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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Desi Lydic: Canada PM Carney friend-zones Трамп & real ID brings out the Karens

Vox: Why this red state made preschool free

The Reign of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Jonathan Jensen: ♫ Lady Liberty’s Lament ♬

The Atlantic: How Hitler overcame the media in his rise to power

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Deplorables:

Mother Jones: Why Maxwell Frost wants Democrats to “get caught fighting”

The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel: The truth about 5G

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

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  1. 1

    With Pope LEO XVI at age 69, Cardinals Burke and Dolan probably missed their last chance to be Pope.

  4. 4

    CNN reported early Saturday morning “zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports,” and “Trump just publicly negotiated with himself over China’s tariffs.”

    China, of course, has no say about U.S. tariffs. All they can do is find other markets for their goods, stop buying from us, and dump dollars in global currency markets.

    Maybe Trump should be talking to them, instead of to himself?

  6. 6

    They are planning to spend $100 million on a military parade to celebrate the MAGA Emperor’s birthday next month.

  7. 7

    In the last five years Tesla has only managed a single new model release, the WankPanzer, which has now failed and is piling up in inventory. “New releases” scheduled for 2025 have turned out to be vaporware stripped down shitbox versions of existing models. And all that leaves is the taxi testing in Austin which is likely to be delayed and appears to fall completely short of being any kind of driverless autonomous vehicle. It’s now looking like the limited testing in a single city for a brief duration will feature regular Model Y cars with drivers.

    This has left idiot fanboy investors so thirsty for any good news that they are now cyber-stealing other manufacturer’s prototypes as their own.
    https://electrek.co/2025/05/09/tesla-tsla-shareholders-excited-for-tesla-prototype-turn-competitors/

    #TeslaTakedown is working.

  8. 8

    The problem with attempted takedown pieces is that there’s always someone who did the same thing but worse that you don’t want to mention:

    Matt Whitlock
    @mattdizwhitlock

    You know who else was “uninterested in the day-to-day duties of a Senator?”

    Kamala Harris. Who never passed a bill and skipped about 50% of the votes.

    And they tried to make her President.
    Quote
    Axios
    @axios
    ·
    May 9
    NEW: Sen. John Fetterman has unnerved aides with his performance in office, with both current and former staff telling @stephen_neukam that the Pennsylvania Democrat seems uninterested in the day-to-day duties of a senator. https://axios.com/2025/05/09/fetterman-health-votes-pennsylvania-senate
    6:19 AM · May 9, 2025
    ·

  9. 9

    @ 4

    China, of course, has no say about U.S. tariffs. All they can do is find other markets for their goods …

    For some reason you forgot to mention lay off one-third of the largest work force in the world, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  10. 10

    @ 5

    Gee, why so much money for a plane?

    Its a major setback for Boeing, which had been tapped during Trump’s first term to deliver a new pair of state-of-the-art planes to replace the old ones that have been in service since George H.W. Bush administration.

    Boeing has fallen so behind on the $3.9 billion project that it now fears it won’t be able to finish building the planes before Trump leaves office. They were supposed to be finished last year, but a series of supplier and engineering snags has caused the project to take years and go billions over budget.

    I bet had the planes been finished last year they would have flown so fast that Biden’s age wouldn’t have been able to catch up with him.

  11. 11

    Dogs and cats, living together…

    Republicans Back John Fetterman After Flood of Damning Reports
    Several Republican members of Congress are rallying behind Senator John Fetterman after a series of reports revealed what he’s really like behind closed doors.

    And all because Giselle wanted to be a US senator’s wife.

  12. 12

    None of this was a problem when Joe Biden needed a VP back in ’20.

    Reports from New York magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer over the past week exposed how Fetterman frequently loses his temper and patience and has become disengaged from his duties as a senator, missing meetings and votes.

  13. 13

    So, a buncha Democrat congresscritters tried to storm an ICE facility in New Jersey yesterday. You know the drill by now; it was libbies claiming prison-like conditions holding totes innocent people.

    One of the Dems was the son of Gold Bar Bob, prompting this observation from one of his colleagues from the other side of the asile:

    Rep. Mike Collins
    @RepMikeCollins

    I can’t blame Robert Menendez for storming a federal detainment facility. He was just looking for his dad.

    1:46 PM · May 9, 2025

    Someone from Menendez’ office really should have counseled him to sit this one out.

  14. 14

    Say, Democrats, howz that 2028 primary lookin’?

    SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely staring down a $10 billion budget hole that could deepen to $20 billion or more.

    President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, a Medi-Cal shortfall and delayed tax filings from Los Angeles-area wildfire victims are putting the state in a worse economic situation than the California governor previously anticipated — and that’s without taking into account expected federal spending cuts.

    A state dependent on a few wealthy residents to pay its bills is a state too silly to produce a president. Just ask Boxcheck Momala.

  16. 16

    I supposed Pope Bob’s fave team could be conclusively determined simply by asking whether he’d offer communion to Steve Bartman.

    Yahoo Sports
    The Cubs claimed Chicago native Pope Leo XIV as a fan. His brother begs to differ

  17. 17

    Liberals want Biden off the stage. The problem is, the revenue stream for The Biden Crime Family has completely dried up.

    We’ll see DOCTOR Jill headlining at Deja Vu any day now.

  19. 19

    It’s coming.

    Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

    The decision to run again, the Original Sin of this president, led to a campaign of denial and gaslighting, leading directly to Donald Trump’s return to power and all that has happened as a consequence. Rarely does hubris meet nemesis more explosively. Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, Original Sin is essential reading.

    You know, Welfare Queen YLB has claimed that since the media told her he was OK, she had no capacity whatsoever to conclude otherwise.

    Lyin’ eyes isn’t just an Eagles tune, Welfare Queen YLB.

  21. 21

    @ 20

    … no one’s celebrating VE Day.

    That was awhile ago. We’re busy celebrating Juneteenth these days. No one knows what it is but it gives federal employees yet another paid day off. Clearly there are too many of them and not enough to do. DOGE is proving that every day.

    Say, speaking of victories with a military slant, did anyone else notice that SoS Marco Rubio brokered peace between India and Pakistan?

  22. 22

    @ 21

    Here’s what you missed while you were busy protecting MS-13 murderers from ICE:

    Secretary Marco Rubio
    @SecRubio

    Over the past 48 hours, @VP Vance and I have engaged with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, including Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, and National Security Advisors Ajit Doval and Asim Malik.

    I am pleased to announce the Governments of India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire and to start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site.

    We commend Prime Ministers Modi and Sharif on their wisdom, prudence, and statesmanship in choosing the path of peace.
    5:07 AM · May 10, 2025

  23. 23

    Vance and I have engaged with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, including Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, and National Security Advisors Ajit Doval and Asim Malik.

    They were made to sit outside in the hall on folding chairs.

  24. 24

    So, a buncha Democrat congresscritters tried to storm an ICE facility in New Jersey yesterday.

    Not an ICE facility. That’s another stupid lie. It’s a private facility being operated by a contractor in violation of a dozen local and state laws. And it’s the exact same drill as the last time MAGA fascists wearing neck gaiters pulled up over their faces falsely arrested state officials.

    The thirty day timer to obtain a true bill from the grand jury began at the same time. And next time state and city officials acting under lawful authority show up to investigate the violation of state laws by private contractors they’ll bring their own sharp shooters and state trooper security details. We’ll see how ICE Fat Asses respond.

  25. 25

    Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts PhD student, graduate of Columbia University, Fullbright Scholar, and research associate at Boston University, studying in the United States with a valid student visa, who the Nazi Fucktard describes as an MS-13 murderer has been released from ICE Fat Ass detention after a federal judge ordered it Thursday.

  29. 29

    Earlier this week Joe Biden withered under the nonstop, rapid-fire questions put to him by the serious journalists on The View.

  31. 31

    Relevant facts for consideration:

    https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/05/ice-officers-arrest-newark-mayor-outside-immigrant-detention-center.html

    Mayor Baraka was outside the gates of the facility when he was arrested.
    The facility, identified as the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention facility is leased and operated by the private contractor GEO Group. The contract is valued at over $1 billion dollars to operate 1,000 beds. In case you are as bad at math as MAGA turds like the Nazi Fucktard, that’s $1 million per bed. The private, for-profit facility, which currrently exists in violation of a state law banning such for-profit torture facilities, also lacks local planning authorization for the ongoing change in land use. Since last year the company, GEO Group, through its own contractors has been engaged unlawfully in large scale rennovations of the buidings and associated grounds without permits and has consistently denied local building and land use authorities any access to inspect the work. As recently as last month the city of Newark (the largest city in New Jersey) was in court seeking a court order to obatin access to the facility. A stop-work order has been in effect at the facility since earlier this year. But GEO Group has continued to defy the courts. On Monday of this week Newark city officials notified GEO Group that they would be visiting the facility this week to inspect fire safety equipment and elevators in accordance with state law. GEO Group denied them access and DHS officials present threatened the city and state safety inspectors with tresspassing and arrest. At the time of that visit the inspectors observed and recorded the presence of extensive electrical and mechanical improvements taking place despite the absence of any permits for such work.

    Mayor Baraka was in the company of his own staff, directors from Newark departments of engineering and planning, the Newark Fire Department, as well as an unkown number of U.S. Congress members representing local districts. The members of Congress were granted limited access inside the gates of the facility to meet with DHS officials in an accessory building. Mayor Baraka was left outside with city staff. When the meeting between DHS, representatives of GEO Group, and the House members ended they returned to join city staff at the gates. It was at that time that masked individuals dressed in military style fatigues who were later identified as Homeland Security Investigations agents, fought their way physically through the group of officials and violently arrested the Mayor of Newark despite his cooperation and compliance with their orders. Members of the House delegation present said they were informed in the meeting that the Mayor would be arrested and that it was this information that led to the ending of the meeting. When they asked why the Mayor was being singled out for arrest and on what criminal charges, the DHS officials present informed them that it was ordered from “higher up”.

    Every state and local official in the United States is now on notice and should understand that they have to take additional steps to secure their own safety from these kinds of extrajudicial, unlwful fascist kidnappings.

  32. 32

    @ 24

    Not an ICE facility. That’s another stupid lie. It’s a private facility being operated by a contractor…

    So, we learn today that all of those NGOs favored by libbies like QoS McHillbilly can be dismissed because they are “private” entities operated by people who are compensated by organizations other than the federal government.

    So fuck PBS and NPR. Fuck USAID’s grant recipients. They aren’t the government, so they ain’t shit.

  33. 33

    @ 25

    It’s a private facility being operated by a contractor in violation of a dozen local and state laws.

    Left out of QoS McHillbilly’s claim is the fact that the local and state laws are in violation of federal statutes:

    GEO Group spokesperson Christopher Ferreira said Delaney Hall has a valid certificate of occupancy issued by Newark and complies with health and safety requirements, and that the attempt by the mayor’s office to stop the facility from opening was a political campaign to keep the federal government from arresting, detaining and deporting criminal immigrants.
    …
    The GEO Group, which owns Delaney Hall, last year sued Gov. Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matthew Platkin seeking to stop enforcement of a law passed in 2021 by the state Legislature that prohibits local jails from entering into new contracts to house federal immigration detainees. Federal District Judge Robert Kirsch upheld an April 2023 ruling sought by another prison company, CoreCivic, against the state ban, which would have closed the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth. It remains open.

    NIMBY is never a pretty look, libbies.

  34. 34

    Surprisingly, not Jamaal Bowman.

    A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suggested the Trump administration could pursue arrests of the House Democrats involved in an incident at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Friday and accused them of assaulting ICE officers.

    “I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more coming,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning.

    “We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer,” McLaughlin said.

  35. 35

    @ 31

    Mayor Baraka was outside the gates of the facility when he was arrested.

    And there were some J6 protesters who never entered the Capitol building and never had a physical conflict with Capitol Police or Metro Police, but still were charged and convicted.

  36. 36

    @ 31

    The contract is valued at over $1 billion dollars to operate 1,000 beds. In case you are as bad at math as MAGA turds like the Nazi Fucktard, that’s $1 million per bed.

    What did QoS McHillbilly leave out? The timeframe. It’s over a contract period of 15 years.

    In case you are as bad at comprehension as The Even Bigger Fucking Moron and Welfare Queen YLB.

    Oh, and it’s 1,196 beds (link @ 33), not 1,000. But hey, what’s a 0.2X math error when by omission you’re already off by 15X?

    QoS McHillbilly wants you to think the detention center will cost $1 million/bed/year. The real cost is $55,741/bed/year.

  37. 37

    Once again, they are the dumbest bunch of fucks but they can run a Query.

    Donnie and Doge (illegally) killed funding for the Digital Equity Act because…equity.

    The program provides funds for high speed data transmission in rural, read privately unprofitable, areas much in the way telephone service was made universal in the previous century.

    Hear that Trump humping bumpkins? Donnie says, “YOU GET DIAL UP SPEED! Deeee Eeeeeee Eye!

  38. 38

    The video shows a 300# black woman bulling her way into the gateway entrance to the detention facility. I wouldn’t call it body-slamming. But man, what a cow. Add another 50# and she could be Stacey Abrams.

  39. 39

    @ 37

    The program provides funds for high speed data transmission in rural, read privately unprofitable, areas much in the way telephone service was made universal in the previous century.

    Didn’t Biden have years to implement these, but nothing got approved because all of the contractors had to jump through all of the DEI hoops set up by the administration after the funds were allocated?

    And can’t Starlink do it for a lot less money?

  40. 40

    300# congresswoman:

    I touch whoever I want motherfucker!

    Followed by:

    You don’t dare talk to a congresswoman like that!

  41. 41

    32,
    What you did not learn, and perhaps most importantly, what Secretary Dog-Shooter did not learn, but will soon, is that the legal authorities of arrest and the criminal charges available to a federal government agency on private property are quite a bit more limited than they might otherwise be in even a place as ordinary as a Forest Service campground.

    They appear to be seeking trespassing charges under Title 18 U.S.C. 1752.
    To get in front of a grand jury with this they will need to a) show evidence of intent to violate the statute; and b) conclusive evidence that the privately owned, for-profit torture facility meets the definition of a restricted federal facility as described in the statute. Otherwise the private property owner may not invoke the law enforcement authorities of the federal government in order to trespass a person from their property. Just like everyone else they have to call the local police.

    And those guys all work for this mayor.

  42. 42

    33,
    Just like any other private party seeking a favorable land use decision within state and local jurisdictions in the United States, the GEO Group and its wealthy executives can seek their remedies in a court of law. With a Fat Hitler MAGA contract paying them $1 million per bed they can easily afford the lawyers.

    What they can’t do is leverage a federal law enforcement agency acting outside of its lawful jurisdiction to punitively arrest a local official for not giving them everything they want.

    And not that the Constitution matters anymore, but if it did the question of whether New Jersey state law violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution has not yet been decided. So far the torture billionaires of the GEO Group have not been successful in getting that state law set aside.

    And I for one refuse to entertain any Constitutional claims coming from the MAGA Republican Party now that it has openly embraced nullifying that Constitution. You may not seek the protection of the laws and legal principles you are now committed to destroying.

    Go fuck yourself, fascist hypocrite.

  43. 43

    And there were some J6 protesters who never entered the Capitol building and never had a physical conflict with Capitol Police or Metro Police, but still were charged and convicted.

    They pleaded guilty. For having repeatedly breached barricades, temporary fencing, and intentionally entering posted restricted areas in direct contravention of lawful orders given to them by federal law enforcement officers protecting a federal facility during an official government proceeding described in the Constitution.

    So yeah. Exactly the same thing for sure.🤡

  48. 48

    @25 “Rümeysa Öztürk … who the Nazi Fucktard describes as an MS-13 murderer has been released from ICE Fat Ass detention after a federal judge ordered it Thursday.”

    After being imprisoned for six weeks for the ex post facto crime of criticizing Israel.

  50. 50

    @32 That’s not even apples and oranges, it’s like comparing an apple to a turd that came out of your ass, because that’s what this comment is.

  51. 51

    @33 “NIMBY is never a pretty look, libbies.”

    Not even when Auschwitz’s neighbors complain about all the ash in the air?

  52. 52

    @33 “NIMBY is never a pretty look, libbies.”

    Not even if Auschwitz’s neighbors complain about all the ash in the air?

  53. 53

    @34 Instead of talking about it, let us see it.

    (The image of a detective waving an empty manila envelope at an interrogation subject and saying “we have photos of you at the crime scene” comes to mind.)

  54. 54

    @11 Even a brain-impaired Democrat is vastly better than any Republican. Meanwhile Dr. Oz will never be “Mr. President” or “Senator.” At present, he’s a mere at-will employee.

  55. 55

    The GOP experiment with turning over governing to television personalities is a miserable failure on all levels.

  56. 56

    Every conservative should be shamed. They are a bunch of dumbfucks, ignoring what is going on, and defending this dictator and fascist in office. It’s not enough to say and tell them that they need to “Wake up”. They are in a trance. They believe the fucking lies of this fascist regime.

    Money will be used against you. And money will be used to garner your support.

  57. 57

    @ 55

    The GOP experiment with turning over governing to television personalities is a miserable failure on all levels.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is so old he does not remember Ronald Reagan and General Electric Theater. Or when he was last able to successfully achieve erection.

  59. 59

    Trump peace making between India and Pakistan isn’t really working. It would be nice to see them Heterosexual Neanderthals breakout the nukes and bomb each other. Maybe it will stop fascism.

  60. 60

    It really would be nice to see a nuke go off. We need more interesting things going on in the world. Put old Whiskey Pete’s talent to work

  61. 61

    Trump has only attended 12 daily briefings since taking office.

    What a WMI (White Male Incompetent) POS.

  62. 62

    …Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning.

    She of the photoshopped fake tattoos.

    Good stuff clown. Very credible source. 🤡

    What it actually appears happened is that at the direction of DHS officials present the House members were invited inside the facility in order to separate them from the city officials outside the gate, so that they would not be immediately present during the arrests. Once the House delegation learned what was afoot they immediately ended the meeting and rushed back to the gate to offer their protection to city officials being attacked by HSI goons acting outside of their authority and their legal jurisdiction.

    That is unless “Tricia” now intends to assert that Mayor Baraka is an immigration fugitive.
    👍🤡

  65. 65

    @57 My memory is better than yours. You’re forgetting Reagan was governor of the largest and most diverse state for 8 years before he ran for president.

  66. 66

    @63 I love blurb: “Pretty sure even Pete Hegseth is wondering how he still has a job.”

  67. 67

    Do any Republicans grasp the extreme hypocrisy of threatening to arrest Democratic public officials for a trivial fracas at an ICE a private detention facility after Trump pardoned over 1,000 J6 rioters? Doctor Dumbfuck clearly does not.

    Oh, and by the way, Roger Stone should be prosecuted for making a death threat against a sitting United States Senator.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-stone-mark-kelly-trump-crypto-treason-execution_n_681f7231e4b06987bce11e44

  69. 69

    Rode the 2 Line Extension to Downtown Redmond. Looked great, no one was there, too crowded. Sound Transit actually added cars to 2 Line trains, usually it’s 1-2 car trains. Hopefully by the end of next year Mercer Island and Judkins Park Stations open, and 2 Line Trains will be running through to Lynwood. Too late for the Bridge section to open before the first week of August, but the Blue Angels won’t suspend LINK ops, the flightbox for the Airshow was shifted south.

  70. 70

    53,
    It does not exist.

    They never stop lying. Not ever.
    And under the annual Appropriations Act passed by Republicans a member of Congress may not be barred from visiting a detention facility at any time or for any reason.

    This is like a Brady Bunch episode where the kids get caught lying to Mike and Carol and just wind up digging deeper.

  71. 71

    Dumbfuck hasn’t learned yet the press releases of the Junta aren’t reliable.

    India and Pakistan BOTH accuse the other side of violating the 15hour old cease fire.

  72. 72

    Did dumbfuck refer to the taxpayer funded Starlink with launch help from Russia and NASA that was 80% paid for by taxpayer subsidies as ‘cheaper’?

    Yep.

    He’s standing up for ideological principals uhm Free Market Conservatism er anti-socialism maybe entrepreneurship wait deficit reduction corruption.

  75. 75

    Bob is a POS. Plain and simple. No intelectual words, correct grammar and spelling guidlines needed for that to be stated and understood

  76. 76

    @73 that’s a little midget lecturn for the asshole. Push him off a cliff without a parachute.

  77. 77

    72,

    If only he can find customers. So far he has to buy 50% of his launch capacity from himself.

  78. 78

    Hey, the important thing is that the ACLU and its fawning HA libbies got mileage out of it before the narrative collapsed.

    ACLU Drops Baseless Lawsuit Over False Claims that ICE Deported U.S. Citizens
    ACLU falsely accused DHS of deporting a U.S. Citizen despite the child’s mother choosing to bring the child with her when she was removed.

    The parent, Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela , made the decision to take her child to Honduras. ICE asks parents if they want to be removed with their children or if they would like to place a child with someone the parent designates. In this case, the parent stated they wanted to be removed with their child.

    Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela illegally entered this country three times in September 2019, March of 2021, and August 2021. She and her older daughter were deemed inadmissible to the United States the first time she entered the country and both her and her daughter were given final orders of removal in March 2020. When she was taken into ICE custody in April 2025, she chose to bring her younger daughter, who is an American Citizen, with her to Honduras and presented a valid United States passport.

  81. 81

    Moments ago: “False Claims that ICE Deported U.S. Citizens”

    Also moments ago: “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

    Oh, Dumbfuck.

  82. 82

    Huh.

    Pam Bondi wrote the ‘opinion letter’ stating accepting a really expensive jet plane from Qatar is not in impermissible gift for a President to accept.

    President-elect Donald Trump’s new pick for Attorney General once earned $115,000 a month as a registered foreign lobbyist for the Qatari government, which has often been accused of human rights abuses.

  83. 83

    Weird how it was working pretty much great until DOGE started looking into it.

    Secretary MTV’s Real World, reassuring families planning their summer vacations,

    The lights are blinking, the sirens are turning … what you see in Newark is gonna happen in other places across the country.

  86. 86

    82,
    By federal statute, upon acceptance it becomes the official property of the United States. Once adopted into service as one of the AF1 jets it becomes the classified property of the United States Air Force and it may not be transferred thereafter.

  88. 88

    @78 First of all, it’s a dismissal without prejudice, meaning it can be refiled.

    Secondly, Tricia McLaughlin can’t get straight the party suing on behalf of the minor child is/was represented by the National Lawyers Guild, not the ACLU, which is typical of the sloppiness of this administration when it writes press releases and issues public statements.

    Third, the lawsuit wasn’t “baseless;” if it was, the court would have dismissed it with prejudice.

    It was meritorious because family members claiming custody of the child had standing to contest the child’s detention and deportation in court; and if they’re now relinquishing custody to the deported mother, that doesn’t mean their claim the government can’t involuntarily deport a U.S. citizen lacks merit.

    Bottom line: You’re as stupid as Tricia McLaughlin.

  89. 89

    @87 There are monsters abroad in the land, alright, but they’re in the White House, DoJ, DHS, and ICE.

  90. 90

    In today’s political news:

    (1) Remember when plagiarism was a thing? Yeah, so do I.

    Pete Hegseth can add plagiarism to his list of things he’s been formally accused of. Trump’s pick for the top Pentagon spot has previously faced allegations of sexual assault and of having a drinking problem. Now it’s being reported that, while in school at Princeton, he copied other pieces for his thesis.

    https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-princeton-rule-violations/

    (2) Remember when “Sharia law” was a thing? Yeah, so do I.

    “GOP Senator John Cornyn says Sharia Law has no home in Texas. However, his own actions as a US Senator suggest that he does support Sharia Law,” Loomer wrote.

    (In defense of Cornyn, Loomer is a lunatic, and this accusation is no exception. But still, one Republican accusing another Republican of supporting Sharia Law … )

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-loomer-cornyn-fight-alarming/

    (3) A Fox News host compared a 12-foot-tall statue of a black woman to “King Kong” and hookers. I’m not surprised. Are you? No? After all, Fox News is … Fox News.

    https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-failla-king-kong/

  91. 91

    Breaking news:

    The White House on Sunday announced a “trade deal” with China without providing specifics, after Trump administration officials spent the weekend negotiating with their Chinese counterparts.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/us-china-trade-tariffs-talks.html

    The “deal,” apparently, is to hold more trade talks:

    The U.S. and China “agreed on establishing a consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, identify the lead persons on each side and will carry on further consultations relating to trade and economic issues of their respective concerns,” he said. “The two sides will finalize relevant details as soon as possible.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/us-china-trade-talks-geneva-rcna205931

  92. 92

    The U.S. and China “agreed on establishing a consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, identify the lead persons on each side and will carry on further consultations relating to trade and economic issues of their respective concerns,”

    So, in other words we really have gone back in time. To about 1979 when Deng Xioping visited the U.S. and inked a few deals to buy oil drilling equipment and sell crude to Houston area refineries.

    Actually ’79 sounds about right. 6% unemployment and 12% inflation, $2.50 min wage. Folks were making fire logs out of rolled up newspapers. Wasn’t that a good year for the Super Sonics?

  93. 93

    Tim Tebow who used to assist his dad do circumcisions without consent in the Philippines as ‘ministry’ testifies before Congress about the abuse of children in support of anti-trans legislation.

  94. 94

    GOP Senator John Cornyn says Sharia Law has no home in Texas.

    Sure it does. In the same way rabbinical law is followed by a whole bunch of more Orthodox Temples. You want a dispute settled within the confines of your church, the parties can agree to ecclesiastical court.

    Want to excommunicate a member of the Catholic church? There’s a court for that. No not a court of law as recognized by the United States.

    Want to toss the gay out of your Evangelical congregation. Yeah, you can do that.

    Only Christians are demanding non members of their faith adhere to their religious law.

  96. 96

    Tim Tebow needs his penis chopped off. Otherwise he will beat his girlfriend (wink wink) boyfriend.

  97. 97

    Happy Mother’s Day everybody! You know what that means! It’s rabbit mating season, and bunny moms will soon pop out tons of bunnies!

    🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

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    Q: What’s dumber than supporting MS-13?

    A: Supporting trannies.

    J.K. Rowling
    @jk_rowling
    ·
    May 10
    You think you’ve heard the last word in batshit gender identity arguments and then you see a post saying that using the new Pope’s title instead of his birth name is exactly the same as accepting that a man is a woman if he says he is.

    2:18 PM · May 10, 2025

  99. 99

    @ 97

    It’s rabbit mating season…

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has been physically unable to mate in this millenium.

    Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit gets frequent customer discounts from her BBCs.

  101. 101

    You know the dumbfuck is intellectually bankrupt when he starts quoting notorious transphobe J. K. Rowling on gender issues.

  102. 102

    A registered Republican in Mesa County, Colorado, decided to “test” the mail ballot signature verification system by having a friend who worked for the post office steal over a dozen ballots, then forging the voters’ signatures and submitting them.

    The signature verification system worked just fine, and she and her postal worker confederate were both caught. Fuck around, find out.

    https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/two-colorado-women-arrested-in-fraudulent-ballot-scheme/

  103. 103

    A registered Republican in Mesa County, Colorado, decided to “test” the mail ballot signature verification system by having a friend who worked for the post office steal ballots, then she forged the voters’ signatures and submitted them. The signature verification system worked just fine, and she and her postal worker confederate were caught. Fuck around, find out.

    https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/two-colorado-women-arrested-in-fraudulent-ballot-scheme/

  104. 104

    103,

    While election fraud remains extremely rare and almost always detected and prosecuted, it seems like it could be very nearly eliminated entirely by just getting rid of Republicans.

  106. 106

    When Trump raised tariffs by 115%, China did too. Now, Trump has agreed to pause the 115% tariffs for 90 days, and China has too. Trump declares victory and DJIA futures jump 877 points, putting the DJIA back almost exactly where it was on April 2 (42,225 them, 42,200 now).

    #winning

  107. 107

    TRUMP: I’ll raise 115%!

    CHINA: I’ll call and raise 115%.

    TRUMP: I’ll drop by 115%.

    CHINA: I’ll call and drop 115%, too.

    TRUMP: I won!

  108. 108

    In the 20 days since QoS McHillbilly informed us that The Tesla Takedown is working, TSLA shares have rocketed (see what I did there?) upward from $238 to (including the pre-market jump today) $322 each.

    That’s a 35% increase.

    Not even Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has called a stock that badly.

  109. 109

    The tariff effect was probably less than advertised:

    zerohedge
    @zerohedge

    This is great… the only problem is that there actually are – checks Bloomberg – exactly 53 ships headed for California’s top ports, more than there were on this day one year ago.

    Quote
    Jonathan Lemire
    @JonLemire
    ·
    May 10
    Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports

    Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic https://cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic
    12:21 PM · May 10, 2025

    At present, tariffs on China are still 30% (10% baseline plus 20% related to fentanyl). If the end result of all of this is a somewhat improved trade balance with China, construction of factories in countries other than China to provide goods to the US, AND a significant disruption in the supply of illicit fentanyl to US addicts, then DJT47 did win.

    Hell, by buying TSLA in the low $240s I certainly ended up OK in the deal. Even that naked put that shivved me is now profitable.

  112. 112

    @ 111

    … bill unveiled by House Republicans Sunday night cuts Medicaid by $715 billion.

    Well, that’s how much you save when you require able-bodied women like Welfare Queen YLB to work at least 80 hours/month in order to receive Medicaid bennies. They won’t work because they’re lazy, so they won’t qualify. So they won’t get paid.

    It’s her choice. Welfare Queen YLB chooses to be a lazy, unserious twat.

  113. 113

    In the 20 days since QoS McHillbilly informed us that The Tesla Takedown is working, TSLA shares have rocketed (see what I did there?) upward from $238 to (including the pre-market jump today) $322 each.

    Austin just announced the latest weeklong furlough for Cybertruck and Model Y workers. And they still can’t pay their utility bills.

    Informing us that TSLA investors suckers now stand to lose even more money when the business fails is really not the mighty flex the Nazi Fucktard thinks it is.

  114. 114

    @1112 So typical of the dumbfuck troll that he has to resort to total, utter, made-up bullshit to defend his party’s budget proposal.

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