Smapti
February 20, 2026, 8:18pm
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Let’s check in on how Trump is reacting to the Supreme Court ruling…
“‘President, I’d love to kiss you’ – this is a very powerful man. I don’t want to be kissed my that man. But a very powerful, strong man … he said, ‘Sir, I want to kiss you so badly.’ And I said, ‘No thank you.’”
…uh-huh.
Trump: "'President, I'd love to kiss you' -- this is a very powerful man. I don't want to be kissed my that man. But a very powerful, strong man ... he said, 'Sir, I want to kiss you so badly.' And I said, 'No thank you.'"
smithsb
February 21, 2026, 12:35am
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For a more complete picture, The “warzone” site has you covered. I cross post their material here and vice versa. Good for both boards.
Monty
February 21, 2026, 12:55am
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The Supreme Court told Riip van Simple blanket tariffs are illegal. His response? Hold my beer!
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would impose a 10% global tariff for 150 days to replace some of his emergency duties that were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump said that his order would be made under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 and the duties would be over and above tariffs that are currently in place. The new 10% tariff would go into effect in about three days.
The statute allows the president to impose duties of up to 15% for up to 150 days on any and all countries related to “large and serious” balance of payments issues. It does not require investigations or impose other procedural limits.
The Supreme Court earlier declared illegal his broad global tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ruling that he had overstepped his authority under that law.
“We have alternatives, great alternatives,” Trump said. “Could be more money. We’ll take in more money and we’ll be a lot stronger for it,” Trump said of the alternative tools.
I’m wondering if the first game he played as a child was the shell game.
The felon’s upset a particular case doesn’t have everyone looking at him.
Donald Trump suggested that the news coverage of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is detracting from other attention-worthy stories.
Trump, 79, was asked about the case while aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since Feb. 1. Her last known location was her Tucson, Arizona home.
After talking about some of the details that investigators have released to the public—like how Guthrie’s pacemaker was disconnected the morning of her disappearance—Trump said that while the situation was “bad,” it shouldn’t dominate headlines.
“We have to start reporting on other subjects also, and see what happens,” he told Fox News’ Peter Doocy. “It’s a very sad situation.”
This from the person, let’s call him, who “directed all federal law enforcement” to focus on this case. But, hey, you have to admire his criminal justice procedure: Let’s see what happens .
Let’s have a short convo with the felo about the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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“I mean, they come in and their arms are missing, their legs are missing. Their stories are so unbelievable. And I said that’s a little stretch if I gave myself one,”
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“It’s one of those things, someday I’m going to try. I’m going to test the law.”
“Maybe I’ll win in court, after everyone sues me after the radical left lunatic sues me,”
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By the way, what’s Pentagaon “War Criminal” Pete doing with his time?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is spending his time on issues “well below his pay grade,” an analyst recently told The Atlantic another military official.
Hegseth recently ordered the removal of Col. Dave Butler, a longtime public affairs official for the U.S. Army, according to multiple news outlets, including The Atlantic and The Washington Post.
Over the last year, it appears Hegseth has fired several top military officials because of perceived disloyalty or ties to perceived political enemies, according to The Atlantic . Now, after this latest incident, the outlet reports Hegseth has started reaching even lower in the ranks.
“The secretary of defense is spending his time doing things that those well below his pay grade should be doing. And he is not doing the things that only the secretary of defense can do,” Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Atlantic .
He also made a great choice for someone to lead a prayer during Black History Month.
A pastor who once argued that slavery actually had some positives was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lead prayer at the Pentagon.
As reported by The Washington Post Doug Wilson . He is the co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which is Hegseth’s chosen Christian denomination. During a sermon on Tuesday, Wilson revealed that the Defense secretary invited him to come speak.
Wilson’s views have come under intense scrutiny in the past. The report continued:
Wilson has described his politics as “slightly to the right” of the Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart. He has said Muslim and Hindu immigrants are coming into the United States “in a parasitic way”; ideally, he has said, they would be “assimilated” into a Christian society.
When he opened a church in Washington last year, he told CNN it was part of his plan to make the U.S. a Christian nation.
The pastor also has an unorthodox view of slavery, as detailed in a report from Military.com
Wilson has also varied views on slavery, once telling the Associated Press: “There was horrific maltreatment on the one hand, and then there are other stories that are right out of Disney’s ‘Song of the South.'”
But all is not lost. Rip van Simple’s been channeling Jethro Bodine. He’s literate !
President Donald Trump touted his reading comprehension skills on Friday as he ripped into the Supreme Court for killing his tariffs.
The moment came after a reporter asked Trump if he was surprised by the Supreme Court’s decision earlier Friday to block his emergency tariffs in a 6-3 decision.
“I was surprised because I thought that what we did was No. 1, according to the… I mean, I read the paragraphs,” Trump began. “I read very well. Great comprehension. I read everything there was to read and I said, ‘We can’t lose this case.'”
Actually, whatever he does is is No. 2.
If only there was a part of the name that might give one a clue…
Monty
February 21, 2026, 9:59am
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Enter the country with a fake passport? No problem! (The bolding is mine.)
Tommy Robinson, Britain’s self-styled free speech warrior, has been allowed to enter the U.S. despite a long criminal rap sheet.
On Thursday, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, posted a video on social media from an airport in the U.S. announcing, “I’ve arrived!” He said the trip was “last-minute” after he’d been informed only hours earlier that he’d gotten a visa, and hinted at plans to throw himself into U.S. politics. That apparently included a meeting with Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a longtime peddler of MAGA election conspiracy theories.
Sharing a photo of himself shaking hands with Flynn, Robinson said it was his “first stop” upon arrival.
It’s unclear how he secured a visa despite a litany of crimes to his name, including serving time for entering the U.S. with a false passport back in 2012. Robinson has become the British far-right’s cause célèbre for his inflammatory takes on immigration and free speech, often overlapping with MAGAworld. In a video posted Thursday, he claimed to be emotionally invested in American politics and appeared to boost Trump’s debunked narrative about the “robbery” of the 2020 presidential election.
The felon is not happy with his picks now.
President Donald Trump made a stunning allegation on Friday at a press conference about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the tariffs his administration has imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
“It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would think,” said Trump at the outset of his remarks.
He’s so unhappy with them he’s just going to ignore them.
President Donald Trump on Friday insisted he still didn’t need congressional approval for tariffs despite the Supreme Court saying the opposite in its ruling.
Hours earlier, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping tariffs with the U.S.’s trade partners were illegal. In his majority opinion the, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that Trump “must identify clear congressional authorization” before using his “extraordinary power” to “unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope.”
Trump lashed out in his Friday afternoon press conference in response, saying he was “absolutely ashamed” by the ruling and even accusing the Supreme Court of being compromised by “foreign interests.” The president also vowed to use “powerful” alternative methods to ensure his tariff-backed economic policy doesn’t falter.
When the presser was opened up to questions from the press, Trump was asked if he’d ask Congress “to take additional action on tariffs” moving forward. The president responded:
No, I don’t need to. It’s already been approved. I mean, I would ask Congress and probably get it. When people look at the real numbers, and you look at hundreds of billions of dollars that have come into our country– yesterday I was at a steel plant, as you know, and I went to a great, great place, great plant, great, wonderful people, and they were telling me, I said to them– you were there, a lot of the press in this room. Of course, I don’t think this plane is big enough to take the press in this room.
Did you catch that big about “real numbers”?
Wow. Project 2025 is woke
The conservative machine behind Project 2025 hired an adult film star to work on education policy.
The Heritage Foundation announced Thursday that Corey DeAngelis, a prominent school choice advocate who opposes LGBTQ inclusion in education, is joining the think tank as a fellow at its Center for Education Policy. It is a standard conservative policy hire, with the exception of DeAngelis’s history as a gay porn performer.
Spoons
February 21, 2026, 11:09am
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Trump calls the Supreme Court wrong?
Where did he go to law school?
Oh, wait …
Time to take a stand: would you rather learn Old German or a North Korean dialect??
FCC’s Carr urges broadcasters to air ‘patriotic, pro-America’ content - Politico
FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants broadcasters to air “patriotic, pro-America content” to support the White House’s plans to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary.
“As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, it is important to reflect on the ideals and events that have defined our past while keeping an eye towards our country’s bright future,” Carr said in a statement Friday. “I am calling on broadcasters to pledge to provide programming that promotes civic education, national pride, and our shared history.”
I’m daily gaining a keener understanding of how the Chinese Uyghurs
Were CBS not already bending the knee, I’d suggest that they just re-run the Bicentennial Minute .
Bicentennial Minutes was a series of short educational American television segments commemorating the bicentennial of the American Revolution. The segments were produced by the CBS Television Network and broadcast nightly from July 4, 1974, until December 31, 1976. (The series was originally slated to end on July 4, 1976, but was extended to the end of the year, airing a total of 912 episodes.) The segments were sponsored by Shell Oil Company, then later by Raid from July 1976 onward.
The series...
Monty:
Wilson has also varied views on slavery, once telling the Associated Press: “There was horrific maltreatment on the one hand, and then there are other stories that are right out of Disney’s ‘Song of the South.'”
Song of the South was set in the late-1870s.
Of course, but it’s often held up as being a whitewashed (sorry) depiction of happy blacks in a segregated south, even if it is not depicting enslaved blacks.
Sherrerd
February 22, 2026, 12:15am
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Smapti:
Let’s check in on how Trump is reacting to the Supreme Court ruling…
“‘President, I’d love to kiss you’ – this is a very powerful man. I don’t want to be kissed my that man. But a very powerful, strong man … he said, ‘Sir, I want to kiss you so badly.’ And I said, ‘No thank you.’”
…uh-huh.
Actually we see Donald’s dementia manifesting itself in this: he forgot to give the guy ‘tears in his eyes.’
I feel you on this and don’t have the answer, but I know someone will, and the answer may well be posted in the “About This Message Board” sub-forum. (Sorry to be posting with something other than a definitive answer.)
Spoons
February 22, 2026, 12:35am
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I remember those. They would certainly fit Carr’s parameters. Too bad nobody thought to do a new series, or at least rerun the old ones. Except for “200 Years Ago Today,” they’d still work.
Monty
February 22, 2026, 1:02am
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Ya think?!?!
Some Florida lawmakers are concerned that taxpayers will be on the hook if the state moves forward with a plan to rename Palm Beach County International Airport after President Donald Trump .
The Florida House this month approved a bill to rename the airport “Donald J. Trump International Airport.” But after the Trump Organization recently filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register the trademark “President Donald J. Trump International Airport,” some opponents of the move wondered whether the president might ultimately profit from the renaming. The filing also registered a trademark for “DJT,” a reference to the president’s initials that could be used as the airport code if the name is changed.
Killer Kennedy knows better than real doctors.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years campaigning against vaccines, but with the flu shot, he’s suggested it’s personal. Kennedy has linked his strained, raspy speech to the vaccine, despite several medical experts saying there is no scientific evidence to support that claim.
Federal guidance revised under Kennedy last month, while the United States is experiencing a hard-hitting flu season, no longer recommends routine flu vaccines for children and adolescents. The day after he assumed office a year ago, he ordered the end of a government ad campaign encouraging flu vaccination.
Kennedy has repeatedly said he suspects the flu vaccine triggered his spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder, and that he stopped getting flu shots in 2005.
Although he acknowledges he is unable to prove a connection, he said his eyes were opened to a link after reading vaccine inserts while he was engaged in litigation against flu vaccine manufacturers.
What a man! What a plan! He admits he cannot prove a connection, but he’s still going to condemn the nation’s children.
Cruella de Vile’s one step away from putting them in white with black polka dots.
Secret Service members will get tailored suits at the expense of taxpayers after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed, according to a new report.
Graduates from protective detail training will get two navy blue suits with their name embroidered on the inside of the jacket, according to a public contract solicitation from the Department of Homeland Security, as first reported by CNN . The suits must be entirely made in the United States, the solicitation published last week states.
Two people familiar with the matter told CNN Noem didn’t like the suits a protective detail had bought for themselves, prompting the new suit solicitation.
The cost of the contract is yet to be determined and it will cover a five-year ordering period.
I’m betting the threads will go for about $101 per agent.
Fact check? No. The proper term is Introduced to facts .
Top White House aide Stephen Miller was roasted and fact-checked across the internet after his Friday night appearance on Fox News, with former North Carolina congressional candidate Moe Davis writing on X that Miller is “one of the biggest a**holes in all of American history.”
Speaking with Fox’s Laura Ingraham , Miller spoke on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that deemed President Donald Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs illegal under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, alleging that these tariffs were why “we’ve seen record job growth, record wage growth, and record reshoring of vital manufacturing jobs.”
“President Trump has brought inflation down to 1.4%,” he continued. “As cowardly, as horrendous as the Supreme Court ruling was… we’re going to keep and grow the tariffs to bring back American manufacturing,” citing the court’s affirmation that “under IEEPA , the president has authority to restrict, impede, deny, license, or even fully embargo any foreign trade.”
“Stephen Miller will live in infamy as one of the biggest aholes in all of American history,” wrote Davis, also a retired Air Force colonel, Friday via X. “Lord knows we’ve had our fair share of gaping, festering, calloused a holes in our time.”
And the facts?
CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla took issue with Miller’s touted 1.4% inflation rate, writing on X, “Inflation at 1.4%. Or maybe it was GDP. Whatever,” followed by a clown emoji. Here, Quintanilla was referring to CNBC’s Friday report showing U.S. GDP growth at 1.4% while inflation remains stuck at 3%.
You’re kidding, right? Probably closer to $500 per suit, if it actually happens.
How Much Should a Decent Men's Suit Cost?
The price of a men’s suit can vary dramatically based on several factors including the fabric, brand, tailoring , and even the number of pieces in the suit. Generally, you can expect to spend anywhere from $250 to $1,000 on a decent suit.
My bold.
Sylvanz
February 22, 2026, 1:49am
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I think he’s referencing how he calls noem Cruella De Vile a play on Cruella De Vill in 101 Dalmations.
Monty
February 22, 2026, 2:30am
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Got it in one. I did consider the amount $1,001. But then I remembered the real title of the flick.
Sylvanz
February 22, 2026, 3:03am
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One of my favorite books when I was in grade school. The movie was eh.
Maybe if she was more like Jafar.
Monty
February 22, 2026, 3:56am
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Wow. We all need lives.
