It is election night in Washington. Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for discussion and good cheer over a drink. So drop off your ballot, if needed, and then swing by the Roanoke.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You’ll find us on the back patio.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
Another large black organization is pulling out of Florida:
“The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) announced plans to move Florida conferences previously scheduled for 2024 and 2025 to other states, citing a potential ‘hostile’ environment for their members.”
https://www.rawstory.com/conference-florida/
And that’s not the only one:
“More than half a dozen planned conventions in Broward County, which encompasses the Fort Lauderdale area, have been scrapped in recent months, according to a list drawn up by the county’s tourism promotion group Visit Lauderdale and reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“’We lost this program due to political climate,’ Visit Lauderdale notes on a decision by the Supreme Council of America Inc., Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Masons to cancel its meeting, planned for August next year. It also canceled 855 hotel rooms.”
https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-tourism/
Trump may have got lucky in Florida, but he drew the short straw in D.C.: An Obama-appointed black female hanging judge.
https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-2662671625/
When Trump gets five indictments, he gets a free sandwich.
4)Isn’t it just Georgia that is left.
Never heard of this problem when I was using the STA?
https://www.kxly.com/news/two-sta-buses-back-in-service-following-confirmed-reports-of-bed-bugs/article_e6d8f572-30b7-11ee-958c-97a423ea987a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_4_News_Now&fbclid=IwAR3St7Il6S8hyL5Pz9ywipStQoXDmDlXhNWCrSZnuHICOH6OHH3_zKrAThE_aem_ATLVYS5JJeKK6dsp-8dYtLhBFUO9yR9doVvGAwNARPPE3XTQJnwH6BSd-PJxGe0z_a8
Of course they did. Russians will behave like Russians.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/report-russian-forces-carried-out-war-crimes-on-kherson-prisoners.html
It’s stupid to torture prisoners, because when the word gets out — and it will — that just motivates your enemy to fight to the death, and do it to your guys. Some of our Republicans are that stupid, too.
Hunter Biden was an influencer peddler who had no influence to peddle. He should be sued for fraud and misrepresentation.
Florida is turning into a leper colony while the governor is off junketing in Iowa.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/health/leprosy-central-florida/index.html
10 Desantist is going to stay away from Florida until the witch doctors have performed the proper exorcisms. Don’t worry he’ll blame trans kids and LGBTQ people and books for the spread of leprosy.
This race flew under the radar. Only learned of it yesterday, the Richland School Board recall. Looks like all three members up for recall have lost, although Semi Bird still says he’s running for Governor. I thought Richland would be in favor of those who defied the mask mandates.
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article277824893.html
Bond ratings company Fitch has downgraded US debt. I suppose that selling a trillion dollars of debt instruments this quarter isn’t helping the US cause.
Bidenomics means debt quality downgrade. Debt quality downgrade means higher interest expense.
Queen YLB’s fucked kids will bear the burden.
“Fitch Ratings lowered the U.S.’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA Tuesday night, citing ‘expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years.’”
And what is that fiscal deterioration?
“’The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management,’ Fitch said.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
In short, Republican brinkmanship and irresponsibility is driving up interest costs on the U.S. debt, wasting taxpayers’ money.
@12 ” I suppose that selling a trillion dollars of debt instruments this quarter isn’t helping the US cause.”
Gee, could that be because Treasury hit its borrowing limit in January, and needs to replenish the coffers it emptied to get through June?
It’s not like we didn’t know this was coming. The media reported weeks ago there’d be a summer surge in Treasury bond sales because of the debt ceiling standoff.
It’s already priced into the stock market, dumbkopf.
Wisconsin Supreme Court finally flipped signalling the end of conservative-white-minority rule in Wisconsin.
The presumptive Republican nominee has now taken to directly comparing his self-imposed criminal plight to that of Jews in the Holocaust.
I will truly enjoy watching him and his vile supporters suffer in the coming years.
Trump will now become more dangerous in a sense.
Facing the vast weight and impact of all the criminal charges now laid before the public, with his very existence on the line, surrounded by a dimwitted mob of obsequious goons all vying to please him and backed by a vast media machine and tens of millions of completely mindless Republican supporters, and with absolutely zero moderating institutional or political influences, he, his campaign, and his Republican supporters will attempt to deploy far more dangerous, and extreme schemes and conspiracies than they did in their fever following his 2020 defeat.
American democracy will still have a lot to weather and survive over the next eighteen months. Probably more than we have so fay.
As a point of reference for what the coming election troubles might entail, the information in yesterday’s Indictment includes recordings of conversations among senior, high ranking Trump White House officials in which they describe their contingency plans to slaughter US citizens if any should attempt to oppose their planned coup.
And for 2024 they will go further.
Confidential to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit:
@18 Post a link to that please.
@ 13
I’ll save my response for the Wednesday thread, but Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, rather than merely cherry-picking CNBC’s summary to something as noteworthy as a downgrade of US creditworthiness, you really should go to the source.
Fitch’s statement is here.
@ 14
If the issues causing the downgrade were already priced into the market, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, we would not have seen the slide in the indices that we saw this morning.
Dipped into the /r/Conservatives discussion on the Trump indictment. Surprisingly there was much resigned discussion, that had not be removed by the mods, that nominating trump would give Biden four more years. A couple of posters even said trump was more toxic than Hillary, they still loved him, but he just wasn’t electable. No discussion on who to replace him with.
@ 22
Dipped into the /r/Conservatives discussion on the Trump indictment.
Dipped into the HA discussion on the worsening evidence of Joe Biden’s personal corruption.
No discussion on who to replace him with.
No discussion on who to replace Biden with.
No discussion on who to replace Biden with.
Gavin Newsom would be fine.
worsening evidence of Joe Biden’s personal corruption.
That republicans can’t find evidence of.
@15
Given that the race was largely run on abortion and the ‘Women’s Rights’ candidate won quite easily….
I don’t see Wisconsin being in play for the GOP in 2024.
So that’s one Trump to Biden state that they’re not getting back anytime soon.
@23
Widening…
Hannity to Comer, “Do you believe you will be able to prove that?”
Comer, “I sure hope so…And I do believe where there’s smoke there’s fire.”
Translation, we’ve been at this now for months and I came on the show and told you that Archer blew the lid off this today with his testimony but I STILL don’t have anywhere near enough evidence.” Beliefs aren’t evidence.
The shell of a shill you’ve become would be sad if it weren’t ‘TOOOOOO DAMNNNNN FUNNYYYYYYYYY!’
Dylan Mulvaney loves him some Gavin Newsom.
Queen YLB, is this good for your fucked kids, too?
Sheila Oliver, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor and a prominent Black leader, dies at 71
@20. Nevermind. Its in the indictments.
“If the American people object to our overthrowing the democratic process and protest, we can use the us military and kill them”
@28. The greedy racist incel is happy a powerful black woman is dead.