Good morning one and all to another beautiful day!
Trump Will End Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghans and Cameroons in June
Trump admin prepares to go after noncitizens who defraud entitlement programs
Bukele has an opportunity to do something really funny
Treasury Department sanctions four alleged cartel drug lords
UK Supreme Court says legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes trans women, in landmark ruling
Texas poised to create its own version of DOGE as bill passes both chambers
Scientists: Doctors Give Kids ADHD Drugs For Adults’ Convenience
4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Ever try to throw a cat? It doesn’t work.
Simpsons did it.
I have and it does. You have to put some heart in it though.
Be quick about it. Real quick.
You don’t throw a cat when it’s as big as Fred Flinstone’s.
“Trump administration refers NY AG Letitia James for potential prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud”
Excellent.
It was just an honest mistake.
No reasonable prosecutor would come after a political rival for such a thing.
Murder is bad. Gladiator fights are entertainment!
I’m I the only one who thinks cameroon sounds like a boat?
A boat carrying a Ferris wheel to Chicago?
Egg whites and coconut.
I thought it was a cookie.
I was about 30 before I found out that “macaroon” could refer to little frou-frou French meringues otherwise known as macarons, and not just the coconut cookies from my apparently-unsophisticated white trash childhood.
It’s a racing sailboat.
It was halfway through the article before I found out what the federal nexus is supposed to be:
Even then, seems like a state and/or civil issue.
Sounds rather like “The State of New York disagrees with both the defendant’s appraisals and the bank’s appraisals and deems that the loans, though paid back in full were thus fraudulent… thus you committed felonies!”
Which I strongly suspect is not coincidental… “You stretch the Banana Peel of Truth in our Republic… so will we!”
Sauce for the gander, of course, but if it was a travesty then it’s still one now, even for unsympathetic victims.
Yeah sorry — wasn’t meant to convey approval there… citing it as another Banana Republic style move was meant to express that.
Satisfying as this is, it is still a race to the ethical bottom in law enforcement.
That’s what Trump voters wanted I would say. Payback, not correction.
She’s being hoisted by her own retard.
I’m not for taking the high road here.
Indeed. Taking the high road has gotten us, where, exactly?
I have no problem with jacking up a prosecutor for a technical violation of a bullshit law after they have done exactly the same thing to others, anyway. It’s old school justice: an eye for an eye.
Sometimes you have to retaliate.
Involves wire fraud crossing state lines in the most recent incident. NY/Virginia. She should have kept it in NY.
““These taxpayer funded benefits should be only for eligible taxpayers and President Biden should think about what he did in his last term, which is allow tens of millions of illegal people into our country, many of whom were fraudulently receiving these benefits,” Leavitt said.”
I’m sure there is plenty of fraud, but I think were a couple of migrant programs that allowed Medicaid, even though that might not be technically legal.
California’s 6 billion dollar (and climbing) budget hole for MediCal For All waves hello.
California has the world’s 4th biggest economy all by themselves, they can figure out how to pay for it themselves.
I think the deal with Medicaid is that states can give it to illegals if they want, they just can’t get the federal matching funds (roughly around 2:1, varies by state) for what is spent on illegals.
It’s pathetic that this is something that needs to be announced like it’s some major turn of events.
I’d think they’d go after citizens who defraud entitlement programs, too.
Let’s not forget NGOs.
Ohio went a different route on forming a version of DOGE.
Not believing a word of that article since in contains a blad-faced lie that Musk’s DOGE is a new department when it is only a renamed department created by Obama.
I wonder if we’re still doing the Notorious RBG’s deference to international law, or if we get to be strict constitutional jingoists again.
J. K. Rowling bought SCOTUK?
She put the hex spell on them.
Texas, stop being stupid.
No idea why anyone from Cameroon has TPS (ummm… I’m going to need you to go back to Cameroon on Saturday… maybe Sunday too… okay sport? And don’t forget your TPS report….). The article does call out that there’s likely a good chunk of the Afghans who came over after the Ignominious Pullout who were allies and would be immediately killed by the Taliban (and that they can claim asylum instead). Hope there’s proper vetting this time / after all this time… but if vetted, allies of a government we “allied” with and screwed over I’m fine with asylum and expedited processing.
I almost said “Or let them go to the UK” — but a lot in the UK are from Pakistan, I believe… and I also believe Pakistan hates their neighbors too… so that’s probably a poor plan.
Fortunately, I used the internet before I made a Hakeem Olajuan joke (I really thought he was from there).
Afghanistan was too uncivilized for the British Raj.
Afghanistan is the graveyard of empire.
The Persians and Greeks had no trouble conquering and holding Bactria. Nor did the Mughals until they started to just fall apart.
I suspect the modern powers were doing something wrong.
The Pashtuns are a dark haired, swarthy people, but a big chunk of them have blue eyes – the lasting genetic imprint of Alexander’s armies.
And they know that’s the reason. They may be completely uneducated cousin-fuckers, but they still remember that the blue eyes came from an ancient conqueror.
Cameroon has an English-speaking minority concentrated in one region that feels they’re treated like second-class citizens.
In other words, they’re treated like all Cameroonians that aren’t part of the ruling elite?
https://allafrica.com/stories/202410170008.html
— wiki
So sure, the entire rest of the country is all down on dem poor English speakers, has nothing to do with the usual African kleptocracy.
Embrace the power of “and”: the central government is corrupt, and they can be harder on the minority-language speakers than the majority regions.
Now, should they be part of any TPS program (SLD: there probably shouldn’t even be such a program to begin with)? I doubt it. But I find the vibe of “how dare anyone even try to answer SDF’s original question” kind of off-putting.
Maybe they are the Cameroonian soccer team and they still haven’t been paid. Back when the World Cup was in the US there was a big story about their team not receiving their paychecks. They were staying at a hotel near my parents’ house at the time. My dad and I were in the bank when the team walked in hoping their paychecks would be there. My dad, being a bit of an Archie Bunker type, grabbed his wallet and thought they were there to rob the bank. “Relax Dad, it’s the soccer team.”
“The definition was challenged in 2018 after the Scottish Parliament passed a law stating that women should make up 50% of the representatives on Scottish public boards.”
Sounds like a stupid law.
“How can we get more women in the boardroom without actually having to deal having women in the boardroom?”
Tough choice eh – Karen or some man in a dress?
From the No Shit Files.
Step 1: Stick kids in schools, which are carefully designed for maximal boredom and minimal direct one on one engagement, for 7 hours a day, adding busy work as needed until their souls scream.
Step 2: Diagnosis the resulting boredom, disengagement, and daydreaming as a mental illness.
Step 3: Drug them
Step 4: profit.
Step 1a remove any sort of discipline or expectation that children should behave
Step 1.5 – ban playground games that would allow kids to get their energy out.
Doctor, you need to help us. We’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas.
Other countries, like France, consider ADHD as a psychosocial disorder and treat the condition by focusing on the underlying cause with psychotherapy and family counseling
On second thought, drugs don’t sound so bad.
That article started out with a provable falsehood and got worse from there.
I’ll take “People I never, ever wanted to hear from again for $400, Alex.”
“Treat people with dignity, you dog-faced pony soldier.”
Look, Fat…
I hope he said that in front of a snazzy red background while pounding on the podium for emphasis.
My favorite part of the speech is where he keeps demanding to see Anck-Su-Namun.
Solid reference; I give 4 stars.
I thought hiroshimoot was having a laff when I saw the /QA/ IS BACK banner.
The Irish elites will do anything to keep Conor McGregor out of power
The EU has been fookin’ with Ireland’s laws ever since Dublin changed its lodestar from London to Brussles, and not in a democratic way.
“Fruity?”
Another case of the US & UK being countries separated by a common language.
UK fruity is frisky or sexy(?).
(still an odd usage in the context)
Can they still vote for Mayor McMayorface?
So $15m plus $1.2m a year until age 18 or 25 for college or some such. I could probably make that work.
The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c?st=kj3PYm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Cheeky. Ilia conceived Romulus and Remus of Mars, according to some narratives.
Also, between this chick and Grimes, Musk seems to have a thing for crazy eyes. He’s lucky he can afford his horrific taste in females.
He is the only human that can defy the hot/crazy matrix
“Musk demanded that she deliver the baby via a caesarian section – he believes doing so allows for a baby to have a larger brain”
???
As the divot in my skull that’s been there from birth can attest, natural delivery + small hips can impinge the fetal cranium, although I doubt enough to have any measurable difference on brain size, and even then, the correlation with higher intelligence and larger brains is fairly weak compared with a million other factors.
My niece was unplanned, and the dad wanted nothing to do with her because she wasn’t a boy. So my SIL has raised her with help from my MIL, and that kid is one of my favorite human beings. I can only imagine how much easier their life would be with that kind of money.
As a newly minted girldad (of twins no less) I can honestly say… his loss – and he sounds like he was a loser already.
How Harvard Ended Up Leading the University Fight Against Trump
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-leading-university-fight-trump-2a931dd1?st=U8MYiE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seems to have worked given the WSJ editorial this AM.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-funding-conditions-constitution-congress-c26040f8?st=b8wTAi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Personally I’m fine just kill all the federal funding including student loans and let them have at it.
To not give is to take away.
Only tax payer money can keep Harvard independent!
The Ivies are like the proverbial stronk independent wamen who don’t need no man, except for alimony, child support, and the cumulative largess of millions of men they’ve never met by way of state support.
You can’t expect Harvard to survive on $40B.
I honestly don’t see how attaching conditions and requirements to funding is overreach. Especially requirements like “follow the law”.
Now do Title Ix and the denial of due process.
“UCLA Health experts warn that “brushing or scraping the tongue adversely affects the numbers and diversity of the oral microbiome,” which can, in turn, “lead to hypertension.””
https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/health/trendy-oral-care-habit-can-lead-to-life-threatening-heart-issue/
No idea how that’s supposed to work.
A meta-meta analysis hit the p value lottery?
Winner!
Not far off from this methodology!
p-values are for chumps.
“Gayle King says it is SEXIST to call her ‘freebie’ Blue Origin trip a ‘space ride'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-14617955/gayle-king-sexist-blue-origin-space-ride-scandal.html
Of course.
So, what did you actually do? If it was anything other than de minimis interaction with the system, you were a passenger getting a ride to the edge of space.
Supposed science…well the only one who was an actual rocket scientist did.
I’m guessing they yelled back seat driving suggestions at mission control and asked if the capsule could swing through the Starbucks drive-through on the way home.
See I can be much more sexist than merely pointing out that you took a space ride. (which I would love to do btw)
The rocket didn’t cut off 6 lanes of air traffic looking for an exit from the atmosphere before careening out of control and having to be retrieved by AAA, so clearly it was not being piloted by a woman.
*belches, fist bumps Jarflax, grabs crotch, spits
*Fist bump
Grounded Bros before astro-hos!
Buddy of mine sent me this.
🙂
So… just like Rosa Parks?
Rosa Parks ain’t do nothin’ but sit her black ass down!
“The 11-minute ride to the edge of space…” -ABC news on William Shatners ride to space.
Go eat a dick Gayle
I’m waiting for the Netflix documentary on how those women pioneered space travel and saved humanity despite Trump being in office.
Bonus points for every one played by a tranny actor.
Well, Gayle King . . . Stiff competition, but arguably the dumbest person in the capsule.
King had previously clapped back at those calling the space flight a ‘ride,’ saying ‘you have never said to a [male] astronaut, “What a ride.” [Don’t] call it a ride.’
Apologies, I didn’t know she was an astronaut.
That space mission this morning? That’s end time s**t. Like, this is beyond parody,’ Ratajkowski said in a TikTok video.
‘That you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet?’ she went on.
Damn, this story gets even more insufferable.
Presuming that’s Emily Ratajkowski they’re quoting, the 15 minutes of fame showing your tits in a music video 12 years ago bought you have long since expired. Thank you for understanding.
Wait…Amazon is single handedly destroying Earth? Not the oligarchy boogie-man evil group or corporations on an island shaped as a skull?
Yeah. I want recognition as a pilot for all the flights I’ve been on.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 04/16:
*23/23 words (+9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 3% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 04/16:
*47/47 words (+19 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 5% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 886
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/young-people-are-now-overwhelmingly-republican/ar-AA1D1whZ
Hmmmm.
In 2004 or 2005 the headlines were about how Republicans starting to win in the South coupled with demographic shifts towards pro-life catholic latinos would lead to a permanent republican majority. They lost the house in 2006 and the senate and presidency in 2008.
Then we got to hear about permanent democrat majorities, demographic destiny and a dying party of old white men. Who took the house in 2010, the senate a few years later, and the white house in 2016.
In 2020, the Republicans were doomed for hitching their wagon to Trump who was defeated and likely headed to jail.
Now we get to hear about how a generation of conservatives is being unleashed.
Yawn.
“The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to study the physical and mental health effects of undergoing gender transition, according to an internal NIH memo obtained by NPR.
The directive was shared with NPR by two current NIH staffers who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution. It is from acting NIH Director Mark Memoli, and says the NIH must study the impact of “social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation” among children who transition. Specifically, the White House wants the NIH to study “regret” and “detransition” among children and adults who have transitioned.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355126/trump-nih-trans-regret-detransition-research
No idea why it wouldn’t be public.
OMG he is politicizing our politicized scienciness.
When the study reaches the conclusion it was intended to reach, I look forward to finding out why it is completely different from every other government-funded study conducted in the last century. Then when the next Democratic administration commissions a study that reaches the exact opposite conclusion, I look forward to finding out why government money for science has returned to being utterly objective and untainted, unlike filthy corporate lucre.
I’m still expecting the plaintiffs bar to get their hooks into the trannyizing industry. There’s a huge problem with the informed consent issue which should be an open door for lawsuits.
The tide has to fully turn first. I’m still sticking with some violence being visited upon those who facilitated transitions from the victims of it – that will change the whole narrative.
I’m with RC. I think there are currently lawsuits in progress. Once there have been one or two big $$ wins, it’s going to be a free-for-all.
JI, there might be violence, but the “news” will just ignore it, or point to the person’s mental issues and wave it off.
Except the ABA and the State Bar Associations will yank the license of any who dare and make sure they never work in the legal profession again.
The ABA has nothing to say about licenses. Many (most?) State Bar Associations are technically out of the licensing business, as well. Not to mention, the plaintiffs bar has plenty of stroke in both the courts and the state bars.
And Allah help anyone who tries to yank a lawyer’s license for suing a doctor.
I keep seeing articles saying that guy was “accidentally” deported but find no substantiation for that claim. For example, the link in the story above perporting to substantiate it just brings me to a different article about how many people have been deported. So far, every article I’ve seen on the matter has done this. So my question is, other than his attorney making the claim, is anyone else saying his deportation is a mistake, and if so, why?
There seems to be no question that he is a El Salvadorian citizen and that he entered this country illegally. That should be sufficient without clouding the issue with dubious gang affiliation.
The “story” is that he faced retaliation from the gang, which also threatened other family that never left El Salvador. One wonders what befell of them?
I haven’t deep-dived it for lack of time and interest, but from what I could glean (presuming this is the same case) from previous articles, he had been adjudicated by an immigration judge to be an MS-13 member back in 2019, had valid deportation orders, but was not supposed to be returned to El Salvador because of safety concerns owing to his gang affiliation. Since arriving in El Salvador he’s been imprisoned, and other than diplomatic suggestions, the US government now has no means or authority to retrieve him, any more than the government of Italy would have been able to order Amanda Knox released from an American prison if she was jailed after returning.
“was not supposed to be returned to El Salvador because of safety concerns owing to his gang affiliation”
That may be the dumbest part of this whole kerfuffle.
Knox was at least an honest-to-god American citizen being subjected to questionable foreign criminal justice. This is someone who has no valid, legitimate claim to U.S. interest in his case.
SCOTUSBlog has a decent summary including a link to the most recent order from the Supreme Court.
From the order:
The United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding
order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the
removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal. The United
States represents that the removal to El Salvador was the
result of an “administrative error.” The United States alleges, however, that Abrego Garcia has been found to be a
member of the gang MS–13, a designated foreign terrorist
organization, and that his return to the United States
would pose a threat to the public. Abrego Garcia responds
that he is not a member of MS–13, and that he has lived
safely in the United States with his family for a decade and
has never been charged with a crime.
“Earlier this year, OSPI ordered La Center to change its policies to conform with state law to protect “gender-expansive students,” which is contrary to federal law, and threatened to withhold funds from the school district after it refused to hide students’ gender identities from parents. Washington’s Democratic Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Reykdal, claimed the La Center School District’s decision to inform parents of how a student identifies in school discriminates against students and families regarding gender inclusivity and rights of queer and transgender students.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-trump-doe-investigates-wa-superintendent-for-threatening-schools-that-dont-comply-with-students-secret-gender-identity-rule
Queer is nonsense language, and there shouldn’t be transgender students in the first place — they’re kids.
Are you calling me fat?
Do these hormones make my gender look fat?
I allowed myself to be tricked by Americans. GAH. YOU PEOPLE!!
Fake news. We’ve offshored all our trickery to India.
I thought you Europeans were supposed to be vastly more sophisticated than us stupid Americans?
We are but occasionally slip. I purchased a bottle of your American whisky for 60 of your American bucks. I was walking past the store saw the bottle of whisky on discount and bought it without research, as it was the last one they had.
Well don’t leave us in suspense, name the libation.
Jimmy Rack Tennessee Rye.
While points for transparency stating the age of 3 years and 6 months, it smells and tastes quite youthful, albeit rather fruity.
It says limited release which is usually a marketing gimmick.
It says maple char finish which again marketing gimmick. I doubt the type of wood used for the charcoal used for filtration makes a difference.
While it says Product of Tennessee I assume that is misleading as it does not explicitly say distilled in Tennessee, and the mash bill being 95 5 rye I assume it is just MGP. Which is not necessarily bad but still misleading.
at 122.3 proof, it drinks rather hot.
Seagram’s?
no idea it seems an independent brand online but who knows
Don’t think I’ve encountered that one before.
Yeah, that makes sense. You seem to have got hold of their Cask Strength variety.
From their website, I see a lot of “bottled in Tennessee” and “locally sourced ingredients within 50 miles of the distillery,” but no real clarity on where the distillery is located.
I enjoy rye, but usually end up opting for Bourbon instead. The Knob Creek 7 Year is very good, as is Woodford Reserve’s offering with the green label.
Yeah, my usual rule is no more than $50 for a bottle of American whiskey – which coincidentally is exactly what a fifth of Four Roses Single Barrel runs here in VA.
Lucky. It’s about $60 here at the good liquor store, and more like $75 at the other one I go to near work that apparently doesn’t realize there’s more than one option in town. Next time I’m in Abilene I should see what prices are like in the “big city.”
Did you invest in TrumpCoin?
“On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order meant to lower insulin costs to as low as $0.03 and injectable epinephrine to $15 for low-income patients in America.
The order, aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for Americans overall, is not just targeting insulin and epinephrine, but is also aimed at “standardizing Medicare payments for prescription drugs, such as cancer treatments, regardless of where the patient receives care,” a fact sheet on the order stated that the order will “lower prices by as much as 60%.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-signs-eo-to-lower-insulin-to-3-cents-epinephrine-to-15-for-low-income-patients
Introducing market distortions through executive order doesn’t seem to be the solution here. Eliminate the FDA regulations that restrict competition.
Trump would rather wield power than destroy it.
“The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Harrisburg resident Cody Balmer, has been charged with domestic terrorism, aggravated arson, attempted criminal homicide and prowling at night, among others, for the fire. The suspect was arrested on Sunday after he turned himself into the state police and allegedly confessed to setting the blaze.
Balmer allegedly told the operator who he was and said he wanted the governor to know that he “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant obtained by PennLive on Tuesday.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/pennsylvania-arson-suspect-allegedly-targeted-governor-over-stance-palestinians
“prowling at night” sounds like a weird charge.
Is it a lesser or more serious charge than day prowling?
You would think night prowling would be more socially acceptable, like drinking.
Band or album?
Prowling at Night statute.
Baseball birthdays:
HoFer Paul “Big Poison” Waner 74.7 war
Future HoFer Nolan Arenado 57.0 war, so far
Dutch Leonard 37.4 war
Best name goes to 19th century Outfielder Piggy Ward
A boring day, all around.
A list of the finest political posts made on 4chan
https://x.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/1912286859314811279
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s great and all, but who’s the batboy for the Cincinnati Reds without Down syndrome?
All the others are in management.
The Transition
The Great Awokening and the end of the cultural revolution
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-transition
Imagine a society where morality enforcers patrol what publishers allow to be printed. Where risqué comedians have their venues cancelled. A society in which a religious magisterium ruins the lives of people with heretical views. Where satirists studiously avoid offending the powers that be and stay clear of issues of public morality. Where gender non-conforming children are forced to live as the opposite sex because of society’s rigid view about masculine and feminine behaviour. A society where racial segregation is permitted, even celebrated, if it is for the benefit of the favoured group. Where offensive and blasphemous views might even land you in jail.
This described much of the English-speaking world before the social revolution of the 1960s changed everything. Following the huge moral upheaval of the early 21st century, it also describes the English-speaking world of the 2020s.
The 21st century has seen growing intolerance towards people with dissenting views, as well as support for the idea that they should not be allowed to voice them. This represents a generational shift, with younger people – especially in the US – far less tolerant than their elders, especially compared to parents who identified as political liberals.
There has also been political transition between left and right, so that today, Americans identifying as liberal are more opposed to free speech than Americans who see themselves as conservative, a total historic anomaly.
Their forebears, the radicals of 1968, saw themselves as being in opposition to bourgeois society and the establishment; they were rule-breakers who were sticking it to the man. Yet the patterns of revolution continues to repeat itself, and once in power, those same radicals and rule-breakers begin to behave like those in authority always have.
When the young people of the satire boom, the Paris student protests and Woodstock threw off the shackles of social constraint, they created a revolutionary social atmosphere that ended in a predictably authoritarian way. They rebelled against a stultifying conformism and blew it apart, before a new stultifying conformism took hold.
Lukas Degutis
@LukasDegutis
The little what
https://x.com/LukasDegutis/status/1911104685005742089
children’s books are not what they were…
Overwrought
Welcome back to the United States of Trump, where the Constitution is like a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it, where a unanimous Supreme Court ruling is given the same deference as a customer service complaint, and where the president’s daily intelligence briefing requires three Big Macs and a television tuned to Fox News.
If you thought we’d hit peak insanity, buckle up. Monday might go down as the most disturbing day yet in Trump’s second term. And that’s saying something, considering that the competition includes both the time Trump attacked another head of state in the Oval Office and the time he triggered a Wall Street panic with his so-called “Liberation Day.”
To the barricades, comrades!
That whole story is one lie after another. But judging by my lefty acquaintances, they are buying that BS hook line and sinker. They should be grateful for Trump, for the last 4 years they’ve wanted so badly to be revolutionaries fighting for justice but their party was in charge of everything.
Options may or may not have been contemplated
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., confirmed that there has been “some” talk of higher tax rates for the wealthy in “free flowing” conference lunch meetings, saying he finds the conversation “interesting.”
“It’s just so fun to be a Republican these days, just to watch the transformation, where suddenly people are going — when you think about it, why do we worry so much about that?” Cramer said when he was asked whether he favors higher taxes on the wealthy.
“So whether it’s allowing them to go up a little bit or even lowering some of the other stuff more — there’s a populism growing in the party, even among those of us with powdered wigs,” he said.
The prospect of such a momentous shift is driven by a transforming electoral landscape, with Republicans attracting voters with lower incomes and without college degrees, while higher-income and college-educated Americans drift toward Democrats.
Vague allusions to something or other; who knows what has actually been proposed. Who the fuck thinks the Pentagon is underfunded?
Steve Bannon, a senior White House official during Trump’s first term and an ardent MAGA enthusiast, espoused a populist perspective when it comes to taxation.
In an interview on another topic, Bannon, unprompted, touted higher taxes on the affluent. He said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., “needs to focus on actually cutting spending dramatically and raising taxes on the wealthy.”
Fuck you, cut spending.
Won’t somebody think of all the organizations that budgeted like the helicopter money would never end?
I could have wrecked Chrysler for half that!
Stellantis NV’s former boss Carlos Tavares plans to turn his attention to business ventures in his native Portugal after the automaker awarded him around $40 million in salary and severance payments.
https://archive.vn/0HzUg
You’d think he’d spend a bit on some dental work.
*shrug*
Bonus stupidity.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stellantis-to-revise-ads-saying-its-cars-are-built-in-america-50d5915b?st=4PsJKp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We’re never going to get anywhere as long as people continue to put forth the absurd nonsense that our current level of government spending could be sustained if we just raised taxes on Musk and Bezos.
As a thought experiment I asked Grok to total the net worth of all the billionaires in the US. I think the total was 6.7 Trillion. So if they confiscated all that money, it would cover less than 20% of the national debt, and there would be nothing to tax after that. But without that narrative, the Bernie’s and AOC’s of the world would have nothing.
I agree. But to be charitable they look at “income” (i.e. taxes) like we do FedGov spending.
We here all rightly cheer OMB taking a wrecking ball to lots of inane government spending. But without touching defense, transfer payments and entitlements the deficit is still going to continue to increase.
“Here are The Gateway Pundit Reports and Legal Documents on Letitia James That Led Up to Her Criminal Referral to the Trump DOJ on Tuesday – Including Documents She Signed Alleging She Was Married to Her Father
In the Spring of 1983, Letitia James was 24 and living in Brooklyn with her parents. She had graduated from CUNY’s Lehman College in 1981. She would not begin law school at Howard University in Washington, DC, until the fall of 1984.
According to New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20, 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for $30,300 as “husband and wife.” For the record, Letitia James’ mother is Nellie James.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/here-are-gateway-pundit-reports-legal-documents-letitia/
Ron Paul was right on REAL ID.
*hand-waves like a Jedi*
September 11th, 2001
Oh. Those aren’t the droids I am looking for.
8 republicans voted No.
Paul, both Diaz-Balarts, Pombo, Ros-Lehtinen, Smith (NJ), Wilson (NM), Young (AK).
Daily Mail: Soda and candy could be BANNED for certain Americans in Arkansas and Indiana
Perfect clickbait. Nice use of ALL CAPS too. The answer, as we all know without clicking, is for those in food assistance programs.
I told my wife about that, and it was one of those “Wait, why was it ever allowed in the first place?” moments.
You do grow corn in Indiana…
Hands off muh sweet tea!
Does your sweetie drink sweat tea when she’s sweaty?
@#$%^&*( ok, that’s what i get for typing fast
Cyberterrorism
“According to NPR and whistleblower disclosures obtained by Committee Democrats, individuals associated with DOGE have attempted to exfiltrate and alter data while also using high-level systems access to remove sensitive information—quite possibly including corporate secrets and details of union activities,” Connolly wrote in a letter first shared with NPR. “I also understand that these individuals have attempted to conceal their activities, obstruct oversight, and shield themselves from accountability.”
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“I can’t attest to what their end goal was or what they’re doing with the data,” the whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, said in an interview with NPR. “But I can tell you that the bits of the puzzle that I can quantify are scary. … This is a very bad picture we’re looking at.”
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Berulis saw around 10 gigabytes of data leave NLRB’s network — or the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias if someone printed them. Much of that data came from a system that houses information about pending cases, proprietary data from corporate competitors, personal information about union members or employees voting to join a union, and witness testimony. Access to that data is protected by numerous federal laws, including the Privacy Act.
They’re going to round up the union men and ship them to El Salvador.
I have thoughts on ADHD (not necessarily the article):
1. Are ADHD meds over-prescribed? Oh, probably.
2. Are ADHD meds prescribed to kids for adults’ convenience? Oh, probably.
3. Do schools artificially place manacles on rowdy boys then drug them into compliance? Yes.
4. Are there more ADHD kids now than in the past? Who knows? There are striations, and everybody figures out how to cope or not.
5. Are ADHD meds helpful? Absolutely. People have been self-medicating for all sorts of things for millennia.
Now.
1. Generally speaking, ADHD is useful. People with it are good for a society.
2. I think ADHD self-selected in American society from the people who came here initially. You weren’t getting the compliant, easily directed, low IQ serf hopping on a boat to settle America. Without ADHD, there would be little innovation.
3. Would all those rowdy boys be just fine if they were released upon the world to do rowdy-boy things all the time?Absolutely not. They need to learn to cope and manage themselves to conform to society’s clock and strictures.
4. ADHD meds are a godsend, except for the fact they require a prescription. Boohiss. I told XY he needs to use the meds as a way to learn coping mechanisms in case he ever has to go without them. I honestly don’t know if he can function without them.
5. They used to be called “Mommy’s Little Helper” for a reason.
6. Girls manifest in a different way most of the time. That quiet goth girl in the back who never fidgets and gets inconsistent grades? Her brain’s running a mile a second and she can’t concentrate and she daydreams just to try to put her thoughts in some kind of order.
No western/civilized society is set up to favor hyperactive, noncompliant males. Business can’t get done unless it’s set up that way. But no society at all is going to flourish without them.
I have mixed feelings as well. Meds are overprescribed, but my two oldest girls were completely non-functional without them. They couldn’t sit at a table and do one math problem.
I had a boss one time who had 3 out of 4 kids with ADHD. She once told me, if your kid had a vision problem, you wouldn’t yell at them or try to change their behavior, you would get them glasses. Same with ADHD, it is a brain issue and if meds help, you should use them. The same person told me we don’t know the long term effects of those meds, but we do know the long term effects of kids who aren’t on meds and can’t function in school or in society.
When the Altar Girl was starting school, she and Mrs. Holiness would sit on the floor and do tons of flash cards. Everything went great.
When Altar Boy #1 started school Mrs. Holiness tried the same thing. Altar Boy had to use vast amounts of brain cells just to sit quietly, so he did terrible on the flash cards. Despite the fact that he had a natural gift for math. Lots of frustration on both sides of that.
So I took over. I didn’t care what the Altar Boy did, he could run in circles for all I cared. I’d just show the flash card and ask him out loud what the answer was. He did great. When he got one wrong, I’d make him hop on one foot (or something similar) until he got 10 in a row right. He thought it was super fun.
Everyone was happy (well, except Mrs. Holiness who realized that her sweet baby boy was going to grow up to be much more like me than her).
One of the things I noticed about elementary school now is that they don’t have enough recess. I think they would go out at lunch and that was it. I remember having a lunch and at least an afternoon recess. Just so us boys could run around and blow off steam.
I built a whole fictional relationship based on one person being an ADHD-addled serial starter/hammer/artist who is incapable of the daily grind and a stoic micromanaging cat herder who doesn’t have an artistic bone in her body. She points out to him that neither of them can get shit done without the other. Of course, that was also a statement on societal construction.
You sure that was fictional? You sure you weren’t just talking to my marriage counselor?
Stealing from the government
Look, nobody likes paying taxes. But the people this will benefit are the wealthy, because they have the most to gain from cheating on their taxes, and research has shown they are the most likely to do so.Unlike countries such as the United Kingdom or Denmark — where the government prepares your taxes for you and you either sign off or contest it — the U.S. tax system largely centers on “voluntary compliance.” That puts the burden on taxpayers to fill out their own forms and report their income. And that opens up a lot more opportunities for the wealthy.
There should be a maximum permissible income, and anything above that should go to the treasury. That would be fair. All wealth belongs to society.
But don’t eliminate SALT deductions.
Interesting…
According to a Bloomberg report citing a person familiar with the Chinese government, Beijing would be open to talks if the Trump administration showed more respect and adopted a more consistent position. China also unexpectedly appointed a new trade negotiator.
I’m all in for the more consistent position.
I am ashamed it took me this long to think of this:
Astrothots.
Heh.
*golf clap*
CIENCE!
More Americans are receiving computed tomography (CT) scans than ever before, and while this technology can save lives, some scientists are concerned about the potential for low doses of ionizing radiation to increase cancer risks.
At an individual level, the theoretical chance of developing cancer from a CT scan is thought to be very minimal, if it exists at all, and patients should not be scared of undergoing these tests if they are deemed medically necessary.
However, the number of CT examinations performed each year in the US has increased by more than 30 percent since 2007, and researchers suggest that unwarranted tests are exposing the population to unnecessary radiation.
A team in the US and the UK now predicts that low levels of ionizing radiation from CT scans could theoretically account for 5 percent of all new cancer diagnoses in the US. CT scans conducted in 2023 could be responsible for an estimated 103,000 future cases of cancer.
That’s based on some assumptions and historical data from high radiation events, but if right, it would put CT scans on par with other significant risk factors for cancer, like alcohol consumption, at least at a population level.
Be afraid of everything.
Average background radiation in US is about 3.6 mSv per year. In Denver, it is 5-6 mSv (although I have seen as high as 10). A CT scan gives you about 2-10 mSv. So, a CT scan per year is like moving from the coast to Denver.
Musical theater of ANY variety is the lowest form of entertainment.
It all leaves me cold – I’ve tried, I just do not care for musicals.
I’ll amend that – I did enjoy the production of Don Giovanni I saw.
Musicals have their uses apparently.
“South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” was genius.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing a Long Blog, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, REPO: The Genetic Opera, The Devil’s Carnival, Stage Fright, Team America World Police, Book of Mormon, and Avenue Q all stand proudly.
I’m trying to truly rate “Rocky Horror”. Is it just because it became a cult classic or is truly good. I’ve seen it too many times as a kid to be unbiased.
Little Shop of Horrors.
Gilbert and Sullivan.
I’ve seen Rocky Horror three times with an audience and the one time I’m aware of that it was shown on broadcast TV.
I think it really, really needs the audience participation that evolved in the theaters.
😃👍
I’m not a fan, but it has its place.
What’s the highest form of entertainment?
Furry fanfic
There’s a Hat and Hair up and you ask this?