Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
Canada Elections: Prime Minister Carney’s Liberal Party to lead fourth consecutive government
The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
Trump’s First 100 Days: Over 150K Illegals Arrested, More than 135K Deported
US Tariff Revenues Reach Record $15 Billion in April: Treasury
Trump Executive Order Requires Truck Drivers To Speak English
US Government Committed Over $11 Million Directly to Soros’s Open Society Groups
House Democrat unveils articles of impeachment against Trump
Chicago Mayor Johnson facing $1 billion deficit; seeking bailout from the state
S&P Downgrades Los Angeles Bond Rating Amid $1 Billion Budget Deficit
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
$15 billion in tariff revenue
That should put a dent in our $4 trillion budget.
That’s about $3T short.
That’s about $3 trillion short
It is depressing that the enormity of those numbers don’t even register.
Soon, “conservative” politicians and pundits will be crowing about cutting $50 billion out of a $15 trillion budget.
And people will feel better about the world.
True. The numbers mean nothing reported like that. They should be reported as percentages but…the numbers are all bullshit anyway so who knows.
Except left wingers, of course. To them, the lack of $50 billion out of a $15 trillion budget means that people are going to starve to death.
Is the $50B a cut from current spending or the more frequent reduction in increased spending?
Don’t worry, I have been assured by my FB friends that Biden LOWERED the deficit so all we need to do is get another Dem president and we’ll be in the black!
Let’s just send it to Ukraine.
You betcha – with the tariff money pouring in and all of the DOGE cuts to spending the budget will be balanced in no time!!!
“Canada Elections: Prime Minister Carney’s Liberal Party to lead fourth consecutive government”
They have chosen their destructor…
“Gozer 2028! They can’t really be worse!”
Cthulu ’28 – the government the people want and deserve!
Not bad enough, JI.
This Davos douchebag who ran the Bank of England (poorly by all reports) is just anointed by the Liberals and they win. Good Luck with that.
At least the signs were there so I’m not surprised. Just disappointed. An asylum program for our Canadian conservatives once vetted would be my vote — Net Zero at the minimum is going to make life really hard there in this turkey’s term.
Funny you should say that…
They can have asylum, but they cannot vote in US elections, nor their descendants, to the fourth generation.
I suspect a lot of them voted based on “I am a good person, who hates discrimination”, until they found out the boundaries were moved on what discrimination means.
I feel bad for Canadians right now. This was foreseeable and Trump should have kept his fucking mouth shut. Trolling is all well and good but there’s a proper time and place and the 51st state stuff right before an election was not it.
I suspect he just believes Canada doesn’t matter, and they still need to get worse before they decide they need to get that marxist shit out of there.
If it gets bad enough, we’ll just invade the place. The quickest and easiest war we’ve had in a long time.
The NYC police department is bigger than Canada’s army.
If we go take Canada, we should not allow anyone there to vote in our elections for at least 2 generations while they get deprogrammed. Canadians, I am sorry to say, even the conservative ones, are weak men and will just serve to bring us even harder times.
If they’re willing to vote for more pain because Orange Man Mean, then they get what they deserve. From what I have read on the Twitters, the Conservative candidate lost his seat. So it sounds like he pissed off his base. This might go beyond Orange Man.
Exactly. The Liberal Reign of Terror during COVID was allowed to go full speed partly because the Conservatives mostly stayed quiet and even agreed with many of the measures that Trudeau implemented. Being a chickenshit without any sort values while attempting to appear moderate is a losing proposition.
But also, the Canadians love them some largess of government that isn’t even tolerated in the US, so it makes sense that Carney won and Liberals won the elections.
Yeah, I can’t really feel sorry if it was freaking Donald Hitler that made so many of them vote to authoritarian harder. That is just stupid.
We’ll show those dumb Americans, we’ll elect a REAL fascist!
Setting the left up to play the patriotism issue was stupid. The righty had to be restrained in his criticisms because many of his base actually like Trump. It was just a boneheaded move on Trump’s part.
Yes it was.
This was going to happen with or without Trump. His trolling has a minimal impact. The conservatives have lost four times in a row.
Republicans look to the north with envy.
Boy yeah they do. They miss losing down here.
Much as Trump (and apparently many others) want to believe it, not every single Bad Thing that happens is Because Trump.
It’s concern trolling by those who dislike Trump.
No. But immediately before Trump started trolling, the people turned against the conservatives. They had a lock, and then a massive swing since Trump.
Correlation != causation, but it’s one hell of a coincidence to be unrelated.
“The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border”
Lib tears. I voted for lib tears…
Yummy and sweet…
Johnson’s chief of staff is former Illinois state Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, D-Chicago. She says the mayor’s team remains focused on revenue.
No fuck you, cut spending
Can they? Didn’t they just lock in Yet Another Stupid Stupid contract with the Teachers Union that requires these stupid levels of spending?
He knows who butters his bread — and it isn’t the normal taxpayer.
Johnson was a CTU union organizer and activist – never held any office and is purely their creature. The last CTU contract is astonishingly large, considering there are fewer students and they are largely illiterate and innumerate.
Chicago seems even more vulnerable than NYC to driving out the higher income people they need in order to spray so much money around.
That’s been going on since 2021. The latest:
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/ttx-joins-major-companies-leaving-chicago/
For sure. The marker for me was Ken Griffin taking Citadel to Florida.
TEAM BLUE is just one more misstep from having the markets all unplug their computers and restart in TX or FL. Then Chicago will become Cleveland x 3.
All the same problems of mismanagement, crime, and crap weather, but without the “we’re the center of the universe” factor.
Swiss:
As long as they don’t decide to move into Cleveland (or Ohio in general).
Don’t worry, it only takes 30-50 years to recover from that kind of collapse…
Johnson’s career as a politician is done. But Chicago will reliably elect a so-called moderate who will try to use rubbing alcohol and band aid to fix the festering wound of Chicago’s pending financial and social insolvency.
But Chicago will reliably elect someone even worse, just like going from Beetlejuice to Johnson.
Meanwhile, more Chicago folks will move to Indianapolis and implement the failed policies they ran from.
I know the Judges have been fighting him on this — but like the tariff revenue above… that’s a drop in the bucket. Hopefully the self-deporting is substantial and not included in that. Continuing to work to shut off benefits and get penalties for those hiring illegals needs to happen.
I never expected he could deport much and just expected him to stop the mass import.
He’s don’t the latter swiftly and easily so I’m at least pleased about that.
My back of the envelope math indicated we need about 11k+ daily net outmigration for four years to approach pre-invasion levels. To get down to optimal levels (0 illegals) it’d have to be higher.
That will never happen though.
Certainly won’t if one gives up before starting because it’s too much.
I mean he can try.
It just falls into “campaign promise Trump” territory. Like when he claimed he would cut government.
Man, I don’t know what black
tar heroinpills you have been taking Urthona, but boy are they strong.Every journey begins with a single step, my man.
I don’t know how they would track the number of illegals who self-deport. As the welfare and jobs get cut off, it will be substantial, though.
Keep in mind, though, that probably 5 to 8 or 9% of the people in this country are here illegally. It will take a while to unwind that.
Why not. They aren’t learning anything useful in school.
Articles of impeachment: Nice hair bro. What lab do they grow these idiots in?
The University’s system laboratories.
He looks like he’s in brown face doing an SNL skit. But he has such a stereotypical Indian accent, I doubt they’d have the guts to go that far.
It is funny to hear a guy straight off the boat talking about “our Democracy”.
I honestly thought it was a skit when I first saw it.
Satire and reality have melded together.
You mean that wasn’t actually Fred Armisen?
Throw those tantrums. Maybe hang out on the Capitol steps until the weather gets unpleasant.
As god as my witness, I thought that was James Brown.
Robert Downey Jr as Kirk Lazurus (in Tropic Thunder) parodying an Indian accent?
lol The left will go apeshit over that one.
I’m… not sure at the necessity here but ok .
What are you transporting in that big truck, nothing illegal right?…
No hablo Ingles…
You know it’s kinda funny.
All pilots for a major airline have to speak English because it’s the international language of aviation.
Regardless of what country they are from.
Yep.
BTW, I think this goes beyond the speaking of English as much as being able to read signs. If I recall correctly the number of problems that have had bad outcomes, like that guy in Colorado that ran a truck into a load people, killing them, had his attorneys claim he was not responsible because he couldn’t read English. That is why this is happening.
That argument does seem strange. I think it would take about 5 minutes to learn the meaning of government signs with or without English speaking ability.
Now I suppose if there are big warning signs with text like in an emergency that’s different
My completely uninformed guess is that this is in reaction to something that happened that we somehow didn’t know about.
Hawaiian/DC/Washington State judge will surely put a stop to it.
Not sure how you get a CDL without being able to speak English. Although there are probably lefty states that helpfully provide the tests in Spanish or whatever despite traffic signs being in English.
If Trump was smart, as part of making English the official language, he’d cut all the money that funds interpreters and document printing for a hundred different languages.
A lot of truckers are eastern European. They hardly speak English and finding a translator for Slavic languages is going to be hard.
bacon-magic:
That’ll depend on location, pretty sure I could find someone to swear at me in any Eastern European language just by getting their nationality wrong.
It’s already the law you need English for a CDL.
Everyday truckers prove their literacy (or illiteracy) on the road. Maybe swing a few of them from each overpass and those rat fuckers might learn to figure out what those squiggles on the side of the road mean.
I’m sensing some hostility here
So, the 4D chess move here* is to bait the judiciary into overreach, getting an injunction that you can’t require English, and then use it as another stone in the bucket that we need to seriously limit the power of judges?
*I don’t actually think Trump is a 4D chess master.
I don’t think he plays 4D chess, either, but one thing I do know is that if you don’t even try, no matter what any judges might think, nothing will happen.
I don’t think he plays 4D chess either.
But he is different, and approaches things differently than most people can guess. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes not.
Morning all.
Canada….Trump…..”Look what Trump made us do!” isn’t going to cut it.
Trump: “Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!”
So we gave federal money to Soros orgs? Disturbing but not surprising. The NGO complex delenda est.
Soros wasn’t using his own money to buy elections, he was using yours.
You also paid for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and mansion because you are nice like that.
https://x.com/GigaBeers/status/1917077655553274056
I have no recollection of receiving a thank you note! ::haughty sniff::
You’ll note they don’t seem to link to the actual DOGE documents.
She looks more like Webb Hubbell all the time, doesn’t she.
Must be fucking nice.
TOK: Nice to look like Webb Hubbell?
I saw the reports this morning where Donnie Two-scoops wore a blue suit to the commiepope funeral. Such an insult! How could he!?
There was a close-up of him surrounded by black suited attendees and he really stood out.
Then I saw the un-cropped photo of the crowd and it was chock full of blue suits.
“We are not the enemy of the people! We dont hate America!” – MSM
Yeah? Your actions say different, lying shitbirds.
What they choose to not show is usually more important than what they do show and if they have to crop a pic here or there so be it.
+1 Armed black man at tea party rally
They will make some statement in a few years about how they are untrusted because a few honest mistakes were made.
A few years? Didnt they do just that at their Whitehouse dinner or some awards ceremony where they celebrated themselves for outing Joe Biden’s dementia?
“Certain officials were covering that up and we missed it.”
Get caught in a lie? Dont worry, they will make up a new one.
They have no shame. Actively participated in a coverup for partisan purposes, and then claim to be be misled when the lie is exposed.
You really can’t hate the MSM enough.
They couldn’t use the existing scripts:
deny, delay, deflect, dismiss
deny exists, responsibility, severity, urgency, options
It’s not happening, but if it were it would be good.
“Then I saw the un-cropped photo of the crowd and it was chock full of blue suits.”
Most people already forgot about that inauguration party pic the Atlantic cropped to show had no black people, cause RACISS!!, even though the full pic showed black people, including the organizer.
This bullshit is not by accident. These people are truly evil.
Front page propaganda, retraction buried in the personal ads.
Much like that conservative event where they cropped out the woman and POC.
ugh – women, plural
“Angry mob targets wrong house after accused serial cat killer released from jail as vigil turns violent”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/california-angry-mob-targets-wrong-santa-ana-home-after-serial-cat-killer-arrest/
I hate when that happens.
They are protected by QI as this was an honest mistake.
Angry mob targeting my house?
That’s what shotguns are for.
Clacking off claymores…
I want to limit damage to my neighbor’s houses so bouncing betties.
I want to read the LA bond article, but the epochtimes really, really doesn’t want to let me in.
You don’t want to be put on a mailing list it’s tough to get off of?
I logged in with my google account, because apparently they already have that info…and still nope, too many articles read. I cannot remember the last time I read an epoch times article.
Works for me. Try trimming the link.
Nope, same. I have reached article limit.
Since you can get in, can you tell me what bond letter LA was downgraded to? That was entirely what I was looking for. I guess I could google it.
LA Times article answered question: AA- from AA
Nobody that wants my info or money to let me read has anything to say I am willing to give my info or money to read. Ask once – “Bye”. I dont go back.
Holy crap Canada just elected a retard. A day after the grid in Spain and Portugal collapsed, he’s preaching the gospel of Net Zero.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1917144336879308905
Yep. It has to get a lot worse before it gets better.
My guess is that this will pave the way for a Trump/Brexit/McGregor/populist of any sort to come in from the outside.
But, my family left the frozen shit hole generations ago, so what do I know.
It’s like this.
Absolutely..
Or this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070126084834/http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namQ.jpg
Was the outage in Iberia caused by green energy? Wouldn’t surprise.
I saw they were close to an outage for everyone.
France’s nuclear fearlessness is saving everyone.
The amusing and very quiet part of this is how crushing this must be to Chrystia Freeland, who was supposed to be Trudeau’s heir.
Oh boy. Sorry, Canada. 😞
US Tariff Revenues Reach Record $15 Billion in April: Treasury
I read yesterday that Trump is now moving forward on the play to use this tariff revenue to end income tax for people making < $200k. That income tax revenue is about 600 billion a year. The annual expected revenue from tariffs is about half that. Either one is small fraction of the whole budget.
We could cut funding Ukraine, UN, USAID and easily make that. Nevermind shutting down overseas bases and funding to NATO, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, Israel, etc. Haven't even touched domestic spending which would cut the budget down again. They are pissing our money and future away. And on nothing achievable other than lining pockets through graft.
I realized the notion that we can't cut taxes without a corresponding cut in budget doesn't play out. Taxes aren't coming close to sustaining the budget and removing them won't make a dent in a default. It will need to become extraordinarily painful to actually make meaningful and sustained budget cuts.
That is… not enough.
Dude, are you forgetting Trump’s promise of a trillion-dollar Defense budget? If we shut down even half, let alone all of our overseas presences, we wouldn’t know what to do with all of that money.
Trump is ultimately a populist and I think that very much collides with any real budget cutting.
But that’s who America elects so…
Unrealistic expectations is a thing. I am getting far more from Trump than I would have gotten from anyone else, so I adjust my expectations. The world is doomed. We are soon going to come to understands that we are not the first advanced civilization to live on this planet, and that once you reach a point the emotion people take over, it’s back to the dark ages in 3 generations or less.
Even crazier notion is that the entire Defense budget could be paid in full by other countries. Every country in NATO and every country with American troops should be paying to be part of our defense net. South Korea and Vietnam should still be paying off our help. No need to slash if the funds aren’t coming from taxpayers.
I was glad to see Trump at least float the notion that America should be getting something back for all the aid we’ve given Ukraine. That didn’t seem well received by anyone in Washington or the rest of the world.
“Experts issue terrifying warning to America: Prepare for pandemic NOW as new virus spreads to all 50 States”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14657121/experts-issue-terrifying-warning-usa-pandemic-virus.html
No.
What’s the mortality rate of the disease?
Although human-to-human transmission has not yet been observed…
Never mind
Come on, they’re working on it in a lab in THE Ukraine now.
Wasn’t the chaos caused by experts panicking and lying while the media exaggerated everything?
Can we just not do that again?
We are going to make you comply with the world order’s agenda!
Was just thinking recently that now’s the time for another plague to fuck with Donald Hitler’s agenda.
Trump is defeating himself right now so I wouldn’t try anything.
If he actually manages to wrangle some trade deals and things are looking up…. Time for pandemic 2
The ramping up of another plague is telling me that he IS succeeding, and they are afraid of more #winning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Experts huh? Will be they be crucified – very literally – if they are wrong? No? Then I have no reason to give them any more credence than a street corner preacher.
Apparently 33% of Canadians are foreign born. Those are rookie numbers. Can we get that to 50% in the next 4 years? I believe so. A little more immigration and a bit more MAID for the locals…
Yeah, that population that has no connection to what is being Canadian voting, is what they want to do to the US too. The illegal immigration is by design.
Yeah, Canada is gone. Demographics is destiny and all that. England isn’t far behind, either.
What’s interesting about Canada is they strongly buttress several conservative arguments against immigration now.
They had claimed mass immigration would bolster their economy and the data shows now that after a huge several years of importing…. Absolutely nada for positive economic benefit.
Neither is the United States. We have the highest foreign born population ever, except last time we found ourselves in this situation the left didn’t have so many activist judges willing to keep the flood coming.
With the US, it’s just a harder argument to make because it continues to outperform so many western nations economically.
With Canada the data is so stark and obvious. Mass unprecedented immigration… absolutely no real growth of any kind. It proves the idea of importing workers to bolster the economy is no net gain.!
Which is amazing. Imagine the wealth without all the wasted money being thrown around, the insane regs we already have, etc. etc.
“It proves the idea of importing workers to bolster the economy is no net gain.!”
Actually, it doesn’t. The alternate interpretation is that without the immigration, Canada’s economy would have tanked!
Occam’s razor doesn’t suggest one as more right than the other to me.
I mean…. Yes good devil’s advocate
Haha. Very unusual to go backwards but possible.
I didn’t know Occam’s Razor ranked unverifiable hypotheticals (the economy would have shrunk otherwise) equally with observable results (the economy has stagnated).
Maybe Occam was using Dubai as a baseline?
The results from importing workers has completely different results there than in Canada.
Clearly immigration alone doesnt cause stagnation (see also the US), so there must be something uniquely different about Canada.
In the same way that Montreal toroidal bread treats are “bagels” I guess.
I was given to believe that most of the immigrants were Hollywood actors trying to escape the death camps.
“Courtney Knill is running for city council in Charles Town, WV, but you wouldn’t know that from her Facebook page, which has been locked. The candidate for Ward 3 told The Post Millennial that she woke up late last week to discover that her Facebook page was disabled. A message told her that she was in violation of community guidelines and she was accused of impersonating herself.
She was given the opportunity to appeal, and she went through that process. “All they had me do was record a video of myself where they had me point my face in a different direction, basically just showing that you are who you say they are,” she said.
“They reviewed it, and then just today I got the notice: We disabled your account… reviewed your account. It still doesn’t follow our community standards on account integrity. You cannot request another review of this decision, and you can download your information if you want. And that’s it,” she said, “done. Campaign Facebook page shut down.” Knill’s Instagram page and X account are still live.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/facebook-blocks-charlestown-wv-city-council-candidates-page-with-no-further-appeal
Facebook, champions of integrity.
Hang her next to John Brown.
““Courtney Knill is running for city council in Charles Town, WV, but you wouldn’t know that from her Facebook page, which has been locked. ”
She was on Tim Pool’s podcast last night, and yeah, Facebook locked her page and told her she was someone else pretending to be her in order to prevent her from taking that seat and upending that cart of crooks. I wonder if Facebook’s censors will suddenly back down not that this is going public and it negatively reflects on them.
And yes, Zuck lied when he said that Facebook would become impartial. They are not.
My wife’s account was hacked/stolen, she never could get it back. FB is asshole.
I am glad I decide social media was a cancer back in the days of MySpace and never bothered. So many people I know have severe brain damage because of social media.
I admit to being a Twitter addict because so superior to all traditional news.
For sports. I learn the news swiftly and immediately and in better detail over any other news.
For politics, same. And if some media nonsense needs refuting, also provides it pretty well in real time.
“State identity” is very weak in this country. Regional/cultural identity is somewhat stronger, but gets weaker every day and has no mode of expression.
America is, in fact, very culturally ill-suited to federalism, and would probably be happier as a unitary state.
https://x.com/atlanticesque/status/1917006097107325100
Doubtful.
We’ll split up into college football conference sized confederacies.
I could see it.
With annual playoffs?
We are already ACC sized.
ROAT:
With the bowls named after various food stuffs, eventually they could grow into something big…
The Chili Bowl will be the most controversial. Who gets to participate?
Is it being played in Cincinnati?
That would be the “Greek meat-based hotdog topping bowl.”
“Greek meat-based hotdog topping bowl.”
Yes, exactly, chili.
I identify stronger from local to country. A unitary state would increase conflict.
That is I identify stronger locally than state or country.
Yeah. The sports thing just leans into my stance that it’s the best form of tribalism in the modern day.
I don’t know where that guy is talking about, but there’s all sorts of levels of local and regional divisions and loyalty. FFS, I’m here in Cleveland where there’s multiple companies making money by tapping into hometown pride with clothes. We’re not pretentious like those people from C-Bus, nor Kentuckians who don’t know what chili is, we’re sure as shit not Yinzers, and of course…
We’re not Detroit!
Northern KY is more Ohio than Cincy in Kentucky.
s/in/is/
Nope, that doesnt work, or Cincy converts to Ciscy.
Lets try again… s/ in / is /
Hey man…im on a crusade to bringing good food to the masses here in N. Kentucky
Where is Ciscy?
Can you tell the Montgomery Inn that they suck?
I mean, I would do it in person if I was close by, but just think they should know.
OBE:
There is good food down there as well. And the barbecue is definitely (on average) better as you get further south, but it’s a whole different culture to be in the exurbs of Cinci vs. CLE.
Neither Cincinnati nor Northern Kentucky are far enough south for good barbecue. Neither is Northern Colorado. Ugh.
I think membership in the Confederacy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for BBQ. And yes, Missouri was a Union state.
robc:
If you ever find yourself up here on the North Coast, I would like to attempt to prove you wrong. We’ve got a couple of really good places.
Neph:
I don’t grade on a curve.
On a related note, when does Rodney Scott get his Michelin star? Its a travesty.
Shouldn’t you escape your whitespace?
Do you have a special retarded-people filter on X?
I mean it’s called the right tab. Although occasionally it’s good to see what the retarded are arguing .
Fuck off, commie.
Sure. Because Bilble-Belt conservatives have so much in common with West Coast Lefties.
Chicago should just start a gofundme…
And the politicians will just run off with it?
I’m sure they’d say, it was fund me wasn’t it?
All the “tax me harder” people will happily donate.
My brother once got out of a ticket for running a red light in Chicago where he had moved to because he told the officer “I’m used to longer yellows in Texas”.
He didn’t know this to be true but suspected it strongly living there.
Later I read an article that in fact said that Chicago had deliberately shortened its yellow lights so it could give more traffic tickets.
The rest of Illinois can start a GoFuckYourself.
“Amazon to show tariff costs on each product
Each product will show how much of its cost is from tariffs, next to the total listed price.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had just spoken to President Donald Trump about the Amazon announcement and that his message about it was: “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” according to Reuters.
The e-commerce company is hoping to escape the blame for increased prices from President Trump’s tariffs, Punchbowl also reported.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/amazon-show-tariff-costs-each-product
Will it also show much showing the cost of tariffs will cost?
Will it include all taxes and fees imposed by governments?
I mean. Good. They should do that for all taxes.
I recall some gas stations were showing how much you paid in gas taxes when you filled up. And then I believe that was prohibited by the state? The feds?
It’s probably bad press for them when people realize that for every gallon of gas sold the government makes more money than Big Oil.
Great minds think alike.
And it shouldn’t be prohibited.
Mandated on the pumps here in Ohio.
Prohibited in our state.
Same here.
I’ve seen it in CA.
No different from breaking out the taxes at the gas pump.
Except if you are selling gas that’s only three products.
I mean, those prices technically already had tariffs in them to begin with didnt they? Not as much, but didnt seem to bother them a couple months ago.
BREAKING: HHS to require hospitals to show cost of diversity on all invoices
https://x.com/fractal_friend/status/1917203638562545933
All vendors should include “cost of government” on invoices.
I’d love a made is USA button but they don’t allow that.
“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Turns Up the Heat on AG Pam Bondi”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/rep-anna-paulina-luna-ramps-up-pressure-ag/
Boom chicka wow wow?
Release the Urthona files!!
Yeah, funny how that Epstein client list just never seems to break cover. The excuse that “Well, we need to protect the victims’ privacy” is just ludicrous, of course. Luna has a point here.
It’s just because there never was any “Epstein client list”.
You are correct. It is a myth.
Well, I doubt that he kept a single, dedicated, comprehensive list of everybody that he procured for, neatly organized by category. But I am also pretty sure a list of people that he procured for could be assembled from the records he kept.
There supposedly were flight logs of who was on the planes there and back.
FAFO
Why did the thief stop? Looked like he had gotten away.
I think forward was over a parking block or down a curb and probably bottomed out
He is now gonna sue for more money to cover his injuries…
Couldn’t drive a stick?
Looked like the victim pulled out his keyfob and pressed a button. May have been close enough to activate panic mode and disable.
The kid ran over a parking bump, and hit another car according to the narrator
Maybe it was a standard shift and he stalled it.
ha ha standard shifts are like unicorns
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Moar sunshine!
I would have thought this song was the appropriate music for today:
https://youtu.be/Z6qvbycZXKI?si=NmntFc_kk8apucBy
Beef tartare (left) vs pork tartare (aka Schweinemett or Hackepeter, right)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpsGeueWcAERhup?format=jpg&name=large
looks pretty good. We don’t do pork tartar in Romania but had some in Spain.
My cousin tastes the raw sausage meat to test salt and spices. My mom fries small patties of it to taste, we do not taste it raw.
This is what happens when people start eating things that smell like fish but taste like chicken…
Snake?
Does it come with a side order of ivermectin?
That’s gonna leave a mark…
Good, make it hurt.
Florida man, baby!!!
Link..
Looks like a younger Larry the Cable Guy… gator done!
Rolled out from dinner with his family dressed like that with no shoes.
A true Florida Man for sure.
This should be good news.
Pretty much every metric about HIV infections is trending in a good direction. But of course, it comes with all sorts of caveats about how Trump is cutting $$$ from govt agencies that “study” STD’s.
It would be interesting to talk to the whiners and see if they would prioritize the continued employment of epidemiologists or the continued payment for treatment of the infected. I have my suspicions.
Chuck Todd trying to act as if the media is not a bag of dicks…
Of all the pundits, Chuck Todd bothers me most. I’m not sure if it’s because he looks like a rat. Talks like one. Is smugger than most. Or if it’s the two first names. But something about him bothers me more than anyone else.
His name forms a sentence. That’s uncanny valley territory
Non-linear Ethnic Niches
The emerging Western caste system
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/non-linear-ethnic-niches
If you want to join Britain’s thriving cocaine smuggling industry, you have to be Albanian.There’s no a priori reason why this should be the case. Albanians do not have a racial, cultural, geographic or political affinity for Colombian narcotics. A reasonable and informed observer in 2000 would not have predicted that they would come to dominate the industry. Yet such an obsever would have predicted that some ethnic minority would because organized crime is almost always organized along ethnic lines. This is true even when the ethnic minority is less criminal on average than society at large, as with the Jewish mafia in early 20th century America.
This phenomenon isn’t unique to criminal enterprises. Chaldeans control 90% of the grocery stores in Detroit. 40% of the truck drivers in California are Sikh, and about a third of US Sikhs are truck drivers. About 95% of the Dunkin’ Donuts stores in Chicago and the Midwest are owned by Indians, mostly Gujarati Patels. In New England and New York, 60% of Dunkin’ Donuts stores are operated by Portuguese immigrants. 90% of the liquor stores in Baltimore are owned by Koreans. I am not the first, the tenth, or even the hundredth person to notice this. From a 1999 New York Times article titled ‘A Patel Motel Cartel?’
The existence of non-linear ethnic niches weakens the economic case for immigration even further. The key point is that immigration fractures national markets. Once a niche is taken over, outsiders can no longer compete in that niche.
There is still competition within ethnic groups inside the niches, but these groups are tiny fractions of the population and often have informal institutions and kinship structures that allow them to act as cartels.
Cambodians run about 80% of the donut shops in Southern California (despite being only 0.17% of the state’s population). The Cambodian donut empire got its start with refugee Ted Ngoy, who first learned the trade thanks to an affirmative action program to increase minority hiring at Winchell’s Donuts. The Cambodians were able to completely dominate this traditional American culinary sector through a mix of extended family credit and the use of tong tines, an informal lending club.
Pro-immigration conservatives often celebrate the “entrepreneurship” of non-linear ethnic niches as a route to assimilation, but that’s getting it backwards. As with the Patels, Vietnamese refugees were attracted to nail salons because they didn’t require English proficiency and in fact enabled ethnic separation from core America
What does Marco from Tropoja have to say about this? Let me guess…’
Good luck…
“Albanians do not have a racial, cultural, geographic or political affinity for Colombian narcotics. A reasonable and informed observer in 2000 would not have predicted that they would come to dominate the industry.” Bullshit. They were the biggest drug dealers in Europe in the 90s. That’s how they funded the KLA. I knew it, and I don’t even do drugs. There’s a UN agency that’s tasked with following these flows of money and how they support rebel groups. They knew it, but they kept it quiet.
Who controls the chicken fingers market has the real power.
Abed?
Martyrs
Another esteemed climate scientist, who spoke with NPQ anonymously to avoid retaliation, recalls their experiences as a former high-ranking federal science advisor. At first, this person says, hostility to science was a corporate talking point, peddled by various special interest groups with axes to grind against environmental regulations. Before long, however, it became a broadly accepted stance by the conservative base.
“It’s against intellectual rationality and science in general,” this scientist explains when describing the right-wing’s emergent philosophy. “The technology and science that has shaped our world for many decades now is under attack in a fashion that is particularly cruel to human beings.”
For the scientists, it is cruel because most of them—whether employed by the government, academia, or the private sector—are animated by a sincere desire to learn about and improve the world. For the harassers, at least those who don’t directly profit from climate change, it is cruel because they seem to believe they can obviate scientific reality by bullying scientists.
The former federal science advisor describes the breadth of the attempted erasure: “It isn’t just climate change, I would term it perhaps environmental sustainability, which is characterized by many things.” Whether it’s humans dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, clogging the oceans with plastic pollution, or disrupting our endocrine systems with industrial chemicals, science, they point out, “doesn’t care about who thinks” what, ideologically. Therefore, in the grand scheme of things, everyone loses because of anti-intellectualism.
Totally not a cult.
How dare you gore my shibboleth?
I am gonna bet that when we find out why so many “scientists” and people in the “scientific community” went along with this giant climate change racket, it will be because they wanted that government money from tax payers, and to get that you had to pretend this shit was real.
Only private funding corrupts. Public funding is pure.
Of course that is it. It is always the money.
^ this is what they really believe!
JI: “It is rather pointless to argue with a man whose paycheck depends upon not knowing the right answer.”
I looked for an attribution and it came up half and half Sinclair and Menken. Of course, like all quotes, it is stolen.
Suthen, I’mma fact check you. Lincoln said it on Twitter soon after it launched.
“It’s against intellectual rationality and science in general,” this scientist explains when describing the right-wing’s emergent philosophy.
Bullshit.
It’s against scientism, not scienc. And the intellectually rational people aren’t the ones tying themselves in knots insisting men can be woman just by declaring themselves so.
Science is hiding your data and methodology because the laity wouldn’t understand.
“Nonprofit Quarterly”
No doubt another sterling publication brought to you by your own tax money.
An independent report has concluded burying electricity cables underground or out at sea is far more expensive than using overhead lines.
The study by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) comes as National Grid prepares to submit a planning application for more than 100 miles (160km) of new pylons between Norwich and Tilbury in Essex.
Energy minster Michael Shanks said the report proved that “pylons are the best option for taxpayers”.
But campaigners have claimed the report was “half-baked” and the government was “blinkered” about the importance of pylons.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qny5133jqo
“The description you have of anti-intellectualism might be broadened to say anti-rationality,” the scientist adds. “The application of that in the public domain into everyone’s lives is a particularly concerning version of what the current people in power are attacking. So, to undermine the ability for people to believe and have confidence in rational thinking is fundamentally even more disturbing.”
That’s a compelling argument coming from somebody who purports to represent a group of people whose arguments are fundamentally based on fear and emotionalism.
….and whose assertion is unfalsifiable…..and whose hundreds of predictions have an unblemished record of being wrong….
It is a transparent scam. Laughably so.
When letters of marque come back….
https://youtu.be/bLyla-hO3xE
An independent report has concluded burying electricity cables underground or out at sea is far more expensive than using overhead lines.
[insert expostulation of astonishment and disbelief]
Scientists are not the only ones expressing alarm about the growing public lack of respect for knowledge. Jasmine Charbonier is a 36-year-old digital marketing strategist from Florida who has noticed the rising anti-science tide, even in her nonacademic field. Charbonier says she sees a “weird pattern where some of my coworkers don’t just disagree with climate science, they seem downright angry at anyone who references peer-reviewed research or scientific data.” She recalls one occasion in October when an anodyne presentation about a company’s sustainability initiatives abruptly took a malicious turn.
“This guy…started going off about how ‘elite academics’ are trying to control everyone’s lives,” Charbonier says. “The hostility was unreal. He literally called me a ‘brainwashed puppet of Big Science’—whatever that means. And I’m just standing there thinking, dude, I’m just showing carbon emission stats.”
Like the climate scientists, Charbonier is dismayed by this anti-intellectualism. She characterizes it as a manifestation of society’s larger culture wars.
Like Saint Joan at the stake, they are.
You can’t help but be impressed with how obdurately unselfaware they are. And they’re the cream of the intellectual crop; just ask them.
It’s not left vs right or Dem vs Republican anymore, it’s the credentialed class vs the rest of us unenlightened mouth breathers.
Chumps vs grifters.
The issue I have with people like her is that they don’t even want to debate the science behind climate change. Whenever anyone tries to, they say it’s “settled science” and not worth debating about than shit all over the chessboard while declaring victory.
And I’m just standing there thinking, dude, I’m just showing carbon emission stats.”
Which have failed to show causation for global warming, but don’t let that stop you.
The CO2 racket is stupid. Water Vapor is the greatest warming agent outside the amount of energy trapped by oceans. But man can’t be blamed and taxed into a marxist globalist agenda from water vapor, the ocean, or the sun’s activity. You can’t sell that even to the dumbest lib. Hence the invention of the CO2 emission problem.
This.
Also evident from that article is that one of the big problems we face is that the people revolting against the scam are poorly prepared to refute it. They have a sense of it and their sense is correct but they dont present well.
That is not how you do science.
Suthen there is no evidence that will ever dissuade a believer, not about God and not about climate change, or any other thing that someone has gotten into their head as the undisputed truth.
That is not how you do science.
[huffing and puffing, and storming off without any further discussion]
Somebody actually went to town on me for saying the point of science is to disprove the science before that. Or something like that.
yOu DoN’t KnOw AnYtHiNg AbOuT sCiEnCe
Yes, and the universe revolves around the Earth. It’s ESTABLISHED SCIENCE!
I guess they’ve relied too long on junk American debt?
There is only one country on the planet that supposedly is considered economically advanced other than the US that has a debt to GDP ratio worse than the US. And that country also has never had an official external audit of their economy and consistently tells people they have ridiculous growth that now everyone is realizing is bullshit. That same country avoids being called out by buying and owning the political and financial sectors of anyone that would actually be able to do the research and call it out. Couple that with a coming demographic disaster, entire cities crumbling as they sit empty, and military ambitions that would plunge the world into hell, and you have a picture of how fucked up they are…
Guess who?
The Vatican?
Pope Xi concurs.
It’s Waconda, isn’t it?
IT WAS NOT A SETUP!!!!!
If you doubted that the agenda is to normalize/legalize sex with minors, and even paid sex, take a look at this..
California, stay despicable!
I mean isn’t all sex paid sex?
Yes, but when you actually have to ask for a receipt and pay taxes on it, it is not the nice kind of paid sex. If you are buying her roses, taking her out for expensive dinner, and showering her with jewelry or other accoutrements, you are doing it legit… Or something….
“Well we all pay for sex one way or another. At least hookers are honest about the price.”
So, the doctor, for whatever reason, offered my husband Viagra.
I said, “No. I’m not paying for sex.”
SPAIN BLACKOUTS: AN ANONYMOUS EXPERT VIEW
From a deep groupchat, last night, translated from Spanish, written by an expert in transmission and distribution of power. Not my words.
https://x.com/energybants/status/1917206847389389216
well this is totes trustworthy…though no less so than anything else these days
Suckers
The most indelible image from Donald Trump’s inauguration in January is not the image of the president taking the oath of office without his hand on the Bible. It is not the image of the First Lady scowling under the capacious brim of her hat or the memeified image of Hillary Clinton giggling at Trump’s mention of the “Gulf of America.”
It is, of course, the image of the world’s richest and most influential men—henceforth known as the broligarchy—lined up both literally and figuratively behind Trump. It was a carefully choreographed moment designed to illustrate Trump’s strength. But the tableau could also be viewed another way: as a bunch of billionaires who looked scared out of their minds.
Just about every man in the lineup had faced off against Trump in his first term: Mark Zuckerberg deemed him too dangerous for Facebook. Jeff Bezos sued him for harboring a “personal vendetta” that allegedly cost Amazon a $10 billion cloud contract. Tim Cook called Trump’s immigrant family separations “inhumane” and condemned his “moral equivalence” after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. And when Sundar Pichai protested Trump’s ban on immigration from majority Muslim countries, Sergey Brin was right there with him. Even Elon Musk clashed with Trump 1.0 after the president pulled out of the Paris climate accords.
Now, all of these men stood side by side on the dais, many of them in what appeared to be a naked act of self-preservation as Trump’s retributive and transactional second term took off.
So, 100 days in, how have these business leaders been rewarded for their subservience? Why, with tariffs and trials and tanking stock prices, of course.
Just think how much better off they’d all be right now with Kamala running the joint.
broligarchy??
“I threw up a little in the back of my mouth”
That’s when I tapped-out.
“Stop saying that! We are real journalists!”
“California’s Assembly Bill 379 (AB 379) was supposed to be a rare, bipartisan marriage between the Democrat Supermajority and the Republican minority to make it a felony to traffic any child 18 years old or younger. In 2023, SB 1414 was passed and signed into law, making it a felony (it was formerly a misdemeanor) to traffic or purchase any child 15 years old or younger. Sen. Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), was the champion and author of this bill, and she originally made the age ceiling 18 years old or younger, but thanks to cretins like Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill was amended in committee and the age ceiling was lowered. Democrats also tried to kill the bill, putting SB 1414 in the Senate Appropriations Committee “suspense” file, the place where bills go to die. Gov. Gavin Newsom intervened in order to improve his presidential street cred, pushing the bill forward and ultimately assuring its passage. Sadly, the compromise of “15 years old” still remained. Two years later, Assemblywoman Maggy Krell (D-Sacramento) has partnered with Grove to see this changed.”
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/04/29/ca-dems-want-to-make-human-trafficking-an-acceptable-practice-and-wonder-why-parents-are-so-upset-n2188458
This has been going on for a while:
https://www.newsweek.com/california-democrats-block-bill-make-child-trafficking-serious-felony-1812674
Also, someone needs to go through Scott Wiener’s phone.
Ewwwww!!!! /not even a teen girl
broligarchy??
A Pulitzer-worthy turn a phrase.
FAMINE
Something worse than price increases is when daily necessities are unavailable for purchase. Some U.S. stores could see empty shelves in a few weeks as the impact of tariffs on China begins filtering into the economy, according to asset management firm Apollo.
It’s true that China exports far more to the U.S. than it imports from the country, as U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out. But the implication of that trade relationship is that the U.S. consumer has more to lose when China’s exports slow to a trickle.
Millions will die.
Minor problem
General Motors is recalling nearly 600,000 SUVs and trucks in the United States due to engine issues, it announced on Tuesday.
The Detroit automaker is recalling 2021 through 2024 model year Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles with 6.2L V8 gas engines.
It said the connecting rod and crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead to engine damage or failure.
GM said it identified 12 crashes and 12 injuries in the United States that may be related to the recall issue. Dealers will inspect the engine and, if needed, repair or replace it.
Vehicles that pass inspection will be provided a higher viscosity oil, which will also require a new oil fill cap and an oil filter replacement, GM said.
No software update?
My Mom’s Subaru has a recall because of a faulty radio. It won’t shut off and kills the battery.
Gee, I wonder why they used thin oil…
From a different source:
The fix: Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra units affected by the recall will be inspected for manufacturing defects. Vehicles that pass inspection will receive an engine oil and filter change, this time using high-viscosity 0W-40 Mobil 1 Supercar oil. The owner’s manual for L87-equipped trucks calls for 0W-20 oil. The oil fill cap will also be replaced (to reflect the new oil type). It’s unclear what happens if an affected truck does not pass inspection, but an an engine replacement is likely.
High viscosity sewing machine oil- that’ll fix it.