The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for our weekly gathering of conversation over drinks. Please stop by and say hello.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
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Hey, and while you’re at it, start your own health insurance coverage. But keep the cost in mind as you tip your server tonite.
If you get your health insurance through the state exchange or individual market, your rates could be going way up next year.
The proposed 2018 rate changes released by the Insurance Commissioner’s Office on Monday reveal an average 22.3 percent increase, across the 11 insurers filed.
The range includes an average rate change of 38.5 percent proposed by Molina Healthcare of Washington to 12.9 percent proposed by Kaiser.
Oh, and at this rate it might soon be easier to find a DL in WA than it will be to find an insurance policy.
“Bottom line, we are seeing counties with fewer choices, and many consumers are now seeing only once choice in their country,” said State Exchange CEO Pam MacEwan during a hearing before state lawmakers.
Pretty sure that last word was supposed to be county, not country. Although at the rate these companies are bailing from Obamacare, pretty soon I won’t be sure at all.
This post isn’t complete without a trip to the Wayback Machine:
I Just Signed Up for Obamacare, and Wow Did It Save Me a Bundle!
…this is a helluva lot better than the individual market that used to ream people like me.
http://horsesass.org/i-just-si.....-a-bundle/
Better start bringing a pillow for your stool at those DL gatherings, Goldy. Won’t be long before the Grim Reamer will be coming for you.
Link @ 1 is
http://www.king5.com/news/loca...../450400432
(((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
Can we all agree that Phoenix should not have a professional ice hockey team?
5h
While you’re at it, ask yourself how Minneapolis’ Target Field – natural grass – is ready to play the first week of April each year. I took the stadium tour a couple of years ago – it was fascinating.
It’s really too bad they both can’t lose.
Ossoff’s campaign barred a Washington Free Beacon reporter from covering an event last night.
Handel’s campaign barred a ThinkProgress reporter from covering an event last night.
Why do conservative republicans not like a national healthcare plan? Because they want to retain their elite status.
Bunch of hypocrite calling the left elitist because we tend to have more brains…..but they have no problem with being negative about any type of national healthcare because it bites into their elite status.
@1 not sure if you noticed or were sleeping over the last 6 months but Republicans and Drumpfy fixed Obamacare.
Have another fake orgasm.
@4 such an elitist – taking tours of professional stadiums. my ohhh my.
@5,
“Why do conservative republicans not like a national healthcare plan? Because they want to retain their elite status.”
Elite status? Here’s a quote from one of your fellow liberal progressive troll-in-arms:
“…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
It’s a partial quote from Elijah McFuckHead. He thinks the whole country should automatically obey and worship the “affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
Who are the elitists now, Pissy Pants?
Disclaimer: I did not vote for Trump last November.
@1 All that and yet you somehow managed to leave out how the dingbat orange fascist in the WH and the GOP controlled Congress have managed to erode insurer confidence in the markets.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/08.....lamed.html
@1 “Hey, and while you’re at it, start your own health insurance coverage.”
Nice segue into irrelevancy. We liberals will settle for Republicans not trashing what little health care reform has been achieved, but that’s asking too much as they have to fund billionaire tax cuts somehow.
@8 Stupid as always. How’s the Republican “solution” to blue-collar wage, pension, and health care woes working out?
@8 I know you didn’t vote for Trump. And not sure what that has to do with it But regardless my comment stands. You got also pissy when someone refers to what you quoted (in a rush as always). And it seems my comment struck a nerve. There isn’t anything more elitist to think that one is entitled to something like healthcare more than others, so they try to hide it, they and you are close seated elitist.
@8 I know you didn’t vote for Trump. And not sure what that has to do with it But regardless my comment stands. You got also pissy when someone refers to what you quoted (in a rush as always). And it seems my comment struck a nerve. There isn’t anything more elitist to think that one is entitled to something like healthcare more than others, so they try to hide it, they and you are close seated elitist.
@13 The funny about the argument that people aren’t “entitled” to health care is that the non-working poor have Medicaid and the non-working elderly have Medicare; most of the uninsured are working poor, and if performing backbreaking labor for low wages doesn’t entitle you to health care, then what does?
@ 10
We liberals will settle for Republicans not trashing what little health care reform has been achieved, but that’s asking too much as they have to fund billionaire tax cuts somehow.
We’ll be certain to revisit this statement if Ossoff wins tonite and the AHCA bill dies as a more or less direct result.
Then ACA will have to support itself. And liberals will beg for the GOP to prevent its death spiral.
72k votes counted and Handel’s up, 51 to 49.
Which, of course, means nothing, other than Steve’s BP just jumped from 180 systolic to 210 systolic.
Those results from Fulton County, which is more conservative.
Two live-results sites:
https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/georgia-sixth-congressional-district-special/
http://www.ajc.com/news/ga-6th.....n-results/
Oh, and that cool NYT one with the needle that moves RT. That was the one I watched the most when Trump cleaned #CrookedHillary’s clock. Gawd, she was awful, wasn’t she?
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia-congressional-runoff-ossoff-handel?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
@16 Well, if returns from more conservative areas have her up only 2%, that doesn’t look very good for her, does it?
But what you or I say about the early returns in meaningless. Someone’s going to win this election, and someone’s going to lose it. The total vote count will determine who.
In meantime, our ruminations don’t mean squat.
By the way, after some of the ads that Republicans ran in this race, they will never again be able to express outrage about anything Democrats say or do with a straight face. They’ve just demonstrated that no gutter is too putrid for them to crawl through.
@ 17
Apparently those Fulton County results were in-person early voting results. So, maybe not so bad for Handel, as GOP voters are less likely to be early voters.
The NYT guy doesn’t think so, either.
Nate CohnVerified account @Nate_Cohn 29m29 minutes ago
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Handel wins the in-person early vote in Fulton–that’s not a bad sign for her.
Five-Thirty-Eight seems to have the most up-to-date vote count, and they show Handel just 6 votes ahead of Ossoff with over 120,000 votes counted. There’s also a close race in Georgia-5, where the Democrat leads by about 400 votes.
“Which, of course, means nothing, other than Steve’s BP just jumped from 180 systolic to 210 systolic.”
It might be a little more effective if you named someone who gave a fuck.
#CrookedHillary spent the last six months blaming her loss on everything but herself.
Tomorrow Ossoff will begin blaming his loss on the rain in northern DeKalb County today.
It’s over, bitches.
“#CrookedHillary spent the last six months blaming her loss on everything but herself.”
Sounds like a typical Republican. When was the last time a Republican ever accepted responsibility for his/her actions? I think Eisenhower was the last one.
@22 It’s been 38 years since a Democrat won this district. A Handel win won’t be shocking, an Ossoff win will be. The closeness of this race ought to make GOP poobahs nervous. And have you checked Drumpf’s latest popularity ratings? He keeps sinking and sinking. That’s the future of the Republican Party, too.
@ 24
The closeness of this race ought to make GOP poobahs nervous.
From what I just read Ossoff underperformed his primary results in the precincts that have reported so far.
Here’s a contrary opinion of what the GOP higher-ups think:
Josh KraushaarVerified account @HotlineJosh 21m21 minutes ago
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Impressive how granular the DCCC GOTV efforts were in microtargeting new voters. Rs matched the effort by getting their own new voters out.
Hey, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, what if this was the race that taught the GOP how GOTV is really done?
@18 Republicans have never ever spoken with a straight face. They aren’t about to ever start to do so. As Puffbala says they are SCUM!!!!!
Yes, it looks like R’s will retain both of the Georgia seats they’ve held for years, which shows the voters there haven’t learned a damned thing and are just as stupid as ever. Don’t come crying to me when you lose your health care and mortgage deductions so billionaires can pay lower taxes, idiots.
@ 27
One of those Georgia seats is in South Carolina, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
You know, $23M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Steve Kornacki
@SteveKornacki
In specials so far, Dems have seen double-digit improvement in HRC’s ’16 # in KS-4, MT and now SC-5. In GA-6, Ossoff may not improve at all.
6:28 PM – 20 Jun 2017
Translation: SO MUCH WINNING!!!!!!!!!!
Daily Kos Elections Retweeted
Kevin RobillardVerified account @PoliticoKevin 27m27 minutes ago
One thing to remember: President Donald Trump literally picked where these special elections are taking place.
Credit to YLB for the inspiration to use a whole buncha exclamation points. Although I haven’t seen nearly as many of them since, oh, about early November.
Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik 7m7 minutes ago
Excited to welcome another GOP woman to the House! @karenhandel
Biggest loser: Planned Parenthood, which dumped more than $800k into Ossoff’s campaign.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexislevinson/this-georgia-republican-fought-planned-parenthood-five?utm_term=.vq5DBrBEw#.lxAGo3o1b
That was funding they should have aborted at least two months before term.
SO MUCH WINNING!!!!!!!!!!
Put a pin in it for 16 months from now.
Biggest
Bullshit “Poll”winner:Trafalgar Group.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/19/ga-6_poll_shows_2-point_lead_for_gops_handel_134230.html
LOL!!!! BOOB IS SO OBSESSED!!!
With yours truly! Ewwwww! What a weirdo!
All any lefty had to do to call those special elections was look at the extremists that Drumpf hired for its extremist mis-administration.
It takes extremist districts to elevate such nutjobs.. Highly stacked against even the most moderate of challengers.
Now we return to laughing at our silly trolls. Next!
When was the last time a Republican ever accepted responsibility for his/her actions?
Maybe when Trump kicked her ASS?
0 for 4. The resistance is working!
Talk about “living in the past” @ 35..
Does the babbling butthole @ 35 still believe most blacks/african americans live in the inner cities?
Got yet another linky that only a total moron would ignore.
which shows the voters there haven’t learned a damned thing and are just as stupid as ever.
Wait. Wasn’t it the Democraps that were crowing how much more educated the GA 6 was hence Ossoff would win?
All those college educated white people would elect little Johnny.
Just like Hillary!
Of course Rachel Madwoman blames partisan weather.
You losers crack me up.
“We lost! ”
“Just not by a lot.”
“It’s a win!”
I’m thinking that IOWA will be RESISTING for the foreseeable future, as well.
This. Is. Priceless
It’s been fun… again.
4-0, over and out.
SO MUCH WINNING!!!!!!!!!!
Yours truly believes that bit of snark was directed at the bogus
travelmuslim ban..Or how about that fake signing ceremony?
Heh.
The DUMMOCRETINS could not beat a so-so candidate!
@43 The Republicans couldn’t find anyone insane enough for you, eh babbling butthole?
Re: @37. Guess you still want to live in the past. Figures. What isn’t true anymore stokes your hate.
Geez, how long does one of these take to knit?
Ezra Klein ✔ @ezraklein
Jon Ossoff’s Georgia special election loss shows Democrats could use a substantive agenda: https://www.vox.com/2017/6/20/15839452/georgia-special-election-results-ossoff-handel …
7:12 PM – 20 Jun 2017
Liberals must arm.
Too soon?
@45 Substantive? From the same article:
Cobb County? The home of Lockheed? Gimme a break. This nationalized contest was a practice run at 2018. Drumpf’s dismal disapproval rating and the Republicans being hell bent on making the rich richer on the backs of everyone else does not bode well for trolls in 2018.
Saudi Arabia has fired and replaced its crown prince. No election needed. It was done by royal decree. Trump is green with envy.
@46 I can think of a putative liberal (although probably driven more by mental illness than political motives) who should have been disarmed a long time ago, but Republican gun policies wouldn’t allow it. But it’s never too late to learn from past mistakes. This would be a good time to disarm all the rightwingers babbling about starting a civil war and killing liberals.
Meanwhile, on the homefront, here’s a news story that seems destined to propel Doctor Dumbfuck into an apopletic seizure:
“Seattle’s minimum-wage law has led to higher pay for restaurant workers without affecting the overall number of jobs in the industry, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.”
http://www.seattletimes.com/bu.....king-jobs/
Good try monomaniacal FOOL!
The DUMMOCRETIN Establishment still don’t get it. Real Americans are not buying their crap even when the Republican candidate is so-so!
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Wait for the shitstain steve head explosion comment!
So Pavlov dog-like!
Bark shitstain steve bark!
Was the hanging human tea bag licker in the vicinity? http://nypost.com/2017/06/20/f.....-bad-cops/
Oh yeah! If only Ossoff said he was for the suppressing the voting the rights of African Americans and denying LGBTQ people their rights under the Constitution – everything would have been fine!
Did Handel say that? Didn’t have to. All she had to say was:
“He’s just not one of us.”
Just what are you babbling butthole and cuck? Heh. No need to say. We already know.
@ 50
You need to read a little further, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
The study terminated 2016 Q1. Here’s the report:
http://irle.berkeley.edu/files.....015-16.pdf
So the authors studied the first 12 months after a multi-year minimum wage increase. They’re reporting on minimum wages no higher than $13/hr.
From the summary:
These findings of no significant disemployment effect of minimum wages up to $13 significantly
extend the minimum wage range studied in the previous literature. Of course, unobserved factors,
such as Seattle’s hot labor market compared to that in Synthetic Seattle (Tu, Lerman and Gates 2017),
may have positively affected Seattle’s low-wage employment during this period. We will monitor this
possibility as the city’s $15 policy continues to phase in. And Seattle makes up just one case study;
examination of a wider set of cities may lead to different conclusions.
I could go further, and mention that they used their own, new method of data analysis rather than more traditional methods of analysis, but you are already starting to get the picture that you cut-and-pasted without giving any real thought to the content, aren’t you?
Thanks, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, but I’d prefer to wait for the UW data. So would most economists, I’d suspect.
@ 53
Hey YLB, I had almost forgotten about Venus Velasquez.
Remember her?
“Are we the people who look like you, who come from you? And if we’re not, don’t vote for us, but if we are, vote us in.”
Handel was speaking of the non-locality of a DC operative. Venus Velasquez was speaking of something else entirely.
It’s summer. May you all have a marvelous midsummers night dream. Some of you down in the dumps over the most recent special election may need a bit of fantasy. So enjoy. Now Titania is mine so hands fellas and gals! Don’t tell the King of the Faries you bastards!
@24 Only next election Handel will be the incumbent. Not likely she just ran to just mind the store until 2018. It was an opportunity for the Democrats, and it’s done. The Democratic leadership is offering just more of the same. Thus far. Money is important, but it’s not everything. Still strategically it was a mistake for Democrats to spend that much money in this race. You don’t see the Republicans spending tons of money to beat Bernie Sanders in his state. Unless he wounds himself it won’t happen. Some Democrat may try to take him on in the primary with the support of the Democratic leadership, and in that is the real problem for the Democratic party. Americans can tell when there is no difference between the Republican corporatists and the Democratic corporatists. At some point Americans may choose a third party as the Democrats and Republicans combine, thus keeping the two party system alive and well, or maybe we are ready for some change. Though that could mean some states changing their first past the post systems, that both parties like. Of course increasing the number of house members would be good for America.
Yeah for Puerto Rico statehood.
Guess we could be finding out just how good the Russian equipment in Syria is.
And Yellowstone is just a shakin. Poor Yogi.
I mean the babbling butthole cuck actually believes that glibertarians oppose gay marriage..
Damn! How f’ing stupid is this cuck?
Peter Thiel is gay and a glibertarian not to mention a Drumpf “jockstrap”..
Oh shit! The babbling butthole cuck once believed Thiel was a liberal!
The laughs never stop!
I remember she was busted for driving under the influence (and was acquitted) and I haven’t heard about her since. Unlike Jane Hague from the east side.
Under the influence of some shit is your natural state. Too bad you’re here almost every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JEq-IRVPs
Being played tonight at the Midsummer bash at a port and airfield in Syria.
RESIST. It’s not about winning elections. It’s about resisting the corrupt people stealing elections. Resist every move they make. Them freedomless mother fuckers. Speak up. Let them steal every election – who gives a shit – RESIST!!!
Oh, my! Wasn’t that was a sweet loon head explosion @51?
“He’s just not one of us.”
Gawd you are such an ASShole monomaniacal FOOL!
He doesn’t live in the district you moron!
Sux to be such a malleable clueless cretin mindless FOOL!
Called it @ 62.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You need to read a little further, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
When HA’s senile FOOL does that, it will be his first time evah!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You notice how the monomaniacal moron gets fixated on minutia?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Handel vs Ossoff
This was the smackdown… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8z2xf2VF8
And the resultant review… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peYe2juLaAw
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Finally. Something the ignorant sister fucking hillbillies and I agree upon:
A average 19 point swing in just seven months in heavilly hillbilly CDs away from treasonous Russian knob gobblers toward Real American Patriots is very good news.
So much winning indeed.
Remind me again what Newhouse’s margin was?
Puddy loves it when DUMMOCRETINS eat their own… http://thehill.com/blogs/in-th.....leadership
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
When Michael Moron starts this type of DUMMOCRETIN hate rant… http://thehill.com/homenews/ho.....no-leaders
Something the big fat Moron said that is true: Dems have ‘no message, no plan, no leaders’
“If you think the party who’s won the vote in 6 of last 7 presidential votes but holds ZERO power and is now 0-4 in 2017 votes is going to win next year…get a friggin’ clue. The DNC and DCCC has NO idea how to win because they have no message, no plan, no leaders, won’t fight and hate the resistance.” – Flint Michigan’s own Michael Moron!
Remember, this is your party of HA DUMMOCRETINS. Go for it bitches!
Now this is interesting…
Illegal alien kills Muslim teenager! http://thehill.com/homenews/ne.....uslim-teen
According to NBC News, Hassanen and several other Muslim teens were heading home from a local mosque after Ramadan services when they were confronted by Darwin Martinez Torres, 22. The other teens fled but Hassanen was caught and beaten to death by Torres, police say.
Torres, a resident of El Salvador, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Monday after reports indicated he was in the country illegally
Sanctuary city anyone?
19 point swing in only seven months in deep red CDs. And Fuckface Von Plutocrat, Yertle, and Googly-Eyed Granny Starver havent even gotten started yet. Plus Flynn’s grand jury testimony is set to drop right before the mids.
So much winning.
Another FOOL whom acts like a HA DUMMOCRETIN http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....-facebook/
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/877863999504764928/video/1
Right!
Was the ICE blocked by anyone in the city from doing their job babbling butthole? Doesn’t sound like it. The City minds its own business with its limited resources and the ICE does what it does.
Immigration is a FEDERAL responsibility.
Damn you’re an idiot!
“The Democratic candidate [Ossof] has drawn criticism online from President Donald Trump for living just outside, the district boundary, but he is not legally required to live within the region he represents.”
http://www.snopes.com/ossoff-s.....-district/
Damn you’re a HATEFUL IDIOT!
Ahhh poor poor clueless monomaniacal cretin @76.
An illegal alien kills a muslim girl and this FOOL misses the point. He was in America illegally. So what draws them to specific places? Sanctuary cities. Where was this illegal alien? And why did he attack the muslim girl?
This is why you are a FOOL and a DUMMOCRETIN tool monomaniacal moronic moonbattic memoryless malodorous ABSOLUTELY clueless crazed cretin yellowishleakingbuttspigot absolutely neurotic low IQ arschloch with the moist pink lace panty gusset!
You rank at the Mariana Trench of DUMMOCRETIN intelligence on this blog monomaniacal moronic moonbattic memoryless malodorous ABSOLUTELY clueless crazed cretin yellowishleakingbuttspigot absolutely neurotic low IQ arschloch with the moist pink lace panty gusset!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!