It’s Super-Tuesday! And that means tonight is a super night to stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. There will be plenty of discussions about elections and politics, all over cocktails and beers.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern. We start at 8:00pm.
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.
Jack E. Smith at 7Veritas4 Xitter
Why is this time going to be different?
One in six men, ages 16-29, say ‘feminism has done more harm than good,’ study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/01/gen-z-boys-and-men-more-likely-than-baby-boomers-to-believe-feminism-harmful-says-poll
This means “5 out of 6 men say feminism has done more good than harm”
>> When they asked the pollsters what women think of feminism. The pollsters replied “Who cares? frozen embryos and corporations matter more than women. “/s
>> The same percentage that want an authoritarian dictatorship
It won’t be.
They’ll lose to Joe Biden again just like they lost only four years ago.
Trump isn’t an incumbent.
Trump is a failure.
The referendum on Trump The Rapist already happened four years ago when America rose up in outrage and fired him. He was begging for a second chance already in 2020. Now he’s just pathetic. And so are his groveling, abused and battered supporters.
@ 1
Because my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president is even worse, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron .
Far worse.
@ 2
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron does not understand that men referenced in the link he spewed are not American men.
Buncha people now coming out to verify thst Fani Willis is a lying whore.
Disbar her. Shame her into abject poverty.
Then mock QoS McHillbilly for choosing to defend her.
2,
Noticing that public survey science in general, and political survey science in particular, is stubbornly dominated by Dude-Bros with ‘tude is part of explaining how polling has become so unreliable.
Now notice how much time and energy the Dude-Bro industry spends on examining what’s “wrong” with the public, and how relatively very little the Dude-Bro industry invests in examining itself.
Does that look familiar?
Also Whitey Tape, FD 1023, Long Form Birth Certificate, Socialist fist bump, Vince Foster, FB friends in CO, “star witness” Terrence Bradley, Ivermectin, Dogwood Senior Center, and TSLA. Etc.
Since we decided to talk about mocking.
@ 8
Terrorist fist bump.
Although the two are pretty much the same thing.
“Terrorist” is even more discrediting to the profoundly stupid trust fund troll.
Perhaps no less discrediting than to have eagerly joined in with a Russian spy’s effort to plant a false claim of corruption targeting President Biden.
But nowhere near as inept or laughably incompetent as Dogwood Senior Center or made-up “friends” with expired Vax.
For that level of pure, distilled incompetence to have now become a regular feature of this profoundly stupid trust fund troll’s rantings is I believe a great example of the degrading effect that Trump support has on all Republicans. He may have always been this incompetent. But he wasn’t always this lazy, careless, and hurried. One way or another Trump makes them all quite desperate.
Democratic answers to rising inflation and families struggling to provide:
Higher minimum wage. Low Unemployment. Unions. Child Care Assistance, Child tax credits, School lunch programs carrying over through the summer.
Indiana Republicans answer to rising inflation and families struggling to provide:
Loweing the age that kids are legally allowed to drop out of school and take full time jobs to 14.
In a total non-surprise, a federal appeals court has ruled against Florida’s prohibition of diversity training in private workplaces.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/politics/florida-anti-woke-act-blocked-businesses/index.html
Roger Rabbit Comment: A Republican is someone who thinks talking about slavery is hate speech.
I had no idea Florida might be a Democratic Senate pickup, even though Rick Scott is about as loathsome as Republicans come. I’m not sure I even believe it, because I don’t put much stock in polls this far before an election.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4508253-scott-narrowly-leads-mucarsel-powell-in-florida-senate-race-poll/
@4 Somebody’s in serious denial.
@13
The magic of DeSantis wore off and a bunch of Floridians are staring at cancelled homeowners insurance. Florida Unemployment is trending upward. Florida housing cost is climbing faster than neighboring states.
People may be realizing that just being a dick to LGBTQIA and cutting funding to assistance programs is not the recipe for a strong economy.
Loweing the age that kids are legally allowed to drop out of school and take full time jobs to 14.
It’s important to see the forest as well as the trees.
When Indiana Republicans succeed in removing the requirement for children over 13 to attend full time school, then public schools can discontinue truancy programs tied to building and district level funding. Win-win!
With truancy enforcement discontinued then the state can no longer credibly tie district funding to attendance or even to school age population.
With attendance and school age population decoupled from district funding the state can choose to allocate base line district funding arbitrarilly, based on “other factors” like “student performance” or how many “merit scholars” or “AP scholars”, or state championships.
Once district level base funding is decoupled they can begin defunding target districts.
Which districts do you imagine MAGA, Xtian Republican extremists will begin defunding first?
Remember when old style billionaire Republican assholes like Bill Gates declared that they’d be happy to pay twice as much in taxes for public schools as soon as those schools could provide evidence that they were using “best practices”? It was a very popular claim. Dubya rode that claim to passing laws mandating standardized performance testing to provide that evidence.
It was always bullshit.
Republicans want to end public school funding.
13, 15,
The uphill battle will be in turnout.
Florida GOP has the most sophisticated turnout operation in the US. That’s why they all want to move there. A Republican can be the most loathsome asshole and still win. A Democrat has no chance unless they can match that turnout machine.
Sinema just quit.
Gallego surges. And the profoundly stupid trust fund troll slinks off to contemplate yet another terrible, terrible personal failure.
Sunday’s Moms for Liberty appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes naturally went very badly for fascism and bigotry.
It’s a very fitting coda for what was very much a flash-in-the-pan grift masquerading as a political movement. The groupl was fanned into existence three years ago by Kock Network operative and part-time Nazi fanboy Christopher Rufo as a follow-on to substitute for his CRT flameout. And for a few years it looked like it might catch on like CRT never could.
But the performance of the grift-as-movement has consistently fallen short of the Koch Network’s expectations. And there has been some disconnect between the aspirations of the major players and thei sponsoring organization. Koch Network donors are much less focused on the orgs building of a massive grass roots fundraising network and the development of a multilevel marketing and administration empire than they are in getting people elected at the local level and having an influence over GOP primaries.
Moms has succeeded tremendously in building out a giant budget paying lavish salaries and expenses and feeding the personal ambitions of those at the top of the grift. But they failed disastrously in building a base of support for Fat Midget. And they are consistently failing in backing winning candidates elsewhere.
“What kind of indoctirnation”
“The kids can’t read at grade level.”
“What exactly are children being indoctrinated into?”
“Test scores are falling.”
“Some say you are anti-LGBTQ”
“That’s a lie!”
He could have really gone for the jugular once they started refusing to answer but he didn’t.
Heh .. “the winner” quit. For a desk at a hedge fund or private equity no doubt. Markers called in .
That’ll keep her circulating in the fine wine tasting crowd.
Good riddance.
Yeah, the heterosexual Neanderthal virus takes care of the women’s in America.
Woman need to start to realize that they are just being used by heterosexual men. Dummies.
@5
The attorney for already entered a guilty plea in THIS VERY CASE Ken Cheseboro says he can come forward and testify. Like that isn’t some kind of conflict of interest.
Come forward and testify at a hearing that has already closed.
The other Cindi Lee Yeager is willing to testify that in 2023 she overheard a conversation between two other parties that she thinks indicates 2019 was the start of the relationship.
You do understand the concept of hearsay, right?
If we grasp at more straws eventually we’ll find a long one before the time for drawing straws runs out. Or maybe we can just keep trotting out more inadmissable informaion until November 5th.
BTW,
It took a minute to google that Cindi Lee Yeager is a failed republican candidage for Cobb County Soliciter General, a political donor to Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Kelly Loeffler, Herschel Walker, and Freedom Caucus member Barry Loudermilk.
That last one is a little interesting.
That’s a solid witness to come forward saying she heard someone else talking about something they heard over in aisle 23 at the Piggly Wiggly.
@23, 24
There’s a reason why these were just found NOW instead of before the hearing ends. They don’t have to actually purjure themselves they can just make statements to the media.
I am willing to now come forward and testify that in August of 2023 my clinic was paid a $85,000 surgical fee by a Connecticut based company in the control of Allen Weisselberg to perform breast augmentation surgery and upper lip electrolysis for a patient identified as Ashleigh Merchant.
@9 I didn’t know an economic theory could slug people.
@11 “Loweing the age that kids are legally allowed to drop out of school and take full time jobs to 14.”
Well, they’ll have to be 18 to drive semis on freeways. Or is it 16?
Even though immigrant workers have far lower crime rates than citizens, Republicans would rather solve the labor shortage with child labor than immigrants, because they hate immigrants and hate kids even more.
@16 “Republicans want to end public school funding.”
That’s not fair. Now that Republicans represent many white working class voters, plenty of Republican voters send their kids to public schools because they can’t afford the private schools attended by children of the Republican elite.
What they really want to do is fire all the certified teachers, replace them with evangelical pastors, replace textbooks with the Bible, and base funding allocations on test results.*
* The test question is, “What is your skin color?”
@ 30
The test question is, “What is your skin color?”
That used to be the test question for preferred admission.
Dartmouth and Brown have announced that they’re reinstating the SAT. Preferred admission based on skin color and not ability results in a very stupid freshman class. A couple of those were enough for these two universities to reverse course and start doing it right again.
a very stupid freshman class
who votes for Carter even after the REAL “miracle on ice” and then pledges frats promising “20 minutes of action” serving up dead bodies instead..
@31 Not the same. Republicans aren’t targeting minority students for admission and scholarships, or minority schools for increased funding. They’re doing the opposite.
In MAGA world, “doing it right” means firing liberal professors, teaching creationism in college-level biology classes, and calling slaves “guest workers learning valuable skills” in history classes.
The end result is brainwashed idiots like you.
As drumpf would babble..
Very smart.. very, very smart….
High marks on SATs…
Nikki Haley is getting 24% to 34% in many Super Tuesday states, and trails Trump by less than 3% in Vermont.
“Conspiracy Theorist Mark Robinson Wins North Carolina’s GOP Primary For Governor
“The Donald Trump acolyte is now likely to try to distance himself from his long history of sexist, antisemitic and otherwise offensive remarks.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-robinson-north-carolina-governor-wins-gop-primary_n_65e75a5ae4b0170871fbd3ff
I’m thinking Democrats might hang onto this statehouse …
“Your Honor, it was self-defense. He had his fist right where I could walk into it.” Police have not made an arrest, even though the fist is dead and the suspect brought a gun to a verbal
argumentharassment.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tampa-dog-park-fatal-shooting-homophobic-threats_n_65cc00cfe4b067c6b73ef235
North Carolina exit polls indicate two-thirds of Haley’s voters think Trump is mentally unfit to serve as president.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-warning-signs/
Results from other states are pending.
If HA were a state, and we held an election on whether Doctor Dumbfuck is mentally fit to see patients, I wonder what the results would be? His former hospital employer has already voted.
In other passive crime-fighting news,
Anthony Don Mitchell was an Alabama white man suffering from schizophrenia and drug abuse. Officers were called to conduct a welfare check. During this contact, Mitchell brandished a handgun and fired one shot in the general direction of the police, then fled.
After being apprehended and taken to the county jail, he was stripped naked, placed in a concrete cell (the “drunk tank”), and cold air was blown over him. Fourteen days later, Mitchell died from “hypothermia as well as ‘sepsis resulting from infections injuries obtained during incarceration and medical neglect.'”
No one has been charged with murder.
https://www.rawstory.com/anthony-don-mitchell/
Looks like about 15% of Dems have voted for uncommitted versus Joe.
@36
That’s also what’s known as a drag on the upticket candidate.
Near constant reminders that the hand picked and endorsed guy ONE of Presidential candidated called “Better than Martin Luther King” says women deserve it if they dress a certain way and get raped. School shooting victims are “Prostitots”, Homosexuals are all Pedophiles, Sheckels and Schvartze ….
North Carolina stays blue.
@41
Looks like about 31% of Republicans voted “Anyone but the Orange Asshole” we know full well what we’re getting with him.
Imagine in half of the not Trump Republicans and the Not Joe Democrats stay home…. Biden cake walks to another term.
Looks like Trump may have a new
RussianWhite South African sponsor.https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/05/elon-musk-reportedly-met-with-donald-trump-in-florida.html
But with financial terms yet to be firmed up, attendees at Mar-a-Lago’s “Super Tuesday” election night party must pay for drinks, just like at Joe’s Tavern in South Peoria.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-open-bar/
The DNC nominee will be chosen on the convention floor. It won’t be my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.
@45 So the guy with 90% of the delegates is gonna face a floor fight? He’ll probably say, “Okay, bring it on.”
I wanted to post this before Elijah gets at you. He probably won’t be as merciful as I just was.
Helping working people and fuck you Banks.
The Biden administration finalized rules today capping credit card late fees at $8 per month.
@47 Next up: Credit card interest rates, which have exploded upward.
https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/historical-credit-card-interest-rates/25577
Haley won Vermont. That won’t make her the GOP nominee, but it sure makes Trump look like dogshit. Remember, these are Republican voters who did this to him.
Louisiana’s GOP governor just signed a law that extends LE qualified immunity to all armed citizens.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/louisianas-new-tough-crime-laws/story?id=107803112
Gonna be an awful lot of “self defense” in Louisiana. And we all know which skin color these macabre provisions take aim at. They’d better leave now while they still can.
That same law allows teenagers to carry concealed handguns, but this won’t have much impact, because nobody in Louisiana goes to school anyway.
The new slate of Louisiana laws also eliminates incentives for rehabilitation and good behavior in prison.
Missouri joins the states emptying their schools of teachers:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/missouri-bill-teachers-support-minors-transitioning-felony-sex-offender-list/story?id=107803364
Call Bobby “Bobbie” and you go to jail. Cute. Missouri should rename itself “West Iran.”
Elon misses Goldy so much he’s reaching out for some new friends.
@ 52
The new slate of Louisiana laws also
eliminates incentives for rehabilitation and good behavior in prisonmakes prison sound even less desirable to those who might otherwise be thinking of committing a felony.@ 49
Remember, these are Republican voters who did this to him.
Vermont is an open primary state, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Democrats crossing over to vote for Haley did it to him.
You are at your most inane when you post without doing the least bit of work prior to bloviating, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@54 “Elon misses Goldy so much he’s reaching out for some new friends.”
No, Trump is so broke he’s reaching out for new bankers.
@55 Don’t know much about psychology, do you? How well did that work against pickpockets working the crowds attending public hangings of thieves in Elizabethan England?
But you’re a Republican, so forget the carrot and just beat the fuck out of them with a stick. This has nothing to do with psychology and everything to do with Republican psychopathy.
Republicans just like to beat people up, and don’t even need an excuse anymore.
@56 I stand corrected. It’s Republican and Democratic voters who are making Trump look like dogshit. Actually, he makes himself look like dogshit, and they’re just seconding it.
45, 46,
It’s easy to picture the profoundly stupid trust fund troll fervently praying those words while seated in his sweaty vinyl computer chair, eyes and fists clenched shut, pitched forward at the waist, rocking furiously.
😃
46,
A MAGA floor fight in Milwaukee was always my best case scenario. But it was also a pipe dream.
I’ve always consistently said Trump The Rapist was all but guaranteed this nomination. Any credible challenge to The Rapist was too dependent on the Republican base voters showing courage and sobriety. And they’re just too weak and demoralized.
They get the dangerous authoritarian convicted rapist facing 91 felony indictments they so richly deserve. Let’s see how they try to Etch-a-Sketch that away.
Today is a day to celebrate 🥳🥂
JP Morgan will steamroll Queen YLB’s fucked kids.
Stanley Kubrick predicted the future for kreepshit’s unfortunate “grandkids”…
https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?si=PrCuBV2kFSpo3in_
A coupla LE thugs.. Might as well crack heads in LE cuz’ kreepshit ain’t leaving them a dime..
What if kreepshit’s dime fell out of a hole in the thug grandkids’ pocket and was picked up by a darker skinned person?
the freek would roll in its grave for eternity… No RIP for kreepshit if even pennies of its munee ended up with people it hates.
64,
Thug grandkids wind up drunkenly overpaying for shit-looking cornrows while on vacay in Jamaica. Right before they get Roofied in a Trench Town tourist bar and dumped in an alley sans wallet.
Pelosi and Newsom worked well together in order to ensure that DiFi’s seat did not go to a minority Democrat. Or to a woman.
May we please have another candidate for the presidential office other than Biden or Trump?
@ 67
May we please have another candidate for the presidential office other than Biden …
Biden’s out before the DNC convention starts. You’ll have #CrookedHillary or Newsom to choose from.
Kamala will chicken out when Biden announces and all of the Don’t Knows become Unfavorables for her. Hell, her Unfaves are already above 54% and her ratio is worse than Trump’s. She’s not going to want to go down in history as the black woman sucked dick and swallowed to advance her career only to enable Trump’s re-election.
Biden’s out before the…
You libbies better get ready for The Pain!
@67 – I think most Democrats really prefer someone other than Biden, and I think most Republicans would prefer someone other than Trump.
I prefer someone other than Biden or Trump.
Pelosi and Newsom worked well together
to recruit a vain, washed up male slut with goody two-shoes pretensions to provide “contrast”.. heh..
I prefer someone other than Biden or Trump.
a koch-head no doubt.. gold! flat tax! fortress america!
@ 72
a koch-head no doubt.. gold! flat tax! fortress america!
HA’s unserious twat Queen YLB suffers from liberal form of Tourette syndrome.
She has no concept about what any of those terms mean, of course. She’s triggered, and just starts spewing random shit.
67,
Stay home in protest.
“They” will get the message for sure./s
70,
Stay home in protest.
“They” will be placed in fear and awe of your might and steely will./s
no concept about what any of those terms mean
koch-head as in the glibertarian candidate for vice president in 1980 and a favorite of glibertarian trolls who haven’t changed their juvenile ideology since 2 years out of high school.
Yawwwwnn.. gold as in “gold standard” a perennial favorite of glibertarian trolls here.. PI in particular..
flat tax as in a tax cut for the rich and a tax increase for everyone else..
fortress america as in isolationist america.. we can exploit other countries resources but don’t count on us to back that shit up when push comes to shove..
yawn.. anything else?
But please spew something about “kick the living shit” thug grandkids or ss checks cancelled by repukes expiring each and every day… we could all use a laugh about your “seriousness”..
“The 1977 version of ‘Roots’ is one of the most vile things EVER filmed. It is nothing but Hollywood trash that depicts the ignorance and brutality of the goyim, and the helplessness and weakness of the shvartze.”
“Yeah Nick your right. I apologize……….. to Hitler and Sambo.”
“Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.”
knock, knock, knock…
nothing triggers a kreepshit troll moldering in widbee more.. heh.
MTG still out there just giving it away for free:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1b7w127/stay_classy_mtg/
There is no substitute for the smile beaming from that reporter as she turns back to give her sign off.
@62 So if the big banks go bust, who gets hurt more, rich capitalists like you, or someone you claim is broke?
When you answer, show your work.
@66 That’s an internal party matter, just like McCarthy and McConnell working together to ensure an insurrectionist could be their party’s nominee again.
@68 “Biden’s out before the DNC convention starts. You’ll have #CrookedHillary or Newsom to choose from.”
Oh, you’ve given up on Michelle?
@79 Now there’s a single woman no guy wants to meet in a gym.