Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
White House Sends Congress $9.4 Billion Rescissions Package
Elon Musk Turns on Trump, Calls President’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ a ‘Disgusting Abomination’
Trump’s 50 Percent Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Take Effect, Aimed at Boosting US Production
Dems Look To Create New Think Tank to “Get Away From Woke, Identity Politics”
Supreme Court to Hear Case About Police Entering Homes in Emergencies
Navy ship USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed as part of Pentagon’s ‘warrior culture’ shift
Chinese Nationals Charged with Smuggling ‘Agroterrorism Weapon’ into U.S.
Trump Vows ‘Large Scale Fines’ After Transgender Athlete Wins in California
Massive protest in Texas calling on Gov Abbott to veto THC ban
AZ Governor vetoes Bill Limiting Chinese land ownership near military bases
That’s all I got for today. I will leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“The White House sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package partly aimed at codifying work done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to Congress late Tuesday.”
Peanuts.
But people will die!
Can I pick the people?
Neph for the win.
I thought that is what the left wants?
On your point Neph!
‘More New Yorkers are going to die’ — official warns of rising heat, energy costs
https://gothamist.com/news/more-new-yorkers-are-going-to-die-official-warns-of-rising-heat-energy-costs
Appropriate, since this is Lucy pulling the football away *again*.
Yup… I’ll take every bit — but as I said yesterday, if you’re still okay with trillion dollar deficits (not even getting to debt reduction), you’re not serious. I’m sure it will make nice sound bites on the 40000 pounds of political flyers they’ll be sending out for the midterms, though.
So much this.
It’s at least a start. This is the way it has to be done to head off the judges who are trying to reverse it all.
“Dems Look To Create New Think Tank to “Get Away From Woke, Identity Politics”
That’s all they have, and abortion.
A huge portion of what comprises their party still supports that. And as such, they will remain doomed for a long time. Or until the republicans get a swell head again and start shooting themselves in the foot.
Anyway, I suppose we should start a T-minus countdown for repubs shooting themselves in the foot.
Sounds like Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot with socon nonsense.
You think you have to wait?
But don’t worry, the progs are just as retarded here:
Why the debate about an Ohio state fish is not just silly. It’s dangerous: Today in Ohio
(This is in regards to a bill to make the walleye the official state fish)
I’ve heard of state birds, but not fish.
Common Tater:
Really?
Yes, really.
Lots of striped and largemouth bass, they should at least try to have 50 different ones.
It will be an Emote Tank anyway.
Navy ship USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed as part of Pentagon’s ‘warrior culture’ shift
I expect outrage from people that demanded we rename other things. Stop naming things after people.
The USS Harvey Milk is a fleet oiler? Did no one get this joke?
I gernally like what SecDef Hesgeth is doing, but holy shit someone’s sense of humor needs to be re-calibrated.
I don’t think Harvey was the one delivering the fueling hose, IYKWIMAITTYD.
We know we have the Mexicans (and other nationalities)… STEVE SMITH EXPECT TO COMPLETE TRIFECTA SOON!
STEVE SMITH ON VACATION NOW
https://youtu.be/16QLUBozLVA?si=QlShRW5kmr3FcbYg
Regardless of what STEVE wants, I hope Abbot vetoes this lame, alcohol lobby funded bill.
I have a buddy that lost his teen daughter to suicide, he crawled into a bottle and nearly died himself. THC saved his life. I would like my wife to give it a go for her arthritic pain and PTSD, but she believes they will make it illegal again, and doesn’t want to find something that works just to have the rug yanked from underneath her.
I’ve long since cared about the legal status.
“Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is up for reelection next year,”
They’ll just cheat again.
It’s bad luck to rename a ship, even if the original name was silly.
So the good fortune of the ship will curdle?
Come on Neph, that was whey out of line.
ron73440:
Well, I don’t want the ship to sink, I understand that we lactose ships in the quantity we need.
None of these are gouda, they’re just cheesy, do cheddar!
That ship has soured.
Does that apply even if the ship is sold? I assume that when
a smaller country buys some old warship they rename it.
The Belgrano didn’t fare well.
The superstitious think so.
The narrative with Musk’s opposition to the “BBB” is that his companies were not going to get some of that loot.
The inability for the left to believe that people MUST have ulterior motives if they disagree with grandiose government spending is quite telling.
The indoctrination factories have won.
Fuck. You know what I meant
Very little sympathy here — most I can think is that maybe that’s just their line of research and they really wanted to continue it in the US so were willing to skirt the law.
But honestly – I think that’s being really overly generous… and given it bolsters my stated position ’round these parts (just this past Saturday?), I continue to be fine with revoking Chinese student (and other) visas. If they aren’t agents of the CCCP, they’re regarded as potential ones by Beijing (with the leverage to make it so). We’ve been in Cold War II for a while, we just haven’t wanted to act like it.
We have to keep the veneer looking half decent. They rely on exports to America, and we’ve become addicted to cheap Chinese shit and stolen IP.
Sorry for the lateness.
If the modal “Bayesian” was like Ozy’s last post, I wouldn’t reflexively scorn them.
“Tiffany Gomas, ‘crazy plane lady’ who went viral after ‘not real’ rant on flight, launches new career ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/us-news/tiffany-gomas-the-crazy-plane-lady-who-went-viral-after-not-real-rant-on-flight-launches-new-career/
Are those puppies real?
I’m gonna say yes, in my professional gazing opinion.
So, in the words of Ozymandias: Bayes upon her works and despair!
“The Met’s new wing honors a vanished Rockefeller — who may have been kidnapped and eaten by cannibals ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/entertainment/the-mets-new-wing-honors-michael-rockefeller-who-may-have-been-killd-by-cannibals/
STIJLTH
Maybe he encountered Biden’s uncle and decided to stay.
“Liu initially made false statements about his visit to the US and his knowledge of the pathogen before admitting to law enforcement that he was bringing the noxious fungus to his girlfriend, 33-year-old University of Michigan lab researcher Yunqing Jian, according to authorities.”
Next time try flowers, or maybe a bit of jewelry.
The fungus is among us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKsybLIO17o
Or maybe not for any period of time.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mushroom-caskets-make-the-final-resting-place-eco-friendly-8ccac598?st=ynJnXZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I remember that Ray Bradbury story (and episode).
He was just trying to prove what a fungii he can be.
Spore me.
Good thing there wasn’t mushroom in his luggage and he could only bring a little bit.
This popped up as I surfed news this morning:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/06/03/donald-trump-jr-launching-amazon-of-guns-to-strengthen-the-second-amendment/
Will they sell bump stocks?
yes, but magazines of max 5 capacity
Eh, someone is already trying to be the next gun wholesale club. They do have an excellent website name.
Findyourboatsnchor.com
That s should be an a.
Lux FSE continues to fail to impress.
“The website offers a wide range of products, including rifles, shotguns, small arms, ammunition, and outdoor equipment such as tents and camping gear. Trump Jr. will join the company’s board when it goes public, alongside gun influencer and attorney Colion Noir.”
Haven’t heard that name in a while.
If the Trumps want to help strengthen the 2A, they should get rid of Pam Bondi and replace her with someone that is actually pro 2A.
GrabAGun.com has been around for a fairly long time now.
I was disappointed today’s song wasn’t “In the Navy” by the Village People. Seems like it would have fit the theme with the story about the Navy’s Harvey Milk ship. Hopefully they rename it after Jim Jones.
It’s an oiler so name it after Earl Campbell.
Leave the name, refit it as a prison ship, and let our enemies cower in fear of what goes on there.
News from the near future: “The USS Jeffrey Dahmer and the USS Harvey Milk weighed anchor off the coast of Kuwait, awaiting the first transfer of Iranian prisoners of war. Observers indicated that a construction worker, a Native American, a cowboy and a few hundred uniformed homosexuals could be witnessed dancing to disco music in preparation for the prisoners time at Camp YMCA Persian Gulf.”
Nayib Bukele
@nayibbukele
To Western nations:
You can’t build, or even fix, anything on top of societal disorder.
Take traffic, for example. The most logical solution is public transport. But without order, anyone who can afford a car will avoid it, simply because they don’t feel safe using it.
In El Salvador, we lack a lot of things, but we have achieved societal order.
You, on the other hand, have almost everything, but you’re quickly losing your societal order.
You can now predict where things are heading in the near future.
There’s still time to save your nations, but not much.
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1930089544352694533
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
Let’s check in on El Salvador!
How’s the homicide rate in 2025?
Would you believe me if I said it’s actually still getting better?!
El Salvador is safer than Canada and Britain now, and everyone who said this trend couldn’t last was wrong.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1930118305345425709
Take traffic, for example. The most logical solution is public transport.
Just one more lane for the politically connected contractors.
“A Texas man has been arrested after Palm Beach Police said he jumped the wall of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and told officers that he wanted to “spread the gospel” to Trump and marry his granddaughter.”
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/trump/2025/06/03/police-man-jumped-mar-a-lago-wall-to-marry-trumps-granddaughter-kai/84009286007/
Sounds wholesome.
Well Kay is entering the age of optimal fertility
Navy Joan will be in OMWC’s preferred age range soon.
Totally not a money grab, but instead a complete win for the consumer!
Under the proposed terms, Olaplex won’t admit wrongdoing but will send $5 vouchers to class members who submitted claims. It also agreed to pay $1.35 million for various costs and fees, of which Kazerouni is requesting $1.05 million and the plaintiff will get $5,000.
Meet the Law Firm Driving a Surge in ‘Made in America’ Advertising Suits
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-law-firm-driving-a-surge-in-made-in-america-advertising-suits-69a26f5c?st=hzhnar&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Class members always get crap. Only the class representatives have a chance at real awards. The lawyers make out though.
Sunday marks start of new laws, end of rush to courthouse for child sex abuse victims
And some “judge” thought that totally fair.
I have been part of two class action suits, and have been surprised by the results, both over 1K.
“This case is challenging a Texas law that requires online platforms that publish more than one-third of sexually explicit content to implement age verification methods. The bill specifically sought to protect minors from access to sexually explicit content online.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/birthright-citizenship-guns-pornography-supreme-court-docket
Being control freaks over weed, and now this, Texas needs to knock off the moralizing.
Texas repubs do this all the time. It is tiresome. The weed thing is especially annoying, as it is here now, in liquor stores, and there is no rioting in the streets.
Ohio Republicans keep trying to stick their dick in the marijuana regulations here too. Which just makes more people drive to Michigan where prices are an order of magnitude cheaper.
Dudes Posting Their W’s
@DudespostingWs
A great concept for a workout
If gyms built this, I’m sure they’d be packed
https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1929873592566628682
meeeeehhhh
Seems like a better gambling opportunity than fitness opportunity.
Porky la dos?
The Wall Street Journal just published the FDA’s Opinion piece-length rationale for banning talc.
I was happy to see they were citing studies, but after I read the studies, I was dismayed:
The FDA fell victim to bad science, and they might ban talcum powder because of it!
The evidence cited in the article is
– A 2019 meta-analysis
– A review by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
– A 2019 cohort study from Taiwan
Let’s go through each of these and see if the FDA’s evidence holds water.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1930081193782874144
two questions:
What is the official glibertarian position on talcum powder?
Whatever happened to TalcumX ?
I’ve only used cornstarch powder.
Same. if I look for talcum powder I only ever find the cornstarch stuff. Which works fine.
Paging Ozy to the white courtesy phone, stat.
It absolutely does not belong on pizza.
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
We are just plain out of material. I have a few entries for the serials currently running, but that is it. Please consider finishing anything you have in Drafts, or putting that thought you have had in pixels.
Thank you for your help.
The crappiest Emergency Post I ever wrote is out there pending. Use it as you need it. Work is killing me, so I can barely keep up with movie posts. If I get a break I will try to do a GlibCar or something.
R.J. – you are exempt, as a regular contributor. You might see your emergency post tomorrow morning!
Hey I just wrote a hurried post this weekend 🙂
Okay.
I’ll dump the first 18 articles from the series I’ve been working on into the queue. They’re individual reviews anyway.
I’ve got one or two I wrote a long time ago and never submitted. They aren’t great but I’ll submit what I can salvage
I still have to select the right photos to use for my next piece, and then hope I can format it properly.
I have a few ideas for articles, none good. I’ll try to find a couple hours this week to get them written up.
Dude. They gave me an afternoon links slot. 🙂
How about a pun post?
There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened
Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to reframe the current biodiversity crisis
The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history. Also called the Great Dying, it is thought to have nearly wiped out all life on Earth 252 million years ago. Yet, earlier this year, we learned of an ancient ecosystem at South Taodonggou, a geological site in what is now China, where plants and animals were thriving just 75,000 years later – a blink of the geological eye. You might call it an isolated miracle.
Surprisingly, palaeontologist Hendrik Nowak at the University of Nottingham, UK, doesn’t see it that way. He points to fossil pollen from other sites that also suggests “little or only short-lived disruption” from the end-Permian event. In fact, Nowak argues that the impact was so minimal that – for plants, at least – there simply was no mass extinction then.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-five-mass-extinctions-never-happened/
GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSING THE FIURST EVER MASS EXTINTION PANICCCC!!!!!!!
current biodiversity crisis??
There is a critical shortage of genders on the planet
“The difference is, Will we bring gigawatts on the grid this decade or will it be next decade? And that’s what the tax credits mean,” Latimer said.
Tax credits magically make something economic, right?
Bill Gates Is Backing This Geothermal Company. Will Trump’s Republicans?
Geothermal projects have broad support in Washington, but federal incentives are on the chopping block
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/bill-gates-geothermal-fervo-energy-043cf2f3?st=T5jAgV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Another amazing technology for the extraction of taxpayer’s money.
The New Yorker
@NewYorker
If overtly L.G.B.T.Q. books continue to be banished from library shelves, then it may be left to older works like “Ferdinand the Bull” and “Frog and Toad” to smuggle in queer-friendly themes.
https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1929897229411586545
“Queer” is commie nonsense.
So smear the queer is back on the table?
Yeah, I’m fed up with the MSM trying to “mainstream” that stupid word.
waitwaitwaitwaitwait.
Frog and Toad were gay? Did toad turn the frog gay?
Just like Jim and Huck Finn were.
(I’m certain I’ve seen that claim)
All unmarried male friends in literature are gay.
I liked Frog and Toad. *has been turned gay just like they said
“Frog and Toad are Friends” is exactly the kind of thing that I want my kids to be reading.
My steel costs jumped almost immediately after the 25% tariffs, I expect the same will happen after the increase to 50%.
My strain gauge supplier made sure to have a separate line item on their quote for the 10% tariff on anything coming from Israel.
I’m also seeing large increases in steel and aluminum prices.
Is,nt there a Glib that works as an electrician at a mid-west foundry?
Lachowsky. He’s been scarce.
Many Eurorack modules have seen a sudden increase in prices. It’s pushed me to order direct from Europe, because they fall under the de minimus, which is definitely hitting American retailers negatively. We’re talking specialty units that have been engineered, not mass produced junk.
Of course the Eurorack community is full of leftist tards who suddenly believe in the benefits of free market economics.
These people are so transparently hypocritical it makes my head hurt.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” – Our old friend Dalrymple
The tranny thing is the most transparent use of that tactic in my lifetime. The Democrats deliberately chose that issue for that very reason. Any political party that employs that tactic in such a deliberate and calculated way is not a party that can ‘come back’. They are evil. They seek power for power’s sake. The Republicans are only interested in playing international political gamesmanship for empire while the Democrats seem more focused on domestic policies aimed at enslaving us. In both cases the political class as a whole has long abandoned the interests of the American people and serve only thier own.
Like many things, it got twisted and evil by the Commies. It’s all well and good to use terms like homosexual instead of fag, or black instead of nigger.
But then it got taken way too far, and keeping up with the latest batch of words for groups just served to social signal that you were in the PC crowd.
The funny part about all of this was until recently people didn’t really give a shit about changing your gender. It was when they were trying to screw around with our kids and tried to make us believe that there isn’t any inherent biological difference between the sexes. To have deny basic biology and to foist this stuff on our children was the straw that broke it’s back for me.
Yep. I didn’t have any real opinion towards trans before their activist bullshittery took lead role. I thought they were freaky, but whatever. But the crusade to force me to deny reality has fucked that apathy and contentedness to live and let live up something fierce.
“Urgent health warning as most contagious disease on Earth is detected at Mall of America”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14776401/warning-infectious-disease-detected-mall-minnesota-measles.html
Some kid had measles.
Is it Somalis?
I was within a few miles of there this weekend. Am I safe?
Most contagious disease on Earth!!!!!
The only disgusting abomination in today’s links is that we named a ship after a communist piece of shit who got exactly what he deserved.
Suthenboy is coming out hot this morning and I love it.
People in New York be like yeah we can hang out at my place
https://x.com/TraderGoys/status/1929987443064811839
I mean that would have been a perfectly acceptable kitchen in some of the lower end commie Romanian apartment buildings. Am i to understand average American kitchens are a tad larger?
I lived in a place that had a galley kitchen, but it had way better appliances.
That’s about the size of an average bathroom in the houses/apartments I’ve been in. The kitchen in my place is probably four times larger, and is considered a “small” kitchen. Big enough for one person to work in there, a second person usually just gets in the way..
Citigroup states the reversal is due to regulatory developments and concerns about fair access
Sure. I believe that.
Citi Drops Gun Policy After Trump Accuses Banks of Discriminating
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/citibank-drops-gun-policy-after-trump-accuses-banks-of-discriminating-556ffda9?st=RovSTQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nice remodeling job, you should have seen it before. it was just a closet.
Missed the right place by just a smidge…
I dunno, a Navy vessel named after a gay man seems on brand to me.
especially since rum is no longer a thing.
I dont like the term ‘terrorism’. Destroying crops, stock and agricultural infrastructure is already a serious crime and becoming a serious concern.
It would appear somebody got their knickers in twist!
Victoria’s Secret Postpones Earnings Release After Security Incident
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/victorias-secret-postpones-earnings-release-after-security-incident-2ad27abf?st=pWiULH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
are the knickers worn by one of the model ladies and can they be purchased online, twisted or not?
They can, but they were worn by the plus sized “angels”.
Peer reviews with added non-informative content were judged by experts as having higher quality than the actual non-lengthened reviews.
https://x.com/MishaTeplitskiy/status/1929925924708880478
Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science
@MishaTeplitskiy
As per usual, the most wealthy/educated/established people know how to game seemingly objective bureaucracies the most
https://x.com/MishaTeplitskiy/status/1930121904028782917
Millions of welfare recipients beg to differ.
This takes some serious inattention. It looks like the car properly stopped turned and at that point just stopped paying attention.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1l2ptoj/ocwe_lost_a_few_good_gnomes_today_volume_up_for/
“What’s the Cal score?”
how does that happen?
I like the cat’s reaction.
Happy Killdozer day!
It happened 21 years ago today. The older you get the more you understand this man.
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1930166157698380084
Waiting for the new movement based on the Killdozer/Unibomber unified theory.
Some Democrats finally figured out they need a bigger parade to jump in front of?
Walz summed it up perfectly. Young, straight men are such vile, racist, homophobic, sexist pieces of shit they need a permission structure to vote for a female or minority candidate.
“Dems Look To Create New Think Tank”
I hope they throw tens of billions of non-USAID dollars into it. Anyone who is politically moderate and only somewhat pays attention to things can tell them what they’re doing wrong. But these dipshits are willing to spend the time and money rather than admit their policies are shit.
The Democratic Party is just another (more recent) victim of the Progressive long march through the cultural institutions. Any indication that D’s are developing some cognitive immunity is a welcome one.
Why no, HR drones, I am not interested in your talk about cognition and AI. First of all, I don’t believe you have any cognition, or I, A or otherwise.
First training class yesterday with AI generated talking heads. What fucking mess that was.
Our HR drones push minority group of the month DEI shit while the penny pinches are pushing supervisors to make certain there’s not even one minute of overtime. Seriously, my supervisor sent out a group chat telling everyone that if they clocked in for even 8:01 to clock out early or take an extended lunch.
Oh, we get all of those too. Mental health and women’s month were the worst. Over a dozen invites spammed out to every employee. The autism awareness ones were really special… so HR is going to explain autism to the IT workers. I’m pretty sure that would be a session of femsplaining how the IT workers needed to control their tendencies better.
While corporate is all in for Pride Month, at the plant level, no one really cares about it, nor is it mentioned. I love it.
I have an outlook rule that automatically permadeletes anything from the “Inclusion” office. They have nothing to say and I don’t want to hear it.
“Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been granted nearly $310,000 in a default judgment against Lindsey Hill, the San Diego woman who falsely accused him of sexual assault in 2021. The ruling stems from Hill violating the terms of a 2023 settlement agreement meant to resolve lawsuits they filed against each other.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Bauer filed a complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming Hill breached the deal by falsely claiming online and in 22 other separate instances that she had received a financial payout from him as part of the settlement after she was indicted on charges of On Monday, Judge Daniel Crowley ruled in Bauer’s favor, ordering Hill to pay him $309,830….
Following the 2021 claims made by Hill, Bauer released evidence publicly showing that the allegations against him by Hill were false. Her claims were then dismissed with prejudice.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-next-victim-a-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-drops-devastating-receipts-on-woman-after-her-sexual-assault-claims-were-dismissed-with-prejudice
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-dodgers-pitcher-trevor-bauer-awarded-310000-after-being-falsely-accused-of-sexual-assault
Do any of these accusations ever turn out to be true?
I assume famous athletes may face an above average number of accusations.
Deshaun Watson waves hello!
Who knows?
“On March 11, 2022, a grand jury declined to indict Watson on criminal charges related to “harassment and sexual misconduct”. On that date he still faced 22 civil lawsuits, many alleging sexual misconduct, and assault. As of August 1, 2022, all but one of the pending civil cases had been settled.”
Tony Buzbee is like the male Gloria Allred.
Why don’t you believe all women®?
Cause I’ve actually interacted with human beings before?
$310K. How nice, since the incident ruined his MLB career and he now plays in Japan.
I’ll wager she’s an empty bag and he won’t see a penny of that judgement.
Now this is content.
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1929626958104817991
He seems nice.
I known almost nothing about Yarvin but keep picturing him like this.
hmmmm
https://x.com/jessespafford/status/1903571431214199247
Spat
Musk’s comments hit a nerve. Republican deficit hawks have expressed concerns about the cost of the bill, which would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump’s main legislative accomplishment, while boosting spending on the military and border security.
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Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he disagreed with Musk’s assessment about the cost of the bill and stood by the goal of passage by July 4.
“We have a job to do – the American people elected us to do. We have an agenda that everybody campaigned on, most notably the president of the United States, and we’re going to deliver on that agenda,” the South Dakota lawmaker told reporters.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also dismissed Musk’s complaints, telling reporters, “my friend Elon is terribly wrong.”
Deficits don’t matter. We still have checks.
Musk’s loud opposition to a bill that Trump has urged Republicans to pass presents a test of his political influence a week after leaving his formal role in the administration as a special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency came to an end. As DOGE chief, he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to deliver the massive savings he had sought.
Totally ineffectual. What a boondoggle. The government was operating perfectly.
Navy ship USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed as part of Pentagon’s ‘warrior culture’ shift
Just months before the Flavor-Aid was being handed out to families by men with guns in Jonestown, Harvey Milk was imploring Jimmy Carter to leave those people alone in Guyana and just let that wonderful man be. By 1978 it was obvious that Jim Jones was fully operating a cult and keeping people against their will. In addition to being a pederast, Milk owed Jones his political career and the letter to the President was part of the payback.
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=114444
That whole saga was just unbelievably fucked up. I cannot for the life of me understand how so many Democrats who were knee-deep in it not only survived but got even more power.
Like the daughter of a Baltimore mobster?
Absolutely. The story behind it all is unbelievable. I think the media very much did their job of not tying the Dems to Jones. Even yesterday when I saw a post on Reddit about this, I looked up some recent news articles about Milk and a bunch popped up where a school board in SoCal tried to defy Newsom and the state about including Milk in the curriculum. One of the members called him (rightly) a pederast and Newsom of course condemned that as outrageous homophobia. Yet in the three articles about it I quickly skimmed through none of them none of them touched the claim. I think the media back then was almost as biased, it just wasn’t as known.
He will forever be a “gay martyr” despite the fact that is not why White killed him.
+ Matthew Shepard
+ the recently killed John Redcorn actor
Good news
U.S. steel firms have hailed Trump’s renewed push to raise the cost to American firms that rely on imports of steel. It’s a notably favorable reaction to tariffs amid what has broadly been a backlash against them.
“American-made steel is at the heart of President Trump’s plan to revitalize domestic manufacturing and return our country to an economic powerhouse,” the Steel Manufacturers Association said in a statement that applauded Trump’s remarks about the new 50% tariffs.
Investors have rewarded the steel firms accordingly, sending shares of U.S. steelmakers soaring across the board Monday as U.S. steel and aluminum prices jumped.
This should accelerate the changeover to alternate materials. Get ready for your new lightweight plastic washing machines and refrigerators.
The steel industry is still big in these parts. I haven’t talked to any of my friends who work in the mill lately. I wonder what they will say.
Heheh CT, yup. She far surpassed her daddy in the mob. Baltimore was chicken feed, the real money and power is in DC racket.
Up until the 19th century, Persia faced large-scale tumult due to repeated nomadic invasions. The Qajar tribes, which took control of the country c. 1800, were themselves Turks, who originally arrived in the region in the Mongol era.
“At the outset of the Qajar dynasty, the Persian economy displayed the characteristics of a traditional economy disintegrating under the stress of political anarchy. Several decades of external invasions, internal strife, and endemic lawlessness…for the early 1800s, with half of the population thought to have been nomadic.”
John Malcolm, who visited the country in the early 19th century, describes the attitudes of these inner Iranian nomads
“They often regret the internal tranquillity of their country; and speak, with rapture, of those periods of confusion, when every man who, to use their own expression, “ had a horse, a sword, and a heart, could “ live in comfort and happiness.””
When Turkish nomads overran and conquered Central Asia, they ran into Iranian-speaking Tajiks; the word ‘Tajik’ became a general term by the nomads to the settled “unwarlike part of the population”.
Wandering nomads kept “Tajiks” bound to the tribe employed in various labors.
Women of the tribe.
“Mount that horse,” said he, pointing to one with a bridle, but without a saddle, “ and show this European envoy the difference between a girl of a tribe, and a citizen’s daughter.”
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1929987626645295283
“inquisitive to learn from his fellow travellers the condition of England : and, after listening with delight to their accounts of the richness of its fields, the beauty of its towns, and the great wealth of its inhabitants, he exclaimed, ‘ What a number of plunderers you must have there’. On being informed that the laws restrained men from plundering, he asked, with apparent astonishment, ‘ What then can be the occupation of so numerous a population?'”
“A trans-identifying male who was accused of exposing his genitals to a little girl and several women at the female-only Korean Wi Spa in Los Angeles in June 2021 has been acquitted. Darren Agee Merager, 55, of Riverside, was found “not guilty” of felony indecent exposure on Monday following a four-week jury trial at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California. Merager is a tier-one registered sex offender with multiple felonies and several jail stints, according to records….
Judge Burghhardt allowed the jury to consider his prior indecent exposure convictions while deciding the verdict. However, the jury ruled that they could not convict Merager due to the gender-identity law and insufficient evidence supporting erect penis claims.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-trans-suspect-found-not-guilty-of-incident-exposure-at-wispa
“trans-identifying male” is nonsense language, but I’m not even sure this asshole identifies as trans. I remember him claiming in an interview that he wasn’t “transsexual”. I suspect that this was a stunt so antifa could protest.
Rarely mentioned there was someone who actually transitioned (feminine presenting, boobs) who regularly went to the Wi Spa and no one complained about her.
look some cocks must be exposed for the sake of progress.
When the husband or father or brother of one of Merager’s victims catches him in a parking lot and shoots him in the head, will it go down as an anti-trans hate crime?
Not that I’m in any way advocating or suggesting this course of action…
What I’m seeing that none of these trans incidents (this, Xenia YMCA, both Loudoun school) involve any trans people.
Wi Spa — this asshole
Xenia — fat retard who couldn’t find his penis
Loudoun 1 — male who identified as male who wore a kilt
Loudoun 2 — female who presented feminine, identifying as a boy just to cause trouble
Yup. Lots of sex offenders, exhibition and humiliation fetishists, and depressed teenage girls. Very few people with an actual diff/diag of Gender Dysphoria.
Four week jury trial? How much evidence could’ve been sifted through in this case?
“The way we make steel in the U.S. has changed a lot,” said Ken Kolb of Furman University in South Carolina, who is an expert on the local impact of industrial transitions.
“There is simply no way to bring that scale of employment back if a fraction of that workforce is needed to essentially reach the same production levels,” Kolb said.
He estimated that perhaps 15,000 new direct jobs could be added assuming capacity levels increase. But the broader cost to industries dependent on steel inputs, like autos, construction and solar panels — which relies on tariffed aluminum components — would most likely negate those gains.
What if the end goal is production capacity, and not just “jobs” for their own sake?
That’s now how it’s being sold, however.
Why-bother-ism: an offshoot of “the perfect is the enemy of the
goodslightly better”.Shaving a few hundred billion dollars off the budget won’t magically wipe out the deficit? Why bother?
‘Stop that man! He’s raping my wife!’
‘Calm down! At least he stopped raping your daughter to.’
Look at the guy who thinks spending will actually be cut.
If we were talking about reducing the deficit by a significant amount while, but still not quite balancing the budget, you might have a point.
We’re talking about reducing the deficit by what, 5%? Less? What exactly does Congress want for that, an ice cream sundae?
“Why fucking bother?” is the only appropriate response to that bullshit.
“Why bother?”
I have heard this over and over. But if anyone proposes real cuts, like reforming entitlements, people will die in the streets.
I don’t even particularly care where the cuts are made. The budget is $X over collections? Take the five largest cost centers, each one gets their disbursement for FY2026 reduced by 0.25X (just to allow for some accounting slack.) Done. The directors of these programs are allegedly grown-ups, they can do arithmetic.
When the husband or father or brother of one of Merager’s victims catches him in a parking lot and shoots him in the head, will it go down as an anti-trans hate crime?
Shoot his balls off and say you were just trying to facilitate his transition.
Re-shoring manufacturing won’t bring sector employment back to Eisenhower era levels? Why bother?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
version 2.0.
Update on the medical front:
Blood level has dropped below 8 so they are going to give me a transfusion.
In a few hours I’ll have a colonoscopy and hope they can find the issue.
Damn, fingers crossed for an easy fix, Ron.
Darn. Good luck and feel better!
Good luck.
We’re all counting on you.
STEVE SMITH SAY, ‘SORRY!!!’ AND GET WELL SOON! WILL PROMISE TO BE GENTLE NEXT TIME!
That’s as good as explanation as any I guess.
Good luck!
That is very low for a man.
Hope everything goes well.
Slip the blood to me, bud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhvZ2y1V80
Good luck to you.
🤞😬
Get well soon Ron. You are in the right place for help. Glad you have an excellent wife who helps to keep you comfortable in hospital.
Gotcha
As House Republicans raced to advance their domestic policy megabill — the inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — GOP leaders completed the legislative work in the most irresponsible ways possible. House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team wrote and rewrote their not-so-beautiful bill in the middle of the night, and changed the reconciliation package repeatedly in response to private backroom deals, far from public view.
Republican leaders, quite deliberately, rushed the bill onto the floor for a vote before members could read it, likely realizing that more sunlight would mean more defections. The plan worked, and the proposal passed the chamber by one vote.
But in the days that followed, some members who helped advance the legislation started to learn what was in the bill they’d already voted for; they started admitting that they hadn’t read it; and they started raising new objections.
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As a matter of political principle, acknowledgements like these reflect an important breakdown in governance. When party leaders try to rush legislation onto the floor, telling their members to vote for it while effectively blindfolded, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to use their leverage, slow the process down, and tell their party that they won’t vote for important bills without knowing what’s in them.
Flood, Greene and others who’ve been less candid about their lack of due diligence failed the most basic of legislative tests.
Unprecedented dereliction of duty. Fire them all.
Now do Obamacare.
Now do the “Inflation Reduction Act”. Oh, and never change.
To be fair, the bill is not beautiful.
Big is generally not beautiful.
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I thought you had to pass the bill to find out what’s in it?
Why don’t they trust us?
The Trump administration’s murky handling of data, which has sparked investigations and lawsuits alleging privacy violations, has become one of the reasons people cite when declining to share their information for the federal government’s ongoing surveys, these workers say.
“I got more people asking me how I know information isn’t going to be sold or given away,” says a former field representative, who says they were met with “a lot of suspicion” and specific mentions of Elon Musk, President Trump’s billionaire adviser who set up the DOGE team, from some households they tried to interview earlier this year. The former bureau employee, who was let go as part of the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government, asked not to be named because they fear retaliation.
A current field representative says they don’t “feel as comfortable” in their role as they felt asking questions for surveys last year — and neither do some people who had previously shared their information. One person specifically mentioned DOGE when declining a follow-up interview, says the current representative, who asked NPR not to name them because they are not authorized to speak publicly.
If you can’t believe unsupported anecdotes from anonymous sources, what can you believe?
Trump and Musk have destroyed our faith in government.
Dissidents in Trump’s Amerika need our support now more than ever.
Now do the people who don’t want to fill out the long form of the census.
I must have missed the part about gun store records and “troubling” credit card transactions.
The former bureau employee, who was let go as part of the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government, asked not to be named because they fear retaliation.
They always have to throw that shit in there. Is this fear well-grounded, or not? If they don’t work there anymore, what retaliation would there be? Has anyone else suffered retaliation for criticizing the Trump admin other than Trump calling them a loser on TruthSocial?
Just feeding into the morbid “progressive” fantasies of Trump sending out goon squads breaking into the homes of critics and strangling them in front of their families.
They asserted without evidence.
We’re talking about reducing the deficit by what, 5%? Less? What exactly does Congress want for that, an ice cream sundae?
Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
USAID was nothing but crumbs. Same with that ridiculous Peace Institute circle jerk. But maybe, just maybe, some unknown number of people looked at them and asked themselves, “What other abominations are buried in the federal budget, and why?”
Where is Davy Crockett when you need him?
But maybe, just maybe, some unknown number of people looked at them and asked themselves, “What other abominations are buried in the federal budget, and why?”
I think that’s probably the best thing that will come out of the Trump administration: Some fence-sitters will be disabused of the notion that government spending is all there for a good reason.
And yet the rescissions are less than the USAID budget.