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You are here: Home / Economics / Grifters Gonna Grift / Open Thread: New Oval Office Occupant Egg Dish – the Last-Minute Scramble

Open Thread: New Oval Office Occupant Egg Dish – the Last-Minute Scramble

by Anne Laurie|  March 23, 20255:19 pm| 86 Comments

This post is in: Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Trump-Musk

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#ProudBlue
My grandsons got to participate in the Egg Roll when President Obama was in office
They enjoyed this event so much and I’m so glad they will always have the memories of participating when it was an amazing event for Children not Corporate Donors.
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— cathyfl7 (@cathyfl7.bsky.social) March 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM

A Harbinger, indeed. Per CNN, “‘This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll’: White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event”:

The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties.

The sponsorship offers range from $75,000 to $200,000, with the promise of logo and branding opportunities, according to a nine-page document sent to potential sponsors and obtained by CNN.

The Egg Roll, which began during the Rutherford B. Hayes administration in 1878, has long been privately funded without taxpayer dollars, largely through the American Egg Board, which also provides tens of thousands of eggs for the occasion. And all money raised by Harbinger will go to the White House Historical Association.

“This is an enterprise. This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll where people lined up outside the gate and go and roll an egg and get a little gift bag and walk out,” said a former official involved in planning the event, which has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.

The pitch document laying out sponsorship opportunities includes logos for both the White House and Harbinger, which previously produced the event during President Donald Trump’s first term and is offering “initial planning” and “event day execution” for sponsors that sign on. It features imagery of Trump, first lady Melania Trump, members of the Trump family, the Easter Bunny, and the White House press corps, including CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins…

Among the offerings for prospective sponsors: “Naming rights for key areas or elements,” “Sponsor logos featured on event signage,” “Custom-branded baskets, snacks/beverages, or souvenirs,” “Mentions in official event communications and social media posts,” “Acknowledgment in printed or digital event programs,” and “Inclusion in press releases and media interviews.” Sponsors can also gain access to an “invite-only brunch hosted inside the White House by FLOTUS,” tickets to the event, and a private White House tour.

Upon viewing the pitch document, Richard Painter, who served in the White House Counsel’s Office under President George W. Bush, told CNN that it “wouldn’t have gotten through Counsel’s Office.”

“That would have been vetoed in about 30 seconds in my day,” he said. “We’re not running this like a football stadium where you get all logos all over the place for kicking in money.” …

It’s not unusual for a production company like Harbinger to be involved. The company, founded by former Mitt Romney campaign staffers in 2013, has produced large-scale corporate and government events, including Egg Rolls during Trump’s first term, March for Our Lives, media spin rooms at presidential debates, and Pope Francis’ 2015 visit to the US.

Private contributions cover activity booths, artists, music, vendors, staging, equipment and décor, said a source familiar with the planning who was granted anonymity to detail specifics of the funding mechanisms. Any excess funding raised, that source said, will go toward other similar White House events, such as Halloween festivities and the Fourth of July. So far, one sponsor has been identified for the April 21 event, with other “successful conversations” underway, according to the source, who noted that the National Park Service, which oversees White House grounds, will be responsible for vetting prospective donors before gifts are accepted…

Painter argued the move runs counter to free enterprise. The Trump administration, he said, “just have a different attitude… that ‘America First’ somehow requires the United States to pick winners and losers in the private sector.”

Donald Sherman, the chief counsel and executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said he had “never seen anything like this before” associated with a White House.

“I understand that there are corporate sponsors for the Easter Egg Roll,” Sherman told CNN. “What I have not seen before is sort of the outright solicitation and the use of the imprimatur of the White House to give corporate sponsorship.”…

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  1. 1.

    mapaghimagsik

    March 23, 2025 at 5:21 pm

    That is some tacky-assed shit.

  2. 2.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    March 23, 2025 at 5:27 pm

    Butbutbutbut, I’m constantly told bycertain media outfits that Hair Furor’s actually popular, at least in that his approval rating isn’t below zero.

    Reuters did a good piece on this a month ago showing relative stuff dating back to his first term:

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-rating-slips-americans-worry-about-economy-2025-02-19/

    And just a week ago, his approval rating was only at -1% according to NBC:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/poll-trump-faces-early-challenges-economy-united-gop-backs-big-change-rcna195860

    I think I’m reading those graphs right.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    March 23, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    @mapaghimagsik:

    That is some tacky-assed shit.

    It totally is.  If he had any shame, he would die of it.  And oh my god that post on truth social today?  He sounds totally unhinged.

  4. 4.

    Martin

    March 23, 2025 at 5:33 pm

    Next year is going to end up being the 2026 Taco Bell Mountain Dew State of the Union, Do the Dew! 

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    March 23, 2025 at 5:35 pm

    @Martin: I feel kind of bad for laughing, but it really is that bad.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    March 23, 2025 at 5:38 pm

    Welcome to the 2025 9/11 Memorial and Remembrance, brought to you by American Airlines – fly the friendly skies of American!

  7. 7.

    HopefullyNotcassandra

    March 23, 2025 at 5:38 pm

    @WaterGirl: but…. You don’t agree he’s excellent!!!!!!!!!!! ?

  8. 8.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 5:42 pm

    @Martin:

    @WaterGirl:

    “Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes!”

  9. 9.

    Ryan

    March 23, 2025 at 5:43 pm

    Why aren’t the DOG-E savings covering this?

  10. 10.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    Hey, the White Supremacy Court ruled in Citizen’s United that Corporations and Billionaires can buy the House, the Senate and the White Supremacy House,

    so it is only logical that the Office of the President can sell out.

  11. 11.

    Martin

    March 23, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    This federal holiday marks the 160th Aunt Jemima Juneteenth remembrance – Aunt Jemima, what took you so long! 

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    March 23, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    Well, with the price of eggs these days, I guess they had to do something.

    (yes, sarcasm. )

  13. 13.

    Martin

    March 23, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    @dmsilev: What’s funny is the egg roll was always sponsored by the US Egg Board – the industry group. They donated the eggs, and all that. It was never taxpayer funded. And yet, that wasn’t enough sponsorship, so now we’re going to have Smith & Wesson goodie bags for the kids – little plastic eggs full of ammunition.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    March 23, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    @Martin: Bold of you to imagine that Juneteenth will be acknowledged under this administration, even as a grifting opportunity.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    March 23, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    @Martin: Don’t forget Jack Daniel’s.

    God, the end of the country is going to be trashy AF.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    March 23, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    The makers of Pan’s Labyrinth were ahead of the curve in their sponsorship of one of Melania Trump’s Christmas displays.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    March 23, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    Can we get Hugo Boss  to sponsor Veterans Day?

  18. 18.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    @Martin:

    The United Airlines States of America.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    March 23, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    @dmsilev: Next Valentine’s Day can feature The Babadook.

  20. 20.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 5:56 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

    This result from NBC doesn’t make any sense to me:

    As Trump dominates Washington, 53% of registered voters say Republicans in Congress are too supportive of the president, 6% say they are too critical and 39% say they are dealing with Trump in the right way. By comparison, 50% say congressional Democrats are too critical of Trump, 16% say they are too supportive of him and 30% say they are dealing with him in the right way.

     

    When it comes to the issues, Trump fares particularly well on immigration. Fifty-five percent of voters approve of his handling of border security and immigration, while 43% disapprove. A similar share, 56%, say he’s bringing the “right kind of change” on the issue, while 25% say he’s bringing the wrong change and 18% say he isn’t bringing change.

    I’m disgusted that so many apparently aprrove of Trump’s immigration and border security “policy”. I wonder how many are actually aware of all of the European, Canadian visitors being harassed and detained for no discernable legitimate reason. Or what happened to Mahmoud Khalil, those people sent to the gulag in El Salvador without due process, or the half million people legally (Cubans, Venezuelans, etc) here having their protected status yanked out from under them).

    The only positive spin I can put on it is that these abuses have not pierced the public consciousness yet

  21. 21.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    @dmsilev:

    He acknowledged Black History Month for whatever political reason.

  22. 22.

    Steve LaBonne

    March 23, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    @mapaghimagsik: Surprising since Trump is normally so classy.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I’m guessing all most people know is that he’s being “tough.”

  24. 24.

    RevRick

    March 23, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    @mapaghimagsik:

    Fortunately, culture hasn’t entirely disappeared, yet. MrsRev and I enjoyed a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Dvorak’s 7th Symphony by the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was sublime.

  25. 25.

    Steve LaBonne

    March 23, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We hates furriners! They wants to steal the precious!

  26. 26.

    oldster

    March 23, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    What a disgrace. What a betrayal of everything our parents and grandparents fought for. The land of the grift and the home of the craven.

  27. 27.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    @Baud:

    Gee, I would think Black History Month was too (((woke))) for the Trumpites

  28. 28.

    Steve LaBonne

    March 23, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    @oldster: As awful as he is Trump is still really a symptom. The disease is the pervasive rot in our society and culture which turned out to run even deeper than we wanted to believe.

  29. 29.

    JCJ

    March 23, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    @dmsilev:  last year Stephen Colbert kept making fun of a video clip of President Biden standing stiffly at the Juneteenth celebration while others nearby danced.  It was so annoying for the reason you mentioned – I am skeptical that there would be any such celebrations during the Dump II reign.  Also, I imagine if someone had filmed me at the Rage Against The Machine concert I went to in 2022 I would have looked very similar compared with some of the youngsters nearby

  30. 30.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    WASHINGTON – In the first 50 days of the Trump Administration, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) has made 32,809 enforcement arrests. To put this figure into perspective, in the entire fiscal year 2024, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations made 33,242 of these at-large arrests.

     

    As of Tuesday, ICE has officially made more at-large arrests in the first few weeks of President Trump’s presidency than the entire last year under the previous administration.

     

    Of the illegal aliens we’ve arrested in the past 50 days:

     

    14,111—nearly half—were convicted criminals.

    9,980—About a third— have pending criminal charges.

    These aren’t numbers that the normie public will notice. All they see is right wing spin.

  31. 31.

    laura

    March 23, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    Just a complete shakedown artist.

  32. 32.

    Ohio Mom

    March 23, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The inexplicable thing to me is that Biden was deporting immigrants all the time, just on the down low: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195605

    Why was Biden so secretive about this? He just handed Trump and the republicans this issue o the proverbial silver platter.

    ETA: I see Baud got there first.

  33. 33.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    @Steve LaBonne:

    I agree.

  34. 34.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    33% of US Registered voters voted for the 34 Felony Convicted Rapist who tried to keep power in a violent Coup. A common theme at R/Leopards Eating Faces is “yeah, well I know he said it during the campaign, but I didn’t think he would do it”.

    32% made the sane choice.

    36% were, meh, I can’t be arrsed enough to vote.

    Nothing much makes any sense.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:07 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    Obama was crucified by his party for deporting people. Biden surely understood that would happen if he tried to be tough on immigration.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    @Jay:

    Congrats on election season. I hope Trump gives the good guys a fighting chance.

  37. 37.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    @Baud:

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    It was celebrated as Erase Black History (Month)*,

    and women, LBGTQA2S.

  38. 38.

    scav

    March 23, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    Bold of them to highlight to the nation that only multinationals and billionaires can now afford eggs.

  39. 39.

    Ohio Mom

    March 23, 2025 at 6:13 pm

    @Baud: So Biden was between a rock and a hard place — publicize the deportations, Democrats get mad, keep them quiet, give MAGA the talking point about Biden opening our borders to criminals.

  40. 40.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 6:15 pm

    @Baud:

    Con’s have dropped in just over a month from +20 to +3.

    But that’s not predictive, as the share of the popular vote nationwide doesn’t matter, it’s the share of the popular vote, riding by riding.

  41. 41.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:16 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    I think so.

    Quick Google search

    Biden rolled out tougher asylum rules. Advocates say it’s a betrayal of his promises

  42. 42.

    Nukular Biskits

    March 23, 2025 at 6:21 pm

    Good afternoon/evenin’, y’all!

  43. 43.

    eclare

    March 23, 2025 at 6:21 pm

    Tornado sirens going off here.  Looks like it’s well north of me.

    Sirens off.

  44. 44.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 6:22 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    According to the article, it mentions that part of the reason for Biden’s higher numbers last year was that there were more migrants seeking entry, both illegally and legally.

    For my part, I didn’t like how immigration started to turn into this big issue at the time. I thought it was a bullshit nothing burger distraction that only benefited Trump. If he had tried to get “tough” on immigration I would’ve been mad. Gaza was bad enough.

  45. 45.

    eclare

    March 23, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    Damn.  Sirens on again.

  46. 46.

    Nukular Biskits

    March 23, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    @eclare:

    Trying to remember … where do you live?

  47. 47.

    eclare

    March 23, 2025 at 6:33 pm

    @Nukular Biskits:

    Memphis.

  48. 48.

    JPL

    March 23, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    @eclare: My previous mutt would hear the sirens and head to the closet.   The one I have now, ignores them.

  49. 49.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    @Baud:

    Two things I’ll never understand was Biden’s inability/unwillingness to get rid of DeJoy, who was clearly damaging the Postal Service with his “reforms”, and the fact that Shogan was literally censoring American history, like the internment of Japanese-Americans, that was not so rosy at the Archives for over a year and that the WH did absolutely nothing, that we know of, to stop her. She wasn’t even an archivist, but a political science grad. All of that obeying in advance and she got shitcanned by Trump anyway lol.

    For clarity about the US Postal Service, I’ll quote a comment I made in February about it:

    I don’t think he (or the Senate Dems) did, honestly. I think Biden forgave DeJoy in exchange for electrifying the postal truck fleet and for his role in getting Republicans to help eliminate the prefunding requirement postal workers’ pensions. I think it was foolish for him to do this.

    From the Wiki:

    The board directs “the exercise of the power” of the Postal Service, controls its expenditures, and reviews its practices and policies. It consists of 11 members; 6 are requisite to achieve an ordinary quorum. Of the 11 board members, 9 are the presidentially appointed governors, 1 is the postmaster general, and 1 is the deputy postmaster general. The 9 governors elect the postmaster general, the chairman of the board as well as the USPS inspector general; the governors and the postmaster general elect the deputy postmaster general. No more than five governors may belong to the same political party. The board also has the power to remove all of these officers.

    Biden had 5 of his appointees on the board at one time. Anton Hajjar was the vice chairman from June 2021 until December 2024. I assume it would take a simple majority of the board to remove Dejoy, who is also apart the board, as well as the deputy postmaster general.

    There were 3 vacancies that the Senate Dems could have filled in time to kick DeJoy out, but they didn’t for whatever reason I can’t fathom. And the ones Biden did nominate/got confirmed, a few Republicans, I don’t get either:

    President Biden had announced the nominations of Val Demings, Gordon Hartogensis, Anton Hajjar, and the reappointment of William D. Zollars. Their nominations expired at the sine die adjournment of the 118th United States Congress.

    Zollars was under investigation by the DOJ under Trump back in 2020:

    A recently-appointed member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has been interviewed by Department of Justice investigators, as part of a federal suit filed against his former freight company for defrauding the Pentagon of millions of dollars, court documents show.

    About two weeks after Bill Zollars, the former chairman, president and CEO of YRC Worldwide, Inc., was confirmed to the USPS board by the Senate in June, the Treasury Department awarded his former company a $700 million COVID relief loan. That came from funds designated for Pentagon contractors — but Zollars’ former company, which he left in 2011, has been accused of defrauding the Pentagon during his tenure.

    YRC was worth only $70 million at the time the loan was extended, and in May had warned shareholders it was in danger of going out of business.

    Why would Biden renominate someone so sketchy as Zollars, a Trump appointee? Find another Republican who isn’t corrupt or just appoint an independent to get around the Political Party limitation for board membership!

    He wasn’t the only Republican nominee that was confirmed to the board. There was Derek Kan, who while he had previously worked for the Obama administration at the Amtrak board, also worked in Trump 1’s OMB, with prior experience at OMB under Bush, as the deputy director.

    From Wiki:

    Kan became a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget in 2004.

    From 2006 to 2010, Kan was as a policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

    Kan served as chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. He served during the 2007-2008 financial crisis and the implementation of Dodd-Frank.

    He worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company from 2012 to 2014.

    Somebody who willingly worked at the Trump admin at the very end and had worked with Mitch McConnell as policy advisor is disqualified from such a position. There was no excuse in my mind to not get good people in place to remove DeJoy ASAP.

    Biden should have nominated people who would follow through with his removal and the Senate Dems should have confirmed those people before the last Congress ended at the very least.

  50. 50.

    RaflW

    March 23, 2025 at 6:36 pm

    I remember when a president eating arugula was a ‘scandal’.

    What a fucking awful plummet in to end-state capitalism this all is.

  51. 51.

    Nukular Biskits

    March 23, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    @eclare:

    Yeah, I see the T-storm rolling through there on radar.

    Update:  And a really nasty-looking one NE of Tupelo about to head into AL.

  52. 52.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 23, 2025 at 6:42 pm

    @Baud:

    As good an explanation as any

    @Steve LaBonne:

    “They’re stealing our jerbs!”

    Automation and “AI” is a-okay tho. It’s OK when billionaires and corporations do it. It’s just called “job elimination

  53. 53.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 6:45 pm

    And all money raised by Harbinger will go to the White House Historical Association.

    Has anyone asked why the WHHA suddenly needs a dramatic increase in income??

    Has anyone asked the WHHA Board of Directors what they think of this??

    Their website says they are a non-profit.

    The Chairman of the Board of Directors is John F.W. Rogers, executive VP at Goldman Sachs. Presumably he can find money in his sofa cushions, or among his MotU friends, if the WHHA needs more funding.

    This has the same stench as former Governor Bob McDonnell effectively selling out the Governor’s mansion for his friends and donors. “Hang out with me and support me and we’ll put your logo on stuff and give you all kinds of great publicity. Plus, you’ll get a tax deduction! And you’ll have direct contact with folks on my team for other donation opportunities. Plus, it will outrage the Democrats but there’s nothing they can do about it!! HaHa!”

    Grr…

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  54. 54.

    eclare

    March 23, 2025 at 6:47 pm

    @Nukular Biskits:

    I live in Midtown, so it’s well north of me.  But we have a watch til 11 pm.

  55. 55.

    eclare

    March 23, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    @JPL:

    Smart dog to head to the closet!  Mine is snoozing and snoring next to me.

  56. 56.

    Baud

    March 23, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    Via reddit

    Women in Texas Are Dying

    Republicans pressured to “clarify” state abortion ban

    DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY

    MAR 19, 2025

  57. 57.

    RandomMonster

    March 23, 2025 at 6:54 pm

    @Martin: Welcome to the 2025 9/11 Memorial and Remembrance, brought to you by American Airlines – fly the friendly skies of American!

    Holy shit that is funny!

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 6:59 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We just had an election a few months ago, and he got just shy of 50% of the popular vote.

    It would be news if he weren’t getting around 50% on nearly any issue of the day.

    Nixon had 24% approval (with another 10% unsure) as he was getting on that Marine helicopter the last time in August 1974.

    It takes a lot to get people to change their minds, so pubic opinion polling often lags quite a bit.

    We’ll see what happens.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  59. 59.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 7:06 pm

    @Baud: “Enforcement” may be doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

    Apparently Biden’s administration did a lot of “Administrative” arrests – more than Donnie.

    No time to figure out the difference.

    IANAL.

    Bottom line – Remember dsquared’s One Minute MBA rules – Never give known liars the benefit of the doubt; good ideas don’t need to have lies told about them; the vital importance of audit; etc.

    FWIW.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  60. 60.

    ArchTeryx

    March 23, 2025 at 7:12 pm

    Deleted (no longer applicable)

  61. 61.

    different-church-lady

    March 23, 2025 at 7:30 pm

    Christ, what an asshole.

  62. 62.

    ascap_scab

    March 23, 2025 at 7:34 pm

    This sounds like a job for the Saudi’s LIV Golf.

  63. 63.

    kalakal

    March 23, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    I expect the biggest sponsers will be Rozneft, Gazprom, Mikoyan etc

  64. 64.

    YY_Sima Qian

    March 23, 2025 at 7:55 pm

    The meeting will be interesting, whenever it happens

    Trump Ally Visits Beijing to Pave Way for Xi Summit
    Diplomacy signals potential offramp from trade fight as China pitches message of stability to executives
    By Brian Spegele
    Updated March 23, 2025 at 11:01 am E

    Normally, though, it would be SecState or the NSA playing the role of Presidential emissary.

  65. 65.

    pluky

    March 23, 2025 at 8:06 pm

    @Another Scott: The thing to watch is just with whom the WHHA partners to spend launder the ‘donations’.

  66. 66.

    Ruckus

    March 23, 2025 at 8:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    HE IS TOTALLY UNHINGED.

    There is no other way to say it, other than he’s actually been unhinged his entire life. He just taken the last few steps to TOTAL UNHINGED. I believe that phrase – last few steps is doing a lot of work because it really wasn’t more than 1 or 2 steps.

  67. 67.

    hells littlest angel

    March 23, 2025 at 8:48 pm

    Eggs are so expensive, what government could afford to do this without corporate sponsorship?

  68. 68.

    Gvg

    March 23, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    @Another Scott: could it have anything to do with an egg shortage in this country? Maybe the egg board isn’t getting industry donations for the event? They might even be mad at Trump for doing nothing to help while their flocks die, which leave them with a loss of income. Maybe they want to draw attention to their opinions.

  69. 69.

    different-church-lady

    March 23, 2025 at 8:52 pm

    Wow, you think we’re having a rough time here? You should see the utter meltdown at LGM.

  70. 70.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 9:08 pm

    @hells littlest angel:

    Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ukraine, Britain, Germany and 115 others.

  71. 71.

    Citizen Alan

    March 23, 2025 at 9:12 pm

    @Ruckus: as much as I hate donald trump,  i have come to the realization that I don’t hate him as much as I hate the people who voted for him. Donald trump, in my opinion, suffers from profound mental illness and obvious dementia. He would be pitiable, except for the fact that 77+ million people are so full of bitterness and spite that they thought a deranged monster would be better as president than an accomplished black woman.

  72. 72.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 9:16 pm

    @different-church-lady: The Campos “Frayed Nerves” thread?

    I haven’t read much of anything there in ages.  Lots and lots and lots of comments in that thread about who was ban-worthy and who wasn’t.  Seems to be a lot of tip-toeing to poke at but not upset Loomis too much.

    Strange place.

    Oh well.

    [eta:] – Maybe the Loomis thread with 525+ comments instead.  No time (and insufficient interest at the moment) to read that one.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  73. 73.

    different-church-lady

    March 23, 2025 at 9:16 pm

    @Citizen Alan: 

    except for the fact that 77+ million people are so full of bitterness and spite

    While Dumbfuck Hitler is indeed the symptom and not the disease, one should remember that he’s the one who told them bitterness and spite were virtuous qualities.

  74. 74.

    different-church-lady

    March 23, 2025 at 9:18 pm

    @Another Scott: ​You gotta chase the responses to the responses back to the origin three days ago. Wheels within wheels.

  75. 75.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 9:18 pm

    @different-church-lady: It’s worse than I thought.

    Thanks for the warning.  Glad I missed it.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  76. 76.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 9:20 pm

    Sorry, got to say it,

    The White Supremacy Court ruled that DJTdiot was “eggceptional”.

    Groan all you want,………………………………

  77. 77.

    PatrickG

    March 23, 2025 at 9:22 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Haha (but not a funny haha), I had the exact same thought.

    i decided to check in on LGM because I hadn’t been there in a while. Those Farley threads are spirited to say the least.

    Random thought: Wish I’d bookmarked it so could credit, but one commenter critiqued Farleys comparison of the impact of prejudice experienced by appalachian and black people as “apples and oranges but still fruit” with “but only one of those bore strange fruit”.

    no clear points I’m trying to make here other than (a) an amazing turn of rhetorical phrase containing so much truth, and (b) that was a minor sub thread in a very heated  community conflict around ban threats and inconsistent standards. I hope they can figure something else out.

  78. 78.

    Ben Cisco

    March 23, 2025 at 9:38 pm

    @Jay: Oh I’m gonna LOL

  79. 79.

    Another Scott

    March 23, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    Meanwhile, …

    https://bsky.app/profile/justinling.ca/post/3ll2odwnwcs27

    Justin Ling
    ‪@justinling.ca‬

    Annnnnd we’re off. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has just called a snap election for April 28.

    “We [need] to act to fight the Americans,” Carney just told reporters in Ottawa.

    Over the past week, Carney has been working on new military and defensive deals with Australia, France, and the UK.

    March 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM

    Something something we have always been at war with Eastasia.

    (sigh)

    All it would take would be about 4 people on the other side to act sensibly in the House, and about 20 in the Senate, and this particular set of nightmares would be over. Vance would also be a monster, but he doesn’t have the hold on the rest of them the way 47 does at the moment.

    Less than 25 people have the future of the country in their hands. And they’re being stupid, cowardly, craven monsters about it.

    Grr…

    We need to do everything we can to vote the monsters out, everywhere we can.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  80. 80.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 9:56 pm

    @Another Scott:

    While a few ReThugs might be able to shut aspects of DJTdiots and Project 2025 down,

    In Canada, the general consensus in Canada is it will take 2 generations after relations return to a norm, before we forgive your betrayal, because you are one election away from electing your next felonious, treacherous DJTdiot.

    If the US goes so far as to draw Canadian blood, it will take 150 years and a universal global threat that the US aligns to, to make common cause.

  81. 81.

    different-church-lady

    March 23, 2025 at 10:09 pm

    @Jay: Does this mean you won’t be taking any of us as political refugees?

  82. 82.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 10:46 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Canada has always welcomed political refugees, from the US, as long as they weren’t from the Unions or Commies. That changed in the ’70’s.

    From 1776 to 1941, American was a dirty, treasonous, treacherous, barbarian word, and for a bit after, 1942-43.

  83. 83.

    Jay

    March 23, 2025 at 11:44 pm

    @Jay:

    For those interested, Canada will end the F-35 contract at 6. The rest of air fighter purchases will be the French Rafele. About 106 airframes, manufactured in Canada with no US parts.

    The next tanks, will be South Korean K2’s, again, no US parts. Having sent a significant number of Leopard 2’s and 1’s to Ukraine, we need about 90.

    The M777 US and M109 155mm artillery will be replaced with South Korean K9’s, Swedish, Polish and Finnish units.

    We have already switched to Australian BOH, (beyond the horizon) air and sea defense radar systems.

    Our new 22 ship destroyer program is a British designed hull with French/British weapons and sensor systems.

    Our small arms, from rifles to AT weapons, are Canadian made.

    Pistols will still be the 9mm Belgian FN, because we still have 342,000 in stock from WWII buys.

    Air defenses will range from the UK/French SAMPTS to Ukrainian SGMPS, along with German/French NAMS and NPTS, along with German Tarus ALCMs.

    $964 billion in non-US weapons procurement over the next 5 years.

    In 5 years, the only American weapons in Canadian hands will be what the gangbangers and drug dealers have smuggled in.

    BTW, 1,144 kilo cocaine bust in Hamilton the other day, cut with 10% fentanyl, (deadly) shipped in from Michigan. That’s enough to keep DJTdiot Jr. high for a week.

  84. 84.

    Ruckus

    March 24, 2025 at 12:41 am

    @Citizen Alan:

    That hate is realistic, all things considered.

    However.

    Hate almost never solves anything, and almost always makes things worse. However it is still a reasonable response to the situation at hand.

    There are always going to be people that will vote for the worst of any 2 choices. It’s humanity at its finest. Or is that at its worst? It’s so hard to tell the difference. At least he’s not Hitler. IOW I have no rational answer for you. People seem to like shitforbrains. Or at least think he’d be the better whatever the hell he is. Which of course is not in any way good, decent, rational, competent and possibly not human. OK he’s human – in all it’s whatever the complete opposite of anything in any way good is.

  85. 85.

    Mike S

    March 24, 2025 at 1:24 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): that was my first thought when I saw this today.

    “I’m the Secretary of State, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”

  86. 86.

    George Kennan Was Right

    March 24, 2025 at 1:23 pm

    Hi, everybody, I’m Joe Buck.

    And I’m Troy Aikman.

    Ane welcome to the 2025 White House Easter Egg Roll, sponsored by Budweiser. When you’re out of Bud, you’re out of beer! And by Cologuard! Your noninvasive screening test just got better. Get Cologuard and get tested for colon cancer today!

    It’s a beautiful day here outside the White House, Joe, and a beautiful day for a cold Budweiser and a test for colon cancer as we watch the parade of young Americans from all over the country get set to take part in this time-honored event and roll their eggs!

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