Who says Happy Memorial Day or Happy Holidays on Memorial Day? Both are dumb

I see it quite a bit. It's odd when you think about the purpose of the day, but it doesn't bother me. There's no ill meaning behind. The happy holidays comparison is because it's another thing that MAGA pretends bothers them.

MAGA was trying to turn it into a hill to die upon because they love grandstanding on behalf of servicemembers when it means nothing and they're not required to actually do anything. Trump then went out and undercut their false anger by tweeting Happy Memorial Day this morning though.

The President of Peru has a 1.6% approval rating.

The reverse Saddam

Hegseth directing the NSA to illegally wiretap his employees should be a huge scandal. Instead it's just another day in the Trump administration.

Welcome to American where jaywalking results in a heavy fine and rich people are immune from any sort of punishment so long as they are willing to bend the knee.

The saddest part of this entire story is this kids parents are grooming him to be a hateful bigot.

Supreme Court declines case on student's 'only two genders' T-shirt

RFK says government scientists may be barred from publishing and Linda McMahon says universities are free to research anything so long as the admin agrees.

There are alot of shirts that are banned. When I was in high school I had a shirt with two turtles fucking on it and it Slow Poke. I had another one with a squirrel who had a horde of nuts and it said Get Off My Nuts. They made me turn each of those inside out for the day and said I'd get in school suspension if I wore them back. I didn't take it to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

You should have worn those shirts in front of the Supreme Court.

Oh no

Aaaaand I think we are done here #TACO pic.twitter.com/OoXbEFnRzR

— Robert Armstrong (@rbrtrmstrng) May 28, 2025

Big Johnson shirts, anyone?

I was going to say that. Those were banned in our school. Same with the Coed Naked shirts.

You can keep my Big Johnson shirt. No Fear is where it’s at now

Tell that to my Big Dogs shirt collection.

A three judge panel from US Court of International Trade has enjoined Trump's tariffs, saying they go beyond the authority has from the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

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Yeah, the fentanyl excuse doesn't exactly fly. Pretty embarrassing it got that far.

Using facts to call him out that it wasn't ever fentanyl didn't take very long.

But perhaps the tariffs saved over 500 million Americans from dying from that 6 ounces of fentanyl that they found so far at the northern border so far in 2025.

I don't think the ruling affects those tariffs on Canada, just the across the board 10%.

I don't even care about the tariffs anymore. I go out of my way to purchase anything but American products from anywhere that is non-American whenever possible. If the tariffs encourage companies to look for non-American suppliers for some of the goods that are still hard to find alternatives for then that's even better. I never thought I'd look at a package and say "oh Product of China, good" but here we are.

Tariffs are the strategy of isolationist societies. The global trade will re-align itself over time to avoid countries with higher cost of business, or higher risk.

Apparently Gretchen Whitmer is merely "disappointed" that Trump is considering a pardon for the people convicted of attempting to kidnap (and God knows what else they would have done to) her.

Personally, I get disappointed about things like, say, when two games I want to watch are on at the same time.

Weird how different people get disappointed by such wildly different things!

I mean, trump's lawyer stated that the 60 Minutes interview broadcast with Harris caused him severe emotional and cognitive distress that he's struggled to overcome. So it's basically the exact same thing.

He's pardoning every person he can find who was convicted of the crimes he's been accused of and found guilty of. I wonder why? Trying to set the stage that they were all convicted unfairly, and that they did nothing wrong, to further his own crimes, and to desensitize Americans that these things are actually wrong. It's a play similar to the big lie. You repeat something enough times and people will simply start to believe it. In this case, he's saying that anyone who engaged in these white collar crimes isn't a real threat, not a real criminal and they didn't do anything wrong other than just try and get ahead in a competitive world.

If we ever get around to amending the Constitution, the power of the presidential pardon needs to go.

It seems like the use of it has really change in scope in the last couple of years.

I don't understand why it was there in the first place, given one of the points of the Founders was to not have kings. But there's probably something historical I'm missing.

Personally I think any pardons should have to be approved by the majority of the house or something

I think it is a needed check on the judicial branch. I just think corruption has gotten so rampant that everything in government is for sale.

Right on cue, Trump already commenting on a possible Diddy pardon.

Pretty insane story here.

nytimes.com

Also not included but sort of hinted at by other news outlets is that Musk and Stephen Miller's wife had an affair.

It's even worse than that - they were apparently a throuple, then she left him because of Musk. And Miller was recently furiously subtweeting Musk which seems like an awfully big coincidence.

Well, she had a type. Pasty white racist. You think she needs them to wear a little mustache for her to be able to orgasm?

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We've reached the point that the majority of monarchies in the world are more democratic than whatever Trump 2.0 is doing in the USA.

Trump has reportedly been complaining to people around him about Elon and asking if they think the entire DOGE thing was bullshit.

Well it was. We knew their fallout would come at some point.

Yea but this is like Jake Paul-Tyson when we all wanted Holyfield-Tyson.

Musk is so ketamined out right now. That one video from a few days ago when he's looking around in circles in the air while Trump is talking is pretty insane.
Between that and grandpa Trump's all-caps rants at 2am every night, MAGA is getting what they voted for. But the scariest thing is that his approval rating is increasing.

I'm still hoping for the all-out GOP civil war between the techbro/toxic masculinity wing and the racist/fundamentalist wing.

it's increasing because it looks like stuff is getting done via executive orders and bypassing congress on just about everything. It looks like he's effective, and it's been so long, like the 90s, since congress actually worked the way it's supposed to, that people are excited just seeing literally anything get done. People are willing to embrace an authoritarian leader if he does this, and it either supports their cause, or isn't hurting them personally. So he's got a long runway. They can attack dissent as traitorous, and keep fanning that flame. It's straight from the playbook. It's not that people love him personally.

If Biden had gone with the same ferocity he would have seen a massive rise in popularity as well.

I'm not so sure. Dems are largly staying silent where the GOP is constantly messaging.

Oh, they're loudly begging for money with their thumbs up their ass.

They should unironically disband the party.

Joni Ernst with the most non apologetic apology I have ever heard.

What a disgrace

jfc

If TACO Trump is already folding on Iran, the American people need to know about it.

No side deals. pic.twitter.com/T4gnekrGhT

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 2, 2025

LOL. Elon flips on the “big beautiful bill.”

Musk vs Trump fox news headline. The fight is just starting.

If my businesses relied entirely on the US government to be profitable, I would probably not insult the man who controls the purse strings.

Well he also went against the majority of his customer base in all of his support of Trump in the first place. He aeems likely to alienate pretty much everyone before long.

His companies were cooked even before the Trump stuff. I mean this didn't help but he was always banking on government handouts for SpaceX, Tesla, and whatever his shitty AI grift is now.

Linda McMahon testimony to congress is embarrassing. She failed simple math when it came to budget numbers, isn't familiar with Ruby Bridges or the Tulsa massacre, and said she wanted Harvard and other schools to eliminate DEI while at the same time saying they want more viewpoint diversity on staff, which would be DEI.


Florida weatherman are also telling their viewers that hurricane projections are going to be inaccurate this season and moving forward due to federal cuts. Far less balloons are going up, staffing levels are down as much as 40%, and they're not sure data collection flights for active hurricanes is going to be possible.

I guess people got tired of 4 years of competent government.

When was this mythical 4 years?

/checks hidden post

Yeah, gonna stick with that decision.

"Competent" being a relative term, of course.

A 22 year old grocery stocker is heading US terror defense.

Love it.

Won't make it 100% right for how he screwed up the execution of Doge but it'll go a long way if he is able to stop the $2.5T addition to our debt and rally GOP senators and make the budget deficit neutral. Good thing I don't own any Tesla stock though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trum...l-nasa-ev.html

If Musk and other billionaires and their companies paid the same marginal tax rate (or even half) paid by, like, 80% of Americans, we likely wouldn't even have a budget deficit.

That sentence isn't as scary as the guy's picture.

Trump and Musk ending badly is not a surprise to anybody. The only surprise to me is it took this long.

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Even more goodness.

I'm not sure who holds the better hand, I'm going to assume Trump who can hurt Musk's businesses a lot, but then does Musk care about $100B here or there? This will be fascinating as it plays out real-time.


EDIT:

... and even more! Can't wait for the vote counts

Musk just played the Epstein card.

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From the other thread about rich & famous that broke immigration laws, I think Musk just might have moved ahead of Harry.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edward64 (Post 3459797) I'm good with both Melania and Musk. But dealing in the "real" world and the limitations of that, Harry get my vote.

... and Tesla down -16% right now.

In 24 hours this went from a pillow fight to exactly what everyone was anticipating.

:popcorn:

And this, kids, is what happens when people have too much money, and no concept of what hard work looks like.

In the divorce, do we get to keep all the white South Africans?

:popcorn: :D

the girls are fighting pic.twitter.com/NISuxpteJR

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 5, 2025

I figured they would part ways but I really didn't think it would go this bad considering how much they need each other.

Tesla stock down 15%. It's a good thing SpaceX isn't publically traded because that company might go kaput.

So can people own Teslas without them being firebombed again?

I figure it can/will go so much worse. This is like 1% as bad as I figured it would go.

I've been told the government will give every immigrant a Tesla if they agree to self deport.

Probably inevitable; JD was their guy the whole time anyway.

Hopefully this ends with Elon being deported.

MAGA is calling for it now.

DOLA

This might be the best day of Steve Bannon's life.

I was sure it would be ugly. Big Egos. I had a feeling they eventually would a hit conflict and clash spectacularly.

In US Teslas firebomb themselves.

This thing blew up faster than a Cybertruck.

It certainly got as ugly as one!

Who will Kamala campaign with in 2028?

Does this mean Trump is NOT buying a Tesla?!?

I don't see how Trump needs Elon.

Besides money, he controls one of the largest social media sites in the world and can influence what people can and can't see.

I remember when the reason women couldn't be CEOs or President was because they were too emotional.

It's insane these loser clowns are thought of as the models of masculinity.

It's all so pathetic.

Trump nationalizes SpaceX and Twitter by EO in 3...2...1...

Honestly he doesn’t need him anymore, but it’s hard to say how much Elon influenced the election in his favor. He not only turned the dude bro internet crowd from blue to Trump he also, as you said, had a pretty big influence on what people saw. At this point though Trump is either done being elected or ending elections so Elon isn’t nearly as necessary and he probably felt that before he decided to do all this.

I REALLY want to know more about that black eye now. Like at the exact moment this entire shitshow fell apart in epic fashion, Elon's kid just happened to pop him in the face?

I hate all this but the way they phrase it all is kind of funny to meHaving a 22 year old in charge of anything nationally is bad, but are we shaming him for landscaping at 17 or working part time in a grocery store during college?

Had to drop by and read the comments. Pretty much as expected.

Your debt payments are now more expensive than your defense budget. Every year the country is spending more than it makes, and that trend is accelerating. Judging by the thread educated people in the U.S. are not aware how serious this problem is or where it leads?

I'm glad you think we're educated but what are you talking about dude? Are you not part of this country with it's debt payments and defense budget, or did you retire at 49 off bitcoin in a different country?

Interesting "out" that CBO handed Trump on the (currently) $2.4T budget deficit over 10 years ... and the $2.5T tariff revenue.

I hope it's not good enough to sway the Senate Republicans against the bill; but probably changes the dynamics and provides an easy out for some.

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The tariff assumptions below. I can see the 10% baseline tariff surviving but think everything else is in play for the next 3.5 years. And depending on who wins in 2028, fair chance that many of them will go away or be significantly reduced.



Also quoted in article if only 10% was kept. Different group, different assumptions etc.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is enough people, GOP politicians (they're up this cycle) willing to fight to reduce the bleeding (e.g. budget deficit) and overall debt at this time. Defense, Social Security, Medicare are the big ones and cutting those will get politicians fired. But I sure hope I'm wrong.

Unlikely it will succeed but love to see Musk fund a viable third party and build momentum on this.

We've been running deficits for decades. Why stop now?

It’s hard to care about the deficit when neither political party does. You don’t float tax cuts for the rich and take the high ground on the deficit just because you took away government insurance from some poor people. If you want to take a bite out of the deficit you have to tax rich people and businesses but that going to happen anytime soon.

bitcoin bro is over in the UK