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To be fair, wholesale prices are coming down, so it’s not a complete lie. That said, isn’t the Republicans saying wholesale egg prices are coming down, while we are still paying elevated and even rising prices at the store, the same as when Democrats last year said inflation is under control while people were reporting rising prices at the grocery store?

They make it sound like Hitler, Mao, and Stalin could not have been at fault for their genocides simply because they identified and hired the five percent of their populations who would find it thrilling to carry them out at their behest.

It might not matter because red hats may have the same malady their dear leader does: the one in which a new piece of information completely pushes out the old piece of information which they won’t remember they ever heard in the first place. So when they say, “we never said consumers won’t pay higher prices because of tariffs”, they’ll genuinely believe it.

Extra Larges are $9.79 at the Kroger here in Big Shoulders.

Gage Tater Workman. True story.

Class up the ass!

Guenther?

As first highlighted by @romad1, we appear to be firmly ensconced in the era of special pleading. 6. 💰 GOP's DOGE back-channel As Elon Musk's slash-and-burn budget cuts hit Republican and Democratic areas alike, some GOP lawmakers are privately back-channeling with the Trump administration to try to shield their constituents from the fallout, Axios' Erin Doherty and Andrew Solender write. Why it matters: Republicans have largely cheered on DOGE in public. But behind the scenes, many of President Trump's allies fear potential political backlash to the cuts — and are scrambling to limit the damage. Of the 60 congressional districts with the most federal workers, a slight majority are represented by Republicans. 👂 What we're hearing: Several House Republicans told Axios they have succeeded in — or at least contributed to — getting DOGE to reverse certain cuts through private back-channeling. Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) said he raised concerns about job cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration: "Whether it was my remarks back to DOGE or somebody else's, it got fixed. They ... hired back 30 people." Keep reading.

I feel "schmuck" is too soft a name to call FElon. 😁

So does iOS autocorrect.

Whoa, Foley cut all his straggly hair off!

I believe pitching chaos was based on not having more than two pitchers who could reliably start game. I believe the effect of pitching chaos was to keep other teams off-balance and affect their ability to prepare for the game—to your point, not letting get hitters get comfortable.

Maybe they want another pandemic so they can manage it the way they wanted to last time.

Honestly, I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out whether the overly cautious language is from CNN or the "watchdog group" itself. Here's the full section contemplating it: According to federal regulations, government employees must not use public property “for other than authorized purposes,” with exceptions for “de minimis personal use,” such as sending a personal email from a government account. Donald K. Sherman, the chief counsel for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Pinover’s posts appeared to violate rules prohibiting the use of government resources for private gain, and would not be considered “de minimis.” The rules don’t “give cover to a federal employee using government resources to subsidize their private business,” Sherman said. “It is highly problematic that while dedicated civil servants who want to work for the government are being fired for all manner of dubious reasons, or are being forced out by this administration, that someone at the agency leading that attack on the civil service is using their government job for private gain.” Sherman, the guy from the group, says the actions "appear" to violate the rules and that using a government job for private gain is "highly problematic", which is all really watered down language to describe using taxpayer-funded resources to help your side hustle. So, he's not helping by swinging and missing at the alarm bell. Leave it to the cited federal regulation itself to unequivocally affirm that public property MUST NOT be used for private gain. That seems pretty clear to me.

From the CNN story: One watchdog group said her videos could run afoul of rules restricting the use of government property for personal benefit because, while in the workplace, she was using a website that pays content creators commissions from the clothing brands they promote. "Could run afoul of rules". Or maybe could not. Let's have a debate about it.

Everyone else will be, though.

On Sunday we left the game at 3pm to get to TPA for a 5:50pm flight. Instead of taking us down I-4, which is the most direct route, Apple Maps routed us around it, west on 582 (Griffin/Knights Station Road), then down 39 back to I-4, which was still clogged in spots going into Tampa. The estimate when we left was 57 minutes. It took us nearly an hour and a half instead. But by the time we dropped off the car, took the tram, got through TSA and arrived at the gate, they were just starting to board. So the delay just happened worked out perfectly this time.

You may be on to something. His career splits indicate that Mazda does seem to be stronger against the first hitters he faces, especially in relief. This might be an indication that the contrast between his stuff and the stuff of the pitcher he relieves is substantial enough to flummox batters out of the gate.

I wouldn’t do this myself because it’s not my style, but I think the practical joke is fine. After all, regardless of whether he is MAGA, the salesman is presumably a willing and eager representative of the Tesla company, not an captive being pressed into service against his will. And it’s not as though the joke is picking his pocket or breaking his leg. After all, the drop in Tesla sales as a result of FElon’s noxious policies had already been picking the guy’s pocket even before the prank call. This is one of the ways the marketplace expresses its dissatisfaction—even better than a simple down arrow on a sales chart, actually, since it provides a vital piece of information as to why sales are plummeting. If the salesman can’t take this relatively gentle kind of heat, there are any number of sales positions with reputable companies he could take instead. Big boy pants applies here.

Where’s the $100 million coming from? Taxpayers?

I’m not so convinced that even Musk is going to get blamed by dispossessed red hats for their getting shorted on their Social Security or Medicare, let alone Trump. First of all, the regime will develop a complete horse**** story for the cuts even before they happen, in which the remaining Democrats, the former deep state, the media, and assorted other enemies of the state will be fully blamed for the debacle to come. It doesn’t matter that none of these entities have any actual power—they will be imbued with just enough power to be blamed for the debacle before it occurs. And secondly, I think we overestimate just how sensitive Trump’s core base even is to shifting economics. A really high percentage of hardcore red hats live hardscrabble lives of desperation and deprivation. They suffer in both good times and bad, such that things stay the same for them all the time—meaning, always terrible. The reason they go for Trump is not so much to restore an economic status they never had in the first place anyway, but to restore their social standing of being in the racial group that is explicitly favored by the government. It kills them, absolutely kills them, to see people of color doing better than they are, so the hardcore base’s heart’s desire is to see them dragged back down to their natural level, in which the level of the highest black person is far below the level of the lowest white person. You know, like it was back when America was great. So I really don’t see how those people are going to rise up against Trump simply because they’re not getting the checks from a program they’ve already been told for decades is going to be bankrupt by the time they come to collect anyway. OK, so, what about the Trump voters who are economically sensitive? Won’t they rise up once the **** hits the fan? I don’t think so, because that’s where the first part comes back in—the horse**** story part, which they of course will believe, because their media will tell them to believe it, so of course they will, because where are they gonna hear anything different? They might rise up, all right, but it won’t be against Trump or Musk. It will be against who they’ve been told is at fault. Only something unexpected that can’t planned for can break the spell. That could happen tomorrow, or that could happen in 50 years. Who knows.

Russia is going to know whatever intelligence is being shared even before Ukraine knows.

Fun fact about little Miss Attractive on TV: She is 27. Her husband is 59. He put a baby in her. Here's the Wikipedia page attesting as much. See if you can ace the hidden math test and morality check within: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt#Personal_life Leavitt is married to Nicholas Riccio, a real estate developer 32 years her senior.[35][36] They announced their engagement in December 2023 and were married in a private ceremony.[37][38] She gave birth to their son on July 10, 2024.[39] She had planned to go on maternity leave, but changed her mind after seeing the July 13, 2024, attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, and resumed her professional duties.[39][40] Leavitt is a Roman Catholic and credits her Catholic schooling for instilling pro-life values, discipline, and the importance of public service.[13]

I approve this practical joke. It belongs on a Morning Zoo broadcast.

She trotted out the "fair and balanced" line!