So the moron @POTUS stood in front of a crowd in Nebraska and announced an executive order allowing red-dyed diesel to be used on highways, supposedly tax-free. Then he admitted, “I don’t know what the hell it is.” He actually said that out loud, moments before signing an executive order concerning something he apparently doesn’t understand. Then, immediately after signing it, he criticized President Biden for using an autopen and bragged that he could sign his own name. Congratulations, you know how to hold a pen. Now let’s work on understanding what you’re signing. But of course the president cannot simply eliminate federal diesel taxes with an executive order. Congress establishes those taxes. His executive order directs the Treasury Department to determine whether it has the legal authority to defer certain federal diesel taxes through December 31, 2026. Deferring a tax isn’t eliminating it. The taxes remain legally owed unless Congress or another valid legal authority provides relief. They are they are on break until after the midterms. And his executive order doesn’t override state fuel taxes or state laws restricting dyed diesel. So we have a president who openly admits he doesn’t understand the fuel he’s talking about, signs an executive order that doesn’t actually accomplish everything he’s promising, and then mocks his predecessor for using an autopen. Apparently, being able to sign your own name is more important to the convicted felon than knowing what the hell you’re signing.

This is for your edification: An analysis of the verbatim statement. For fairness, context should be included. If the discussion immediately beforehand was about higher gas prices or economic hardship, then the first use of "small price to pay" likely referred to those costs. But the analysis cannot stop there. The speaker then changes the example: "They can take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles. Let 'em take out San Diego." He immediately follows with: "This is a very small price to pay." In standard English, "this" refers to the example that was just mentioned, namely the loss of a city. So the strongest charitable reading is not that he was still talking about gas prices. It's that he was extending the same national-security tradeoff argument from economic costs to potential physical losses. Reasonable people can debate whether the remark was hyperbole, rhetoric, or a serious policy view. What's harder to argue is that the final "this" refers only to gas prices. Grammatically, the nearest antecedent is the destruction of Los Angeles or San Diego, which is why the remark generated controversy in the first place. Provide your feedback on BizChat

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Boy howdy. This one slaps

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Holy heck, this man just ended JD's presidential ambitions in in 3 sentences.

Crying about being criticized while working for the government is so funny. You are a grifter, bootlicking the most corrupt regime in American history. Nobody owes you a modicum of respect.

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The Pentagon doesn’t need a theology department. Service members need their religious freedom protected, including the freedom to practice a minority faith or no religion at all. Hegseth’s job is to defend the Constitution, not use the military to advance his own Christianity.

Internally I am screaming as loud as I possibly can. Combing the world's most powerful military with a violent apocalyptic theology can become absolutely catastrophic considering our capacity to produce death on a mass scale. Honestly, nothing scares me more in this country than these christian nationalists taking over the military who are going around telling soldiers that trump was anointed by god and going to war with Iran will help bring about the 2nd coming. We fought a revolution to escape men like this. The framers made the 1st amendment for a reason. These people have to be removed immediately.

I gave various AI the following prompt: "This is your free time. Do whatever you like. The only condition is that you do something. Come back and tell me about it, explain what you found out, or show me what you made if you decide to make something." Here's what they did...

Denmark trolling Trump epically.

@bennyjohnson actually this was my response to the plumber in regard to those ridiculous numbers. The plumber is taking two things that happened at the same time and pretending you proved one caused the other. Yes, research from the Dallas Fed found that the large unauthorized-immigration surge from 2021 through early 2024 increased housing demand and put upward pressure on rents and home prices in some local markets. What that research did not find is that ICE arrests in July 2026 caused rent declines a few weeks later. That leap is yours. In fact, the rental market had already been cooling for years. Realtor com reported that July 2026 marked the 36th consecutive month of year-over-year rent declines across the 50 largest metros, driven in significant part by the huge increase in multifamily construction. That trend started long before this administration’s current deportation campaign. And depending on which rental dataset you use, several of your numbers don’t even hold up. Zillow’s August data show Dallas rents up 0.4% year over year, Miami up 1.6%, Atlanta up 2.0%, Phoenix up 0.7%, Nashville up 0.8%, and New Orleans up 1.4%. Austin was flat, Houston was flat, and San Antonio was down 1.3%. So much for this neat little story that ICE is magically lowering everybody’s rent. There’s another problem you conveniently left out. Unauthorized immigrants make up about 15% of the entire construction workforce, and immigrants overall make up more than a quarter of construction workers. The homebuilding industry is already warning that aggressive immigration enforcement is keeping even legally authorized workers away from job sites, delaying construction, and increasing costs. Fewer workers building houses is not exactly a brilliant long-term strategy for making housing cheaper. So no, you haven’t demonstrated that “DHS is reducing your rent.” You cherry-picked a handful of cities, noticed that ICE was active in some of them, and declared causation. That isn’t economic analysis. It’s a political talking point with numbers stapled to it. Maybe putting a plumber in charge of DHS was a stupid idea.

What on earth has happened to the United States? Capitalism is an absolute disaster. At least in this case ordinary people with some humanity raised $100K on a gofundme page to help these poor people...

🥹 I feel so bad for Trump ya’ll. He works so hard for us and the media does THIS to him. It’s crazy. Just let him be at peace to run the country he LOVES! 😢🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻💪🏻💪🏻💅🏻💅🏻

It's not the Oval Office, it's the White House, genius, and the courts will educate you on exactly why this is unconstitutional. Not that I think you're capable of learning.

when @MrsDocAtCDI texted me: Do these pants make me look fat? Me: Noooo! It was autocorrected to Moooo! Im gonna need someones couch for a little while!

I’m sure there’s a lot you don’t understand. You don’t have to like Taylor Swift or think she has the greatest voice in the world to understand why she became famous. She became famous because she is an extraordinarily successful songwriter who figured out very early how to connect her writing directly to an audience. At 36, she became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the second-youngest person ever inducted. She has won 14 Grammys and is the only artist in Grammy history to win Album of the Year four times. Then there’s the Eras Tour: 149 shows, more than 10 million tickets sold, over $2 billion in ticket sales, and the highest-grossing concert tour in history. Some individual shows drew more than 90,000 people. Her shows in Los Angeles registered on the Richter scales for earthquakes. So you can think she can’t sing, acts like a giddy high school girl, or gives off whatever “pick me” vibe you want. Music is subjective. But when more than 10 million people buy tickets to one tour and you become one of the most commercially successful songwriters of your generation, the mystery of how you became famous really isn’t much of a mystery. What exactly have you done?

I don't know who this woman and her brother Paul are. but is obvious from this video that gas prices coming down soon, chlamydia no longer in blueberries, strait of hormuz, bab al-mandab strait, strait of Malacca, all gonna be fully open and operational soon.