FISA Reform Blues

Plus: The House passes a short-term FISA extension, Ron Wyden urges fellow Senate Democrats to oppose a "clean" bill, and Norway gets robot buses.

Short-term FISA extension. The House voted early Friday to extend the expiring Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another 10 days, as members debate whether to include privacy protections in a longer-term extension of the law.

The House vote extends FISA, which was set to expire on Monday, through April 30. Some Republican House members have been demanding that Section 702 of the law, which allows the federal government to collect the communications of foreigners as well as Americans they communicate with without a warrant, be amended to include additional privacy protections.

Some lawmakers want to require that the government get a warrant before it searches Americans' data collected under Section 702.

The White House and Congressional Republicans have been demanding a "clean" FISA extension without any additional privacy safeguards.

Wyden to the rescue. In the upper chamber, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.), a longtime FISA reform advocate, is urging his fellow Democrats to oppose a clean reauthorization bill.

"With recent developments in AI supercharging how the government can surveil Americans, Congress must use this upcoming debate to make necessary reforms to all our surveillance laws," wrote Wyden in a letter to his Senate colleagues obtained exclusively by Politico.

See this interview Wyden gave Reason about FISA and internet privacy.

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QUICK HITS

• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives a refreshingly libertarian answer on raw milk.

Rosa DeLauro: "You are the Secretary of Health and Human Services! Is there not some moral responsibility to say don't drink raw milk!"

RFK Jr.: "Every product can contain contaminants. We inform the public and we let people make a choice." pic.twitter.com/MVeOL6vdw5

— Reem Ibrahim (@ReemAmirIbrahim) April 16, 2026

• The most cursed headline imaginable. Click if you dare.
• President Donald Trump calls the stunt in which he ordered DoorDash to the White House, done to promote his "no tax on tips policy," "a little tacky."

Trump on DoorDash grandma Sharon Simmons's delivery to the White House: "To be honest, it was a little tacky" pic.twitter.com/ID8skObWip

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2026

• Norway gets robotic buses.

For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May. pic.twitter.com/rlcI9cPfq4

— Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 (@joakial_) April 16, 2026

• Hezbollah appears to be holding to a truce with Israel.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The House voted early Friday to extend the expiring Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another 10 days...

Just make it permanent and get it over with.

[Dillinger]

which direction?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Some lawmakers want to require that the government get a warrant before it searches Americans' data collected under Section 702.

The Bill of Rights kinda wants that, too.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Not to worry... President DJT is willing to give up his rights (and yours) to help out the government. How libertarian of him! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116409146419851362

[Fist of Etiquette]

Someone should remind him the time a president illegally spied on him.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Those were stupid presidents, now we have a smart one. We'll never have a stupid one in the future, don't you worry.

[Marshal]

Let's not pretend laws matter when government officials want something.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

No, what trump should do is falsify evidence against his political opponents.
He should claim that Obama killed us citizens extra judiciously., and that Obama ordered the fbi to lie on reports.
Then he should claim that Biden showered with a child, and took bribes from China and Ukraine.
Then he should make up evidence that kamala is a slaving whore that traded sex for monatary gain, and falsified confessions in order to use inmates for free labor.

Yeah it would shire be awful if any of that stuff was true

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I've been waiting for mutually assured destruction among politicians for a long time. Let's get on with it!

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

You'll notice DS only get destroyed when word comes down from Party Central (Swallwell, Melendez)

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Seriously, I would have some respect for Trump if he were willing to go after any of these things that he has evidence to indict over.

Obama killing of US citizens was a major civil rights violation that should be brought to light more broadly. He deserved to be impeached over it. As far as I know there is no statute of limitations, so I say have the DOJ go after it.

[Marshal]

that should be brought to light more broadly.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. Everyone knew he did it, they just didn't care.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Youre talking to a guy who once claimed dems were the ones against pedophilia and wanted lower taxes. He buys all the narratives.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I honestly can't tell if you're attempting to troll me with this or really too stupid to actually read, but I'm leaning toward the latter. The only post you seem to attribute to me was actually a shot at Trump for being pro-pedo (against releasing the Epstein files) and FOR taxes (tariffs) and the irony is that the left is against those things because they are against Trump.

I notice that you won't debate Trump's position on those things, but instead keep bringing up this ridiculous strawman as some sort of "gotcha"

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Nobody prosecuted it, so we don't really have the details from an evidentiary standpoint. That's what I want, bring this stuff to light in a court of law.

[windycityattorney]

You can't prosecute Obama for droning US citizens abroad due to Trump's own immunity decision. I can already hear that the President, acting as CiC, and with a Congressional AUMF is acting at his 'zenith' of powers bla bla bla.

You especially can't prosecute a former president for acts done while president as that would set a precedent that Trump most definitely doesn't want to set in his last term. Them drug boats being blowing up in the Caribbean are a particularly vulnerable spot IMO. There are countless other shady areas that don't involve missiles I am sure he would prefer nobody look to deep into.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

So youre saying trump can declare a new constitutional amendment by declaration like Biden?

Funny how precedent matters to protect democrats to you.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I mean there was a law not to do it for senators or reps and jack Smith ignored it.

[Rick James]

Section 702 is the fourth amendment of the internet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.), a longtime FISA reform advocate, is urging his fellow Democrats to oppose a clean reauthorization bill.

Right now they're trying to figure a way to drop the Swalwell Hammer on Ron.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Riders on the D.C.-area Metro's Red Line can enjoy a quintessential D.C. experience this summer: not riding the Red Line.

If you live in the accountability vacuum of the world, you get what you deserve.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

The White House and Congressional Republicans have been demanding a "clean" FISA extension without any additional privacy safeguards.

We can either get a clean bill or have the CIA release our dirty laundry.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"You are the Secretary of Health and Human Services! Is there not some moral responsibility to say don't drink raw milk!"

I like that there's no question mark at the end of that. It accurately reflects the tone of these things.

[JFree]

They need three exclamation points to reflect the seriousness!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Every product can contain contaminants. We inform the public and we let people make a choice."

In the past the choice was take the product or lose your job.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

"The most cursed headline imaginable. Click if you dare."

I clicked and read the first 3 sentances. Not a single true thing was said, so I stopped reading.
Christina you are an evil retard. The world would be better off without you or the cunt that wrote that article

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

"Fighting on behalf of democracy" is code for "Marxism". I would have have to search it, but I am pretty sure it is right out of Mao's Little Red Book.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It was Stalin who referred to it as "our democracy" which only pertained to the democracy of the community is party.

[damikesc]

It is weird how "democracy" ALWAYS correlates, nearly 1:1, with the Left's preferred outcome.

Makes one wonder why anybody but a far Leftie would prefer "democracy" at all.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

We live in an age when the productiveness of less than half the population can easily provide enough to support the vast majority. Of course lefties love democracy. It means that they, idiots and idle men, get to lay their claim to the output of the productive with a vote of 50% + 1.

As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, we reward a society of grifters.

[Ron]

the article is trying to make the claim that they can retake political offices from the evil right however everything she described that was supposedly done was actually done by the democrats in an attempt to keep Trump out. projection as usual.

[Mickey Rat]

California Bill may prevent independent journalists from investigating fraud.

https://fox40.com/news/nick-shirley-bill-california-democrat-mia-bonta/

"Asm. Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, spoke against AB 2624 in a recent hearing. He called it the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” and said it would represent a “massive financial hit” to people like Shirley.

In a statement, he accused Democrats of trying to “protect waste and fraud happening in far-left-wing NGOs.”

“The fraudsters could literally take away the First Amendment rights of citizen journalists,” he told Inside California Politics on Wednesday.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonpartisan nonprofit that defends free speech, also has concerns.

“The state can certainly prosecute those who actually engage in unlawful threats and harassment, but troubling sections of AB 2624 appear to go far beyond that to restrict speech that is protected by the First Amendment,” FIRE Legislative and Policy Director Carolyn Iodice said in an emailed statement.

Bonta, however, disagrees. She said her bill does not infringe on the First Amendment and that sharing the personal information of workers “to intimidate them out of doing their job” isn’t investigative reporting."

I am sure Sullum will be on the case with an article taking the California Legislature to task over this bill any day now.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Like with voter fraud, it isnt happening if you dont look. Ask qb.

[damikesc]

Still no Reason outrage over this. I am truly stunned. Really. My stunned face is in full effect.

[Quicktown Brix]

What?

Ceasefire officially over. I'll be busy debunking your bullshit again.

[Dillinger]

your news aggregator is slow.

[mad.casual]

And remember when voter fraud *wasn't* *happening*?

It's not like these people are just showing up to the polling place without ID because they're too stupid to know where their DMV is and being handed billions of dollars. They're setting up fake businesses and filing paperwork with state agents who aren't doing their job to the point that the legislature is passing laws to prevent people from non-criminally investigating both the fraudsters and the state agents throwing money at people.

It's like the "This is fine." meme except the fire fighters are standing around outside the burning room smoking cigarettes.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

RFK Jr.: “Every product can contain contaminants. We inform the public and we let people make a choice.”

Obama USDA: If you don't add vitamins into skim milk you can't call it skim milk.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The most cursed headline imaginable. Click if you dare.

To be fair we still don't know if she's the 2018 Georgia governor or not.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump calls the stunt in which he ordered DoorDash to the White House, done to promote his "no tax on tips policy," "a little tacky."

And you thought President Trump lacked self-awaren

HEY WAIT A MINUTE WHY ARE YOU QUOTING THAT HACK RUPAR HERE THERE WAS A MORATORIUM ISSUED BY ME MONTHS AGO

[Fist of Etiquette]

For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel.

At some point I'm waiting for us to get Skynet to solve the trolley problem for us.

[Vernon Depner]

Skynet's solution to the trolley problem is exterminating the human race.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Except the bangable chicks

[Marshal]

Is this determined solely by appearance or do they have to talk a few minutes also?

[Dillinger]

Summer Glau would ruin pr0n too.

[Social Justice is neither]

If Neuro Sama is any indication, you'll get a 2fer as they also solve the overpopulation problem.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hezbollah appears to be holding to a truce with Israel.

Sudden instability in the terror sponsorship market?

[Leo Kovalensky II]

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

Can we get that $20B delivered on pallets, please?

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

Aaaand whoop there it is, it looks like Iran has basically informally surrendered, which is probably a smart move on their part because it will quite likely keep their entire regime from being ointernally overthrown.

Now that they understand that we can collapse their entire economy within a matter of a couple of weeks any damn time we feel like it, they should be handing over all their uranium within
fairly short order, and their ill-advised attempts to build nuclear weapons are almost certainly over.

Whoever thought up the idea of just totally blockading their ports should be awarded the highest possible medal that can be bestowed on him. It really is a damn shame that we didn't do this 30 or 40 years ago, who knows how many tens of thousands of lives could probably have been saved instead of needlessly thrown away.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Dont tell jewfree.

Its so bad France and Britain are now rushing to the front to try to manage the strait.

[Quicktown Brix]

Wow! I can't believe it only took a month and a half; over 30 billion dollars; and thousands of lives to get back to where we were a month and a half ago.

WINNING!

Now how long until Bibi fucks this up?

[Dillinger]

>>Now how long until Bibi fucks this up?

lol you're so biased you can't even stop to smell a rose.

[Quicktown Brix]

Smell the roses now, because I'll be rubbing your nose in it when he does.

[Dillinger]

I'll enjoy the world peace I forsee.

[Quicktown Brix]

Iran opened the strait (for the remainder of the ceasefire) honoring what Trump agreed to once Bibi finally acquiesced to a ceasefire in Lebanon This clearly shows it was Bibi's interference keeping it closed this long.

Trump should bitchslap Bibi instead of acting as his puppet.

[Dillinger]

>>Iran opened the strait

Iran didn't "close the strait" to anyone who doesn't believe myth or invest via algorithm

[Quicktown Brix]

Your semantic nitpick changes nothing.

[Dillinger]

neither did Iran "closing the Strait". have a great weekend.

[Quicktown Brix]

Thanks Dillinger. You too.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Notice how you never blame Iran for irs actions or the decades of costs dye to their actions. Weird.

30B is much less than the costs of Iran backed terrorism even the last decade. But you seem to be okay with that.

Ironically that's not even 25% of the yearly costs of the illegal immigration you support.

[Quicktown Brix]

Iran was never a threat to me at home nor cost me a cent besides what our government coerced from me. That's your empire. Trump even said he did this for the world. America first is now Tucker. MAGA is united with Lindsey Graham, Neocons, the swamp, the war mongers and the empire destroying the republic.

So no. Iran is pretty low on my grievance list.

[Dillinger]

>>Iran was never a threat to me at home

willful blindness is the worst kind of blindness.

>>America first is now Tucker.

lol this lunatic went live with Trump is the antiChrist! yesterday you sure you want to invoke him?

[Quicktown Brix]

Yeah. Tucker is a bit out there, but I think he's the biggest name in America first now. My go to is Ron Paul and they are in agreement on this.

[Quicktown Brix]

willful blindness is the worst kind of blindness

I'll risk being blind as over living in fear of hallucinated dangers.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He is literally watching costs rise due to actions in the ME then denies it has affected him his entire life. Increased insurance costs, political threats, etc.

He is a fucking idiot.

He is arguing no effect while blaming trump for an effect. It is amazing.

[Quicktown Brix]

He is literally watching costs rise due to [Trump's]actions in the ME then denies it has affected him his entire life.

Increased insurance costs, that's a stretch
political threats stretching...
etc. snap

He is arguing no effect while blaming trump for an effect.

Quicktown Brix 1 hour ago

Iran was never a threat to me at home nor cost me a cent besides what our government coerced from me.

It is amazing.

No. It's a simple logical statement. Ohhhhh....right....logic That's why you think it's amazing. You NeoCons are too much.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Fuck Minnesota. They are now trying to pass a law to tax all state fraud at 100% so the state can keep all the fraudulently gained federal tax dollars in the state.

https://alphanews.org/fraudsters-would-pay-100-percent-tax-on-stolen-funds-if-minnesota-bill-passes/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Spanberger caught spending state tax monies on company her husband works for.

https://thepostmillennial.com/spanberger-awards-5-million-to-husbands-firm-for-virginia-advanced-propulsion-facilities-project

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Bears in trunks was always a false flag.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-crime/suspects-convicted-insurance-fraud-staging-costume-bear-attacks-luxury-vehicles-caught-camera

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Poor Jeff. Ad agencies agreed they colluded with groups to censor right wing websites.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/16/major-ad-agencies-agree-to-end-alleged-censorship-scheme-that-targeted-the-federalist/

[Juliana Frink]

And this:

https://revolver.news/2026/04/our-redemption-is-here-ftc-just-nuked-the-censorship-cartels-favorite-dirty-trick/

The Jig is Up.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Migrants now being taught how to fake being gay to claim asylum in western countries.

https://justthenews.com/world/europe/uk-investigating-reports-migrants-pretended-be-gay-victims-abuse-asylum-claims

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Why not? It worked for Lindsey Graham.

[Social Justice is neither]

Glad to see you wholeheartedly embracing fraud. Erases all doubt as to the absence of libertarianism in you.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Making a joke about Ms. Graham is embracing fraud?

[mad.casual]

Throw them all off of roofs and let Allah or The Queen or whomever sort them out.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Literally daily consequences of what Biden allowed.

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BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect arrested for attempting to rape a woman while she was waiting for a rideshare in Arlington County, VA is a Guatemalan illegal alien who entered the US as a gotaway & has at least 25 prior charges in the county going back to 2020.

Police in Arlington County arrested 28-year-old Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran for the attempted rape after they say he approached the woman early Sunday morning while she was waiting to be picked up, then shoved her against a wall where he physically and sexually assaulted her until two good Samaritans intervened.

DHS says his prior charges in Arlington County include nine counts of being intoxicated in public, assault and battery, disorderly conduct, attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, and several probation violations.

DHS statement:

“Virginia's sanctuary policies allowed this illegal alien to go on a crime spree,” said Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “Despite prior arrests by law enforcement, this criminal was released from jail multiple times before he went on to commit this attempted heinous rape. We are calling on Arlington County sanctuary politicians and Governor Abigail Spanberger to commit to not releasing this criminal from jail back into our communities. How many more times must they release criminals into our neighborhoods to create more innocent victims?”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Nyt and Ezra Klein have to change headline trying to normalize Hassan Piker as he continues to double down on hating jews and supporting terrorists.

https://x.com/OrenKessler/status/2044069074871734366

[damikesc]

That is normal for Democrats now.

[damikesc]

I mean even though he is more rational, you don't see conservatives asking Asmongold to campaign with them.

[Alan Vanneman]

Your article on Metro's woes is so three years ago. I ride Metro several times a week. I haven't had a problem in years. As for the closed stations, there are shuttle buses. No, it isn't perfect, but it's a lot cheaper than Uber or driving your own car, and a lot faster than walking. If living in DC is so horrible, why don't you move to Palm Beach?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

^ A glowing review of Orangemans successful crackdown on crime in DC from someone who is actually on the front lines fighting the culture war issue of using mass transit in large urban areas.

Thanks AV!

[MWAocdoc]

"include additional privacy protections"

It doesn't matter how many privacy protections they put into their silly-assed laws if the Deep State doesn't comply with those protections. They have never complied with the original law, or any of the protections originally put in place, or even their own regulations implemented under the law. Congress pulled its own teeth long ago and the Executive branch is simply terrified of being gummed into submission - not!

[MWAocdoc]

"Norway gets robotic buses"

For whoever is keeping score: Norway has become the latest nation to be infiltrated by alien pod-people. If the headline had read, "Norway implements new law mandating two drivers on every bus after national union negotiations" it would have been consistent with the old socialist state we all have come to know and love. But eliminating almost all of the jobs of the Nordiska Transportarbetarefederationen - gotta be the Zeta Reticulans!!

[Ra's al Gore]

Anyone else getting as bored with this place as I am? Dems can say they won't charge 'refugees' with crimes for fear of deportation, then Reason says 'refugees' don't commit crimes. Dems can say they need 'refugees' for redistricting and votes to get things Reason pretends to oppose, and Reason says nothing. Billions can be stolen and the immigrant thieves let off with a slap on the wrist, if even that, and Reason doesn't mind the theft of billions of tax dollars.

Not even snarking on them in the comments section is fun anymore.

PS. Afghan 'refugees' are being arrested for raping goats and sheep in France.

[Marshal]

You could always go to WAPO, surely it's better there. Reason insists they are moderates.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

As long as they stick to goats and sheep. And stay in France.

[Ron]

there is very little libertarian about Reason anymore and when they do write a libertarian article it is only when it involves blaming Trump otherwise they ignore and or praise similar actions by the democrats

[Super Scary]

I've been experiencing a similar situation with some of my family members. My mother and sister are left as can be and ever since Trump took office again they have been really heavily into anti-government stuff. I thought "oh cool, let me tell you about why the government is bad" but I know in my heart as soon as a democrat is back in charge they will go right back to praising the fed.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Refuse to let yet another institution fall to the left. Keep shaming them. People find this website off search engines. Dont let them when convincing new libertarians to pursue liberaltarianism.

Plus you can laugh at retards like jeff, molly and such.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I would honestly like to know what you thought about this article wasn't libertarian?

- Anti-FISA surveillance
- Suggests FDA bans are anti-liberty and praises RFK's position
- Makes fun of Stacey Abrams
- Some fluff about Trump calling the Doordash thing "tacky"
- More fluff about robot buses

What exactly am I missing?

[Dillinger]

the entire Soros-Koch islamist-marxist slant

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Any specifics in this article? Serious question. This one should be the much less concerning than some of the more typical articles for conservative-leaning libertarians.

[Dillinger]

a. Hizbollah is the equivalent of Israel in any fashion (islamo)
b. Pushing the 10 Steps Campaign (marxist)

[Leo Kovalensky II]

You apparently missed the joke on the Stacey Abrams article.

The NYT link about Hezbollah / Israel was just an attempt to report that there is a ceasefire.

You're really stretching to fit the "Reason is leftist" narrative in applying it to this article. There are probably a whole lot better examples out there.

[Dillinger]

The Abrams thing isn't funny.

Israel Gracefully Agrees To Stop Pummeling Hizbollah is a more apt headline.

bias everywhere. and miles from "libertarian"

[Square = Circle]

Soros-Koch islamist-marxist

Are you really claiming that George Soros and Charles Koch are Marxists and also Muslims?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They share many of the same goals.

Soris has been behind a lot of the European and America's open the doors to islamics. Or are you not aware of that?

[Square = Circle]

They share many of the same goals.

Charles Koch, George Soros, Marxists, and Muslims? I'm intrigued. Do tell.

[Rick James]

This is the magazine that doesn't rail against billions taken from taxpayers, or billions taken from taxpayers to lend to young kids for college degrees that are worthless, saddling them with unpayable debt, this is the magazine that rails against the FAFSA form not going online fast enough. This is the magazine that rails against the slow, inefficient rollout of the free MonkeyPox vaccine. This is the magazine that promotes a mass surveillance system of license plate scanners for taxing people driving across an internal municipal border, but rails against those cameras the moment they're use to find a lost pet or catch an illegal immigrant rapist. This is a magazine that complains about RFKs anti-science tirades while believing the world is flat, men can become women by merely declaring themselves to be so, and that child sterilization is a moral imperative. This is the magazine that railed against a politician trying to stop mask mandates because the government had the section 230/1st amendment right to implement them, unmolested by pesky elected representatives. This is the magazine that if we legalized all drugs, we'd know what's in them because once legal, the FDA would effectively regulate them, while demanding we abolish the FDA. This is the magazine that complained that the problem with street drugs is they were impure and we didn't know what's in them, then pivoted to arguing they were TOO pure, too affordable and therefore too powerful.

[mad.casual]

Anyone else getting as bored with this place as I am?

Definitely significantly less intellectually stimulating than it used to be content-wise and the perpetual retardation of "How can Republicans and Democrats believe opposing things at the same time?" stupidity of Jeff, Sarc, Molly, mtrueman, etc. in the comments doesn't help.

I'm don't exactly feel quite as vindictively die hard as JesseAz, but I've been around longer than more than a couple of the writers and, being who I am of the generation I am, it seems wrong to jump out of the plane without either making sure it has a proper pilot or is firmly planted in a field outside Shanksville without hurting anyone else. Doubly so with it flying under the callsign it bears.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Fun fact: my wife's grandparents owned a farm just outside Shanksville. Which is why I never even considered the conspiracy theories about Flight 93.

That whole region was strip mined for coal and the topsoil is basically just mine tailings. Flight 93 was basicalky driven into loose dirt, which is why the plane debris was not spread out as expected.

[mad.casual]

You clicked the "The most cursed headline imaginable. Click if you dare." link, right?

I oppose something like 99% of the stuff that Britschgi pens, and something closer to 110% of the reasoning behind it. Even if the comment is only a stopped clock twice a day, I'm not giving up all the math and science that goes into time keeping.

[Dillinger]

>>Anyone else getting as bored with this place as I am?

I like you people so I keep returning despite the content. I do like yelling at the idiot authors but I don't think they care.

[Ra's al Gore]

PI HARD - Starring Neil Tyson, SBF and many more.

https://x.com/altryne/status/2044078149902971268

[Ron]

besides looking like another ridiculous disaster movie there is no way Tyson is that athletic.

[Marshal]

I was with it until Bill Gates was naked in a sauna and there wasn't a six year old girl with him. Some things are a step too far.

Is it just me or does Tyson running look like the guy from Hot Tub Time Machine? Maybe this started as HTTM 3.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“..,,,look like the guy from hot tub Time Machine?”

Craig Robinson, America’s black friend?

Funny movie. Second one is ok.

[Ra's al Gore]

its an AI spoof

[mad.casual]

@0:50 - Someone is using a lighter... and a fire extinguisher... as a flamethrower to set a police officer on fire.

Whatever AI generated it, it's got its tentacles in pretty deep to the phsyics-defying, hyperbolic, left-wing narrative political fiction.

[Moonrocks]

I could believe that being in a Hollywood movie.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Bear spray and a lighter would work equally well.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

The Stephen Hawking bits were funny. And was Bill Gates giving himself head?

[Leo Kovalensky II]

"Ouch" was what got me

[Rick James]

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives a refreshingly libertarian answer on raw milk.

Reason: Let's 23 skidoo this joint and take in one of those new talkies they got playin' down at the picture show!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Poor globalists, reason (redundant), stg, safc, shrike, jewfree..

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/oil-prices-iran-war-trump-deadline-strait-hormuz.html

U.S. crude oil posts biggest one-day drop since 2020 on U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement

Almost like it was all speculation.

[Quicktown Brix]

We all know it's speculation. Unfortunately, real prices are way higher. Even if the strait stays open, it will take some time for supply to recover.

That’s because the futures market price at about $100 per barrel +/- in recent weeks is not telling the whole story. The actual delivered price of physical oil to end markets, represented by measures such as “dated Brent” is now in the $140-150 per barrel range...

https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/04/16/why-the-donald-is-up-shits-strait-without-a-paddle/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hey buddy. Why respond. You said above nothing in the ME effects you. So let them keep doing terrorist things and get nukes. All good here buddy.

[Quicktown Brix]

You keep pointing out how this war is costing me in defense of the war saving me money.

But keep insulting me for having the same exact take on this that you had a year and a half ago, before Trump buddied up with Bibi and Lindsey and discarded America first.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You and your TDS addled friends are idiots.

The US doesn't pay a "delivered" price for US oil. Our supply was only ever under pressure from foreign demand. When China turns their ships around, our prices will plummet.

[Quicktown Brix]

Econ 101 Chuck

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

No, you oversimplifying shitweasel. It is not a graph with a single demand curve.

[Quicktown Brix]

Yes. I'm an oversimplified shitweasel, Mr. "Delivered price doesn't effect US prices because our oil is already here".

No, I think I'll trust the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan over Professor "It doesn't count because it's not plotted on the one econ graph I've heard of".

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Lol. Hey dipshit, I pointed out that the situation is not analogous to a single demand curve, which is how everything is presented in Econ 101. You didnt even bother to consider what I wrote.

But you will have to explain to me how delivered price is the same for domestically sourced resources and resources shipped halfway around the fucking world.

But considering that I have actually made bulk oil purchases, you might want to shut the fuck up instead.

[Quicktown Brix]

You bought bulk oil yet you dont know what delivered price is? Did you buy it through Amazon Prime?

But you will have to explain to me how delivered price is the same for domestically sourced resources and resources shipped halfway around the fucking world.

First you point out where I said (or the article I linked said) domestic and abroad prices were the same.

They're not the same, but they're tied to each other and rise and fall together. You may have noticed that gas prices went up over a dollar a gallon even though the disturbance was halfway around the fucking world. How do you explain that?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Even after I gave him barrels in the American market vs the Asian markets...

[Quicktown Brix]

You can't be this simple and dishonest.

Never mind.

[damikesc]

"Scenes from D.C.: Riders on the D.C.-area Metro's Red Line can enjoy a quintessential D.C. experience this summer: not riding the Red Line. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the regional agency that operates the Metro, announced that several stops on the line will be closed from June to September while repairs are performed."

Glad Reason does not waste time with local stories.

[Rick James]

They're literally reporting on whether or not the trains are running on time in dogpatch.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You know who loved it when the trains ran on time?

[damikesc]

Ironically...the trains did not actually run on time.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

They never do...

[Vernon Depner]

Jesse James?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

You should put on a mask and go ride one. You don’t wanna look like a conservative, do you?

[Dillinger]

>>Hezbollah appears to be holding to a truce with Israel.

fuck you for pretending Hizbollah could hold Israel's jockstrap.

[mad.casual]

Norway gets robotic buses.

I've never ridden a public bus in Norway. I suspect what may be a feature there will be a bug here, but I'm no expert on abstract social constructs.

[Marshal]

Driverless and fee buses won't work here because the homeless will camp on them. Norwegian leftists prioritize effective government and thus it's a no-brainer to kick them off, American leftists prioritize calling people they hate racist and thus will protect their "right" to shit in the aisle of public buses.

[mad.casual]

Derivative to my not being an expert on abstract social constructs; I can't tell if you have Asperger's Syndrome or are just Norwegian.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Poor stupid Jeff Luse:

A lot of people never spent time in a fighter/attack squadron and it shows.

SECWAR was quoting the motto A-10 CSAR pilots use.

We run on movie quotes folks. Pulp Fiction. Tropic Thunder. Animal House. Caddyshack. Hot Shots. The list goes on.

But hyper partisan hacks who wouldn't know the Bible if it hit them in the face got their talking points and are executing their daily faux outrage.

It must be exhausting being so stupid.

https://x.com/WhizBuckleyNFH/status/2045104099029385238

[Dillinger]

any of you homos touches my shit, I kill you.

[Marshal]

Lighten up Francis.

[mad.casual]

Pro-tip: If your metal band with pinhead masks and bat-winged grim reaper princes sitting on a throne of skulls say things like "You should've known the price of evil." and "You don't always know where you stand until you know that you won't run away.", they probably aren't worshipping whatever LaVeyan Satan or abstract nihilist philosophy you might think they're worshipping at first glance.

[Dillinger]

lol ... GWAR is bomb live

have a fantastic weekend all! Reason you suck balls but thanks for the free forum.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

So is Slipknot. Avenged is hit or miss but their fans are complete assholes.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Yes, GWAR rules. RIP Dave brockie.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHS3qJdxefY&list=RDIHS3qJdxefY&start_radio=1

[Square = Circle]

Lots of people are really stupid, but what I found exceptionally cringe was how clearly he just missed the point of the movie completely.

I mean, this was at the level of using "America, Fuck Yeah!" totally unironically to get your fighter pilots warmed up.

[Rick James]

The most cursed headline imaginable. Click if you dare.

Wait until you read the article!

[Rick James]

For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May.

Are the buses in Norway free? Do they not have crackheads in Norway? Do they not have violence in Norway?

[Rick James]

Type approval for autonomous vehicles in Norway is targeted for 2027. The milestone represents a transition from supervised autonomous operations to fully driverless service within a controlled public transport environment.

The authorization addresses a critical challenge facing the public transportation sector across Europe, where an estimated shortage of over 105,000 bus drivers threatens service reliability and prevents the expansion of transit networks. Autonomous vehicles are seen as a potential solution to this deficit.

Huh...