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Trevor and his brothers debate government spending

Ari Melber: After wrongful conviction, man becomes civil rights lawyer in quest for justice

Honest Ads: If cryptocurrency was honest

SNL: Biden unites Democrats

Trevor: The Pandora Papers—How the mega-rich have been getting out of paying taxes

Full Frontal Rewind: Samantha Bee’s take on climate change

Amber Ruffin: How getting rid of the credit score system fights racism

The Psychopathology That Is The Cult of Трамп:

SNL Weekend Update: A Black woman who’s been missing for ten years

The Late Show: A first look at the trillion dollar coin

John Oliver: PFAS

Chris Hayes: Why Facebook’s business model is “Incommensurable with democracy”

SNL: Billionaire Star Trek

Tha God’s Honest Truth: Why are racists afraid of teaching critical race theory?

Lawrence O’Donnell: Return of beachfront property to Black family rights “A horrible injustice”

Bill Maher: The beginning of the end

ТрампPlague:

Robert Reich: The Democrats’ one chance to cut child poverty in half

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Late Show: The Social Notwork—Mark Zuckerberg’s worst day

Seth Meyers: Facebook’s disastrous week, from whistleblower bombshell to global outage

Mark Fiore: The Democratic land of Centristopia

SNL Weekend Update: Democrats delay infrastructure vote

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  3. 3

    @1 The impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves was so petty he wouldn’t give Biden presidential briefings during transition period, let alone the actor never invited the legitimate president to the White House.
    —
    President Biden had responded to 45’s request with a memo that simply read:

    Re: request for executive privilege.

    No.

    Signed: The President

  4. 4

    It’s ridiculous how a senator from a state which is top 5
    in federal aid dependency is criticizing entitlement..
    Not to mention Joe Manchin’s state is bottom 5 in healthcare, education, infrastructure, economy.. all of which the Biden BBB plan tries to address

    How Joe Manchin keeps getting reelected is a puzzle. Racism must be one hell of a drug.

  5. 5

    Biden administration cancels remaining Laredo, Rio Grande Valley contracts for Trump’s border wall, angering Republican lawmakers
    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-contracts-texas-laredo-rio-grande-biden-admin-2021-10?utm_source=reddit.com

    Of course Republican lawmakers are mad, they had to work to get those contracts to their friends and family that promised them kickbacks.

    I seem to remember when the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves and his feckless minions initiated THE WALL, angering the American people. They did it anyway.

    If conservatives were serious, they would jail EVERYONE who hires an illegal, from CEO to housewife for a year in a for-profit prison. Being felons, they would then lose the right to firearms and vote .

  6. 6

    SPD latest “officer of the year” candidate has been found!

    SPD Officer Andrei Constantin placed on paid AL today after researchers tied him to a series of sock puppet accounts on social media that he used to harass victims, spread misinformation, and arrange street violence in Seattle. A close follower and associate of BurQa Bob’s favorite Seattle MAGAT, Andy Ngo, Officer Constantin was found to have also provided coordinated intelligence support to NGO and helped him with several documented acts of criminal obstruction.

    Total payroll comp in 2020: $175,000

    That’s what you all paid him to sit in his patrol car, surf internet porn, exchange chat messages and sexts with his former Las Vegas escort colleagues, and plan street violence with Ngo.

    Hot Tip: whatever perceived ills you may feel Seattle is beset by, dudes like this are not going to be a part of any solution. You won’t fix any of it by putting more overpaid degenerate thugs on the street.

  7. 7

    Seattle winning!

    In a nationwide contest Seattle has come out on top of the heap.
    SPD had more off duty officers in attendance at the violent terror attack on Congress than any other police department.

    Congratulations.

  8. 8

    Written by a homo.

    @ 7

    If conservatives were serious, they would jail EVERYONE who hires an illegal, …

  9. 9

    So far, early analysis of the EPIK hack has revealed over 160 official government email addresses including police and military contained in the membership records compiled by the Oath Keepers militia group that carried out the breaching operations during the Jan 6 domestic terror attack on Congress.

    Maybe some SPD names included. Certainly lots of Republicans. Especially Texas Republicans.

  10. 10

    @ 9

    I suppose this is a good thing.

    Of course, I didn’t have much of an objection when Podesta’s password was used in 2016, either.

    Be careful what you wish for.

  11. 11

    @8. I’m sorry, should I not have used the term that conservatives use? I wanted conservatives to be able to understand my point. Were you able to puzzle it out.

  12. 12

    10 “Careful what you wish for”. So when it happens to conservatives instead of liberals, they get upset and threaten revenge.
    Talk about brittle.

  13. 13

    Be careful what you wish for.

    Maybe something like this?

    Director of infosec at The Intercept took the Oct. 4 Anonymous release of the Texas GOP WordPress files and ran a little mysql magic to grant themselves full admin privileges over the WordPress backup contained in the release.

    Now he’s got all their posts, drafts, updates, private internal posts, password protected pages, and all the site form entry data including all the site registration submissions. And he’s published a walk-through for anyone else interested in doing the same. This could be helpful stuff when the time comes to challenge redistricting.

  14. 14

    And the reason for the specific, targeted release of Texas GOP’s hacked EPIK data is the bounty law.

    Something, something, being careful about wishes, etc.

  15. 15

    @ 13

    This could be helpful stuff when the time comes to challenge redistricting.

    Only if Democrats decide that running away is not a winning strategy.

  16. 16

    Speaking of running away…

    And just think, Cocaine Mitch did this so Biden wouldn’t have to.
    Hell, he did it so Biden wouldn’t have an excuse.

  17. 17

    @ 16

    As long as you think First Vegetable Joe Biden will look better in December than he does now, this is a weak move by McConnell.

    Other notable weak moves by McConnell:

    • preventing the nomination of Merrick Garland from action by the Senate.

    • successfully shepherding the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett through the Senate.

    • enabling this:

    More than a quarter of currently active federal judges are now Trump appointees. As of Jan. 13, there were 816 active judges serving across the three main tiers of the federal court system: the Supreme Court, 13 regional appeals courts and 91 district courts governed by Article III of the U.S. Constitution. Trump appointed 28% of those judges. That includes three of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices, 30% of the nation’s active appeals court judges and 27% of active district court judges. (The number of active federal judges changes regularly because of retirements, resignations, new appointments and other reasons.)

  18. 18

    Benjamin Crump’s not gonna like this:

    No federal civil rights charges against officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Justice Department says

    Rittenhouse will walk, too, except for the weapons charge. Guys he shot are/were POS.

  21. 21

    Actually, it’s possible Rittenhouse could walk on all charges.

    The judge began the hearing by denying a defense request to drop the weapons possession charge against Rittenhouse. Wisconsin law prohibits anyone under age 18 from going armed, but Rittenhouse’s attorneys argued that statutes actually prohibit minors only from carrying short-barreled rifles and shotguns. The only other prohibitions on minors possessing firearms lie in hunting statutes, and all they say is that children under age 12 can’t hunt with firearms, they said.

    Schroeder said he might revisit the question later, calling the statutes unclear.

    Maybe y’all can nail him for littering. After all, did anyone see him pick up his spent cartridges? Ididn’t.

  22. 22

    The AP wants you to know that despite this setback, it’s a really good thing that Biden’s got drones and those drone strikes are never, ever wrong.

    Taliban say they won’t work with US to contain Islamic State

    Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press there would be no cooperation with Washington on containing the increasingly active Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
    …
    IS has carried out relentless assaults on the country’s Shiites since emerging in eastern Afghanistan in 2014. It is also seen as the terror group that poses the greatest threat to the United States for its potential to stage attacks on American targets.

    The weekend meetings in Doha are the first since U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in late August, ending a 20-year military presence as the Taliban overran the country.

    I’m sure glad that the US has a laser-focused warrior like First! Woman! President! Jill Biden to protect us, while her husband eats ice cream cones and the Veep panders to pre-schoolers.

  23. 23

    “At least Kamala knows how to spell potato.”

    – YLB, as soon as her nail polish dries.

  24. 24

    @19 What you’re saying is the guy who used a skateboard trying to disarm the teenage vigilante who had just shot and killed two people should’ve resorted to the handgun he was packing instead. You could argue that a bullet to the killer’s head would’ve been more effective than the skateboard was, and it would’ve been a clearcut case of using a gun for self-defense. Some people might even agree with you.

  25. 25

    @20 “Senator Kyle Rittenhouse.”

    A realistic possibility given voters like you and other Trumpers.

  26. 26

    Other notable weak moves by McConnell:

    Indeed. All of which highlights the glaring hypocrisy and naked partisanship behind McConnell, Thune, Romney, and Manchin’s complaints about Schumer’s remarks ahead of the vote.

    Partisan “weaponizing” of crucial votes, and Senate procedure is now an established GOP trademark manifestly promoted by the former Leader and enabled to persist entirely on account of Senate rules favoring the minority. I for one welcome every opportunity to remind Biden voters everywhere how all that works. Glad to see you agree, idiot.

    More please.

  27. 27

    @21 He could, but it’s also possible he could get life for two murders, although I think a jury compromising by convicting him of manslaughter and a sentence that would have him out in his thirties is more likely.

  28. 28

    Actually, it’s possible Rittenhouse could walk on all charges.

    I seem to recall this idiot troll had lots to say about how sweeping and important the HuhrDuhrham probe would turn out to be.

    Apparently he can wait forever.
    He’ll have to.

  29. 29

    @23 Perhaps the lieutenant governor of Idaho is more to your liking. Now there’s a power grabber and anti-masker freak to warm the heart of every tea party Trumper.

    She’s probably vaccinated, though, even though she fiercely opposes vaccine mandates. Like all Republicans, she’s a hypocrite. Despite adamantly opposing her state taking federal Covid-19 relief funds, she took over $300k of such funds for her own businesses.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_McGeachin#COVID-19_pandemic_and_strained_relationship_with_Governor_Brad_Little

  30. 30

    29)She makes Little look like a Liberal.

    Wonder if today’s GOP makes Hatfield look like a lefty?

  31. 31

    Wonder if today’s GOP makes Hatfield look like a lefty?

    Considering that about one in five of “today’s GOP” is circling the drain in a CCU yellow and swollen with liver failure and bilateral pneumonia about to have half their teeth broken out by a clumsy intubation, they probably make Hatfield look like Mark Spitz in his prime.

    This ain’t your daddy’s GOP. That’s for sure.

  33. 33

    @30 She’s a Three Percenter, or at least a sympathizer. Only Idaho, neo-Nazi capital of the U.S., would elect someone like her to statewide office.

  35. 35

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit whines @ 34 about private equity-owned companies. He doesn’t mention that university endowments invest heavily in PE funds.

    The University of Washington, for instance, has 18% of its endowment funds invested in private equity.

    University of Washington basks in 35.1% fiscal-year return

    As of June 30, the consolidated endowment fund’s actual allocation was 35% developed markets equities, 18% each emerging markets equities and private equity, 15% absolute return, 9% fixed income, 4% real assets and the rest in opportunistic credit.

    https://www.pionline.com/endowments-and-foundations/university-washington-basks-351-fiscal-year-return

    While UW basks in cash, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit basks in hypocrisy and a laughable monthly pension and brokerage return rate.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is an unsuccessful, bloviating clown.

  37. 37

    Of the money distributed by the UWashington CEF endowment, only 4% goes to student financial aid.

    $4.7 billion in the endowment fund, and about $5 million was distributed to reduce the student debt burden last year. That’s little more than 0.1% of the value of the endowment.

    Think about that next time y’all demand that the taxpayer cover the expense of government-extinguished student debt, libbies.

  38. 38

    @35 The University of Washington doesn’t pay my pension, or contribute to my pension fund, so what’s your point? Let me guess, there isn’t one, you merely typed something you thought was clever and now you’re admiring your handiwork on your computer screen.

    Or maybe you’re jealous. My professional degree is from the University of Washington. Where’s yours from, a Caribbean diploma mill or a correspondence school?

  39. 39

    @37 I wouldn’t be surprised if you defaulted yours. Not saying you did, just that it wouldn’t surprise me. Or maybe you didn’t have student debt, maybe you had well-heeled parents who sent you to an offshore medical school to get rid of you, and for them, it was worth it.

  40. 40

    Like all Republicans, Doctor Dumbfuck is bitter that kids from families of modest means get help that enables them to go to college, too.

    This is what converted me from a Goldwater conservative to a lifelong Democrat. One of the parties wanted to slam the college door in my face. I quickly figured out which one.

    Their attitude toward education opportunity cost them my vote for 13 presidential elections and 26 congressional elections, and counting — I’m still here, and still voting for the only party that gives a damn about people who aren’t born with silver spoons in their mouths.

  41. 41

    Think about that next time y’all demand…

    Instead I’m gonna think about that time our Gone-Galt racist incel troll demanded that taxpayers seize private funds and redirect them to other than specified purposes in order to lower his taxes.

    The durty hippee liberal state AG might have one or two problems with that proposal.

    Now we know why Bob’s partners tossed his ass out.
    He was caught stealing.

  42. 42

    @ 38

    Public pension funds also invest into PE. CalPERS has 6.3% of its assets in PE.

    You asked for my point. My point is that both evil private people and angelic funds managed for the benefit of angelic retired public employees make possible the whining that the chick in your silly-ass link @ 34 did for the benefit of the reporter.

    My point is that you have no point, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You also have nothing but a pitiful investment account to show for your career. Your consistently poor choices have hurt your family.

  43. 43

    34. What a vile company. I expect the greed conservatives to be complaining they cant keep workers very soon.

    It’s a fascinating argument that it is fine to screw over workers so long as it is more profitable for Boomer pension funds

  44. 44

    @ 43

    It’s a fascinating argument that it is fine to screw over workers so long as it is more profitable for Boomer pension funds

    It’s a hypocritical argument to criticize companies owned by private equity groups into which pension funds invest substantial monies, while accepting a monthly stipend from said pension fund. Which is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does.

    Are you able to follow any of that, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron? If you need me to I can use smaller words and arrows.

  45. 45

    Jim Clyburn, you’ve been played.

    Biden’s Proposed HBCU Budget Cut From $45 Billion To $2 Billion In Congress Negotiations

    According to the Associated Press, as the federal budget battle continues, the original goal of allocating $45 billion for HBCUs in the original $3.5 trillion proposal has now been cut to $2 billion.

    The $2 billion would be used toward educational programs and infrastructure for Black colleges; however, the total would be reduced to competitive grant funding as opposed to direct allocations reported AP.

    Don’t be the student who chose the less competitive university.

    President Mayor Pete wouldn’t have done this. Gman knows.

  46. 46

    Dude your picture is in the dictionary next to the word hypocritical. I don’t read you bragging about how you turn away anything that smacks of socialism. You grab that money and brag about it so hush up grown ups are talking

  47. 47

    44 so by your logic you will never again comment on abortion or vote for forced birthers until you grow a vagina

  49. 49

    @44 “It’s a hypocritical argument to criticize companies owned by private equity groups into which pension funds invest substantial monies, while accepting a monthly stipend from said pension fund.”

    No, it’s not. By your logic, I can’t criticize our government because I get Social Security and Medicare.

    What is hypocritical is that I own stock and get dividends from companies that screw their workers. Just like you.

    What makes me a hypocrite, and you not, is that I criticize it but take the money anyway, while you take the money and see nothing wrong with it.

  50. 50

    @45 It’s not Biden who won’t spend that money to help black colleges and their students. Ask any Republican about that budget item, and they’ll call it “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

  53. 53

    In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

    Of course he’s right, especially when you’re talking about tea party parents who can’t add 2 + 2, can’t spell their own names, and insist that science classes teach kids the universe is 6,000 years old.

    But another problem McConnell, Youngkin, and their ilk overlook is that parents don’t agree on what to teach. Their side gets their way. Always. No matter how many people disagree with them, and even if they’re wrong. Especially when they’re wrong.

    So here’s what we should do. Let them take over the schools for a year, but only a year. Their kids will end up either dead or stupid, and all the good jobs will go to our kids.

  54. 54

    Austria’s rightwing chancellor, who got elected by campaigning against immigrants and Muslims, has been forced to resign for the same reason many conservative politicians leave office — he and his associates are under investigation for corruption.

  56. 56

    Allen West isn’t vaccinated. Now he has Covid-19, and pneumonia, and thinks he’ll be “admitted to the hospital.” I hope, for his family’s sake, he makes it. If not, he’ll be one more Republican with a fulfilled death wish. Covid-19 kills the unvaccinated fast, so I suppose we’ll know in a few days whether he’s still running for Texas governor.

  57. 57

    Governor Abbott, Allen West, a priest, and a hippie were flying by on a regional airline from Houston and Austin when the plane suffered a mechanical problem.

    The pilots informed the passengers the situation was hopeless and they were bailing out, and had three more parachutes for the passengers to divide up among themselves.

    Governor Abbott said, “I’m the most important man in Texas, so I’m taking one,” and bailed out. West said, “I’m the second most important man in Texas, so I’m taking one, too,” and bailed out.

    The priest looked at the hippie and said, “Son, I’m old and you’re young, and maybe you’ll straighten out, so you take the last parachute.”

    The hippie replied, “Rest easy, Father, we’re both gonna get out of this. Mr. West just jumped with my knapsack, and he has Covid, so he would have bought it anyway.”

  58. 58

    In a nationwide contest Seattle has come out on top of the heap.
    SPD had more off duty officers in attendance at the violent terror attack on Congress than any other police department.

    Really seems like there is something going on in the Pacific Northwest. You guys really have a bunch of special Neanderthals

  59. 59

    Bob,

    Next week I head to Delaware to meet with the builder’s designer team that will assist me in making material selections. It will be a 5-7 hour meeting. Feels so special to be able to get this opportunity to customize a home (second home). Gonna have to try to stick to some budget, I already tacked on 10 percent in a change order to the original purchase price, and we were just getting started with just structural type consideration or considerations that could impact structure, like the $27,000 stone terrace/patio that I added (see if you can do the AGI math there). Happy trolling Bob!

  60. 60

    Look forward to the upgraded kitchen too. I may actually start learning to cook better in those retirement years!

  62. 62

    @57, nice one Rog,

    Unfortunately the hippie should have done the same with Wheels.

  63. 63

    58,
    It’s all in the history of Oregon territorial laws. Even before statehood the territory had race exclusion laws. Those were carried over into statehood in various ways. They basically made it a crime to be black anywhere in the PNW well into the late 19 and early 20th century. Pretty much was an excuse to lynch people on sight. Worked exactly the way the founders intended it to. Black people were basically terrified to travel anywhere even close to Washington or Oregon. And most who did were murdered or driven back out.

    It’s all part of that “CRT” stuff that the white parents don’t want their kids knowing about. History hurts their feels.

  65. 65

    @63 I never knew the history. As much as the Pacific Northwest is beautiful, I think New England and the Norrheast and maybe northern mid Atlantic (Delaware) are the better places. Nebraska always surprises me though.

  66. 66

    Funny how Puffy was one of them. Maybe that’s why he decided to depart HA. Disenfranchised that Repukes are so racist.

  67. 67

    Long story and I may have already spewed it but I told my Alma Mayer that if they aren’t more vocal on some of the latest happenings with black high school football teams being harassed that I’ll stop donating to them

  68. 68

    COVID positivity rate on the rise in NY State after a steep decline, but it’s continuing to decline in Manhattan. In Manhattan it is a third of the rate that it is in NY State.

  69. 69

    @64 “grants pass it was very racist even in the sixties and seventies”

    Isn’t it still?

  70. 70

    63)In the 20s they outlawed Private Schools in Oregon, until the Taft Court struck it down. Interesting that Society of Sisters vs. Pearce was written by an anti-Semite.

    In Washington, the same forces tried it here, but people like Bishop Edmond O’Dea of Seattle beat back a ballot measure. Never knew about that, until I was looking up something else about Saint James Cathedral, and I graduated from that little high school he was just starting, across the street from Saint James.

    Go Irish.

  72. 72

    69. I should clarify By the 60s and 70s racism in grants pass had gone to earth. They didn’t talk about it out loud. Harder to be triggered when no one black was left. It resurged with a vengeance when rush came on the air encouraging white victimhood and the internet became accessible. It’s wall to wall white resentment now. The good life they were promised and entitled by virtue of being white was being stolen by brown people and liberals.

  73. 73

    Coast Guard vessels don’t normally don’t encounter the issue of being sovereign U.S. Territory since except in wartime, declared or otherwise, they usually stay within U.S. Waters. Still, there was the Kunderka incident, although should have been more punishment for allowing the KGB to come aboard the USCGC Vigilant and drag off the defector, who turned out later, could claim American Citizenship.

    https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2021/10/06/sovereign-immunity-policy-and-a-bad-example/

  76. 76

    @ 69

    Isn’t it still?

    It’s an honest question, actually. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t have the spare funds to leave the city, much less leave the state.

  77. 77

    @ 61

    Chef Geee Money

    Don’t order the cucumber salad.

    You know where it’s been.

  79. 79

    Obama issued an EO promoting HBCUs.

    Trump revoked it while issuing his own.

    Section 4. Revocation of Executive Order.
    Executive Order 13532 of February 26, 2010 (Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically
    Black Colleges and Universities), as amended, is revoked.

    And then Biden revoked Trump’s. As well as overrode every EO by earlier presidents that conflicts with Biden’s.

    Sec. 4. Administrative Provisions. (a) This order supersedes Executive Order 13779 of February 28, 2017 (White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities), which is hereby revoked. To the extent that there are other Executive Orders that may conflict with or overlap with the provisions in this order, the provisions in this order supersede those prior Executive Orders on these subjects.

    At least the definition of HBCU did not change.

  80. 80

    EMPLOYERS GET RID OF THEIR DUMBEST 1% USING THIS ONE CRAZY HACK!

    The most amusing part of this that I’ve seen so far has been the utter confidence that so many Republican VAX deniers have that they will now get rich from their big lawsuit.

    They all appear to have bought into the widespread mythology that there somehow exists some publicly funded apparatus for promoting every single employee grievance into a civil court of law. And that once there, “people like us” are absolutely assured of not only great success, but are guaranteed to receive huge payouts. To these people it’s merely a matter of filling out some magical online form or registering with a website.

    Perhaps there’s a good opportunity in this. A website for the dumbest 1% of all workers to “register” for support and “assistance” after having “wrongfully” been terminated from employment over VAX refusal. $19.99 sound about right? Maybe if it comes with “secure” access to lawyer referral, a membership card, and a window decal for the truck?

  81. 81

    And here’s some more history of the HBCU EOs, going back to the Carter administration. Every president has authored an EO covering HBCUs.

    Looks like Obama had the initiative under the DOE, Trump reorganized it under direct White House control, and Biden has put it back under the DOE.

    As we ponder our spews denouncing Trump’s politicization of HBCUs by placing the direction of the initiative covering them under White House control, let’s recall, shall we, what Obama tried to do with the Census Bureau.

  82. 82

    @ 80

    Which reminds me, QoS McHillbilly:

    Where is that promised national vaccine mandate, anyway?

    I have very little objection to the concept of a mandate for this purpose. I must not be as libertarian as I want others to believe.

  83. 83

    After learning that President Biden was ordering the White House to comply with House investigatory subpoenas for documents and records concerning staff and agency activities on the day Republican domestic terrorists attacked Congress and tried to assassinate his VEEP, Trump lost his shit and began to try to issue very, very scary threats.

    And the best he could come up with was to threaten that if he ever becomes president again he’ll release all the volumes of White House records of Hunter Biden’s art sales.

    Which of course are ZERO records.

    Because Hunter Biden does not work for the government, because his paintings and their sale are a private matter that the president has no legal authority over, and because the sales are being conducted by private brokers to private parties.

    Have at it.

    Remember when Trump had a Twitter account and could use it to threaten Canada with nukes?
    Boy, those were the days.

  84. 84

    Where is that promised national vaccine mandate, anyway?

    While I agree that six months ago this would have been useful, I’m inclined to admit now, with an extra 500,000 astonishingly dumb Republicans needlessly dead for FREEDUMB, there’s both probably no point, and the legal costs are too high.

    It’s pretty clear where we are right now that about 18 Republican slave-state governments would violently oppose any enforcement. Putting down that insurrection would entail additional risk to decent honorable soldiers and government officials tasked with enforcing any national mandate on all citizens. And a substantial portion of those who would be protected by that effort are now either dead, recovered, or vaccinated anyway.

    We could have been about where we are right now six months ago, only with a lot fewer dead, or medically bankrupted and permanently crippled Republicans. Maybe Biden was right.

  85. 85

    83. Conservatives. You call President Biden a vegetable but you support and plan to vote for a fool who cannot even get Hunter Biden threats correct? I think you don’t know what vegetable means.

  86. 86

    I must not be as libertarian as I want others to believe.

    In my experience, none of you are.
    Mostly, libertarians are just “conservatives” with very poorly developed socialization and emotional maturity.

    You demand unlimited liberty for yourselves. Yet you crave naked authoritarianism for everyone else. The few of you intelligent enough to recognize the ethical and practical inconsistency of this, then preoccupy yourselves with the inexhaustible supply of debates over how to mediate that inconsistency. Making you not only tragically boring, but also completely irrelevant.

  87. 87

    Throughout the special, Chappelle repeatedly circles back to pitting racism against anti-LGBTQ animus. After pointing out that DaBaby had killed another man and still continued to perform and escaped punishment, but got “cancelled” after making incredibly derogatory comments about gay people, Chappelle made the comparison direct. “Do you see where I’m going with this?” he quipped. “In our country, you can shoot and kill a n****r, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings!”

    The greedy racist incel does not seem to care that black men murder black men but he’s upset that gay people will not shut up and just take the slurs.
    The greedy racist incel is content that black culture is helpless to censor black murders but upset that gay culture has enough power to censor homophobes.

    People like him are why Republicans have to cheat and overthrow democracy to get elected

  88. 88

    Media statements from Allen West’s CCU bed declaring that “I’m doing great!” remind me of those college athletic director statements of “full confidence” in the football coach who has lost his first four conference games.

    This is never a good sign.

  89. 89

    Remember this headline, MSNBC, when it’s time for y’all to argue that means testing should be used when Social Security is in trouble.

    Democrats like Manchin want poor Americans to waste more time
    “Means testing” is just a nicer way to say, “We want people to jump through more hoops, so fewer people can get help.”

    This isn’t MSNBC talking so much as it’s MSNBC’s higher-income libbie viewership not wanting to be kicked off of the gravy train.

  90. 90

    There’s little wrong with poor people getting more help while Cuomosexual G-clown still can’t deduct all of the state and local income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes he has to pay because he prefers to suck dick in NYC, rather than in a lower-tax state.

  91. 91

    @ 88

    This is never a good sign.

    In the 70s a Weekend Update joke on SNL went something like, “If Generalissimo Franco’s condition continues to improve, they hope to declare him dead by next week.”

  92. 92

    If YLB was not such a coward she would follow Manchin into a public restroom, instead of Sinema.

    Cowardice is why LGBTQQYLB+ gets such criticism.

  93. 93

    87,
    … but got “cancelled” after…

    But what exactly does this mean? The use of scare quotes is for some reason.

    In this case it means he lost a single, large and potentially lucrative booking, and about four other much smaller bookings. A major streaming service removed his contributions to remix recording, depriving him of streaming income from that work.

    Chappelle compares this to the potential for criminal liability arising from a self-defense shooting.

    Frankly, it doesn’t really make any sense. And it’s almost certainly self-serving on Chappelle’s part. Aside from Chappelle’s own well documented bigotry toward LGBTQ people, there’s the more significant issue of his own history of battling over censorship and battling for income arising from his work product. But when Chappelle finally won his long battle with Warner he famously thanked “his real bosses”, the consumers and viewers.

    This is what it means to derive an income from public approval. It just can’t be any more plain. People either like it or they don’t. And if they don’t, for whatever reason, THAT IS NOT UNFAIR. That’s the business you decided to go into.

    Losing income because you are an asshole has nothing to do with “getting away” with anything. And Chappelle knows that better than anyone. It just scares the shit out of him that society is moving on without him.

  94. 94

    Own. goal.

    Absolutely Confront Kyrsten Sinema Outside Of Her Bathroom Stall

    The effectiveness of certain kinds of protest will always be up for debate. From violent altercations to boycotts, sit-ins and marches, each method has some history of success and failure that differs among participants, observers, and the object of the protestors’ scorn. So naturally, a group of activists pursuing Senator Kyrsten Sinema around the Arizona State University campus over the weekend and—controversially, somehow—briefly following Sinema into a public restroom to note that their family members were deported—is bound to prompt some pearl-clutching.

    Three paragraphs later, Jezebel made the excellent point that cleanup would have been so much easier had Jared Lee Loughner chosen to shoot Gabby Giffords in the head while she was standing on a public restroom tile floor with a well-placed floor drain, instead of outside while standing on porous concrete.

  95. 95

    …means testing should be used when Social Security is in trouble.

    Did you really miss the “scare quotes”?
    Or are you just this dumb?*

    “Means testing” as it appears in the MSNBC sub head has nothing at all to do with means testing Social Security retirement benefits.

    It’s much more consistent with the “means testing” applied to something like Medicaid. Medicaid consists of a massive collection of 50 separate and independent bureaucracies all staffed by overworked technocrats pouring over volumes of federal rules created by decades of Congressional “good intentions” to decide whether an applicant gets 50 units of diapers per month, or only 47. A savings of $1.50 per month that costs state and federal taxpayers $300. You and Manchinema now find yourselves arguing in favor of this.

    Trump did this to you. We did not.

    *Relax. You really don’t need to answer that.

  96. 96

    @ 87

    …black culture is helpless to censor black murders…

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, black culture celebrates black murders. The last thing black culture wants to do is censor them. There’s too much money in gangland murder.

    Get Rich or Die Tryin’

    Life After Death

    Ready To Die

    Music To Driveby

    Do you have any clue how perpetually silly you are, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron?

    I’ll give you a chance to redeem yourself, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Two questions:

    1. Which of the albums I listed above was released by a black man murdered by (one or more) other black men?

    2. Which of the albums I listed above was released by a black man repeatedly shot, but not murdered, by (one or more) other black men?

  97. 97

    Absolutely Confront Kyrsten Sinema Outside Of Her Bathroom Stall

    Because that’s the only place you CAN confront her if you are unwilling to pony up $1000 for the privilege.

    Sinema has never held a townhall, in-person, virtual, or otherwise. She holds donor receptions monthly, in addition to zoom calls, contributor monthly calls, etc.

  99. 99

    YLB might be interested in some Virginia redistricting news. First there’s this:

    Incumbent protection remains flashpoint as Virginia senator tries to draw his own district lines

    That’s a Democrat senator, BTW.

    And then Democrats reverted to the cowardice for which they have become infamous, by walking out like the pussies they are.

    Virginia Redistricting Commission members walk out of meeting as panel remains stuck in partisan impasse

    The Democrats wanted to work off of a map produced only that morning, one which had not been subject to public commentary. The GOP wanted to work off of both Senate maps.

    Here’s the thing, YLB. Democrat cowardice means no redistricting map results from the Commission’s work.

    If the commission comes to a compromise, they will send their proposed maps to the General Assembly for an up-or-down vote. If the maps are voted down or if no agreement is reached, the process will be in the hands of the Virginia Supreme Court.

    The Virginia Supreme Court leans right.

    YLB, do you think, girlfriend, that Mitch McConnell is still shaking over the results of the 2019 elections in Virginia?

  101. 101

    Mitch McConnell is still shaking

    Heh..

    Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Sarah A.L. Merriam, of Connecticut, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut )
    Vote Number: 409
    Vote Date: October 6, 2021, 02:25 PM
    Required For Majority: 1/2
    Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
    Nomination Number: PN640
    Nomination Description: Sarah A.L. Merriam, of Connecticut, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut
    Vote

    Counts:

    YEAs 54
    NAYs 46

    Sedition bois khruzz and hee hawley: NAY
    RINO Graham: YEA (Scott voted Nay)

    MOSCOW MITCH: NAY

    Gimme a G! Gimmee an E.. What does that spell?
    Nother!

  102. 102

    @ 97

    Sinema has never held a townhall, in-person, virtual, or otherwise.

    AZBio Virtual Town Hall with Senator Kyrsten Sinema
    Date: Friday, May 15, 2020

    Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Pac/AZ

    Registration for this free virtual event is required.

    Questions may be sent in advance via this link or provided in the chat box during the town hall.

    ‘nother:

    Kyrsten Sinema
    @SenatorSinema
    Our tele-town hall with @AZ_AARP allowed us to hear directly from Arizona seniors, answer questions about coronavirus, share tips on avoiding dangerous scams, and ensure seniors have access to the care and support they deserve.
    azbigmedia.com
    Here are the threats to seniors of COVID-19 that extend beyond the virus – AZ Big Media
    AARP, hosted a live coronavirus informational phone conference for over 10,000 seniors to inform older citizens of the dangers of COVID-19.
    1:19 PM · Apr 24, 2020

    QoS McHillbilly doesn’t like to acknowledge the AARP event, because Sinema credited the work of a GOP governor.

    Arizona’s senior Senator Kyrsten Sinema addressed and applauded Governor Doug Ducey’s approach for handling the statewide health crisis during a tele-town hall Wednesday night put on by Arizona AARP.

  103. 103

    Wow. What a sad day for dimfuk…

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-rep-todd-akin-sunk-legitimate-rape-remark-80390185

    The inventor of “legitimate rape” is dead. Randroid Ryan said “rape is rape”.. Many klownservatics disagree..

    Dimfuk?

    Akin was an old guy. Musta gotten a SocSec check eh dimfuk? Government pension benefits?

    My kids are better off for this, amirite?

    Nother!

  104. 104

    @ 101

    HA’s resident unserious twat YLB responds to my criticism of her silly-ass claim that somehow the Virginia redistricting would affect McConnell by, er, pointing out the confirmation of a nominee who has nothing to do with redistricting, or Virginia.

    YLB has trouble unless she’s hiding behind either Goldy or Darryl.

  105. 105

    @ 103

    Unserious twat YLB, what is the difference between “legitimate rape” and, say,

    rape-rape?

    Polanski was not guilty of ‘rape-rape’, says Whoopi Goldberg

    Since you and Whoopi each have a vagina, YLB, perhaps you can tell me what she’s referring to.

    When you’re done we can move on to the anti-racist meaning of the use of the term “white nigger” by a Democrat serving in the US Senate.

  106. 106

    102,
    AARP member only and an Arizona healthcare and pharmaceutical industry lobbyist/trade group member events with questions submitted in writing at least two weeks prior.

    Those are fundraising events.

    You are almost as full of shit as Sinema.

    Maybe you can schedule her to meet with your FB friends from CO.

  107. 107

    Interesting one of the U.S. Army’s 2 Iron Dome Batteries is being deployed to protect the THAAD Battery on Guam. It’s part of an excercise mandated by Congress, just like the acquisition which is on an interim basis.

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42687/the-iron-dome-air-defense-system-is-heading-to-guam

    The Army is going with a competitor for the contract, despite Congress and Israel pushing the Iron Dome. The Dynetics Enduring Shield is leveraging the Army’s Multi Mission Launcher, Sentinel Radar, and the AIM-9X missile. Partly because the mission the Army wants it for is to tackle low flying cruise missiles. Both Iron Dome and Enduring Shield are systems not just the missile. The MML can use the Tamir interceptor of the Iron Dome, but it appears the Iron Dome can’t easily be adapted for the AIM-9X. The Tamir is cheaper than the AIM-9X though. Raytheon is Rafael/IAI’s U.S. partner, marketing it as SkyHunter, but they aren’t losing all to Dynetics. They also manufacture the AIM-9X.

    https://breakingdefense.sites.breakingmedia.com/2021/09/dynetics-beats-out-iron-dome-for-237m-army-missile-defense-contract/

  108. 108

    Heh.. dimfuk is haunted by HA… So it hides in widbee..

    There’s trouble in widbee… hardly paradise it would seem.. Yawwwn..

    What else? Oh someone just woke up on the always wrong wing:

    Breitbart’s John Nolte recently advanced a tortured argument that conservative media turned anti-vaccine because of a liberal conspiracy: “The organized left wants unvaccinated Trump voters to remain unvaccinated. That’s what they want,” he wrote. In another article, he asked: “In a country where elections are decided on razor-thin margins, does it not benefit one side if their opponents simply drop dead?”…

    Nolte deserves kudos for trying an innovative pro-vaccine argument. It could actually work. His audience won’t take the vaccine to save their own lives, but they just might get vaxxed to crush the Democrats in the midterms…

    https://theweek.com/politics/1005560/conservative-media-is-killing-republican-voters-the-party-can-ill-afford-to-lose

    HA HEROES could have told that breitbart babbler the always wrong wing was committing suicide months ago – even before Herman Cain bought it. Will the always wrong wing listen to Nolte?? Hardly matters.. To the always wrong wing, no “sacrifice” is too great to “own the libs”.. This is a war of attrition. Heh.

  113. 113

    @112 the dude isn’t right, all you have to remember is that he’s a troll.

    Breeding will not save him and his ilk

  114. 114

    When you’re done we can move on to the anti-racist meaning of the use of the term “white nigger” by a Democrat serving in the US Senate.

    Just substitute the word fag for nigger and you’ll be ok Bob. Go back to bed

  115. 115

    No wonder the greedy racist incel didn’t provide a link. Best I can google, White Nigger is from 2001. Twenty years ago by West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/03/04/byrd.slur/

    Rape Rape is from 2009, 12 years ago.

    Dredging up the oldies to attempt a false equivalence. Gonna go for eggplant?

    The republican arbitrator between “Legitimate Rape” and “Illegitimate Rape” explained that 9 years ago. By the way, according the conserative, It’s only a “Illegitimate Rape” if a woman gets pregnant. No harm, no foul if there is no need for a forced birth.

    This is why republicans have to cheat and overthrow democracy to get elected, Why the greedy racist incel chooses to vote for them is beyond me.

  116. 116

    112,
    Hey, if enough Harley-drivin’, Ed-Hardy-tattoo-wearin’, gun-humpin’ Boomers kick it we might never have to impose an income cutoff for SS retirement benefits.

    It’s one way to solve the declining birthrate dilemma without considering immigration reforms.

  117. 117

    By the time 2024 rolls around, the Carter era will be fondly recalled as “the good old days”.

    Goldman Sachs clients are beginning to worry about stagflation — a combination of subpar growth and elevated inflation, which hasn’t been a thing since the early 1980s, Axios’ Felix Salmon tells me.

    From a Friday evening client dispatch from Goldman Sachs Portfolio Strategy Research:
    “Stagflation” was the most common word in client conversations this week as equity market volatility remained elevated. … [T]his week the market focused on the risks posed to growth by supply chain challenges and rising energy costs.
    Between the lines: We have the elevated inflation; we don’t have the subpar growth.

    Felix says we seem to be in the stage of “people looking for things to worry about.”

    In six months we won’t have to look.

  118. 118

    Maybe they can trip her and break her nose. Won’t that look good for the cameras.

    Activists plan to ‘birddog’ Sinema during Boston Marathon
    Protesters will try to pressure her to back Biden agenda

    Activists from a group known as the Green New Deal Network plan to confront Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who has qualified to run in the marathon, over her refusal to commit to supporting the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, the group said Saturday.

    The Green New Deal Network, a coalition of 15 national organizations, said in a statement that activists plan on “birddogging” Sinema during the marathon in an effort to pressure her on the issue.

  119. 119

    @ 116

    Hey, if enough Harley-drivin’, Ed-Hardy-tattoo-wearin’, gun-humpin’ Boomers kick it we might never have to impose an income cutoff for SS retirement benefits.

    Hey, if enough transgender women are murdered we might not have to worry as much about non-binary pronouns.

    I don’t see that my joke, about people with whom I might disagree with politically, is any worse than QoS McHillbilly’s.

  120. 120

    The greedy racist incel apparently thinks being trans is a political choice.

    Trumpers are being mocked because they are dying because they could get vaccinated and choose not to.
    The greedy racist incel is mocking Trans People of Color being murdered because he can’t be bothered to be respectful of pronouns.

    Yes, the greedy racist incel’s so called humor is much much worse. Nobody will be holding his hand when he dies or will miss him once the last check clears.

  121. 121

    The Biden mandate strikes again.

    Amtrak Northeast
    @AmtrakNECAlerts
    · 4h
    Trains 465 and 416 departing on 10/10 are canceled due to unforeseen crew issues. Alternate transportation will be provided.

    Hey, when the world expects you to hemorrhage money, what’s a little more?

  122. 122

    @121 And thanks for “playing out of context theater”.

    Please tune in next week when the greedy racist incel will attempt to blame President Biden for everything bad in “Far Cry 6”, “Gas Powered Leaf Blowers”, “North Carolina’s Ltn Governor”, “Southwest Airlines” and a bonus triple word score using “Che Guevara”

  123. 123

    Allen West, zero of the unlamented babblin’ butthole, is a very, very “serious” fellow…

    In the hospital with covid caught from a repuke super-spreader rally for whatever office West thinks it can babble its way into.. can’t recall at the moment.. governor.. as if Abbott is “too liberal”..

    I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/576155-texas-gubernatorial-candidate-says-covid-19-hospitalization-made-him-more

    So West took the “serious” route and underwent monoclonal antibody therapy which is manufactured by outfits like Regeneron and GlaxoSmithKline.

    That can’t be “Big Pharma”…

    Amirite?

  124. 124

    122)With the speeds that trains on the NEC go, would rather the crew be vaccinated. Same thing with airline crews, ferry crews, and first responders. If it’s just sick outs, start asking for doctors notes, worked in San Francisco with MUNI a few years ago.

    There are some MUNI workers fighting the vaccine mandate, even though the SF,MTA only started running them and the F-Market and Wharves line because of the vaccine. Those crews are their most exposed to the public rail workers. J, K,L,M,N, and T line operators are in a separate cab, although they used to have a rule that required an operator in the second car. Made sense before Proof of Payment.

  125. 125

    North Carolina lieutenant governor says he “will not back down” amid calls to resign for calling LGBTQ education “filth”
    “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,”
    Vicious Troll: “Hey, if enough transgender women are murdered we might not have to worry as much about non-binary pronouns.”

    Conservatives: We don’t want to murder gay people too much, if we never have to see, hear, or acknowledge them, ever again.

    This is another reason why conservatives cannot win fair elections.

  126. 126

    Interesting headline
    Biden officials have reunited only 52 of at least 1,000 separated migrant families, a task they say is almost impossible because of Trump
    https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-reunites-52-of-1000-migrant-families-split-under-trump-2021-10

    Officials from the Trump administration kept poor records of whom they separated.
    “We estimate that over 1,000, somewhere between 1,000, 1,500, maybe more remain separated,” Brane said. “It’s very hard to know because there’s no record.”

    We knew this was gonna happen. The trump admin had no effective system to reunite families as they were being deported. A simple system like taking pictures of family members together accompanied by the signature of everyone in the picture with their birthdays & name of hometown, would’ve gone a long way to assuring family unity. These families were just written on a standard white board and erased.

    Conservatives will justify any mistreatment because for the racists and bigots, cruelty is the point. You can read that in every post the greedy racist incel makes about the border.

  127. 127

    123 I’m sorry, is God himself distributing monoclonal antibody infusions, crafted by His own Hand, made out of thin air, free of charge? Because otherwise you know Big Pharma’s taking a piece of that $1,800 treatment, right Allen?

    The experimental not FDA approved RUSHED (less than a year folks!) monoclonal antibody infusion that used ABORTED FETUS CELLS in development?!?!? That treatment?

    I actually think it has become a game for Republicans. They are competing to see who can get the most trumpers to commit suicide on their word, elections be dammed. Besides, republicans are doing to throw out any election where they don’t win so voters no longer mantter.

  128. 128

    I don’t see that my joke, about people with whom I might disagree with politically, murder is any worse than QoS McHillbilly’s suicide.

    At least not when it involves any of “those people”.

    Faking concern for the dignity and preservation of human life won’t restore either to anyone who fell victim to his fake “FB friends in CO” misinformation. They will all be either just as dead, or just as physically and financially ruined because they were dumb enough to fall for a fake doctor’s fake concerns about “bad vaccine”.

  129. 129

    …we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.

    Hold that up to Eastern Washington hospitals now overwhelmed with swollen, intubated, jaundiced Republican potato farming medical refugees from neighboring Idaho. And ask yourself where the fuck do they find the facilities and staffing to administer infusions of monoclonal antibodies?

    This is pure, distilled, perfected Republicanism. Not unlike Manchinema’s demands for means testing preschool.

    Next they’ll demand means testing for drinking water.

  131. 131

    130,
    According to Republican formulations, this is precisely as bad as following a locally elected U.S. Senator into the bathroom to ask her questions about prescription drug pricing she otherwise refuses to answer.

    Both are bad things.
    One of these two bad things is both much worse, and much more common.

  132. 132

    130,
    What’s simultaneously fascinating and horrifying is the spectacle of this kind of widespread, completely unhinged, violent, threatening, insurrectionist mob behavior overtaking the otherwise normal, sedate political proceedings of “conservative” America, while on the sidelines “mainstreet conservatives” are so completely preoccupied with their own struggles to advance the partisan fight that they simply don’t see it until it is too late to do anything about it.

    This is precisely how they got Trump.

    I don’t know what’s worse than Trump. But I do know that the Republican Party is well ahead of the curve in bringing it into existence and making it their leader. As with Trump before, by the time they realize what they’ve done to themselves, easily manipulated tools like BurQa Bob will have no choice but to get on board with it.

  134. 134

    @123 As a greedy investor in multiple drug companies that grossly overcharge (e.g., a thousand bucks for a pill that costs 10 cents to make), I heartily embrace West’s endorsement of multi-infusion treatments over one-shot prevention. Especially when the money comes out of dimfuk Republicans’ pockets!

    hahahahahahahahahahaha

  135. 135

    @126 “The trump admin had no effective system to reunite families as they were being deported.”

    How much taxpayer money did they spend making sure they didn’t?

  137. 137

    @129 The key to understanding the complex logistics of monoclonal infusion therapy is you don’t have to administer it to every Trumper who shows up in the ward, only the small universe of prominent GOP politicians. You don’t think he or Trump intend for their supporters to get this, do you?

  140. 140

    133,

    Albert Einstein published On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light in 1905.

    He was awarded the Nobel Prize for that work in 1922, by which point the “particle” model of electromagnetism was so firmly established that the next great breakthrough lay in developing the mathematics to rationalize that theoretical model, upon which the entirety of high speed particle physics had been built, with all the widely known wave characteristics of light – what would become Quantum Theory. That project was undertaken that same year between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

    The wage data, and these ways of modeling data about wages in job markets have been around for a very long time and they have now become widely and firmly established among the consensus of economists who depend upon them for our understanding of macroeconomic trends.

    But that can’t stop a deeply ignorant partisan asshat “conservative” from proclaiming all manner of calamity the minute the paperboy gets a one penny raise. Self-harm is in their nature. A Republican experiences precisely the same feelings of joy and triumph from bringing home a new car as from watching their neighbor’s car being repossessed.

  141. 141

    @140. So you are saying a republican pleasure centers light up when something is being taken away from someone else?

  143. 143

    @140 “Self-harm is in their nature. ”

    I’m under the impression they’re mainly out to harm others.

  144. 144

    @140 The common thread running through Nobel Prizes is they seem to go to people who’ve been very influential in their respective fields. It takes time for influence to take effect, which is why the prizes often are awarded many years later.

  147. 147

    139)Great, the Vandals are coming up to Cheney to play my Eagles, Saturday. 3rd time this year in Football.

  148. 148

    @146 I hope they give him internet privileges in prison. Otherwise, what will we do for a troll? Puddy won’t come back. He’s gotta be dead by now, either from Covid-19, or lynched by his “friends.”

  150. 150

    149)Please No. Aren’t the Cougars still recovering from Leach? I recall under his tenure, they were 1and 1 against a former Teachers College located in a town just west of Spokane.

  151. 151

    @150 The Cougs have to take what they can get. That’s how they ended up with an anti-vaxxer from the Arena League.

  152. 152

    Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists’ latest threatening symbol | Trump zealots have begun flying black U.S. flags, which signal no quarter for enemies. It’s a threat of violence
    https://www.salon.com/2021/10/12/black-flag-understanding-the-trumpists-latest-threatening-symbol/

    In addition to the black flag another narrative they have started is that people who get the covid vaccine are being genetically modified, and thus are now “trans-human” which means they are now an invasive species. “And in Texas there is no bag limit for an invasive species” meaning they can kill as many as they want.

    Just to add, when they meet people now they ask the person if they’ve been vaccinated, if so they won’t shake their hand.

  153. 153

    “I’m very disappointed that…”

    CBS News
    @CBSNews
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’s “very disappointed” Democrats are not sticking to the original $3.5 trillion price tag for their Build Back Better spending bill: “But whatever we do, we’ll make decisions that will continue to be transformative” https://cbsn.ws/3iQvurK
    9:17 AM · Oct 12, 2021

    Cave.

  154. 154

    Shorter @ 152

    Stupid, uniformed liberal attempts to build himself up by posting about stupid, uninformed conservatives.

    Keep fuckin’ that chicken, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

  155. 155

    @ 144

    The common thread running through Nobel Prizes is they seem to go to people who’ve been very influential in their respective fields.

    Al Gore was certainly influential in that sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera. The greatest value of climate change advocacy is in the payoff to those at the top. Al Gore received a substantial share of the $500 million purchase price.

    As for what became of Current TV, OTOH:

    Al Jazeera America shut down on April 12, 2016, citing the “economic landscape and the highly competitive nature of the American media market, as reasons to shut down the channel. After use by three networks since 1994, the channel space folded after Al Jazeera failed to sell it to another network.

    Always follow the money or, in Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s case, the lack thereof.

  156. 156

    151,
    That’s more than a bit overly simplistic.

    With 358 D 1 programs, and 130 FBS programs, not every single team is ever going to be in competition for Nick Saban and his multi-million dollar entourage of assistants, position specialists, and data analysts.

    And while I’m sure you’re quite proud of Husky stadium, it’s a dump compared to what uncle Phil built in Eugene. Which in case you didn’t notice, is in Eugene.

    The point being that in reality most teams in FBS are in more or less the same circumstances as WSU, especially when it comes to recruiting head football coaches. And it’s been a long, long, long time since Don James last coached a game. And were he coaching today, he’d probably still be at Kent State competing for a postseason appearance at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

  158. 158

    Read elsewhere:

    If it wasn’t on the ship two weeks ago it won’t be here for Christmas.

    I’m sure Democrats will have a much easier time with all that bill passing and debt-increasing stuff in mid-December, when the only things Amazon can deliver before Christmas are tube socks and Geritrol.

  160. 160

    Put off until December:

    The annual Dumbfuck Rabbit family gathering in order to decide whether to fill the oil tank or the freezer, cause the family can’t afford to do both.

    What will be different this year is that due to Biden-era inflation and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s unreasoned choice to invest in AT&T shares, the decision will be whether to half-fill one or the other.

  161. 161

    Cave.

    Indeed.

    But to whom?
    Or perhaps more accurately to what?

    We began this year with a frank and open discussion of exploring changes to Senate rules that favored the obstructionist minority viewpoints. The President, the Speaker, and the Majority Leader all plainly rejected that approach, arguing instead that they believed that the President could achieve his economic recovery and rebuilding objectives despite those arcane and undemocratic rules.

    This is how a nation is moved. Toward reform of Senate rules. Toward reform of the Electoral College. Toward reform of state voting laws. Toward statehood. Toward judicial reforms.

    Biden, a “company man” who served there for thirty six years, now openly discusses a need for Senate reform. And the Senate obstruction that was once widely described in terms of “moderates” versus “progressives” is now almost exclusively described in terms of Democrats versus two of their members uniquely positioned by those rules to stop any legislation they care to.

    And at this point, any reduction in the package is likely to be in terms of years rather than in terms of programs. That’s because a successful unwinding of all the various stakeholders and constituencies too complicated to be done in a reasonable time frame. But that also means that most near term benefits to voters, taxpayers, job seekers, and workers will remain in place at least through midterms and 2024. So fierce partisan opposition to deeply popular programs will not have the hoped for political consequence. At least not in the near term.

    And near term is all Republicans have got.

  162. 162

    @154. I did not think the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves would try to overthrow the democratically elected new Democratic president on Jan 6. Don’t want to be blindsided again by trusting republicans to do the right thing.

  164. 164

    @152 Why on earth would a vaccinated person what to shake an unvaccinated Trumper’s hand?

  165. 165

    @153 So now compromising is caving in?

    Your tribe should learn something about compromise before you become total pariahs and outcasts. People whose shtick is “all or nothing” usually end up with nothing.

    Could progressives learn from that? Yes, absolutely. But Republicans need to learn it more. Way, way more. They invented stonewalling. And they’re now very, very unpopular.

  167. 167

    @155 And here we have a well-informed but stupid conservative insinuating that climate change isn’t a legitimate issue because one guy who warned people about it made money from a business deal.

    If that was a legitimate argument, half your stock trades would render your HA posts invalid. However, the other half would cancel that out.

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