If this fucking guy gets to come out of the woodwork, why can’t I?
Since this isn’t a Krugman column, this will be different. Not great, not good, or bad. Just different. What Smart People are Saying about Oil’s Epic Spike.
Jeremy McKeown, a director at Progressive Equity Research:“Events overnight increasingly suggest the White House has lost control of this war, and the TACO trade off-ramp, upon which the disconnect between oil prices and the equity market is based, looks increasingly like an enormous lobster pot; easier to get into than out of,” McKeown said in a LinkedIn post.
“If oil prices persist at this level or higher, is this inflationary or deflationary? The answer is both, but not simultaneously. However, they lead to the same endpoint: what those of us of a certain age remember as the stagflationary 70s. And as we learnt then and more recently in 2022, central banks can’t print energy.”
This guy isn’t completely retarded. High energy prices are inflationary in Dollar denominated assets. The other side of the coin is energy prices are an input. If they persist at a certain level long enough you could start to see innovation in other areas. No not windmills and solar panels, you stupid hippies. A solution to energy costs can be brought about but more likely you might find companies engineering their way around the energy problem by figuring out how to reduce costs elsewhere or lower the energy input in the finished product. Its all about incentives, right?
Chris Beauchamp, chief UK market analyst at IG
“Europeans didn’t start this war but they are certainly living with the consequences,” Beauchamp said in a morning note.“European markets have been hit hard as WTI and Brent prices diverge sharply, reflecting Europe’s dependence on energy imports. It wouldn’t take much for global equities to tip from ‘worried’ to ‘panic’, and in that case the US’ relative outperformance and its comparative energy security will count for little.”
Yeah…none of you Eurocucks were whining when anyone pointed out this is also true about the war in Ukraine. Remember that? They’re still fighting for sole ownership of the last 1988 S-Class!
Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning Economist
“As I write this the price of Brent crude is above $116 a barrel, up from about $70 before the bombing began,” Krugman wrote on Substack.
“If the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz goes on for months rather than weeks this will be a shock to world oil supplies substantially worse than the shocks of 1973 or 1979. And while I’m not a strategic expert, I don’t see how that strait reopens anytime soon.
“There’s an uncomfortable parallel here with 1973, the year stagflation is generally considered to have started. I’m not sure how many people are aware that one reason the 1973 oil shock hit so hard was that inflation was already rising fast even before the Yom Kippur War led to the Arab oil embargo, which triggered the first oil crisis.”
Yeah this is just like the Yom Kippur war you fucking idiot. The only thing contributing to stagflation in 1973 is explained at this link: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/. It just took the ragheads that long to figure out they can accept payment in any form. So they did. We bought them off.
Susannah Streeter, Chief Investment Strategist, Wealth Club
“Europe in particular is reliant on LNG exports from Qatar, as countries have been weaning themselves off dependence on Russia. The conflict is not only highly damaging for economies in the region, with tourism and business activity hit, but the knock-on effects of higher energy prices will have toxic repercussions worldwide,” Streeter wrote.
“Food prices, which had been easing, risk rising again as freight costs increase and fertiliser exports from the Middle East are disrupted. There are also concerns about helium supplies being stranded, a key component in semiconductor manufacturing, which could lead to delays in producing electronic goods and even cars.
“The spectre of stagflation is hovering, with the combination of rising prices and stagnating growth posing a real threat. High energy costs are set to dampen consumer spending and curb business investment as both grapple with elevated bills and ongoing uncertainty.”
This is reasonable, except you can say all of this about Ukraine…again, but also Brandon’s policies against building US based LNG infrastructure. You can just as easily ship LNG from TX and avoid the straits altogether.
Peter Boockvar, chief investor at One Point BFG Wealth Partners
In his newsletter, Boockvar wrote: “With the fertilizer disruptions and jump in prices, mostly nitrogen, corn prices have broken out to the highest since last June at $4.68 a bushel for the May contract with the planting season now upon us. Wheat is 3 cents from the highest since June while soybeans continue to trade around $11.50-$12.“I want to emphasize, the farmer needs much higher crop prices from here to offset costs rising aggressively for diesel and fertilizer. That won’t be good for consumers of course but a trade off that will have to be balanced.”
Once again, Ukraine…nobody said a fucking thing when we backed a dumbass dictator that just happened to be one of the biggest food producers in the world into a nearly unwinnable war against a nuclear power. Gee, nobody saw higher wheat prices coming for a substantial part of the world, why was that?
We picked a helluva time to buy a class C RV.
The DOT is highly unlikely to check your tanks for red fuel.
Just sayn.
Once tried to siphon some diesel out of the RAM, it can’t be done. After that I figured I wasn’t too worried about being detected (but I still buy the highway fuel just the same).
Yeah, good luck siphoning out of a modern fuel tank, but it is fairly easy to disconnect the fuel line at the frame rail by the tank and add a length of hose to that and then jumper the fuel pump relay and start pumping. I had to do this to a customer’s Ram that had a flatbed that they then lost the fuel cap for and left that open and parked on a slope that basically funneled 10 gallons of rain from a storm into the fuel tank one night.
Class C eh? 😍
One of these, I trust
Corn/wheat prices.
Here’s my solution to that. Stop subsidizing planting corn (all crops) end gasoline ethanol mandates, end the Jones act and the sugar tarrifs.
Farmers will figure out how the market works, yeah it’s been almost a hundred years since they had to do that but they need to learn to sink or swim. Let them fail, maybe then I’ll be able to buy some farm ground when some of it comes up as the families of three generations of farmer brother-sister marriages finally get cut off from uncle Sugar and can’t hack it anymore. I know they will miss going to the ConAg show in Vegas and that trip to Hawaii or Cabo they have gotten used to every year, and they’ll have to sell their F350 King Ranch and get a job at Walmart. But that’s a price I’m willing to pay.
When I was in college, I remember my econ professor saying that farmers are the biggest welfare queens.
Ours aren’t a patch on the French.
Why do you only bury farmers 18” deep?
So they can still get a hand out.
I’m working on a forklift I bought from some farmers two weeks ago.
Farmer is a four letter word around my place.
I can’t help thinking there are a lot of people desperately struggling to contain their glee at this oil price spike.
Only because they figure it attaches to Trump.
They won’t be happy about the delivery surcharges for Uber, Amazon, etc.
Maybe for us older folk. Kids seem to have priced high delivery charges into their base budgets.
MickyDs $5 value meal being delivered for $15 is quite the norm from looking at my boys spending habits….
Yeah, I eat out zero nights a week. Probably how I’m able to save money.
That’s nuts OBE.
Threedoor – at least now on their own with bills of their own they are realizing it, but it still isnt a “f’that, Ill just make something at home” trigger for them.
On one hand? Hell of a lot cheaper than a DUI.
The other? Learn to setup your alterted state in a manner you dont need to spend those fees on.
Make good money and we quit going to McDonald’s when we were out and about other than the rare treat for the kids in the play place when it topped $30 for us.
High gas prices are necessary and desirable when they’re due to green energy policies. And they are bad when it’s due to something Trump did.
It is ideal for them. They want high gas prices but don’t want the blame.
Many of which are trying their damnedest to make oil prices higher for ideological reasons.
Also, https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart
I want to see what it is compared to the price of silver.
You May Already Have Won the Iran War
Or you may already have lost. Commentators on both sides refuse to admit how little they know.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/you-may-already-have-won-the-iran-war-ff460cda?st=fSkv2B&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Schrodinger’s War?
Every morning Trump tells us we won, declares victory, then threatens war crimes.
So yes. Apparently all those states are possible simultaneously.
I see the “Trump does war crimes” talking point made it to your media sources. NPR was on about it two weeks ago.
Trump says batshit crazy stuff about blowing up civilian infrastructure all the time.
Yes, but that’s been characterized as “war crimes” relatively recently.
I guess the “Trump dropped land mines in Iranian civilian neighborhoods” got debunked too quickly to make it to your guys.
Don’t listen to NPR but we are a signatory to Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I_to_the_Geneva_Conventions
“Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food sources, water, or other materials needed for survival. This includes directly attacking civilian (non-military) targets, but also using technologies whose scope of destruction cannot be limited.[7] A total war that does not distinguish between civilian and military targets is considered a war crime.”
And yet, the characterization of “war crime” only gets made on a who/whom basis. I’m only enough to remember when taking out power generating facilities with our new gee-whiz carbon fiber bombs was AWESOME!
I never said you listened to NPR. I was commenting on how your sources were about two weeks behind NPR on the latest “OMB is the worst hitler ever” memes.
I don’t think we were a net exporter of oil in 1973.
Correct. We don’t get our oil from the Middle East anymore. Trump is actually correct when he says that the Euros are the ones who need the Strait to be open, so they should go ahead and do something about it.
Especially as they are so steadfast in refusing to trade with Russia.
Europe, China, Japan and India (I believe). Don’t know where Indonesian production goes and I seem to recall that Australia is self-sufficient.
Australia is busy shutting down its energy production, I think.
Japan learned after 1973.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/16/economy/oil-release-japan/
Japan holds stockpiled oil equivalent to about 254 days of domestic demand — including 146 days worth of oil in national reserves, 101 days in mandatory private stockpiles and seven days under a reserve program with oil-producing countries. Monday’s release is roughly 17.7% of the total amount.
Euros will do something. They pay for their oil with yuan and rial and get it that way.
It is ideal for them. They want high gas prices but don’t want the blame.
*rings bell*
This would never have happened in a world with $200 oil
Despite weekly evidence that climate change is a very real and very serious threat to life on Earth, the president of the United States has pulled funding for renewable energy, loosened emissions regulations, and canceled electric vehicle tax credits. As a result of Donald Trump’s shortsighted actions, some automakers are pivoting away from electric vehicles. Brands are canceling future models after spending billions of dollars developing them, while others are canceling EVs that they’ve been selling for years.
Suicide, I tells ya.
lol Sure, Jalopnik.
Is anyone sane buying this crap anymore?
That retarded girl the Old Man is trying to whore out for $10,000.
Every day the climate is changing! Even by the hour! Its absolute mayhem I tell you!
Those manufacturers just hate Gaia more than they like money. That’s why they are stepping back from EVs. That article is the exact retardation that caused me to stop reading Jalopnik. Their commenters are also insufferably smug pricks.
It started as a Gawker property so of course it’s full of stupid.
News for Q:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/29/o-cup-breasts-wont-stop-growing-due-a-rare-condition-27740490/
When each is larger than the woman’s head, they are no longer attractive and fall into the “odd” to “freakish” to “disturbing” spectrum.
Is that why the hobbits were such a jolly people?
You know it!
What is after a Z cup? Obviously not AA.
Aleph null?
Winston’s Mom could give her lots of good career advice.
Bitch please, in this economy? I AM NOT HIRING.
If they persist at a certain level long enough you could start to see innovation in other areas.
Nothing incentivises efficiency like high prices.
It’s called Demand Destruction.
Where’s my bottle of cold fusion?
Some chick in Vegas has it.
You said that last year, and the year before that!
Randy Barnett in today’s WSJ.
Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-right-on-birthright-citizenship-954ae377?st=QJ8UEo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He is, but will the supremes have the stones to rule that way? I think ACB and Roberts won’t rock the boat and will side with the lefties.
Even if they do, watch the next Democrat president issue both a blanket pardon and EO granting citizenship.
They’ll chicken because they definitely don’t want to address the status of anchor babies already granted citizenship.
And the end of Chinese birthing tourism.
I don’t think they’ll have to address it.
The EO doesn’t order any citizenship to be revoked, only that ongoing citizenship should not be granted.
It seems pretty obvious to me.
Kind of like repealing RvW was.
Funny how getting judges who are (mostly) serious about their jobs works.
Sounds like this can be summed up with: People ignore shitshows when it is convenient to do so.
The facts support my opinions.
Since we first learned to walk on two limbs DEG.
Media is saying the loud part out loud, but weasel out of who was in charge back when: “The average price Americans are paying for gas hit $4 per gallon Tuesday, the highest level since 2022, according to AAA.”
So, it’s the highest it’s been in three years, when Biden was ‘in charge.’ That’s almost worse than weather folk saying “It’s the worst drought /flood /etc since 2017!” and extrapolating that to mean it’s the worst in the history of Ever. Even!
It’s almost as if there’s a plot to keep the rubes illiterate and innumerate. (Well, that’s ghastly!)
Well, they don’t want people to realize that it’s still not as bad as Biden, that would be unmutual.
I filled my Tahoe today and still didn’t crack $100, though it was close. It wasn’t even hard in 2022 to crack the century mark.
^^And even with (somewhat, but somewhat) lower inflation, our $4 still ain’t worth what it was back then. Yay.
Dear auto-correct: Don’t ever “correct” “even” into “Evan.” Just, don’t do that.
~ Evan
Walmart shopping cart for 45 items.
2022: $126
2024: $414
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1955290681208959365
WalMart has been doing dynamic pricing for a while now.
What I want to know is what does that list consist of?
I resembled this comment.
That was my first thought too. Prices have gone up, but nothing’s tripled.
Tripled in three years?
Bullshit.
Or two years, even.
Is there a few select items that are driving up the cost?
I’m not watching a video to find out.
Went to Walmart last night. The coffee K+cups I bring to work were up $2 from a week ago.
Two things, possibly related on my front: I successfully got Focus Pills yesterday. (Private psych, cuz Medicaid won’t touch this for me, was $320 for the hour, and I had to book a follow-up. Huh. I don’t wonder why there’s a black market! Nosireebob!!)
Perhaps left unspoken due to my lack of ’em: Uh. Winston’s Mom is worth *way* more than $20 downtown. Could be hiding weight, but she’s got slim fingers. Clean her up, or go in for some roleplay, and we’ve got ourselves a major player. She’s rockin’ the dirty Debbie Harry look.
I’d be in my bunk, but I’ve got to bounce to a dentist appt.
Dear PTB and more: Sorry if I missed this: Is it okay to add to our media library for a piece? Or use a way to upload without filling it further?
Barring a final draft setback, I should be ready to upload today.
I’m not one of the elect, but AFAIK, still images are fine. The problem was Lily’s fluff getting everywhere.
Agree with Not Adahn. Just don’t do movies. I did stop loading an image every single Thursday to help, I just recycle my GIFs now. Except for this Thursday, I have a picture of Moe Howard.
Walmart shopping cart for 45 items.
2022: $126
2024: $414
Call e crazy, but I think there might be something other than the money supply responsible for that.
Need more details. If you shopped in Texas in 2022, and California in 2024 it would make a big difference.
A lot of factors that are not mentioned. Seasonal items? Speciality? Etc.
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Hitler finds out about the Iran War
I really, really despise the boomer generation. Everything about them. Reason got a click from me today on social security and Medicare benefiting the wealthiest generation in American history in unprecedented ways. People voting themselves ever more perks that are ridiculous and completely removed from the intent used to sell such programs to the American people.
The comment section is a bunch of boomer cunts talking about how they saved and planned and it’s like bitch your generation from top to bottom gutted this country and left younger people in a situation where they’re fighting for the remaining scraps. Boomers systematically pulled the carpet out from under the younger generations to benefit themselves and continue to do so. Will continue to do so until the day they finally leave this place. They are the most selfish generation. I for a while called them the most useless generation, but the truth is that useless doesn’t even begin to actually calculate the damage they did as a generation to the foundations of the country.
Then they turn around and cast ballots for MAGA . Why would we have to Make America Great Again when the boomers have been in charge? They’re the smartest generation. The ones so great at just planning for retirement. Why the fuck is the country such a mess under their guidance that it needs saving? And despite all that, it’s painfully fucking clear that they don’t even actually know what’s fucked the country so get you inane bullshit about tariffs and trade deficits and now bombing Iran.
You have the asshole boomers talking about how it’s perfectly normal for the elderly to have more given a liftetime of work and toil. Only, that actually was NOT the case when social security was sold to the public. Social security was brought into existence because Grandma was eating dog food to survive. The boomers take everything they grew up with as a granted.
Then we get to hear how they paid in their entire lives while ignoring the reality that most beneficiaries are receiving more benefits from the two programs than they ever paid in (which is noted in the article). It’s as true for the relatively well off as the poor. Even the degraded Reason comment section knows damn well that it’s not their money that they’re receiving.
For all their talk, the boomers are by far the biggest “me me me” generation in fucking history. Their entitlement is on display everywhere they fucking go and with everyone they interact with.
The boomers inherited a country on the rise and they’re going to leave it well on its way to permanent and ugly decline. What they take as a normal fact of life that simply because it was true for them such as it being normal for people to get wealthier in old age very well may not be true for their children let alone the generations that come after.
So year. TLDNR version is just fuck boomers.
It’s nice to be able to take up so much space living in your head.
It’s the hand on my wallet that gets you space in my head, actually.
It’s funny how many boomers bitch about welfare to any other group because they are by far the biggest fucking class of welfare queens this country has ever seen. Let’s see some more boomer logic on display:
Why the fuck is it lucrative for the private insurance company to lure in people on Medicare with lavish benefits that we all know don’t pay for themselves in savings? That’s not fucking insurance at that point. It’s painfully not fucking insurance.
I’m no expert on health insurance, but without government money being involved here and fucking up the math the insurance companies would be looking to dump the elderly who are drawing out the most in benefits. They sure as shit wouldn’t be trying to bribe them with services that are 100% net drains on their profits to join. And you have this asshole posting on a supposedly libertarian comment section arguing that it’s just good business for insurers to bring in decrepit boomers without the government paying them to do so.
I think this one takes the cake:
He goes on. Like your children can barely afford to have kids. They’ll work till they die most likely. Your sorry ass had a union that got you a pension which allowed you to “retire” at the ripe old age of 52 and then proceed to do contract work on the side that brought in six figures. And now he’s surviving on a measly income of *just* $95k which isn’t as much as the law enforcement officer who is still benefiting from a system that is going to come crashing down in his prime. So he’s poor or something. And his math is fucking way off and an undercount which is quickly pointed out to him. And none of that includes the social security he supposedly so desperately needs and deserves after a selfless lifetime of public service as one of the king’s men.
Like fuck off with this whole cohort!
I was planning to retire at 50.
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I’m 55 now with no end in sight. I socked away 10-15% of my paycheck ever since my first job. I’m doing something wrong.
Well, I’m 69 and still working full time and will be for the foreseeable future.
But, I do agree that we can’t hate pubsec union employees enough.
That’s less ‘boomer’ and more ‘government employee’. I agree that it is disgusting, even though my parents did the same thing and I’ll probably benefit from it.
And his math is fucking way off and an undercount which is quickly pointed out to him.
That’s me doing the math for him. And my father retired from the Air Force in his 40s, then worked another 20 years for the Dept of Corrections in NH, so he has two pensions, and I still get to hear about how destitute he and my mother are with a fully paid for house with a half million now.
It’s not confined to the boomer generation though. My GenX BiL retired from the military (USAF/ANG combined) before he turned 50, makes over six figures as an electrical engineer, and he’s working on getting 100% disability for things like sleep apnea, carpal tunnel, and tinnitus because then he will be exempt from property taxes on his half-million-dollar home. My dad at least stopped pushing for more disability after about 20% or so, and that’s due to hearing loss and a round of cancer related to service.
What really pisses me off is that I, with MS and a massively screwed up back, tried not to go on disability, and now, six years out from my last work credits towards it, actually am getting to the point were I could use it, am not eligible. No, I didn’t pay into a required system for 30+ years, no, I didn’t try to go as long as possible without it. But, no, I can’t get it, when some shmuck can get it for feeling sad.
FYTW.
I would say it was the boomers parents that were the worst.
Voted for Wilson and then FDR four times.
Parents and grandparents.
When the very first boomers got to vote (1967) their parents and grandparents had already endorsed LBJ and the Great Society welfare programs along with “protecting” themselves from even the mild S.S. reforms that Goldwater had suggested in 1964.
Show me a generation that is all for ending Social Security?
Surprisingly applicable for this post:
https://nypost.com/2026/03/31/us-news/kristi-noem-weighs-in-on-report-husband-bryon-lives-cross-dressing-double-life/
That is freakin’ hilarious.
Please, please, please be true…
Sweet baby Jesus, that’s something else.
He borrows her wigs dosent he?
Trained professional.
https://notthebee.com/article/update-secret-service-agent-who-shot-himself-in-butt-was-trying-to-use-gun-light-to-find-phone
I think he needs more training. He didn’t shoot himself in the foot.
Damn, that’s retarded.
Maybe he should just stick to opening bottle tops with his trigger guard.
I do not like weapon lights on handguns, at least not for handguns intended for carrying concealed. This is one of the reasons.
I’ve taken a fair amount of low light training, and one constant through all of it was, “Your weapon light is not a task light and you never, ever, ever use it as one.” Apparently the Secret Service protective division doesn’t get that level of training…
Right? Carry a task light. I keep a small flashlight/laser with me for pointing at and finding objects. How can the Secret Service not have such things?
There are men walking around all day without a small flashlight? Next you’ll tell me something crazy about men walking around all day without a knife…
I carry a Leatherman too.
I can’t carry a knife.
I kept losing them so I stopped packing one.
So, the Lego Rifle should be finished… except my shim* is 4mm too short. I’m printing a new one.
I’m going to have to risk firing the thing soon. It’s not that I distrust the components. I just always have doubts that I put everything together properly, despite repeatedly checking and rechecking.
🤞
*the shim is to set the length of the fixed stock. I have the fewest doubts about it.
“the shim is to set the length of the fixed stock”
Is that “a shoulder thing that goes up”?
🤷♂️
Never did figure out what that was.
Just get one of your orphans to test fire it.
Not being a libertarian, I don’t have any.
Do you have an old tire and a long string?
I do not have any old tires, and I don’t think they’re allowed at the range. I’m not even sure of a proper lead sled would be permissable.
In all seriousness if you are testing at a range, they should have a vice to mount and test fire it. No one is going make fun of you if you ask.
When I finally make this, I am definitely going to clamp it down and test fire from a distance.
https://muzzle-loaders.com/collections/traditions-blunderbuss-rifles/products/traditions-flintlock-blunderbuss-kit-54-caliber-kr510
UCS, bring it to HH, we’ll find a safe place for the gun and we’ll hide in the garage while you test it with a long string.
My Grandpa gave me his Arisaka 7.7 x 58*. He had never shot it. I had heard they were made with whatever metal they had left. So for it’s first shot I rigged up a gun vice made of 2×4 and bungees. I pulled the trigger with a piece of twine from a safe distance.
*don’t where he got it. He was in the Aleutians for the war. Still has the “mum” stamped in it.
I think my uncle brought one back from WW2, had it re-chambered and used it on deer, as I remember. I’ll ask his son-in-law when I see him.
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I’ve been replaying Cyberpunk 2077 recently, so I misread that as “Arasaka” at first.
I’m not too familiar with the Japanese Rifles, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was made of less than stellar metal, however, the invasion of the Aleutians was early enough that they might have had rifles of early-war or pre-war make.
My Father-in-law had a 6.5 Arisaka. The firing pin had been broken, I was able to replace it and get some ammo. Work just fine. The were known to be stout weapons.
Early Arisakas were strong guns. I once heard a story about an Arisaka Model 38 that had been rechambered in .30-06. The owner sold it because it, “…kicked too hard.” Problem was, the Model 38 is a 6.5mm rifle, and the ‘gunsmith’ who did the work rechambered it without checking the barrel. Sending a .30 bullet down a 6.5mm bore kinda explains the excessive recoil, but the gun wasn’t damaged…
Assembly is completed.
Not quite the appearance I thought it’d have when finalized.
Shades of Jessica Lynch are coming into light for me here. Looks like we need more boots in the area!
Hope nobody gets the bright idea that we need to subdue Iraq again.
She should just wave her magic “Journalist” card so the ruffians will have to apologize and free her with a thousand apologies.
Not seeing how this totally foreseeable incident is a USG issue beyond asking the Iraqi government to please do something.
Sound like they already caught one guy after an aggressive pursuit. Go, Team Iraq!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-blocks-trumps-executive-order-to-end-federal-funding-for-pbs-and-npr
Judge blocks Trump’s executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR
Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.
Moss ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for NPR and PBS is unlawful and unenforceable. The judge said the First Amendment right to free speech “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.
NPR and PBS are free to use some other funding source to publish whatever the fuck they want.
Didn’t the CPB already disband itself?
While Trump was sued in this legal action, the case did not include Congress — and the legislative body has played a large role in the public-broadcasting saga in the past year.
Trump’s executive order immediately cut millions of dollars in funding from the Education Department to PBS for its children’s programming, forcing the system to lay off one-third of the PBS Kids staff. The Trump order didn’t impact Congress’ vote to eliminate the overall federal appropriations for PBS and NPR, which forced the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that funneled that money to the TV and radio networks.
Since the ruling is only about the EO and not the law defunding CPB, it might be a correct ruling.
2nd amendment means the government pays for my ammo.
LOL. I will have to remember to use this when people defend tax extortion to pay for their commute radio station.
If the militia is to be regular, yes.
Absurd.
Is there no way to impeach all these activist judges?!