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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 3/17/25, 8:13 am

Should I have realized that it was time to write this before it was a few stops away. My apologies?

But don’t worry. There’s still time to write your legislators and members of Congress.

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  1. 1

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 8:48 am

    Here’s the 30 page legal opinion published by President George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel explaining the law and binding legal precedent that validates the use of an auto pen by a President to sign large numbers of official documents.

    https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inline

  2. 2

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:22 am

    Texan man living in economically booming area does not notice when pollution affects others, is shocked when pollution starts affecting him and killing his neighbors, and he no longer has usable water.

    Now, Cooper laughs when he thinks about their decision to move to the neighborhood. “I assumed they would be regulated,” Cooper told The Hill, pointing to a tank battery venting invisible, noxious gas. “I assumed somebody would be making sure we were safe.”

    Republicans don’t do that

  3. 3

    Wall Street spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 10:22 am

    Oh…

    Sorry. We thought the yard sale was going to work but turns out everybody still hate that guy and his Reichnobiles.

  4. 4

    You won’t believe what the private investigators I Hired are Finding In Honolulu spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 10:34 am

    @1

    Here’s digital images of signatures that one guy claims were autopen that the entire rest of the staff says weren’t and it’s as real as that meta analysis of a JPEG of a Hawaiian birth certificate n

  5. 5

    DigiPen The ReBoot spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 11:12 am

    Well we’re not sure if the direct oral instructions of a judge to our attorneys entered into the court record are an actual order because it was’t written.

  6. 6

    Jones Aaronson Rutherford spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 12:32 pm

    Add Navaho Code Talkers to the list of ‘down the memory hole’ pieces of official DOD history.

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 12:37 pm

    After an impressive weekend, the workweek is starting off well for DJT47:

    Libs of TikTok
    @libsoftiktok

    NBC News poll: Trump’s approval rating just hit an all-time high.

    6:52 AM · Mar 17, 2025

    Maybe this is why Chuck Todd left.
    ·

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 12:47 pm

    @ 1

    … validates the use of an auto pen by a President to sign large numbers of official documents.

    QoS McHillbilly, does it also validate the use of an autopen to sign the president’s signature on documents without the knowledge of or over the objection by the president?

    Do you think the answer to the question might have to do with the recent firing of the pardon attorney, who was immediately escorted out of the building by armed guards before she could delete anything?

  9. 9

    2bd 1ba entire home Freemont $229 per night mid week spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 1:02 pm

    Cool.

    Air BnB, a company who now charges more than hotels when ‘cleaning fees’ are totaled in most areas is sending out unsolicited texts trying to fool the rubes into defeating a potential ‘room tax’ as ‘Keep our Vacations Affordable’.

    Maybe if your starter home is unaffordable as a hotel room you’ll sell or rent to a young family? It’s almost like they’re TRYING to keep home ownership elusive.

  10. 10

    House GOP Secret Ukraine Source went to prison for lying spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 1:13 pm

    @8

    One Biden White House source told The Post they suspect that a key aide to the then-president may made unilateral determinations on what to auto-sign. The Post is not publishing that staffer’s name due to the lack of concrete evidence and refutations by other colleagues.

    We’ll let the 7th grader break down how many wats that statement that kicks off the latest Heritage Foundation fantasy is couched in maybes.

    One Biden White House source (like who, janitor? Intern to the deputy Press Secretary?) told The Post they suspect that a key aide to the then-president may (MAY)have made unilateral determinations on what to auto-sign. The Post is not publishing that staffer’s name due to the lack of concrete evidence and refutations by other colleagues (so you admit it’s one person with no verification and you’re playing the ‘we don’t want to get sued like Fox News game)

  11. 11

    John Zogby spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 1:17 pm

    Cool..

    We’re under water but we’re still not on the shark or the battery.

    The poll shows that despite the slightly higher disapproval numbers over Trump’s overall presidential job performance…

  12. 12

    Wanna die engulfed in flames? A Cybertrucknis your best choice in Today’s auto industry spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 1:37 pm

    While trying to verify the claim that the Cybertruck is more ‘flame death’ prone than the Ford Pinto (Yes absolutely when measured by dead people per vehicle sold) I came across this probably AI generated ‘journalism in INC.

    The Ford Pinto is considered among the world’s worst cars. Produced from 1970 to 1980, it was named for the Mexican legume most often associated with refried beans… awfully fitting for a vehicle known to burst into flames

    Yeah…no. The Pinto was named after horses. It was a ‘baby Mustang’. It’s styling was largely borrowed for the Mustang II, a sales disaster of the OPEC crisis age when Ford tried to sell ‘Fuel Efficient Sporty’ car to muscle car fans.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 1:49 pm

    Tom Homan isn’t the first cop or ex-cop who “doesn’t care what judges think.” A few minutes before the bench and a month in jail usually changes their mind.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5198604-border-czar-trump-deportation/

    What role, exactly, does a Navy destroyer play in stopping border crossings? Aren’t the guns on Coast Guard cutters big enough?

    https://thehill.com/homenews/5198751-navy-warship-border-security/

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:22 pm

    @1 Doesn’t the president, or someone acting at his direction, have to push a button to activate the autopen? And isn’t that the same as a mark with an “X,” sharpie pen scrawl, or doctor’s signature? If this is good enough to fill an opioid prescription, an autopen is good enough for a pardon. If not, EOs “signed” with a sharpie scrawl are invalid too.

  15. 15

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:27 pm

    5,
    The written instructions would still have applied to the aircraft that had not yet even taxied from the gate.

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:34 pm

    @3 Based on a typical P/E, and assuming Tesla’s earnings stop deteriorating, its stock is worth about $46 a share.

  17. 17

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:35 pm

    8,
    Nazi Fucktard’s argument seems to be that President Biden did not approve of pardoning his son.

    BTW, Todd Blanche fired Liz Oyer because she refused to carry out his order to restore Mel Gibson’s federal firearms privileges after Gibson has pleaded or been convicted of multiple drug and alcohol fueled violent domestic battering incidents.

    Heil Trump!

  18. 18

    FKA Hops spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:40 pm

    No one’s rooting for a recession but it’s exactly what we told you you’d her under the slash and burn economic policy of Trump II

    Retail sales growth nosedived last month.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:40 pm

    @8 Does President Biden announcing the pardons on teevee constitute evidence he had knowledge of the pardons?

    https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-joe-bidens-last-minute-pardons-marcus-garvey-2017376

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:43 pm

    @9 Just another free market failure, that’s all.

    It has yet to occur to Republicans that the reason for government intervention in markets, when necessary and appropriate, is that markets don’t always work on their own. (Also, they can be hijacked.)

  21. 21

    Matlock spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:45 pm

    George W Bush appointed Judge Boasbe is not having it with DOJ argument that the ‘Notify your client IMMEDIATELY to turn any planes in the air around’ oral ruling didn’t count because it wasn’t written.

    Gives government until noon ET tomorrow to produce all flight records AND written justification why, in contradiction to his order for TODAY’S hearing were not prepared to do so either in open court or chambers if National Security exception.

    Of course this thumbing their nose at the judicial branch won’t stop until some very high level officials are arrested for contempt. A pardon requires admission of guilt so…

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:45 pm

    @9 It’s a sure thing that Biden didn’t sign his son’s pardon, despite claiming he did, because he’d said he wouldn’t. The janitor or intern must have done it.

  23. 23

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:54 pm

    US retail sales eked out a 0.2% increase in February, falling short of the expected 0.6% rise as gains in groceries and nonstore sales couldn’t hit the mark. February’s growth underperformed expectations, were due to consumer wariness amid broader economic uncertainty.

    Retail sales rose less than expected in February and saw downward revisions for January amid fears the US economy is growing slower than Wall Street thought to start 2025.
    Retail sales in January were revised lower to a decline of 1.2%

    Republicans did that

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:59 pm

    Doctor Dumbfuck loves to quote Heritage Foundation, because they keep coming up with brilliant ideas like this:

    An ally of newly-minted president Donald Trump’s is arguing that the United States should resume nuclear weapons testing to send a message to its adversaries.

    Robert Peters, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the controversial Project 2025, argued in a thread on X-formerly-Twitter that the “US must be ready to test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site within 3-6 months of being ordered to conduct a nuclear explosive test.”

    “Such a test would occur if there were unforeseen ‘political’ reasons why a President would want to test one as part of a signaling campaign during an acute crisis or even conflict,” Peters added in a followup, adding that it would “allow the US to conduct open-air nuclear testing within the US or in the Pacific over open water or uninhabited atoll.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-ally-calls-for-open-air-nuclear-bomb-testing/ar-AA1xNJ30

    Open-air nuclear tests for “signaling” purposes. Brilliant.

    #dumbfuckalley

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 2:59 pm

    Doctor Dumbfuck loves to quote Heritage Foundation, because they keep coming up with brilliant ideas like this:

    An ally of newly-minted president Donald Trump’s is arguing that the United States should resume nuclear weapons testing to send a message to its adversaries.

    Robert Peters, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the controversial Project 2025, argued in a thread on X-formerly-Twitter that the “US must be ready to test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site within 3-6 months of being ordered to conduct a nuclear explosive test.”

    “Such a test would occur if there were unforeseen ‘political’ reasons why a President would want to test one as part of a signaling campaign during an acute crisis or even conflict,” Peters added in a followup, adding that it would “allow the US to conduct open-air nuclear testing within the US or in the Pacific over open water or uninhabited atoll.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-ally-calls-for-open-air-nuclear-bomb-testing/ar-AA1xNJ30

    “Signaling” to adversaries (Canada? Greenland?) with open-air nuclear tests to either fall into line or else. Brilliant.

    #dumbfucksonsteroids

  26. 26

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 3:06 pm

    9, 20,

    AirBnB was launched with one of their intended goals to try to avoid local transient lodging taxes, which are an extremely common form of municipal, local tax measure in the United States and overseas as well. Arguably deeply, intensely MAGA red Houston has the highest transient lodging tax in the U.S. at 17%, comprised of 6% state tax, a 7% city tax, a 2% Harris County tax, and a 2% Houston Sports Authority tax. Harris County and the Astros don’t tax AirBnB afaik.

    They should be taxed even more, since AirBnBs are typically cited in neighborhoods and locations that lack the required infrastructure to support a short term lodging industry. Irrespective of their impacts on the terrible housing shortage in the US, short term vacation rentals don’t belong in residential neighborhoods and serve as a blight upon the use and enjoyment of permanent residents. They have arisen because of the dramatic shifts in residential occupancy in the last four decades.

    For example, from 1960 to today, as the total number of residential housing units in Seattle doubled, the average household size in Seattle has declined by 50%. It makes far more sense to remove land use restrictions that force single persons to live on a 8,000 square foot lot in a 2,500 square foot home with a three car garage.

    But as long as such restrictions persist people will seek out ways to get around them, often with unintended consequences.
    Now, instead of having a tidy duplex next door, occupied by a couple of conscientious Amazon employees, you’ve got a party pit occupied by seventeen vomiting bridesmaids, their purse dogs, and a dozen pink and yellow Volkswagen Cabriolet convertibles parked drunkenly on your lawn and blocking your driveway.

  27. 27

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 3:56 pm

    Has this been mentioned here? I’ve been in and out..

    In early 2025, an 82-year-old man named Ned Johnson in Seattle was declared “dead” by the U.S. Social Security and deprived of his benefits.

    True

    According to Westneat, Johnson’s wife Pam received a letter from the bank offering condolences on her husband’s death. The letter went on to explain that the bank had deducted the equivalent of two months of Social Security payments from Johnson’s account to return them to the benefits to the agency — $5,201

    However, Johnson was very much alive.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ned-johnson-social-security/

    Bunch of fucking thieves (pants shitter, elmo and elmo’s shitler youth) are fucking up the system, screwing seniors, so the system collapses.

    This is not going to end well for the thieves.

  28. 28

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 4:58 pm

    Pants shitter is making a big stink farting up the Kennedy Center.

    Again this is yet more assholery because pants shitter to my knowledge was never accepted in the cultural life of Manhattan.

    David Koch, the hick from Kansas (educated in New England) could put his name on lot of cultural landmarks in Manhattan but pants shitter? Just his shitty tower? Koch was a real billionaire even if he was just the salesman and yes man in his brother’s shadow.

    Now pants shitter gets its turn to throw its weight around. YOLO. Everyone still laughs and flips the bird at it behind its diaper shitting back.

  29. 29

    Death Panels spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 5:18 pm

    @27

    As many on the BlueSky, Twatter and TikTok are pointing out, Social Security if it had an error rate of .65%, about the rate for a lost suitcase by US Based Airlines, would be roughly 500k people having a problem. We all know people or have personally lost a bag.

    How many of them will lose housing, medication, stop eating if the SSI, which they 100% qualify for doesn’t cone for one month? How about two? Three?

    They are literally playing with Grandma’s (or disabled folks) lives by gutting the staff who keep the error rate as liw as possible.

    But…”WE’RE SAVING YOU MONEY!

    Last time we killed your aging parents with COVID that we could have minimized. This time we’re just going to put them on the street or starve them unless you clear out some space for them to move in.

    Run it like a business!”*

    .
    .
    .
    *Elon’s businesses kill people. See @12

  30. 30

    US Constitution spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 5:24 pm

    Tea leaves…7-2. The dissent by Alito and Thomas will be fascinating.

    In court today The DOJ argued anyone for any reason they want to call ‘terrorism’ without any court proceeding can be put on a plane at the whim of the Secretary of State and President and the Judicial Branch no linger has jurisdiction if they have left American territorial waters or airspace before anyone notices they’re gone.*

    And Heritage is all in behind them. Gonna be interesting which Federalist List judges are going to be OK with this at the appeals court level.

    *Hinting that born or naturalized citizens included

  31. 31

    Conrad Marriott spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 5:47 pm

    @26

    All one has to do in any ‘tourism’ city is look at AirBnB availability 6-8 months out no price caps, all neighborhoods, entire home to see how many housing units are being kept of the market for ACTUAL housing.

    It’s eye opening. Over 1000 in city limits of Seattle. Another 1200 Eastside.

    “But it’s my property and I can do what I want with it!” say conservatives.

    No…you cant. There have been municipal, state and federal laws for centuries on how you can have ‘for hire’ lodging and none of you are following them.

    If WE have to pitch in to cities we do business in then so should you.

  32. 32

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:13 pm

    @ 31

    1. People CAN do what they want if they’re renting out a spare room/shared bathroom instead of an entire unit. Whether one wants a roommate PT or FT isn’t up to the municipality.

    2. It was Connie Hilton, not Marriott.

  33. 33

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:25 pm

    @ 29

    Social Security if it had an error rate of .65%…

    71.6M recipients * $24,000/yr * 0.0065 = $11.17 billion.

    This isn’t far off the annual cost reported (cumulatively) by Social Security’s IG during the 2015-22 fiscal years.

    Doesn’t $50 billion over four years sound like money worth saving rather than handing out to people who don’t deserve it?

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:28 pm

    Gee, why did I call it The Wuhan?

    A classified dossier compiled by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was passed to then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the start of the outbreak in March 2020 which stated: ‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Covid-19 was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology’.

    The file, marked ‘Secret – Recipient’s Eyes Only’ argued that Beijing was pushing a fake narrative that the virus had originated in an animal market. The dossier, compiled by a group of eminent academics and intelligence experts and seen by The Mail on Sunday, said China even retrospectively manipulated viral samples to give credence to the deception.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:44 pm

    The Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace the district court judge overseeing a case challenging the Trump administration’s deportations of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

    The request, which cited Chief James Boasberg’s alleged “inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction,” came as Boasberg conducted a hearing where he pressed a top-ranking DOJ lawyer about the circumstances of the deportations conducted over the weekend.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/trump-deportation-order-venezuela-gang-judge-alien-enemies.html

    No. This is crass judge-shopping. They stuck us with Judge Cannon, and they’re stuck with this judge. If they disagree with his rulings their remedy is to appeal the rulings.

    #goosegander

  36. 36

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:44 pm

    32,
    Is a middle schoolish argument in opposition to land use law.

    I’ll be the first to confess that the history of land use law in the United States is troubled. But it’s mostly owing to restrictions that were intended to be discriminatory on the basis of expressive content, race, religion, family composition, and household income. And obviously that pendulum has swung back some. But to make the argument that municipalities are incapable of making distinctions in land use law between short term lodging and long term lodging is to make the argument that municipalities are incapable of making distinctions between differing uses.

    They can.

    The test lies not where the Nazi Fucktard claims it is, apparently arguing that there is no difference between long term lodging and short term lodging, but rather whether or not the difference can be articulated (it can) and whether or not that difference produces any public impact (it does).

    Follow the Nazi Fucktard down his road of libertardian ignorance and before you know it I get to build my long dreamed of tire recycling waste-to-energy facility next to his horse shelter and upwind of his trailer. Which I might be allowed to do anyway since it’s a safe enough bet that he placed his trailer in an old brownfield on abandoned land designated for industrial uses.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 6:55 pm

    @28 “Pants shitter is making a big stink farting up the Kennedy Center.”

    Doesn’t matter because nobody goes there anymore. It’s only used for Trump pep rallies now.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 7:03 pm

    @33 Sure, if you can save $$$ without kicking eligible recipients off the benefit rolls. Zero error rate? Go for it! But not one live granny gets thrown over a cliff, you hear me?

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 7:06 pm

    @34 The key word is “argued.” In case you don’t know what it means, and it appears you don’t, find help here:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/argue

  40. 40

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 7:06 pm

    Palmeri cited one GOP operative “close to the White House” who explained, “Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters.”

    Republicans are doing this.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 7:43 pm

    Medgar Evers was erased today.

    https://www.rawstory.com/medgar-evers/

  42. 42

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 8:15 pm

    RAF Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway has passed away at 105. The Irishman was the Last of the Few.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o

  43. 43

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:02 pm

    I had to read it twice to get it.

    Batonya Harding. Get it?

    Physics Geek
    @physicsgeek

    Legit LOL at “Batonya Harding”
    Quote
    Helvidius Priscus ⚖️ 🦈
    @HelvidiusPrisc
    ·
    16h

    Why is the NAACP defending Batonya Harding over the black girl who was battered?

    4:39 AM · Mar 17, 2025

  44. 44

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:08 pm

    @ 41

    Medgar Evers was erased today.

    Wait until you see what happens to MLK Jr. when the audio of him cheering and encouraging the continued rape of a parishioner by his buddies in that hotel room is released to the public.

  45. 45

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:08 pm

    How Republicans destroyed America for Americans:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0?si=6i87Gkfp0a8MmmCe

    Great analysis..

  46. 46

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:10 pm

    Morgan Stanley sets TSLA price target below $120.
    ❤️🇺🇸

    South African Nazis can fuck off.

  47. 47

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:33 pm

    @ 46

    Morgan Stanley sets TSLA price target below $120.

    Morgan Stanley issued a buy recommendation and thinks the shares can hit $430.

    CNBC: Buy Tesla on the dip as shares can rally more than 90%, says Morgan Stanley’s Jonas

    Business Insider (also about the Morgan Stanley TSLA call):

    Adam Jonas, a top four-star rated analyst, is encouraging investors to grab TSLA stock in the midst of its current decline, saying a bottom might be in sight. Jonas reiterated his Buy-equivalent overweight rating and top-pick designation on Tesla’s stock. His current price target on the shares of $430 implies 93.6% upside from current levels.

    “We see the pullback as a buying opportunity for an embodied [artificial intelligence] compounder,” wrote Jonas in a note to clients.

    But hey, you do you, QoS McHillbilly. After a year of proclaiming Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”, how much more wrong could you possibly be aboutTesla?

  48. 48

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 9:38 pm

    @ 38

    But not one live granny gets thrown over a cliff, you hear me?

    Hell, Darryl and I would settle for one slovenly, useless, bloviating fuck like yourself getting pitched over the edge, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Hell, we’d be in a bidding war to be the last one pushing the wheelchair.

  49. 49

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 10:26 pm

    Darryl and I

    lmao.. its fantasy friend… facepalming.. too funee.

  50. 50

    Alexander Smirnov spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 10:51 pm

    @34

    THE STEELE DOSSIER OS TOTALLY FAKE (the salient points verified by investigation minus the salacious bits that were in there under, ‘low confidence’ findings.)

    fast forward

    THIS SINGLE SOURCE DOSSIER IS INFALLIBLE!

  51. 51

    Vince Foster spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 10:56 pm

    @44

    The weird thing is the LEFT will be willing to accept it if it exists. But if it isn’t in the files this single source witness alleging reading previously classified info will continue to be gospel to the right.

  52. 52

    Jim ‘I still have a TV Investment advice show’ Cramer spews:

    Monday, 3/17/25 at 11:10 pm

    @47

    Bear Stearns is FINE!

    (BYD worked on batteries while Elon made fart noise horns and a shitty truck. BYD announces new model line with 1000w light weight rapid charge platform. Rivian grabbed the delivery vehicle sector)

    It’s not just the politics that’s going to kill Tesla it the total squandering of first to market innovation. Tesla’s only remaining market is North America. Well the middle of it.

  53. 53

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:16 am

    @42 “While serving with the 85 Squadron in RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, Mr Hemingway was forced to bail out of his Havoc night fighter at 600ft (183m) due to instrument failure in bad weather. He broke his hand on the tail section and his parachute failed to open, with the chute catching on the branches of a tree. He was forced to bail out a fourth time while fighting near Ravenna, Italy, when his Spitfire was hit multiple times …”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o

    They don’t make ’em like that anymore. 👨‍✈️

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:24 am

    @44 Speaking of rape, how about an audio recording from your barn? Does the poor horse even have a choice? But you do.

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:27 am

    @47 “shares can rally more than 90%”

    On what, soaring U.S. sales?

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:30 am

    @48 You’re already over the edge.

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:39 am

    BBC is shedding some light on the pardon autopen controversy. Not surprisingly, it originated from Heritage Foundation and is based on a misinterpretation of simple facts, a trademark of that outfit:

    Trump appears to have taken his cue from the Oversight Project – part of the Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation – which has claimed that Biden’s 19 January pardons – of some family members and political figures including Anthony Fauci – all had the same autopen signature.

    We have asked the Heritage Foundation for its workings. Previously, it has highlighted other Biden documents which it says had autopen signatures, along with screenshots taken from the Federal Register.

    The register is the official, daily publication of various presidential and other government documents – which all have a standard signature created from a single sample.

    A National Archives spokesperson told the fact-checking website Snopes that: “At the beginning of each administration, the White House sends a sample of the President’s signature to the Federal Register, which uses it to create the graphic image for all Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register,”

    We looked through presidential documents archived by the Federal Register under both Trump administrations and found identical signatures on documents. That includes Trump’s pardons for the 6 January rioters. Trump had already signed these pardons by hand, as this video showed in January.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0n5lo

    #brayingjackasses

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:44 am

    Spewing bullshit isn’t illegal; Heritage and Trump can say whatever they like. But let’s say Trump has Hunter arrested and held in jail on the grounds his pardon his invalid, and he files a civil rights lawsuit. For the first time, he’d have a chance to collect an honest million from a government …

  59. 59

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:48 am

    Meanwhile, Trump has revoked Hunter and Ashley Biden’s Secret Service protection details. Maybe some future president will return the favor for his children …

  60. 60

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:52 am

    Former Westchester County judge and Fox host Jeanine Pirro lays out her legal philosophy:

    “The only due process I believe in is the legal way to enter this country,” Pirro stressed.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-jessica-tarlov-jeanine-pirro-trump-venezuelans-deportation_n_67d8b562e4b06829461011bd

    I guess the citizens of Westchester County should be grateful she isn’t still a judge.

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 12:54 am

    DOGE is now resorting to armed burglaries.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doge-2671345017/

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 1:03 am

    Maybe you should look into it, too, before popping off on national teevee.

  63. 63

    You Wouldn’t know a gang tattoo feom a Kanji that actually says ‘Small Rooster’ spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 1:10 am

    @60

    Like presenting yourself at the border, having a possible case for assylum, being assigned an immigration hearing, waiting in country for that hearing…

    And then being grabbed and sent to El Salvador for having a tattoo

    It’s all legal immigration until that last bit.

  64. 64

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 3:58 am

    Into the frying pan:

    Respondents to the March CNBC Fed Survey have raised the risk of recession to the highest level in six months, cut their growth forecast for 2025 and raised their inflation outlook.

    Much of the change appears to stem from concern over fiscal policies from the Trump administration, especially tariffs, which are now seen by them as the top threat to the US economy, replacing inflation. The outlook for the S&P 500 declined for the first time since September.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/slower-economic-growth-is-likely-ahead-with-risk-of-a-recession-rising-according-to-the-cnbc-fed-survey.html

    And from frying pan into the fire:

    If the knock against the Biden administration was that it was at fault for dismissing the bad vibes — the way many Americans felt about the economy — while pointing stubbornly to good data, what happens when the next administration dismisses both the bad vibes and the bad data?

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dismissing-economic-morale-as-fake-has-real-consequences-morning-brief-100024603.html

    Republicans did this.

  65. 65

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 5:54 am

    The Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace the district court judge overseeing a case challenging the Trump administration’s deportations of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/trump-deportation-order-venezuela-gang-judge-alien-enemies.html

    Politics aside, normally you can’t replace a judge after a case has started, except for cause. And normally higher courts won’t entertain interlocutory complaints about judges or their rulings. So I guess we’ll see what happens. What should happen is DOJ should get drop-kicked back to the district court.

  66. 66

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:14 am

    @ 55

    On what, soaring U.S. sales?

    In no small part on what Tesla can do with AI, according to the analyst. Amazing what you learn when you aren’t so lazy you don’t read beyond what’s in a spew on HA, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Let’s not forget that Tesla has an energy storage/battery division.

    BloombergNEF
    EV Slowdown Countered by Energy Storage Boom
    Battery manufacturers are having hard times this year. LG Energy Solutions and Samsung SDI recently posted falling quarterly revenues and…
    .Aug 19, 2024

    Just think about what you could learn if you ever tried to be less of a useless, bloviating asshole, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  67. 67

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:15 am

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s biggest beef with TSLA is that he cannot afford to buy on the dip. Like so many things in his life, this opportunity will pass him by.

  68. 68

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:18 am

    Speaking of Tesla and battery/energy storage:

    USA Today
    Elon Musk sends Tesla Cybertrucks to Los Angeles as fires rage
    Tech baron Elon Musk is sending Cybertrucks to be used as battery banks and as internet terminals in areas affected by the wildfires raging across Los Angeles.
    .Jan 13, 2025

    Anybody recall seeing articles of Ford sending F-150 Lightning vehicles to LA so that they can be used as energy sources? It’s not like Ford’s dealer network is selling any of them.

  69. 69

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:25 am

    Anybody see this piece yesterday?

    AP News
    Gabbard says Trump and Putin are ‘very good friends’ focused on strengthening ties
    16 hours ago

    The piece has been withdrawn. Why, you might ask?

    Well, it turns out that Gabbard was speaking about DJT47’s relationship with Indian PM Modi.

    Sometimes bliind hatred of Orange Man Bad can make “journalists” and their “editors” do some pretty stupid shit.

  70. 70

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:27 am

    Maybe the left can find themselves a federal judge to order Space-X to turn around and send them back.

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX rescues NASA’s stranded astronauts who are FINALLY on way home after nine grueling months stuck on the ISS

  71. 71

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 6:28 am

    @ 70

    Last week Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wondered what Elon Musk has done lately.

    Well, over this past week he did what Joe Biden and Boeing could not.

  72. 72

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:17 am

    @66 Yeah, well, TSLA is down another $15 this morning after its market cap shrunk by $12 a share yesterday. Not exactly a ringing market endorsement of a thriving business enterprise.

  73. 73

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:19 am

    @67 Why would I want to catch a falling knife? Why would anyone? Nobody’s buying at yesterday’s “dip” price, that’s for sure. In other words nobody else is as stupid as you.

  74. 74

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:19 am

    This. Push back and push back hard against the Hamas/terrorist supporting propaganda machine, of which there are too many masquerading as “reporters”.

    Martin Varsavsky
    @martinvars

    I am on the board of Axel Springer that owns Político. I consider this article one sided Hamas support. It fails to mention that the airstrikes were aimed at eliminating top Hamas military and thar Israel was successful at doing so. It also quotes casualty figures given by Hamas that are not believed to be accurate.
    Quote
    POLITICO
    @politico
    ·
    9h
    Israel hits Gaza with new airstrikes that kill at least 200 http://ow.ly/I1WS1062M21
    Last edited
    12:14 AM · Mar 18, 2025

    When part of ownership calls out a publication for bias in support of terrorists, it says something that most complaints about bias do not.

  75. 75

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:24 am

    @71 Even hobbyists with toy rockets can do what Musk does.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hSAVelYLk

  76. 76

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:29 am

    How The Daily Beast reported it:

    The Daily Beast
    @thedailybeast

    ·
    20h
    The new revelations reveal how Trump reportedly offered a female congresswoman his bed, as long as she kept it a secret from his wife.

    https://trib.al/PjR624a

    What really happened:

    I was very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed. As soon as @realDonaldTrump boarded the plane, being the gentleman and good person that he is, said if I did not feel well, I could use the back room. He did this in a respectful way and in front of my husband, of which we thanked him. He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was.

    This was the most compassionate thing that could’ve been done at the time. I find it disgusting that the author fails to recognize that. A few weeks later, I was induced because I did have pre-eclampsia . The author of this book never reached out to me for comment.

    Oh. This happened in 2023 and was reported contemporaneously. The reason The Daily Beast found it to be newsworthy today is that gullible fucks like Welfare Queen YLB eat this shit up and have no capacity to wonder if maybe what they are reading is not true.

    MSM is shit.

  77. 77

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 7:43 am

    @ 75

    @71 Even hobbyists with toy rockets can do what Musk does.

    Toy Rocket is what Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit calls her favorite dildo. Because it does what you have not been able to do, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Ever, really, but particularly since the mid-90s.

  78. 78

    Investor’s Business Daily spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 8:41 am

    @66

    You mean that division that has sold 750k powerwalls WORLDWIDE in almost 10 years?

    Someone googled ‘good Tesla News’ and ran with it without question.

  79. 79

    Elon ‘tiny man baby’ Musk spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 8:52 am

    Burning down my OTHER business. YOU WILL JOT MAKE FUN OF ME!

    The ‘Irish’ pink band Drop Kick Murphy’s found their official Twatter account suspended after two videos went viral. The first singer Ken Casey in some audience banter and offered a free ‘Made in America’ band shirt to a fan up front but only if his MAGA shirt was made in America. It was Nicaragua but he traded shirts with the fan anyway.

    The second Casey tells an audience member to take his ‘Black on Black Elon Musk True Nazi Edition’ MAGA hat and fuck off and then described Elon as

    I get to decide what speech is free.

  80. 80

    Elon ‘Calls five and a quarter inches Nine’ Musk spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:04 am

    You are also banned from my site!

    Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man. Indeed, Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions. But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief (including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable), as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit, many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine and its “iterative design process.”. And so they should. Indeed, with the most recent launch failure as context, it becomes evident that Starship was doomed from the get-go and that SpaceX might never be able to rectify this mess.

  81. 81

    Cognitive Decline spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:09 am

    I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” Trump wrote in a social media post

    Something something seize the means of production.

    Something FREE MARKETS!

    Something TURN THOSE MOTHBALLED PLANTS BACK ON!

  82. 82

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:11 am

    Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries after panels held together by glue come apart

  83. 83

    Buying US Steel on the dip, October 28, 1929 spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:16 am

    ‘It’s not a ‘death spiral’ it’s a ‘dip’.’

    Tesla

  84. 84

    Unitary Executive Theoru spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:24 am

    Having been ordered a SECOND time to provide material documentation in Federal Court this morning DOJ walks in and says,

    “No, we don’t have to.”

  85. 85

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 9:37 am

    80,
    The future of SpaceX isn’t the only thing in doubt.

    Just saw this the other day:
    https://youtu.be/U1MigIJXJx8

    I confess, I really had no idea that Tesla’s entire predictive driver safety system was based entirely on video only, despite the narrator describing this feature as “famous”. That’s a helluva long term bet. Especially considering the Benz delivered on 35Ghz radar two decades ago.

    And as the video ably demonstrates, Tesla’s are not safe. Nor could they ever be trusted to be operated without drivers in the real world.

    So it seems to me that would mean that once again, Elmo’s promises that Tesla FSD tech will enable fully autonomous driverless vehicle systems like robotaxis by next year is complete bullshit. And it’s likely that whenever he bullies his engineers into signing off on this insanity, he will also bully his orange cuck into forcing through some new DOT rule, smoothing the way towards our future sharing the roads with with high speed robotic death missiles that run down children and blow through solid walls.

  86. 86

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 10:07 am

    53)Definitely don’t. Today, out of missiles, it’s bug out to land and re-arm. One RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain, out of ammo, rammed a Luftwaffe Bomber about to hit Buckingham Palace. Now the RAF is polite when warning off intruders.

    Saw this message once “Final Warning, if you don’t divert, by the authority of His Majesty(at the time, Her) Government of the United Kingdom, you will be shot down” Verbal Warnings only, since as a weight saving measure, the Typhoons have no guns. Something other Eurofighter Typhoon operators did not do, including, the Luftwaffe (I think it’s a German design, too).

  87. 87

    FKA Hops spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 11:48 am

    For the millionth time….not trans or drag.

    State Senator Justin Eichorn, R-MN, family man, married, 4 Kids, BA from Concordia University (private Lutheran)

    Arrested. Soliciting sex with a minor, soliciting prostitution.

  88. 88

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 2:04 pm

    @87 Minnesota’s evenly divided legislature will be a little less evenly dividend it seems.

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 3/18/25 at 2:05 pm

    Investing 101: A stock shedding 5% of market value a day is not investible.

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