I also saw they are re-opening Alcatraz. And if you've ever taken the tour of it, that's going to be a tough one to pull off.

It's a national security issue to have Hancock 2 shot in Vancouver.

Or at all?

We have our own Vancouver they could use.

I mean, it's kind of a national park of sorts, right? There won't be enough staffing to run tours anymore. Might as well get some use out of it.

This presidency is proof we live in a simulation and it requires patching.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/us-o...n-in-june.html

The good news is we are going to have low gas prices soon. There is also a good bit of bad news associated with this but I am trying not to be too negative.

How do you even tariff a movie? They get shot all around the world for various reasons.

I really don't know. Just watched Thunderbolts, which was filmed in Georgia, Ontario, New York, Utah and Malaysia. Do they tax based on the percentage filmed outside the US? Not tax since primary filming was in Georgia (one of the last MCU btw. They have moved most filming to the UK)?

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He’s literally just hit spaghetti westerns chronologically and he’s pissed he’s about to lose Clint Eastwood to Europe.

Not to mention all those foreign actors stealing the jobs from hard working Trump voters!

All indoor movie scenes must be filmed at Mar-a-Lago.

You just do. You find a company making a movie, tell them "you owe me money", find something to bully them about, until they make a deal for how much they are willing to pay.

How do you even define movie? Is Youtube supposed to pay for each video from a foreign country?

Who would pay the tariff though? Would it be the distribution company, whoever made the movie, or the consumer buying the ticket?

Yes

Wow. I thought for sure he was a shoe-in to run and most likely win. He must be eyeing a Presidential run, That makes MTG the Republican front-runner, and gives Osoff a chance to hold the seat.


Just a moment...

Not a serious opposition party.

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I think it has more to do with Ossof looking strong in polls and Kemp seeing the writing on the wall in 2026. At this rate, it's going to be a bloodbath for Republicans at the midterm.

If Kemp has presidential aspirations there's nothing good to be gained by being a GOP Senator under Trump, either. If he loses he has that problem, but if he wins he has to do whatever Trump says or be torn down by MAGA.

I just don't see Kemp winning a Presidential nomination. He had a real shot at the Senate. There should be a blood letting for Republicans during the midterms, but Kemp is very popular in Georgia, not overly tied to the MAGA movement so he plays well with the suburban Republicans, and Georgia is still a Red state.

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It does seem like a small needle to thread. If Trum is a disaster it's hard to see a GOP president in 2028 and if Trump is popular it's hard to see anyone other than Trump's hand picked successor being the nominee.

But part of the personality of presidential candidates is the belief that they are the only one who can really save the party/country.

JD Vance is a void of charisma though. If he tries to repeat the same thing that Trump repeats, people will just think he's a moron.

JD is the guywho sucks up non stop to the big guy but gets looked over the promotion when it comes down to it.

I think it depends on how the next 2 years play out. If we enter a deep recession with high inflation due to the tariffs, shit is going to hit the fan. I just think anyone with an R will have an uphill battle.

His other issue is the primary. He likely wins that but he's going to be going up against a bunch of MAGA folks in gimp suits. It's going to be very tough to trash Trump's policies which he'll need to do while winning that primary. And even if he does win it, does he damage himself so much with MAGA that he gets whooped in the general? Just seems like a lot can go wrong if you have bigger aspirations.

Also not fully sure Georgia is a red state. Biden won in 2020, they have 2 Dem Senators. It feels like it's heading the direction of Virginia as the suburbs grow and remember that Kemp won because Dems kept running Abrams who is fucking terrible.

Looks like that NC Supreme Court election may finally be over. Judge ordered the NC Board of Elections to give the Democrat a 734 vote victory and rejected all of the Republican candidates challenges though he gave him a week to appeal

They should seriously disband the party.

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If you read the quote, he's asking for tax credits, which is what everybody is using to encourage development in their area. What's wrong with that?

Probably " Now it’s time for a real federal partnership to Make America Film Again. POTUS, let’s get it done."


So, he is just straight MAGA now?

By the time we get to 2027 campaign season, a Newsom/Whitmer ticket is going to give Vance/Whomever a serious run for their MAGA votes.

Just listened to an interview with a maritime shipping expert who basically said the shit is gonna hit the fan with the supply chain in the next few weeks. Goods are typically ordered 5-6 weeks out so we have been getting by with goods already here or were on the way and now the chain has basically stopped.

I wouldn't underestimate the guy. It wasn't so long ago that he was making sweet love to his couch. Now he's one heartbeat (of a 78 year old) away from being one of the most powerful people on the planet.

Dems had a hell of a weekend in local election across Texas. They flipped mayors, school boards, etc across the state and in conservative strongholds like Collin county (where my wife is from).


People are over culture wars, book bannings, and extremism. Mid terms are going to be ugly.

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I disagree

I don’t think that they’re over them at all

I think that they were caught off guard by how angry and acidic the opposition was in trying to discriminate, control, and hurt people who are a little different

Most don’t have a strong opinion about moving illegal aliens from the country as long as there’s not a heart string pulling narrative around it. I mean if it’s just a guy in a room going to work for Tyson they don’t care but if there’s a story like a wife being kicked out and separated from her husband and kid, they hate that.

Point is, they were fairly neutral to this stuff until they realized what it looked like to be neutral… now, they might be really really busy, too busy to go to protests and stuff, but when they go to the ballot for one hour every couple of years, they vote. They show just how pissed they are but then they go home and try to keep the house in order


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I think theres some truth to that. A lot of people wanted this anti DEI stuff, trans bans, tougher immigration etc but they wanted the rest of their life to continue as normal and without additional stress. If Trump had just focused on those things (itd still be awful) but hed still have strong support.

But he ran on those things to get rich in the other things.

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I think people also don't like feeling like they were duped or lied to. A ton of low information voters chose him because he ran on a platform of lowering prices and inflation and clearly that hasn't happened despite what they keep saying.

Imagine if he campaigned on short term suffering, tanking the stock market, and only buying 2 dolls and 5 pencils that will cost more.

And the thing is, if he wanted to promote sacrifice, he had his chance during Covid to make that his thing. He could have literally said this in 2020 and would have been more popular, an opportunity that probably only FDR and maybe W could have had, at least in the last 100 years, and he completely passed it up.

This is true also. I think both of those groups exist the hope is more and more will be willing to admit they were wrong (they may already know in their head).

Newark airport is a total mess. My wife travels 3-4 weeks of the month th and it’s gotten progressively worse.

Maybe pilotman can chime in. I know there is a shortage of air traffic controllers. I realize it would be a process but why can’t we incorporate that into the military? Would solve the staffing issues and would also give older service members a chance to still serve but not be on a carrier somewhere and be able to settle down. Seems like a win win .

The establishment will always push to the right. There's a reason Harris ran on building the wall and touting Liz Cheney as a voice of reason. Whoever the moderate candidate will be in 2028 will be running on a lot of what Trump ran on in 2024.

Josh Gottheimer's NJ Gov. commercials are narrated by a guy with a Texas accent. He's the toughest little Jew in the race.

There's a major runway repair project that has been on the books for a year at least. It's scheduled to go through the middle of June. There have been staffing issues for well over a year. Many of the ground delays during large storm events are understaffed sectors that cannot handle the shift in aircraft as the weather develops. So sectors get oversaturated and delays start. Right now in Newark, it's early summer-ish but the runway closure of one of the two main use runways is driving all sorts of issues. There's also the problem of concrete. As in, Newark is one of the smallest airports for the amount of traffic that they have. When backups start, real estate becomes a problem. Planes on gates that shouldn't be, planes in small holding areas, or tucked into corners of the airport waiting. It's an accordion effect.

Do you ever fly to O'hare? I need to know why my plane taxis for 40 minutes every single time I land there.

I've found that to be an issue recently for me, as well. I don't fly enough to see it as a new normal of traveling, so maybe it's more likely just a run of bad luck, but I've flown on both Delta and American in the last 6-8 months and have run into 3 instances where we landed early and didn't have a gate to immediately park at (makes sense), but then sat for a ridiculous amount of time - well beyond when we would have parked at the gate had we just shown up on time.

The most ridiculous instance of this was a few weeks ago, on a flight from Asheville to Charlotte - like 25 minutes long. We landed early, of course, but then taxiied/sat for just short of 60 minutes waiting for a gate. Almost 2.5 times as long on the ground after landing than the flight itself! I know airplane logistics are incredibly complicated, but find us another MF'n gate, please!

I did the math the other day and between parking and taxiing that even with the 20 minute flights it's still faster to drive from Greenville to Charlotte or Atlanta. The problem is the flights from GSP with a connection through there is often way cheaper than just straight out of those hubs.

The U.S. needs reliable high speed rail yesterday. It’s basically the single most perfect country in the world for it if it wasn’t for all those pesky Americans in the way.

Maybe if we had some of that sweet sweet Rearden Metal

The fact that there still isn't high speed rail options (they have been talking about making Atlanta a high-speed rail hub forever) and the fact that it cost as much or more to take a train to anywhere from here as it does to fly, irks me to no end.

Yes, frequently.

Two parts to that. One, generally 3 runways are in use for landing and 2 for takeoff. It's a huge airport and some of the runways are a long way from the terminal. Many of the taxi routes are specific to avoid crossing any runway where an aircraft is taking off from to mitigate any potential conflict. Also to avoid conflict while crossing any runway where another plane is landing. It ends up a lot like the old game of centipede where you keep moving ever growing lines to navigate without hitting anything.



The second part is that they've created regular taxi in and out routing from and to those runways, and because of the volume of traffic through Ohare, these routes tend to be quite long and you frequently find yourself going the opposite direction from where you'll end up at. It's again, for ease of control, safety and potential conflict and helps guard against potential conflict when something happens like a plane can't taxi to the gate right away, or a passenger needs to pee and the plane has to stop, or you haven't gotten your weight and balance yet and need to get out of line and wait for it.




I was literally in Greenville for the first time in ages this week on a long layover. Really enjoyed it. We used to joke about it being quicker to drive from New York to Boston than it is to go to the airport, go through security, wait, get on the plane, wait, wait some more, fly for an hour, and the land and get off. Frequently flights that are very close in distance are over-blocked because it's easier for ATC to hold planes on the ground rather than let them take off and burn fuel holding and have them divert. It's a much better process for the entire operation. So those close in flights take that into consideration using historic data to maintain the flight schedule.



And yes, that means that sometimes we get out faster, and the gate isn't available when we land. Some gates only have a couple minutes in between departures and arrivals. They are all scheduled on a massive computer that has to look at usage all day. On a good day it works great, on a bad day, when things back up, it can go south.

Allison Riggs officially wins her seat on the NC Supreme Court after Jefferson finally concedes following his loss at the federal appeals level.


It's kind of scary how close this came to being a blatantly stolen election.

Is it faster for people to fly private than to drive? Taking away the cool factor, since we moved closer to the airport I'll sometimes check flight aware and I see tons of planes flying to CTL, ATL, Columbia... I don't even know how many I saw flying to Augusta during the Masters. I know security theater is different, but is the total flight package really faster than driving 90 minutes?

Money is time, and when you have money, the time becomes a necessity. At the wealth point for some people it's nothing more than a high end Uber.

Waiting in the corral to run my marathon in Cincinnati on Sunday, I struck up a conversation with a guy who works for American Airlines. He lives north of Daytona Beach and works in Dallas (I couldn't tell if he actually commutes weekly, or that's just where his home office is). He said he does pilot scheduling, calculating airplane weight, and all sorts of similar logistics planning for American and loves it. He was an interesting guy - former Marine, used to weigh 400 pounds, now raises money for charities and flies around the world running marathons.

When does Laura Loomer get an office at the White House? She killed the surgeon general pick. It was an awful choice to begin with, but it's not like someone better is the replacement.

You'd think Dems could make some hay out of 3 F/A 18s falling into the Red Sea but they don't even try.

What messaging angle do you think they should take on this one?

Someone like Warner or Coons or Duckworth should just beat the hell out of Hegseth and Trump for incompetence and endagering Navy personnel.

Because the third runway extends to Iowa.

If this happened under Biden the GOP would be calling for Lloyd Austins head for days on end

That it's not wise to put an unqualified alcoholic in charge of the nations defense. I don't think it's common to have $100 million jets just falling off boats every week.

So much winning

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We are about to buy a car. I told my wife we need to buy it asap and she wants to wait until memorial Day when they normally have deals. They aren't having deals this year.

Canada exports to other countries have increased by 23% so far this year. Disengaging trade from the USA. Not a big deal, since they don't need anything from Canada anyways, as Trump has said a million times.

Price of used cars are skyrocketing too if you think that's a way to get around the tariffs.

Trump pulls Ed Martin from consideration as US attorney for DC. Then thinks "how can I make a nomination that would be even worse? Oh, I know...."


https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-eyin...y?id=121604820

He knows nobody he hasn't seen on TV.

I just came here to post about this. We are so screwed.

He does like the drunks.

Kash Patel showed up for his senate budget hearing without a budget, then took zero responsibility. We really are truly fucked

Kash Patel Spars With Dems Over FBI Budget, Due Process

Trumps
Nominee for surgeon general never finished her residency or actual practiced medicine. He said Bobby loves her. Fuck every senator who confirmed him.

So, there is a Fox insider that claims that he knows for a fact that she doesn't drink. Pills, he can't answer for certain, but she is not "drunk" when she is sloppy slurring her speech.

Could be but those clips sure sounds like someone drunk as shit.

Piro.....this isn't a serious administration.

I'm pretty sure she stays stoned out her gourd. Just maybe on something other than alcohol.

This is like the Giants putting the hosts on WFAN in charge of he football team.

Probably the best analogy I have seen.

Well done.

Bad time to be a kid for a variety of reasons but today added a new one. Trump threatened Mattel with a 100% tariff on their products because the CEO said they can't afford to make toys in the United States.

He also referred to them as a country.

When asked about dock workers and truck drivers being worried about their jobs because ports have lost half of their business Trump said it's a good thing the ports are empty because it means we're not losing money.

For people who hate the commies, they sure love a centrally planned economy these days.

So, the people who ignored the positive macro-economic factors to vote for Trump because they, personally, were hurting, are supposed to... ignore their personal situations because Trump says this is good from a macro-economic perspective? Do I have that right?

One of the underreported stories about some of the officials is that they signed up to cosplay and have no clue how to actually do the job. Like part of the gig is you have to come up with a budget for Congress to look over.




I honestly think history will look back at this period and the people who will be cast in the worst light are the GOP lawmakers who let this happen when majority of them absolutely know better.

Or they can note the personal ramifications, and still not blame Trump.

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You just hate to see it.

Comic book villain Stephen Miller confirmed the white house is considering suspending Habeas Corpus.

But it'll be ok if people have their papers, right?

Meet the hack that's going to 'investigate' the 'link' between vaccines and autism:

Just a moment...

So are we about to legit try to treat everyone with autism for mercury poisoning after whatever report he comes up with is released? Who owns the company that makes that drug?

Hear me out. Everyone in the administration has to take a toxicology test and we get to bet on it at Draft Kings. What's Jeannine Pirro taking? What's Hegseth's blood alcohol level? Was Patel on cocaine at that hearong or another drug? Prop bets on who get cirrhosis first. Proceeds go to pay down national debt.

Maybe we should sell this plane Trump is getting gifted to help pay down debt instead of adding to the debt by bringing it to Air Force One standards only to have it go with Trump when he leaves office.

That's as silly as not having a $100 million parade for his birthday.

There is a standoff right now at the US Copyright office between DOGE and Capital Police. They are not allowing DOGE entry into the building

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Whose head officer Trump just fired, pretty blatantly for having the gall to release a report that points out that training AI is not fair use of copyrighted material. Which he actually can't do but then again he has just fired the person who would have that right, the head of the library of congress.

Just a moment...

Per Karoline Leavitt, the head of the library of congress was fired for allowing children to check out inappropriate materials.

She's trying to out Spicer Sean Spicer.

MAGA people online have been really supportive of accepting these refugees. I've seen it suggested that we should provide them with farmland. I wonder what makes these refugees different from others?

No idea!