Bundle up and make your way to the Roanoke Park Place Tavern this evening for the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. There’ll be conversations and drinks out on the back patio.
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.
Chapters of Drinking Liberally can be found all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.
The most in-your-face Let’s Go Brandon! to the Commander in Chief I can imagine could come from his fave tax dollar-sucking boondoggle.
Amtrak suspends vaccine mandate for employees
Railfan, why does Amtrak disrespect the president?
In direct proportion to Mitch McConnell’s respect for the 2024 nominee.
@1 Let’s move past your source (Washington Examiner, ha ha ha) and cut to the chase: You’re celebrating a suspension of service cuts by a “tax dollar-sucking boondoggle.” Is that because you’ll gladly pay taxes to spread new variants across state lines on passenger trains?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/who-says-omicron-is-spreading-at-a-rate-not-seen-with-any-other-covid-variant.html
They also don’t allow horses inside the library.
1)Still have to produce a negative test. The coach attendant I saw working Train 7 don’t need your sudden support from a guy who thinks his job should go away. That leg of a run for an OBS crew is 16 hours. Turns out, thanks to underfunding, the next, and last day of the run is short but busy. They start cleaning before it gets to Seattle. No spare rolling stock, Gets in about 11AM, the equipment has to be inspected, cleaned, and restocked and back out on the rails by 4:45. Learned that when I applied once.
Right now, more concerned with getting the service to Stanwood, Mount Vernon and Bellingham restored. Problem is it serves Vancouver B.C, and cross border COVID issues are delaying it. At least customs was better on the Cascades vs the Adirondack and Maple Leaf, no local stops within Canada..
4)I was against the SPL abolishing fines, and I’ve paid a whole lot of them.
The new Hybrid Electric ferry will be named Wishkah, which means Stinking Water in Chehalis. I was pulling for Snoqualmie. Bad enough this was the second attempt. The first one had too many silly, possibly troll, submissions. The only one that wasn’t was Kalakala II.
The new Hybrid Electric ferry will be named Wishkah, which means Stinking Water in Chehalis.
Gives new meaning to:
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
@6 Saves the cost of getting rid of old books. Unfortunately, that system gets rid of new books, too.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/585781-white-house-will-commemorate-jan-6-anniversary-psaki-says
The day Repukes hugged and kissed LEO
Florida substitute teacher arrested after alleged Snapchat video showed her having sex with student
Breeding will not save her
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-ketcik-joan-halstead-and-john-rider-residents-of-the-villages-arrested-for-casting-multiple-2020-votes
Breeding will not save them
@12 Vaccines won’t save them, either.
These fuckers not only oppose vaccine mandates, they also oppose public officials merely “encouraging” people to get vaccinated.
“The poll suggests … 77 percent of Trump voters … now see the coronavirus as either ‘a small threat’ or ‘no threat’ to themselves … [and] 47 percent of Trump voters now say the vaccines pose ‘a greater risk’ to their health than the virus ….”
https://www.aol.com/news/omicron-looms-growing-number-trump-204057894.html
I don’t think we have to worry about 2024. There won’t be any Trump voters left.
From link @12: “Halstead is accused of voting in-person in Florida and as an absentee in New York;”
New York? Are you kidding me? What fool risks jail to cast a fraudulent vote in New York? Where Biden got 61% of the vote, and won by nearly 2 million votes? Are Trump voters really this stupid? Yes, they are.
9)In later years, the SPL hired a collection agency. Very effective at getting paid up.
@13. Don’t you worry Rabbit about 2022 and 2024. Republican state government will throw out all the votes that don’t have the republican in the race winning. Problem solved. Sure, only 23 republicans voted but they are the only votes that count.
Finally!
The MOON LASER reanimating Hugo Chavez’s corpse with One Weird Trick to STEAL the election has been found!
Now it is only a matter of time before Trump is rightfully restored to power!
MAGA
16,
There’s still hope:
” The Senate has shown it cannot do its basic duty, and find 60 Senators to support basic voting rights, so I support changing the rules around the filibuster for voting rights legislation.”
-The second most conservative Democrat in the Senate
https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/12/u-s-sen-mark-r-warner-iss
A few days after her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser’s license had failed for the second time, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned the program director to her home for a meeting. The program director’s supervisor told her the meeting would be to informally discuss the general criteria for denying a licensing application, the number of denials and approvals each year, and whether or not the Governor’s daughter could still resubmit for yet a third time if she completed some additional educational requirements.
Instead the meeting, which was attended by the Governor, the Governor’s Chief of Staff, the state Secretary of Labor, and about a half dozen other high ranking state officials, focused entirely on the Governor’s daughter’s application denial and nothing else. The Governor become furious to learn that a recommendation from the licensing board for additional classes as part of an unusual agreement for a second try had been ignored by her daughter and that she was not informed.
The senior officials present, including the Secretary of Labor, then worked out and stipulated a new agreement for a third application attempt giving the Governor’s daughter another chance to complete the classes. The new agreement was outside of all normal application procedures and represented an unprecedented third attempt that no other applicant had ever been offered. The program director agreed to the deal, implemented it, the Governor’s daughter completed the classes and was licensed, and three months later the program director was fired.
Take notes in meetings, especially the meetings where your bosses are putting you into one of their corrupt schemes. Get the names and contact details of everyone present. Follow up with recap emails. Later on, when they fire you to tie up loose ends, contact a lawyer. Get paid.
In 2018, the year before announcing her candidacy for president, Fauxchahontas took a nearly $14,000 tax credit for her newly installed solar system. She likely also took campaign contributions from her solar installer and from solar industry members across the country. Hey, and who’s to say she didn’t take laundered money from Chinese solar panel manufacturers?
It’s a grift. The whole fucking solar industry.
Always follow the money. The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, it doesn’t take compassion for the poor to be able to understand that the solar industry is cover for wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy.
@ 19
Take notes in meetings, especially the meetings where your bosses are putting you into one of their corrupt schemes. Get the names and contact details of everyone present. Follow up with recap emails. Later on, when they fire you to tie up loose ends, contact a lawyer. Get paid.
To avoid this, have NBC hire your daughter at an astronomical salary to do special projects for which she has no experience. Promise NBC special access to you when you are
coronatedelected.Tucker Carlson didn’t need a $600k intern, I take it.
Seriously, this will hurt Noem. An own-goal to be sure.
@20. Blah blah blah. The pathetic greedy racist incel was called out on his fake concern for the poor so he doubles down on his attempt to own the libs. This time he uses racial and sexist slurs for women and minorities to spread alt right lies. Whatever, troll.
For the sake of argument let’s assume it won’t be Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris at the top of the DNC ticket in 2024.
Who’s next?
Oh, and why is Hillary popping up all over the place in the past couple of weeks?
Spoiler: She’s running.
@21. Rather than address the corruption of a republican, the greedy racist incel does a what-about-ism. Look over there! Buttery males! Bengazi! Hillary !Hillary! Hillary!
Whatever, troll.
@23. Shorter greedy racist incel:
Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
(Play no attention to the republicans behind the curtain.)
Whatever, troll. You wish.
Mayor Pete would never let her be the nominee. Think with your brain Bob. Ohhh wait…….Bob ain’t got brains.
Predicts all this shot that doesn’t happen but he knows my AGI!
@23
Your Hillary Derangement Syndrome is acting up, better get that checked out.
She isn’t going to run. Why the hell would she? Why get kicked around like she has been in the past. She is doing well right now, why change that?
Trump, and his band of thugs, have rendered the POTUS position a “less than desirable” role. Hell, even Trump has bitched being POTUS cost him billions.
We get people like Trump and Biden because the smart people don’t want anything to do with what has become a partisan clown show in which all the do anymore (both sides) look to settle scores and build their tribe to a stronger position. Not too far off from turning us into into India/Pakistan.
Heh.. teh greedee , kreepee dimfuk of widbee does a dance 40 yards from the red zone about my kids resuming student loan payments..
Problem is.. they have no student debt.
So funny to see it so needy for Hillary.
More of Bob’s “theory” that Democrats will pass over the team that overwhelmingly humiliated Trump* in favor of a has-been team that lost to Trump badly once already.
Nobody has every lost an election for President in the United States as badly as Trump did. By his own standards, according to his own statements, to lose to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Trump is the biggest loser in the entire history of presidential elections.
That makes Biden/Harris the biggest winners ever.
*No more convincing proof of Trump/GOP humiliation can be had then the copies of Mark Meadows’ text messages calling for a declaration of National Emergency to overturn the election.
This specious argument against BBB is better than Doctor Dumbfuck’s. But it’s still a specious partisan steampuff.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/585935-its-time-for-a-budget-policy-u-turn?rl=1
The fact is, conservatives don’t like social spending, period. Whether it’s paid for with taxes (balanced budget) or borrowing (deficits) is immaterial. The fact BBB is mostly paid for, by raising taxes on the rich, proves that’s not their litmus test. Helping the less fortunate is.
The Doctor Dumbfucks of the world just can’t stand the idea of the waitress getting a child care credit; that’s socialism! They think she should pay for that out of her wages. And their $1.50 tips. For them, it’s not the amount of money involved; it’s the principle. For her, it’s the money.
Republicans have taken a strange approach to the labor market. Our economy needs immigrant workers, but they won’t allow immigration. Mothers can’t work without child care, but they oppose child care subsidies. Nobody can afford to work for $7.25 an hour, but they won’t raise the minimum wage. People can’t work if they’re dead or in the ICU, but they oppose workplace protections against Covid-19 and vaccines. (In the latest polls, they don’t even want public officials to merely encourage people to get vaccinated.) They do everything they can to create labor shortages. Which makes me wonder if they’re saboteurs working for China.
@19 Of course she’ll get paid, and Gov. Noem always knew taxpayers would foot a legal bill for her nepotistic corruption. She also knew there’s no chance she’ll be voted out of office for being a corrupt lying bitch at taxpayers’ expense. Only one of these is material to her calculations.
Also, corruption is a normal part of GOP culture. Party officials don’t see anything wrong with it. Neither do Republican voters.
@20 “likely also took ”
This is called the “Doctor Dumbfuck standard of evidence.” Even Republican judges laugh it out of the room.
@21 “have NBC hire your daughter at an astronomical salary to do special projects for which she has no experience”
And this costs taxpayers how much?
Democratic nepotism is qualitatively different from Republican nepotism. (Quantitatively different, too.)
@23 Your worst nightmare explodes into daylight.
By the way, I addressed that topic here. I can’t be sure your source was the same as mine, as I don’t read Gateway Pundit.
@27 While researching this topic for my Handbill.US posting linked above, I ran across a Daily Mail article in 2018 that claimed Hillary “wants to run” in 2020. What actually happened speaks for itself.
And keep in mind that Doctor Dumbfuck’s “sources” are several rungs lower than Daily Mail in journalistic competence, objectivity, and integrity.
@29 He keeps telling us how weak Biden and Harris are. That can only mean that Trump is even weaker.
He keeps citing polls to show their public approval is lower than his. But will he bet money that Trump/DeSantis would beat Biden/Harris in 2024 without GOP legislative interventions in the electoral vote?
Yes, I think Trump could win in 2024. That’s how he could win.
Man, good day today.
“A single Kentucky Republican travels with Biden to survey tornado and storm damage”
They’d rather be partisan assholes than serve their constituents in time of need.
@38 I infer the horse had a bad day.
I guess it’s technically not treason if you forward someone else’s treason with a note saying, “I love it!”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/politics/jim-jordan-mark-meadows-text/index.html
28
“ no student debt”
Probably has something to do with them not checking “white/Caucasian” box on the application form….
@ 29
More of Bob’s “theory” that Democrats will pass over the team that overwhelmingly humiliated Trump* in favor of a has-been team that lost to Trump badly once already.
My theory, but the prayer of a soon-to-grow number of columnists.
Uh oh: Biden loses support of Bret Stephens and Chris Cillizza in the same week
Hillary’s running. There’s nobody else with a decent shot..
I’ve even got a slogan for #CrookedHillary 2024:
Corruption 3.0
Fitting headline. Schumer’s a big fuckin’ weasel.
Sinema pops Democrats’ filibuster trial balloon on voting rights
Democrats don’t do careful. Last time it cost them three SC’OTUS seats.
@42 The quality of HA trolls, low to begin with, keeps going downhill.
@45 Next it’s going to cost them — and us — democracy. Luckily for your ilk, the last Democrats who knew how to deal with fascists were FDR and Truman.
46
“Keeps going downhill”
You mean like your testosterone level?
How stupid are Capitol rioters? This one tells the cops, “I’m always told by lawyers not to talk” … then blabs his fool head off. The cops love when they do that. And he cries. I love when they cry! I’ll bet they love that, too. While talking to the cops, “Rodriguez describes himself as ‘not smart,’ ‘so stupid,’ ‘an asshole,’ and a ‘fucking piece of shit’ during the interview.” You heard it from the horse’s mouth, folks! Officer Michael Fanone, whom Rodriguez tased during the riot, says, “They take a Danny Rodriguez interview, and they see that oh, this guy’s a moron. He’s a sad person who’s kind of pathetic in a way.” They got that right! Even Rodriguez thinks he’s a pathetic moron. He admitted it! I’d hate to be this guy’s defense attorney. Not much to work with there, even before the police interrogation, and nothing afterwards except to plead him guilty and throw him on the court’s mercy. If I were the judge, I don’t think I’d have any. This is what a howling mob looks like when they’re all by themselves at a police station. Meek like mice, and very very sorry they’re in alligator shit up to their necks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpN9NPvZr6A
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-fanone-danny-rodriguez-capitol-attack_n_61a7f982e4b0451e5510a4a1
@48 Weak. Very weak. You must be new here. We’re going to have fun with you.
Why do the kids have so much student debt?
Once greedy Boomers, as a demographic, got out of college, they voted for politicians who suddenly decided a cheap quality education was socialism. The politicians boomers elected voted to stop paying for school support and lowered taxes. More money for boomers so it was fine.
And besides, higher education was being “given away” to non whites and that pissed off the racists. See 42
@51. Should have said affordable quality education.
Get a BA in XXXXXX Studies and you, too, can beg for help during the holidays with
Give the gift of [insert useless degree name here]
emails.
Get a BS in a STEM discipline and you can gift your parents their first iPad.
43,
You’ve still never even laid a glove on him*. After laboring at it for years. Not a single point. So of course you run away to pick a fight with a girl.
* -hair touching
-finger banging
-laptop
-crack pipe
-vegetable
-sleepy
-etc
Pramila Jayapal is directly responsible for the Democrats’ biggest loss (so far) in the Biden era.
They started at $6 trillion and will get nothing. Tough task, indeed. Pramila Jayapal showed her ass to her own party’s Speaker. Remember that.
43,
Look, I don’t blame Republicans for being absolutely terrified of challenging incumbent Joe Biden in three years. They don’t challenge him now. And after less than a year in office he’s already done more, with more lasting impact than their party leader managed in four.
At least Trump is still trying. McCarthy and Cocaine Mitch won’t even enter the ring against Biden. They work behind the scenes to prop up Manchinema and rely on idiot scarecrows like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert (and incel trolls) to bring the fight. It’s fucking pathetic. But it makes sense. They have a longer view. And they realize how much the window will narrow for them in the years ahead. After next year, with states like Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado slipping permanently from their grasp, it could be more than a decade before they can summon a ruling majority again.
Senior Republicans in Congress with plans to hang on for more than the next two years are playing it safe, knowing how perilous the future might be for them, yet unwilling to pay the price of changing course. It’s Trump’s party. At least until 2024. And after that, who gives a fuck?
Something that will never happen to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit as he transfers items from Horsesass to handbill.us
ED can be good for you, like it is for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s like inflation in that regard.
55,
They started at Guatemalan Toddler Torture, “Jews will not replace us”, REPEAL OBAMACARE, and KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN.
It’s perfectly understandable how eager you are to sweep all that aside. After all, you defended Derek Chauvin, for example.
Yesterday Sen. Cancun took another shot at Trump:
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1471266944233918469
Naturally the nominee is to stupid to get it.
Also pretty much assures us Ted isn’t running.
Also, undeniably witty on his part.
@ 59
Cruz would be a president too intelligent for the country. Essentially the opposite of the one we have now.
Option One is to bomb civilians in Kabul again.
Biden administration considering options for possibly evacuating US citizens from Ukraine if Russia invades
Normal contingency planning is what resulted in the disaster we saw unfold when we abandoned Afghanistan.
Good to know that nothing has changed.
Trump/GOP contingency planning consisted of investigating bat meat and having your son-in-law and his college pals sell off all the pandemic preparedness supplies to buy horse deworming paste.
@53 You should know about useless wallpaper. You have a den covered with it. How much did you borrow for that Caribbean medical degree? How many years did you spend paying it back? I’m guessing you went to med school before most of the taxpayer tuition subsidies were withdrawn. And now you bloviate against those subsidies. Who needs doctors, anyway? Not Republicans. They either don’t believe in science-based medicine, or they’re beyond benefiting from it.
@56 I do get a feeling Gaetz and Boebert are considered cannon fodder by their party leadership. “Fix bayonets! Charge! We’ll watch.”
@57 You’re right, I’ll never have to pay back $105 million of severance pay after being fired for sexual harassment.
I’ll bet you didn’t have to, either. In your case, it wouldn’t exceed five figures.
@58 “you defended Derek Chauvin”
He’s a champion of the found-guilty and an implacable foe of the innocent and presumed innocent.
@60 He’s so intelligent he stood on the stage like a hypnotized deer and smiled stupidly as Trump called his father a terrorist.
@62 Trump brokered a deal with the Taliban after which not a single shot was fired at Americans. Neville Chamberlain achieved similar results in Czechoslovakia using the same negotiating methods.
68)Chamberlain was in a tough position, nobody except the aGermans were ready for war in 1938. Still wasn’t ready with the time it bought. The UK should have started preparing the Royal Navy for buildup, when Japan pulled out of the London and Washington Naval Treaties. When the Hood was lost to the Bismarck, the new Battleship HMS Prince of Wales still had civilian shipyard workers aboard, doing final adjustments on the most important part of a Battleships armament, the Main Guns.
Great movie about the battle, Sink the Bismarck! The Prince of Wales skipper was played by a former RN veteran who served aboard the Prince of Wales. If they do a remake, get the German Admiral right this time. About the only thing the portrayal had in common with Admiral Gunther Lutjens was that he was a career Naval Officer and was aboard the Bismarck. He wasn’t a Nazi, didn’t think the mission would succeed, and even wanted to avoid contact with the RN, especially the Hood and Prince of Wales. Most of Germany‘surface combatants were designed and employed as commerce raiders. Loved the guy playing the American reporter, going by Ed Murrow, Edward R. Murrow played himself.