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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/7/25, 8:12 am

If social media is to be believed, a bunch of you went to various hands off protests. I didn’t realize it was happening and probably would have gone unless my parents mentioned that they were going. But it was pretty great to see so many people in Seattle Center and pictures from around the world. Hope we can follow it up with more action.

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  1. 1

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:07 am

    Now asshole Bill tells us:

    Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, warned in apocalyptic terms over the weekend that the president’s sweeping tariff plan, if implemented as planned on Wednesday, would cause irreparable damage to the U.S. economy…

    The United States is “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” Ackman wrote on the social media site X on Sunday…

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/07/bill-ackman-tariffs-meltdown-stock-markets/

    Thanks fuckstick..

  2. 2

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:11 am

    Uhhh.. orange dear leader.. excuse me?

    One of the first legal challenges isn’t coming from a fleet of corporate litigators for one of the many American companies forecasting that the import taxes will have a significant effect on their businesses. It’s coming from an influential, conservative-backed legal nonprofit representing a small stationery company…

    The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a complaint this week over the legality of Trump’s tariffs launched earlier this year on all Chinese imports, representing Florida-based Simplified, a stationery company owned by Emily Ley.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-sink-conservatives-challenge-whether-theyre-legal/

    You shit your diaper.. again.. Get Walt to change you..

  3. 3

    Republicans Did That spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:47 am

    Donald asked about Tariffs and directly attributable stock market crash and inflation,

    “Sometime you have to take a little Medicine to fix things.”

    Unless it’s a worldwide Pandemic. Or Measles.

  4. 4

    Pravda spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:54 am

    Four days after a U.S. Attorney in open court conceded Kilmar Abrego Garcia is NOT a member of any gang FoxNews.com decides to make him a very wealthy man via defamation suit.

    Bondi’s warning to those not all in on America as Dems push gangbanger’s return to the US

    Also, Gangbanger was last being used in English, publication and HipHop in the early 1990s.

    Also explains why your Cousin believes the things he believes..

  5. 5

    EF Hutton spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 10:15 am

    We’ve hit stupid season.

    After a precipitous opening bell drop stocks rebounded this morning (FoxNews.com still has “Stocks Rebound” as a headline on the site) on a twat suggesting that Kevin Hastert of Trump’s Nat.Econ.Council released a statement that Donnie was considering pausing Tariffs.

    And stocks did indeed push positive briefly.

    And then it was discovered that no such statement has been made and the Twatter account is a fake passing itself off as a Analyst/Reporter that has less than 10K followers. But Twatter doing what Twatter do this lone ‘good news for GOP’ twat went viral on the retwats setting off a market rally that came to earth as fast as a BMW rocket test.

    Dow -885
    Nasdaq -206
    S&P -81

    TSLA – 12.40

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 11:06 am

    “I protest being served Folgers in the diner down the block here instead of the Viennese espresso I had become accustomed to consuming before leaving my neighborhood to work my 4 hour/day “full-time” government-sponsored job.”

    Matt Van Swol
    @matt_vanswol
    ·
    🚨#BREAKING: A Charlotte NC man claiming to be protesting President Trump in favor of veterans and social security…

    …later admitted he was a USAID worker living in Vienna Austria who was told to come back home after USAID was shut down

    You cannot make this up!!!

    8:24 AM · Apr 7, 2025

  7. 7

    Republicans Acting like Republicans spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 11:14 am

    Going largely unnoticed amid (waves hands at the middle distance)

    Federal District Judge Myron Thompson ruled on Thursday Alabama AG has no legal standing over:

    A person who leaves Alabama to seek an abortion in a state where abortion is legal

    A person or group who helps a person travel out of Alabama for the purpose of obtaining a legal abortion.

    In the 131 page opinion Justice Thompson, a Carter Appointee, writes clearly

    It is one thing for Alabama to outlaw by statute what happens in its own backyard. It is another thing for the state to enforce its values and laws, as chosen by the attorney general, outside its boundaries.”

    the Justice also makes the obvious to anyone with a single firing synapse that under AG Steve Marshall’s interpretation of law the state could arrest someone for attending a bachelor party in Vegas or placing a bet in a Biloxi Casino because gambling is illegal in Alabama which is, of course, a stupid notion to assert.

  8. 8

    The Horsefucker Who Cried Wolf spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 11:16 am

    You cannot make this up!!!

    Given your now well established track record of reposting Twatter nobodies whose stories turn out to be either greatly exaggerated or flat out false….

    I bet you can absolutely make this up.

  9. 9

    Memory Care Facility spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 11:21 am

    Stable Genius, acer of cognitive tests, hosts the Los Angeles Dodgers.

    When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy— they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say, really particular

  10. 10

    Intellectual Property spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:13 pm

    China making statements that as well as retaliate with tariffs they will remove prohibitions on US Patent violations.

    So when someone says, “China can’t win a trade war!” let them know china can sell an iFun15 and a green JinDeere tractor or a DaiSun vacuum.

  11. 11

    Liberal Media spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:30 pm

    European Union places 25% Tariffs on US goods in retaliation and suggests US negotiate.

    Headline from FoxNews.com & CNN

    “Europe wants to Negotiate on Tariffs”

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:40 pm

    @5 Somebody is manipulating the market and trading its swings.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:44 pm

    @6 Does this “USAID worker” have a name?

    Doctor Dumbfuck’s “source,” Matt van Swol, has an interesting biography and seems to be everywhere.

    See @8 for additional information about doc’s “sources.”

  14. 14

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:49 pm

    10,
    Nazi Fucktard is searching Temu for a distressed leather Harley Davidsen jacket to go with his hair plugs and beer gut.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:50 pm

    President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court order requiring officials to bring a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to Maryland. …

    The request to the Supreme Court came minutes before a ruling from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals denying DOJ’s request to lift the lower-court order.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/supreme-court-el-salvador-abrego-garcia/index.html

    AG Bondi must have clairvoyant powers, or perhaps she can foretell the future. By the way, here’s the district court’s ruling:

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.31.0.pdf

    I don’t see anything there that a less-than-insanely-partisan Supreme Court would overturn.

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 12:53 pm

    Government waste found!

    President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on holding a 4-mile-long military parade on June 14 — his 79th birthday and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-wants-military-parade-on-his-birthday-report_n_67f3fd95e4b06fd39a6bed6a

  17. 17

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 1:11 pm

    15,
    By their own local rules that applications should have been denied immediately by the clerk.

    Since it was not, we must assume that one of the justices was working on behalf of the Fat Hitler administration to cure their application error.

    For a member of the court to intervene on behalf of one of the litigants is grounds for recusal in any other venue.

  18. 18

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 1:20 pm

    Shockingly corrupt.

    The Chief Justice intervened on behalf of a litigant who fucked up their application, and personally issued the administrative order granting a stay. Maryland is the trad jurisdiction for the sitting CJ due to convenience. But Roberts’ intervention to cure a defective application is unwarranted and unethical. Moreover, nothing contained in the government’s application supports any claims for emergency relief – no claims of irreprable harm of any kind appear in the application. It’s a farce.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 1:28 pm

    Based on simple principal-agent principles, the fact the U.S. is paying El Salvadore to imprison Garcia would seem to make the U.S. liable for anything that happens to him in the Salvadoran prison, in that El Salvadore is acting as an agent of the U.S. government.

    Apart from that, Garcia would seem to have a whole card deck of tort claims against Noem, HHS, ICE, and other defendants: Kidnapping, assault and battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violating his civil rights, defamation, etc.

  20. 20

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:09 pm

    In case anyone cares, here’s the ruling from the 4th Circuit upholding Judge Xinis’ order:

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258.13.0_1.pdf

  21. 21

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:14 pm

    19,
    The government’s own lawyer conceded in argument in front of the lower court that he was aware of no reason the United States could not return Garcia to the US, and that he had asked that very question of the AG when he was promoted to be assigned to the case and never heard anything back.

    The government in other words, has made absolutely no argument on the record nor presented any evidence to support their claim that Garcia’s confinement in El Salvador is outside of their control. It’s just a thing they say. Like a verbal tick. It has no legal merit. The polite thing is to ignore it.

  22. 22

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:17 pm

    From POS Hunter Biden’s cocaine in the West Wing to this:

    ZitoSalena
    @ZitoSalena

    On Friday, the White House Roosevelt Room was filled with everyday Americans—the sons and daughters of steelworkers, nurses, and clerks—for a celebration of Beverly Aikins’ 10th year of sobriety.

    An incredible story of redemption for @JDVance’s mother.

    https://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3371735/jd-vance-mother-sobriety-celebration-white-house/
    8:35 AM · Apr 7, 2025
    ·

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:24 pm

    @22 So now the White House is being used to stage sobriety parties for high-ranking administration officials’ families, using handpicked Trump voters as props? Anybody who thinks this is a celebration of workers has fallen off the wagon and is drunk again. It’s all about showing off how powerful Jaydee is now.

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:37 pm

    @20 The money quote is:

    The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process.

    The language “no authority” is worth noting. This choice of words implies all governmental power resides in the self-governing American people, and the government only has such power as the people assign or delegate to it through the Constitution and laws.

    It’s also worth noting this administration makes no distinction between citizens and non-citizens, and claims authority to deport citizens it designates as “terrorists” or “gang members” based simply on its own say-so and without any judicial fact-finding or due process whatsoever.

    This administration also equates criticism of Israel with “terrorism” and “support for Hamas,” making no distinction between First Amendment-protected and non-protected speech and activity.

    This shit is the stuff of tyranny, and right now the only thing standing between it and us is the willingness of the courts to enforce constitutional and legal rights when the government violates them. The district and 4th Circuit judges did their job. CJ Roberts’ catering to the administration is disturbing, given there’s no plausible excuse to leave Garcia in that foreign jail for even one more day. There’s no reason why Roberts couldn’t say “bring him back to the U.S., and we’ll decide the legal issues while you detain him here.”

    Roberts is a weak CJ who’s catering to tyrants in our own government at a time when rule of law, due process, and civil liberties have never needed the Court’s protection more than they do right now.

  25. 25

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:51 pm

    @ 18

    …nothing contained in the government’s application supports any claims for emergency relief – no claims of irreprable [sic] harm of any kind appear in the application.

    According to the now-stayed order, the US must comply by midnight, which

    • may not be possible
    • would require the US to comply with an order by a judge with no jurisdiction on the case, and represents an intrusion of the judiciary into US foreign policy.

    The irreparable harm would be allowing the judiciary to direct foreign policy without debate first.

    This might be why the application for stay included the term irreparable harm, twice, on page 26. You might not have found it because you searched with an incorrect spelling of the word irreparable, Legal Eagle.

    2. For similar reasons, the district court’s injunction irreparably harms the
    government by placing the conduct of foreign relations under judicial superintendence. See pp. 11-17, supra. The injunction also threatens irreparable harm to the
    public by directing the return of “a verified member of MS-13” to the United States.
    App., infra, 2a.

    So, for a non-attorney, how’m I doin’?

  26. 26

    You Know that shits gonna end up in fake and inflated contracts spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:52 pm

    Or we could have National Parks open, cancer research, a functioning NOAA, Libraries and the Voice of America?

    Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

    A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting practice and rapidly expand facilities.

  27. 27

    Lionel Hutz spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:57 pm

    @25

    About how a non lawyer usually does.

    and represents an intrusion of the judiciary into US foreign policy.

    Explain the foreign policy in taking a legal US Resident who has been investigated and cleared of gang affiliation and removing them without cause.

  28. 28

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 2:57 pm

    @ 24

    Roberts is a weak CJ who’s catering to tyrants in our own government at a time when rule of law, due process, and civil liberties have never needed the Court’s protection more than they do right now.

    More than separation of powers needs protection, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    Looking forward to hearing the explanations of Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ for their minority opinion that the judiciary can direct foreign policy. Maybe KBJ can read her dissent while in theater costume, which was also intended to make people laugh.

  29. 29

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 3:16 pm

    Turmoil created by Heterosexual Neanderthals

    But the Heterosexual Neanderthal virus lived on!

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article303700131.html

  30. 30

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 3:18 pm

    Weird. They put Trumpy on this Heterosexual Neanderthal virus article.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-doctor-accused-kill-wife-set-court-120549494

  31. 31

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 3:21 pm

    My God, it never ends. Heterosexual Neanderthal virus never ends. Gets worse as the Neanderthals stew in their misery.

    https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/historic-triangle/husband-kills-wife-self-in-york-co-murder-suicide-ypso

  32. 32

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 3:22 pm

    Ohhh my, not the clothing iron in the Foyer by Mr. Mustard!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZjwJD4aeMo

  33. 33

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:05 pm

    According to the now-stayed order, the US must comply by midnight, which
    • may not be possible
    • would require the US to comply with an order by a judge with no jurisdiction on the case, and represents an intrusion of the judiciary into US foreign policy.

    The United States makes no such argument. It appears nowhere in the application for an emergency stay.

    In real life law (as opposed to Twitter law) in order for an argument to have authority it must be more than a mere claim. In this case the Nazi Fucktard immediately gives the game away.
    “(T)he US must comply by midnight, which.. may not be possible.”

    Next time try IS or IS NOT. The United States is not entitled to emergency relief based upon speculation. It can at least have the courtesy of stating the harm. Moreover, the order issued Friday morning with a deadline of midnight tonight provided the United States with several days in which to comply, including taking various easily reversible steps to prepare for compliance. They took none.

    Lastly, and as the 4th Circuit stated clearly and eloquently, the order is facially not an intrusion into foreign policy. It is a court of law issuing an order arising from the traditional role of the judiciary to rule on the nature of the laws in vindicating rights in litigation before that court. And again, if the United States wishes to argue that courts may not exercise this role it bears the burden of supplying at least some supporting citations arising from more that Fat Hitler’s gaping asshole.

    Mere claims are not arguments.

  34. 34

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:14 pm

    @25 “So, for a non-attorney, how’m I doin’?”

    Poorly. Let a real lawyer break it down for you.

    1. “may not be possible” – the issue isn’t whether it’s possible, it’s whether they’re making the effort. Impossibility is a defense to not complying with a court order; refusing to try to comply is not. If administration officials get sanctioned, it will be for refusing to try.

    Claiming it “may not be possible” to get him back is an assertion by the noncomplying party, not a factual finding by the court. To render it factual, they have to ask El Salvador to return him, and facilitate his return — in other words, try to comply with the court order.

    As an assertion, it’s of dubious credibility, given that El Salvador imprisoned Garcia at our government’s request and we’re paying them to do it. Ask for his return, stop paying them, provide a plane, and see how quickly they hand him over, because they have no reason of their own to keep him.

    2. “would require the US to comply with an order by a judge with no jurisdiction on the case” — flat-assed false.

    Two courts have ruled the judge has jurisdiction, and absent a Supreme Court ruling otherwise, that’s the law of the case. Your personal opinion does not overrule an extant court order. Neither does the stay, it merely pauses the requirement to comply.

    3. “and represents an intrusion of the judiciary into US foreign policy” — hiring a foreign government to house our detainees isn’t “foreign policy,” it’s a contractual relationship. Since the goal is to save money, there’s no foreign policy component. But even if there is, Garcia’s detention in El Salvador flunks a balancing test, because the extreme violation of his civil rights outweighs whatever slight foreign policy interest the United States might have in removing a lawful resident from the U.S. in violation of its own laws.

    4. “The irreparable harm would be allowing the judiciary to direct foreign policy without debate first.”

    The government had full opportunity to “debate” the impact, if any, on its foreign policy in briefing and oral argument before the court. And where else would you debate the issue of the judiciary allegedly intervening in foreign policy other than in court?

    Moreover, even if foreign policy is implicated by returning Garcia to U.S. detention, where is the “irreparable harm” in detaining him here for a few dollars more than in El Salvadore?

    5. “This might be why the application for stay included the term irreparable harm, twice, on page 26. — in an application for stay, the term “irreparable harm” is an assertion; in a court order, it’s a finding and legal ruling. Learn the fucking difference.

    So how are you doing? 0-for-5, that’s how you’re doing. You’re the law school applicant who got 0 on the LSAT so went to medical school instead.

    By the way, shoving your stupidity back up your ass is loads of fun. Thanks for the slow hanging curveball. 😄🤣😂😹🎉🐰🐰🐰

  35. 35

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:17 pm

    Roberts is a weak CJ

    In light of this sordid sequence of events it’s quite undeniable that Roberts was in contact with and working closely on behalf of the United States government in this case. And by issuing an immediate administrative stay in a case where a person’s life hangs in the balance, Roberts bypassed any opportunity for Garcia’s attorneys to respond to the application.

    That therefore makes him not just a weak CJ but also a profoundly corrupt one. He worked in cooperation with one of the litigants coming before his court to grant them precisely what they needed without any intervening public process and did it in precisely the way needed to silence the other litigants.

    It displays judicial corruption that is truly shocking in its depravity.

  36. 36

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:27 pm

    @26 That blows away any argument that we “can’t afford” federal government services that benefit taxpaying Americans, doesn’t it?

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:31 pm

    @28 I don’t get the impression you guys care very much about separation of powers.

    Wanna know something? Tariffs are a congressional prerogative. So is deciding how much will be spent on USAID, IRS and Social Security staffing, whether states, cities, and universities get federally funded grants, and so on.

    If you want to enforce separation of powers, you have my wholehearted blessing.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:51 pm

    Although SCOTUS lifted Judge Boasberg’s stay on deporting Venezuelans under the Enemy Aliens Act, it also “said Venezuelans they seek to deport must have adequate notice in order to be able to challenge their removal – confronting the administration’s removal of men without giving them the ability to contest their alleged gang ties” — and habeas corpus applies.

    “AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs,” the court wrote in a per curium order, adding that the decision “confirm[s] that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.”

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5237011-supreme-court-trump-venezuelans-alien-enemies-act/

    On its face, this would seem to end summary removals.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:53 pm

    The number of GOP senators opposed to Trump’s tariffs is now up to 7, which is not enough, but more than none.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5236142-congress-tariff-bill-trump/

    Voters in red states whose livelihoods are being destroyed by Trump’s tariffs (e.g., farmers) have a binary choice: Vote for tariffs, or vote for a Democrat. The GOP is trying to save those seats in the midterms by offering a third choice: vote for a Republican who promises to vote to block Trump’s tariffs.

  40. 40

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:53 pm

    37,

    A goddamn phone call.

    The order calls for the United States to “facilitate and effectuate” Garcia’s return to the United States. That’s it.

    A phone call does not implicate the President’s article 2 powers.

  41. 41

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 4:56 pm

    The oversold market will bounce back tomorrow, say the futures today.

    At least Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will be able to feed his family. That was far from guaranteed.

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:03 pm

    Harriet Tubman is gone from the NPS website.

    https://thehill.com/business/5236250-trump-tariffs-economic-recovery/

    Does this mean Trump won’t replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with her?

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:08 pm

    It appears AG Bondi plans to discourage witnesses from testifying in congressional hearings by sending armed cops to their houses to ask them not to.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5236378-justice-department-intimidation-actor-gibson/

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:17 pm

    Trump’s Treasury secretary, who has no political skills whatsoever, is now offering the factory jobs Trump promised to bring back to America to laid-off federal workers.

    https://thehill.com/business/5236250-trump-tariffs-economic-recovery/

    Well, there goes the blue-collar vote.

  45. 45

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:18 pm

    @ 43

    Protecting the public from firearms held by criminals used to be a thing. With the pardon of POS Hunter Biden, who had felony gun convictions, that sort of fell by the wayside, didn’t it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:19 pm

    @42 Oh, she’s already back — on the NPS webpage, not the $20 bill.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/us/harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-national-parks-service/index.html

  47. 47

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:40 pm

    A Republican senator on Sunday said he was only joking when he suggested a day earlier that there would be less “fake news” if people were allowed to use violence against journalists.

    https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/markwayne-mullin-violence-journalists-fake-news-rcna200088

    Journalists also could joke about violence against senators who joke about violence against journalists; but you know, I don’t think they should do that. This isn’t a what’s-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander thing. It’s a Markwayne-Mullin-is-a-piece-of-shit thing.

  48. 48

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:45 pm

    @38 The SCOTUS vote was 5-4. ACB wandered off the reservation again.

    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-judge-boasberg-rcna199052

    Meanwhile, a federal appeals court upheld Humphrey’s Executor, as it must until SCOTUS formally overturns it.

    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/appeals-court-reinstates-gwynne-wilcox-cathy-harris-supreme-court-rcna199976

  49. 49

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:52 pm

    @ 48

    ACB wandered off the reservation again.

    Confidential to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who still has about 3 minutes to delete what he spewed and then claim he never said it:

    Here are some commonly used terms that actually have racist origins

    Off the reservation

    In its earliest evidence, experts explain that this phrase dealt with policing, killing and colonizing Native Americans and removing them from their native land.

    “The phrase has very offensive roots as the Native American’s who were found ‘off the reservation’ were killed,” Kelly explained.

    However, in modern politics there has been recognition that term is racially offensive.

    For example, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton netted backlash in 2016 for using the phrase in an interview with CNN when she said, “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.” Shortly after, Clinton’s campaign political director Amanda Renteria took to Twitter to walk back Clinton’s statement, tweeting, “Divisive language has no place in our politics.

    Ironic, isn’t it, that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit used racist language to refer to a decision that he claims has racist underpinnings.

    Hypocritical, too.

  50. 50

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:54 pm

    China making statements that as well as retaliate with tariffs they will remove prohibitions on US Patent violations

    They should revoke Ivanka’s patents

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:56 pm

    @41 “The oversold market will bounce back tomorrow, say the futures today.”

    No, the market won’t “bounce back” tomorrow, according to Dow futures. Futures suggesting +600 Dow points is not a “bounce back” from the loss of -4,261 Dow points lost since Wednesday’s tariff announcement.

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 5:58 pm

    @45 Look who’s now for gun control.

  53. 53

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:01 pm

    @ 40

    A goddamn phone call.
    …
    A phone call does not implicate the President’s article 2 powers.

    It certainly does, and in more ways than one:

    Bondi: “Yeah, we need you to send that dude back.”

    El Salvador, first example: “Or what?”

    El Salvador, second example: “Yeah, about that new tariff…”

    El Salvador, third example: “We’re gonna need you to look the other way on some stuff.”

    El Salvador fourth example: “That $6 million prison fee for the next year was for one-way tickets. Round trip starts at $15 million.”

    It’s always more than a phone call.

  54. 54

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:04 pm

    The only thing bouncing around is Dumbbell’s brain.

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:07 pm

    @49 I have company.

    The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as a metaphor meaning “to deviate from what is expected or customary; to behave unexpectedly or independently.” It is interesting that the OED doesn’t seem to be aware of its negative connotation.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/29/326690947/should-saying-someone-is-off-the-reservation-be-off-limits

    I guess this raises the question of whether a common expression often used without racist intentions is arguably racist when used without racist intentions, or racist only when it’s intended it to be racist.

    On the other hand, calling me a “hypocrite” implies I’m a Republican, and that really hurts. You gut-punched me with that one, dumbfuck.

  56. 56

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:08 pm

    The best thing that could happen is a nuke dropped on Shitbey Island

  57. 57

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:09 pm

    Nice to see judges losing. 180 lawsuits filed against the DJT47 administration. It’s lawfare.

    It’s liberal weakness manifested as a weaponized judiciary.

  58. 58

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:13 pm

    Flawed Sexual Orientation.

    They kill their own.

    https://apnews.com/article/lori-vallow-daybell-idaho-arizona-trial-ec87d0857a690503095ff7fa7697d13a

  59. 59

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:14 pm

    It’s liberal weakness manifested as a weaponized judiciary.

    Spoken like a true Nazi Fascist Pig.

  60. 60

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:14 pm

    Keep at him boys. He’s a POS

  61. 61

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:18 pm

    Out of control Neanderthal Heterosexuals.

    Moms for Liberty are repressive cunts

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/04/04/russell-brand-charged-allegations-rape-assault/82860563007/

  62. 62

    G spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:23 pm

    What sexual
    Orientation?

    Dumb question.

    https://www.amny.com/new-york/lower-manhattan-rape-attempt-subway-04072025/

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:29 pm

    @57 The guy who asked a few posts ago how he’s doing as an armchair lawyer doesn’t understand that judges don’t “win” or “lose” lawsuits.

    What do you think, fellow HA denizens, should we tell him again how he’s doing? Or would that be too cruel?

  64. 64

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:32 pm

    @60 I’m doing my best to heap the ridicule and humiliation on him that he so richly deserves.

    I have a suggestion. Instead of nuking him, what if we just airdrop laughing monkeys 🙈🙈🙈 on him?

  65. 65

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:42 pm

    @ 63

    … judges don’t “win” or “lose” lawsuits.

    I understand that just fine. Judges slow down the process of government. In this case for not much longer.

  66. 66

    Dumbfuck’s favorite place to spend a weekend, Enumclaw spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 6:50 pm

    They’re trying so hard to console themselves.

    Twatter made a video go lightly viral, it is Enumclaw after all, of no one showing up to the ‘Hands Off’ protest.

    Cool cool.

    Sure it was a small crowd because Enumclaw is MAGA for the most part. And the video in question was shot (strip your metadata folks) on Friday afternoon. And it was shot looking at the businesses kitty corner to the park in front of the courthouse where 30-50 people gathered the next day.

    When and where the actual protest happened.

    Enumclaw GOP so scared of the small population of progressives among them they gotta lie about everything.

  67. 67

    NRA spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 7:55 pm

    @45

    Still trying to make a big thing out of felony lying on a form, eh?

  68. 68

    The goalposts will be stationary....at some point in the future spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 7:59 pm

    @49

    Look who’s woke?

    Be sure to let us know when you catch up with Tranny and Chicks with dicks.

  69. 69

    From the River To the Sea spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 8:56 pm

    Oh, jeez.

    Bibi visits the White house.

    And they found a dead medic’s cell phone video in the mass grave the Israeli Occupying Forces bulldozed the bodies and the cars into.

    the video that shows an already shot medic saying goodbye to his family and praying.

    Before he got shot again somehow.

    This post is Anti-Semitic because war crimes are fine…if committed in the name of stamping out Hamas the population of Gaza

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:19 pm

    @65 First it was “judges lose” (#57), now it’s “judges slow down government” (#65). The hits keep coming! ♫⋆。♪ ₊˚♬ ゚

  71. 71

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:20 pm

    @66 In places like Enumclaw, 30-50 people is nearly the whole town.

  72. 72

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 9:45 pm

    Hulu just dropped the first three episodes of Season 6 of the Handmaid’s Tale. Would like to see Gillead weakened, but it can’t collapse, as they are filming the sequel now. The trailer showed something will be up this season, with the women brandishing switch blades and box cutters.

  73. 73

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Monday, 4/7/25 at 10:52 pm

    Got to give credit to the writers. Season 5 ended with the heroine and her alleged reformed oppressor on a train bound for Vancouver, and probably a boat to Alaska, which is one of two states left of the USA. Wondered how she would chose to get off the train, as June isn’t the giving up type. Serena got recognized by the other refugees on the train, well, she did help bring down the United States and was only upset she wasn’t allowed to participate in the new regime, because she’s a woman.

  74. 74

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:21 am

    @65 First it was “judges lose” (#57), now it’s “judges slow down government” (#65). The hits keep coming! ♫⋆。♪ ₊˚♬ ゚

    He is a fraud. A fake. A phoney. A POS

  75. 75

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 3:09 am

    REEEEEEEEEEEECESSSSSSSSSSION!

  76. 76

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 3:47 am

    Wow, how did I miss this viral moment.

    The wife and 3 kids. 3 kids! The kids.

    Daddy, you killed Mommy! You killed me and my siblings! Oh Daddy, you fucking Heterosexual Neanderthal!

    https://youtu.be/n7g-SkSx2Og

    Ps. Heterosexual Neanderthals are flawed

  77. 77

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 8:27 am

    Um, why is he in OH, more than 3 1/2 years before the next presidential election?

    Tim Walz
    @Tim_Walz

    Youngstown can’t get their Congressman to host a town hall, but they’re standing up and making their voices heard anyway.

    You can bet he’ll hear them all the way in Washington.
    5:17 PM · Apr 7, 2025

    And did he not see his ticket’s candidacy last year?

  78. 78

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 8:28 am

    There were so many reasons Josh Shapiro turned down Boxcheck Momala.

    So many.

  79. 79

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 8:30 am

    John James is gonna run for governor in Michigan.

    It’s a mistake. He doesn’t have executive experience, and now that DJT47 is in office he won’t have the voter anger propelling his candidacy. Voter anger wasn’t enough to help him in his two failed Senate races.

    He’s lucky to be a congressman.

  80. 80

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 9:14 am

    Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false.

    – Elmo on Xitter this morning.

    👀 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

  81. 81

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 9:18 am

    Republican Trump tariffs and Musk federal cuts end planned $300M Pa. plastics plant and its 300 jobs
    International Recycling Group’s planned to build a $300 million plastics recycling plant in Erie that would have created 300 jobs and produced about 100,000 tons of recycled plastic material annually, but the company announced its cancellation on Thursday, reported the Erie Times-News.

    Voting for Republicans caused this.

  82. 82

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 9:35 am

    ‘nother!

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a federal judge’s ruling requiring several federal agencies to reinstate around 16,000 workers whom the Trump administration has sought to fire.

    The decision to grant the administration’s request means the federal government doesn’t have to take steps to bring back some workers who were laid off while litigation moves forward before a federal judge in California.
    …
    The order indicated that the various groups that sued may not have legal standing to press their claims.

    Even Kagan was onboard with this one. Drain the fucking federal government swamp.

  83. 83

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 9:40 am

    Time to GTFO.

    Camilo Montoya-Galvez
    @camiloreports
    ·
    The Trump administration is revoking the legal status of migrants who entered the U.S. via the Biden-era CBP One app, instructing them to leave the immediately or face arrest.

    They are being told to self-deport via the same app that allowed them in. It is now called CBP Home.

    7:30 AM · Apr 8, 2025

  84. 84

    Frank Luntz spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:09 am

    Man it was just a couple weeks ago the right-o-spere was jerking themselves off over Donnie’s highest approval rating ever, even though he was still underwater.

    The GOP Loved Rasmussen approval index has gone from +1 to -12 since. from +5 to -4 in total.

  85. 85

    Economics spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:15 am

    Fun fact for our Eastern WA MAGA farmers.

    The net bags you package apples in for market are made in Spain, mostly. There is no factory anywhere in the US that makes them.

    Enjoy!

  86. 86

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:19 am

    @ 84

    In which HA libbies grant full recognition to anything polled by Rasmussen.

    Good to know.

    And jeebus, those falling approval ratings are sure gonna hurt Donald Trump when he runs for re-election.

  87. 87

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:26 am

    @77 Because it’s a free country and he can travel where he wants and say what he wants, until the Orange Fuhrer “fixes” that.

  88. 88

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:27 am

    Watching part of the premier of Handmaid’s Tale, apparently it seems that following the Gillead takeover, There were some loyal units in the Army able to rescue a few people, but not enough. Plus, The Colonies were described as Chernobyl like wastelands, Gillead did not care who was rescued from where they sent those who didn’t fit in.

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:28 am

    @80 It’s too late. We’re not going to like Elmo again. Ever.

  90. 90

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:32 am

    @85 Didn’t those apples use to be exported? Oh well, as more humans use horses for transportation because they can’t afford cars anymore, there’ll be a domestic market for some of them.

  91. 91

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:34 am

    @86 The 22nd Amendment will hurt him more, if SCOTUS is still enforcing the Constitution by then.

  92. 92

    Republicans Did That spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:40 am

    @86

    When even the in the bag for the GOP Rasmussen can’t cook the numbers…it’s bad.

    Say what happens in November 2026?

    How did those deep red Florida districts turn out? Were they, like half the margin the GOP is used to seeing?

    Elon getting perp walked into Congressional hearings in 2027 is what you have to look forward to.

  93. 93

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:42 am

    The Trump Fascists just replaced immigration judges with border cops:

    Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said in an interview with Axios that individual Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are the “principal arbiter[s]” of whether or not an immigrant should be summarily deported — shrugging aside due process rights for noncitizens.

    Oh yeah, there’s also this codicil:

    “People keep saying they have no criminal history,” Homan went on. “I’ve been doing law enforcement since 1984. Many gang members don’t have criminal history. It’s more than criminal history.” He said that agents will comb through an immigrant’s social media history, for example.

    Now, if an asylum seeker doesn’t have a criminal history, they’ll make one up.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-presidency-live-updates_n_67e55ccce4b0d5fb5f3d85c1/liveblog_67f54fbde4b037e70478b714

    Presumably the immigration judges will be reassigned to polishing border agents’ boots.

  94. 94

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 10:56 am

    Did you know airport scanners make you gay with their “gay beams”?

    https://www.rawstory.com/christian-nationalist-2671695120/

  95. 95

    Republicans Did That spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:02 am

    Some fun for the GOP as they embrace Dear Leader’s Tariff plans.

    51% disapprove of Tariffs
    34% approve

    Do you think prices will
    Increase 67%
    Decrease 4%
    Stay the Same 15%

    (YouGov)

    Egg prices are rising again. That Easter hunt with your kids is 20% more expensive than last year.

  96. 96

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:14 am

    Remember when I posted that Trump’s policies would lead to nuclear proliferation?

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-nato-europe-rcna196984

  97. 97

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:14 am

    Remember when I posted that Trump’s policies would lead to nuclear proliferation?

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-nato-europe-rcna196984

  98. 98

    Republicans Did That spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:27 am

    It was yuge. It was the biggest in history. No one has ever seen crowds like that. 5 million people in this great country came out for me. Never been a crowd like that ever.

    -Uh sir….

    Shut up. It was bigger than Tianamen Square.

    -Are you sure you want to talk about Tia..

    Stop speaking. They people were in the streets all because of me.

  99. 99

    I Just Wanted to Play Baldur’s Gate spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:37 am

    Any hardcore gamer or renderer of large graphics knows what this means.

    But it’s cool. There will be an American factory opening up to fill this need by the end of the year?

    Razer pauses direct laptop sales in the US as new tariffs loom

    With tariffs set to kick in tonight, Razer’s new Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available to purchase directly.

    The best tech, unavailable in the US at any price. Brought to you by Donald ‘J Trump.

  100. 100

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:42 am

    @ 99

    The best tech, unavailable in the US at any price.

    Gee. You might get so bored without it that you’ll get up and go for a walk around the block, you fat fuck.

  101. 101

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:45 am

    @ 97

    So far, this is just talk.

    And you are a useless, bloviating clown, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  102. 102

    Your 401K is grrrrrreat! spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 11:47 am

    That yuge futures rebound dumbfuck was bragging about last night ended up about as well as SpaceX Starship.

    All major indices are negative.

    “104% tariff on China is a brilliant plan. Only a moron disagrees.”

    -Elon, as TSLA hits -40% YTD.

    ‘Buy, Tesla will never be this cheap again. Wait, NOW it will never…FUCK.”

  103. 103

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:06 pm

    I can hardly wait until deregulating our way to solving the housing crisis brings third-world building standards to our local communities.

    https://www.aol.com/least-13-dead-70-injured-115536806.html

  104. 104

    Looking for a US Manufactured PC spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:09 pm

    @101

    It’s funny because of not understanding how the market for tech works.

    It hits the early adopters first.
    Then the professional class.
    Then the consumer.

    When Mom’s 10 year old desktop dies you’re going to find plenty of Celeron Processor models in her price range. Even SHE will notice how fucking slow it is and it crashes with browser tabs open to Rick Steves, Amazon and Walmart simultaneously.

    And it’s really laggy streaming Downton Abby.

  105. 105

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:10 pm

    Trump squelched a 1450-point Dow rally today by promising more tariffs on China. Stocks are now down, mortgage rates jumped back up, and oil prices fell back below $60. Investors expect a recession.

  106. 106

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:11 pm

    84,
    Wisconsin’s supreme court will now gradually shift toward a 5-2 then a 6-1 liberal majority in the increasingly unpopular Fat Hitler years ahead of us.

    For example.

  107. 107

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:18 pm

    Meanwhile, after blocking green energy, Trump and his minions plan to reinstate coal in all its dirty glory:

    The U.S. needs more coal to meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers and other industries, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Tuesday.

    “If we want to grow America’s electricity production meaningfully over the next five or 10 years, we [have] got to stop closing coal plants,” Wright told CNBC’s “Money Movers.”

    The energy secretary’s comments come as President Donald Trump is poised to sign an order Tuesday that will direct the National Energy Dominance Council to classify coal as a critical mineral. The order aims to permit federal agencies to find coal on federal lands and prioritize leases for extraction.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/us-needs-to-keep-coal-plants-open-energy-secretary-says.html

    Democrats can easily deter investments in coal plants. All they have to do is say, “When we get back in, we’ll reinstate pollution laws and ban coal again.” But I don’t think they’ll need to. The energy industry is moving on from coal, and won’t turn back the clock no matter what Trump does.

  108. 108

    BigBalz spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:21 pm

    I found some waste.

    FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino

    The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail. Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said.

  109. 109

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:22 pm

    @100 The dumbfuck who bragged about owning five vehicles wants us to believe he walks for exercise. 😂

  110. 110

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:26 pm

    @102 Tesla is roundly beating the averages today. It’s down twice as much as the S&P 500 and three times as much as the DJIA.

  111. 111

    lmao spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:29 pm

    Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the US is now likely headed toward a recession, with potentially 2 million Americans put out of work, thanks to the tariff increases now in train…

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/summers-warns-us-likely-headed-160711092.html

    Oh he’s credible right? All the trolls and magats said he was right about Joe’s spending.

  112. 112

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:41 pm

    It turns out the Trump administration made the tariffs four times too large under their own formula with a grade school math error, and Trump’s Treasury secretary and Council of Economic Advisers chair admit it, but instead of doing anything about it they’re focused on finding someone else to blame it on.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/business/video/trump-tariffs-math-equation-wrong-economist-veuger-cnc-digvid

  113. 113

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:44 pm

    In a sign of how chippy the Trump administration’s racism is, NWS weather reports will now be published only in English.

    Presumably NWS staffers who still have jobs are now tasked with erasing non-English translations of weather reports.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/weather/warning-translation-noaa-nws-cuts/index.html

  114. 114

    Mortimer Duke spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:45 pm

    @107

    “BURN MORE COAL. TURN THE MACHINES BACK ON!”

    ‘No.’ -ConEdison

  115. 115

    Elon Musk spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:48 pm

    @111

    41% YTD now. We’re trying to get it to 47 in honor of my assistant, Donald.

  116. 116

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 12:48 pm

    The DJIA is now down 728 points, the S&P 500 is down 2.8%, Nasdaq is down 3.3%, and TSLA is down 6.3%. That’s today, one day, after Trump squelched a 1400-point rally by promising bigger and better tariffs. Depression, here we come! Wheeeeeeee!!! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

    I also read that if iPhone manufacturing is moved to the U.S., as Kooky Karoline (aka “Bullshit Barbie”) glibly suggested, they’ll cost $3500.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/tech-analyst-responds-to-trump-wanting-apple-to-make-iphones-in-us-i-dont-think-thats-a-thing.html

  117. 117

    Xi spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:00 pm

    Donnie thinks iPhones can be manufactured domestically because he built a Foxconn plant in Minnesota.

  118. 118

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:11 pm

    How do you attack Navarro and not be attack Drumpf? Musty Balls has no balls, if he did he’d criticize the right person. No wonder Tesla suck

  119. 119

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:12 pm

    Measles! Who wants Measles! Get your Measles here, Today!

  120. 120

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:14 pm

    Xi, that’s not the only Dumbfuck ideas he has. You know he Fake President Xi.

  121. 121

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:15 pm

    Have some Measles with your depression. Hehehe

  122. 122

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:17 pm

    I also read that if iPhone manufacturing is moved to the U.S., as Kooky Karoline (aka “Bullshit Barbie”) glibly suggested, they’ll cost $3500.

    🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  123. 123

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:21 pm

    41% YTD now. We’re trying to get it to 47 in honor of my assistant, Donald.

    Another funny one!☝️

  124. 124

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:21 pm

    Sales of Chineses cars in Brazil are soaring!

    Go China!

  125. 125

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:24 pm

    a round of 18 anyone?

  126. 126

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:30 pm

    REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECEEEEEEEEEESION!

  127. 127

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:34 pm

    @100 The dumbfuck who bragged about owning five vehicles wants us to believe he walks for exercise. 😂

    He’s got to be a fat fuck, hence the horse.

  128. 128

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 1:55 pm

    I also read that if iPhone manufacturing is moved to the U.S., as Kooky Karoline (aka “Bullshit Barbie”) glibly suggested, they’ll cost $3500.

    They’ll cost that with a 104% Fat Hitler tariff.

    But of course once they reach that price demand will have declined by 90%. Which means the 275 Apple stores become 87 Apple kiosks in a corner of the mall or grocery store. And 12,000 deliveries to those stores dwindle to 400. I guess I’m glad I got my new phone when I did. It’s probably going to have to last me for a while. Glad I went to the trouble of putting a glass screen protector on it and a good case. But thefts are going to explode.

  129. 129

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:03 pm

    A lot of profoundly stupid xenophobes are about to find out that the rest of the planet has been laboring to subsidize our ravenous consumer appetitles for a long time now.

    Tough love time I guess.

  130. 130

    Nina Totenberg spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:10 pm

    Dumbfuck is gloating without reading the decisions.

    9-0 detainees must be given due process to challenge before deportation.

    5-4 the lawsuit is kicked back because the CURRENT set of detainees should have filed in TX not DC.

    The groomed child bride Twat at the podium and Dumbfuck “The court rules we can deport whoever we like!”

  131. 131

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:13 pm

    China just turned off the U.S. supply of dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium and yttrium. What the fuck are those, you ask?

    Rare and specialty minerals that are not produced domestically that are essential to the kinds of things Americans do manufacture, like variable speed inverter drive motors – the kind found in EVs, heat pumps, refrigerators, aerospace engines and hydraulics, etc. Or the minerals needed to produce super strong alloys used in any of those industries. Or the minerals needed to produce very low friction coatings to prevent things from getting hot inside high speed turbines and blowing apart. The list goes on and on and finds its way into almost every facet of modern technologically dependent society. Cut off.

  132. 132

    The First Amendment spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:15 pm

    Nother!

    Judge Trevor McFadden, appointed by Trump in his first term, issues a preliminary injunction ordering the Trump admin to rescind its decision blocking AP access to the Oval Office & Air Force One.

  133. 133

    2to0andOrangeManLaughs spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:17 pm

    SCOTUS: Trump Was Right

    Today, in a one-two punch of constitutionally glorious vindication, the highest court in the land handed President Donald J. Trump a 2-0 win, one of which should have every America-hating, Constitution-twisting, open-borders cheerleader choking on their avocado toast. Because, yes, SCOTUS just greenlit Trump’s use of a 1798 law to deport foreign gang members.

    … But it wasn’t just the gang member deportation case that got a SCOTUS smackdown in Trump’s favor today. In a separate decision, the justices also rebuked another lower court ruling trying to jam up Trump’s immigration policy — one that had made it easier to quickly deport criminal aliens without a years-long taxpayer-funded legal carnival.

    So that’s two wins. On the same day. From the same court. For the same president.

    And yet, the legacy media is doing Olympic-level gymnastics trying to bury the lead. But don’t worry. We see you.

    What makes this even juicier is the context. Remember how Democrats clutched their pearls, insisting that Trump was some kind of dictator for using every legal tool available to him? Remember how they screamed that he was trampling the Constitution by enforcing the law — as written — to remove violent criminals who shouldn’t have been here in the first place?

    Turns out, he was following the law to the letter. The same law, by the way, that Abraham Lincoln invoked during the Civil War and that FDR used during World War II. And you know what Lincoln, FDR, and Trump all have in common? They used executive authority for the protection of the American people. Period.

    So to all the critics who claimed this was racist, xenophobic, or unconstitutional — congrats on your L.”

  134. 134

    Montana? spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 2:38 pm

    You know how they say it’s much easier to hate something if you’ve never actually seen it?

    Ask Sen. Zooey Zephyr as 17 Republicans voted with Democrats to beat back SB124 today, a boll making doctors and parents felons for providing any form of gender affirming care.

  135. 135

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 3:29 pm

    @133 We don’t care what happens to violent criminals. We’re only concerned about the legal residents with no criminal record who Trump, Tom Homan, their border agents, and Doctor Dumbfuck convict without due process because they have a peace and love tattoo. Also, penning a college newspaper op-ed against Israeli terrorism several years ago isn’t domestic terrorism in our book.

  136. 136

    HA Film Historian spews:

    Tuesday, 4/8/25 at 3:53 pm

    Enumclaw

    Long before the movie about Widbey’s Nazis, there was a film about early MAGA going to Enumclaw to be fucked by a horse, as in fucked to death. A cautionary tale that dumbfuck apparently missed.

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