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Patty Murray has done a lot of good lately. Probably the best in decades. Maybe it’s easier to be in opposition to a garbage human than the drudgery of governing. But, a lot of Senators have not been up to the task. Cantwell is significantly worse. The rest of Senate leadership has been worse.

And yet.

It’s probably best if this is her last term. She won election in 1992. And there has been there ever since. She’s now of the longest serving members.

It would probably be a good primary election to replace her. A lot of people would like a shot at it. I think it would be good to get some new blood.

The point is it’s fine to retire in your 70’s. Even if you’re still doing good work. Leave them wanting more. But only if you leave.

Comments

  1. Dumbfuck loves him some Enten.

    Enten:

    It’s not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we’re talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn’t in there. Jimmy Carter isn’t in there.”

  2. Only libtards eat that shit!

    Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years

    Fresh vegetables are over 44% more expensive today than they were three months ago, on an annualized basis. (NBC)

  3. This POS was placed on leave for violently abusing a disabled student last December, yet her POS union members still elected her to represent them:

    Educator, suspended for allegedly abusing autistic student, elected Seattle teachers’ union president

    Idowu-Holiday was accused of repeatedly abusing a disabled boy over the last school year by the student’s family, including one instance that was witnessed by his therapist.

    The child, who has autism, a speech delay and is partially nonverbal, came home with bruises the size of adult fingertips on his arms in October, then again in December, according to a complaint obtained by the Seattle Times.
    …
    Meanwhile, the new union president’s alleged victim is still suffering, according to his parents.

    Even with Idowu-Holiday out of the classroom, the child has lasting trauma that has caused frequent emotional distress and even resistance to schooling, the victim’s father, Tyson Marsh, told the outlet.

    “Any movement toward him is received as if you were going to attack him,” Marsh said.

  4. @ 1

    What we’re talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn’t in there. Jimmy Carter isn’t in there.”

    Gee. Neither Carter nor Biden was re-elected. DJT47 is in real trouble come re-election time in 2028.

  5. Speaking of MAHA

    “1-3 Americans is under babied” Dr. Oz

    “Sperm count in young men is half what it was in the 1970s”

    “Can you share the data and source on that?@ Reporter

    “No” both in unison.

  6. @ 1

    … loves him some Enten.

    Enten:

    Say, also Enten:

    CNN’s Harry Enten Serves ‘Big Time Reality Check for Democrats’ – Even Amid Trump’s Falling Poll Numbers

    You would have thought that the Democrats’ lead would expand on the generic congressional ballot. It didn’t happen,” Enten reported.

    From aggregate polling, Enten pointed out that Democrats have gone from the choice to control Congress from plus-six points in March of last year to plus-three points now. He argued Democrats should be far higher in popularity amid controversial moves by Trump, like striking Iran.

    “It is within the margin of error. So, despite all of the talk about Donald Trump’s unpopularity, the fact is, Republicans very much remain in the game when it comes to the congressional midterms,” Enten told Berman.

    Elsewhere I read this week that with the new districts in states that have made changes, there has to be D plus 4 polling for Democrats to retake the House in November. Instead the GOP is polling within the MOE.

    As long as we’re going to be quoting Enten, should we not quote everything he has to say?

  8. Congratulations to liberals for organizing their very own Jews Will Not Replace Us march:

    Anti-Zionist protesters march through NYC Jewish neighborhood, chanting for intifada

    NEW YORK — Anti-Zionist demonstrators marched through a Jewish area of Brooklyn on Monday, chanting for an intifada and waving a Hezbollah flag, in the latest in a series of caustic protests in Jewish parts of New York City.
    …
    The protesters on Monday waved a Hezbollah flag overhead and chanted, “Globalize the intifada,” “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israel will fall,” and “Death to the IDF.”

    They also held an orange banner that read, “Israel is killing children” and shouted “baby killers” at Jewish counter-protesters, echoing an age-old blood libel.

  10. @8

    Times of Israel

    Israeli Real Estate sale of land in Illegal settlements to American Othordox Zionist Jews draws a dozen protesters.

    No one could have imagined Apartheid and Genocide would be unpopular. I mean, they did kill babies to steal the land.

  12. Whaddyou think? Is that bad for us in November?

    The producer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.4% for the month, much higher than the 0.5% Dow Jones consensus forecast and the upwardly revised 0.7% March increase.

  13. @11

    Shame they didn’t keep him around for months to ram some bills through.

    (Eds Note The current DOJ success rate in securing convictions on hastily obtained indictments is noted)

  14. @ 2

    Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years

    Stated differently, there was a larger one-month increase in grocery prices under Joe Biden than there was under Donald Trump.

    Fresh vegetables are over 44% more expensive today than they were three months ago, on an annualized basis. (NBC)

    Well, gee. Pointing out a one-month increase in the price of tomatoes and extrapolating that out over 12 months by “annualizing” makes for a scary number, and ignores what the USDA reported fewer than three weeks ago:

    Retail fresh vegetable prices increased by 0.9 percent from February 2026 to March 2026 and were 7.5 percent higher in March 2026 than in March 2025. Prices for fresh vegetables are predicted to increase 4.8 percent in 2026, with a prediction interval of 0.3 to 9.5 percent.

    https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings

    So if you pick one big month to embellish you can avoid picking an entire preceding year of data.

    It’s an incredibly weak approach but it works on some low-information voters. Say, is YLB out of bed yet?

  15. Secretary Bergum went to Congress to beg for money for the fossil industry. It did not go great.

    BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity

    HUFFMAN (CA-02) I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of — it’s a battery

  16. @14

    Grabbing so hard at straws and hoping everyone remembers 2022 prices and not that a $1.49 bag of carrots in December isn’t $1.99 now.

    Voter, “Remember how prices for groceries were just insane after the pandemic when we were getting a Crudités platter together. (Pauses). Why’s it even more now?”

    Good post.

  17. @ 15

    HUFFMAN (CA-02) I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of — it’s a battery

    Well, surely. And battery technology works great with solar in wintertime in places like New Hampshire or, say, Michigan’s UP.

    Which is why the snark was uttered by a Democrat from California.

  18. @17

    Because a thing isn’t suitable for every single possible application but merely most applications means a thing should be discarded.

    Good post

  19. @ 16

    … everyone remembers 2022 prices …

    Isn’t that was a comparison to 2022 by the NBC News writer is supposed to do? It wasn’t me who brought up 2022.

  20. @17

    Related

    Melrose Park, IL.

    Illinois Shines (state government funds) brought its first major project on line last week completing a solar roof on a large existing warehouse park. The project will generate 2mKwH of electricity annually.

    When you fly by the warehouse districts of Alina/Pacific or Puyallup/Milton/Fife imagine this building passively supplying thousands homes and businesses with their power needs.

    No do Texas.

  21. @18

    There is no snow in Houston or Tuscaloosa so snowmobiles are useless to all America.

    @19

    Yes, everyone at the Food Lion read the analysis of historical data and know they had to leave the produce aisle and stock up on canned vegetables is Joe Biden’s fault and they should send the Republicans back in November to fix it.

  22. @20

    Say, all those fruit packing refrigerated warehouses in Yakima. Is there a way they could power themselves? Sunny and frigid is pretty normal most of the winter there. Sunny and clear in the summer.

  24. Some of you are going to need some help with your State bar Association with a pardon cannot help you with.

    Josh Gerstein
    Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO
    Priors: ABC White House & China correspondent, CNN, NY Sun

    New opinion from DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) claims federal law authorizes Trump administration to obtain full voter rolls from states, despite several judges ruling to contrary.

  25. @23

    After six years, you found a guy willing to say Fauci wanted to shut down the country while not under oath

    Question “ What evidence do you have to present to us? Do you have any memos affidavits or emails?”

    Answer “I saw it, and I heard it”

    Question “but do you have any documents you can show us?

    Answer “trust me, bro I’m CIA All the peer reviewed evidence is actually a lie”

    ( Ed’s note Still have an address that someone saying it’ll be gone in May and trying to keep a cruise ship offshore so the numbers didn’t go up didn’t play a massive part in 1 million people dying)

  27. Ohhh boy. Poor ohh me. I pay $22.00 a month on my electric bill. Have been for the last 4 years. Either my electric company is fucked up in their billing process or the sun hasn’t stopped shining for the last fucking 4 years.

  30. GrandOldPedophile Congress and Governors

    2922

    A gas tax holiday is nothing more than a publicity stunt and it’s dead on arrival.

    2026
    A gas tax holiday is absolutely essential for the American people.

    what could possibly have changed?

  31. @3 The Seattle Teachers Union isn’t unique in electing a questionable character as their leader. The Seattle Police Guild does that, too. In fact, the cops did it first.

  32. @8 A fringe group, not liberals. But I’ll give you that it’s awfully hard for liberals to not be against bombing schools and hospitals; targeting doctors, aid workers, journalists, and people standing in food lands; forcing Palestinians off their land to build settlements, pointing AR-15s at children; talking genocide, and so on. Zionists just aren’t a very likeable bunch.

    You like them, though, just as you like violence, assuming guilt without trial, celebrating every time a cop kills someone, and so on. You aren’t very likeable, either, but we like kicking you around like a soccer ball in these threads. You come here asking for it, and we oblige you.

  33. @13 It’s sort of a saving grace that DOJ has been gutted of competent lawyers. If they’re going to use federal prosecutors as a political club, it’s better to employ greenhorns who don’t know what they’re doing. Of course, there’s a downside, which is that terrorists, traffickers, kidnappers, bank robbers, and other bad actors go scotfree.

  34. @30 A gas tax holiday means potholes don’t get filled, century-old bridges don’t get replaced, roads aren’t widened, installing safety features is delayed.

    Roads, of course, don’t have to cost anything. The pioneers didn’t pay road taxes. You can still see their wagon ruts on the prairie. Things like asphalt surfaces, bridges at river crossings, being able to travel faster than 1½ mph, etc., are luxuries for those who can afford them.

  36. @ 23,

    There are ~66,280 people infected with SARS-CoVs each year due to human-to-bat contact.

    In the past 25 years, there have been at least 12 instances of zoonotic transfer of viruses into humans, including three coronaviruses, which resulted in epidemics or pandemics.

    There is currently no verified scientific evidence to support the lab leak hypothesis.

    Based on the scientific evidence and investigations described in a declassified report, the majority of the US Intelligence community concur with the zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2 being more likely.
    https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf

    These reports do not identify high confidence evidence for a research-related incident, find no evidence that WIV possessed SARS-CoV-2 or a closely related virus before the end of December 2019, and conclude that it is unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered.

    Validating the lab leak hypothesis requires intelligence evidence that the WIV possessed or carried out work on a SARS-CoV-2 precursor virus prior to the pandemic. Neither the scientific community nor multiple western intelligence agencies have found such evidence.

  37. @36 Don’t try to persuade PI with scientific studies or simple logic. That’s a fools errand. People like him have a psychological need to believe their conspiracy theories.

  38. Trump is taking a bunch of techie execs with him to Beijing. I wonder if he’s going to offer Taiwan to Xi in exchange for business deals?

  39. This helps explain why Republicans don’t lose every election:

    Reading scores hit decades-low levels, new national education report says

    The 2025 Education Scorecard found the nation entered a “learning recession” around 2013, when gains in math and reading stalled and student achievement began declining.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/reading-scores-hit-decades-low-levels-new-national-education-report/507-7a141607-959d-4d2f-86c6-9f5f2fbef720

  41. I told you guys to not go looking for monsters around the world to slay, and did you listen? Hell, no!

    Now you’ve got an empire you can’t fund and the enmity of most of the World. You got yourselves into this mess, and it’s up to you to get yourselves out of it!

    I’m done with this shit!

  42. Burgum went there again later when asked why China bought nearly 500mKw of generation on line to our 53mKw last year with 80% renewable.

    “It only works when the sun is shining.”

    Would it be too much to ask of the energy secretary to know about advances in power generation systems since the 1990s when yes, solar only worked when it was sunny and not at night because they hadn’t figured out high enough capacity batteries which we have now.

  43. Rather than lay down Brown University asked a Rhode Island Court why, other than to het the case before a specific rubber stamp Federal Judge, the order to turn over all gender affirming care records came from Texas?

    Rhode Island out the brakes on.

    DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case.

    It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Texas court”). It did so in an
    obvious effort to shield it’s recent investigative tactics previously rejected by every
    other court to review them—from this Court’s review, in favor of a distant forum that
    DOJ deems friendly to its political positions.

    The order goes on to say The judge in Texas is fully aware the DOJ is lying to him about facts in the case and while they do not have the power to overturn his particular order, they do have the power to quash the subpoena upon which the order is based, and therefore it is quashed. The court further enjoined the DOJ from attempting to receive any records from Rhode Island regarding patients of Rhode Island health.

  46. @40

    Right on Roger. More people talk about it the more maybe something will be done to unearth and expose Neanderthalism.

  49. @42 Would it be too much to ask of the energy secretary to know about advances in power generation systems since the 1990s when yes, solar only worked when it was sunny and not at night because they hadn’t figured out high enough capacity batteries which we have now.

    Yes, because he’s paid to be a shill for the fossil fuel companies Trump demanded contribute $1 billion to his campaign.

  51. @49

    Whether it works all the time doesn’t really matter, does it?

    I paid $22.00 a month for the past4 years. I’m producing power that I sell back to the electric company. Doesn’t mater that the sun don’t shine at night or on a cloudy day. No batteries her. Butthat would be nice as technology advances. But just like the government wants everyone dead, they don’t want you to have cheap or free electricity

  54. What do you think guys?

    I don’t want to start conspiracy theories, and I fear to know the answer.

    But do you think it was staged?

    The two bodies recovered by the Army (?) were both black,

  56. Hill County Texas council. 5 Republicans

    Hill County Texas, 68% Trump, 31% Harris 2024.

    Hill County Texas Council votes 3-2 to halt the approval process for a 300acre data center for a year.

  57. Dark. But funny.

    Jason Herbert
    @herberthistory.bsky.social

    You’re Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?

    rax ‘levon honkers’ king
    raxskingisdead@bsky.social

    doing whatever it takes to make jodie foster think you’re cool

  59. What if there are no Republicans on the Ballot in California?

    What if Villaraigosa drops out?

    Emerson

    Becerra: 19%
    Hilton: 17%
    Steyer: 17%
    Bianco: 11%
    Porter: 10%
    Mahan: 8%
    Villaraigosa: 4%

  60. Governor Brian Kemp signs the ‘Fool the negroes into voting Republican” bill into law and moments later the lawsuit is filed.

    The bill makes metro Atlanta and ONLY metro Atlantas county elections (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett) non partisan so Pedophiles won’t have to make their love of National Pedophiles known on the ballot.

  61. Reporting on the corroborated and meticulously researched UN Report of rape, sexual assault and genital mutilation of Palestinians by IDF forces is blood libel.

    Also our settlers are just defending themselves and their legitimately gained land no matter how many AI videos you see of bulldozers ripping up orchards or setting fore to villages.

  62. S&P 500 surpassed the 7,500 level today.

    That’s a gain of well over 53% since the DJT47 inauguration.

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

  63. Say, why did China have nothing to criticize about the US military action against Iran?

    It’s like the only strait China cares about is the Strait of Taiwan.

    Anyway. Bombs away.

  64. The Democrat love affair with its octagenarians continues to pay dividends.

    Democratic Lawmaker, 83, Has Been Missing for a Month
    Representative Frederica Wilson is running for reelection.

    Some of the account’s posts seem designed to trick people into thinking that Wilson is still out and about. In one bizarre post circulated earlier this week and flagged on X by Capitol Hill correspondent Jamie Dupree, Wilson’s team reused photographs of her from an October event, in an attempt to suggest that the lawmaker was still mingling with her constituents.

    Wilson is a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, as well as the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Both committees have held several hearings since April 17, though the 83-year-old doesn’t seem to appear in video footage of any of them.

  67. BlueSky will follow Mastodon’s rapid decline beginning somewhere around the second Wednesday in November, 2028.

    Media
    Renowned Left-Wing Crank Turns on Bluesky, the Social Media App for Left-Wing Cranks

    May 13, 2026
    Bluesky, the X-alternative social media app, was specifically designed for obnoxious journalists and other left-wing cranks who needed a safe space to rant. So when a prominent Bluesky user who is widely regarded as “one of the least likable progressives in the Milky Way galaxy” complained that the app had failed to live up to its promise, a handful of people took notice.

    “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics,” wrote David Roberts, a former Vox journalist who writes a climate-focused newsletter on Substack. “They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them.”

  68. Choke the people of Money.

    Choke the governments of Money.

    Extort what you need from them.

    (Republicans are lawless evil mother fuckers).

  69. Twitter literally sells AI generated porn featuring depictions of infants engaging in sex.

    And one of our troll’s loves it.

  71. I think Chud the Builder is going to be receiving a few insightful lessons on the contours of First Amendment.

    I also think he’s going to plead to lesser charges and reluctantly express remorse when the time comes. But only after monetizing his plight to maximum advantage. His victims should make note of that and go get some.

  72. 70,

    No more weird that knowing about Trump raping E. Jean Carrol and maintaining a lifelong very close personal relationship with the most notorious child sex trafficker in U.S. history.

    It’s called news.

    Not that it will be particularly newsworthy this summer when your insane failing cult leader issues a full pardon to that sex trafficker’s chief co-conspirator. Won’t be weird either. Because the GOP is a child sex trafficking conspiracy now. As you well know.

    Since you seem concerned, I don’t have access to Twitter content on the platform because I don’t have an account. That’s particularly important to the lying troll, who obviously has such an account himself. And now you know why he has an account.

  74. @ 72

    No more weird that knowing about Trump raping E. Jean Carrol and maintaining a lifelong very close personal relationship with the most notorious child sex trafficker in U.S. history.

    It’s called news.

    To ABC News it was called a $15 million hit to its bottom line, because it is untrue and Little George knew it to be untrue at the time he said it on-air.

    But that does not stop Elijah from repeating the lie.

  75. After a series of quiet (secret) test launches this past April, Ukraine has just placed it’s first in a planned constellation of military satellites into orbit.

  76. 74,
    The lying troll’s Insane Failing Cult Leader got his start as a TV reality show performer, back in those “partying” days when he was socializing with the child sex trafficker, raping kids, and doing lots of drugs.

    His former producers have never stopped telling the truth about it for the last decade. They’ve never even been threatened with a lawsuit.

    https://youtu.be/RV9PJQUXsKM

    https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

    Why? When a bully files a meritless SLAPP suit targeting a single, small individual the process of discovery tends to be disadvantageous but in a single direction, against the bully. Trump doesn’t sue these guys because a) he knows they are telling the truth, and b) civil discovery would ruin him and do nothing to them.

    But facing Disney is a different animal. That’s a meritless SLAPP suit targeting a peer. Disney has lots to lose if Trump’s lawyers can go prancing through their internal executive communications. It’s the media industry and they all play dirty. A small settlement is worth it to them.

    So when you see Trump obviously and openly refusing to go after all these little, defenseless individuals to shut them up it’s because he can’t afford it and neither can they. Because they are telling the truth. And their only option would be to put on a defense and win.

  77. @62

    And all you, Wall Street fucks won’t buy these apples. I’m selling on the street out of a box while wearing a barrel.

  78. Admit D.C. and Puerto Rico each as four new states, but with interstate compacts among the four to share a single state government.

    Bingo: 16 new Senators, 24 new electoral votes. No constitutional convention required. Just simple Congressional legislation signed into law by President Ocasio-Cortez.

  79. 62, 77,

    Simultaneous Hindenburg Signals in both NASDAQ and NYSE.

    Damn, it would not feel good to be a massively leveraged options trader.

  80. Hiking the Appalachian Trail

    It’s legal in their country to pay for it

    It’s only statutory rape in America 15 is legal here

    It was just time

    Trump Border Patrol Chief Abruptly Quits Amid Report He Traveled Abroad To Solicit Sex Workers

    U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks abruptly resigned Thursday, telling Fox News, “It’s just time.”

    Banks reportedly told Fox News that he “got the ship back on course” during his tenure.

    His departure, effective immediately, comes amid allegations he regularly traveled abroad to solicit sex workers, reportedly bragging about the conduct to Border Patrol colleagues, according to a Washington Examiner report.

  81. @ 77

    … won’t buy these apples. I’m selling on the street out of a box while wearing a barrel.

    We’ve been taught to only buy if you’re wearing a Met Gala Tax The Rich gown. Otherwise we don’t really believe you need the money.

  82. @ 80

    Soliciting prostitutes on his own time where it’s legal is a nice distraction from the guilty plea entered today by Hair Gel’s former chief of staff.

    Seems she got together with one of Xavier Becerra’s staffers to steal money from a campaign fund, underreport income for several years, and fraudulently claim $300,000 in PPP money.

    It’s the PPP theft that upsets YLB the most.

    I don’t know why liberals wouldn’t want bad news about Hair Gel and Becerra to hit the airwaves, do you?

  84. I don’t know why liberals wouldn’t want bad news about Hair Gel and Becerra to hit the airwaves,

    There’s hardly any opportunity or bandwidth available.

    Don’t blame us. MAGA Republican motherfuckers keep fucking dogs and executing nurses left and right so fast and so often we can’t work a minor scandal in edgewise.

    You’ll just have to take my word for it. We ain’t perfect. But we don’t claim to be. All we claim is that we clean our house when it’s dirty, while you motherfuckers roll around in and eat your own shit.

  85. Black Floridians needing a reason to hate Jews can turn to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s decision to run next year in a black House district.

  86. If you only read the legacy media, all you’ll see is that CBP chief Mike Banks is retiring because “it’s just time” to spend more time with his family and kick back, now that he “got the ship back on course.” But if you dig a little deeper, you might find this:

    Last month, Banks had been accused of regularly soliciting sex workers.

    https://www.rawstory.com/cbp-chief-mike-banks-resigns/

  87. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, a GOP candidate for governor suspended her campaign “after evidence surfaced that she fraudulently used a city credit card for her own personal use” while the city’s mayor.

    https://www.rawstory.com/erin-stewart-connecticut/

    The thing you have to understand about Republicans is that they don’t consider pocketing taxpayer money as theft or wrongdoing. They view it as a perk of office and entitlement, and see being arrested for it as liberal harassment.

  88. @62 Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

    Not me.

    I feel guilty, undeserving, and privileged on my way to the bank.

  91. a GOP candidate for governor suspended her campaign “after evidence surfaced that she fraudulently used a city credit card for her own personal use” while the city’s mayor.

    I dunno. This doesn’t really even feel to me like she’s trying compared to most Republicans.

    At least she could been caught using the city credit card to purchase a bag of strap-on dicks to peg Corey Lewandowski with.
    For an average Republican this is just lazy.

  93. @81 What a stupid reason for not buying an apple. I didn’t buy an apple because I couldn’t make a profit from it.

  94. @ 90

    Because they’re overjoyed that we’re using up our ordnance in the Middle East instead of defending Taiwan with it. Even better, we’re not replacing it.

    You mean other than the quadrupling of production agreed to months ago?

    The White House
    @WhiteHouse

    “We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production Schedules. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the “Exquisite Class” Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels. The Companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months. States all over the Country are bidding for these new Plants. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” -PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP🇺🇸

    1:09 PM · Mar 6, 2026
    ·

  95. Knox County TN just banned Alex Haley’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Roots.

    So, yeah. Of course this whole fucking thing is entirely about racism.

    Always has been.

  99. @97 Investors aren’t fooled. Boeing stock fell today from $240.60 at yesterday’s close to $229.21 at today’s close, a one-day drop of 4.73%.

  100. @ 90, 94

    Production time for missiles is 7-13 months depending on the specific item. It’s the RFR and the congressional bluster that takes the time.

    So a Congress-bypassing emergency declaration by the White House for a no-bid contract for a resupply of something already in use will be very fast.

    Very dissatisfying to liberals, but very fast.

  101. @ 99

    Investors aren’t fooled. Boeing stock fell today…

    Once again the failed former attorney and perpetual useless bloviating fool gets it wrong. His investment failures are why his family is having to raid its meager asset base with a reverse mortgage loan from the only bank close enough for him to walk to, as he is unable to afford to fill the tank of the family Ford Pinto.

    Investors certainly were fooled. They had expected a plane purchase order of up to 500, so 200 was a disappointment, and the shares took a hit.

  102. The difference between MAGA chuds and serious investors is the former believe everything Trump says while the latter don’t bet a penny on anything he says.

  103. @ 98

    … if the Trump administration is dishing out all that new business, why are defense stocks like Lockheed, Grumman, and Northrop Grumman down instead of up?

    For reasons unrelated to new business.

    Northrop Grumman’s backlog is nearly $100B.

    Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) – Total Backlog (Quarterly)

    YCharts
    https://ycharts.com › indicators › northrop_grumman_c…
    Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) – Total Backlog is at a current level of 95.68B, up from 91.45B last quarter

    Lockheed has already signed its production agreements and has a backlog double that of NOC:

    Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) reports a record $194b backlog tied to expanding demand for advanced defense systems.

    The company signs multi year framework agreements with the U.S. Department of Defense to rapidly scale production of its Precision Strike Missile and PAC-3 MSE interceptor.

    So,

    • signed agreements and
    • rapid scaling of its PSM production.

    That’s not what your bullshit link @ 90 is claiming, is it?

    Rather than look to a short-term share price drop to tell you what is happening, someone who does not wish to be accurately described as a failed former attorney and perpetual bloviating fool might want to take the time to actually do some reading and inform himself.

  104. Say, does anyone have any idea why defense stocks, notoriously cyclical as a group, might be on the decline?

    Might it be because investors don’t see a prolonged Iran conflict, especially with China in not addressing Iran specifically in its statement this week having given DJT47 a tacit green light to finish the job?

  106. @ 105

    Thats some Olympic level mental gymnastics you got going on there…

    Yeah, he’s HA’s own version of Larry Nassar. Except creepier.

  107. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the “Exquisite Class” Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity

    For an extra fee, of course, for the “rush“. That’s why Pete “the only brown I’m down with is barrel aged“ Hegseth was begging Congress for 1.5 trillion on top of what the pentagon already got just this week.

    Sorry bridges, libraries electrical grid, farmers, Education, nutrition, healthcare, food safety, accurate medical research, electric vehicles, pollution, national parks, y,all gonna have to wait.

    We spent a boatload of money making your gas more expensive.

  108. With competition among Intercity and High Speed operators in Europe, this might make sense. Smartphones weren’t on the radar when the EU Railway Liberalization Directive was passed.

    https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/european-proposal-would-enable-single-ticket-travel-across-rail-companies-and-borders/

    Other than interlining with. IA, something Amtrak hasn’t done in decades after they assumed operation of the Rio Grande Denver-Salt Lake City line.

  109. Oh?

    You know how sour mash Patel Kept waving a piece of paper about his accomplishments and how they’ve captured the most “FBI’s most wanted” list members?

    Well, turns out Ka$h gave himself an Oscar. Or maybe it’s like that guy who was the executive producer who decided the best person to host Jeopardy was himself.

    Turns out on at least four occasions a Fugitive was added to the list just before the operation to take them into custody. Added to the list By someone. Literally the day in one case the operation to take them into custody took place.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtVISPK0ghQ

  111. @100 Very fast, huh? It’s been 2½ months since the first shots were fired, and we’re still waiting to get a call about contracts …

  112. @ 109

    Or maybe it’s like that guy who was the executive producer who decided the best person to host Jeopardy was himself.

    Joe Biden, and the DNC, decided the best person to run for president was Boxcheck Momala.

  114. Well that’s weird.

    CBS is in talks to purchase Stephen Miller’s wife’s podcast, “the Katie Miller Muslim hate hour show me you’re white 23&Me”.

    The weekly program has 41 episodes and does not appear on any of the big three Apple Spotify Amazon‘s top 200 downloaded list. That puts the show at a popularity below something called “Koosh reads stories from Reddit“*

    Why would Larry Ellison’s CBS be funneling money to Stephen Miller’s wife?

    * this is an actual thing I did not make it up. But it was the funniest name above 150 I could find

  115. green light to finish the job?

    Well, he could at least quit bloviating and get started.

    Strait is still closed. For 76 days now.
    Only 3 transits in the last 24 hours. Gas is $5.
    Brent is trading at $100. This troll talks and talks and talks. Lots of shit talk. No improvement.

  116. 105,

    And you’re a short, fat, alcoholic charity grifter who almost got herself killed with COVID denial.

  117. And yet with all that, still more loved and successful than you will ever be.

    The jealousy, it’s painful isn’t it?

  118. Whelp, not so painful that I have to pretend to be someone I’m not

  119. Clearly this means Donald Trump will run for a third term.

    Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh

    🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance gives the PERFECT answer when asked about running for president in 2028 with Marco Rubio, showing exactly the kind of man he is

    “I LOVE Marco!” 🔥

    “But if I was the American people, there are a few things that I would hate more than a person who’s barely been in one office for a year and a half, who’s angling for a job two and a half years down the road. Let’s do a good job now. We are. We just got to keep at it.”

    “There are a few topics that I want to talk about less than what office I’m going to run for years down the road when I’m having a good time and trying to do good work in the job that the American people already elected me to do.”

    “Both of us are very much focused on accomplishing the American people’s business right now.”

    🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
    11:55 AM · May 13, 2026

  120. @ 116

    And you’re a short, fat, alcoholic charity grifter who almost got herself killed with COVID denial.

    Now, that is not kind. If you are trying to divert attention from your penchant for diddling minor girls and need to deride an opponent, why not just point out that she won during an Olympics not attended by the real gymnasts from nations like Romania and the USSR?

  123. your penchant for diddling minor girls

    From an always lying troll who spends more time on his beloved AI infant porn platform mining for trolling content than he spends trolling HA.

  124. Oh Gym, Gym, Gym.

    You’re going to get crushed in November because none of you have either the sense or balls to say what everyone knows.

    You went on CNN tonight and said gas prices rising is part of life and for the first time in your congressional career, the anchor didn’t roll over and show you the belly for a scratch.

    COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they’re paying $4.53, saying ‘that’s life’ might not make them feel better

    JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine

    COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

  125. I think even the Fox Audience will notice when Donnie talks about how much money the oil companies are making and how insignificant THEY are to him.

    I don’t want to say we’re making a fortune … because if I say it, they’re going to say, ‘He forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.

    Hannity tried valiantly to jump in and save him but…

    You might be old enough to know “only the little people pay taxes” most of Fox audience is definitely old enough.

  126. The story keeps on giving. Michael Banks, Donald Trump’s pick and now ex Customs and Border Patrol head was under investigation for his alleged sex tourism crimes.

    Until Kristy Noem ordered the investigation closed.

  127. @124 She doesn’t get it, Jordan does. His audience (MAGA voters) has an average attention span measurable in milliseconds. That means anything he said 30 seconds ago might as well be ancient history.

  130. He was telling everyone about the company he invested in,

    We’ve taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites — gone, the kids are crying and everything — and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.” And then I gave him $20,000 that he needed to bring his account back online and I get $4m when he can withdraw.

    https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-drug-dead-back-to-life

  132. @ 131

    You know, if the DJT47 administration limited press contact to pre-selected questions asked by pre-selected mouthpieces, this type of miscommunication would occur less frequency.

    Is that what you want? A current administration just like the last one?

    Or do you have some appreciation for a president willing to stand there and answer one spontaneous question after another, and occasionally making a mistake in the process?

  134. File under AWESOME!

    A partial list of speakers for Turning Point USA by Erica ™ is out.

    Savanah Faith Stone will take the stage. Savannah is a 20 year old unmarried ‘influencer’ who’s most viewed videos urge the adoption of ‘Household Voting” where each residential address gets one vote and of course, the male head of household is the one who gets to make it. Because, in Savananah’s oft posted words, ‘a man and his wife should be in sync in all matters of religion and politics.

    Nothing says ‘Leadership’ quite like submitting to a man.

    It’s down to me
    The way she talks when she’s spoken to down to me
    The change has come, she’s under my thumb
    Ah, take it easy babe, yeah

  136. The updated $10,300 2026 BYD Seagull gets LIDAR for effective self-driving while in America it’s still treated like an unaffordable luxury.

    And your gasoline is now climbing towards $6 per gallon.

  138. Headline writers live for moments like this.

    Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser

  141. @132 I want an administration that knows what they’re doing, stays within constitutional bounds, respects our civil rights, and doesn’t steal from taxpayers.

    How hard is that? Too hard for your gaggle of fascists, grifters, pedophiles, and white supremacists.

  142. @134 Which is the same thing as repealing women’s suffrage.

    What comes next is only “landed” male citizens can vote.

    Not far behind that is the late H. L. Hunt’s notion that voting should be based on wealth.

  143. Step One: Treaten

    Step Two: (shrugs)

    Step Three: STRAIGHT’S OPEN

    Energy Secretary Chris Wright,

    If Iran continues to hold the world economy hostage, the United States military will force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

  144. @143,

    15 transits in the last 24 hours. It’s a new daily record.
    18 vessels currently attempting to transit.
    Current cargo risk premium is 3.5% which is more than 23X the normal premium of 0.15%. That’s on top of the passage toll of >$1M per vessel paid to Iran.

  145. The Iran shitshow is another nail in the coffin of this administration.

    But don’t worry, the far left nutters will find a way to fuck up any opportunity they are given….

  146. In a sadly ironic parallel, the sovereignty over the power to wage war that the GOP Congress has ceded to the Executive branch is fun house mirrored by the sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz that the current occupant of the White House has ceded to Iran.

    By dithering, stalling, and obfuscating the issue is mooted and the question is lost.

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