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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt is a beautiful summer day in Seattle…a good time to stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and have an informed discussion, an enlightened dialog, an edifying conversation about the politics of the day. Or you can stop by to rant. Whatever.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us out 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.

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  1. 1

    In NYC, Looks like Zohran is I the 40s, but interesting race in the 2nd Council District. Anthony Wiener thought great time for a comeback, and is currently 2nd to last. Harvey Epstein is ahead in that race in the 1st Round.

    https://enr.boenyc.gov/CD269220.html

  3. 3

    How much did the little bomb cost?

    @2 give it time. Like I said, you can’t see further than your penis.

  5. 5

    I’m reading that CNN’s report on the leaked initial report left out the part about the confidence in the report’s contents being graded as “low”.

    FWIW. Nine feet is a lot of concrete to penetrate, especially if it is high-density concrete.

  6. 6

    As a July 9 deadline looms, the silly kreepee dumbfuck calls this “whining”:

    as Morgan Stanley notes, factors related to the trade war are likely to make the Fed’s next decision extremely complicated.

    “Some have argued, after a soft May CPI print, that the economic impact of tariffs could be benign because of all the “negotiation.” We disagree,” states chief global economist Seth B. Carpenter.

    As the analysts note, tariffs often lead to higher inflation after a two to three-month period. Therefore, they are not surprised by the cooler data and predict that even if the US sees the effects this summer, it will be difficult to predict the magnitude and length of the trade war’s impact.

    “For the Fed, it is precisely this uncertainty that will make understanding the risk of inflation, and thus deciding to cut, a challenge,” the analysts wrote.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/tariffs-90-day-deadline-inflation-impact-trump-trade-war-fed-2025-6

    Pants shitter wet dreams of a “Department of External Revenue” which collects pants shitter’s “taste” (the tariffs) which it will use to reward its sicko-phantic sleazebag friends, but more importantly punish its enemies.

    So the tariffs are not by any stretch optional.

  7. 7

    @5 MACO should have know.

    And now they know. Guess it has to be a ground game. You don’t suppose it is safe to enrich now.

  8. 8

    Damn.

    “Mr. Cuomo, I have never had to resign in disgrace,” Mamdani said in a June 12 mayoral debate. “I have never cut Medicaid. I have never stolen millions of dollars from the MTA. I have never hounded the 13 women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment. I have never sued for their gynecological records. And I have never done those things because I am not you, Mr. Cuomo.”

  9. 9

    @ 6

    I don’t care if interest rates are lowered or not. Why should I?

    We don’t have a mortgage. We don’t owe.

    Our dividend income won’t vary based on the interest rate. Our equity positions are long term holdings and those won’t be affected.

    Lower interest rates and the market goes up and home prices increase. Keep them stable and the market goes up, eventually, but your fucked kids will continue to live in subsidized housing because they will never afford a place of their own.

    Damn it feels good to be not you or Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, Welfare Queen YLB. McHillbilly will tell you the same thing, or at minimum he’ll think it.

  10. 10

    128 House Democrats voted against Al Green’s impeachment resolution today.

    They are at least smart enough to realize just how weak they are right now.

  12. 12

    I don’t care if interest rates are lowered or not. Why should I?

    Your beloved orange pants shitter cares. It can’t whine enough about Powell and Fed policy. After all the millions it’s grifted from its gullible supporters, more likely than not it’s still in debt.

    Or if by some feat of mass deception, it’s free of debt for the first time ever, it wants to go back into debt to finance more delusional monuments to its shitty name.

    Totally aside from pants shitter’s hopelessly self-centered motivations, interest rates will stay elevated because pants shitter’s economic policies, trade in particular are inflationary.

    And that means higher prices which means repukes are voted out of office as if taking health care away from their own voters wasn’t bad enough.

    lmao.. nice living in teh widbee bubble.

  13. 13

    @12 People and rabbits who have no debt and pay off their credit cards in full every month still care about the interest paid on their savings and money market accounts.

    People who keep their money under a mattress don’t worry about the interest rate paid on savings. Doctor Dumbfuck obviously doesn’t worry about those interest rates. He just told us so.

  14. 14

    Just in from Tesla’s Austin robotaxi road tests:

    Tesla was contacted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday after videos posted on social media showed the company’s robotaxis driving in a chaotic manner on public roads in Austin, Texas. …

    In the videos shared widely online, one Tesla robotaxi was spotted traveling the wrong way down a road, and another was shown braking hard in the middle of traffic, responding to “stationary police vehicles outside its driving path,” among several other examples. …

    The agency says it will investigate “incidents involving potential safety defects,” and take “necessary actions to protect road safety,” after assessing a wide array of reports and information.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/tesla-robotaxi-incidents-caught-on-camera-in-austin-get-nhtsa-concern.html

  15. 15

    If you squeal on a federal appeals court nominee who told DOJ employees that “DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f— you’ and ignore any such court order” blocking deportation flights, you will be called a “disgruntled employee” and a “Democrat.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/whistleblower-says-top-doj-official-suggested-ignoring-court-orders-de-rcna214763

    Trump’s underlings may think those are slurs, but under this administration they’re badges of honor.

  16. 16

    A week before they are due to start work at U.S. hospitals, hundreds of doctors from abroad are still waiting to obtain visas granting them temporary stays in the country. Many of them have been in limbo since late May, when the State Department suspended applications for J-1 visas, which allow people to come to the U.S. for exchange visitor programs. The visas are the most common way for international doctors to attend residencies in the U.S., which provide medical graduates with training in a given specialty.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/international-doctors-visa-problems-rcna213710

    “Fuck those wannabes. They should be operating pedicabs, not operating on patients.” — Donnie T.

  17. 17

    I wonder if Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize for failing to start a war between the U.S. and Iran because he’s no good at it?

  21. 21

    18,

    My guess (too lazy to look) would be that Cle Elum has a city manager system with largely volunteer, part-time elected officials. That results in elected policy decision makers often with a very imperfect grasp of technical issues, and reliant on paid staff. Thanks first to demographics, then the Trump Virus, and now more recently to MAGA fuckery with many grant programs, staff retention in small cities has been very poor over the period of this developer drama. That has produced a litigation bonanza for specialty law firms. Although that is an astonishing outlier sum.

    I think the message for cities is if they are going to enter into complex contracts with big developers they need first to come up with a plan and a budget to retain quality technical staff, including attorney services.

  22. 22

    14,

    The Tesla strategy here has been another collosal failure.

    Geo fencing the rollout, and limiting it to “invite-only” meant it wasn’t being used by anyone much other than employees and paid influencers (it also hasn’t helped that in anticipation of the rollout Waymo has flooded Austin with Waymo One robotaxis). They are obviously still “training” and still debugging a ton of major issues in real time and discovering all kinds of software defects on-the-fly. In the classic tech-bro, “Big Brain” parlance, they are “building the airplane in flight”.

    That’s of course unsafe.
    But it’s terrible PR when you are doing it with hundreds of spies that you invited inside the plane filming as the engines catch fire and the cabin fills with toxic smoking. And it’s rapidly becoming “must watch” content on YouTube and TikTok the way drivers all slow down to gape at a burning wreck on the highway.

    #TeslaTakedown has already worked.

  23. 23

    Fat Hitler just sent a pallet of U.S. taxpayer cash to Iran.

    Bought Israel just two months of breathing room.

    And directly involved U.S. defense forces in another dangerous, costly and bloody middle eastern conflict in places you never heard of.

  24. 24

    The fact of Mamdani’s huge win and the elite media’s utter failure to anticipate it in any way is a condemnation of the curated Nazi echo chamber that Xitter has become.

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