Fraught and/or Bought

Wisconsin or Flori-dah

Attribution: Election Integrity by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Sturgeone
22 hours ago

Then wear the cheese hat, if that will move them;
If you can write checks, write checks for them too,
Till they cry “Asshole, cheese-hatted, check-writing asshole,
your cars suck too.

Last edited 21 hours ago by Sturgeone
Blue Bronc
21 hours ago

While watching Senator Cory Booker holding the floor with a wonderfully long talk I was thinking back to when he first made the national stage. I cannot remember the exact date, maybe it will be worth looking up sometime. What I do remember is the usual stuff.

Will him being Black be a problem? He is so young, is he old enough to be nominated? What has he done, we never heard of him before? The usual stuff.

He was young, fresh and many people saw his potential. He is showing it today. Although now in his fifties he can inspire young people and old. Hopefully he gains power and can tell Sen Schumer to retire.

Jamie
20 hours ago

Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. He attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in 1991 and a master’s degree a year later. He attended Queen’s College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School

Obviously a DEI hire.

Sturgeone
19 hours ago

I wonder what he feels like throwing $26million down a rat hole. I guess about the same way I feel about throwing away $2.70

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RebelliousRenee
18 hours ago

today’s meme…

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Sturgeone
18 hours ago

Wonder if I can write off that $2.70…….

Sturgeone
18 hours ago

Ma ga saga, eh?

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blueINdallas
17 hours ago

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-x-elon-musk-data-breach-2054012

A cyber sleuth has posted on a prominent cybercrime forum what they claim is the largest social media data breach ever, which allegedly leaked information linked to more than 2.8 billion accounts on X, formerly Twitter.

This leak could enable widespread phishing and identity scams by correlating email addresses with detailed metadata, including usernames, tweet history, and location data. The breach would rank among the largest data exposures in history in terms of account volume, raising serious questions about internal controls at the platform and its handling of past and ongoing cybersecurity threats.

The data likely includes deactivated accounts, bots, spam accounts, and API-based profiles, which could explain the discrepancy between the number of leaked profiles and the current user base of X, estimated to be around 335 million globally.

*That’s cute, kinda like not everyone in the SSA database is actually getting a check and there is NO widespread fraud, as Elon & Donny’s DOGE demons claim.

X has not yet publicly acknowledged any data breach. The exposure comes just days after Elon Musk completed the transfer of X to his AI venture, which will become a major part of the site’s future.

*Because X is almost worthless, and he took out loans against TeSSla for it, and TeSSla stock is dropping so the loans were going to get called, so he had to make a unethical if not fraudulent transfer???

Last edited 17 hours ago by blueINdallas
blueINdallas
17 hours ago

MuskRat’s investor call is 4/22. (Not on Hitler’s birthday? Huh.)

He’s going to Mars. There will be self-driving taxis. Watch, while pulls a rabbit out of his black, MAGAt hat. Such a charlatan. Liar. Grifter.

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blueINdallas
17 hours ago

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332228/vice-president-vance-republican-national-committee

Vice President JD Vance will assume the role of finance chairman for the Republican National Committee — an unconventional move for a sitting vice president, but one that also places a top ally of President Trump within the party’s campaign wing ahead of the 2026 midterms.

*So, JD is going to buddy up yo every state Republican chair. What will that mean for state rules? Does it matter, or is JD just setting up himself for 2028? Everyone hates JD, the way everyone hates Elon, but they are not very self-aware, so…

blueINdallas
17 hours ago

https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-newt-gingrich-to-warn-lawmakers-about-coup-detat-by-federal-judges

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is set to warn lawmakers about a “potential judicial coup d’etat” during a congressional hearing about overreaching federal judges on Tuesday, according to prepared remarks obtained by The Daily Wire. 

“There is clearly a potential constitutional crisis involving the Judicial Branch’s effort to fully override the Legislative and Executive branches,” a draft of Gingrich’s remarks says. “Fifteen District Judges effectively seized control of various Executive Branch duties in the first six weeks of the current presidency through nationwide injunctions. This is potentially a judicial coup d’etat. It clearly violates the Constitution and more than 200 years of American history.”

*I could’ve sworn Gingrich was dead. He’s such a liar. The coup is what tRUMPutin/Elon/DOGE are doing, and RussoRepublicans in Congress are letting it happen.

RebelliousRenee
15 hours ago

meme #2…

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Pogeaux
15 hours ago

oh, the irony that Strom’s filibuster record is broken by a guy his filibuster was trying to deny his civil rights. Strom is rolling over in his grave.

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anonwtf
anonwtf
15 hours ago

we’re letting a foreigner use Air Force One?

hellllooooo we’re being invaded and overthrown by foreign billionaires hellllooooo

blueINdallas
15 hours ago

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-calls-ice-gop-rival-idaho-farm-2053021

Republican Calls ICE on GOP Rival’s Farm

An Idaho Republican has accused a GOP rival of harassment in an op-ed after he reported her farm to federal immigration authorities.

In January, Ryan Spoon, vice chair of the Republican Party in Ada County, publicly called for immigration raids on State Representative Stephanie Mickelsen’s farm, accusing her of employing undocumented workers.

Days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived at Mickelsen Farms, escalating political tensions and raising concerns about the impact of immigration enforcement on Idaho’s agriculture industry.

“Those who speak up with concerns that challenge certain views are quickly labeled as non-conservative and targeted for harassment,” Mickelsen wrote in an op-ed published in The Idaho Statesman.

*F-ing n@zis!

anonwtf
anonwtf
15 hours ago

RIP Val Kilmer

he had a nice philosophy about death that he expressed in the bio-doc about him
on Amazon, worth a watch

anonwtf
anonwtf
15 hours ago

“Those who speak up with concerns that challenge certain views are quickly labeled as non-conservative and targeted for harassment,” Mickelsen wrote in an op-ed published in The Idaho Statesman.”

lol joins the nazis, surprised they are nazis

blueINdallas
15 hours ago

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

*NO!!! Call your Senators & Rep every day! 202-224-3121

blueINdallas
15 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/capitol-hill-hearing-biden-censorship-trump

A Capitol Hill hearing held to explore supposed government censorship under Joe Biden was based on a “fiction”, a leading expert on countering online disinformation told members of Congress on Tuesday.

Nina Jankowicz, head of the American Sunlight Project, a pro-democracy organization, went on the offensive at a House of Representatives foreign relations subcommittee meeting held to examine the existence of an alleged “censorship industrial complex”, which Republicans claim was established to stifle rightwing views on social media, rather than combat foreign propaganda, as officially stated.

Having been labeled a “spearhead” and “tsarina” of such efforts by the committee’s Republican chair, Bill Huizenga, Jankowicz – who briefly led the Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation unit under the Biden administration – said the hearing was being held at a time when Donald Trump was attempting aggressive free speech restrictions.

“The premise of this hearing, the so called censorship industrial complex, is a fiction that has not only had profound impacts on my life and safety, but on our national security,”she said in her opening statement at a fractious hearing that exposed the width of the chasm between Republicans and Democrats on the issue.

“More alarmingly, this fiction is itself suppressing speech and stymieing critical research that protects our country.

“I want to acknowledge the irony that we’re having this discussion as we witness an assault on the first amendment we have not seen in decades. The Trump administration has directed far more egregious violations of our constitution than the imagined actions of the Biden administration on which this hearing is premised.”

Democrats lined up to denounce the hearing as “hypocrisy” and “waste of taxpayers’ money” in light of the Trump administration’s attempts to deport foreign students who had expressed pro-Palestinian views, moves that Jankowicz said violated the US constitution’s first amendment, which protects free speech.

Sydney Kamlager-Dove, the subcommittee’s ranking Democrat, said the hearing was “out of touch with the concerns of everyday Americans.

“I’ve been to the state department, and I do have concerns about censorship – censorship of the employees who are terrified to say the wrong thing, to say anything, or have the wrong word in their job title and be terminated by an administration that publicly relishes punishing people for their speech,” she said. “If we want to talk about censorship, we should begin with Trump’s unprecedented assault on the first amendment and rule of law.”

Keith Self, a Republican representative from Texas, provoked anger among Democrats by appearing to liken the Biden administration’s anti-disinformation efforts to steps by the Nazi to construct public opinion in 1930s Germany.

“A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels [the Nazi propaganda minister]: ‘It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion,’ and I think that may be what we’re discussing here,” he said.

*A n@zi quoting a n@zi to try to claim others are n@zis.

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blueINdallas
14 hours ago

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671661960/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday accused billionaire Elon Musk of sabotaging her constituents’ access to their Social Security benefits.

Writing on BlueSky, Warren revealed that she’s been “hearing from Social Security recipients in MA who’ve been marked as ‘not currently receiving payments,’ on the Social Security website” despite the fact that they have never been marked as such in the past.

It’s unclear why beneficiaries would suddenly start receiving messages telling them that they are not receiving their payments, although Wired reported recently that many insiders at the Social Security Administration have been alarmed by a Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency project to completely rebuild the codebase used by the Social Security Administration in a matter of mere months.

According to experts who spoke with Wired, the effort to migrate the SSA’s database from the COBOL programming language to a more modern language such as Java.

Experts who spoke with Wired said that this kind of operation is fraught with peril and could trigger what the publication describes as a “system collapse” if not done with the utmost care.

*Pffft, their utmost care is to use generative AI. They aren’t smart and disciplined enough to do coding themselves. Donny’s DOGE demons are getting paid 6 figures to screw things up and steal data. Elon is making $8 million a DAY, per an oversight hearing.

Sturgeone
14 hours ago

Gingrich died in the 90’s right after Larry Flynt got ahold of that naughty VCR tape. At least that’s what I heard. He keeps trying to say he’s not dead, but we know better than that, eh?

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anonwtf
anonwtf
14 hours ago

BiD

-set unreasonable goal
-set everyone up for failure by that metric
-fire anyone you want since everyone failed
-get double productivity out of remaining workforce

rinse repeat, tech grind culture

craigcrawford
13 hours ago

New video on my cooking channel: Potato Power..

blueINdallas
12 hours ago

Hearing burps of folks who had VA disability pay deposited and immediately clawed back.

This, in addition to Senator Warren saying SS recipients are now marked as “not receiving benefits” in the SSA website.

This is some fried baloney, this administration and DOGE and congressional bootlickers!

blueINdallas
12 hours ago

Craig – There’s a diner somewhere in the Midwest that has a fried baloney sandwich for one of their daily specials.

craigcrawford
11 hours ago

Geez can’t Trump at least announce insane tariffs without a pack of lies. CNN fact checke Daniel Dale just ticked off a bunch. For starters we effectively pay no tariff to export milk to Canada. Everything he said about that was made up.

Blue Bronc
10 hours ago

General consensus from those on the intertubes – whatever this is could easily be titled insanity. Bonkers, anti-American, with a constant stream of “where is russia?”. Stock market futures are aiming for Zero, a modern insanity level of stocks. The buyers of swasticars stock gave up and are letting the market place kill it. They can’t keep up with the sell orders.

Is this the doing of krasnov? Probably, but there are other inputs in to this terrible attack on the U.S.

RebelliousRenee
10 hours ago

meme #3….

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Blue Bronc
9 hours ago

OTAY folks – you are going to get a very short lesson in what de minimis is and is not. It is the term to cover something that is too small or low in value to charge a tariff, I am talking about import de minimis. It costs more to apply and collect the tariff than paid amount. You have a one thousand dollar wood sculpture, the tariff would be ten dollars; it costs forty dollars to collect ten dollars. So you let it go under de minimis. In a shipment there may be one hundred sculptures worth one hundred thousand dollars, the tariff is forty dollars each even though that totals forty thousand dollars. Each sculpture goes to a different person at separate addresses. The cost to get forty dollars from one thousand individuals is more than it is worth collecting.

The however is that if a company such as a national hobby store chain is buying one thousand of the sculptures it would be charged the tariff and it would be collected.

It is the shipment value that is de minimis.

I was involved in the creation of the modern (2020 era) de minimis for imports.

We knew there would be plenty of sellers, importers, buyers, shippers agents and others willing and eager to game the system. They do not want to pay shipping fees (carriers charge by the tariff codes too), agent fees, import fees, tariffs, storage fees and a lot of other fees built onto imports.

That thousand sculptures could easily be broken into small shipments, but we would catch those, we do have smart people and computers too. Try to use separate shipments to different world locations, yeah, that too. There are penalties to reduce the temptation to abuse the system.

So why are these on the stink level at the WH? I think due to the quantity involved. Someone, like an ignorant high schooler who does not understand international trade, tariffs and other important things that are part of normal life. Hundreds of thousands of imports show up in the U.S. everyday. Car parts from Canada and Mexico by train. Car parts from Asia and Europe show up by ship. Thousands by international shippers UPS, FedEx, DHL and airline freighters. International mail. Containers, and so much more.

So it is big. It is flashy. It is something mysterious to low level intelligence idiots. Yup, you got the attention of a demented, delusional, diseased senile moron. That is how you get chaos and idiocy.

blueINdallas
9 hours ago

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-trump-quote_n_67ecfb57e4b0b937ab8ef2f0

Wall Street Journal Flags 4 Words From Donald Trump That Could Now Haunt The GOP

Trump last week dismissed concerns about the impact of his 25% tariffs on foreign-made autos by admitting, “I couldn’t care less” if they lead to higher prices for American consumers.

blueINdallas
9 hours ago

Elon Musk Can’t Take the Heat

Elon Musk Can’t Take the Heat

The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk’s increasingly unhinged actions.
Suggesting that George Soros and the founder of LinkedIn should be arrested after an old lady shouted at a car is one of the softest moments in recent American history. This is not the gesture of a man who is impervious to protests. It is the response of an oligarch who is being driven visibly insane by them.

Nearly choking up on national TV as you lament your falling stock price is weak shit. And it gets to the core of how Musk operates. In a particularly get-over-yourselves moment in January, Axiosdescribed Musk and Trump’s governing style as “masculine maximalism,” embodied by “tough-guy language, macho actions…and often unmoved by emotionalism, empathy or restraint.” But back on Earth, the Tesla boss can be better understood in schoolyard terms. He can dish it but he can’t take it. 

On Friday, in the same interview in which he complained about his stock price, Musk promised Baier that the government would attempt to rein in the protests of his car company by “going after” Tesla critics.

 He is just sort of waving his arms hysterically, like an emperor beckoning for the guards because his chicken is overdone, while pushing a theory that Democratic mega-donors including Reid Hoffman and George Soros are secretly responsible for funding “the organizations attacking me.” (Hoffman, the more outspoken of the two, has denied funding protestors, and told Musk on Twitter that he would “rather make shit up about me than fix your problems”; after this story was published, the Soros-founded Open Society Foundations issued a statement to Mother Jones stating that they “do not fund protesters or direct protests” and “condemn all acts of violence and any unlawful behavior.”)

For Democrats, Musk’s spiraling is an asset. He is both deeply unpopular and out of control; his response to opposition is to descend deeper into the paranoia that got him there. In Wisconsin, he responded to accusations that he was attempting to buy a state supreme court race by offering seven-figure checks to voters; accusing Soros of planting protestors at his events; and rambling on stage about ending the Federal Reserve. The race, he promised last week, in words that have never before been uttered about a state supreme court race, would “affect the entire destiny of humanity.” Musk made the election a referendum on himself, turnout surged, and the Democrat won in a landslide.

He throws a fit when things don’t go his way. He wilts. This is someone who can be beat. In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a “glass jaw.” The term “keyboard warrior” comes to mind. But I can think of another word for something that’s so ostentatious and in-your-face except for when it needs to be—a symbol of decadence and insecurity and deregulation that boasts bulletproof toughness, but which breaks into pieces at the first sign of stress. 

*Everything tRUMPsky touches, dies.

Last edited 9 hours ago by blueINdallas
Pogeaux
9 hours ago

So Mika came up with a good one yesterday, which I was unable to post because of like work. Regarding co-president, Ellen, chainsaws, cheese, heads, and checks. I like it.

Last edited 9 hours ago by Pogeaux
Blue Bronc
7 hours ago

I am watching Meidas Touch and House minority leader Jerrries is being interviewed. Something is very off. He keeps talking about repub/magat “Pain point” and never answering a single question from the sympathetic interviewer. Softball questions are not answered, just back to the “pain point” talking point.

I thought he was going to be a kick a speaker and now minority leader. He is not. He is in the same room as Sen. Schumer. sigh. We need responses. We need push back. We do not need bland talking points about how crummy the rupub/magats are.

blueINdallas
7 hours ago

BB – Agreed. Jeffries & Schumer are cut from the same monotonous cloth. AOC, Crockett, and Raskin have more intensity than Jeffries.

They need to get to the core issue: Income inequality.
That will stop some of the left /right stuff, and get folks looking up/down.
Then, they need some workable solutions that folks can understand; nothing wonky.

Last edited 6 hours ago by blueINdallas
blueINdallas
5 hours ago

*SFB forgot to impose tariffs on Russia. Oopsky.

craigcrawford
5 hours ago

Our local news reports car dealerships are adding a separate line for Trump’s tariff to MSRP stickers on the lot. They should put his name on it.

craigcrawford
5 hours ago

EU president live now: “if you take on one of us, you take on all of us”

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