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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

fry from futurama is shocked with his mouth open

The White House invites a new guest to its Easter event: corporate sponsors.
The White House wants to recruit corporate sponsors to contribute to its Easter Egg Roll next month, raising ethical and legal concerns that President Trump is allowing companies to profit from the 147-year-old tradition by turning it into a showcase for their brands.

The financial backers of the April 21 event would be able to choose from three options that cost between $75,000 and $200,000, according to a nine-page guide for potential sponsors that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The most expensive package includes a corporate booth, logo placements, branded snacks or beverages, exclusive tickets to brunch with the first lady, Melania Trump, a chance to engage with the White House Press Corps, a private White House tour and 150 tickets to the event.

“Be a part of history,” reads the guide, which was written by Harbinger, an event production company founded by Republican aides in 2013. It invites sponsors to “provide financial support, activities and giveaways to enhance the event while gaining valuable brand visibility and national recognition.”

As in the past, any money raised through the event will go to the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit educational organization founded by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. The event is largely held without taxpayer dollars, with the American Egg Board, a marketing group for the egg industry, sponsoring thousands of eggs for the event — but without the kind of visibility laid out by Harbinger’s guide.

Federal regulations prohibit government employees from using their public office for private gain. Richard W. Painter, who served as chief ethics lawyer in the White House Counsel’s Office under President George W. Bush, said that the White House was clearly breaking that code by allowing private enterprises to use an official event to showcase their brands and letting the proceeds flow into a private nonprofit.

“I’m shocked that they are doing this to raise money,” Mr. Painter said, adding that his team under Mr. Bush did not even allow public schools to be named after Mr. Bush. “You can’t use the power of the United States government to favor one nonprofit over another.”

Mr. Painter said that some in Mr. Trump’s White House have argued that the ethics laws technically do not apply to the president, but most presidents have complied with some sort of ethical guidelines since President Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974.

The White House did not comment on the sponsorship plan, which was reported earlier by CNN. Harbinger and the White House Historical Association did not respond to requests for comment.

Mr. Trump and the first lady have been widely criticized in recent months for blurring the ethical line between their official duties and powers and leveraging it for private gain.

Earlier this month, the president hosted an exclusive car show for Tesla at the White House with Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive who also leads the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal work force and spending.

And just days before Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump announced his own cryptocurrency, which he has promoted on social media — including on Sunday, writing on his Truth Social site that it was “SO COOL.” Mrs. Trump also announced her own memecoin the day before her husband took office.

The White House Easter Egg Roll first took place in 1878 under President Rutherford B. Hayes, two years after Congress passed a law prohibiting children from rolling eggs — and themselves — down Capitol Hill. Tens of thousands of attendees congregate each year on the South Lawn as children try to roll hard-boiled eggs to the finish line without cracking them.

Any of you big brained libs ever consider that with Biden egg prices being what the are, you should be thanking Trump for exploring all options to save the White House egg roll without burdening the tax payer?

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

The White House invites a new guest to its Easter event: corporate sponsors.

The most expensive package includes a corporate booth, logo placements, branded snacks or beverages, exclusive tickets to brunch with the first lady, Melania Trump, a chance to engage with the White House Press Corps, a private White House tour and 150 tickets to the event.

 

 

I will donate to get Surly in on this!  I wanna see who ends up bangin Melania.  

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, bolverk said:

Greaser Bob's posting history says otherwise. He posts bizarrely naive shit all the time.

I'm the Chauncey Gardiner of surly.

By the way, if you're in Boerne, that meskin ice cream place, Michoacan Pido de somthing, is pretty good.  Random strip shopping center just off the highway.

I got some chocolate Abuelita or some such.  Basically chocolate ice cream with cinnamon, that was pretty tasty.

Had dinner that night at the Rail place in Kerrville.  Which was not particularly tasty but they tried.

 

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Y'all think that's bad?  On the text thread that was supposed to tell the Houthis "surrender or die!", Hegseth "accidentally" sent them a buncha dick pics with "wadda think, bb?" messages.

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

boerne is maga territory 

Matt Carriker of Demolitia Ranch fame sold a bunch of his guns recently at a local Boerne gun shop.  Word got out and people were camped out overnight to grab a gun.   There's a video out there on YouTube.  It's funny and sad at the same time. 

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

The adults in charge are absolutely killing it, @realgreggym.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.

I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.

I know it gets said all the time, but imagine if this had happened in the Obama or Biden administrations. 

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Say what you will, but these guys are incredible at spinning bullshit.

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“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain. The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security,” Brian Hughes, National Security Council spokesperson, said in a statement to CNN.

 

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14 minutes ago, royiv said:

The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials.

2 + 2 = 5. Water is dry. Down is up. 

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18 minutes ago, royiv said:

I know it gets said all the time, but imagine if this had happened in the Obama or Biden administrations. 

Frankly, Even in Trump's 1st term this would have been a major deal.  Now, it will be forgotten- or upstaged- by the end of the week.

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20 minutes ago, royiv said:

Say what you will, but these guys are incredible at spinning bullshit.

 

"The fact that I didn't crash the car is proof that there was no risk to driving blindfolded with my hands behind my back and my balls draped over the steering wheel."

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8 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

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gernblansten on Jessica Alba not sleeping with him.

"I don't know anything about her. I'm not a big fan of Jessica Alba. To me she's a woman that's not attractive. But I know nothing about her. You're saying that she won't sleep with me? I don't know anything about her."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/trump-alina-habba-new-jersey-us-attorney.html

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President Trump on Monday said that he was appointing a spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, continuing a pattern of placing his former legal representatives in top law enforcement positions.

The appointee, Alina Habba, defended Mr. Trump in civil trials that stemmed from lawsuits brought against him by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, and the writer E. Jean Carroll, before serving as a spokeswoman for him during the 2024 campaign. Both trials resulted in heavy financial penalties for the president, who has appealed the results.

Though Mr. Trump has named several of his other former lawyers to high-ranking positions in the Justice Department, Ms. Habba will be the first of the group to serve as an interim U.S. attorney. Her appointment is another example of Mr. Trump’s tight grip over the Justice Department in his second term.

“I am honored to serve my home state of New Jersey as interim U.S. attorney and I am grateful to President Trump for entrusting me with this tremendous responsibility,” Ms. Habba said in a statement. “Just like I did during my time as President Trump’s personal attorney, I will continue to fight for truth and justice.”

Ms. Habba, who has no prosecutorial experience and previously ran a small firm specializing in civil litigation, will oversee the work of about 150 federal prosecutors in New Jersey. The position, a political and legal launchpad, has previously been held by prominent conservatives including Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will move to install Ms. Habba to permanently run the office as he has with other interim prosecutors. Speaking outside the White House on Monday, Ms. Habba did not answer questions about how long her interim appointment was expected to last. She did not respond to a question about whether she would seek the position permanently.

She will take over from John Giordano, who Mr. Trump said Monday would be nominated as the new ambassador to Namibia.

Ms. Habba is the daughter of Iraqi immigrants who fled their home country in the 1980s to avoid persecution as practicing Catholics. She was little known until 2021, when she began to work for Mr. Trump, whom she met through his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. That year, she filed a $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times and Mr. Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, accusing them of plotting to gain access to his tax records. A judge dismissed the lawsuit.

But Ms. Habba, who stood apart even from Mr. Trump’s other lawyers with her pugilistic, openly political style, continued to represent the former president. She helped lead his defense team in two civil trials stemming from the lawsuits by Ms. James and Ms. Carroll.

In the first case, Ms. James accused Mr. Trump of fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars. A judge found against Mr. Trump and fined him more than $450 million. The case is now with an appeals court.

Ms. Habba’s co-counsel in that case, Christopher M. Kise, applauded the choice of Ms. Habba as U.S. attorney, saying that she would be a “zealous and tireless advocate for justice in the District of New Jersey.”

In the second case, Ms. Carroll accused Mr. Trump of defaming her in response to her allegation that he had raped her decades earlier. A jury found in favor of Ms. Carroll, awarding her $83.3 million. That case is also on appeal.

Ms. Habba was penalized for filing a 2022 lawsuit against a wide array of Mr. Trump’s political enemies, including Hillary Clinton, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the Democratic National Committee. The judge in that case, Donald M. Middlebrooks, fined her and Mr. Trump close to a million dollars.

“This case should never have been brought,” Judge Middlebrooks wrote. “Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it.”

During the 2024 campaign, Ms. Habba made frequent television appearances on Mr. Trump’s behalf, and addressed the audience during the last night of the Republican National Convention, calling herself a “feisty Jersey girl who is fed up with far-left corruption in Washington.”

“President Trump championed my journey, empowering me to be who I became today,” she said.

Though U.S. attorneys are traditionally nonpartisan, Ms. Habba on Monday did not appear inclined to pare back her attacks on Mr. Trump’s political enemies. Just minutes after she was named, in her remarks outside the White House, she criticized New Jersey’s Democratic leaders.

“There is corruption, there is injustice, and there is a heavy amount of crime right in Cory Booker’s backyard and right under Governor Murphy, and that will stop,” she said. Ms. Habba added, in an apparent reference to her former client, that she would be “going after the people that we should be going after, not the people that are falsely accused.”

 

 

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Posted
10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

If there was someone serious around Trump.

"Mr. President, let me try again in language you mind understand a little easier. Say you owned a McDonald's and you had to speak with a cook that was not performing well. The equivalent of what you're doing here would be something like this: 'Hey cook, you burned the burgers to hockey puck consistency, the fries you served are literally frozen, and instead of 6 nuggets you served 600. I think I'll name you head chef at my Michelin star restaurant.' Do you see the problem here?"

Trump: "Tits."

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1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

 

This is SOOOO worth a listen.  My favorite part is here:

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"I think bicep, prayer hands, American Flag, American Flag [emoji] speaks for itself really ... President Camacho would have responded that way."

So fucking spot on - we really are living Idiocracy.  Just waiting for Elon to unveil "Brawndo for plants" and mandate that it be used on all U.S. farms once we burn all of our trade relationships to the ground.

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3 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Just waiting for Elon to unveil "Brawndo for plants" and mandate that it be used on all U.S. farms once we burn all of our trade relationships to the ground.

That's preposterous.

He'll call it "XJuice," not Brawndo.

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