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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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SNL: College Presidents testify

NowThis: Hunter Biden defies GOP congressional subpoena

Kal Penn: De-stigmatizing sex work—Long story short

Mindless Misogyny:

The Late Show: Drink mammal milk!

Hitler Rant Parodies: Hitler’s meeting with Biden and Трамп

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Mendacious MAGA Morons:

John Oliver: Freight trains

The Late Show: Macho Nutcracker

SNL Weekend Update: Hunter Biden’s federal indictment & UPenn President resigns

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

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  2. 2

    Although I like LINK’s Distance-Based fares, tge Flat Fare will only be $3, 25 cents more than Metro’s fare. Those opposed to the change are concerned that it will be a 75 cent increase on trips between close station pairs. Although they ignore that while LINK is a frequent trunk express route within the city now, many of those trips involve transfers too and from Metro busses. Also, King County Metro is proposing a fare increase, to $3. Also, proposing to go cash-less as the fareboxes are due for an upgrade. Some want fareless, but with Metro at the cap, that would be a service cut.

    One of the excuses for going flat fare, is Lynwood LINK, Maximum fare if DBF was used, would be $4,25, The new Flat fare, will be $1.25 less for them. Seems on the county level, in the survey, they were the ones most enthusiastic for a flat fare. Current fare on Community Transit’s commuter routes, $4.25

    https://www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoint/download/sites/PRDA/FinalRecords/2023/Presentation%20-%20Link%20Fares%20and%20Fare%20Structure%2011-02-23.pdf

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    @1 Rudy Giuliani is disbarred. In California, John Eastman’s disbarment trial has concluded and is awaiting decision. Yesterday, a complaint was filed against Jenna Ellis in Colorado. A state bar commission complaint against Sidney Powell was tossed by a judge in (where else?) Texas who criticized the commission for — get this — not properly labeling exhibits. Other Trump lawyers have been fined by judges.

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    Little noticed, Houthi attacks on shipping (in sympathy with the Palestinians) has shut down the Suez Canal, and drought has cut Panama Canal transits nearly in half.

    Ocean freight can still reach its destinations, but now they have to take the long way around the capes.

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    Little noticed, Houthi attacks on shipping (in sympathy with the Palestinians) has shut down the Suez Canal for at least this weekend, and drought has cut Panama Canal transits nearly in half.

    Ocean freight can still reach its destinations, but now they have to take the long way around the capes.

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    Turns out CPAC has been supplying grooming victims to Matt Schlapp for years and FOX and Moms for Liberty helped keep it quiet.

    It sure looks as if “anti-woke” serves as some kind of groomer code.

  8. 8

    I guess “parental rights” is also some kind of Florida sex club code as well.

    It’s like a whole smelly, lubricated Republican world of grooming going on right under the rest of America’s nose and none of us knew anything weird was going on.

  9. 9

    Fat Midget is ready to remove Bridget Ziegler from the Sarasota School Board. But he’s waiting for the GOP to fire her husband first.

    Christian Ziegler is apparently holding out for a $2 million termination package from the GOP. The party is concerned about reputational damage that such an agreement would entail. Republicans are seeking a wealthy private individual to fund it and keep it off the books.

    Both will be out of work and looking to relocate away from Florida to make a fresh start.
    And our profoundly stupid troll is “very wealthy” and his estranged wife is between bulls and getting restless.

    Two birds, one Dumbfuck?

  10. 10

    Someone here has weird fantasies of thier mom, and it ain’t me.

    HA gods are censors – Mao!

  11. 11

    Republican Scummy Mums for Fascism are groomers and being groomed at the same time. Can’t be any more pathetic than to be used and then to accuse others of grooming. Sad, pathetic, losers.

  12. 12

    Ohhh wait, the only thing more pathetic is being the traitor that Bob is.

    Where’s the fucking recession!

  14. 14

    There once was a time when the worst thing I had to worry about was farting on television or being Punk’d by Borat.

    Now I’ve got a federal judge wondering why I would risk a $150 million to avoid civil discovery.

  15. 15

    @ 1

    Wonder, has any of the Former Guys Lawyers not faced disbarment?

    Wonder, has Bill Clinton’s status at the US Supreme Court been reinstated, or his he still disbarred before that Court?

  16. 16

    @ 5

    Little noticed, Houthi attacks on shipping…

    By you, clearly. Those of us who read more than RawStory all day are a little more aware, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  17. 17

    Any campaign vendors and even eager volunteers should really keep something important in mind:

    When the FBI comes, you need to be able to hire a good lawyer.

  18. 18

    Hey Rudy,

    going over our books at year end I’m seeing that we still have open invoices to you for rental of a lectern, yard fees, and catering of hors d’oeuvres to feed “the big TV networks”.

    Hope this isn’t a bad time to bring this up.

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    You know how Gazans and West Bank residents have accused Israeli forces of shooting people just for fun or watching while settlers commit murder?

    The three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly killed Friday by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza were waving a white flag when they were shot, an IDF official said. The official said the shootings violated IDF rules of engagement.

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    Jill Biden put out a video of a NYC Tap Dance ensemble doing bits from their ‘The Nutcracker’ show in the White House.

    Andrew Tate, twat. I mean reacts on Twitter

    This is dystopian.

    If I believed in fear – I would be afraid.

    You’d be afraid of tap dancers or is it because it’s too many black people in the same place?

    Laura Ingraham gets pretty much everything wrong about everything.

    If you felt embarrassed and angry to see this type of woke nonsense at the White House during a time Christians have regarded as holy for 2,000 years or so, well, that’s the point

    Let’s not get started on the pagan holiday but Christmas wasn’t celebrated by the Puritans…you know…the first white people to build settlements here. Dec 25 wasn’t in the Biblical text so it was blasphemous to celebrate.

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    Keeping in mind Trump won Ohio by 8 points but Ohio’s legal abortion measure won by 13.

    Wonder if there will be any blowback for Ohio GOP hating women as much as they do.

    https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/warren-news/trumbull-county-grand-jury-to-hear-abuse-of-corpse-case/

    Brittany Watts, 33, was overcome with emotion Thursday afternoon after learning her case is moving forward. Watts is charged with felony abuse of a corpse, accused of trying to plunge a toilet after having a miscarriage delivery at 22 weeks while using the restroom.

    ‘Little lady. you needed to fish it out, place it in a coffin, take it to the coroner, get a cause of death and have a proper Christian burial. It’s the only proper way to deal with our grief.’

  24. 24

    The official said the shootings violated IDF rules of engagement.

    Rules we don’t ever enforce.

  25. 25

    I won’t be voting for Biden or Trump in ‘24, and I think Biden will lose. I may be wrong, but it looks like Biden is done.

    Trump will likely want to continue the Empire, but it’s unsustainable. With $34 trillion on the Visa, we’re broke.

  26. 26

    @22,

    Honestly I really haven’t got a clue what goes on in a school holiday pageant.

    That’s what nanny is for.

    And this martini isn’t going to drink itself.

  27. 27

    I won’t be voting for Biden or Trump in ‘24

    Even I know better than to believe that.

    And I still believe Rudy.

  31. 31

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward is the only person here to ever talk seriously about J6.

    J6 was merely a dozen cosplaying grandmothers parading in our Capitol.

    Sigh! If only we were as serious as the dumbfuck Nazi coward.

  34. 34

    @16 Well, that makes two of us who’ve noticed, dumbfuck. This is a historic moment: Yesterday you read actual news.

  35. 35

    She wasn’t fired, she quit, but she gets this? That’s taxpayer money the ST board is giving away. Our money.

    “Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm is leaving after just 16 months, yet the agency will pay her $375,000 salary for another year, plus benefits, after she departs Jan. 12.”

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/departing-sound-transit-ceo-gets-big-payout/

    ST is, and always has been, a corrupt agency. They got voter approval by lying about what light rail would cost. Then once the public was on the hook, in a classic bait-and-switch, they added two more “phases” and piled taxes on top of more taxes. You’re safer in a car dealership than you are from these people. You can’t do anything about it because the board is unelected and unaccountable. They built it in the most expensive way possible, and gullible Puget Sound taxpayers ended up with a mass transit system costing 10 times as much per mile as any other light rail system ever built.

  36. 36

    6)Probably a good thing for Canadian Pacific purchasing Kansas City Southern. KCS’s Mexican Concession, Lazaro Cardenas to the Midwest, although it has issues, between the border issues, plus the Mexican Government’s decrees, and Mexico working on their own railway across the Isthmus of Tehonteuec as an alternative to the Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Railway, which is also operated by CPKC.

    https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/cpkc-offering-panama-canal-rail-alternative-lazaro-cardenas-us

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarril_Trans%C3%ADstmico

  37. 37

    @33

    One of them turned out to be just massive down there. We thought it was an IED but his ballsaxk was as big as a shofar. Could had a menorah in his trousers. Had to kill them.

  38. 38

    35)She also suggested the board take into account the future riders, which Mayor Harrel doesn’t care about. Amtrak Cascades is going to eventually be 16 trains a day, riders will be transferring, but some with the CID Station proposal Mayor Harrell is pushing, some riders will have to go a station past King Street Station, just to transfer to another train, for a one station ride. I had issues with Harrel the first time he ran, when he said this was a regional issue, didn’t say what he would do as Mayor. Tge Mayor of Seattle is one of the Seattle/North King Subarea’s board seat. I want someone in that position who will fight to get it built, not bring the Seattle Process to regional bodies. He’s sabotaging what has been promised, while SDOT is proposing a couple more lines, some are regional connections, but one is a West Seattle-Rainier Valley line, which I think is too much on the aspirational side. I think realigning Rt50 is a better solution, ever since Metro cut the original Rt50 in the wake of 695, I had been pushing in every survey for Metro to bring it back, but only West Seattle Junction to Columbia City, taking over the 39’s Seward Park and Holly Park was ok, but don’t need a one seat ride from Alki to Holly Park, but being a crosstown route, nobody rides it all the way, but it’s a crosstown route. When I lived near Genessee Park, I took the 50 only a mile, up to Columbia City Station.

    I earlier posted about the fare policy change, within the city, it’s going to be up to 75 cents increase to give Snohomish County residents who won’t take a $4.25 commuter bus, so they are going with a flat fare at $3.00. Of the three counties, Distance based fares had the strongest constituency in Pierce County, probably because SOUNDER has had DBF for about 20 years. Lakewood to Seattle, $5.75. I’ve taken the S Line a few times on my days off recently, ridership has rebounded on peak flow trains(I’ve been on the reverse run, coming from Tacoma, always a big crowd waiting to get aboard at KSS). King County, a bare majority supported the status quo on LINK, probably because LINK had been DBF since 2009.

    One fare option I am opposed to is fare free, specifically those that charge, going fareless. I’ll give Clallam Transit a break, it’s only routes within Clallam County that are going fareless. The Port Angeles to Bainbridge Island bus, Rt123, branded as the Strait Shot, will still charge $10 a ride(with that distance, it’s reasonable) I’ve ridden a few times, sometimes it looked like it didn’t get tge 10 riders a trip that a driver said CTS was shooting for, other times, especially tge height of summer, I often wondered, what’s the axle and height limits on the Hood Canal Bridge? They should give a Double Decker a try. Alexander Dennis has tweaked the design of the Enviro 500 over the years to drop the clearance height, with some models as low as 13’6”, so Agate Pass should not be a problem.

    One issue I have with Sound Transit’s Stride BRT, is I like the I-405 lines will use Double Deckers, the SR522 line will use articulated buses. Got no problem with that, except that we don’t have enough manufacturers in the market to get a good competitive bid anymore. BYD of China got the contract, they meet the Buy American rules as they are built here, and the deal States Master Contract was signed before the ban on purchasing BYD buses went into effect. The worst thing is, while I want a competing company even as a stalking horse if brand loyalty wins, I think New Flyer needs the competition, but BYD doesn’t have a reputation for reliability, especially in Bus Rapid Transit applications. Albuquerque and Indianapolis can attest.

    On the Northwest Bus Fan’s facebook group, one of the members is one of the remaining Seattle Transit System.veterans, and during the COVID, the administrators had a rule, they weren’t encouraging anyone to post photos taken during unnessential trips, so vintage photos got posted more. Had an argument with him over one of STS’s early trolleybuses in a photo, tge paint job, when he said he drove them. I deferred to him in such conversations. He told us an interesting story about Seattle Transit’s 1950s GMC Old Look busses. They bought 5, plus 5 from Twin Coach, 5 from Mack. The best one got an order for 100 more as a replacement for the inherited bus fleet from the Seattle Municipal Street Railway., plus some of the motor buses purchased alongside the trolley buses. GMC won, they kept the Twins, and sold the Macks. Got 20 years out of some of those 110 busses at least. An LRV can get twice that, as TriMets Type 1s have proven, even though the ADA restricted their use, can only run in a train with a Low Floor Type 2 or 3. On bus procurement, don’t see that model being used much these days. Might get a demonstrator for drivers and mechanics to look over for a few weeks, often not tested in revenue service.

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    While Harrell is using the displacement concerns to sabotage LINK expansion, Constantine is for the North/South of CID option for a different reason. King County is exploring construction of a new Civic Campus over Atlantic Base, with the possibility of the Courthouse and other County owned sites in Downtown turned into housing.(Courthouse and Triangle building could possibly be retrofitted, Administration Building and Jail, should be demolished first).
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VNN83qBSRIYB69_-IMZELcmPWQiN1Noj/view

    Although I am for the Shallow Fourth option in the CID over the controversial 5th Ave option, I do like the Civic Campus proposal, provided the 9 Councilmembers don’t get reserved parking. Especially if the 9 spots were taken from bus drivers, as transit maintenance and operations still will continue at the site. Bus drivers , some do take the bus, but many can’t. Was reading in an employee magazine from the old system that another member of the Facebook group posted, that during WWII, had many drivers and mechanics saying they would take a special run from South Park to Atlantic Station. So they did, drivers personal vehicles were effected by gas rationing too, even though at work they carried vital war workers. So management obliged, the newsletter mentioned that only 3 were riding, and said basically, ride or else. The nature of their jobs precludes using the service they provide. Before my job switched to later in the day, I used to have to be to work before 6AM, so I was riding the 7 Owl, basically at 4:20 AM, the last run of the day for one of Metro’s only 24 hour routes. Passing Southbound on Rainier was an articulated Trolleybus that was the first run of Rt7 for the day. A driver on the Owl did say that the other bus, the driver reported for work at around 3-3:30AM. At tge time, only the 7, the 80 routes, 174, ant the clockwise one-way 280:were running. Few reached one of Metro’s operating bases. Seattle has worked on a better Night Owl option.

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    On bus design, focusing on a vehicle for both suburban commuters, urban transit, plus rural operations as one vehicle for everything, has led to a stagnation of offerings. An urban bus needs less dwell time at stops, but most North American designs average 1-2 doors on a 40ft, 2 on an articulated with some having three. Metro’s 8000 and 8200 series have three doors, while 8100s have only 2, with extra seats instead of the center door. In Washington, we have some of what’s the standard size urban bus used on long distance runs, like Grays Harbor 40, Aberdeen-Montesano-Elma-McCleary-Olympia, although GHT has a reason to use a standard bus on it, when it gets to Aberdeen Station, it continues to Hoquiam as another trip on the Aberdeen-Hoquiam route.

    Might need to give a foreign manufacturer a Buy American waiver to get the manufacturers to innovate, although when Daimler owned Orion, they never tried offering one of their European products.. I think their workforce here could have built the Citaro, Orions last buses sold are reaching the 12 year mark where agencies that used federal money to buy them can replace them, Everett Transit is about to retire their Orion Vs, after 20 years of service. They seemed to be built well.

    https://youtu.be/U3qeYRI34C8?si=rtMtkIhWp27Mz4Tt

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    “An Israeli Defense Forces sniper shot and killed two women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza on Saturday, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees Catholic churches across Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. The majority of Christian families inside Gaza have taken refuge inside the parish since the start of the war, the statement added.

    “The two women, described as a mother and daughter, were walking to the convent, and ‘one was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,’ it said. Seven others were shot and wounded in the attack. …

    “The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said that Israel Defense Forces tanks also targeted the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, which is housing 54 disabled persons and is part of the church’s compound. The building’s generator — which is the only current source of electricity — and its fuel resources, solar panels, and water tanks have been destroyed, it said, and IDF rockets have made the convent ‘uninhabitable.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-12-16-23/index.html

    Possible explanations, from best to worst, in descending order: Fog of war, rogue soldiers, atrocity/war crime. Not on this list: Legitimate military target, because it wasn’t.

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    @22 I don’t know about Laura (well yes I do), but I’d much rather see a tap dance show than a coup plotters meeting in the White House.

    Just another demonstration (as if we needed one) of what absolute pieces of shit Ingraham and Fox — and the audience that listens to them — are.

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    @38 So, if I understand you correctly, ST is going to get buy-in from Snohomish County riders by gouging Seattle riders?

    This is, of course, entirely consistent with transportation policy as it has existed statewide since forever. King County drivers send gas tax money to every other county except Pierce, which breaks even. If you drive in Seattle, you’re subsidizing drivers in 37 other counties; if you ride ST, you’re subsidizing riders in Snohomish County. Fucked either way. Might as well get a donkey or walk.

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    There’s some good news today: The Confederate memorial blight in Arlington National Cemetery will be removed.

    Arlington occupies land confiscated from Robert E. Lee, who isn’t buried there; Arlington isn’t for traitors. His tomb is on private property at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, deep in the heart of Dixie.

    Huffington Post says (here), “The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.” Good. Fuck those traitors.

    HuffPo also says, “Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin,” who won election by pretending to be a moderate, “disagrees with the decision,” further cementing his reputation as an extremist. Fuck his opinion. The Confederates were violent insurrectionists who destroyed hundreds of thousands of American lives in a bid to preserve slavery. Virginia voters should send Youngkin back to the hole he crawled out of.

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    Even though they deny it, we know Republicans want to persecute women who have miscarriages, and want to punish black people for being black, because that’s what they do every chance they get.

    Abuse of a corpse. That’s the criminal charge against an Ohio black woman who expelled her dead fetus into a toilet in a state where abortion is now a state constitutional right.

    If she’d had an abortion, they couldn’t go after her for that. But she didn’t, so they’re going after her for flushing the toilet.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-woman-miscarriage-charged_n_657dd198e4b0e142c0bddc78

    The message is clear: If you’re gonna miscarry, and can’t do it in a hospital waiting room, then do it on the courthouse steps or the prosecutor’s front porch, since you’re not allowed to miscarry in the bathroom of your home.

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    Why has inflation dropped so rapidly? While many will credit the Federal Reserve, I think part of it is greedy businesses can get away with price-gouging only for so long.

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    44)Looks like it. One of the reasons they need to either go research other countries fare integration, or hire someone with that experience. Although there could be a bonus to tge Flat Fare. Fare Capping. TriMet/CTran already use it, Skagit Transit and WTA do as well, and Spokane Transit is adopting it. When a rider hits either a daily or monthly cap, all rides for the rest of the day, or month, are effectively a daily or monthly pass. I have seen it in action on day trips, the Daily Cap on TriMet is two one way trips. Up North, it’s too low, only $3. I have taken day trips to Bellingham, and I have hit tge cap before getting to Bellingham. If Metro and ST had fare capping, I would hit the cap about halfway through the month. I ride LINK at least 5 days a week twice a day, and take the bus to the Safeway on Sunday. Both are currently $2.75(Mt Baker-U-District on LINK, tge Northgate extension was a 25 cent increase for me from Husky Stadium), and Safeway is 2-3 stops down Rainier for me. Saturday is where I sometimes visit another Sound Transit subarea, spread my shopping around. Everett is the best deal on Sales Tax within the ST District, but will see an increas e of Six Tenths of 1% if the merger of Everett Transit and Community Transit is ever on again.

    On a side note, I was looking in to what CT will be doing with the hours saved from the discontinuation of Commuter routes next year, looks at first glance, pretty good. The commuter service was probably why tgey had to ask the legislature for that extra .3% Sales Tax authority a few years back. Seems every downturn, they put those commuter routes above weekend service. That was a special carve out from the legislature, but technically it is for all Public Transportation Benefit Area Authorities that meet a special population threshold, that only Community Transit meets.Although not complains too much, I remember the legislature gave Metro a few gimmicks to use over the years. Like a $20 flat license fee, one time only, only for Metropolitan County Transit authorities with a 9 member Metropolitan County Council. The latter was done around 2009, and 2/3 of the council approved, avoiding going to the voters.

    Metro could have done RapidRide better, CT’s SWIFT is more Rapid, as it isn’t a reflagged regular route. Although using curb lanes, it mimics rail a little better than RapidRide. All stations have TVMs, while noRapidRide Stations have them, and the stops are spaced better. So much, that on the Blue Line for Example, CT still has a local route running from Aurora Villiage to The Everett city limits, while Everett Transits Rts 7 and 8 do the honors within Everett. One of the few issues I have had on SWIFT is where the Blue and Green lines connect.Not enough time to cross Evergreen Way, but if the frequency is every 10 minutes, waste most of that headway waiting for the next walk signal.

    https://www.spokanetransit.com/farecapping/

    I don’t know if the American Public Transportation Association sends a delegation to the Innotrans transportation fair in Berlin, but perhaps they should start. I often look at the coverage for seeing the trains the FRA would not allow on our rails, but now manufacturers have trains that meet the revised standards. Some of the DMUs/Battery Multiple units would have worked great on our rail banked trails if they had existed when those lines were railbanked. These vehicles have only evolved in tge last few decades as Germany had been using E.U. rules to delegate funding of regional services to the State governments. Those did choose Deutsche Bahn, sometimes, but mandating the operator get new rolling stock put DB on an equal footing with the new guys. It’s led to a new model at every Innotrans on display. Innotrans is the rail equivalent of Paris or Farnborough. Prior to the Pandemic, the last day or two of what is usually only open to the industry people, were public days.

  52. 52

    @51 “When a rider hits either a daily or monthly cap, all rides for the rest of the day, or month, are effectively a daily or monthly pass.”

    This, of course, has to be paid for by someone. If not taxpayers, if riders, then by charging infrequent riders more, so frequent riders can pay less. Under ST’s current fare schedule, this wouldn’t be riders under 18 (free), or low-income, disabled, or senior adults ($1.00); it will be the non-commuter who doesn’t qualify for a free or reduced-fare ride. Which, of course, will discourage occasional riding. A question is whether they’d have enough occasional riders to fund this subsidy.

    Another question is whether ST would continue to sell monthly passes if it adopted fare capping. Would there be any incentive to buy a monthly pass under fare capping? As things stand now, only frequent riders will buy passes, and only if they calculate a pass saves them money when compared to the regular fare x number of monthly trips. So you already have a cohort of frequent riders who are getting a kind of fare capping.

  53. 53

    I read a story tonight in The Guardian that illustrates how meaningless abortion law exceptions are. Health of the mother, up to the doctor, that’s all bullshit.

    Anyone who tries to get an abortion in one of those states can expect to criminally charged and forced to prove their innocence to an unsympathetic judge, which means nobody is going to risk it, and that’s exactly how anti-abortion fanatics want it. Those exemptions are for window-dressing purposes only.

    There’s more: Anti-abortion fanatics are reaching for a nationwide ban, including in states that have enacted abortion rights. If they can’t prosecute, they want to at least deny access. For example, by getting the Supreme Court to revoke FDA approval of Mifepristone, the most common abortion method. That decision would apply everywhere in the country, regardless of local laws.

    What the Doctor Dumbfucks of the world overlook is that prosecuting a woman who suffered a miscarriage for “corpse abuse,” and Texas courts throwing women needing medically necessary abortions under the bus, isn’t yet baked into the polls. As The Guardian said, a ruling in the Mifepristone case “could be reached by summer 2024 – just in time to upend the 2024 US presidential election.”

    The Guardian story quoted a Tennessee woman whose “fetus was diagnosed with several lethal conditions,” but “had to travel to New York for an abortion.” She said, ““I can scream on TikTok, I can scream at marches, I can scream at the Capitol every day for the rest of my life. But that’s not going to change the people inside who are voting. I have to be inside. I have to be the one that’s voting on the actual bills.” She’s now “running for office as a member of the first generation of female candidates to run post-Roe,” and unless I miss my guess, she’s going to get a ton of female votes.

    The persecution of pregnant women isn’t coming from nowhere. It’s coming largely from conservative white males who will never get pregnant. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen to their legislative majorities if women voters turn against them en bloc, and even their own wives and daughters vote against them or run against them. That would, among other impacts, blow up the polls that Doctor Dumbfuck takes to bed with him to snuggle up to every night.

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    52)Looking at Some of the examples I mentioned , looks like TriMet has phased out the physical pass in favor of the cap, STA is going to. Still would have to have the balance for higher fare services deducted. Right now, my employer adds $30 a month to my ORCA Card, I have a personal rule, weekend trips, I replace the balance,

    https://trimet.org/fares/allfares.htm

    I have seen some suggestions of Public/Private Partnerships as a way to reduce construction costs. The record is mixed with our neighbors, partly because in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver, tgey made interesting rolling stock decisions. Edmonton split the Valley Line, which already is a departure from the Metro and Capitol Lines(unlike the others, Valley line uses low floor rolling stock), into two separate contracts, and two separate consortia won. Tgey chose LRVs from two different manufacturers. They still are 100% low floor, standard-gauge, and 759V electrification. Calgary, also departed from the existing high floor lines for the Green Line, went with yet another manufacturer. Since the Cat rain and ETS opened, the two systems had managed to only buy from Siemens. Vancouver, TRANSLINK put the Canada Line out to bid when Campbell was premier, and he was very enthusiastic for P3s, although they should have mandated all bidders choose Bombardier for tge Rolling Stock. Tge consortium chose Hyundai Rotem, and the Canada Line is technically not a SkyTrain line because of it. Tge SkyTrain used a Linear induction motor that was proprietary to Bombardier, now Alstom.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovia_Metro#Innovia_ART

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    “Welcome to Moms of Truth! This is a support group for mothers to ask questions and receive feedback on the parenting challenges you’re facing.

    “Jodi Hildebrandt (MS) and Ruby Franke are mental fitness trainers with @connexionscoaching. They are available to give you Truth-centered, principled-based training to help you create joy within your family.”

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/momsoftruth/

    We’re sorry, but Ms. Hildebrandt and Ms. Franke have been unavailable for one-on-one counseling ever since the cops found Ms. Franke’s children “emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around [their] extremities,” and we’re unsure how her guilty plea to multiple charges of child abuse will affect her future professional activities, but she’s probably going to prison for a while.

    As an aside, you maybe should beware of anything with “Moms” in its title. There seems to be a lot of rabid moms these days.

  56. 56

    Another defendant who pleaded guilty to “using marijuana while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement about her drug use during the purchase of the firearm” got 21 months in prison on those federal charges, but Hunter shouldn’t get that much time for his similar offense because he didn’t give a gun to a 6-year-old kid who shot a teacher with it.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/deja-taylor-newport-news-sentenced/story?id=105691145

  57. 57

    @ 56

    HA Legal Eagle Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit ignores the fact that she was sentenced to two years in prison for child neglect, which is a felony in the state of Virginia.

    Unless he posted about that sentence, which was handed down in August.

    HA Legal Eagle Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit also ignored the opportunity to claim that Hunter Biden won’t get 21 months because he’s not guiltyhe’s the POS son of a Democrat presidenthe’s not black.

  58. 58

    I wonder if the felonies my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president will pardon his POS son having committed and convicted for would otherwise have been sentenced to run consecutively, or concurrently.

  59. 59

    What it means to be a young Democrat these days:

    1. Yell an anti-Semitic comment at a Jewish congressman in the hallway outside his office while he is being interviewed by a major news organization, so that you can be identified.

    2. Have the bear fucking you in the ass while you are on your knees on a table in a Senate hearing room record the homosexual act and post the video on social media, where you can be identified.

    3. Upon being found out claim that you are being persecuted for who you love instead of for being the fucking asshole your rich and politically connected parents raised you to be, because they are Democrats, too.

  60. 60

    If Bill Clinton had used a cell phone to video-record Monica Lewinsky swallowing nearly all of it, would that recording be subject to discovery, or could he have properly claimed executive privilege in order to withhold it in order to spare his loving wife the shame and embarrassment it would cause?

    And if the latter, do you think he would have subsequently marketed the video on OnlyFans?

  61. 61

    To be fair, it was Barack’s America, too. Barack wasn’t stupid enough to let it be the centerpiece of his administration.

    Kristina Wong 🇺🇸
    @kristina_wong
    Joe Biden’s America
    3:37 PM · Dec 15, 2023

    I would have included Rachel Levine. Whose birth name is frequently shortened to Dick, ironically.

  62. 62

    No problem, really. Queen YLB’s fucked kids will pick up the tab.

    40 percent of student loan borrowers missed first payment since COVID pause, officials say

    “I won’t back down from using every tool at our disposal to get student loan borrowers the relief they need to reach their dreams.”

    He’s not kidding. After all, there’s no more easily used tool in the Democrat chest than Queen YLB.

  63. 63

    @57 – 62

    Dumbfuck should go back to spellchecking comments. That’s more his speed. And it wouldn’t make him look so much like a dumbfuck Nazi coward and a traitor to his fucking country.

  65. 65

    So far, President Joe Biden’s only intervention into his son’s prosecution has been his approval of AG Garland’s appointment of an independent Special Counsel to bring criminal charges.

  67. 67

    DeSantis, who, by the way, is being beaten soundly by Momala in the RCP Favorability Ratings, will never be the dumbfuck Nazi coward’s president.

    Top strategist resigns from DeSantis-backing super PAC with less than a month before Iowa caucuses

    Rather, DeSantis will be remembered as being a failed governor who got his ass kicked by a Disney cartoon character and who wore 6″ lifts in his boots so he’d look taller than Nikki who, by the way, is also being beaten soundly by Nomala in the RCP Favorability Ratings.

    Must suck to be a dumbfuck Nazi coward.

  69. 69

    @ 65

    So far, President Joe Biden’s only intervention into his son’s prosecution has been his approval of AG Garland’s appointment of an independentillegal Special Counsel to bring criminal charges.

    § 600.3 Qualifications of the Special Counsel.
    (a) An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government. Special Counsels shall agree that their responsibilities as Special Counsel shall take first precedence in their professional lives, and that it may be necessary to devote their full time to the investigation, depending on its complexity and the stage of the investigation.

    (b) The Attorney General shall consult with the Assistant Attorney General for Administration to ensure an appropriate method of appointment, and to ensure that a Special Counsel undergoes an appropriate background investigation and a detailed review of ethics and conflicts of interest issues. A Special Counsel shall be appointed as a “confidential employee” as defined in 5 U.S.C. 7511(b)(2)(C).

    Special counsel is, by law, someone outside of government. Garland’s appointment was neither independent, nor legal.

    But you keep trying to prove that the fix is not in.

  71. 71

    I’m a fact eyewitness to events at the heart of the allegations House Republicans have brought against the President to support an impeachment. I was there in the room. I was a participant in conversations that House Republicans allege tie The President to unlawful or corrupt acts.

    The Republican majority will not let me testify under oath.

  72. 72

    Trump prefers white people to the exclusion of minorities. Claudine Gay clearly prefers minorities to the exclusion of white people.

    One of these two currently has a job.

    The other will defeat #CrookedHillary in November.

  73. 73

    @ 71

    The Republican majority will not let me testify under oath.

    My dad and his cronies will not let me be deposed under oath, privately.

    Also, I should have registered as a foreign agent a decade ago, but did not.

  74. 74

    Four kilometers long. 50 meters deep. Large enough to drive a car through.

    The IDF on Sunday issued a video of Muhammad Sinwar, the right-hand man and brother of Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, being driven in a car through the massive four-kilometer long and 50-meter deep “strategic” level tunnel it revealed earlier Sunday.

    The tunnel is the largest and longest in Gaza that the IDF has ever found, directly linking the tip of northern Gaza to Jabalia toward the southern end of northern Gaza while running almost exclusively through civilian areas.

    IIRC Goldy tweeted a lot about the tunnel under the Seattle waterfront. I wonder what Goldy would tweet about this tunnel.

  76. 76

    72,

    What the fuck does the profoundly stupid troll’s father have to do with anything?

    Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

  77. 77

    69,

    For anyone not following along at home what makes the appointments of John Durham and David Weiss legal is that each of them permanently ceased to be employed as United States Attorneys when they accepted their appointment as SCs.

    It’s just another dumb argument from “serious” 🤡servatives.

  78. 78

    “Turbulence is getting worse. This is both the official story and one supported by anecdote.” … Dr. Paul Williams of University of Reading in Berkshire … explained that climate change is the culprit ….

    https://www.rawstory.com/airline-turbulence/

    Mother Earth is saying, “Ground those planes, or I’ll shake the poop out of you.”

  79. 79

    @57 I used the phrase “federal charges” for a reason, dumbass. In both cases, the gun charges are federal charges. Her state sentence has no relevance because Hunter isn’t charged by a state with child neglect. Gawd you’re dense, even for a perpetual dumbfuck. This time you’re a “dumbass” because you pulled this one out of your ass.

  80. 80

    @58 Geez, learn to write a coherent sentence. Are you stoned this morning? Looks like it.

  81. 81

    @59 Are you talking about the Senate staffer who was immediately fired when he got caught? He must’ve worked for a Democrat, because Republicans don’t punish theirs.

    Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same. Not by a wide mile.

  82. 82

    @60 Why don’t you ask yourself for legal advice on that one? You claim to be a legal expert, and being your own lawyer is cheaper than paying a real one.

  85. 85

    @69 The fix is in.

    I expect that to be Hunter’s defense counsel’s argument to the trial judge concerning the Republican prosecutor who, under pressure from Republican congressmen and senators, blew up the plea agreement and reinstated a gun charge that a federal appeals court ruled unconstitutional.

  86. 86

    @74 If we hired these guys to dig Sound Transit’s light rail tunnels, they wouldn’t cost a billion dollars a mile.

  88. 88

    40 percent of student loan borrowers missed first payment since COVID pause, officials say

    Yawwwn… dumbshit’s never heard of a late notice or an interest penalty..

    Not anyone’s concern outside of a bill collector..

    btw, kids have no debt of any kind and Joe won’t raise taxes on anyone making less than 400k..

    Vote for Joe, kids.. he’ll serve your interests.. and keep the IRS funded for tax dodging cheats like teh kreepshit of widbee..

    knock, knock, knock…

  90. 90

    @74

    Where a credulous Zionist fanboy would have you believe that Israel just discovered a massive construction project built undetected in the most heavily monitored place the IDF operates in or near.

    And they literally didn’t build it themselves or know it was there.

    How embarrassing.

  91. 91

    “… Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., wrote a letter to Secretary Austin and demanded that they keep the Confederate Memorial in place” at Arlington Cemetery. “Clyde argued that [removing] the memorial … would desecrate the graves of Confederate troops buried there.”

    https://www.aol.com/news/confederate-memorial-arlington-national-cemetery-015014052.html

    There are Confederates buried in Arlington? Yes, there are! Why do we legitimize treason this way? Get them out of there, too!

  92. 92

    “What have these people done to deserve this?

    I don’t understand. This is trash.”

    Republicans comfortably fled home, masturbating with their voters. ARE TRASH.

  93. 93

    “I was playing soccer with my friends in the schoolyard when the shells hit. When I awoke my legs were gone and my friend Ilya was dead.”

    Republicans comfortably fled home, masturbating with their voters. ARE TRASH.

  94. 94

    “My sister was was sleeping on the floor near the television when the shells hit. She was too close to the window. Her head was hurt very badly. I don’t understand. But the doctor says she must to go to the hospital in Dnipro. The Russians opened a corridor to evacuate badly wounded. So we kissed her goodbye and she left in an ambulance. Russians blew up the ambulance.”

    Republicans ARE TRASH.

  96. 96

    95)They should just move to Ireland where Divorce is illegal. Oops.forgot, they repealed that too.

  98. 98

    Uh-oh, here’s bad news for The Dumbfuck: College degrees are marketable. Even liberal arts degrees. Even worse for him,

    “College graduates are more likely to have jobs, become wealthy, be healthy, get married, stay married, and be on the right side of virtually any measure of prosperity and stability one can name.

    ” … there’s a huge difference between short-term and long-term prospects for college graduates. … A diploma means that, after some time in the workforce, you’ll be qualified to be promoted into management …. And it allows you to pursue the graduate and professional degrees that are required for many of the highest-paying jobs. … College degrees are still very valuable ….”

    But wait, what about those “useless” degrees in “supposedly impractical degree programs, including in art, music, and foreign language”? Well, “a Georgetown University study found that although liberal-arts-college graduates make less money than other college students in the first 10 years after college, they make substantially more after 40 years.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/myth-unemployed-college-grad/676364/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: All of this makes sense. Knowing more is better than knowing less. Being able to think is better than not knowing how to think. A well-rounded education is better than a trade-school education. All of this is obvious when you read the comments posted by a vocational school graduate with a certificate in x-ray reading; he may know what a cancer cell looks like, but he doesn’t know dogshit about anything else. My personal trainer has a better understanding of how the world works than he does.

  99. 99

    97,

    They found a Russian dark money PAC to fund the payout and keep it off the books.

  100. 100

    Five point two percent growth in Q3 was mocked by profoundly stupid trolls as “unpossible”. Until it was too late. Then of course it very naturally became the very next guarantor of a “bubble” soon to burst into nuclear winter recession.

    Now, since at this point we all must surely accept that it lies constantly about its financial performance, try to imagine the volume of personal financial growth and opportunity Republicans, and EEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE dumb enough to follow their lead, have painstakingly avoided since January of 2021.

    😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃👍

  101. 101

    By the end of the Harris/Ocasio-Cortez second term the profoundly stupid troll’s aspirational “Mall Terrain Vehicle” will have gradually traded downward from new $130k Hummer EV to used Polaris Slingshot.

  102. 102

    I sure wish my son liked me more.

    Even if I failed at being a good mother, there is one thing I taught him that he has done well: paying rent with back-alley blowjobs.

    Like mother like son.

  103. 103

    By the end of the Harris/Ocasio-Cortez

    It won’t survive the MI or stroke out during the IRS audit.

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