Wall Street Journal: The Corrupt Biden Administration Put Musk Under State Surveillance for Two Years After He Bought Twitter

Gavin Newsom and leading Democrats have spent the last few days fulminating about "authoritarianism" by Donald Trump for sending National Guard and Marine units to protect federal law enforcement agents and sites. What will they have to say when they discover that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice spied on an industrialist supporter of the opposition party?
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Oh, wait, Trump didn't do that. Joe Biden did that. For two years, according to the Wall Street Journal, Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas surveilled Elon Musk and his contacts to check out "influence." This seems to have started around the time that Musk bought Twitter and refused to participate in the Biden administration's Big Tech-Big Government Censorship Complex:

Several U.S. government agencies in 2022 and 2023 tracked foreign nationals coming and going to Elon Musk's properties, according to people familiar with the matter.
The investigation included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. It focused on people visiting the tech billionaire, from countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, who might have been trying to influence him. Until last week, Musk was one of President Trump's closest advisers. ...
The probe, predating the current Trump administration, highlights concerns about the number of foreign nationals in Musk's orbit. Musk runs five companies, including SpaceX, with sensitive government contracts, and has had unprecedented access to top government officials.

Note the pretext for spying on this political enemy of Biden's is the same pretext the Democrat-Media Party used to launch the RussiaGate Hoax: We're so, so scared that our political enemy is talking to foreigners we're compelled to spy on him and get FISA warrants against him.

Musk seems to have reconsidered some of the things he said during his Twitter meltdown:

The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump appears to be cooling--at least publicly--as Musk on Friday deleted a provocative tweet accusing Trump of being tied to the long-sealed Jeffrey Epstein files. The now-removed post had read: "Time to drop the really big bomb... @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"
The accusation came amid Musk's multi-day online assault on Trump's proposed spending bill, which he labeled as bloated and misguided. But the tweet quickly triggered a wave of rebuttals, including from David Schoen, Epstein's former criminal defense lawyer.
"I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he [Epstein] had no information to hurt President Trump," Schoen wrote on X. "I specifically asked him!"
The White House dismissed Musk's outburst as political sour grapes. "This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted," said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday. "The president is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again."

Trump is also conciliatory:

Shelby Talcott
@ShelbyTalcott
Trump says he doesn't plan to remove Starlink wifi from the White House, calling it "a good service." And he says he isn't planning to get rid of the Tesla, but might "move the Tesla around a little bit."

Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Flyguy at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (Lu0ZI)

2 Sure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

3 what a shock

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

4 Musk seems to have reconsidered some of the things he said during his Twitter meltdown:

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Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

5 Nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

6 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (+qU29)

7 As if he, and anyone else within electronic reach, wasn't *already* being watched.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (ULPxl)

8 All this seems illegal.

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

9 BUT MUH NORMS!!

/the cruise "conservatives"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (zjgNU)

10 Could have been worse. Elon could have written a letter to a music critic who dared give a bad review to his daughter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

11 Musk seems to have reconsidered some of the things he said during his Twitter meltdown:

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Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- OnlyFans

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

12 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)

13 >>> 8 All this seems illegal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

*tee hee*

Posted by: 17 intel agencies at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (ULPxl)

14 Mayorkas. Where has that rat bastard been hiding lately?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (w9Wax)

15 Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

I saw noted elsewhere that Musk hasn't been a "conservative" for long.

The first betrayal by our "leaders" in congress hurts the most.

He's blaming Trump, but as he's rather smart, I think he'll figure out that there's a LOT wrong with the country and it can't be fixed until a LOT of our "elites" are dealt with, hopefully by voting them out of office.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (zjgNU)

16 >>> 12 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)

I love how these retards keep trying phrases they think will resonate with real Americans, even though it never works the way they want.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (ULPxl)

17 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)

And the Epstein accusations....

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (NVQp8)

18 15 I saw noted elsewhere that Musk hasn't been a "conservative" for long.

The first betrayal by our "leaders" in congress hurts the most.

He's blaming Trump, but as he's rather smart, I think he'll figure out that there's a LOT wrong with the country and it can't be fixed until a LOT of our "elites" are dealt with, hopefully by voting them out of office.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (zjgNU)

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The other side transed his kid.

He remembered that, probably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

19 Joe Biden didn't do anything except make his undershorts moist and dirty.

His handlers were putting people under surveillance.

Posted by: Dr.Jill, Whore and Home Wrecker at June 10, 2025 12:16 PM (PxmHT)

20 Trump is also conciliatory:

Shelby Talcott
@ShelbyTalcott
Trump says he doesn't plan to remove Starlink wifi from the White House, calling it "a good service." And he says he isn't planning to get rid of the Tesla, but might "move the Tesla around a little bit."

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The most Trump said was that he could consider cancelling SpaceX contracts.

Trump didn't exactly lash out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

21 I love how these retards keep trying phrases they think will resonate with real Americans, even though it never works the way they want.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (ULPxl)

I look at that one and just think Bioshock (the good one.)

'NO GODS OR KINGS. ONLY MAN.' How did that work out, Andrew?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (bss/y)

22 >>> 9 BUT MUH NORMS!!

/the cruise "conservatives"
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (zjgNU)

Coming soon: The Conservative Case For The Panopticon, Run By EXPERTS!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ULPxl)

23 Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.

He's autistic. He doesn't know how to deal with things that don't go the way he wants them to. Exploding rockets are OK with him because he knows that's a possibility but finding out that the federal government doesn't bend to facts and logic was too much.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (/y8xj)

24 All this seems illegal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

There is a little-known codicil in the US Constitution which gives the President unlimited power to preserve order in time of a Democrat Administration.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

25 Tower of Babel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (e8ZCQ)

26 14 Mayorkas. Where has that rat bastard been hiding lately?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Probably at some dark gay bar with Merrick Garland.

Posted by: Auspex at June 10, 2025 12:18 PM (j4U/Z)

27 I can't really find a whole lot of fault with Elon. The amount of pressure he's been under the last few years is enormous.

He put heart and soul into trying to make America work better for Americans and found out the people running the show have little interest in that agenda.

I think, though, we've found out who the tougher person is, between Elon and President Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 12:18 PM (tT6L1)

28 The most Trump said was that he could consider cancelling SpaceX contracts.

Which was the dumbest part of what he said.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 12:18 PM (/y8xj)

29 All this seems illegal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

There is a little-known codicil in the US Constitution which gives the President unlimited power to preserve order in time of a Democrat Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

Excellent!

Posted by: Dean Wormer at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (Aqu9a)

30 When have you ever seen Trump be the controlled one in a fight and the other person be shocking? He's a smart man, knows his customers and is extraordinarily disciplined.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (NVQp8)

31 >>> 24 All this seems illegal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

There is a little-known codicil in the US Constitution which gives the President unlimited power to preserve order in time of a Democrat Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

Right, the Protecting Our Precious Democracy From Grave Threats clause.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (ULPxl)

32 I love how these retards keep trying phrases they think will resonate with real Americans, even though it never works the way they want.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (ULPxl)

Imma end up wit a husband this time. -- woman with seven baby daddies

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (ExV1e)

33 Hell of a slogan for the Dems to run on in 2028, Democrats, Destroying Democracy to Preserve It

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (k1E2D)

34
It's tough out there Horde, it's tough I tell ya'. What a childhood I had, what a childhood. When I took my first step my old man tripped me

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 10, 2025 12:19 PM (5hfjS)

35 Musk was under the impression the Republicans were the good guys who just wanted to save the country. Welcome to the party.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:20 PM (qBdHI)

36 28 The most Trump said was that he could consider cancelling SpaceX contracts.

Which was the dumbest part of what he said.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 12:18 PM (/y8xj)

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Treating no government spending as sacrosanct is a good thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

37 Trump didn't exactly lash out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

Shhhh... you'll upset the people who accused Trump of flying off the handle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

38 So the Trump-Musk war ends with a couple of "Harrumphs". Theater, it was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (HjY3W)

39 Elon has so much material out there for Trump to be nasty about. But Trump's favorite thing of all perhaps, is being unpredictable.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (NVQp8)

40 The administration spied on lots of people, that's what Leftists do

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (+qU29)

41 Too bad they didn't impeach Mayorkas.

Posted by: Oh, wait... at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (3/7pG)

42 The sine qua non of Democrats is to lie, deflect and accuse Republicans of the very things they are doing.

In the history of our government, it has never been weaponized and used against the people in the manner Democrats have done it starting with COVID. Ever. That’s demonstrably true.

And they cannot wait to do it again.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (+3KVp)

43 >>> 36 28 The most Trump said was that he could consider cancelling SpaceX contracts.

Which was the dumbest part of what he said.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 12:18 PM (/y8xj)

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Treating no government spending as sacrosanct is a good thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

Zero-based budgeting.

And a ~~pony~~. ... forget the pony; it's a much longer list.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl)

44
I tell ya' when I was a kid all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo,, it never came back!

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 10, 2025 12:22 PM (5hfjS)

45 @40

>>Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.

As someone who has been married to the same woman for over 30 years, I cannot even begin to wrap my head around dating in this modern era.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 10, 2025 12:22 PM (YbmC7)

46 >> Too bad they didn't impeach Mayorkas.

You misspelled impaled on a pole, and left to rot for the buzzards on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (+3KVp)

47 Musk was under the impression the Republicans were the good guys who just wanted to save the country. Welcome to the party.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:20 PM (qBdHI)

Like lambs to the slaughter, non?

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (NVQp8)

48 Well yeah, they're fucking commies.

That's what commies DO. It's their bread and butter. Spy on people, invent crimes, make shit up, imprison their enemies and ultimately kill them.

The Cold War never ended, it just changed venues.

Posted by: ballistic at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (3BwY8)

49 So, any Democrats get hickory shampoos in the LA riots yet? And if not, why not?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (HjY3W)

50 "No Kings!", sream the people who attempted to coronate Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Cosda at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (un5e+)

51 Love the 90s mystery click…instantly took me back to a more positive time.
Things were not perfect, in the world, or in my life…but overall the zeitgeist was a lot more chill.

Posted by: kallisto at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (kJm6V)

52 OT, but this is kind of cool:

https://tinyurl.com/3m64efsj

The American Revolution but using Google earth so it looks like a grand strategy game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (bss/y)

53 Mayorkas should be sent to Mexico via trebuchet.

Posted by: ballistic at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (3BwY8)

54 Elon has so much material out there for Trump to be nasty about. But Trump's favorite thing of all perhaps, is being unpredictable.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:21 PM (NVQp

I suspect that it's an issue of Trump being aware that there was no benefit to being mean to Musk. He's not an opponent, sometimes he's an ally. Let him bluster a bit. Keep him on-side.

Other politicians? Reporters? Sometimes other national leaders? There can be a benefit to putting them off balance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (ExV1e)

55
When I was a kid I got no respect, none at all. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me... and no one showed up!

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (5hfjS)

56 Treating no government spending as sacrosanct is a good thing.

I'm open to the idea of the federal government getting out of the space exploration business entirely. But if they're not going to do that, then SpaceX is irreplaceable for the time being.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (/y8xj)

57 Wall Street Journal: The Corrupt Biden Admninistration Put Musk Under State Surveillance for Two Years After He Bought Twitter

Remember how right leaning candidates and celebs have all these weird scandals pop up out of nowhere?

This is why.

And thinking back to what has shown up in the press in this time period I'm guessing the worst thing they can find about how is he doesn't like birth control and he does like women...

Posted by: The Knack at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (t0Rmr)

58 No Kings!", sream the people who attempted to coronate Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Cosda at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (un5e+)

Well yeah they didn't say anything about queens did they.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:25 PM (NVQp8)

59 Joe Biden didn't do shit.
Well, he did shit his pants and sniff little girls, but other than that he did not do shit.

Alejandro Mayorkas. Now that is case study in treason.

If Trump were a tenth the 'Hitler' the progtards accuse him of being nobody would question or care who/how Mayorkas disappeared in lte J,AN 2025..

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 10, 2025 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)

60 Musk is acting like a middle aged woman who stormed out on her husband and realized that the dating scene sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

Try being a young bartender stuck with one of those elderly women trying to be all flirty with you all night long.

I mean, you're nice and polite to them hoping for a nice tip, but personal interest is a solid zero, and it's kinda pitiful when they try to go home with you cuz no one around them is interested.

Young chiquita being flirty? Si! Si, mi gusto!

Old lady being flirty? Es no bueno!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 12:25 PM (iJfKG)

61 Zero-based budgeting.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl)

If memory serves, that was a Jimmy Carter idea. Probably the best idea he ever had. So, of course, nothing came of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

62 I couldn’t decide if the Trump/Musk kerfluffle was Clash of 2 Alphas or Kramer v, Kramer

Posted by: kallisto at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (kJm6V)

63 Musk was unrealistic about his expectations with Washington. A 5 year old knows better. He doesn’t even know enough to realize the BBB is well beyond what most people thought was achievable. And o think there is more to come with rescissions and the individual bills.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (+3KVp)

64 The ghost of Abe Lincoln isn't smiling out of amusement, but out of a sense of recognition and faintly of "I tried to warn you." The faces have changed and the geography is different, but the issues are largely the same: taxation, acccess to captive labor and congressional representation. Trump should be using Abe's stern committment to preserving the Union and American sivereignty as a model.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (6xrUr)

65 We really dodged a bullet when McConnell held up Garland's nomination to SCOTUS.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (k1E2D)

66 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:24 PM (ExV1e)

Trump knew the right play was sitting back. He will not be cowed or subordinated by anyone but Elon showed he was willing to go as dirty as needed, so going in the mud where Trump usually lives wasn't necessarily the best play.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:27 PM (NVQp8)

67 Barky also surveilled Sharyl Attkisson and, if memory serves, her parents. Because she did critical reporting on his administration.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:28 PM (qBdHI)

68 Well yeah, they're fucking commies.

That's what commies DO. It's their bread and butter. Spy on people
Posted by: ballistic

It's what autocratic regimes in general do. During the reign of Tsar Nicholas I in Russia (1825-1855), the secret police even had his own son and heir, the future Alexander II, under surveillance.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

69
Oh and my wife,, my wife. I tell ya' my wife and I were happy for twenty years, twenty years. Then we met...

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 10, 2025 12:28 PM (5hfjS)

70 *I cannot even begin to wrap my head around dating in this modern era.*

Hey, big boy...

Posted by: OnlyFans at June 10, 2025 12:28 PM (3/7pG)

71 When I was a kid I got no respect, none at all. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me... and no one showed up!

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield
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One day at the park I got separated from my parents and a policeman offered to help. I asked him if he thought we'd find them and he said "I don't know kid, there's so many places they could hide!".

Posted by: Zombie Rodney D at June 10, 2025 12:28 PM (TN0g+)

72 Take my wife. Please.

Posted by: Henny Youngman at June 10, 2025 12:29 PM (3/7pG)

73 Hah! When they deported terror goblin Greta Thunderbutt from Israel, they gave her a rear-most seat on the plane, which does not recline.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:29 PM (HjY3W)

74
Look at the dirty grant money coming out of the government after the election and one department and cabinet secretary stands out: Jennifer Granholm.

Don't believe she got the autopen absolution.

Posted by: Auspex at June 10, 2025 12:29 PM (j4U/Z)

75 It is funny how the left always, always has an execuse to use government power against people it doesn't like.

This story will get a good ignoring from the FNM.

But imagine if it comes out Trump is investigating say...De Niro. Congress would impeach him for it

Posted by: The Knack at June 10, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

76 I used to have a girlfriend who loved to talk during sex.

I got phone calls, day and night!

Posted by: Zombie Rodney at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (1m82a)

77 Gee, I thought spying on Americans was evil. Learn something new every day.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (+4yJ5)

78 Musk seems to have reconsidered some of the things he said during his Twitter meltdown...

Trump is also conciliatory...

I won't be satisfied until they suck each other's dicks on national TV.

Plus, it'll win over some fag voters. Win-win.

Posted by: zombie at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (pMi6S)

79 Too bad they didn't impeach Mayorkas.

You misspelled impaled on a pole, and left to rot for the buzzards on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Mayorkas should be forced to live abroad--he hates this country and tried to destroy it. There's no place for him here.

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (TN0g+)

80 I still think the Musk-Trump brew ha ha is a tag team wrestling move to fuck with the crazies.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (FmapG)

81
My wife's a lousy cook, lousy I tell ya'. After dinner I don't brush my teeth, I count them!

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (5hfjS)

82 Joe Biden used the power of the federal government to spy on an innocent African American entrepreneur.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

83 On the one hand, if it's politically motivated, the government shouldn't be spying in Elon.

On the other hand, someone should definitely be keeping an eye on Elon and anyone else in his position. Dude is the richest guy on the planet and is a snake.

No one should trust him.

On the other other hand, no one should trust our government either.

So I don't know where that leaves us.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (uCjyK)

84 Mayorkas should be forced to live abroad--he hates this country and tried to destroy it. There's no place for him here.
Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 12:30 PM (TN0g+)

North Sentinel Island is nice this time of year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (HjY3W)

85 Afternoon ace. Garland and Mayorkas were two of the people who were most responsible for the invasion . Biden was a veg and these two decided to let the country be overrun. Eff them both in particular

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (2UZZJ)

86 But imagine if it comes out Trump is investigating say...De Niro. Congress would impeach him for it
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DeNiro is a midget. Pretty sure fucking with a midget is raycist.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (FmapG)

87 "I'm old, I tell ya. Old! When my wife asked me if I wanted super sex, I took the soup!"

-- Zombie Rodney

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

88 It mirrors one of the MAHA folks on X. He's just blown away with how the Repubs in power behave.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 10, 2025 12:33 PM (AcTAo)

89 Musk was unrealistic about his expectations with Washington. A 5 year old knows better. He doesn’t even know enough to realize the BBB is well beyond what most people thought was achievable. And o think there is more to come with rescissions and the individual bills.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (+3KVp)

Musk's expectations were unrealistic but he shared them with a not insignificant number of people in these very comments.

Most people, even people who are interested in politics, understand how things get done. They want immediate and total gratification. After all, it seems like that always happens for the Dems. Never mind that they're being gaslit by the media hyping Dem shit while downplaying Trump shit.

Musk's issue, one he shares with virtually every rich/famous/powerful person on Earth is that he doesn't listen when someone tells him that he's wrong even if it's about something outside of his expertise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

90 no one talking about the school shooting in austria?

Posted by: gnats local 675 at June 10, 2025 12:33 PM (CWTWj)

91 Musk is, frankly, autistic as fuck. I'm not trying to insult people on the spectrum, hell I've got more than a tinge of it myself sometimes. But that dude is an autist. Brilliant, but with very little in the way of social acument.

Posted by: ballistic at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (3BwY8)

92 The most Trump said was that he could consider cancelling SpaceX contracts.

Trump didn't exactly lash out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu
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Trump not gonna cancel SpaceX.

But the next UniParty Admin will nationalize SpaceX.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)

93 I get no respect. I went to buy some rat poison, and the clerk asked me, "Do want me to wrap that up, or are you eat it here?"

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

94 Mayorkas should be forced to live abroad--he hates this country and tried to destroy it. There's no place for him here.
Posted by: Crusader
__________

The Island of Misfit Toys. He's a strange looking dude.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (ITkJX)

95 63 Musk was unrealistic about his expectations with Washington. A 5 year old knows better. He doesn’t even know enough to realize the BBB is well beyond what most people thought was achievable. And o think there is more to come with rescissions and the individual bills.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:26 PM (+3KVp)

I don't think he's that naive. I think there was something he wanted (according to Trump, an extension of EV subsidies and an EV mandate) and Trump did not deliver, so Elon threw a fit like a child and accused Trump of raping young children and covering it up.

Pretty extreme response to not getting your way, some might say.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (uCjyK)

96 God only knows what heat Elon took from Tesla board and big stakeholders in the wake of Tesla stock fall. They probably insisted he get out of politics, and reamed him for getting involved in the first place.

Then in light of all this, the rage he suffered, the terrorism against his company, he probably felt he sacrificed so much for what —- a Betrayal???

And then he flipped his lid

Posted by: kallisto at June 10, 2025 12:34 PM (9PdFC)

97
no one talking about the school shooting in austria?

Posted by: gnats local 675 at June 10, 2025 12:33 PM (CWTWj)

Did any kangaroos get hurt?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (iJfKG)

98 My older girls just sent their sister 3 little Bundt cakes for her birthday. Guess they had concerns she wouldn’t get a birthday cake? Anyway, the birthday girl said the note specified “1 for me, 1 for mama, and 1 for me tomorrow.” I told her we were not eating a whole cake to ourselves. She flounced out of here and said “yes, yes we are indeed eating a whole cake to ourselves, that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (p4NUW)

99 I still think the Musk-Trump brew ha ha is a tag team wrestling move to fuck with the crazies.
Posted by: pudinhead
......

Me too. Playing the media for the fools they are.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (v0R5T)

100 On the other hand, someone should definitely be keeping an eye on Elon and anyone else in his position. Dude is the richest guy on the planet and is a snake.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:32 PM (uCjyK)
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Is that how the government should choose who to spy on...?

Me? I would choose who to spy on by whether they're a commie.

I would break muh precious norms and spy on every single one. Then arrest them for whatever can be found or pinned on them. Then jail.

Then we Make America Great Again. And again. And again.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (NVQp8)

101 82 Joe Biden used the power of the federal government to spy on an innocent African American entrepreneur.
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Joe Biden is a retard. He just loafed around the WH with aviator sunglasses and an ice cream cone. He's a fucking retard. Don't fall for the retard. Look behind the curtains. Jeebus.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (FmapG)

102 Does anyone speak Austrian, mate?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 10, 2025 12:36 PM (e8ZCQ)

103 50 "No Kings!", sream the people who attempted to coronate Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Cosda at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (un5e+)

Say the peepo who supported a cancer riddled dementia patient run by a secret polit bureau and lackeys with keys to the vault.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:36 PM (OA79/)

104 OT, but this is kind of cool:

https://tinyurl.com/3m64efsj

The American Revolution but using Google earth so it looks like a grand strategy game.

That was very interesting. Thanks. It drives home how isolated in small pockets the Brits really were.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 12:36 PM (s8j++)

105
It's HER Birthday.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 10, 2025 12:36 PM (3ek7K)

106 re 102: hitler did

Posted by: gnats local 675 at June 10, 2025 12:37 PM (CWTWj)

107 My older girls just sent their sister 3 little Bundt cakes for her birthday. Guess they had concerns she wouldn’t get a birthday cake? Anyway, the birthday girl said the note specified “1 for me, 1 for mama, and 1 for me tomorrow.” I told her we were not eating a whole cake to ourselves. She flounced out of here and said “yes, yes we are indeed eating a whole cake to ourselves, that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.
Posted by: Piper

Piper, it's her birthday. I say let her eat a whole cake if she wants to.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)

108
The American Revolution but using Google earth so it looks like a grand strategy game.
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I question the timing.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:37 PM (NVQp8)

109 Send Mayorkas back to his native Cuba. He'd be a good vicious little apparatchik

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (2UZZJ)

110 Is that how the government should choose who to spy on...?

Me? I would choose who to spy on by whether they're a commie.

I would break muh precious norms and spy on every single one. Then arrest them for whatever can be found or pinned on them. Then jail.

Then we Make America Great Again. And again. And again.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM (NVQp

I don't know if it's how they should choose people to spy on, but the fact of the matter is, we live in a surveillance state, it is what it is, and most of the country seems fine with it.

So with that framework, I'd be surprised if a foreign billionaire with a sketchy backstory who clearly has no loyalty to Americans or American workers (lets not forget this tweet: "The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.") was not under surveillance by at least one of our 22 intelligence agencies.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (uCjyK)

111 I’m in a bar in NC. I was in a bad way and didn’t want any company. The only thing I wanted to see was the bottom of a glass. That’s the honest truth. Gal asks if the stool next to me is taken. I said, no ma’am. That’s it. Short version, guy accuses me of hitting on his girlfriend. I said, “no, that’s not true at all”. He persists. I tell him I don’t want any trouble. He keeps going, gets loud, puts his hand on me when I turned my back, calls me a liar and repeats that I tried to hit on his girl. I turn around and say, I definitely didn’t hit on your girl. I can smell her hoo hah from here, probably because half the guys in this place have been inside her. Bing, bang, boom. Still have the scar on my arm where he stabbed me with a broken bottle.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (+3KVp)

112 Well yeah, they're fucking commies.

That's what commies DO. It's their bread and butter. Spy on people, invent crimes, make shit up, imprison their enemies and ultimately kill them.

The Cold War never ended, it just changed venues.
Posted by: ballistic
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When they get bored with "The Process" then they will just kill them.
By the millions.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (/lPRQ)

113 Oooh, spicy.
Someone who thought he was safely anonymous on X posted under the pseudonym "Benny", "And we will hunt down every J6 and ICE agent again."

"Benny" caught the attention of someone with dedication and internet detective skills. That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

http://tiny.cc/hilm001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (lIio7)

114 no one talking about the school shooting in austria?

Posted by: gnats local 675 at June 10, 2025 12:33 PM (CWTWj)

No reason to discuss something which isn't possible. Only the US has gun violence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

115 16 >>> 12 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)

I love how these retards keep trying phrases they think will resonate with real Americans, even though it never works the way they want.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 10, 2025 12:15 PM (ULPxl)

I know three months ago Trump was a knotsy worse that hitner. Know he's a king!

Projection indeed.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (OA79/)

116 The Democrat party, when in power, will trigger the zombie apocalypse.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (Aqu9a)

117
Pretty extreme response to not getting your way, some might say.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June

I used to think it was mean to call Elon autistic when he was probably only quirky. I have come to realize he most likely is, and autistic meltdowns when they can’t contain emotions look exactly like this. There is no filter in the moment, there is no rational thought in the moment. And there is a real struggle to understand why the person at the other end of the wrath isn’t over it when the autistic person is. It’s a very difficult dynamic. In kids, it’s furious, primal screaming and throwing of furniture.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (p4NUW)

118 Haha!

Musk fell prey to the same behavior that he faults Twitter from encouraging.

Don't know if the guy is capable of much self-reflection.

Posted by: pawn at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (vD+o9)

119 "It's not totalitarianism when we (D)o it!"

Posted by: Rod at June 10, 2025 12:40 PM (ubIin)

120 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (uCjyK)

But who spies on the spyers.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:40 PM (NVQp8)

121 Noted in an earlier thread was that 60-70%+ of all the "domestic terrorism" and "white supremacy" stats cited by the Biden Amalgamation President were because they were counting every J6 arrest and investigation as "domestic terrorism" and "white supremacy"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 10, 2025 12:41 PM (RPWCv)

122 Via Insty: Active duty Navy JAG officer said he will hunt down ICE agents. This prick's name is Benjamin France.

Nice career you had, Benny.

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 12:41 PM (TN0g+)

123 120 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:38 PM (uCjyK)

But who spies on the spyers.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:40 PM (NVQp

======

Why can't we all just live in blissful harmony and peace?

Namaste, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

124 As others have already noted about Elon's Epstein tweet, if it were true the entire MSM would have already showed us the page(s) where Trump's name appeared. They'd have milked that story for weeks.

Posted by: Octochicken at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (oCS0o)

125 "Benny" caught the attention of someone with dedication and internet detective skills. That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

http://tiny.cc/hilm001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (lIio7)

Heh. Somebody's day is about to get very much worse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (HjY3W)

126
Piper, it's her birthday. I say let her eat a whole cake if she wants to.
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025

Duly noted, Uncle Bulg! 😂

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (p4NUW)

127 >>That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

Well, Navy so…

*ducks*

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (+3KVp)

128 It is Roberts' responsibility to oversee the FISA court.

Impeach him on the known abuses.

Posted by: biteme at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (xWS9V)

129 Musk and Trump and the internet and social Media… a cautionary tale for us hoi- polloi?

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (PCK5/)

130 113 Oooh, spicy.
Someone who thought he was safely anonymous on X posted under the pseudonym "Benny", "And we will hunt down every J6 and ICE agent again."

"Benny" caught the attention of someone with dedication and internet detective skills. That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

http://tiny.cc/hilm001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (lIio7

That's too bad. Seems a shame. Appeared to be a nice guy. I wish him the best in his future role as an attorney for a lefty ngo.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (OA79/)

131 I used to think it was mean to call Elon autistic when he was probably only quirky. I have come to realize he most likely is, and autistic meltdowns when they can’t contain emotions look exactly like this. There is no filter in the moment, there is no rational thought in the moment. And there is a real struggle to understand why the person at the other end of the wrath isn’t over it when the autistic person is. It’s a very difficult dynamic. In kids, it’s furious, primal screaming and throwing of furniture.
Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (p4NUW)

Doesn't sound like someone I'd want close to any levers of power, personally.

At least with Trump, I believe his temperament is mostly him playing a character. He doesn't seem to hold grudges and seems to have a pretty even keel.

Look up the saga of Elon Musk and Adrian Dittmann. Whether the "conspiracy theory" is true or not (and I suspect it is), it's just ... bizarre. Like everything around Elon. He's in his 50's, has a dozen plus of kids, multiple companies to run, and yet seems to spend most of his time fucking around online trying to impress teenagers. It's weird.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:43 PM (uCjyK)

132 But imagine if it comes out Trump is investigating say...De Niro. Congress would impeach him for it
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DeNiro is a midget. Pretty sure fucking with a midget is raycist.
Posted by: pudinhead

I thought midget tossing was allowed?

But you can't hold a whole party responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole party system?

And if the whole party system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?

I put it to you, pudinhead - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 12:43 PM (oE4iy)

133 > no one talking about the school shooting in austria?

Authorities are refusing to release any information about the shooter, which tells us all we need to know. I'm seeing some rumors the shooter is a former student from Syria.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:43 PM (lIio7)

134 My older girls just sent their sister 3 little Bundt cakes for her birthday. Guess they had concerns she wouldn’t get a birthday cake? Anyway, the birthday girl said the note specified “1 for me, 1 for mama, and 1 for me tomorrow.” I told her we were not eating a whole cake to ourselves. She flounced out of here and said “yes, yes we are indeed eating a whole cake to ourselves, that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.
Posted by: Piper

Eat the cake!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Aqu9a)

135 But who spies on the spyers.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:40 PM (NVQp

Zombie Allen Dulles?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)

136 126
Piper, it's her birthday. I say let her eat a whole cake if she wants to.
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025

Duly noted, Uncle Bulg! 😂

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (p4NUW)

And a Big MILKshake too!

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (PCK5/)

137
Last name France, deport him there.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (3ek7K)

138 Am I too late to say nothing will happen?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ohom6)

139 A Rep. Congressman from Tennessee is resigning.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (e8ZCQ)

140 That's too bad. Seems a shame. Appeared to be a nice guy. I wish him the best in his future role as an attorney for a lefty ngo.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (OA79/)

He's going to have to get out of jail, first. Waterboard the fucker, and make him give up the names of of other officers who agree with him. You know he's not the only one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (HjY3W)

141 Now Hawley is pushing a federal minimum wage. Republicans have turned into Democrats, at least as far as economic theory goes. We're all-in for a f'n command economy now. Now we want government to set wages, prices, import/export levels, high tariffs, and regulate the fuck out of the resulting mess.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (62qBb)

142 Someone who thought he was safely anonymous on X posted under the pseudonym "Benny", "And we will hunt down every J6 and ICE agent again."

"Benny" caught the attention of someone with dedication and internet detective skills. That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

http://tiny.cc/hilm001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (lIio7

That's too bad. Seems a shame. Appeared to be a nice guy. I wish him the best in his future role as ~~an attorney for a lefty ngo~~ a cinema mopper at an Adult Book Store.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (oE4iy)

143 Musk and Trump and the internet and social Media… a cautionary tale for us hoi- polloi?
Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (PCK5/)

This place is the closest I come to social media.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

144 "Benny" caught the attention of someone with dedication and internet detective skills. That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.
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They are known as Jag Offs.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (FmapG)

145 >>That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

"Todd" would have been a more apropro nom de plume.

Fucking Todd!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (Aqu9a)

146 143 Musk and Trump and the internet and social Media… a cautionary tale for us hoi- polloi?
Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (PCK5/)

This place is the closest I come to social media.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

Some days the ANTIsocial media..

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (PCK5/)

147 Young chiquita being flirty? Si! Si, mi gusto!

Old lady being flirty? Es no bueno!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 12:25 PM

Hermano!

Posted by: Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (XqeJN)

148 > no one talking about the school shooting in austria
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Guessing it was a Maryland Man

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (NVQp8)

149 Speaking of the revolution...if you showed the Minute Men from the revolutionary period what modern MA looked like I suspect they would all have taken an oath to stop having kids

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (t0Rmr)

150 Thankfully these leftist assholes are getting found. Progress

Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (DLqye)

151 My older girls just sent their sister 3 little Bundt cakes for her birthday. Guess they had concerns she wouldn’t get a birthday cake? Anyway, the birthday girl said the note specified “1 for me, 1 for mama, and 1 for me tomorrow.” I told her we were not eating a whole cake to ourselves. She flounced out of here and said “yes, yes we are indeed eating a whole cake to ourselves, that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.
Posted by: Piper

Nothing Bundt Cake(tm) Individual, small goul, & large cakes.

Mmmmmmm

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (oE4iy)

152 Guessing it was a Maryland Man

Nah, Maryland man speaks Spanish.

The soon to be mentioned German man speaks Turkish or Arabic

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (t0Rmr)

153 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.
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Unelected and unaccountable judges imposing nationwide injunctions, over-turning and ignoring the will of 80+ million voters, unilaterally commanding the President on how and when to act is ... democracy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (RPWCv)

154 Pork Chop >>>>> Jag Off

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XqeJN)

155 Now Hawley is pushing a federal minimum wage.
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The effective minimum wage is always zero.

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)

156 > That's too bad. Seems a shame. Appeared to be a nice guy. I wish him the best in his future role as an attorney for a lefty ngo.

Finger's crossed he gets a dishonorable discharge that affects his ability to practice.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (lIio7)

157 David French the Apostate was a JAG, wasn't he?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (xx7Ke)

158 What Mr JAG did is a violation of federal law and a crime. He should know that better than most. It’s also grounds for federal charges and a likely DD. And with all that he will no longer be able to be a lawyer in most states.

So- McDonalds may be in his future.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (+3KVp)

159 Nah, Maryland man speaks Spanish.

The soon to be mentioned German man speaks Turkish or Arabic
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 12:47 PM (t0Rmr)

I don't discriminate.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (NVQp8)

160 Look up the saga of Elon Musk and Adrian Dittmann. Whether the "conspiracy theory" is true or not (and I suspect it is), it's just ... bizarre. Like everything around Elon. He's in his 50's, has a dozen plus of kids, multiple companies to run, and yet seems to spend most of his time fucking around online trying to impress teenagers. It's weird.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at

Not impressed teenagers. Honestly, it all does make sense. It’s probably really hard for him to engage in a normal relationship and online gives him a bit of the safety to communicate. It’s kind of normal with high functioning autistic people. Being normal socially is not what comes easy to them. They have to fake it. We have had a ton of behavior therapy for my daughter, and thank goodness we did. But even now, she will just say things and have no idea it would be received as hurtful. They also don’t do well with the word no, and if they are spiraling, it’s worse.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

161 141 Now Hawley is pushing a federal minimum wage.

—

How is he pushing something that already exists?
Unless you mean an increase?

It’s meaningless anyway. Nobody makes $7.25 an hour. Shit McDonald’s in my area pays almost $20/hr and they still have a hard time keeping people.

Most states have their own minimum wage as well.

The only thing it can affect is union contracts which use the mw to calculate wages for their members. Other than that it’s really a non issue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 12:49 PM (ohom6)

162 Young chiquita being flirty? Si! Si, mi gusto!

Have you heard my song about Felina at Rosa's Cantina in the west Texas town of El Paso?

Posted by: Marty Robbins at June 10, 2025 12:49 PM (Aqu9a)

163 She flounced out of here and said “yes, yes we are indeed eating a whole cake to ourselves, that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.
Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:35 PM

This is one of the instances where a male offspring is more beneficient.

Men know that rules are made by men to be broken by men.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 10, 2025 12:50 PM (XqeJN)

164 Musk was under the impression the Republicans were the good guys who just wanted to save the country. Welcome to the party.
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I've said, imagine if the Democrats cared about Americans as much as they care about illegal aliens.

But, related is, imagine if Republicans cared about Americans as much as Democrats cared about illegal aliens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 10, 2025 12:50 PM (RPWCv)

165 The cake is a lie.

Posted by: GLaDOS at June 10, 2025 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

166 The only thing it can affect is union contracts which use the mw to calculate wages for their members. Other than that it’s really a non issue.
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Pearls before swine.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:50 PM (FmapG)

167 Find someone who looks at you like Democrats look at Hamas and MS-13.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:51 PM (NVQp8)

168 160. My smart phone autocorrect and smart fill in sounds very Indian from India today with the extra words it is adding.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:51 PM (pZEOD)

169 Young chiquita being flirty? Si! Si, mi gusto!

Have you heard my song about Felina at Rosa's Cantina in the west Texas town of El Paso?
Posted by: Marty Robbins

Yeah. She flirts. Guy gets shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 12:51 PM (oE4iy)

170 Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (p4NUW)

I agree he's probably autistic, which may explain some of his behavior, but it does not excuse it.

He is the richest man in the world, tweeting publicly about the elected President of the US (who he supported), claiming that he knows that the President engaged in pedophilia and then actively worked to cover that up.

Then he retracted the statement.

That is, to say the least, not acceptable behavior in polite society.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:51 PM (uCjyK)

171 Old lady being flirty? Es no bueno!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 12:25 PM

Au contraire. C'est bon.
-- E. Macron

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (77rzZ)

172 145 >>That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

"Todd" would have been a more apropro nom de plume.

Fucking Todd!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 12:46 PM (Aqu9a)

Jeebus. Don't tell everyone you are about to go off your rocker. Just do it. It's the only way.

Posted by: Leroy jenkins at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (OA79/)

173 The Island of Misfit Toys. He's a strange looking dude.

Island of Doctor Moreau would be a better fit for that creepy f**k.

Posted by: Nelly at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (cHLus)

174 It's my birthday, I can flounce if I want to...

Posted by: From that song at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (3/7pG)

175 Question: has Trump ever threatened to beat the crap out of a reporter?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (xx7Ke)

176 My smart phone autocorrect and smart fill in sounds very Indian from India today with the extra words it is adding.
Posted by: Piper

"I am so happy to see you I am standing here beside myself".
Posted by: Benny from Mumbai

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (oE4iy)

177 The German Democratic Republic never died, it just moved to Washington DC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (aVx/C)

178 Too bad they didn't impeach Mayorkas.
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I thought the House did?

And then the Senate--who swore the Constitution required--REQUIRED--the Senate to hold a trial when the Trump impeachments were sent over from the House--even the ridiculous and silly one post-Presidency--suddenly found a "but only if we want to" clause.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (RPWCv)

179 Most states have their own minimum wage as well.

The only thing it can affect is union contracts which use the mw to calculate wages for their members. Other than that it’s really a non issue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 12:49 PM (ohom6)

Hey you want to actually increase the minimum wage dramatically with no new legislation? In fact, Congress can just fuck off to wherever they scurry off to when Congress is in recess...

Deport the tens of millions of people working and living here illegally driving down wages for American citizens.

That would solve MANY of our problems. Overnight. Housing prices would drop, medical prices would stabilize, school districts would be able to allocate money to books instead of hiring spanish translators, etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (uCjyK)

180 that is what the instructions say and we are rule followers!” Help.
Posted by: Piper

This is the parent's conundrum. Teaching your kids to follow the rules, but sometimes...you don't have to. And then hope they follow the rules again when they're supposed to.

How little are the cakes? Too big for one sitting? Could have a whole one in a day, but split it up into two or three servings?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (144I4)

181 Who you calling old?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 10, 2025 12:54 PM (3/7pG)

182 My doubt is Sundowner did anything, he was totally tje puppet and got out of it his lifelong dream

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 12:54 PM (+qU29)

183 175 Question: has Trump ever threatened to beat the crap out of a reporter?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 10, 2025 12:52 PM (xx7Ke)

Has he ever locked them on a closet or put a rope around them and herded them down the street like sheep?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:55 PM (OA79/)

184 176 My smart phone autocorrect and smart fill in sounds very Indian from India today with the extra words it is adding.
Posted by: Piper
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Shoosh, I've got a Asian chick named Temu hitting me up like 10 times a day offering me free stuff. She clearly is fascinated with me.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:55 PM (FmapG)

185 So- McDonalds may be in his future.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2025 12:48 PM (+3KVp)
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It may get even worse. The guy may have been doing JAG duty so the military picks up the tab for his college. He doesn't complete his service, he gets stuck with the college tuition tab, I believe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 12:56 PM (tT6L1)

186
Men know that rules are made by men to be broken by men.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 10, 2025 12:50 PM (XqeJN)

She is using my words against me, which is pretty funny. I doubt she will eat the whole thing in one sitting, joking aside. Each cake is like 2 big cupcakes in one. We don’t eat much refined sugar in general, she won’t want to make her stomach hurt.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 12:56 PM (pZEOD)

187 Dr. Moreau?

Ara?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 12:56 PM (aVx/C)

188 Has he ever locked them on a closet or put a rope around them and herded them down the street like sheep?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:55 PM (OA79/)

And, if not, why not?

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

189 182 My doubt is Sundowner did anything, he was totally tje puppet and got out of it his lifelong dream
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 12:54 PM (+qU29)

He's remembering himself as the greatest prezzie ever in his head like that guy at the end of Brazil.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2025 12:56 PM (OA79/)

190 Looks like Trump/Elon outsmarted y'all.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 10, 2025 12:57 PM (wBaIH)

191 My smart phone autocorrect and smart fill in sounds very Indian from India today with the extra words it is adding.
Posted by: Piper
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Shoosh, I've got a Asian chick named Temu hitting me up like 10 times a day offering me free stuff. She clearly is fascinated with me.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 12:55 PM (FmapG)
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That's a dude, bro. Temu is a dude.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

192 "Under state surveillance for two years." What a laugh. Get bills in the mail? Make any payment? Drive around? Please.

Posted by: 80's music fan at June 10, 2025 12:57 PM (QSrLX)

193 Shoosh, I've got a Asian chick named Temu hitting me up like 10 times a day offering me free stuff. She clearly is fascinated with me.
Posted by: pudinhead

An older lady I was working with as a docent made the joke when her phone went off that it was a call from her new boyfriend, "Potential Spam." "He calls me a lot. Sometimes several times a day."

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

194 "Under state surveillance for two years." What a laugh. Get bills in the mail? Make any payment? Drive around? Please.
Posted by: 80's music fan at June 10, 2025 12:57 PM (QSrLX)

I don't recognize that song.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

195 Musk acted out of two motives, I believe: one, he tried regulatory capture of the biggest prize (Trump) and that flopped miserably, so he flounced a little over his failure, and two, he genuinely does not understand the Congressional sausage making and he was appalled by the bill.

Trump knows he needs the tax cuts first, foremost, and desperately, so he is willing to settle (for now) on allowing the pork to roll along with it.

I believe Trump will come back to spending reductions, and Musk was unwilling to trust that will happen. Fair enough, he has a better than even chance of being correct.

Anyway, having started the fight, Musk also needs to finish it. His businesses are too reliant on federal cooperation for him to do any other thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (2jkJ9)

196 >That person discovered "Benny" is a Navy JAG officer named Timothy D France. Timmy is a GWU grad and it looks like he just blew up his whole career.

He blew something.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (rJ48h)

197 Daily Mail headline:

Blood-Soaked Anarchy
LA riots take dark turn as body is found near looted business amid fears woke Democrats are losing control

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (XqeJN)

198 That is, to say the least, not acceptable behavior in polite society.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:51 PM (uCjyK)

I dunno. Trump gets worse said and done to him every day by Democrats and some Republicans.

Maybe we need to dispense with the fiction that politics is some kind of polite game for the proper and upstanding. The commies in particular are vile vicious scum on the underside of slime who will say and do anything that gives them one more morsel of power.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:59 PM (NVQp8)

199 Posted by: bonhomme at June 10, 2025 12:39 PM (lIio7)

‘Benny’ looks like he was in yesterday’s Art Thread feature

Posted by: kallisto at June 10, 2025 12:59 PM (9PdFC)

200 Newscum and Bass lost control on Day One.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 12:59 PM (aVx/C)

201
That is, to say the least, not acceptable behavior in polite society.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at

I don’t disagree, which is why I spent thousands on behavioral therapy for my daughter. To make her have a fighting chance in polite society. I don’t think he has the same emotional regulation issues as she does, but he definitely has some! He also doesn’t recognize things as weird that we find…weird. Like fathering children all over the place to fight decreasing population without regard to being a father. Except in many cases, he really is a good father, but not all. It’s not rational, as I said.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (pZEOD)

202 Lola was a showgirl in the hottest spot north of Havana. But Rico took things a bit too far Tony sailed across the bar.

Who shot who?

Posted by: Barry Manilow at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (Aqu9a)

203 I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:37 PM (NVQp

*shifty eyes*

(Innocently) What do you mean?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)

204 I believe Trump will come back to spending reductions, and Musk was unwilling to trust that will happen. Fair enough, he has a better than even chance of being correct.

Anyway, having started the fight, Musk also needs to finish it. His businesses are too reliant on federal cooperation for him to do any other thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 12:58 PM (2jkJ9)

Feels like Elon assumed Trump would hate the bill as much as he did. But then Trump sided with his people against Elon.

Natural to assume there were a lot of not great emotions to go through after that.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (KbCG3)

205 LA voters had a stark choice between Caruso and Bass. They can soak in their decision.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 10, 2025 01:01 PM (rJ48h)

206 Newscum and Bass lost control on Day One.
Posted by: Anna Puma

They never had control.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 01:01 PM (oE4iy)

207 What was that line Rock Hudson said at the end of Unconquered?

"Might as well run for office. Only place where a man can raise Hell."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 01:01 PM (aVx/C)

208 Lola was a showgirl in the hottest spot north of Havana. But Rico took things a bit too far Tony sailed across the bar.

Who shot who?
Posted by: Barry Manilow at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (Aqu9a)
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Nah. They were closet homos who ended up sucking each other's dick

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

209 Part of making America great again is putting fiscal sanity back in the federal government and maybe paying down some debt.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (2Rbgs)

210 Lola was a showgirl in the hottest spot north of Havana. But Rico took things a bit too far Tony sailed across the bar.

Who shot who?
Posted by: Barry Manilow

Han shot first.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (oE4iy)

211 I don’t think he has the same emotional regulation issues as she does, but he definitely has some!
Posted by: Piper

She's a teenager, right? That has got to make things worse, I would think.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

212 Wasn't Lola a futa?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (aVx/C)

213 Feels like Elon assumed Trump would hate the bill as much as he did. But then Trump sided with his people against Elon.

Natural to assume there were a lot of not great emotions to go through after that.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 10, 2025 01:00 PM (KbCG3)
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Yeah, Musk thinks Trump has more influence over the House Cat Herd than he really does.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 01:03 PM (2jkJ9)

214 Posted by: Cow Demon at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (2Rbgs)

You will not see most of the spending numbers budge but Trump will continue at least cutting regulations and the cost of doing business, which is another solid way to generate wealth. And it's a way the bastard Republicans can live with. Probably because Democrats can always put them back in a future year, but no one will ever be able to spend the unspent money from the current one.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 01:04 PM (NVQp8)

215 50 "No Kings!", sream the people who attempted to coronate Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Cosda at June 10, 2025 12:23 PM (un5e+)

…and cheered His Majesty The Shahinshah on no matter what He did.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (2Rbgs)

216 Han shot first.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (oE4iy)

Who's on second

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (NVQp8)

217 I remember this time in Monterey when I was in one of my usual watering holes, and a group of about four people walk in. One of them was an attractive young woman who looked at me and smiled as they came in. Seeing this as a come on, once they were seated, I walked over to their table and held out my hand to shake hands with her as I introduced myself. "Hi, I'm Bulg." Whereupon one of the guys in the group stuck out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm her husband."

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

218 Daily Mail headline:

Blood-Soaked Anarchy
LA riots take dark turn as body is found...

How many crack and methheads drop dead in downtown LA on an average non-rioting day?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (/y8xj)

219 For two years, according to the Wall Street Journal, Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas surveilled Elon Musk and his contacts to check out "influence."
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We should consider this precedent and provide this 'service' to Soros and Son.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (Dv3i1)

220 216 Han shot first.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (oE4iy)

Who's on second
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 01:05 PM (NVQp

=====

Terrible second baseman. No speed. Should have remained on first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

221 Oh, Hay . . .

Peter Schweizer
@peterschweizer
20h
Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, revealed that the raids that sparked the violent LA riots were not for immigration purposes. Homan explained that the raids that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday were part of a criminal investigation into a money laundering scheme and cartel activity.' It wasn’t an immigration raid. It was to service of three criminal warrants at locations based on a large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating,' Homan on MSNBC.
Jun 9, 2025 · 8:19 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2025 01:06 PM (D7oie)

222 Han shot first.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (oE4iy)

In self-defense. Once Greedo pulled the gun on him, he became fair game.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 10, 2025 01:06 PM (2Rbgs)

223 Heh. Somebody's day is about to get very much worse.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2025 12:42 PM (HjY3W)

Heh. Some wag over on Insty commented, "Who ordered the choad red?"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 10, 2025 01:06 PM (/HDaX)

224 212 Wasn't Lola a futa?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 01:02 PM (aVx/C)

Not that Lola. She was a showgirl. The other Lola walked like a woman and talked like a man.

Posted by: Mixed up muddled up Copacabana world at June 10, 2025 01:06 PM (Hb8vw)

225 Whenever I eat a whole cake, I wash it down with some lukewarm almond "milk".

Posted by: Hefty Honey at June 10, 2025 01:07 PM (G5+As)

226
She's a teenager, right? That has got to make things worse, I would think.
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025

Just turned 14! And we don’t have the absolute what feels like psychotic breakdowns often, like almost never. But if she is annoyed, it’s very bitey, snappy tones. Her social limit is still pretty small.

Posted by: Piper at June 10, 2025 01:07 PM (pZEOD)

227 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

This makes me happy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 01:08 PM (tT6L1)

228 Well, it looks like my car's a/c condenser has done an Amber Heard. The good news? It's still under warranty. The bad news? It's back ordered. Because, of course it is. It's gonna be a long, hot summer.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 01:08 PM (kgE5c)

229 Whenever I eat a whole cake, I wash it down with some lukewarm almond "milk".
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*Golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (TN0g+)

230 Hey you want to actually increase the minimum wage dramatically with no new legislation? In fact, Congress can just fuck off to wherever they scurry off to when Congress is in recess...

Deport the tens of millions of people working and living here illegally driving down wages for American citizens.

That would solve MANY of our problems. Overnight. Housing prices would drop, medical prices would stabilize, school districts would be able to allocate money to books instead of hiring spanish translators, etc. etc.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 12:53 PM (uCjyK)

And we’d be a serious country. Serious countries don’t let people stroll into the country unchecked, and do not have people feeling sorry for those who do.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (2Rbgs)

231 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

This makes me happy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 01:08 PM

Not gonna lie....me, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (kgE5c)

232 LA voters had a stark choice between Caruso and Bass. They can soak in their decision.

"American voters in 2020 had a stark choice between Trump and Biden. They can soak in their decision."

Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

233 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

This makes me happy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 01:08 PM (tT6L1)
_________

Don't drop the soap!

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

234 I dunno. Trump gets worse said and done to him every day by Democrats and some Republicans.

Maybe we need to dispense with the fiction that politics is some kind of polite game for the proper and upstanding. The commies in particular are vile vicious scum on the underside of slime who will say and do anything that gives them one more morsel of power.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 12:59 PM (NVQp

Yes, but Elon is supposedly Trump's ally, and is now likely going to try to "mend bridges" with Trump.

Again, Trump has a way about him where he can get away with being outrageous. He's unique in that sense. It feels very tongue in cheek coming from him. And even then, he doesn't really always get away with it.

This outburst from elon? I don't think he was being Trumpian. If Elon had made fun of Trump's hair or something, sure.

But how do you come back from calling Trump a pedophile who is covering up the evidence of that? There will be books written on Epstein for the next 50 years, half of which will cite Elon's tweet as proof that Trump was an Epstein client.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 10, 2025 01:09 PM (uCjyK)

235 228 Well, it looks like my car's a/c condenser has done an Amber Heard. The good news? It's still under warranty. The bad news? It's back ordered. Because, of course it is. It's gonna be a long, hot summer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 01:08 PM (kgE5c)

Call a salvage yard.. they might fix you up, quickly..

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 01:10 PM (PCK5/)

236 I’m the real minimum wage. Hi.

Posted by: Zero at June 10, 2025 01:10 PM (2Rbgs)

237 Piper

So Katie Kaboom?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 01:10 PM (aVx/C)

238 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

This makes me happy.
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Eh, he probably has no priors and may get off lightly. But a message was sent nonetheless.

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 01:10 PM (TN0g+)

239 Leftists with good standing never get seriously charged, unless another Leftist wants their position and has more pull.

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (+qU29)

240 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

Excellent.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (2ocoG)

241 Eat the cake!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Aqu9a)

Cake is a lie

--Chel

Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (D7oie)

242 Eh, he probably has no priors and may get off lightly. But a message was sent nonetheless.
Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 01:10 PM (TN0g+)
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Federal charges, so, maybe not.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

243 Well, it looks like my car's a/c condenser has done an Amber Heard. The good news? It's still under warranty. The bad news? It's back ordered. Because, of course it is. It's gonna be a long, hot summer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

My car's a/c went out on me twice, and was supposedly "fixed" twice. Worked fine for a little while each time before it died. Third time it died, I was tired of spending money and time trying to get it fixed, so I let it stay dead. That was maybe ten years ago. I just drive with the windows down on the really hot days.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

244 12 Biden put Musk under surveillance, but it's Trump who gets the "NO KINGS" protests.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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They need the Al Gore treatment; rain, hail, tornadoes, sudden cold or hot spells, whatever weather is unusual and adverse to the time and place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 10, 2025 01:11 PM (wSFOB)

245 But how do you come back from calling Trump a pedophile who is covering up the evidence of that?

That isn't what he said, though. He said Trump was in the Epstein files. Which he almost certainly is - we've all seen photos and video of him at parties with Epstein, and he invited Epstein to a party at one of his properties before banning him for getting handsy with the staff.

Elon is technically correct, which is the best kind.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2025 01:13 PM (2ocoG)

246 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 01:13 PM (ExV1e)

247 Peter Schweizer
@peterschweizer
20h
Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, revealed that the raids that sparked the violent LA riots were not for immigration purposes. Homan explained that the raids that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday were part of a criminal investigation into a money laundering scheme and cartel activity.' It wasn’t an immigration raid. It was to service of three criminal warrants at locations based on a large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating,' Homan on MSNBC.
Jun 9, 2025 · 8:19 PM UTC

So, the cartels are behind the riots.

Posted by: davidt at June 10, 2025 01:13 PM (i0F8b)

248 Serious countries don’t let people stroll into the country unchecked, and do not have people feeling sorry for those who do.
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Three quick questions for open borders supporters is "Do you have locks on the doors of your home? Do you use them? Why?"

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)

249 Things did not go well for Billy Voltaire when Shrimper Dan took a shine to his Marita in Havana town.

But people get by and people get high,
In the tropics, they come in they go.

Posted by: Jimmy Buffet at June 10, 2025 01:14 PM (Aqu9a)

250 Amusing side note: The head of the SEIU, Huerta, was arrested and arraigned. He's facing some serious jail time.

This makes me happy.
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It is impressive to me how completely they believe the media narrative that only sweet, innocent, never-harmed-a-fly grandmas, mothers and family men are being arrested.
And they must protect them.

I really like how they're trying so desperately to manufacture outrage of "they're separating families!"

To be met with, "yeah, that is what happens when the parents are criminals. American jails are full of parents separated from their children."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 10, 2025 01:14 PM (RPWCv)

251 arresting SEIU people is one definition of a good days work.

As a 23 year old cousin was reaching the end of his days, lying in a hospital room, SEIU (1099) was on strike outside, banging on metal garbage cans and chanting through loud speakers. So I hate them with the power of burning sun.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 01:16 PM (8OhW+)

252
The rioters are setting brush fires in LA county, including Pacific Palisades. I have seen claims that the empty reservoirs have still not been filled. The government of California has been in a state of insurrection for a long time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 10, 2025 01:16 PM (biznJ)

253 Alex Jones is hyperbolic, however, he is essentially correct more often than not.

“Gavin Newsome is a World-class Drunk, a Womanizer…that used to pimp his wife out to Politicians for political support…and she admits she did it. This is Nancy Pelosi’s nephew…”
_ Alex Jonews

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 10, 2025 01:16 PM (wSFOB)

254 "So, the cartels are behind the riots."

This is a reasonable assumption. And Holman stating this is also quite telling.

Posted by: pawn at June 10, 2025 01:16 PM (vD+o9)

255 Read that they pipe bombed a car last night. James Woods has two or three posts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 10, 2025 01:17 PM (wSFOB)

256 The cartels and Democrats are in bed. And maybe Republicans.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 01:20 PM (NVQp8)

257 Leftists project their actions onto their opponents

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 01:21 PM (+qU29)

258 Elon is technically correct, which is the best kind.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2025 01:13 PM (2ocoG)

Being actually correct is better than being technically correct so technically it is not the best kind.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 10, 2025 01:21 PM (NVQp8)

259 The ICE raids weren't for immigration but on three cartelistos for money laundering. Whole lot of money. Beto's mom launders 100K at a time through her furniture store and hasn't been touched.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 10, 2025 01:22 PM (wSFOB)

260 Go to your room, Wesley.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 10, 2025 01:22 PM (wSFOB)

261 TheNewRepublic:

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was spotted Monday night chatting with Steve Bannon, according to Politico Playbook. Fetterman, who has displayed his own dramatic rightward shift, was reportedly dining at a top MAGA hangout near Capitol Hill with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle, when the conservative news site’s old director wandered up and spoke to the pair for roughly 20 minutes.

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2025 01:43 PM (RHGPo)

262 So are the Latin Kings allowed at the "No Kings" event or not? This is confusing and possibly racist.

Posted by: brak at June 10, 2025 02:37 PM (jGJov)

263 typical Democrat: complain about things happening under DJT as authoritarian but absolutely silent as the Biden administration (autopen) did even worse and more egregious privacy invasions.

Posted by: gov'theretohelp at June 10, 2025 03:33 PM (PfnFb)

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