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New York Times: America is failing refugees

The Criminals and Traitors that Worship The Dotard Трамп:

Trevor: The subminimum wage loophole

Robert Reich: Why food prices are rising

Supremely Fucked:

The New York Times debunk the latest corporate climate lie

LegalEagle: Elon Musk pulls out

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

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  4. 4

    So a DC Cop is backing up Hutchinson? Going to be awkward for tge Secret Service/MPD working together.

  5. 5

    Earlier today we were 72 hours away from the first strike among class I railroads in 30 years. Thought it would go down to the wire before President Biden appointed the Emergency Board and imposed a 60 day cooling off period. Looks like didn’t wait for Sunday night. Then again, don’t want the strike going into effect with coal trains in intersections.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/biden-names-presidental-emergency-board-preventing-rail-strike/

    Not sure if Amtrak is involved, but if they are not, only the NEC would still be running.

  8. 8

    @6 but they didn’t kill a cop…..they only sprayed cop(s) with some sort of chemical agent.

    GOP MOTHER FUCKERS!

  10. 10

    One guy’s “miracle worker” @ 1 is another guy’s “much diminished president”.

    Biden arrives in Saudi Arabia a ‘much diminished president,’ the kingdom’s former intel chief says

    Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on Friday, Prince Turki Al-Faisal said Biden was coming in as a “much diminished president” compared with when he was inaugurated in January 2021.

    “As an example, on energy issues, he came in with a policy to stop completely fossil fuel usage not only in the United States, but worldwide, and now he is finding himself having to rely on fossil fuels as a means of meeting the energy shortage that has come about, not only because of the Ukraine war, but also because of U.S. policy itself that shut down pipelines and stopped issuing … discovery of oil on U.S. soil,” he said.

    It’s only a hop over the Persian Gulf and then over Iran to get from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan, like a nonstop from Seattle to Houston. The Saudis have the measure of my cowardly and incompetent president from their close-up view of what Biden accomplished in Afghanistan last summer.

    Biden is begging Saudi Arabia to pull his ass out of the fire, and the Saudis know it.

    The fist bump with MBS was agreed to only after Team Biden realized that their guy would struggle regaining his feet after kissing MBS’ ass in greeting.

  11. 11

    First Vegetable Joe Biden’s “miracle” is turning water1.7% inflation into wine9.1% inflation.

    Next stop: double digits.

  13. 13

    That’s President Fat Midget, McHillbilly.

    DeSantis’ education message is winning in battleground states, teacher union poll finds

    The day before his speech, one of the national teacher unions that opposes him released a battleground-state survey showing voters approve of DeSantis’ education policy positions, and even some of his rhetoric.

    The American Federation of Teachers circulated the poll, conducted by the Democratic firm Hart Research, as a call to arms for its members and allies to emphasize more popular proposals like spending more on schools and reducing class sizes, and de-emphasize fights that center on cultural issues.

    A major set of red flags in the poll for Democrats and teacher unions was a series of questions that look like they were ripped from DeSantis’s Friday speech on “critical race theory” and teaching kids about sexuality and gender identity. While the survey didn’t mention DeSantis by name, it tested education messages he popularized nationally — more so than Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who won in a Democratic-leaning state last year on a parental-rights education platform that was far less provocative than DeSantis’.

    One poll question found that voters, by a 32 percentage-point margin, said they were more likely to vote for candidates who believe public schools should focus less on teaching race and more on core subjects. By 27 points, they said schools should be banned from teaching sexual orientation and gender identity to kids in kindergarten through third grade. By 28 points, they said transgender athletes should be banned from competing in girls’ sports.

    Same poll as I posted earlier this week, but this is different polled material.

    The attacks on DeSantis are based on fear, and understandably so. After all, Democrats have nothing like him except for Elizabeth Warren, and she’s far more disliked than he is, as well as provably dishonest.

    DeSantis has a $130 million war chest for the battles to come. It’s 2022.

    I can wait.

  15. 15

    Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney will elect Ron DeSantis president.

    And then they’ll blame Bennie Thompson for it.

  16. 16

    I’d say the odds of a despicable democracy-hating traitor like the low IQ Nazi traitor being around in November 2024 are slim to none.

  17. 17

    Huma Abedin and Bradley Cooper are reportedly dating, my cell phone tells me.

    I wonder how his cunnilingus stacks up against #CrookedHillary’s.

  18. 18

    @10 Putin and the Russian army are even more diminished, thanks in no small part to Biden. Your president was the guy who wanted to trade arms for fabricated dirt on Biden. It’s no fucking contest which of them is more presidential.

  19. 19

    @13 DeSantis’ popularity among always-wrong Republicans, and how he got there, is proof of how low the Republican base has sunk. And @13 shows how low you have sunk. This is the guy who banned rainbows from kinderarten rooms and kids’ lunchboxes.

  22. 22

    I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting the impression that our low IQ Nazi traitor has only one regret about his attempt to end our democracy with a violent insurrection on 1/6. His only regret is that his attempted coup was a fucking failure.

    #DeathToTraitors

  24. 24

    I can wait.

    Just like you couldn’t wait for The FuckHump. You’ve made bad decisions before and there’s no way you’d make a good decision. Dumbfucks will be Dumbfucks.

  26. 26

    @ 23

    Another Republican lawless asshole tries to get out of a speeding ticket…

    Pretty tame stuff compared with what Corinne Brown was convicted of doing, and what Andrew Gillum was indicted for doing, wouldn’t you say, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

  27. 27

    Speaking @ 26 of Corinne Brown:

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Convicted felon and former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown will be running for Congress again.

    In a news release obtained Thursday morning by News4JAX, Brown — who pleaded guilty last month to one count of tax evasion in her federal case to avoid a retrial of her overturned conviction of fraud and conspiracy — announced her candidacy for the 10th Congressional District of Florida — which is in the Orlando area. Brown previously served in Florida’s Third and Fifth Congressional Districts — which included part of Jacksonville.

    “I’ve represented most of the people of the new 10th District during my 24 years in Congress and I always earned huge support in this region,” Brown said in the news release. “Now I see our hard-won gains are being taken away from us.”

    Gee, it’s a good thing she doesn’t drive too fast, or this might be a problem for Democrats.

    Ah, but she’s got an out. She’s doin’ the Jussie gambit:

    “There are far too many innocent people wrongly imprisoned,” Brown said.

    What an angel.

  28. 28

    @27 may e she’s a liar. You got nutjobs on your team. Literal nutjobs.

    I’ll take a felon over a nutjob.

    Repukes and Neanderthals really have lowered the bar.

  29. 29

    The Repuke Party has a bunch of POS scum bags.

    Fascist dictators.

    Anti-democratic mother fuckers! Bunch of neanderthal murderers.

  31. 31

    The trend continues.

    Republican Party of Kentucky
    @KYGOP
    🚨🚨🚨

    Big news, y’all: Kentucky is officially a REPUBLICAN state. In a historic milestone, there are now more registered Republicans than Democrats in Kentucky.
    6:49 AM · Jul 15, 2022

    A Democrat is governor. For another year an’ a half, anyway. Bidenflation and Bidencession will take care of that.

  32. 32

    @25 So if America slides into fascism, it’s the Democrats’ fault for not stopping them, and not the fault of the fascists?

    And if climate disaster isn’t averted, it’s the fault of one Democrat who voted against the climate bill, and not the fault of 50 Republicans who also voted against it?

    You make no fucking sense. The only reason Manchin is a problem is because all 50 GOP senators are a problem.

  33. 33

    Not unlike the unwarranted redemption that Democrats have provided to Hunter Biden.

    Kaitlan Collins
    @kaitlancollins
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    Jul 15
    Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan says, “The fist bump between President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman was worse than a handshake — it was shameful. It projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to MBS the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking.”

    If Hunter Biden is given political cover so that there can be a Democrat in the White House, why can’t MBS be given political cover so that liberals can have $3/gallon gasoline?

    First Vegetable Joe Biden delivers to his fellow criminals.

  34. 34

    @26 Driving 92 mph on a crowded freeway, and then threatening the cop who pulls you over, isn’t “tame stuff.” Nor are screaming rioters attacking police “tourists.” Your ilk has a language problem.

  35. 35

    @ 32

    …it’s the fault of one Democrat who voted against the climate bill, and not the fault of 50 Republicans who also voted against it?

    What vote, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    ’cause if it came down to an actual vote, there’d be more than one Democrat opposed.

  37. 37

    How Democrats really feel about IRV.

    Sisolak, Rosen and other top Democrats oppose ranked-choice voting measure

    Last week, a coalition of left-leaning and nonpartisan advocacy groups ramped up opposition to the initiative. Those groups have been joined by prominent elected Democrats in Nevada, including Gov. Steve Sisolak and U.S. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, who argued the initiative would be onerous for voters and muddle the state’s electoral process.

    Sisolak, in a statement to The Nevada Independent, described the measure as “a rushed constitutional change that would make our system more confusing, error-prone and exclusionary.” He also highlighted recent efforts to make it “easier and safer than ever for eligible Nevadans to cast their ballots,” likely referring to the permanent expansion of opt-out mail balloting approved last year.

    In a statement to The Nevada Independent, Rosen said she has “serious concerns” about the initiative and that it could “make casting a ballot more confusing and time-consuming, lead to increased errors that cause eligible votes to be thrown out, and disproportionately impact communities of color.”

    Other top Democrats who confirmed their opposition to the proposal include state Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Assemblyman Steve Yeager.

    Andrew Yang is forming a new political party, which will siphon votes from Democrats.

    Democrats only support voting reforms if they favor Democrats.

    As QoS McHillbilly says, “Change everything.” But not if it hurts mainstream Democrats.

    Follow the money, libbies. It will embarrass you, but all the more reason to do so.

  38. 38

    @31 Kentucky inflicted Moscow Mitch and Rand Paul on the Senate. My expectations of Kentucky voters are extremely limited.

  39. 39

    @33 If you had to choose between a shameful fist bump or high gas prices, which would you prefer?

  40. 40

    @ 34

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wants to double down on a ticketed Republican. In Florida.

    Michigan is closer to Seattle than Florida. These must therefore be more relevant to HA than a Floridian’s misbehavior, amirite?

    Michigan Rep. Mary Cavanagh gets probation, must pay fines for drunk driving charge

    Cavanagh — a 30-year-old Democrat
    …
    The operating while intoxicated charge is Cavanagh’s second offense, officials said. Last month, the representative apologized to the community for her actions and said that she suffers from addiction.
    …
    Cavanagh’s lawyer told Local 4 Friday that the lawmaker does not plan on resigning from her position in the Michigan House of Representatives.

    On April 25, Livonia police said that Cavanagh was swerving on I-96 with two flat tires on the driver’s side of the vehicle. An officer followed the rep. from Merriman Road to Schoolcraft Road, then to the freeway, where she reportedly began swerving between the right and center lanes.

    https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/05/06/michigan-rep-mary-cavanagh-gets-probation-must-pay-fines-for-drunk-driving-charge/#:~:text=Michigan%20state%20Rep.-,Mary%20Cavanagh%20on%20Friday%20was%20sentenced%20to%20probation%20and%20assigned,on%20the%20night%20of%20Feb.

    The preceding wasn’t even the one I was looking for, but I found it interesting that a libbie with two DUIs plans to keep her job.

    This is the one I was looking for. Sorta:

    Michigan Rep. Jewell Jones taken into custody for violating court order in drunk driving case

    The 26-year-old Democratic state representative was involved in an alleged drunk driving crash earlier this year and was issued an alcohol tether.

    Jewell Jones — the youngest person ever elected to the Michigan State Legislature had his bond revoked on Tuesday after violating the terms of his bail for the third time.
    …
    The first incident occurred on April 6 when the black Chevy Tahoe Jones was driving was pulled over as it drifted in and out of lanes. Jones’ blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. When paramedics approached the vehicle they allegedly encountered Jones and a female passenger in various states of undress.
    …
    In the second incident in June, Jones was accused of misrepresenting that he was supposed to be at a Michigan National Guard training. He was also charged with resisting and obstructing a police officer; operating a vehicle with a high blood alcohol content; operating while intoxicated; reckless driving; and possession of a weapon while under the influence of alcohol from the April incident.

    The following month, he was fined for failing to pay the fee to keep his tether active.

    https://www.yahoo.com/video/michigan-rep-jewell-jones-taken-123402976.html

    So here we have two state representatives charged multiple times, each with at least one charge of driving drunk.

    You’re a fucking clown, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. A useless, bloviating shill for the Democrat party and a defender of its worst actors.

  41. 41

    @ 40 continued

    I almost forgot. The reason I remember the useless sack of shit Jewell Jones is that he pulled the Friends of Gretchen card with the troopers and threatened their jobs in the process. Since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit used the word “threatening”.

    Police bodycam video shows Rep. Jewell Jones threatened to …https://www.wilx.com › 2021/04/26 › police-bodycam-vi…
    Apr 26, 2021 — Police bodycam video shows Rep. Jewell Jones threatened to call Gov. Whitmer during arrest.

    During arrest, state Rep. Jewell Jones threatened to call …https://www.detroitnews.com › michigan › 2021/04/21
    Apr 21, 2021 — During arrest, lawmaker threatened to call Whitmer, told troopers he ran their budget, police report says. Beth LeBlanc. The Detroit News.

    State rep told arresting troopers he would call Gov. Whitmerhttps://www.freep.com › local › michigan › 2021/04/21
    Apr 21, 2021 — Rep. Jewell Jones, D-Inkster, at one point identified himself as a st…

    Eat shit, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You’re incredibly weak nowadays.

  42. 42

    @ 39

    @33 If you had to choose between a shameful fist bump or high gas prices, which would you prefer?

    No need to choose. With First Vegetable Joe Biden, I get both. He’s President Twofer.

    More everything!

  43. 43

    Which one of you mean girls did that to the degenerate incel troll?

    Was that you Roger?

    Well done. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍

  44. 44

    @40 He should resign, and if he doesn’t, he should be impeached just like that ex-AG in South Dakota. Because nobody is above the law.

  47. 47

    Bob worries about a pol drunk driving but not all the Hetero Neanderthal murderers…makes sense, he’s a troll!

  49. 49

    @ 44

    Because nobody is above the law.

    Nobody but Hunter Biden is above the law, you must have meant.

  50. 50

    49. Keep flogging that lie and ignoring what the Republicans are doing. You be you. You can’t be better.

  51. 51

    @43 The low IQ Nazi traitor isn’t ready to talk about how his dozen cosplaying grandmothers tried to end our democracy with their violent insurrection.

  55. 55

    Joe Versus The Volcano.

    Sanders says Manchin ‘sabotaged the president’s agenda’

    The Vermont senator called Manchin’s focus on inflation amid negotiations over the spending bill “nonsense.” He suggested Manchin doesn’t represent the people of West Virginia, who Sanders said largely want to expand Medicare coverage and think the wealthiest should be paying their fair share of taxes.

    “In my humble opinion, Manchin represents the very wealthiest people in this country, not working families in West Virginia or America,” Sanders said.

    Inflation might be nonsense to a socialist geriatric like Bernie, who won’t live to see the long-term consequences, but it’s a wee bit more important than climate change to the voters.

    Inflation is the ‘top problem’ facing America, survey showshttps://www.cnbc.com › 2022/05/16 › inflation-is-the-t…
    May 16, 2022 — Inflation tops Americans’ concerns for the country ; Inflation. 70% ; Health care affordability. 55% ; Violent crime. 54% ; Gun violence. 51% ; The …

    Inflation is now a top concern for US citizens – surveyhttps://www.weforum.org › agenda › 2022/06 › inflatio…
    Jun 24, 2022 — According to the latest findings, inflation sits atop the list of Americans’ concerns above health / social security, the economic situation, …

    Joe Manchin is my senator, much more than Murray and Cantwell. I’m glad to have him representing me.

  56. 56

    I wonder if G-clown realizes that if Neanderthal men liked cock instead of pussy, none of us would be here, and he’d be all by himself with nothing but tree limbs to shove up his rectum.

  57. 57

    Beau Biden was a selfish motherfucker who deserved to get brain cancer and die young.

    RNC Research
    @RNCResearch
    ·
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    JOE BIDEN in Saudi Arabia: “We’ll always honor the bravery and selfishness — selflessness — of the and sacrifices of the Americans who served”
    45.9K views
    0:02 / 0:08
    11:10 AM · Jul 16, 2022

  58. 58

    @ 56

    Shit. Sorry, G-clown, I forgot completely about the prehistoric gerbils.

    That’s not amber they’re trapped in, that’s petrified semen from gay Neanderthals.

  59. 59

    @55 “Joe Manchin is my senator, much more than Murray and Cantwell. I’m glad to have him representing me.”

    Sounds like somebody should check up on whether you vote where you live. You know, like Mark Meadows.

  60. 60

    The headline doesn’t even begin to describe how fucking strange this Republican for the Senate in Maryland is.

    MD Republican Senate candidate charged with making a false report after allegedly claiming adult bookstore trafficked children

    Here’s a taste of it,

    “In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said. The source of the information was 54-year-old employee at the store, White, also known as Dr. Jon McGreevey, authorities said.”

    And his explanation for why he worked in an adult bookstore?

    “White has appeared in a couple videos with Andy Kuhl, a Republican candidate for Baltimore County Sheriff, to detail how he exposed the alleged abuse,” the network reported. “He claims he got the job at the bookstore as part of law enforcement sting operation on the drug trade into Baltimore City.”

    This guy is nearly as fucked up in the head as our freaky low IQ Nazi traitor who, in order to beat Van Hollen to acheive a Q-ruled Senate, would have voted for that sickoid in a fucking heartbeat.

    Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler, “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” Gahler said.

    Shame? He must not be aware that, when they’re not trying to end democracy in America, freaks like that demented fuck and our low IQ Nazi traitor are fucking children and animals. They know no shame.

  61. 61

    @57 No surprise here. Pissing on the grave of an American veteran is exactly what we’ve learned to expect of you.

  62. 62

    “Joe Manchin is my senator, much more than Murray and Cantwell. I’m glad to have him representing me.”

    I’m almost sad that he doesn’t love Putin like you do.

  63. 63

    61)I can not, or at least try not , to say anything bad about veterans, even one’s whose politics I disagree with. The only exception, the ones who may have been with those who stormed the Capitol .

    I have an Uncle who leans left, probably didn’t vote for McCain, but got irritated when McCains own people criticized him. My Uncle may not have been in the Hanoi Hilton, but he did pull time on a carrier on Yankee Station. McCain seemed to honor vets he disagreed with politically and ideologically.

  64. 64

    @60 As the QAnon candidate, he has an obligation to his fellow conspiracy theorists to find child sex trafficking where none exists, in order to verify the truth of their false delusions.

  66. 66

    @64

    I’m sure they’ll find some, if they look in the right place, like the GOP Convention.

  67. 67

    @ 60

    I wonder if Steve found the name McGreevey familiar for any reason.

    ’cause RawStory has:

    Episcopal Church: ‘Jack*ss’ ex-NJ governor can’t be a priest
    James McGreevey, the former Democratic governor from New Jersey who resigned after admitting he had an affair with another man, won’t be starting a new career as a priest anytime soon.

    McGreevey’s the Maryland dude’s stage name. He works in a porn shop. He very likely took the name of disgraced homosexual Jim McGreevey.

  68. 68

    @67 “He very likely took the name of disgraced homosexual Jim McGreevey.”

    No doubt that’s why he calls himself John McGreevey.

  69. 69

    @ 60

    Apparently the falsity was that she was being pimped out. What wasn’t false was that a man brought a 10-12 year-old girl into a porn shop.

    Deputies said they received information that an older adult male was in the business with a young girl, 10 to 12 years old, forcing the child to perform sexual acts on customers.

    No formal report was filed with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office by any witness, and after following leads and interviews, digital evidence was gathered, identifying that adult man and young girl.

    On July 7, deputies interviewed White, and investigators revealed that at no time were sex acts performed or offered by anyone of the people as reported by White.
    …
    I am beyond grateful this young girl is safe,…

    I guess that when a Democrat sees a man bring a young girl into Airport Video it’s best not to say anything at all, lest one be arrested for inaccuracy. After all, she might be there to sell Girl Scout cookies. And they might be Hunter Biden and one of Hallie’s daughters.

  72. 72

    @ 72

    Your wife’s name and number adorn each of the glory holes there, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  73. 73

    Bidencession. It’s here, bitches.

    Fed Leaning Toward 0.75 Percentage Point Rate Hike

    Hope y’all enjoyed those free money checks y’all didn’t need but were sent out, anyway. What’s comin’ is a bit o’ payback.

  74. 74

    Y’all heard about this, right?

    Social Security cost-of-living adjustment could be 10.5% in 2023

    Now, payouts may rise 10+% but incomes are only up 5% year-over-year. If inflows go up only 5% but outflows go up double that, then the trust fund will run dry more quickly.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and I wish to thank YLB’s kids in advance for covering the boost in our respective retirement payouts, next year and those to follow. This is what your mothers voted for, kiddos, while gleefully believing every word Harry Reid said while he was Senate majority leader. Now get back to work, ya fuckin’ slackers.

  75. 75

    Unfortunate that Prude wasn’t shopping at the mall today in Indiana.

    I heard chants of Hang Mike Pence were heard.

  77. 77

    With the rail strike that was temporarily averted, would be a good time for Sound Transit to have a Plan B for SOUNDER, especially tge South line. As except for T line, Sound Transit doesn’t operate it’s own services, SOUNDER is operated by BNSF Crews. Just have to round up more spare busses from Pierce Transit, and Metro, I guess.

    ST Express is operated by CT, Pierce Transit, and Metro, and the Link 1 Line, plus when it opens, 2 Line, operated by Metro.

  79. 79

    @ 77

    Billions wasted for a transit source that can reasonably be used by way too few, and Railfan wants us to spend even more for a backup plan so that we can be ready when the unions decide to hold the taxpayers hostage.

    [Edit: Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit probably would have written pretty much the same thing. Sound Transit is such an incredible waste that both the left and the right can agree that the taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill.]

  80. 80

    79)It would only be temporary, although railroad strikes are rare, last one was in tge 90s. I remember, going to Battle Ground for tge Rails and Vairs event put on by Corvair Club chapters in tge Northwest. Saw an idled UP freight sitting idle near Kalamazoo. It only affected Class Is, just like now. Passenger and commuter operators outside the NEC are always collateral damage. Now Chicago’s commuter rail operations usually get a court injunction because of the Northeastern Illinois RTA’s complicated structure, with METRA and CTA practically independent operators within the structure,. Then there is the track ownership among several railroads, although the Milwaukee and Rock Island District being directly owned by METRA, as well as the METRA Electric District. They’ve had a few, this is SOUNDER’s first strike, Probably would just dust off the plan for the Tacoma Trestle replacement, observed that one in action, a bus bridge between Puyallup and stations south. Plus, if freight railroads hadn’t cut staffing to the bone to appease shareholders, wouldn’t be in this mess. PSR had it’s merit’s with asset utilization, but greedy hedge funds heard about it,and suddenly 3-4 mile long freight trains became the norm.

    As for tge Rails and Vairs event, it was put on by the Oregon chapter, one of it’s members was the operator of the Corvair Underground, a big supplier of aftermarket parts for the infamous Chevrolet product line. My dad gave him good business, there was a limit to how many hulks my dad could park in our driveway to keep his 65 Corvair Monza Convertible, and the rare 700 Station Wagon running. The former was my dad’s pride and joy, it was almost junk when he bought it, put a lot of effort fixing it up. We once let if fly out on the Olympic Peninsula, pushing it’s 110hp engine to tge Max. Didn’t have tge problems Nader said it had, but tge 65 was a quantum leap above the 60 model year.

    Itronically,, the operator of the Corvair Underground was good at aftermarket parts, being a friend of 4449, which is all aftermarket in it, as they don’t make spare parts for a 1941 Lima GS-6.

  81. 81

    79)While LINK has its problems right now, there are no strikes allowed by Metro employees. Unlike with Class I railroads governed by the Coolidge era Railway Labor Act, Metro employees haven’t struck since the Seventies, as if contracts are rejected, under state law, arbitration is mandatory and binding.

    Unlike you, my criticism of Sound Transit is ideas on how to make it better, but hard to compromise with somebody who doesn’t want it to exist. Would like Everett Transit to change bay assignments at Everett Station, the bus from Camino Island should not have the bay that allows it’s riders to cross platform transfer to SOUNDER N line trains. A choice stop, given to a system that doesn’t change fares.

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    Meanwhile, got to get up early, Tilemageddon at Columbia City Station has single track operations between Mount Baker and the first switch south of Columbia City Station. Trains are only running 20 minutes south of Stadium Station. If it wasn’t for community pressure, plans were for 20 minutes headways Northgate to Angle Lake. Stadium makes sense for the turnaround, there is a holding track between the two main tracks just south of the platform, a little redundancy. Spotted the same configuration at Judkins Park Station. Tgey hope to have the work wrapped up this week, Seafair is back. If they use the reconfigured flight box from 2019, should be no I-90 closures. Thank Sound Transit for that.

    Last week, only got delayed once, got an option if I miss tge train, the 48 bus. A result of civic activism forcing Seattle Transit to add a crosstown bus on 23rd Ave. Metro played with the route for decades, only to bring the route back to more or less what Seattle Transit started the route as in 1966, connecting the Rainier Valley with the U-District via 23rd Ave and Montlake. Tge city and Metro have plans to close the two wire gaps, between Rainier Ave and Dearborn, and E Cherry and E Thomas Streets. The tough part is siting two rectifier substations for trolleybusses. To NIMBYs, they would think it’s like SCL’s East Pine Substation, I’ve seen the existing trolleybus substations, they are about the size of a shipping container or a small shed, can be well hidden, in a building basement, an existing SCL property, under a freeway, or in the case of one on Rt7, a sewage pump station.

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    @79 Well I don’t see that his “backup plan” involves spending a lot of money. As far as I can tell, he’s talking about using tracks and equipment that already exist, so where’s the big expense?

    Whidbey Island doesn’t have Seattle’s traffic problems. I don’t know how often you come here, but Seattle was heading for absolute gridlock. At times I-5 is a parking lot, and that was only going to worsen. Buses compete with cars for space on surface streets; the big advantage of light rail is it adds a lot of public transit capacity without using the streets. You can’t do that by adding more buses.

    So the question is how much it will relieve traffic congestion and at what cost. Sound Transit lowballed costs, concealed the true amount of taxes by piling them on in stages, and opted for an incredibly expensive system. They got voters to approve it by flat-out lying to them about what they’d pay for it.

    Seattle’s light rail is many times more expensive per mile than similar systems in other cities, which suggests mismanagement. It doesn’t save most people the costs of owning cars, because they still need cars.

    Nor is it a panacea for Seattle’s traffic problems. A lot of people can’t use it, for example workers who have to take materials and tools with them. It doesn’t replace delivery vehicles, of which there are a lot more now. Most downtown commuters were already using mass transit. So, ST threw a lot of money at a problem they can at best only partially solve

    And, as I’ve said before, even commuters using light rail need cars to get to the stations, and need parking there. I don’t see how a station can serve tens of thousands of riders when it has parking for only a few hundred cars.

    Despite my criticism of ST and light rail, and there’s much there to criticize, I don’t see an alternative. The advent of remote working may help, and obviously is much cheaper than building more transportation infrastructure, but not everyone can work remotely and some employers of those who can don’t like the idea.

    Bottom line, Seattle is so rich this city can afford it. People who can afford Seattle houses can afford the light rail taxes. My answer to whiners like PI who complain they’ll never ride it is they still benefit from the traffic congestion relief it provides. His car isn’t of much use to him if he can’t drive anywhere because the streets are so crowded that nothing can move.

    At the end of the day, voters approved it, and it’s being built. Like the 2020 election, the issue has been decided. And like that issue, certain people are still complaining they were robbed, and probably will until the end of time, because they never learned to come to terms with things they disagree with.

    As for you, since you don’t pay ST taxes, I’ve concluded that in your case bitching about it is a sport.

  84. 84

    Guards at the border to every woman: “Before you leave Texas, we will need proof you are NOT pregnant”
    —
    Republican Nation wide Forced Birth is on the ballot
    Republicans killing your Social Security is on the ballot
    Republicans outlawing contraception is on the ballot
    We have to win elections with better liberals to enact change.

  85. 85

    @79. Shorter greedy racist incel: “Doesn’t benefit me, it’s a waste of money. ”
    Ok Boomer.

  86. 86

    83)More like an emergency bus bridge. If we owned the corridor, wouldn’t have to worry. Although it’s rare for a commuter rail operator west of Chicago to have it’s own operating crews. An exception is FrontRunner in Salt Lake City.

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    @85 “If it doesn’t benefit me, it’s a waste of other people’s money.”

    ftfy

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