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Jon Stewart: Is money even real? An economist explains

Stephen: No, Kamala Harris is not headed to the Supreme Court

Robert Reich: How corporate greed drives inflation

Samantha Bee: SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer announces retirement

Vice News: Wildfires are coming to the suburbs

Asshats, Dotards, and Other Deplorables that Make Up the Трамп GOP:

Trevor: Stephen Breyer announces retirement & Joe Rogan questions the word “Black”

Seth Meyers: Biden gets a chance to make history with SCOTUS pick as Breyer retires

Robert Reich: Five ways your company may be exploiting you

Winlar: ♫ Illegal Immigrants! ♬

Chris Hayes: Biden delivered fastest economic growth since Reagan. So why don’t voters feel it?

This Week in ТрампPlague:

SNL Weekend Update: Biden Presidency enters year 2

Stephen: Breyer stepping down from the Supreme Court

Trevor: Congressional stock trading

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Would be ironic if Gaetz gets charged. Wonder if he would call the Mann Act out of date?

  4. 4

    1,
    DOJ now has at least three cooperating witnesses.
    And captured screen shots of Snapchat messages saved by two of the three.

    None of the three are stellar individuals Two of the three are alleged to be directly involved in the underlying felony offenses as well as efforts to obstruct. One of the three has plead guilty to other serious felonies. All three may also face additional felony charges in the states once the feds are through with them.

    AUSAs are careful and plodding compared to local state prosecutors. Bringing any bill in front of a grand jury requires some oversight and approval process. It’s bureaucratic in nature like many large government organizations. Accountability is spread out. So they stand to make their bosses look bad if things don’t go well. This is exponentially intensified in cases involving elected officials.

    Ultimately I’m sure that the Attorney General would have to be read in on any decision to go before a grand jury. But approval would be required by the Assistant AG, the PDAG, and the DAG overseeing the Public Integrity Section.

    It’s important to understand the political atmosphere the DOJ is operating under and how careful Garland must be, even if the media have ignored it. Powerful Republicans, “conservative” elites, and “conservative” media are now positioned in opposition to federal law enforcement (other than immigration). They now oppose the very legitimacy of the entire department. For purely partisan reasons they have been waiting desperately for the department, its investigators, and its prosecutors to make some tiny mistake in any case involving Republicans, Trumps, “conservative” domestic terrorists, “conservative” seditionists, and Republican rioters. This is largely to discredit the investigations and prosecutions of the last four years of their criminal misconduct. But it is also to weaken the President and the House leadership also investigating. And even though the Gaetz case is not directly related to those crimes, investigations, and prosecutions, Gaetz has cleverly maneuvered apparently very stupid Republican leaders into aligning themselves with him and lending him their support.

    So the stakes are quite high, and in a weird way for an investigation into drugging and fucking children.
    But I guess that’s what the Republican Party stands for now.
    That’s what they are telling us.
    And by now we should have learned to pay attention when they tell us who they really are.

    I think Gaetz is almost certain to be indicted this year. The voters of his district deserve to have the facts made known before they are asked to vote for him again. The department and the senior DOJ leadership will not wish to allow the election to take place under such a cloud of uncertainty.

  5. 5

    So the stakes are quite high, and in a weird way for an investigation into drugging and fucking children.
    But I guess that’s what the Republican Party stands for now.
    That’s what they are telling us.

    That’s what I hear from Bob, loud an clear!

    Ehhy Boob!?

  6. 6

    @ 3

    That is a big news item. Carried prominently by right-leaning publications NY Post and The London Daily Mail.

    The guy died from having made one of the types of choices that Youngkin and DeSantis should be permitted. Smoking/chewing tobacco and drinking beyond moderation are other choices with hazardous and frequently fatal consequences. Debates worth having.

    January 28, 2022

    Olympia, WA – Upon hearing the news of the loss of retired Trooper Robert LaMay, Washington State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste released this statement:

    “I am deeply saddened over the news that our former friend and colleague Trooper Robert LaMay has passed away. This agency’s prayers and remembrances are with his family and loved ones. Rob served honorably for over two decades and we were disappointed to see him leave the agency this past October. His service to this state and agency will be long remembered and appreciated.

    Let us now remember our old friend, support his family and loved ones, give thanks for his service, and resolve to meet the challenges ahead with continuing duty, dignity and respect.”

    The trooper’s bio followed the statement.

    https://www.wsp.wa.gov/2022/01/29/chiefs-statement-regarding-loss-of-retired-trooper-robert-lamay/

    As always, stupidity should be painful.

  7. 7

    6,
    Doesn’t bother to explain how Youngkin’s three-pack-a-day habit or DeSantis’ 4000 calorie doughnut habit can kill your 86-year-old Nona with COPD.

    Bob: “Wait! Doesn’t this just, like, fuckup the entire world economy? Everything is bullshit! And this proves it!”

    Guy wearing a top hat and black cape: “Bob, relax. Seriously, it’s just… I already had the coin in my hand. It was there the whole time. There are no coins hidden behind your ear. There never were. Please stop hitting yourself on the back of your head.”

  8. 8

    @ 4

    I think Gaetz is almost certain to be indicted this year.

    I’m reminded of a guy who was last in these parts with a screen name Pilsner something, who told me the day before the 2016 election that Hillary Clinton had an “absolute lock” on 252 electoral votes. Thereafter I dubbed him Cz-252 until he slinked away in shame.

    Gaetz has cleverly maneuvered apparently very stupid Republican leaders into aligning themselves with him and lending him their support.

    Maybe. Or perhaps Gaetz is apparently innocent and we don’t know that yet.

    Is Gaetz the GOP’s version of Jim Traficant, with the stupid tie replaced by the overuse of hair mousse? ’cause that’s what I’m left with, if he’s not innocent.

  9. 9

    The House committee has now subpoenaed two of the fake electors from each of the seven states where Republican leaders sought to defraud the election by issuing fake election certificates.

    More documents have now been uncovered that definitively reject the phony “just in case” excuse offered by Republicans, including our own phenomenally stupid and disingenuous piece of shit troll.
    Contemporaneous letters and emails obtained via FOIA reveal the intent of the effort.
    “President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner… state legislatures… should exercise their plenary power under the Constitution and appoint clean slates of electors… both the House and Senate should accept only these clean Electoral College slates.”

    Over and over again the individuals involved in planning and carrying out this effort to fabricate fake state electoral certificates and submit them in place of the actual, genuine certificates declare that it is their intention to use the fakes as part of a state level effort – not “just in case” in support of any court challenge.
    They say very clearly that the substitute elector certificates they fraudulently produced were to be used when Republican controlled state legislatures overthrew the vote results and declared Trump the winner via “plenary authority”.

    The plan was for Republican state lawmakers to nullify the state vote counts at the state level and simply declare Trump the winner. That would then move the dispute about which slates of electors from each of the seven states to the joint session, where the Vice President would be instructed to choose the Trump slates over the lawful slates.

    It may be that some of the people whose names appear on these documents were unwitting dupes. These are intent crimes (although ironically sec 1001 violations are not). I don’t happen to believe these people should be charged with 1001 violations. But where these people were unaware of the use and intent, someone else surely was. And their defense to charges of fraud and election tampering would hinge on their willingness to expose how they were fooled, manipulated, or pressured by others.

  10. 10

    @2 She should be charged with theft of government property, because those cards and the authorizations they contain belong to the government.

  11. 11

    Steve was not always like this.

    Bill Maher: “It’s Not Me Who’s Changed, It’s The Left”; They’ve Gone Mental And Made Me A “Hero” To FOX News

    “Let’s get this straight,” Maher said. “It’s not me who’s changed, it is the left. Who is now made up of a small contingent who’ve gone mental and a large contingent to refuse to call them out for it. But I will. That’s why I’m a hero at FOX these days. Which shows just how much liberals have had their head up their ass because if they really thought about it they would have made me a hero on their media. But that can’t happen in this ridiculous new era of mind-numbing partisanship where if I keep it real about the nonsense in the Democratic party it makes me an instant hero to Republicans.”

    “People sometimes say to me, ‘You didn’t used to make fun of the left as much.’ Yeah, because they didn’t give me so much to work with,” Maher said. “The oath of office I took was to comedy. And if you do goofy shit, wherever you are on the spectrum, I’m going to make fun of you because that is where the gold is. And the fact that they is laughing at it should tell you something: it rings true.”

    Steve used to be Bill Maher. Or at least he was HA’s version of Maher – someone with a clear liberal bent but who had no problem calling out stupidity on both sides.

    Now, Steve’s just the guy Bill Maher’s referring to every week.

    Donald Trump didn’t just break Kathy Griffin. Donald Trump broke Steve.

    I hope he can be fixed, somehow, but I doubt it. Steve was last seen in Pioneer Square, crooning to old Britney Spears standards between tokes of some Guatemalan shit that makes him see Jesus. Wearing his feces-caked Pink Pussy Hat.

  12. 12

    Bill Maher even speaks at a level The Even Bigger Fucking Moron and The Unserious YLB can understand.

    The party of FDR and JFK has become the party of LOL and WTF.

  13. 13

    @ 9

    The plan was for Republican state lawmakers to nullify the state vote counts at the state level and simply declare Trump the winner.

    Gore’s plan was for the Florida supreme court to do it for him.

    And Stephen Breyer was one of two SCOTUS justices who was OK with it.

    See what I did there?

  14. 14

    What is wrong with Sri Srinivasan?

    Why is he not a better choice than any black woman?

    Why is he not a better choice than any other candidate?

  15. 15

    I’m reminded of a guy…

    “This is how you get four more years of Trump.”

    I’m reminded of a guy who has been more consistently dead wrong about more of the things that matter the most to him, more often, and with more humiliating consequence than anyone else who posts with regularity.

    Bob, you are without rival in pigheaded wrongness. You were entirely wrong about Trump, about Date Rape, about the economy, about your own investments, about local and state politics, about the law, and about the historically disastrous consequence of your party’s loving embrace of violent authoritarian white nationalism. And if we’re being honest, you were probably never more wrong than your were about the single most important decision of your entire sad life. Choosing medicine over countless other more lucrative, more attractive, more rewarding, and more satisfying careers was obviously the biggest mistake of your life. Admitting it to us was the second biggest.

    If you didn’t exist Roger would have to make you up.

  16. 16

    Prediction: The skin shade of the woman Biden selects to replace Breyer will be lighter than the skin shade of Srikanth Srinivasan.

  17. 17

    See what I did there?

    Nope. Nobody does.

    Because while Gore was pursuing a legal process through the courts, you and the Republican Party were pursuing a coup implemented through Republican lawmakers operating unlawfully at the state level. Your plan was to force a constitutional crisis in a way intended to unleash political violence on half the country.

    So no. Nobody sees any meaningful comparisons.
    Why not try Dino next, ya fuckin’ moron?

  18. 18

    Next year, when a team is desperate for a QB, it will pick Brady instead of Kaepernick.

    Report: Tom Brady’s Formal Retirement Announcement ‘Expected Shortly,’ According To Members Of QB’s ‘Inner Circle’

    Brady runs an offense. Kaepernick runs his mouth.

  19. 19

    @ 15

    If you didn’t exist Roger would have to make you up.

    He could call me his second million. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has already made up the existence of his first million.

  20. 20

    13,
    You were really far better off denying the existence of these efforts, pretending that the mob sent to attack the Congress were merely “cosplaying grandmothers” and that the fake election certificates were merely “legitimate alternate slates just in case“.

    This was an attempted coup. The intent of the people behind it was to overturn the lawful election result and install Trump for four more years in defiance of the will of the voters. And it looks as if it was being supported and assisted from within the White House and from the highest levels of the Republican Party in many states and even in the Congress.

    Go ahead. Keep right on bear hugging that for the sake of the lulz or for irony.

  21. 21

    19,
    I’ve never seen Roger post anything to make me doubt or even question that he is basically who he says he is.

    By comparison your consistently poor math skills and the basic misunderstanding you’ve revealed about fundamental concepts of biology have frequently led me to doubt your claims of holding a medical license. And that’s just one example.

    I’ve never doubted for an instant that you clean up after horses, however. I’m pretty sure you clean up after “bulls” too.

  22. 22

    @3 “My family doesn’t do vaccines,” not even flu shots. (What about required school shots for his kids? Did he welsh on those, and expose other parents’ kids?)

    He was given a religious exemption, so he wasn’t required to get vaccinated to keep his WSP job, but he quit anyway because he didn’t like the duties that germ spreaders are assigned to (presumably without public contact).

    Resigning was perhaps his greatest act of public service, because as far as we know, he didn’t take any other WSP troopers or employees to the ICU with him.

  23. 23

    @8 Oh hey lookee — Doc is taking the “innocent until proven guilty” tack for the first time in his HA commenting career.

    {celebratory fireworks in sky}

    On behalf of a suspected child sex trafficker. No summary firing squad for that crime, eh, doc?

  24. 24

    “At 46, she is the youngest of the five top choices, which is a mark in her favor given that the nominee will have life tenure and Trump will want one who will leave a lasting mark on the law. Barrett would add a little welcome diversity to a Supreme Court full of Yale and Harvard alumni. The main reason I favor Barrett, though, is the obvious one: She’s a woman.”

    -National Review

    So then, not “the most qualified”?

  25. 25

    23,
    If he should actually escape prosecution and conviction, it’s not exactly the triumph of a lifetime to proclaim..

    “I did not knowingly drug and fuck children”

    But it might make for a clever campaign slogan. In times such as these, Republicans have to take wins where they can get them.

  26. 26

    Vaccination rates in latest Kaiser poll:

    91% Democrats
    86% over 65 years
    86% college grads
    80% Black
    79% women
    77% Hispanic
    77% all Americans
    76% independents
    75% White
    74% men
    73% under 30 years
    71% no college grad
    63% White evangelicals
    63% Republicans

    Dead last among all categories surveyed.
    https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ol5Qr/1/#

  27. 27

    The Venn diagram for the bottom third of that Kaiser vaccination survey and this Facebook group is a perfect circle:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/RyanEGraney/status/1480634298520776708

    It’s a fucking nightmarishly loong threadnaught but worth scrolling through for laughs and shocks.

    I’ll admit that Trump era has forced me to reckon with my longstanding underestimation of human stupidity. Bob’s posts have helped me a lot. But I obviously still have a long way to go.

  28. 28

    22)What duties would an exempt trooper be assigned to? Weigh Station in Omak(if there is one on US97 in that area)?

  29. 29

    26)Wonder about Truckers protesting the border mandate? 90% of Canadian Truckers are vaccinated, a few(Fox claims many) protesting the Canadian part of the mandate in Ottawa today. Even if Trudeau drops it, they won’t be allowed to cross the border, as it’s in effect for both countries. The Vaccine Passport in Ontario, Premier Ford is a PC, not a Liberal.(Ontario provincial conservatives still use the Progressive Conservative Party name) Good luck challenging it in Ontario courts, Ford loves to use a clause in the Canadian Constitution to exempt actions from Judicial Review.

  30. 30

    Steve used to be Bill Maher.

    Now, Steve’s just the guy Bill Maher’s referring to every week.

    The only time Bill Maher was ever funny was in the red licorice scene in Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death.

    Sure, I no longer call Carl the worst blogger ever. But that’s only because I’ve yet to see him ever blog anything.

  31. 31

    @3 Getting back to the late Trooper LaMay, he was granted a religious exemption and could have stayed with the State Patrol, but would have been assigned to different duties, presumably with less exposure to the public, in order to protect us from him.

    He didn’t like that, or at least said he didn’t, so he quit his job in what clearly was an attention-getting stunt. Which raises the questions, for what audience, and what purpose?

    Keeping in mind he worked out of Yakima, I suspect he was pandering to the Eastern Washington MAGA/Culp base intending to launch a political career — until the virus cut short his plans. He won’t get elected to anything now.

  32. 32

    @30 Well, there’s always Handbill.US, which has an archive of over 20,000 postings, and a few new ones on most days …

  33. 33

    @9 Well, I don’t see much difference between them and George Floyd trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store, except nobody knelt on their necks and Floyd wouldn’t have been in a position to let Russian troops walk in Ukraine and the rest of eastern Europe if he’d gotten away with it.

  34. 34

    @11 When Maher or someone else says something like that, I’ll take him and them seriously when they devote equal time and attention to the whackjobs on the right, including those who work for Fox. It doesn’t do much good to call out the “mental cases” on the left if you’re not going to do anything about the ones on the right.

  35. 35

    @12 “The party of FDR and JFK has become the party of LOL and WTF.”

    That’s pretty benign compared to what the GOP has become. Maybe he’s afraid to criticize them because of what they’ve become. I mean, who chases butterflies with pickups and guns? Maher wouldn’t be wrong to worry he might be next if he opens his mouth against them.

  36. 36

    @13 “Gore’s plan was for the Florida supreme court to do it for him.”

    Gore’s plan was to count the disputed ballots in counties that favored him. A better look would’ve been to insist on counting them in all the counties.

    But Gore’s supporters didn’t show up outside election offices brandishing guns. They didn’t storm the Capitol and assault cops. They didn’t send anonymous death threats to election workers.

    That’s your crowd.

  37. 37

    @14 “Why is he not a better choice than any black woman?”

    Now, if you had said, “Why is he not as good a choice as a black woman?” you might’ve had a half-assed point.

    But when you say, “Why is he not a better choice than any black woman?” your racism shows through.

    Yes, you’re transparent, doc.

  38. 38

    @15 Speaking of Bob’s investments, his stockpicking skills are so superior to anyone else’s, including former top economists at Merrill Lynch, that no one should even think of offering him investment advice. I certainly won’t.

    For the rest of you, or anyone else who might be interested, Barron’s says, “Like Rosenberg, Bernstein believes the economy is late cycle, but it might just take longer to play out. That means owning sectors like industrials and energy, and adding some consumer staples for ballast.” (Barron’s, 1/31/22, p. 8)

    Which is where I’m weighted, plus healthcare. Bob brags about getting Barron’s before I do, but I don’t think he reads it.

  39. 39

    @17 He won’t try Dino next because Dino didn’t foment violent insurrection after losing in the courts.

    But then, Dino lost in the courts only once; Trump lost in the courts ~90 times, including before judges he appointed himself.

    When ya got nuthin’, coup and insurrection are all you’ve got left.

  40. 40

    @18 “Brady runs an offense. Kaepernick runs his mouth.”

    You run to the barn grabbing your crotch.

  41. 41

    @19 “He could call me his second million.”

    I notice you didn’t say, “his second, third, fourth, etc., millions.” So you admit you have only a million, in other words, as a doctor in private practice you did no better than I did as a lawyer in public service.

  42. 42

    @24 Most anti-Roe v. Wade, and attractive on a pro-2nd Amendment, pro-death penalty, pro-gerrymandering, pro-Citizens United, pro-corporate, anti-regulation, anti-environment basis, too. So don’t say she was picked only because she’s young and a woman. She’s the total package.

  43. 43

    @26 Dead first in cop casualties. No one should want that, of course. It’s tragic for all concerned. But the fact Covid-19 kills more cops than all other causes combined probably reflects a political culture within our police forces.

  44. 44

    @28 Neither the WSP nor the late Trooper LaMay were specific about what alternative duties he was offered. I would guess a desk job reviewing incident reports or that sort of thing.

  45. 45

    39,
    I think it’s key to note that the 90 failed lolsuits in front of their own hand-picked judges were always Plan B.

    They began the planning for fraudulent elector slates and The Big Lie in summer of 2020.

  46. 46

    33,
    Perhaps if Floyd had not been executed by a sport-murdering “hero in blue” he might have attempted a similar defense.

    Ordinarily I’d say it was absurd to suggest that Mark Meadows and lawyers working under his direction provided George Floyd with counterfeit money and convinced him under pressure to pass it as real. But Trump’s Republican Party makes all things possible.

    He’s magic that way.

    At least all those Very White Republican state officials won’t have to worry about Derek Chauvin.

  47. 47

    Trump lost in the courts ~90 times, including before judges he appointed himself.

    Actually Moscow Mitch got those those judges installed, the useful idiot only signed the papers. They are loyal to Moscow Mitch not the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves.

  51. 51

    I’ve often suggested here on HA there’s a correlation between the 47% who voted for Trump and the 49.9% who populate the lower half of the IQ curve, but I wasn’t really sure, so I went looking for evidence and found this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXZXT3D0UE

    Yup, they’re all stupid, every one of ’em. (But doc isn’t, so what’s his excuse?)

  52. 52

    Haven’t seen much reports of rioting in Ottawa yet by the anti-vax, anti-mandate, anti-lockdown truckers protest, yet. They did deface a statue of Terry Fox, and park some of their rigs in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Their vehicles have since been towed.

    https://vancouversun.com/news/mayor-of-terry-foxs-hometown-in-b-c-calls-out-vaccine-mandate-protesters-for-defacing-statue

    I get the impression they think Terry Fox would have been on their side. Forgetting the Canadian icon had cancer, making him immune compromised. The foundation will probably see some more donations soon.

  53. 53

    This is what happens when a non-lawyer explains the law.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJx-m6v4bTU

    How do I know he’s not a lawyer? I checked out his biography here:

    “Jake Hoffman earned a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in 2008 and an M.B.A. from Northwest Christian University. Hoffman’s career experience includes working as the president and CEO of Rally Forge.”

    https://ballotpedia.org/Jake_Hoffman

    What is Rally Forge? Wikipedia explains here:

    “Hoffman runs a digital-marketing company, Rally Forge, that paid teen-agers to post thousands of propaganda messages under the teens’ accounts, and others under assumed personae, claiming that mail-in ballots would ‘lead to fraud,’ and that Democrats planned to steal the Presidency. In 2016, the company fabricated a politician—complete with a doctored photograph—to run as an Independent write-in candidate. The Guardian reported that Rally Forge also formed a fake left-wing front group, America Progress Now, which promoted Green Party candidates online in 2018, apparently to hurt Democrats in several races. Rally Forge was banned from Facebook in 2020 when Hoffman was permanently suspended by Twitter.”

    This is the modern Republican Party.

  54. 54

    @53 I wonder if GOP poohbahs recruit guys like this so they won’t have to go to jail themselves? Because it sure looks to me like he’s being used by someone.

  55. 55

    I use to watch
    H Bill Maher, thought he was funny at times. But even 10 years ago I didn’t always agree with everything he said. Sometimes he was even to far to the left of me. Fuck him, he’s not a king either. But sure sounds like he wants to be a king.

  56. 56

    Trump dangled the prospect of pardons for Capitol rioters at a Texas rally today, while DeSantis asserted the insurrectionists are being “smeared.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/politics/trump-rally-texas/index.html

    Thing is, all but the most violent of them will have completed their sentences by the time Biden leaves office, so all he’s promising them is to clear their records. Instead of being convicted criminals, they’ll be pardoned criminals, but they’ll still be criminals. However, any way you slice it, Trump just said that violence committed in his name is OK.

  57. 57

    Steve used to be Bill Maher. Or at least he was HA’s version of Maher – someone with a clear liberal bent but who had no problem calling out stupidity on both sides.

    In 2007 I came here to call out Jonah Goldberg’s ‘Liberal-Fascism’ as aped by the BIAWs Mark Musser for what it was, an attempt to hide the right’s own embrace of fascism. I also came here to inform the readership that Republicans were fucking children and farm animals and provided documentation of over 200 Republicans being arrested for these crimes.

    I’m also sure I made plenty of comments at the expense Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz.

    You are not unaware that our democracy is on the line. Because of that threat, I now have a stronger bond with HA’s liberal commenters than at any time in the past. I am now also allied with Jonah Goldberg, Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney. We are all in a fight to save our democracy.

    You and your dozen cosplaying grandmothers have chosen the wrong fucking side, you stupid fuck. You have sided with those who would end our democracy.

    It is you who have changed. You used to be a dumbfuck doctor who fucks horses. Now you’re a low IQ dumbfuck fascist traitor who fucks horses.

    If you have evidence to the contrary, you’d better get it out the fuck out there because you’ve already had your fucking trial. You have been found to be guilty of treason and your sentence is death.

    #DeathToTraitors

  58. 58

    @ 57

    …democracy is on the line.

    Does that refer to the amount of money spent by Democrats in 2020, which was greater than that spent by the GOP?

    Does it, perhaps, refer to the peaceful transfer of power that occurred on January 20 of last year?

    Perhaps you refer to the passage of the infrastructure bill in 2021, which had support from 69 senators, Steve.

    The only thing on the line is Democrat control of Congress. Ya clownish pussy.

  59. 59

    Bob is a fraud. He doesn’t even believe his own shit, just spews it out knowingly that it is all bullshit.

    Democracy is on the line. And he truly wants it to be on the line. Like he likes for cops to die over it.

    I think Steve hit a nerve.

  60. 60

    Railfan @ 52

    Whatever is going on in Ottowa, it’s got the security detail assigned to Trudeau scared enough that Canada’s First Family has been moved from their residence.

    Amid security concerns, Trudeau and his family have been moved from their home to an undisclosed location in the nation’s capital, sources said.

    Steve would call this a threat to democracy. The clownish pussy.

  61. 61

    It is being reported that as an additional security measure in Ottowa today, Justin Trudeau was disguised in blackface to avoid potential discovery.

  62. 62

    When Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit used the word eggplant in a scenario involving a black person, he claimed to be unaware that eggplant is a slur used against black people.

    Tonite I watched Enemy of the State again. Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Jack Black, Regina King, Lisa Bonet, Jason Robards, Gabriel Byrne. So not a low-budget flick. $90 million production cost, $250 million WW gross.

    There were two eggplant references in that movie. Here is one of them. Here is the other, in which the main character explains that eggplant is a slur against black people:

    Robert Clayton Dean:
    Actually, I believe the term “shyster” is reserved for attorneys of the Jewish persuasion. I believe the proper term for me is “eggplant”.

    https://www.quotes.net/mquote/28760

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wants you to believe that it was mere coincidence that he chose eggplant when describing a scenario involving a black person.

    He’s a fucking liar, with a long list of racist slurs in his writings. He knows he’s being watched, and yet he tried to slip this one through. The bigoted weasel can’t help himself.

    Gotcha.

  63. 63

    I think you can even go beyond that democracy is on the line, and say that it is in cardiac arrest with pretty much no chance of coming out alive.

  65. 65

    @57 “You have sided with those who would end our democracy.”

    They’ll do more than that, if they succeed. For years, they’ve been talking about concentration camps and executions. So far, we have no reason to disbelieve them.

    One thing is absolutely clear: We must never, ever appease these people to try to buy peace with them.

  66. 66

    @58 “the peaceful transfer of power that occurred on January 20”

    Cute how he tries to bury Jan. 6 under a rock.

    Ron Johnson would be proud.

  67. 67

    @61 Oh look, the Whidbey horsefucker is going all-in racist. As if we didn’t already know what he is.

  68. 68

    While Trump’s hint at pardons for Capitol rioters won’t do much for those who’ve completed their sentences by Jan. 20, 2025, the real message is that any mob that violently puts him in power on Jan. 6, 2025, won’t incur any consequences. Also implicit in that message is that any National Guardsmen or police who try to stop the mob will.

    Of course, given Trump’s long track record of disloyalty to those unflaggingly loyal to him, he could be just leading them on. Trump does nothing unless there’s something in it for him.

  70. 70

    56,
    More than likely this is Trump telegraphing his real agenda for the next two years.

    Trump will continue to dangle his own candidacy, continue to animate the base, and continue to promote The Big Lie. He will take every bit of credit for whatever wins the GOP manages this year. Then in mid or late 2023 he will make a deal with whichever GOP challenger to Biden is deemed best. His withdrawal from race and his full support, backing, and endorsement in exchange for a promise of an unconditional Presidential pardon.

    But only for him and his family.

    Remember, he always tells us exactly who he is and what he’s thinking. DeSantis would agree without hesitation. As would Haley or Cruz. In fact, I don’t think there is a single, credible Republican primary candidate who wouldn’t leap at this deal. But I think it would be very unwise to trust Ted Cruz.

  72. 72

    71,
    Climate denial too.

    Of course. There is no more attractive way for any modern Trump-era “conservative” to accessorize their white nationalism and growing Anti-Vax/Q-curious failure than with a healthy dose of anti-science.

    Did his own research, no doubt.

  73. 73

    Middle Age Riot

    Joe Biden has the easiest task an American president has ever had: finding a black female Supreme Court nominee at least as qualified as Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett.

    Piece of cake.

  74. 74

    Greedy racist incel, you can keep desperately flogging that false equivalency but the Rabbit Eggplant “scandal” will never be a thing. You are a racist, he’s not. Repent your sins.

  75. 75

    @73 If Jesus was black (there’s reason to believe he was), Republicans would complain he’s an “affirmative action messiah,” and reject him no matter how qualified he was to bring God’s message into the world.

  76. 76

    @74 “Repent your sins.”

    Per the usual protocol for people like him, he will at the last minute, when struggling for every breath and seeing a tunnel with a white light.

  77. 77

    Republicans are not really Christians. They wouldn’t act the way they do, if they were.

  78. 78

    “Former President Donald Trump Saturday night called on his followers to stage massive protests in multiple cities should prosecutors act against him.

    “’If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt,’ he said to a rally audience in Conroe, Texas, reading from teleprompters set up on either side of his lectern.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-protests-prosecution_n_61f60c9ee4b02de5f51a0c4a

    So now he’s a victim of racism? And it sounds like he’s drumming up an old-fashioned jailbreak. Just in case.

  79. 79

    What if the shine wears off, the crowds move on, he dies a lonely old man closeted in a room at Mar-a-Lago, and nobody cares about his passing?

  81. 81

    79,
    That isn’t going to happen because almost half the country adores him.
    Fools like Bob will continue to do their duty to serve him, support him, and repeat ridiculous lies for him until long after he is dead.
    As with Nixon before him. There will be reboot biopics made decades after Trump is dead that will attempt to retcon his entire life and especially the last six years.

  82. 82

    NBC News has a story today about the stark differences between Washington’s and Florida’s approaches to managing the Covid-19 crisis. In Seattle, everyone wears a mask; in Tampa, almost no one does. So I asked myself, does it really make any difference? Reframed, the real question is, how many people has Ron DeSantis killed? Answer: 35,049, according to my calculations.

    To get this number, I divided cases and deaths by populations for the two states, and came up with infection rates of 16.8% (of the total population) for Washington and 25.45% for Florida, and death rates (of total population) of 0.139% for Washington and 0.302% for Florida.

    Then I multiplied Florida’s population by Washington’s death rate, subtracted that number from Florida’s number of deaths, and got a difference of 35,409 (64,995 actual deaths vs. 29,906 hypothetical deaths at Washington’s lower death rate).

    It may go too far to say DeSantis murdered those 35,409 people, because he probably didn’t actually want them to die, and was merely indifferent to whether they lived or died, so let’s just call them human sacrifices to “REOPEN!” and “BEACH WEEK!”

    Sources:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/northern-masks-southern-indifference-covid-precautions-differ-widely-r-rcna12930

    https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/state/washington

    https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/state/florida

  83. 83

    82,
    Remember, the data sets you are getting from Florida have been tampered with.

  84. 84

    83)Real numbers of cases might be higher. No wonder they are back to the testing is a problem.

  85. 85

    @82, @83 Even using DeSantis’s doctored numbers, his performance looks awful.

  86. 86

    I ran some more numbers.

    To recap, Washington’s infection rate is 16.8% and death rate is 0.139% (as a percentage of total population).

    King County: 14.68%, 0.101%
    Spokane County: 20.99%, 0.229%
    Okanogan County: 16.64%, 0.256%

    (Factors such as availability and quality of ICU care could affect death rates)

    No information is available for Island County horses, but I also have the following:

    Arizona: 25.58%, 0.364%
    Texas: 20.98%, 0.267%

    There does appear to be a trend, i.e. the redder the state or county you live in, the sicker and deader the population is gonna be.

    Best medical advice: Avoid Republicans

  87. 87

    Lindsey Graham, in a desperate bid to regain some credibility, did two things today:

    He endorsed a black female judge (from his state) who’s on Biden’s shortlist.

    He criticized Trump’s hint of pardons for Capitol insurrectionists.

    I guess he wants us to believe there’s still hope for him. I don’t think so, he’s terminally hypocritical, but you have to take whatever you can get from people like him. He’s somewhat like a Doctor Dumbfuck with “Sen.” before his name — hopeless, but ya gotta live with him, because you have no choice. Neither does the horse.

  89. 89

    Washington:

    Residents > 65: 15.9%
    Black residents: 4.4%

    Florida:

    Residents > 65: 20.9%
    Black residents: 16.9%

    Relative to their respective white reference populations, African American populations in the United States (relative risk (RR) = 3.18, 95% confidence interval (CI): 3.02–3.36)

    65-74 Relative risk about 3x for mortality
    75-84 Relative risk about 6x
    85+ Relative risk about 16x

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01191-8

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit factored none of this into his calculations.

    Young white people fare better against The Wuhan than old black people.

    Bombshell revelation, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  90. 90

    Interesting data point: the proportion of the 65+ Medicare population exceeding the 5-risk threshold (meaning someone whose health problems include five or more enhanced risk factors for The Wuhan) is much higher in Washington DC than in any of the 50 states. By a longshot.

    Figure 7a in the reference @ 89

    I honestly don’t know why.

  91. 91

    Apparently the point Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is trying to make is that DeSantis is a shittier governor than Inslee.

    He’s going to have different numbers two weeks from now, and he’s not going to like what he sees. Looking at the references he cited @ 82, it’s clear that Florida had its Omicron peak about three weeks ago (Jan 11 or so) and the cases are declining. Deaths trail new case reports by about 17 days, so Florida is reporting peak deaths right now.

    Washington, OTOH, is still experiencing a rapid increase in the number of new daily cases, so its worst numbers have yet to show up. In about 2-3 weeks, we’ll see those numbers, and deaths will be significantly higher.

    Florida new cases on Jan 28: 2,793
    7 day average on Jan 28: 25,473
    deaths on Jan 28: 315

    Washington new cases on Jan 28: 36,580
    7 day average on Jan 28: 20,380
    deaths on Jan 28: 119

    Focus on the 7 day averages. Florida is a much larger state but its numbers are coming down, and deaths are at peak. Washington case numbers are still climbing, and rapidly, and the deaths will trail by more than 2 weeks.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has proved nothing other than Omicron began in Florida much earlier than it began in Washington.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a fucking bloviating clown.

  94. 94

    NFC Title game tough to root for. Both teams have EWU Eagles on them. Rams have one of our best ever, though. Either way, an Eag is in the Super Bowl.

  95. 95

    Did his own research, no doubt.

    The dude is a fraud. Wasn’t even a real doctor. Just a Dumbfuck Traitor Cop killer sympathizer.

  96. 96

    @89 The genius doctor wants us to believe “REOPEN!” and “BEACH WEEK!!” have nothing to do with Florida’s much higher infection and death rates, when he isn’t busy blaming it on senior citizens and black people. Well, what do I know. I’m only a rabbit who doesn’t fuck horses.

  97. 97

    @91 “Apparently the point Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is trying to make is that DeSantis is a shittier governor than Inslee.”

    I don’t have to make that point. He makes it himself.

  98. 98

    @91 If this were the first month of the pandemic, the Omicron cases would move the needle a lot. Two years into the pandemic, not much. If you don’t understand how that works, ask Darryl to explain the statistical and mathematical dynamics of expanding sample sizes.

  99. 99

    How many black people in NYC?

    Half of them are Puddy’s relatives, and half of that half are gay!

  100. 100

    we’ll see those numbers, and deaths will be significantly higher.

    Oh, vicious tedium.

    Once again, he’s painted his “war face” on with his own shit and fucking himself with his own fist and making us watch.

    This is just more peak cringe.

  104. 104

    Team KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN booed Gov. Abbott off the stage in Texas screaming RINO! RINO! RINO!

    This is fine.

    “Conservatives” are really living their best life right now.

  105. 105

    At the latest rally, the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves threatened to violently overthrow the government if he is prosecuted for attempting to violently overthrow the government.
    Seems crimy to me.

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