If you can, please stop by the Roanoke Park Place Tavern this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for some conversation and drinks with a distinctly political flavor.
The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. A COVID vaccination card and ID are required to enter the Roanoke.
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Can’t wait to see if The FuckHump goes to Dole’s funeral. Will the Clintons?
Bob, any prediction? You seem to know what’s going to happen to the Stock Market, maybe you can predict who shows up and who doesn’t. I mean this guy was a Veteran….you thought that was special, special, but it was just the sex though.
Can he grab some pussy there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXhTHyIgQ_U
The Straigts – perverts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/accuser-says-ghislaine-maxwell-assessed-body-epstein-was-14-rcna7898
1)Probably, Dole was a supporter.
Good thing they recovered the wreckage. The F-35 is a very expensive, supposed to be a little stealthy jet. Although Britain is a close ally. Also, the F-35 is our MIC gone international, with many of our Allies funding it too.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43423/the-wreck-of-a-crashed-british-f-35-has-been-pulled-out-of-the-mediterranean
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-vaccine-efforts-can-t-let-because-new-pills-merck-ncna1285496
Get vacinated people. Right wing is bringing this country down! Just what Putin would love.
@3 my bet is against it…..if he shows up or does something it will not be like what the other former Presidents do.
And the man has such a fragile ego that he can’t look foolish in front of the other more respectable Presidents.
Charles Flynn should be court-martialed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-flynn-brother-capitol-riot-b1970877.html
The House committee should immediately consider voting perjury charges against Piatt and Flynn and referring their findings to the TJAG
He questioned the thought of PrEP being a twofer – it wasn’t so far fetched to discount it like he did, as if he is a superior in medical knowledge, I can see why Bob failed and is a continual failure.
“Is ritonavir used in PEP?
Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) is an attractive PEP candidate with presumably higher efficacy against HIV than nevirapine or lamivudine, and a higher genetic barrier to resistance selection.”
“Is ritonavir and tenofovir the same?
Emtricitabine, lopinavir, ritonavir, and tenofovir are antiviral medicines that prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from multiplying in your body. Emtricitabine, lopinavir, ritonavir, and tenofovir is a combination medicine used to treat HIV, the virus that can cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).”
Crickets!
7)General Mitchell was court-martialed for accusing President Coolidge of treason after the USS Shenandoah crashed. Ironically one of the court members later was relieved of duty for criticizing a Commander in Chief himself. What Flynn did, may have been actual treason.
80 years ago, one of General Mitchell’s predictions came true.
Q. Are there Aliens?
Bob. No!
@ 7
I read this earlier today. My first thought was that had the military responded at 2:30 when asked, the retreat by the rioters would have been incredibly quick and none of this insurrection crap would have been alleged.
Capitol Police turned down repeated offers for help ahead of time, and the military stalled for close to three hours while things were happening.
White chick checks her privilege, decides it’s bullshit that she should even give it a thought, and jams a pointy elbow into the ribs of a Hispanic dude.
Health Care Advocate Bevin McLeod Runs for Open State Senate Seat in Northeast Seattle
Joe Manchin would be a much stronger president than First Vegetable Joe Biden.
@1 He won’t show. Would have to listen to speeches about “veterans” and “heroes.” People would glance at him and compare.
BBB is silly. It’s time to admit that.
@11 Had violent Trump supporters not gone to Washington, armed with an assortment of weapons including guns, for the purpose of assaulting Congress and overthrowing a legitimate election, no retreat by the rioters would have been necessary and, as you said, “none of this insurrection crap would have” happened.”
But go ahead and blame it on the military, and see where that gets you in future elections.
@11 Had violent Trump supporters not gone to Washington, armed with an assortment of weapons including guns, for the purpose of assaulting Congress and overthrowing a legitimate election, no retreat by the rioters would have been necessary and, as you said, “none of this insurrection crap would have” happened.”
But go ahead and blame it on the military, and see where that gets you in future elections.
@12 This may come as a super shock to you, but lots of elected Democrats are white. They’re just not white supremacists, that’s all. We realize your party isn’t used to that.
@13 Who, by your own admission @15, is a waffler.
The reality is Manchin’s trying to figure out how to avoid becoming a pariah in his own party, after realizing the other party doesn’t want him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-manchin-denies-report-hes-been-planning-to-leave-democratic-party-its-b/ar-AAPNWdw
@15 “it could worsen inflation”
It could, but it’s not likely to. Inflation is here and now, and unless the Fed is completely wrong, will be abating by the time BBB money trickles into the economy over a period of 10 years.]
Also, Cathie Wood and others argue deflation is still the real problem, and they might (I’m not saying they are) be right, as the structural causes of deflation in the economy will still be there after pandemic-induced bottlenecks and shifts in consumption patterns (from services to goods) fade away.
“it may not be paid for,” and it may not be, if Manchin votes against the tax increases on corporations and the wealthy, as he’s indicated he intends to do.
“it has potential issues in tax,” relating to taxes on multimillionaires like him,
“climate,” relating to the coal his constituents want to dig,
“and social policy,” relating to what? West Virginia not getting enough food stamps?
Manchin is full of shit. You’re full of shit. You two should get married.
Get the latest skinny on the Sawant recall results at Handbill.US here.
Summary: Yes to recall leads by 1,993 votes. Seattle P-I says (here) there are ~2,600 ballots remaining to be counted, and Sawant would have to win 75% of them.
“That is a steep hill, but progressive voters are known for voting later, which means the bulk of the remaining votes could be in Sawant’s favor.” — Seattle P-I
Stock futures are positive tonight, further raising the hill that Doctor Dumbfuck has to descend to get his 10%-15% pullback. I knew better and did my buying last week.
How did I figure it out? The “Fed put” is still in place, they haven’t even started tapering. Still TINA to stocks (unless you’re happy with collecting 0.1% interest). And then word came that Omicron wasn’t putting people in ICUs. The market has resisted correction talk and scary headlines all year. I reasoned this time would be no different. Plus, corrections are nearly always associated with recessions, and there’s no recession in sight, nor reason for one (short of an asteroid strike). So, I figured the odds were very, very high this was just another transitory dip and stocks would go back up for the same reasons they went up in the first place, have stayed up, and have refused to go down. It will take a big boost in long-term rates for bonds to compete with stocks, but LT interest rates have been going down, not up. A big pullback here just didn’t make any sense.
Plus, I know that Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t have any sense, therefore I should give no weight to what he says.
21)Never agreed with her, but I prefer diverse voices in office. Still, if I lived in District 3, probably would have voted for the recall.
A successful Sawant recall is like a big apology to the Third Precinct for what was done to it in 2020.
When Sawant calls 911 nobody should answer.
I get that “liberals vote late”, but that’s for your basic Seattle election, when the race is between someone far left and someone else far-far left. And liberals need time to decide whether to pick a candidate whose perspectives are four standard deviations from the mean or the candidate whose perspectives are six standard deviations from the mean, I get that.
But with the recall thing, what’s to think about if you’re a liberal? Whether to give Goldy something to write about for the next three days by dropping your ballot into the box at 7:55 p.m. tonite?
Not buyin’ it. The last batch of ballots will go 55-45 her way, and won’t measurably move the needle. Time to hit the bricks for the evil socialist Sawant.
@23 Apparently no more results coming tonight. Based on the P-I’s reporting, I wouldn’t write her off just yet, but the best she can hope for is to survive by a squeak. She’ll probably have a sleepless night.
The Stranger cogently deconstructed the arguments against her. Given my legalistic mind, I do think the recall election ought to be a jury verdict on the charges against her, not a referendum on her policies, but in reality there’ll be some of both depending on different voters.
I think if we’re going to punish Republicans for letting people into buildings, we have to sanction others for that too, or the argument loses its moral force. However, the punishment should fit the crime. The protesters Sawant brought into City Hall weren’t a howling mob.
@25 You aren’t so great at calling markets, but we’ll see how you do at calling elections.
Or as you once put it, “a dozen cosplaying grandmothers.”
I’d like to say that your denial of what happened on 1/6, a violent attempt to end our democracy, is charming, but it’s not. It’s just boring low IQ stupidity that won’t get you out of the date with a hangman which awaits you for your reprehensible fucking treason.
Yesterday, took the bus down to Lakewood and hopped Intercity Transit 620 to Olympia. Really wanted to see Pierce Transit’s new electric buses in action. Was actually shocked to see the 620 still running, expected the Olympia-Pierce County service to be a casualty of Intercity Transit’s choice to go fare-free. An Idea that it may shock people that I’m against. To sustain current levels of service, even without a driver shortage, Metro would have to cut service by about 30%., or raise the sales tax, which is not an option. I believe Community Transit, when the voters there raised the sales tax .3% a few years ago, to 1.2%, it was a one-off. I believe Metro is at .9%.
I am more supportive of a concept used in Portland, Mount Vernon, and Bellingham called Fare Capping. When a rider has paid for a certain number of rides that equals the fare cap for a day, $5 in Portland, $3 in Mount Vernon, remaining rides are free for that day. It also can set a monthly cap.
Another reason I thought 620 would be a casualty of IT going fareless , is some of the state’s transit agencies charge more for out of district runs. Skagit Transit, Grays Harbor Transit, WTA, Mason Transit are examples of that, with Clallam Transit going one further. Route 123, Port Angela’s-Bainbridge Island, charges $10. I overheard a CTS driver and a passenger talking, and the driver said, if each bus got 10 riders per trip, the route covers it’s costs. At the time, Rt123 had two round trips a day, 6 days a week, with one on Sunday. Now it’s three round trips.
If there’s 2,600 uncounted ballots, that’s a turnout of 44.8% compared to 49.6% in 2015 and 58.8% in 2019, but those were November (although off-year) elections. The big drop from 2019 to 2021, just two years, seems more than a high-interest special election ought to account for. The 2,600 probably are ballots received this afternoon picked up from drop boxes tonight.
The published numbers would only include ballots counted before the deadline, because those results were posted at 8:03 PM.
The 2,600 would not include ballots still in the mail, and postmarked in time to be counted. There may be hundreds more votes, over and above those received but not yet counted, in the pipeline. If that boosts the number of uncounted ballots to 3,600, Sawant doesn’t need 75% of the still-to-be-counted votes, she only needs 55% of them.
King County’s website indicates drop box returns were 4,035 yesterday and 2,101 today, so it’s evident that a lot of voters did wait until the last 2 days to vote. And 64.5% of the total votes came in by mail. Given that 2-to-1 ratio, there could be over 10,000 ballots still in the mail.
It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
Her dreams have been answered. YLB’s Charter School.
With special guest instructor, the newly available Kshama Sawant, who will teach “Three Steps To Free Shit”.
26)I was more outraged over publishing the Mayor’s address. Thought it was confidential dating back to her time as a U.S. Attorney, and the still unsolved murder of Thomas Wales. Any who works in a prosecutor’s office should have that protection, but it should not preclude them from running for office.
I believe Hohn McKay was helping with the recall, remember he got fired for not scaling back the Wales investigation.
For some reason a low IQ though evil fascist traitor who deserves to hang for his treason calling Sawant an “evil socialist” doesn’t have much zing to it.
@ 29
I overheard a CTS driver and a passenger talking, and the driver said, if each bus got 10 riders per trip, the route covers it’s costs.
Well, as long as you heard it from unimpeachable sources…
C’mon, Railfan, game that out.
10 riders is, what $3.50 x 10 = $35 ? The bus driver alone probably costs close to $45/hr once you factor in salary and benefits. Then there’s all of the support staff salaries, the cost of the bus and its maintenance and fuel. Etc. Etc. Etc.
I bet 30 riders doesn’t cover costs.
@30 My 55% figure is incorrect. She would need 1,994 half of the 1,000 = 2,494 of 3,600 which is 69.25% of 3,600.
@31 The stupidity of this will escape no one but the average Republican and you.
@32 The Stranger argued she didn’t lead the protesters to Durkan’s house, she only followed them there and gave a speech once they were there, she didn’t even know the address.
That story seems to have been displaced by election results reporting, but if that’s true, you can’t hold her accountable for what someone else did.
For what it’s worth, The Stranger addressed allegations that Durkan’s address was leaked to Socialist Alternative by stating that both they (The Stranger) and the P-I found Durkan’s address with internet searches.
It’s possible there’s more to that story than The Stranger published, but that enters the realm of speculation and/or conspiracy theory.
34)I said CTS charges $10 for adults on the Strait Shot(Rt123), as it is an out of county route. Makes only limited stops, Gateway TC in PA, Sequim, Seven Cedars, Discovery Bay(Connects with Jefferson Transit’s route from Quilcene to Port Townsend), Poulsbo, and Clearwater Casino before reaching the Bainbridge Ferry. Gets a diverse ridership, backpackers, medical appointments, doing the work Greyhound should be doing, and and even a few transferring to the Coho. CTS provides good customer service for them, especially if they were delayed at Hood Canal. During the summer, the 10:20am out of Bainbridge gets into PA just about the time the Coho is taking last passengers and vehicles aboard. I’ve seen CTS Supervisors escort those transferring to the dock to ensure they get aboard.
Another transit system I’m shocked to see running fare free is Twin Transit, although in there case it is only for December. Didn’t see there Green line bus from Centralia while I was In Olympia, wanted to start my trip back to beat Kraken traffic. Twin Transit serves Centralia and Chehalis,
The Stranger says, “King County elections said the current count doesn’t include ballots returned after noon or 1 pm today.” They also said KCE projects a 50% turnout, which means over 4,000 ballots were still in drop boxes or the mail, in addition to the 2,574 uncounted. They also recalled her history of overcoming election-night deficits (she was down 8% in 2019) and said the mood at her campaign headquarters is upbeat, with “some Sawant campaign folks continu[ing] to predict a win of 52% when all votes are counted.” And that we might not know until Thursday what the final outcome is.
@34 Public transit is subsidized. So are streets and highways. And nothing is more subsidized than gasoline if you factor in the costs of maintaining a military and fighting wars to preserve access to oil. You really suck at this.
@ 37
@32 The Stranger argued she didn’t lead the protesters to Durkan’s house, she only followed them there and gave a speech once they were there, she didn’t even know the address.
You know this went to the state supreme court, right? Which found legal sufficiency to have Sawant answer to the voters on the charge of illegally disclosing the residential address of a protected individual.
Who gives a fuck what the Stranger thinks, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
I don’t recall seeing photos of Sawant in the back of that crowd marching to Durkan’s home. She was leading that crowd.
@38 Doctor Dumbfuck also fails to factor in the cost savings to society of transporting 10 people on 1 bus instead of in 10 cars. Regardless of whether the bus driver’s salary is paid by taxes or fares, a bus with 10 passengers is more efficient, and uses less resources (steel, rubber, asphalt, fuel, etc.), and has less climate impact, than transporting those people with cars, even if they ride 2 per car in 5 cars.
@41 Look up the word “if” sometime.
You’re a sloppy reader. How else could you miss that? And you should have been looking for it, because you should know by now that I hedge my comments when I don’t know something to be true. As you should, too, but usually don’t.
I’m leaving now to work out in my ground floor gym. Back tomorrow.
44)Enjoy. Tomorrow I got to take a break from my vacation to check in at work and do a little cleaning. Vacations are a pay cut for me. No overtime. Use it or lose it. We allow some to roll over.
He fails to factor in that he’s brainless, and that the shit he spews just comes out his ass.
Nope. More wrongness here, as always. More than 10-15% wrong, even.
“Thus, we conclude that the allegation that Sawant violated harassment statutes is not legally sufficient.”
Instead the court looped back to the oath of office allegation and petitioner’s claim that this could constitute a violation of her duty not to disclose “confidential information gained by reason of his or her official position for other than a City purpose.”
“Based on the facts alleged, we believe a voter could conclude that Sawant’s actions constituted a violation of the Seattle city code regarding confidentiality. This charge is legally sufficient.
This is entirely distinct from the state charge about disclosing the residential address of a protected individual within the state harassment statute.
The court tossed that.
32,
McKay was blacklisted by Monica Goodling for refusing to seat a grand jury to investigate the total failure of Dino Rossi’s dreams.
Bob Mueller, who was FBI Dir at the time supported McKay’s requests for additional resources. And Kyle Sampson included McKay’s name on the list of USAs to be fired sent to Harriet Miers before he had the first meetings to request more resources with DAG Larry Thompson and long before the FBI decision to gut the team. That claim about McKay’s firing over the Wales investigation was always superficial, pretextual bullshit.
@48 “Monica Goodling”
Typical Bush-era political hack from Liberty Law Factory who thought she was doing God’s work by stamping a red letter “L” (for liberal) on the resume of anybody lacking the mandatory credentials from the Falwell Freak Factory. Imagine how much worse her lawbreaking would’ve been if she’d been at DOJ ten years later. I know she’s married now (to the Red State guy), but I wonder if she fucks Michael Flynn on the side?