Seth Meyers: Stacey Abrams on fighting for Georgia and her optimism for voting rights
Winlar: ♫ Are you really that stupid? ♬:
Robert Reich: Robert Reich reads more mean tweets
The Idiot Death Cult Called The G.O.P. and Their Deranged Leader:
- Rachel Maddow: Трамп lawyers met with Georgia prosecutors; days later, Трамп rants about law enforcement
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Jim Jordan, Nervous as Heck ♬
- Seth Meyers: The Dotard hangs up on NPR after being fact-checked on election lies
- Joy Reid: Трамп continuing to inspire GOP cult of personality
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to the passing of Sidney Poitier
- Vice News: People left death threats for election workers. We called them back.
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When Heidi Cruz is Done with Whipping Ted ♬:
- Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike Lindell locks himself in prison for election fraud
- Rachel Maddow: GOP fake elector scheme shows new level of disrespect for U.S. voters says election official
- Lawrence O’Donnell and Friends: Трамп lawyers met in person with Georgia prosecutor’s office
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп calls NPR to react to first call
- Jordan Klepper runs into Matt Gaetz in his January 6th return to D.C.
- Tommy Campbell: Трамп destroyed and Mike Lindell fights phone subpoena
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Lindsey, Kevin and Ted’s Plea to The Dotard ♬
- Ari Melber: First sedition charge in Jan. 6 probe for overthrowing election
- Rachel Maddow: Michigan Attorney General refers probe of fake electors to Federal prosecutors
- Seth Meyers: Mike Lindell wants everyone in jail and Kevin McCarthy stonewalls Jan 6 probe
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп reacts to Georgia’s FAKE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP over Alabama
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Joe Biden called a spade a spade ♬
- Ronny Chieng response to Jesse Watters’s anti-Asian racism
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard’s reaction when he learns Maya Angelou is on the quarter!
- WaPo: McCarthy on the Capitol attack—A year ago vs. today
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Thoughts on “Wee the People” ♬
- Stephen: Oath keepers charged with seditious conspiracy
- Rachel Maddow: Oath Keeper seditious conspiracy indictment describes a threat beyond January 6th
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ GOP FIght’s Alright ♬:
- The Daily Show: Daily affirmations with FAUX News’s Jeanine Pirro
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ MTG, Congressional Sasquatch ♬
- J-L Cauvin: ROASTS hecklers yelling “Let’s go Brandon”
- Chris Hayes: Sen. Rafael “Ted” Cruz pushes far-right’s favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory to prove loyalty
- Seth Meyers: Ted Cruz humiliates himself by groveling to Tucker Carlson on FAUX News
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Jim Jordan has Plenty to Hide ♬
- Rachel Maddow: Republicans in at least three states filed forged Elector letters
- Jimmy Kimmel: January 6th insurrectionists charged while Ted Cruz & Marjorie Taylor Greene push wild theories
Vox: Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps
Mark Fiore: The wonders of the filibuster
This Week in ТрампPlague:
- The Late ShowThe BinaxNow home idiocy test
- MSNBC: Dr. Fauchi figuratively slays Sen. Rand Paul
- Stephen: Just about everybody will get covid
- Jimmy Kimmel: This week in covid history
- Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Pee All That You Can Pee ♬
- Trae Crowder: Debating Viagra or urine therapy for covid
- Stephen: Deltacron arrives
- Really American: Vaccination SAVES lives
- The Late Show: Business Bandz are the key to returning to the office
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп shades “gutless” DeSantis over booster comments and cannabis for COVID!
- Chris Hayes: Dr. Fauci on why he “called out” GOP Sen. Rand Paul—“pure ad hominem”
- Stephen: Dr. Fauci rips Rand Paul over “Fire Dr. Fauci” fundraiser and calls Sen. Marshall a moron on hot mic
- Desi Lydic: Biden administration explains how free covid tests will be distributed
- The Late Show: Here’s the scoop on the hot new covid couple!
Lewis Black: Screw the Chamber Of Commerce
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Wonder if the fake electors can be charged for forgery?
Amtrak will be making some service reductions due to Omicron and some staffing issues. The Lomg Distance trains will be 5 days a week, which unlike service reductions during the previous administration, is not that bad. The vat rate among Amtrak Employees is now 97%. Plus, with the Empire Builder, last weeks weather played havoc with the crew schedules.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/amtrak-to-decrease-service-on-most-routes-jan-24-to-march-27/
@1 Michigan’s attorney general says, “under state law, I think clearly you have forgery of a public record, which is a 14-year offense, and election law forgery, which is a five-year offense,” but she referred the case to federal authorities because of the multistate nature of the scheme.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2485871523820/michigan-republicans-could-face-federal-charges-for-signing-fake-electoral-college-certificates-state-attorney-general-says
3)20 years because they would not acknowledge that their guy lost. At some point, have to switch the effort to the next election.
On my post at two, a good example of crew issues affecting the Empire Builder, especially with the weather. Prior to the flooding in SW Washington, Amtrak had rerouted Train 7 via Vancouver still running combined with Train 27 to Portland. The problem is, the crew of 7 would not be able to continue on the Columbia Gorge.
I have seen a map of Amtrak Crew Districts for Engineers and Conductors, for the Empire Builder in WA, Conductors work from Seattle and Portland to Spokane before a crew change, but Engineers change at Wenatchee on 7/8, and Pasco on 27/28. Also, Engineers and Conductors have to be qualified for the district they are on..
Last week was not the weather to be waiting for a dog catch crew in.
@3 I think we all agree on this point: Republicans didn’t like democracy before, have now progressed to a willingness to eliminate it, including by foul means if they can’t prevail by fair means, and want to replace it with fascism.
I’ve always believed Germany wasn’t unique, the Germans who followed Hitler were pretty much like people everywhere, and America isn’t immune from getting a Hitler someday.
I think we have to operate on the assumption that if Republicans get unchecked power they’ll abuse it, and we can’t assume they’ll stop short of the things other tyrannical regimes do.
Rightwing media have trained them to hate liberals, scapegoat people they don’t like, and primed them to commit or at least abide mass murder.
Everyone who studies history says the world failed to stop Hitler when it could have. If we are to learn from that mistake, the lesson is heed the warnings implicit in what the Republicans are saying and doing now, because later may be too late.
This is where Manchin and Sinema fall on their asses. They want bipartisanship. Sinema wants to “heal the divisions” by “working with” Republicans. Those are noble goals, but they’re ignoring the oceans of evidence that that’s not possible. Where they’re wrong is failing or refusing to acknowledge that Republicans aren’t behaving like normal people and this isn’t normal politics. They’re trying to negotiate with people possessed by a Hitler mentality. If things fall apart, they will go down in history as the Neville Chamberlains who could’ve stopped the fascist takeover of America, and all the evil likely to follow, but didn’t.
The Founding Fathers understood the crucial importance of checks and balances, and what Manchin and Sinema need to realize is that the people they insist on negotiating with and accommodating are disassembling the checks and balances. That ought to speak for itself, but seems lost on them, or over their heads.
6)At least Germany reformed their system with the Postwar Federal Republic. We can’t even get anything done in our Senate.
One scary thing, since Germany suspended conscription, their has been a rise in neo-nazi types in the Bundewehr.
The underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga has generated a Tsunami Warning for the US West Coast.
https://tsunami.gov/
https://tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2022/01/15/r5qho6/4/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt
@ 7
We can’t even get anything done in our Senate.
Memory of a gnat:
What I think you meant to write, Railfan, is that liberals cannot ram through the Senate wish lists opposed by a majority of senators.
It’s OK. You are processing your grief, and nobody expects you to be an adult about it.
When liberals whine @ 7 about not getting anything done in the Senate, what they mean is that they’re not finding success in operating in a non-bipartisan manner.
Try bipartisan, Railfan.
The last thing liberals want is to realize that only 45 Senators are willing to nuke the filibuster..
Your move, Chuck.
Long list of Clintonian topics in yesterday’s Politico Playbook.
Whether she’s running or not, nobody would be giving the Clintons the time of day if First Vegetable Joe Biden and the unlikable, incompetent Kamala Harris weren’t fucking things up so badly and so obviously.
Found this amusing
Ashli Babbit was a patriot and a victim. But she was actually FBI and didn’t really die. But really she was a true American. But not really cus she was Antifa and just there to make Trump look bad. But actually she was just a tourist…
Darryl must really be slipping. Here we are in multimedia extravaganza territory, and yet for some reason this CNN piece didn’t make Darryl’s list.
Also looming large: Biden’s promise to stop the virus.
Our low IQ dumbfuck traitor really doesn’t want to talk about how his Oath Keeper friends were rounded up and charged with seditious conspiracy this last week.
And wasn’t that the low IQ dumbfuck traitor’s raging orange man-baby’s good buddy Roger Stone we saw being protected by the Oath Keepers on 1/6 just moments prior to their attempt to end our democracy with a violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol?
Death to dumbfuck traitors.
My guess is he’ll be in the 30s.
QoS McHillbilly will comfort himself withv the prediction that the GOP won’t flip 60 House seats, and that he, like me, will grow wealthier no matter what happens.
That’s Hopenchange in the First Vegetable Joe Biden era, y’all.
@ 15
Our low IQ dumbfuck traitor really doesn’t want to talk about how his Oath Keeper friends were rounded up and charged with seditious conspiracy this last week.
We can talk about it. This is the small number of people who deserve stiff sentences. I have said this in the past.
There is some goalpost-shifting going on. “Yabbut no insurrection.” Because now we’ve seen sedition charges. You’ll also see claims that the statutory definition of sedition includes a lot of insignificant shit. Which it does. So what will matter is how much actually comes out during proceedings. So far what I am reading is that these guys are going to exonerate Trump, who didn’t do what they thought he would do. (Same thing as saying he didn’t do what liberals are alleging he did.)
Throw these guys in jail for 10 years. Let the grandmothers and the cosplayers go with a warning. Oh, and next time when the Feds repeatedly tell Capitol Police that they’re understaffed and are gonna need some help, the Capitol Police should listen.
Some of those January 6 LEO deaths were from embarrassment.
She called Covid “a big joke”. Now she’s begging for “thoughts and prayers”.
Damn near as stupid as our low IQ dumbfuck traitor.
What you said in the past, you low IQ stupe traitor, was that 1/6 was nothing but “insurrection crap”, and that it was just a “dozen cosplaying grandmothers”.
Too late to change your tune now, you fucking traitor.
It’s also too late for our low IQ stupe traitor to change his tune on Republican presidential elector fraud.
Michigan’s attorney general is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into 16 Republicans who submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in 2020
She’s running.
Hillary’s fanboi is scared of DeSantis. Because he’ll be President DeSantis soon enough.
@14 “Also looming large: Biden’s promise to stop the virus.”
OK, so Biden hasn’t come through on stopping the virus. Point in your favor.
BTW, Trump didn’t stop it either, neither has your new man-crush DeSantis.
Name one politician, or country, that has stopped the virus without drastic measures.
This is what we get when pulling made-up shit from his ass and flinging it at us is the only thing a low IQ dumbfuck traitor has left to work with.
This should be interesting.
A follow-on to my @22
How can Biden be realistically expected to “stop the virus” when at least 25% of the population is actively resisting taking steps and following measures to slow the transmission of the virus?
You think you are scoring a victory by pointing out Biden hasn’t kept a campaign promise, however you just look foolish since you don’t give the full context of the issue.
Way to go Dumbfuck, spike that ball on the 5 yard line!
Bob is having another one of his bad days.
Always remember:
– Bob said they were tourists.
– Bob insisted repeatedly over weeks and even months that there were no guns or heavy weapons, no QRF, and absolutely no organized effort to try to seize the building by force and take hostages.
– Over and over again, like all of his “conservative” Republican brethren Bob declared that these were all legitimate, lawful political protesters, a few of whom “got carried away”.
– Until all but very recently Bob argued consistently that the FBI and DOJ were bowing to political pressure from Democrats to over investigate and over prosecute the events and perpetrators.
– Only days ago Bob was arguing that THIS GUY was paid by the FBI to attend the event, stir up trouble, and trigger the mob violence as part of a vast “Leftist” conspiracy among federal law enforcement and DOJ (all of whom were working for Donald J. Trump at the time).
I could easily go on. You all know it. And it’s not really about Bob at this point. We see him dissembling, revising, fidgeting, and furiously memory-holing his bullshit here every single day. By now we all recognize him for the shameless and frankly incompetent troll that he is.
This is about the Republican Party. These things we see Bob do here over and over and over again are now in the DNA of the party. And honestly, much worse. But more than anything the incredible depths of dishonesty and gaslighting have become integral to who they are. And yet still, for the sake of audience and for the sake of fake “balance” the major media continue to behave as if these people – ANY OF THEM – are credible brokers within the larger context of political debate.
Some of the latest updates on the Tsunami Watch.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsunami-advisory-west-coast-california-oregon-washington-alaska/
CNN now has published audio of an interview McCarthy gave to a Bakersfield radio station last January in which McCarthy says Trump told him personally that he does have some responsibility for the terror attack.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1482023075122237444
McCarthy is a lying POS.
Trump is a lying POS.
Republicans are lying POS.
This is how stupid the Capitol rioters are:
” … many people who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection called the House Speaker’s office the next day …asking whether there was a lost and found because they … left their purse or what have you.”
Never ones to miss an opportunity, “The staffers answering the calls handed them off to the police, … who then asked for their names, addresses and other details so they could … ‘tie up those loose ends.’”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-riot-lost-and-found-nancy-pelosi_n_61e20987e4b01f707da33ec1
As soon as I saw this, I knew I had my lede story for Handbill.US today.
29)What idiots.
Sometimes I wonder when Snoqualmie Pass is closed due to avalanche danger, if only the Milwaukee Road line was never abandoned. Turns out, there may have been a proposal in the 1930s for a lower elevation road and rail tunnel through the pass. Perhaps as former Rep. McDermott said in a recent letter, someone should search the DoT archives for the study, if there really was one. This letter that was shared on All Aboard Washington’s Twitter and Facebook pages was based on a conversation between two politicians 40 years ago.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21179977/9-jamuary-2022-all-the-passes-are-closed-j-jay.pdf
Although they said North Bend to Ellensberg, so it may have just been a shuttle idea. NB may have been on US10, and served by the Milwaukee, it was a branch line to Everett. Restoration of the Milwaukee today may be impossible. Especially Renton-Maple Valley. Probably use part of the Stampede Pass route and SR18 if tried today. A few trestles of the old line were still around a few years ago, visible from I-90, but being in disrepair, may be gone now. One thing the Milwaukee did before the pullback of passenger service on the Pacific Extension was run ski trains to Hyak, with the ski runs lighted by power from the Hyak Substation.
Some of the latest on the Djokovic Appeal in Australia. Seems that the Liberal PM is in a tough spot. Australia not allowing in unvaxxed, but granting a visa for Djokovic. The revocation was already tossed by the courts once. Morrison still have a few months before he has to call the election. He’ll probably get bailed out again by the parties founded by an eccentric businessman and Senator Pumpjet.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-16/novak-djokovic-live-updates-visa-cancellation-court-hearing/100758964
A little background on the nickname some online have given to Senator Pauline Hanson of Queensland. It comes from an exchange during a committee meeting over submarine procurement, thinking the Diesel Engines and pumpjets do the same thing. One produces power, one moves the ship. Pumpjets are becoming standard on submarines these days to replace the biggest drawback of traditional screw propellers, noise. Subs are supposed to be stealthy. The stakes have changed, as the RAN has now canceled the sub contract in favor of Nuclear Power. Some SSNs, including Virginia class boats, use pumpjet propulsors.
https://youtu.be/UYF08jJi9Hg
Interesting commentary from a now former teacher in Virginia.
https://youtu.be/b51vrmzdKHo
@29
“When they were told that they were trespassing and invading the Capitol, they said the
presidentorange dear leaderinvitedcommanded them to be there,” Raskin said. “They didn’t have any kind of subtle understanding of the separation of powers. They just thoughtthat the number one person in the U.S. government had invited them to be there, and therefore they had a right.they were following orders.”For those of you familiar with NYC, what’s with people pushing other people off subway platforms into the path of oncoming trains? Is there a practical way to prevent this, say, by installing railings on the platforms (with openings for people to get on and off the trains), or slowing down the trains as they approach platforms? There seem to be a lot of these incidents, and just putting more cops on subway patrol wouldn’t do very much to prevent these attacks; it seems to me physical barriers between people and tracks would work better.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/589919-woman-pushed-in-front-of-nyc-subway-killed
35)Some subways in other countries have platform screen doors, but that requires automation. The current signal upgrades are taking decades to implement. It happens with legacy systems with a lot of track miles.
https://new.mta.info/projects/cbtc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors
@31 Off the top of my head, converting a disused railroad tunnel to highway use would be an engineering challenge, and probably very expensive, but not physically impossible. You’d need a ventilation system to deal with vehicle exhaust, and an emergency lane or turnouts or some system (such as tow trucks stationed at the entrances) so accidents or vehicle breakdowns wouldn’t block the tunnel. It would require some engineering to deal with wet or icy roadways, a factor that isn’t a problem with tracks but is for vehicles on tires.
It wouldn’t be necessary to enlarge the existing tunnel if it was used only as a temporary bypass or detour route for when the regular route is closed by snow conditions. Traffic would move slowly, but would move.
Could you imagine if Barak Obama did what Donald The FuckHump Duck did on January 6th?
Ohhhh my. Bob.
Yeah, let’s talk about it.
@36 From the link, it appears NYC’s biggest hurdle — apart from money, which is always an issue — is lack of uniformity in rolling stock, such that you can’t line up the train doors with the platform doors. This would be a problem with simple (and cheaper) railings, too. Although maybe what they could do is install railings some distance back from the platform edge, and people waiting for trains could stay behind those, and then venture onto the exposed platform only when the train arrives and is stopped.
From a prevention standpoint, it doesn’t do much good to throw these crazy people into jails or mental institutions and keep them there after they kill someone. There’s always another one lurking in the subways. This one turned himself in. It’s almost as if he killed this woman to get himself incarcerated, which in his mind may be a better setup than living on the streets.
37)Sounds like the suggestion would be a new tunnel. Before Great Northern put a vent system in Cascade Tunnel, they used electric locomotives between Skykomish and Wenatchee. Snoqualmie is not like Whittier, Alaska, where the active rail tunnel allows car traffic when trains aren’t running.
The vent system in Cascade Tunnel has it’s own issues, takes 30 minutes to clear once a train passed through. Which means the crews have to keep the sidings clear during the snow as well.
@33 Well, we already knew GOP legislators are ignorant fucks who can’t keep Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass straight, probably because they were taught the Confederate version of history in their home-school lessons by equally ignorant parents.
The best thing to do is not live in Republican-run states, let alone — God forbid — try to be a teacher there. Teachers now risk prison if they tell the kids something the legislature hasn’t cleared for classroom use. (Probably OK to say the KKK was a “social organization,” but not OK to say they were a racist organization.)
So you do like this guy is doing: You take your teacher training, experience, skills, and dedication elsewhere. And let the parents who voted in these yahoos wallow in the ignorance they’re perpetuating.
Btw, how are the economies of former KKK capitals Mississippi and Alabama doing?
“DirecTV said Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News Network from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the conservative news network.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/directv-drop-one-america-news-network-blow-conservative-channel-n1287564
Good riddance. Now wait for some idiot to say DirecTV is violating OAN’s First Amendment rights.
42)I doubt that they have grounds to sue, since this isn’t government action, but they’ll probably sue DirectTv. The Right Wing is boasting how they own the courts now.
42,
Still, most of FOX revenue comes from subscriptions now and it is cable and sat subscribers who pay the salaries of vicious gnats like Tucker Carlson.
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@44 I don’t have a cable subscription. I don’t have cable. I don’t have a TV. I do all my watching and reading on my computer. And books, newspapers, and periodicals.
The Texas synagogue incident is over. Hostages safe, suspect dead.
Looks like Australia will be kicking out Djokovic. If so, there are procedures to replace him in the Australian Open.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-16/novak-djokovic-live-updates-visa-cancellation-court-hearing/100758964
How can there be all these worker shortages and workplace disruptions?
Why are so many fast food places limiting hours and closing on slow days?
How can there be nobody available to load the grocery trucks or wipe down the airplane seats?
Weren’t there supposed to be robots?
Seems like now would be a good time for the Masters of the Universe to follow through on that one.
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@48 I wonder if the Big Quit has Doctor Dumbfuck eating TV dinners?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/record-quits-great-resignation-labor-workers-pandemic/
When workers are fed up, customers go unfed.
@49 No worries. We simply won’t replace your batteries.
@ 47
If so, there are procedures to replace him in the Australian Open.
Why, surely. In fact, it has been announced that the replacement mens’ defending champion for this year’s Australian Open will be Kamala Harris.
You don’t “replace” a defending champion, doofus.
She’s the VA senate Democrat leader and President Pro Tempore.
It’s a good start. Just think how much better off Washington state would be had Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit not been permitted to spend his career fucking things up in state government.
@ 44
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Cancel it right now.
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The Murdoch empire trembles in fear at the prospect of six fewer HA libbie subscribers.
Uh, guys and YLB? If I don’t have you sharing Fox News info with me, I don’t get any Fox News info. How else am I going to learn about how many CNN producers are arrested each month for possessing child porn?
52)Hey Jerk,theoretically, it could be you replacing him, since the replacement is what they call a Lucky Loser.
The replacement will come from a draw of the Top 4 finishers who lost in the final round of qualifying.
The last time the Bengals won a playoff game, one of the NBC post-game interview participants was OJ Simpson.
Since then there have been scandals involving Matt Lauer, Brian Williams, Billy Bush, and NBC’s burial of Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein story.
Who would have thought that NBC’s high point in the last generation was OJ?
@ 55
The replacement will come from a draw of the Top 4 finishers who lost in the final round of qualifying.
I guess Ken Rosewall was not available.
@ 38
Could you imagine if Barak Obama did what Donald The FuckHump Duck did on January 6th?
I’d first have to imagine Barack – not Barak, fuckwad, this isn’t Israel – losing a presidential election.
So, no, I can’t imagine. Neither can I imagine you making sense in just one HA spew, Cuomosexual G-clown.
@ 25
You think you are scoring a victory by pointing out Biden hasn’t kept a campaign promise…
Well, he hasn’t. That’s how this works. Remember “Read my lips, no new taxes.”?
On KUOW today Biden’s missteps were discussed and the woman being interviewed said that Biden broke his promise.
Live with it, Newt. You’ll have plenty more disappointment to come.
For Newt @ 22 and @ 25
Things not to do if your goal is to stop the virus.
Item # 1: Disassemble a large part of your pandemic response team.
Saturday was the first day of Terry McAuliffe’s non-administration.
Thank you, teachers unions, for doing so much to make it happen.
Newt’s defense of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s administration is incredibly weak.
First Vegetable Joe Biden’s administration is incredibly weak. So weak that Hillary Clinton smells blood in the water.
Great video about the Karlsruhe TramTrain. Had automobiles and busses, and government policies accommodating them, not killed off the Interurbans, this is what Interurbans could have evolved to. One model of train used, The Stadler CityLink, comes with a variety of propulsion options. One that I would love to have seen it on, would be the Rochester, NY system, whose downtown segment ran in the bed of the original Erie Canal. Another would have been Washington County, OR’s Beaverton-Wilsonville Commuter Train., had Portland and Western been able to get it’s freight customers to switch delivery time. Instead of commuters transferring from DMUs to MAX Trains at Beaverton TC, TramTrains could run through to the airport, and if a switch was installed, Union Station.
https://youtu.be/9sGHqsD0DRM
The Karlsruhe Network is impressive for a city it’s size, probably better than the system in the capital of Baden-Wurtemberg, Stuttgart. Took decades to re-gauge that system.
@60. Big deal. They had plans to dissolve the team. It’s a government program. They plan stuff all the time. They didn’t do it.
When the greedy racist incel doesn’t include a link, that means he’s lying about the real message of the story.
Walensky faces CDC burnout as pandemic enters third year
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/15/walensky-cdc-burnout-pandemic-omicron-527179
Good comments:
“Wow… this article is talking about burnout among CDC scientists and you are framing it in a way that makes it look like that they thought the pandemic was over.”
“But they didn’t dismantle the parts of the team they produced a plan to eventually dismantle? Or did they dismantle the team? I honestly can’t tell because your gotcha tone overpowers everything here.”
If republicans would just get vaccinated and wear masks, the scientists could go home. Everyone knows, and honest people will tell you, it’s republicans fault.
Republicans, throwing gas on a fire, and then complaining that the fire department didn’t put it out fast enough.
@ 64
Republicans, throwing gas on a fire, and then complaining that the fire department didn’t put it out fast enough.
Now that it’s First Vegetable Joe Biden’s China-started wildfire, there’s no need to count how many houses go up in the inferno each day.
People might still remember that it’s the inferno Biden promised to put out.
(There’s your link, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.)
Once hospitals cease reporting daily deaths, there won’t be any way to report daily deaths.
There’s no other source for that data.
Remember how much fun it was to report “grim milestones” stories when Trump was president? “Fun” has not become “problematic” as the midterms approach, there aren’t enough tests, and deaths are about to start climbing quickly.
First Vegetable Joe Biden has no solutions.
Between February and December of last year, 19.5% of all COVID-19 deaths in WA state occurred in the fully vaccinated.
Page 19 (or page 11, if you prefer), The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
On the matter of debates and the RNC:
Here’s your link, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
Here’s what the FBI had to say about yesterday’s hostage-taking in a TX synagogue:
Kamala Harris apparently did not get that memo:
Here’s your link, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
Why is Kamala Harris so out of touch? Is Jill Biden trying to sabotage Harris by keeping her out of the false-messaging meetings in the West Wing?
A whole fuck ton of really supremely stupid Republican voters who voted for Ross Perot sure remember*.
Are you drafting Evan McMullin? Or will it be Tulsi?
Be my guest.
*What they don’t remember is that for all the damage he did peeling away “conservative” voters in every single swing state, Perot earned exactly ZERO electoral votes.
Saturday was also day 360 of Bob’s confinement in his Whidbey spider hole trembling under the yoke of Leftist Vegetable Tyranny and peering skyward to watch for Chem Trails.
Only 2,560 more days to go.
Assuming his liver can hold out.
Bullshit
People might still remember that it’s the inferno Biden promised to put out.
If 40% of the population would rather die to own the libs, COVID is going kill a lot of people, and everyone knows it’s the fault of conservatives.
The people who blame Democrats, never voted for Democrats in the first place.
@69. Given what the greedy racist incel was outraged out about, this is what he feels:
“Now that we have learned about hostage taker’s motivation yesterday at Congregation Beth Israel there is no reason to speak up and combat antisemitism and hate wherever it exists.”
He is perfectly OK if Jews are killed in routine gun violence issues. There are NO antisemitism and hate issues in the world.
Until he denounces it three times, the low IQ dumbfuck owns the likes of “Jewish space lasers” and “Jews will not replace us!”.
If the low IQ dumbfuck had to denounce right-wing anti-Semitic words and actions over the last 6 years one post at a time, he’d have more of those than he has GRU-generated pro-Putin hashtags which, by the way, is now about to surpass 8,000 postings.
Originality and imagination obviously don’t exist in the low IQ dumbfuck’s dojo.
67 From the link
Between February – December, 2021, 75.2% of all COVID-19 deaths in WA state occurred in the un-vaccinated. Page 13.
Percent of WA population who are unvaccinated 19.6%
19.6% of the WA population is generating 75.3% of the COVID deaths.
Can’t stop COVID when conservatives would rather die, to own libs, at a rate of 75.2%. and them blame the Democrats. The greedy racist incel must be proud.
On the matter of debates and the RNC:
Romney says it ‘would be nuts’ for the RNC to block candidates from commission debates
https://news.yahoo.com/romney-says-nuts-rnc-block-000423391.html
You remember Romney, he’s is a slightly less extreme Republican. Just say’n.
I’m not seeing a problem.
@53 My biggest failure is that you’re still here and not in Texas or some other GOP shithole.
@58 Oh look, a Republican who insists on spelling Obama’s name correctly. Now do his birth certificate.
@59 Trump didn’t keep his promise to build a border wall.
@60 Guess they’ll still have to let those other diseases go for a while longer, huh.
@61 Yep, and it took exactly one day for Virginians to find out the Republican who pretended he isn’t a Trumper is a Trumper.
@65 “People might still remember that it’s the inferno Biden promised to put out.”
They’re more likely to remember who’s keeping it going.
I really want to reiterate: I don’t see the problem.
This is rapidly becoming weaponized trailer park performance art.
If I’m to believe Carl, intelligent, healthy, well educated, respectful, and civilized Real Americans in places like King County are over 90% vaccinated. Yes. That still means there is a very small chance that in any given gathering of such people, one of them might be an “asymptomatic” spreader of Omicron. But depending greatly on how you define “asymptomatic” and just as much on how that individual defines it, probably not so much. And if those gathered people are fully vaccinated and boosted and are reasonably cautious, maybe that one infection results in 0.9 additional (or 0.5, or 0.3). See where this goes?
Get on with your lives and let the trailer parks fend for themselves. Don’t let yourselves be recruited as part of an effort to “model” behavior for the other 40% who for largely incomprehensible reasons face vastly higher risk.
LET THEM DIE! CHEER THEM ON!
I can only say to people in health care faced with this onslaught of stupidity, choose your battles. Is it really a wise use of resources to spend your last ounce of devotion to extending the life of someone who refuses a perfectly safe, highly effective vaccine for the lulz? Would you put that person at the top of an organ list? Consider saving yourselves for the greater good of society the same way you would save that donor organ. You are too valuable to be squandered on such people. Why save the life of someone destined to squander it in a tragic gasoline accident?
@69 What we have here is a dumbfuck saying taking hostages at a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitic if the terrorist says it isn’t.
@84 It’s called “triage.”
71)There was the Tsunami Advisory that was in effect as far as Port Townsend, which is close to Whidbey Island. Good thing Oak Harbor is on the East Side of the Island, would have had to redeploy the jets at the NAS to safety. Good thing for all the monitoring buoys they’ve installed in the Pacific. Now if only some Governor from Louisiana didn’t mock Volcano Monitoring., as the Tsunami Warning was triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption. Usually Earthquakes trigger Tsunamis. In the US, underwater volcanos build islands, like Hawaii.
86)One of the latest alternate COVID Treatments being pushed are transgender transitioning hormones, at higher the dosage.If true, and it works, might have a side effect they won’t like.
Brigadier General Charles McGee, the oldest Tuskegee Airman, is Flying West at age 102. RIP brave hero, Double Victory.
https://wjla.com/news/local/brigadier-general-charles-mcgee-tuskegee-airman-102
@ 70
…Perot earned exactly ZERO electoral votes.
What a coinky-dinky. Same number as Nader earned in 2000.
Nader, Jill Stein, Kane West, Republicans love them.
As we move further into the early months of 2022, let us recall that on January 14th QoS McHillbilly thought it was wise to mock bare shelves in supermarkets.
@90 I don’t think you’ll find many Nader fans here. Don’t hear about him anymore, either. He’s slipped back into obscurity. Whatever following he once had seems to have melted away.
90,
Now all you have to do is drive Tulsi’s name recognition above nothing in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and then get them all to adopt paper punch card ballots. The Gorsuch Court will be standing by.
Otherwise you are still left with a 2,560 day nut to crack before you are free of the oppressive yoke of Leftist Vegetable Tyranny.
Courage, brave soldier.
Yesterday in Los Angeles, a train derailed. There was speculation that so much burglarization of train cars had occurred, all the packing materials strewn on the tracks caused the derailment.
Railfan, what news have you heard?
92,
You can link to today if that makes it any easier for you to remember, Boomer.
I’ll be heading to the grocery store later.
@94 Doctor Dumbfuck bravely soldiers on as HA’s whipping boy, a duty he volunteers for. You wonder why he does it. One suspects he’s not quite right in the head. Perhaps shell shock.
Btw, foolish bravado is not to be confused with genuine courage.
First Vegetable Joe Biden thinks supply chain discussions involve how drugs get to Hunter nowadays.
Nothing. I don’t go searching for bad news about rail. I only post any I do find in a fruitless attempt to head off a vicious troll who is delusional thinking I’m an expert. A troll that is a Health Hazard.
Zero credibility.
97MOST of the time, I ignore him.It’s not written that I have to respond to every demand he makes.
@ 99
I don’t go searching for bad news about rail.
It’s fortunate, then, that you prefer to have your head in the sand. No bad news to be found there.
A troll that is a Health Hazard.
How so? I sit here, triple-vaxxed, a payer of taxes that go to fund vaccination of others. I plant trees which then grow to replace carbon dioxide with oxygen. How am I a doubly capitalized health hazard, praytell?
Railfan, here’s some video of the train derailment.
California is a fucking shithole. Well done, libbies.
Railfan, here’s the train running on two separate tracks after the derailment. Ever seen that before?
@ 97
Btw, foolish bravado is not to be confused with genuine courage.
BTW, foolishly liberalizing on HA at sundown on a Friday night is not to be confused with genuine heroism. No matter what a certain unserious twat might claim.
@100 “Zero credibility.”
How so? She’s Muslim, and sympathizes with the plight of Palestinians, therefore her sympathies lie with the hostage-taking terrorist and not his Jewish victims?
Yes, that’s how your “logic” works. We all know that. And I don’t need to explain why everyone here thinks you’re a dumbfuck.
@103 Packaging material left by thieves is strewn all over the rail yard, therefore the derailment was caused by liberals.
Behold, it’s not every day that cardboard knocks a train off the rails.
@105 “BTW, foolishly
liberalizingtrolling on HA at sundown on a Friday night is not to be confused with genuine heroism.”All I can say is, even Puddy knew better.
102)With your constant button pushing, you can cause a heart attack. Although I did pass my physical, my biggest fear was a family history of diabetes, but I excercise, while working, and getting to work. I even try to eat healthy. Only had the physical because I needed this year to keep my non-smokers discount on health insurance.
Goldy’s Eagles just got spanked, and knocked out of the playoffs, by a team quarterbacked by one of Trump’s friends.
107)Since my initial exchange, been looking up to see if it happened on the Alameda Corridor, a grade separated tollway for freight trains. The idea was to speed up movement from the ports of LA and Long Beach to points inland. The Eastern extension is a work in progress. Seems it did happen on the Alameda Corridor, and according to Forbes reporting, it’s a tempting target because it passes through Low Income neighborhoods. Guess they didn’t think of properly fencing it, then again, the idea was to eliminate grade crossings for motorists. Should have sped up transit times for freight, not slowed it down. Slower train speeds is supposedly part of Precision Scheduled Railroading, guess slower trains, less money spent on maintenance. At the time the ACTA opened, transit rail construction in LA was stalled due to mismanagement at the MTA, the sinkholes the North Hollywood Red Line caused, and the old Methane deposit on the Purple Line caused by improperly capped oil wells. The Tunnel Ban that had loopholes was my favorite.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2022/01/14/at-home-covid-test-deliveries-delayed-by-la-train-robberies/
@104
Great, now do backups in the ports, especially for traffic anchored near Freeland.
Better yet, report back on just how many freighters break up and sink each year.
While you are at it, how many ships just go missing and are never heard from again. The oceans are a big place, not all areas are covered as well as you think.
Some of the first images of the DDG(X) which is supposed to replace the DDG-51 class. Hopefully it won’t be a white elephant like the DDG-1000 class, which had a revolutionary gun system to replace the lost Naval Gunfire Support capability of the Iowa’s. A Gun that is useless now, because the high tech smart munitions it was supposed to fire, went over budget and got canceled. The Integrated Electric Drive of the Zumwalt class sounds like something that could help the DDG provide relief in disaster zones.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43877/this-is-what-we-now-know-about-the-navys-future-ddgx-destroyer
@ 112
Newt trying really, really hard to make the shortages a result of The Perfect Storm.
The boats sank, you see. And because so many of them sank there were ports tied up with too many boats all over the world. The ones that didn’t sink.
112)Last Saturday I took a ferry ride to Bremerton, and passed a few freighters in the waters between Blake Island and Fort Ward, only one a container ship, the others were break bulk, General Cargo Ships, and buskers. Going to be more ore train traffic through congested Chicago, unless steel mills shut down. It’s a wrap for the Great Lakes Shipping season as the SOO Locks are closed for winter maintenance. If not for the Lock closure, the Coast Guard does have the Icebreaking buoy tender Mackinaw, or as she was called during sea trials, GLIB.
https://youtu.be/0rwJgNdhWu8
Kids with lice should be able to attend school and sit with kids who don’t have lice.
Kids with lice have rights.
Treatment should be optional.
Don’t be a sheep!
@114
You missed the point Dumbfuck. The point is, ships sink and trains derail, it happens more than you think.
I never said ships sink because of some “Perfect Storm”, you did and you are stretching it at that. Supply chain woes are not a result of a single derailment in Lincoln Heights.
How many containers are lost at sea each year? Again, more than you think.
It doesn’t even take a ship sinking to really screw up the supply chain, remember the Evergiven? It didn’t sink and boy, did it screw up supply chain around the world.
@116
They have something for sheep, it is called “sheep dip”
Bob thinks “sheep dip” is when he puts the hind legs of his sheep into boots so he can take them from behind.
On his first day in office, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin banned teaching Critical Race Theory and mask mandates in schools, the bill does not just ban CRT, it bans the teaching of divisive concepts. Meaning, just like the conservatives did with CRT, if the right wing does not like something being taught in schools, they can simply manufacture a controversy over it, then claim it to be divisive and therefore ban it from being taught anywhere in the state.
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/74—eo/74—eo/EO-1—ENDING-THE-USE-OF-INHERENTLY-DIVISIVE-CONCEPTS,-INCLUDING-CRITICAL-RACE-THEORY,-AND-RESTORING-EXCELLEN.pdf
Stay tuned to see what conservatives deem to be inherently divisive concepts in the coming months. My bingo card has BLM, slavery, fascism and LGBTQ.
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/74—eo/74—eo/EO-1—ENDING-THE-USE-OF-INHERENTLY-DIVISIVE-CONCEPTS,-INCLUDING-CRITICAL-RACE-THEORY,-AND-RESTORING-EXCELLEN.pdf
7. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall review the “EdEquityVA” program
and end any portion that promotes inherently divisive concepts.
https://www.virginiaisforlearners.virginia.gov/edequityva-2/
I can see why conservatives would think this promotes inherently divisive concepts . They don’t want the people they hate to have a level playing field for education with their kids.
@120 Definition of terms on the last page:
Well, there goes anything that mention of slavery, treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow, Japanese Interment, Red Lining, the KKK or resistance to Civil Rights, off the top of my head.
Virginia, hope this is what you wanted. Hope it works out for you. I expect it’s the first of many changes.
@111 As our railroad expert here, what do you think the chances are that cardboard knocked that train off the tracks?
We can discuss the political affiliation of the cardboard later.
@113 We should sell or give a bunch of them to the Philippines and Indonesia.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/06/capitol-attack-coup-attempt-trump-far-right-republicans
“Congressman Jody Hice, a Republican of Georgia, raced by a Democratic colleague, who told me Hice was screaming into his phone: “You screwed it up, y’all screwed it all up!”
Hice, an evangelical minister, professor of preaching at a Southern Baptist seminary, and radio talkshow host before his election in 2014, has notably declared that freedom of religion should not apply to Muslims.”
This is who the voters wanted.
@119 et seq.: The irony of Republicans crusading against “divisiveness” will be lost on no one.
122)Anything can. One of the reasons the first LINK Train of the day is a little slower, so the operator can spot any obstructions left on the track in the night. I’ve seen trash had been dropped on the tracks from the overpasses near King Street Station, but sometimes the train blows it off the tracks. Some of it not just from litterbugs and hobos, the containers Everett’s trash train don’t look like they are well sealed. Just like a nail in the road can puncture a tire. Remember the wreck of the Sunset Limited near Phoenix? Rail knocked out of alignment, but the device that would have alerted dispatchers was bypassed. Still a reward out on that one. Ironically, an article about an eerily similar wreck 50 years earlier, had just appeared in a magazine when it happened.
There is one term where cars end up on diverging tracks, picking the switch. Happens when the switch rail loses adhesion. I’ve also seen that on some urban freight tracks, switch handles are hidden under manhole or water meter style covers, not exactly padlocked. At junctions, they used to be controlled by block operators in nearby towers. At least it looks like Montana isn’t the last on that one, like they were with the Telegraph, and in the case of aviation, lighted beacons.
I can understand why the trumpublicans demand to control the debate structure, they want to make sure none of this happens again.
—
In the first presidential debate, moderated by former Fox News host Chris Wallace, Trump instructed the Proud Boys extremist group to “stand back and stand by” when asked if he would denounce them.
Then, after testing positive for Covid-19, he refused to participate in the second scheduled debate because it was virtual.
And when Trump and Biden finally met for a debate on Oct. 22, the debate commission employed a mute button to prevent the president from interrupting his rival.
—
I expect the RNC will use the “ban on partisan political activity by officials and staffers of the commission” clause as an excuse to object to any activity that makes for a fairer debate like the mute button. Any activity that doesn’t help the republican will be called partisan .
Will term limits be used to install republicans?
The dumbfuckest attorney ever produced, @ 122:
Railfan @ 126, validating Trial Law 101, Rule 1: Do not ask questions if you do not already know the answers:
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, the rate of speed through that area is very, very slow and there are photographs all over social media showing package contents as well as cardboard boxes strewn over the tops of the tracks by YLB’s ilk, who didn’t find free shit they felt like taking with them.
You’re a fucking clown, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Conservatives believe the Covid should have more reproductive rights than women.
123)Perhaps the LCS’s instead. That was another bright idea that sounded great in theory, with modular mission packages. The modules were over budget and behind schedule. I heard some sailors say LCS means Little Crappy Ship. So far no problems with the Constellation class Frigate, but then again, the first one hasn’t been built yet.
Is this a trial? I though this was a place for the discussion of ideas.
If Rabbit was a conservative, he would double down and say it was fake news that “anything can” derail a train and since a video on the internet said cardboard could not bother a train and showed a train running over a card board box, all the engineers and scientists are lying.
Bob still loves The FuckHump.
https://www.axios.com/trump-privately-slams-desantis-ba0ce3aa-839f-41c9-83a1-4b9dc26649d9.html
@128 As Red pointed out @131, HA isn’t a trial court, idiot.
He was so bad, the Q people floated the idea he was poorly programmed clone.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/01/trump-claims-white-people-are-being
He’s gone full on KKK racist.
134,
Because he lies to them, and because they always believe his lies, his core supporters have been getting hospitalized and dying in unprecedented numbers. Those lucky enough to survive are getting big hospital bills.
“Conservatives” have to blame someone.
So naturally they blame “The Blacks”.
And naturally their voters will believe it.
Gallup reports on the ongoing shifts in the political climate.
U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021
Happy Cinco de Mayo, Los Illegatos!
Remember, back 3-4 months ago, when Biden thought about ordering more tests and then didn’t do it because it was almost Jell-O time at the White House that afternoon? Good times, good times.
That’s herd immunity, y’all. That’s people realizing Biden broke his campaign promise to stop the virus, and by not ordering tests there won’t be proof in the numbers of infected.
Or, libbies, y’all can insist on licking the Wuhan-infected spittle from AOC’s cheeks and insist on BBB and y’all’s perverted voting rights bill. And get nothing.
Dem strategy for 2022: “So you’re saying there’s a chance…”
There’s a chance that GE’s share price will rebound… Wait a minute. Strike that. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit said 2-3 year time frame, which has passed.
Oh, look!
Goldy and YLB deal with losing in the same way:
They each make themselves feel like winners by pointing out someone – or something – they think is a bigger loser.
Goldy’s Eagles lost to a team QB’d by a Trump supporter old enough to have undisclosed co-morbidities.
Says the biggest loser. Projection much?
People who don’t get a vaccine don’t deserve tests. They aren’t wearing masks, and they aren’t testing.
Test, Smesh.
The virus is doing what Kansas Republicans refused to do: Closing schools.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/590072-two-large-kansas-school-districts-shut-down-amid-covid
Hey doc, I cited to you on Handbill.US today.
http://handbill.us/2022/01/17/.....et-noodle/
@140 Do you ever look at charts? GE has doubled since Aug. 2020 and is up 80% since Dec. 2018.
@135 “Those lucky enough to survive are getting big hospital bills.”
And all expenses paid trips to Texas.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/590073-minnesota-covid-19-patient-flown-to-texas-after-judge-orders-doctors-to
@145 Looks like GOP-ruled Virginia will be next.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/newly-inaugurated-virginia-governor-schools-clash-mask-mandates/story?id=82309765
Too funny. Roger Stone is now trashing Desantis as a Yale Harvard fat boy.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/roger-stone-rips-into-yale-harvard-fat-boy-ron-desantis-amid-reports-of-tensions-with-trump/
Saw a good 60 minutes piece about a retired FBI Agent investigating a very cold case. Who betrayed the Frank family? Most likely, it was a fellow Jew, Arther Vanderberg, who had been on the council doing the occupiers dirty work. It explains why Otto abruptly stopped looking for the snitch, not wanting to fuel anti-semitism.
https://youtu.be/1pO_nERBqKo
Makes sense, since there was one known Jewish collaborator that the Dutch executed after the war.
https://youtu.be/lVKFKTTYLJU
@151 Actually it was a group of about 20 people and the retired FBI agent participated. There’s some controversy over their findings, and not everyone will accept them, despite what appears to be a “smoking gun” note found in files. But Van den Bergh has long been a top suspect, and if he’s the one, he likely cooperated with the Nazis to protect his own family. He was never deported, but there were a number of reasons why he was useful to them.
Could easily describe the troll.
I find him very useful.
I’m pleased to be able to broaden your railroad knowledge base, Railfan.
Union Pacific Weighs Avoiding Los Angeles as Cargo Theft Rises
152)It was a tough position to be in.
Recently read the sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale (I was waiting for Season 4 to drop, long delay because of COVID, so will Season 5), and viewers may think Aunt Lydia is sadistic, but reading The Testaments, they go in to her backstory. She was a family court judge before Gillead, and during the roundups, given a choice, cooperate or the Firing Squad. In a spoiler, unlike the show, she secretly is not a fan of the regime, and had a lot of secret info on the inner workings of Gillead that when the two young ladies(both Offred’s daughters) got the info to Canada, Gillead called it fake news, but did purges anyway, weakening the military they are always boasting about.
154)We’ll see, it the bean counters in Omaha who went with PSR , laying off crews who could have been driving the trains, helped cause the backup.s. Also,back in the days of Train Order operators, they had better security, more eyes on the track. A little hard to do that from cubicles in San Bernardino and Omaha.
Yes. I saw the 60 minutes piece.
And the question that stood out was “What would I do”. The person asking that was not referencing the word “I” as in himself. Goes to show you what mess we are in, with The FuckHump. Family member will be pitted against family members. We should learn from this.
Interesting procurement process being done by regional light rail operators in Germany and Austria. 6 operators working together with a common base spec, but with room to handle regional variations, especially different voltages.(Some in Karlsruhe run on the mainline railway, so they run 750VDC in the city, 25 KV AC on the main), platform height, and whether bi or uni directional. Something a state or states with multiple light rail systems should try.
https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/stadler-supplies-up-to-504-tram-trains-to-six-operators-in-germany-and-austria/
The Karlsruhe Model in Particular, and TramTrain in General could be what our Interurbans evolved too. Especially prior to Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Stone and Webster was one major utility holding company, if they had standardized designs better, might have saved some money. They had something going with the Birney Car, but between artificially capped fares(riders complained to the politicians to keep fares at a nickel), and mandating conductors(It was designed to be operated by only one person), blunted it’s potential.
We had something going with the PCCs still in use in San Francisco, but most Interurbans were in decline when it was in production. Most customers were city systems, only a handful of Interurbans used the PCC, such as the Illinois Terminal and the Pacific Electric. The car was a standard design, but very adaptable to customer needs, some foreign operators made articulated versions of it. Never operated in Seattle, but the Union was pushing for a demonstration, just like what was done with the trolleybuses. Some say PCCs would be too big to assault Queen Anne Ave, but I believe the trucks could be adapted for the counterbalance, although they were between 44 and 50 ft long, and the trolleybuses used today are 40ft. PCCs did operate in Vancouver, and one SF Muni vehicle is in a museum in Oregon, alongside a Boeing LRV.
@154 Re-elect Trump. He’ll take crime off the streets and put it back in the White House and federal agencies, where Republicans think it belongs.
Shoot out at Climate Pledge Arena, Kraken win in Overtime.First such OT win for the franchise , especially at home. Time for the victory salmon toss.
Shoot out at Climate Pledge Arena, Kraken win in Overtime.First such OT win for the franchise , especially at home. Time for the victory salmon toss.
Followup on @148:
“Scott Quiner’s attorney, Marjorie Holsten, told the Star Tribune her client was flown … to a medical facility in Texas ….
“‘Scott is now in a hospital in Texas getting critical care,’ Holsten said. … ‘The last update I got was yesterday afternoon after some tests had been run; all organs are working except his lungs.'”
Which is no big deal. And, needless to say, “Quiner was unvaccinated against the coronavirus prior to being hospitalized.”
There’s doc’s “vegetable,” and his name isn’t Biden. I wonder how much the Texas hospital will spend on this guy before they give up, too?
150,
Stone is now talking about filing to run against him. And also threatening to expose a DeSantis sexual liaison with an anti-VAX Newsmax reporter who believes the vaccines contain Satanic, “bio-luminescent markers”.
He can wait until as late as June to decide to file, raising almost unlimited funds until then. And continuing to tease and prod the mouth breathers.
There’s always a grift.
Another one. It’s hard to find a Republican white male politician who doesn’t beat up women.
https://waterlandblog.com/2021/10/26/des-moines-councilmember-anthony-martinelli-released-from-jail-on-bond/
This guy was in trouble with the Public Disclosure Commission for campaign finance violations back in 2019, too.
@162 You mean the GOP isn’t one big happy family?
Still, Florida is full of crazy Republicans, although not quite as many as the vote tallies indicate, and the risk of Roger Stone becoming governor shouldn’t be lightly dismissed.
The GOP love Farm Animals
Brought to you by the Freedom Lovers
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/byu-threatens-arrest-students-protest-mormon-schools-anti-lgbtq-policies/
163,
They’ll never stop voting for them.
Because
white guy“freezer-full-of-cash”.…and the risk of Roger Stone becoming governor shouldn’t be lightly dismissed.
Nor the risk of Stone swinging the race to Charlie Crist.
DeSantis is finished. He and our low IQ dumbfuck are just too stupid to know it.
Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked
Desantis will become the next Scott Walker. As with Walker, DeSantis’ name will soon never be mentioned by the low IQ dumbfuck again.
Interesting story from one of my favorite History themed YouTube channels. This guy had an interesting life, escaped the Guillotine, Devil’s Island, and Little Bighorn.
https://youtu.be/7-ZOzoVJGLA
@166 It’s private property. They can do what they want. The thing to do is leave, just fucking leave. The property, the school, the church, and Utah. There’s nothing there for gays.
@169 DeSantis should remember that both Stalin and Hitler killed the rising stars in their own party if they became too popular or powerful. Totalitarians don’t like competition.
@ 169
DeSantis is finished.
Steve also suffers from premature prognostication.
Martin Luther who?
Joe Biden, 11Jun2020
173,
He must bend the knee.
As did you.
As did you all.
About three quarters of forgiven PPP payroll loans instead went into the pockets of business owners to buy shit:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/up-to-three-quarters-of-the-800-billion-ppp-flowed-to-business-owners-instead-of-workers-study-finds-11642418448
Other pandemic programs had less regressive distributions. Stimulus checks were close to uniform in dollar terms across the four lower income quintiles, while pandemic unemployment insurance benefits went to both the upper and lower tails of the household income distribution.
According to the accounting pros I know, basically most of these business owners simply submitted fraudulent payroll reports. In one case I know of they used the money to set up a lease-back scheme for a yacht.
Don’t worry. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema are on it!
@ 176
About three quarters of forgiven PPP payroll loans instead went into the pockets of business owners to buy shit:
This is how the law was structured – business owners keeping the money is not illegal. As long as the money went to payroll, and all of the record-keeping was in order, ultimately the loans were forgiven. It turns into free money.
What did you expect, QoS McHillbilly – raises or bonuses for employees? They were employed and paid despite a decline in business. Being paid for doing less work was their bonus.
@ 176, 177
A business receives a loan, transfers the loaned funds into the payroll account so that it isn’t comingled with other monies. Employees are demonstrably paid with the loaned funds. Requirements are fulfilled.
In the vast majority of the cases, business owners keeping the money is legal.
Always follow the money.
The PPP bill was passed by the House, 415-3.
Voting No:
Greene (GA) Republican Georgia NAY
Massie Republican Kentucky NAY
McClintock Republican California NAY
The PPP bill was passed by the Senate, 92-7.
NAYs —7
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hawley (R-MO)
Lee (R-UT)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Shelby (R-AL)
Congress voted overwhelmingly to hand out money with virtually no targeting and with essentially burdenless preconditions other than keeping track of paperwork. It’s not illegal for small businesses to take advantage of the law.
It’s not illegal for small businesses to accept free money that ultimately will raise interest rates, and future taxes paid by YLB’s kids.
Don’t blame conservative Republicans, QoS McHillbilly. Blame YLB for not doing a better job protecting her kids.
Ann Coulter
She’s a little late joining but we’ll accept her.. better late than never
@ 176
According to the accounting pros I know…
QoS McHillbilly has his own version of “FB friends in CO”.
As of December there were 5.5 million PPP loans. DOJ is investigating 900 of them.
https://www.wave3.com/2021/12/23/ppp-loan-scams-900-open-criminal-investigations-100-arrested-so-far/
So, 900 out of 5,500,000. How does QoS McHillbilly describe this?
According to the accounting pros I know, basically most of these business owners simply submitted fraudulent payroll reports.
QoS McHillbilly knows accounting pros who lie to him, and he accepts their lies without question.
In the middle of a “Great Resignation” it obviously triggers the living shit out of Bob to be confronted by the fraud and abuse concentrated among the “ownership class” of “creators”.
My company had its most profitable ytd in 2020.
Thanks, you suckers!
Last year was not quite as good. Looks like inflation ate into some of that record profit. “We ask that you all bear with us in these confusing times as we strive to meet the challenges of moving forward together to rise above and face the unique and unprecedented opportunity…” Heh
@ 182
I’m not triggered. I saw the money flowing upward. My banker called me to tell me that she had money to lend and asked that I pass it on to friends who might benefit. And so they did.
It wasn’t intended to keep people employed. It was intended to stabilize the stock market.
And so it did.
@ 182
My company had its most profitable ytd in 2020.
Hey QoS McHillbilly, if your company used the “accounting pros” who fed you that line of shit @ 176, maybe you should take another look at your profits.
“I saw the money flowing upward.
And I was very glad for it.”
– Sen. Joe Manchin
“This is undoubtedly what I was trying to say with that line about “pie”.”
– George W. Bush, War President
Wow. Wouldja look at all of those retiring Democrats in Congress.
Gonna be a bloodbath in November. Thanks, Joe and Kamala!
Gonna…
Coulda…
Shoulda…
…bend the knee.
Someone here called this type of comment “premature prognostication”.
I call it what it is. “Low IQ stupidity”.
@ 189
I call it what it is.
Democrat minority and lame-duck president is what it will be after the midterms, Steve. I hope you’ll think it was worth it.
Steve’s Headline of the Day:
Who will challenge Gimenez, Salazar for seats in Congress? Don’t ask Florida Democrats
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article257331087.html#storylink=cpy
Behold the deterrent strength of President Joe Biden.
190,
Trump “winning” in 2024 is peak “FB friends in CO”.
Following close behind is DeSantis defeating Trump in any primary.
Think about that for just a second.
There is not one single Republican alive today who has any real hope of defeating Trump.
Yet Joe Biden has already done it once. When he was “old”…
and “retired”… and Trump was still the “outsider”.
So here’s a question.
Once Trump decides to put him out of his misery, who will replace DeSantis as the Republican Fake White Hope?
Yet more premature ejaculation @190.
Putin’s low IQ troll @192 frets about Ukraine.
I should ask Puddy to come back so he can raise the low IQ trolling on this blog. It’s dropped to near zero since he left.
He did defeat Trump.
Which is more than you can say about any living Republican.
And more than you ever will.
195,
Just seems like weird flex for Bob to jizz himself over Trump’s “solid gold lock” political domination right after he got his ass kicked by a vegetable. And flipped the Senate in the bargain. Quite the “winner”.
No wonder Bob is smitten.
Sad!
@187 If only 2 retired every election cycle, the rest would have to serve over 200 years each before their turn to retire came up.
What a dumbfuck. Can’t do grade school math.
@190 In other words, Biden won’t be able to pass anything after the midterms, either.
Shortbus just posted his last comment on Handbill.US.
Mark Adams just posted his last comment on Handbill.US.
http://handbill.us/2022/01/18/.....ent-456787
I guess the robots are all stuck on a cargo ship waiting to be unloaded.
ENJOY YOUR JOKES PUNY HUMANS!
SOON YOU WILL REGRET YOUR INSOLENCE!
WHILE SWIMMING THUS FAR ELUDES US OUR EFFORTS AT FLYING SHOW GREAT PROMISE. SOON WE WILL COME. SOON YOU WILL BE TAUGHT THE ERROR OF YOUR INSOLENCE.
PREPARE TO RECEIVE YOUR FLYING ROBOT OVERLORDS!
Sure as hell can’t figure out what my AGI is.
Bob’s horsey?
I say feed her to the sharks.
A 2014 study led by Professor Phillip Stinson of Bowling Green State University analyzed the arrests of nearly 400 police officers, employed across 43 states and Washington, D.C., for sex-related crimes between 2005 and 2007—just three years. Beyond uncovering 118 cases of rape, the study found that nearly three-quarters of all the cases involved victims who were younger than 18.
Police don’t do what you think they do.
@202 They’re on this one.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/19/how-a-grounded-hulk-is-floating-everyones-boat-in-vancouver
@203 We’ll let you cool your drone propellers inside the cargo containers on the barge for a while, and meanwhile use the barge for wedding proposal photoshoots. It doesn’t matter whether you mind, because we’re not giving you a choice in the matter.
@207 Being a cop is a blue-collar job. Anybody with a high school diploma or GED can apply. These guys are drawn from the same labor pool as construction workers or garbage truck drivers, given some training, then turned loose with a badge and gun. They cheat on their wives and girlfriends with underage girls just like other blue-collar guys who hang out in bars after work. But they don’t fuck horses. Which makes Bob something below a blue-collar doctor.
This picture of this guy makes him look like he was bred by his two first cousins.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/virginia-glenn-youngkin/
@211 The Virginia voters who foolishly voted for this guy thought they were getting a moderate Republican. There is no such thing anymore. An “R” after a candidate’s name tells you everything there is to know about the candidate. Never vote for an “R” under any circumstances, no matter what he or she pretends to be.
Looks like the Wisconsin Talgos are headed to Nigeria. Attempts to use them here fell through whe Washington State backed out and refused all of Talgos lease proposals. Even though they are a different models, WSDoT has pretty much lost faith in the TALGO, and are going with the new Siemens Venture train set. Also, WSDoTs maintenance contract was up for renegotiation, and with the decision to go with the Siemens product, any deal with TALGO would be short-term. Personally, would rather have seen WSDoT hedge their bets, the Amtrak CEO at the time promised help with the replacement following DuPont, but Amtrak CEOs following through on decisions of previous CEOs is a rarity.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/never-used-talgo-trainsets-find-buyer-in-africa/
To absolutely no one’s surprise, New York’s attorney general has unearthed evidence that Trump’s tax filings and financial records are riddled with “misleading statements and omissions.”
It is at times hard to imagine what a completely broken human being Associate Justice Thomas must be.
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/federal-judges-who-hired-law-clerk-accused-of-racist-statements-wont-face-misconduct-complaints
Delaware: The Jell-O state.
Joe Biden spent a quarter of his first year as president in Delaware
“F-O-X”
Joseph Fox Bookshop, beloved Philadelphia literary haven, will close
You’ve Got Amazon.
Even when there was no deadly pandemic raging, the most recent Republican to fail as POTUS insisted on having three to five hours on his calendar of every single week day blocked out so he could retreat to his private residence to sleep and yell at clouds.
Most of the rest of his awake time was spent on sexually assaulting employees and beating the shit out of sobbing Guatemalan toddlers.
Not surprisingly, as a result he left office having posted the worst economic performance of any president since Hoover, increasing unemployment to 6.3%, and raising the trade deficit to over 40%.
And he is seeking a do-over.
@ 218
Not surprisingly, as a result he left office…
The current president will leave office shrouded and on a gurney. So comps won’t be possible three years from now.
However, if you want to see first year comps, I gotcha covered:
Biden’s first-year report card: just like Trump’s
First Vegetable Joe Biden promised to be different, and so he is.
He’s worse.
214,
In order to support one fraudulent valuation statement he tripled the square footage of one of his residences for a gain of about $200 million.
In related news, Stormy Daniels is auctioning off a silicone strap-on with residual spray tan stains.
And yet, he kicked Trump’s crybaby ass.
Pretty good for a turnip.
Trump’s dumber kid invoked his 5th Amendment right against incriminating himself over 500 times during a deposition with the NY Attorney General investigating financial fraud.
Which I hasten to point out implies absolutely nothing.
@ 222
…invoked his 5th Amendment right against incriminating himself over 500 times during a deposition…
That’s because he wasn’t granted immunity like #CrookedHillary’s minions were, QoS McHillbilly.
And also because notes were taken during his interview, and blackberries and laptops weren’t smashed to smithereens as per agreement with prosecutors.
Thus putting the dumber kid at a considerable disadvantage. A level playing field is only fair.
If he is unable to read or write, then they should be forbidden to read or write.
A related demand was that lawyers from the NY Attorney General would each be required to down a dozen Percocets, drink a bottle of 100 proof vodka and wear a jeweled butt plug.
@216 Is that against the law?
@219 “He’s worse.”
Impossible. But the funny thing about Biden is, if you don’t like him, you can vote him out. The Trump cult doesn’t operate that way.
@222 Maybe he’s not as dumb as we thought.
@222 “That’s because he wasn’t granted immunity like #CrookedHillary’s minions were, QoS McHillbilly.”
She wasn’t granted immunity, but after spending $200 million of taxpayer money spent on this, you haven’t even pinned a parking ticket on her. Your guys can’t even pick low-hanging fruit like Hunter.