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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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    “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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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”

  13. 13

    @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

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

  15. 15

    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.

  17. 17

    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

    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

    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.

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