What a time. Glad you’re around.
- It’s good to have an AG’s office that looks out for consumers.
- If you’re going to be a micromanager, you are going to slow things down.
- $10 Million because the city council said it’s bad to hang out with a terrorist?
- Car free Pike Place is great. And also good for business.
How may Dems still think fucking with redistricting was a good idea?
I held back on the Fidelity Investments news because I wanted to put it in the Wednesday thread. Glad I did, because it gave Vanguard time to match Fidelity’s move:
SPLC lost its way decades ago. SPLC needs all of the Civil Rights Act to remain relevant, and SCOTUS has made it clear even this morning that we’re not ’60s racist southern Democrats anymore. Just racist SPLC thugs.
@2
Fidelity and Vanguard will get sued withing days and all will be normal.
Virtue signaling.
Elon Musk wishes you a pleasant Wednesday.
Regular unleaded up another $.06 overnight.
@ 3
Fidelity and Vanguard will get sued withing days…
TOS.
Sure, they’ll be sued. Pretty sure they can afford to proceed to discovery.
TOS.
@2
Also the settlement with the Justice department gets bigger as they:
Filed with knowingly false information.
Filed with intent to damage reputation
Caused financial hardship
The three prongs are met when the initial hearing tosses the charges with prejudice.
$115bbl
Gonna take a lot more gerrymandering to make this “Give us another two years” thing work.
@ 5
Regular unleaded up another $.06 overnight.
There’s a Native American-owned station on Fidalgo Island a couple of miles north of Deception Pass. Yesterday I paid $5.959/gallon for diesel.
The extra $25 or so this cost me compared with the last time I filled up is easily dismissed when considering the gains in my holdings of CVX, HAL, SHEL, SU, USO, and my sold negative XOM puts.
War is profitable even if you don’t own defense stocks.
@ 8
Gonna take a lot more gerrymandering to make this “Give us another two years” thing work.
Gonna take a lot more gerrymandering to undo the 2030 Census, Democrats. Your problem is you’ve already gerrymandered the shit out of every useful state. Now all you can do is watch the GOP catch up, while more and more higher-earning and more productive taxpayers move from blue states to red states.
Vance’s 2028 victory will be a close one but his re-election will be a landslide.
I can wait.
The ever changing story.
So despite days of saying the security was fine, the secret service shot the suspect and then took him into custody and all the other stuff…
Secret service wasn’t involved until after the perimeter was breached, the suspect was shot at four times by hotel security and all four missed…
And the lying troll, as a deluded MAGA cult chud, thinks disco is a good thing for either firm or for the DOJ.
When civil disco produces felony counts we call that a twofer.
@10
Totally doesn’t get why Colorado, once red is now reliably blue.
Something about college educated moving into red states.
WA and AZ aren’t getting more seats in your fantasy
@ 2, 3, 6, 7
That last bullet point is a bitch, isn’t it?
https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/content/dam/fc-public/docs/programs/fidelity-charitable-program-guidelines.pdf
the kreepee misogynist troll of widbee (pretending NOT to be that way since 10/5/2025, thanks minder!) babbles that yours truly is prejudiced against Hindus and Indians..
heh.. well here’s a brave woman who hales from the subcontinent living for a short spell among the “very fine people” that kreepee dumbfuck fellow travels with when it’s not one of them explicitly:
https://youtu.be/hvt5ScfjpDo?si=Hgv1LohpoSIsPY1I
Oh my bad.. The brave woman is a Pakistani Muslim.. Apart from her skin being a bit darker like an Indian Hindu – she doesn’t “count”.
@ 13
WA and AZ aren’t getting more seats in your fantasy
No worries. OR and NM will each lose one.
The fantasy is a 13 EV gain for the GOP.
Where dumbfuck argues DOJ already admitting they don’t have evidence that any funds supported ‘terrorists’ or any of the other disqualifying parts of the TOS don’t disappear when…
The trial judge grants the initial motion to dismiss with prejudice.
Allegations are not facts.
@ 13
Totally doesn’t get why Colorado, once red is now reliably blue.
Totally doesn’t get what happens when states move left:
Politics and Government
Providing health care to immigrants who are children or pregnant is costing Colorado 611% more than expected
The state predicts that the Covering All Coloradans program will cost Colorado $104.5 million in the fiscal year that began July 1. Nonpartisan fiscal analysts estimated the cost would be $14.7 million.
Joe Biden’s midnight flights might have dumped them in Texas but they didn’t stay there.
Enjoy the “benefits” of the Biden open borders policies, Coloradans. Maybe try some lube with them.
already gerrymandered the shit out of every useful state.
Now do Florida..
Several of those districts have high concentrations of Latino voters, who have sharply turned away from Trump amid an affordability crisis and aggressive interior enforcement of immigration laws against longtime residents. The 22nd District is 33 percent Hispanic and the 25th District is nearly 29 percent Hispanic, according to Dave’s Redistricting. The 26th, 27th, and 28th Districts are all a whopping 73 percent Hispanic. The 14th District in the Tampa area is around 28 percent Hispanic.
The result, then, could be a dummymander—an attempt to gain seats that goes so awry that it actually loses them. If Democrats sweep all potentially contested races and win nine House seats, that would reflect a pickup of one relative to the current 20-8 map.
https://prospect.org/2026/04/29/could-new-florida-congressional-map-be-dummymander/
And do TexASS for that matter…
@ 17
Allegations are not facts.
Yo, Jacoby. Allegations resulting in investigation by the government are all that are needed for the gift funds to cease funding. Once those investigations advance to indictments, facts are assumed until disproven by a jury’s evaluation.
You didn’t bitch when Minnesota finally pulled the support of all of those fraudulent school lunch programs even though nothing had yet been proven, I note.
I don’t think the attorneys at Fidelity and Vanguard are losing any sleep over their moves.
Here’s some more horse race polls so we can all enjoy watching the lying troll’s head explode.
First the polls.
Conservatives4America is a Republican House PAC. Yesterday they released these 9 polls they fielded in March, presumably to steer around FEC rules against campaign coordination. With all the money they and other GOP PACs have this year there are many dozens more such polls they are holding back, at least for now. I mentioned yesterday when the lying troll was sobbing uncontrollably about the bad polls in Texas, that many GOP consultants are pushing to spend to defend there, reasoning that they can message their way out of the jamb they are in. C4A is bascially run by Rep. August Pfluger (of Pflugerville fame – for more please see The Austin Lounge Lizards) on behalf of the Republican Study Committee. So it’s all about Texas.
So this is also C4A’s way of signaling to other PACs that these are 9 districts that C4A and the Republican Study Committee will not be investing much in this year. So coordination among PACs. But also an indication of early concern. Why? Because these 9 MAGA incumbent districts are not at all in good shape.
How so? First, the MAGA Insane Failing Cult Leader is underwater in all of them. Dems are winning the generic ballot in some of these MAGA incumbent districts. And MAGA Republicans are leading by only one or two points in a couple of them. And in AZ incumbent MAGA cult chud Juan Ciscomani is trailing his Dem challenger, JoAnna Mendoza in the head-to-head horse race.
Of course it’s still very early. How early? Basically none of the Dems have even begun to advertise. And neither have any of the outside, dark money PACs. Thus the reason for the release of the early polls. To recruit other PACs into these struggling MAGA districts and perhaps to goad the Dems into spending too early. But what it also tells me is that this very prominent House GOP PAC, by abandoning these districts early, is pretty fucking freaked out about Texas.
Yay!
That’s one of the big reasons C4A is shifting to Texas, away from other vulnerable races. Because their early polling is indicating a big loss of MAGA vote share among Latinos in Texas. The worst of these 9 districts in CO and AZ are showing the same shift.
Which, when dismissed with prejudice at pretrial motion doesn’t change that you seem to be arguing AGAINST the bedrock of US law.
Good post
@11
Pirro -shot at government officer
Ka$h – tried to shoot his way through
Lady G – this shooting at the president is proof we need a ballroom
Right wing media, Shot a secret service agent.
Court filing, a security guard, no shots fired but the alleged assailant.
@ 24
Court filing, a security guard, no shots fired but the alleged assailant.
I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Here is the GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM SUPPORT OF PRETRIAL DETENTION, stamped filed this morning:
• He was observed firing the shotgun
• A spent cartridge was found in the weapon
Again, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
I can’t wait for the spears carried by the “Liberals must arm.” army to impale one (or both!) of YLB’s children. Because they are not sufficiently leftist.
@25
Much like the officer who shot a mom in her van and had dire injuries needing him to be rushed to the nearest
hospitalairport…No government agents were shot. Go back and watch Sat. evening coverage and see how many times that claim was made by people associated with the administration.
statements made to inflame the public.
Intentionally lying about the events surrounding a crime scene in order to manage public perception and spark violent outrage?
Nah. I wouldn’t be able to say much about that.
‘Cause I’m dead. I was murdered.
Somebody remind me where the White House Press Room is located.
@ 27
No government agents were shot. Go back and watch Sat. evening coverage and see how many times that claim was made by people associated with the administration.
Then why, only 21 minutes ago, did NBC News update its story to read:
What is it you know with such certainty that NBC News does not?
The only thing I am reading is that government officials are no longer claiming that the USSS agent was struck by a bullet.
4
All politics aside, I am still amazed watching the SpaceX boosters land. That is some of the coolest shit ever.
Yes, Republican lawyers are awful people.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/maga-lawyer-trump-assassination-attempt-obama-post
1. Republicans started it, and you think Democrats will roll over and play dead? But at the rate your tribe’s popularity is sinking, no amount of gerrymandering will save you.
@2 we’re not ’60s racist southern Democrats anymore
True; the South is racist Republicans now.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/mississippi-gop-waiting-for-supreme-court-to-let-it-suppress-black-votes
29,
Somebody remind him that the proposed “ballroom” is only half capacity compared to the DC Hilton.
Then remind him that his MAGA cult leader actually claims to be a “hospitality expert”. Just like he’s a media company expert:
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-DJT/?timeframe=12M
@9 War is profitable even if you don’t own defense stocks.
It’s more profitable if you do.
my holdings of CVX, HAL, SHEL, SU, USO, and my sold negative XOM puts
So you lied when you said you just trade options and don’t own stocks?
@11 I wondered why he wasn’t hit. That explains it. So now the president is guarded by hotel security?
I see we have yet more after-the-fact winning trade announcements that would get the dumbfuck Nazi traitor laughed off of any trading forum.
Are you guys ready to 86 the dumbfuck Nazi traitor yet? I’ll bring the rope.
@20 Once those investigations advance to indictments, facts are assumed until disproven by a jury’s evaluation.
This statement isn’t surprising, given you’re an all-time champion at assuming facts.
@26 Sounds to me like the Democratic establishment is on the getting end, not the dishing end, in that screed.
@30 I can’t tell you how great it is to see you using a reputable news source for a change. Can a leopard change its spots after all?
Remember the dumbfuck Nazi traitor, he who is far more wealthy than HA’s judge, attorneys. ER doc and architect/engineer, and the 300 Christmas trees he planted?
He never mentioned those Christmas trees again. That’s because he had no fucking clue what he was doing and they all died. How much did the fabulously wealthy faux radiologist hope to make from that? $12K?
All that work and nothing to show for it except for a sore back and blisters. Sad!
@42 prolly severely weakened by the 2021 heat dome from the global warming that “doesn’t exist”.
Watt was up with that?
Looks to be more of a community center for community hockey on the Eastside. The comments on Facebook thought it’s replacing the HQ in Northgate, and a few even thought it was replacing CPA(A community Iceplex doesn’t have 17,000 seats). https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-kraken-to-build-new-iceplex-community-center-in-kirkland/281-eb4da52f-8f90-407c-9bc2-800195378399
I can’t wait for the spears carried by the “Liberals must arm.” army to impale one (or both!)
Awwww. This state didn’t vote for the fascist regime and is not likely to support fascism any time soon. Poor kreepfux’ vote didn’t count cuz’ Mary loathes TexASS..
And this spew only betrays kreepfuck’s paralyzing anxiety about Seattle. It no longer travels here to drop $500+ on Wine, Wagyu and fresh Alaskan catch.
ANTIFA!!! BOO!!!
Dems here are very peaceful. They should bite the bullet and learn about gun ownership and safety. On the dry side, plenty of nuts over there but way fewer of them thankfully. Pays to be prepared. Scout’s motto.
Conservatives are Nazis
They are just reporting the fake story that was told to them.
@35
Ouch! 🔥
As an electrical engineer I’ve been involved in the design of more radiology suites than I can remember. I once tried to engage the dumbfuck Nazi traitor in conversation about the design of radiology rooms, specifically about the radiology rooms at the David Grant Medical Center at the Travis Air Force Base in California. He had no clue what-so-fucking-ever about what I was talking about. Absolutely none.
No surprise, really, since I understood that I was talking with a hospital janitor.
It was staged. The WHCD attempt was staged. No shots fired. Paid actor.
Did we all see the IG post of a Republican talking about the lack of security.
Staged.
Staged.
Scare the Press staged. Get Sympathy staged. Forget the Epstein Pedo Files staged.
No 25th
No Impeachment
No Epstein Files.
All staged
51 – We’ll see..
Headline du jour:
Janet Mills Out of ME Senate Race and She Did Nazi It Coming
Platner has faced some setbacks in his bid so far, including the discovery of controversial comments he made on Reddit about his time in the military and about women, as well as a tattoo that resembled a Nazi insignia. He apologized for the online comments and said he had unknowingly gotten the tattoo while stationed in Europe, and later covered it up.
i.e. tailor made for the Dem-curious repuke like kreepfuck. Can we say Bill “eppie nm ranch” Richardson?
It’d be sad if the spineless Collins got another 6 years but it’s not my call just like Ted Kennedy or Byrd or Fetterman. It’s up to voters of those States.
But that never stopped a shit for brains kreepfuck from bleating about a failed bridge tragedy movie.
@ 54
But that never stopped a shit for brains kreepfuck from bleating about a failed bridge tragedy movie.
It also didn’t stop YLB from cheering a 2019 flip in a state legislative seat in Virginia because YLB incoherently thought it would frighten Cocaine Mitch.
And YLB was proven correct, for merely six years later Cocaine Mitch stepped down from his position as Senate Majority leader.
So take a victory lap, YLB.
Vroom.
Vroom.
The economy is so bad that deadbeats are now having to look for work.
OK, OK, that’s not what this means. But this also doesn’t mean the economy is bad.
People might not like it. But they’re still buying.
Judicial Watch has forced Oregon to remove 800,000 names from its registered voter list.
Oregon only has 3.4 million registered voters. Before subtracting the 800k.
Oregon agreed to this in order to avoid discovery.
Meanwhile, Oregon is expected to lose an electoral vote after the 2030 census.
The 10-year Treasury today yields nearly a quarter-point less than it did when DJT47 assumed office.
So tariffs, immigration reversed, and gas price increases, and we’re still in a better interest rate environment than we were on Joe Biden’s last day.
When the scales fall from your eyes and you see how it all works….
And still blame ‘illegals’
@36
We’re way past Dumbfuck making contradictory claims on the regular about his day trading.
The House has now passed the Senate-passed bill to restore funding to DHS.
Thanks to the Friendly Federal Assassin for his help in defeating the Democrats’ most recent shutdown effort.
After a year of beating their heads against the wall, the weird MAGA cult has finally surrendered and withdrawn Casey Means.
🌮
Funds everything but immigration. Rosa DeLauro introduced the House version Republicans just passed.
He can’t post without lying.
Another $.08/gal overnight. That’s $.30 in the week since everyone learned Donnie is full of shit on the strait, the remaining Iranian Navy, peace talks.
4/25 to 4/26
Texas +$1.15
Florida +$1.25
Ohio +$1.12
NC +$1.06
Missouri +$.94
Redistricting isn’t going to help you.
@ 62
The replacement nominee is a …
@ 63
According to Elijah NBC News is lying:
Delauro filed a motion to discharge from committee petition. That’s not the same as introducing a bill. The House-passed version is identical to the Senate-passed version because it had to be.
Other than that you were spot-on in your criticism, Elijah.
Today’s DHS funding bill passed the House on a voice vote. Brave Republicans did not want to be seen voting against it, and Brave Democrats did not want to be seen voting for it.
The Kraken’s lady coach was shown the door.
57, 66,
No, according to Elijah the lying troll is lying. Always.
The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in January of this year.
The SoS has stipulated to an agreement granting Judicial Watch access to voter data they already had access to. The stipulated agreement also formalized two directives by the SoS conforming with state law according to state time mandated timelines. Under the law the SoS will cancel any voter registrations deemed inactive before July 20, 2017 when the language on the voter notifications was changed by Oregon law. Another 640,000 registrations have been marked inactive but have not yet met state standards for removal.
Whatever some media outlet reports about whatever lies the lying troll spews the facts don’t change. Oregon is proceeding to manage its state voter rolls exactly as it did before the Arkansas lawsuit mill cranked up on this bullshit, and before the Arkansas lawsuit mill folded up its tent and ran away. JW “won” what it already had. Nothing else changed.
Including that the lying troll always lies.
Judicial Watch has forced Oregon to remove 800,000 names from its registered voter list.
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Jane Balough’s dog could not be reached for comment.
Has precisely the same effect.
MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson was ordered to bottle up the Senate bill in the rules committee, and hold out by the Insane Failing Cult Leader. So DeLauro, A DEMOCRAT introduced a discharge petition forcing a vote. That vote was unanimous by Democrats to discharge the bill. So for all intents and purposes the Senate bill was blocked by the MAGA cult chud GOP and supported by the DEMOCRATS.
https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2026031817
Literally EVERYTHING the lying troll posts is made up of lies.
Please enjoy these 12 seconds of Mayor Katie literally waving bye to the Starbucks billions:
All those food service workers Goldy cheered on as their salaries grew? By the time Mayor Katie loses her re-election bid in the primary those burger-flippers will be Seattle’s main tax base.
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What the lying troll’s post about JW in Oregon demonstrates most ably is how victimized the lying troll and the rest of the MAGA cult chud universe is by the routine of media lies they are fed inside their cult bubble.
JW is a fundraising machine. They spend only a small fraction of what they raise on actual legal work. The vast, bloated majority of their funding (which has btw collapsed since the heyday) is spent on bloated salaries, media campaigns, and direct employee expenses for travel, events, and always more fundraising. It’s a political Ponzi scheme, that must lie to keep feeding the machine. And the stupid lying troll fell for it.
@ 71
You know the discharge motion was in mid-March. You know that, don’t you?
The bill was subsequently modified in the Senate and passed the Senate in late April and then was introduced in the House. Not by Delauro.
So what you are claiming is that by throwing out a bill in March, after which the bill was altered and changed in a different congressional body, somehow Delauro is credited with introducing the changed bill into the House a month later?
Has precisely the same effect.
Only in the sense that by permitting the US to use its bases for defensive purposes only Starmer can claim full credit next month for defeating Iran.
“JW is a fundraising machine.”
Just like SPLC.
And the ACLU,
And the NAACP.
And BLM.
And…
@ 74
It’s a political Ponzi scheme, that must lie to keep feeding the machine. And the stupid lying troll fell for it.
As did Kotek.
The S&P 500 hit yet another new high today.
@ 75
… The Clinton Foundation.
Sen Tim Scott knowing no one watches Fox Business decides to lie through a live shot.
74,
So what the lying troll is claiming, obviously, OBVIOUSLY is that a bill that Republicans fought to keep off the floor since March, and that Democrats fought to put to a floor vote the whole time, and that just passed on the House floor, is some kind of big win for Repubicans.
And so in order to support that false claim, he lies about it.
And he knows that. It’s just cope.
Democrats just successfully stripped funding for CBP and ICE out of the budget. And Republicans will now spend the rest of the spring and summer struggling to restore it through reconciliation. And that’s something the Insane Failing Cult Leader insisted must never happen. But as always, TACO.
Destroyed the KKK, Aryan Nations, and drove VDARE offsore.
Giddeon, Miranda, Obergfell, Roe, Brown, etc.
Montgomery bus boycott, anti-lynching, Brown, ’57 CRA, ’64 CRA, ’68 CRA, ’65 VRA, etc.
Judicial Watch?
Created the careers of handful of Republican House Committee chairs that nobody remembers and made Vince Foster into a totemic figure of legend among online conspiracy kooks like the lying troll.
@77
See @64
Watching candidates talk about how great the stock market is doing while it cost $150 to fill the truck and Labor Day burgers are $9lb is a winning message.
it cost $150 to fill the truck and Labor Day burgers are $9lb is a winning message.
And a drought covers 60 percent of the country exacerbated by “globull warming”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/more-than-60-percent-of-us-is-covered-by-drought-as-impacts-worsen/ar-AA21Zw1B?ocid=BingNewsVerp
is a “chinese hoax”… (roll eyes)..
$9/lb burgers might end up being cheap.
“Take the nine. Leave the glizzy”
“Luca Bazzi yeeted”
“Say what up to my little friend”
“What do you mean I’m queer? Queer like a clown? Do I amuse you?”
*there is no evidence any movie has used this term. There is slightly more evidence it was used in Las Vegas 30 years after it was coined by restaurant workers to mean “toss out” or “unavailable”
82,
He doesn’t want to think about how dependent the cult has become on their vote share among non-college, white males.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JczVvbrlxkLiYYiNPSv0TRlWsbvYEihkZrnH1kQXIH8/edit?usp=sharing
Brandi…
Bezos left in 2023 because his new wife doesn’t like the weather: Howard did the performative thing and he’s not an income earner also retired. Both retain their properties here so WA is still getting their taxes.
Bless your heart.
That UT poll with Talarico up 7 on Cornyn and 8 on Paxton is big worrisome for the Pedophile Party of high gas prices and incumbents generally.
#1 concern High Prices / cost of living (18%)
#2 political corruption/leadership (16%)
#3 economy. (12%)
Approve / Disapprove
Congress 23/50
Cornyn 25/45
Paxton 29/43
Texas economy from last year
Better 26 / worse 43 /same 23
CNBC:
Dow surges nearly 800 points, S&P 500 posts first close above 7,200 and best month since 2020
Yabbut gasoline costs less than it did in mid-2022.
Let us not forget #CrookedHillary’s denial of the 2016 presidential election result.
US National debt crossed higher than GDP which will become the single most pressing issue for the media and Republicans in January.
US Government 101 essay question, any University.
What is the basis for establishing the Supreme Court? Has the make-up of the court been altered since its founding?
Turley continues to be a fraud as a lawyer and Constitutional commentator.
Winning message…
YOU LAZY FUCKS DON’T GET TO RETIRE UNTIL YOUR BODIES BREAK DOWN!!!
John Sununu, a guy with a 30 point polling lead to be the Grand Old Pedophiles’ New Hampshire Senate candidate.
@55 merely six years later Cocaine Mitch stepped down from his position as Senate Majority leader
In case you didn’t notice, he’s 84 years old, and not running for reelection.
92,
Lazy nepo-baby on a fifteen year long “gap year” doesn’t understand how stuff works.
I’m shocked. /s
@57 Judicial Watch has forced Oregon to remove up to 800,000 inactive names from its registered voter list. ftfy
Sort of and maybe. Details:
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/04/29/oregon-voter-roll-lawsuit-resolved-judicial-watch/89862139007/
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/oregon-remove-800000-voters-from-rolls-51fc03
We live in a mobile society in which people frequently move. Most don’t bother to cancel their old voter registrations. Voter roll turnover is routine. None of these 800,000 registrants voted in recent elections. No voting fraud occurred. And Judicial Watch didn’t “force” Oregon to do anything it wouldn’t have done anyway; its lawsuit, at most, only sped up the process.
Not much of a “gotcha” there.
@61 The House has now passed the Senate-passed bill to restore funding to DHS.
Which is a defeat for MAGA Mike and House Republicans. The Senate Democrats voted for the bill.
Thanks to the Friendly Federal Assassin for his help in defeating the Democrats’ most recent shutdown effort.
That’s some way to spin a Democratic legislative victory, dumbfuck.
See @63 for more details.
@66 The House-passed version is identical to the Senate-passed version because it had to be.
And how is that not a cave by House Republicans? That’s exactly what it is. In case you didn’t notice.
@77 The S&P 500 hit yet another new high today.
What good does that do options traders like you who profess not to own any stocks?
By the way, tech companies make up 40% of the S&P 500, and the “Magnificent 7” stocks are 34%, so the S&P 500 really doesn’t tell you a whole lot about the economy or general stock market.
@84 Funny how Trump knows more mob lingo than most of us. And he’s from New York, too. He probably spent a lot of time around wiseguys.
@88 Dow surges nearly 800 points, S&P 500 posts first close above 7,200 and best month since 2020 … gasoline costs less than it did in mid-2022.
And I’m benefiting from both. Although I gotta say, since I only fill up twice a year, I don’t pay much attention to pump prices.
In times like these, everybody should have rabbit feet.
Speaking of gas prices, the Iran conflict appears to have evolved into a game of chicken.
Trump hopes Iran will run out of oil storage. Iran hopes U.S. voters will run out of patience with high pump prices.
Iran appears to have the upper hand.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/trump-blockade-iran-oil-strait-hormuz.html
@89 Now that the conservative justices have shitcanned the VRA and greenlighted racial gerrymandering, term limits and/or court packing become more likely.
SCOTUS is “legitimate” in the sense that it’s a constitutionally created institution. The conservative majority is “legitimate” in the sense they were duly, if underhandedly, appointed and confirmed.
Term-limiting and/or packing the Court is “legitimate” in the sense Congress has the constitutional power to do it.
Which means it’s all just hardball politics. And if Republicans wish to play that game, Democrats can too.
@94 Actually, it sounds more like a platform plank to me. If Trump deports millions of immigrant workers, which Sununu’s party favors, they’ll have to get replacement workers somewhere.
Putting 80-year-olds back to work on farms, in chicken processing plants, working as roofers, etc., sounds like a plan to me.
I’m not saying it’s a good plan, only that it’s his plan, unless he wants to admit he doesn’t know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.
But I think he does know. After all, Republicans just gutted Medicaid, so why would he need a work requirement for a program his party is abolishing?
So to sum up, MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson is offered bipartisan support if no additional ICE funding. MMJJ says no. Passes MORE ICE money. Senate strips ICE funding sends it back to MMJJ. MMJJ says no assuming public opinion will blame airport problems on Democrats and refuses to schedule a vote and in a fit of idiocy sends the House home for vacation. Weeks later MMJJ puts the Senate package House Democrats offered months ago to a vote and it passes.
Only a spectacularly stupid person, a Dumbfuck if you will, would call that a Republican win.
“Michael 2” Confirmed With Filming Set For 2027, Per Lionsgate
At MJ’s peak the San Francisco Giants’ fielding sucked. 1985 was a particularly low point.
One of the best sports jokes of that era:
Q: What do Michael Jackson and the San Francisco Giants have in common?
A: They each wear a glove on one hand for no apparent reason.
@ 100
And I’m benefiting from both. Although I gotta say, since I only fill up twice a year, I don’t pay much attention to pump prices.
In times like these, everybody should have rabbit feet.
In times like these everyone should have enough money to venture beyond Seattle’s city limits.
Hermits use more gasoline than that.
More embarrassment for MAGA Mike Trump Johnson.
Had to pull the vote on the ‘Endangered Species Amendments Act of 2026” because a bunch of Republicans in normal states said….’Extinction? Ew.”
How’s the leather tasting
Hegseth, “This (Iran) war is ordained by GOD!” In sworn testimony.
“Bombing a girls school and killing over 100 children. Not at all what I ever said and you’re gonna be fucked when you try to meet God in the afterlife.” -Jesus
Netanyahu must have some really bad stuff on Trump.
Yabbut gasoline costs less than it did in mid-2022.
Steve Scalise tried to pull that one on Joe Kernan this morning on CNBC. It didn’t end well for him.
Funny thing about dumbfucks. They’re so stupid they have no fucking clue as to just how fucking stupid they are.
In Arlington the last couple of weeks 86 octane gas has been at $5.99 if you pay cash.
@106 If you got off your ass and walked more, you wouldn’t have so much belly fat between your ears.
Tomorrow Naoya “The Monster” Inoue will face challenger Junto Nakatani in Tokyo. A lot of boxing pundits are calling for an upset. We shall see.
For a preview of the sublime skills of the pound for pound champion Inoue, see the following bout between Inoue and Ramon Cardenas:
https://youtu.be/NkUQULr4Ayg?si=8gwq94g3T4QY7ZvK
Tokyo Dome is ok but nowhere else does a showdown fight like Vegas. That fight is a joy to watch.