widebody jets?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

196 No, the immigration act of '65 altered immigration policy away from first world immigration, ie the Anglosphere and Europe and re-oriented it to the the third world.

So, White South African's are not part of our current immigration paradigm.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

So Cubano Elian Gonzales should never been attacked with automatic weapons and forcefully returned to Socialist Cuba by democrat stormtroopers?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (QMyMX)

197 There is a precedent for only importing people who are remotely worth a damn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:52 AM (OzWW4)

198 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
US inflation for April comes in at 2.3%, lower than predicted and lowest since 2021.

All we needed was a new President.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

199 Or is he there on vacation simply to sample local cuisine and poon?"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

What else could that dottering old fool do? He brings nothing to the table other than is Peyronie's addled cock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

200 195 Anybody happen to notice that last week Qatar announced they are finalizing a deal to buy 100 Boeing widebody jets?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

Yes, as I mentioned, they are REALLY trying to be our friend. Whether we'll be theirs is still TBD.

But it's always nice when they play nice with us 1st, vs us sending $100Bs of US taxpayer money to curry favor with them...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:53 AM (tOcjL)

201
literally do not care about this plane thing. happy to take a gift instead of getting reamed as a country as per normal.
Posted by: Black Orchid at

It’s a loan. We are still getting reamed. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at May 13, 2025 08:53 AM (QzINz)

202 198 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
US inflation for April comes in at 2.3%, lower than predicted and lowest since 2021.

All we needed was a new President.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

No doubt Jan of 2021.. It was all downhill from there...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

203 Time for a break.

Good day you all. See you later.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 08:54 AM (/Uw4P)

204 Why is anybody still buying jets from Boeing? They don't seem like they could build a Wright Flyer at this point.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

205 It would be managed like every other AF1 and 2 plane, it will be outfitted for safety here in the US. The loaner is a DOD contractor. We have bought planes from foreign countries in the past.

Posted by: Piper at May 13, 2025 08:46 AM (QzINz)

Safety and other things that only AF1/E-4s need.

Posted by: pookysgirl's daughter used to fall asleep to E4 engine maintenance at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (Wt5PA)

206 But it's always nice when they play nice with us 1st, vs us sending $100Bs of US taxpayer money to curry favor with them...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:53 AM (tOcjL)

Or finance their wars...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)

207 The plane is some sort of peace pipe. As a feint it won't work so it must be a peace pipe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (xYplz)

208 Spin it all you want it’s a shitty look to get a plane “gift” from Qatar. Let’s substitute Qatar with Ukraine and Trump with Biden. Everything else stays the same.

Everyone cool with that “gift”?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (d4dD2)

209 Good day you all. See you later.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Have a good one, WD. Thanks again for your support yesterday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

210
Everyone cool with that “gift”?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (d4dD2)

I'm okay with this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 08:56 AM (VE6XX)

211 Donald Trump has frozen the U.S. refugee program, which was scheduled to import another 125,000 migrants in 2025.

With the collapse of communism why are we actively pulling in any "refugees"?

I could see an argument potentially for Christians from the Muslim world but just because you live in a run of the mill corrupt autocracy does not make you a refugee. Fix your own damn countries Central Americans.

And no these people are not making America stronger. Our government has been hollowing out the middle class for decades now, bringing in more welfare recipients is not helping

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2025 08:56 AM (t0Rmr)

212 The plane is some sort of peace pipe. As a feint it won't work so it must be a peace pipe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (xYplz)

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

https://youtu.be/INxliT-NrxA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

213 168 Wait and see is a fair approach. So's prayer.

I think serious Catholics are still raw after getting flogged for 12 years by Francis. And the break in the beatings is spurring a lot of wishful thinking.

The Catholic Church is Jesus' Church. So the bad guys working to undermine it from inside are varsity to Olympic level in their skills and cunning.

I hope the wary are wrong about Leo XIV. But it's not how I'm betting.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (rrE7W)

214 The plane is a big mistake. Read the article.

The plane will go to the airforce, then to the Trump Library Foundation when he leaves office.

That smacks of influence purchasing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (LjcqP)

215 The only zoolinsky ever gave anyone was cocaine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (OzWW4)

216 The plane is some sort of peace pipe. As a feint it won't work so it must be a peace pipe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (xYplz)

It is ballooooon!

Posted by: Chief Wild Eagle at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (Aqu9a)

217 208 Spin it all you want it’s a shitty look to get a plane “gift” from Qatar. Let’s substitute Qatar with Ukraine and Trump with Biden. Everything else stays the same.

Everyone cool with that “gift”?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (d4dD2)

Well, considering Trump was trying to get payback for all our spent money in the Ukraine war, (if it wasn't already our own plane, which it likely would be), I'd have taken it and then written off that minuscule part of the war debt.

Again, strings free. No action on my US part other than that.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (tOcjL)

218 All I know is if the media is against something then I’m for that something. I don’t need to know what that something is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 13, 2025 08:58 AM (17s+e)

219 US inflation for April comes in at 2.3%, lower than predicted and lowest since 2021.

All we needed was a new President.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

But... but... but Biden said he inherited 9% inflation and that he with his brilliant mind brought it down to zero.

Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

220 Parisites like zeelinsky only take. They never give anything.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (OzWW4)

221 But... but... but Biden said he inherited 9% inflation and that he with his brilliant mind brought it down to zero.
Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

It's the Inflation Reduction Act finally kicking in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

222 >>Yes, as I mentioned, they are REALLY trying to be our friend. Whether we'll be theirs is still TBD.

>>But it's always nice when they play nice with us 1st, vs us sending $100Bs of US taxpayer money to curry favor with them...

The two AF-1s Trump had on order his first term, and renegotiated to get a better deal from Boeing, are still not finished. Qatar is making a massive purchase of new Boeings to upgrade their fleet and probably replace the 747.

Trump is squeezing Iran's nut sack, Qatar's BFF, and today Trump is being received as royalty in Saudi as we speak, Qatar's not so great friend. Trump is going to pick up in the ME where he left off with the Abraham Accords and the plane is leaving the runway to keep our metaphors straight.

You don't make peace with your friends. I'm pretty confident Trump knows exactly who has been funding what in the ME and contrary to the belief of some he prefers deal over bombs.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (viF8m)

223 Anybody happen to notice that last week Qatar announced they are finalizing a deal to buy 100 Boeing widebody jets?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

Nope, but that makes sense of why they have one they’re willing to give away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 09:00 AM (6ydKt)

224 Remember the rage shown by the left at letting in a small number of actually oppressed refugees purely because they are white the next time they say the "Great Replacement theory" is just some crazy racist conspiracy.

Posted by: brak at May 13, 2025 09:00 AM (gs8Vk)

225 You will struggle to sum up the illegal vs African immigrant discussion any better than this image:

https://tinyurl.com/3bbs6hhm

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - How much did you pay for that blood you donated for free? at May 13, 2025 09:00 AM (2spYE)

226
You don't make peace with your friends. I'm pretty confident Trump knows exactly who has been funding what in the ME and contrary to the belief of some he prefers deal over bombs.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 08:59 AM (viF8m)

No. He's a stupid poopyhead who doesn't know what he's doing and never learns anything.

GAH!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

227 So the same people that cheered Obama and Biden giving billions to Iran ....

Are most the same people howling that Qatar funds terrorism?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 09:01 AM (NwfFc)

228 Inflation is simple to control.

If government prints fewer dollars - by spending less or taxing more - you'll get less inflation.

So the answer to Bidenflation was always to stop Bidenspending.

I would like to see the Trump admin make this more clear in talking to the public, "The reason the price of your groceries has stopped going up is because we have cut wasteful spending that Biden and the Democrats added over the last 4 years. Every dollar they spent on illegal aliens and transsexuals ultimately came out of your pocket when you spent money on food, groceries, and fuel"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

229 literally do not care about this plane thing.
Posted by: Black Orchid at

Nor do most Americans. A non-story hyped by the media until the next one comes along.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (vsTPo)

230 Admit productive immigrants, not locusts.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (LHPAg)

231 NHL suspends Florida Panthers executive for getting into a Twitter fight with an antisemitic Canadian fan.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (Y1sOo)

232 198 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
US inflation for April comes in at 2.3%, lower than predicted and lowest since 2021.
——

Zero point Zero seconds of MFM time will be given to this male story.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (17s+e)

233 I don’t know if there were shenanigans with the plane deal or not. But it’s a bad look. And an own goal by Trump. Because any time he’s on that plane it will be mentioned.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (d4dD2)

234 What else could that dottering old fool do? He brings nothing to the table other than is Peyronie's addled cock.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yes, but also he is spokesman for the globalists and he can take their purse with him to dole out globalist gifts (taken from US taxpayers and laundered through the NGOs).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

235 Mapped: The Best Selling Vehicle in Every U.S. State in 2024
Published 1 month ago on April 5, 2025
By Dorothy Neufeld
Graphics/Design: Sabrina Lam
https://shorturl.at/FouII
Visual Capitalist

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (Vqx30)

236 My Catholic neighbor, who is active in the Knights of Columbus, is optomistic about Leo.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

237 They were sure quick to jump on the "Trump only likes white refugees and hates brown and black ones" bandwagon...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)

238 Hey Bulg.

Shoot me a note sometime.oculusrocks82 At the Gmail thing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (DJPFk)

239 The plane will go to the airforce, then to the Trump Library Foundation when he leaves office

This part is not cool.

Posted by: Piper at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (QzINz)

240 Hello. Yesterday I read that this plane is on loan until Boeing gets their shit together. A new plane was ordered during the Obama years. The plane currently in use for presidential travel is 40 years old and needs to be retired.

Secondly, I wish Trump would stop with the BS for pro football. I don't care about shit like that.

Thirdly my retirement deposit from DFAS went poof in April. No news on that yet.

Sorry not sorry.

Have a good one.

Posted by: Halito at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (ZTlUX)

241
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Tapper: WH physician told Biden aides he might have to be in a wheelchair if he fell again:

"President Biden's deterioration of his spine, the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one more time, that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair, for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he use a wheelchair until after the election."

https://tinyurl.com/ywrvk967

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

242 You will struggle to sum up the illegal vs African immigrant discussion any better than this image:

Mexico just had a mostly free and fair election where they choose a candidate friendly with the cartels. The Mexican people want the kind of society they have.

Conversely, the old White led SA decided to give up their racial hierarchy on the notion of a free, color blind society and instead got a racist African kleptocracy

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (t0Rmr)

243 A missing piece to the David Hogg shitfest is the whiny, bitchy, thinly-veiled “hate whitey” response from the other vice chair that was elected, the excremental Malcom Kenyatta. Fuck them all.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfp3t4m

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (8f/4T)

244
"President Biden's deterioration of his spine, the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one more time, that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair, for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he use a wheelchair until after the election."

https://tinyurl.com/ywrvk967
Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

But Dark Biden could leap tall buildings in a single bound!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

245 Really odd that two people on our side - Candace and Tucker -who I never trusted despite all appearances to the contrary, have both gone in pretty much the same direction. Just a very strange coincidence.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (GPc/R)

246 Oh, and Lil Pooky is now pulling himself up to stand. My friend commented that at this rate of mobility expansion, he'll be driving by next week.

Posted by: pookysgirl, watching the days fly by at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (Wt5PA)

247 Spin it all you want it’s a shitty look to get a plane “gift” from Qatar. Let’s substitute Qatar with Ukraine and Trump with Biden. Everything else stays the same.

Everyone cool with that “gift”?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 08:55 AM (d4dD2)

Once again... yes, I'm cool with the gift. We sent tens of billions to Ukraine for nothing. The plane isn't a gift to Donald Fucking Trump. Complain all you want and try to run whataboutisms but those of us who're fine with it are fine with it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

248 @WesternLensman
Tapper: WH physician told Biden aides he might have to be in a wheelchair if he fell again:

Nice to tell us now Tapper..

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

249 Biden inherited 2.5% inflation and through his economic brilliance brought inflation down to 23%.

Also gave us an increase in our chocolate ration!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 13, 2025 09:06 AM (17s+e)

250
Nice to tell us now Tapper..
Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

Jake Tapper is an unmitigated piece of shit. Never forget that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

251 The Saudis brought a mobile McDonald's food truck to Riyadh just for PDT.

https://tinyurl.com/2a4c4h2y

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (3ImbR)

252 Morning Horde, thx JJ. Sitting in a cart on the 6th tee waiting for the crew to finish rolling the green. Course still soaked from the 2+ inches of rain over weekend and now more tonight.
Still great to be out here on a nice morning.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (b3ZvJ)

253 My question on Trump's China deal:

Did he not just make cheap China junk cheaper?

I'm genuinely dumb on this stuff but from a surface level, curious as to what was accomplished here that dings China.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (KbCG3)

254 Conversely, the old White led SA decided to give up their racial hierarchy on the notion of a free, color blind society and instead got a racist African kleptocracy
Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2025 09:04 AM (t0Rmr)

They kinda had no choice. Their economy was not going to survive the sanctions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (d4dD2)

255 Why does a library need a jet?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

256 The plane is a big mistake. Read the article.

The plane will go to the airforce, then to the Trump Library Foundation when he leaves office.

That smacks of influence purchasing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (LjcqP)

Then every modern President, all of whom get gifts for their library, frequently from foreign countries, is involved in influence peddling. Let the molehill be a molehill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

257 Still great to be out here on a nice morning.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (b3ZvJ)

There's not much better than a little naturally obtained vitamin D.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

258 255 Why does a library need a jet?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

Well, wouldn't you like to see it ? It would be part of the exhibit I would imagine.

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

259 >>Why does a library need a jet?

Ask Ronald Reagan.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:08 AM (viF8m)

260 So we can accept gifts from foreign nations like the Statue of Liberty and the land for the Smithsonian, but not a jet to replace the one Boeing fucked up?

There is zero wrong with this. Don’t play into the hands of scumbag Democraps, not even a little,

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (8f/4T)

261 Really odd that two people on our side - Candace and Tucker -who I never trusted despite all appearances to the contrary, have both gone in pretty much the same direction. Just a very strange coincidence.
Posted by: ...

Is Tapper on the Macron's-wife-is-a-man bandwagon, too?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

262 Secondly, I wish Trump would stop with the BS for pro football. I don't care about shit like that.

Posted by: Halito
_______

He needs to do some serious trolling and start talking up soccer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (UBKzV)

263 There is zero wrong with this. Don’t play into the hands of scumbag Democraps, not even a little,
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (8f/4T)

But......my hair is already on fire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

264 I'm confident that Trump's influence cannot be purchased.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 09:09 AM (vsTPo)

265 229 literally do not care about this plane thing.
Posted by: Black Orchid at

Nor do most Americans. A non-story hyped by the media until the next one comes along.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 09:02 AM (vsTPo)

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100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (PMtkd)

266 Cheap $hit from china just went up another 10%. Making it 30%.
10% tariff on US goods

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (OzWW4)

267 251 The Saudis brought a mobile McDonald's food truck to Riyadh just for PDT.
___

There is something endearing about Trump that he eats McDonalds food and that he had a campaign event that was really him living out his fantasy as a fry cook. The photo of him in his tie and McD's apron waving from the drive through window is 2nd only to the Butler PA photo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (Dv3i1)

268 253 My question on Trump's China deal:

Did he not just make cheap China junk cheaper?

I'm genuinely dumb on this stuff but from a surface level, curious as to what was accomplished here that dings China.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (KbCG3)

Cheap Chinese junk will just go back to what it was a few months ago. In the end after all the tariff drama, we’re basically back to where it started.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (d4dD2)

269 "And an own goal by Trump."

Own goal! own goal!! own goal!!!

RARWWWKKK!

OWN GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kwak! at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (89Sog)

270 the land for the Smithsonian

Smithson left his fortune to the US, not any land.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

271
OWN GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kwak! at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (89Sog)

This is about me, isn't it......

Posted by: Leon Draisaitl at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

272
Cheap Chinese junk will just go back to what it was a few months ago. In the end after all the tariff drama, we’re basically back to where it started.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:10 AM (d4dD2)

No, the tariff is still much higher...making it less cheap and less able to just flood the US...and what does flood in will at least provide funds for the gaping US debt...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (tOcjL)

273 They are giving the plane to the USA. JFC you people are as dumb as Democrats.

Posted by: Fisht at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (BHEHK)

274 261 I meant "Tucker," not "Tapper."

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

275 I don’t know if there were shenanigans with the plane deal or not. But it’s a bad look. And an own goal by Trump. Because any time he’s on that plane it will be mentioned.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (d4dD2)

Some people complain about everything he does.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

276 The plane is a big mistake. Read the article.

The plane will go to the airforce, then to the Trump Library Foundation when he leaves office.

That smacks of influence purchasing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 08:57 AM (LjcqP)

Yes, where it will be decommissioned.
It’s not like Trump is going to use it personally.

And there’s no guarantee it will end up at his library. That’s just Trump’s wish. The Air Force doesn’t have to go along with it, and I’m sure Congress will have to get involved for a final decision anyhow.

What are the Qataris going to get with their influence peddling? All they sell is oil and time share condos on the Persian Gulf.

Is Trump going to build a golf course and hotel in Doha or something?

They are trying to curry favor, like a lot of governments around the world are doing with Trump right now. Some give him an invitation to a State Dinner with the King and others gift a 747.

If there’s no proof of some kind of quid pro quo then I don’t see the problem with a gift from one country to another.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (6ydKt)

277 Here's a photo of a previous AF-1 at the Reagan Presidential Library in California.

But it's a puny AF-1. Not like Trump's which will be YUGE.

https://tinyurl.com/fnwktbew

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

278 What is the origin of this phrase "own goal," anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

279 Odd, I think Tucker and Candace are two who tell the absolute truth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (PMtkd)

280 Some conservative should write a book about the media hiding Biden's senility. It can be titled "Lifelong Stutter."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (DIweC)

281 255 Why does a library need a jet?
___

Why wouldn't a Trump library have a big, beautiful jet that the visitors can tour as part of their visit?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

282 I don't give a shit about the plane.

Nothing is gonna make me care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (TdYBy)

283 Thank you JJ for the Alzheimers article. My mother suffers from this terrible disease and my father now has something to talk about with her doctor, thanks to your link.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (v5j4n)

284 279 Odd, I think Tucker and Candace are two who tell the absolute truth.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (PMtkd)

Or what they see as the "truth"

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (VE6XX)

285 Qatar is where all the Hamas big shots live in luxury without a care in the world. Sorry but I’m
Not thrilled that POS country is donating 747s to Trump. I don’t need the media to tell me it’s a bad look. It’s a bad look.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (d4dD2)

286 This is about me, isn't it......
Posted by: Leon Draisaitl at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Buck up Leon. Stuff happens, even on ice!

Posted by: Kwak! at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (89Sog)

287 278 What is the origin of this phrase "own goal," anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

It's a soccer term - usually when a player accidentally heads a kick or pokes a ball past his own goalkeep.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:14 AM (tOcjL)

288 Can't understand why those South African refugees would no want to live in the post apartheid utopia that s South Africa. Prosperous, peaceful, safe, racial harmony with wise, judicious leaders and a constitution even better than ours! Whats not to love?

It's as is the MSM is not telling the truth about about the actual situation there.

Posted by: Ripley at May 13, 2025 09:14 AM (GUOwU)

289 We get it go time, you are a Trump concern troll and your concerness has concerly been noted “concerned. “

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 13, 2025 09:14 AM (17s+e)

290 How's about everyone pretending to be upset about the Qatar plane quit being coy?

Tell us exactly what "quo" you think Trump will deliver for the "quid."

Don't be shy:
That's exactly what you mean with your pretend outrageous outrage over this.
You want us to think Trump is going to give Qatar something in exchange.

What is it?

Oh, right:
It's over there next to the same pile of "quo" you swore was delivered by Ukraine to Trump when you impeached him.
Another steaming pile of wet bullshit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 13, 2025 09:14 AM (NwfFc)

291 Ann Barnhardt - amusing as she is - is someone you date thinking you've found a nice Catholic girl until one day she burns you at the stake for forgetting her birthday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2025 08:29 AM (QnmlO)

She'd burn me at the stake just for my impure thoughts alone.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 09:14 AM (Dg2sF)

292 284 279 Odd, I think Tucker and Candace are two who tell the absolute truth.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (PMtkd)

Or what they see as the "truth"
Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (VE6XX)

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????

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (PMtkd)

293 LOCAL NEWS HEADLINE:

Rare 1 in 100,000 piebald elk spotted around Estes Park

https://is.gd/YOsa95

"Don't be silly dear, they come that way"

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (HOX+I)

294 278 What is the origin of this phrase "own goal," anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

It’s a thing in soccer and hockey and has been since, I dunno, however long soccer and hockey have existed?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (d4dD2)

295 Thats 30% at least. Aluminum and steel get an additional 25%iirc. Chyna will lose metals processing. Chynese steel is only cheaper because of free power from the government.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (OzWW4)

296 zerohedge:

Is Britain On The Brink Of Civil War?

...elite overreach, factional polarization, a collapse in trust, economic pressures, and the perceived downgrading of the majority population in a previously homogeneous society, are all present in contemporary Britain.

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

297 Some people complain about everything he does.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And what he's not doing. There is at least some consistency there.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (OPGS/)

298 The Word of the Day is...

...piebald

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (HOX+I)

299 >>Cheap Chinese junk will just go back to what it was a few months ago. In the end after all the tariff drama, we’re basically back to where it started.

There is no deal on trade. The only deal that has been made is a deal to make a deal based on certain trade parameters.

Why is everyone so fucking ready to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory? Lighten up, Francises. We are winning, the sun is shining, birds are singing, inflation is down and Trump is in Saudi Arabia making deals and eating cheeseburgers and fries while driving leftists closer to the edge of insanity.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)

300 JFC you people are as dumb as Democrats.

Posted by: Fisht at May 13, 2025 09:11 AM (BHEHK)

And then to the Trump Library Foundation when he leaves office.

Maybe read before you criticize.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (LjcqP)

301 If there’s no proof of some kind of quid pro quo then I don’t see the problem with a gift from one country to another.

Right now, the aircraft is a white elephant that costs millions for the Qataris to maintain. They are probably happy just to get it off their hands.

Next week Trump's haters will find something new to feign outrage.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (DIweC)

302 Hey, MP4, did you see the art on Saturday? Your kind of woman, methinks.
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

I did, and I'm glad I wasn't around on Saturday, because it would have depressed me all day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (Dg2sF)

303 It’s a thing in soccer and hockey and has been since, I dunno, however long soccer and hockey have existed?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Since 1970 at least. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (QMyMX)

304 Giant presidential libraries are offensive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (xYplz)

305 Kickball.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (OzWW4)

306 Oh no! Trump got a free airplane! OMG! How awful! I might just shit my pants before I get a chance to light my hair on fire! WAhhhhhhhhhhh! OMG! I might wet the bed! Mom! Mommy! OMG! What an awful look! WAhhhhhhhh!
Mom!

Did my no cost to me hands free catheters arrive yet?

Posted by: Old Titty Babies Everywhere at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (xofCm)

307 It's as is the MSM is not telling the truth about about the actual situation there.
Posted by: Ripley

Upsets the narrative, now they have to do damage control, which involves more lies, deflection, whataboutism and lies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

308 UnitedHealth Group Shares Plunge On Abrupt CEO Exit, Suspends 2025 Outlook

UnitedHealth Group appointed Stephen Hemsley, its board chairman and former CEO (2006-2017), as its new CEO, replacing Andrew Witty, who stepped down for personal reasons.

"We are grateful for Andrew's stewardship of UnitedHealth Group, especially during some of the most challenging times any company has ever faced," Hemsley said, adding, "The Board and I have greatly valued his leadership and compassion as chief executive and as a director and wish him and his family the best."

The major health insurer also suspended its 2025 financial outlook, citing higher-than-expected medical expenditures

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

309 >>This is about me, isn't it......
Posted by: Leon Draisaitl

I was at a game at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit when in the second period Red Wings' Paul Coffey put the puck into his own net.

He'd scored a legitimate goal earlier in the game, then scored again in the 3rd period. When he scored that goal, a wise-assed Red Wings fan threw his hat over the glass onto the ice.

It was hilarious.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)

310 The plane is a distraction. Keep your eye on the trade “deal” with China. We had a chance to crush China and reshore a lot of critical manufacturing. That’s not how this current agreement is shaping up based on the reports. There is also no information how they will stop the transshipment of Chinese goods through third countries, and their overall cheating. The current agreement actually allows them to start shipping goods again, albeit at a higher tariff of +30%. That’s not enough to meet all the goals the president set and basically a higher margin of the goods coming in. I would say the jury is still out on this and we’ll see where we are in 90 days.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (/oThX)

311 Japan gifted 3,020 cherry blossom trees to the United States in 1912 as a symbol of peace and goodwill between the two nations.

These trees were planted around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., and have since become a popular tourist attraction during the springtime.

In 2024, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Japan gifted an additional 250 cherry trees to replace some that were being removed due to construction.

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (xVYib)

312 Take this with a grain of salt, but Trump seems to have a particular "taste in decor." The existing AF-1 jets are pretty dated... even by government standards. This new plane might be more to his liking...

And that is likely one reason he's pursuing this "deal" with Qatar.

Whether it ends up at his library or not probably doesn't matter one way or the other.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

313 The Word of the Day is...

...piebald
Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:15 AM (HOX+I)

Otherwise known as "the Brazilian."

Posted by: Leon Draisaitl at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

314 Imagine the praise if Biden or Obama had been given a goodwill gift of a jet.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - How much did you pay for that blood you donated for free? at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (2spYE)

315 It’s a thing in soccer and hockey and has been since, I dunno, however long soccer and hockey have existed?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
_______

Escobar or one of those other cartels had a player from the team they owned executed for an own-goal.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (UBKzV)

316 don’t know if there were shenanigans with the plane deal or not. But it’s a bad look. And an own goal by Trump. Because any time he’s on that plane it will be mentioned.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (d4dD2)

I'd rather he doesn't make decisions based on what will be said by his deceptive enemies. It will all be said anyway.

It's not about whether it's a mistake or not. As long as he's fighting and trying to do the stuff he promised, I don't care. Plus details always emerge later which significantly change every one of these stories.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (GPc/R)

317 I don't give a shit about the plane.

Nothing is gonna make me care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (TdYBy)

But they're gonna try, all damn day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

318 Shyte......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

319 298 The Word of the Day is...

...piebald
Posted by: muldoon
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No hair on the pie?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

320 JJ, Trump isn't accepting the plane from Qatar. The US Military is - because Boeing can't pull its head out of its ass.

The existing AF1 (I believe there are two of them) are relics from the 80's and are in dire need of replacement.

The 747-800 thats being sent over by Qatar is practically brand new and will be retrofitted by a contractor to become AF1 and is expected to enter service in 2029 - after Trump is out of office.

This is exactly the kind of news distortion that the left likes to play up as controversy when there is literally no controversy.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (WYStd)

321 I did, and I'm glad I wasn't around on Saturday, because it would have depressed me all day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

You're the only guy I know who gets depressed by looking at pictures of pretty women.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

322 279 Odd, I think Tucker and Candace are two who tell the absolute truth.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (PMtkd)

They do, at times. But that's more than most ever do.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (vsTPo)

323 What I want to k ow is how’ does Boeing have the capacity to make 100 new planes for Qatar but still has AF1 on back order status for the president?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (d4dD2)

324 Good morning!

>>“My read of this is that the administration is trolling the left,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News.

Tell me you've been soured by too many years in DC without saying it.

I get his point, but I'm pretty sure Trump is doing this because there's been a genocide happening in SA and the world has decided to ignore it. Not the only ignore genocide, but still. Give Trump credit for wanting to save some people over scoring political points.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (ke82b)

325 Oh no! Trump got a free airplane! OMG! How awful! I might just shit my pants before I get a chance to light my hair on fire! WAhhhhhhhhhhh! OMG! I might wet the bed! Mom! Mommy! OMG! What an awful look! WAhhhhhhhh!
Mom!"

You need a fainting couch, just in case.

Posted by: Kwak! at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (89Sog)

326 Anyone want to bet something comes out of the plane story that makes the libs look like retards?

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (GPc/R)

327
It was hilarious.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

328 MSNBC’s Yamiche Abdul-Jabbar Whines

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

329 Odd, I think Tucker and Candace are two who tell the absolute truth.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (PMtkd)

Or what they see as the "truth"
Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (VE6XX)

It's almost impossible for any human to perceive the absolute truth about anything which doesn't involve them personally. If it does involve them, it's only really, really difficult to perceive the absolute truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

330 I was at a game at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit when in the second period Red Wings' Paul Coffey put the puck into his own net.

He'd scored a legitimate goal earlier in the game, then scored again in the 3rd period. When he scored that goal, a wise-assed Red Wings fan threw his hat over the glass onto the ice.

It was hilarious.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)

But it is from soccer, b/c they actually credit own goals as a category to the player who screwed up. I don't think hockey does (don't they go to the last offensive player to touch the puck if there is one)?

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:20 AM (tOcjL)

331 >>What I want to k ow is how’ does Boeing have the capacity to make 100 new planes for Qatar but still has AF1 on back order status for the president?

I seem to recall Trump negotiating the deal during his first administration so that it was about half the original price - maybe Boeing is dragging its feet?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:20 AM (ke82b)

332 De plane, de plane!

Posted by: midget from fantasy island at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (TdYBy)

333 I would say the jury is still out on this and we’ll see where we are in 90 days.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 09:17 AM (/oThX)

You mean that Trump isn't nearly the keen negotiator that people think he is? The UK trade deal essentially gets us access to their beef markets and a couple of Boeing jets.... call me unimpressed.

I prefer Trump over the Democrats any day of the week - and that includes the insufferable NeverTrumpers. But this cult of personality about him as some kind of shrewd negotiator isn't something I've ever bought into.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (WYStd)

334 Escobar or one of those other cartels had a player from the team they owned executed for an own-goal.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (UBKzV)

Happened in the US at the ‘94 World Cup.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (d4dD2)

335 UnitedHealth Group Shares Plunge On Abrupt CEO Exit, Suspends 2025 Outlook

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

"Please tell us he was murdered!"

-- MDM-MSM and The Left (BIRM)

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (xVYib)

336 I once watched a DC United game where the score was 2-1 and DC scored all of the goals.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (Oq5OE)

337 I don't think hockey does (don't they go to the last offensive player to touch the puck if there is one)?
Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:20 AM (tOcjL)

Yes. And the only stat that's effected is the plus/minus, if they're not shorthanded or on the power play.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

338 I Just can't quit this place for even an hour.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (Oq5OE)

339 Let me know when we’ve deported over 1 million illegal aliens, which is about 1/14th of what is reported to be in the country. I think we are up to about 70,000 per DHS.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 13, 2025 09:22 AM (Lp05i)

340 If the Qataris are buying 100 American made planes then I do not care about the US accepting a free gift.
Go into any deals in the Middle East with your eyes wide open knowing they are Islamic and want you dead or enslaved. Get what you can out of them , but do not trust them beyond the deal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (b3ZvJ)

341 By the way, while I take a dim view of price controls, I was certainly happy President Trump made an issue of the fact Americans have been subsidizing those wonderful cheap drugs the rest of the world enjoys.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (tT6L1)

342 Why does a library need a jet?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

They wanted to see time fly.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (GPc/R)

343 Go into any deals in the Middle East with your eyes wide open knowing they are Islamic and want you dead or enslaved. Get what you can out of them , but do not trust them beyond the deal
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (b3ZvJ)

But Trump is a stupid doodyhead that doesn't know what he's doing and never learns anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

344 The 747-800 thats being sent over by Qatar is practically brand new and will be retrofitted by a contractor to become AF1 and is expected to enter service in 2029 - after Trump is out of office.

This is exactly the kind of news distortion that the left likes to play up as controversy when there is literally no controversy.
Posted by: Defenestratus

Say it louder for those in back and those that refuse to hear.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (QMyMX)

345 252 Morning Horde, thx JJ. Sitting in a cart on the 6th tee waiting for the crew to finish rolling the green. Course still soaked from the 2+ inches of rain over weekend and now more tonight.
Still great to be out here on a nice morning.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (b3ZvJ)

While you wait, some caddie humor for you
https://tinyurl.com/caddiehumor

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (N39Ws)

346 I Just can't quit this place for even an hour.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Welcome back!

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

347 >What I want to k ow is how’ does Boeing have the capacity to make 100 new planes for Qatar but still has AF1 on back order status for the president?

I seem to recall Trump negotiating the deal during his first administration so that it was about half the original price - maybe Boeing is dragging its feet?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:20 AM (ke82b)
———

Yea. Boeing was trying to rape taxpayers for an obscene amount of money for the new jet. Trump said fuck you, Boeing backed down, but since then they’ve been dragging their feet. That plus they are incompetent DEI idiots now who hate Trump. Fuck Boeing.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (8f/4T)

348 235 Mapped: The Best Selling Vehicle in Every U.S. State in 2024
Published 1 month ago on April 5, 2025
By Dorothy Neufeld
Graphics/Design: Sabrina Lam
https://shorturl.at/FouII
Visual Capitalist
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 13, 2025 09:03 AM (Vqx30)
That puts you and me right in there, HH.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (LHPAg)

349 Maybe read before you criticize.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 09:16 AM (LjcqP)

When did we start believing what the media tells us?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

350 283 Thank you JJ for the Alzheimers article. My mother suffers from this terrible disease and my father now has something to talk about with her doctor, thanks to your link.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 13, 2025 09:13 AM (v5j4n)

Prayers. The meds are only described as potential preventative not as a treatment but who knows without further trials and research.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (x0n13)

351 >>This is exactly the kind of news distortion that the left likes to play up as controversy when there is literally no controversy.

Including the fact that Qatari money is happily accepted at our universities across the country, as well as in DC at thinktanks, etc. (There's a Cernovich movie about it).

Think it gives them extra enjoyment when they can demonize Trump for doing what they've been doing openly for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (ke82b)

352 You mean that Trump isn't nearly the keen negotiator that people think he is? The UK trade deal essentially gets us access to their beef markets and a couple of Boeing jets.... call me unimpressed.

I prefer Trump over the Democrats any day of the week - and that includes the insufferable NeverTrumpers. But this cult of personality about him as some kind of shrewd negotiator isn't something I've ever bought into.
Posted by: Defenestratus

Same.

But we live in a binary world in politics. Either you agree with Trump 1000% or you’re a dirty communist who wishes Hillary and Kamala had won.

Works the same on the left. Trump is the devil. Any deviance from that belief and you’re worse than Hitter.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (d4dD2)

353
Say it louder for those in back and those that refuse to hear.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (QMyMX)

But, my hair is already on fire.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

354 The major health insurer also suspended its 2025 financial outlook, citing higher-than-expected medical expenditures
Posted by: SMOD
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That's claims from all the wetbacks you insured ASSHOE.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (xYplz)

355 344
Say it louder for those in back and those that refuse to hear.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (QMyMX)

At this point, the only thing they'll listen to is "Trump is Hitler".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (N39Ws)

356 One of the Trade reps was on Fox yesterday and explained the China "deal" pretty well.. It's not just the tariffs that were covered.. It was the special charges and restrictions China had on certain things that we got removed and they are again allowing magnets and other things we need here for production...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (VE6XX)

357 Why does a library need a jet?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

They take inter-library loans very seriously.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (TdYBy)

358 Maybe read before you criticize.

==

Now, that's a TALL order.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (g47mK)

359 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (d4dD2)

Nobody's called you or anyone else anything for having an opinion on the dumb jet. Stop being an antagonistic dope. Your opinion can still matter even if it's not actively annoying someone.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (GPc/R)

360 I'm so old I remember when grocery prices were a thing.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
>>10m
🚨 BREAKING: American grocery prices plummet the most in almost 5 years under the latest report.

>>Inflation overall lower than expected.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)

361 Paul Coffey, wow, that take me back to the days of the Minnesota North Stars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:26 AM (tT6L1)

362 WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (Oq5OE)

You actually watched a soccer game??

Watching city workers fill a pothole is more entertaining.

Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 09:26 AM (Oy/m2)

363 192 Camera Hogg has never HAD a job. And he is getting fired from this one!
Posted by: Constantine XI

No, no...there was just a mistake with the election rules. Hogg isnt being fired at all...we love him! Just like Biden wasn't forced out...he just chose not to run. What a hero! Now, he should go away and be quiet. We love him!

Posted by: DNC at May 13, 2025 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

364 Inflation overall lower than expected.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)
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You mean there may be a direct correlation between energy prices and the cost of goods and services?

Shocked, I am, shocked!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:27 AM (tT6L1)

365 You actually watched a soccer game??

Watching city workers fill a pothole is more entertaining.
Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 09:26 AM (Oy/m2)

In my defense, I like it because it's real time strategy where goals mean things. I like hockey for much the same reason.

Football is ballet to me. All set pieces.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:27 AM (Oq5OE)

366 You mean that Trump isn't nearly the keen negotiator that people think he is? The UK trade deal essentially gets us access to their beef markets and a couple of Boeing jets.... call me unimpressed.

I prefer Trump over the Democrats any day of the week - and that includes the insufferable NeverTrumpers. But this cult of personality about him as some kind of shrewd negotiator isn't something I've ever bought into.
Posted by: Defenestratus at May 13, 2025 09:21 AM (WYStd)

OTOH, Trump isn't actually doing the negotiating.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

367 364 Inflation overall lower than expected.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)
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But the Tariffs !!!!

Posted by: It's me donna at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (VE6XX)

368 https://www.ice.gov/statistics

2025 illegal stats so far...

Arrests: 527K
Detentions: 1.141M
Removals: 616K

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (tOcjL)

369 342 Why does a library need a jet?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

They wanted to see time fly.
Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:23 AM (GPc/R)
Anybody seen SiD lately?

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (LHPAg)

370 I did, and I'm glad I wasn't around on Saturday, because it would have depressed me all day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

You're the only guy I know who gets depressed by looking at pictures of pretty women.
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

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Belatedly saw your comment yesterday reminding me that MP4 should have been included in my list of potential "Ace-Approved" Authors -- thanks, Bulg!

I'm sure I missed several more candidates ... I really should read and participate in the Book Thread, but it always makes me feel guilty because I don't spend more time reading.

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (xVYib)

371 Paul Coffey, wow, that take me back to the days of the Minnesota North Stars.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:26 AM (tT6L1)

Minnesota cracks me up. They didn't support the North Stars, so Norm Green made a deal to move them south and bring hockey to Texas. Minnesotans got pissed and demanded a team, which they got, in the Wild. Now, there's this supposed 'rivalry' between the two teams.

Uh, if you'd have supported the team in the first place as you do now, they never would've left.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

372 Think it gives them extra enjoyment when they can demonize Trump for doing what they've been doing openly for years.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:24 AM (ke82b)

But Trump *isn't* doing that. The US military is accepting the plane. It won't even be Trump's plane!!! It *MAY* be JD Vance's plane but it certainly will not be Trump's AF1.

If this is some kind of ploy by the Qataris to get some kind of leverage over Trump then its a pretty weaksauce attempt since Trump will never, ever step foot on that new plane (as POTUS anyways).

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (WYStd)

373 "That’s not how this current agreement is shaping up based on the reports. "
Ok, sure. Let's go with that...

Posted by: Man at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (tubbA)

374 >> I prefer Trump over the Democrats any day of the week - and that includes the insufferable NeverTrumpers. But this cult of personality about him as some kind of shrewd negotiator isn't something I've ever bought into.

Politics is an unforgiving taskmaster. It forces your hand in order to get anything done on a very short timeline. Will we be better off in the end? Heck, yes but it is nowhere near the goals that were outlined. I understand negotiating as much as the next guy. But a lot of that is whittling down numbers, not completely giving up on objectives like reshoring critical industries. We’ve also been lectured on how the Chinese threat is being funded with our own money. We had a chance to smoke them if we only kept our balls a little longer. Again, we will see what happens in 90 days but this isn’t a good start if we are really trying to achieve all those goals.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (T7fic)

375 Hey Bulg.

Shoot me a note sometime.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Just did.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

376 >>In 2024, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Japan gifted an additional 250 cherry trees to replace some that were being removed due to construction.

I had missed that -- that's wonderful!
I remember when a vandal took down a few trees in the early 2000's. Who could do sch a thing!? Turns out it was a beaver, who was swiftly caught and relocated.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (ke82b)

377 368 https://www.ice.gov/statistics

2025 illegal stats so far...

Arrests: 527K
Detentions: 1.141M
Removals: 616K

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (tOcjL)

Ignore this - these are the actual stats of the 4 Biden years...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (tOcjL)

378 but it always makes me feel guilty because I don't spend more time reading.
Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (xVYib)

You told me you read Playboy for the articles.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (GPc/R)

379 Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. F U if you can’t handle the truth. This is the best Biden ever. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”

https://tinyurl.com/zpzby9d4

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

380 Who could do sch a thing!? Turns out it was a beaver, who was swiftly caught and relocated.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:29 AM (ke82b)

Damn.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (GPc/R)

381 The people who told us “love the one you’re with” and “if her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel” are now telling us that you have to get signed proof for every stage of sexual contact and even if you do, if she regrets it later, it was rape.

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

382 In 2024, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Japan gifted an additional 250 cherry trees to replace some that were being removed due to construction.

That's a bad look. Everytime someone sees those trees, they'll know they were FROM JAPAN!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

383 ART CRITICS UPSTAIRS
WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 09:31 AM (ypFCm)

384 >>But we live in a binary world in politics. Either you agree with Trump 1000% or you’re a dirty communist who wishes Hillary and Kamala had won.

That's so fucking dumb. I don't agree with anyone all of the time least of all nic changers but there is a large contingent here that criticizes Trump non-stop and accuses anyone who doesn't agree with them of being in a cult because that's super childish and just pisses people off.

There is no deal yet with China so criticizing it is also stupid. There is a trade framework with details still being worked on. People who insisted from the jump the tariffs wouldn't work were obviously wrong, they are working as intended. Will we get everything we would like out of the new global reset on trade. Of course not. Will it be demonstrably better than where we were which was headed toward insolvency? Likely.

The cult is the people who are still trying to fight the last election and the cult is getting smaller by the day.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:31 AM (viF8m)

385 Arrests: 527K
Detentions: 1.141M
Removals: 616K
Posted by: Nova Local at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (tOcjL)

Obama changed the numbers to make it look like he deported a lot of people. Because he counted someone caught at the border and sent back as a “deportation”. And I think that never changed.

That 616k doesn’t mean ice agents found 616k people and deported them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:32 AM (d4dD2)

386 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

387 >>But Trump *isn't* doing that. The US military is accepting the plane. It won't even be Trump's plane!!! It *MAY* be JD Vance's plane but it certainly will not be Trump's AF1.

Ah, but 15 years from now all anyone will remember was "Trump accepted a jet from Qatar" and HBO will include it as a known bribe as part of their OrangeManBad docuseries that ensures that whatever the generation that follows Gen Z is fully indoctrinated in all of their lies while never consciously experiencing his presidency themselves.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (ke82b)

388 Lizzy I hope you and family are doing ok. 🙏🏻

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (GPc/R)

389 Minnesota cracks me up. They didn't support the North Stars, so Norm Green made a deal to move them south and bring hockey to Texas. Minnesotans got pissed and demanded a team, which they got, in the Wild. Now, there's this supposed 'rivalry' between the two teams.

Uh, if you'd have supported the team in the first place as you do now, they never would've left.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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The problem is, though, Minnesota is home to a couple of the best college hockey teams in America. Kids grow up playing hockey, outside in sub zero weather. High school hockey is huge. People in MN have access to great hockey on a lot of levels. The North Stars, under Norm Green, in a lot of ways, fell short by comparison. Heck, the Stars didn't become a great team until the people who induced Green to move the team to Dallas forced him out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (tT6L1)

390 re: Alzheimer's article

Neware sensationalized headlines, especially in the New York Post.

"Our results suggest that taking these drugs could prevent approximately 1 million new cases of Alzheimer’s disease every year.”"

Count the weasel words.

There is a whole industry of publishing splashy headlines touting miracle breakthrough life-changing cures that don't pan out. Approach with a reasonable degree of skepticism.

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (HOX+I)

391 Neware → Beware

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (HOX+I)

392 Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (HOX+I)

I think the last accurate headline I saw was in 1983.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (GPc/R)

393 We're tooting along, thanks for asking, "..."
Settling into the new normal, for as long as it will last.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (ke82b)

394 There is no deal yet with China so criticizing it is also stupid. There is a trade framework with details still being worked on. People who insisted from the jump the tariffs wouldn't work were obviously wrong, they are working as intended.

—

Look at the market reaction. The deal is real and it’s spectacular. And by that I mean the deal is Trump has backed down from trying to fuck China.

Will there be a few crumbs in it for the US? Probably. A few pound of extra American beef will be allowed into China. Things like that.

But in the grand scheme of things, we’re back to status quo.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (d4dD2)

395 "Surely he and his advisers could've handled this more artfully. Or what am I missing."

Mean tweets, Doge is cruel, etc.

Do you realize what side your on? Just being reasonable?

Posted by: Django at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (bbuBP)

396 Sad Sack did this better...

Posted by: Man at May 13, 2025 09:40 AM (tubbA)

397 379 Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. F U if you can’t handle the truth. This is the best Biden ever. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”

https://tinyurl.com/zpzby9d4
Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)
Even my cat knows that guy's lying, and she's a democrat.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (LHPAg)

398 >> Its Go Time Donald
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Do you ever have something positive to say about anything or is contrariness just your schtick?

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (3ImbR)

399 >>Look at the market reaction. The deal is real and it’s spectacular. And by that I mean the deal is Trump has backed down from trying to fuck China.

I don't give a shit about the daily up and downs of the inside traders on Wall Street. The deal is not done and no matter how many times you say it is it won't become true until the deal is done.

Trump isn't getting bribed by qatar with a plane, he isn't a Putin stooge, he didn't threaten Ukraine on a phone call and just about everything else the media reports is a lie. It's only been a decade of this shit so far, how long are people going to keep falling for the left's lies instead of watching what actually happens?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2025 09:43 AM (viF8m)

400 The Democratic National Convention voted to void its election of David Hogg as vice chair of the Democratic Party on Monday. The vote comes after mounting internal criticism of Hogg, though party officials say the vote was based on a procedural challenge made in February claiming Hogg and another official were improperly elected. The DNC will vote later this year on whether to remove Hogg.

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

401 Troy would have been served well to look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.

Loose bolts in some of those it is intended to carry, as well as the airframe -- the CTHARRIS/19 coup begins, Kaine, Hegseth and Gabbard are the only ones who can stop it at this point, unless they're in on it.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 13, 2025 10:04 AM (mskvV)

402 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

Sean W. Rowe, the presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, letter included: "I am saddened and ashamed that many of the refugees who are being denied entrance to the United States are brave people who worked alongside our military in Iraq and Afghanistan."

What a nasty political stunt. Episcopal News Service (ENS), 'Support for USAID needed now,' Feb. 6, 2025

USCIS has not "quit" the Afghan nationals who've been paroled into the US, or those applying for humanitarian parole from outside the US. Further, the Episcopal Church should consider the snail's pace of the specific program under the Biden administration & that the current administration has been in place less than 4 months.

The church maintains an Afghan Refugee Fund. Work with the US government to aid entry into the US under legitimate/legal REFUGEE status.

In addition to Afghans, some other White people the Episcopal church has supported : ENS, '7 times Episcopal and Anglican leaders spoke against Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine,' By ENS Staff, Posted Feb 19, 2025

BTW nearly 50% of all refugees in the US from 2011 to 2023 came from Myanmar, the DR of Congo or Iraq.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 13, 2025 10:20 AM (NFX2v)

403 "Illegal Immigrant Youth Gang Members Released After Assaulting NYPD Officers"

Never word if the youthful gang members have been some of the many unaccompanied children, "foster" children, trafficked, or otherwise wards of the state. Cutting off sanctuary city, county or state funding is entirely different than having the right to access records for payments to private hotels, etc. for sheltering the 'poor' and good fiscal management.

If nothing else, forensic accounts and auditing the crap out of those paying and those being paid.

Good day 😊

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 13, 2025 10:20 AM (NFX2v)

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