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Ron Spangler's avatar

Says just about everything that Hassett, when asked about the people going into credit card debt, heard the question as "Are the credit card companies going to be okay?" and assured us all that he's given all the CEOs a big hug and told them they'll get through this.

Ron Spangler's avatar

A decent journalist would have followed up with "Um, sir, I wasn't asking if you're concerned about the credit card companies."

But we don't have those anymore.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, MM. I cannot bring myself to watch any of the videos. I just retired from a difficult job but I could not do yours.

Parakeetist's avatar

OT:

Birb just eated two veggie burgers for lonch.

They were tasty. They were by the brand Actual Veggies.

They were made out of sweet potatoes and corn.

Thees concludes your... Lonch Reporp.

NerdWithNoName's avatar

Did Kevin Hassett have that smile permanently sculpted onto his face? Perhaps accidentally like the Joker?

Cincinnatus's avatar

BURGUM: The celebration of the 250 is a nonpartisan event

BASH: But Trump called it a 'Make America Great Again rally,' which is the name of his political organization

BURGUM: Well, it is, but that's something I think we all can certainly understand

* * *

Claiming the administration inherited a capital in “decay,” Burgum said, “Americans shouldn’t be conditioned to live in squalor.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-250-concert-burgum-defends-trump-meltdown_n_6a1880f8e4b0457678e96169?origin=home-whats-happening-unit

Apollyon Danish's avatar

“Americans shouldn’t be conditioned to live in squalor. This isn't a Trump rental, after all.”

JunkYardDogg's avatar

Yah, ‘cuz copying the operational codes of election software and giving it to people willing to alter that code in order to engage in and facilitate election tabulation manipulation isn’t poisonous to democracy, rather it is simply a matter of free speech.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

And probably re-arrested right after the mid-terms.

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Bessent's little smarmy smug fucking face contains his little arrogant condescending mouth which emits lies, confusion and pure gaslight. You know, I really despise that POS.

EyeQueue's avatar

These billionaire motherfuckers are THE FUCKING WORST.

Tax the motherfuck out of them. We need to do so on the back end. We can have billionaires like this or democracy but we can't fucking have both.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

What makes Bessent even worse is he actually thinks they won't come after a gay man in the regime. That arrogance is truly unbelievable.

josephebacon's avatar

He thinks he's untouchable because he's kissing Trump's ass...and he's isn't taking a cue from Peter Thiel who fled to Argentina...

President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

Also Hassett probably: "The economy is doing great. Under Biden, your gas tank could only hold $30 worth of gas. Under the strong leadership of President Trump, that same gas tank now holds $50 worth of gas. That's good for American families."

Lemonhead's avatar

Don't worry, we've talked to the oil companies and their profit margins are strong

JunkYardDogg's avatar

Re: Platner

Texts? Really?

Cheap complaints from a political party/RICO operation in which Christian Adultery, It’s a thing, is almost mandatory.

josephebacon's avatar

Franky Graham already blasting Platner...and of course totally backing God's Candidate Paxton...

Apollyon Danish's avatar

Graham's left the cuckold corner long enough to attack Platner? What's his problem? Platner not spending time with Mrs. Graham?

helenasgarden's avatar

Just now: Looking like the classic "working man" dude, off loading his moral turpitude and lying by diminishing it as mere "gossip", that it's the "real issues" that matter.

Uh huh.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Let's talk about Paxton's "biblical divorce" shall we?

JunkYardDogg's avatar

You mean his wife’s epiphany of:

“Gawd, Winky is a piece of shit”

Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

@HormuzLetter

·

2h

BREAKING: Iran says it has now decided to execute the full blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as the next operational step following the announcement of ending all negotiations and communication with the US, per Tasnim.

Oil is surging over 8%, now at $94.

JunkYardDogg's avatar

Guess that should piss off MBZ and the other Gulf oil sheikdoms a whole lot.

Trump is seriously fucking with their money. They paid him a whole lot of good oil money and it wasn’t for this shit.

They aren’t going to let this slide.

Schmannity's avatar

"It's peanuts," says Trump. Don't believe your lying pump!

President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

Awesome job, Trump. Now the Suez Canal is going to be blocked.

swmnguy's avatar

To repeat, for all the kids screwing around in the back of the room not paying attention:

There are no negotiations. Not even about how to start negotiations.

Trump's been lying the whole time. Rigging the markets. Stealing from your IRA and 401k.

Santa in the Sky isn't coming. The cavalry is not about to ride over the ridge. Ann-Margret isn't coming.

RocktonSam's avatar

The Ann-Margret that was in the Tommy in that white dress with all those baked beans is not coming?

I am depressed.

gallbladder's avatar

Wait: Ann-Margret 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 coming?

WE'VE BEEN LIED TO!

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

IK,R? It's as if they have been lying THE WHOLE TIME!!!

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

NO ANN-MARGARET???!?!? This insult WILL NOT stand!

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Maybe Jar-Jar and Witless Witkoff should visit Vlad and get those Ukraine "mineral" agreements finalized.

Saviour of Bread's avatar

Putting pressure on Israel by linking Hormuz to Lebanon.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

For the US, the Congress will have to do something (anything!) to disconnect from Bibi's War.

zuludaddy (SEAMONKEY!)'s avatar

meanwhile, there was that whole 'uniting of the armed forces of the US and Israel' thing from a couple of days ago :/

surely there's an armageddon joke in here somewhere...

Hops: grrrr mad's avatar

Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Not yet passed. Call your congress critter, this week, and let them know in no uncertain terms that they had better vote no. Or else.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Bibi can't take over the whole Middle East without US troops being the hired muscle.

President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

There is a joke in there, but armageddon it right now.

Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Apoxalypse on you!...

Bagels of Doom's avatar

Hassett's face, aside from being extremely punchable, also looks like it's about five minutes of sun exposure away from going full skin cancer.

Hops: grrrr mad's avatar

It also screams "check his basement" (not a metaphor).

JunkYardDogg's avatar

Has had it Hastert is really this administration’s version of Choney Bro Jeffrey Clark

This pud will be unemployable after this administration is gone.

swmnguy's avatar

Hassett made his stake with "DOW 36,000," about 27 years ago. Sure, it's been mocked as perhaps the worst economics book ever published, but it was a best-seller and he made bank and got paid for helping rope the rubes in right before the stock market swoon of 1999-2000.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

He MIGHT be able to garner a greeter position at Walmart. Might.

Free beach's avatar

He is a cancer.

Prometheus59650's avatar

On Iran: President Rapist says, "Sit back, relax and let me do my thing.'

Iran: Fuck all the way off.

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mn7zf4uf6c2f

Iran has won the war. Accept that, pay the money, and go home.

BrianW's avatar

I believe your first sentence is also a summation of his, ahem, sexual negotiation style.

Russell Jones's avatar

For a war that was completely, totally, utterly over and decided in our favor on Day One, this Iran thing sure has a penchant for lingering.

Prometheus59650's avatar

They just can't accept that they lost. Sad. Weak.

helenasgarden's avatar

With your tail between your legs.

Russell Jones's avatar

>>MAGA stooge David Urban’s hilarious false equivalencies we want to highlight here<<

"[Hilarious false equivalencies] are a [MAGAt's] stock in trade."

~ Abraham Lincoln, sort of

zuludaddy (SEAMONKEY!)'s avatar

hello wonket!

off topic and also too: cleverrrrr

"Kelly Link posted this poem on her Bluesky page last month. It goes:

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off

the AI features

that were in

the update

and which

you were probably

hoping

to monetize

Fuck you

they were stupid

so unnecesary

and so annoying"

Bear is Under-Cubbed's avatar

We laughed at Peter Thiel together

Then sprayed him with lye.

Forgive me, I do not know what I am doing.

JunkYardDogg's avatar

The Freedom 250 org, is it a 501(3)(c)? It not, what is it? Just like the Bawlroom/Attack Americans Drone port. To what central entity is all that donor money being funneled into and then dispersed out as project payments? There has to be a bank account. Someone has to sign those checks. Is it a 501(3)(c) or what??

Why can’t Dems ask those questions in committee and demand answers?

Rags's avatar

It is a 501c3 per web search

Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

As someone who ran 501c3s for over 20 years, I have to say that, unless big big cheating is going on, they are ruthlessly transparent...

JunkYardDogg's avatar

Wow! You found that? Good work.