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Where’s the celebration, from the right, on the great unemployment numbers?
Their moto – “Everyone can get a job – even the blacks! We are the party for the blacks!”
The Republican television celebrity quack running for US Senate in PA paid contractors to build a full court, hardwood basketball arena inside one of the nine luxury estates he owns in New Jersey.
John Fetterman, the Democrat in the race, found an abandoned vacant lot in Braddock and together with local volunteers built basketball courts for low income kids.
That’s why Fetterman leads by nine points.
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Also where’s the celebration over plummetting gas prices?
Hard to argue with.
https://medium.com/@otauibvrrfffnchses/listen-up-liberal-69dbfa58c9ab
The rest of this article is good reading.
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Republican Nationwide Forced Birth is on the ballot
Republicans privatizing and destroying your Social Security is on the ballot
Republicans ignoring your vote when republicans lose, is on the ballot
Republicans abolishing Public Schools is on the ballot.
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@2 And the reason it’s only nine is because Republican voters are racists and hate the poors. They want them to join the military so they can manufacture a war for them to die in.
Trump’s tribute to Abe: “He was a unifier like no other, but above all, he was a man who loved and cherished his magnificent country, Japan.”
Nobody will ever say that about Fat Orange. He loves North Korea and Russia, and even his kids wouldn’t miss him if the cheeseburgers overtook his cardiac function.
“Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) introduced the [repeal] measure last month with a wildly dishonest statement that portrayed the longstanding tax on guns and ammo as some sort of new far-left attack on Second Amendment rights.
“‘As assaults against Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms continue to emerge, so do treacherous threats that seek to weaponize taxation in order to price this constitutional right out of the reach of average Americans,’ Clyde said. ‘I firmly believe that no American should be taxed on their enumerated rights, which is why I intend to stop the Left’s tyranny in its tracks by eliminating the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.’”
The tax has existed since 1937 and pays for wildlife and habitat conservation, which benefits hunters.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-bill-pittman-robertson-gun-tax-repeal_n_62c75cfce4b0359fa47932fb
Federal appeals court affirms lower court ruling that Roy Moore is a dumbass.
“An appeals court on Thursday rejected a $95 million defamation lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who said he was tricked into a television appearance that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him.
“The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, upholding a lower court’s ruling in favor of Baron Cohen, said Moore signed a disclosure agreement that prohibited any legal claims over the appearance.”
This moron was Alabama’s chief justice, and doesn’t know what a legal waiver is.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sacha-baron-cohen-roy-moore_n_62c7cf30e4b0aa392d3d0d96
Right’s new social studies plan “American Birthright” elevates Western civilization, pushes Christianity and rejects all talk of “social justice”
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vu8hif/rights_new_social_studies_plan_vows_to_fight_crt/
A nugget from the article. “In an April speech at Hillsdale College, Christopher Rufo called for state lawmakers to rescind requirements that teachers must hold education degrees and forecast a future when teachers with masters degrees will be shunned by hiring committees, who would correctly see such credentials as signs of radical left-wing politics.”
Yeah right, exactly.
Black people buy gas too…..ohh, maybe that is why!
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Just spoke the other day with a masters teacher in physical sciences visiting the west coast from Georgia this summer considering relocating. G Tech Chem E major. Could be certificated to teach any P Sci or math. She told me there are many like her in Florida, Georgia, So Carolina.
Considering either Northern CA or Oregon. Concerned about HCL in Washington and Bay area. I told her to consider SW or NW Washington away from the metro Puget Sound area or SLO area in CA for better affordability.
Their losses are our gains. It’s the new federalism.
https://youtu.be/E45fogGN_Y8
Doses and Mimosas!
@9. This cannot be the first time anti intellectualism fever has infected a culture. Historically, how does it end?
Red China is the only one I can think of. I remember famine and death and the Chinese dictators are still running the country with an iron grip. I think that was the one where the thugs beat up anyone wearing glasses.
9)Probably would write the Iroquois out, they were a matriarchal society. Definitely would not fit some worldviews.
Valid Point
“If republicans can commandeer a woman’s body to keep a fetus alive, republicans would certainly feel ok commandeering one of your kidneys to keep a republicans oligarch alive”
@14. from this passage, I expect the Iroquois to be missing
While “American Birthright” presents Western civilization as a rich intellectual legacy that includes the creation of science and democracy, the non-European world is largely covered as the study of “migrations, clashes, massacres [and] conquests” undertaken by “small-scale tribes, nomadic societies, and villages that preceded civilization, whose warlike nature must be understood in order to comprehend the character and the magnitude of the civilizing process.”
“To me, that is like trying to embed white supremacy in the standards without saying, ‘This is the white supremacy curriculum,'” said Martell. “It sends a message that Western society is civilization, and the rest of the world is not.”
>> Conservatives. If Rich or White or Conservative or Male or Straight or Christian is not the center of the narrative, we don’t want to hear it.
@13 “Historically, how does it end?”
Always the same way, until the fever burns itself out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgnVYTCLdJo
Gas prices haven’t declined enough to get those annoying “I did that” stickers to stop showing up on gas pumps.
@11 “[O]n the day I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer … I became a person who would need an abortion if pregnant because cancer treatments would compromise a healthy birth and delay needed cancer care. I also became someone, like other hormone-positive breast cancer patients, who was advised to discontinue hormonal contraception because it might stimulate the growth of cancer cells.”
Realizing that if a 10-year-old rape victim can’t get an exception, it’s not likely she will either, this law professor changed jobs and moved to another state.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/end-of-roe-kentucky-virginia-divergent-health-care-systems-for-women-rcna37215
A brain drain is just fine with Republicans, though. Fewer educated voters to deal with. They like that.
@18 High gas prices were caused by low gas prices. Years of weak profits forced oil companies to cut investments in production. That’s why oil companies were already sitting on over 9,000 unused drilling permits when Biden issued more to them.
https://youtu.be/TTVbcxGnyI4
Good melody – good vibes
Today we learned that Steve Bannon’s crim def attorney in his contempt indictment has filed a motion to the court to allow him to withdraw from the case as trial counsel. In April Bannon was blocked from arguing an advice of counsel defense.
Bannon had previously received a last minute pardon from Trump on charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy for his part in defrauding hundreds of thousands of credulous, drooling Republicans caught up in the Trump Rapture to fund his lavish lifestyle sleeping in luxury resort hotels and Hoovering up mountains of cocaine. His lawyer is now expected to be called as a witness against him.
In red states lucky enough to be sitting on a mountain of extractable natural resources this might work out. But for the many red states sitting on sinking coastlines, played out coal hills, and a collection of fire-bombed storefront oxy pill-mills this will make it even harder to attract employers offering living wage jobs.
They can always become plasma donors and collect cans.
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It might be hard to argue with, but I for one would.
It’s an unnecessarily bleak perspective often characteristic of someone lately arrived at their ideology, and feeling some sense of frustration or regret at not having gotten there sooner.
We don’t have to destroy democracy in order to save it.
That claim is the Republican myth that fuels their decline. And it can only fuel America’s decline if we let it.
The problem for liberals as I see it has not been inaction.
The problem (or call it whatever you like) has mostly been a post-Watergate yearning to excessively compromise with and appeal to “conservatives”.
Fuck all those assholes.
By now it should be plenty obvious that the people who have been for years arguing that American “conservatives” are steaming, racist, bigots who worship violence, valorize rape, and despise equality, have been entirely right all along. And all the moderate pleading for “patience”, incrementalism, and lots and lots of “bipartisanship” has been entirely, completely, 100% totally fucking wrong.
Eliminate Republicans tomorrow. Remove them from the picture.
What happens? Equal rights, universal access to healthcare, police and criminal justice reforms, a living minimum wage, progressive tax policy that favors earned income over passive income, investments in green energy and public transportation, reductions in boondoggle defense spending, expanded access to higher education, and huge reductions in childhood poverty.
Eliminate Democrats and what happens?
Privatization of Social Security, criminalization of poverty, monetization of forced labor, mandatory school prayer, elimination of due process rights for the accused, criminalization of miscarriage and birth control, massive crippling federal deficits, massive expansion of militarized police presence in our communities, and unchecked Presidential power wielded to destroy any political opposition.
Our aims are entirely incompatible with theirs. And that’s been true for a long time now. But for most of that time Republicans have been granted the absurd pretense that they shared some of our aims. We granted that to them by consistently offering to compromise with them in pursuit of those aims. American “conservatives” have been slip-streaming in the wake of democracy and justice for decades. And all the while they have become more and more extreme in their rejection of basic democratic principles and the rule of law.
All we have to do is stop.
And part of that also means that we all need to develop an instinctive aversion to the idea of “bipartisanship”. That word should make any of us shudder and cringe. Because every time we hear it we should have a clear picture in all our minds of what exactly the aims of “conservatives” really are. They’ve shown us all exactly who they are. All we have to do is decide to believe them.
If someone who doesn’t have a DD214 questions my patriotism, I just smile, turn away, and walk away. There’s no need to say anything.
Amber Heard wants a new trial because the juror who showed up wasn’t the juror who was summoned.
It seems two people with the same last name live at the same address. The person born in 1945 was summoned, but the person born in 1970 reported for jury duty and ended up on the jury.
Invalid verdict? Laches? I don’t know. The juror in question went through voir dire and apparently was otherwise qualified. Unless that juror lied, I think the judge could say Heard’s objection is untimely.
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Where’s the celebration, from the right, on the great unemployment numbers?
“Yay.”
When people run out of the free money they were handed by Democrats for months and months, they have to go back to work.
More jobs “created”, First Vegetable Joe Biden can claim. I’ll let him.
G-clown, I will celebrate the upward adjustment on that loan you didn’t want to rate-lock on your second place. You know, the one that’s now 2% higher.
Fetterman no longer stutters during his first sentence. It’s the mid-point of his second sentence that gives him trouble.
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Price of gas is down 23 cents, nationally, in the last month. So noted.
In fact, oil is now sufficiently plentiful that we can raid our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to sell to Chinese-controlled companies and to ship oil overseas. Who knows, the US might even reap a profit when it replenishes the stock at a lower per-barrel cost.
So, problem solved, and the price of gasoline should fall out of the top 2-3 concerns on the minds of voters any day now. Congrats!
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Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit can’t afford to purchase John Grisham novels.
I do see that diesel prices have fallen less than 4.5 cents in the past month. Some celebration.
Dumbfuck – where did you get the idea that I didn’t lock in. Been locked in, 30 year fixed at 4.5%, 1.5% points. Closed 2 weeks ago.
You ever get anything right? That fucking poor horse.
By the way The FuckHump didn’t give away any free money?
Furthermore, second place is my only note. The other residence is a rental
I’m reading that Biden misspoke earlier today and talked about “terminating a presidency”.
Let’s have that conversation whenever you can focus, ol’ Joe.
I’m reading that Biden misspoke earlier today and talked about “terminating a presidency”.
Let’s have that conversation whenever you can focus, ol’ Joe.
Like I’ve said before if I’m in rough shape financially then most or all FuckHump supporters are dirt poor. Have fun Dumbfuck
Whenever you can focus, ol’ Joe.
@27 “the free money they were handed by Trump and the Democrats for months and months”
This is what’s known as a material omission.
@28 Your candidate gives you trouble.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_oz_vs_fetterman-7695.html
@29 You mean sell to oil companies that sell to Chinese-controlled companies that ship it overseas.
And, while you didn’t mention 5 million barrels, all the rightwing media jumping on this like hungry sharks did; they’re off by 4 million barrels. Only 1 million went to China after passing through the hands of registered purchases.
To wit: “Some conservatives conceded the point – at least in part. ‘Once oil is released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, current U.S. law allows for companies that are registered to purchase it to then sell it on the market, including to adversaries like China,’ said Heritage Foundation energy analyst Jack Spencer.”
But I’ll bet all those oil companies that bought the SPR oil and resold it to China are run by America-hating Democrats, amirite? They’re probably environmentalists, too, so the obvious motive behind this scheme was to make sure the SPR oil would pollute their air and not our air.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/08/why_us_petroleum_reserve_oil_went_overseas_147862.html
For those in a celebratory mood:
Florida Posts $21.8 Billion Budget Surplus, a State Record
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-07/florida-posts-21-8-billion-budget-surplus-a-state-record#xj4y7vzkg
If only Andrew Gillum could claim credit for this, ain’t that right, libbies?
@30 No, you can’t pass the bar exam by reading John Grisham novels. Apparently it’s possible to pass the radiology boards by attending a Caribbean med school, though.
Spending bills originate in the House.
Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn’t reach employees
YLB’s kids will be paying for that handout to the rich their entire lives. Serves them right for being born to a dumb twat like YLB.
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I noticed nearly half the people who took Washington’s February bar exam didn’t pass.
After eliminating the LSAT from admissions consideration, the next barrier to fall is the bar exam. It’s a relic of the past, a symbol of racism.
Just as “urgency” in addressing a serious problem is white supremacy.
A decade from now, when one of YLB’s kids has to file suit against someone, imagine the qualifications of the attorney they’ll be able to afford.
Chuckle.
@35 I’ll take a better president than Joe if I can get one. No chance that’ll be someone with an R after their name. Biden is better on his worst days than any Republican on their best days. It sucks to be you.
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How truly awful is the Trump effect on Cancervatives?
Fetterman built a 9 point lead wearing a bathrobe.
The dude abides.
But we still have the problem of insurrection mother fuckers. Congrats Dumbfuck.
Florida has received over $23 billion from the federal government in 2022.
Fat Midget is a welfare queen.
@41 Who wants to live in a state that collects taxes and doesn’t spend it on public services?
If you’d gone to graduate school in public administration, as I did, you’d know how budgets in the public sector are supposed to work. You identify a need. You come up with a cost to satisfy that need. You get an appropriation for that, then spend the appropriation satisfying the need.
For example, let’s say the legislature appropriates $100 million for mental health services for 50,000 state residents, and you’re in charge of managing the program. If you spend $20 million and deliver mental health services to 10,000 people, and the $80 million that should’ve been spent on services for the other 40,000 people ends up as an unspent budget surplus, you didn’t do your fucking job.
@43 Gee, I wonder who stole it? Employers? Wonder how many of them vote Republican? Oh, maybe 99% …
@43 “YLB’s kids will be paying for that handout to
the richthieving Republican business owners their entire lives. Serves them right for being born to a dumb twat like YLB.”ftfy
@44 Must’ve been a bunch of doctors self-educated in the law taking it this time.
@45 Their attorney will be one of those who passed what is obviously a tough test.
@49 So, they bought no schoolbooks with their federal schoolbook money?
I suspect what’s really going on is if they have to educate black kids, they’d rather close the schools and educate no kids.
Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn’t reach employees
Yawwwwwwn…. now dipshit lord kreepshit is blaming a drumpf originated and administered program on the Dems…
Congress appropriates the funds, executive branch does the rest…
Now Biden is cleaning up the mess…
looooowwww iq…
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Trump turned it all over to his good pal M’NOOCH who ran it all into the ground.
Fat Midget will do precisely the same with a different set of worthless, incompetent, corrupt pals.
I wonder how much taxpayer money is being wasted on this showboating?
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-senate-candidate-s-lawsuit-blaming-china-for-dismissed-by-federal-judge-report/
Another Capitol tourist sightseeing on Jan. 6, 2021, brought explosives with him.
“‘Prosecutors say he was among the rioting crowd Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, where he was photographed in military garb, a tactical vest and carrying surgical shears and zip ties. When federal agents searched his Palm River area home last week, they said they found a short-barrel rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, more than 8,000 rounds of ammunition and two hand grenades,’ reported the Tampa Bay Times in October.”
https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-jeremy-brown/
The “genius” Musk is trying back out of its obligation to piss away 44 billion on a pig in a poke….
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110539504/twitter-elon-musk-deal-jeopardy
Maybe it has to shovel that money into “furnaces” it built in Berlin and TexASS.
Just because a guy becomes the richest asshole in the world (for time being anyway), doesn’t mean he can’t sink to the fatuous and vacuous level of the kreepshit troll of widbee.
Just because a guy becomes the richest asshole in the world (for time being anyway), doesn’t mean he can’t sink to the fatuous and vacuous level of the kreepshit troll of widbee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfmgL1PJXzT/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/State-surplus-rise-will-aid-CT-pension-programs-17142856.php
18)Don’t see much of a decline around here.