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Humphrey Yang: Wealth inequality in America—The brutal truth

Steve Shives: Stepping outside my liberal bubble

Electoral Dysfunction:

Robert Reich: Socialism fear-mongering is bananas

Now This: The consequences of Ron DeSantis’ rhetoric and inadequate gun laws

Stella Magz: Hunter Biden—The poster child for gun control?

The Dotard Трамп:

Jonathan Mann: ♫ Politicians Are Too Old ♬

Alex Wagner: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson decries “discomfort” displacing “knowledge, truth or history”

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Alex Wagner with Rep. Pramila Jayapal: McCarthy humiliated as “basic task of governing” proves too much to ask of fractious party

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

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  3. 3

    The surveillance videos from the theater that prominent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert was forcibly ejected from show her publicly engaging in aggressive sexual contact with her date that night before the theater staff were forced to remove them.

    https://youtu.be/iJXPqQZ1-Z4?feature=shared

    In her most recent campaign, Boebert retained her seat in the House by a margin of only 546 votes.

  4. 4

    @ 3

    In her most recent campaign, Boebert retained her seat in the House by a margin of only 546 votes.

    Multiply that by the number of House seats and you get 237,510.

    Spread over four states Joe Biden won the 2020 election by far fewer votes. Trump in 2016, too.

  5. 5

    Give it another couple of months and Trump will be playing around with 400.

    Jack Poso 🇺🇸
    @JackPosobiec
    Here’s the map with the Reuters poll numbers today

    Now you know why Dems are hitting the panic button about Biden
    1:59 PM · Sep 15, 2023

  6. 6

    Spread over four states Joe Biden won the 2020 election by far fewer votes.

    Dumbfuck only notices the presidential electoral college when it suits him.

    And certainly not when Fucking Around with it might put Daddy Twump in jail for many years.

  8. 8

    5,

    Mark it down now kids.
    It’s the latest big buy signal from the Oracle of Freeland since the $400 TSLA debacle.

    The Shit-Lord Crybaby (liar) is now predicting that his beloved Daddy Twump facing 94 criminal felonies flips MI, PA, WI, AZ, GA, and NV.

    And he goes on to predict a Daddy Twump landslide!

    The defeated sobbing of “conservatives” will go on forever.

  10. 10

    @5

    Multiply the 16% drop in her margin of victory from 2018 and multiply by the number of house seats and you get

    Joe Biden won the election
    The Republican Brand post Dobbs is in crisis PR
    The Republicans are hell bent on nominating a felon
    Even Kansas isn’t safe red
    Colorado is solidly Blue
    Georgia may be lost forever for the GOP
    Book Bans!

    Sprinkle in some Vaseline you used pondering your numbers and…

    Joe Biden is re-elected. Possibly by a YUGE margin in the Electoral college.

  11. 11

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

  12. 12

    @11,

    At least you wouldn’t be so mewling and pathetic.

    Say, if I hold my morning cup of coffee up to the monitor, could you cry some more into it?

  13. 13

    10,
    It’s just so hard to know what might happen between now and November at this point, right?

    But it sure looks as if Republicans are sticking with Trump, no matter what. And at this point, even if that support softens between now and June, the most likely result would be a contested convention featuring the return of mob violence clowns like Roger Stone, rag tag Proud Boy remnants, camera seeking Republican celebutards like Gaetz, Boebert, and MTG, and their state level equivalents like Michelle Fiore and Blake Masters all gathered in Milwaukee to perform a public political striptease for our amusement.

    There will be lots of “energy” and “excitement”. But I’m very doubtful that spectacle will serve to reassure large numbers of disengaged, unaligned independent voters.

    Dobbs on the ballot.
    Jan 6th on the ballot.
    Billionaire tax cuts on the ballot.
    COVID recovery on the ballot.
    Climate change on the ballot.
    Infrastructure on the ballot.
    Rape on the ballot.

    These are some headwinds. And the best bulwark the GOP has to hold back the storm is their unique combination of gerrymandering and voter suppression, both of which have been substantially dismantled since 2016.

    It’s going to be close. Because of gerrymandering and voter suppression. But also perhaps because of official misconduct by local Republican election officials. But I think the anticipated wave of local Republican misconduct may not materialize as part of their plan. Watching two years of felony convictions and long prison sentences get handed down to thousands of Republicans will discourage and dampen the operational enthusiasm of many.

    It may be close as hell. But it doesn’t look like it will be enough.

  14. 14

    Last night, after the media cycle for the week had been put to bed, Republican Rep. Boebert issued a public apology for her humiliating behavioral misconduct at a theater.

    In her apology (prepared by a crisis management consulting team) she described her regret at having “fallen short of her values” and blamed her divorce, and her excitement at the event.

    In the now well practiced pattern of crisis redemption it would at this point be incumbent upon the public figure to withdraw from the more public and performative aspects of their public life to focus on their family, their work, their community, and their “healing”.

    What are the chances that an elected official, whose entire political career depends upon her efforts as a content creator, can now withdraw from the world of content creation right at the very moment that fate, depravity, and the cowardice of Brave Kevin have provided her and 222 other Republicans an impeachment stage upon which to perform?

  16. 16

    Are Republicans now stuck preaching to the choir loft?

    For a long time really, a big component of Republican messaging strategy at almost every level has been to focus on “low information voters” and to create an atmosphere of uncertainty and debate, and sow confusion there about any issue where their political or policy objectives are at odds with the majority of voters (which let’s face it, is almost all of them).

    That means flooding the zone with bullshit. Lots of it. All the time.
    Bullshit about Sadaam’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks, bullshit about WMDs, bullshit about billionaire tax cuts increasing revenues, bullshit about El Salvadoran “freedom fighters”, bullshit about crack cocaine, bullshit about tan suits, bullshit about kitty litter boxes, bullshit about rapes, bullshit about human reproduction, bullshit about climate change, bullshit about blow jobs, bullshit about vaccines, bullshit about LAPTOP, bullshit about election results, even bullshit about Boats-full-‘O-Dildos. Think about it even a little and it becomes fairly obvious that, aside from everything else, flooding the zone with bullshit has been a growing and very important tactic among Republicans for a very long time.

    But while all that bullshit was going on over all those years, something else was also happening. Starting with FOX, and then later followed in suit by plenty of others in all channels, a profitable media eco-system arose devoted to pumping that bullshit out. Court filings, consent decrees, settlements, and criminal convictions have now exposed the true extent of that pumping and the intended purposes of it.

    Yet this rise of a Republican bullshit media eco-system was also accompanied by a transformative shift in media consumption and media control. Mobile technology in particular enabled the implementation of media distribution at scale at a never before seen low cost. And depending on the technology employed, it empowered the consumers of that media with vastly greater control. But the uptake of that transformative technology was not and is not uniform. Younger, more affluent, better educated consumers are far more likely to employ sophisticated modern mobile technology in their media consumption compared to older, less affluent, and less educated consumers. In particular, legacy media technology like broadcast television, satellite/cable television, and newspapers are increasingly consumed almost exclusively by much older, or much poorer, or less educated consumers.

    Returning to the Republican tactic of flooding the zone with bullshit, with the intended effect that it will produce ambivalence or confusion among low-information voters about a particular topic, it’s very clear that there exist some significant number of American voters who are vulnerable to the tactic. But what is also increasingly becoming clear, is that this vulnerability is also not uniform. And it appears now that the older, poorer, and dumber a voter is, and thus the greater their likelihood to rely upon legacy media for news, the more vulnerable they are to the bullshit.

    But the older, poorer, and dumber voters are already voting for Republicans in nearly every election.

    So as the Republican Party, led by Wrestler Gym, now prepares to launch what will likely be their greatest ever effort to flood the zone with bullshit, there actually appears to be very little evidence that it will accomplish anything more than enhance Trump/Republican fund raising from among those old, poor, dumb voters.

  17. 17

    @3 She makes her constituents look like idiots for electing her.

    My advice is, don’t chance being in her district. It’s okay to fly over it, otherwise you should drive around it. The people there have something wrong with them and you aren’t safe there.

  18. 18

    @4 It’s best to avoid Freeland, Washington and surrounding pastures, too. Especially if you’re a horse. I strongly suggest grazing elsewhere, and under no circumstances entering a barn.

  19. 19

    @9 Nearly everyone gets bored after 30 years of marriage and 3 kids. Most just have more self-restraint, that’s all.

  20. 20

    @12 Why the hell do you want to drink his tears? They’ll only ruin the taste of your coffee, they have no caffeine kick, and the salt will raise your blood pressure.

  21. 21

    @16 “But what is also increasingly becoming clear, is that this vulnerability is also not uniform.”

    Outer space, where many of these low-information voters live, is lumpy too.

  22. 22

    @16 “there actually appears to be very little evidence that it will accomplish anything more than enhance Trump/Republican fund raising”

    Actually, a lot of people could drown if the dams containing the sewage break, as we just saw in Libya.

  23. 23

    CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three

    Don’t forget, musk secretly ordered his engineers not to turn on his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet and do support Putin’s bidding.

    “Free speech” is only granted to those the king approves of.

  26. 26

    Paxton acquitted on all counts.*
    * laws don’t matter in texas so long as you’re a white christian man with money
    It’s what the voters wanted, since they keep voting for republicans.

  28. 28

    Further releases of surveillance footage by the City of Denver now show Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert providing a public hand-job to her guest that evening while seated in the theater.

    Now more than ever, the entire world mourns last year’s dreadful loss of Ken Starr. /s

  30. 30

    Texas GOP state senators decide politics is more important than corruption, and they have no credibility left to lose anyway:

    “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted Saturday in the GOP-controlled state Senate on all 16 articles of impeachment, which included counts of bribery, dereliction of duty and disregard of official duties. Paxton, who has been suspended since May, when he was impeached by the Texas House, will be reinstated as attorney general.

    “Although more than 60 Republicans in the Texas House crossed party lines in May to impeach Paxton, his hold on the state Senate remained solid, and only two Republicans voted to remove him from office on any of the counts.”

    https://www.aol.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-175200942.html

    When you have an unbreakable gerrymandered grip on a state legislature, you can do whatever the fuck you want, the public be damned.

  31. 31

    Brave Kevin’s key witness for impeaching President Biden is a Chinese Communist Spy now working to peddle pro-ChiCom propaganda out of Hong Kong:

    https://hkmo33.com/2023/07/102138

    “Hey! Don’t look over there! Look over here!
    See? Shiny thing! Oooooooh!”

  32. 32

    @30 How Paxton escapes wifey aka teh pistol packin’ mama with its balls remains to be seen…

  33. 33

    How are you guys going to get the Biden/Harris duo out of the way so you can get somebody that’s electable in 2024? Will the Deep State traitors “arrange” Biden’s departure, though some kinetic action or will they contract it out to some foreigners like MI-6 or Mossad?

  34. 34

    @32 Yeah, there’s that. I wouldn’t want to be him right now. Although I’m thinking if pistol-packin’ mama was going to shoot his balls off, she would’ve done it by now. His infidelity has been out there for a while.

  35. 35

    What we saw today from Texas is that with Republicans it’s all politics and partisan advantage, and nothing else matters, but this isn’t new. That’s been obvious at all levels, state and national, for a long time. The Party of Family Values (it was never that) is actually the Party of No Values.

    There is a place for such a party in our political system: It’s where we stash the riff-raff that reputable political parties will have nothing to do with. We just have to make sure responsible citizens turn out to vote so the trash doesn’t take over, as it has in Texas and some other places.

  36. 36

    According to the most recent Quinnipiac, 7 in 10 current Trump supporters are not open to considering any of the other candidates.
    And Trump leads Fat Midget by 50 points among Republican and Republican leaning voters polled.

    “”Clearly, loyalty to the two leading candidates in the primaries for president is not written in stone. Roughly one-third of Trump’s voters might walk away from him and roughly half from Biden,”

    Trump leads Fat Midget and Ramaswammy by 44 points, with Trump earning 62 percent and the two dwarves earning a mere 18 percent.

    So the important difference is that one-third of Trump’s voters could walk away from him. And it would not make one bit of difference in the Republican primary.

    It’s over, folks. Unless the last four months of trend suddenly reverses and goes steadily and very quickly in the opposite direction for the next four months, Trump is the nominee.

  37. 37

    @36 It certainly appears that even if Trump dies this winter, from old age or the latest Covid strain or his wife shoots him or something else gets him, he’ll still be the nominee.

  38. 38

    Gee, Carl, please be careful. I certainly hope that something like this doesn’t happen to you.

    Ghost Browser
    @ghostbrowser8
    Las Vegas teens steal a car hit and run another car and hit a man on a bike for fun
    0:01 / 0:51
    2:25 PM · Sep 15, 2023

    And if you get hit this badly, Carl, I certainly hope that you die like this victim did, because to experience a lifetime of unrelenting pain after trauma like this would be a far worse fate than death.

  39. 39

    @ 36

    It’s over, folks. Unless the last four months of trend suddenly reverses and goes steadily and very quickly in the opposite direction for the next four months, Trump is the nominee.

    Don’t know much about historeeeeeeee……

    PRINCETON , NJ — In the national standings of the Democratic presidential candidates seeking their party’s nomination next year, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton continues to hold a strong 27-point lead over second-place rival Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, according to a new Gallup Poll. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards remains further behind in third place.

    According to the Nov. 11-14, 2007, poll, 48% of Democrats say they are most likely to support Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination in 2008, followed by Obama at 21% and Edwards at 12%. No other candidate garners more than 4% support.

    I could also remind you that Bill Clinton polled at 2% in December of 1991.

    But you don’t care. You’ll spew plausibility as fact each and every time it serves your interest.

    2008 DNC was supposed to be the same cakewalk for #CrookedHillary that you think 2024 RNC will be for Trump.

    Except the last several months of 2007 very “suddenly reverse[d] and [went] steadily and very quickly in the opposite direction for the next” several months. Right up to

    Watch Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Concession Speech – NBC News

    NBC News
    https://www.nbcnews.com › video › watch-hillary-clint…

    June 7, 2008: In Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton conceded the Democratic nomination to then-Senator Barack Obama.
    NBC News · NBCNews.com

  41. 41

    Some people are now raising the specter that Boebert violated the same laws Hunter is being prosecuted for.

    https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-biden-vape/

    Meanwhile, she consorting with — and groping — a bar owner who sponsors drag shows.

    https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-2665507167/

    She seems to have forgotten she won the 2022 election by 554 votes, or maybe doesn’t care, but a more plausible theory is the first scenario above, i.e. she’s smoking something.

  42. 42

    While I was down in Tacoma for the T-Line extension opening, I was listening to my EWU Eagles have a hard fought win against Southeastern Louisiana on the Inferno in Cheney. In scores from around the Big Sky Conference, the announcers mentioned our rivals Portland State were facing a school they never heard of, the score was a shellacking, so scared we may have a tough Dam Cup this year. 91-0.
    https://apnews.com/article/north-american-university-portland-st-e2e27ebccbfa90e0a76758e2f9e02c99

  43. 43

    Down in Tacoma, Sound Transit fare ambassadors were out in force, as the Free Ride on the T-Line ended today with the opening of the Hilltop Extension.

  45. 45

    40,
    Well, that’s what he’s said, I’m pretty sure.
    Or at least that we’re supposed to think.
    Sometimes.
    Depends. Heh.

    It’s the most fun of all these days provoking the Shit-Lord Crybaby (liar) into fits of whining and sobbing by either illustrating Trump’s imminent triumph or by illustrating his inevitable doom. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politically partisan hack so completely and inescapably trapped. There is almost no 2024 result that does not fuck the Shit-Lord Crybaby (liar). That may explain his preoccupation with Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris – two people we know will not be running for President next year (Psssst… I wrote that to provoke him as well).

    Nothing is easier.

  46. 46

    @ 45

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politically partisan hack so completely and inescapably trapped.

    You haven’t been around long enough.

    Darryl Holman
    @hominidviews
    I want to take a moment to congratulate the Russians on their narrow victory.
    9:01 PM · Nov 8, 2016

  48. 48

    I do enjoy perusing November 2016 archives.

    10
    Triggered McSafespace spews:

    Saturday, 11/12/16 at 1:26 pm

    Grow up, you lost…get over it you whiny SJWs. If the reverse had happened, you crying bed-wetters would be lauding the Electoral College.

    11
    Goldy spews:

    Saturday, 11/12/16 at 3:02 pm

    @10 And go fuck yourself you fucking fascist.

    I just realized I don’t miss Goldy. There’s no reason to.

  49. 49

    The most compelling reason to continue to deny RFK Jr. protection by the Secret Service is…

  50. 50

    47,
    It always does.
    Forces him to crawl sobbing back into the comforting safe space of November 2016 – when btw, he also sort of didn’t want Trump to win/lose/whatever.

    EVAN FOR AMERICA!
    “What is Aleppo?”
    JEB$$$!

  51. 51

    @ 50

    EVAN FOR AMERICA!
    “What is Aleppo?”
    JEB$$$!

    Gorsuch.
    Kavanaugh.
    Coney Barrett.

    Terms likely exceeding eight years each.

    So guffaw away. Oh, all of you were so full of yourselves during the Fall of 2016. Right up until about 6 p.m. PST on November 8.

  52. 52

    @50 Some things are as predictable as rain in Seattle. Well, it was before climate change.

  53. 53

    So guffaw away.

    Oh, booo, hoooo, hoooooo!

    Oh wait.

    I almost forgot.

    Yeah, no. Nobody is ever going to forget. And even when Cheeto Jesus is no longer around to remind them, those three corrupt, incompetent justices will be.

  54. 54

    From Fuck Your Feelings to Get A Master’s Degree On Your Feelings.

    And then stick Queen YLB’s royally fucked kids with the student loan debt for it.

    Pussies.

  56. 56

    @44 USWNT ran an passing drill against high school boys for 90 minutes against kids signed to MLS contracts at 15.

    Trolls pretend it was a match.

  57. 57

    She started the seventh grade a couple of weeks ago dragging around a new born in a car seat she can barely lift.

    https://time.com/6311507/13-year-old-mom-police-arrest-rape-suspec

    Thanks to MAGAmurican white Republicans like Brett Favre, Mississippi has a beautiful new college volleyball arena. But no money to help her with daycare or diapers.

    Gorsuch.
    Kavanaugh.
    Coney Barrett.
    …are the reason.

    With the court now set to consider a nationwide ban next month, the political stakes could be no higher. A nationwide ban on medication abortion would be galvanizing. And it would be immediately recognized as an incremental step toward banning contraception by an extremist minority of religious ultra-conservatives.

  58. 58

    And then stick Queen YLB’s royally fucked kids with the….

    When exactly did it become noteworthy that aging, liver-spotted, Bourbon-drunk racist “conservatives” like the Shit-Lord Crybaby (liar) dislike paying for stuff? Especially whenever any of that stuff benefits the lives of any non-white?

    Building imaginary, rhetorical “fucked kids” as internet stand-ins for his impotent rage is a transparent device to conceal more of the same tired “conservative” sobbing.

    “Do you offer a senior discount?”

    “Excuse me. (folds and stores his pocket knife) This bag of feed has a cut in it. Can I get a mark down?”

    “What time do the early-bird happy hour specials end?”

    “Can I get a discount if I pay cash?”

    “A thirty year old firetruck is still perfectly fine. It’s not like they ever get driven.”

    You needn’t go any further than the nearest Golden Corral Buffet to hear these laments.

  59. 59

    @49

    the Secret Service is authorized by law (18 United States Code § 3056) to protect:
    Major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election. As defined in statute, the term “major presidential and vice presidential candidates” means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee

    Without even getting into the semantics of if someone polling under 10% is “major“ have a look at a calendar.

    Sweet Jesus, you post some dumb ass shit.

  60. 60

    the student loan debt

    Plenty of smiling faces here being relieved of student debt here:

    https://t.ly/g6PKD

    Lots of big money relief for student debt.

    Thanks to a degen empty suit with daddy issues that teh shitstain of widbee voted for twice..

    My wife will benefit pretty soon now. Thanks shitstain!

    btw, my kids (fully grown, college graduates, gainfully employed) have no student debt.

  61. 61

    59,
    Sweet Jesus, you post some dumb ass shit.

    It’s all triggered by the sobbing post-Trump rage and sadness.

    He goes through this every four years now during his “independent” phase. Check for yourself. We saw much the same rage sobbing not long after he carefully scraped the big “W” decal off the back window of his truck.

    He’ll feel better just as soon as he gives in to the inevitable and accepts his duty to resume promoting fascism and combatting American freedom and democracy. You know.

    Like every other Republican.

  64. 64

    60 Why not just pay back the loans as was the initial agreement between the borrowers and the lenders? Employment opportunities abound right now. Why not get jobs and start paying back what they owe?

  66. 66

    @57 I wonder how a 30-year-old explains to a kindergartner’s teacher that “I’m not her mother, I’m her grandmother, her mom isn’t here because she’s in school today”?

    I guess we’ll get to see how this plays out in red states from now on.

  67. 67

    56)It was their desired outcome.

    Portland State was at the bottom of the Big Sky Conference. Last years hard fought 38-35 win in the Dam Cup in Cheney was the first time they beat us in 5 years. Also, PSU doesn’t even play in Portland anymore, the old stadium, the Timbers FC have taken over. It’s just a longer MAZ Ride to Hillsboro for the students. Cooper Cupp’s last regular season game was against PSU in Portland, the reason he got a standing ovation as the coach pulled him to rest him for the playoffs, was more Eagles than Vikings in the stands.

    Was hoping to see Idaho beat University of California yesterday, love when FCS teams beat BCS/Power Five schools, but Cal came back. If it had been in Moscow, not Berkeley, the stadium would have helped the Vandals.

  69. 69

    64,
    That’s a great question to put to big employers posting record earnings and passing out dividends and bonus payments to people who don’t even work.

  71. 71

    He still drives that old truck?

    I guess so.

    And sometimes, when things have taken a particularly shitty turn for him, and he’s on a terrible losing streak, and his Wall Street casino won’t reopen for another 24 hours, he drives it down to park outside the Starbucks in Freeland to steal WiFi and create sock puppet commentary accounts on his phone that closely mimic the hated “enemies” who live rent free in his head

  72. 72

    70,
    Remember the internal polling that MTG was responding to earlier this week?

    She got those numbers from Cheeto Geezus.

  75. 75

    @71 I wonder if “Rodger Rabbit” is one of his sock puppets, or that’s a newbie who doesn’t know the rules here?

  76. 76

    @72 If he’s telling MTG to clear the cobwebs out of her cranial case, you don’t suppose he’s suddenly going down-to-earth on us, do you? Maybe he should get to work on Kevin, too (see #74).

  77. 77

    76,
    Servile obedience to the anointed authority must include regular doses of humiliation.

    After all, is there really any difference between flying a Gadsden flag from the back of your truck and wearing a cilice?

  78. 78

    Trump said on a Sunday TV talk show today that he won’t run for a third term if he’s elected in 2024. I infer he’s thinking there won’t be any more elections or terms if he gets into power again, because I sure can’t visualize him giving up the White House voluntarily.

  80. 80

    79,

    “You hire them, you’ve never met these people, you get a recommendation, they turn out to be RINOs, or they turn out to be not so good. In many cases, I didn’t respect them. But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”

    Under the statute this is the admission that the Special Prosecutor can use.

    Trump acknowledges that a good faith reliance on advice of counsel would have led him to relent from his false claims and his decision to approve the fake elector scheme. Instead he describes a process wherein he decided not to listen to the hundreds of lawyers who gave him sound, legal advice.

    Because they were “RINOs”.

    In the end some time next spring a jury drawn from DC residents will decide. Chances are they will see these kinds of admissions from Trump for what they are.

  81. 81

    @64

    Because those jobs pay exactly what they paid in 2000 while rent has quadrupled, the amount borrowed due to rising tuition has tripled and just to service the interest on those loans is a crippling burden to ‘settling down’.

    The social contract was broken. Grandparents, Parents, media, corporations told us, “A degree is the only path to a high paying job. We promise you this is the way.”

    Then those same parents and grandparents gutted college funding, refused to do no or low interest student loans and entry level wages didn’t rise to keep up with the exploding cost of living.

    Our parents bought houses with dual income of $120k in their 30s. We need $75k just to rent a shitty apartment and pay the loans and have a car to get to the job. Did we mention you never really invested in transit except highways?

    We were lied to at the time of signing the contract. It should be voided.

  82. 82

    @80 He said more than that.

    “Former President Donald Trump said that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the presidency and try to overturn the results. ‘It was my decision, but I listened to some people,’ Trump told NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ in an interview that aired Sunday.”

    This is much closer to taking full responsibility for the illegal attempts to overthrow the election than he’s ever come before. It stops just short of admitting he greenlighted the fake electors plot and the illegal meddling with voting machines in Michigan, Coffee County, and elsewhere.

    He hasn’t changed his tune that the election was stolen and he did nothing wrong, though. He’s still the same old Trump in those regards.

  83. 83

    @81 Voiding a longstanding social contract between millions of people grounded in notions of compulsory participation is no easy task, as various rebels over the last 160 years ranging from Confederate secessionists to modern-day sovereign citizens have found out.

    I would add that the Boomer generation had an even worse deal than yours. Those who couldn’t get into college, or afford the tuition (at a time when less loan and other assistance was available) were marched off to a steaming jungle where 58,000 of them died.

  84. 84

    I don’t mean to make light of Gen X’s and Y’s struggles, but they didn’t have a draft hanging over them, or go through anything like Vietnam. Trust me, for the typical young Boomer, growing up in that time wasn’t fun and games.

  85. 85

    82,
    I agree.

    But the thing is, his attorney has indicated his intention to mount an advice of counsel defense to some of the charges.

    So he’ll have to put on a case and Smith will have an opportunity to challenge and interrogate that case. Moreover, in order to mount the defense he must prove to the jury that Trump disclosed all relevant facts to the attorneys he relied upon, withheld nothing from them that would have adversely impacted their analysis, received specific advice from those attorneys regarding the course of action for which he is now criminally charged, and committed to following that advice in good faith. Then whatever evidence the defense intends to put on at trial gets discovery.

    And since the advice of counsel defense serves to waive attorney client privilege, following discovery Smith gets to call and question every single one of the hundreds of White House, DOJ, and campaign lawyers who begged Trump to stop who can specifically and directly contradict that evidence. That includes William Barr, Cippilone, etc.

    And the jury gets a special instruction formulated in the FRCP based on statute that reflects all those conditions.

  86. 86

    @85 He doesn’t care a hoot about legal strategy. His entire approach is based on a notion in his head that having millions of fanatical followers makes him untouchable. He figures an angry mob is the only defense he needs.

  88. 88

    I bought my wife an Eddyline kayak at their Anacortes store in 2000.

    If I want to do it again I’ll have to travel to the home of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and Adult Film Arcade.

    Eddyline Kayaks closing down Burlington facility

    BURLINGTON — Eddyline Kayaks is closing its Burlington facility by the end of the year as it relocates its headquarters to Arkansas and expands its manufacturing operations in Mexico.

    Eddyline Kayaks President Scott Holley said this decision was made in the past month.

    He said reasons for closing the Burlington facility include difficulty recruiting new employees and the lack of affordable housing for employees.

    That’ll happen when you pay people to stay home.

  89. 89

    Republicans pols are a bunch of clowns and fraudsters. Bunch of POS low life scum bags.

    They are a bunch pedophiles, perverts who grab pussy, cock, tits and ass in front of children. They should be locked up.

  90. 90

    @88

    it relocates its headquarters to Arkansas and expands its manufacturing operations in Mexico.

    i.e.. it’s been offshoring a while…

    That goskagit article is dated 3 days ago yet as of 10/24/2024 it’s reported 63 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html

    Yet a degen pos moldering in widbee wants us to believe that working class people in the environs of Burlington are today being showered with riches by Joe Biden.

    Instead of being evicted elsewhere by punishing rents from greedy degen landlords.

    That is….

    unless they pull a fast one by distracting the degen landlord with a baby momma then fuck the landlord in the ass and put a junker on blocks as the final fuck you.

  91. 91

    Oh and here’s something a bit more recent about people struggling to get by because shitstain sez Joe is paying them to stay home:

    https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2023/09/06/six-in-10-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-survey-finds/94226/

    “It’s prudent for all consumers—especially those in younger generations who are more apt to indulge in nonessential spending—to regularly assess their spending habits and remain mindful of the compounding effect nonessential spending can have on their overall financial stability. If not careful, this type of frequent spending behavior can quickly snowball into bigger and lasting debts,” Dudum said.

    Funny that article sez nothing about Joe paying them to stay home.

  92. 92

    @ 90, 91

    Queen YLB’s fucked kids are living paycheck to paycheck, and she’s just a little bit upset about it.

    To Queen YLB there is one simple solution, and it’s more free money.

  93. 93

    Recently, when the apartment’s washing machine had issues, went to a newly reopened laundromat (upgraded machines), and noticed it had gone coin less. Uses a smart card stored value system, like the Orca Card. With the re-load machines embedded in the wall, less cash. Made me think, after reading about the transition to exact fare on Seattle Transit, especially the operators relieved to no longer have the albatross of the coin changer, the few semi-retired veterans of that era as the ORCA rolled out, probably wished they had it before 69. On a busfans Facebook group, a member mentioned the last straw for Seattle Transit and the Coin Changers, was after a wave of operators being robbed, one was murdered for his. It was $60, adjusted for inflation, $500.

    The old fashioned fareboxes, those after each night, went to the vault bus for dumping. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, a couple Kenworths Seattle Transit inherited from the Street Railway operation did the honors, windows blanked out, wheels removed. If ORCA usage increases, probably less need for the farebox, plus with Metro’s fare at $2.75, more bills than coins now. Interagency transfers are only done via ORCA . Still could see better fare coordination instead of each agency setting its own fares. I would prefer the T-line be the base fare on the 1 line, which is $2.25 for a 1 station hop within Seattle, and goes up by distance within Seattle, but for now the Tacoma line is $2, but still a major increase over being fare free for 20 years. $2 is the fare on Pierce Transit, so makes sense for now, to match it.

  94. 94

    @88 “That’ll happen when you pay people to stay home.”

    That also happens when you don’t pay people enough to afford a home.

    I’m not blaming Eddyline. You don’t expect fiberglass layup jobs to stay in an area with our housing costs.

  95. 95

    @92 “Queen YLB’s fucked kids are living paycheck to paycheck, and she’s just a little bit upset about it.”

    YLB has repeatedly said his children are doing well, and you have no evidence to refute it.

    I see a pattern here: Bob can’t accept or even acknowledge that anyone else is doing well. A psychoanalyst could have a lot of fun with this.

  97. 97

    kids are living paycheck to paycheck,

    Yawn.. Both of them have many months of income saved for a rainy day.. And ASIDE from their retirement savings. One of them like for almost 2 years..

    Like every personal finance pundit out there says they should.

  99. 99

    95,
    I’ve suggested, and I think these recent Troll Dumbfuck posts make clear, that the Shit-Lord Crybaby uses his imaginary idea “YLB’s fucked kids” as a ready stand in for his own personally hurt feelings.

  100. 100

    Sweet Jesus, you post some dumb ass shit.

    He’s not known as “dumbfuck” for nothing.

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