Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for an evening of political discussions, drinks and good cheer. If you can, stop by.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm out on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, there is probably another nearby chapter for you.
When solid economic policy combines with ecologic goals:
My Inflation Reduction Act I just signed includes a $7500 tax incentive for American taxpayers to buy EVs but ONLY if they are built in North America and ONLY if the MSRP is under $55,000. There are several Korean and Japanese models under that MSRP currently on the market that will not qualify because they are not manufactured here. This puts the price of an EV on a level with internal combustion models. You love your truck your f-150? That’s a $32,000 base model folks. An F-150 Lightning with $7500 in your pocket from me is $32,500.
Because of this policy, Hyundai, maker of the Kona EV, MSRP $34K and Ioniq 5 EV, MSRP $39K have announced they are fast tracking their Alabama plant to start production by 2024 instead of 2025. They have also announced 17 new EV models on their main and Genesis brands to be manufactured between the new Alabama and existing Georgia plants.
Construction jobs, manufacturing jobs, lowering the price of EVs, less emissions. “Build Here, Cost Less, Drill Less!”
Biden has not been very successful.
2,
Name a president of either party from the previous four decades who has accomplished more major legislation in the first 19 months of their first term. Be prepared to defend the claim.
You have your assignment. Get to work, bitch.
In Greg Abbott’s new White Christian Nationalist Texas, the students at George Dawson Middle School are henceforth forbidden to read or study the autobiography of George Dawson.
https://www.oprah.com/own-oprahshow/george-dawsons-legacy-video
Because white people’s feelings.
@2
The more you post here, the more it appears you are the Monty Python version of King Arthur.
2,
Here’s what you’re up against, dumbshit:
Year one (Jan 21, 2021 to Jan 20, 2022)
– The American Rescue Plan, a sweeping $1.9 trillion dollar legislative package to recover the U.S. economy from the horrifically massive unemployment and decline of economic output produced under Cheetolini. It included $1,400 in direct spending stimulus payments to 90% of Americans, a $300 per week boost to unemployment insurance, and a $3,600 per child expansion of the child tax credit that lifted every child in America out of hunger, poverty, and homelessness.
– Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. A $1.2 trillion dollar spending package that is rebuilding deteriorating bridges, sea walls, levies, water treatment facilities, freight ports, railroads, mass transit, airports, and highways. Also includes $65 billion to expand and upgrade broadband infrastructure to help America catch up to Europe and Asia. Another $7.5 billion to expand the network of plug-in EV charging facilities.
– Juneteenth National Independence Day Act creating for the first time a federal holiday in celebration of the ending of human slavery in the United States.
– Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act banning all imports from the regions of China where ethnic Uyghur people are enslaved.
– Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act funding nationwide disaster relief and extending funding for resettlement of refugees displaced by Trump’s order withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
This year (Jan 22, 2022 to the present)
– $50 billion in financial and arms support for Ukraine in it’s fight to repel Russian invaders and occupiers.
– Emmet Till Antilynching Act, first ever federal criminal law outlawing lynching
– Appointed and gained confirmation for America’s first Black woman to the United States Supreme Court
– FORMULA Act and the Access to Baby Formula Act expanding the availability of baby formula by updating rules and opening U.S. markets to importation of high quality baby formula.
– Passed the first major federal gun control legislation in over three decades, implementing red flag laws and expanding background checks
– New legislation to provide extended health care benefits to U.S. military veterans exposed to harmful toxins in burn pits.
– Chips and Science Act, providing $52 billion in direct subsidies and tax credits to domestic companies investing in research to develop and build semiconductor technology in the U.S.
– Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, authorizes the Federal Maritime Commission to free up cargo capacity in containers and shipping at U.S. ports and crack down on late fees
– Inflation Reduction Act, a $739 billion package that includes $370 billion to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, $7500 per person consumer tax rebate for EVs, $9 billion for energy reducing home improvements for low income households, $10 billion in business tax credits for EV plants, wind turbines, and solar, and implement a 15% corporate minimum tax.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Just the major highlights.
@6
You would think if @2 could pull a sword out of stone he could pull his head out of his ass.
Not gonna happen anytime soon.
7,
It just attests to his dishonesty and utter lack of character.
Any fair minded person reviewing the last seventeen months would conclude that for the Democrats in control of Congress and the White House there has been much accomplished. Anyone might object to that record, and oppose things like negotiated pricing for prescription meds, child tax credit, rapid vaccine rollout, infrastructure investment, healthcare for wounded veterans, etc.
But only a completely dishonest partisan hack would claim they got nothing done. It proves itself. The coward will not respond. He can’t. Just another feckless weakling from team KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN.
Republicans devouring Republicans.
Republican goes off on his own party — accuses ‘globalists’ of running the Michigan GOP
@ 3
Name a president of either party from the previous four decades who has accomplished more major legislation in the first 19 months of their first term. Be prepared to defend the claim.
Name a president of either party from the previous four decades who saw inflation rise five-fold or more in the first 19 months of his term. Be prepared to use BLS statistics to defend your claim.
When running from the police, best not to turn and fire a weapon.
10,
I’ve made no such claims.
Quite the contrary in fact. I’d say a brief period of rapid inflation was entirely to be expected. And that avoiding it altogether would have meant maintaining the very high levels of unemployment, wage collapse, and 31% reductions in GDP produced under the most recent Republican failure.
We are all obviously much better off than we were two years ago.
I don’t care that Democrats saved the economy. Inflation is costing me money! I would glady sacrifice 31% reductions in GDP so my yacht and my guns do not go up on price. The Republican COVID economy wasn’t hurting me.
I think the clearest, best interrogation into the legal quality of the original two week late filing, and today’s refiling of the Trump “complaint” motion is to be found in the response issued by Judge Cannon late this afternoon.
As we might have expected this Trump-appointed judge is being patient and professional. She’s basically taken the rambling 27 page complaint, styled as a motion, and spit it straight back to them with a series of red-pen notes calling for restatement in the form of a valid complaint, argument in support of jurisdiction, statement of the legal standards the plaintiff would see applied and why, and an explanation of remedies sought.
I guess it’s fair to point out that these things she’s asking for are basic, normal, and fundamental elements in a normal people lawsuit (as opposed to, for example, the pro se federal prisoner lawsuits that judges like this one have to review). Graduates of good law schools are familiar with the standard form. So she’s basically giving them an outline for how to refile in a way that she can then consider it. And she’s giving them until Friday to do the homework. I’m not optimistic for them. And another week goes by.
Astonishing.
Name a president of either party from the previous four decades who
Enough of your stupid butt stuffing. Name a president of any party in the history of America who absconded with hundreds of Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.
13,
I read where a Republican Senate candidate was visiting a local home improvement center to tally up how much more expensive pipe-bomb supplies had gotten.
It is IMPOSSIBLE. I AM the Republican Party. This is a partisan witch hunt. I DEMAND a recount. Muslims stuffed the ballot. TRUMP LOVES ME! It’s a violation of my rights. It was rigged!
Suck on it, Laura. Holding Biden and Fauci accountable for…something…is a man’s job. Yours is in the kitchen and bedroom.
Daniel Webster
@RepWebster
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Aug 22
When Republicans gain majority, we will use our constitutional oversight authority to hold the Biden Administration, including Dr. Fauci, accountable.
@1 Nobody pays $32,000 for a new F-150, if they can even get one.
https://www.dependablepickup.com/what-is-the-average-price-of-a-2022-ford-f150/
https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/price-trends/Ford-F-150-d337
@5 That’s unfair to Monty Python.
@14 I guess my next question is whether Trump’s motion was submitted written in pencil on toilet paper.
Mondaire Jones is gettin’ his ass kicked. He’s a weak third.
AOC ain’t gonna like that.
Tea leaves.
That’s nuthin’. Y’all should see how many school board seats in VA flipped from liberal to conservative when McAuliffe got involved last year.
@ 21
…whether Trump’s motion was submitted written in pencil on toilet paper.
It’s a reasonable question, coming from a guy who can never be more than a few steps away from a bathroom.
DeSantis had a really good night.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
After perusing the scrawl @ 6 by QoS McHillbilly, get a load of this opinion piece on CNN:
The money spent by Democrats won’t cover up the shameful conduct by my senile, incompetent president WRT the exit from Afghanistan. The money spent by Democrats contributed directly to inflation the likes we have not seen for 40 years.
Falling further behind is what the voters will remember when it’s time to vote in November.
Know what Dems did? They further enriched me, and fucked YLB’s kids in the process.
@25 Rabbits don’t need bathrooms. We fertilize lawns and gardens.
@27 “Know what Dems did? They further enriched me”
Funny thing is, nobody can enrich you without enriching me, too. We’re brother capitalists.
Do you think trump used a sharpie to scribble “NOT” in front of “TOP SECRET” on the nuclear secrets documents he stole?
The republican school curricula.
N.C. Republican reportedly floats ban on science, history in elementary schools
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/mark-robinson-north-carolina-science-history-ban-rcna44386
First through fifth grades “don’t need to be teaching social studies,” Robinson wrote. “We don’t need to be teaching science.””
Robinson said flatly what most fact-averse conservatives won’t admit about their education crusade: They fear accurate history lessons that could inevitably lead to discussions about systemic disparities. And they fear discussions about science, which may undermine the fundamentalist Christian beliefs at the heart of the conservative movement.
The greedy racist incel is a typical boomer. He will be dead before the destruction he supports becomes bad enough to effect him.
NY 23
NY 19
Big +D swings post Dobbs.
Something that has emerged consistently in the head to head numbers in swing districts.
Protecting constitutional rights and living wage jobs is driving more voters to the polls than $10 gas!!! and STOP THE STEAL!!!
Post Dobbs specials
Nebraska 1: 2020 Trump 15, 2022 R 5
Minnesota 1: 2020 Trump 10, 2022 R 4
NY 19: 2020 Biden 2, 2022 D 2?
NY 23: 2020 Trump 11, 2022 R 5?
And bear in mind the poll modeling was for a generic R 3 in every single contest owing to “historical” party-in-power shift.
Miami Dade County, Florida just WON their elections, flipping the school board conservative.
O wow, the county that is home to the Cuban exiles.. Big whup.. Kreepshit never disappoints.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Fascism should be stopped in its tracks way before it gains any momentum, history teaches.
Never fear, twice impeached, ONE TERM, failed orange dear leader is running.
He will be dead before the destruction he supports becomes bad enough to effect him.
And it only follows from its silly, inane, insane, deranged, batshit babbling that
THAT..
will be GOOD..
for my kids…
AMIRITE???
History making President Biden will sign an EO forgiving up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who meet certain income requirements.
J6 hearings will be returning to television screens in a couple of weeks.
Trumpaloompa Senate candidates continuing to self-destruct.
Poll trends no longer favorable to GOP.
Get ready for some elbow-deep, violent LAPTOP/FINGER BANGIN’ starting next month and going through October.
36)Seeing the way the right is already criticizing it, seems they are nervous it might boost turnout among voters they want staying home.
I know the $10k/20K will get all the headlines but I did more.
The maximum amount of your income you can be required to pay on student loans cut in half to 5%. Are you struggling to find a better paying job? Made it a little easier for you.
As long as you don’t miss a payment if your 5% a month hasn’t paid the loan after 10 years the balance is forgiven.
Your principle can never go up through interest as long as you don’t miss a payment EVEN IF your income or employment status qualifies you for a monthly payment of zero.
Now sit back and watch Mitch McConnell, Rona McDaniel, Kevin McCarthy and Fox News call me a communist. It’s OK. I’ve been called worse.
I prefer to call myself Joe ‘delivering for families’ Biden and I approve this message.
Louisville police officers have now formally admitted under sworn testimony that they knowingly fabricated various claims in order to obtain a no-knock, guns-a-blazin’, high-risk felony warrant to break down the door of Breonna Taylor’s home in the dark of night and shoot her to death as she slept. They admit that they knew the suspect they were seeking was not there. They admit that they knew he was not receiving any mail or packages delivered to that address. They admit that they knew that at the time Breonna Taylor was no longer in any kind of relationship with their suspect nor had she been for a very long time prior to executing the warrant.
Why they lied remains a practical mystery. The police who were involved in the conspiracy to deprive Breonna Taylor of her constitutional rights that led directly to her murder all claim it was because they were “eager” and “aggressive” in their pursuit of their felony narcotics suspect, all the while admitting, albeit reluctantly, that they knew there was no practical connection between their suspect and the woman they slaughtered in her bed. It can’t really be explained in terms of practical police work.
They knew she wasn’t connected to the suspect. They knew there were no exigent circumstances present that would justify breaking and entering in the pitch dark of night, unannounced into private home with weapons drawn in a tactical formation, ready to open fire at the slightest provocation. They knew they were not at any real risk for serving a standard search warrant. They knew there were no practical reasons for any kind of warrant at all. They knew that all the situation really justified was a polite visit with a few polite questions. But they did what they did anyway and it resulted in a completely innocent, law abiding, hard working citizen being shot to death in her own bed as she slept.
Does it matter that Breonna Taylor was Black?
Remember now that in the months following Breonna Taylor’s murder as the facts began to slowly emerge, we were told by the Louisville Police Department that this was going to be a case of incompetence. That “lazy” cops had failed to check the facts and confirm details contained in their files that led to the no-knock shooting gallery armed attack. But now we know that was never true. Louisville Police had not been lazy. They had checked on the details. And they had learned that the details were wrong. They had learned that there was no longer any connection between Breonna Taylor and their suspect. It was not lazy or incompetent.
It was deliberate. They deliberately chose to lie about the circumstances in order to place Breonna Taylor at the center of a harrowing, traumatic, life threatening armed assault.
Can you speculate why that might have been? Knowing that it was completely unnecessary, can you imagine a reason why Louisville Police would deliberate choose to put this woman in that terrifying and horrific situation that led directly to her murder? There is a “law enforcement” reason.
It’s because they wanted her scared to death. It’s because they wanted to coerce an innocent, hard working, law-abiding citizen with terror. They wanted her scared for her life, traumatized, and willing to do anything to regain her sense of safety. That was the plan, I absolutely guarantee you. I’ve seen it before. This is how police gain cooperation. Could she have been of use to them? Who knows? Instilled with enough fear some people will take incredible risks. To the Louisville Police Breonna Taylor was not a human being. She was a tool.
Yes. Of course it matters that Breonna Taylor was Black. And it matters most because nothing has been done to reform the way police conduct “WAR ON DRUGS” criminal investigations.
37,
Seeing the way the right is already criticizing it…
Let ’em.
Streisand effect.
It’s goddamn near impossible to get the modern corporate media to straight report on measures being taken to help American families and American communities. They either report the controversy or they report the horse-race. They won’t report to their audience what the measure will do in terms of helping them and their communities. Instead they’ll invite a crazed bow-tie on television to explain the “political strategy” behind the measure or to declare how the measure “falls short” of some pie-in-the-sky, Utopian extreme.
Listening to Kevin McCarthy grieve about his losses and humiliations is about the best way Democrats have of keeping track of the progress we are making. Let ’em bitch.
To the Louisville Police Breonna Taylor was not a human being. She was a tool.
Heh.. To the unhinged, deplorable, always wrong wing greed class of this country, the insane, inane, deranged lord kreepshit of widbee has always been “less than”..
To call it a “tool” would be kind. To call it a “blunt instrument” would be kind..
What’s the most primitive tool? A rock?
A coprolite.. How’s that?
Rome, Georgia, police have confirmed that MJT’s home was “swatted” at 1:04 am. A purported transgender terrorist is claiming credit. Greene says she’s lucky not to be “dead” because she normally answers the door with “a gun in hand,” but this time a “weird gut instinct” told her to put the gun down. (Perhaps a city block full of flashing blue lights tipped her off.)
Police are trying to track down the person who called 911 and told the dispatcher that a male had been shot five times in a bathtub and a woman and children were in the home.
This is not funny, folks. It’s illegal and dangerous. She could’ve been killed. For someone who normally answers the door with gun in hand, she’s probably lucky to be alive. And I’m not suggesting it was a false-flag operation. Police say the call originated in Virginia.
@42
Of course this is a very serious issue and the person that made the call should be caught and punished per the applicable laws. I certainly don’t condone that sort of activity, even against MTG.
One question I have is what kind of neighborhood does MTG live in that she has to answer the door armed?
@43 A better question is what kind of person answers the door armed in a normally quiet neighborhood?
Arizona is one of the worst places in America to raise children, unless you want them to grow up stupid, because only two states spend less on K-12 education per student than Arizona (they are Idaho and Utah).
Arizona is one of only 7 states with average teacher pay below $50,000. A GOP legislative candidate proposes to increase teacher pay by cutting “administrative” expenses, i.e., Arizona has too many school crossing guards.
https://www.rawstory.com/a-republican-candidates-bold-pitch-arizona-should-give-all-teachers-a-10000-pay-raise/
(It should be noted that Arizona, despite low taxes, has a huge budget surplus which the GOP-controlled legislature refused to spend on schools. Not surprisingly, Arizona has thousands of vacant teaching jobs and can’t hire teachers.)
44,
All cancervatives nurture lurid detailed fantasies about the CHOP/CHAZ “perils” they face in their daily existence.
For example, consider what groups of their own fellow Americans they fear most: Blacks, immigrants, public school teachers, and LGBTQ children.
The classic power quad of American public life.
Props to Joe’s speech writers.. and Joe was up to task to deliver it..
It will only help in November.
When everything shakes out, my wife may get some benefit.. It’s a modest plan.. politically calculated.
With regards to Biden forgiving student loan debt, I’m all for it. I had student loans and I paid them off (many years ago). I think it is good for the economy and morale of people saddled with huge debts.
I know Dr. Dumbfuck come on here and rail against it, forgiving debt to English majors and such is just bad form and people that take out student loans and don’t pay them back are ripping off the taxpayer.
With regards to that last point, I’ll point to no other than Donald J. Trump and the poster child for ripping people off. He utilized bankruptcy court to shirk his debt repayment obligations, not once, not twice, but at least five times.
Interesting how it was the Republicans that objected to including student loans in bankruptcy codes, that is to say you can’t use bankruptcy to get out of repaying your student loan debt.
Leave it to the conservatives and the GOP to have such a skewed sense of reality and get behind the Grifter-In-Chief. Why do they hate America so much?
@48. It might be so simple as it doesn’t benefit them. They are past going to college, they’re not going to college, they couldn’t get into college. Why should they help anyone who isn’t them?
It helps people they hate: liberals, educated, elites, teachers, minorities, people who tried to better themselves.
@49
Yep, you are correct. They have no vision on how higher education can benefit the country.
With the likes of MTG and MG, you are seeing the results of years of educational decline in this country. Not to mention the likes of Herschel Walker even considering running for Senate. Add in Tommy Tuberville and all they will bring is some stupid college playbook and the only plays they know are drop 10 yards and punt plus student body right….
47, 48, 49,
Average lifetime earning differential between 12 year grad and 12 + 4 year grad is $1.2 million. At average federal rate of 13.29 percent the IRS comes out $150,000 to the good on the deal.
So why do Republicans oppose public investments in higher education and advanced workforce training?
Because every single one of them knows that the better educated a voter becomes, the less likely they are to fall for Cancervative STOP THE STEAL dick-pill scams.
College should be free to U.S. citizens and legal residents. If it were we might stand a chance of catching up to Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, etc (non-SHITHOLE countries). Wouldn’t make a stitch of difference to Degen’s perpetual search for cheap, convenient fast-food, either.
See the previous comment about Republicans wanting to stop teaching social studies and science in elementary School. They want kids to be stupid. They’re saying it out in the open now.
Those pre-verts on the left are going to molest yer children that’s why I gotta be all up on her like a bitch. But the gays and the pronouns ones are who ya gotta watch out for.
If the 100 largest universities in America simply took half of their endowment funds and applied the monies to pay off student loan debt, about 25% of all outstanding student loans could be retired. The other 75% should be paid by those who borrowed the money for educations. I believe this is a better solution, initially, than forgiving student loans at the national level. Canceling existing student loans is a cheap give-away to buy votes in November.
One thing definitely certain – the government needs to exit the business of student loans. The borrowers need to borrow carefully and make the education mean something other than having a nice piece of paper to frame and hang on the wall.
@1 thank you Joe! God Bless you Mr. President!
Good to see we have some great leadership and true Americans, unlike the corrupt fuck Neanderthal Repuke Party of Anerican Taliban and American Traitors.
God Bless President Joe Biden!
The little bitch is unemployed and unemployable.
Amen. And we are still somewhat a free nation!
Gas prices – one station selling tegular at 4.09, 1/2 mile down the road 4:39, another mile in another direction 4.49, then the other direction 3.79. But its not a game. And rising wgen? Right before Labor Day driving. Why Xl Pipeline. Please. Gas companies making up for lost profits during the worst of the pandemic to oay their executives.
Get me my blanky!
@54
If the GOP and compliant corporate Democrats hadn’t slashed federal funding for higher education for three decades…
@27
I gotta apologize to the Republicans for taking a middle of the road right of center position so we can be more like FOX and bootlick the status quo GOP line.
@48 We had advantages they didn’t. Those of us who attended public universities decades ago had more of our education subsidized by taxpayers.
During the 2007-2008 financial crisis, when many states faced budget crises due to plunging tax revenues, big chunks of higher education funding were offloaded onto students.
By writing off a portion of student debt, the federal government is, in effect, filling in for the state support that was taken away from these students.
It’s really not much more complicated than that.
It’s not a gift. Historically, governments have underwritten higher education because it’s a good investment, one that more than pays for itself, because higher earnings produce higher tax revenues. Giving these students some debt relief will enable them to spend more in the economy, producing higher tax revenues.
It’s really not much more complicated than that.
Once boomers were done with school they were fine with cutting spending to schools if it lowered their taxes. They voted for politicians who would do that.
Of course not all boomers believe the greed is good, just too many of them.
Looks like our low IQ Nazi traitor is struggling to find a safe space today.
@54 “The borrowers need to borrow carefully and make the education mean something other than having a nice piece of paper to frame and hang on the wall.”
When I started college, I couldn’t have borrowed at all, much less carefully. Who lends to an indigent, emancipated teenager who has nothing, and for whom a decent-paying job is still four years away?
Government-insured student loans made it possible for me to go to college, and converted me from a Goldwater conservative to a lifelong Democrat. Conservative philosophy, which looked good on paper when I was a kid with no life experience, is fine for people who don’t need a government cosigner for their student loans, or unions to get them livable wages and safe working conditions. It dishes out nothing but shit to those starting from the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. I had no choice but to become a Democrat. Conservative ideology and policies forced me to be a Democrat.
It isn’t vote buying. No one bought my vote. I simply learned which party cared about me, and which one didn’t. There is no reason why someone with an IQ in the top 1% shouldn’t get a college education simply because they don’t have a family willing and able to pay for it, which was my situation. When Republicans talk about “pulling yourself up by your shoelaces,” they’re referring to people who started out with only a few million and became billionaires. They’re not talking about a penniless teenager working his way through college on $1.25 an hour.
Today a college degree is almost a necessity for a decent job. Most of those seeking degrees aren’t in a privileged status. You fuck them over enough, you’re gonna turn ’em into Democrats. That doesn’t mean the Democrats bought their votes. It means you fucked them over.
@57 “Gas companies making up for lost profits during the worst of the pandemic to oay their executives.”
To pay their shareholders, too. Don’t forget their shareholders. I got only a 1% raise this year on my Exxon stock, and only a 6% raise — less than inflation — on my Chevron stock. Last year I didn’t get an Exxon raise at all.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) experienced the tragic loss of his wife last year. Today we learned the coroner ruled her death accidental and attributed it to dehydration from gastroenteritis traceable to her ingestion of herbal supplements marketed for diabetes and weight loss.
https://www.rawstory.com/congressmans-wife-died-after-taking-herbal-remedy-marketed-for-diabetes-and-weight-loss/
https://nordot.app/935266539802869760?c=592622757532812385
Losing a Republican political wife to quack remedies is not an occasion for celebration, gloating, or “I told you so.” It’s like when a Republican’s kid gets shot at school: It’s a reason for the Republican congressman to vote for Democratic legislation to regulate the supplements industry and AR-15s.
Katelyn Burns on Twitter
BOSS LEVEL re-framing.
The jury in the Kobe Bryant crash photos lawsuit has returned a verdict of $31 million in favor of the plaintiffs.
@65, @57
Not to mention the cuts in production by OPEc right after the coming out of COVID.
Amen Katelyn.
Same Theme
Boom!
A cosplaying grandmother is looking at doing serious time.
Feds want 17 years for J6 ‘eye gouger’ who bludgeoned cop with flagpole: report
The POS former cop deserves every fucking minute it. Have fun living and dying in cellblock D, asshole.
Here’s how it’s gonna get played in 2024….
“Liberal Arts Majors with little contribution to society get their student loans paid off on the backs of America’s construction workers and factory workers….”
Ya, this is gonna blow up on the Dems bad come election time….not a good look, especially if the economy keeps faltering.
@73
Have you seen the state of our roads and bridges? Cureently not a ringing endorsement of construction workers skills and abilities. What makes them so damn superior to Liberal Arts majors?
Ever been in a Quandrant housing development? Slap-it-together at its best! Then they price gouge for inferior construction.
How do you determine value? If you are reading this, thank a teacher, whom I’m sure was grossly underpaid to teach you (and probably had some worthless humanities degree).
Chief, you appear as a mental troglodyte.
74
Uh oh, sounds like someone is all butthurt about their gender studies degree…
Musta been a “tough” major to get through…
@75
Sorry, Chief, wrong you are.
I have a science degree in one of the three classic fields of study: Chemistry, Biology, and/or Physics. It isn’t a gender studies or humanities degree, but yes, it was a “tough” degree to earn.
It appears you don’t value education. I guess that is ok, the world needs ditch diggers too.
Too funny.
Arizona AG race rocked after GOP nominee’s 2007-2010 posts on ‘Ron Paul Forums’ unearthed: report
“The posts were among thousands Hamadeh made to an online message board beginning in 2007. When he wasn’t bragging about altering ballots, he was offering antisemitic and sexist rants, backing Sheriff Joe Arpaio and arguing that voting should be limited to college graduates who pass intelligence tests.”
GOP nominee for governor Kari Lake donated to Obama in 2008.
“Obama is getting all of this crap simply cause hes (sic) black, he has an Arab name, hes (sic) the only senator who is black in the Senate, he is successful, and he is a Harvard Law graduate, they’re scared they might have a smart man in the White House,” Hamadeh wrote. “Based on Barack Obama’s intelligence I casted (sic) my vote for him yesterday through absentee.”
Obama??
The bottom line? Chief Sitstopee wouldn’t be allowed to vote. Sad.
The construction workers who are at $40/hr thanks to Build Back Better are unable to hear you over the roar of their 300hp competition bass boats.
@73
The kinds of voters that plays with haven’t voted DEM in their adult life.
Some majors are useless, check
Class resentment, check
‘Real’ Americans, check
‘I WORK for a living’, check
Meanwhile, millions of young voters who already lean DEM just had their lives get a little easier. And millions of Parents about to send their kids to college sleep a little easier. And millions of graduates trying to pay their bills at entry level wages can see a future.
Fucking hell that was a better one than I ever came up with.
@73 Why wait until 2024 to play that broken record?
@76 In the last couple years the world has needed a lot of gravediggers for construction workers who entrusted their lives to horse pills.
@77 Yeah, Chief probably hasn’t heard the GOP’s nominee for Arizona attorney general thinks only college graduates should be allowed to vote.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/08/24/abe-hamadeh-committed-voter-fraud-thats-not-why-hes-unfit-ag/7885130001/
@79 Democrats (college grads) sign Republicans’ (construction workers) paychecks.
That shit happens every time.
In an effort to avoid being labeled racists, Republicans are now putting blackface on black people.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11142877/Chicago-mayor-Lori-Lightfoot-says-skin-tone-DARKENED-political-attack-ad.html
Arizona Supreme Court says voters can’t repeal tax cuts
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-supreme-court-says-voters-cant-repeal-tax-cuts
The republican Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that tax cuts or increases enacted by the Legislature can never be blocked by opponents using the state constitution’s referendum power
So much for the will of the people statewide. Guess you will have to do the much harder task of voting out the republicans. Assuming they don’t ignore the results
Governor Ducey wants Arizona Supreme Court to toss 3 Citizen Initiatives
https://apnews.com/article/elections-arizona-phoenix-doug-ducey-88b47040f919a8c71d5de158746d5f55
One Citizen Initiative would expand voting access and roll back tightened election laws passed by the Republicans,
One limiting so-called predatory debt collection.
The last is Goddard’s political spending transparency measure that would require people who fund political campaigns through nonprofit groups to be identified.
All three initiatives were challenged by business groups.
Real disposable personal income decreased 0.6 percent, a downward revision of 0.1 percentage point.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from the BEA.
Real disposable personal income has decreased from the previous quarter in each of the past five quarters. First Vegetable Joe Biden has been in office for six quarters.
YLB’s kids deserve what’s coming.
YLB’s kids deserve what’s coming since they and their parent did not vote for Republicans who want to privatize social security and make forced birth nation wide?
Spank, spank, spank.
That’s some kinky shit going on in Missouri.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/missouri-school-district-reinstates-spanking
Bob is an idiot. It also gets real windy and rainy when a hurricane comes thru.
Look at the graph and see the huge spike before the drop to normalcy.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96
Bob is a hack
YLB’s kids deserve what’s coming since they and their parent did not vote for Republicans who made laws that Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison and $100,000 fine and will not fund child services. /s
In Texas, abortion is now punished more severely than rape.
When texas spent 20 years trying attract young professionals saying it’s state is a tax haven with good weather; then people come and your grid goes down every two seconds and people don’t actually like the weather, the taxes are high now because of property and sales taxes, and women will be forced to give birth under all circumstances.
Sounds like folks will be leaving if you ask me lol.
@87 Would’ve been six for six if Republicans had gotten their way on the pandemic relief Biden pushed through over their opposition.
I suppose we could spend all day discussing what the GOP contribution was to the other five quarters.
@85 Although public education is collapsing in Arizona and the state has some of the nation’s worst-paid teachers and a large teacher shortage, all is not lost. A useful precedent has come out of Arizona:
“Ducey, a Republican who pushed for an expansion of the court in 2016 that has allowed him to appoint six of the seven justices, backed the massive tax cut and hailed the court’s decision when it was handed down.”
More details about the court expansion here. If Republicans can get court rulings they want by packing courts, then so can Democrats. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
On the subject of student loans, it’s time to ask Republicans if forgiven PPP loans should’ve been repaid. Those loans kept paychecks flowing to a lot of blue-collar workers, including construction workers. If those workers can benefit from loan forgiveness, then why shouldn’t college grads benefit from loan forgiveness, too? I’ll bet many hardhats make more than recent college grads.
I actually am the Congresswoman in Florida’s 11th District and everyone know it.
Daniel Webster is illegitimate and my team and I will work to drive him into the ground every step of the way until he collapses in disgrace (or poor heath)
The reality is Dan Webster’s health is worse than Joe Biden’s. Everyone who has seen him recently knows it’s true.
I will force him out so the people get the representation they deserve. Now we go scorched earth (sic) on the GOP establishment and get even more aggressive in the America First hostile takeover of the Republican Party until our enemies are defeated.
*actual quote, Aug. 25th
Oh, shit. Those people, you know the ones we bought Ashley Biden’s diary from and then specifically requested they go back to Florida to try to steal more stuff. They entered a guilty plea and agreed to cooperate with further prosecutions. Has anyone seen my passport?
@94 She won in The Villages, where she may have gottenmore votes than there are registered voters. Residents there often vote twice.
I’m 100 percent forced birth.
@97 B-b-but you promised to vote against a nationwide abortion ban! We trusted you!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/senate-candidate-abortion-ad-2022/index.html
What a deadbeat loser this Fuck is, along with the rest of them Repukes.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/fox-reports-trumps-truth-social-faces-big-money-woes-owes-web-host-1-6-million-in-outstanding-payments/
The White House Twitter is kick GQP butt.
While it is true that after Washington voters elected me I cast pure, party line votes backing my Republican Majority Leader ending same sex marriage, opening up states to outlaw birth control, and requiring abortion clinics to be at least 6,000 miles from the nearest church or other house of worship, you suckers can’t say I supported an abortion ban.
Ha!
The scumbags who stole Biden’s daughter’s diary and sold it to Project Veritas are now convicted federal felons. I hope they do jail time and she sues the shit out of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/ashley-biden-steal-diary-project-veritas
@95 While you’re looking for your passport, also look up copyright law. You need her permission to publish that diary.
B-b-but you promised
*wink* *wink*
to vote against
*wink* *wink* *wink*
a nationwide abortion ban!
*wink* *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink*
We trusted you!
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Top Staffer for Major Anti-Abortion Group Arrested for Soliciting a Minor
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7b7na/anti-abortion-luke-bowen-arrested-solicitation-of-minor
Bowen allegedly “knowingly” solicited a minor online “with the intent” of engaging “in sexual contact or sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse,”
“I swear to god, officer, she said she was 54 trimesters.”
and
“Breaking news: GOP decides that because pregnant girls of all ages must carry their babies to term, there is no need to bother with a legal age of consent.”
and
“It’s always kids with these conservatives. “
President Joe Biden’s RCP approval average has risen 5.1 points since July 20th.
God bless President Joe Biden.
I’m 100 percent *wink* *wink*.
@106 Don’t use superglue to stick your lashes on. You won’t be able to wink if you glue your eyes shut.
Gas prices dropped another cent overnight. Down $1.30 in just a couple months. Chicken wing prices are back where they were before the pandemic. Milk prices are back where they were in 2019. Broccoli, the staple of the Crudité is falling and near 2019 levels.
Maybe the Former Guy really did drive it into the ditch and Democrats needed to wait for the tow to get us back on the road again just like they’ve been saying.
The Federal Reserve looks like they’re going to get tough on inflation, which is exactly what they should do with their limited tool kit of financial devices. Unfortunately, there will be pain for all of us while inflation is put under control.
As far as I can tell, the only thing we learned from the MAL search warrant affidavit is that in June when DOJ CounterIntel served the last subpoena on Trump at MAL Trump’s parking lot attorney concluded that DOJ would probably seek a search warrant. So they drafted and sent a letter to DOJ outlining their (quite erroneous) reasons why such a search warrant would not be proper. They included with the letter a demand that the letter be shared with any judge considering such a search warrant. So DOJ went (shrug?), and included the stupid, vapid letter with the affidavit.
It’s kind of remarkable in a couple of ways. Just to have included the letter in the affidavit is remarkable. It has no bearing on the 4th amendment reasons justifying a non-permissive search. Especially since it is a judge’s duty to protect the 4th amendment rights of a target when considering a search warrant. A judge is as likely to be insulted by it as ignore it. But it’s also quite remarkable because it proves that in June Trump expected a search warrant. And even more so because in the stupid fucking idiot letter Trump argues that he can’t be prosecuted for retaining classified documents. Which proves that at the time the letter was drafted in June Trump knew he was withholding classified documents covered by the June subpoena.
Receipts. Fuck me.
Seems likely the defense at this point will have to morph yet again to the position that, despite whatever “The Derp State” says, Trump’s sincerely held belief was/is that he has a legal right to keep any document he likes. That’s cute. And it might work with any other prosecuting agency. But DOJ is conditioned in these cases to specifically notify targets suspected of having improperly retained classified material or other government property about what the actual fucking law says. Trump received the last such notice in June in person, hand delivered. And his parking lot attorney signed a sworn statement to that effect.
They knew they were breaking the law. And they didn’t give a fuck.
Count on Garland to be personally invested in this now. It was and is a personal affront to the Attorney General and a general affront to all federal law enforcement by a retired TV celebrity living in a private sex club in Florida. Assume that Garland will be as thorough and as painstaking as is humanly possible. But this will be a subject of daily update memos and weekly staff meetings from this point forward. Making a case against Donald J. Trump just became an agency focus. God help him. Because nobody else can.
I do see one out for Trump in all this.
He has to get one of his parking lot attorneys to take it all on themselves. Another Safety School Attorney. If he can convince somebody to play the jabroni for him, and do it convincingly, then he could escape indictment. But it’ll have to be one helluva sell job.
This would also explain why Trump has been heretofore unable to retain qualified criminal attorneys to assist him. He has a rather unfortunate record of somehow putting how own attorneys in criminal peril. I suspect that attorneys smart enough to protect themselves by refusing to be implicated in his criminal schemes are dismissed from his service. Attorneys not quite smart enough to be sure of themselves in those circumstances, but still smart enough to see the risk, quit. And that leaves the parking lot attorneys.
Trump clearly declassified all of that material by using his big sharpie and writing “not” in front of “top secret”. So there. Witch Hunt! Look! there goes another of Hunter’s laptops! Something something butt stuff something something!
Vote Republican. We hurt the people you hate.
@108 today’s headline that inflation has dopped, the first time in 2 years. Well Biden….Thank God for President Joseph Biden…..has only been President for less than 2 years. Inflation was already on the rise becuase of the Fuck Hump and the Pandemic. Now I’m not going to say the Joe Biden didn’t do anything to contribute, but let’s face it that this isn’t all Joe Biden’s fault.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-falls-in-july-for-first-time-in-two-plus-years-key-gauge-shows-due-to-falling-gas-prices-11661517617
Gas prices aren’t Joe Biden’s fault. The citizens of the United States, We the People, are partly to blame, in that we have increased consumption by driving much faster post pandemic. Increase demand in a time when supply was also cut by producing Nations has contributed to the price of gas.
2 months ago it was close to or just over $5.00/gal in Delaware. And today it is $3.69/gallon. Labor Day weekend is coming up, so no gas station will be dropping the price for the next month. Then the war in Ukraine, and producing nations cut in supply…..that will do it!
Conservatives who can’t win on policy having nothing other than exploiting issues. Bunch of fucking losers!
Including those that are sheepish enough to vote for us! Thank you, you Log Cabin queers!
I notice that Carl, possibly the worst liberal blogger in America, has been missing. While I don’t like the guy much and believe the reigns should have been handed over to Elijah and Roger, I do hope he’s okay.
Semi-fascist? No, my president, the GQP is the real thing.
God bless President Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden‘s approval rating in the past month has skyrocketed, jumping six points after massive successes in getting his legislative agenda passed. At 44%, Biden’s approval rating is now higher than the approval ratings of Donald Trump (41%), Barack Obama (43%), Bill Clinton (39%), Jimmy Carter (43%), and Ronald Reagan (41%) at this point in their presidencies.
The low IQ Nazi traitor is really struggling to find himself a ‘safe space’.
Projecting projection. That’s some strange shit, but that’s what it’s come to.
Fascist Stephen Miller reacting to Biden’s “semi-fascism” remark,
“Well, I think Freud called that projection. If you want to know what the fascist party is in America, it’s Joe Biden’s Democratic party,” Miller opined.
“My house provides shelter. The White House provides shade.”
113,
We all need to stick a pin in it and remember what this felt like a year from now.
Once violent Republicans seize control of the House in January nothing else meaningful to the lives of honest, loyal Americans will get done. The media will lazily revert to lamenting the “failure” of bipartisanship and try to blame Biden. It’s up to all of us to never stop reminding everyone all the time how much good was accomplished in less than two years.
Republicans had the same thing in 2017-2018 and all they did with it was give Trump a huge tax break, take healthcare away from poor kids, and outlaw abortion.
If we want it back we will have to work every day.
You guys are turning Trump into a sympathetic character.
What happens to people who go to court with garbage allegations and shit evidence is predictable.
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-mark-finchem/
@109 Should’ve put your Covid relief checks in a savings account like I did. You didn’t really think there’s such a thing as free money, did you?
@110 Another thing we learned from the affidavit is that the secret documents were mixed in with newspapers, magazines, and personal correspondence.
Which suggests the defense is going to be he lacked the requisite intent to violate the Espionage Act because he can’t tell the difference between secret documents and the contents of a paper recycling bin.
Also, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian posing as a Rothschild heiress came and went at Mar-a-Lago more or less as she pleased. No word yet on whether she was an avid newspaper and magazine reader.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mar-a-lago-spies/
Putin is losing on all fronts, including the propaganda war..
Saint Javelin
@saintjavelin
David Attenborough presents…
BBC Planet Ukraine – HIMARS
“Turning the depots into assembly lines for new Ladas”
Heh. A David Attenborough voiceover actor. Well done!
Orange meltdown.
“Affidavit heavily redacted!!!” the former President wrote. “Nothing mentioned on “Nuclear,” a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ, or our close working relationship regarding document turnover – WE GAVE THEM MUCH. Judge Bruce Reinhart should NEVER have allowed the Break-In of my home. He recused himself two months ago from one of my cases based on his animosity and hatred of your favorite President, me. What changed? Why hasn’t he recused himself on this case? Obama must be very proud of him right now!”
“A Handmaid’s tale: Who really killed Roe v. Wade?”
In which Roger Rabbit posits that Jesse Barrett cast the deciding vote in the Dobbs case.
http://handbill.us/2022/08/26/.....oe-v-wade/
They have them on intent already.
First, because he was notified in writing and his lawyers signed off in June.
And second because in the self-implicating letter included with the affidavit they make it abundantly clear that they understood by June that they still had marked documents in their possession.
Timeline:
-They were informed by letter, and had it all carefully spelled out for them.
-They signed a declaration saying they had received and understood the letter.
-They received a final subpoena demanding the return.
-They wrote their own letter admitting they might intentionally withhold documents conforming to the subpoena.
Chances are very good that if his parking lot lawyers ever get their shit together long enough to successfully complete a filing, it too will contain admissions of criminal intent.
@128 Your arguments go no further than raising the question of whether an insentient client should be imputed the knowing willfulness of his sentient lawyers.
Proving what he didn’t understand, and when he didn’t understand it, shouldn’t be a problem because the lawyers likely will turn state’s evidence after he refuses to pay them and they have nothing to lose by violating attorney-client privilege because they’re already been disbarred following their own felony convictions.
@121 “You guys are turning Trump into a sympathetic character.”
That happens every time the cops kick the crap out of a suspect who took a swing at them, too. But that’s not a good reason to treat him with kindness.
@126 Damn Obama! Nothing racist about The FuckHump. Nothing at all!
I don’t know that they’ll need to be violent to overthrow the government. The Republican legislatures have already set it up so if they don’t like any voting results they’ll just nullify them
Inna Yashchyshyn, Lindsey Graham and Trump giving treason a thumbs up.
129,
Agreed.
He can get out by throwing lawyers under the bus. But only if they agree to play along, or by proving non compos..
Uh, Mr. Thiel, can I call you Peter, oh ok Mr. Thiel. I have a real problem. There’s a ton of stuff I put online and now I’m trying to get rid of it and I know you’ve already spent millions trying to get me elected but the GOP had abandoned me and I’m losing and could you maybe I invent the internet and get all that old stuff taken care of?