– Troubling but not surprising is a good way to describe the Troyer verdict. Probably better for a pastor to use than oh shit and no shit.
– Last chance for free COVID-19 tests from the Washington State government. Might as well get some. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
– I have maintained that Joe Kent is entitled to his recount and that it wasn’t going to change much. Well duh.
– Kevin McCarthy not being Speaker would be funny, but I imagine anyone else would be worse.
– Since Twitter has been made in its owner’s image: Everyone is talking about him, and it’s boring as hell, do you have a social media recommendation? I think I will probably just post longer open threads and maybe other posts if y’all can behave in them.
It’s been awhile, so I’d like to wish a very special Happy Holidays to Deathfrogg.
And Rupert Murdoch
Every Mayor Pete NFT sold will come with a small sample of Santorum harvested directly from the current Secretary of Transportation.
Elon Musk, to so-called journalists.
Inflation has peaked, y’all.
AUTOS
Ford again hikes the starting price of the F-150 Lighting pickup, now up 40% since launch
Launch was only 19 months ago.
Oh, and did I mention that YLB’s fucked kids are subsidizing this beast?
@5 We’re comin’ for YOU tax cheat!
Elon Musk, to so-called journalists.
Save for Murdoch’s trained seals, NewsMax, OANN and the likes of John Solomon.
This is what is great about America. As the owner of Twitter I alone get to decide who or what gets to be “special” on MY Twitter.
No more whining about “cancel”.
Just shaddap and deal with it, all you insignificant pubic hairs. It’s mine now.
@5:
“The latest pricing increase – at least the third this year – comes as Ford attempts to expand production of the electric pickup to 150,000 units by next fall. The company earlier this week said it remains on track to do so, as it recently added a third shift of workers to a Michigan plant producing the vehicle.”
Living workers get paychecks for producing a product in demand..
Meanwhile repukes keep going to “that certain day”..
Gerson frequently criticized evangelicals and conservatives in his columns, writing about how appalled he was at Christian support for Donald Trump, for example, or about how the nation needed “Republican vertebrates” with a backbone for bravery.
In chronically short supply Gerson.. No matter, you’re not getting an SS check anymore.
And it follows from the kreepee, deranged, insane, inane, insipid babbling of teh widbee kreepshit that deceased repukes not getting SS checks is
GOOD..
for my kids..
AMRITE???
Our platform continues to grow faster than any other social media system in history, still adding thousands of new users every hour, 24/7.
We are immensely proud of how well our protocol performs under this kind of explosive growth. And we wish to take this moment to remind everyone that the credit for our growth and success belongs to all of you. This is your Fediverse. It belongs to all and we will all decide together how to grow it and make use of it.
How much does the us government subsidize oil and gas?
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute found that the US government alone spends $20 billion every year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. Of that figure, around $16 billion goes towards oil and gas, while the remaining $4 billion benefits the coal industry.Mar 28, 2022
In contract
Public subsidies for the construction of EV and battery plants are ballooning around the country. Last year, governments approved about $2bn in incentives
The greedy racist incel, lying by cherry picking data.
Dressing as the MJ zombie in Thriller = “cultural appropriation“:
New details in ongoing cultural appropriation investigation revealed
The lesson, libbies, is to ensure that there is plenty of green in anything you slather on your face while making a fool of yourself in public, which is what most assistant deans of Colleges of Arts and Sciences do for a living each and every day.
It is for this reason that YLB’s eye shadow is never black. Unserious as our resident HA twat is, she’s smart about some things.
YLB’s basic makeup foundation.
Cleveland rocks.
A year from now Tesla will still be a year away from being able to say this about their truck.
https://youtu.be/s_hFTR6qyEo?t=94
@ 11
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron alleges that there is a $20 billion annual subsidy for ICE vehicles because that’s how much some NGO claims is spent subsidizing fossil fuels.
He compares it to $2 billion in EV subsidies last year and accuses me of cherry-picking.
One has to wonder if The Even Bigger Fucking Moron has any idea at all that 61% of the electricity in the US is produced from the consumption of fossil fuels, and so the substantial majority of that subsidy is NOT used on ICE vehicles.
One has to wonder if The Even Bigger Fucking Moron has any idea that there will be a dramatic increase in EV subsidy in future years as a result of the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, for which YLB’s fucked kids will pay their entire working lives.
No one makes it more tempting to equate homosexuality with abject stupidity than The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Ah, but to do so would be cherry-picking.
Having opened at about 160 this morning, Tesla continues where it has spent most of the day, bouncing along on the 150 price.
Merry Christmas!
@ 14
Notice QoS McHillbilly isn’t talking about SpaceX or Starlink launches.
Time to make the Doughnuts!
Wall Street folks manipulating the stock market…….down today, UP Tomorrow (Kaching Kaching).
It’s hard to think about Michael Jackson without also recalling the many MJ jokes.
Here’s one from the ’80s, popular in northern California:
I see that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has gone all-in https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/16/trump-nft-collection-sells-out-price-surges/
on Trump NFTs.
Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges
Relative to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s losses from his investments in GE, AT&T, 3M, and Citigroup, going headlong into NFTs can’t be any worse. Oh, and he might get to meet Trump!
61% of the electricity in the US
LMAO.. That much down from 100 percent… May the trend continue.
It is for this reason that YLB’s eye shadow is never black.
LOL! Unlike Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Mehmet Oz and lord kreepshit while selling their always wrong wing bullshit, snake oil and quack remedies, makeup never touches my skin.
Clogs the pores.
Ford again hikes the starting price of the F-150 Lighting pickup, now up 40% since launch
A dealer network struggling to obtain the monthly inventories needed to make their plans welcomes this news.
These are mostly locally owned businesses, with investors and bankers from your communities who employ hundreds of your neighbors, donate to local charities, sponsor youth sports, buy the ads that support your favorite professional sport ball teams, etc. Affiliate new car dealerships have formed the backbones of local economies in American towns and cities for a century. And it’s been a very tough couple of years for them.
This is good news. A major American manufacturer, focusing its new production in the historic heartland of the American auto industry, has developed a new vehicle model that is outstripping all hopes for success and popularity. Seventy five percent of preorders are from buyers who are new to the brand. To build on that incredible success and to sustain it into the future requires a robust dealer network. And the price support Ford extends to its dealership network in turn redounds to the communities those dealerships support.
It’s truly a shame that Republicans, who once upon a time not only understood how these business relationships worked, but also celebrated them, can now think only about grievances, their own poor decision making, and which police officer to throw the fire extinguisher at.
I’d like to welcome Colorado into the ranks of the blue states. Now bend over to experience your initiation into the consequences of Democrat control, Coloradans:
DENVER DECLARES EMERGENCY AS MIGRANTS OVERWHELM CITY
Another month of just a $16 electric bill.
What are people waiting for? I’ve paid $80 for the past 5 months for elctricty. In CT the average bill is going up $80/month. And to think I even haven’t paid $80 for my lights.
I don’t recall one of our trolls placing himself in enormous financial peril for a premium equivalent to the price of a new patio set over SpaceX.
I’ll keep mentioning Tesla because it’s so much fun.
And I owe it all to the troll. It’s his Christmas gift to me.
The very least I can do is return the favor.
@23 I got your check.
Now bend over to experience
my dick, slave! And after I’ve finished:
“kiss it”..
This is magic:
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1603738713237749761
The new free speech.
Journalists who report about me banning the guy tracking my plane will also be banned. And when I have a conference call with reporters I’ll hang up in a huff and ban a few more for being on the call.
It’s going great folks.
Who among us HASN’T robbed senior citizens?
“Behaving” is not what we do here, Carl.
HA is a lot of things — a mosh pit, a saloon brawl, a kindergarten — but it’s not a finishing school.
@5 As if the average American is worried about the price of F-150 Lightnings. To most people an F-150 Lightning is as relevant as a Tesla or Maserati. In other words, not.
In the beautiful Biden Spring of 2021, as the vaccines began pouring forth and hope for the future finally returned, we all began to notice something and discuss it here on HA.
Republicans become suddenly very skeptical about medicine, vaccines, the CDC, doctors, nurses, and just science in general.
It was everywhere and it very quickly came to be a defining characteristic that could very closely track political ideology. While it was patently obvious that a great many of the Republicans spouting this nonsense were nonetheless getting vaccinated as fast as they possibly could, even those who were vaccinated pretended to the skepticism. Even one of our trolls got on the bandwagon, fabricating fantastic false tales about expired vaccine batches. It came to be a talisman representing Republicanism.
But unfortunately not all Republicans were sophisticated enough to parse the fine line between voicing skepticism to “own the libs” and truly doubting and even coming to fear medicine. We all speculated about what the effects of this might be. That a self-selecting population, organized around political ideology, who deliberately deprived themselves of effective protection against a deadly pandemic disease, and who because of that shared political ideology sorted themselves and gathered unprotected in groups, would stand to suffer a massive increase in excess mortality.
Well, the speculation was entirely correct:
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/11/more-republicans-died-democrats-after-covid-19-vaccines-came-out/380245/
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available.
And sadly these effects don’t stop at excess deaths. This difference means that many more Republicans went broke, lost their jobs, were forced to sell their homes, move in with relatives, because they got sick and needed treatment after most insurers had stopped waiving cost sharing for treatment. Probably many of the excess deaths occurred because these people could not afford to seek treatment.
It’s really a massive pile of dead bodies, grief, and misery all laid squarely at the feet of “owning the libs”. A truly tragic #owngoal of monstrous proportions that leading Republicans took part in. And many still do. Fat Midget, for instance.
@5
@31
Imagine having an electric car so popular you can charge whatever the hell you want.
Guys, maybe we should fix the well documented software glitches and shoddy trim work and doors that bend and won’t close but their Lightning doesn’t make fart sounds so we’ll be fine.
@20 I’m jealous. You get NFTs free.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1twX4PHiEU/TeLLLptbPMI/AAAAAAAA42A/U5nWcVkXjMY/s1600/History+Naomi_Hardy%252C_John_Couch_pic_%252C_Derby_Days%252C_credit_RHS.JPG
@20 I’m jealous. You get NFTs free.
@29 Actually, he manages the place, and he was stealing prescription narcotics.
@32 It’s sad, very sad, that we don’t have hundreds of thousands of those stupid Republicans to kick around anymore. I wonder how many of them were trolls we once knew?
30, and Carl,
I can enthusiastically recommend Mastodon.
On phone app it looks and feels more or less like Twitter.
On web the interface is a little less busy than Twitter, and no ads, etc. There’s probably a bunch I’m still figuring out about how to set up preferences for the feeds and interface. But I’m plenty happy with it.
It’s been about a month since I opened an account. And one of the first big challenges is finding the other accounts you’d like to follow. That’s been changing very rapidly as huge numbers of very interesting users from media, academia, various professions and industries have been migrating over and beginning to post more.
The one big difference to understand and appreciate about Mastodon is that it is not really a single server hosting all the content, user profiles, and accounts. Mastodon is based on an interoperability protocol comparable to email protocols. So while there may be lots of different email clients running on lots of different types of devices, and being moved around to all kinds of servers, networks and “mail boxes”, anyone can send mail to anyone. Mastodon runs on lots of servers called “instances”. Terminology isn’t important. What is important is that it all exchanges seamlessly across all the “instances”, users, networks, and devices. And since no one person, organization, or company “owns” the servers, nobody can impose their own arbitrary and petty conditions on everyone else.
Something that will probably become very significant going forward is that any individual, organization, company, or institution can also implement their own server (“instance”) with whatever peculiar features, terms of service, and limitations they like, within the requirements of the protocol. There could therefor conceivably be a “Nazi” instance that allowed and even welcomed Andrew Anglin, Nick Fuentes, and the rest of the GOP. But other instances could, at their option, limit or exclude content from accounts on that “Nazi” instance.
I suspect that in the future, and owing at least in part to the recent experience with Twitter, many companies, professional organizations, social and cultural institutions, and even government agencies will choose to implement their own Mastodon instances and thereby gain control over content and how the accounts they host interact with accounts and content hosted on other instances. But I don’t think that’s likely to happen right away. Being the “owner” of an instance would open a company or government agency up to being held to account for how that instance moderates content – both the content that originates on the company instances as well as content that is allowed to interact. Privately owned social media providers like Twitter, Meta, and Tik Tok give corporations some plausible deniability. So I don’t expect to see Coca Cola rushing to own accountability right away. They’ll want to watch and see for a while, I think.
33,
I’ve spoken to a few owners who’d settle for being able to park their Tesla at the airport for a couple of weeks out of town and not come back to a forest of mold growing on the seats.
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/defect/tesla-hvac-mold/
That seems like the kind of thing that the owner of a $120,000 car would not expect to have to deal with.
TSLA closing at just a butt hair above 150, after opening at 175 at the start of this week. That’s a 25 point drop this week.
Merry Christmas.
For anyone getting started on Mastodon and struggling to find the content creators and others you’d like to follow and interact with I’m sharing this very useful tool from an Amazon guy name Nate:
https://fedipages.com/
“Portrait of a desperate man. A man perhaps like all men.
A man with a career that satisfies and nurtures him. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men, perhaps there’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he’ll look up from what he’s doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there’ll flit a little errant wish, that a man might indeed go home again. But not this man. And not this summer night.
His electric car won’t start. The battery is full. It recognizes him as the owner. But it remains as mute and indifferent to him and his yearning as if he were a ghost. And perhaps he may be.
For last week he posted Tweets that mocked a billionaire.
And this morning, somewhere far, far away, buried in a complex labyrinth of tunnels beneath an East Texas desert, at the behest of that nameless billionaire, a switch has been flipped. It’s a switch that determines truth and falsehood, good and evil, light and dark, and maybe even life and death. For this switch controls the division between the stable comfort of routine expectation, and they yawning chasm of uncertainty we call the Twilight Zone.”
What more do you want?!
https://forward.com/fast-forward/528801/donald-trump-jewish-israel-kanye-west-nick-fuentes/
Who’s gonna love you more!?
Irate? You mean Neanderthal Hetero Disease. She wasn’t cleaning the dishes properly…..too much soap!
Do you think buying a horse would have fixed things here?
https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/crime/he-began-to-go-irate-husband-allegedly-kills-wife-in-warner-robins-park-2/93-20a537cb-d386-45a5-845a-40315a94b981
One of the neighbors charachterized this as “crime”. See it’s so normalized that it just an ordinary crime. It’s the equivalent of stealing a pack of gum.
IT’S AN STD! A HETERO NEANDERTHAL STD. IT IS LURKING WITHIN THE HETERO NEANDERTHAL COMMUNITY.
it
Oh, this is a good one. A local Republican official in New Jersey and his wife forwarded their daughter’s mail ballot to her work residence in New York City. She voted for the Democrat. He lost by 3 votes. Now he’s going to court to have her vote thrown out.
https://www.newjerseyhills.com/observer-tribune/news/mendham-twp-committee-ballots-filed-by-dems-and-questioned-by-republicans-include-one-from-gop/article_8d39c762-7cbc-11ed-976e-cf022fb2e645.html
Presumably he was okay with it when he assumed she would vote for him, and his distress arises from finding out he raised a Democrat.
The Twitter user who set up the community discussion of journalism account bans on Twitter Spaces that Elmo logged into and lost his shit has now been banned.
Elmo can go ahead and make up whatever the fuck rules he likes. It’s his deal. And obviously part of the intent of all this banning of users going on right now is to chill a certain kind of expression. And no, it can’t be credibly claimed that this is “protective”.
The Twitter Spaces debate last night was focused on understanding Twitter’s rationale for the bans. Twitter reps and Elmo Stans insisted that it was about “safety” but they could not explain the bans on those terms without admitting that, arbitrarily it would seem, they continue to support user accounts who violate the same policy in the same way. Nor did the user who organized the community discussion violate any such policy at any time.
For years Elmo has argued that efforts at “harm reduction” in social media are contrary to his principles, to “freedom of speech”, and are “leftist woke-mind authoritarianism”. But here he is precisely citing “harm reduction” to justify perma-bans AND doing it selectively and arbitrarily to serve his political and reputational interests.
Elmo certainly is worried about “harm”. But it aint about stalkers. It’s about “harm” to his pweshus reputation as a “genius”.
45 R U a screaming fag?
I’m sure glad they took this one out of circulation. Lock him up!
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/pro-mass-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-savage-had-machine-gun-wanted-to-fight-the-police/
@48 It’s now transparently clear that Musk sees Free Republic as his principal rival in the social media space. They’re competing for the same audience. They have similar user policies.
@47
Just that they raised a decent adult with empathy for others AND Christian values is too much for us. If you aren’t raising hate….you did it wrong.