It’s not such a beautiful day today, but the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will still be getting together this evening to discuss life, politics, and whatnot.
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 or, perhaps, on the back patio. 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.
In New Hampshire, Trump is tied with my cowardly, corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.
The last Democrat to lose NH was Al Gore.
@1 supports teh “unified reich”…
https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-rhetoric-germany-antisemitism-31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427
Schedule leaves a lot to be desired, only 3 hours ahead of the Empire Builder, but has the advantage of starting and ending in Saint Paul. At least Canadian Pacific Kansas City is keeping a promise made to get regulatory approval for the merger.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/amtrak-borealis-makes-debut/
@ 2
You spelled landslide incorrectly, Queen YLB.
Plus: tied in NH, down by only 2 and well within the MOE in MN.
HA’s unserious twat can’t deal, so she attempts to distract. Unsuccessfully, but it’s all our darling Queen YLB’s got.
Well, the Hamas that Israel hasn’t killed yet certainly aren’t starving.
The Whidbey ferry that failed today has a propulsion clutch failure.
Gonna be out of service awhile.
Black voters now know that Joe Biden was not born a poor black child.
Trump clearing 20% of the black vote PLUS depressed overall voter turnout EQUALS
President Donald J. Trump in 2025.
There are a shitload of reasons why Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated in January, but this bullet point from a report issued by the Fed is the biggest:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202405.pdf
Now, HA’s unserious twat Queen YLB prefers to focus on the 4 percent who thought price changes improved their situation, because otherwise she has to admit that the current administration is a failed one.
But her fucked kids know different. They’re part of the 65%, after all.
@ 8
Twenty percent of respondents said they’re better off than they were a year ago.
The percent who are in worse shape? 31%.
History will record The Biden Presidency as a massive failure.
(shrug) If it’s a fair election and people vote for the convicted rapist party because their pizza rolls cost too much, then so be it. After the 2025 project is done with the country, many of them might want to voted differently but that time will have passed.
@5 What you’re admitting, doc, is that Israel’s hugely expensive and bloody campaign to eliminate Hamas is a miserable failure, because if it was succeeding Hamas wouldn’t be around to steal the food.
@6 You have a canoe, don’t you? You don’t? Well, learn to swim.
Landing your parents in prison might not be the best way to get their help with your own appeal. Especially if your appeal depends on blaming your actions on them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ethan-crumbleys-parents-refuse-help-appeal-murder-conviction-rcna153391
Republicans have invented a new tactic for outlawing abortion pills: Make them controlled substances.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-passes-bill-make-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substan-rcna153052
Who said Republicans never have any ideas?
Louisiana goes blue.
So if you’re a pharmacist or doctor you can go to prison just for having Plan-B, an FDA approved medication.
@ 14
Landing your parents in prison might not be the best way to get their help with your own appeal. Especially if your appeal depends on blaming your actions on them.
Now, now, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Hunter Biden may be a true POS but he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, so it’s far from certain that he’ll end up convicting my cowardly, corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president by testifying against him, and a convicted Joe Biden might be too senile to imprison.
Re @ 15, 16 abortifacient drugs as controlled substances:
Thalidomide was used to help control morning sickness in the 1960s until it turned out that it caused women to deliver babies with flippers instead of fingers and toes. Even physically normal daughters of women who took thalidomide harbor a risk of delivering abnormal babies, and are referred to as “thalidomide daughters” – they are frequently counseled not to bring babies into the world. The drug was abandoned until some 30 years later it was discovered that it can be effective against myeloma. So thalidomide is back in use as an anticancer drug, but it is strictly controlled to avoid potential misuse, like a kid accidentally ingesting it and then giving birth to a baby with flippers 20 years later.
Controlled substances aren’t just opioids and valium and the like. They are occasionally drugs of various categories that are considered too risky to possess except in special circumstances.
So no, it’s not heresy to control the distribution and possession of a drug which, even properly used, is intended to destroy a developing human life. I know it makes for a great headline to incite libbies to show up at the polls but when you consider other great headlines, like the ones about the doctor
and the attorney
who misused medications in felonious attempts to cause abortion in a pregnant woman without her knowledge, it’s understandable why a legislature might want to keep that from happening to other women by restricting supply.
Think of those abortifacient pills as AR-15 bullets and you might better understand the public interest in restricting their distribution, libbies.
@ 12
@5 What you’re admitting, doc, is that Israel’s hugely expensive and bloody campaign to eliminate Hamas is a miserable failure, because if it was succeeding Hamas wouldn’t be around to steal the food.
By the same rationale there is no genocide, because if there was we wouldn’t have any more Palestinians around to worry about. Think before you spew, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@19 Great idea! We’ll leave a few alive so they can’t call it genocide!
Voters don’t seem to realize that republicans will use the Comstock Act from 1873 to just declare anything that can be used in an abortion illegal nationwide as soon as the convicted rapist in office. It’s right there in Project 2025.
Colorado GOP tells parents to pull all kids from public schools
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/colorado-gop-kids-pulled-from-public-schools/73-e121fe9e-9a2b-498d-8a80-1efe2a179758
COLORADO, USA — The Colorado Republican Party is issuing a call to its members to pull their children from public school, saying Democrats are using schools to “turn more kids trans.”
Because …. The Colorado GOP opposes a new measure requiring schools to use children’s preferred names, even if they have not gone through a legal name change.
>> That’s all it took. That’s the excuse this year.
>> “Take your kids out of public school and spend tens of thousands of dollars at a private school I own, surely that’s what’s best for your kids! Also, here’s some essential oils that can make you look 30 years younger! $1,000 please.”
>> A lot of Republicans don’t understand why their kids hate them so they blame schools, teachers, and all those “woke” books teens love to read so much.
>> People who are afraid and uneducated are very easy to manipulate.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said “there is no one above the law in this country” after winning the Georgia Democratic primary election on Tuesday.
>> It was unclear if 90% of the was in, or she won 90% of the democratic vote. Either way, she won. Democratic voters thought that republican attacks on her were bullshit.
@18
You try so hard.
The drug in question has been proven safe and effective. Since it’s approval for use in the US 24 years ago. its use, to use your example, is not related as cause to any fetal abnormality. There have been 20 deaths associated with its use the majority involving untreated sepsis after use.
That’s 20 US deaths in 19 years (collected data for published studies ends in 2019) as opposed to Tylenol which causes 500 deaths PER YEAR. Globally almost five million people die each year from anaphylaxis due to common antibiotics.
The concern trolling of TWO cases of an already crime of administering ANY drug without consent is noted. The UK case ended in conviction and six year sentence and the US case you cite a 100 day 10 years probation. (USA! USA! USA! We’ll jail women for a miscarriage for longer!)
@ 22
>> People who are afraid and uneducated are very easy to manipulate.
Indeed, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Indeed.
You and Queen YLB are the best evidence of your statement I can think of.
Kreepshit is voting for a “unified reich” in November..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-nazi-allusions-analysis/index.html
The “secret” is out. The troll is butthurt. The lowlife freek is “seriously” triggered.
@ 23
Either way, she won. Democratic voters thought that republican attacks on her were bullshit.
Black Democrats – Fulton County is 43% black – voted overwhelmingly for the black candidate.
This is what usually happens. Unless the black candidate is Kamala Harris, in which case black people do the smart thing and vote for someone else. Anyone else.
@ 26
Apparently it’s Queen YLB who is triggered. She got no mileage out of it @ 2 so she decided she’d try again @ 26.
Queen YLB is still quivering about that GWB43-era TV ad in which the last four letters of Democrats were highlighted in the background. She’s not a rat, you see. Our precious unserious twat is instead a mighty mouse.
No, really.
Biden helps more students with soul-crushing debt.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/22/2242036/-Biden-cancels-another-7-7-billion-in-federal-student-loans?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web
For a total of 167 billion forgiven by Biden.
While kreepshit daily invents new apologies for PPP deadbeats and their over 800 billion in free stuff.
Biden packs the house at yesterday’s NH event.
Not quite the 80,000 that Trump got in New Jersey. I guess people in New Hampshire must work on weekdays and that’s why they couldn’t make it.
The Biden campaign is good for a few laughs, if nothing else:
@22
First day of school
‘Ricardo Davis?’ ‘Here but you can call me Rick’ “No way Ricardo”
“Karen Elson?” ‘Here’
“Mark Fills?” ‘Here’
“Sanjeet Gupta” ‘It’s Sunny’ “I’ll call you by your birth name only, Paki.”
@21 Does this mean coathangers will be illegal even if used for hanging clothes?