– More density in Belltown, please.
– Bringing civility back to the Seattle City Council.
– Ann Davison is still the worst.
– Last Open Thread I mentioned the light rail reduction over the weekend. No more. It will happen later.
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I see that our fake radiologist is handing out free investment advice in the last thread.
Aren’t we overdue for yet another after-the-fact winning options trade announcement?
1,
This time he “made a killing” on Hawk crypto.
Sure thing, Jan.
Hetero Neanderthals really are nut jobs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-couple-child-abuse-botched-home-circumcision-rcna183178
Has a real ‘war on cars’ vibe
So you’re saying if I solve this murder you’ll give me enough for five months of my family’s health insurance with enough left to go to the Olive Garden?
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Nobody is going to go looking for John Wick for $10k.
The current highest ranking elected Republican serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GOP cost-cutting discussions are devolving down to making federal teleworkers show up at the office. I do not see how this saves money on space rent, heat, light, and other utilities.
I do see how this reduces salary expenditures by inducing employees to quit. But that means nobody is watching financial institutions or answering the phone when a whistleblower wants to report a CEO engaged in insider trading.
Which, I think, probably is the ultimate objective of these discussions.
Chip Roy, R-TX on Pete Hegseth’s growing sexual abuse allegations:
“We’ve all had some indiscretions in our past and things like that.”
Not only did Chip just admit to sexual abuse inadvertently, but no Chip. Most of us have ever tried to finger a woman at a party after she said no. Most of us have never drugged a woman with the express intention of having sex with her once she’s ‘pliable’. No Chip, most of us have never done anything remotely like that.
The insufferable cancel culture Dems are now saying a lush with a long history of public groping of women isn’t fit to run the military.
What is it with them?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/06/doges-musk-ramaswamy-try-to-sell-congress-on-huge-spending-cuts.html
Move along, folks. Nothing to see. Just the same old retread policies that fail every time they’re tried: Downsize, deregulate, and privatize.
The last time conservatives had a fresh idea was … well, we don’t know. Archaeologists and anthropologists are still digging into ancient history trying to figure that out.
It’s 1:30am in Washington D.C. The call comes at 10:30am local Chinese warships and bombers began assaulting Taiwan.
Secretary Hegseth is 6 beers and three shots in at Johnny’s All American being told “You Don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”
Who answers the call?
@12 China is more likely to blockade Taiwan than take it by assault. The Taiwan Strait is twice as wide as the English Channel and rougher. An amphibious invasion would be much bigger than Normandy and prone to failure. Taiwan has spent decades preparing for it. It’s much easier to put them in a sea and air straitjacket.
Large deficits are a result of revenue losses. If you want to fix deficits, you have to fix that. Certainly, Republicans are considering this side of the equation. Predictably, they’re looking at taxing the poor and working class with tariffs.
Of course, they’re considering spending cuts, too. Not to defense, mind you, and debt interest probably also realistically is off the table for cuts due to objections from the capitalist class who own the debt. Also, as a matter of ironclad principle, debts, and usurious interest on debts, must be paid. That’s why getting rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a top priority.
The low hanging fruit is federal expenditures on health care. The federal government funds approximately half of America’s health care. Shutting down Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans health care would achieve massive cost savings. It also would fulfill the conservative dream of health care, doctor visits, emergency care, etc., being a special privilege reserved for the “successful” (i.e., people like them).
Having to step over the old folks moved out of nursing homes onto sidewalks is a tolerable minor inconvenience. Everybody else: Fee for service works just fine, and we have some bottled cures to sell you.
Early Christmas present.
Nick Fuentes charged with battery over the incident where a woman knocked on his door and he answered it with a spray of mace and pushing her down the stairs.
@ 15
Yeah, pretty sure that’ll invalidate the election results.
Why black voters shifted right.
Economy
Unemployment rate jumps more than a percentage point for Black women in November
Next time don’t dismiss the crosstabs.
@ 14
Large deficits are a result of revenue losses.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, federal revenues dropped only in one year since the Great Recession ended. It was a Biden year.
It’s not a revenue problem, those worsening deficits. It’s a spending problem.
And you’re a useless, bloviating clown.
@ 8
GOP cost-cutting discussions are devolving down to making federal teleworkers show up at the office. I do not see how this saves money on space rent, heat, light, and other utilities.
Amazon doesn’t seem worried about it.
Not one for conspiracy theories but the with face image of the shooter appears to also be missing the backpack.
So indulge me in thinking whatever AI photo scouring bot NYPD used found a guy in the vicinity who ALSO was wearing a hoodie.
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He’ll get an appearance bond and a fair trial. Which is better than average in that jurisdiction for a violent assault. Unless his lawyers are idiots, he can respond by the deadline and appear for a jury trial whenever he runs out of delay tactics. In the mean time he can lie his ass off and play the victim to raise money from dumbshits like our troll who was foolish enough to buy the bullshit despite the obvious video evidence.
But… he’s a loudmouth who can’t shut up about himself. And he thinks he can talk his way out of any situation. So there’s an above average chance he’ll talk some shit before trial, especially since his lawyer’s tactic will center around delay. The longer the delay the greater the risk that Mr. Debate Me fucks himself by defaming his victim and/or intimidating her, potentially resulting in bail release conditions, fines, and a civil suit.
Given the circumstances he could have gotten out of this jam with a lowest level misdemeanor plea and a recomendation for a monetary penalty, victim restitution, and some community service. But that’s only available to people who aren’t stupid. So I’m not holding out much hope.
Finding out is here.
Cut the pentagon.
Cut the living shit out of it. Cut out all those littoral stealth whatchamacallits and next-gen whatevers. Close Gitmo. Close Diego Garcia. Cut the DOD budget in half. Take the resulting surplus and spend half of it on providing single payer and the other half on GBI.
@15 and @16
Heterosexual Neanderthals with a virus.
@18 bullshit.
Each time there are tax cuts the deficit goes up, who the fuck are you kidding.
Superiority!
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/man-kills-self-after-severely-beating-up-woman-in-a-violent-assault-police-say-san-antonio-texas-investigation-evidence-hospital-ambulance
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article296501779.html
More heterosexual death and destruction
@16 Here’s a clinical example of disordered thinking, useful as a teaching tool in med school psychiatry classes.
The dead guy was CEO of United Healthcare, the insurance arm of publicly-traded UnitedHealth Group (ticker symbol UNH), which also provides PBM (pharmacy benefits manager) services and health care services to the general public. It’s the world’s 9th largest corporation by revenue, which exceeds $400 billion a year, and has a market cap over $500 billion. Here’s what Value Line’s Nov. 29, 2024, report about UNH says:
Keep this in mind when Republicans claim we “can’t afford” Medicare.
@18 Wasn’t he posting about the cost of alfalfa not long ago? Sounds like he has a spending problem. After all, a horse is a luxury, unless his F-250 doesn’t run and is up on blocks. My understanding from his recent investing posts is that he has a revenue problem, too. So probably the health care will have to go, and food after that, but he’ll still have a barn to sleep in and a horse to sleep with.
Republicans plan to target Social Security. Democrats will take this as a political gift.
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Maybe.
Or they may instead choose to squander yet again another opportunity to expose miserable Republican elitism by willingly engaging in a stupid debate about math or statistics.
As the minority party, the way we win this argument is by always, every single time, responding with our own, very obvious, far more unpopular, far more disgusting, far easier program cuts that we know Republicans can’t assemble a majority to support.
We offer a dollar for dollar alternative taken out of the pentagon and out of bloated funding for local law enforcement.
No. The rural Sheriff’s department in the remote northwestern Yak valley of Montana does not need a second mine resistant armed personnel vehicle. Cancel “Space Force”. Let Trump veto it.
Cut Social Security and millions suffer for decades.
Cut the Littoral Combat Ship program and nobody even knows what in the fuck you cut. And maybe two dozen overpaid fat racist alcoholic assholes who voted for Fat Hitler complain about it in a Royal Street bar in Mobile AL.
Watching the 3A WIAA State Football Championship game. O’Dea vs Bellevue at Husky Stadium. Go Irish.
Should not have moved it out of Tacoma.
I was Class of 97, equipment manager on the 94 and 95 teams. We were in the last AA KingBowl.
Well we are ready for the next one. United Health, the parent CEO Andrew Witty held an ‘internal only’ address today and because some work for totally evil corporations because American Capitalism grinds you to needing the check no matter what it was leaked.
In Justifying UH profit and coverage denials…
Yes, the monthly battle many go through because the medication they are taking has been dropped and you now have to take a cheaper one that your chart history clearly shows have you massive side effects BUT is cheaper is unnecessary. Just take what we cover and fuck off. But if you spend 8-10 hours on the phone with United Health AND your physician they almost always back down…
Shoeonhead might be the only self-identified liberal progressive who gets it. You liberal progressives here on HA should watch Shoe’s video about why the Democrats lost in 2024. It’s quite interesting.