– Oh cool. People are biking on the Fremont Bridge in 2023. Keep it going in the new year.
– Fuse has some bill info and how to contact your legislator for the upcoming session.
– Find it Fix It doesn’t work for City Council.
– It stinks about the arson at the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple. Here’s a donation page, if you can help.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible
How Ohio red counties conduct elections:
Disqualified: Trans candidate who legally changed her name but didn’t include original (male) name in candidate filing, in apparent violation of secret Ohio law not disclosed in candidate guide.
Not disqualified: Violent insurrectionists who incited riot to overthrow presidential election resulting in deaths and injuries to dozens of police officers, in clear violation of 14th amendment qualification to run for president.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-trans-candidate-taken-off-ballot-dead-name_n_65971b3ce4b0912833af6bd5
Meanwhile, Trump’s New Jersey strip mall lawyer declares Kavanaugh should disregard the 14th Amendment because Trump — not Kavanaugh, but Trump — “went through hell” getting him onto the Supreme Court.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-attorney-alina-habba-supreme-court-ballot_n_65978633e4b0912833af7d10
Eh? Silent suffering in the Oval while watching the frat boy’s Senate confirmation hearing on teevee?
@3 Sideline observers are putting various spins on it. For example, Keith Olberman said, “Trump’s surrogates are quietly THREATENING THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.”
https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-leans-on-supreme-court/
I’m not sure that’s what it really is, though, or even “saying the quid pro quo part out loud.” To me it appears the lawyer who said she’d rather be pretty than smart simply thinks the dumber she looks, the prettier she looks.
OK, so you’re a Supreme Court justice, and a lawyer for the president who appointed you to the court, who himself is now facing dozens of criminal charges, presents you with a choice between caving in to his threats and looking like a patsy, or upholding the Constitution and looking like a real Supreme Court justice.
Assessing the situation, you consider that you have a lifetime appointment, can’t be removed by that president but only by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, which neither party has or is likely to have, and one of the parties will protect you if you uphold the Constitution.
What do you do?
N.B., A Yale (cum laude)/Yale Law (law review) alum just might be smart enough to get this one right.
In today’s other political news:
In her first newspaper interview in her new district, BoBo attempts to prove she can find the district on a map.
A Trump co-defendant being served a grand jury subpoena decided not to go for the FBI agents’ guns because there were two of them and he could only grab one gun at a time.
Nikki Haley expanded her anti-slavery repertoire to include having Black friends when she was growing up.
America’s foreign policy continues to spiral out of control. We have an empire that we cannot afford and are insisting to spend more in order to keep the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in business, ad infinitem.
It’s time for the US to reduce it’s footprint in foreign lands. We are not the world’s protector and savior, and it’s time for Europe, Asia, the Middle East (especially Israel) to realize that and to defend and protect themselves.
We should deal at arm’s length with all nations.
To all the HA Gods – Mao!
Biased censorship is not good journalistic qualities.
@6 You know what will happen, don’t you? Power abhors a vacuum. So who will fill the power vacuum, Russia or China? Probably the latter. We now live in a world of interconnected economies, a world where oceans aren’t much of a moat anymore, a world where nations jockey for dominance. Who do you want in charge, us or them? Would you rather be king or vassal? Keeping all nations at arm’s length means having no friends, no one to turn to for help, no one watching our back. That’s stupid, maybe even suicidal.
I don’t care if you bow to Putin or Xi. But I’m not coming with you. I don’t want our country to do that. Some American you are. You’d give away your fellow citizens’ safety, security, and prosperity.
You’ve blocked my IP addresses but I guess you haven’t figured out how to block messages sent from cellular airwaves?
Please describe.
If you can, please try to do so in terms of your access to life saving medicines, consumer products, building materials, agricultural labor, and energy products. Did you enjoy any coffee this morning? Is your home warm and dry? Is your community safe and secure?
Please describe how you would propose to secure these things into future generations while refusing to support the safety and security of our major global trading partners.
So sensitive to the HN virus. You probably think heterosexuals have no inherent faults as a unique group of people, very bigoted of you. You must realize that they do and are very negative. Just ask the women that die daily from your virus. And thanks for wasting all the taxpayer money.
Free G!
I wonder how many dangerous radicals were inspired to attack Congress on Jan 6 2021 because they became convinced by some network or browser glitch that Twitter was blocking them?
@10 People like him tried isolationism in the 1930s. He’s apparently forgotten how that worked out. Shortly after Europe was overrun, Nazi U-boat crews could see the city lights of our Atlantic seaboard cities, and ships barely made it out of our harbors before being sunk.
Now, sub-launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads are parked just 180 seconds away from those cities.
Because the GOP started electing MAGA and Q instead of smart, qualified people….
Just let them keep talking.
2021-2023, The Border, The Border, Crisis at the Border, Illegals, Bus the Migrants, Fentanyl, The Border, when is Kamala visiting the border, Migrant caravan, the border!
2024 “We don’t want to work on any immigration legislation because that would help Joe Biden Politically.”
“No no no, I’ve talked to Border patrol and more funding won’t help, they don’t want it.” – GOP Speaker Mike ‘Hoping to get called up to AA ball someday’ Johnson
@14 MAGA Mike just turned down $14 billion of border funding.
The flood of refugees at our southern border is a strong argument against isolationism. If you let the rest of the world fall into the hands of brutal dictators, you’ll get even more refugees streaming to our borders. If you want to stop illegal border crossings into the US, then you’ve got to do something about the intolerable conditions in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Guatemala driving people to our border, because you’ll never stop them with fences, river barriers, or Texas Rangers.
@1
I don’t have a problem with the law, exactly.
If George Santos were slightly less publicly humiliated and he moved to some other district in New York and ran in 2024 as his new legal name Jorge SaintPETA it seems reasonable to make that recent change of name public so people can know he’s the same liar.
As it’s a 30 year old law it’s unlikely keeping the Trans off the ballot had anything to do with it. I’d be curious if there was some scandal that made them enact the law in the first place. But I don’t have time to chase that particular rabbit down a hole.
I read this morning NYC has filed lawsuits against 17 charter bus companies transporting migrants, seeking $700 million of damages. I expect the bus companies will hear from their insurers by lunchtime.
These lawsuits may go nowhere. But those companies are suddenly a lot less insurable, and their CEOs can’t help but feel nervous.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/us/migrant-crisis-new-york-bus-company-lawsuit/index.html
Every great long con eventually reaches The End of the Line. And whenever the artist reaches that point with the law in hot pursuit, it’s time for The Fix.
And so Wayne LaPierre announces today that he is retiring from the NRA. Now all the
NRA memberssuckers and marks can just shrug and move on. And vote for Trump in November.@9
So you don’t know how to spoof an IP?
It can’t be an IMEI block because then you wouldn’t be able to post from the device under any circumstances.
And depending on what service you’re using your IP is dynamic so rebooting your gateway/router would assign it a new IP. Now it’s possible that someone could block all IPs associated with whatever company your ISP is associated with but that’s a pretty extreme measure to get rid of a single jackass.
It’s looking more and more like you’ve done something on your end.
My money is you’ve got an invalid HTML tag in a post or your user name or something that makes Word Press say, “Nope! Not gonna deal with that.” Example, chevrons are read by an HTML editor as the star of a command. If they aren’t paired or have invalid text between them WordPress has no idea what to make of it.
I bet Charles Kook is happy about his huge bet on this winner:
Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley is finding herself on defense again after she said “I had Black friends growing up” during a town hall as she sought to clean up remarks she made around the cause of the Civil War.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4391514-haley-dogged-by-civil-war-controversy-i-had-black-friends-growing-up/
Wow. What’s next Nikki?
“Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof”
@19
Someone wants to cash in the Golden Parachute while there are still assets left.
If we can’t make sure the only ones who don’t get paid when the place goes tits up is the guy scrubbing the toilets then we aren’t doing right by our members and shareholders.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
@21
What’s next?
“I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”
then
“If you were offended I’m sorry.”
then
“It was a JOKE.”
then
“You just can’t say ANYTHING anymore.”
@20,
Okay. Sure.
But aren’t you forgetting about Ray Epps?
Eh?
Not so smart now, are you?
21,
Kook has only himself to blame.
He took all that loot and put it into the wrong people.
Shop Girl has really awful people running her game. And this really takes the cake.
She needs to be told in a way she can’t fail to understand that sometimes you just have to take the hit and move on. The more she revisits this the worse it all gets for her. Under the circumstances that Republicans themselves have created there is simply no way to “fix” this racist, slavery-worshiping bullshit with one group of Republican primary asshole voters that will not destroy her with another. Any half-wit Republican candidate has to realize the puzzle they’ve built for themselves by recruiting this beer-drunk racist “good-ol’-boys” into “The Party of Lincoln”.
Trump gets it. Fat Midget gets it. She can’t survive as a candidate through the Republican primaries unless she figures this out.
Her party now depends upon the votes of latent and not-so-latent bigots. These are the people who gladly overlooked Trump’s admissions of rape in exchange for permission to tell racist jokes about Tiger Woods at bingo night.
GE, GNRC and MMM are presently up, and TSLA is down.
23,
All those old rules are dead. Trump wiped them out.
For decades Republicans pursuing The Southern Strategy adhered to a code of dog-whistles and coded language carefully designed to welcome southern apartheid into their ranks. And part of doing that also meant enforcing codes of “civility” and “politeness” that made it a requirement to handle the dreadfully cruel and shockingly inhuman aspects of “Southern Tradition” as that which shall not be named.
But then Trump World summoned thousands of Nazi-preppy Pizza Drivers to Charlottesville to hold a Race-Riot-For-White-Supremacy and they capped off their weekend spree with a murderous terrorist attack. Suddenly the Lost Cause was seen for what it truly is. And the code of “civility” and “politeness” was broken. Once not-southern and plenty of southern people began to discuss “Southern Tradition” frankly and honestly and without all the Birth of a Nation horseshit then all the old rules began to die off.
Southerners of that era were traitors and criminals.
As traitors they rejected their national loyalty and they engaged in violent rebellion in contradiction of every law and every part of the Constitution in order to preserve the most cruel and ghastly human institution that has ever existed. No statue or flag can ever change that. And every decent American knows it.
Also about Shop Girl:
She’s probably lying.
Okay maybe she’s not lying when she says that she “had Black friends” when she was a little girl. But that’s as likely to be about how she defines “friends” as anything else. If that means she remembers being in public school with Black children, socializing with them in the classroom and school setting, and even sometimes playing games with them in school, does that make them friends?
Sleepovers? Summer play dates? Bike rides together to the store? Playing Barbies? Building a lemonade stand? Stealing smokes from Mom’s purse together? Those are childhood friends. Were any of those kids Black? Probably not. That’s okay. That doesn’t make her “bad”. Statistically it just makes her average.
What makes her bad is being dumb enough to persist in lying about it or in thinking that this kind of precision isn’t exactly the point. Because now it is.
Gives Dumbfuck a sad part one.
The publication of “The Talented Mr. Epstein” in Vanity Fair, dropped the sexual abuse of minors angle from the draft for reasons that depending on who you ask, was because it was not substantiated to VF’s legal team’s satisfaction or to protect the powerful people accused. The story though is largely credited with starting the ball rolling that led to Epstein’s unmasking.
Right wing media and the more willing to carry their water corners of social media are claiming that Bill Clinton visited VFs offices and threatened Vicky Ward the VF journalist who wrote and researched the story and VF editors to spike the story. The source is a third party emailing a fourth party that they heard Clinton had stormed into VF’s offices.
Wah-wah. Vicky Ward issued a statement hours ago that it never happened. Jeffrey Epstein is the person who threatened the magazine in person. One of the editors claimed years ago that he found a bullet outside his home, reported it, assumed it was Epstein but there was no other evidence so the investigation of that threat went no where.
It won’t matter. The Dumbfucks will just keep repeating the ‘threat story’ among themselves trying to convince others.
Senator Turnip Brain:
“I just want to just go on the record to say how incredibly unhelpful it is to have other states removing him from the ballot,” Fetterman said in a phone interview with The Daily Beast. “All of that is a gift to Trump. And all it does is just make him more popular and strong. That’s just going to energize his base—it’s just not helpful.
..
You know, he just absorbs this kind of energy,” the senator said of Trump. “The only way that we’re going to put him away is going to be in an election.”
I’m afraid he’s right here. Maybe there’s some real value in vindicating the “rule of law” and forcing Trump to be held accountable. But at least in this case that value is far too abstract and far too subjective. Trump should be beaten in a court of law with evidence and a jury. And Trump should be beaten at the ballot box with an overwhelming defeat handed to him by massive turnout rejecting him and his authoritarian lunacy.
Fetterman still has the same excellent political instincts as always.
Gives Dumbfuck a sad part 2
How quickly did he post, “Bill Clinton likes them young.”
This is one of those you should have waited. Where did that come from? It’s in the deposition from Johanna, of the groped by a Prince Andrew puppet infamy. She swore under oath Jeffrey Epstein said that to her. Totally weird how of the pages and pages of items Fox News led with one specific quote and the right wing just ate it up.
She said something else in that deposition. She stated Epstein arranged to have two underaged girls attend an NYC party that she attended herself and that the two underaged girls were planted to sit next to Bill Clinton. Johanna reports that Bill Clinton did not take the bait. In her deposition she said it seemed odd that Hillary was not with him but that he never made her (Johanna) feel uncomfortable in the several times she was in his presence.
So that’s what Dumbfuck is left with. The projection of a now known pedophile talking to a victim he was abusing about what he thought Bill Clinton was into. Johanna, the victim, then says that nothing happened between Bill and the underage girls Epstein threw at him.
$50 bucks that Dumbfuck brings up this quote for the rest of his days
(Full disclosure, Bill Clinton is not a good guy as far as his treatment of wife and women but there is even less evidence he messed with underaged girls today than there was a week ago. Exculpatory first hand witnesses are a bitch for Dumbfuck)
So you are saying that would cause my comment post, prefenced with a moderator not that it’s being moderated snd then deleted.
I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed:
https://www.police-jobs-suck.com/
@25 “She needs to be told in a way she can’t fail to understand that sometimes you just have to take the hit and move on.”
Hard to do with that Dr. Strangelove gene in her DNA.
34,
I’d honestly like to see her win those primaries.
I really mean that.
That would certainly be the very best thing for America right now.
And if she can just keep herself from fucking herself in the ear hole like this, I think she stands a good chance.
A lot more college educated women are going to be turning out this year than in previous cycles for what should be obvious reasons. And irrespective of her particular stance on the issue of women’s reproductive health, she really does do much better with women in general, and college educated women in particular when compared to Trump. And noteworthy of that support is that when her numbers with those voters go down (as they inevitably do when she says stupid shit about slavery) they don’t move over to Trump. She has a better inside lane with never-Trump and shy-Trump voters than any other primary candidate other than Joe Biden. She seems to be really communicating with the “conservative values” educated soccer mommy. And they fucking hate Trump.
That could be a game changer in more than a few Republican primaries. And it might even steer the conversation towards more rational and intelligent governance. And that could help Republican House lunatics maybe remember that they still need some kind of record to take to their voters in a few months. Time hasn’t run out. They could make a few deals and take home one or two small shared wins. It worked for a bunch of incumbent Republicans in 2022.
But she’s going to drive those college educated “conservative values” soccer mommies to stay home if she can’t learn to control conversations with constituents and the media and when to change the subject.
Not posting any HMTL tags.
Plain old being moderated by the HA Hods. Because if their bias.
@28 The more you learn about Nikki Haley, the more inadequate she seems. No backbone, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and worst of all there’s no principle she’ll stick her neck out for. This became clear when she pandered to the Trump mob by saying she’d pardon him.
@30 Elections didn’t put Mr. Hitler away, despite his vile campaign rhetoric and political platform. Disqualification might have.
And as for entrusting it to the people … the Framers didn’t, and the authors of the 14th Amendment didn’t … I’m not totally convinced that Mr. Trump’s voters are materially better than Mr. Hitler’s voters.
…she pandered to the Trump mob by saying she’d pardon him.
That’s pragmatism.
If/when Republicans are ever ready to turn the page on that rolling dumpster fire it really will be in all their best interest to see him quickly forgotten.
Any criminal conviction for Trump would be facing years of appeals. Trump will continue to define the GOP and suck all the oxygen out of conservatism for many years to come, unless he were to be pardoned, mooting his appeals and rendering him irrelevant.
It’s also very wishful thinking.
If G-clown is blocked then Queen YLB is the most moronic regular HA commenter, without question.
Which brings me to wonder if The Even Bigger Fucking Moron is OK. Haven’t heard from him for awhile.
The number of full-time workers in November was 134,727,000.
The number of full-time workers in December was 133,196,000.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm
@41 Maybe 1,531,000 people figured out the worst way of getting money is working for it. Maybe we have 1.5 million more capitalists this month. Wouldn’t that be a good thing?
@ 42
Maybe 1,531,000 fewer FT workers is a hell of a problem for a nation that needs to create 1,800,000 new FT jobs each year merely to keep up with population growth, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
2023 under First Vegetable Joe Biden is 3,331,000 jobs behind where it should be, just to keep up with population growth.
1,531,000 Boomers going “Galt”, filing for “muh check”, and moving to TexASS creates 1,531,000 openings that need to be filled.
44,
Cant be all 1,531,000 of them.
Being Boomers 6,000 per day are dying. Quite a few in red states from guzzling aquarium cleaner and bleeding to death after shoving big flashlights up their asses. That’s over 2,000,000 right there alone.
Make sure Dumbfuck doesn’t look at the self employed number
22/23.
There’s a Florida jail that maybe should be on the hook for child support.
https://www.aol.com/news/florida-woman-jail-since-2022-212928333.html
Only in Florida, one of the worst-run states …
“The United States government was built to withstand attempts to concentrate power in the hands of a single leader by vesting authority in Congress and the courts to check the president.”
https://www.aol.com/trump-dictator-comments-raise-questions-100239251.html
So check him, dammit. Congress clearly won’t, so it’s up to the courts. The Republicans in Congress tried to facilitate his coup attempt, and defended his high crimes and misdemeanors. So that check isn’t working, which leaves it up to the courts, who very fortunately did their job in 2020. Now SCOTUS needs to step up and prevent a dictatorship rather than try to contain one when it happens.
The constitutional provision is there; use it, dammit! Trump has already engaged in, and aided and abetted, a violent insurrection; and he says he’s going to ignore the Constitution, all other checks and balances, and be a dictator if he gets back in. What more does SCOTUS need? Some new justices? We’re going to find out.
This is the court’s final opportunity to defend our democracy, the constitutional order, and rule of law. If they fumble the ball this team, it’s time to get a new coach and team.
@43 What population growth? America has a negative replacement rate. We don’t have population growth without immigration.
Nikki Haley can’t stop fucking the pooch. Says she’ll consider DeSantis for running mate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/haley-desantis-vice-president-trump-rcna131923
Her campaign seems designed to drive away independents and Democrats disillusioned with Biden.
Sounds like Missouri’s GOP secretary of state just threatened the Supreme Court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/missouri-republican-secretary-of-state-biden-trump-ballot-rcna132600
P.S., allowing the U.S. to be invaded may be an impeachable offense, but it’s not an “insurrection.”
Naked guy goes swimming in Bass Pro Shop aquarium.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrested-nude-man-jumped-bass-shop-aquarium-rcna132617
In Alabama, of course.
Has the list been issued? I’m tired of hearing about a “list”. Shut up about a list, there is no list. Or print the list.
Heterosexuals getting a free pass on the list. Almost as biased as the HA Gods.
I know I make mistakes in my writing but it’s partly because I have to type on an iPhone and have to hit send before my post gets censored….no time to proof read.
Free G!
See what happens when you censor, you won’t get insightful comments like @53.
Stop with the sensitive reaction to the HN Virus. Man up, heterosexuals are angry, mean, violent people, own it.
@54 I’m hetero, and while I’m mean, I’m not angry or violent, nor am I a people. I’m a rabbit.
Yeah, the groomers killing all the ladies and children, and often times the pets. That’s why. Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is part to blame.
And if we didn’t have the perverts like Epstein and Gisele and the friends (on the non existent list), maybe those on the list would have been home, doing what they’re supposed to be doing, fucking their horses and having kids. Shameful Heteros, can’t even get having a baby right. The one purpose in their lives and they can’t even do it. Put the penis in the vag already, then try not to kill the kids.
the most moronic regular HA commenter,
confessed it got fucked by a zoomer redneck with a baby momma, admitted it abandoned its “rule”..
Everyone remember the junker on blocks?
heh.. that was too fucking funee..
Smart doing.
Who’s started all the wars in this world? Heteros or the more brilliant kind, the gay people?
How y’all doing tonight?
I see Dumbfuck never stops being a dumbfuck.
…”Gisele and the friends…”
Like the two Bills?
I haven’t posted many stories on the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus lately. I wonder why? Oh, I forgot I was being censored, or half ass censored anyways, by a Maoist Regime of Gods. But I digresss….but if I was able to I bet I could have posted about 20 articles.
I mean 1 weeks worth could make up a whole Friday Night Extravaganza Thread material. That Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is incurable for there ever be an end for such material
I told you guys, that i was called as one of the potential jurors to the Maxwell case, didn’t I. So glad I got out of it.
Oy.
Boeing tryin’ hard to be the Tesla of the skies. Mid-flight plug door failure on a brand new aircraft.
Never take off the seatbelt.
@ 63
Not an issue for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who cannot afford to fly.
Let’s not forget that this is also the POS who left his handgun in a restroom.
How brave, taking aim at a woman climbing through a window frame a dozen feet away.
@65 Babbitt was no fleeing felon. She was bum-rushing the cop who shot her. Just like Michael Brown.
Except unlike Ofr. Darren Wilson, Lt. Byrd was protecting something more vital than an empty street from a jaywalker.
Also unlike Wilson, Byrd fired once, not 12 times, at his attacker.
Your hypocrisy is amusing.
Ashli Babbitt gave her life of the cause of violating the civil rights of the 81 million Americans who elected Joe Biden.
May her disloyalty to the Constitution she swore an oath to defend always be remembered.
At least she didn’t give nuclear secrets to Stalin. She merely tried to overthrow our government.
@64 I’ll fly again before this guy does. And probably before you can get on a ferry.
Good work saving innocent lives from terrorist attack.