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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/30/25, 8:07 am

– It is good to see faith leaders who seem to care about immigrants.

– Trump making electricity more expensive is an interesting story. But the headline framing it as a question was strange, and doesn’t fit the actual article.

– Don’t forget, your Cybertruck needs a regular wash in saltwater and lemon wash.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 8:57 am

    – Trump making electricity more expensive is an interesting story. But the headline framing it as a question was strange, and doesn’t fit the actual article.

    Also not fitting the article is electricity becoming more expensive.

    What might change is who pays for it:

    Seattle City Light CEO Dawn Lindell said Washington state must add capacity; but without federal investment, development costs will have to be passed on to consumers.

    “We’ve had grant funding cut at the federal level,” Lindell said. “We’ve had tax credits cut at the federal level … And those [grants and tax credits] offset the price to build. So it is a direct impact on the cost of that energy.”

    IOW if my tax dollars aren’t subsidizing it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will have to pay for more of it.

    Boo fuckin’ hoo.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 8:58 am

    Perish the thought that those who consume energy might be expected to pay for more of what they consume.

  3. 3

    Chevron spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:12 am

    Paris, the thought that we might actually have to pay for the ships troops missiles planes that guard our ships coming out of the golf.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:23 am

    @ 3

    Perish, not Paris. Gulf, not golf.

    Other than that, only 3.8% of Chevron’s total production last year was from Saudi Arabia/Kuwait.

    Try smarter.

  5. 5

    Las Vegas Athletics Atlanta Falcons spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:24 am

    Parish the thought, we should have to actually buy the land and the building instead of having it given to us.

  6. 6

    Elon Musk spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:27 am

    Parish, the thought I should build anything without a guarantee that it would be purchased by the government.

  7. 7

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:27 am

    Oh this is too cute:

    Against this grim backdrop, we must consider shattering a long-standing taboo. The only viable path to saving Gazans and stabilizing the Israeli-Palestinian arena is handing Egypt trusteeship over the Gaza Strip.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/30/gaza-egypt-trusteeship-plan/

    As if Egypt and its corrupt dictator al-Sisi doesn’t have their hands full repressing their own people. It has to bail out Israel and its poodle, the U.S.

    The only way this happens is if the U.S. pays Egypt to do it. A LOT. Israel may make a token contribution of technical support (mass surveillance and other repressive tech) and even a few shekels but it’ll be the U.S. taxpayer who foots almost the entire bill.

    Deporting the entire population to “shithole countries” like Sudan and Myanmar and Central African Republic will be expensive too but probably cheaper.

    There’s only all that beachfront to be had for teh Israel sicko-phant dumbfucks of the world, amirite? Punch y’all timeshare deposit in.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:27 am

    One of Barack’s billionaire friends was in the news yesterday.

    Oprah responds to claims her private road in Hawaii was closed during tsunami evacuations

    The road was closed until she got caught.

  9. 9

    Pete Hegseth spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:31 am

    Parish the thought my department should ever pass an audit. Someone might wonder who is a retrofitting that Qatari plane.

  10. 10

    Not going away spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:35 am

    Economist/YouGov

    Do you think that Donald Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?

    46% yes
    32% no
    23% unsure

  11. 11

    If it’s black Dumbfuck hates it spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:38 am

    @8

    Good job highlighting that one rando twatter…

    From your link.

    A post on X, which has since been updated with a community note to refute the claims, reported that Winfrey had kept her private road closed.

    Now do Joel Ostein

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:41 am

    @ 11

    Apparently they were letting through 50 cars at a time. Drivers were required to provide proof of a minimum net worth of $50 million to be permitted road access.

  13. 13

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:45 am

    Sell 3 contracts of SBUX March 80 puts, collect $1,000 premium.

    This is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit refers to as “gambling”.

  14. 14

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:49 am

    Texas GOP gets ready to do what Illinois Democrats did.

    NewsWire
    @NewsWire_US

    TEXAS GOP PROPOSE CONGRESSIONAL MAP ELIMINATING 5 DEMOCRATIC SEATS

    7:33 AM · Jul 30, 2025

    Gone would be the indicted Henry Cuellar.

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:50 am

    @ 10

    Do you think that Donald Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?

    46% yes

    Gee. This might cost The Donald re-election.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:53 am

    Steve’s inability to fuck anything less than 400# is why he hates conservatives.

    Thin, White and Right: The Ideal Christian Woman
    How skinny became a conservative calling card.

  17. 17

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:02 am

    Daily Show jokes that Trump is attacking famous Black people to deflect from Epstein.

    The troll is doing that with a road.

    Republicans protect pedophiles. Troll is a Republican. Troll, people are asking, what grade is your personal favorite to harvest from?

  18. 18

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:05 am

    16. What’s the deal with the deforming facial plastic surgery conservative women get?

    It doesn’t make them look like the children that Republicans obviously desire, more like spitting image puppets.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:11 am

    @1 When private utility monopolies petition the Utilities and Transportation Commission for rate hikes, they routinely demand that ratepayers capitalize infrastructure expansion and improvements, costs that should be borne by shareholders. The ratepayers are only responsible for funding a reasonable ROI.

    With Seattle City Light it’s different, because the customers are, in effect, the shareholders.

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:14 am

    @4 And none from Israel, the biggest sponge of U.S. military aid. Obviously there’s more to American imperialism than protecting the global oil supply.

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:17 am

    @7 “it’ll be the U.S. taxpayer who foots almost the entire bill”

    That’s not a problem for this administration. Have you noticed that Republicans spend and waste as much taxpayer money as Democrats? They simply spend and waste it on different stuff while driving the U.S. ever deeper into debt.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:21 am

    @12 Anybody can post anything on “X” and does. Here’s what really happened:

    Claims that Oprah Winfrey blocked a private Maui road during tsunami evacuations have been debunked. In fact, she coordinated with authorities to keep it open and aid locals.

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oprah-did-not-close-road-amid-maui-tsunami-evacuation-heres-what-really-happened-1739755

    But, you know, she’s black; so some anonymous poster lies about her in rightwing social media, which is what “X” is. And the dumbfuck troll, as always, swallows whole whatever the rightwing rumor mill spews out, because he’s a dumbfuck.

  23. 23

    Cool story, bro spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:22 am

    @13.

    Sure you did. My mother-in-law always tells me about the time she wins 80 bucks at Muckleshoot leaving out the nine times she lost 50 bucks the previous visits.

  24. 24

    Q spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:25 am

    She also doesn’t really have a private road in any sense that a person would understand it as two state highways which she is not able to close run through the property.

    If you’ve visited Haleakala within the last 5-6 years, you’ve been through Oprah’s property

    I would be happy to have a conversation about whether or not buying up all of Hawaii’s Real estate and making it unreachable for a year round native in state residence is acceptable but that’s a totally different conversation.

    I saw on X that she keeps her supple skin by drinking the breastmilk of newly pregnant moms that she keeps under a bowling alley in Chatsworth

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:25 am

    @15 What takes down Trump also takes down the Republican Party and its congressional majorities, who long ago — through their voluntary choice — ceased to be anything other than joined with him at the hip.

  26. 26

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:27 am

    @16 If the polls you love so much are to be believed, even they won’t date MAGA men.

    https://www.newsweek.com/majority-women-wont-date-trump-supporter-1981708

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:29 am

    @17 “The troll is doing that with a lie about a road.” ftfy

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:32 am

    @24 If anybody closes a road to native Hawaiians, it’ll be Zuck, not Oprah.

    In any case, maybe Hawaii should cap the amount of land billionaires can buy? It’s not like they have a lot to spare.

  29. 29

    AIPAC spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:37 am

    Maybe all of those claims that not wanting Palestinian civilians dead equals antisemitism were bullshit.

    I’m done, according to a new poll Mamdani has a 17 point lead among Jewish New Yorkers.

    We gotta do something our jobs are at stake

  30. 30

    MAGA ‘rancher’ spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:38 am

    Parish the thought we should actually have to pay market rate for the soy beans and other grains we feed our cattle.

  31. 31

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 10:44 am

    Generac, of which I own 500 shares, is up $25 today. That’s, um, $12,500, give or take, which is 12 times what the Genius Investor claims to have made by selling SBUX puts. Just sayin’.

    Say, anyone remember G.I. laughing at my Generac holding? I don’t recall whether he did. Maybe it was some other stock. I have dozens of stocks.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 11:04 am

    Oh look! DeSantis spent $450 million of Florida’s $500 million disaster relief fund on Alligator Alcatraz.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3J_YqRwtc

    I guess Floridians will be fine if they don’t get hurricanes there anymore.

  33. 33

    yet another dumbfuck spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 11:09 am

    I saw on X that she keeps her supple skin by drinking the breastmilk of newly pregnant moms that she keeps under a bowling alley in Chatsworth

    That’s adrenachrome.. Read it on Caviezel’s aka Jeebus’ X feed.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 12:05 pm

    Go Texas, go Texas, go Texas…

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness

    Democrats rigged the maps to maximize their share of Congressional seats. It is absolutely justified for us to do it too.

    California:
    🔴40% of the statewide vote
    🔵17% of the seats (9 out of 52)

    Massachusetts:
    🔴35% of the statewide vote
    🔵0% of the seats (0 out of 9)

    Connecticut:
    🔴 38% of the statewide vote
    🔵 0% of the seats (0 out of 5)

    New York:
    🔴42% of the statewide vote
    🔵26.9% of the seats (7 out of 26)

    New Jersey:
    🔴 43% of the statewide vote
    🔵 25% of the seats (3 out of 12)

    Maryland:
    🔴 38% of the statewide vote
    🔵 12% of the seats (1 out of 8)

    New Mexico:
    🔴 44% of the statewide vote
    🔵 0% of the seats (0 out of 3)

    Hawaii:
    🔴 30% of the statewide vote
    🔵 0% of the seats (0 out of 2)

    Oregon:
    🔴 42% of the statewide vote
    🔵 16% of the seats (1 out of 6)

    Washington:
    🔴 38% of the statewide vote
    🔵 20% of the seats (2 out of 10)

    Rhode Island:
    🔴 38% of the statewide vote
    🔵 0% of the seats (0 out of 2)

    8:31 AM · Jul 30, 2025

    And just wait until the next census. Gonna be a bonanza for the GOP.

  35. 35

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 12:37 pm

    Breaking News: Boxcheck Momala realizes she’s poison.

    Blow jobs only get a girl so far. Isn’t that right, Welfare Queen YLB.

  36. 36

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 12:48 pm

    @35 spoken like a kreepee dumbfuck who’s been forced to settle its whole miserable life for a handjob that it had to pay through the nose for..

    everything else it watches on youporn.

    There’s a one line entry for dumbfuck in its frat’s “body count” book:

    “creamed its jeans the first moment a target walked through the door.”

  37. 37

    9-2 spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 1:02 pm

    Stuff it.

  38. 38

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 1:34 pm

    Violent heterosexual Neanderthals are terrorists.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 1:39 pm

    @34 The question is whether any of those states could be gerrymandered to give Republicans more seats given how unpopular they are.

  40. 40

    Bozo the Clown spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 1:42 pm

    🔴 🔴

  41. 41

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 2:34 pm

    Democrats rigged the maps to maximize their share of Congressional seats. It is absolutely justified for us to do it too.

    Don’t be fooled by a liar.

    In every case they could Democrats rigged the maps to favor veteran incumbents by gifting them “safe” seats in order to support seniority, committee assignments, and trad fund raising from industry lobbys, indy PACs and wealthy donors.

    That’s how we got a Congressional caucus that looks like a buffet line at the senior center.

    Take away every single Republican district in Washington, Oregon, and California and the only Democrats who will suffer look more like Nancy Pelosi than Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Ask yourself who you would like to see more of?

    Competitive districts are better for bipartisanship and lessen polarization. So naturally fascists are opposed to that.

  42. 42

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 2:40 pm

    Go back and read the percentages quoted by the Nazi Fucktard’s source (which are inaccurate btw).

    Remodel every single district in each state to reflect the statewide compositional vote split and what percentage of districts do Republicans win?

    Zero.

    The fact that in a state like California where Democrats enjoy a twenty point advantage, yet Republicans still win nine seats is proof that the map is not gerrymandered to favor Democrats.

    It is gerrymandered to favor incumbents.

    And fascists are liars. Always. All the time.

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 3:21 pm

    In today’s political news, Trump’s approval rating keeps sinking, Canada will recognize a Palestinian state thanks to Trump and Bibi, Harris won’t run for California governor, and Trump is sniping at Hawley and Grassley.

  44. 44

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 3:30 pm

    Pretty funny listening to Joe Rogan and Theo speaking in disappointment in Dumpy not releasing the Epstein filed.

    These guys are supposed to be smart and respected by their fans.

    But did they really think that the guy that’s in the Epstein files really would incriminate himself.

    What are they thinking?

    I mean if they want the files to be released because they want to know if Dumpy is one of the pedos that’s one thing but to sit there and think that they want to disclose all the others and yet they don’t think Dumpy is one them then they are just fucking idiots.

    Besides I’m sure they’d love to fuck one of the little girls themselves.

    It’s comical.

    Face it Epstein did not commit suicide, he was murdered

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 3:31 pm

    Looks like the Senate Republicans have a rebel on their hands.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTpKp3hdQQ

    Man, it’s fun to watch them go at each other! “I co-sponsored this bill! What are you doing to my bill??!!”

  46. 46

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 3:57 pm

    A Maryland Police Department submitted official, valid identification and immigration documentation for a highly qualified prospective police recruit through the DHS E-Verify system in May. And after a brief wait DHS issued confirmation that that the recruit was authorized by DHS to work in the US through 2030. So he was hired and completed his academy training.

    Then last week, after Stephen Miller issued new threats and quotas to ICE Fat Asses, DHS arrested him and imprisoned him pending deportation.

    One conclusion is inescapable: DHS lies.

  47. 47

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:05 pm

    The University of California’s largest campus has, among other things, agreed to a 15 year consent decree, which will prevent it from allowing its students, faculty, and departments from treating Jews the way Jews were treated on its campus just after the October 7 massacre.

    This was behavior that G-clown recently claimed he was not aware of.

  48. 48

    George Zimmerman spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:21 pm

    @37

    Funny how California just secured a conviction of the Jew who attacked the pro-Palestinian protesters at that very same university. The only criminal act to go to court from the incident.

  49. 49

    HNV spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:31 pm

    Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

    Nothig to see here. Look over there! Transgenders.

    https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/30/colorado-dentist-murder-trial-wife-verdict/

  50. 50

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:33 pm

    47,
    The UC System agrees to keep right on doing all the same things they’ve been doing since the state celebrated ridding itself of Ronald Reagan.

    And the doddering Nazi Fucktard flexes for the nursing assistants.

    Pudding at 8 in the TV room.

  51. 51

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:38 pm

    Love triangle? Or was it an affair?

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/shotsie-buck-hayes-photos-revealed-online-wedding-site-lee-volgers-attacker-found-1739793

  52. 52

    Can I get a Venti Frappuccino with two pumps of caramel? spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 5:43 pm

    Because you insist on prosecuting, my dearest friend and fellow criminal Jair Bolsonaro I am indeed slapping a 50% tariff on you Brazil. I mean, how much coffee do we really need here anyway? And how much of that really comes from Brazil? I’m sure Americans will either not notice that their coffee is considerably more expensive or they’ll just cut back because they love me so much that they’ll all just stop drinking coffee because Brazil is evil and meanies.

    MAGA!

  53. 53

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 6:10 pm

    This was behavior that G-clown recently claimed he was not aware of.

    Jews will not replace Us. Bob is not aware of that either. He’s not aware the his Mesiah said that there are good people on both sides. His Mesiah hasn’t ever denouced White Supremists in this country and many of his assoicates have talked along side the Nazis. Bob isn’t aware of that.

    Douche bag, you haven’t denounced the Free Speech of JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US! Fuck You!

    I am well aware that a group of assholes, that are protected by the right wing media and the right wing pols and current clown show, go around marching with Nazi Salutes and saying JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US. Go fuck yourself.

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 6:35 pm

    @53 Free speech is only for Nazis now. Also, they’ll be allowed into federal buildings to proselytize the workers with “Hail Trump!” salutes.

  55. 55

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 8:15 pm

    @ 48

    The only criminal act to go to court from the incident.

    Thank you for making the DOJ’s point about the disproportionate treatment received by the two sides. UCLA administration permitted the campus police to permit a Jew Exclusion Zone as part of the protests. Physically enforced by people against whom LE and prosecutors elected not to bring charges.

    And let’s be honest. It wasn’t the only criminal act.

    Feldstein Soto’s office declined charges against 338 protesters arrested on both campuses last year on suspicion of charges including failing to disperse and trespassing. Seven additional allegations of resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, battery, vandalism and assault related to the protests were either declined for prosecution by Feldstein Soto or resolved via a pre-filing diversionary process, records show.

  56. 56

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 8:34 pm

    22)While making the DoD look good for opening Kokekole pass on Oahu, which they closed almost immediately after all clear.

  57. 57

    Snowflake Dumbfuck spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:10 pm

    @54

    A thing that didn’t actually happen, Jews not being able to go to class. “you mean to tell me that if I wanna go from the Wooden Center to Royce Hall or the Anderson school, I’m gonna have to walk an extra 100 yards up Bruin walk instead of cutting through the quad up to the steps or else I’ll have to be in the vague vicinity of some people who think killing children is wrong? Why that’s complete and utter anarchy..” y’all really should see the area you’re talking about. It’s kinda like saying the entire city of Seattle was locked down and burning because there was a protest in Cal Anderson.

    Versus

    A thing that actually happened, Jewish students launching a violent attack on the encampment.

    Enjoy the newsmac coverage

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:16 pm

    @54 Speaking of not prosecuting people, bully in civilian clothes assaults two different people engaged in Constitution-protected activity in less than 2 minutes. Why is this thug not in jail?

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ejIfuNWrONk

  59. 59

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 7/30/25 at 9:20 pm

    Feldstein Soto’s office declined charges…

    Should we tell him?

    I mean, it’s funny as fuck to just let him keep right on shitting the bed like this.

  60. 60

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 3:12 am

    CEO of last railroad to merge, not really a fan of tge proposed UP-NS Merger.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cpkcs-creel-warns-of-issues-from-up-ns-endgame-merger/

  61. 61

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 7:13 am

    In a desperate bid to keep girlishly giddy investors from dumping following a disastrous earnings call, Tesla has announced big, BIG, BIG plans to rapidly expand “the future of the business” Robotaxi service into California.

    It will be just a regular human operated taxi service. But financed by the suckers shareholders to keep it affordable.

  62. 62

    I TOTALLY believe she was 18 when you first did her spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:30 am

    The Family Values again:

    Republican state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a lead author of Texas’ abortion ban, has admitted to having a decades-long affair with former exotic dancer Alex Grace starting when she was 18—and Grace is claiming that he even paid for “several” abortions.

  63. 63

    lmao spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:33 am

    dumfuckonomics is all about reducing spending amirite?

    the government has spent about the same amount of money this year as it did last year to this point. Daily Treasury statements, which show the government’s ongoing expenses, are slightly higher now than last year. Expenditures on federal salaries are up about 5 percent this year compared to last year, according to federal spending trackers kept by the nonpartisan Brookings Institution and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

    Researchers say that could be due in part to more hires last year under the Biden administration. But also, many federal workers who took voluntary exits are still getting paid.

    oh how many?

    The government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, according to two administration officials.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-federal-government-is-paying-more-than-154-000-people-not-to-work/ar-AA1JE48h

    i.e. teh magat missadministration is paying those 154k feds to “sit on their asses” as kreepee dumbfuck would babble. and?

    Salaries make up a small fraction of overall spending, though, with most of the almost $7 trillion annual budget going to expensive health care and retirement programs.

    And we haven’t even mentioned anything about the costs, litigation and otherwise, resulting from the amateur hatchet job performed by elmo and its shitler youth. Runs into many billions. Like a couple months and change that would pay for dumbfuck’s fav federal make work program – Afghanistan. See the article for the details.

    kreepee dumbfuck would call all of this “intelligent” and “serious”..

  64. 64

    Free Luigi spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:55 am

    Rick Scott defending congressional stock trading by asking the rhetorical question, “Do you think I can’t make money without cheating?” Is giving…

    LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED
    HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – HCA Inc. (formerly known as Columbia/HCA and HCA – The Healthcare Company) has agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs, the Justice Department announced today.

    Which beings up the old question. If you could post $20b in profit from illegal activities and if you get caught have to pay less than $2b and zero jail time…would you do it again?”

  65. 65

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:28 am

    Boxcheck Momala will be interviewed by Colbert tonight so that he can learn how to lose $100 million per week instead of just $40 million per year.

  66. 66

    Jerome Powell spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:32 am

    Tariffs Touches All:

    Procter & Gamble — the maker of Dawn dish soap, Charmin toilet paper, Crest toothpaste and Tide detergent — said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products starting in August in part because of the $1 billion tariff hit it expects annually.

    Did you catch how Donnie is trying to kill off Ford?

  67. 67

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:34 am

    @ 57

    Why is this thug not in jail?

    Maybe because briefly holding the upper arm of a woman while helping her to get back and then allegedly dislodging the cell phone from the hand of a second person are not serious crimes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Nor are they examples of thuggery, ya pussy. But keep up the silliness. We’re counting on it for the midterms.

  68. 68

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:40 am

    @ 65

    Did you catch how Donnie is trying to kill off Ford?

    No, but Obama’s task force vote on whether to save Chrysler was 4 to 3. Chrysler is now foreign-owned.

    Electric vehicles will do more to kill off Ford than anything else. During Biden’s last year as president, EVs cost Ford $5 billion. Donald Trump had nothing to do with that.

  69. 69

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:40 am

    …are not serious crimes,

    Credentialed law enforcement making false sworn statements to a criminal Court of law is.

    Fascist.

  70. 70

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:43 am

    While Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit worries that he might no longer be able to afford the softness of Charmin when his wife wipes his ass, this morning both NASDAQ and S&P 500 hit all-time highs.

    Again.

  71. 71

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:43 am

    Chrysler is now foreign-owned.

    Just like FOX.

  72. 72

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:44 am

    @ 70

    Chrysler is now foreign-owned.

    Just like FOX.

    And the Clintons and the Bidens.

  73. 73

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:44 am

    NASDAQ and S&P 500 hit all-time highs.

    Biden Economic Miracle©️

  74. 74

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:45 am

    And the dumbfuck troll, as always, swallows whole whatever the rightwing rumor mill spews out, because he’s a dumbfuck.

    He swallows the horse cock for fun!

  75. 75

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:47 am

    Manafort received duffle bags of Russian cash. Got convicted for it in front of a Republican appointed judge and a randomly chosen jury vetted by his own attorneys.

  76. 76

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:48 am

    It’s rather amazing that #CrookedHillary and her campaign conspired with the highest levels of the FBI and CIA to push the Russia hoax, and still she got her ass kicked by Donald Trump.

    And we’re learning new shit on a daily basis. Et tu, Barack?

  77. 77

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:51 am

    Cory Booker is a clown. He’s a testament to the weakness of Chuck Schumer.

  78. 78

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:59 am

    Bunch of self fucking anti semites!

    https://apnews.com/article/us-jews-israel-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-9b09ec317734006064ae02c282dd8aed

    Bibi, the monster, really fucked up.

  79. 79

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 10:04 am

    Learning from dishonest extortionists.

  80. 80

    My deeply held convictions are malleable spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 10:12 am

    @66

    Less than 48 hours from arguing that taking a forearm from the officer to the throat is assaulting a policeman

    Less than 24 hours from arguing that chanting in a tiny area of campus was abhorrent violent behavior.

    Good job Dumbfuck

  81. 81

    Volkswagen electric division spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 10:20 am

    Electric vehicles will do more to kill off Ford than anything else

    Go back 72 hours and you can find a post about how China spent the last decade developing electric cars that people want with range beyond the use of 90% of drivers while one party in the US consistently said electric cars are unviable. Playing catch-up is expensive. No one wants an F150 in Europe or China or India.

    You’re right, but not in the way you think.

  82. 82

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:02 am

    #CrookedHillary and her campaign conspired with the highest levels of the FBI and CIA to push the Russia hoax,

    The Special Prosecutor who investigated and established that Russia interfered with the 2016 election in favor of Donald J. Trump and resulted in charges against 34 individuals and three companies, eight guilty pleas, and a conviction at trial was a former FBI director, lifelong Republican, and was appointed by none other than Donald J. Trump following a day long series of White House meetings with the entire administration, including Trump himself.

  83. 83

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:15 am

    The Nazi Fucktard neeeeeeds #RussiaHoax to be real just so he can stop obsessively fantasizing about Fat Hitler’s micro penis in Virginia Giuffre’s 14-year-old hands.

  84. 84

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:22 am

    Fat Hitler’s DOJ is now joining an extremist Christian fundie suit to overturn Obergfell.

    The MAGAts in the White House and Congress will be going after birth control very soon.

    And when they do, dutiful, obedient, fascists like our Nazi Fucktard will click their heels together and salute it precisely the way they have fallen in line behind all the rest of it. That’s FREEDUMB to them. Groveling obedience to whatever lunacy the in-group commands.

  85. 85

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:30 am

    Major insurers are bailing on Cybertruck owners citing insanely low production numbers that make it impossible for conventional insurers to rate risk.

  86. 86

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:43 am

    The U.S. Treasury investigative file related to the Epstein criminal prosecution details over 4,700 wire transfers into and out of a single Epstein bank account using sanctioned Russian banks (sanctions now being lifted by Fat Hitler and Republicans), adding up to $1.1 billion in payments for sex trafficking of minor children from Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Belarus.

    You know he’s in there.

  87. 87

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:52 am

    Senate Dems are utilizing a 1928 law passed in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal that compels production of government documents from any agency upon the demand of any five members of the Senate Oversight Committee, to obtain release of the Epstein investigative materials being held by the DOJ to protect Fat Hitler.

    https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/d1193ded99f0a9a9/ced71823-full.pdf

    The GOPedophile Party will of course refuse the demand and disobey the law in order to protect pedophilia.

  88. 88

    Tje looting of the treasury continues spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:53 am

    Senator Chris Murphy introduces amendment in committee to do something totally on American. Oh wait.

    The amendment simply stated that the Qatari jet cannot be transferred to Donald Trump at the end of his term and must remain in the fleet of the US Air Force.

    14 Democrats yea
    15 Republicans ny

    The amendment fails. Bribery is legal according to Republicans.

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 12:42 pm

    @62 With fewer experienced federal employees on the job, we can expect higher error rates in programs and contracts, too.

  90. 90

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 12:51 pm

    @66 Rather more than Rep. McIver did to get charged with a felony, ya hypocrite.

    Is it okay with you if a masked stranger comes up to you and smacks your phone out of your hand? Looks to me like you’re giving them permission.

  91. 91

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 1:01 pm

    @69 “… this morning both NASDAQ and S&P 500 hit all-time highs” while I watched my Generac shares jump another $14 today after leaping $50 yesterday. That’s a 30% gain in two days.

  92. 92

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 1:05 pm

    @71 You misspelled Tulsi Gabbard.

  93. 93

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 1:10 pm

    @77 No worries, Trump is sending Steve Witkoff and Mike Huckabee to inspect Gaza food distribution. All they have to worry about is IDF snipers mistaking them for Palestinian children.

    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/us-veteran-alleges-gazan-child-who-thanked-him-for-food-was-shot-dead-moments-later-by-idf/

  94. 94

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 1:20 pm

    @83 Any so-called “Christian” in Iowa who feels his marriage threatened by gays getting married in Vermont almost certainly needs marriage counseling. Suspending the wife beatings while the counseling is ongoing probably would help.

    By the way, here’s another one: Pro-life GOP legislator had 17-year affair with stripper and paid for multiple abortions.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/25/giovanni-capriglione-affair-texas-house-republican/

  95. 95

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 1:43 pm

    93,
    There exists no plausible, rational nexus between the stability or well being of any opposite sex relationship and the state sanction of same sex unions.

    Not even when it concerns the Nazi Fucktard straying with lots and lots of other men.

    Because OfDumbfuck approves.

  96. 96

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 2:24 pm

    No reason for Hamas to come to the table or otherwise behave seriously when France and the UK are fully willing to give them what they want without any effort by Hamas itself.

    Hen Mazzig
    @HenMazzig

    BREAKING: Hamas has cut off contact with mediators.

    It seems the unilateral declarations of a Palestinian state have predictably helped tank the ceasefire.

    10:24 AM · Jul 31, 2025

  97. 97

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 3:01 pm

    @95 To be clear, Mazzig is a former IDF soldier and a staunch defender of Israel’s Gaza policy. Another of your “sources.”

  98. 98

    It’s not going away spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 3:01 pm

    Yesterday,
    He broke off the relationship with Epstein because Epstein was hiring the girls from his own club. That’s what he said. When I asked about Virginia who has now unalive herself, he admitted that he knew Epstein took her.

    Today

    Q Do you know Epstein was taking those young women, including Virginia Giuffre?

    A
    No, I didn’t know. I figured it would be ABC fake news that would ask that question. One of the worst. But no I don’t know really why.

  99. 99

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 3:08 pm

    Notice to terrorists: Over 100 air marshals have been reassigned from U.S. commercial flights to providing security on deportation flights, serving sandwiches to detainees, and checking them for lice.

    https://www.visaverge.com/travel/exclusive-air-marshals-shift-from-commercial-flights-to-ice-deportation-duties/

    Priorities, priorities …

  100. 100

    Secretary, real world spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 3:55 pm

    @99

    Those are DEI lice

  101. 101

    FKA Hops spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 4:27 pm

    I don’t make gay pierogi websites. I’ve never made a pierogi period. But someday a fucking asshole is going to ask me for a pierogi and thanks to the Roberts court I can tell him to fuck off if I ever start a pierogi stand.

    And he can try to sue me.

    As he tells it, Dershowitz, the 86-year-old attorney for some of America’s most controversial defendants, was at the farmers’ market in the town of West Tisbury, waiting for a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, when he walked over to a pierogi stand and asked for half a dozen. But he was told he could not buy them. “I just won’t sell them to you,” Dershowitz said, paraphrasing the vendor. “I don’t approve of your politics. I don’t approve of who you represented

  102. 102

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 4:30 pm

    Fat Hitler just bumped Canada to 35%.

    So long housing starts.

  103. 103

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 4:52 pm

    Fat Hitler just announced plans to tear down the East Wing of the White House and build a giant Trump propaganda exhibit in its place.

    Something, something, waste, fraud and abuse.

  104. 104

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 4:57 pm

    Apple’s Cook on Trump import tax hikes: “For the June quarter, we incurred approximately $800 million of tariff-related costs. For the September quarter…we estimate the impact to add about $1.1 billion to our costs.”

    Buy the prepaid equipment protection plan now.

  105. 105

    Dersh spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 5:04 pm

    @100,

    I KEPT MY UNDERWEAR ON!

  106. 106

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 5:21 pm

    @99 Of course they are, which makes them a top-priority national security threat. Just ask Marco, Tulsi, or Kristi.

  107. 107

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 5:22 pm

    @100 Master Cake Shop doctrine: What’s good for bakers is good for peirogi vendors. Coming soon: Whites-only lunch counters. Conservatives think going backwards is progress.

  108. 108

    Spared no expense spared all taste spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 6:29 pm

    2052

    Chinese President Yao to President Ocassio-CorteZ

    “Who slapped together is chintzy shit? Did somebody draw pubes on that statue?”

  109. 109

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 7:55 pm

    @80

    Nicely stated.

    Do you think he gets it though?

  110. 110

    Drowsy Don Harumph spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:05 pm

    Well, this is interesting.

    Senator Josh “bravely ran away” Hawley voted to move the bill banning stock trading by members of Congress out of committee.

    When Donnie found out about that he did not like this! He went on his fake Twatter and tore into young master Hawley. So Hawley hightailed it up to the White House to see if he could smooth things out.

    According to the Senator, Donnie stated that several senators had told him that the bill advanced would strip him of several of his properties because it was a billionaire redistribution bill or some other bit of bullshit. Upon explaining Hawley says he emerged from the meeting with Donnie’s support because he also agrees that stock trading by members of Congress is a problem.

    Now again, this is according to someone who lies a lot talking about someone else who lies a lot. But what does it say about the mental health of the sitting president that multiple senators feel like they can just make up shit about a piece of legislation and spur him to righteous anger?

  111. 111

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:10 pm

    Was listening to the Ottawa-Calgary CFL game, and the station that SiriusXM was getting the feed from’s halftime news, besides the tariff announcement, Tgere was a big drug bust at the Coutts Border Crossing. The semi wasn’t headed South.

  112. 112

    Tweedle-Dee spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:43 pm

    106: “ Whites-only lunch counters.”

    That will fit in with blacks-only dorms at colleges and universities.

  113. 113

    Winston Smith spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 8:47 pm

    Kim Jon Underage Poon has had the Smithsonian remove his two from the history museum’s display of Impeached Presidents.

  114. 114

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:11 pm

    Hen Mazzig
    @HenMazzig

    BREAKING: Hamas has cut off contact with mediators.

    It seems the unilateral declarations of a Palestinian state have predictably helped tank the ceasefire.

    10:24 AM · Jul 31, 2025

    Isreal doesn’t want a ceasefire.

  115. 115

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:13 pm

    He’s too weird to teach in Oklahoma schools, so Arkansas hired him to teach in their schools, because Sarah Huckabee’s state will take any teacher they can get.

    https://www.aol.com/news/arkansas-couple-hiking-daughters-were-194038756.html

  116. 116

    G spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:19 pm

    95 To be clear, Mazzig is a former IDF soldier and a staunch defender of Israel’s Gaza policy. Another of your “sources.”

    He like tweet tweeting tweets that get stuck in his ass and never make it to the brain.

  117. 117

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 9:20 pm

    Kinda sad that it’s the National Bar Association whose leaders are dumb enough to pay Biden’s speaker fee.

    To the ABA Biden’s a joke.

  118. 118

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 10:16 pm

    CSX has responded to the proposed UP-NS merger by hiring an investment banker and looking for a merger partner of their own. Only possible option would be BNSF for a transcontinental merger. That or one of the Canadian roads, but neither reach the US West Coast. CPKC serves west coast ports in Canada and Mexico.

    https://www.trains.com/pro/freight/class-i/report-csx-talks-with-investment-bank-about-merger-options/

  119. 119

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 10:58 pm

    @116 Another bar association you’ll never be a member of, so you don’t have to worry about where the money came from.

  120. 120

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 7/31/25 at 11:14 pm

    Welcome to the brave new world of AI! In April 2025, Hertz began deploying a new AI-powered scanning system to check returned rental cars for damage. It’s so smart it turns raindrops and dirt specks into scratches and dings! When customers try to dispute the charges, they get an AI-powered virtual customer service that just keeps coming back with payment options.

    https://en.as.com/latest_news/bad-news-for-hertz-customers-the-car-rental-companys-ai-scanners-are-overcharging-users-for-non-existent-damage-n/

  121. 121

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:38 am

    Trump will finally get the interest rate cuts he craves — by kicking the economy into recession.

    Bloomberg Economics calculates the 12.8-percentage-point hike in the average tariff since Trump came back into office could cut US GDP by 1.8% and lift core prices by 1.1%

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariff-blitz-unleashes-delayed-081457825.html

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