Please join us on Tuesday evening as Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for some conversation and good cheer over a drink.
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.
Why is it that Republicans think Trump is some sort of amalgam of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Rush Limbaugh? The truth is he’s just an old, fat, whiny, rapist leveraged up to his neck with debt from literally dozens of bad business decisions. You’ll notice that the only way to make Trump look like the tough guy that they all want in the White House, is to portray him doing things that he has never done in his life. Things like riding a motorcycle, shooting a machine gun or riding on the top of a tank. The imagery they always present is literally cartoonish, like something out of a pulp-paper comic book that was drawn by someone who wasn’t even good enough to make the Marvel Universe.
The man has never once done a hard day’s work in his life. Such a thing is completely alien to him. He has never put a deep scratch on his back on a rusty nail. He’s never had permanent black stains and calluses on his hands or dirt under his fingernails, he’s never once had to be in a position where he’s had to get up at four in the morning to drive a crappy car for an hour to get to a shitty job for barely enough money to make his rent, keep the lights on and eat decently for another week.
Hell, the man inherited nearly half a Billion dollars and literally blew through the entire fortune in under six years with nothing to show for it except a large portfolio of vanity projects and status symbols.
It’s a cult, and for some reason the cultists all seem to think he’s the Second Coming of Jesus, Moses and King Suleman all wrapped up in a gauche, narcissistic and vacuous twit.
he’s just an old, fat, whiny, rapist
in a balloon of a suit.. don’t we all know it?
He’s what all its males cultist aspire to be.. the female cultists wouldn’t mind being grabbed you know where by their favorite “star”…
And they believe all that shit “pwns teh libs”… One wishes it would all just go away and it will go away one day like Timmeh Lieman here locally faded away but not without doing a fuckton of damage and all the media attention to these kind of political shit shows being so boring and tiresome.
“In polling by the Pew Research Center, Republicans expressed much less confidence than Democrats about scientists in general and medical scientists in particular.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/politics/trump-gop-debate-fault-lines/index.html
Doctor Dumbfuck can’t mingle with his own political kind. That’s why he has horses, goats, and chickens to keep him company. Paraphrasing Bess Truman, “If you want a friend in his crowd, feed a chicken.”
@1 The article linked @3 explains it, about as best as anyone can.
No worries. Noboby is watching or cares. Much smaller issues to harp about.
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is accepted and normal behavior, nothing to see here.
https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/definitely-a-tragic-loss-family-remembers-alicia-lofton-woman-shot-and-killed-by-husband
Woman Heterosexual Neanderthal Virs strikes back!
Take that bitches!
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/wife-sentenced-killing-apd-officer-stanley-lawrence/85-3e766cb0-1625-4c55-8ea7-ef1621544362
Not surprising:
The murderer of a mom in Lake Arrowhead is a far right religious zealot who’s social media is littered with anti gay posts and reposts of various hate media Anti-gay propaganda.
Surprising:
Many of those reposts are Andy Ngo. (No one told him?)
@1
One thing we’re gonna get out of the booking.
Trump’s actual weight. You know, the fittest healthiest president ever. Ronnie Jackson said, in ‘well just look at him and you know THAT’S bullshit’ fashion 239 which is coincidentally just one pound under obese for a 6’3″ male.
I’m betting it’s somewhere in the 275 range.
Rising fast in the GOP:
I mean it’s not like a full passenger manifest hasn’t been public for 21 years, Vivek
Tell me your thoughts on the viability of steel and iron tensile strength at high temperatures. If you look at all the news footage, do you see the charges in the building go off? Like if we all just look as closely as you have, Vivek?
Add all the ones who KNOW the truth that it was stollen, the crazies who think Biden could ever beat me but want me back anyway and I’m coasting to the nomination. Yuge. Yuge margin of victory.
LMAO.. a little gift for our silly kreepshit troll:
The occasion was the opening of Claremont’s new Florida outpost, under the aegis of Scott Yenor, a professor at Boise State University and a Claremont fellow, now the institute’s new “senior director of state coalitions.” “Protecting Americans from infringing woke ideology is important work,” tweeted Ms. DeSantis, “and we are grateful Scott and the Claremont Institute picked Florida to continue their mission.”..
The real victims of higher-education discrimination, Dr. Yenor wrote, were men: Florida should “order civil rights investigations of all university units in which women vastly outnumber men among the student body and/or faculty — especially colleges of nursing and education — for disparate impact” and root out “any anti-male elements of curriculum.” (At New College, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported in August, DeSantis allies have boosted male enrollment in part by doling out a disproportionate share of the school’s merit scholarships to a new crop of student-athlete applicants, though that group had lower-than-average grades and test scores.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-education.html
Ya see how that worked out kreepshit? What happened to merit? Went down the fucking drain in favor of putting the thumb on the scale for “lower than average” dumb jocks.. lmao… FL will be PERFECT for your grandkids after pop pop finishes “training” them, amirite??? heh..
https://i.redd.it/2008-vibes-v0-wid592ge9ojb1.png?s=dd8b84d4f26687b8131a081a300068e9c2306ab7
People who disagree are like, “Its different. People can afford it and banks aren’t giving out bad loans”
“So let me ask you this. Housing prices are up 50% in two years while salaries are not. Mortgage rates are climbing and already between 7-8%. People are emptying their bank accounts and 401ks to use as down payments. Lets say we enter recession and people lose their jobs and now have no liquid cash to make monthly payments. How do you think this ends? Mass defaults. And even if rates drop, you won’t be able to refinance if property values go down and you’re underwater on the mortgage.”
Fear of Missing Out on a home, people are forgoing inspections and over paying just to beat out other home buyers and the investment vultures and the greed boomers who want to buy a third house and TicTok flippers who think this is easy money. Lack of government oversight has tilted the property buying ecology away from actual home owners toward the whims of the investors. Buyers are getting angry and desperate, pissed that the government is hurting and ignoring them.
8,
There is a very active betting line in Vegas and elsewhere speculating about what the final number will be.
It’s going to be unpleasant for everyone.
https://twitter.com/BobOnMarkets/status/1693953587343220951
The greedy racist incel lied a couple of days ago about all the house churn.
There is almost no house churn.
Nobody, who is not forced by death, divorce or job change, is going to sell their home at a 3% mortgage to buy a more expensive home at 7.5% mortgage. Even then, they are will try to rent it first. What investment firm is going to sell their thousands of 3% mortgage proprieties unless they are decrepit that repairs would cost too much to be profitable on a 3% debt.
The few sellers won’t come down, because at 3%, they can cover the mortgage payments for a long time and they feel they deserve to get 10% over their god given 2021 Zillow estimate.
There are no homes at reasonable prices available. Non boomers are screwed.
12,
Lots and lots of pubic interventions on the financial side.
Absolutely zero on the supply side.
And local policies that restrict supply.
14,
“The greedy racist incel lied …
…this is water.
Convicted felon thought leader of GOP, Steve Bannon, sent one of his anal sucking minions to Maui hoping to score some “first hand accounts” of President Biden’s stuttering causing a wildfire or some shit.
But then it turns out the Bannon parasite books himself into resort lodging, posts socials of himself frolicking on the beach near Lahina, and drinking from coconuts, and otherwise burdening the desperately scarce local resources to enjoy a tax deductible expense account vacation. So angry locals tracked his ass down and humiliated him on a live feed:
https://secondnexus.com/nick-sortor-confronted-maui-resident
The term MAGAt is unfair to all the fly larvae currently feeding on the bloated and scorched carcasses of dead children.
When a Republican tells you exactly who they are,
believe them.
Wherein Trump declares himself a flight risk.
https://www.rawstory.com/is-trump-a-flight-risk/
But why does he think he’d live a golden life in Russia after he’s no longer useful to Putin?
@11 Behold white male victimology — a conservative specialty — in full flower.
Too many nurses are women.
@11 A progressive is someone who thinks the solution to that is more women becoming doctors instead of nurses.
But why does he think he’d live a golden life in Russia after he’s no longer useful to Putin?
cuz’ he’d revive the Apprentice on Russian TV w/ Tara Reade at the desk, ushering the stooges in…
@17
“I…I’m being doxed. It’s terrifying.”
What a bunch of whiny little cucks they really are. “Someone came up to me on the street in public and started talking to me and I just can’t handle the stress. I fear for my life. I wish I could stand my ground!”
22,
That part is a largely predictable act. Like Andy Ngo, rectum sucking parasites like this pose as “journalists” not just to obtain credibility and privilege, but also to cover themselves in a fake veneer of “objectivity”.
IRL this dude is a real estate salesman from the big island.
He hit upon the brilliant idea that if he could pretend to be a “reporter for a legitimate news org” that would allow him to catch a shuttle to Maui for a day or two. All that was required was a ruse that he would be there to do some “legit journalism” instead of political disaster tourism, and that he would not burden local resources by “bringing his own tent”. That would give him a toe in the door with the burgeoning authoritarian media-sphere and allow him to write it all off. But it would also allow him to prey upon West Maui locals with fire damaged homes who might be interested in a quick liquidation for a low-ball cash offer from a licensed grifter.
By now he’s back at the beach bar at Lava Lava sexually harassing servers, under-tipping and presumably trying to impress people with his stories about “helping with the disaster relief”.
The fear he expresses is probably very real, however. The big island is much more rural and less dominated by industrial tourism compared to Oahu and Maui. And the locals have very particular and keenly held views about colonialism. He could also return to find his house has been burned down.
Incompetent local Republican attorney wins free vacation:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/attorney-for-2020-gubernatorial-candidate-loren-culp-suspended-for-frivolous-vote-fraud-claims/
If you weren’t following along.
Spain won the women’s world cup and that’s quite a story. After winning the Euro Cup 15 members of the team publicly resigned saying head coach Jorge Vilda was abusive to players AND the disparity of practice facilities and travel accommodations between the men’s team and the women’s team was unacceptable.
Spanish Federation President Luis Rubiales said, “Nah, we’re keeping the coach.” In the leadup to selection for the world cup team 12 of the players resubmitted to the team and three were on the Cup winning squad. If you want to go and watch any video of the celebration and medal ceremony after it is clear with players dancing and smiling that not one of them is including the coach until FIFA asked for the traditional (and REQUIRED) photo of the coach being hoisted in the air.
But here’s where it gets weird. At the trophy presentation Luis Rubiales grabbed all-time leading scorer Jennifer Hermoso and kissed her on the lips. At this point, 2023, every single man on Earth should be aware that is a sexual assault without consent. Calls for Rubiales to resign are now louder than you could imagine with even the Spanish Prime Minister weighing in.
The Spanish Federation begged Hermoso to appear alongside Rubiales for his apology video. There are some reports that FIFA also mad a request for her to appear. I believe her response may have been, ” Vete a tomar por culo.” In that video Rubiales refers to his critics as ‘idoits’ before offering the traditional not really an apology statement.
At this point, 2023, every single man on Earth should be aware that is a sexual assault without consent.
yabut teh kapuless’ team wun…
(rolls eyes)…
OMG
“Biden pet a golden retriever! How disrespectful. How out of touch. he even thought the dog was the boss!”
Vicious Troll in a bit after Daily
StormerCaller tells him how to think about a pet owner doing normal shit any pet owner might do when a Golden wanders up looking for some attention.If you ever wondered if Repubs have floating ethics just look at their reactions to Trump’s making fun of a disabled reporter- crickets. Biden petting a dog- FURY.
28,
Just look at Ken Paxton.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/burner-phones-mistress-on-payroll-revelations-emerge-about-texas-ag-ken-paxtons-relationship-to-developer-nate-paul/
It isn’t enough for a modern Republican to engage in routine official corruption in office, securities fraud, taking bribes, and obstruction. They always gotta spice up the gumbo with some prostitution, secret sex dungeon, and Yacht/Cocaine/Hookers.
@29 Same link:
The details come less than three weeks before Paxton faces his impeachment trial in the Texas Senate. They accuse him of using a fake Uber account so he could visit his mistress, and using burner phones and secret personal email accounts as well.
Paxton, who remains suspended without pay after being impeached in late May, is accused of abusing his power as attorney general to benefit himself and Paul. The documents, filed by the House impeachment managers, state Paul hired Paxton’s reported mistress at his Austin firm so Paxton could see her more easily, rather than traveling to San Antonio where she once lived.
Will Paxton’s wifey-poo who serves in the TexASS State Senate “stand by her man”?
Take it away Angela…
https://youtu.be/58fL8UAr3xU?t=118
Pistol packin’ mama?? heh.. Methinks Ken fears for its nuts…
Here we go again:
“A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission. … The new variant, also spotted in Michigan last week, is causing concern because it stems from an ‘earlier branch’ of the coronavirus, so it differs from the variants targeted by current vaccines. … The mutant strain set off alarm bells when it was spotted last week, immediately prompting calls from some quarters for masks to return.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12433597/bax-ba286-second-case-covid-usa-virginia-japan.html
This variant apparently produces relatively mild symptoms compared to the original virus and some previous variants, so it might not kill off a lot of Trump voters — just run up hospital bills to be picked up by those of us who pay insurance premiums — but I never wanted anybody to get sick and die. I just couldn’t prevent it in their case, that’s all. God helps those who help themselves, and nature weeds out the stupid specimens of every species. Lord knows I tried; I bought stock in Covid vaccine makers; and if they can’t sell them vaccines, my companies lose profits, I lose a rise in stock prices, and they lose their lives. Frankly I think I’m on the better end of that trade.
30,
Wow.
That one little USA Freedom Kid grew old and wrinkled up fast.
I suppose she must have eaten the other four.
@24 By default. He didn’t even respond to the bar complaint.
@27 So now Republicans are criticizing Biden for petting a dog? Reminds me of what Jimmy Carter said about the presidency: “In this job, you’re going to be criticized no matter what you do.”
@32 “30, Wow.”
Yeah, it’s that bad.
wow…its 5:19pm and no shootings yet today in Seattle.
small miracles!
#urbanliving
@36,
Sadly at this time we are not able to report that there have been no incidents of Republican Patriots tasing themselves in the ball sack today.
The new winning streak begins tomorrow.
@ 14
Nobody, who is not forced by death, divorce or job change, is going to sell their home at a 3% mortgage to buy a more expensive home at 7.5% mortgage.
I said nothing about churn.
And not all homes have mortgages. We don’t have any – they’re all owned free and clear. 23% of the homes in the United States are mortgage-free.
That’s nearly one in four homes without a mortgage. Plenty of people who don’t give two shits about what mortgage rates are, because they don’t have to, because they have cash.
What they might care about is whether turning their home equity into cash is worth more than rent, minus taxes, insurance, and upkeep. We’re about to sell a rental house just for that reason – we are tired of being landlords, and at 5% money market rates we’re a few hundred dollars per month better off with the cash, exclusive of appreciation. And we can get appreciation by investing our cash if we so choose.
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, you seem to think that the home sale market is frozen by higher interest rates. It’s not. People merely are thinking differently now. You fuckin’ idiot.
Ramaswamy had his “And what is Aleppo?” moment last night.
In context it’s not quite that bad. But it’s unserious.
A computer doesn’t have to have much firepower to replace the intelligence of The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Hell, two cans and a string are about all that’s needed for that.
40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study
Perp tried that in a small town.
Concealed Carry Hero Holds Onto His 6-Pack While Taking Down Armed Robber
Cassopolis, MI. 2021 population 1,704.
In a 12 page response filed today following questions from remarkably incompetent Judge Cannon in SDF, the DOJ revealed more details about the three Tump employees implicated in the criminal indictment of Trump.
We now know that Yucil Taveras and Carlos De Oliviera both gave false answers in FBI interviews and lied before a grand jury seated in Washington DC. Soon after Trump’s indictment in June, Taveras fired his attorney who was being paid by the RNC and Trump and engaged new counsel. Then he subsequently revised his testimony to the DC grand jury and implicated De Oiviera, Waltine Nauta, and Trump in the effort to obstruct the investigation by attempting to destroy surveillance recordings.
The lies to the FBI, and before the grand jury sitting in DC establish that the conspiracy to obstruct is/was still ongoing. The ongoing efforts by two of the four, including those previously sharing coordinated co-counsel, now provides the legal justification for the DC grand jury continuing to sit and hear evidence even after Trump’s indictment in June. Since Taveras was at the time of the ongoing obstruction represented by the same attorney as Waltine Nauta, indicted in June with Trump, the truly incompetent Judge Cannon will now have to hold a hearing to explore whether or not that attorney may continue to represent Waltine Nauta.
The “flooded” server room was at Trump’s order, conveyed via Nauta and De Oliviera.
And this is the “better” of the four criminal indictments for Trump.
These guys track record when it comes to forecasting the future direction of technology is… a thing.
Hey, the got at least one unemployed radiology tech to listen.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/ups-workers-approve-new-labor-contract.html
Real wages!
The price of taking chicks with dicks seriously.
Buying opportunity for the likes of Bill Gates. Unlike Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, Gates can afford to be wrong.
Aaaahhhhhh Yes, nothing to see here, you can just ignore it, well becasue you’re superior beings and can’t relate to your own kind.
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus strikes again…and again, and again, and again, and again, and again……..well, you’ve gotten the drift to that by now.
https://people.com/michigan-man-charged-allegedly-killing-wife-day-after-filed-divorce-7734917
Ladies – you don’t need men. They want to fuck you, get you pregnant, but don’t want to take care of the kids. They don’t want to be a dad, they just looking to groom you bitches.
Call 1-666-YOU-DEAD bitch! You are stupid for falling into this trap and not recognizing that your men have a violent STD.
And another. Gone. Why? Because we don’t care, like we care about Chicago, Chicago, Chicago!
Ban the Books you bitch of a fake Mom. Ban the Books.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article278498484.html
This is the Heterosexual society superiority.
Breeding will not save them!
@ 44
Real wages!
Not for the Teamsters dudes who used to work for Yellow. But hey, there were only 22,000 of them. Gotta kiss a few frogs, amirite?
@38 “Plenty of people who don’t give two shits about what mortgage rates are, because they don’t have to, because they have cash.”
Yeah, and most of them are over age 60, have settled in and put down roots, and their homes will be sold by their kids when they move into a pine box.
Of course, there will always be a few who get divorced in their 70s, sell the house to pay off the ex-wife, and move into a trailer in Costa Rica because they can’t afford anything else after they can’t tap the wife’s Social Security anymore.
@48 UPS probaly needs some drivers.
They should gowork for a company that that probabaly skimmed the profits for the top.
@38 “We’re about to sell a rental house … we are tired of being landlords, and at 5% money market rates we’re … better off with the cash ….”
In other words, the ex-doctor who’s been bragging about his rental houses has been making less than 5% return on said rental houses …
“And we can get appreciation by investing our cash if we so choose.”
Of course you can. By buying more Tesla and Generac options, for example. As you’ve told us many times, you never swing and miss, and your options trades are a sure thing. I’ll bet during your Little League career you hit every pitch ever thrown at you, too.
” … we are tired of being landlords … “
A lot of possible scenarios come to mind that might cause a person to tire of being a landlord.
The one that leaps into my mind first is getting sued for calling a tenant the “N” word …
@39 I’m beginning to wonder if Trump paid Ramaswamy under the table to run to make Trump look good by comparison.
@45 We’re supposed to feel sorry for a conglomerate that buys up beer brands, and then ruins the beer? But you’re right, the trans marketing gambit was a mistake. They should’ve done more research into who was still drinking their beer.
@48 They won’t struggle to find new jobs, if they want them.
https://www.rapidresponsestl.com/truck-driver-shortage-2023/
we are tired of being landlords, and
being played for dumb asses by zoomer rednecks sporting maga caps and alluring baby mommas..
out goes the baby momma, in comes the beer/blunt buddies and out in full view is the junker on blocks..
heh.. the cherry on top..
Yellow Freight is just a indicator of what’s to come.. The whole corporate sector is leveraged to the gills. Less than a dozen corps at the top have almost all the cash.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-corporate-bankruptcies-highest-level-since-2010-2023-05-09/
But the Fed won’t pivot until a lot more shit breaks.. 402 Corporate bankruptcies ytd.. Kinda scary..
Just imagine how a 40% unemployment in 3 years would crash the the economy. I know some of them would find new jobs but imagine the compassionate conservatives response to all those unemployed people.
Houston woman charged with killing landlord, hiding body, collecting rent from other tenant
>> Good reason for are getting out of landlord business
@ 51
…making less than 5% return on said rental houses …
If you exclude price appreciation for SFR Seattle area homes in the last 23 years then, yeah, it’s been a real fucking disappointment.
@ 57
402 Corporate bankruptcies ytd.. Kinda scary..
Queen YLB, where have you been, girlfriend? This economy is what QoS McHillbilly terms The Biden Economic Miracle.
@ 52
The one that leaps into my mind first is getting sued for calling a tenant the “N” word …
That’s the household language you grew up hearing and then using, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, so I have no doubt it’s the first thing you thought of, and neither do the rest of HA’s regulars.
This economy is what QoS McHillbilly terms The Biden Economic Miracle.
yaaaawwwwn.. and where have you been O kreepshit know it all?
When the Fed was holding down interest rates near zero for so long getting the corporate sector addicted to cheap borrowed munee..
and then jacking interest rates perilously high in a record short period of time?
yawwwwnn.. o ye of babbling so well to your vaunted “seriousness” and “intelligence”…
Remember the time the incel troll let down his guard and openly advocated for Plessy (separate but equal)?
Cuz I still do.
@ 63
and where have you been O kreepshit know it all?
When the Fed was holding down interest rates near zero for so long getting the corporate sector addicted to cheap borrowed munee..
Not just the corporate sector. Many, many people used 3% mortgages as an excuse to pay inflated prices for homes, and many more decided that if 3% for 30 years was good, then 1.7% for 3 years before rate adjustment was even better, and bid those homes up even further.
Where was I? Sitting on rapidly appreciating real estate. The rental properties have done for us what we wanted them to do, and now we’re beginning to shed them.
Where else was I? Telling y’all that the DJIA would fall below 30k when it was at 35k last year, and taking a rash of shit for saying it. Until it fell below 30k, at which time I sold naked puts to take advantage of the rebound.
Where am I now? Selling covered calls in advance of the coming downturn. This is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit terms gambling.
The other, usually unspoken benefit of commercial RE investment is depreciation. Deducting $12-20k from annual income on each commercial property saves $4-6k in federal taxes for each property, each year. That money can be invested and can earn dividends and capital gains elsewhere. The amount of the depreciation has to be paid back via taxation when the property is sold, of course, but it’s repaid at a lower tax rate, 25%, than the 35-37% tax rate that would have been due had depreciation not been claimed. Just one more way that the government helps take care of those of us on the right side of the bell curve, while sticking it to Queen YLB’s fucked kids.
All of the preceding is news to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@57 Nobody made them leverage to the gills. When the Fed was repressing interest rates, they took out what looked like interest-free loans, which they knew would have to be repaid someday. Not a little of that seemingly “free money” ended up in execs’ pockets. Now all of a sudden they have to pay interest on those loans because the free-money ride is over, and some of them can’t. We’re supposed to feel sorry for them? I’ll save my sympathy for their employees.
Waddya wanna bet that Republicans who recently were singing the “debts must be repaid” ballad to student debtors get behind debt relief for these busted businesses?
@59 I’ll bet even Doc never had a tenant that bad. Yet.
@60 So you were a Burien slumlord …
Doc wants us to believe he foresaw 23 years ago that Burien rat traps would sell for over $500K in his lifetime.
@61 The standard business school term is “creative destruction.”
@62 I grew up in the 1950s in a very conservative town, where 100% of the residents were white, and 95% (or was it 98%) voted Republican, and yes it was common in those days to hear the “N” word. The adults of that time (the so-called “greatest generation”) thought nothing of it.
@65 In your mind it wasn’t gambling, because looking back on all this as you remember it, you knew exactly what was going to happen and acted on your perfect knowledge of the future, as opposed to merely being lucky.
Not me. I had no fucking idea the Starbucks stock I own today would be worth 100 times what I paid for it 23 years later. That was just dumb blind luck. I don’t possess your powers of divining the future.
@66 “Just one more way that the government helps take care of those of us on the right side of
the bell curveof a Republican-drafted tax system that caters to investors, while sticking it toQueen YLB’s fucked kidswage earners.”That’s why I keep saying everybody should be a capitalist and nobody should work. Working for wages is the worst way of making money there is. Wage earners pay the highest tax rates and are treated like shit. Look at Doc, after investing years and untold sums of money in medical education, he chucked work after just a few years and became a capitalist. He knows what he’s doing; he keeps reminding us he does. He knows better than to use his education to practice medicine. He’s putting all those years of fancy education into running rental houses and playing Tesla and Generac stock options.
Telling y’all that the DJIA would fall below 30k when it was at 35k last year, and taking a rash of shit for saying it.
Whatever went up hand in hand to stupid cheap munee had to come down.. common sense.. yawwwnn..
Just one more way that the government helps take care of those of us on the right side of the bell curve
repuke government policies… rigged repuke bell curve.. zzzzzzzz…
Next?
If you’re a slave to money, or not greatful for what you have.
Being a traitor to Democracy, Justice and Equality……well that is true disappointment.
I like how warming of the the earth is just a normal cycle for conservatives, yet the cycle of the economy is due to policies.
You can believe in one but not the other.
He’s a groomer.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-schools-superintendent-tulsa-rcna101235
Groomer of Nazism. Bet he’s bitter for never getting his cock sucked the right way.
Another. You guessed it. The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is unstoppable.
https://abc13.com/league-city-murder-man-accused-of-wifes-death-gay-lynn-varley-killed-david-arrested/13687251/
This group of individuals of the superior sexual orientation are very violent.
Wasting taxpayer’s hard, hard, hard earned money. But hey since when do we care about high taxes!?
Bitches – you know the deal call 1-666-YOU-DEAD
Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Who you gonna call?
https://www.wgal.com/article/franklin-county-saint-thomas-township-man-charged-with-killing-wife-in-2021/44882422
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is untreatable, a ferocious deadly STD.
Bitches – YOU’VE BEEN GROOMED!
@79 Jews go home!
Mississippi still lapping the field.
Yesterday FedEx fired D’Monterrio Gibson, a FedEx driver who on January 24th of 2022, while making deliveries in Brookhaven MS, was pursued by two armed white men who repeatedly shot at him for “entering the wrong neighborhood”.
The local Police Chief, after initially refusing to investigate the incident as a crime, then sat on the file for ten months preventing the filing of charges in the case.
FedEx used that time to discourage their employee from making the initial report and from cooperation in the investigation. And while the two assailants were still free, at large, and remaining well armed, ordered Gibson to return to his job duties making deliveries to the neighborhood and the street where they first tried to murder him for being black.
Last Thursday the trial judge declared a mistrial in the long delayed case after a Brookhaven police detective admitted to withholding a videotaped victim statement from discovery and failing to inventory and recover all of the arsenal of firearms found at the home the assailants shared.
Gibson had been forced to seek state workers comp injury leave last year after FedEx refused to relent in their demands that he go back into the racist war zone in a unarmored Penske rental truck.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-delivery-driver-loses-fedex-job-year-said-white-men-attacked-rcna101099
@ 83
The local Police Chief, after initially refusing to investigate the incident as a crime, then sat on the file for ten months preventing the filing of charges in the case.
And yet you have no problem when the US Attorney representing Delaware does this.
Barack never tore his Achilles.
First on CNN: Burgum suffered high-grade Achilles tear playing basketball, throwing debate participation into question
The unavoidable fact is that it’s far cheaper to simply loot.
They should move all Target stores to small towns.
Target expects to take a $500 million hit this year due to missing inventory, and says shoplifting and organized crime is largely to blame
86 so the Republicans analysis is simply steal it. Instead of being fiscally responsible. Wasn’t this the same troll complaining about credit card debt a couple of days ago?
Put it on the cc? Yer stupid
Don’t buy it? Yer stupid
Steal it? Sure. Great idea.
Shorter The Even Bigger Fucking Moron @ 88:
“To mention it publicly is to endorse it.”
Try to be skull-fucked less, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. The repeated concussions are having an increasingly obvious effect on your cognitive skills.
Queen YLB should take the same advice.
Is it 1% shoplifting and 99% organized crime? It didn’t say.
Began his investigation three years ago and devoted most of his office’s and the local FBI office’s criminal resources to it. Fabricated and otherwise tainted evidence produced by a recently disbarred alcoholic ex-attorney left him with no choice but to approach the target of the investigation and offer a deal to avoid trial and plead guilty based on the available evidence.
In Brookhaven the police dispatcher who took Gibson’s frantic 911 call never even sent units. When the driver appeared at the police station the next day to give a statement and swear out a complaint that complaint was not entered into the system for 48 hours and was not assigned to a detective until the next week. The two men (identified by the 911 caller ID records) were not contacted for another week, and then only by phone. In tact bullets were recovered from inside packages and from the delivery van. Firearms ownership records for the two assailants were not even cross checked for a month and no subpoena or inventory of their firearms was made for three months. This catalog of official misconduct goes on and on.
And that’s why the federal civil rights case that Gibson has filed against the City of Brookhaven still lives and why they will be forced to pay a substantial settlement.
The only apparent wrongdoing that has taken place by the former Delaware US Attorney has been his frequent and often misleading and prejudicial press leaks which were apparently used in order to pressure the defendant into a plea, along with the effort the US Attorney undertook to corruptly revise the scope of the immunity granted in the plea immediately before it was filed.
Not only is the misconduct not comparable, it is the precise opposite in nature.
@ 90
It’s mostly not theft. It’s worse than that, actually.
It’s the economy that Biden and QoS McHillbilly keep bragging about. See bolded text @ 86.
People can’t afford to live the way they have lived now that the free money handouts have been stopped. Student loan repayments are about to begin, too.
Queen YLB voted for all of this.
Burgum suffered high-grade Achilles tear playing basketball, throwing debate participation into question
Burgum who? Some former repuke NBA star who pisses away munee buying its way into the shit show “debate”?
Put a fork in ‘im I say.
@ 91
The only apparent wrongdoing that has taken place by the former Delaware US Attorney has been his frequent and often misleading and prejudicial press leaks which were apparently used in order to pressure the defendant into a plea, along with the effort the US Attorney undertook to corruptly revise the scope of the immunity granted in the plea immediately before it was filed.
That’s not what the New York Times reported.
One judge with spine says No to the giveaway and now POS Hunter Biden may face the same charges that put Manafort in prison.
India can put a lunar explorer on the earth’s moon but First Vegetable Joe Biden can’t put an exceptionally well qualified Indian-American judge on the US Supreme Court because to get
electednominated he promised the seat to a less qualified black woman.the free money handouts have been stopped. Student loan repayments are about to begin, too.
Hmmm.. Lotsa smiley faces here…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSLF/?f=flair_name%3A%22Success%2FCelebration%22
All thanks to an empty suit kreepshit voted for – twice… My wife’s about to join that list.. Thank you..
Russia had to crash the jet because its windows weren’t big enough to push Prigozhin out.
Sounds very compelling to anyone not familiar with modern inventory control systems.
Receiving errors account for about 25%. Scanning errors at checkout and at returns account for about a third. Freight and handling damage is around 10%.
What the fuck do people really think? When you return that garden sprinkler that broke because your kid drover over it with their bike and they give you a full refund, that goes back into store system inventory. Everything is accounted for in terms of inventory. Then, since it can’t be sold in that condition (you hope) they have to mark it down to zero to get it back out of physical inventory. They give you the refund because the screen tells them you spend more than $1000 a year with them and policy dictates. But then they lie about the shrink to keep their store shrink numbers below the bonus threshold.
In any setting as vast and complex as modern mass retailing this kind of thing repeats itself a million times a day in a million different ways. Vendors under pressure and way behind because of COVID staffing issues scan a few empty cartons and load them onto a pallet. Customers load an extra bag or two of mulch out in the garden center. And yes, customers still return giant screen televisions the day after the Super Bowl.
Brick and mortar retailers, fighting for their survival with online, design every single feature of a modern retail environment for ease, convenience, low overhead, and minimal hassles knowing that doing so will produce an increase in inventory loss. This has been true since long before online existed. The shrink is baked into the pie.
It always has been.
@ 96
A career wasted licking stamps and issuing incentive checks to rich people who can afford Teslas.
She would have had a more fulfilling career paying the $149k and working a job that mattered.
he promised the seat to a less qualified black woman.
Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Coney-Barret.. No klownservatic Indians in sight.. All pasty white peepul…
Praps cheetolini shoulda nominated Dinesh D’Souza..
@ 98
QoS McHillbilly blames Target’s crashing profits on its decision to sell swimsuits that let boys “tuck” so they can look like girls.
’cause it couldn’t be the shrink. Shrink doesn’t exist.
A career wasted licking stamps and issuing incentive checks to rich people who can afford Teslas.
Rich peepul?? You’re talking PPP recipients amirite?
Or prhaps you’re a little miffed that peepul you hate have gotten a break and you fucking voted for it.. twice..
The BLS reported today that after a deep dive into unemployment tax records in each state, the number of people working in the United States is 306,000 fewer than previously reported. It’s even worse in the private sector, where 358,000 fewer people are working than previously reported.
That’s Bidenomics; report a higher number, and then revise it lower once the truth comes out. This has happened each and every month this year.
Railfan might be interested to learn that there are 146,000 fewer workers in Transportation and Warehousing than he has been told. Maybe that’s because transportation and warehouse companies are firing people due to freight damage, as QoS McHillbilly @ 98 would have us believe.
Where is the news good? Why, in government, where there are 52,000 more people “working” than previously reported.
Not good news for the future of Queen YLB’s fucked kids. Not good news for the future of Railfan’s friends in the transportation industry.
Don’t blame me. I didn’t report it; BLS did.
Bidenflation touches all. Feel the burn.
Perfectly true.
Because the misconduct that Weiss has apparently engaged in since he first began to yield to intense and legally impermissible pressure from then President Trump and Attorney General Barr, and later from Stupid Cow Farmer and Stupid Corn Farmer, would become available to criminal and civil discovery as soon as charges are filed. The leaks to the press and to committee MAGAts may have even included grand jury information which could then lead to criminal charges against the leakers.
Weiss should have requested Special Counsel status in 2020.
But by then Trump did not trust the statute and Barr discouraged it. At the very least he should have requested Special Counsel status when Republicans gained the House. Weiss was too weak and too stupid to see where all this would lead. And he probably thought that feeding disinfo about the case to the press and to Republicans would keep them satisfied while he used that disinfo to pressure Hunter Biden and his father. But he probably never saw the trap this would lead him into.
Looking all the way back now, it’s really amusing (although certainly not to Hunter Biden) how every single strident, outraged, spittle-flecked claim that the Shit-Lord Crybaby has ever made about LAPTOP and DICK PICS has melted away in the light of day to leave a possibly criminally corrupt federal prosecutor struggling to bring a crippled and powerless prosecution down for a landing that doesn’t kill him and his crew.
@ 100
Praps cheetolini shoulda nominated Dinesh D’Souza..
Trump nominated Neomi Rao. He also advanced the career of Nikki Haley.
Rao can be elevated by the next GOP president. Haley has a shot at being the next president, or at least the next vice president. Sri will have to wait for the first Democrat president who didn’t sell his/her/its soul to the black community in order to make up for poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Where is the news good?
PPP mooches got their loans forgiven.. Geez ya did a stupid dance over Pell Granters being given the shaft while fantasizing they drive Teslas.. And when PPP was pointed out, you managed an awww shucks..
What about all of that wasn’t good – for you?
Not a single word about the Fed making policy mistakes? Even old time repukes like David Stockman could do that..
@ 104
…how every single strident, outraged, spittle-flecked claim that the Shit-Lord Crybaby has ever made about LAPTOP and DICK PICS has melted away in the light of day…
I think I did pretty well with that dick pic set on Weiner’s laptop. I mean, three SCOTUS justices and a tax cut are nothing to sneeze at, amirite?
Trump nominated Neomi Rao.
yeah right.. but teh white opus dei gal got the nod for the top job..
‘spose Joe shoulda just shafted the people who got him elected.. Not even drumpf could do something so stupid as that.
And Nikki Haley? pffftt… Its hysterical seeing her trying to swim through the magat swamp.
Nikki did more for Tim Scott than drumpf did anything for her.
It’s quite enjoyable watching Queen YLB whine about PPP and the fraud that it enabled – $200 billion worth – as well as PPP’s benefits largely going to those of us who needed it least.
Queen YLB’s implication is that it’s something the GOP should be blamed for. Let’s remember, shall we, that spending bills must originate in the House. When PPP was introduced the House was controlled by Democrats.
The benefits of PPP to the wealthy pale in comparison to the benefits of the briefly oversold stock market to the wealthy. I took my beating more than most others because of my options positions. I was forced to buy many, many shares of companies when those options were exercised in March 2020. I had a painful couple of weeks and a substantial margin loan. But I behaved correctly, which back then meant endure the pain and await the rebound.
And rebound the market did. Holy shit, did it ever.
The widened wealth gap over the last three years wasn’t due to PPP, Queen YLB. It was because people like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and G-clown sold in a panic, while people like QoS McHillbilly and I stood our ground and invested more while valuations were depressed.
Stay on the sidelines and whine, Queen YLB. You put on a fun, silly show.
107,
And he’s not even giving himself credit for inventing the internet or curing polio.
The MAGA collapse is having effects.
And at such a huge cost too. They tell me an ordinary and completely unaccomplished person could easily break the speed record for unpowered human flight by simply opening an exit door of a passenger jet in mid flight.
@109 LMAO… Now it wants to lay off PPP, a drumpf thing, on the Dems..
Repukes benefited, big time..
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/09/06/fact-check-ppp-loans-forgiven-republicans-matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene/65470173007/
You even babbled some of your friends got munee.. Any objection from them? ‘Course not..
But a degen pos from widbee couldn’t bloviate enough about 135k earners driving Teslas getting their student loans forgiven even when the lions share went to the poorest of students.
Wealth gap.. oh yeah.. That rebound in the stock market.. and real estate:
It is no secret that the skyrocketing rises of pandemic housing and stock markets created additional household wealth at an extraordinary pace. Let us consider the case of housing wealth first, which some journalist accounts (Badger & Bui, 2022) claim to be without precedent. Figure 31 shows what happened to owners’ home equity during the period 2020Q1-2022Q3. Owners’ equity in real estate rose by $9.5 trillion (an increase of 47%) during the first quarter of 2020 and the third quarter of 2022. The highest-income households, who own the most expensive homes, have of course seen the largest gains in absolute terms…
The gains that households reaped from the spectacular boom in the Wall Street stock market were equally spectacular. The market value of households’ holdings of corporate equity and mutual fund shares rose by 75% or $17 trillion during 2020Q1 – 2022Q1 (and by 39% or $8.9 trillion during 2020Q1 – 2022Q3, if we take into account the recent stock market decline)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_196-Ferguson-and-Storm-Inflation-final-Jan-2-cor.pdf
According to the kreepee, dishonest, degen pos from widbee, all that munee chasing fucked up supply chain goods..
no effect on ‘flayshun.. no sir.. just blame it all on Joe… yawwwn.
Was Donald Duck on that plane?
Only 20 years facing thrown feces, samurai swords, dirty needles, and people willing to bite you if you come near, and you, too, could qualify for forgiveness of your student loan debt.
@ 111
…couldn’t bloviate enough about 135k earners driving Teslas getting their student loans forgiven even when the lions share went to the poorest of students.
Actually, it was the unconstitutional method of that handout that was the most bothersome.
Meanwhile, Queen YLB couldn’t have cared less that her fucked kids would have been stuck with the bill for all that money handed out to people other than her fucked kids. After all, she knew the GOP would have their backs, after which she could criticize the GOP for protecting her kids, being the unserious twat that she is.
it was the unconstitutional method of that handout that was the most bothersome.
Gimme a fuckin’ break.. It was all high salaried professionals, living high on the hog and driving fancy cars from your silly pie hole..
would have been stuck with the bill for all that money handed out to people
I happen to like people.. well people that aren’t assholes.. I don’t mind people getting a break who need it.. like over indebted pell granters.. and all of us, our kids included, have been handed a bill for degen repuke policies like endless wars, pentagon “waste, fraud and abuse”, ppp loan forgiveness, etc – stuff we don’t cotton to. So go fuck yourself on that score
s’ok kreepshit.. that reddit link above shows plenty of people getting a break due to an empty suit warmonger you voted for twice.. That’s some comfort.
Our household will benefit.. A few 10s of thousands but every little bit helps.
Thanks..
The dude’s death in the plane crash should be s good example why you don’t want yo be a heterosexual Neanderthal.
Fuck him…..but also fuck Putin and the rest of the GOP
The greedy racist incel is broken. In his head no black woman is as qualified as a man, even a brown man is better.
@116,
Russian air defenses finally scored a hit.
Nobody fucks with a Putin.
@98
True story.
Suburban Target, me with something I didn’t really need but the shelf price sticker was something like $6.99 for an item that’s usually around $20. Figured it’s a closeout. Rang up at $19.79.
“Oh, I think it must have been in the wrong place. The price on the shelf said $6.99. I don’t really need it.”
20 something cashier. “Well if that’s what it said (overrides the price)”
“No really someone probably just moved it and I didn’t notice it was the price for something else.”
“No it’s OK. We’re supposed to organize all day.”
Me, shaking my head as I head to the car with about a 70% discount.
Locally, Target fought a battle over their utter lack of a loss prevention strategy and on the occasions local police made arrests Target refused to press charges making prosecution highly unlikely.
Our earnings would be up 359% instead of 357% from 2022 if people stop taking things. Or maybe we could actually hire a handful of secret shoppers to keep an eye on things but then…labor. The shareholders hate it when we pay people.
We didn’t DELETE the texts on Jan.6 we just didn’t want you to KNOW we were helping the proud boys.
Everyone associated with Putin is very accident-prone. Putin himself doesn’t fall out of windows or fly on unsafe planes, though.
@92 The problem I’m having with your argument about the economy is that it focuses on spending by low and middle income consumers. Republican economics never cares about those consumers. It defines prosperity as cutting taxes for the rich so the rich can spend more on mansions, yachts, and luxury cars. By worrying about ordinary consumers, you’re leaving the reservation.
@103 “The BLS reported today that after a deep dive into unemployment tax records in each state, the number of people working in the United States is 306,000 fewer than previously reported.”
Why is this bad??? You don’t work. Maybe that’s 306,000 more capitalists flipping stock options.
@105 “Haley has a shot at being the next president”
RFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By worrying about ordinary consumers, you’re leaving the reservation.
yabut that’s the way it soothes its dread about a knock on the door from an AI enhanced IRS courtesy of Manchinema…
the path to IRS freedumb is not by paying its fair, legally required share but through hoodwinking the “ordinary”…
@107 Next you’re going to complain about the deficits your tax cut contributes to. Why not a tax cut for the cleaning lady? A retired doctor with a spread in the islands, an F-250, and three horses doesn’t need another tax cut.
@109 “The benefits of PPP to the wealthy pale in comparison to the benefits of the briefly oversold stock market to the wealthy. I took my beating more than most others because of my options positions. I was forced to buy many, many shares of companies when those options were exercised in March 2020. I had a painful couple of weeks and a substantial margin loan. But I behaved correctly, which back then meant endure the pain and await the rebound.”
Sounds like you mistimed the market at least once in your life. But you’ve been perfect since, haven’t you?
@114 “Actually, it was the unconstitutional method of that handout that was the most bothersome.”
Your fidelity to constitutional order is heartwarming. Now do Jan. 6, 2021. And the fake electors plot. And extorting a foreign government for fabricated dirt on a political rival.
The first Time ‘Man of the Year’ to be booked on multiple felonies happened today.
The second gets booked tomorrow.
Tell us more about this ‘most corrupt administration ever’ Biden crime family. I’ll make cookies and we can gather around the fire and hear the one about the laptop. I know you read it to us last night but can we hear the one about the Ukrainian Oligarch and the payoff to Joe’s bank account?
122)Didn’t expect it to be a plane crash.
@131 A hail of bullets through the limo windshield is too obvious. Not that anyone in the world thinks the guy just happened to be in an unfortunate plane crash.
But yeah, I see your point. I think most of us were expecting poisoned borscht or radioactive tea.
While others might say, “knock it off,” Putin just smiles and whispers, “knock him off.” Not that anyone’s going to miss this dude. Satan is celebrating his new conscript in the eternal fires.
Philadelphia police wanted Eddie Irizarry dead the same way Putin wanted Prigozhin dead.