colbert fools around about current and coming foolishness
“Trust in Trump” is the administration’s response to concern about the president’s tariffs, Donald Trump admitted he is looking at ways to remain in office past the end of his second term, and VP J.D. Vance let loose a curse word upon arriving at a U.S. military base in Greenland.
Jon Stewart checks in on the state of democracy after Trump considers an unconstitutional third term in office, then takes a look at how all the national security officials involved in Signalgate have managed to skirt any accountability and keep their jobs, all while thousands of hard-working government employees lose theirs in DOGE layoffs.
I guess the coming recession isn’t enough for him. This is exactly what Hoover did to bring on the Great Depression.. Washington Post free article — https://wapo.st/3YdR3aa
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speaking filibuster in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into Tuesday morning.
Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening saying he would remain there as long as he was “physically able.” He was still on the floor more than 12 hours later, according to his staff.
“These are not normal times in our nation,” Booker said at the start of his speech. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them,.”
On Tuesday morning, Booker got some help from Democratic colleagues, who gave him a break from speaking to ask him a question. Booker said he would yield for questions but would not give up the Senate floor.
According to the Senate’s website, the record for the longest individual speech belongs to Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker, 55, is serving his second term in the Senate. He was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2020.
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
Amazon is forcing Echo users to make a couple of tough decisions: Grant Amazon access to recordings of everything you say to Alexa or stop using an Echo; let Amazon save voice recordings and have employees listen to them or lose a feature set to become more advanced and central to the next generation of Alexa.
..,Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of every command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.
…the idea of a conglomerate being able to listen to personal requests made in your home is, simply, unnerving.
…Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever.
Other reasons people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed “thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces” taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.
anyone with their Echo device set to “Don’t save recordings” will see their already-purchased devices’ Voice ID feature bricked. Voice ID enables Alexa to do things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and more. Previously, Amazon has said that “if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work.” As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don’t let Amazon store their voice recordings.
The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.
*My God, the atrocities are racking up.
anonfuckem
2 days ago
imagine of that was you
these trump fuckers are disgusting, friends and family included, human garbage
Call your Senators & Reps: 202-224-3121 and demand that they stand up for your rights, and to preserve SS and Veterans benefits the way Cory Booker is doing.
I just blasted my Republican Senators (got their voicemail) and told them I wish I had a Senator who would stand up for me like Senator Booker, instead of voting to increase bank fees and support the Russian agent in the WH.
I hope you will call and commend Senator Booker to your Senators & Rep, as well.
anonplz
2 days ago
sorry about my language but
do you realize these fucking assholes are running a HUMAN TRAFFICKING operation?
that was the Qanon lunatics’ central conspiracy theory
IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER
anonplz
2 days ago
lol
someone told me that heroin addict RFK Jr told someone at a town hall to go on ozempic
the boy loves his drugs
anonplz
2 days ago
sorry more offensive than my language is betraying allies and kidnapping legal residents off the streets to be tortured in foreign for-profit megaprisons
fucking disgusting!
ok am done
anonplz
2 days ago
…and i told you this was coming because THEY told you this was coming
Jim Jordan is leading the charge to impeach judges who decided against tRUMPsky, even if they were appointed by him.
The detention centers in the YS are also “for profit,”
and there’s a clause in the US Constitution that allows for slave labor of the incarcerated…which will be the only thing that remains, because only MAGAts will be allowed to have pew-pews very soon.
The ~beautify~ DC royalties decree wanted to speed up concealed carry permits for DC, and wanted to recruit folks to come there.
Military, foreign or domestic, step on up. Cholesterol, LFG. Golf course lightning, come on down.
Changes are coming in multiple phases beginning Tuesday, April 1, as part of the ongoing “Delivering for America” 10-year plan that USPS said has led to $2.2 billion in annual transportation cost reductions and a 50 million hour decrease for workers, or $2.5 billion in annual savings.
USPS will officially alter service standards for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services that are estimated to save at minimum $36 billion over the next decade through reductions in transportation, mail and package processing, and real estate costs.
About 75 percent of First-Class Mail will keep its current service standards, according to USPS, and 14 percent will see an improvement in delivery times. Some individuals could experience slower times; however, USPS has stated that delivery times won’t exceed the current five-day service standard for First-Class Mail.
*It’s NOT federally funded. It saved the government no money. It’s a scam to push privatization.
Seriously, I hope you’ve all called both of your Senators, no matter their party, commending Senator Booker speaking out to save our social safety nets and against fascism. If you feel like it, a message to Booker’s office thanking him. Definitely, call your Senators, though; after hours, you won’t get an intern, just voicemail. Go for it! 202-224-3121. Thank You
My Alexa app lets me delete/prevent recording of questions. Just checked, and it is still there. Granted, that’s not the default position but it can be changed.
Yep, RFKJ told the Gov. of WV to try a carnivore diet and he would come back for a public weigh-in. Man, that brain worm must’ve done some real damage…or the heroin…or the stuff he takes to look so ‘roided up…or chemicals from his tanning goo.
That’s good, Craig. I guess this is the alternative to being monitored.
“Previously, Amazon has said that “if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work.” As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don’t let Amazon store their voice recordings.”
Let us kniw when you make bur-goo. I’d like to try to vegetize it.
Elon Musk Claims He Sold X To xAI, The Artificial Intelligence He Founded, X Asks How Is This Not “Money Laundering?”
According to the website, it’s an all-stock deal, with xAI valued at $80 billion and the mess that is X worth $30 billion. This is $14 billion cheaper than when Phony Stark reluctantly acquired the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022.
“XAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk wrote in his post on X. “The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.”
Both companies share resources. xAI’s intelligence models are trained based on the data it gathers from posts from X users. The companies also share engineers and the chatbot Grok.
*So, someone buys xAI stock on Thursday, and on Friday they find X attached to it…and Elon just values it at whatever. FRAUD!
Cory Booker is about half an hour from the record length of a Senate speech. There’s irony in a black senator beating Strom Thurman’s harangue against Civil Rights.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and a top aide shared sensitive information over their personal Gmail accounts, according to The Washington Post.
The commercial email platform is less secure than Signal, the encrypted messaging app that Waltz drew condemnation for using to discuss a military strike last month.
The Waltz aide, a National Security Council (NSC) official, used his Gmail account to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict” with other government agencies, wrote the Post, which obtained the emails.
Unlike the NSC staffer, other officials involved in the exchanges were using government-issued accounts.
The items Waltz had sent to his Gmail was less sensitive—however, they included potentially exploitable information, like his schedule and other work documents, multiple officials told the Post.
“Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Post.
Glad Wisconsin rejected Elon. Unfortunately, Florida is the usual disappointing story. I was hoping MAGAt Mike would lose his speakership. Although, eleven Repugz revolted today, which is why he shut down the House. They should vote for a new SOTH and give it to AOC. Really light it up! It would be MAGAts gone wild. Well, I guess that’s their usual demeanor.
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anonbottomofthebarrel
1 day ago
is it really that hard to find anyone to defeat that goon Randy Fine?
From their participation in a conference in Middle Tennessee, to the compound being built in East Tennessee, Patriot Front has become a growing presence in Tennessee. Who are they?
Behind the scenes, Patriot Front is preparing for war, building a compound in Tennessee where they train men for battles that sometimes play out on the streets of America.
Known for their flash mob protests that suddenly spring out the backs of rental trucks, Patriot Front members wear white gaiters to hide their faces. They are also active in plastering communities across the country with their hate-filled flyers and graffiti.
“We are Americans, we are not White Americans – because there are no other kind of Americans than those who are White and from Europe,” Rousseau argued in a recent podcast interview.
“When you get within their private spaces online, members of Patriot Front worship Hitler,” Jeff Tischauser noted.
“They deny the Holocaust. They use a tremendous amount of racial slurs between each other.”
Both were among 31 Patriot Front members arrested three years ago in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, accused of plotting to create a riot at a Pride celebration.
“They wanted to basically promote a fight,” said Coeur d’Alene prosecutor Ryan Hunter. “They wanted to get people to respond, make them angry, make them attack them – and their history is that they then try to play that they are the victims.”
Our NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Elliott is one of the people behind a 122-acre Patriot Front compound in Tellico Plains, Tennessee – located between Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Patriot Front will claim they are non-violent, but they are training in mixed martial arts,” Tischauser said, adding: “Then, when they are confronted by an activist, they are not using these skills that they are learning – these mixed martial arts skills – to de-escalate the situation.
“They are using their training in mixed martial arts to escalate the confrontations and to hurt people.”
*Who owns the 122 acres, who is paying h got the construction, and do these guys have 9-5s?
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.”
a big thank you to our Trail friend Rebellious Renee for that memorable meme — nothing says it better.
today’s runner up
Attribution: The April Fool by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
colbert fools around about current and coming foolishness
“Trust in Trump” is the administration’s response to concern about the president’s tariffs, Donald Trump admitted he is looking at ways to remain in office past the end of his second term, and VP J.D. Vance let loose a curse word upon arriving at a U.S. military base in Greenland.
the seasons, however, don’t fool around and April comes she will today
more foolishness
Jon Stewart checks in on the state of democracy after Trump considers an unconstitutional third term in office, then takes a look at how all the national security officials involved in Signalgate have managed to skirt any accountability and keep their jobs, all while thousands of hard-working government employees lose theirs in DOGE layoffs.
Yes, absolutely. April Fools Day is redundant these days
Go Cory Booker! He’s leading a Senate floor protest that’s still going on right now.. C-SPAN Live
Here is his kickoff speech last night..
I guess the coming recession isn’t enough for him. This is exactly what Hoover did to bring on the Great Depression.. Washington Post free article — https://wapo.st/3YdR3aa
Joe Rogan is out. Sending innocent people to foreign death camps was not on his to-do list..
https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/us-news/joe-rogan-calls-the-possibility-of-non-criminals-being-deported-with-violent-gang-members-horrific/
Did I break out one of my favorite owls for nothing?
jamie, always room for one more
more on booker from AP this morning
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches talking filibuster to protest Trump’s agenda | AP News
Thanks for wearing a suit.
On Lazy Man Cooks! today we’re off the interstate with Pike County Kentucky internet sensation Mamaw Gail making Peach Cobbler..
today’s meme….
Craig – Echo is sending that cobbler info…and everything else…to the cloud for eternity.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
Amazon is forcing Echo users to make a couple of tough decisions: Grant Amazon access to recordings of everything you say to Alexa or stop using an Echo; let Amazon save voice recordings and have employees listen to them or lose a feature set to become more advanced and central to the next generation of Alexa.
..,Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of every command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.
…the idea of a conglomerate being able to listen to personal requests made in your home is, simply, unnerving.
…Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever.
Other reasons people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed “thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces” taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.
anyone with their Echo device set to “Don’t save recordings” will see their already-purchased devices’ Voice ID feature bricked. Voice ID enables Alexa to do things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and more. Previously, Amazon has said that “if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work.” As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don’t let Amazon store their voice recordings.
HA!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/
The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.
*My God, the atrocities are racking up.
imagine of that was you
these trump fuckers are disgusting, friends and family included, human garbage
*imagine if
Call your Senators & Reps: 202-224-3121 and demand that they stand up for your rights, and to preserve SS and Veterans benefits the way Cory Booker is doing.
I just blasted my Republican Senators (got their voicemail) and told them I wish I had a Senator who would stand up for me like Senator Booker, instead of voting to increase bank fees and support the Russian agent in the WH.
I hope you will call and commend Senator Booker to your Senators & Rep, as well.
sorry about my language but
do you realize these fucking assholes are running a HUMAN TRAFFICKING operation?
that was the Qanon lunatics’ central conspiracy theory
IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER
lol
someone told me that heroin addict RFK Jr told someone at a town hall to go on ozempic
the boy loves his drugs
sorry more offensive than my language is betraying allies and kidnapping legal residents off the streets to be tortured in foreign for-profit megaprisons
fucking disgusting!
ok am done
…and i told you this was coming because THEY told you this was coming
didn’t take take psychic powers
Jim Jordan is leading the charge to impeach judges who decided against tRUMPsky, even if they were appointed by him.
The detention centers in the YS are also “for profit,”
and there’s a clause in the US Constitution that allows for slave labor of the incarcerated…which will be the only thing that remains, because only MAGAts will be allowed to have pew-pews very soon.
The ~beautify~ DC royalties decree wanted to speed up concealed carry permits for DC, and wanted to recruit folks to come there.
Military, foreign or domestic, step on up. Cholesterol, LFG. Golf course lightning, come on down.
What Anonplz said…..all of it
And then some.
Child abduction on the streets of Boston by ICE. Where’s the Amber Alert for her? What if they aren’t really ICE?
This has got to stop. Calling Senators, again!
When did “soldier” become “war fighter”? It’s a really stupid term and I’m is the actions of the majority of our military personnel.
“When did “soldier” become “war fighter”?”
as i mentioned to BiD, it was popularized among the mostly alt-right but not exclusively ex-special-forces-adjacent podcasting community
…used to marginalize women, gay, and trans service people because “obviously” those cohorts can’t be “warfighters”, right?
https://www.newsweek.com/usps-mail-deliveries-shipping-post-office-2053242
Changes are coming in multiple phases beginning Tuesday, April 1, as part of the ongoing “Delivering for America” 10-year plan that USPS said has led to $2.2 billion in annual transportation cost reductions and a 50 million hour decrease for workers, or $2.5 billion in annual savings.
USPS will officially alter service standards for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services that are estimated to save at minimum $36 billion over the next decade through reductions in transportation, mail and package processing, and real estate costs.
About 75 percent of First-Class Mail will keep its current service standards, according to USPS, and 14 percent will see an improvement in delivery times. Some individuals could experience slower times; however, USPS has stated that delivery times won’t exceed the current five-day service standard for First-Class Mail.
*It’s NOT federally funded. It saved the government no money. It’s a scam to push privatization.
Seriously, I hope you’ve all called both of your Senators, no matter their party, commending Senator Booker speaking out to save our social safety nets and against fascism. If you feel like it, a message to Booker’s office thanking him. Definitely, call your Senators, though; after hours, you won’t get an intern, just voicemail. Go for it! 202-224-3121. Thank You
My Asian Medallions recipe, so delicious chopsticks can’t keep up
My Alexa app lets me delete/prevent recording of questions. Just checked, and it is still there. Granted, that’s not the default position but it can be changed.
Yep, RFKJ told the Gov. of WV to try a carnivore diet and he would come back for a public weigh-in. Man, that brain worm must’ve done some real damage…or the heroin…or the stuff he takes to look so ‘roided up…or chemicals from his tanning goo.
That’s good, Craig. I guess this is the alternative to being monitored.
“Previously, Amazon has said that “if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work.” As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don’t let Amazon store their voice recordings.”
Let us kniw when you make bur-goo. I’d like to try to vegetize it.
Elon Musk Claims He Sold X To xAI, The Artificial Intelligence He Founded, X Asks How Is This Not “Money Laundering?”
According to the website, it’s an all-stock deal, with xAI valued at $80 billion and the mess that is X worth $30 billion. This is $14 billion cheaper than when Phony Stark reluctantly acquired the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022.
“XAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk wrote in his post on X. “The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.”
Both companies share resources. xAI’s intelligence models are trained based on the data it gathers from posts from X users. The companies also share engineers and the chatbot Grok.
*So, someone buys xAI stock on Thursday, and on Friday they find X attached to it…and Elon just values it at whatever. FRAUD!
Rose Garden tariff rant on Wednesday. Smells to high heavens and yet it’s all thorns. Sink hole? DC was built on a swamp, yes?
Cory Booker is about half an hour from the record length of a Senate speech. There’s irony in a black senator beating Strom Thurman’s harangue against Civil Rights.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fing-idiot-mike-waltz-was-also-using-personal-gmail-for-national-security-work/
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and a top aide shared sensitive information over their personal Gmail accounts, according to The Washington Post.
The commercial email platform is less secure than Signal, the encrypted messaging app that Waltz drew condemnation for using to discuss a military strike last month.
The Waltz aide, a National Security Council (NSC) official, used his Gmail account to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict” with other government agencies, wrote the Post, which obtained the emails.
Unlike the NSC staffer, other officials involved in the exchanges were using government-issued accounts.
The items Waltz had sent to his Gmail was less sensitive—however, they included potentially exploitable information, like his schedule and other work documents, multiple officials told the Post.
“Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Post.
Mr. Booker went to Washington!
I met Strom in his DC office on a trip with the fam in 1960.
Wisconsin has melted Elon’s cheese. Crawford declared winner of seat.
Glad Wisconsin rejected Elon. Unfortunately, Florida is the usual disappointing story. I was hoping MAGAt Mike would lose his speakership. Although, eleven Repugz revolted today, which is why he shut down the House. They should vote for a new SOTH and give it to AOC. Really light it up! It would be MAGAts gone wild. Well, I guess that’s their usual demeanor.
is it really that hard to find anyone to defeat that goon Randy Fine?
Anonoftheday, apparently so. But…On Wisconsin!!!
Pogeaux. (Forgot to sign in)
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/this-isnt-your-granddads-kkk-inside-the-influential-hate-group-thats-expanding-in-tennessee
From their participation in a conference in Middle Tennessee, to the compound being built in East Tennessee, Patriot Front has become a growing presence in Tennessee. Who are they?
Behind the scenes, Patriot Front is preparing for war, building a compound in Tennessee where they train men for battles that sometimes play out on the streets of America.
Known for their flash mob protests that suddenly spring out the backs of rental trucks, Patriot Front members wear white gaiters to hide their faces. They are also active in plastering communities across the country with their hate-filled flyers and graffiti.
“We are Americans, we are not White Americans – because there are no other kind of Americans than those who are White and from Europe,” Rousseau argued in a recent podcast interview.
“When you get within their private spaces online, members of Patriot Front worship Hitler,” Jeff Tischauser noted.
“They deny the Holocaust. They use a tremendous amount of racial slurs between each other.”
Both were among 31 Patriot Front members arrested three years ago in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, accused of plotting to create a riot at a Pride celebration.
“They wanted to basically promote a fight,” said Coeur d’Alene prosecutor Ryan Hunter. “They wanted to get people to respond, make them angry, make them attack them – and their history is that they then try to play that they are the victims.”
Our NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Elliott is one of the people behind a 122-acre Patriot Front compound in Tellico Plains, Tennessee – located between Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Patriot Front will claim they are non-violent, but they are training in mixed martial arts,” Tischauser said, adding: “Then, when they are confronted by an activist, they are not using these skills that they are learning – these mixed martial arts skills – to de-escalate the situation.
“They are using their training in mixed martial arts to escalate the confrontations and to hurt people.”
*Who owns the 122 acres, who is paying h got the construction, and do these guys have 9-5s?
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.”
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