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  2. 2

    Good thing Stadler Rail set up a US factory, their FLIRT Multiple Unit train set keeps racking up orders, this time the Battery-Electric Multiple Unit version for Chicago Metra. They will be used on the Rock Island Beverly Branch, I have been seeing for days, some want METRA to electrify , but wouldn’t be able to do it overnight, this is a good start Although the Rock Island District, both of its lines, would be a good candidate.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/metra-signs-deal-with-stadler-us-for-battery-electric-trainsets/

    The FLIRT is a real innovative vehicle, especially the propulsion. Operators. In Texas use the Diesel version, The Arrow in San Bernadino uses Diesel plus a Hydrogen prototype, and a Diesel Electric model will be running in Ottawa. Then there is the versions in Stadler’s home continent, besides propu, it’s adapted to narrow, Standard, and Iberian Broad Guage. The vehicle has endless possibilities.

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    Innovative Electric Double deckers coming to the Stride Bus Rapid Transit routes, Although since Community Transit operates operates ST’s bus routes from Snohomish County , it was probably going to be Double deckers. The diesel version is a proven design, been running in the Pacific Northwest and down in Las Vegas for about 20 years. Even driven by college students in Davis, California, and not as a prank.

    https://electrek.co/2024/02/20/seattle-double-decker-electric-buses-inductive-wireless-charging/

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    The fun thing about the guilty verdict for LaPierre.

    Most corporations indemnify their executives against financial damages arising from their ‘business duties’. That indemnity is covered by insurance.

    Insurance companies really don’t like paying for intentional malfeasance. And what can happen is the insurer leans on law enforcement and prosecutors to pursue embezzlement charges.

    Wayne is almost certain to have to forfeit his retirement parachute and may yet face a criminal trail.

    Sad

  6. 6

    Constituent question at a forum for Oklahoma State Superintendent and a handful of Republican state senators:

    “why does the Legislature have such an obsession with the LGBTQ citizens of Oklahoma and what people do in their personal lives and how they raise their children? Is there a reason why you won’t answer about the 50 bills targeting the LGBTQ community in the state of Oklahoma? If you are ashamed of those bills, they shouldn’t be there,”

    State Senator Tom Woods went with the ‘I’m Glad a 15 year old was beaten to death.

    “We are a Republican state – supermajority – in the House and Senate. I represent a constituency that doesn’t want that filth in Oklahoma. We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state – we are a moral state, We want to lower taxes and let people be able to live and work and go to the faith they choose. We are a Republican state and I’m going to vote my district, and I’m going to vote my values, and we don’t want that in the state of Oklahoma.”

    Good of him to tie the whole Republican Party to being morally upright murderers of high school kids.

    Oklahoma goes blue in November.

  9. 9

    “Closed Door Testimony” equals…

    kreepshit babbling leaks at HA courtesy of hack John Solomon.. among others..

    ZzzzZzzzzzzzzzzz…

  10. 10

    Yes, but aren’t they the Party of Putin now?

    Indeed they are.

    It’s now okay for the dumbfuck Nazi coward to come out of the closet and express his love for Putin and his hatred for our republic.

    The Nazi won’t do it though. He’s still too much the coward.

  12. 12

    A helpful reminder:

    The Dogwood Senior Center in Atlanta will be closed today and tomorrow, and will be open again on Monday through Friday from 8:30 am until 4:00 pm.

  13. 13

    “I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them,”

    – Sen Mitt Romney, February 21, 2024

  14. 14

    Trying to imagine a world where a leftist convention is held and a prominant speaker calls for ANOTHER violent day to overturn Democracy.

    Wonder what the news coverage would be like.

  15. 15

    10 – Speaking of Nazi bastards, wasn’t in fun watching the Canadian parliament and Justin Trudeau applaud a Ukrainian Nazi a couple of months ago?

  16. 16

    @6 I wonder how he is going to deal with the heterosexual Neanderthal virus. People need to point out to him that his gender and sexual orientation of heterosexual is killing women and all they can do is let it happen because, well, we have jails..,,but most of the men kill themselves, so it’s a win win for him. He gets to groom the women still and let them die. Where’s the Bible now?

    Fuck him and all heterosexual Neanderthals, may they all end up in the ground sooner than later. He is filth.

  17. 17

    Objectively observed phonemic paraphasias may be signs of dementia:

    “Beneficiaries” to “benefishes”
    “Renovations” to “renoversh”
    “Pivotal” to “pivobal”
    “Obama” to “obamna”
    “Missiles” to “mishiz”
    “Christmas” to “Crissus”
    “Bipartisan” to “bipars”

    Prolonged periods of stress brought on by over scheduling, financial precarity, loss of familian affection or companionship, loss of legal or professional status, and general declining health can produce rapid advance of old age dementias and may overcome previously effective prescription treatments.

    Trump’s damaged speech processing is getting worse.

    #trumpdementia

  18. 18

    On this date four years ago in 2020 then President Trump The Rapist announced to Americans that “The Corona virus is very much under control in the USA”.

    By the time he was finally driven from office half a million more American citizens would be dead because of his criminal neglect.

  19. 19

    Government document security experts speaking in response to investigative journalists have confirmed that the forensic evidence recovered from Trump The Rapist’s Florida sex club bathrooms is likely to prove that Trump The Rapist was photocopying classified, highly secret intelligence materials and distributing the copies.

    The document security experts have confirmed to investigators that the colored cover sheets displayed in evidence photographs included in response filings to the Trump lawsuit challenging the warrants are likely to be color photocopies. The cover sheets with the headings “SECRET/SCI” in large bold red typeface with surrounding border of red, and “TOP SECRET/SCI” in large bold red typeface with a surrounding border of yellow are unlikely the original cover sheets. They have informed investigators that these cover sheets are standard, official Government Standard Forms 703 and 704 respectively, produced by the government printing office. The high speed printing equipment used to produce the forms prints the surrounding border to “bleed to the edge”.

    The evidence images released in response to the Trump lawsuit show the cover sheets present in the scattered stolen document piles in the sex club bathrooms all feature a wihte border surrouding the red or yellow borders, which indicates that they are reproductions made on photocopying equipment.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/30/us/politics/31dc-picture-1/30dc-investigate-3-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

    In this photo you can also see in the upper left of the frame examples of what are probably some original cover sheet forms. Note that the red color is more saturated and carries or “bleeds” all the way to the edge of the paper.

    As a refresher, according to the US government “SECRET” is defined as material that would cause “serious damage” to national security if it became publicly available.

    “TOP SECRET” would cause “exceptionally grave damage”.

    “SCI”, visible on all the cover sheets here, means Sensitive Compartmented Information. It’s a category of information concerning or derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. And this additional labeling informs the user that the underlying materials are not to be exposed outside of a facility formally designated as a “sensitive compartmented information facility” by the Director of National Intelligence.

    In another of the accompanying photos made during the warrant search of the sex club and released in response to the Trump lawsuit, there appears a commercial office color photocopy machine placed in the same room with one of the collections of stolen documents.

    https://media.nbcdfw.com/2023/06/1686334887330-Trump-indictment-photo3.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&fit=1200%2C674&w=575&h=323&crop=0

    It is likely that additional forensice examination and testing of the pages recovered from the sex club toilets have confirmed that Trump and sex club employees had been actively engaged in producing and distributing coplies of the classified intelligence.

    #treason like literally the actual fucking crime of #treason

  20. 20

    Speaking of Nazi bastards

    Wehrner Von Braun – Saturn V

    Friends don’t let friends talk to Nazis..

  21. 21

    #treason like literally the actual fucking crime of #treason

    aka knock, knock, knock for the stoopid trust fund troll…

  22. 22

    20)It was the speaker that invited the guy, who has since resigned. In the House of Commons, traditionally no body wants to be speaker, not as powerful as down here. Interesting procedure for replacement though. In the interim, the Dean of the House, the MP who has served the longest, takes over until a new vote. It’s a secret, ranked ballot. For that week, a member o the Bloc Quebocois was the Speaker. He didn’t have the power to unilaterally pull Quebec out of Canada. Interestingly, from 1993-1997., the Bloc was the Official Opposition.

  24. 24

    In his address to the CPAC Nazi convention Trump The Rapist declared himself to be a “political dissident”.

    Starting to embrace the failure. And he hasn’t even made it out of the primary.

    For at least as long as he can stay out of jail, Trump will have positioned himself as the idealogical and spiritual leader of the remnant GOP in decline. And in doing so he will continue to snuff out any hope of the party pivoting to a restoration of its abandoned principles or the future hopes of any non-MAGA wannabes.

  26. 26

    Russia lost another A50 airborne command post in Ukraine, including five of their most highly trained senior technical officers.

    That’s their second such loss in less than six months and taking into account mission requirements and readiness requirements means that Russia’s force-wide air command capability has become seriously degraded going forward. To ensure defense response capability nationwide they may no longer be able to field airborned command and control systems in their invasion of Ukraine.

  27. 27

    Ben Carson so badly wants to be veep under Trump he even endorses crime (instead of sweeping it under the rug as Republicans usually do):

    Speaking about the four indictments, 91 criminal charges and escalating legal judgments against Trump, Carson told the crowd: “They’re incredibly unfair and if we allow this to happen, America will never be the same again.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/24/politics/cpac-trump-potential-running-mates/index.html

  28. 28

    Meanwhile, Trump plays the Black Like Me card:

    COLUMBIA, S.C. ― Donald Trump said on the eve of South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary that his criminal indictments ― he faces 91 charges across multiple cases ― are boosting his appeal with Black voters. …

    “I got indicted for nothing — for something that is nothing,” Trump said to applause. “And a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me, because they’ve been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against ….”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-indictments-black-people_n_65d9f49ee4b0cc1f2f7bdc6d

    Yeah, I can hear the thundering feet as black voters rush to embrace their fellow victim of police brutality …. [scarcasm]

  31. 31

    Don’t take my word for it that Trump is too old and infirm to be president; take the word of trained professionals:

    According to psychologist Dr. John Gartner, formerly of Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Donald Trump’s slurring and inability to sometimes formulate complete sentences appears to be a sign of growing dementia and possibly early stages of Alzheimer’s. In an interview with Salon’s Chauncey DeVega, Gartner bluntly stated the former president is “showing gross signs of dementia ….”

    This explains the rush to be his veep pick: Those folks see and hear it too, it’s questionable whether Trump will even make it to November, and they’re thinking the GOP will need a backup candidate (or a presidential successor in the event voters elect a gibbering idiot in November).

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-dementia/

    Hey doc, question for ya, does it look like Trump is setting up for a stroke? Do you see pre-stroke symptoms here? We know Trump’s social pathologies were years or decades in the making, and I’m under the impression that strokes develop quicker than psychopathic personalities, but aren’t there usually some precursor warning signs and doesn’t this look like that to you?

  32. 32

    31,
    It’s tertiary syphilis.

    Partying with Epstein and Dersh caught up with him.

  34. 34

    26)Those are valuable assets, thought they would be better protected.

    The Royal Navy learned the hard way in the Falklands what happens when you don’t have such assets. The big carriers the Invicibles replaced, had a plane called the Fairey Gannet. Definitely would not win a contest for best looking plane on the deck, the Phantoms and Blackburn Buccaneers in the air group had that locked up, but it had a vital role fulfilling the mission the E-2s do in the US Navy. RN had a few frigates and destroyers, two Royal Fleet Auxiliary landing ships, and a Container ship sunk or damaged by Argentine Air Attacks.

  35. 35

    @29 How?

    Allow me.

    29 operates on a series of fundamentally false assumptions born primarily out of a very weak personal character, social isolation and being numercially illiterate.

    – 29 erroneously assumes that his point of view is “moderate” and therefore describes some kind of “average” of views held by all Americans.

    – 29 erroneously assumes that whatever offends or insults him must by “logical” extension offend all the other “moderates”.

    – We offend and insult him.

    – Such offenses and insults serve for him as a justification to betray democratic principles and abandon the founding ideals of American democracy, as a way of levying “punishment” or retribution for the insult.

    – Assuming that very large numbers of voters share both his point of view and his sense of insult, he concludes that very large numbers of such voters will pour into polling places in November to ennact their revenge on those who have insulted him.

  36. 36

    You guys are doing an outstanding job of promoting Trump for November.

    And you are doing nothing to protect the womenz from the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. You ignore it. It’s costing you money! Big money!

  37. 37

    34,
    In this most recent downing the A-50 can be seen deploying flares for a time while apparently struggling to shake of active radars. Then the flares stop in a brilliant bright explosion – presumably a missile finding it’s target and detonating.

    I think we have to recognize that Russian tactics, training, and airborne systems may not actually be as capable as we previously assumed, at least not when confronted by modern missile guidance technology.

    They are fighting this conflict with 20th century technology. Or at least they were. As of today it appears that any remaining A50s are removed from the theater. And a consequence of that is the grounding of Russia’s supersonic tactical bombers which, without the airborne radar and control support, are at too great a risk of being destroyed by Russia’s own air defenses.

  38. 38

    @28

    Evergreen story

    Case: United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc.
    1:73-01529 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

    The complaint alleged that the firm had committed systemic violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in their many complexes–39 buildings, between them containing over 14,000 apartments. The allegations included evidence from black and white “testers” who had sought to rent apartments; the white testers were told of vacancies; the black testers were not, or were steered to apartment complexes with a higher proportion of racial minorities. The complaint also alleged that Trump employees had placed codes next to housing applicant names to indicate if they were black.

    After two years, the matter settled with a consent decree, signed June 10, 1975. It included the ordinary disclaimer of liability

  40. 40

    We know Doctor Dumbfuck is an avid reader of Barrons, because he’s constantly reminding us that he shells out big bucks for a subscription so he can read it Friday night, a full 12 hours before I read it for free at the public library. This gives him an advantage over me when the stock market reopens on Monday mornings, because he’s had an extra night to sleep on all the investing wisdom sandwiched between Barrons’ front and back covers.

    There’s just two items in this week’s issue that he’s commented on, which I want to comment on. At page 8 of the print edition, in an article listing various types of investments you don’t need, the article says, “You don’t need options. Those are like betting on a football game. Stocks are like owning a team.”

    At page 22 of the print edition, Barrons says, “Ford and General Motors have had weak stock returns over time. Ford has returned about 3% a year on average for the past 10 years, counting dividends. GM has returned about 4%. Investors in the S&P 500 index have enjoyed total returns of 12% a year over that span.”

    Doctor Dumbfuck constantly regales us with his options victories (but doesn’t mention his defeats), and iirc not long ago he was singing the praises of Ford and/or GM. I don’t do options, and don’t own Ford or GM, which he calls the “Roger Rabbit dumbfuck investing method.”

    Whatever.

  41. 41

    Hey doc, question for ya, does it look like Trump is setting up for a stroke?

    The widbee kreepshit is on board with it as long as its precious fash kon-klown in white risers is veep.

  42. 42

    39,
    Now, now.

    He wants Trump The Rapist without having to think too much about the, you know, rapes.

  45. 45

    @37 Their computer chips are 40 years behind ours. Buy a ride on their rocket to their space station at your risk. A signed legal waiver is required.

  46. 46

    @41 By November, Trump may be the “Weekend at Bernie’s” candidate, at the rate he’s declining.

  47. 47

    The South Carolina results at this hour are: Trump 60.0%, Haley 39.4%, with 86% of the vote in.

    The media undoubtedly will play this up as a crushing defeat for Haley, but I view it as a problem for Trump, because roughly 40% of Republican voters didn’t vote for him. In New Hampshire, over 45% of Republican voters didn’t vote for him. Is that a pattern? Given how polarizing Trump is, and the existence of a “never Trump” faction in the GOP, it seems possible Biden could peel off some Republican voters in November or at least they’ll withhold their votes from Trump. These results are not good news for Trump.

  48. 48

    @ 47

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit blissfully unaware of the existence of Democrat voters who have no intention of voting for Biden.

    Has he shared a national poll yet today?

  52. 52

    @48 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit blissfully unaware of the existence of Democrat voters who have no intention of voting for Biden.”

    Funny how these “Democrat voters” keep turning out to be people like Ronald Reagan, Tulsi Gabbard, and yes, Donald Trump — all of whom claimed to have been “Democrats” at some point in time.

  53. 53

    Haley, in her concession speech, said “I don’t believe Trump can beat Biden in November.” In other political news, “A growing chorus of top advisers to Donald Trump is urging him to fixate less on personal grievances and instead focus on … unifying the Republican Party.” They’re dreaming.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-push-south-carolina-pivot-fewer-grievances-rcna140239

    But even if he brings Republicans together, so what? Will the country buy what they’re selling? Tax cuts for the rich, Social Security and Medicare cuts, government controlling women’s bodies, teaching their religion in public schools, closing federal agencies that protect the environment and consumers, giving Ukraine (and Europe) to Putin, and so on? That remains to be seen. Sure, their candidate puts off voters, but it isn’t strictly a candidate problem; so does their agenda.

  54. 54

    Huffington Post sees the same thing I do. Their headline reads:

    TRUMP INSTANT WIN IN SC
    LIVE RESULTS: NEARLY 40% REJECT THE DON
    HALEY WON’T DROP OUT
    SAYS TRUMP CAN’T WIN, ‘DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY’

  55. 55

    Q) What’s the difference between a Nazi party and a party full of Nazis?

    A) There isn’t.

    #CPAC

  58. 58

    Tax cuts for the rich, Social Security and Medicare cuts, government controlling women’s bodies, teaching their religion in public schools, closing federal agencies that protect the environment and consumers, giving Ukraine (and Europe) to Putin, and so on?

    How’s about defunding the IRS?

    #tehkreepshitplatform

  60. 60

    56,

    He got tired and confused and called out his “beautiful wife” Mercedes to praise her.

    It’s definitely getting worse rapidly.

    And I think that explains why Shop Girl has hung in.

    They all know.

  61. 61

    @58 That’s included under “tax cuts for the rich.”

    Letting uber-wealthy tax cheaters get away with it is a subset of that category.

  62. 62

    @61 It’s hard to tell whether he’ll collapse onstage from a stroke or heart attack, or the stage will collapse under his weight, but right now I’d give the stage a slight edge on lasting longer than he does. Maybe they’ll go together.

  65. 65

    @64 It’s all relative. I’ll take a guy with a stutter and occasional brain farts over a liar and grifter who’s too far gone to continue his criminal career more than a few more months. I think you should, too.

  66. 66

    37)It’s hard to believe, so many Yaks built during WWII, yet it seems they are losing SU-34s faster than they can be replaced. The TU-160, only their own air defense can take it out, it can go faster than Mach 2.

    I loved this animation series where animators from Canada played with a legend. In the first installment shows an F-35 and a CF-18 unable to catch up with a TU-160, but the Blackjack co-pilot freaks out when a CF-105 appears. Officially, in real life, all airframes were scrapped by Diefenbaker. Although a few parts, and complete blueprints seemed to have escaped the clutches of DND Personnel. RL206, the production model that RL206 represents in the series, officially never flown. The Iroquois engine was tested on a B-47, produced enough thrust to keep the Stratojet in the air, and remember, a B+47 normally had 6 engines. The Arrow would have had two of them. Besides cost overruns, the threat had changed, Sputnik was launched about the time Arrow 201, the pre-production prototype was rolled out.

    I must admit this series does have a little Bruce Wayne-ish feel.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlPznMmQllRWZ9RWOem89GpWWfMB0qwjN&si=o_W0meo0Ppd9TV19

  67. 67

    64,
    Sure.

    In just three years he’s racked up a bigger and more important legislative record than “Dubya” could in eight. He added 20 million jobs, ended COVID, and pulled the US economy back from the brink.

    He’s defeated an “historic” Republican “transformative” incumbent, while running his campaign out of his basement in Delaware. He completely outmaneuvered the GOP and flipped three dark red states and four US Senate seats. He reversed inflation and beat Russia to a stalemate while rebuilding NATO. He publicly humiliated the Republican House committee seeking to impeach him.
    And he’s managed to play an UNO Reverse Card on the Republican Border Crysis.

    Having squandered their last House majority in our lifetimes, Republicans have somehow left Joe Biden more politically powerful than he has ever been. With twice as much campaign money and all the political momentum Joe Biden heads into the campaign so completely undamaged that MAGA Republicans are left with nothing to complain about except his birthday.

    He’s made the GOP and Trump look like pathetic fucking Cuck-clowns while still managing to appear kind and magnanimous.

  68. 68

    Rep. Nancy Mace, having previously sponsored a federal criminal law establishing “personhood at conception” is now stuck struggling to square that advocacy with her support for legal IVF.

    Her solution should be easy:
    stop lying.

  70. 70

    @56

    It’s like an old SNL recurring bit about ‘The Khardashians’

    “I’m Kim…I’m the pretty one.”

    “I’m Kourtney, I’m the smart one.”

    “And I’m Khloe”

    Worth noting here that Khloe was a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’

  71. 71

    @ 70

    It’s like an old SNL recurring bit about ‘The Khardashians’

    Written with absolutely gleeful cluelessness about The Bidens.

    There is, of course, POS Hunter Biden:

    I’m Hunter… I’m either high, fucking one or more whores when I’m not fucking Hallie or Jill, or selling out my country to enrich The Biden Crime Family. Sometimes I am doing all three things at once. I lie on federal applications and I throw away firearms with the same dismissiveness as Dad treats bastard grandchildren.

    Then there’s ol’ Joe’s bro, Jim:

    Call me James, or Jim, or whatever gets me paid. I have no skill of my own so have spent my last three decades trading on my brother’s name. The dough really started rolling in after BO won again. Almost like they thought bro would succeed him. I’m the one who taught Joe to sell out his country if the dough was attractive enough.

    And the widow Hallie:

    I was afraid when Beau died I’d lose my place at the Biden trough. I only fucked Hunter for the payouts, and I had to get shots twice when he gave me the clap. OK, I fucked his dad once, too, but that was only because Hunter wanted photos of me reverse cowgirl. Funny thing – neither Beau, Hunter, or Joe could get it all the way up. Do you think this is only a cold sore?

    Let’s not forget Ashley:

    My problems began when Daddy made me wash his ballsack in the shower when I was 8. His peepee got really hard and it squirted liquid Dial soap when I did a good job. I think the reason I got into coke was daddy’s dick was the same length as the coke straw, but smelled a whole lot worse. Hunter’s dick didn’t smell that way but he was only 17 and it was pretty easy for him to make me suck it after the first time when he hit me ’cause I didn’t want to. He promised me money but I never got any for doing it. It’s OK, the checks I got from that Chinese company made up for it. Coke sure got expensive since Hunter first sold it to me.

  72. 72

    Illegal alien brutally murders a nursing student out for a run.

    The AP’s response is that she should have worn a less jiggly sports bra.

    ZitoSalena
    @ZitoSalena
    That’s not the story
    @AP
    and your fear or lack of offending Lord know who or complete lack of news judgment of putting in the headline what the story is underscores why Americans’ distrust in my profession has plummeted to a whopping 68% in the most recent Gallup survey.
    Quote
    The Associated Press
    @AP
    ·
    4h
    The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes https://apnews.com/article/runner-dead-university-georgia-women-safety-4b277117e82ab00d7e6c79672219a65f?taid=65db3d5a9b1fe40001bc3d16&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
    8:32 AM · Feb 25, 2024

  73. 73

    Anyone see the Shane Gillis monologue on SNL last night?

    Admit it, when he brought up having a family member with Down Syndrome you immediately thought of The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, didn’t you?

    Would make total sense.

  74. 74

    Illegal alien brutally murders a nursing student

    House and Senate Republicans should not be blocking border security funding.

    But since they are they committed that murder.

  76. 76

    @75,

    Americans would be safer in their communities with a stronger border, and with stricter immigration laws.

    House and Senate Republicans should not be blocking the bipartisan Senate legislation that provides those things.

  78. 78

    Immigrants documented or undocumented don’t lead to more crime according to best research available:

    As we said, there aren’t readily available nationwide crime statistics broken down by immigration status. But the available research that estimates the relationship between illegal immigration and crime generally shows an association with lower crime rates.

    https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/is-illegal-immigration-linked-to-more-or-less-crime/

    Research points to the opposite. It’s a plain fact. But facts don’t matter to degen repukes.

  79. 79

    Why are boys so fragile and emotional. They need to be protected.

    SW Ohio Baskerball league 6th grade. Next Level Youth Basketball fielded two Rec league teams. One boys and one girls. At the 6th grade level most school teams are coed. There is no girls league and it has been common for girls and coed teams to play in the league The Next Level girls team compiled a 7-1 record in season play but were officially told they will not be allowed to play in the season ending tournament championship.

    Because they are girls. Like for real. The league put it in an email to Next Level Sports.

    “What we have worried about is a boys team losing to a girls team especially in a year end tournament, they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl.”

    Teams have been complaining about driving all the way to ‘Next Level’s gym to compete in Kentucky, right across the River from Cincinatti where most would have to drive through Covington (yeah that place) the whole ten minute drive from city center Cincinnati only to lose to the girls.

    Back to the letter.

    “Because of these concerns we have decided to keep the team out of the tournament.”

    Next level pulled all their teams of all grade levels from the program and is exploring a discrimination lawsuit.

  80. 80

    a family member with Down Syndrome

    Funny that it wouldn’t surprise me that any repuke family in that situation would be totally on board with kreepshit’s attitude.

    If CPS removed a child with Down from an abusive repuke household, the repuke family would hoot and holler, “thank you jeebus!” and “hail drumpf!”

  82. 82

    It seems incongruous to name an aircraft carrier after a Navy Cross recipient. The solution isn’t renaming the ship, but to upgrade the medal to what it should be but wasn’t because the hero was black.* (Biden can’t do that, though; it requires an act of Congress.)

    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4485474-recognizing-valor-serving-justice-its-long-past-time-to-honor-dorie-miller/

    * The Medal of Honor was whites-only until the Korean War

  84. 84

    “The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children is putting Republicans in a bind, forcing them to distance themselves from some of the decision’s sweeping consequences. …
    It has put GOP politicians … in a complicated position, forcing them to awkwardly explain why they may disagree with a ruling” they helped bring about.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4486065-gop-seeks-to-distance-itself-from-consequences-of-alabama-frozen-embryo-decision/

    Give it up, Repukes. You own this shit. You pushed religion into law, interfered with reproductive rights, and went after doctors and patients. This is on you, all the way. And voters know it. But you can take cheer from the strong likelihood that when the dust settles on all your politico-Bible thumping, you’ll still hold the Bible Belt states.

  85. 85

    Action (or lack thereof) speaks louder than words:

    Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) went after her GOP colleagues on Sunday, claiming their words defending in vitro fertilization (IVF) are empty after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week. … Duckworth said no GOP colleagues have supported her bill that would establish federal protections for IVF treatment, even after the GOP Senate campaign arm called on candidates to reject attempts to regulate access to the procedure.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4488248-duckworth-its-been-crickets-from-gop-colleagues-on-bill-to-protect-ivf/

    It really makes you wonder if they want to shut down IVF everywhere. It’s not like Repukes are honest about their intentions; they’re already unpopular, and even fewer people would vote for them if they didn’t lie about their true intentions.

  86. 86

    @69 Vivek wanted to take 7 years of voting away from them, except if they’re dying in a war, he’d let them cast an absentee ballot that Republicans would try to block from being counted.

  87. 87

    @71 It’s well established that Biden has a shitty son, and Trump has at least two. In your camp, more shit is always better.

  88. 88

    @72 Like sewage passing through a pipe, the actual headline “The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes” becomes “The AP’s response is that she should have worn a less jiggly sports bra,” which clearly is a product of your voyeuristic mind, as “jiggly sports bra” doesn’t appear in either the headline or the story below it.

    And to cement your criticism of female runners (how do they not “jiggle” when running?), you go to a “source” well-known as a “Trump whisperer.” Of course you do, because no legitimate source would have anything to do with you, nor you with them.

    The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes

  89. 89

    @75 I’ll concede this guy entered the U.S. illegally before Republicans blocked border security funding, and it’s the next wave of murders by illegals they’ll be responsible for.

  90. 90

    @78 As I’ve said before, if you want less crime, deport the citizens and keep the illegals.

    The lower crime rate of illegals (estimates typically put it at half the citizen crime rate) makes perfect sense. They come here to earn money to support their families back home. Because they’re at constant risk of deportation, it’s in their best interest to keep a low profile, and avoid calling attention to themselves.

    Of course there are some bad eggs among them, but that’s true of any large population; the vast majority just want to work and put bread on the table, and they work so hard they don’t have time to be idle or get into trouble.

    Meanwhile, it would be amusing to hear a rapist rant about “rapists” crossing the border, if it wasn’t so vicious and pathetically racist. If Trump really wants to cleanse the U.S. of rapists, he could start by moving to another country. (Russia?)

  91. 91

    @79 It’s well known that boys are emotional and wear their feelings on their sleeves, whereas girls are taught to bite their lips and put on a stoic face. That’s why the majority of lawyers today are women.

  93. 93

    It isn’t just me who thinks Trump’s sub-60% showing in South Carolina spells trouble for him.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-south-carolina-nikki-haley_n_65db61f5e4b0e4346d52bed8

    Haley got 43% in New Hampshire. In 1968, Eugene McCarthy got 43% in New Hampshire, which knocked a sitting president out of the race. Sure, the Vietnam War made LBJ unpopular, but the Capitol Insurrection has made Trump equally unpopular.

    What New Hampshire and South Carolina tell us is 4 of 10 Republican voters are unhappy with their presumptive nominee. In 1968, an unpopular Richard Nixon took away the November prize because the Democrats were in disarray; in 2024, an unpopular Biden faces an even more unpopular GOP in even greater disarray.

    Of course I can’t predict with any certainty what will happen in November, which is a long way away, but the close historical precedent doesn’t look good for the GOP’s presumptive nominee, and he may not even be able to speak or walk by then.

  94. 94

    Let’s suppose, for a moment, the Democrats retain the Senate, retake the House, Biden wins re-election by a wide margin (say, 55%-45%), and Republican MAGA candidates lose get slaughtered in down ballot races across the country. Will it then be time for Republicans to put MAGA behind them, and return the GOP to its small-government, small-town, small-business roots? Will there be any real Republicans left to do so?

  96. 96

    @ 94

    … Biden wins re-election by a wide margin (say, 55%-45%) …

    It’s more likely that Biden dies before the DNC convention.

  99. 99

    The Media: “Trump forgets his own wife’s name, how this shows that Biden is senile! Dems in Disarray! ”

  102. 102

    99,
    Gripping his podium for balance, dripping with sweat, pupils wildly dilated like saucers, slurring his words, forgetting what day it is, and slouching and bending at the waist.

    He may be suffering from dementia.
    But he is definitely pilled as fuck.

  103. 103

    After Georgetown law professor and Trump sycophant Jonathan Turley claimed Joe Biden inherited criminal tendencies from a great-great-grandfather (details of his crime here), somebody pointed out that his students may not be getting value for their tuition money.

    What I want to know is, if Turley’s right about how DNA works, what does he have to say about Trump’s kids?

    https://www.rawstory.com/yikes-expert-trump-turley-biden-ancestor/

  104. 104

    Byron Donalds is a Florida congressman. He’s an idiot. Being black has nothing to do with it; being a Republican has everything to do with it.

    https://www.rawstory.com/not-a-slip-byron-donalds-breed/

    Roger Rabbit Comment: If Republicans aren’t born stupid, they’re forced to become stupid, because you have to be stupid to be a Republican. It’s required, and it’s a badge of honor in that group.

  105. 105

    82)There were African American recipients in the Civil War, Spanish American War, and the Indian Wars.

  106. 106

    Had a minor power outage here in Southeast Seattle, but SCL has it up and running. Happened while I was at the laundromat , walked home to unplug a power bank I had charging, observed LINK was still running, separate system for traction power, but not for station lighting. Lights came back on as I was walking back to the laundromat.

  107. 107

    A Trump 2.0 presidency would likely have a big impact on the top macro factors that investors are most concerned about: inflation, interest rates, and the US dollar. All three of those would likely turn higher if Trump was elected

    Trump said earlier this month that he would consider implementing a sky-high 60% tariff on Chinese goods if he were re-elected. That would be significantly more than the tariffs Trump implemented in 2018, and not only would it disrupt global trade, but it would likely undo a lot of the progress the Federal Reserve has made in combatting inflation.

  108. 108

    @94

    Nope. The Christian Taliban is waiting In the wings to take the reins of the post MAGA GOP and bring illegal birth control, daily school prayer with the pledge of allegiance and kill the gays.

    It’s a death spiral no matter who’s you spin it.

  109. 109

    94, 108,

    And the people with common sense are wondering when the Tip O’ Neill Democrats are going to return.

  114. 114

    109,

    Good old drunken Irish racists like Reagan who grew up torturing neighborhood pets and beating up Jews.

    We banished all of you years ago.
    Good riddance.

  115. 115

    113,

    How would folks react if Dean Phillips took 40 points from Biden?

  116. 116

    @115 The “folks” I think you’re referring to would say, “Joe’s done! Put a fork in him!”

  117. 117

    The Florida Republicans want to ban social media ban for under 16s. It would deny parental consent. The Florida Republicans think kids 16 and under are mature enough to have children when raped or molested but somehow not mature enough to use social media. Florida republicans can put the kids to work in the meat factories and fields, but god forbid they use social media!

    P.S. At Florida Man Games this weekend, teams compete at evading police, wrestling over beer, grabbing cash in hurrcane winds, a bike relay while toting a catalytic converter and a handful of copper pipes, and mud dueling.
    ”There’s typically drugs and nudity in Flordia Man stories,” the organizer said. “But the city frowned on it when I asked for drugs and nudity.”

  120. 120

    @ 115

    How would folks react if Dean Phillips took 40 points from Biden?

    Let’s see how Dean Phillips’ CD votes in the MN primary. It’s March 5.

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