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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Legal Eagle: Staggering corruption of Senator Bob Menendez

Jordan Klepper challenges anti-vax, Canadian truckers

More Perfect Union: No President has done this before

Steve Shives: If Republicans said the quiet parts loud to workers

The Pathetic Party of Трамп:

Lauren Mayer: ♫ She Belongs With Us ♬

Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler interviews Biden

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Lewis Black Rantcast: U.S. Supreme Court unethical?

The Daily Show: 16 minutes of Mitt Romney being roasted

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

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  2. 2

    1,

    The more interesting question is how will that inevitable violation be punished?

  3. 3

    Republicans: “Elections don’t work. Voters, when given a choice, choose Democrats. We want a civil war to make everyone submit to us.”

  4. 4

    3,

    Sad to see that a large and growing percentage of Republicans are now rejecting and openly opposing the cherished principles of democracy that are the foundation of the United States and that generations of Americans have sacrificed to serve and to protect.

    Sader is that this Republican demise will forever be associated with a mindless devotion to a man like Donald Trump. The humiliation of that stain upon the character of American “conservatives” will endure long after Trump is gone.

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    @ 4

    Sader is that this Republican demise…

    You must mean Seder, the Passover dinner. That’s in April, not October.

    Although hey, speaking of Jews:

    Omri Ceren
    @omriceren
    Team Biden made a Day 1 decision to pour millions of dollars into Hamas areas. Internal emails show them saying it would boost Hamas terrorism, but they did it anyway.

    Then Hamas launched an invasion of Israel.

    Team Biden’s immediate response was to tell Israel to roll with it.
    3:14 AM · Oct 7, 2023

    The immediate response was so bad it was deleted. We actually urged our ally not to fight back against terrorist attacks.

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    “The immediate response” will be a bipartisan funding package combining Ukraine aid with Israeli aid that will pass easily and quickly. And that will bury Pedo Gaetz and Wrestler Gym.

    The same Iranian drones used this morning in Israel are also being used by Trump pal Putin in Ukraine. That’s according to Mitch McConnell.

    Funny old world.

  8. 8

    @ 7

    The same Iranian drones used this morning in Israel are also being used by Trump pal Putin in Ukraine.

    Roughly 2,000 miles – primarily through Iran – from Afghanistan to Gaza.

    How long until we find out that abandoned US weaponry was used to strike Israel today?

    [Haven’t heard about the Iranian drones, but saw multiple reports of Hamas terrorists using motorized “paragliders” to cross the border.]

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    Russian GRU operated Birdshite and other social media bot accounts are proliferating content this morning attempting to link US support for Ukraine with claims of “abandoning” Israel.

    Never mind that Russia is ultimately behind the Iranian backing of Hamas. You’re supposed to be too stupid and too distracted by “Traylor” to notice or even care.

    And apparently at least one ardent Trump supporter who trolls these pages is just that stupid.

  11. 11

    The Republican Presidential nominee laughed and shrugged after he gave classified Israeli intelligence to Russian president Putin.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html

    And Putin backs Hamas.
    https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2023-03-14/ty-article/.premium/russia-invites-hamas-leaders-for-kremlin-visit/00000186-df39-dc06-afdf-ff3fd16c0000

    Netanyahu is corrupt as fuck. And can undoubtedly find room to overlook Putin’s fingers in this morning’s bloodshed. But I doubt the average Israeli will.

  12. 12

    @ 9

    …attempting to link US support for Ukraine with claims of “abandoning” Israel.

    QoS McHillbilly needs to distract from Biden’s support of Hamas effectively abandoning Israel.

    State Department officials in 2021 outlined the concerns in private communications, asking the Treasury Department to exempt them from laws that bar the U.S. government from injecting taxpayer aid into territories controlled by Palestinian terror groups. The Biden administration needed this authorization in order to move forward with its plans to unfreeze more than $360 million in U.S. funds for the Palestinian Authority that were cut off during the Trump administration due to the authority’s support for terrorists.

    “We assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza. There is less but still some risk U.S. assistance would benefit other designated groups,” the State Department wrote in a draft sanctions exemption request circulated internally in March 2021, shortly after Biden took office. “Notwithstanding this risk, State believes it is in our national security interest to provide assistance in the West Bank and Gaza to support the foreign policy objectives.”

    The documents—obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust—show the Biden administration was privately worried its efforts to restart Palestinian aid could benefit Hamas and other terror factions operating in the Gaza Strip. As officials publicly provided assurances to Congress and the press that this aid would be doled out “consistent with U.S. law,” the State Department was scrambling to secure a sanctions exemption that would let it skirt anti-terrorism laws.

    Hi risk. No shit. My corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president did it anyway.

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    Speaking of Bibi, Israeli defense intelligence analysts have been warning him for months now that his sweeping and intrusive efforts to overhaul Israeli government bureaucracy to give him more control would leave the state wide open to a coordinated multi-front attack.

    Netanyahu dismissed them all as “leftists” and his senior cabinet ministers told alarmed IDF generals to “go to hell”.

    Sound familiar?

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    What a massive failure of Israeli intelligence.

    Can’t help that the Republican Presidential nominee has been handing Israeli defense secrets to the guy arming Israel’s attackers.

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    @ 9

    Never mind that Russia is ultimately behind the Iranian backing of Hamas.

    Don’t forget the US backing of Iran. My corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president just got done handing Iran $6 billion. That’s $6 billion that Iran doesn’t need from Russia.

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    Any minute now QoS McHillbilly is gonna blame Israel making nice with Saudi Arabia. You just cannot provoke Iran like that. You just cannot. Not after Obama has made it clear that the US under Democrat rule wants Iran to have nukes.

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    got done handing Iran $6 billion.

    6 billion of their own munee in exchange for American citizens..

    Lessee.. oh.. those peeps shoulda just rotted in Iranian jail cells.. that’s teh kreepula way.. no higher value.. than munee…

    No… Americans shouldn’t travel to Iran.. no matter the family or bidness ties.. bad shit can happen under a rogue theocratic regime..

    just look at the shit going down in the red states..

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/a-texas-county-that-borders-new-mexico-is-the-latest-to-consider-an-abortion-travel-ban/ar-AA1hm2Fs

    Heh.. Amtrak ticket.. NOT a solution…

  21. 21

    Speaking of massive intelligence failures:

    Creative director takes blame for missed Paul Stanley guitar smash

    Creative director at Mushroom Creative House, Tom McDonald, has taken the blame for Channel Seven’s coverage missing KISS lead singer Paul Stanley’s iconic guitar smash during their performance at the AFL Grand Final.

  22. 22

    the US under Democrat rule wants Iran to have nukes.

    Last I heard, sanctions are still in place and Iran is enriching uranium..

    The first year or two of drumpf, Tillerson certified that Iran was in compliance w/ agreement.

  23. 23

    @5 Oh, you notice that Netanyahu’s policy of bullying Palestinians, seizing their land, and treating them like a conquered and subjugated people didn’t bring lasting peace again?

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    As much as I want to see all of Memorial Stadium preserved, I’ll settle for the Memorial Wall itself. The Grandstands were in bad shape when I was in High School, that was 30 years ago. Still there is a lot of history in the grandstands itself, and if it wasn’t Seattle Public Schools itself pushing this application, the Board could have been designated the whole stadium. King 5’s first broadcast, a championship game between West Seattle and Wenatchee, was at the then-new Memorial Stadium.

    https://mynorthwest.com/3934060/memorial-wall-not-stadium-designated-historic-seattle-landmark/

    The grandstands and field will be replaced, and may even gain the Seattle Seawolves Major League Rugby team. Some of the fans are already complaining, sight unseen, about lack of parking or transit access. One way to handle that, an exit from the grandstands to the direction of the Monorail terminal.

    SPS enrollment is Peaks and Valleys, currently they are considering mothballing a few schools(they rarely sell surplus ones anymore,) There has been talk over the years a Downtown-adjacent HS may be needed, and unlike Wallingford, where Lincoln HS was reactivated, SPS has no surplus property in the area, Broadway closed in 1946, now the Seattle Central College campus(Go Tigers, incidentally, also Broadways mascot), and Queen Anne HS closed in 1981, now apartments. Parking lot at Memorial Stadium might have been a logical place to build.

  26. 26

    @8 “How long until we find out that abandoned US weaponry was used to strike Israel today?”

    Can’t wait until it actually happens, can you? But you’re typical of Republicans — make shit up and hope it comes true. Most of the time it doesn’t, makes your ilk look like liars time after time.

  27. 27

    @9 “Russian GRU operated Birdshite and other social media bot accounts are proliferating content this morning attempting to link US support for Ukraine with claims of ‘abandoning’ Israel.”

    And the Whidbee Dupe will buy it whole hog.

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    22)Thought we increased a few after the recent deal. Love how a couple we exchanged for hostages didn’t want to go back.

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    @10 “Roughly 50 years since the Yom Kippur war.”

    And still no peace because Israel still treats Palestinians as inmates of a penal colony.

    A pox on both their houses. They deserve each other. There are no good guys in this cage fight.

  30. 30

    @12 Wherein the Whidbee Dupe magically transforms humanitarian aid into weapons of terrorism with a few keystrokes.

    Dishonest as hell. But what do you expect from a Republican?

  31. 31

    @18 ” … just got done handing Iran $6 billion” of their own money, but never mind that detail. Republicans get excited about property rights only when they need an excuse for shooting at a car full of kids that pulled into their driveway by mistake.

  32. 32

    @19 “Not after Obama has made it clear that the US under Democrat rule wants Iran to have nukes.”

    You’re mistaken. It’s Trump who removed all the restraints from Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

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    @20 Frankly, I think the State Department should hand a printed warning to every American waiting to board a plane bound for Russia, China, Iran, or Saudi Arabia that the U.S. will not trade for them.

    After all, Doctor Dumbfuck says the U.S. shouldn’t pay $1 billion a nose for Americans who go venturing into Iran for whatever reason (and there are no good reasons). Shouldn’t we heed his wisdom?

  34. 34

    What better example of the benefit of public transit in a Democrat-run city can there be than a 14 year-old stabbing a 13 year-old to death on a transit bus?

  35. 35

    “ And still no peace because Israel still treats Palestinians as inmates of a penal colony.

    A pox on both their houses. They deserve each other. There are no good guys in this cage fight.”

    No kidding! Israel is NOT part of the US and is NOT an ally. Why else would they send Jonathan Pollard to spy against us or knowingly attack our Navy’s ship in June of 1967? It’s time to seal at arm’s length with all of the Middle East and the rest of the world.

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    @ 35

    Israel is not an ally because one Israeli guy spied on us 56 years ago.

    Germany IS an ally despite killing 6 million Jews 80 years ago.

    Got it.

  39. 39

    Israel is a peculiar experiment in nation state hood.

    I mean a truly “jewish state” would have only jews living in its borders..

    Yet if Israel had the wherewithal to expel ALL those of non-jewish ethnicity it would risked being treated as a pariah state from its origins.. That would have only emboldened and strengthened world-wide anti-semitic sentiment.

    And from the start the borders of Israel were a problem for the new jewish state. It had to expand. It had to eventually annex the Golan Heights. It had to encompass the all the lands from “the river to the sea”.. For its security and a fresh water supply for its burgeoning population.

    Israel manages the “arab problem” with fences, walls, checkpoints, a militarized population, a regime of ongoing repressive measures and occasional exercises of “mowing the grass”.. This is the Israeli version of the “white man’s burden”.

    I personally throw up my hands.. Israel will be Israel. Its highest value is the preservation of the jewish state at more or less any cost.. If it means racism, they will be racist.. If it means bombing concentrations of Palestinians and killing kids, it will do that.

    And we give almost 4 billions dollars a year to that.. More foreign aid than we give to any country. Billions of dollars that Israel is free to spend however it pleases – on equipping its military, on building settlements, on fences, walls and a host of repressive measures to keep at bay the demons have plagued the jewish state since its inception.

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    @35 Agreed; but being the amoral, greedy, and rapacious capitalist I am, I’m not above owning Israeli defense stocks. I paid $36 for Elbit Systems, and it’s what? $208 now? I wonder what it’ll be Monday?

    No stock portfolio is really complete without investing in Israeli militarism. An endless stream of revenue is virtually guaranteed. Israel’s highest value to me is capital appreciation and dividends.

    Don’t get me wrong; I’d love for Israelis and Palestinians to settle their differences and bring a just and lasting peace to the Middle East. But I’m a realist; and not being in a position to affect events, like Gman @39 I throw up my hands, and settle for the profits of eternal war as a distant second choice.

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    Any minute now QoS McHillbilly is gonna blame Israel making nice with Saudi Arabia.

    Around the peak of his career, in between early rounds, one of Tyson’s ill fated opponents was heard to mutter through a spray of his own blood, “N!&&#r sounds like a girl,”.

    It wasn’t true, of course. Tyson’s voice sounds nothing like a woman, but rather more like a cartoon.
    But it also had nothing at all to do with who was going to win that night, and who was going to go home pissing blood.

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    Some of US Navy anti missile weapon stockpiles that the Biden administration has been trying to transfer to Israel to replenish its anti missile defenses are being delayed because Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has blocked confirmation of Admiral Lisa M. Franchetti as Chief of Naval Operations for the last three months.

  46. 46

    Another big price cut from TSLA for the second time in the last month after they missed their delivery projections once again.

    GO CYBERTRUCK 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024?!!!??

  47. 47

    45)Wonder if it goes both ways, as the Marines are acquiring the Iron Dome. Unlike the army, they seem enthusiastic.

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    The money made accessible to Iran as a part of the deal are Iranian funds that have been held in restricted South Korean accounts. Sources told CNN the funds came from oil sales that were allowed and placed into accounts set up under the Trump administration.
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/iran-money-explainer/index.html

    The Shit-Lord Crybaby lying has become a ritual daily routine to accompany his ritual daily humiliation.

    Brett McGurk, White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, said Monday that “no funds are going to Iran at all.”

    “These funds are paid to vetted third-party vendors for food, medicine, medical products and agricultural products to go into Iran over a period of years. If there is any diversion, we’ll know it and we’ll lock up these accounts,”

    The lying is necessary now that the troll’s Republican Party has abandoned national loyalty and democratic principles to embrace authoritarian grift in service to a failed reality television celebrity.

  49. 49

    47,

    None of it goes in any direction so long as Republicans in Congress continue to empower and protect the dangerous extremists within their own ranks like Tommy Tuberville. Their loyalty is always to party first. They certainly don’t care if Marines die because of that.

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    Any reason the corrupt authoritarian Netanyahu won’t use this “intelligence failure” to consolidate power and silence critics?

  52. 52

    @45. If Democrats supported Israel, they would be cooperating with Tuberville forcing pregnant women to have the same rights as breeding livestock.

  55. 55

    A Bonaparte on the winning side of a fight with Germans for a change? Ironically he had to sneak in, as thanks to his ancestors, Republican France prohibited Bonaparte and Bourbon male heirs from residing in France. Since Napoleon III destroyed the Second Republic from within, can understand the need for such a rule. Even with a Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honor, and Resistance Medal, the law still applied after the war.

    https://youtu.be/IOuCNmpkZNo?si=9fFb5DiPdxisVTKm

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    53,
    Yes he was. And still is to the best of my knowledge.

    But that clearly does not preclude his unguarded admission that it’s bullshit when he thinks he’s off mic.

  57. 57

    Republican Logic 101: None of the $6 billion of Iranian oil money unfrozen by the Biden administration has been spent yet, therefore Biden funded the Hamas attacks on Israel.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/2024-gop-presidential-contenders-blame-biden-hamas-attacks-israel-rcna119328

    Democracy has its limitations; in a country where two-thirds of the voters can’t correctly spell their own names, and one of the major political parties habitually lies, this is likely to become a majority opinion.

  58. 58

    @52 To Republican males, women are breeding livestock; but as this puts them out of action for months at a time, they also use young boys for backup.

  59. 59

    @54 Don’t you mean the MAGA Persecution Fetish?

    I guess this is what frustrating wannabe pop stars do for a living. The setting and characters in that video remind me of “Jailhouse Rock.”

  61. 61

    @60 Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, and a handful of other political figures self-identifying as “Republicans” who’ve either been purged from the GOP or soon will be.

  63. 63

    60,

    None of them, not a single one, has ever confronted their own voters, even in the slightest, for having so eagerly embraced Russian laboratory purified bullshit engineered to weaken democracy.

    MAGA is nothing if not cowardly. And an arrogant coward is nonetheless still a coward.

  64. 64

    “FLIP”:

    https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-nancy-marks-4d249e9d5e83fd25ed1a19a9e13d3246

    A couple of notable things here are that DOJ prosecutors have never offered the Santos campaign treasurer any kind of cooperation agreement and are seeking a long custodial sentence. Yet Marks’ attorneys indicate they are still very eager to offer her testimony against Santos.

    That set of facts usually indicates an overpowering case for the prosecution that nobody involved with has any real expectation other than conviction.

    Looks like another Republican of average Republican intelligence is also going to “find out”.

    A lot of it going around.

  67. 67

    The blame game after the Orange Wave in Manitoba’s provincial election Tuesday. NDP swept out the Progressive Conservatives. 57 seats in the assembly, 32 in Winnipeg alone, PCs did well in rural Manitoba, but Winnipeg shows land doesn’t vote, PCs only one three seats in the Capitol. The Liberals lost two seats, but they have not been a factor at the Provincial level in Manitoba in 40 years.

    It appears an ad campaign opposing the excavation of a landfill where Indigenous women are alleged to have been buried may have backfired. Paving the way for Premier-designate (Leftenant Governor hasn’t asked him yet to form Government) Wally Kinew, Canadas first Indigenous Premier.

    https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-tory-cabinet-minister-denounces-right-wing-pivot-in-election-campaign-1.6588948

  68. 68

    I found this in Barrons magazine (10/9/23 print edition, page 35):

    “Incredibly, many investors say 70% to 90% of all options trades end in a loss. The figures have been cited for decades and reinforced by academic studies ….

    “It’s easy to conclude that the options market needs losers like people need oxygen. Dumb investors — and they are a hallmark of every market — create reliable profits for options dealers, who historically have had many colorful sayings about them.”

    Of course, this doesn’t apply to Doctor Dumbfuck, who can reliably predict market moves in advance, and wins with every trade. I only posted this to explain why I, a mere dumb bunny, don’t trade options.

    For mortals like me, Barrons offered this advice:

    “Stocks first; options second. Only trade options on stocks you own or want to buy. … Use options to better manage your stocks, not for speculation. … Sophisticated investors usually sell options, as dealers often overprice them., Stocks must make extraordinary moves for long options to be profitable — which happens less than you might think. … [G]uard against overconfidence.”

    I have no confidence in my ability to trade options, so I don’t try. Is that sensible?

    Is owning a horse, having to feed it, pay veterinary bills, needing acreage for it, etc., sound sensible? A nice hobby, if you can afford it, but not a method of saving or investing.

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    “Incredibly, many investors say 70% to 90% of all options trades end in a loss. The figures have been cited for decades and reinforced by academic studies ….

    kount kreepula klaims it hasn’t had a losing year since.. iirc, 2007 or 2008?

    heh.. I’m sure it’s very proud of those 2,3 or even 4 digit profit years since then…

    It’ll be even prouder of that low 4 figure monthly haul from SS starting in December.

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    A nice hobby, if you can afford it, but not a method of saving or investing.

    Well, when the wife isn’t happen because she ain’t getting much anymore she’ll start to dream of bbc, so you buy her a horse. It’s not just a hobby

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    What better example of the benefit of public transit in a Democrat-run city can there be than a 14 year-old stabbing a 13 year-old to death on a transit bus?

    You do know that Staten Island is very Republican? It voted overwhelmingly for The FuckHump. Its community leaders are very Republican.

    You attributing this crime (Heterosexual Neanderthal Violence) to Democrats or a political party is just pure Dumbfuckery. You not understanding the failings of the heterosexual society is burrowing your ass in the sand.

  73. 73

    Kids killing kids is a result of heterosexual Neanderthals not raising their kids properly. Bad people raise bad people, heterosexuals Neanderthals are bad people.

  74. 74

    @71.

    At that rate, it would take more than a decade to earn what I earn in 1 year….and we all know that I am poor.

    I can earn what they earn just in my 401k annually.

  75. 75

    The whole fucking Biden Crime Family are POS.

    Hunter Biden’s daughter Naomi ‘vandalized’ US Capitol while a Senate Page — which led to groveling apology

    “It was vandalism,” said one former Reid staffer. “I remember perfectly. On the tour of the rotunda when you go up to the top of the dome, they carved their names into the stone.”

    “It’s up at the very top so you can only have a couple of people up there at a time. It would have had to have been on the tour. There is no way they could have gotten up there at any other time,” the insider recalled.

    “They had to bring in architects and everything to buff it out.”

    The little POS cunt was given a job in Harry Reid’s office, and used her privileged access to do this.

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    @ 69

    …70% to 90% of all options trades end in a loss.

    Since so many options trades involve hedging, this does not surprise me.

    Know what else overwhelmingly ends in a loss? Insurance premiums.

    Queen YLB, ya silly twat, stick with what you know. Bank-paid savings account interest, perhaps.

  77. 77

    Among other things that overwhelmingly end in a loss:

    Tuition paid for a BA/MA/PhD degree in ABCXYZ Studies disciplines. Any of them.

  78. 78

    @ 68

    Sophisticated investors usually sell options, as dealers often overprice them., Stocks must make extraordinary moves for long options to be profitable…

    Right now I have about four dozen options positions. Only one of them is a purchased call, and that call expires Dec 2025. All of the others are either sold calls or sold puts, and I was paid the option premium up-front.

    I disagree that share prices have to change extraordinarily for a long option to be profitable. What the author probably meant is that share prices on a purchased call have to change extraordinarily for that transaction to be profitable. If shares are at $50 and a call is sold at $60 or a put is sold at $40, expiration in January 2025, and that share price does not budge over the ensuing 15 months, the option expires worthless, and the full premium paid is retained by the seller. Zero change in share price or $9.99 change in share price, the profit on the option transaction is the same.

    It’s instructive that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit merely parroted what he read.

  79. 79

    @ 77

    Clarification: In many cases that loss is backstopped by Queen YLB’s fucked kids, who will have to subsidize the degree-earner’s subsistence for his/her/its entire adult life thereafter.

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    @ 65

    Get him Elijah….tell the Dumbfuck how much of a Dumbfuck he is!

    Things change over time. HA has gone from Queen YLB hiding behind Goldy’s skirt to G-clown hiding behind QoS McHillbilly’s skirt.

    I’m glad for the latter. After all, while AIDS isn’t spread via aerosol transmission, why take a chance if I don’t have to?

  81. 81

    US deaths on 9/11: 2,977. US population in 2001: 285 million

    Israeli deaths from the Hamas attack: 600 and counting. Israel population: 9.4 million

    “More than 600 Israelis have lost their lives in a surprise large-scale attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas on Saturday,” the Israeli TV channel i24News reported Sunday afternoon.

    Now, I assume that number does not include the Palestinian Israelis.

    Yesterday was Israel’s 9/11. Israel should not rest until she flushes out each and every Hamas/Hezbollah leader from its Dumbfuck Rabbit-like shithole.

  82. 82

    72)I must be doing something wrong, I survived the streetcar and train going to Metro’s 50th anniversary event 2 weeks ago. Saw an item on display that made being a transit operator a job with a target on their back. Frequent assault/robberies and one fatality in the late 1960s led Seattle Transit, and later the Feds to ban its use. The deadly device? The coin changer. $500 wasn’t worth a drivers life.

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    @76 I understand now. Your options trades are insurance premiums that you pay to minimize your losses on your investments. Thanks for clearing that up.

    By the way, the options dealers appreciate your business. And call you “colorful names.”

  85. 85

    @78 “merely parroted what he read”

    I guess so, if that’s what you call quoting someone who knows more about this than I do. Which is what anyone who quotes sources is doing. You, for instance, in numerous of your comments.

    I’ll bet you did that on your med school exams, too.

  86. 86

    @81 Oh look, the dumbfuck doctor is trying to paint me with a Hamas brush. Me, an American patriot and war veteran, allegedly associating with terrorists. Talk about “awkward.”

    So far, the best his tribe’s been able to do is blame the attack on Biden and call it an “opportunity” for Republicans. Doc isn’t doing any better.

    Here’s a wrinkle for him and them to gnaw on: Some of the hostages are Americans. And Biden is moving an aircraft carrier to the scene. I think maybe we’re gonna be in this war, too.

    Maybe it’s now time for Tommy Tubes to lift his blockade of the U.S. military?

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    72)His ilk probably loves to jump on issues with the bus in my neighborhood, but as bus routes go, rt7 has pretty much kept it’s core routing ever since the Seattle Municipal Street Railway initiated bus service on Rainier Ave after the shutdown of the Seattle and Rainier Valley Interurban. Besides average people, some prominent citizens have road it over the years. Like a son of a doctor living in Rainier Beach who played baseball at Franklin High School, Fred Hutchinson. (Should have been a Viking, not a Quaker, but RBHS would not open until the 50s.) The politician on the bus in this mural honoring rt7 and prominent Rainier Valley residents would know about being backstabbed by members of his caucus. Its long time State Rep John L O’Brien, ousted as House Speaker in 63, but seemed not bitter about it, had a chance to reclaim the gavel in 65, but declined.

    https://columbiacitygallery.com/news/mural-honoring-iconic-7-bus-and-local-residents-at-columbia-city-gallery/

    Rt7 has had a few issues over the years, but I’m more concerned about reliability. I admit some characters may make people nervous, I’ve seen drivers have to stop some from getting on. Just its high ridership alone gives it reliability issues, even if crime was not a problem in the city. Tgey never stop working on speeding it up. Not much more can be done on frequency, every 7-10 minutes peak, maybe down to 5 would help, but 7-10 requires nearly 20 buses to handle that frequency. Battery electric buses would make it worse. The biggest block I’ve seen with articulated battery buses in 6 hours on rt101, makes three round trips to Renton and Doentown Seattle, fewer if it includes a trip on the 102. An articulated trolleybus doesn’t need fuel or charging, I’ve seen some on the road for 24 hours.

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    Hunter Biden’s daughter Naomi ‘vandalized’ US Capitol while a Senate Page — which led to groveling apology

    Makes me wonder if the dumbfuck ever noticed the tearful, groveling apologies made by his dozen cosplaying grandmothers before they were sentenced to decades in prison for their violent assault on our nation’s Capitol and sedition. Oh, and for smearing their own shit all over the place. Classy grandmothers, huh?

    The little POS cunt was given a job in Harry Reid’s office, and used her privileged access to do this.

    Men are unserious twats and women are POS cunts in Dumbfuck World where dumbfuck incel fascists, superior beings all, stand tall above those below them. You know, the pathetic trash who still believe in democracy and who actually get laid by members of their own species? It’s the latter that really rubs the dumbfuck Incel fascists the wrong way.

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    an American patriot and war veteran

    Not to mention a career in public service and a successful marriage to an actual human being. Greedy Incel fascists struggle mightily to relate to that kind of stuff.

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    @89 “was given a job in Harry Reid’s office, and used her privileged access to do this”

    That’s true. She didn’t batter her way into the Capitol in order to carve “Kilroy was here” into the ceiling. Or try to overthrow our democratically-elected government.

    Funny how the dumbfuck overlooks that. As for me, if I were forced to choose between vandals, I’d take her vandalism over MAGA vandalism every day of the week.

  92. 92

    Benjy built his political career on gratuitously bullying, brutalizing, and provoking the Palestinians. Until yesterday, he may even have believed his “Peace Through Oppression” policy had them pacified (although see below).

    Israel blockaded Gaza by land, sea, and air. I mean, the place was hermetically sealed! A termite couldn’t get in or out without a pass. So, even though it ran the place, there’s no way Hamas could’ve stockpiled 5,000 rockets to use against Israel, amirite?

    Mossad is the best intelligence service in the world. A Palestinian can’t sneeze without their knowing about it, and Benjy gets up-to-the-minute intelligence briefings. There’s no way Hamas could prepare a large-scale attack without his knowledge, amirite?

    And this weekend all the Israeli soldiers were in their barracks for a well-deserved day of rest and relaxation, because nothing’s going to happen on a major Jewish holiday, amirite?

    Well, Benjy got the war he wanted, so he can assume dictatorial powers. But it took a lot of work to wag that dog, didn’t it?

    Hey, this is just a thought experiment, that’s all.

  93. 93

    Bank-paid savings account interest, perhaps.

    And a shit for brains from widbee will dance in December over a low 4 figure once a month SS check..

    Same as it did for Mary Kay..

    Yawwwn.. what a financial wizard.. Just look at the ass fucking it took from a zoomer magat with a baby momma.. heh.. dang that was funee…

  94. 94

    Mossad is the best intelligence service in the world. A Palestinian can’t sneeze without their knowing about it, and Benjy gets up-to-the-minute intelligence briefings. There’s no way Hamas could prepare a large-scale attack without his knowledge, amirite?

    That’s the main question.. Pro-Israeli editorial writers are blaming it on the Israelis fighting each other over Bibi’s powergrab on the judiciary..

    BS. Israel has never let a good crisis go to waste..

  95. 95

    who will have to subsidize the degree-earner’s subsistence for his/her/its entire adult life thereafter.

    I’ll tell them vote for Dems like Biden who promise not to raise taxes on working people.. Working people have gotten the shaft since the early 70’s. Bonzonomics set that shit in stone.

    If they’re lucky enough to be rich, just pay the taxes.. Sure minimize them with sound middle of the road strategies. It doesn’t cost a fortune to live well.

  96. 96

    @95 If you’re rich you don’t have to pay taxes. You get a lower tax rate, and there’s no IRS enforcement on the rest. Republicans see to that.

  98. 98

    At this point I just want to remind everyone that Republicans have not yet achieved the tax system they aspire to, which is no taxation of capital gains, stock options, rents, dividends or interest, inheritances and gifts — in other words, no taxes on any form of income except employee wages. They’re also against taxing investments, savings, and property. They will, however, accept a 38% federal sales tax on consumers in lieu of a progressive income tax.

  99. 99

    Medieval socioeconomic system: We, the nobility, will protect you if you give us all your money and carry this spear for us.

    The best thing about Middle Ages life was that nobody had to live it for very long.

  101. 101

    there’s no way Hamas could’ve stockpiled 5,000 rockets to use against Israel,

    The rockets are homemade out of commonly available materials like pipe and sheet metal. They are propelled with sugar and fertilizer. And the payload charge is only about 10% TNT (which isn’t too hard to smuggle or synthesize) mixed with more fertilizer. They can be easily concealed and transported in a passenger car.

    No doubt this was a huge Intel failure by Israel. But it also represents some very disciplined opsec by Hamas.

  102. 102

    @101
    There’s not a chance in the world that it wasn’t known by any of their intelligence and spy agencies, Let alone that there are other ALLIED agencies in the world ALSO spying on Hamas.
    The best case scenario, is few knew about it and were told to let it happen as a common enemy is great to unite a divided country, which Israel is massively so since this summer.

  103. 103

    92)Possibly smuggled in by Sub? Although Israel does have a small but effective navy. Best German Shipyards can build. Their current subs could be considered modern U-Boats.

  104. 104

    100)Just get tge Senate back and start confirming more individually if possible. I mean the House is paralyzed..

  105. 105

    102,

    It’s easier to “not know” a thing than it is to know it and ignore it anyway. While both may amount to the same thing, operationally and politically it may be more likely that the Netanyahu government reduced certain efforts at monitoring and discovery while at the same time introducing skepticism and scrutiny toward certain key reports. That is, assuming Netanyahu welcomed the slaughter of his own people.

    I’m on the fence about that.
    He’s incredibly corrupt. And politically ruthless. But I’m not sure he’s that much of a monster that he would conjure into being or even stand by and allow an attack like this to develop.

  106. 106

    “Israel’s current hard-right government, dominated by factions that oppose a peace agreement with the Palestinians, has been conducting a de facto annexation of the West Bank. It has turned a blind eye to settler violence against West Bank civilians, including a February rampage in the town of Huwara.

    “Israel’s focus on the West Bank may also have created an operational opportunity for Hamas. According to Uzi Ben Yitzhak, a retired Israeli general, the Israeli government has deployed most of the regular IDF forces to the West Bank to manage the situation there — leaving only a skeleton force at the Gaza border. The effort to secure permanent Israeli control over the West Bank, in this assessment, created conditions where a Hamas surprise attack could actually succeed.”

    https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907323/israel-war-hamas-attack-explained-southern-israel-gaza

    Not a pretty picture from any angle.

  107. 107

    It defies logic that Israel can ever have peace by treating the Palestinians the way they do. But it also seems neither ordinary Israelis nor ordinary Palestinians get to choose their governments. So there you are: The first perpetual motion machine known to physics.

  109. 109

    @ 84

    @76 I understand now.

    No. You don’t. You’ve made that abundantly clear.

  110. 110

    @ 105

    But I’m not sure he’s that much of a monster that he would conjure into being or even stand by and allow an attack like this to develop.

    No, that was Pelosi in advance of J6.

  111. 111

    @ 100

    Hamas is rejoicing.

    There’s a carrier strike group heading into the Mediterranean. Hamas won’t be rejoicing for long. With a US election 13 months away, Democrats aren’t about to hold back on this one.

    The serious ones, I mean.

  112. 112

    @ 108

    We didn’t feel it. Less than 10 miles as the crow flies from the epicenter.

    Don’t bother asking the Dumbfuck Rabbit household members. The earth hasn’t moved for Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit, ever, unless she was riding a BBC at the time.

  114. 114

    Mossad is the best intelligence service in the world. A Palestinian can’t sneeze without their knowing about it, and Benjy gets up-to-the-minute intelligence briefings. There’s no way Hamas could prepare a large-scale attack without his knowledge, amirite?

    That’s the main question.. Pro-Israeli editorial writers are blaming it on the Israelis fighting each other over Bibi’s powergrab on the judiciary..

    BS. Israel has never let a good crisis go to waste..

    Netty’s government purposely let this happen for many reasons!

  116. 116

    “I love democracy too much that if it was a Biden and Trump race, I’d still vote for Biden even if he was dead. And I’m a Republican.”

  117. 117

    Senator Spartacus was in Israel when the attacks came.

    Cory Booker
    @CoryBooker
    I was in Israel when the horrific attacks carried out by Hamas started on Saturday. My team and I are now safe, but like many we are shaken, angered, and heartbroken by the hundreds killed, the thousands injured, those taken hostage, and all who are directly affected by these sickening terrorist attacks.

    After this experience, more than ever, I am committed to working with my colleagues in the Senate to continue supporting Israel’s security and ensuring stability in the region — and I hope one day soon, a long-term and just peace in the region.
    0:00 / 1:10
    2:31 PM · Oct 8, 2023

    So was Hunter Biden’s apologist and bootlicker Dan Goldman.

  118. 118

    Hey, it’s not like there’s anything important happening in the world or any Americans suddenly taken hostage anywhere.

    Jacqui Heinrich
    @JacquiHeinrich
    The White House has called a lid before noon.

    We do not expect to see or hear from President Biden for the rest of the day.
    8:55 AM · Oct 9, 2023

    After his Secretary of State issued an indefensible tweet and was forced to delete it, perhaps the White House realizes that Biden would be asked about it. They’ll hide him all month if they have to.

  119. 119

    @117 A “long-term and just peace in the region” is incompatible with Israel’s notion of “security.”

    Israel’s far-right leadership can’t lay off provoking Palestinians, and Hamas can’t lay off terrorism. So there won’t be any peace.

  120. 120

    Iran looks really blurry to an administration with its head up its ass.

    Noah Rothman
    @NoahCRothman
    Hamas has said Iran facilitated the attack. Hezbollah sources confirm that on the record. WSJ reports Syrian sources have also confirmed. They have a detailed report on IRGC operational control over the attack following weeks of prep in Beirut. What evidence does the admin lack?
    Quote
    Jim Sciutto
    @jimsciutto
    ·
    18h
    New: US has yet to find a smoking gun linking Iran directly to planning and executing attack on Israel this weekend, US officials told CNN. However, there’s no denying Iran’s history of aiding Hamas. As one said, “Of course Iran is in the picture.”

    http://cnn.com/2023/10/08/poli.....index.html
    5:18 PM · Oct 8, 2023
    ·

  121. 121

    @120 What’s blurry about “Of course Iran is in the picture”?

    Had your eyes checked recently? Or ever?

  123. 123

    @ 119

    … Hamas can’t lay off terrorism. So there won’t be any peace.

    Exterminating Hamas has not yet been attempted. A declaration of war makes it different this time. Wars end when one side is soundly defeated and surrenders. This one should be no different.

  124. 124

    @123 Exterminating Hamas, desirable as that is, will not bring peace. That would require that Israel either stop mistreating the Palestinian people, or exterminate them. And there’s virtually no chance the current Israeli regime will stop mistreating them. So before peace can happen, Hamas and Netanyahu both need to be gone. Unless you’re prepared to endorse the wholesale genocide of the Palestinian people.

  126. 126

    No, that was Pelosi in advance of J6.

    Why on earth would Nancy need to plan in advance for a dozen cosplaying grandmothers visiting the Capitol?

  127. 127

    “Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) on Sunday scolded fellow Democrat Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) for … mischaracterizing the invasion as ‘resistance.’ And he took issue with Tlaib and Missouri Democrat Cori Bush’s apparent plea for the United States to cease funding for Israel. … ‘U.S. aid to Israel is and should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need,’ Torres added in a statement.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ritchie-torres-rashida-tlaib-cori-bush-israel_n_6523bebde4b0a32c15bf46a8

    Torres is half-right. The Hamas attack is terrorism, not resistance. But no U.S. aid to anyone should ever be unconditional. The U.S. should support Israel, but should pressure Israeli to refrain from actions that are clearly wrong and provoke conflict.

  129. 129

    Today’s quiz: The principal of a public high school saw a 17-year-old student dancing at an off-campus party in a social media video. He summoned her to his office, chastised her, questioned who her friends were, told her she would be removed as student body president, and would no longer be recommended for a college scholarship because she was “not living in the Lord’s way.” Question: How much money should the school district pay her for violating her constitutional right to freedom from the principal’s religion?

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-dancing-student-punished_n_65247407e4b0102e6963205c

    “Zero” obviously is a wrong answer, but otherwise there’s really no “right” answer, although it should be possible to come up with a range. For violating her civil rights, including treble damages and attorney’s fees under 42 U.S. Code § 1981, including attorney fees, plus harm to reputation, damages for emotional distress, and compensation for loss of the monetary value of the scholarship, I’d guess this jackass cost the school district somewhere between $400K and $600K, not including the district’s costs of defending the lawsuit.

  130. 130

    Why are Republicans such shameless liars? Did they receive no moral education when growing up?

    Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claims gas is over $4/gal. in South Carolina; but according to GasBuddy, “Hundreds of stations in SC are at $2.99/gal or below, and not a single station has been reported to GasBuddy over $3.79/gal.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-gas-prices-fail/

  131. 131

    Why are Republicans so ignorant about contract law?

    When this rich guy hired a cybersecurity firm, he didn’t tell them payment for their services was contingent on their finding election fraud; they were under the impression he promised to pay an agreed amount for their time, labor, and expenses. That’s probably what it says in writing, too.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020-election-fraud-cyber-security-pennsylvania/

    No word yet on whether the process server he allegedly assaulted is suing him, too.

  132. 132

    Not one of them was/is a drag quenn. All of them, Heterosexual Neanderthals.

    Take pleasure in the superiority of reproducing……. reproducing animals! Beyond shamefull.

  134. 134

    Joe Biden’s brother sucked Hunter off in exchange for cash. Explains a couple of those SARs and vexing wire transfers, at least at the receiving end.

    Exposed: President Joe Biden’s Brother Admits Naked Selfie Found on Gay Dating Site is Genuine, Claims Phone Was Hacked

    What, you think Hunter only had sex with his dead brother’s wife? This is the Joe Biden who fucked Ashley in the shower when she was eight, remember. The whole family’s fucked as hell.

  135. 135

    WaPo correction, today:

    An earlier version of this article incorrectly described Hamas’s aim as the creation of a Palestinian state along the borders that existed before the 1967 war. Hamas does not recognize the existence of Israel and is committed to replacing it through armed struggle with a Palestinian state stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.

    That last part is more commonly known as “From the River to the Sea”. Just ask Marc Lamont Hill.

  136. 136

    @135 Mirrors Bibi’s approach to Palestinians. Doesn’t work for either side; only produces unending violence, with civilians of both sides caught in the middle, who should eject Hamas and Bibi to make room for more reasonable people to work things out.

  137. 137

    The person who calls itself ACAB is a fucking asshole.

    Special Prosecutor Decision in January 18, 2023 Shooting Incident Near The Site Of The Future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center

    LEO shot and killed a POS Antifa asswipe who shot first. Good riddance.

    Being the chickenshit that it is, ACAB never acknowledged the gunpowder residue on the POS Antifa asswipe’s hands.

  138. 138

    @137 “ACAB never acknowledged the gunpowder residue on the POS Antifa asswipe’s hands.”

    I’m just guessing, but maybe because the medical examiner’s autopsy report said there wasn’t any? But that’s just a detail, and you’re not a detail person.

  139. 139

    The only living witnesses are the cops who were at the scene, and more than one of them thought the cop who got shot in the leg was hit by friendly fire.

    That, by itself, doesn’t prove the dead “activist” didn’t shoot at the cops. Neither do the bullet holes in his outstretched palms. Putting it all together, it may simply mean they were all lousy shots.

  140. 140

    Further information about the POS fake elector who assaulted the process server serving him with a lawsuit by a cybersecurity firm he hired to comb voting machines for evidence of election fraud and reported back they didn’t find any, whereupon he refused to pay them:

    “In the process of effectuating service, Bill Brachenburg attempted to take my phone out of my right hand and punched me on the inside of my elbow. He then attempted to yank my phone out of my hand again and struck me in the right shoulder/collarbone. He then pushed me and I twisted my left hip which is healing from a third replacement. Bill Brachenburg proceeded to scream to ‘call the police,’ ‘don’t let him out,’ ‘he’s trespassing!’ The Pennsylvania State Police report number is: PA2023-1294441; there was a citation issued to Bill Brachenburg. The EMS report is enclosed. I went to St. Luke’s Hospital Anderson Campus for treatment.”

    https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1711527078053503254/photo/4

    Can we all agree that assaulting people, whether it’s assaulting cops or assaulting a process server, is not OK?

  141. 141

    With foreign policy complexities like these, the last thing we need in the White House is a silly amateur like Nikki Haley or a neo-isolationist like RKF Jr.

  142. 142

    Bob is a classic POS.

    Traitor of Democracy, Equality and Justice.

    The forefathers would have hung him.

  143. 143

    @ 142

    The forefathers would have hung him.

    This from the guy who thinks of our forefathers only to wonder if any of them were hung.

  144. 144

    Fucking Steve Garvey says he’ll run for CA Senate.

    He was being groomed for a Senate run back in the Pete Wilson days, until it emerged that as a married man he had fathered children out of wedlock by not one but two women.

    Fucking asshole. He went from that to defrauding investors over something sport-related that I cannot recall.

    Back then he was a Rethuglican. Fucking Steve Garvey.

  145. 145

    @ 141

    With foreign policy complexities like these, the last thing we need in the White House is a silly amateur like Nikki Haley …

    Oh, look! Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is resurrecting the 2007-08 Clintonian argument against Barack Obama’s candidacy!

    Except for that stint as United States Ambassador to the United Nations that Haley held for four years, I mean. She served as rotating president of the UN Security Council, among other noteworthy foreign policy experience.

    From a 2017 Op-Ed by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations:

    While the president continues to coddle the Kremlin, Haley has blasted Russia for aggression in Ukraine and Syria and condemned Putin’s government for hacking the 2016 election.

    Exploiting her Cabinet status, Haley is challenging the putative foreign policy leadership of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has become marginalized within the administration and virtually absent on the global stage. As Tillerson busies himself with downsizing the State Department — and sees more of his portfolio outsourced to the Defense and Treasury departments — Haley fills the vacuum. And although the State Department has tried to rein in Haley’s freelancing, it is not clear that she is willing to take guidance from a department in turmoil.

    Human rights is a case in point. Tillerson apparently interprets “America first” as abandoning the promotion of freedom. Not so Haley, who devoted the U.S. presidency of the U.N. Security Council in April to human rights. (As she later explained, “I think ‘America first’ is human rights.”) While President Trump cozies up to strongmen, Haley has called out abusers “like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia” on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

    This is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit calls a “silly amateur”. I wonder what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks of Kamala Harris, who has none of this experience and has fucked up every foreign policy opportunity that has been handed to her.

  146. 146

    With foreign policy complexities like these, the last thing we need in the White House is a silly amateur like Kamala Fucking Harris.

    Much more accurate.

  147. 147

    Yabbut Twitter under Musk wasn’t paying people.

    LOCAL
    Vendor voices frustrations as the UW admits to being behind on $69 million in unpaid invoices

    UW’s been around awhile. It switches its bill-paying structure and something goes wrong.

    Now imagine you take over a company, institute some changes, and bill-paying is affected as part of it.

    Elon Musk didn’t get a pass, but UW will.

  149. 149

    @143 The Tories wouldn’t have hung you. If you’d lived in those times (and how do we know you didn’t?), you’d have had nothing to fear from the king or his loyal colonists. You would’ve been a model monarchist.

  151. 151

    @ 148

    “A public library system in Alabama flagged a children’s picture book as potentially ‘sexually explicit’ because the author’s last name is ‘Gay.’”

    Funny how that works. Biden used email aliases like JRBWare and robinware456 so his corrupt communitatios wouldn’t be flagged.

  152. 152

    @ 149

    You would’ve been a model monarchist.

    The way you spread your investment losses around to the benefit of so many other investors, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you’re the model socialist.

  153. 153

    Awaiting a more reliable reporting of the murdered babies in that kibbutz.

    When the video emerges, looking forward to Elon Musk sharing the fruits of Hamas’ labors far and wide on X.

  155. 155

    @145 Obviously you haven’t been paying attention to what she’s been saying (and not saying).

    I won’t bother to catalog her waffling (Confederate flag, abortion, etc.) or fringe positions (cutting Social Security and Medicare, supporting fossil fuels and opposing climate mitigation, etc.); suffice to say she’s a shallow opportunist who panders to the worst elements of the GOP and stands up for nothing — and is as mealy-mouthed as they come.

  156. 156

    @151 “When Joe Biden was Vice President, he used multiple email addresses. While members of the public might have guessed they could reach Barack Obama’s running mate at, say, joe.biden@whitehouse.gov, he often used email accounts under aliases like Robert Peters and JRB Ware. Biden was following a common practice among senior government officials hoping to thwart hackers, as well as prevent spammers from guessing their address and clogging their inbox, according to a White House official.”

    https://time.com/6310241/joe-biden-email-alias-vice-president/

    Boy, that sure is “corrupt.” But never let an innocent explanation stand between you and your fictitious narratives, while you continue to support, shill for, and vote for the most corrupt cabal of sewer-dwelling politicians since Reconstruction.

  157. 157

    Remember when Hunter Biden’s laptop data was suppressed by media because “We couldn’t verify it.”?

    Jeryl Bier
    @JerylBier
    update:
    Quote
    Evan Hill
    @evanhill
    ·
    2h
    Replying to @evanhill
    I decided to delete a tweet about i24’s report citing Israeli military claims of decapitated babies found at the site, which has yet to be verified and is being widely mischaracterized online, because it was not clear.
    9:57 AM · Oct 10, 2023

    Full clarity will be offered soon enough. Liberals will then have some pretty difficult decisions to make.

  159. 159

    Some liberal on HA:

    Yabbut this doesn’t prove decapitation!

    Joe Truzman

    @JoeTruzman
    An Israel Defense Forces source provided FDD’s
    @LongWarJournal
    with a photograph of a child’s blood-soaked bed in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom following a Hamas-led attack on the home.
    8:57 AM · Oct 10, 2023

  160. 160

    Robertson is the International Diplomatic Editor of CNN.

    נריה קראוס Neria Kraus
    @NeriaKraus
    Nic Robertson, live from a town that was attacked by Hamas. “There were so many murdered members of this Kibbutz. Men, women, children, hand bound, shot, executed, heads cut”.
    9:12 AM · Oct 10, 2023

    He’s reporting it on video.

  161. 161

    Hmm, looks like Wisconsin Republicans aren’t getting support from Republican judges for impeaching a newly-elected Wisconsin supreme court justice.

    https://www.rawstory.com/oversight-group-wants-answers-on-secret-meeting-with-wisconsin-justice-and-gop-leaders/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Judge first, Republican second: Republican judges thinking and acting more like judges than Republicans was a big problem for the GOP’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election in the courts, too.

  162. 162

    And from a former CNN reporter, Margot Haddad (translated from French):

    That’s it, the information is out. It’s so macabre that no one wanted to reveal it until they had 100% confirmation.

    Infants and children under 2 years old were beheaded by Hamas in the Kibbutz of Kfar Aza. It is a horror, a massacre.

    For those asking for the source. They are multiple: Israeli army, internal intelligence service and atrocious images which reached me and which I was able to cross-check. But the best source remains this: courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies in Kfar Aza.

    This. Is. Hamas.

  163. 163

    @159 “Some liberal on HA: Yabbut this doesn’t prove decapitation!”

    I don’t remember a liberal posting that. Can you help me out by advising me which comment you’re referring to? I merely want to satisfy myself you didn’t make this up.

  164. 164

    @162 “This. Is. Hamas.”

    Sure is. Worse than ISIS even. On a par with Russians in Ukraine.

    You will recall many Republicans want to defund the brave Ukrainian people’s resistance to invaders capable of such atrocities. Thankfully, so far there’s no sign of GOPers supporting Hamas, too; right now the Russians are the only thugs they’re openly cheering for. Them and the ghosts of Pinochet and Latin American death squads.

  165. 165

    Blowing up Palestinian civilians who had no part in this neither takes terrorists out of circulation, nor exacts revenge. It merely creates a new generation of terrorists. Is that why Republicans are so enthusiastic about blowing up Palestinian civilians?

  166. 166

    Here’s the latest highlights reel from the “silly amateur” our rapidly decompensating troll has already voted for three times:

    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1708102400668561890

    As a devoted Republican voter, Cheeto Mussolini is his nominee. And no amount of wish-casting can change that now. He and the rest of his POS Party had so many chances to steer away from this cliff. But they fought off every one of them.

    It might help them to understand their dreadful fate if the media were not abetting the farce that Donald Trump is anything other than insane. Only a tiny percentage of the Republican primary electorate will ever see any of these histrionic, confused, and demented performances by their nominee. The rest only hear about “crushing the libs” and for them that is enough.

  167. 167

    @166 Well, at least the demented troll is against Muslims cutting off babies’ heads. We’re still waiting to hear from him about what he thinks of Russians kidnapping children and murdering civilians.

  168. 168

    @162

    I know it’s hard.

    But it’s possible to want Hamas destroyed while at the same time knowing nearly two decades of a blockade that sees water deliveries only every 15 days, starvation, a 47% unemployment rate, withholding of medical supplies whenever you’re feeling like the people there are getting too uppity, and no ability for Gazans to get out of that situation as morally reprehensible as well.

    But Conservatives are only capable of binary thinking. (See what I did there)

  169. 169

    It takes work to understand how Republicans can be antisemitic and pro-Israel at the same time. It probably goes to their affection for conquering and occupying. That also explains their fondness for Putin’s Russia.

  170. 170

    @168 All that’s needed is to put reasonable people in charge on both sides. Sounds simple and easy, doesn’t it?

  171. 171

    The problem in the Middle East is two different peoples occupying the same space, both armed to the teeth.

    America has a similar problem of two different peoples trying to live together within the same land boundaries, and one of them arming to the teeth.

    Will we become another Middle East, with farmers firing homemade rockets into urban enclaves?

  172. 172

    NYU student bar president does her part to ensure that even fewer people will respect lawyers in the future.

    NYU Law student bar president blames Israel for Hamas terrorist invasion: ‘Bears full responsibility’

    NYU School of Law Dean Troy McKenzie wrote in a message Tuesday that Workman’s words do not “speak for the leadership” of the school.

    “It certainly does not express my own views, because I condemn the killing of civilians and acts of terrorism as always reprehensible,” McKenzie wrote. “The feelings that divide people in the world at large are certainly present within the Law School, but I hope that we are able to address them with compassion and mutual respect.”

    Or recall and lifelong derision and public humiliation. Basically to make sure this POS is unemployable for the rest of its miserable existence.

  173. 173

    @ 165

    Blowing up Palestinian civilians who had no part in this neither takes terrorists out of circulation…

    It takes terrorists out of circulation if they hide among Gazan civilians, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Watch.

  175. 175

    “Israel’s military has discovered unspeakable horrors in an Israeli community that was attacked by Hamas on Saturday, including dozens of dead babies, some with their heads chopped off, Israeli media reported. According to local Israeli outlet i24News, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers moved into Kfar Aza, one of the communities Hamas terrorists invaded early Saturday morning, and discovered about 40 dead babies, some decapitated — highlighting the brutality of the invading forces.”

    https://www.aol.com/news/least-40-babies-beheaded-found-154607254.html

    The kibbutz, located only 1/4 mile from the Gaza border, was easy pickings. That made it an obvious target. But why did the attackers gruesomely murder babies? It’s hard to make logical sense of this, but it’s unlikely this was an impulsive or random act. Hamas’s intent appears to be to provoke a brutal Israeli response, which would help them recruit more fighters from Gaza’s Palestinian youths.

    Meanwhile, in a video here, an Israeli soldier tells a BBC reporter that “we will keep our values; we will kill our enemy, but not civilians.” This may be more personal or aspirational than what actually happens in the fog of war, but in the wake of the kibbutz slaughter, Israel need do very little to hold the moral high ground.

    The Hamas atrocities will only serve to further turn the world against Palestinians and distract attention away from legitimate Palestinian grievances, while engendering sympathy for Netanyahu’s regime. It’s as if Hamas wants to harm the Palestinian cause. There are many reasons for them to do that.

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    @172

    Where’s the lie?

    Your party and your thinking assumes that when faced with an absolutely devastating level of poverty and malnutrition they should just sit back and take it.

    You cheered for the Monarchy in France?

    According to a 2012 joint report by Save the Children and UK-based Medical Aid for Palestinians:
    10% of children under five experienced stunted growth due to prolonged malnutrition due to the blockade and siege.
    58.6% of Gaza’s schoolchildren were anemic, as were more than 68% of children aged nine to 12 months and nearly 37% of pregnant women.
    According to UNICEF, more than 90% of the water from Gaza’s only aquifer is unsafe for human consumption due to pollution, while repairs to Gaza’s sewage and water infrastructure cannot be carried out because of Israeli restrictions on the entry of building materials and equipment.

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    @172 Her idiotic remarks are analogous to blaming the election of Trump on Hillary Clinton.

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    @173 It doesn’t surprise me that you’re willing to blow up innocent civilians to get at the terrorists. Your lack of any trace of regret at the resulting loss of innocent civilian lives doesn’t surprise me, either.

    You’re a terrific recruiting tool for Hamas, doc. I’ll bet they wish they had more like you.

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    Well, this is just the same as a 19 year old Palestinian “boy” killed while throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, amirite?

    Norah O’Donnell 🇺🇸
    @NorahODonnell

    @CBSNews learned that Israel body recovery teams have discovered beheaded babies and children in kibbutzim in southern Israel
    11:27 AM · Oct 10, 2023

    Potato, Potahhhhhto.

  180. 180

    Just a well documented reminder, Russia atrocities in Eastern Ukraine have included mass execution of civilian military aged males, systematic rape, kidnapping and trafficking of children, and castration of adolescent boys. And for the entire year and a half that these atrocities have been taking place, the Republican Party and their presidential nominee have been supporting the Russian invasion.

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    @176 “Your party and your thinking assumes that when faced with an absolutely devastating level of poverty and malnutrition they should just sit back and take it.”

    At #173 we see Doctor Dumbfuck lusting to bomb Palestinians who do just sit back and take it. By way of full disclosure, he wants to kill terrorists, too; but you get a feeling he’d be disappointed if there isn’t collateral damage among Gazan women and children.

    Exploding bombs behead babies and children, too, but the Israelis don’t revel in it like Doctor Dumbfuck does. He’s more like Hamas than the IDF.

    By the way, most of the Hamas terrorists who committed the atrocities probably are already dead. They were on a suicide mission, and probably few of them made it back to Gaza, so it isn’t necessary to kill innocent civilians to take them out. Just thought I’d mention it.

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    @ 178

    You’re a terrific recruiting tool for Hamas, doc.

    Israel should just sit back, let Hamas regroup, and bide its time until the next set of 3-4 dozen Israeli babies is beheaded, I suppose.

    Hamas is an incredibly recruiting tool for its own extinction, by any means necessary.

    That’s what 360,000 soldiers being called up by their military means, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

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    @PhilipWegmann: “There have been some members of Congress that have called for a cease fire and they have not now gone as far as backing the administration’s call for support for Israel.”

    KJP: “So, look, I’ve seen some of those statements this weekend and we’re going to continue to be very clear. We believe they’re wrong. We believe they’re wrong. We believe they are repugnant and disgraceful. Our–our condemnation belongs with terrorists that have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped hundreds–hundreds of Israelis. There can be no equivocation about that. There’s not two sides here. There’s not two sides. President Biden has been clear on where he has stood. You heard him directly today. You heard from him Saturday on this. There’s been multiple statements from this President. He’s taking action to provide additional support to ensure that Israel has what they need to defend themselves.”

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit: But that doesn’t mean that Israel should actually, you know, defend themselves.

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    @ 178

    It doesn’t surprise me that you’re willing to blow up innocent civilians to get at the terrorists.

    In 1972 a Palestinian terror group hijacked a plane. An Israeli commando unit stormed the plane and neutralized the threat. Four Israeli citizens were shot during that raid.

    One of them is named Benjamin Netanyahu. He wa shot by his own team.

    Don’t think Palestinians who choose – or are forced – to stand in front of Hamas terrorists is going to mean anything in deterrence after what happened over the weekend.

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    @184 You actually think someone would choose to stand in front of a terrorist who just murdered Israeli babies?

    I’ll tell you what I think, I think your brain is missing some neurons.

  186. 186

    I’ll use a separate spew for summarizing what I wrote @ 184.

    In 1972 Israel neutralized 4 terrorists, and four Israelis were shot in the process.

    I don’t see any reason why Israel wouldn’t be willing to risk 10,000 Gazan citizen deaths in its effort to neutralize 10,000 Hamas terrorists. After all, those were the ratios that resulted from the 1972 events, and those didn’t include decapitated Israeli babies.

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    “Hamas ‘firmly’ rejected President Joe Biden’s remarks on Israel, calling it an ‘inflammatory statement’ that aims to ‘escalate the tension by the barbaric Zionist regime against the Palestinian people,’ according to a written statement published Tuesday.

    “Hamas said Biden’s remarks overshadowed the ‘criminality and terrorism of the Zionist government’ and criticized the US president for not addressing ‘massacres committed by the Zionist forces against people in cold blood.’

    “Hamas concluded the statement urging the American administration to reassess its position and accusing it of exhibiting a ‘policy of double standards’ when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

    https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-10-10-23/index.html

    This from an outfit that cut off babies’ heads, killed Americans, and is holding American hostages. I think they’re missing some brain neurons, too.

  188. 188

    our condemnation belongs with terrorists that have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped hundreds–hundreds of Israelis.

    But not at all with terrorists who have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped half a million Ukrainians.

    Because Republicans love some terrorists.

    But they do despise non-whites.

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    What does it take to have a full deck between the ears? A lot of you stupid humans obviously don’t. Maybe it’s time for rabbits to run this place. Humans have been doing it for over a million years and keep fucking up.

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    @ 185

    You actually think someone would choose to stand in front of a terrorist who just murdered Israeli babies?

    I can name at least four someones, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit:

    AOC
    Ilhan Omar
    Rashida Tlaib
    Ayanna Pressley

    I probably could add Cori Bush to that list. Jamaal Bowman’s in enough trouble this month that he probably isn’t on that list. Yet.

  191. 191

    @186 “I don’t see any reason why Israel wouldn’t be willing to risk 10,000 Gazan citizen deaths in its effort to neutralize 10,000 Hamas terrorists.”

    You may not, but the Israeli soldier in the video @175 isn’t on board with your genocidal scheming, so you’ve got some work to do if you want to bring it about. It’s probably easiest for you to start at the top with Netanyahu and work down from there into the IDF rank and file. You’ll probably find a few kindred sociopaths in the Israeli forces if you look hard enough. Every army has some.

  192. 192

    @190 I doubt any of those individuals are willing to put their bodies between a Hamas terrorist and an Israeli soldier with a gun, but I’ll review your evidence when you post it.

    Until then, I’ll regard this comment as another weak and feeble attempt to justify your amoral contempt for innocent Palestinian lives, which is of a piece with your casual disregard for innocent life everywhere.

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    I hesitate to call Doctor Dumbfuck evil, when all the evidence points to his being incomplete. It’s clear his brain lacks some of the neurons responsible for logical thinking; and that being the case, it’s reasonable to infer that all of the neurons responsible for moral thinking are missing, too. What we’re dealing with here is a partial vacuum and primitive computing power.

  195. 195

    Has anybody checked today to find out if Trump is still bragging that he brought peace to the Middle East?

  196. 196

    Tommy Tubes called the cops on an ex-CIA director who tweeted something about his membership in the human race.

    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4248524-tuberville-reports-former-cia-director-hayden-to-capitol-police-over-tweet/

    “Tuberville characterized the tweet as promoting ‘politically motivated assassination,’” which pretty much describes his own party’s campaign literature.

    “’This statement is disgusting and it is repugnant to everything we believe in as Americans,’ Tuberville said in a statement Tuesday,” which sums up the party he belongs to.

    I mean, really, he wants sympathy?

  197. 197

    Oh hey, here’s AOC protecting Hamas terrorists with her body:

    “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted a pro-Palestine rally in New York City over the weekend as promoting ‘bigotry’ amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas. … ‘It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it. That is a core tenet of solidarity,’ Ocasio-Cortez said …. ‘The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday were unacceptable and harmful in this devastating moment. It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,’ she said.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4247787-ocasio-cortez-calls-out-bigotry-at-pro-palestine-rally-in-nyc/

    This is what actual thinking looks like, doc. You should try it sometime, if you have enough neurons for the task.

  198. 198

    Republican Representative George Nastasha Devolder Sledgeheimer Schmidt Santos has now been charged in a superseding indictment with stealing credit card numbers from his exceptionally gullible and clueless Republican donors and running up charges for mail order home Botox, lip plumpers, and 6,000 pairs of Spanx.

    Still not so much as a single peep from Republican House leadership about this growing humiliation.

  199. 199

    How quickly do Republicans want you to be destracted by Terrorists abroad, so that you’ll forget about the terrorists here in this country…..the ones that go parading around with Tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us”.

    What are those white supremesist afraid the Jews will do? Take their land?

    Scummy Mums for Fascism have no comment about the Tiki torches.

  200. 200

    @197 the fakers didn’t mind white guys dressed in tan kakhis and white shirts chanting “Jews will not replace us”

    There are good people on both sides.

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    But they do despise non-whites.

    Who are we kidding…..they don’t want the “Jews to replace them”

    This is just political theater for them.

    The American Taliban are just jealously upset with Hamas. They sure would love to have that kind of power.

    Banning books is just a start.

    They were silent about the Tiki Torch Monkeys.

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    Waiting for Darryl to open the DL thread so we can talk about what Nic Robertson shared with Jake Tapper tonite.

  204. 204

    For “reasons” Clarence Thomas is big mad at the rest of his bretheren and sisteren for not taking up a case to reconsider the actual malice standard in Sullivan.

    Can you imagine how fucked the entire right wing mediasphere would be if they couldn’t hide behind Sullivan?

    To bad for Clarence that the critics of his sweeping corruption don’t actually need Sullivan, having the simple truth of their reporting as an unassailable defense.

  205. 205

    Aww, The Atlantic‘s got a profile of Momala.

    In June 2023, an NBC News poll put Harris’s approval rating at 32 percent. While Biden’s own approval numbers, in the low 40s, are hardly inspiring, the percentage of those who disapprove of Harris’s performance is higher than for any other vice president in the history of the poll.

    Well, she’s been a shittier vice president than any other in the history of the poll.

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    @ 204

    For “reasons” Clarence Thomas is big mad at the rest of his bretheren and sisteren…

    It’s brethren and sistren.

    Bob Woodward would mock you. I’ll merely point out your errors.

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    Another reason Donald probably gave the intel on Israel to Russia to pass to Hamas…

    The OTHER necessary distraction.

    Evidence presented in a New York Courtroom that pretty much proves Grand Larceny and bank fraud. Knowing and intentional Grand Larceny and bank fraud during testimony from Trump’s convicted felon CFO Allen Weisselberg.

    In 1994 Donald signed a legal document of residency for property taxes in NYC stating that his ‘palatial’ Penthouse apartment was 10,996 square feet. Presented as evidence afterward were MULTIPLE loan applications wherein the size of the apartment and therefore it’s value as collateral is 30,000 square feet. The most recent document was submitted AFTER a Forbes piece questioned the size and further evidence was presented that felon CFO Allen Weisselberg had instructed anyone contacted by Forbes that they were NOT to engage in any conversation about the size of the Penthouse.

    Somehow, the super genius, best mind of his generation, knower of all things except the size of his hands and, you know….

    Assumed his apartment accidentally tripled in size without any permits or construction. Huh, that’s odd. Surely it’s just a clerical error. An innocent mistake.

    At current average sale value of $2000/sq foot in Manhattan the apartment would be worth roughly $21,000,000. But Donald put it up as collateral on a bunch of loans claiming it is worth $60M.
    Yes, I get that real estate in 2017 when the most recent fraudulent loan application was filed is not the current $2000/sq foot but you get the idea.

    Dude, you’re so fucked Donald. The DA is currently engaged in a civil fraud trial but she just dropped evidence of willful knowing CRIMINAL activity. The Federal sentence for Bank Fraud is up to 30 years in prison. 2016 is well within the statute of limitations.

    But not a lot of traction on that story today because…well….that thing going on in the middle east.

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    @207

    I’m old enough to remember when Jim Jordan was trying to subpoena Letitia James to see if she had any contact with Jack Smith because for some reason GYM thinks Federal and State Prosecutors aren’t allowed to speak to one another about evidence that might effect each other’s cases.

    It was like….a month ago,

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