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Houthi Rebels Keep Shooting Down U.S. Reaper Drones

Chris Mowery
@chrisdmowery

Trump's statement after arresting Wisconsin judge:

"I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation ... From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour."

I lied, that was Hitler in 1942. But the fact that you liked the statement is pretty damning.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 11:59 PM | Reply

Here's how to calculate it:

1,000,000,000,000
over
200,000,000

100%=0.02%

SO 0.02 percent of the budget. A peanut. Out gov burns more than any houthi could shoot down.

Posted by Brennnn at 2025-04-25 11:50 PM | Reply

Fed Judge Blocks Trump Plans to Dismantle Voice of America

Russian troll gets called out.

Russian troll yelps.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 11:46 PM | Reply

1798's a typo^

Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-25 11:41 PM | Reply

Fed Judge Blocks Trump Plans to Dismantle Voice of America

Judiciary Act of 1798
The First Congress decided that it could regulate the jurisdiction of all Federal courts, and in the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress established with great particularity a limited jurisdiction for the district and circuit courts, gave the Supreme Court the original jurisdiction provided for in the Constitution

To me this means that the supreme court, the only original court established constitutionally, could check the Executive, and the lower courts, with their limited jurisdiction, could stay in their lane and handle local cases in their district, otherwise it would not make sense to divide the lower courts into separate jurisdictions. What's happening right now, a baby can tell, is bulls hit.

Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-25 11:40 PM | Reply

Status Quo Democrats Furious at DNC Co-Chair David Hogg

"Pretty sure that Russian troll messed up
#27 | Posted by ClownShack"

Pretty sure you messed up mistaking a dudes b-hole for a woman's vagina. But, you can still pray it away.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 11:34 PM | Reply

"As a tax preparer for folks in the arts
#36 | Posted by Danforth"

LOL, H&R Block went all for their temp workers this year. That aside, when are you going to link to back up your claims that the .1% got 50% of Trump's tax cuts? Still searching for anything that remotely resembles your claim?

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 11:32 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"#15 | Posted by Danforth"

You don't get to participate until you link to your prior claim that the 0.1% received 50% of Trump's tax cut or admit you lied. It is all about accountability.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 11:28 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"#11 | Posted by LampLighter"

Someone need to reprogram this bot account to at least read the prior posts in the same thread.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 11:26 PM | Reply

Americans Believe Russian Disinformation 'To Alarming Degree'

lucky for us, it's only about 20% of the DR.

Posted by horstngraben at 2025-04-25 11:12 PM | Reply

@#84 ... if nothing else, you do put in the hours trying to spin ...

OK, the first reply (and only 11 minutes later... hover much? That raises other questions, but for now I'll pass)

That first reply looks like little more than an ad hominem attack and a deflection attempt.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 11:10 PM | Reply

Trump Administration Asks College Employees If They Are Jewish

@#83 ... Please explain to us why giving due process for all people the Wrong Side of the issue of who gets due process. ...

I await the answer(s).

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 11:08 PM | Reply

... and more from the link in #2 ...

... In the 1990s, John O'Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, wrote a book about his time working with Donald Trump.

O'Donnell reported that Trump frequently denigrated African-Americans.

He remembers a lot, but he specifically remembers Trump saying of his accountants:

... I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza.

Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day....

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 11:04 PM | Reply

Trump Administration Asks College Employees If They Are Jewish

... What appeared at first glance to Barnard College employees to be a fake text scheme inquiring whether they were Jewish was confirmed Wednesday by school administrators as a legitimate government text message. ...

September 26, 2016 - Issue: Vol. 162, No. 145 -- Daily Edition (2016)
www.congress.gov

... Mr. REID. Madam President, virtually every time Donald Trump says or does something discriminatory -- and that is often -- the media relies upon a catalog of buzzwords to describe his actions. The press uses words like hateful, intolerant, bigot, extremist, prejudice, to name but a few. Yet there is always one word that many of the press conspicuously avoid: Racist. They never label Trump as a racist, but he is a racist.

Donald Trump is a racist.

``Racist'' is a term I don't really like.

We have all, with rare exception -- I don't know who it would be -- said things that are not politically correct, but I don't know of anyone, when that happens, who doesn't acknowledge it and, if necessary, apologizes quickly, but Donald Trump doesn't believe the racist things he does and says are wrong. He says them with the full intent to demean and to denigrate.

That is who he is.

Each time Trump is given a chance to apologize and make amends, he refuses, and then he doubles down on what he said before.

The media is not holding Donald Trump accountable at all. He is not being held accountable. ...

Trump has even had a secret system for discriminatory practices. As the Washington Post reported:

Trump employees have secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as `No. 9' and `C' for colored. .

. . The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants and steered them toward properties that had many minorities.

In the 1980s, Trump took his racism to Atlantic City. This is Donald Trump at his best. He cheated, coerced, filed bankruptcy, did anything he could to cheat people out of money.

In the process, his racism came to the forefront in Atlantic City. Trump was accused of making his African-American employees move off the casino floor when he didn't want to see them, which was any time he came to the casino. One employee, Kip Brown, said:

When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.

Trump was later fined $200,000 by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for that act of disgusting racism. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 11:00 PM | Reply

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Posted by Corky at 2025-04-25 10:58 PM | Reply

Their comeback is usually some emotional appeal about "compassion" or "equity," but when you dig deeper

it sounds like you don't understand the connection between Due Process and compassion and equity.
That's why I asked you what it was like before we had Due Process.
Why it's in the Constitution in the first place.
Why it's given to all People.

Your way of avoiding these very direct and pointed questions?
Is to dismiss it as Virtue Signaling.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-25 10:52 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

Their comeback is usually some emotional appeal about "compassion" or "equity," but when you dig deeper its less about problem solving and more about virtue signaling or blindly singing the party line.

#82 | Posted by BillJohnson

totally accurate but incomplete.

dems are making major money supporting their fringe issues.

again....why did "hitler" win ?

the border...

Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-25 10:46 PM | Reply

Article by Vladimir Putin "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" (2021)
web.archive.org

... During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people -- a single whole. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:46 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

I don't know if that's how it will actually play out but it seems like the least worse course of action to me.
#62 | Posted by BellRinger

Are you scared? It's sounds like you and the rest of the MAGAts are scared.

Do you remember when it was that you learned to tuck your tail between your legs and tremble in fear at the sight of Russians? I think I have a pretty good idea. Might have been around the time you learned to worship Bone Spurs as a sign of divine providence.

Posted by censored at 2025-04-25 10:44 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

@#31 ... Russia should not have been provoked into invading. ...

Pres Putin had a choice.

He chose to do an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country.

"There is no Ukraine": Fact-Checking the Kremlin's Version of Ukrainian History (2020)
blogs.lse.ac.uk

... The notion that Ukraine is not a country, but a historical part of Russia, appears to be deeply ingrained in the minds of Russian leadership. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:43 PM | Reply

Status Quo Democrats Furious at DNC Co-Chair David Hogg

HOMELAND SECURITY has proven that it was the wife beating illegal who was driving the car in Tennessee filled with illegals.

so....once again....from smollet to tampon tim to whatever
harris was and an emerging idiot bartender with large breasts ( I had to say something positive about her ) at a 61% approval rate of democrats to the GIGANTIC gov of Ill. lying his HUGE butt off about trans kids....this citizen of El Salvador ho is EXACTLY WHERE HE BELONGS...is the new democrat hero...

its almost as if the activist running the democrat party....same activist who ran the country the last four years... wants the GOP to control the WH until 2036 because they still don't know why they lost to "hitler

Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-25 10:43 PM | Reply

"Drag Queen story times. Never once heard anyone talk about their junk"

As a tax preparer for folks in the arts, I have several Drag Queens as clients. I guarantee you, they aren't thinking about sexing the children. They're thinking about how to deduct the mileage, hoping they'll remember to pick-up eyeliner on the way, and wondering how to get kid's puke off chiffon.

You know...glamorous stuff.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 10:35 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

End of the day, Putin's Bitch proves that he is exactly what we always knew him to be. And the MAGAts love his Poohty-sucking cowardice.

Posted by censored at 2025-04-25 10:29 PM | Reply

Status Quo Democrats Furious at DNC Co-Chair David Hogg

Republicans were happy when Trump's failed response to COVID led to an excess in Republican deaths.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at

effing hoax and bs

from the first letter to the last/

---idiot sheep

Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-25 10:29 PM | Reply

...wear a dress talking to young children
about their junk...
#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan

My ex was a librarian in Philly, I helped her out with many Drag Queen story times. Never once heard anyone talk about their junk. Stop getting your news from liars.

Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-04-25 10:19 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

Conservatives have repeatedly claimed that ActBlue was acting as a conduit for foreign contributions. In December, an analysis of the fundraising network's records by Republican Representative Bryan Steil not only failed to advance the theory but instead found proof that the platform's automated program to reject donations from foreign nationals was working effectively.

So four months ago, a Republican investigated them, and not only found no malfeasance, but discovered the counter-measures were working well.

Why, if THAT's not a reason to investigate them, what is??? I mean, it's not like the DOJ is committing LAWFARE, amirite?

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 10:13 PM | Reply

'Vladimir, STOP!' Trump Pleading With Putin After Strike

@#14

That was pretty brutal.

But with Pres Trump apparently surrendering Ukraine sovereignty to Pres Putin for "a deal," apropos?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:13 PM | Reply

There are nearly 900 measles cases in the US.

Will Pres Trump sell a hat...

MASA

Make America Sick Again?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:09 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

@#15 ... It's like someone thinking the inheritance tax needs to have a lower cap... but Grantor Remainder Annuity Trusts are okay. ...

There you go again ... inserting facts into a thread. :)

Using a GRAT for tax-efficient wealth transfer
www.fidelity.com

...
Key takeaways

- - - For families or individuals who own assets that they expect to appreciate significantly in value, a grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) might be an appropriate option to consider as part of a comprehensive estate plan.

- - - With a GRAT, the grantor gives up control of the assets for the term of the trust while receiving a regular annuity payment, and the appreciation on the trust assets may pass to heirs free of gift or estate taxes.

- - - The trust can be structured so that the grantor does not use any of their lifetime gift and estate-tax exclusion....

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:06 PM | Reply

USDA Stopping Plan to Reduce Salmonella in Poultry

Wow. Our enemies in Western Europe will really be eager to buy chicken which otherwise would have been condemned. I'm certain the ace negotiator in the WH will get those Frenchies and Krauts to step up prontodente. This is going so much better than the previous administration. Right?

Posted by catdog at 2025-04-25 10:04 PM | Reply

AG Bondi announces task force to tackle anti-Christian bias.

Billions of people will die. That's what people do.

#11 | Posted by Charliecharles

You are absolutely correct.

Nobody gets out alive :)

I think (?) maybe the problem is that humans have this weird bias...

The rate of deaths/x x=any subjective number, like births, or deaths of "others"

Makes a huge difference...SUBJECTIVELY

LOL

We're all going to die, homo sapiens sapiens will go extinct.

Regardless of anything we do or don't do.

Tots and pears y'all!

I'm still going to enjoy the MAGAts expiring at an accelerated rate verses non MAGAts :)

Posted by billy_boy at 2025-04-25 10:02 PM | Reply

Teen Girls Arrested - Deported While Backpacking in Hawaii

Thos never would have happened if they were wh- oh, wait...

Posted by sentinel at 2025-04-25 10:01 PM | Reply

Putin ‘Playing America as a Patsy,’ Grassley Warns Trump

@#4

My only significant change to your comment would be ...

Putin ignores trump.

-- to --

Pres Putin knows how to manipulate and use Pres Trump.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 10:01 PM | Reply

There are nearly 900 measles cases in the US.

More from the article...

... In Texas, where an outbreak has been spreading in the western part of the state, at least 646 cases have been confirmed as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Dr. Marschall Runge, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and CEO of Michigan Medicine, said the number of cases -- at the national level and in Texas -- is likely an undercount.

"I think it's likely that there are a lot of unreported cases in children who weren't particularly sick or didn't come to medical attention," he told ABC News. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:57 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"Liberals cannot defend ActBlue - verified donations from individuals done thousands of times in small amounts that total into the hundreds of thousands of dollars."

So, basically pennies compared to the meme-coin grift, where Trump and cronies may pocket $100 million, while investors lost $2 billion.

It's like someone thinking the inheritance tax needs to have a lower cap... but Grantor Remainder Annuity Trusts are okay.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 09:56 PM | Reply

A 5-minute charge to go 320 miles. Chinese EV battery giant CATL says its tech is even better than Tesla-killer BYD's
finance.yahoo.com

@#14 ... EV's are a niche vehicle. In the right set of circumstances they work fine for the consumer. ...

I agree.

But Tesla seems to have created a company based upon those niche vehicles.

And, EVs are getting better.

CATL is introducing a new fast charging technology.

... China's Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world's largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, has unveiled an upgraded battery it says promises an even longer range than rival BYD's cutting-edge technology.

Both tech giants now boast they have batteries that can charge EVs in as little as five minutes. But on Monday, CATL upped the ante by announcing that its new Shenxing battery has a range of 320 miles, about 70 miles longer than BYD's stated range of 250 miles. By comparison, Tesla's Superchargers lag way behind by delivering 200 miles of range in a 15-minute charge. ...

Like the early autos that replaced horse buggies back in the day, EVs are improving.

One aspect I wonder about ...

With the scientific brain drain in the US that Pres Trump's policies seem to be encouraging, will the US EV manufacturers be able to keep up?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:54 PM | Reply

@#46 ... You showed where the government pointed out posts violating THE HOST's Terms of Service, and the editorial board. agreed. That most decisively is NOT censorship.

What you DIDN'T SHOW was any occasion of the editorial board disagreeing with the government, AND THEN FORCED to censor something against their will. You know...ACTUAL CENSORSHIP. At least nothing anyone could point to. ...

Yup.

It is not government censorship unless and until it is actually the government that is doing the censoring.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:46 PM | Reply

EVs are workable for most people in the cities and suburbs.

Most two car families should have a grocery getter EV, and a car for longer trips. The car might be a toy hauler.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-25 09:45 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"I showed you countless examples of the federal government partnering with tech giants to silence "misinformation."

You showed where the government pointed out posts violating THE HOST's Terms of Service, and the editorial board. agreed. That most decisively is NOT censorship.

Even Zuckerberg never volunteered specifics, only making vague references to feeling gov't pressure. Obviously, if it was anything of heft, Zuck would've made it public. IOW, the "disagreements" had to be on the level of EAT TIDE PODS.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 09:44 PM | Reply

Did anyone figure out what Jared Kushner did with the $2 billion the Saudis gave him when he was working for Trump during his first term?

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:33 PM | Reply

Putin ‘Playing America as a Patsy,’ Grassley Warns Trump

Putin ignores trump.
Zelensky ignores trump.
Bibi ignores trump.
Xi ignores trump.
The rest of the world ignores trump.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
When Mao called America a paper tiger, he was prescient about trump.

Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-25 09:32 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

ActBlue did this - there is literally zero doubt about it.
#10 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

Zero doubt about what?

Tell us what the Russian times says.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:31 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"over crap Trump is doing or is alleged to be doing."

Threatening law firms who don't bend to his political will? Alleged, or doing?

Denying Due Process? Alleged, or doing?

Ignoring a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling...alleged, or doing?

Marketing a grift-coin, knowing he'll get royalties FROM THE TRANSACTIONS? Alleged, or doing?

You can't decide?!? What a farkin' coward.

"Your outrage is extremely selective."

LOL. You SCREECH when you can't find lawfare, and dead silent when Trump threatens unbending law firms. HACK.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 09:30 PM | Reply

And, as an aside, may the DoJ should investigate a President blatantly profiting off his occupancy of the Oval Office?

For starters, there was that chimerical, shot on White House grounds, for Tesla vehicles a few weeks ago.

And now ...

Trump store is selling Trump 2028' hats
thehill.com

... The Trump Organization rolled out "Trump 2028" hats on its website in support of President Trump's suggestion that he could seek a third term in office.

Eric Trump, one of the president's sons, was spotted wearing the new piece of merchandise being sold for $50 online. The store is also selling t-shirts with the same phrase and a slogan in parenthesis that says "Rewrite the Rules." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:29 PM | Reply

George Santos Gets 7 Years in Prison

Trump really misses an opportunity to troll America by assisting George to his cabinet.

Santos only mistake is being too poor for Trump to care about.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:29 PM | Reply

George Santos Gets 7 Years in Prison

He'll be pardoned before spending a second in jail.

Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-25 09:27 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

@#10 ... ActBlue did this - there is literally zero doubt about it. ...

Zero doubt?

If so, what evidence can your current trolling alias provide?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:26 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

We brought 9/11 on ourselves?

9/11, the controlled demolition of three skyscrapers in New York?

I guess you mean we did it to ourselves.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:26 PM | Reply

Putin ‘Playing America as a Patsy,’ Grassley Warns Trump

HOT NEW SINGLE - Vladimir, STOP!

www.youtube.com

Posted by Corky at 2025-04-25 09:25 PM | Reply

"Experts" wrong again on economic growth

"No matter how much smoke you ferociously defended the Clinton Foundation, the Biden crime syndicate, the censorship regime..."

NONE of which you ever offered a scintilla of proof over:

The Clinton Foundation was gone over with a fine-toothed comb, and after that, Republicans decided to go after Benghazi...where HRC wasn't even in the military chain of command.

The "Biden Crime Syndicate" turned out to be a nothing burger, save for stuff you're praising Jarvaka for doing.

And "The censorship regime"?!? Again, the next piece of proof, will be your first. Your ultimate theory is if the editorial board agreed with the government suggestion, THAT WAS CENSORSHIP. It's not.

Once again, three pitches, three swings and misses. Go warm the bench.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 09:24 PM | Reply

@#21

Looks that way.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:23 PM | Reply

Social Security Recipients Deleted by DOGE: 'I'm Not Dead'

@#4 ... DOGE has perpetrated a non-kinetic '9/11' on the US. ...

Looks that way, doesn't it?

So, the question that lingers like an unclaimed air biscuit ...

Was that the intent of DOGE all along?

Not the cost savings, but to cripple the Federal government?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:16 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

You're full of shht.
Citation necessary.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:14 PM | Reply

It's true and we did bring it upon ourselves. No question about it.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 09:16 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

I abhor the propaganda associated with EV's being green. Unless you're getting all of your power from wind and solar it's still a fossil burning vehicle. You just get the burning at the front end. Just not along the way. Just sayin

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 09:14 PM | Reply

I remember when lefties of all stripes claimed we brought 9/11 on ourselves.
#62 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

You're full of shht.

Citation necessary.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:14 PM | Reply

A Scaled Down Look at Spending, Revenue, and DOGE Cuts

... but do these cuts actually reduce it? ...

The cuts to the IRS may actually increase the Federal deficit as there will be fewer audits of the wealthy.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:13 PM | Reply

EV's are a niche vehicle.

Same as the horseless buggy.

EVs aren't what's being protested.

Fascism is.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:12 PM | Reply

" Myself I love the rumble from an I.C.E. It just gets into the blood if you will.

#22 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2025-04-25 09:08 PM | FLAG: "

Same. I love the sound of a V8.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 09:11 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

EV's are a niche vehicle. In the right set of circumstances they work fine for the consumer. Those cicumstances are pretty l8mited. Never mind that they are nowhere near as green as they ar3 purported as being when we look at carbon inputs needed to build them, the pollution due to tire particulates their excessive weight creates, the fact that their excessive weights increase fatalities in collisions especially where small, fuel-efficient ICE driven cars are involved.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 09:10 PM | Reply

I remember when lefties of all stripes claimed we brought 9/11 on ourselves. Now you all get to play by your own rules.
Russia annexed all of Crimea under Obama and started this war of aggression against Ukriane under Biden.
Throughout history, to the victors go the spoils. The status quo is forever war. Russia losing is the US escalating and possibly precipitating a global war. Russia keeping some of the territory gained and agreeing to a cease-fire and hopefully a truce I believe is in our best interests given the other options.
I don't know if that's how it will actually play out but it seems like the least worse course of action to me.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 09:06 PM | Reply

We did bring it upon ourselves with our arrogant foreign policy.BTW nice shilling for Putin Jeff.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 09:10 PM | Reply

US agency eases some self-driving safety rules, sending Tesla stock soaring
finance.yahoo.com

@#20 ... They don't even have self-driving software ready to go. ...

And Mr Musk's approach seem to be to reduce the specifications for self-driving software to make it easier to get lower-performing self-driving software approved.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:08 PM | Reply

Fed Judge Blocks Trump Plans to Dismantle Voice of America

LAMP

Trump is losing so many of his cases at all judicial levels.

I'm going to sit tight until Trump orders the DOJ to arrest (the traitorous) Chief Justice Roberts for not being more help (greasing the skids) to him on his fast track to a dictatorship.

Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-25 09:08 PM | Reply

Trump's 'Final Offer' for Peace Leaves Russia in Ukraine

This is because EV's pretty much suck. But it is nice that Democrats might now support pulling back on EV mandates and subsidies if they think it might hurt Musk.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 08:59 PM | Reply

EV's are great for the niche consumer. Myself I love the rumble from an I.C.E. It just gets into the blood if you will.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 09:08 PM | Reply

" Russia should not have been provoked into invading.
=====
yeah, Ukraine was wearing a miniskirt and walking down a dark alley.

You're a dumb ----.

#32 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-04-23 09:15 PM | FLAG: "

I remember when lefties of all stripes claimed we brought 9/11 on ourselves. Now you all get to play by your own rules.

Russia annexed all of Crimea under Obama and started this war of aggression against Ukriane under Biden.

Throughout history, to the victors go the spoils. The status quo is forever war. Russia losing is the US escalating and possibly precipitating a global war. Russia keeping some of the territory gained and agreeing to a cease-fire and hopefully a truce I believe is in our best interests given the other options.

I don't know if that's how it will actually play out but it seems like the least worse course of action to me.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 09:06 PM | Reply

@#18 ... This is because EV's pretty much suck. ...

Depends upon the needs of their owners. For some owners, EVs are what is needed and wanted.

So, please explain why they suck.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:04 PM | Reply

TSLA is now a meme stock. During the latest earnings call this week, in order to pump the stock, Musk once again made grand promises about upcoming revenue streams he KNOWS he can't deliver on:

- TSLA will have a MILLION robotaxis on the roads sometime next year. He promised exactly this in 2019

They don't even have self-driving software ready to go. Meanwhile, Waymo and others are already on the roads

- He will build these ONE MILLION robotaxis at the Austin Cybertruck plant

This is also a farcical concoction. The plant isn't capable of building a million Model Y's in a year. More like 5 years at capacity, if that

- He will build and sell hundreds of thousands of robots at $20-30,000 each. Again, ridiculous. Where's the market for those at that price and in those numbers.

Tesla sales are falling. Musk has destroyed the brand among the very customers he seeks. Rednecks drive pickups.

The ONLY reason they had any net revenues at all was because of the nearly $600,000,000 in carbon tax credits.

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-25 09:04 PM | Reply

Putin ‘Playing America as a Patsy,’ Grassley Warns Trump

Republicans really are ignorant.

There are other EV manufacturers in America than just Tesla.

Elon Musk's greatest contribution to Tesla was getting billions of dollars from the government of California to massively expand its production.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 09:03 PM | Reply

From the cited article ...

... Grassley pushed Trump to institute sanctions on Russia -- which Trump has previously threatened to do if they didn't come to the negotiating table on the war -- and added that Russia is "playing America as a patsy." ...

Well, yeah.

That's not been obvious?

But, I'd rephrase that as Russia is ~playing its Pres Trump sock puppet as a patsy.~

Pres Putin seems to know the triggers of Pres Trump to get him to do what Pres Putin wants Pres Trump to do.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:02 PM | Reply

Putin ‘Playing America as a Patsy,’ Grassley Warns Trump

This is because EV's pretty much suck. But it is nice that Democrats might now support pulling back on EV mandates and subsidies if they think it might hurt Musk.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 08:59 PM | Reply

Broken clocks... Trump is proof that there are people even worse than Mr Grassley.

Posted by Corky at 2025-04-25 08:58 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

"#9 | Posted by ClownShack"

ActBlue did this - there is literally zero doubt about it.

I guess they can claim it was users on their platform and not them specifically, but they knew this was occurring and took no steps to stop it making them complicit in election fraud.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 08:55 PM | Reply

BYD's quarterly profit surges at fastest pace in nearly two years
www.reuters.com

@#16 ... It's not a tech company. ...

Bingo!

Tesla is an automobile manufacturer.

And the sales plunged worldwide beside the CEO of Tesla has been on a different mission than assuring Tesla sales and profits for the past few months.

I am tempted to say, "secondarily" here, but I won't....

And Tesla now seems to have another problem ...

The CEO of Tesla is now associated with the far-right political parties in Europe and the United States.

That association may affect Tesla's prior core customer base, left-leaning people.

To the point that a few left-leaning individuals express their viewpoint in illegal ways, e.g. defacing Teslas.

Then I see articles like these ...

... BYD's first-quarter profit leapt 100.4% from a year earlier, the fastest pace in nearly two years, as the Chinese electric vehicle giant extends its lead in its competitive home market after launching a smart EV price war. ...

--- and ---

BYD Earnings: Net Income Doubles, Racing Past Tesla In Latest Milestone
www.investors.com

... The actual net income easily topped Tesla's adjusted net income of $934 million. Tesla had long held a huge profitability edge over BYD, but that gap narrowed considerably in recent years. Tesla's net income was 388% larger than BYD's in 2022, 161% in 2023 and 53% last year.

It's notable that BYD passed Tesla on this key metric in the seasonally weak first quarter for Chinese EV sales. ...

BYD passed Tesla in revenue in Q3 and fully battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Q4. It's been the overall EV leader, including plug-in hybrids, for more than two years.

Late Tuesday, Tesla reported Q1 EPS dived 40% vs. a year earlier, far below lowered views. Revenue declined 9% to $19.3 billion. Core automotive margins excluding regulatory credits hit their lowest level since 2012. Excluding regulatory credits, Tesla had an operating loss. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 08:53 PM | Reply

Pretty sure that Russian troll messed up his Russian to English translation.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 08:48 PM | Reply

Trump tells DOJ: investigate Dem donation platform ActBlue

Danforth,

No matter how much smoke you ferociously defended the Clinton Foundation, the Biden crime syndicate, the censorship regime, etc. no with arguably less smoke you expect everyone to be apoplectic over crap Trump is doing or is alleged to be doing. All the while screaming about Due process'! I never though any of the Biden's or Clinton's should have been tossed in the clink without due process. Your outrage is extremely selective.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 08:48 PM | Reply

Every accusation is an admission.

Donnie fatso is worried democrats are doing what he's guilty of.

Biden was an incompetent president and allowed this to happen because he thought he could play nice with fascists.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 08:41 PM | Reply

Fed Judge Blocks Trump Plans to Dismantle Voice of America

@#23 ... Because she would have gotten due process. ...

Yup, she would have gotten due process.

And that has been a major issue for me with the Trump admin.

Lack of the due process that the Constitution guarantees.

Some trolls, though, seem to want to characterize that lack of due process as a good thing.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 08:37 PM | Reply

That's not democracy, it's a judicial coup.
#4 | Posted by itchyp

Take it up with the Founders. www.law.cornell.edu

Also with Congress. www.law.cornell.edu

Here's a copy of the Court's short opinion. storage.courtlistener.com

Posted by et_al at 2025-04-25 08:37 PM | Reply

Mapped: Climate Risks Are Driving Up US Insurance Premiums

"#23 | Posted by LampLighter"

It is - it is proving that they don't believe in climate change.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 08:37 PM | Reply

" Why aren't you starting threads ... .."

Yeah, it's not like this site doesn't have any anti-Trump threads already.

I showed you countless examples of the federal government partnering with tech giants to silence "misinformation."

You cheered it on. Just like you cheer on when lefty violent criminals skate with minimal punishments for violent crimes including murder.

Look in the mirror.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 08:36 PM | Reply

Mapped: Climate Risks Are Driving Up US Insurance Premiums

"Because she would have gotten due process.
#23 | Posted by Zed"

Just admit it - prior to the Dems telling you this talking point, you didn't even know what Due Process was. Not surprising, Canada doesn't have the same rights as we do.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 08:36 PM | Reply

@#22 ... By vandalizing vehicles already sold by Telsa - many 5+ years ago, they are hurting Musk how exactly? ...

I dunno.

Your current trolling alias was the one who said it was self-explanatory, not me.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 08:33 PM | Reply

How many years did you practice to be such a pig?

Posted by Zed at 2025-04-25 08:32 PM | Reply

We're Breaking Our Promises: Afghans Who Helped US deported?

Because she would have gotten due process.

Posted by Zed at 2025-04-25 08:31 PM | Reply

This is one aspect I think of when I mention the longer-term consequences of the transactional things Pres Trump does for short-term positive media time.

Pres Trump seems to be abdicating a promise made by US troops to the Afghan civilians who assisted them.

How might this apparent abdication affect the willingness of others to help the US troops in the future, when they see that they may just be tossed out like a bag of trash?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 08:31 PM | Reply

"#21 | Posted by LampLighter"

I can 100% guarantee you the result would not have been you and Snoofy whining about Due Process.

Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-25 08:30 PM | Reply