Nooner April 25th | Drudge Retort

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

We need a conversation thread everyday here in this echo chamber.

Posted by boaz at 07:54 AM | 67 COMMENTS | permalink

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Arguable.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-23 08:20 AM

Fox TV presenter interviews SECDEF Pete Hogsbreath on live TV, referring to him as "former Secretary" before quickly correcting himself: bsky.app

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 08:30 AM

We need a conversation thread everyday here in this echo chamber.

Posted by boaz

Conversing with bold stupidity such as yours is never productive.

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-23 08:33 AM

Quick question, boo:

How many times do you think North Carolina will get denied FEMA aid under Trump 2.0, and how effectively do you think charity is gonna pick up the slack?

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 09:10 AM

"Pete Hogsbreath's Patriotic Duty is to Resign"

"Pete Hogsbreath was never qualified to be the secretary of defense. Dotard Trumpf should never have nominated him, Hogsbreath should never have accepted the nomination, and the Senate should never have confirmed him."

"Alas, qualifications, self-knowledge, and the courage of Senate Republicans are all things of the past, and for three months now, Hogsbreath has been a proven failure as a secretary of defense. If the president still refuses to fire him, he should resign."

Link:

www.theatlantic.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 09:23 AM

"Fears Grow That Signal Leaks Make Pete Hogsbreath Top Espionage Target"

Experts say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets of US DoD and given assistance to foreign spies

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/pete-hegseth-pentagon-espionage

"Hi Vlad, it's me, blabbermouth..."

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 09:56 AM

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSatan Faces Growing Storm Over Hope Florida Controversy

Florida Gov. Ron DeSatan (R) is facing growing backlash over allegations involving an organization linked to his wife.

The controversy concerns a $10 million payment to the Hope Florida Foundation, which is tied to first lady Casey DeSantis's welfare assistance program Hope Florida. Funds were diverted from federal and state coffers to this foundation and inappropriately used to help campaign against legalized recreational marijuana in Florida last November.

Link:

thehill.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 10:21 AM

Coralanus?
Did your boyfriend give you that name?

#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-04-23 10:39 AM

Bozo will be along any moment now to bust up this "echo chamber"...LOL

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-23 11:16 AM

@#6 ... "Fears Grow That Signal Leaks Make Pete Hogsbreath Top Espionage Target" ...

Make him a target, or has he been a useful idiot of Pres Putin since he was appointed?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 12:38 PM

Israel's Most Sensitive Sites Revealed in High Level of Detail on Internet

High-resolution satellite images of Israel's Dimona Nuclear Center, IDF bases, and Gaza operations are now publicly available on mapping platforms. The availability of such high-resolution satellite images transforms them into a significant open-source intelligence resource for hostile entities, researchers, curious individuals, or readers of the Drudge Retort.

I bet this has Benjamin Netanyahu's pantyhose tied in a knot.

Link:

www.ynetnews.com

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 12:41 PM

It is okay if you disagree with me, as I can't force you to be right : )

#12 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-04-23 01:14 PM

How many times do you think North Carolina will get denied FEMA aid under Trump 2.0

At the places I've volunteered, there's been no shortage of federal or state help.

#13 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-23 01:17 PM

US President Spends His Time Watching TV or Golfing

According to the Trumpf Golf Tracker website, enhanced with YouTube evidence, Dotard Trumpf has spent 25% his time playing golf. Trumpf has wasted at least $18 million of hardworking American taxpayers' money on golf trips since his coronation on 20 Jan 2025. Furthermore, one aide reported that the Dotard watches seven hours of TV before sauntering into the Oval Office at noon.

cdn01.cdn.justjared.com

Links:

trumpgolftrack.com

www.snopes.com

www.businessinsider.com

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 01:18 PM

I guess you're not volunteering in Tennessee.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 01:19 PM

"At the places I've volunteered, there's been no shortage of federal or state help."

So, Socialism.

To a degree where charity alone would've been overwhelmed.

Got it.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 01:20 PM

The only "echo chamber" is inside DEI hire Bo-ass's Faux "News" infected brain.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-23 01:38 PM

The only "echo chamber" is inside DEI hire Bo-ass's Faux "News" infected brain.

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-23 01:39 PM

19 Richest American Households Made $1 Trillion Last Year

"The wealthiest have gotten richer, and control a record share of America's wealth. New data suggest $1 trillion of wealth was created for the 19 richest American households alone in 2024. That is more than the value of Switzerland's entire economy."

The oligarchs have been greedily amassing their pelf for centuries. Just imagine how much more fabulously wealthy the billionaires will be next year after Trumpf's horrendous tax cuts take effect.

Source: WSJ.com

#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 01:47 PM

So, Socialism.

Nope. But I'm not going to waste my time trying to get you to understand why this isnt socialism.

You are too ------- stupid and a liberal.

#20 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-23 02:05 PM

So, Welfare State. :)

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:07 PM

#21: So, Welfare State. :)

Yup, America is a welfare state for the wealthy. And Trumpf will bring more oligarchs into the US with his $5m Gold Green Cards.

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 02:13 PM

Since Gracie quit doing it, I'm here to pick up the torch.

Happy Wednesday, Grateful, Skankful, and Blessed...TooTles.

You're slippin' Gracie.

#23 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-23 02:18 PM

Hogsbreath has been a proven failure as a secretary of defense. If the president still refuses to fire him, he should resign."

That would require integrity. That's something republicans seriously lack.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-23 02:58 PM

You are too ------- stupid and a liberal.

#20 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Or ... you're just inconsistent and unable to because it's purely situational.

#25 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-23 03:23 PM

I have blank lines in the thread. Who or what is a "BOAZ"?

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 03:35 PM

www.medpagetoday.com

US medical journals that are read and respected around the world are now being targeted by the bullies in charge.

#27 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-23 03:57 PM

www.medpagetoday.com

The grift continues. Why would anyone bioengineer a virus to target Mennonites?

#28 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-23 03:59 PM

" I'm not going to waste my time trying to get you to understand why this isnt socialism.

The PUBLIC is expected to pay for others' misfortune.

Call it what you want, it's Socialism. Your losses are borne by taxpayers otherwise unaffected. Socialism.

#29 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 03:59 PM

"I'm not going to waste my time trying to get you to understand why this isnt socialism."

That's because you can't.

Hell ... FEMA, at its root, is a Socialist construct.

#30 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 04:15 PM

Hi MATTM:

Thanks for posting the story about the AUSA and their targeting campaign. Your second link was a dupe-- there was no mention of the Mennonites. I think this was the article you wanted to post: www.medpagetoday.com

Look what 49.8% of eligible American voters did to us on 5 Nov 2024.

#31 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 04:55 PM

Call it what you want, it's Socialism.

Socialism is when the community has the means of production and other things.

FEMA has not production.

FEMA is just a department of the government to help during disasters.

Idiot.

#32 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-23 05:36 PM

Socialism is when the community has the means of production and other things.

So national healthcare and education aren't socialism?

Watch out Boaz, you're gonna get your MAGA hat revoked.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-23 06:08 PM

You're kinda missing it with that "means of production" thing.

FEMA production lines produce Services, not Goods.

FEMA, like everything in our government, is an extension of We The People.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 06:17 PM

I wished RCADE would bring back the nooner as it was.

#35 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-23 06:17 PM

@#35 ... I wished RCADE would bring back the nooner as it was. ...

Agreed.

In its prior form it did not pollute the "recent comments" section of the Front Page or Back Page.

I can see why it might have been cancelled, though.

Perhaps, The Nooner could be brought back with a stricter ~behave with respect~ policy?

OK, I admit that may be a lost hope ...

But sometimes hope comes true.

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 06:25 PM

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Like A Rolling Stone (Live At Monterey Pop Festival 1967)
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#37 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 06:31 PM

" Socialism is when the community has the means of production"

That's not the sole distinguishing factor. It's also when the collective pays for the collective good. Streets, parks, and defense are three examples of Socialism within the capitalistic society.

#38 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 07:32 PM

#32 | Posted by boaz

This bonehead is just a proud, hopeless case.

God bless 'im.

#39 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-23 08:37 PM

The Nooner in all it's glory (bless it's heart) is well missed. Gone are the days of the alcohol-fueled, late night confessions from our resident Dr. pDh Manpoon - Extraordinaire. A lover of indigenous nudity and Toga parties with a salty twist. That was top shelf entertainment without spending a dime...

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-23 11:36 PM

...I'm not going to waste my time trying to get you to understand why this isnt(sic) socialism.
#20 | Posted by boaz

So in a thread you created (wrong date BTW) to bring folks out of their echo chamber and expose them to new ideas, you refuse to give them new ideas when asked.
The comedy just writes itself.

#41 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-04-24 02:38 AM

@#35 | Posted by LauraMohr

@#36 | Posted by LampLighter

Yep. I agree. Bring it back, at least, in some kind of revamped form.

#42 | Posted by shane at 2025-04-24 11:02 AM

Nooner was a Safe Zone for the Rwing children... they could say stuff there that would get them run offa the other threads.

Now they bring The Stupid Cult propaganda they see on Truth Social to every thread.

Also though it was a place for libs to slap them around without major consequences.

#43 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-24 11:47 AM

#43 | POSTED BY CORKY AT 2025-04-24 11:47 AM | REPLY |

The only person you ever slapped around was your barefooted, pregnant wife.

#44 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-24 11:59 AM

Pilot: We're currently flying over 22,000 feet.

Boaz gets a -----

#45 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-24 01:31 PM

LOL

#46 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-24 01:32 PM

We need a conversation thread everyday here in this echo chamber.

POSTED BY comrade Boazo

You need to learn to STFU!

#47 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-04-24 03:21 PM

You're posting in tomorrow's nooner.

#48 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-24 05:14 PM

It figures the brain dead------------- who steals from cancer charities would pardon the MAGA twunt who stole money intended for a fallen officer's memorial.

thenevadaindependent.com

#49 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-24 05:37 PM

A Nooner will always suck so long as waterbrains such as Boaz, LFT and the gaggle of other MAGAts who come to this site are still allowed to post on it. Better no Nooner than a Nooner with Fishpaw, Gracie, SDT, and abusive idiots like that being allowed to lie, troll and insult without cessation.

#50 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-04-24 10:36 PM

Seems like the problem is solving itself, since anyone can just start a thread and call it that day's Peggy Noonan.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-24 10:40 PM

FEMA, like everything in our government, is an extension of We The People.

Skipping homes of people because of their political views is "we the people" ...

LOL this is hilarious.

#52 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-25 12:26 AM

" It's also when the collective pays for the collective good. Streets, parks, and defense are three examples of Socialism within the capitalistic society.

#38 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2025-04-23 07:32 PM | FLAG: |"

No, that's not Socialism. That's like saying ANY government spending is Socialism. Socialism is the state controlling the means of production.

#53 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 12:37 AM

" A Nooner will always suck so long as waterbrains such as Boaz, LFT and the gaggle of other MAGAts who come to this site are still allowed to post on it. Better no Nooner than a Nooner with Fishpaw, Gracie, SDT, and abusive idiots like that being allowed to lie, troll and insult without cessation.

#50 | POSTED BY MODER8 AT 2025-04-24 10:36 PM | FLAG: "

Did you ever see posts on the nooner by JPW, Clownshack, etc? They were every bit as abusive and trolling as the names you listed. Maybe more so. The back and forth was fun. It was always a contest to see who could come up with the most creative insult.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 12:49 AM

When was the last time Bezos or Musk built a park? Or a museum? Or built a hospital or a school?

No? Just stealing the profits of their hardworking employees and spending it on rockets to mars?

Capitalism is a sickness, Democratic socialism is the cure.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 12:51 AM

"that's not Socialism."

It's a Socialistic aspect of a Capitalist society. Otherwise, there'd be toll booths at the end of every street.

"That's like saying ANY government spending is Socialism."

No, giving tax cuts to oil companies doesn't qualify.

You'll just barf ANYTHING, won't you?

#56 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 01:26 AM

When you talk about things like libraries as being an example of Socialism ... .libraries don't control any form of production.

Words have definitions and you are not using the word Socialism correctly.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 02:01 AM

Here is the definition:

www.merriam-webster.com

#58 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 02:03 AM

Way to miss the point.

By miles.

You really couldn't have been more off.

I don't know why I expected you to understand.

Go laugh about Vance killing the pope.

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 02:58 AM

Clownshack,

You are little more than a low-rent troll.

#60 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 03:08 AM

I don't know why socialism can't have more than one meaning. It might not have a hard and fast rule but can encompass so much more. Just sayin

#61 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 03:24 AM

" When you talk about things like libraries as being an example of Socialism ... "

It's because it's a Socialist aspect of a capitalistic society. That doesn't mean we're that way in EVERY aspect. Why is that so hard to understand?

Free libraries are ABSOLUTELY Socialistic: The collective deciding it's such a collective benefit, the public will collectively pay.

#62 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 04:50 AM

Remember when Trump rushed to North Carolina for a photo op and promised he'd rescue western NC after Joe Biden "failed"? Yeah, well, about that ...
Apparently helping us is "NOT WARRANTED" after all. On Friday, April 11, 2025 FEMA announced the White House has denied North Carolina's request for FEMA to extend full reimbursement for Helene damages.

The state initially requested an extension of 100% of federal costs for debris removal and emergency protective measures. Friday, the agency denied the request stating it was "not warranted."

So much for the hero riding in on his white stallion.

(I'm sure his supporters (especially in NC) will think of excuses to continue their adoration despite this setback)

#63 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-25 05:43 AM

You are little more than a low-rent troll.

#60 | Posted by BellRinger

So I guess 'cause you homeless you're a no-rent troll?

#64 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-25 12:45 PM

"FEMA is just a department of the government to help during disasters."

Which we all contribute to, based (in part) on ability, while it's doled out by a government to those they decide need it most. Hmmmm...

Sounds like the collective collectively decided it was best for the collective good. Hence, a Socialist aspect, within a Capitalistic society.

#65 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 01:13 PM

Which we all contribute to, based (in part) on ability, while it's doled out by a government to those they decide need it most. Hmmmm...
Sounds like the collective collectively decided it was best for the collective good. Hence, a Socialist aspect, within a Capitalistic society.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 01:13 PM | Reply

Bears repeating

#66 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 01:48 PM

Words have definitions and you are not using the word Socialism correctly.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean"neither more nor less."

#67 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-25 07:19 PM

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