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The DUmpster / Re: How is everyone out there making it financially?
« Last post by FlippyDoo on May 25, 2026, 03:09:35 PM »
Quote from: fatboy on May 24, 2026, 09:44:12 PM
We have stopped shopping at WalMart because of too many libs in the store. But I want the DUmmies to continue to shop there en mass because I own WalMart stock.

All of the Walmarts around here seem to have some sort of lib generator on site that turns almost everyone in there into rude, mannerless a-holes. I got to where the only time that I’d go was between 4 and 5 in the morning. Then they stopped being open 24 hours so I started shopping on line.
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The Lounge / Bruh!
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 25, 2026, 02:14:21 PM »
Sound on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQLJ4j2d2k4
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/25
« Last post by ADsOutburst on May 25, 2026, 12:03:57 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on May 25, 2026, 11:47:40 AM
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer Does Campaign Stop in Rough Part of LA – Gets Violent Threats, Man Pulls Knife on Staffer (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/billionaire-democrat-tom-steyer-does-campaign-stop-rough/

I guess some residents of this century-old neighborhood didn't buy his pander-shtick.

He got a taste of what people have to deal with outside the safe area he likely resides in.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/25
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 11:50:37 AM »
Democrat California Congressional Candidate Refuses to Say Pledge of Allegiance, Sparking Outrage

https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2026/05/25/democrat-california-congressional-candidate-refuses-to-say-pledge-of-allegiance-sparking-outrage-n4953207

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Far-left Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang, a Democrat candidate challenging longtime incumbent Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) in California’s 7th Congressional District primary, is facing criticism over her repeated refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and turning her back to the American flag during public meetings and ceremonies.

Vang, the daughter of Hmong refugees whom the United States rescued from Laos after the Vietnam War, has declined to participate in the pledge at several public events, including a Veterans Day ceremony last year, district meetings in January and March, and a Sacramento City Council meeting in July 2025.

But for the nation she seems to hate, her parents would have birthed her in Communist Vietnam (instead of Sacramento) ... unless the Communists killed them before Mail could be conceived and born.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/25
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 11:47:40 AM »
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer Does Campaign Stop in Rough Part of LA – Gets Violent Threats, Man Pulls Knife on Staffer (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/billionaire-democrat-tom-steyer-does-campaign-stop-rough/

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Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer recently decided to make a campaign stop in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles. Things did not go well.

Clearly angry residents surrounded his vehicle and some of them shouted threats. One man even allegedly pulled a knife on one of Steyer’s staffers.

Some people in the small mob were even demanding reparations.

This almost sounds funny but as you’ll see below it was actually a very tense situation.

Steyer had been attending a gathering last Saturday at ORA Cafe in Leimert Park, during which he told a crowd of black voters that they are owed a “gigantic debt” and that the black community is “the moral leader of the United States,” journalist Maeve Reston reported.

The event took a turn when a group of protesters arrived and things turned ugly.

I guess some residents of this century-old neighborhood didn't buy his pander-shtick.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/25
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 11:45:29 AM »
NeverTrumper Bill Kristol Announces He's a Dem, Gives Most Preposterous Reason for the Change

https://www.westernjournal.com/nevertrumper-bill-kristol-announces-dem-gives-preposterous-reason-change/

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In the most stunning revelation since it was confirmed Liberace liked the dudes, Bill Kristol — neocon, publisher, and one-time Republican operative extraordinaire — has announced he’s now a Democrat.

Kristol is best known both for his punditry in print and on various cable news hits, as well as publishing The Weekly Standard, long known as one of the pillars of the conservative establishment.

However, while the conservative establishment generally didn’t like Donald Trump as he became a serious candidate during the 2016 cycle, Kristol had an anaphylactic reaction to suddenly being displaced by the populist rabble. Fast-forward 10 years and the professional NeverTrumper has become yet another professional mouthpiece who has decided he’s so much of a Not That Kind of a Republican™ that he’s not a Republican.

I guess the $$ for Never-Trumpery has dried up.
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General Discussion / Spirit lost $1.61 for every $1 it took in — and would still be losing money ...
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 11:41:44 AM »
Spirit lost $1.61 for every $1 it took in — and would still be losing money even if jet fuel was free

https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/business/spirit-lost-1-61-for-every-1-it-took-in-and-would-still-be-losing-money-even-if-jet-fuel-was-free/

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A new court filing has revealed just how desperate Spirit Airlines was for a bailout ahead of its abrupt shutdown earlier this month – as it operated at massive losses that even free jet fuel couldn’t fix.

The embattled budget carrier – known for its neon yellow Airbus fleet and ultra-low fares – ceased operations earlier this month after it failed to secure a $500 million bailout from the Trump administration, following its second bankruptcy filing in less than two years.

In its March operations report, which Spirit filed in bankruptcy court earlier this week, the upstart carrier revealed it was losing $1.61 for every $1 it took in – with an operating margin of -61.2%.
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Aircraft fuel costs for the Florida-based airline totaled $99,662,449, or about 24% of its total operating expenses. Even if the airline was given its fuel for free, it still would have suffered a loss, according to the report.

Progs have been, absurdly, blaming 2 months of fuel prices elevated due to Iran for Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy. It does not take genius to realize that bankruptcy is the product of years of operational losses, but many on FB are less than genius-level.
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The DUmpster / Re: Some Friends, Eh.
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 09:51:42 AM »
MM is a very-recently-former smoker who has what was once called emphysema and is now called COPD. Given DU-grade Progs' virtue-signal of cutting off family and friends with differing political POVs, MM's mocker is probably a Prog virtue-signaling their tobacco-free superior virtue.

I've never been a smoker, but my parents, in the 1960s, were 2-3 pack a day smokers. In the mid-late 1960s they both quit cold-turkey, no assistance (gums and patches had not yet been invented). It was a bit of a struggle for them. OTOH, the husband of my Dad's sister was a more or less life-long smoker who worked in his barber shop into his 70s with an O2 tank next to him, while still smoking (being careful not to smoke near the O2). I don't need - nor want - to mock smokers or former smokers.
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Political Ammunition / Re: Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda
« Last post by SVPete on May 25, 2026, 09:35:20 AM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on March 11, 2026, 09:54:46 PM
Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda
https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/opinion/dont-buy-green-china-hype-heres-beijings-real-energy-agenda/

China's green energy is all smoke and mirrors. They use fossil fuels and in this case, coal. Manufacturing green energy pollutes the environment.

Lots of smoke! Chinese people in large cities wear mask many/most days of the year due to crap in the air. China has ample coal resources in NE China (one of the reasons pre-WW2 Japan wanted Manchuria).
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The DUmpster / Some Friends, Eh.
« Last post by CC27 on May 25, 2026, 09:20:29 AM »
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MineralMan (151,607) Posts

Some Friends, Eh.

Over on a busy social media site I use. I mentioned that I was home from the hospital after being treated for a flare-up of COPD.

I have lots of friends there, or what that site calls people who follow you. My favorite eply about content about being glad I was home was this statement. "Well, you deserved t9hat for your filthy habit! Maybe it will get you next time." There were others that were similar. Who does that? Friends?

Nothing like that here on DU. THANK GOODNESS.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221241063

I'm not sure what you're even talking about 🙄
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