Anyone who’s ever spent any amount of time gaming online knows the old “intentionally disconnect while you’re losing so you can claim it was the computer’s fault” trick. Nice try, Elmo.
So you’re saying he is an experienced gamer!
From the “Real News Headlines that Read Like an ‘Onion’ Article: Tariffs Edition” department:
Lawrence: Trump backs down on tariffs after a day of fearing Elon Musk might call him a ‘moron’
(The link preview unfortunately cuts off the punchline)
Said line by Lawrence:
“When did Elon Musk know that his stock price was going to start climbing back up because Donald Trump was going to announce that he was backing down?”
I guess old people are slow since it started 5 years ago.
I remember it being “significant” back then too.
I have seen it alleged that trading volumes on the NASDAQ started to soar 90 minutes before Trump’s announcement on the tariff pause. I have not had a moment to look at the actual numbers though.
Your article says “Some switching to Biden”. The current outbreak has long lines of golf carts covered with protest signs. Seems like a quantum leap to me.
The Villages never was an all-for-Trump monolith. There were a handful of Villagers protesting the White Power thing back in 2016. But you can’t equate a small amount of division with the kind of protest parade we just saw.
The Villages also had some voting irregularities with extra votes for Trump. I’m sure the individuals are being pursued by Patel and Bondi and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Oh, for sure.
Two Federal courts have recently done the right thing:
And this ruling was by a Trump-appointed judge!:
<General rant, this seemed the best place for it>
One thing that’s happened in the fallout of these tariffs, is a lot of the news I watch / read has been back to legitimizing the MAGA vote.
People voted for Trump because they were “disenfranchised” by “globalism” and by a Democratic party that has become “increasingly for the elites” and overlooked the hardship of ordinary Americans.
Yeah, bullshit.
At least half Trump voters went that way because he was hating on groups they hate; brown people, trans*, anyone who isn’t protestant Christian.
And the remaining people believed in a upside-down world, where the US was in a recession under Biden, Ukraine money was going to yachts for Zelensky, and the many examples of Trump’s corruption and criminality were all “fake news”. And so they voted against their own best interest.
There is no sober reflection on the state of global demographic shifts and macroeconomics from the voting decision of those fuckdumb cnts.
* I could add too that I’m still seeing too many people repeat the lie that it’s the Democrats who talked too much about trans. But that will get me on a whole other rant.
What do you mean we haven’t always been at war with Oceania?
FTR I was about to edit my rant to make it a bit softer, but now someone’s already replied, sod it. Yeah the trump vote was fuckdumb.
Only the best people.
Absofuckinglutely.
The news outlets trying to sell their basic ‘Democrats are responsible for people voting Trump’ theory are, obviously, hoping to please the Dear Leader.
Could Democrats adjust their message? Yes, of course.
Did Democrats drive voters—voters who were, according to the news outlets, Well-Informed, Thoughtful, Fair-Minded Observers—away with the message they had? Oh, please.
What makes this attempted sales job so ludicrous is that it requires us to believe that most Trump voters (and stay-at-home types) are indeed Well-Informed, Thoughtful, Fair-Minded Observers.
Pull the other one.
I’ve only got the one. 
Brussels police arrest Rubio security detail supervisor
the agent in question was behaving erratically and became irate when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar beyond its normal hours.
Shall we expect a tariff on Brussels and their chief export Brussel sprouts?
Was he running blocker for Hegseth or something?
The White House says it’ll promptly release the results of Trump’s physical earlier today, which will doubtless state that he’s 6’8", weighs 175, has a 14-inch schwanzstucker with the circumference of a Diet Coke bottle, can bench-press a Cybertruck, and will outlive Methuseleh himself.