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And he TACO’d out again and extended Chinese tariffs another 90 days.  What a fucking pussy he is.  

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Also, are we not talking about Trump taking military control of DC today?

Seems like more than just "look at this shiny thing and not at the Epstein stuff," no?

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21 minutes ago, Captainant said:

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They already denied cert in her case once before, where it was even more poorly presented.  Ruckus' own words:

This petition implicates important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell, but it does not cleanly present them. For that reason, I concur in the denial of certiorari.

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Well. We TRIED to warn y'all.

Don't be surprised when JD Vance's ideas about single women losing the right to vote & pregnant women get fired simply for being pregnant 

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56 minutes ago, Red Five said:

If this peters out I will pretty much give up all hope. One of the Pod guys, I think Dan Pfeiffer, said this is legitimately as big of a scandal as Watergate. The Trump administration is covering up child rape. Because Trump.

What made Watergate work was 1. a Democratically controlled Congress 2. news media that didn't need to move on to something new to maintain ratings and drive clicks and 3. a SC that wasn't hopelessly partisan and corrupt. Trump could walk into a subcommittee meeting and shoot Jasmine Crockett in the back of the head and nothing would change.

I get the sense that a cratering economy might be a real problem for Dotard, but only if it actually hurt the bottom line of our oligarchy.

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9 minutes ago, softlynow said:

What made Watergate work was 1. a Democratically controlled Congress 2. news media that didn't need to move on to something new to maintain ratings and drive clicks and 3. a SC that wasn't hopelessly partisan and corrupt. Trump could walk into a subcommittee meeting and shoot Jasmine Crockett in the back of the head and nothing would change.

I get the sense that a cratering economy might be a real problem for Dotard, but only if it actually hurt the bottom line of our oligarchy.

Wouldn’t matter if the economy collapses. The moron magats would believe him that everything is fine and America is HOT

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13 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

It's cute that you think the Japanese, Chinamen and KO-reans are going to keep coming.

It’s not thinking in terms of being hopeful or cute or even wishful. Familial ties here remain strong to those countries. Unless TFG decided to cut off flights to the islands from each of those countries they will keep coming. My time in the US should be done early 2027, perhaps sooner. These were plans made long before TFG opened up Griftco in the newly minted Faux Gold House. His stupidity has no bearing on leaving, for me at least. I’ll keep on keepin’ on until I don’t and that’s good enough.

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Also, are we not talking about Trump taking military control of DC today?

Seems like more than just "look at this shiny thing and not at the Epstein stuff," no?

 

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6 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:


Hilarious, but what’s the backstory on this?

Loomer announced the other day that a "high government official" was implicated in advertising in swinger publications and other such debauchery.  Ali, or some rational reposter said that conventional journalism had been on the trail of similar information for quite some time.

Apologies for the shitasses in the video, but it's the first thing that came up.

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12 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

No.  We've had a couple of teen meet ups that have turned violent, particularily in the neighborhood that a lot of Trump staffers live in (Navy Yard).   The criminal code is a fucking disaster (both too harsh and too lenient at the same time).  In all fairness, Biden's US Attorney for DC refused to bring anything to trial for most of his presidency, leading to a car jacking crisis, but that was dealt with in 2023.  Crime has been plummeting over the last 18 months.  Really is just the teen issue, which is mostly just minor property crime and, for the lack of a better word, malicious loitering. 

 

The Big Balls thing happened at 4 AM. Nothing about it ads up at all. He was probably coming back from a local gay club, but nobody knows, but just like Dirty 6th....what the fuck were you doing out at 4 AM. 

Fox News has been ginning up a group altercation in Cincinnati the last week or so, which I think is really marinating in Trump's mind. 

Trump prolly thinks DC stands for "district of Cincinnati "

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Is anyone else having trouble getting into the start of football season while staring down the barrel of all of this fascist shit? I just can't get excited even with the team and #1 ranking.  Just feels hollow planning anything for football season while also planning for how to get my family out of the country in a day's notice if needed. 

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4 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Is anyone else having trouble getting into the start of football season while staring down the barrel of all of this fascist shit? I just can't get excited even with the team and #1 ranking.  Just feels hollow planning anything for football season while also planning for how to get my family out of the country in a day's notice if needed. 

Planning will go out the window when the night of the long knives arrives.

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40 minutes ago, Chopper said:

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See also complaining about graffiti. Republicans are so fragile. 

Someone should tell this dumbass that if you want to see the cherry blossoms you ride on the GW Parkway on the Virginia side to see them.

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The ATV and dirtbike rides are in fact bullshit, they’re dangerous and disrupt traffic and that is the entire goal.  It’s OK to point out that dozens of kids on dirtbikes or ATVs shouldn’t be clogging major thoroughfares. 

As @Bateshorn has pointed out, DC genuinely does have a “teen” disorder problem that regularly metastasizes into real-life consequences for regular people. It’s been a conscious choice by local authorities not to deal with it. That doesn’t mean that deploying the guard is needed, but at the same time people get tired of “just live with it” as a response to stuff that is a real quality of life issue that can be solved. 

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5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The ATV and dirtbike rides are in fact bullshit, they’re dangerous and disrupt traffic and that is the entire goal.  It’s OK to point out that dozens of kids on dirtbikes or ATVs shouldn’t be clogging major thoroughfares. 

As @Bateshorn has pointed out, DC genuinely does have a “teen” disorder problem that regularly metastasizes into real-life consequences for regular people. It’s been a conscious choice by local authorities not to deal with it. That doesn’t mean that deploying the guard is needed, but at the same time people get tired of “just live with it” as a response to stuff that is a real quality of life issue that can be solved. 

True enough.  But pointing it out as a "we live in a dystopian hellscape!" reason is pussified insanity.  Again, I've seen shitheels pulling such stuff in Possum Peter, USA.  Nobody is calling in the national guard to tackle their shithead kids and meth-addled trailer trash.  Nor should they.  Because we're not the United States of Scared Pearl-clutching Pussies.  Or, at least, I didn't think we were.  Guess I was 100% wrong about that.

And don't get me started on those negroes and their jazz music and marihuana cigarettes corrupting our pure white women.

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16 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Someone should tell this dumbass that if you want to see the cherry blossoms you ride on the GW Parkway on the Virginia side to see them.

This is the most Virginia post I've ever seen "Why would you take the Metro to Tidal Basin when you can GET IN YOUR CAR!!!!!"

7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The ATV and dirtbike rides are in fact bullshit, they’re dangerous and disrupt traffic and that is the entire goal.  It’s OK to point out that dozens of kids on dirtbikes or ATVs shouldn’t be clogging major thoroughfares. 

As @Bateshorn has pointed out, DC genuinely does have a “teen” disorder problem that regularly metastasizes into real-life consequences for regular people. It’s been a conscious choice by local authorities not to deal with it. That doesn’t mean that deploying the guard is needed, but at the same time people get tired of “just live with it” as a response to stuff that is a real quality of life issue that can be solved. 

The Dirt Bike thing is annoying as fuck. 

@956 Worldwide is right. Certain elements of the DC City Council (*cough* Charles Allen *cough*) have continued to advocate for lax criminal enforcement in the name of criminal justice reform long after it's become apparent to everyone involved that DC has a teen crime problem, that will require both increased enforcement in conjunction with reforming and rethinking DC's criminal code and general approach to crime. 

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“Groceries” such an outdated term that people are using more and more. Before Trump I don’t think anyone used the word. Groceries and rising costs got Trump elected. Welp in the words of a former governor/head of the department of energy:

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Trump is a just a dim witted, mob boss, with the power of the United States at his fingertips to make threats against anyone that doesn't slurp down whatever nonsense he's spewing.

 

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower benchmark rates, and cited "a major lawsuit" against Fed Chair Jerome Powell over renovations of the central bank's buildings.

"Jerome 'Too Late' Powell must NOW lower the rate," Trump wrote on his social media platform. "I am, though, considering allowing a major lawsuit against Powell to proceed because of the horrible, and grossly incompetent, job he has done in managing the construction of the Fed Buildings."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-cites-major-lawsuit-against-feds-powell-again-urges-rate-cut-2025-08-12/

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23 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

This is the most Virginia post I've ever seen "Why would you take the Metro to Tidal Basin when you can GET IN YOUR CAR!!!!!"

The Dirt Bike thing is annoying as fuck. 

@956 Worldwide is right. Certain elements of the DC City Council (*cough* Charles Allen *cough*) have continued to advocate for lax criminal enforcement in the name of criminal justice reform long after it's become apparent to everyone involved that DC has a teen crime problem, that will require both increased enforcement in conjunction with reforming and rethinking DC's criminal code and general approach to crime. 

The YRA is some wild stuff. You’ve got 24 year olds with multiple felonies getting “youth rehabilitated” and records sealed.  Sorry, at that point the rehab failed. 

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15 hours ago, Chopper said:

I mean "concentrated on the left" isn't quite the same thing as an "echo chamber" where they're discussing the Epstein files non-stop, but okay.

Good to see Surly has its picking nits in midsession form before we even get to week 1. It’s an exaggeration, and you missed the point with this silly side argument. I’m sure the Epstein scandal will take down Dotard any day now. 

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7 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Is anyone else having trouble getting into the start of football season while staring down the barrel of all of this fascist shit? I just can't get excited even with the team and #1 ranking.  Just feels hollow planning anything for football season while also planning for how to get my family out of the country in a day's notice if needed. 

Maybe get off and stay off the internet/news for a while? Unless you are going to do something about it personally or are involved in a way that you can't extricate yourself.

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9 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower benchmark rates, and cited "a major lawsuit" against Fed Chair Jerome Powell over renovations of the central bank's buildings.

"Jerome 'Too Late' Powell must NOW lower the rate," Trump wrote on his social media platform. "I am, though, considering allowing a major lawsuit against Powell to proceed because of the horrible, and grossly incompetent, job he has done in managing the construction of the Fed Buildings."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-cites-major-lawsuit-against-feds-powell-again-urges-rate-cut-2025-08-12/

Not that Trump ever needed legitimate grounds to file a lawsuit, but wouldn't Powell have some level of official immunity to any claim for money damages?  

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7 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Is anyone else having trouble getting into the start of football season while staring down the barrel of all of this fascist shit? I just can't get excited even with the team and #1 ranking.  Just feels hollow planning anything for football season while also planning for how to get my family out of the country in a day's notice if needed. 

Yep. I was messaging with a friend yesterday that we’re #1 in both AP and Coaches poll and I’m not that excited about this season. I’m sure once we get to the OSU game I’ll be good to go. But everything is just fucked 

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Just now, South Austin said:

Not that Trump ever needed legitimate grounds to file a lawsuit, but wouldn't Powell have some level of official immunity to any claim for money damages?  

In normal times, you would think that would be obvious. However, I think these days "Trump has complete immunity to do absolutely anything and the Fed Chair's immunity for official acts is voluntarily waived when he fails to do Trump's bidding and has assumed the role of general contractor regarding renovations of the fed building." At least, I imagine that's what the Robert's gang could craft. 

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So much #winning

https://www.newsweek.com/us-hits-highest-layoffs-since-covid-2111794

US layoffs surged in July to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July, there were 62,075 job cuts announced, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's a 29 percent jump from June and 140 percent higher than the 25,885 announced in July 2024.

The July figure is well above the post-pandemic average for the month (23,584 between 2021 and 2024) and slightly higher than the past decade's July average of 60,398. It pushes the 2025 total to 806,383 layoffs—a 75 percent increase compared with the same period last year and already 6 percent higher than all of 2024. It's the highest January-to-July figure since 2020, when pandemic shutdowns drove layoffs above 1.8 million.

The surge in layoffs in 2025 is due to a mix of government downsizing, corporate restructuring and the growing effects of artificial intelligence. Public agencies, tech firms and retailers are leading the cuts.

"We are seeing the federal budget cuts implemented by DOGE impact nonprofits and health care in addition to the government. AI was cited for over 10,000 cuts last month, and tariff concerns have impacted nearly 6,000 jobs this year," said Andrew Challenger, a senior vice president and labor expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

So much #winning

https://www.newsweek.com/us-hits-highest-layoffs-since-covid-2111794

US layoffs surged in July to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July, there were 62,075 job cuts announced, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's a 29 percent jump from June and 140 percent higher than the 25,885 announced in July 2024.

The July figure is well above the post-pandemic average for the month (23,584 between 2021 and 2024) and slightly higher than the past decade's July average of 60,398. It pushes the 2025 total to 806,383 layoffs—a 75 percent increase compared with the same period last year and already 6 percent higher than all of 2024. It's the highest January-to-July figure since 2020, when pandemic shutdowns drove layoffs above 1.8 million.

The surge in layoffs in 2025 is due to a mix of government downsizing, corporate restructuring and the growing effects of artificial intelligence. Public agencies, tech firms and retailers are leading the cuts.

"We are seeing the federal budget cuts implemented by DOGE impact nonprofits and health care in addition to the government. AI was cited for over 10,000 cuts last month, and tariff concerns have impacted nearly 6,000 jobs this year," said Andrew Challenger, a senior vice president and labor expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

The golden age of America!

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