30 tons driving across the pond... no wonder the algae was upset

Ford built its reputation as a captain of industry based on the number of people it employed... and designing a car that its employees could afford to buy on the salary they paid them...

Now they fire people when they reach the level of being able to pay for the product they actually created...

It did, which is why Republicans hate it.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-28 07:09 AM | Reply PPPFFTTT

It originated with Romney... who later had to apologise to republicl0wns for coming up with the framework... or they wouldn't let him run for office.
Obama made bank with a republicl0wn concept... it was more popular than killing bin Laden... another thing the republicl0wns failed at.
Not much different than Bushturd1 having to pass the largest tax hike in US history to pay for the Reagan VOODOO trickledown economic plan...
Bill Clinton balanced the budget with those tax dollars... AND... by allowing Reagan's military budget cuts to play out.

which just proves... on the RARE occasions one comes up with a good idea... they fail to implement it.

Sooooooooo... did they buy insurance at all?

This is so strange... for insurance companies to profit...they need to sell policies... no?
So does this mean fewer policies are sold?

Will they drop their prices... and lose profit?

Capitalism is an economic and political system where private individuals or businesses own and control the "means of production" (property, factories, and resources). It is driven by the pursuit of profit, voluntary exchange, and competitive free markets, rather than by state.

#42 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-06-27 11:11 PM | Reply EYE ROLL

It fails to exist without slave labor. It depends on... no... make that... DEMANDS... low wages and high output... it insists on it...

That is why it sucks. It's no different than monkeys in a tree playing with prioritizing the three "Fs" of life...Food... Fighting... and the other one. That's it. It's primate behavior... only shaved all over and dressed up in a suit... and you think it's more "evolved"

Furthermore... most of the current spate of "capitalists" inherited their place... born to wealth without lifting a finger to create it... their wealth gleaned from the labor of others... for generations...hell... they can be mediocre... and not lose a step... sounds dynastic to me.

Every nation's foray into communist methods... by whatever name... begins with economic disparity... or catastrophic natural disaster that levels the playing field.

Man on the moon.

Also... the difficult task of assimilating such varied cultures and values... within one nation... and two continents.
Our ancestors... adventurers... mercenaries... criminal/religious/political exiles... trafficked captives...hostages... slaves... the abandoned... and the old timers who preceded them.
It makes us ornery... at times spiteful towards one another... each contributing group demanding a place at the table... but it colors everything about being American... all three Americas have this quality. We are the children of colonization... we make it work... when it doesn't... we break it and rebuild

Sec Hegseth's embarrassing reversal on the flu vaccine issue shows at least he is capable of learning something.

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-26 09:31 PM | Reply | Flag:PPPPFFFTTTTT

Yeah... he learned...

To stop getting ALL his marching orders... from frat fecks whose entire lives were/are surrounded by caretakers... a bevy of servants to fetch their meals... a sneeze ... Medicos to cater to every symptom... hell... abortionists on speeddial... a pharmacist travels with them... a legal team to "reword" the truth... and turn consequences into things inconsequential... here we go again...

ex-military are such rubes for the whole "chain of command bullchit. (Colin Powell was a prime example.)... he wasn't being deceitful... he was following orders... and his words put troops in harm's way over information you could tell even HE wasn't enthusiastic... with a hearty you broke it... you bought... get me out of jail card

Vansy Panties is no different...oooooOOOOO0000OOOOoooo look at meeeehhhh... the commandur 'n cheef ....luuuuvz mehhhhh... Imma git me uh permoshuuuunnn... howz muh make-uuup?

LOL... of course they did. I mean... who gives the orders?

Some little shaved head recruit?

Ohhhhh nooooo... yer restricking my freedumbs... don't wanna shooooot... the government don't get to tell me what to doooooo... I joined to take a bullet and die fer my -------.... not a shooooootttt

Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to just feed him less and arrest his feeders? What kind of homocidal maniacs keep shoving food in his face? Just stop! I am so sick of fat pity parties... and victim enablers.

Has anyone noticed that Trumpanzee and Bushturd2 are the only preznits who were willing to send our troops into shed of barrels of blood for Israel? Two privileged frat brats with bizness deegreeze...their daddy's money bought...

Yeah... after MBS paid him a visit... Trumpanzee set out to get to the non-cooperative OPEC countries in line... via the superhuman might of the most "powerful military" in the whirrled...starting with Venezuela... as a "practice run"...

What all this amounts to is...

Israel and Saudi Arabia put their trust in a "bizness preznet" that went bankrupt six times... and expected great results... the best result... results the likes of which nobody has ever seen before... YUGE results!

Based on the "concepts of a plan"...

We don't attack nuked nations.

That's just the recipients. Local businesses, from corporate to mom-and-pop, are also losing that revenue.

(i)Heavy Siiiiiigh

Ya know... if we're going to lose or reach stalemate in yet another war... wouldn't it behoove us to make it a short one? Like Bushturd 1 did with the (pre-internet media),Madison Ave. masterpiece he named "Desert Storm"... Got all of Europe involved...

Bushturd 2 postured himself in that... televised..."We'll go it alone" war silliness... which turned out not to be true... on so many fronts... thanks to bin Laden attacking Afghanistan...

Trumpanzee... on the other hand... is actually setting up a "go it alone"... in real time... playing chicken with a nuclear solution... setting up to level the entire playground... if they don't get their way.

DC is an actual swamp... full of swamp creatures... It's very lush with all sorts of vegetation... In the summer... you can really feel it too... everything wilts in the humidity. I've seen that pool full of ducks and geese... Especially when the Canada geese are migrating... it was part of its charm... doh. Trumpanzee took out all the things that made it home to the critters... and they put it back.

Even Mother Nature is telling him no.

actually over two decades ago... time flies when yer having fun.

RightisRight worked for or was an employment/emigration agency... based in China... I believe they supplied foreign workers for eldercare facilities in the US... all the while criticizing the waste of funds spent on Medicare entitlements.

Very Ayn Rand...

WhiteDevil was rightisright if I recall correctly.

#68 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-06-22 02:18 PM | Reply | Flag:LOL

I changed my moniker to RightisTrite... when I would go after his drivel... just to piss him off... and it did... he whined in a posting telling me I shouldn't be allowed to do that... Before that... my nick was GOD... and since I am God I had a right to it... which used to rile them up too... I even got out of forum threats from a few of them who figured out how to contact me... I told them to effoff... and to come up to AK and find me.
Cl0wns...
Never heard from them again...
Who was the other Whack-o wingnut? Tadslow? Tadowe? Yes indeed... that was the pre-Boaz-0 days...

LOL... dang near two decades of fun in the DR

When I first read the headline... my thought was that maybe Trumpanzee had also given the pool chlamydia.

For as long as there is Adderall, he is a legend in his own mind... (and scene)

Hilarious that he thought he had made a point of some kind.

#8 | Posted by cbob at 2026-06-22 04:59 PM | Reply | Flag IKR?

Wait until they find out the word "bomb" has two of them.

Oh it's from Lamplighter who gets his news from Mad Magazine.

#3 | Posted by fishpoo at 2026-06-22 01:01 PM | Reply | Flag PPFFFTTTTTT

You can't prove that...

But we can prove your boy informed... YOU...his base... that the word "dumb" has a "b" in it... because not many of you know that the word "dumb" has a "b" in it.

That's the only thing I've seen Trumpanzee get right.

Ya know... I remember when the Cl0wns would insist that Obama go after another nation and make them do this or that or the other... for whatever... (eye roll). They called him weak and ineffectual... even after he passed the ACA and got bin Laden...

no pleasing those clowns... sheesh

Personally... I thought him classy.. for not behaving in such a way... as to get his tan suit dirty.

Cumberland Gap and surroundings for 100 miles also not for the feint of heart.

#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-22 01:38 AM | Reply | Flag:MMMHHMMMM

I just moved close to where TN,VA, and NC come together...
The vibe feels oddly familiar... It's fun making my way around...the belly of the beast! AGAIN.

But then I moved here from DC... needless to say... I'm a woman of extremes...

damn... I wanted to use "feint" too... but the grammar nazi insisted... heavy sigh.

blame the poor for their poverty, blame the sick...and so on.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-22 06:46 AM | Reply | Flag:SIGH

It seems the worst crime you can commit in this country is being poor.

Economic disparity makes communism look attractive. It's the seed of every revolution.

Wiley Coyote painted a tunnel on it?