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Comments

  1. 1

    Looks like Elon Musk gets the number one spot tonight. Last week’s winner was Tucker Carlson.

  3. 3

    With the sinking of the Moskva was waiting for the final installments of the CF-105 Arrow web series.

    Love what happens to the Kuznetsov. When it’s engines work, it’s a very capable surface combatant that happens to have an air wing. Manages to get torpedoed by a RCN Submarine, and forced to fight a melee with CF-18s, CF-35s, and one CF-105. The Kuznetsov was built to Soviet Naval Doctrine, the Air Group was basically for air cover, with cruisers like Moskva and destroyers engaging our CVBGs with missiles.

    https://youtu.be/rgNgEesmrMg

    https://youtu.be/KUPAWn3obPU

  5. 5

    @3 War is fickle. For example, a country builds its war-fighting doctrine around thousands of Main Battle Tanks, each costing several million rubles, only to see them all blown to bits by shoulder-fired missiles costing only $175,000 each, and supplied free to your enemy by the thousands, incinerating their 19-year-old conscript crews in the process. You can deal with tens of thousands of dead conscripts, but you can’t win a war with dead tanks.

  6. 6

    @4. It’s not the fault of Republican policies. Everyone knows that it is Biden’s minority LGBTQ liberal illegals from the urban areas of the Republican states that are murdering Good Conservatives to spike the murder rates and make republicans look bad.

  8. 8

    Rainbow Power!

    Yes! Power to the Rainbow!

    In the spring of 1985 I moved to Palo Alto to provide construction administration of the electrical contract. The GC was Morse-Diesel out of NYC. They had a woman working for them who in appearance very much reminded of a woman who worked at Seattle’s electrical permit counter with whom I had a good rapport. We enjoyed chatting a bit before I’d go see the electrical plan review guy. Her name was Gay.

    One day that first week I was standing outside one of M-D’s trailers chatting with a woman who worked for them. In appearance, she reminded an awful lot of that woman at the Seattle permit office. And that was in the back of my mind as I was talking with her.

    At one point she interrupts me as I was saying something, “Steve, you need to know something. I’m gay.”

    “No, you’re not.”

    “Yes, I am.”

    “No! You are not Gay!”

    “YES. I. AM!!

    A light bulb goes on in my head. “OOOOOOH!” I tried to explain what had happened but she wasn’t very forgiving.

  11. 11

    @ 8

    A light bulb goes on in my head. “OOOOOOH!” I tried to explain what had happened but she wasn’t very forgiving.

    She wasn’t very forgiving because she was being harassed, Steve, by you. You were the offender. Had a light bulb truly gone on in your head you would have realized it, apologized profusely to that poor woman, and treated it as an important lesson rather than as a fun anecdote to share with other leftists in the decades that followed your transgression.

    Even 37 years later, Steve, you do not realize that you made an unwanted advance to a woman who had no choice but to lie to you when she tried to get you to stop. What did you do instead? You called her out for being dishonest.

  13. 13

    @9 “Thank you to all who waited in line for our Save America Rally tonight in Greenwood, Nebraska. Because of severe weather, including the possibility of 60 mph wind, hailstorms, and maybe even tornadoes, I will not be coming to Nebraska tonight, but rather, weather permitting, will be there this Sunday night, May 1st. The most important thing is to keep you myself safe, and that cannot be done with such a terrible forecast.”

  15. 15

    @11 You could say Aaron von Ehlinger made an “unwanted advance,” too, although the phrasing the jury chose was “guilty.” In the early stages of the case, when he was trying to wriggle out of it, one of his fellow Idaho legislators wanted to know if the teenage intern could be prosecuted for reporting the rape to police. Real-life Republicans are even less forgiving than your fictionalized “Gay” is.

  16. 16

    It’s Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 4 posting it so you know it’s gonna be a lie, and the only question is where the lie is factored in.

    In the piece mentioned in his link the lie is in the way that the crime statistics are compiled:

    We collected 2019 and 2020 murder data from all 50 states. (Comprehensive 2021 data is not yet available.) We pulled the data from yearly crime reports released by state governments, specifically the Departments of Justice and Safety. For states that didn’t issue state crime reports, we pulled data from reputable local news sources. To allow for comparison, we calculated the state’s per capita murder rate, the number of murders per 100,000 residents, and categorized states by their presidential vote in the 2020 election, resulting in an even 25-25 split.

    • Picking and choosing from “reputable” news sources and avoiding the ones deemed, apparently, disreputable.
    • Comparing states even if they didn’t even report crime data. Never mind the reality that one state’s definition of murder might differ from another’s.
    • Ignoring (most of) the FBI’s national crime statistics, which are broken down by state.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s dishonest piece was written in 2022. Yet the FBI statistics for 2020 were available last Fall.

    Using Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s dishonest piece, we don’t have to talk about murders of inner city kids in Illinois (a relief to HA’s dumbest twat YLB), because Illinois isn’t in the Top Ten in the list of states he wants you to believe are accurate.

    However, if you go to the FBI murder statistics for 2020, you find this:

    Rank Geo Murders per 100,000 people, 2020 Total murders, 2020 Violent crimes per 100,000 people, 2020
    1 Louisiana 15.8 734 639
    2 Missouri 11.8 723 543
    3 Arkansas 10.6 321 672
    3 Mississippi 10.6 315 291
    5 South Carolina 10.5 549 531
    6 Alabama 9.6 471 454
    6 Tennessee 9.6 663 673
    8 Illinois 9.1 1,151 426
    8 Maryland 9.1 553 400
    10 Georgia 8.8 943 400

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s dishonest piece link includes this information:

    The national average was 6.5 per 100,000 residents…

    Any idea where that came from? Why, it’s from the FBI’s 2020 murder statistics.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s dishonest piece chose to use the FBI statistics it wanted to use, and to gin up results on its own when the FBI’s were not helpful to its narrative.

    Now, using the FBI’s data means Baltimore’s horrific murder tally comes into play. Baltimore is a shithole run by Democrats like Catherine Pugh (recently released from prison) and Marilyn Mosby (facing prison along with her politician husband, although only under indictment at this time). But Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will tell you it’s the GOP’s fault, because Maryland’s governor is Larry Hogan.

    Don’t believe Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Y’all libbies know where the murdered bodies are piling up. It’s not in Mississippi and New Mexico. It’s in the Democrat strongholds of Chicago and Baltimore.

  17. 17

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is desperate for his fellow libbies to focus on murders in states led by white governors, and to ignore that those murders are disproportionately black victims.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit really doesn’t want the focus to be on the victims’ assailants.

  18. 18

    @14 It goes way beyond banning abortion (and contraception) and books (and college tenure). They want to control every aspect of other people’s lives. They want to tell you what you can think and say, what church you must attend, how you must vote. They don’t want to just turn the clock back to the 19th century; their platform is straight out of the Middle Ages. We can expect to see dunking stools and stocks reinstated. Diversity is out, cultural uniformity is in.

  19. 19

    @9 So if groupies are traveling across the country to attend Trump rallies, I assume they don’t have steady employment back home.

  20. 20

    YLB bought one for herself, one for her partner, and one for each of her two fucked-for-life kids.

    A newly released biography about Jill Biden, by two well-respected Associated Press journalists, sold just 250 units in its first week, according to the company.

  21. 21

    @16 Translation: The data didn’t come from Fox or OAN, so it’s no good. Reputable news sources can’t be trusted, only disreputable ones. It’s called “Dumbfuck Data.”

  22. 22

    @17 Great stuff. Now do D.C.’s soaring homicide rate on 1/6/21 and “KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN!!”

  23. 23

    @ 19

    @9 So if groupies are traveling across the country to attend Trump rallies, I assume they don’t have steady employment back home.

    Joblessness, of course, is what freed up HA’s dumbest twat YLB to fellate The One for eight straight years.

  24. 24

    @ 22

    Now do D.C.’s soaring homicide rate…

    D.C. is run by a Democrat, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    You’re an incredibly weak individual.

    For the record, suicides are not homicides. Strokes are not homicides. Verbalized threats are not homicides.

    And you are neither a competent attorney nor a millionaire, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  25. 25

    YLB claims her kids have no student loan debt. They therefore benefit not at all from cancellation of debt owed by others, but they’ll be on the hook for the higher national debt and higher interest rates that will result from debt cancellation.

    Jeff Stein
    @JStein_WaPo
    Scoop: White House *looking* at $10K or more of per-borrower debt forgiveness for earners under $125-150K single/$250-300K couples prior year, per sources

    Overwhelming majority would qualify

    ***No final decision on amount canceled or means test***
    washingtonpost.com
    White House officials weigh income limits for student loan forgiveness
    Senior aides of President Biden have examined limiting the relief to people who earned less than $125,000 or $150,000 as individual filers for the previous year.
    4:37 AM · Apr 30, 2022·

    The kids of HA’s dumbest twat YLB are so fucked. Best of all, YLB voted repeatedly for them to be fucked.

  26. 26

    If you earned $149,999 or less last year you deserve $10,000 free money, paid for by the kids of HA’s dumbest twat, YLB.

    Oh, and by the rest of us, too.

  27. 27

    Meanwhile, polling (released Thursday) in a matchup of two people who won’t be on the ballot in 2024:

    General Election: Trump vs. Biden Emerson Trump 43, Biden 42 Trump +1
    General Election: Trump vs. Biden Federalist/Susquehanna Trump 46, Biden 48 Biden +2

  29. 29

    18,
    Funny enough Republicans don’t see it this way.

    To a Republican banning a book like Everywhere Babies is “FREEDOM”. It’s a weird sort of back-flip that can only arise from a cultural position of extreme privilege.

    Allowing any other parent’s child to check out and enjoy a book like Everywhere Babies is harmful to them as they perceive it. The mere fact that somebody else, way over there, completely unknown to them, is allowing their child to read a book filled with race-mixing babies is something they experience as “hurt”. They sincerely experience this stuff as “injury” to them personally.

    And the explanation for it lies almost exclusively in their own self-identification as one of “the good people”, whether that means “white”, or “Christian”, or “well-bred”, or “educated” or whatever. These things are status markers for modern Republicans that not only differentiate them from “the others”, but also empower them to impose cultural norms and values on “the others”. Stripping them of that power to make decisions over the lives of people they don’t know is very damaging to them.

    So even though what they are demanding is precisely the opposite of personal, individual freedom, these Republicans experience it entirely differently. The good news is that it isn’t most people, and probably not even most Republicans who really feel this way. This isn’t “the rise of fascism in America” in my opinion. Primarily because the vast, overwhelming majority of Americans still support personal, individual freedom more than they fear how some family in another city who they will never meet lets their kid listen to a Beatles album played backwards.

  30. 30

    She wasn’t very forgiving because she was being harassed, Steve, by you.

    You’re a low IQ idiot. I didn’t even bother to finish reading your stupid low IQ post.

    Wingnut projection. You low IQ fucks simply cannot stop doing that.

    That you can’t even so much as introduce yourself to a woman with whom you will be working with for the next five years without harassing her is no surprise to me. Little wonder women hate your fucking guts and that you’ve never fucked anything but some unfortunate four-kegged animal. I suggest you buy yourself a monkey so can fuck something with two legs at least once in your miserable, pathetic life.

  31. 31

    Something nice out of Moscow for a change.

    Not only does our low IQ traitor love Putin, even his favorite band is Russian, and a stupid fucking cover band at that..

  34. 34

    Remember about six weeks ago when the low IQ traitor told us that he never laughs or chuckles, that he only smirks?

    Can you guess who else never laughs or chuckles, and only smirks? I’ll give you one guess and only one clue. His first name is Vladimir.

  35. 35

    @ 32

    So much for the “genius”.

    Yeah, a real genius would have come up with something more inventive than

    • Tesla
    • SpaceX
    • The Boring Company.

    If only Elon Musk had the intelligence of, say, HA’s dumbest twat.

    HA’s dumbest twat is giving The Even Bigger Fucking Moron a run for his money today.

  36. 36

    @ 33

    Any reputable news organization would instantly fire a reporter who did this. She can get away with it at Fox, because Fox isn’t a news organization.

    That’s debatable, but what’s not debatable is that the DNC isn’t a news organization.

    Donna Brazile Regrets Sharing Debate Questions With Hillary …https://www.sfgate.com › news › media › Donna-Brazil…
    Former DNC chairwoman and disgraced CNN commentator Donna Brazile has admitted that she relayed confidential questions to Hillary Clinton’s presidential …

    Brazile: Leaking town hall topics to Clinton campaign … – Politicohttps://www.politico.com › story › 2017/03 › donna-br…
    Mar 17, 2017 — Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile acknowledged sending town hall topics to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, …

    DNC head leaked debate question to Clinton, Podesta emails …https://www.theguardian.com › us-news › oct › donna-…
    Oct 31, 2016 — Donna Brazile tipped off Clinton’s campaign about Flint water crisis question, according to new emails released by WikiLeaks from John …

    Nor is the DNC an ethical one. By taking down Bernie Sanders through its favoritism toward #CrookedHillary, DWS, Brazile, Podesta & Co. paved the way for four years of President Donald Trump.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is desperate for libbies to forget that.

  37. 37

    YLB claims her kids have no student loan debt. They therefore benefit not at all from cancellation of debt owed by others

    The silly terminally gender confused idiot from widbee is too ignorant.

    Actually one member of the family (not the kids) has student loan debt and is on track in the next few years to have it forgiven.. Taking advantage of the public service loan forgiveness that was signed into law by a notorious “socialist” that a degenerate pos troll from widbee voted for twice.

    See:

    https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070927-1.html
    and
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness

    But whatever Biden is planning to do will help move that along faster. We look forward to that.

    , but they’ll be on the hook for the higher national debt and higher interest rates that will result from debt cancellation.

    Heh..

    Oh, and by the rest of us, too.

    No worries kreepshit.. That certain day will come soon enough for you. And the world will be a better place for it.. But that won’t be too good for your “kid” as you’re planning to be buried with every cent of your fookin’ munee..

    You can’t take the chance that one penny of your fookin’ munee might fall into the hands of teh soshulests…

    yawwwn…

  38. 38

    The American people are decidedly disinclined to pay $26 for a book about the life of President Joe Biden’s primary caretaker. Politico reports that a recently published biography of Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D, sold just 250 copies in its first week of circulation.

    81,000,000 million people, huh?

    Perhaps it’s because she should be arrested for elder abuse.

  39. 39

    Is there a bigger bloviating fool on HA than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    @ 33, 36

    White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance

    According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings.

    That’s about questions for Psaki.

    And then there is the list my imbecile president always has when he answers questions, directing him to cpecific reporters so that the softball pre-approved questions are asked in the proper order. Mixing up the questions confuses the wrinkled turnip in the White House.

  40. 40

    Here’s what a certain pos troll from widbee voted for twice:

    In the last year of President George W. Bush’s presidency, Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act with bipartisan support. It promised to ease the burden of repayment of student loan debt—a burgeoning problem caused by skyrocketing college tuition—through a number of modifications to existing programs and by creating new ones. The Bush administration touted the bill’s expansion of Pell Grants, increasing the amount of money low-income families could receive toward tuition. Further, it reduced the interest rate on future federal Stafford Loans, cutting them in half over the following few years.

    Perhaps the largest lasting impacts, however, came for borrowers already in repayment. The Act created two programs that were designed to ease the ongoing cost to borrowers and to help them eliminate their loans if they were working in public service. Although the White House did little to advertise these programs, Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) have remained integral parts of the federal student loan system and are regular news items in the ongoing student debt crisis.

    https://navigatestudentloans.com/a-brief-history-of-public-service-loan-forgiveness/

    Heh. teh dumbya white house didn’t tout the loan forgiveness and income based repayment programs… had to hide its “socialism”.. well the wall street and detroit bailouts came soon thereafter. couldn’t hide it anymore.

    Wow imagine that.. the pos degen troll of widbee enabled TWICE such a burden on its “kid”…

    But then it has practically disinherited the “kid” anyway.. It can’t take the chance that one penny of its fookin’ munee might go to a liberal cause.

  41. 41

    @ 38

    Perhaps so, but she deserves credit for being one of the first members of The Extended Biden Crime Family to point out that Momala would be an especially awful choice for VP nominee.

  43. 43

    @ 40

    Neither of those programs, ya dumb twat, were blanket giveaways of free money.

    Giving $10k to someone earning $145k and getting nothing back is an unnecessary giveway. Oh, wait. The necessity is not losing any more of the young adult vote.

    Lowering interest rates and extending repayment periods doesn’t affect principal amount owed.

    What was done in 2008 was with a new House, a House which had its act together much more than the current House does or ever will.

    You’re flailing, girlfriend, and it’s not a good look with those teabag breasts of yours swaying below your muumuu.

  44. 44

    Neither of those programs.. were blanket giveaways of free money.

    LOL!! If it was so good why did dumbya hide it?

    https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070927-1.html

    See public service loan forgiveness or income based repayment anywhere in that?

    And what if a borrower didn’t go into public service? How’s that person supposed to feel about that?

    And why did Obama try to limit it and drumpf tried to KILL IT?

    You voted for it TWICE shithead. And your “kid” or “the rest of us” is gonna have to pay for it. AMIRITE?

    You’re drowning in a river called d’nile ya pos..

  46. 46

    And wait a sec.. Don’t teh repukes like “dynamic scoring”?

    if loan forgiveness means millennials and zoomers buy homes, start families and buy shit sooner..

    Isn’t that an “investment”?

    Little wonder… we’ve seen how widbee kreepshit hates young people.

    It grows ever closer to “that certain day” and kids are much farther away from that.. poor troll..

  47. 47

    @ 44

    See public service loan forgiveness or income based repayment anywhere in that?

    Yes. Click one of the links at the top and you come to this:

    The bill also helps ease the burden on men and women in uniform who have taken out loans for higher education. We believe that when you’re wearing the uniform we need to help you; that you’re making a sacrifice, and it’s okay for the government to help you in dealing with your loans when it comes to higher education. And so those on active duty military will now have new flexibility to defer payments on their loans.

    And what if a borrower didn’t go into public service? How’s that person supposed to feel about that?

    Probably that person is supposed to feel that if he/she/it=they chose public service instead of Nonbinary Gender Studies To Avoid Selective Service coaching on the sidewalk on Broadway on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, they’d be able to reduce their student loan burden, too. YLB, the whole point of reducing debt in exchange for public service is to promote public service. If someone chooses to earn $145,000 in the private sector, YLB, why does that person deserve any free money from my imbecile president? To be blunt, I don’t give a shit how that person feels. That person’s feelz are not my problem. Neither are yours, and neither are those of your kids. If your kid contemplating professional school takes out loans to fund it, it’s likely that there are programs to forgive some (or all) of that debt should your kid decide to practice somewhere that has a shortage of people in whatever profession he wants to enter. It might not be the most fun place to live, but it’s the government’s way of addressing a need by offering an incentive if that need is met. If your kid chooses that route, more power to him.

    Why should I, or anyone else for that matter, care how your kid feelz if your kid doesn’t want to give back?

    Put on your big girl skirt, ya dumb twat, and admit that Biden is doing nothing to promote public service or otherwise get anything except more Democrat votes out of this proposed giveaway.

    All you did with @ 44, YLB, is demonstrate that you didn’t read everything before you tried to play Gotcha. That’s how you lose at that game, Princess.

  48. 48

    LOL @ 47… Triggered…

    Nope you lose again.. Search for “forgiveness” and “income based” or anything like that – NOT IN THERE..

    Just self serving blather about military service.. nothing about public health.. public defender.. highway planner.. social worker.. any other public service job… and there’s lots of them.. all eligible..

    and YOU VOTED FOR IT.. TWICE…

    Military’s fine with me.. that’s public service.. why mention that and that only?

    Cause they were hiding something…

    If someone chooses to earn $145,000 in the private sector, YLB, why does that person deserve any free money…

    Because they might have a lot more than that in debt and they can’t buy a house or start a family or buy a family car or are living paycheck to paycheck..

    Debt forgiveness means a jump start to the economy.

    145,000 dollar salary today was not even 42,000 in 1980, the year you voted for Carter AFTER the REAL miracle on ice.

    Keep trying kreepshit..

  49. 49

    If your kid contemplating professional school takes out loans to fund it, it’s likely that there are programs to forgive some (or all) of that debt should your kid decide to practice…

    practice huh? I can see the fear rising…

    rising in a kreeepee selfish misogynist piece of shit from widbee..

    fear of having of having shit rubbed in its nose..

    it’ll be a wait but oh will it be sweet…

    decision’s been made kreepshit.. the kid is dead serious..

  50. 50

    @24 “For the record, suicides are not homicides.”

    For the record, I didn’t count Ashli Babbitt as a homicide.

  53. 53

    @27 As I’ve said before, half the people in this country have below-average IQs, so that keeps it close. And frankly, I think you’re one of ’em. I also suspect it’s possible for a dumbfuck to graduate from med school.

  54. 54

    you’re planning to be buried with every cent of your fookin’ munee..

    And I’m planning on digging it up and giving it all to BLM and LGBTQ causes.

  55. 55

    Is there a bigger bloviating fool on HA than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    I would suspect it would one with the lowest IQ. Hmmm, now who could that be?

  56. 56

    @28 You know nothing about Russian pop music. If you did, you’d post something like A-Studio, not a stupid fucking cover band.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=graLOzZwpw8

    What’s most fascinating about lead singer Katy Topuria, apart from her marvelous voice and immense popularity, is her father’s a crime lord. But I guess in Russia everybody’s dad is.

  57. 57

    those teabag breasts of yours swaying below your muumuu

    There are times when wingnut projection reveals things about them we really didn’t need to know. The low IQ sap had already revealed to us his gynecomastia affliction, always yapping about manboobs, but that the condition has led to our low IQ idiot now having teabag breasts?? Good lord. I really didn’t need to know that, thank you.

  58. 58

    @36 “That’s debatable, but what’s not debatable is that the DNC isn’t a news organization.”

    That’s not debatable, except maybe on some exoplanet populated by low-IQ dumbfucks, but what’s not debatable is that the DNC has never claimed to be a news organization.

  59. 59

    @39 All I can say is it takes a low-IQ dumbfuck to not see the difference between politicians asking journalists for questions in advance, and journalists giving politicians questions in advance.

  60. 60

    it’s not a good look with those teabag breasts of yours swaying below your muumuu

    At least the low IQ fucktard seems know that it’s not a good look he’s sportin’ around on his chest. Oh, wait a minute. What if he’s had his affliction, this burden, heh, for a long time? Could that be why he chose a profession where he could spend his entire career alone in a dark, windowless office in the basement of a hospital? Hey, I might be on to something, folks.

  61. 61

    @40 And as I recall, Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, put all the applications under those programs in a file cabinet in the basement, and the applicants never heard anything more.

  62. 62

    @43 “Giving $10k to someone earning $145k and getting nothing back is an unnecessary giveway.”

    How about giving $10k to a new teacher earning $36k? Are you for or against that?

  63. 63

    @47 “The bill also helps ease the burden on men and women in uniform who have taken out loans for higher education. We believe that when you’re wearing the uniform we need to help you; that you’re making a sacrifice, and it’s okay for the government to help you in dealing with your loans when it comes to higher education. And so those on active duty military will now have new flexibility to defer payments on their loans.”

    Well, that’s an improvement over the Republicans of my time. When I went into the army, basic pay for a recruit was $90 a month. After a couple of promotions, I maxed out at $258 a month in Vietnam, including combat pay and overseas allowance. Then, after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam, ended the draft, and went to an all-volunteer military, they tripled the pay (otherwise no one would enlist) and increased the educational benefits.

    At that point, I wrote to U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA) pointing out the drastic disparity in pay between those who fought the Vietnam War and the new peacetime all-volunteer military, and asked if Congress might enact some sort of student loan relief for Vietnam veterans, and got back a letter saying in so many polite words to go fuck myself with a paternalistic lecture about paying one’s debts.

    So, I can only speak from my own experience, and that’s what my personal experience was.

  64. 64

    They did defer repayment while you were getting shot at in the jungle, though. And you could get out of repaying your student loans by coming home in a body bag.

  66. 66

    Slade Gorton, of the Gorton’s seafood family, never had to worry about how to pay for his Dartmouth and Columbia Law School education, and probably graduated without student debt.

    Bootstrapping is an idea chiefly promoted by those who never had to bootstrap.

  67. 67

    @ 53

    @27 As I’ve said before, half the people in this country have below-average IQs…

    As I’ve pointed out before, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not know the difference between mean and median.

  68. 68

    @ 63

    …asked if Congress might enact some sort of student loan relief for Vietnam veterans, and got back a letter saying in so many polite words to go fuck myself with a paternalistic lecture about paying one’s debts.

    This is pretty much what First Vegetable Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren as a candidate, told voters who had already paid off their student loan debts but wondered whether some sort of retroactive student loan payout might be forthcoming.

    If you were stupid enough to pay off your debt, you won’t make the same mistake the next time you go into debt with the government. You can just wait for the next Democrat desperate for votes to offer you free money. And claim that it will “jumpstart the economy”, because the dumbest twats @ 48 swallow that lie uncritically, being too poorly educated to know that what it really will do is harm the economy. People will stop paying off mortgage debt and instead demand “home ownership debt relief”. The next batch of student loans also won’t be paid off because the precedent of blanket forgiveness will have been set.

    YLB’s entire existence revolves around free money. She knows no hand position other than straight out, palm up.

  69. 69

    You can just wait for the next Democrat desperate for votes to offer you free money.

    Didn’t you say you became rich because of Democratic party policies?

    heh. You were jacking yourself off over SALT..

    And in next breath you babbled over what a great guy Manchin is.. Isn’t he standing in the way of SALT?

    Dang, you’re a very confused, f’d up dimfuk…

  70. 70

    If you were stupid enough to pay off your debt, you won’t make the same mistake the next time you go into debt with the government.

    None of those folks gave back their covid relief checks some of which were signed by Biden.

    If they were running a business, they all filled out the paperwork and fed at the trough.. some of them made shit up. Big time..

    no hand position other than straight out, palm up.

    Heh. Nothing keeps your hand off your limp shrunken short arm even when your dividend checks land in your bank account.

  71. 71

    Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, put all the applications under those programs in a file cabinet in the basement, and the applicants never heard anything more.

    No she and Mulvaney just tried to kill the program. And Moscow Mitch said no fucking way..

    He said that to the Randroid Ryan kook haus and all their batshit stuff.

    It’s stupid politics like that that costs repukes seats.

  72. 72

    what it really will do is harm the economy. People will stop paying off mortgage debt and instead demand “home ownership debt relief”.

    Shrug.. Already local governments subsidize workforce housing. We do that here in Seattle.. Wtf is wrong with a roof over your head that you can afford?

    I don’t know how a cop or a school teacher can afford to live in Seattle these days.. No thanks to the bankrupt “thinking” of morons like kreepshit.

    The next batch of student loans also won’t be paid off because the precedent of blanket forgiveness will have been set.

    That goes by the name of free public college tuition.. This country did that in spades in the 60’s and 70’s. I never had any college debt.. College was affordable.. Community College was practically free in California before the putridness that was Jarvis-Gann.

    Paranoid and stupid this dimfuk is..

  74. 74

    Hmmm. It’s kinda funee…

    I just admitted that a member of my family benefits from a government program – the federal public service loan forgiveness program..

    And not only did the widbee kreepshit bend over backwards to say that was ok..

    It even claimed it was good that my son could benefit from that program or something like it..

    a program designed to let the borrower off the hook if the borrower keeps his or her nose clean and meets his or her obligations – obligations that would be significantly greater without the program..

    i.e. the borrower gets free stuff..

    and not only that it more or less OPPOSED drumpf killing the program and/or Obama’s attempts to limit it.

    Incredible.. All because a guy it voted for twice signed the program into law.. heh…

  75. 75

    @68 I see. Your position is that people who pay their debts are “stupid.” That’s Trump’s view, too. So we can assume you’re a deadbeat like him?

    You assume my letter to Sen. Gorton asked for a refund of student loan debt that had been repaid. It did not. It asked for relief from student debt still owed by Vietnam veterans, a group deprived of their earning power for two or three years.

  76. 76

    @68 Explain how putting college out of reach of bright students of limited means, or alternatively drowning them in so much debt they can’t afford to marry, buy homes, and start families, “will … harm the economy.”

    If you’re worried about deficits harming the economy, then stop minting more tax breaks for people who already have more money than they know what to do with.

    Our differences aren’t really about deficits or government spending. Republicans spend just as much, and run just as large deficits, as Democrats. It’s about different priorities. We want to help poor students. Republicans want to line their own pockets.

  77. 77

    @72 “I don’t know how a cop or a school teacher can afford to live in Seattle these days.”

    If you believe Forbes,

    “A report found that Seattle pays police officers as much as $414,543. 364 Seattle Police Department (SPD) employees made over $200,000 in 2019, and 1,326 Seattle officers made at least 6 figures, Forbes reported Tuesday. The top 10 highest paid officers made between $304,417 and $414,543. The city generously compensates their other employees too; tree trimmers make over $150,000, the chief librarian makes $197,704, electricians are paid $271,070 and electrical lineworkers earn more than $300,000. 1,052 officers, 172 sergeants, 61 lieutenants and 23 captains at the SPD earned a salary of more than $100,000. Taxpayers shelled out $237 million to compensate all of the city’s 6-figure workers.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/26/seattle-pays-police-officers-george-floyd-defund/

    I guess that’s how cops afford to live in Seattle.

  78. 78

    The obvious reason Seattle housing is so expensive is because there are so many six-figure households here. Given a booming economy and a housing shortage, five-figure earners are priced out of this market.

  79. 79

    Tracey Kay McKee, 64, formerly of Scottsdale, Arizona, who now prefers the climate in California, screeched about “rampant voting fraud” didn’t believe the 2020 election was fair.

    When she was sentenced Friday for voting her dead mother’s ballot, her lawyer said it would be “unfair” for her to get jail time, because nobody else in Arizona got jail time for voting someone else’s ballot. She got off with probation, fines, and community service.

    McKee is white, and a registered Republican.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/scottsdale-woman-avoids-jail-voting-dead-moms-ballot-84420503

    In Texas, Crystal Mason, a black woman, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted because a pollworker told her she could.

    In Georgia, Republicans passed a law making it an imprisonable felony to hand a water bottle to someone waiting hours in line to vote, which happens only in black precincts. White voters don’t have to wait in long lines.

    Don’t be surprised if the Supreme Court conservative majority created by stealing vacancies from Democratic presidents says, “Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here.”

    And any teacher in Florida, Texas, or Georgia who tells kids there’s systemic racism in our country will get 5 years in prison. Meanwhile, SWAT raids will continue against state employees who tell the truth about Florida’s Covid case counts.

    Welcome to Putin’s vision of a new kind of America.

  80. 80

    Only 13% of the US population carries federal student loan debt.

    One wonders why YLB is all-in to cancel debt that preferentially benefits – white, by the way – high earners of that 13%, when she and her kids are in the 87% of US residents who either never went into debt with Uncle Sam for their educations or, like YLB’s kids, no longer have student loan debt.

    YLB claims that handing free money to 13% of the country and getting zilch for it in return would “jump-start the economy”. This is the same YLB who has been telling us how good the Biden economy has been, so what is there to jump-start?

    I don’t get it. It’s like YLB has decided that genital mutilation is good for the small minority of the US population who practice it, and in sympathy has performed her own clitorectomy, and has plans to mutilate her own children next.

    Here’s a piece about federal student loan debt in The Atlantic.

  81. 81

    How much of that 13% have parents and family? Like my buddy who probably makes 500k between him and his wife and have two country club memberships that have two sons with student loan debt.

    I’m not asking what he, a Repuke, position is but wondering if he would really be upset if his kids’ loan was forgiven.

    I am somewhat opposed to student relief debt, in the sense of completely obsolving one of the full debt

  82. 82

    The 46 million U.S. residents living in rural areas in 2020 made up 14 percent of the U.S. population.
    The Greedy Racist Incel claims taking money from the urban areas an giving that to ungrateful and undeserving 14% of the country and getting zilch for it in return would “be good for the economy”.

    8% of Americans are millionaires.
    The Greedy Racist Incel claims that handing free money and tax cuts to that ungrateful and undeserving 8% of the country and getting zilch for it in return would trigger” trick down, Horse and Sparrow” amazing prosperity.

    We give free money to segments of the population all the time.
    You cherry picking your facts liar.

  83. 83

    This is for the closeted greedy racist incel. The Male genital mutilation rate is about 80% in the US. If you apply that to his logic, most of us should be getting “free” money.

  84. 84

    @ 82

    The Male genital mutilation rate is about 80% in the US.

    Well, OK then. Ergo, the disgusting smegma odor is about 20% in the US. For Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, it’s the same odor but instead of foreskin causing it, it’s that huge panniculus morbidus flap that hangs to his knees.

  85. 85

    When the GOP retakes control of both houses of Congress, it will be the minority vote that does it.

    Glenn Greenwald
    @ggreenwald
    Six years of the corporate media adopting as a core narrative the claim that the Trump-era GOP is full-on racist and “white nationalist,” only for Latinos to say they prefer the GOP by 52-39%, and 41% of non-whites saying they intend to vote GOP in 2022.

    https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_202204271123.pdf
    4:40 PM · Apr 29, 2022

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is dusting off his anti-Hispanic slurs so that he’s prepared for the first Wednesday in November.

  86. 86

    YLB claims that handing free money to 13% of the country and getting zilch for it in return would “jump-start the economy”.

    So fucking stupid.. If people are relieved of soul crushing debt – like so many college grads owing a fucking house when they finish..

    they can spend their income on..

    a REAL house… built in the USA employing people

    a car…, built here in the USA employing people..

    nice things.. built here in the USA.. employing people..

    i.e. forgiving college debt incurred by the current generation, debt PREVIOUS GENERATIONS never had to shoulder, frees them to lift all boats. hardly “zilch”..

    oh butt cruelty is the point for the idiot widbee kreepshit. except of course when repukes it voted for like Dumbya sign a debt forgiveness program into law.. a program a member of my family is benefiting from.. that’s ok..

    dumbshit..

  87. 87

    @85. Don’t forget Boomer Greed. They got theirs, so “fuck them”, to the next generations. Boomers don’t want to help pay for nothing that don’t benefit them.
    What do you expect from people who embraced “Greed Is Good” as a core principle?

  92. 92

    @89. What does it matter if we are Boomers?
    The “Fuck you, I already GOT mine”, “Greed is GOOD” behavior is toxic and selfish and wrong regardless of the generation doing it.

  94. 94

    …it will be the minority vote that does it.

    Republicans have been making this prediction since the Raygun years. Despite crushing his Dem opponents and winning popular majorities in all but one state, Raygun earned only 4% and 9% of minority votes in 80 and 84 respectively. Their most popular candidate was still overwhelmingly the candidate of older white people. And despite their think-tank predictions of racial “realignment” the Raygun elections saw the launch of the current era of extreme racial polarization. Raygun won 73% of white protestants. Because his campaign was specifically targeted to appeal to white protestants.

    Not only have they never even come close, the gap has widened steadily as African Americans residing in slave states born before WWII (and who very often registered as Republicans) have died off. Moreover, efforts to redraw districts on racially polarized lines have exceeded expectations in states controlled by Republicans. By systematically “cracking” minority voters into majority white, protestant districts Republicans have all but guaranteed that what Degen predicts can’t happen. In many more Congressional districts in 2022 it would be a mathematical impossibility. It’s another double back flip they depend upon in order to continue to tell themselves they aren’t bigots.

  96. 96

    Circumcision took hold in the United States in the late 19th century. A few prominent doctors advocated the surgery as a cure for paralysis, epilepsy, venereal disease, even mental illness. Throughout the Victorian era, it was extolled for its virtue of cleanliness and as a cure for masturbation.
    Along the way, it became a sign of class status in America.
    >> And there you go, a fear of men masturbating, and selling the rubes on the idea that only low class men are uncut.

  97. 97

    @ 93

    … Raygun earned only 4% and 9% of minority votes in 80 and 84 respectively.

    Reagan won every state but Mondale’s in ’84.

  100. 100

    @90. Stupid Democrats for believing that the “Rule of Law” matters, instead of the “Rule of Power” like republicans and putin. Wonder how republican Madison Cauthorn is feeling right about now about his fellow republicans?

  102. 102

    “Debt is what gets you out of bed in the morning.”
    That is a supremely stupid statement.
    Apparently, if one is living, one is in debt, in his world
    The greedy racist incel must be broke and has a job at the local chicken processing plant to pay bills, because he keeps posting here

  103. 103

    Whatever Biden decides on for student loan forgiveness, more likely than not, it will benefit our household..

    It’s hard to see Biden passing on the opportunity.. The following article makes good points:

    The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs to be ideally progressive to achieve that goal. The principle matters here too. The fact that higher education should be a public good matters.

    The possibility that a jubilee would increase college costs down the road is perhaps the most serious concern—but hardly a reason not to help the people now in need, and people Biden could help without Congress. Politicians and policy makers could follow up debt relief with a plan to make college affordable and accessible, ideally with direct federal investment in higher-education financing.

    This is a policy that would help middle-class families, could be passed instantly, and would advance racial justice. Student-loan debt is suffocating an entire generation. Why not, during this miserable pandemic, magic at least some of it away?

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-biden-should-forgive-student-loan-debt/617171/

    At least “some of it”, not by any stretch all of it.

  104. 104

    we don’t have to talk about murders of inner city kids in Illinois

    kreepshit is OBSESSED about inner city kids in Chicago..

    Not Baltimore (maybe one time)

    Not Atlanta..

    Not Los Angeles..

    Not “fill in the blank”..

    Fact: most African Americans live in suburbs..(that’s been the case since at least 2010).. most hispanics live in suburbs… If folks find the inner city stifling, they do figure a way out.

    Inner city crime, homicide being the most worrisome to obsessive privileged shitheads like kreepshit, is the result of a number of social problems, the most egregious of which is RACISM..

    The racism of Jim Crow which forced the migration of blacks from the South to urban manufacturing hubs in the North.

    The racism of redlining and racial covenants, that crowded blacks into inner city “black” districts.

    The racist policing policies written and executed by privileged racists to manage the unruly “others”..

    Homicide is a crime of intimacy. Most are murdered by people they know. When people are crowded on top of each other, forced that way by privileged racists who want them that way and those people are forced to have their hands in each other’s pockets to survive..

    Shit happens. Shit like privileged racists pretending they know how to solve intractable problems that they and their forbears manufactured and maintained for decades…

    Dang, kreepshit is such a bore.

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    @16 and 103. Since YLB laughing at vacuous troll, the “seriously” silly, irrelevant, kreepee kreepah of widbee responded to a question of the greedy racist incel, it’s only fair for YLB to ask a question of the greedy racist incel to respond to.

  106. 106

    @79 “I don’t get it.”

    You don’t get anything. Least of all getting laid by a human.

  107. 107

    @104 No. I just responded to one of its recurring bullshit themes and its pretensions of white hobby rancher knows best..

    I have nothing to ask from it..

  108. 108

    @92 Human nature is universal. If you haven’t noticed that yet, you will, just give it some time. All your problems can be avoided by turning over management of the planet to rabbits. We’re better at this than stupid humans. We’re going to inherit the earth anyway, when you blow yourselves to smithereens, so you might as well hand over the reins now and save your species from extinction.

  109. 109

    So, the “greedy Boomers” and “okay Boomer” motifs. What, exactly, did we take from Xs and Zs and millennials? Is there something illogical about people who’ve lived, worked, and saved longer having more? We were in exactly the same position when we were young. We waited for our turn, now it’s our turn, and those behind us have to wait for their turn, as we did. We’re comfortable now, many of us for the first time, and we paid our dues for it. So, youngers, get off your high horses. To paraphrase Mark Twain, we don’t owe you; we were here first.

  111. 111

    @96 Look who’s nostalgic for the last time a Republican won the popular vote (with one exception).

    The GOP long ago gave up on any strategy based on popularity. Therefore it’s mysterious why Doctor Dumbfuck still cites polling data as if voters choose our presidents.

  112. 112

    @99 I’m more curious about his voters feel about him. Busted twice at TSA checkpoints for taking guns on planes. Busted twice for driving without a license. Serial sexual predator, insider trader. This is who Republicans elect to Congress these days. The question isn’t what’s wrong with him; the question is what’s wrong with them.

  113. 113

    @100 Debt is good for debtors in the same way that dead senior citizens is good for the economy.

  114. 114

    @101 “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go … ” Yes, it’s about keeping the chicken plants staffed.

  115. 115

    What, exactly, did we take from Xs and Zs and millennials?

    Well, according to those subsequent generations, all the social spending, the low cost education, bargain priced real estate, etc. As I mentioned above the millenials don’t want their boomer parents to move in with them so they’ll happily pay for their Social Security and Medicare.

    Gen X was told that that Social Security was not going to be there for them and they told that to their kids, the zoomers. I think both programs can be fixed but a lot of Gen Xers can’t seem to shake that mental block off.

    Yes, boomers were first. Like people in CA who bought property before Jarvis-Gann and homeowners in Seattle who bought in the eighties or if they could, at the depths of the Boeing bust.

  116. 116

    114,
    That and rising expectations.

    My Grandparent’s first house did not have indoor plumbing other than in the kitchen (cooking porch).
    My parent’s first house did not have any laundry equipment, obviously had only one bath, and never had a dishwasher.

    Rising expectations used to be regarded as economic virtues that helped propel not just greater overall GDP but also per capita GDP. Given the debt finance structure of a modern post-industrial economy, now might not be a great time to adopt “austerity” and a flattening, or worse, lowering of worker/consumer expectations. That would be particularly bad for systems like SS/Medicare that very much rely upon/benefit from rising per capita GDP (to say nothing of “passive incomes”).

  117. 117

    Rising expectations used to be regarded as economic virtues that helped propel not just greater overall GDP but also per capita GDP.

    That reminds me of the always wrong wing trolls here who used to bloviate at seeing struggling people in the media with flat screen tvs (modest ones at that) and wearing bluetooth headsets..

    One idiot babbled that there should be a higher tax on “luxury items” like a tv..

    I said, “You call us commies and then you propose a nazi solution to poverty. How are poor people going to watch Faux Snooze Channel if they don’t have a tv?”

    It babbled, “poor people don’t watch Fox..”..

    That was doofus, a classic shithead troll.

  119. 119

    @108 Rabbit, on this statement, ” We were in exactly the same position when we were young. ” I have disagree with you.
    The boomers had it relatively easy, and once boomers were done with a benefit, they were quite willing to let it more expensive for the next generations.

    Examples:
    In 2022, tuition to Oregon State U is $12K
    In 1974, tuition to Oregon State U was $536, that, in todays dollars is $3.2K. The government gradually stopped supporting Higher Ed. Boomers don’t care. They got theirs and it kept their taxes lower.

    Boeing grandfathered the Boomers into pensions and they didn’t put up a fight, they let the younger generation get screwed so they could keep their benefits.

    When will social security be out of money? 2034.
    “The Baby Boomers will be 75% gone (figuring the statistics of an average 72 years old for the whole group) at about the age of 80…. Averaged across the whole group, this implies that at about 2035, “most” boomers will have died.”

  122. 122

    white hobby rancher

    He’s a fucking joke with his store-bought girly-man manhood. The low IQ traitor’s idea of real men is his raging orange man-baby taking it in the ass from Putin while blowing Kim Jung Un in a three-way, fascist dictator love-fest.

  123. 123

    @118 You’re preaching to the wrong boomer. I was on my own. I put myself through college with minimum-wage jobs. I was extremely poor. Sometimes I worked for meals. I once subsisted for two weeks on half a sack of corn meal and half a bottle of pancake syrup while between jobs. I didn’t have a car, didn’t date, didn’t go to football or basketball games. My tuition wasn’t cheaper, because I paid non-resident tuition, so I didn’t have state support either. My ticket to law school was a war. The G.I. Bill paid my law school tuition, but I still had to pay for books and other expenses. I graduated from law school with over $100,000 of debt in 2022 dollars. Was my experience typical? No. This rabbit is 100% self-made, and there are very few people of any generation who would do what I did, or make the sacrifices I made. So I have a distorted perspective. But one thing common to all Boomers was: Go to college, or go to Vietnam. Every single male who came of age in the ’60s had that hanging over him. And this wasn’t a little war. Hundreds of Americans were being killed every week. Every college student of the 1960s knew that flunking out could mean death. The X, Y, Z, and millennial generations didn’t have to face that. Boomers did.

  124. 124

    Vietnam veterans aren’t the Greatest Generation. We’re only the second greatest generation. The GG’s won their war and were welcomed home to cheering parades. But they produced the leaders who lost our war. They blamed us, and turned their backs on us. I have very mixed feelings about the GGs. I respect what they did in WW2, but hate what they did to us. Our generation mistreated us, too. I learned not to tell people I was a veteran. People called us baby killers. Movies and TV shows depicted us as psychos, that was a thing then. We were exploited. The Gulf War and 9/11 changed everything. The hostility is gone now. But we lived with it, and were discriminated against, for a very long time.

    There’s nobody in this country I’d walk through Hell with except another Vietnam veteran. I can depend on them. I wouldn’t trust anyone else for something like that. Except I wouldn’t do it with the ones who are Trumpers now; I don’t want anything to do with them.

    I know who the very best of my generation were, and I know that I’m one of ’em. I know what I did and what I am. For the rest of my life, that’s good enough.

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