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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jordan Klepper: Hunter Biden convicted, Alito’s wife caught on tape talking flags, and more political news

Electile Dysfunction, 2024:

Jon Stewart: Jon Stewart smashes the myth of corporate morality in pride, BLM, and beyond

The Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

John Oliver: Deep-sea mining

Supremely Fucked (Up):

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

DOJ Weaponized (And Sometimes The GOP Is OK With Infringing On The Right To Bear Arms):

Ali Velshi: State courts pick up where SCOTUS fails

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Wonder if the DOJ will still be considered weaponized if Senator Menendez is convicted?

  2. 2

    Probably best option for the Big U would be to reef her. She last ran as a liner in 1969, and successive attempts to restore her to her former glory have failed, and now being evicted from the Port of Philadelphia, They got until September 12th to find a new home. Few today even have heard of the SS UNITED STATES, let alone that while we were late to the party, we had the best and fastest ocean liner. Cunard Hull Number 534, aka RMS QUEEN MARY got 30 knots, the Big U did 36 on her maiden voyage. For a long time, her actual speed on trials, along with the engine plant, were classified. The reason? The United States Lines only underwrote 30% of her construction the United States Navy picked up the rest. She was planned for use in wartime as a troop ship.

    https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2024/06/ss-united-states-must-move-from-philadelphia-pier-by-sept-12/

    Lessons from the Normandie were incorporated into her construction. A near strict no-wood rule was in effect, only the Grand Piano and the Butchers Block were exceptions. Also, plenty of asbestos was used in her fireproofing. The latter one of the reasons the interior is gutted.

    Interesting, the alleged sabotage of the Normandie, under conversion to be USS Lafayette, led to an unholy alliance between the US Government and the Mafia. Turns out, while the US was neutral and the Normandie was interned, her French Crew kept up an elaborate fire watch, had nothing better to do. Once the US was at war and the ship seized, the crew was removed and taken into custody.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie

  3. 3

    Hey poll troll, this is for you:

    President Biden may be gaining traction among America’s oldest voters, which could make him the first Democrat to win the demographic in more than two decades.

    In a Quinnipiac University poll asking voters for their general election preference, Biden is beating Trump by 12% with voters ages 65+. And a New York Times/Siena poll shows Biden beating Trump by 5% with voters aged 65 or older.

    https://www.newsnationnow.com/the-hill/data-shows-biden-gaining-support-among-older-voters/

    I don’t think polls this far before an election mean a damn thing, but if you want to broadcast this from the rooftops, go right ahead.

  4. 4

    “Former President Donald Trump failed to impress … a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC.

    “Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room…. The CEO also said Trump did not explain how he planned to accomplish any of his policy proposals, that person said.

    Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reported Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/14/ceos-at-trump-meeting-not-impressed.html

    Doesn’t matter. They’ll just prop him up like the CEO in “Weekend at Bernies.” He’s not calling the shots anyway. A rightwing brain trust headed by the likes of Stephen Miller is. Trump can be senile, comatose, or dead — and a second Trump term will work out just fine for those guys. Probably better, because they won’t have Trump interfering with the next Trump presidency.

  5. 5

    Poll troll. Hard not to like that one.

    PollWatch
    @PollWatch2020
    ·
    Decision Desk HQ is showing Trump with small leads in Virginia and Minnesota
    Decision Desk HQ
    @DecisionDeskHQ
    Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 0.2% in Virginia and 1.6% in Minnesota according to Decision Desk HQ/@thehill’s latest polling averages.
    2:51 PM · Jun 14, 2024

    Trump finished close in 2016 in Minnesota.

  6. 6

    Minnesota voted for The Body.

    Minnesota voted for Al Franken.

    It’s not hard at all to envision Minnesota voting for Donald Trump, particularly after watching four years of the disaster that is Joe Biden.

  7. 7

    Imagine getting up at 5am just to bang angry shit on a website to your only friends who actually don’t like you.

    Sad

    BTW my wife didn’t call on my birthday

  8. 8

    Hey Jussie, hold my beer.

    FORT BEND COUNTY, TX (Covering Katy News)—Significant legal documents shedding light on the arrest of a Democratic candidate for Fort Bend County Commissioner became available to the public late Thursday. The 15-page arrest warrant details the case against Taral Patel, 30, who is running for Fort Bend Precinct 3 Commissioner.
    …
    Patel is facing allegations that he created a fake social media account to post racist comments directed at himself to falsely make it appear he was the victim of racist attacks. Patel then issued a press release with a collage of the “attacks” that created local and worldwide media attention and drove donations to his campaign.

    The warrant reveals the case against Patel, who is charged with two counts of Felony Online Impersonation and one Class A misdemeanor charge of Misrepresentation of Identity, a Texas Election Code violation.

    The warrant reveals that Patel targeted his Democratic primary opponent, Abrahim Javed, and his general election opponent, Republican Andy Meyers, the 28-year incumbent Precinct 3 Commissioner.

    Patel is a graduate of the Jamaal Bowman School of Stupid Political Stunts.

  9. 9

    … estado cognitivo tras desorientarse …

    … visiblemente desorientado …

    Tom Elliott
    @tomselliott
    Across the European media, the news is all about Biden’s obvious dementia on display at the G7. I don’t think anyone seriously expects he’ll serve another 4 years, let alone live another 4 years.
    6:04 AM · Jun 14, 2024

    In any language, Biden’s brain has left the building.

  10. 10

    To be truly happy, find somebody who looks at you the way Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit looks at Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit while she’s being stuffed full of BBC.

  12. 12

    One thing for sure is that those involved with the Isreal/Gaza Conflict /War/Genocide are animal heterosexual Neanderthals. Violent fucking animals on both sides. Very bad heterosexuals suffering from the Heterosexual Neanderthal virus. Shameful mother fuckers.

  19. 19

    More on kreepshit’s fav bugaboo.. ‘flayshun..

    Supply chains recovering from disruptions caused by covid and the war in Ukraine have done more to lower inflation than higher interest rates have…

    Based on previous Fed tightening cycles, the economy should have fallen into recession in the first quarter of 2023, strategists at PGIM Fixed Income told clients in December of that year.

    But the pandemic era made the economy less sensitive to interest rate movements than it had been.

    Millions of businesses and consumers had taken advantage of ultralow interest rates in the years before the Fed hiked to lock in low-cost credit.

    As 30-year mortgage rates fell below 3 percent, 14 million homeowners refinanced their loans in 2020 and 2021, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. About one-third of them used the cheaper loans to withdraw $430 billion in home equity, which supported their spending.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/15/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inflation/

    Good piece.. Touches on a lot of bases.. However it totally misses the wealth effect created by financial assets inflation (oh excuse me, appreciation) which resulted in the top 10 percent gaining 19.3 trillion in increased wealth over the course of the pandemic.

    It can be easily shown that lopsided growth in wealth led to lopsided spending driving prices upward.

    Some got so rich they couldn’t spend it all, so the rich puts that shit to work and today we see all kinds of outfits buying houses, apt buildings and the like, jacking up rents making life miserable for ordinary Americans.

    Corporations are enjoying record profits from greed and degens like kreepshit default to blaming it all on Joe so they can avoid paying for their tax cheating sins.

  20. 20

    Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4723719-lara-trump-vows-to-prosecute-anyone-who-cheats-in-an-election-we-will-track-you-down/

    Gonna be a lot of MAGArats in jail. People in The Villages voting in two states. People voting their ex-wives’ ballots in Colorado and other states. People voting their dead mothers’ ballots in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and other states. Florida residents voting in Georgia. Mark Meadows registering to vote at a North Carolina trailerpark. And so on.

  21. 21

    @6 Assuming Minnesota’s population has a normal IQ distribution, half its voters are stupid, so anything is possible. Same is true of Freeland, Washington, although based on anecdotal evidence the population there might show a tiny statistical skew to ultra-dumb.

  23. 23

    @19 Doesn’t happen very often that borrowers get 30-year mortgages at a below-inflation interest rate. Lots of folks will be living in their current houses for 30 years.

  24. 24

    @23 I saw an interview where the late Charlie Munger claimed he’d lived in the same house for 70 years and the youngster Warren Buffet lived in the same house for 60 years.

    I’m sure those two didn’t pay on their mortgages for a full 30 years but otoh back then it may have made good financial sense to do so.

    Mortgages? Who am I kidding? They were probably cash buyers even back then.

  25. 25

    The GOP’s Grand Strategy is to widely deploy homeschooling to turn America into a nation of zombie voters.

  26. 26

    @25 – “Zombie voters” is exactly what you have in the blue states like Washington. It’s “Vote Blue, No Matter Who” in these bastions of liberal progressivism.

  27. 27

    This is what libbies call bitch-slapping Elon Musk:

    In the first heat, the Porsche ran 12.5 seconds at 115.6 mph, while the Tesla followed in 12.7 seconds at 105.2 mph. Over the next few runs, as the Porsche driver honed his launch, the 911 trimmed 0.3 second off the time. The Cybertruck only posted one quicker run, which amounted to a trivial 0.02-second improvement. If we cherry-pick the quickest Cybertruck run and the slowest 911 run—the best possible scenario for Tesla—the Beast still crosses the finish line 0.229 second behind the Porsche.

    Motor Trend did this because Elon Musk claimed that a CyberTruck towing a Porsche was faster over 1/4 mile than a Porsche. Turns out that the Porsche is faster. As long as the CyberTruck has the handicap of towing a Porsche, and its trailer.

    What if the CyberTruck didn’t have to race with 100 horsepower tied behind its back?

    The Cybertruck Beast would absolutely decimate the 911 Carrera T if it wasn’t saddled with the trailer.

    Uh, and the Porsche on the trailer. It’s a firepower disadvantage like this that explains why Welfare Queen YLB always lobs her bombs while hiding behind Goldy or Darryl. So brave is our precious Welfare Queen YLB.

    Welfare Queen YLB’s never been in a fair fight, because she never comes out from her safe space behind others.

  28. 28

    26. Run republicans who are not frothing conservative supply side christian fascists and people tired of Democrats might vote for them. Oh wait those people never make it through the republican primaries. That’s on you.

  30. 30

    @ 19

    Some got so rich they couldn’t spend it all, so the rich puts that shit to work and today we see all kinds of outfits buying houses, apt buildings and the like, jacking up rents making life miserable for ordinary Americans.

    The truly rich don’t have to free up equity through loan refinancing to buy whatever we want. It’s that freedom from applications, appraisals, and underwriting that makes them rich, Welfare Queen YLB.

    It’s the security of being that wealthy that keeps them from pulling the trigger on spending, even though they can spend whenever they want. It’s enough to merely possess the concealed weapon of financial wherewithal.

    So stop blaming the rich. Those truly rich don’t spend because a brief opportunity arises. They invest because an opportunity arises.

    And tell your fucked kids to get their lazy asses back to work. The July Social Security disbursement will be here before you know it.

  31. 31

    @ 25

    The GOP’s Grand Strategy is to widely deploy homeschooling to turn America into a nation of zombie votershigh school graduates who can read, write, and do simple math.

    ’cause the NEA sure as hell hasn’t done that.

  32. 32

    Cyber truck vs Porsche
    Cyber truck vs car washes
    Cyber truck vs fingers
    Cyber truck vs bodies of water
    Cyber truck vs charging cable
    Cyber truck vs rust

  34. 34

    While attacking President Joe Biden for mental decline, Convicted felon forgets the name of the White House Doctor who not only has never examined President Biden but also declared the Convicted Felon the healthiest president ever.

    “Doc Ronny Johnson. Does everyone know Ronny Johnson?”

  35. 35

    I see @ 24 that Welfare Queen YLB made my point for me by pointing out that Warren Buffett doesn’t spend money to buy shit.

    The “rich” don’t spend because they don’t have to. Part of the inherent value of being rich is acting like you’re rich, rather than going out like a drunken sailor and blowing your wad on a government-subsidized Ford F-150 Lightning EV because a Democrat told you to.

    Buffett doesn’t spend because he doesn’t need to. Welfare Queen YLB doesn’t spend because she can’t. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s in the same boat as Welfare Queen YLB, but likes to try to convince others that he isn’t. Sad!

  36. 36

    @ 34

    Convicted felon forgets the name of the White House Doctor …

    Biden was speaking at an event pushing “Made in America” jobs and products when he referred to his predecessor Trump as his previous boss Obama.

    “Let me close with this,” Biden said at the event in lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

    “Back in 2009, during the so-called Great Recession, the President asked me to be in charge of managing that piece.

    “Then President Trump – excuse me, Freudian slip, that was the last president.

    I’m curious – what was it that made you think you’d score an advantage by pointing out a Trump memory lapse?

    Should I go on by sharing the time last year when Biden called out for the dead Congresswoman he thought was in the audience?

    Hey, at least Biden didn’t confuse Obama with Osama, like Wolf Blitzer did.

    Every candidate out there will make mistakes. Biden’s are cognitive. Trump’s are undisciplined. When Barack told us he’d been to 57 states on the campaign trail that was obvious fatigue.

    You’re running Biden-Harris again. I know you’re desperate. But jumping on the error Trump made by substituting one last name of a dead president for another last name of a dead president gets you nowhere, fast.

  37. 37

    A majority of voters think Momala would suck as president.

    POL7 In your opinion, would Kamala Harris make a good president?
    Yes, definitely 761 19%
    Yes, probably 844 21%
    No, probably not 396 10%
    No, definitely not 1644 41%
    Don’t know / No opinion 351 9%

    We’ve only got until the Trump inauguration to find out for sure. DOCTOR Jill will make sure that the only way that could happen is over ol’ Joe’s dead body.

  38. 38

    Re-elect Joe Biden because Beau didn’t live long enough to make it to rehab like POS Hunter and POS Ashley.

  39. 39

    @27

    You really should read articles before posting

    Elon bragged the cybertruck towing a Porsche could beat a Porsche. So what did they tried. Load up the cybertruck with the lightest trailer available and the lightest Porsche available and race it against the SLOWEST Porsche available.

    And the cybertruck lost. They even went to lengths to make sure the cybertruck had peak battery

    Elon lies almost as much as cops.

  40. 40

    @36

    At present Donald has not realized his mistake, nor that boats don’t sink from their own weight, or that batteries don’t electrify a large body of water or that that he never beat Obama in an election…

  41. 41

    Correlation does not equal causation, Welfare Queen YLB example @ 19:

    It can be easily shown that lopsided growth in wealth led to lopsided spending driving prices upward.

    No, but it can be shown that growth in wealth lead to greater wealth. Which is what always happens, isn’t it?

    The wealthy grow wealthier while Welfare Queen YLB’s kids grow more and more fucked. Meanwhile Welfare Queen YLB will blame everyone for it except the people she voted for and cheered on while they cause the Fed to print more and more money.

  43. 43

    BIG YAWN @ 41

    yours truly gave an example of the wealthy driving up rents for the rest of us.

    there are many others.

    We take comfort that one renter fucked a landlord in the ass..

    that landlord being you…

    heh.. thanks for sharing that with us.

  44. 44

    What?? Has kreepshit fellated Elmo in this thread? Say it’s so..

    Been doing that since anyone here can remember.

    Buffett doesn’t spend because he doesn’t need to.

    Yawwwn.. oh you don’t say.. You otoh spend like a drunken sailor..

    You spend something you can never get back.. your time.. on HA..

    sharing with us all kinds of things that make us laugh at you..

    Shall I list them? Oh yeah, you just fellated Elmo over its latest pissing contest.

    Thank you for that..

  45. 45

    They invest because an opportunity arises.

    An opportunity to bilk ordinary americans through outfits that buy housing and jack up rents and return something to the “investor”..

    Opportunities like that.. Got it. yawwwn..

  46. 46

    @ 43

    We take comfort that one renter fucked a landlord in the ass..

    Yabbut that landlord fucked back, and sold two of them to a developer who will knock them down and redevelop the land into apartments with ever-increasing rents, which will…

    wait for it…

    …ass-fuck your kids their entire miserable careers, Welfare Queen YLB. It’s a twofer for your fucked kids – stifling housing densification AND inability to ever buy a SFR for themselves.

    Never forget, Welfare Queen YLB, that all too often tenants do it to themselves. Had one landlord call me for a reference and I replied with the photographs of the condition the place was left in. That was one application fee my former tenant wasted.

  47. 47

    Society looks down on some people because down is where they are. Some people don’t deserve a better life.

  48. 48

    Welfare Queen YLB’s fucked kids deserve a better life than the politicians she votes for and continues to support despite massive evidence to the contrary will ever give to them.

  49. 49

    it can be shown that growth in wealth lead to greater wealth.

    lmao.. yet more fellating bonzo and its beloved trickle on economics..

    Call me back when that shit makes the median household income move in a positive direction..

    It’s kinda sucked since the early 70’s.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/

    But we know you can’t help yourself.. from fellating bonzo.. since hell week..

  50. 50

    @46 oooh look at it go.. triggered..

    you didn’t have to share that with us.. but you did.. that act of sharing spoke so highly to your “seriousness”silliness and (lack of) “intelligence”…

    wtf did you expect? sympathy?

    And thanks for making my point about well-heeled assholes and their behavior..

    you won’t live forever.. you can’t take it with you.. good for the kids..

    clock is ticking..

    https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php

  51. 51

    Here’s the warm-up band before the Trump event in Motown today:

    George
    @BehizyTweets
    BREAKING: Detroit Community Leader Martell Bivings reveals that Democrats are losing so many black voters in Detroit to the point where they’ve been sending someone for the past five weeks to do damage control

    “They [Biden campaign] have someone in Detroit every other week… they’re coming here to keep us docile, keep us unaware, keep us simple and meek”

    Bivings is running for Congress to represent Detroit
    @bivingscongress
    . This is the first time I’ve heard from him, his speech was very good
    12:09 PM · Jun 15, 2024

    And right on cue:

    Jill Biden to tour Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula

    Yahoo News Canada
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com › jill-biden-tour-michigan-in…
    12 hours ago — The first lady, accompanied by VP Kamala Harris’ husband, will visit the Upper Peninsula, Midland and Detroit.

    When Virginia @ 5 is called for Trump at about 830PM EST on November 5th, Michigan won’t matter.
    ·

  52. 52

    Notice @ 51 that despite hemorrhaging black voters in MI, the DNC isn’t sending Momala to do something about it.

    If that’s not a no-confidence vote in Momala, I don’t know what is.

  53. 53

    Society looks down on some people because down is where they are. Some people don’t deserve a better life.

    Yeah people like Rush Limbaugh.. may it rot in hell..

    Limbaugh wannabes who spewed always wrong wing hate talk on the radio, ignorance about covid and ended up dying of covid..

    I sure won’t miss them. I’m alive. Never got covid..

    They’re fucking dead. According to your spew, good for the kids.

  54. 54

    @ 50

    you won’t live forever.. you can’t take it with you.. good for the kids..

    You’ll think differently when one of them goes before I do. A shiv at the light rail station is my prediction.

  56. 56

    sold two of them to a developer who will knock them down and redevelop the land into apartments with ever-increasing rents, which will…

    wait for it…

    i.e. make them richer, making everyone else poorer

    What was that you said about wealth creating more wealth?

    Thanks for making my point.

  57. 57

    Also dead from The Wuhan: SeattleJew. Fucking dead.

    Wasn’t a fan.. Didn’t hate the guy. But didn’t appreciate some of his crazier antics.. One HA blogger, Lee Rosenberg, despised him.

    Again.. I’m alive.. He was an academic.. Highly regarded in his field. In medicine..

    Wtf went wrong there? Couldn’t he wear a mask in a crowded situation? Wash his hands like any freaking doctor does?

  58. 58

    You’ll think differently when one of them goes before I do.

    No because between now and then how many repukes like you will expire? From bad diet, bad habits like smoking and alcohol/drug use, ignorance from listening to always wrong wing shit?

    Following directly from your silly spew, nothing but sunshine and rainbows for the kids..

    Thank you for that.

    A shiv at the light rail station is my prediction.

    Seattle’s problems are no worse than any other West Coast city, post-pandemic..

    If you live in the city, you keep your wits about you.. You practice street smarts. That’s life in the big city everywhere for all time.

    A ex-urb jerk like you finds it easy to look down its nose at that.

    shrug… typical.

  59. 59

    @ 58

    Seattle’s problems are no worse than any other West Coast city, post-pandemic..

    Funny thing you should mention that, Welfare Queen YLB. Did you see Nick Kristof’s column in the NYT today?

    Opinion
    Nicholas Kristof
    NICHOLAS KRISTOF

    What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?

    7 MIN READ

    It’s a 21 minute read for you, Welfare Queen YLB, or maybe 14 if one of your fucked kids helps you with the words longer than two syllables.

    “The inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area, to deal with the nitty-gritty of governing and to get something done is just staggering,” Representative Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat who has been representing and championing Portland for more than half a century, told me. “People are much more interested in ideology than in actual results.”

    No doubt. A results-driven intent would not have kissed off the Durkan Kill Zone as just one facet of a “Summer of Love”.

    The basic reason for homelessness on the West Coast is an enormous shortage of housing that drives up rents. California lacks about three million housing units, in part because it’s difficult to get permission to build…

    Public sector efforts to build housing are often ruinously expensive, with “affordable housing” sometimes costing more than $1 million per unit, so the private sector is critical. Yet one element of progressive purity is suspicion of the private sector, and this hobbles efforts to make businesses part of the solution. Business owners who earn an income from their company are effectively barred from serving on the Portland City Council.

    Failures in life like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit are still welcome to serve, of course.

    Perhaps on the West Coast we have ideological purity because there isn’t much political competition. Republicans are irrelevant in much of the Far West, so they can’t hold Democrats’ feet to the fire — leading Democrats in turn to wander unchecked farther to the left…

    So far to the left that Democrats like Sam Nunn or George Mitchell would no longer be recognizable to today’s Democrats in the 43rd LD . Except as Nazis.

    So, yeah, Seattle isn’t worse than Portland. We haven’t yet legalized heroin ODs in Pioneer Square commercial business doorways or openly applauded assholes shitting on an American flag in display to the public, while being recorded.

    Yay for that, cheers Welfare Queen YLB.

  60. 60

    yawwwn @ 59

    Saw it.. (yours truly subscribes to nytimes and wapo) Makes a few reasonable points. Has his head you know where about others..

    Not his best look in my view..

    A results-driven intent would not have kissed off the Durkan Kill Zone as just one facet of a “Summer of Love”.

    lmao.. you made that up to look as silly as you were about “cosplaying grandmothers” at the kankunkruz-heehawley-drumpf kill zone on Jan 6..

    openly applauded assholes shitting on an American flag in display to the public, while being recorded.

    heh.. while shit and piss happened in DC on Jan 6..

    https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/08/rioters-feces-urine-capitol/

    that from one of your fav reads kreepee one.

    Thanks again schmuck….

  61. 61

    @ 4

    Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reported Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    In a two-hour free-form discussion without notes Trump would occasionally stray off topic. So noted.

    Meanwhile, it takes 5 edits to string together 14 seconds of Biden talking to create a DNC campaign ad:

    POLITICS
    Biden mocked over number of jump cuts in Trump debate challenge video: ‘Like a Claymation film’

  62. 62

    @59

    I see Nick’s still bent that he couldn’t run for Governor of Oregon because he didn’t live there.

    Nick now owns a farm and spends part of his time growing wine grapes in semi retirement an hour from the city he only sees when he goes to PDX.

    He’s your dad in Sultan telling us all how scary Seattle is from that time he went to a Mariners game in 2014 and rarely gets further West than Monroe.

    Context is everything when assessing an OpEd.

  64. 64

    “Latest MAGA talking point: Trump isn’t a threat to democracy because US isn’t a democracy” — CNN

    Yeah, but he’s a threat to the republic.

  65. 65

    @ 62

    … in semi retirement an hour from the city he only sees when he goes to PDX.

    You don’t lose your ability to distinguish right from wrong when you become semi-retired. You just have the opportunity to distance yourself from what is wrong.

    Unless you’re Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and cannot afford to go anywhere to get away from it.

  66. 66

    Actually, the U.S. is a democracy in most respects. Who gets a state’s electoral votes is based on majority rule. So are votes in Congress, state legislatures, city councils, and other legislative bodies. There is no scenario under our system in which the loser of an election gets to reverse an election by submitting fraudulent electoral votes or unleashing a violent mob on Congress, or gun-wielding private militias get to seize power if they don’t like an election outcome. So, yes, Trump and his howling MAGA mob are a threat to U.S. democracy.

  67. 67

    @59 “People are much more interested in ideology than in actual results.”

    I’m at a loss to think of a better description of every Republican on Earth.

  68. 68

    @65 “You don’t lose your ability to distinguish right from wrong when you become semi-retired.”

    All evidence indicates you lost it before you were sent into retirement, and that’s why you were sent into retirement.

  71. 71

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, please tell us more about why people who choose to homeschool their children should be mocked.

    EDUCATION
    Report: 72% of WA eighth graders not proficient in math

    A majority of eighth graders in Washington state were not proficient in math and a majority of fourth graders were not proficient in reading in recent years, according to the report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores are key indicators of whether or not a student is likely to finish high school, enroll in college, or earn the same as their peers in adulthood, the foundation said.

    Randi Weingarten deserves to die a slow, painful death for what she caused. Blue state governors deserve the same for enabling it.

    Let’s not forget the CDC letting the NEA write its recommendations for it.

  72. 72

    @ 70

    The suspect had already left the scene and authorities located a handgun and three empty magazines at the scene.

    Tell us how bump stocks fit onto handguns, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Maybe chase down a fleeing felon to help you get your explanation just right.

    You’re a useless, bloviating fuck, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Your family is going out to brunch tomorrow, and leaving you at home.

  73. 73

    @72 Is there a law now that mass shooters can only use pistols? Or are you still a dumbfuck? It’s gotta be one or the other, it can’t be both.

  74. 74

    Here’s a pistol bump-fire, no stock needed. Needless to say this isn’t aimed fire, but it would work great in a stadium, theater, church, kindergarten, or playground. (sarcasm)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Or7wx1o6O8

    Even mentally ill people have second-amendment rights, but there’s no right-to-life where they’re armed and on the loose.

  76. 76

    “I’ve seen it about 200 times I’m the only one that told the truth I’m the only one that explained it and I didn’t have to because the people knew and they know me so well they know me so well they get it I’ve been indicted more times than Alfonse Capone has anyone heard of Alfonse Capone Scarface he was so mean that if he had dinner with a person or if he didn’t like them he would kill the person they would never find them again like Mike Lindell he wouldn’t like Mike you know why you see those ads they are driving me crazy let’s get rid of this guy he couldn’t stand those ads Al Capone would take Mike out in two minutes Mike’s beautiful new wife would say what the hell happened to my husband he’d be buried under the World Trade Center but think of it Alfonse Capone Scarface he was the meanest of them all he had a scar that went from here to here Scarface the meanest the toughest I got indicted more than he did and I didn’t do anything wrong I didn’t do anything wrong “

    Verbatim, addressing TPUSA

  77. 77

    Yeah, let’s defund some more police and replace them with volunteer social workers. Especially in the South Side.

    LOCAL NEWS
    Violence interrupters mourn shooting that killed one of their own in Chicago

    Green was shot and killed at 8:39 a.m. Sunday in the alley behind the 700 block of West 36th Place—in the very neighborhood where he worked to prevent gun violence.

    Perhaps those identifying black vests should be constructed of something other than denim.

    Dennis Green volunteered with the Englewood First Responders. Charles McKenzie, the founder of the organization, said Green’s death only makes him even more motivated to do the world.

    “We be out here so people can see the presence,” McKenzie said.

    We be seein’ the presence of “several” holes in that denim vest, dude.

  79. 79

    It’s not about reparations. It’s about the grift.

    NEWS
    Reparations Efforts in Alameda County Stumble and Try to Pick Themselves Up

    An Alameda County commission designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started.

    Created in March 2023, the 15-member body is now asking for two more years and $5 million in funding to get the job done.
    …
    The commission also asked for a budget of about $5 million, dwarfing the initial budget allocation of approximately $51,000. The requested budget would support research, public outreach and community listening sessions over the next two years. Commission members currently receive a $50 stipend for each meeting they attend.

    “I think $5 million is a hefty amount of funding,” Miley said, pointing to the county’s budget deficit, projected to reach between $70 million to $100 million this year.

    Asking for 100x the current support enables stipends to increase 100x. That’s $5k/meeting/grifter.

  80. 80

    So let’s say you’re a president and everyone knows you have never been in a church in your life AND you’re terrible at vetting people you choose to be in your cabinet as long as the left doesn’t like them so you pick Robert Morris of The Gateway Church in Texas.

    Now had you done your vetting you would have seen that about 20 years ago Robert Morris admitted to having an improper relationship “with a woman who is younger than me.” which the church forgave and he went right on preaching that prosperity gospel.

    A normal person would think, “Maybe that’s not our guy.”

    But not Donald. He was still Donald’s guy and this week we learned the “woman who is younger than me” was a 12 year old girl and the relationship lasted 4.5 years.

    Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” more than 35 years ago while he was a young pastor after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years beginning when she was 12.

    “When I was in my early twenties, I was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying. It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong. This behavior happened on several occasions over the next few years,” Morris said in a statement to The Christian Post after Gateway Church was asked about the allegations.

  81. 81

    @ 80

    I get it, Hops, other than it is an advisory council and not a future Cabinet that Morris apparently sits on.

    Since you’re clearly one up on me and presumably on others WRT black dudes of the cloth acting inappropriately in the 80s and perhaps earlier, can you do Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson with the same level of critique? And maybe that Love Wins Fag pastor in Texas, too.

    Thanks in advance for your contributions.

  83. 83

    @ 82

    Geez. Good point. I’d never heard of Robert Morris. Since a couple of the upthread spews were about the Trump Motown event I thought Morris was one of the participants.

    Thanks for setting me straight.

  85. 85

    We’ve had some nice people of faith in here.. Yes, on my side of the issues.

    But I’m sorry.. I am so tired of religion, especially Christianity, which has been corrupt and false right down to its origins. Witness:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/trump-christian-right-abortion-prayer/

    Look at that corrupt bunch of grifters gathered around the grifter-in-chief – in prayer.. (rolls eyes)

    I love to watch Rabbi Tovia Singer on youtube rip on Paul from limb to limb citing New Testament chapter and verse but he loses me when he sings the praises of the Hebrew Bible prophets. Mormonism – don’t get me started. I’ve totally given up on separating the wheat from the chaff no matter what the religion.

    It’s sad that it’s almost impossible for an atheist to get elected to state-wide much less national office. For that to happen, an atheist has to keep their opinions on religion strictly to themselves. They can’t even speak out when religious so called “leaders” over step their bounds or are exposed as pitifully corrupt.

    There’s some hope. Thanks to the internet, countless people raised in these churches educate themselves about the corruption in their midst. They are waking up and leaving.. Society gets more secular by the day. However, last I looked – half of America prays daily..

    Wake up America..

  86. 86

    Good point. I’d never heard of Robert Morris..

    wtf did you assume he was black? (rolls eyes).

    Ok Motown.. jeebus.. no pun intended..

  87. 87

    In June of 2020, as the presidential election was heating up, I provided hours of perjured testimony to FBI agents claiming falsely the existence of secret recordings of Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden negotiating illegal bribes. That perjured testimony was documented by the FBI in a standard form FD-1023 which was then presented to Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate and then illegally copied and turned over to the Trump campaign.

    That document became the central feature of years of false accusations that would follow targeting the Biden family and that ultimately resulted in criminal charges against Hunter Biden for completely unrelated minor tax and gun charges.

    Now I’m in jail for those sworn lies to the FBI.

    Unless you are an idiot you know all this by now. You know that while still president, Trump ordered the investigation into the Biden family based on that fake FBI interview. What you may not know is that I was paid by Russian intelligence to give that interview to the FBI.

    “The Biden Crime Family” is just another Russian funded disinformation campaign based entirely on lies. And it worked because Republican lawmakers are corrupt and Americans are stupid.

  88. 88

    And it worked because Republican lawmakers are corrupt and Americans are stupid.

    heh.. we got a real stupid one right here at HA..

    See the misogynist bloviator @ 27 fellating elmo musk..

  89. 89

    Just wondering, when was the last time Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton advised the president on anything.

    Also when did either of them admit to being a pedophile?

    Asking for a Dumbfuck. Even your Whaddabout has lost its power.

  90. 90

    You don’t lose your ability to distinguish right from wrong when you become semi-retired. You just have the opportunity to distance yourself from what is wrong.

    You lose your right to pretend to know how an urban area should govern themselves when you refuse to live or pay taxes there and rely on third hand reports of what is happening in the city.

    “Seattle needs to spend money on cops. It’s not safe to be anywhere there anymore. My friend’s daughter lives there and she got her car broken into. It’s a hellhole. We need to defund their city council.” – guy who lives in Sequim

  91. 91

    “Seattle needs to spend money on cops. It’s not safe to be anywhere there anymore. My friend’s daughter lives there and she got her car broken into. It’s a hellhole. We need to defund their city council.” – cop who lives in Sequim

  92. 92

    I actually don’t give a flying fuck if you hire MORE cops I want my overtime back and it really doesn’t matter if we clear cases. Pay me. I’ll still say we’re too understaffed to do anything ‘cept high speed pedestrian deaths and firing teargas”. Cop who lives in Sequim

  94. 94

    @90 I think what he may be trying to say is he knew that embellishing diagnoses in order to overbill insurance companies and patients so the hospital could make more money was wrong but he needed the job, and being retired doesn’t force him to be a crooked doctor anymore.

  97. 97

    There were 7.25 million disabled workers who were beneficiaries of Social Security benefits in April. In May, that number ticked down slightly to about 7.23

    “I don’t know for certain, but I would imagine it’s a combination of people being moved from disability to retirement benefits, people passing away, or people no longer qualifying for benefits. The latter of the three is probably the least likely.”

  98. 98

    Well then..

    The US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating falsified documents that were used to verify the authenticity of titanium used in some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets, the New York Times reported on Friday.

    The documents are also being investigated by Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing and wings for Airbus, according to the report.

    Corporations are people.

  99. 99

    @97 Social Security disability (as opposed to SSI) is only awarded to people with long-term disabilities. They often have to go through a prolonged process to qualify for them. There aren’t very many motorcycle riders on disability, though; they tend to land in the organ donor category. Doctor Dumbfuck likes to ride motorcycles.

  101. 101

    Republicans screech about Biden’s spending, but they take his bridge and climate money, and claim credit for it. To wit: “The vast majority of the $346-billion-worth of announced investments – nearly 78% – has gone to Republican congressional districts.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/climate/clean-energy-investment-republicans/index.html

    However, they avoid being total hypocrites by turning down Medicaid, food stamp, and school lunch funding. Probably because they’re deathly afraid black people might get some of it.

  102. 102

    Interesting story about the demise of the freight side of the line that operated the Liner I mentioned in the Second post.
    https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/lessons-from-the-ship-that-nearly-destroyed-12-percent-of-world-trade

    Interesting how Containerization Pioneer Malcolm McClean learning from the disaster of his Sea Land SL-7 class(pretty fast for freighters, got between the Queen Mary and SS United States in top speed, but we’re pretty thirsty, at the time of the OPEC Embargo), with the Econoships for United States Limes, that were slow and fuel efficient, at the time oil prices crashed.

    Wasn’t the first time the line faced hard luck, but was the last. She was given the German liner Farherland/Vaterland after WWI, named SSLeviathan, but being an American flagged Ocean liner was a curse in the 1920s. While the Immigration changes affected the foreign lines immigrant trade, a U.S. Flagged vessel had to follow the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. The latter thankfully long repealed when the Big U went into service.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Lines

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