I admit to being a space enthusiast, despite wishing that NASA be eliminated from the FedGov. And I am very much opposed to manned space flight (machines are FAR better at that), especially things like manned interplanetary exploration. It is an enormous waste of money, but far more entertaining than Federal welfare fraud. So as (literally) burning tax dollars go, I give it an above-average rating. I’d still cut it out or (as a compromise) contract Elon to do this. But still, flames, smoke, loud noises, high speeds, there’s worse things in life. And it gives Progs a reason to tut-tut about how we could use that money elsewhere, like… Federal welfare fraud.
Birthdays today abound, including half of the best comics duo ever; a notorious supporter of the mass murdering LBJ (and was nonetheless a great performer); the guy who dreamed up and wrote Psycho; the guy who got James Bond going as a franchise; the ultimate in black hats and beards; one of my absolute favorite actors who set the gold standard in the best epic adventure film ever made; a visitor from the planet Cheron; the apparent founder of Pottery Barn; and the greatest hype artist until Elon Musk.
Speaking of hype, here’s today’s Links.
Team Red- the party of small government.
I’m failing to see the problem here.
A good start, but how about an actual cut?
If there was ever a politician who is in desperate need of being woodchippered, this is the one.
The glee from the Left is almost palpable.
“But… but… you’re gonna make things harder to rig!”
Arming the military? Unthinkable!
How in the fucking world is this a government issue?
So they come by their casino grift as a matter of tradition.
Let’s teach those kids that the First Amendment is no laughing matter. Oh, wait…
There’s so many appropriate pieces of music I could choose for the theme. Jethro Tull’s For Michael Collins, Jeffrey, and Me immediately came to mind. But I’ve been on a bit of a Primus/Tool/Dream Theater binge lately so… the Old Guy digs into that genre.
Jew-Nazi Moon battle?
the greatest hype artist until Elon Musk
Happy birthday Marvin Minsky!
I guessed Banksy.
Arming the military link back to Oregon AG?
Arm the military with mail-in ballots!
There are a lot of illiterates, having graduated from government schools. They should be allowed to vote by phone.
The Kaczynski plan.
“The glee from the Left is almost palpable.”
People are saying Thomas should retire so Trump can replace him.
I could see him replacing both Alito and Thomas before the end of his term. The left’s glee wouldn’t last very long because we all know Trump would nominate a couple of nazis.
He’s 1 for 3 so far, so I wouldn’t expect much out of his next pick.
Whomever the Dems pick would be way worse.
Imagine three more Jacksons on the court.
With 4 more Jacksons every case would be blamed on the boogie…
half of the best comics duo ever
Happy birthday Dean Martin!
Team Red- the party of small government.
They’ve been disproving that since Reagan – how can anyone say that line with a straight face?
“AP notes that mail voting has existed for more than a century and was increasingly popular in Democratic and Republican states until 2020, when Trump hurled baseless claims of mass voter fraud in mail-in voting. These claims come as Trump himself has voted by mail as recently as last month in a Florida special election.”
Did anything else happen in 2020?
And yet for some strange reason only one party is fighting for it tooth and nail.
LOL never stop lying, AP.
“Arming the military? Unthinkable!”
same link
Fixed.
Well of course Duckworth isn’t inconvenienced by the shoes being taken off.
Hah, my thoughts exactly. And she could definitely disable the wood chipper.
I didn’t want to say it.
“How in the fucking world is this a government issue?”
It isn’t, but so is 90% of what it does.
Everything is a government issue since the New Deal fascists expanded the Commerce Clause.
“Everything for the State, Nothing Outside the State . . . .”
If Title Ix can be used to try to deny due process, that and other things like federal funding of student loans can be claimed as the justification for all sorts of other shit.
But not requiring colleges respect 2A, however.
Many machines on Ix
It’s The National Collegiate Athletic Association, it’s right there in the name. FS
How in the fucking world is junior sports an education issue?
Sports and education need to be separated.
State and education need to be separated.
one of my absolute favorite actors
Happy birthday Richard Dreyfuss!
I’m failing to see the problem here.
The MISOGYNY doesn’t scream out at you? He’s firing WOMEN!!! For being incompetent@!11!!!
““But they were intentionally creating, observing, and relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways that leveraged probabilistic regularities, such as the law of large numbers.”
Did they even have numbers?
No written language until the evil white
Man showed up.
With looks like that, she damn well better be able to cook.
She seems a bit handy though.
“Spicer enlisted a friend to help her wrap the corpse in a deflated air mattress, and the two hid the body beneath a concrete staircase in her backyard. She later recruited a homeless friend to construct a brick wall over the space to entomb Mercado’s body, she said.”
Article doesn’t even say what the dinner was.
Looks pretty meth-y
Hot dog soup ?
She doesn’t look Korean.
“For the love of God, Montresor!”
Continually beat her, not continuously.
“For the love of God, Montresor!”
Oh, excellent reference. *golf clap*
“And I am very much opposed to manned space flight (machines are FAR better at that), especially things like manned interplanetary exploration. It is an enormous waste of money”
It’s money being spent on something intangible but very important. I can pretty much guarantee you that if manned space flight were impossible, there would be little space exploration going on. The deep, subconscious purpose of robotic space exploration is to lay the groundwork for manned space flight. Could we collect more raw data if we spent only on robots? Sure. But maybe this is about something in addition to raw data.
Also back when we were sending men to the moon, computers weren’t that sophisticated.
They only displayed heterosexual missionary position porn!
In black and white.
You want V-ger? No one in space wants robots probing around.
The aliens probing around is bad enough.
Absolutely
It’s about eventually traveling to and colonizing other worlds.
Well, I’m standin’ in line in the
Rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck
Yeah, but you know it’s not the one that I had in mind
He’s got a new one out now, I don’t even know what it’s about
But I’ll see him in anything so I’ll stand in line
whaddup doh
whats goody yo
Woke up early, cleaned, hid eggs full of candy all over the house because it is a monsoon outside.
You know, everyday stuff.
When the Alzheimer’s hits you get to hide your eggs AND go look for them.
I forgot to hide the eggs but I’ll go look anyway, just to be sure.
“Well, whattaya know?”
You cheat and have the hens hide them!
“Grant alleged that in June 2021, she was raped on a table by McMahon and another WWE executive, John Laurinaitis, during work hours.
“They forcefully pushed and pulled me and shoved their hands in my dress and up between my legs,” Grant stated in the affidavit.
“The force caused stitches to pop on my dress, and I subsequently blacked out.””
https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/business/ex-wwe-employee-shares-shocking-new-details-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-vince-mcmahon/
doubt
Seems like there is more to her accusations than just that one incident, I guess we’ll have to see if there is any evidence to back it up.
I’m thinking the same thing. Those specific and detailed allegations. It doesn’t make them true but it certainly makes me wonder.
“Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine brags that Maduro signed his SpongeBob toy in infamous NYC lockup”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/us-news/rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-brags-that-maduro-signed-his-spongebob-toy-in-infamous-nyc-lockup/
STIJLTH
signed his SpongeBob toy
Enough with the euphemisms!
Rule 34 probably applies and I don’t want to know for sure.
Imagine your sole motivation in life is “be as repugnant as possible”.
Let me guess, she’s single and childless.
“A doctor who is a lefty TikToker tried to rile up Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at JFK Airport with some obnoxious insults — but they wouldn’t bite.
Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, an OB-GYN doctor and who has more than 2.8 million followers on the social media app, approached the ICE officers in vests in the Queens airport terminal and initially appeared to be thanking them before pulling out the rug and berating them, a video she posted Thursday shows.
“Excuse me,” she says to the agents, prompting a polite, “Yes ma’am,” in response from one of them.
“I just wanna say thank you guys for being here — because I know when I wake up in the morning, I’ll never be racist pigs like you,” she suddenly seethes.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/us-news/deranged-doctor-tries-to-bait-ice-agents-at-jfk-airport-and-their-flawless-reaction/
CWAC
At least when I wake up in the morning I’ll be sober.
Are those her crazy eyes?
Yikes. Once again I appreciate when crazy people advertise themselves so clearly.
My first thought, too – “Holy shit, those are seriously crazy eyes.”
She’s way on the wrong side of the hot/crazy line.
OB, probably a baby killer.
Without other substantial changes to federal spending and tax revenue, another half trillion in new military spending could total about $5 trillion to $6 trillion to that imbalance over the next decade,
Rookie numbers. Gotta pump them up!
HUGE, the greatest American debt ever!!!
Hey fellas- she’s on the market.
Michigan Rep. Hillary Scholten reveals husband ‘suddenly’ left family then filed for divorce
He was her beard?
“An email seeking comment from Holcomb, who is a journalism professor, was not immediately returned.”
I’m also open to “he was tired of her shit so he started fucking a younger, prettier, student”.
Not sure why they blurred out their kids faces in the family photo. I would have laughed if they had blurred out their kids faces dog’s face, too.
Another admirable attempt to do the right thing but like much of the rest of MAGA’s attempts to destroy democracy it will never succeed without a not-Democrat majority large enough to overcome the not-Democrat-in-name-only crowd.
The problem with not electing Democrats is you get govt run by Republicans. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
Well, yes, but… I’m not fighting that battle. I have grown to believe that accepting the lesser evil helps delay the greater evil.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PointyTailedKittens/s/Ao3Qm95d8v
Adorbs.
Must be sisters
Kill machine training.
Fantastic Uncle Ev time yesterday, and my final shift at the gas stn starts in four hrs. Its remodel begins at midnight on the 8th, so shift should be rather chill; I know Dragon Lady colleague has zero shits left to give. They’d already stopped restocking us last week, so the pantry’ll be rather bare, hopefully closer to a ‘gas only’ day.
Contract onboarding soon, and roommate talks w MN Munchkin yesterday. (Seems both inevitable and unlikely.)
Happy Easter, everyone. Dyeing eggs w the boys soon, over here.
“‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right
Bally Bagayoko, who was targeted by racist abuse after winning Saint-Denis mayorship, vows to tackle inequality to stem deepening divisions”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/04/bally-bagayoko-austerity-politics-french-mayor-tackling-far-right
As usual, no examples are given.
FFS, it’s the Gruniad – even if there was an example it would be FUBAR.
From what I have heard about that town, this guy is going to have his hands full.
Even the Guardian can’t sugar coat it.
“European Conservative reports that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has now launched an interactive online tool tracking knife attacks across Berlin, as rising violent crime becomes a central issue in the city’s election campaign.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/as-violence-germany-surges-afd-launches-knife-app/
How about let citizens carry guns?
“The Department of Homeland Security revealed on Friday that of the four defendants in Fairfax County, Virginia currently facing murder trials so far this year, three of them are illegal immigrants.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrants-charged-in-75-of-this-years-murders-in-fairfax-county-va-dhs
How about let citizens carry guns?
I think VA is working on taking that away.
Spanberger & Co. very much are.
I think removing the vibrant newcomers would be a more achievable and immediately successful approach. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“The United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people,” the president said.
Sometimes Trump sounds reasonable. Of course, no one wants to leave the care of their own children to themselves
People responsible for their own children? What madness is this you are talking about?
Due to the extended travel requirements of my job, I have some guilt about not being around for Tres Ver 2.0 as much as normal dads.
BabyMama is generally a miserable cunt towards me but Ill give credit where its due- she’s a great mom to our kid.
Shouldn’t you have been sending him down the smokestacks to clean them out? I mean, he would have been well-suited to it with his tiny body.
State funded daycare will be a huge fraud sink. Naturally, our AWFL Gov in NM can’t shut up about how awesome she is for getting it in place here.
Mayor Commie in NYC is launching a “demonstration” project at $30K a pop for some kids in some neighborhoods – one of his major promises being some bullshit about “free
Pre-Kday care for all!”It turns out that taxing the everloving shit out of his subjects actually requires the governor’s assistance.
“In a recent interview, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that if his party retakes the House following the 2026 midterms, President Donald Trump will “absolutely” face another impeachment effort. Trump was impeached by the chamber twice in his first term….
“He should be impeached now,” he continued. “I mean, he’s taken us into a disastrous war, threatening war crimes in Iran … and the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House, and should impeach him for all the things he’s done. And depending on the Senate, he may face conviction if we get to 60.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/ro-khanna-admits-dems-will-absolutely-impeach-trump-if-they-retake-the-house
CWAA
I welcome the overuse of war crime to mean anything like racist.
I remember when Ro Khanna argued that overturning the Obama-era net neutrality rules would result in cell phone plans where you could only access YouTube.
And yet people still take the SOB seriously.
Some days I wish Trump and his admin were the Nazi fascists that the TDS dingbats say he is.
“Muah hahaha!”
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/10/the-awesome-adventures-of-secret-nazi-president111-vol-41-oh-canada/
inorite?
He might actually be accomplishing something.
Obvious things are obvious.
And watch the worthless Thune humor the democrats rather than roundfile it faster than Schumer did during Biden’s reign.
maybe it’s just an accounting exercise. The only way to get that antiquated junk off the books is to light it off.
Feeling a bit road worn today.
https://www.thefarside.com/2026/04/04/1
My kids have the same complaint
James Hunt
Definitely worth the time.
Insanity!
Trump’s 2027 budget request, which he released on Friday, includes a proposal that would represent a major step toward what many conservatives believe would solve the problem permanently: Stop using the TSA for airport security altogether.
Trump’s budget calls for cutting $52 million from the TSA’s budget to begin “the privatization of TSA’s airport screeners.”
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“Privatization does not remove politics from security. It inserts a profit-taking middleman and shifts incentives toward cutting labor costs and training time while the public bears the risk,” Hydrick Thomas, president of a government employee union that represents TSA workers, wrote in a letter to the Washington Post in early March. “Stop using the traveling public and frontline security workers as leverage in funding fights. The problem is political dysfunction, not the existence of a federal workforce.”
They want to put fifty pounds of shit into a five pound bag, and they’re arguing about what color the bag should be.
Look, he’s a union official. So it’s completely unbiased and logical.
The only thing more definitive would be a statement from a notary public.
Profits are evil and stuff.
JFC try harder not to be fucking commies for a change.
If he actually privatizes TSA I will shed tears of joy.
Unlike their private security right? Cutting corners while protecting an asset?
Some major travel industry groups are promoting a different solution to shutdown-related travel disruptions. They’re calling on Congress to pass legislation to guarantee that TSA workers and air traffic controllers continue to get paid during shutdowns.
“Every time Washington fails to fund the government, these essential workers pay the price. So do travelers. So does the economy. That is why America’s travel industry has come together, because this workforce is too important, and the stakes are too high, for this to keep happening,” Geoff Freeman, president of the U.S. Travel Association, wrote in a joint statement with the heads of the Airlines for America and the American Association of Airport Executives.
The most essentialest public servants, providing the most essentialest service. We cannot fail them.
Privatize ATC too.
Problem is, it will just be on Corporate (MIC contractors) Welfare when it does privatize rather than local startups
Absolutely
If it eliminates the unions and costs less it’s a win.
I am conflicted only because you can get slapped with ‘sex offender’ for some pretty mild stuff.
However, this here is a kid emulating Dexter it appears
The hacking up body and stuffing in suitcase somehow wasnt more disturbing than keeping blood on slides
Maybe he should be exiled to England. That could solve two problems.
I’ll tentatively allow it.
I’m failing to understand how a private school disciplining their obnoxious students violates the First Amendment.
Don’t defend those fucking mackerel snappers!
The students weren’t being obnoxious in the way the school specifically prescribed.
(Goes for private and public, sure.) Reminded yesterday of schools going after kids for wearing “Let’s Go Brandon!!” tshirts and IIRC it (may be?) going to SCOTUS to ‘allow’ political speech through satire ‘n sarcasm, even if euphemistic and ‘lewd.’
Don’t people have fucking better shit to get pissed at?
Narrator: Yes.
(Narrator in ominous, lower volume: Distraction Dust is powerful.)