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.
by Carl Ballard — ,
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.
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
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.
Republicans don’t do that
Oh…
Sorry. We thought the yard sale was going to work but turns out everybody still hate that guy and his Reichnobiles.
@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
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.
Add Navaho Code Talkers to the list of ‘down the memory hole’ pieces of official DOD history.
After an impressive weekend, the workweek is starting off well for DJT47:
Maybe this is why Chuck Todd left.
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@ 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?
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.
@8
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)
Cool..
We’re under water but we’re still not on the shark or the battery.
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.
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.
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/
@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.
5,
The written instructions would still have applied to the aircraft that had not yet even taxied from the gate.
@3 Based on a typical P/E, and assuming Tesla’s earnings stop deteriorating, its stock is worth about $46 a share.
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!
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.
@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
@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.)
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…
@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.
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
Doctor Dumbfuck loves to quote Heritage Foundation, because they keep coming up with brilliant ideas like this:
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
Doctor Dumbfuck loves to quote Heritage Foundation, because they keep coming up with brilliant ideas like this:
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
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.
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.
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.
@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!”*
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*Elon’s businesses kill people. See @12
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
@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.
@ 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.
@ 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?
Gee, why did I call it The Wuhan?
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
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.
@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.
@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?
@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
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.
Medgar Evers was erased today.
https://www.rawstory.com/medgar-evers/
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
I had to read it twice to get it.
Batonya Harding. Get it?
@ 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.
How Republicans destroyed America for Americans:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0?si=6i87Gkfp0a8MmmCe
Great analysis..
Morgan Stanley sets TSLA price target below $120.
❤️🇺🇸
South African Nazis can fuck off.
@ 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):
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?
@ 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.
Darryl and I
lmao.. its fantasy friend… facepalming.. too funee.
@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!
@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.
@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.
@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. 👨✈️
@44 Speaking of rape, how about an audio recording from your barn? Does the poor horse even have a choice? But you do.
@47 “shares can rally more than 90%”
On what, soaring U.S. sales?
@48 You’re already over the edge.
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:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0n5lo
#brayingjackasses
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 …
Meanwhile, Trump has revoked Hunter and Ashley Biden’s Secret Service protection details. Maybe some future president will return the favor for his children …
Former Westchester County judge and Fox host Jeanine Pirro lays out her legal philosophy:
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.
DOGE is now resorting to armed burglaries.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doge-2671345017/
Maybe you should look into it, too, before popping off on national teevee.
@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.
Into the frying pan:
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:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dismissing-economic-morale-as-fake-has-real-consequences-morning-brief-100024603.html
Republicans did this.
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.
@ 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.
Just think about what you could learn if you ever tried to be less of a useless, bloviating asshole, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
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.
Speaking of Tesla and battery/energy storage:
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.
Anybody see this piece yesterday?
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.
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
@ 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.
@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.
@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.
This. Push back and push back hard against the Hamas/terrorist supporting propaganda machine, of which there are too many masquerading as “reporters”.
When part of ownership calls out a publication for bias in support of terrorists, it says something that most complaints about bias do not.
@71 Even hobbyists with toy rockets can do what Musk does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hSAVelYLk
How The Daily Beast reported it:
What really happened:
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.
@ 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.
@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.
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.
You are also banned from my site!
Something something seize the means of production.
Something FREE MARKETS!
Something TURN THOSE MOTHBALLED PLANTS BACK ON!
Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries after panels held together by glue come apart
‘It’s not a ‘death spiral’ it’s a ‘dip’.’
Tesla
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.”
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.
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).
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.
@87 Minnesota’s evenly divided legislature will be a little less evenly dividend it seems.
Investing 101: A stock shedding 5% of market value a day is not investible.