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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Marsh Family: ♫ New AI’s Filling Us with Alarm ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Imperial Rule of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

ONN: GigSlave goes public with $84 billion valuation

Incels and Other Deplorables:

Sarah Cooper: The history of wealth throughout history

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

Comments

  1. 1

    About being off the transplant list over the vaccine requirement, wonder if they have a problem with the anti-rejection medication, which will be required whether vaccinated or not, if they get the transplant?

  2. 2

    This is what rank incompetence looks like:

    Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html

    Our country is now being governed by children.

  3. 3

    @1 I think they’ll manage to make an exception. Republicans are good at cherry-picking.

  4. 4

    Awwww. Poor Danielle Sasson, federalist society member, former Scalia clerk and SDNY prosecutor was denied her “Menendez moment” over Eric Adams.

    Orange pants shitter needed the former cop turned corrupt Mayor of NYC to prosecute pants shitter’s war on “teh illegals”..

    Asked to comment, teh widbee dumbfuck babbled:

    “‘Menendez moment’? WTF, Danielle. I never read in the daily white nationalist whiner that Adams fucked child whores.

    Dumb cunt..”

  5. 5

    Poor orange pants shitter in its first term never managed to deport as many “illegals” as Bill Clinton or teh black guy for that matter.

    It remains to be seen if pants shitter manages to lay off as many Federal workers as Clinton did during his “Reinventing Government” program – 377,000 but mostly through attrition.

    Asked to comment teh widbee shitferbrains dumbfuck babbled:

    ‘buh, buh.. teh black guy was a soshulest buh.. buh.. BLUE DRESS!”

  6. 6

    We really are going to need to lop the heads off some of the 1%:

    Last week, grieving that his Pacific Palisades home had burned, Jason Finger, 52, a founder of the delivery app Seamless, fired off a message to one of the
    neighborhood WhatsApp groups. He wrote that low-income housing mandates would destroy property values and described a future where every car entering or exiting the Palisades would be tracked and unfamiliar ones followed by a drone – ones flagged as stolen would trigger an immediate call to the police; all new homes would be built to fire-resistant standards; next-generation infrastructure for water and energy, and all of it underground; controlled burns in the canyons and drones scanning for fires; and a free market for home insurance, or subsidized real estate taxes to offset high costs.

  7. 7

    As a federal employee on the chopping block I 100% regret my vote.
    I voted for a Conservative who would come in, maybe fire a few of the weaker feds who make the job harder for the rest of us, and get rid of some excess spending
    Letting a fucking Autistic South African maniac slash any agency he wants and laugh about it, without congressional involvement I sure as shit didn’t vote for that.

  8. 8

    Trump Denies Kemp’s Bid to Extend Hurricane Aid
    Denial follows pleas from state leaders of both parties for Trump to stretch out the window for aid applications.

    Hurricane Helene, which struck the Southeast last September, was one of the most destructive and deadly tropical storms in U.S. history, responsible for at least 219 deaths and almost $80 billion in damages. The storm caused an estimated $5.5 billion in damage to Georgia’s agriculture and forestry sectors alone

  9. 9

    Nearly 10,000 fired as Trump and Musk step up government purge
    Fired workers feels ‘betrayed by my country’

  10. 10

    We voted for border security. We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard.
    This possibility is looming over countless families right now. We don’t know what our financial future holds. My husband dedicated the better part of his life to this country, first in the military and now working for the government. I have watched as he busted his ass every single day for this job. Our story is like many others, yet they [the Trump Administration] see them as budget line items.
    We are not a fucking line item. We are real people with families who need to put food on the table just like everyone else. We have done nothing but support this country. To be disregarded and tossed out to save a buck is sickening. I support Trump on many things

  11. 11

    “Letting a fucking Autistic South African maniac slash any agency he wants and laugh about it, without congressional involvement I sure as shit didn’t vote for that.”

    “We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard.”

    Actually you did. He bragged he would do this shit to you. And so you voted for him.

    You thought it would feeeel good.

    Fuck your feelings.

  12. 12

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a Chiefs fan and did not take the Super Bowl outcome well at all.

    LEXIT
    @LexitMovement1

    Liberal Chiefs fan blames Trump for Chiefs loss. Says they lost because Trump was at the game. You can’t make this stuff up! 😂🤣

    1:59 PM · Feb 10, 2025

    Oh, yeah. It’s a mandate. Just listen to her.
    ·

  14. 14

    Trump Denies Kemp’s Bid to Extend Hurricane Aid

    lmao.. “retribution”.. don’t that beat all.. too funny..

    what a vain petty ass dickhead..

  15. 15

    @ 11

    “We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard.”

    Actually you did. He bragged he would do this shit to you. And so you voted for him.

    Or maybe you didn’t vote for Trump. But you did do is stand by silently for most of four years while your party’s betters told you there was absolutely, positively nothing wrong with the senile fossil in the White House, and then you stood by silently while he was replaced without a rational primary period by someone less senile but equally incompetent.

    Maybe you didn’t vote for Trump. But you sure as hell enabled his mandate.

    Think on your sins.

  17. 17

    uuhh. dumbfuck @ 15???

    To be disregarded and tossed out to save a buck is sickening. I support Trump on many things..

    They voted for orange pants shitter and he just shat on them. Just like he just shat on Georgia who voted for him.

    Why don’t you take a break, go to the vip room and and sin to get off? Maybe you’re into diaper kink like David Vitter the shitter. yawwn..

  18. 18

    @ 8

    Trump Denies Kemp’s Bid to Extend Hurricane Aid
    Denial follows pleas from state leaders of both parties for Trump to stretch out the window for aid applications.

    What this means is that instead of 100% coverage by the federal government, after the expiration date federal coverage will drop to 75%.

    What a surprise: the state of Georgia has budgeted for the remaining 25%:

    After contacting Gov. Kemp’s office, a spokesperson noted that the governor’s proposed budget includes funds to make up for the absence of federal funds.

    “Our office has received FEMA’s response denying the State’s request to extend the 100% federal reimbursement for eligible cleanup expenses in both Categories A and B. With the federal reimbursement now at 75%, the Governor’s proposed AFY25 budget includes funding projected to cover the 25% non-federal cost share for all eligible expenses that are incurred after the 100% federal reimbursement period and completed within the due date to be eligible for federal reimbursement.”

    It was a nice try – asking the feds to shoulder the entire cost burden. But hey, not much wrong with shared sacrifice, is there?

  19. 19

    @ 8, 18

    You would think that Stacey Abrama, the fat cow who thought she was on Biden’s short list to be selected as his ’20 running mate, would have something to say about the coming expiration of 100% funding of hurricane cleanup operations by someone other than herself. But it seems that she has been busy with other things of late:

    NPR
    Pro-Stacey Abrams groups to pay record fine for breaking Georgia campaign finance law
    The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock.
    .1 month ago

    Atlanta News First
    New Georgia Project, group founded by Stacey Abrams, abruptly lays off employees
    ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta…
    .2 weeks ago

  20. 20

    @ 16

    Los Angeles County is going to take a loooooong time to recover.

    Hey, it’s not easy to replace Pacific Coast Highway mansions with Section 8 housing. I mean, who is going to keep all those little kids growing up in broken homes from drowning?

  21. 21

    Jerkoff Dickhead Bowman’s recent scolding of German politicians was too funee..

    “Listen to your voters Germans..”

    Listen to them, say, when they carry tiki torches and babble, “teh joos will not replace us.”.. yeah in ‘murka we call them “fine people”.

    Eggs on the other hand.. That’s a tough one. Once they go up. Very difficult to go down.. Take it from orange pants shitter.

  24. 24

    “Ordinarily there would be more of us, but that fucker in the White House cut off our astroturfing money so only locals showed up today.”

    Bad Hombre
    @joma_gc

    HAPPENING NOW: A total of 12 people are protesting Elon Musk outside of a Tesla Dealership in Manhattan demanding DOGE be shut down and USAID be restored.

    From
    Oliya Scootercaster 🛴
    8:38 AM · Feb 15, 2025

  27. 27

    Upthread @ 5 our unserious twat Welfare Queen YLB compared DJT47 to Bill Clinton.

    One comparison deserves another, amirite?

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk

    Sounds familiar
    Quote
    KanekoaTheGreat
    @KanekoaTheGreat
    ·
    20h

    EXCLUSIVE: A 40-minute compilation of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore cutting the federal workforce, eliminating agencies, slashing wasteful spending and regulations, and reducing the deficit.

    You know, like Trump, Musk, and DOGE.

    🔹 In his first weeks…

    6:38 PM · Feb 14, 2025

    ·

  28. 28

    More from @ 27:

    🔹 In his first weeks, Clinton ordered a 100,000-job reduction in government.

    🔹 Over eight years, he cut 380,000 federal jobs—a 16% decrease.

    🔹 This was largely driven by the Reinventing Government Initiative (RIGO), spearheaded by Gore to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy.

    🔹 The result? The deficit was erased, and the U.S. ran a budget surplus for the first time in decades.

    There once was a time during which efficient use of government resources was a good thing. It’s now considered by Democrats to be a good thing to waste government resources as long as the end result is the election of more Democrats.

    Oops.

  29. 29

    Heh.. If cutting 1/4 of the Federal workforce today results in a ONE PERCENT reduction in Federal spending then..

    Over eight years, he cut 380,000 federal jobs—a 16% decrease.

    A dem doing that had to be peanuts in comparison…

    AMIRITE??? (rolls eyes)

    The result? The deficit was erased, and the U.S. ran a budget surplus for the first time in decades.

    Yeah right.. And a record haul from capital gains taxes from the dot com bubble played no part..

    Oh and btw, Clinton raised taxes on the rich.. dumbfuck’s crowd called that “class warfare”.. Sure helped deficit-wise, I’d say.

    yawwn… stoopid..

  33. 33

    Hey, it’s not easy to replace Pacific Coast Highway mansions with Section 8 housing.

    Easy peasy.. Take a look:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj4vjzOcggQ

    All those wealthy neighborhoods in the Palisades, chock full of pants shitter despising liberals.. Now sadly laid waste – like it was Mariupol.

    The ultimate “pwn teh libs” would be building Section 8 housing there.. Poor people can get an Ocean view!

    This ghoul with CTE pants shitter put in charge (kook karsen was too koo-koo), would jump at the chance!

    But Altadena???? Black homeowners??? Well, they need to learn “bootstrapping”..

  34. 34

    @ 2, 32

    In a Friday evening statement, Department of Energy press secretary Ben Dietderich said, “Less than 50 employees were dismissed from the NNSA.” The targeted workers were relatively new employees in their probationary period…

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/14/nuclear-weapons-agency-lays-off-hundreds-employees/78629362007/

    Not everyone at that agency works with a Geiger counter in hand. Untwist those granny panties, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. They’re pinching your rectal catheter and your shit is backing up into your forebrain.

  35. 35

    Feel better, Raul.

    TUCSON, Ariz — The margin in the House of Representatives currently sits at 218-215. That’s a slim majority for the Republican party.
    …
    On the Democrat side, Raul Grijalva (AZ-07) has not voted since Jan. 3.
    …
    Grijalva has missed 40 of the 42 votes to start 2025.

    He’s dealing with The Big C. In July he was the second Democrat to publicly tell Bi-Done that the lies about his fitness to be president were not working anymore.

  37. 37

    When is the last time anyone at HA posted about abortion?

    When women split their votes between a State initiative that would protect their rights and an orange pants shitter who is on the record babbling: “there should be some punishment”..

    Over eggs..

    So women in WA have more freedom than women in Lousy-ana. For WA HA regulars, what was the point? People in red states get the gubmint they deserve.

  38. 38

    @10 The sad thing is this isn’t to save a buck, it’s to give the buck to Elon and the billionaires in Trump’s cabinet, and they don’t even have to work for it.

  40. 40

    No WNBA players are on the list of “100 highest paid athletes.” In fact, no female athletes at all are. The list is 100% male.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/soccer/list-100-highest-paid-athletes-2024-not-contain-women-rcna192011

    Poor, poor discriminated-against males. Look, this white male grievance thing, especially the white part, is just plain silly.

    However, after all the immigrants are kicked out of the country, white men will get to try their hand at picking lettuce and apples.

  42. 42

    And Ukraine, unlike Canada and Greenland, won’t even get to be a state. It’ll have to be a province of Russia again, and presumably Putin will get the other half of its minerals.

  43. 43

    Well, at least things will be easy for Ukraine’s independence fighters, as far as their guerillas sorting between foreign military uniforms goes. They’ll shoot at both Russian and American occupiers.

  44. 44

    the U.S. will keep 50% of Ukraine’s mineral wealth to repay Trump for the military aid Biden sent to Ukraine

    Wow. Yet another smelly brain fart from pants shitter to go with “opening the spigots” in N. Cali for S. Cali.

    In these daze of Pants Shitter 2.0, there’s literally no one to talk it out of shit.

    You’d think the voters would learn something after pants shitter told the CIA that Bush and Obama should have “taken all the oil” from Iraq first before leaving.

    They weren’t paying attention. Do they ever?

  45. 45

    @10 “I support Trump on many things”

    Getting rid of the browns and queers, yes; just not on losing their jobs and livelihoods, Social Security and Medicare, veterans benefits, and higher taxes and inflation.

    Was it worth it, Trump voters?

  46. 46

    @12 You’re confusing me for … you? I don’t follow football and didn’t even watch the game. Who won?

  49. 49

    @36 “When is the last time anyone at HA posted about abortion?”

    Since you asked …

    Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortions-resume-missouri-judge-blocks-restrictions-rcna192328

    Republicans are now, what, 0-for-500,000 in the courts? Maybe instead of firing civil servants their first priority should have been arresting judges.

    #somuch winning

  50. 50

    RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants
    Kennedy has repeatedly railed against what he sees as rampant overprescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs, which treat depression and anxiety. As with his previous assertions about vaccines, many of his statements about these drugs are not backed by science.
    In a podcast appearance last July, Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.”
    The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

  51. 51

    Republican Profiles in Courage:
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    ICE agents arrested a 10 year old girl with cerebral palsy in the hospital where she was in recovery following gall bladder surgery and then arrested her mother when she tried to see her.

  52. 52

    HA’s unserious twat went no further @ 44 than reading Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s false assertion @ 41 that the US acquisition of Ukraine mineral rights was payment for providing security.

    In fact, it was Zelensky’s idea (link @ 41):

    Many of Ukraine’s minerals are in areas now controlled by Russian troops, three U.S. officials said.

    Ukrainian officials have said Zelenskyy has long backed the idea of exchanging “critical resources” for continued U.S. support, calling the idea part of the “Victory Plan” that he presented to Trump during a meeting last fall.

    In an exclusive interview Friday at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that it would be “very, very difficult” for Ukraine to survive without U.S. military support.

    Welfare Queen YLB, do you see that, you dumb cunt? It was what Zelensky proposed to Trump the candidate, during the previous administration.

    You once asked why I am here, Welfare Queen YLB. Part of the reason is to do your work for you, since you are clearly incapable of comprehending what you read. So you take the easy way out, and don’t read.

  53. 53

    @ 51

    In 2017, QoS McHillbilly. You’re right on top of the news, aren’t you?

    BTW, it was the Border Patrol, not ICE, who detained the girl.

    Strong, strong post.

  54. 54

    More on QoS McHillbilly’s @ 51breaking news scoop @ 53 from 2017:

    Rosa Maria Hernandez was being transported from Laredo to a Corpus Christi hospital for gall bladder surgery this week. They were stopped at a border patrol check point, East of Laredo. From there, agents escorted her to the hospital and waited for her release before taking her to an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter in San Antonio.

    https://www.tpr.org/news/2017-10-26/undocumented-10-year-old-with-cerebral-palsy-detained-by-ice

    How evil. Escorting the girl to the hospital and then taking her to a refugee resettlement shelter after she’s released. Bad, bad Border Patrol.

    Keep trying, QoS McHillbilly. Say, where are we on the income base for the top 5%, anyway? Do you still claim it’s $6M?

  55. 55

    DNC vice chair David Hogg is a grifter.

    Barely two weeks into his tenure, Hogg has been leveraging DNC contact lists to blast out messages soliciting donations to his own political action committee — from which he draws more than $100,000 in compensation a year, according to Federal Election Commission records.

    He must have learned to use the DNC to enrich his own prospects from #CrookedHillary, who did it in 2015 and 2016. Well, right up until Election Day, anyway.

    Hogg co-founded “Leaders We Deserve” in August 2023 with the stated goal of electing young progressives to Congress and state legislatures across the country. It also provided him a six-figure income job right out of college.

    Since the PAC was founded, Hogg has pocketed more than $175,000, records show, with more than $20,000 in salary payments coming in December alone, the most recent month for which public data is available.

    Such a manly man is David Hogg. He’s just the guy to bring disaffected men back to the Democrat party, isn’t he?

  58. 58

    And they’re using manly men like David Hogg to do it.

    Tough Talk
    It’s Time for Democrats to Woo the Man Vote

    David Hogg, the teen gun safety champion turned Democratic activist, described a startling pushback he got from fellow Democratic fundraisers at a question-and-answer session during the 2024 Harris campaign. “What are we doing about young male voters?” he recalled asking. “The amount of vitriol and backlash I got—that it was such a dumb question—was telling,” said the 24-year-old Hogg, who mounted a successful race for vice chair of the DNC on a platform of winning back young voters. There’s a tendency for liberals in general and Democrats in particular to focus on groups that have suffered from cultural and legal restrictions on opportunity, many Democrats acknowledge, and the default assumption is that men—who have largely owned and run the world for millennia—don’t need special attention. But “as a party, we need to stop acting as though empathy is a zero-sum game,” Hogg said.

    As a party, Democrats need to stop acting as though Tim Walz, Mayor Pete, and David Hogg are seen as men by the majority of the country.

    Most of us see them as nancyboys.

  60. 60

    Brave ICE heroically facing down MS-13 desperado pre-teen little girls with cerebral palsy gets the idiot troll all triggered.

    Maybe some day he’ll get to do something almost as brave.

  61. 61

    Most of us see them as nancyboys.

    Sez teh tree-hugging, horseshit shoveling pretend rancher married to a radlib dominatrix and addicted to babbling shit on a “dead blog”.

    Ukrainian officials have said Zelenskyy has long backed the idea of exchanging “critical resources” for continued U.S. support..

    lmao.. yet nowhere does dumbfuck detail what those are.

    This is as good as any for the moment:

    https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/what-are-ukraines-critical-minerals-why-does-trump-want-them-2025-02-12/

    So it appears that Russia wants 40 percent as they won’t concede territory to my knowledge and the U.S. wants “half” (like the Joker) leaving the Ukranians with 30 percent..

    Generous terms.. “Serious”.. like the dumbfuck is as in finding NEMOS.

    Somehow, after pants shitter swapping spit with Pootie, leaving Europe and Ukraine in the lurch, one would be highly skeptical of “continued US support”. Strong posts dumbfuck.

  62. 62

    Q: Why doesn’t QoS McHillbilly post links to his spews?

    A: @ 51, 53

    You idiot, you confirmed every single detail of what I posted.

    She was arrested in her hospital bed by ICE agents while recovering from gall bladder surgery. She was 10. She has cerebral palsy.

    ThEy OnLy ArReSt ThE bAd CrImInAlS!!!

  63. 63

    You once asked why I am here.. Part of the reason is to do your work for you

    How does Mary Kay pay you for tending the horse barn? For watering the trees?

    But for moi? Free???? Free stuff.. as in free entertainment??

    Well I’d thank you but I don’t respect racists and misogynists.. So as teh babblin’ butthole used to say..

    until the next time!

  64. 64

    When Mary Kay sez “jump”

    dumbfuck sez “sure but can I grovel a bit first.. in the horse barn?? amongst teh trees?”

    spousal negotiation..

  65. 65

    Wow what a deal.. American troops for minerals.. Lithium.. Elmo loves that shit.

    And when the minerals are mined out?

    Deal’s up.. Nope, no NATO membership.. We might pull out of NATO anyway. Europe doesn’t pull its weight.

    Russia’s your neighbor…

    Build a fucking wall.. Good fences make good neighbors.

  66. 66

    Since the PAC was founded, Hogg has pocketed more than $175,000, records show, with more than $20,000 in salary payments coming in December alone

    Good on the kid… Elmo ran a PAC. Why not Hogg?

    It’ll only last as long as the kid produces. Elmo alone is handing the Dems the House in 2026.. Senate looks harder but not impossible.

    First time I’ve said anything about Hogg. It’s too funee watching Hogg living rent free in dumbfuck’s pin head. It’s been years now.. Too funee.

  67. 67

    @34 Yeah, they were **only** probationary employees, and probably just paperwork pushers at that, implying they’re unnecessary, is that what you’re saying?

    If they’re unnecessary, then why (a) were they hired in the first place, and (b) the agency is now trying to get them back?

  68. 68

    Let me take a wild guess and speculate the nuclear security agency employs paper pushers because every speck of dust found on a nuclear weapon is documented. NNSA also employs drivers.

    Everyone who works for that agency was a probationary employee at one time. And when someone leaves and has to be replaced with a new hire, that person is a probationary employee.

    Dumbfucks are gonna dumbfuck.

  69. 69

    I’ll say this: The location of our nuclear weapons isn’t a closely-held secret. They’re easy to recognize on a highway.

  70. 70

    @50 “Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis …”

    A sure way to encourage people to grow their own.

    That reminds me of a news story I read many years ago, when marijuana was illegal everywhere. This took place in a small town in the farm belt. All the kids were getting high, but the town cops couldn’t figure out where they were getting the weed. It turned out it was growing wild in a vacant lot behind the police station, which suggests some seeds leaked out of the evidence room.

  71. 71

    @52 “Rabbit’s false assertion @ 41 that the US acquisition of Ukraine mineral rights was payment for providing security”

    We’ll see about that …

    The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the United States be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, according to four U.S. officials.

    Rather than pay for the minerals, the ownership agreement would be a way for Ukraine to reimburse the U.S. for the billions of dollars in weapons and support its provided to Kyiv since the war began in February 2022, two of the officials said.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presented the proposal for the U.S. to own half of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a draft contract he brought to their meeting on Wednesday in Kyiv, according to eight U.S. officials briefed on the meeting.

    “In fact, it was Zelensky’s idea (link @ 41):”

    Zelenskyy declined to sign the document when Bessent presented it during their meeting ….

    This was Zelesnky’s idea:

    Ukrainian officials have said Zelenskyy has long backed the idea of exchanging “critical resources” for continued U.S. support, calling the idea part of the “Victory Plan” that he presented to Trump during a meeting last fall.

    Trade resources for future weapons deliveries, not give the U.S. ownership of the resource, or agree to stationing U.S. troops on Ukrainian soil to safeguard U.S. (not Ukrainian) interests, or hand over those resources for past weapons deliveries.

    Learn to fucking read, idiot. I’ve said this before, you badly need a reading comprehension remedial course. And maybe personal tutoring, too, because your ability to interpret what you read sucks.

  72. 72

    @55 He’s another Steve Bannon, isn’t he? Well, not quite. PACs typically ask for donations, and people who run PACs and nonprofits often are paid.

    $100K a year is roughly the average pay of congressional staffers; it’s also about what a D.C. public schools teacher with a master’s degree and 30 years of teaching experience makes.

    So according to Doctor Dumbfuck, Washington D.C. is populated by thousands and thousands of “grifters.”

  73. 73

    He’s jealous of Hogg because he never made $100K as a doctor. Unfortunately for him, the hospital paid him what he was worth.

  74. 74

    @58 “Most of us see them as nancyboys.”

    The high-school-educated white male subset who feel threatened by women bosses, doctors, and lawyers, yes.

    But the “us” you’re referring to is a subset of a subset with unique characteristics.

  75. 75

    @63 Speaking of free stuff, while grocery shopping today I walked up to a shoplifting arrest in progress. The store security man was wrestling with the individual on the ground. Just then the cops arrived and handcuffed the suspect, who then stopped fighting. He was put in a police cruiser (by now there were three) without incident and the cops remained on scene for about 20 or 30 minutes to interview store employees and process the scene.

    If asked the checkstand employee if this happens very often and he said it’s rare.

    Now let’s suppose Elmo wants a $100 billion tax break, and doesn’t want to add to deficits, so he takes it out of food stamps ( having been carte blanche over federal spending).

    Homeless people (which I assume this suspect is) still have to eat. If they can’t buy groceries with food stamps, what will happen then? To eat, they’ll have to (a) panhandle, (b) steal food, and/or (c) rob people.

    The food stamp program was designed to support farmers. That’s why the Department of Agriculture, not HHS (the welfare agency), administers it. But food stamps also improve nutrition for children, so they’re better able to learn; help sustain the working poor, which subsidizes minimum-wage employers; and buys a measure of social peace (when the government gives food to people who can’t support themselves, they don’t have to steal the food or rob people to pay for it).

    Taking away food stamps takes away child health, a subsidy for employers who can’t afford to pay a living wage, and more peaceful streets than we’d have otherwise. All so Elmo can pay less taxes.

  76. 76

    69)Most counties where the delivery systems are housed vote Republican like Cascade County, Montana. Although with the 341st Missile Wing’s reputation, the locals have more to fear from them, then the enemy. When my Grandpa was a civilian employee at Malmstrom(after retiring from teaching, and before that, Navy in WW1), they flew B-36s out of there.

    Only such county voting Blue, Kitsap.

  77. 77

    But the “us” you’re referring to is a subset of a subset with unique characteristics.

    Rapey frat bois who brewed vats of jungle punch for “20 minutes of action” and worshiped portraits of bonzo raygun’s grinnin’ mug.

  78. 78

    I want to expand a little bit on the role of food stamps and other programs for the working poor.

    As I’ve posted numerous times on this blog, raising the minimum wage is a taxpayer protection plan.

    The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 an hour, which is $290 a week, $1,256 a month, and $15,068 a year for someone working 40 hours a week.

    However, it must be noted that many minimum wage workers don’t work a 40 hour week. It’s common in retail, for example, to schedule workers for 28 to 32 hours a week, so the employer doesn’t have to provide benefits like health insurance.

    Moreover, these workers often are assigned fluctuating hours, including rotating shifts, split shifts, and variable shifts, which usually means they can’t hold another job.

    These practices keep labor costs down for employers. To make it possible for people to work 32 hours a week for $7.25 an hour, the government provides housing assistance, food stamps, and child care. It’s not unusual for federal programs to subsidize roughly half of low-wage workers’ subsistence needs.

    Enter a guy worth $400 billion, elected by nobody, who decides these subsidies are “waste, fraud, and abuse,” and proposes paying for his tax breaks by terminating them.

    What would an economy without these worker subsidies look like? First of all, since nobody can live on $232 a week, those employers will have to raise wages (probably to double what they are now), and either give them more hours, or give them set schedules so they can work a second job.

    But let’s say employers won’t. Many of these workers will quit, either to take other jobs in which they can support themselves, or they may stay home because they literally can’t afford to work. (They don’t have money for work clothing, transportation to a job, child care, etc.)

    If they can’t pay rent, they can live on the streets, but I’m guessing few if any will agree to starve. I’ve discussed above some of the alternative ways of getting groceries for people whose wages only cover rent, or who are living in their cars or in sidewalk tents with no income at all.

    Of course, I have a solution: Require employers to pay everyone who works full-time a wage sufficient for basic necessities. And require employers to either provide full-time work, or give workers working less than 40 hours a set schedule so they can earn the rest of their necessary living expenses at a second job.

    So there are basically two choices here: Either continue subsidizing employers paying below-subsistence wages by taxpayers picking up a portion of their employees’ living expenses, or force employers to guarantee subsistence incomes for workers.

    You don’t have to do either, of course. You can yank the subsidies and let cheap-labor employers keep doing whatever they like — and leave it to those workers to make up the difference by illegal means.

  79. 79

    Well, well, divided loyalties…

    “Olivia Doe” has been a USAID employee in Kinshasa since 2023. She works on establishing direct lines of critical minerals, including cobalt, from Congo to the United States.

    The country is home to 60 percent of the world’s cobalt. It is extracted through an under-regulated system of about 100,000 miners, who risk their lives to dig hundreds of feet underground with hand tools. The mineral is almost exclusively sent to China, where it is used to make batteries — including some that end up in Apple iPhones, according to an investigation by The Post.

    Olivia wrote that her job was to help reduce the country’s dependence on China through increased trade with the United States.

    “We have essentially ‘ghosted’ all of our partners and our reputation may forever be tarnished as a result,” she wrote, later adding: “China is ready to immediately jump in and take over.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/14/usaid-trump-congo-drc-escape/

    China salutes you Elmo and you salute back!

  80. 80

    Everyone who works for that agency was a probationary employee at one time. And when someone leaves and has to be replaced with a new hire, that person is a probationary employee.

    Dumbfucks are gonna dumbfuck.

    It’s Dumbfucks mindless way to validate his stupidity.

  82. 82

    Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112

    Russia used to spend millions and risk its best spies to get this information. Now it’s free on the internet.

  83. 83

    Hello Sir. I am one of the probationary employees terminated by the Doge at 9:00pm last night; February 14th. I voted for you, Sir, three times, and I still support you. I was encouraged by the DOGE to see they were getting rid of wasteful government spending; I support that too. My termination letter said I was being let go for performance reasons. I know that’s not true; I am an excellent employee. I’ve been with the Federal government for almost 16 years. Sixteen years in June. I had started my career with USDA, transferred to DHS, and recently came back to USDA because it’s such a great Agency to work for. Surely that must count for something in your eyes. I’m loyal and I firmly believe that the work I do as a USDA APHIS PPQ employee is vital and important. My boss, his boss, the managers in neighboring states, all agree I’m doing an excellent job and that I’m a great asset to the team. I’m the only [redacted] in the State of Kentucky and my work here is valued and honorable. Each time I voted for you, it was because I knew you’d make things right and you’d fix the wrongs. I’m counting on you now to make this right too. I’m pleading with you to reinstate my employment and give me my job back. Please, Mr. President. Thank you.

  84. 84

    I wonder if Trump pushing the Gulf of America has something to do with the impending scuttling of the Ocean Liner SS UNITED STATES off Okaloosa County, Florida?

  85. 85

    I voted for you, Sir, three times, and I still support you.
    ..
    I’m pleading with you to reinstate my employment and give me my job back. Please, Mr. President.

    Your side won.

    Get over it.

  86. 86

    81,

    Fat Hitler is now trying to rescind all the NNSA terminations. But he carried out the dismissals so abruptly and without any planning. So he is not having much immediate success at contacting them.

    Somebody had to explain to him that they can no longer be reached at the .gov email addresses he used to terminate them.

  87. 87

    86) Or to the Tech Bros that some of our Government operations are not high tech for a reason. Nuclear Weapons and Electronics, especially modern electronics, tend not to go together. Too bad judges can’t do a restraining order to keep them away from the Minutemen silos, some of them use computers that use ancient floppy disks.

  89. 89

    4 Nations hockey is lit.

    Owen Penney
    @FlowPenn

    Canada jersey with 51 trump is craziest I’ve seen

    https://x.com/FlowPenn/status/1890843224534589701

    Quote
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    @pantherspilled
    ·
    21h
    Things are happening at bell centre
    11:18 AM · Feb 15, 2025

    Canadian crowd boos the playing of the Star-Spangled banner. Three fights between teams Canada and USA in the first 9 seconds of the game.

    Oh. USA, 3-1.

  92. 92

    @ 87

    Nuclear Weapons and Electronics, especially modern electronics, tend not to go together.

    Hey Railfan, know what else tends not to go together? Electric school busses and winter.. I especially liked the part when the transportation director said he had to intentionally drive the bus into a snow bank in order to come to a stop before reaching an intersection.

    Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes

    A school district in Democrat Maine got new EV busses through The EPA’s ‘Clean school bus program’

    Winter came and the busses shut down during a run, they were unable to be driven back to the school and abandoned on the side of the road

    “They sent the buses back to the manufacturer to be fixed, but they still failed inspections even after additional repairs to pass inspection, the buses are still experiencing mechanical issues.”

    This is Democrat’s Green EV Programs in action
    8:11 PM · Feb 14, 2025

    “Our confidence is waning…”

    No shit.

  93. 93

    Boxcheck Momala’s fave thing was EV school busses, remember?

    freebeacon.com
    https://freebeacon.com › biden-administration › kamala…
    Kamala Harris Touted a $5B Electric School Bus Program. …

    Jul 29, 2024 — One of Kamala Harris’s highest profile responsibilities as vice president has been spearheading the federal government’s billion-dollar …

    Kamala Harris Got $5 Billion for Electric School Buses. …

    WSJ
    https://www.wsj.com › Politics › Policy
    Oct 13, 2024 — —This past January, Carroll County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Burnette got a call from his relieved transportation manager: The electric …

  94. 94

    Q: What’s better than a shitload of overwhelmingly Democrat federal employees losing their jobs?

    A: They’re forced to sell their homes at a steep loss, too:

    The Kobeissi Letter
    @KobeissiLetter

    Here’s a chart showing median home price in the Washington, DC area.

    In November 2024, the median home in Washington, DC was worth ~$699,000, according to Redfin.

    Today, the median home is worth $560,000, marking a -20% drop in ~3 months.

    Mass selling is an understatement.
    9:28 AM · Feb 15, 2025

    I don’t care if there’s an explanation unrelated to DJT47 and DOGE. It’s enough for me that Deep State Democrats are on the run.

    Fuck ’em.

  95. 95

    I tried for 2 years to get a federal job so I could afford Bidens inflation. I just got the job 7 months ago. We are starting to get caught up on our late payments on our vehicles and credit cards, which are maxed out. Anyway, we were so relieved to get Trump back. Thank God *A . Only to get fired from my job??? WTF???? There are no fucking jobs in this horse shit town. And who the fuck has the money to move??? Not us!! Son of a bitch!!!

  96. 96

    Kid Rock calls out Steve:

    “We lost a good portion of a few generations of men who just turned into complete fucking pussies.”

    Applies to Welfare Queen YLB’s basement-dwelling fucked kids, too.

  97. 97

    Retail sales slumped 0.9% in January, down much more than expected

    Trump did that.

  98. 98

    I turned down the deferred resignation, and tried to stay at my job with fws and do my work instead of taking free money that I hadn’t earned, only to be terminated a few days later? How does ending a 50k job do any good? I understand cutting waste, but how does putting my ability to feed my family in jeopardy do anything to help the country? I didn’t want to take money I hadn’t earned, only to get screwed over? How is this MAGA? I voted for Trump, and to fix our screwed up country. To get rid of the stupid shit that was happening. But what kind of game was this? What purpose did it serve?

    Trump did that

  99. 99

    WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has asked for a study on the safety of abortion pills and he has not made a decision on whether to tighten restrictions on the pills, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News in an interview on Thursday

    You mean like the ten to twenty year process of tests to get FDA approval of any drug?

    Or is this like not knowing what nuclear weapons security is?

  100. 100

    I’m mystified how this country and the business of this country can carry on like as if everything is going to be fine. They better wake up, or that little message from your lender on how much you could take advantage of the equity, or the Super Bowl, or Spring Training, etc.. are all going to be history.

  101. 101

    @ 97

    Retail sales slumped 0.9% in January, down much more than expected
    Trump did that.

    Markets
    The Motley Fool
    The S&P 500 Soared in January. History Says the Stock Market Will Do This Next.

    Using your rationale, DJT47 (and the anticipation therof) did this, too.

    Which is why Democrats are flailing. A majority of poll respondents support the ongoing housecleaning.

    Democrats have nothing. So they resort to the silliness of some news item here or there instead of focusing on the larger message, which is that their party is ending, right quick.

  102. 102

    The popular snowshoeing and summer trail to Franklin Falls is now closed.

    Donald fired the forest service staff responsible for locking and unlocking the parking gates in the Pass region. The only people left are the career rangers at Summit West who, during the ski season, are quite busy.

    “Fuck y’all. You think your taxes should go to letting you USE parks. We’re planning on selling them.”

  103. 103

    We lost a good portion of a few generations of men who just turned into complete fucking pussies.

    They’re not lost at all.

    I know exactly where they can all be found.

    They’re on Xitter sobbing into the screaming void of Nazi-bots because they lost their $50k federal job, their VA benefits are cut, their NRSC farm grant is eliminated, eggs are $9 a dozen, and their MIL with dementia is moving into the kid’s room now that her Medicaid is gone.

    They WON!

    Now they have to live with it.

  104. 104

    @98

    Someone please inform the idiot that he/she or it was too stupid to not be conned by a con man. Then tell them thoughts and prayers. If they want change they better not even think about pulling the lever for any Repuke, if we even have a ten percent chance of ever having a fair election again in this fascist state.

    Un educated loser!

  105. 105

    Dear Customer,

    This letter informs you that your above-referenced utility account has been debited for $100. Community Action Agency of Huntsville/Madison & Limestone Counties has notified us that the grant you received for $100.00 on January 23, 2025 is no longer valid due to President Trump’s executive order to rescind the funding behind the grant. The grant you received for $100 has been debited to your account [number] and will be due with your next invoice.

    We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you need to make payment arrangements or have questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our office at (256)535-1200.

  106. 106

    61% of Vets went for trump. In return they’re getting VA cuts including the crisis line.

    Trump did that.

  111. 111

    Electric school busses and winter..

    So??? Electric cars in general:

    “Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent, and this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday,” Tesla owner Tyler Beard told Fox 32.

    He wasn’t alone. Dozens of cars were reportedly lined up and abandoned at the Tesla supercharging station in Oak Brook along with multiple charging stations around Chicago.

    “This is crazy. It’s a disaster. Seriously,” said another Tesla driver, Chalis Mizelle, who had to ditch her ride and get picked up by a friend because the car wouldn’t charge..

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/tesla_owners_in_deep_freeze/

    This is wonderful newz for Elmo’s sales… fuck ‘im..

    It’ll be figured out one day.. It’d be nice if Elmo goes bankrupt first.

  112. 112

    It goes double for the Seattle area.

    Stay Nasty, Stay Mean

    It’s funny to see the losing side so committed to spewing hatred on social media, casually dehumanizing Trump supporters as though they won the election and still have all of the power. What part of they got their asses handed to them is not coming through?

    I think they must think this is a good look for the losing side to keep reminding all of us how much we can’t stand them. But what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Keep it up, Democrats. I beg of you. The last thing you should ever do is be kind, nice, normal, and decent. Then, you might actually start building a movement again.

    I loved living in Seattle. My heart broke when I left, but I was tired of being raped by taxes, policies, words and lack of common sense of the prog machine that has taken over. I get it Seattle has always wanted to be San Francisco. And now you are. It’s only a matter of time that your prog disaster will exceed theirs.

    The few left here posting at all hours of the night and day devoted to drinking the rancid whine of hatred should consider getting a comfort dog, learn to knit, go explore the beauty of the state you are ruining, attend Mass or synagogue. Find what is bigger than you and appreciate the beauty before you die, miserable and alone with the hatred your keyboard only knows how to type. Stop paying HA to enable your addiction to that hatred.

    Americans who vote are telling you what the problem is. America needs and wants a viable two party system, we want common sense, truth and transparency. We want to raise our children without fear. We want to earn without fear. We want to live in our homes, worship, gather and yes protest without fear. We want to make our decisions without the guillotine of bureaucracy over our heads.

    At the moment, your party has taken itself out of the game by fighting all of it and all of us. And they seem to have no desire to change. They, and you, are enjoying the impotent scream. Just review your posts with a clear eye for proof.

    Of course, I already know this is wasted on those who would rather scream.

  115. 115

    @ 102

    The popular snowshoeing and summer trail to Franklin Falls is now closed.

    Yeah, when the federal government shut down the Obama administration closed every recreational location it could in order to exert maximum perceived pain.

    People can snowshoe elsewhere. People that can afford to drive into the mountains to snowshoe can afford $7/dozen eggs, too. Beats having your daughter killed by an illegal.

  116. 116

    @ 112

    Of course, I already know this is wasted on those who would rather scream.

    And twist panties. Don’t forget panty-twisting. Gawd, the liberal pussies so love doing that.

  117. 117

    The few left here posting at all hours of the night and day devoted to drinking the rancid whine of hatred should consider getting a comfort dog, learn to knit, go explore the beauty of the state you are ruining, attend Mass or synagogue. Find what is bigger than you and appreciate the beauty before you die, miserable and alone with the hatred your keyboard only knows how to type.

    I wonder if this individual is even capable of appreciating the keen irony of having carefully chosen a blog quote from Sasha Stone to illustrate this point.

    I can really only conclude that this is either intended as a joke, or this person simply has absolutely no idea who Sasha Stone is or how she has chosen to spend her entire adult life.

    I promise you it has not been spent outside exploring, or knitting in the company of comfort dogs.

  118. 118

    And twist panties.

    yawwn.. its fav thing to request at its vip room. whatev kink floats its boat.

  119. 119

    What the piffle @ 112 tells us:

    We’re doing something right. It bothers the ghouls.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/20/democrats-trump-foes-governors-attorneys-general-interest-groups-00190177

    Keep fighting.

    Funny I’ve lived in Seattle a long time, raised two kids here, they attended Seattle public schools, both graduated UW Seattle campus and thrive as adults. They both still live here.

    Seattle has changed, seen its share of challenges and lo and behold, we now have a more centrist Mayor and City Council. Whatever, doesn’t bother me much as it doesn’t affect me that much.

    Sorry Seattle didn’t work out for you @ 112.. Read more bores like Sasha Stone to cope.

  120. 120

    Beats having your daughter killed by an illegal.

    It always entertains this fantasy. For this fantasy it no longer chances 4 or 5 hundred dollar dinners at a Seattle steak house..

    Yep, grilling your own steak allows for more bottles of top shelf booze to dull the boredom of widbee.

  121. 121

    ( at ) RealDonaldTrump.
    Is American citizen by birth, American by choice.
    X army, 52, white male, none of that should matter.
    The American public is trying to communicate with you unsuccessfully.
    I voted for you, You should be listening… but you’re NOT!

  122. 122

    Kid who?

    ya mean the same “kid” who now drinks bud light because Dana White gave the ok?

    It’s safe now dumbfuck.. you can stop hiding..

  123. 123

    Yoni Menaker is the owner of Blue Angel Roofing in Atlanta and says he’s losing a lot of customers because he drives a Cybertruck.
    Yoni shares that his company’s page is flooded with negative reviews and adds that he lost $70,000 worth of roofing deals only last month.
    Yoni says the customers who terminated the roofing contract specifically told him that the issue was that he drove a Cybertruck.
    Musk Did That

  124. 124

    “Don’t fight hate with hate” is an example of subtle GASLIGHTING.
    Where our legitimate hurt and anger at the injustices we suffer is being equated to the bigotry and abuse of our oppressors. Being angry doesn’t mean you are being hateful, it means you love yourself enough to get upset at your own mistreatment .

  125. 125

    124,

    Crying fascists. Now I’ve seen everything.

    You know it’s weird I guess. But I have absolutely no memory in studying the history of pre war Germany of Ernst Rohm and the SA ever crying themselves to sleep over their hurt feelings.

  127. 127

    @94 “Q: What’s better than a shitload of overwhelmingly Democrat federal employees losing their jobs? A: They’re forced to sell their homes at a steep loss, too: …”

    The doctor is dripping with hate today. I wouldn’t wish that on him, and I doubt anyone else here does, either. Sure, I insult and mock him, and give him a bad time, but that’s all in good clean fun.

  128. 128

    Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars flying Air Force 1 over Daytona and then took victory laps around the track while nine people so far died in Kentucky due to horrific storms.. Also, on his directive, FEMA DENIED any additional assistance to Georgia from Helene.
    Trump Did That.

  129. 129

    @98 More to the point, how does gutting FWS protect our commercial fishing stocks? You know, an important part of our healthy-foods supply? It doesn’t, just like deporting immigrant agricultural workers won’t lower food costs.

    This administration isn’t irrational. They’re intensely rational. They just have different aims and priorities than people think. And different from what Trump promised during the campaign.

    In the 1932 elections, Hitler didn’t promise to exterminate the Jews, he promised to turn around the economy. Yeah I know it’s not a perfect analogy, but as the saying goes, “it’s close enough for government work.”

    Doc did a pretty good job of verbalizing their real goals @94: Inflicting harm on people they hate. And they hate many, many people. (Doc, to his discredit, appears to be climbing onto the GOP hate bandwagon.)

  131. 131

    Speaking of Trump hatemongering, this week’s Barrons magazine has an article containing some incredible statements about the current state of affairs in the US of A. After noting that business is booming for lawyers and consultants who help rich clients move abroad, and take their money with them, Barrons said this:

    Many wealthy individuals are pleased with President Donald Trump’s policies …. But others are worried, and they aren’t waiting to see how Trump’s second term affects the economy, markets, and their personal lives.

    In addition to moving assets and investments abroad, these folks are also, in some cases, seeking residency or citizenship in other countries, according to immigration attorneys and wealth managers.

    The wealthy have a number of reasons for moving funds to Switzerland, Singapore, or the United Arab Emirates, among other locales. Here’s one: protection against the Trump administration for perceived wrongdoing.

    Those who didn’t receive pre-emptive pardons from former President Joe Biden, and who worry about being targeted, fear that the new administration could freeze their bank and brokerage accounts, according to immigration attorney David Lesperance.

    Stop right there. Is there any legal basis to do that, if they’re not drug dealers or gangsters? No. This is the very definition of tyranny. But their fears don’t end there:

    One of Lesperance’s clients, who was among those involved in “high-profile efforts to bring Trump to justice,” wants to move himself and his family out of the U.S., given the propensity of Trump and his supporters to seek revenge on perceived enemies, he says.

    “Unjustified civil and criminal government harassment would be financially and emotionally devastating,” Lesperance says. “This is a major topic of discussion with his [client’s] colleagues, both currently in and out of government.” …

    These individuals are worried about the radicalization of the political and social discourse in the U.S. and believe that the country is “entering a prolonged period of uncertainty and volatility,” he says. “There is this general unease that something isn’t quite right.

    This isn’t just a few nervous nellies, wackos, or conspiracy theory freaks:

    The number of clients who have retained Lesperance to apply for residency, citizenship, or a digital nomad visa is up more than 400% from his usual pace of business, he says.

    Oh, and did I mention that Lesperance is advising his clients to

    Secure a second passport, as the U.S. one can be canceled by the government without notice

    which would trap them in this country for Trump and his minions to do with as they wish.

    This shit isn’t conjectural or imaginary, it’s real — very smart, highly educated, completely serious, well heeled, and utterly serious people are spending large gobs of good money on preparing to flee tyranny in good ol’ America. That’s nothing short of amazing.

    I know it’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s somewhat reminiscent of people fleeing Germany after Hitler became chancellor.

  132. 132

    @99 Any order on abortion pills emanating from his EO pen is as likely to be based on science as his climate change policies are.

  133. 133

    I was thinking last night about the national lynching memorial, known as the “National Memorial for Peace and Justice,” which is connected with The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

    Wikipedia says the museum “receives no public funding,” and “development and construction of the museum and the nearby memorial cost an estimated $20 million raised from private donations and charitable foundations.”

    Whew. That’s good. The museum and memorial are private (not federal) property, which means Trump can’t (legally) bulldoze it.

    Still, I have doubts this memorial would survive a White Supremacist dictatorship. A tyrant who violated the sanctity of personal bank and brokerage accounts might send bulldozers onto private land, too.

  134. 134

    So remember when I said SQL queries that Elon’s bullshit squad were running were getting GIGO results?

    Educational funds for developmentally and physically disabled kidsj were blocked because in many parts of the program descriptions the word transition appears.

    As in ‘transition to use of artificial limb’ or ‘transition from the school environment to the workplace.’

  135. 135

    @100 “I’m mystified how this country and the business of this country can carry on like as if everything is going to be fine.”

    See my comment @131. It’s directly on point. The upshot is that some highly-placed people don’t think it can.

  136. 136

    @101 “‘The S&P 500 Soared in January.’ Using your rationale, DJT47 (and the anticipation therof) did this, too.”

    The S&P 500 is a blunt yardstick. Why not zero in on Trump Media (DJT) stock’s performance since January 1? It’s more directly relevant.

  137. 137

    @101 “‘The S&P 500 Soared in January.’ Using your rationale, DJT47 (and the anticipation therof) did this, too.”

    The S&P 500 is a blunt yardstick. Why not zero in on Trump Media (DJT) stock’s performance since January 1? It’s more directly relevant.

  138. 138

    @102 Maybe the plan is they can reapply for their former positions and will be rehired if they pass the ideological purity tests.

  139. 139

    @ 124

    … at the injustices we suffer …

    Just what are these, Snowflake? Your libbie friends in government are not getting to waste as much money as they used to waste?

  140. 140

    Q: Whaddya call a quarter of a million federal employees suddenly out of. job?

    A: A good start.

    Heather Long
    @byHeatherLong

    Roughly 275,000 federal workers lost their jobs this week. That’s over 10% of the federal workforce.

    ~75,000 took the “buyout”
    ~200,000 probationary workers were let go (the WH has not confirmed the total, but this is how many were on probationary status)

    That’s a lot of lives upended. And many gov’t services will be impacted. While most organizations can survive a 10% cut, keep in mind these cuts were not even across the gov’t. Many agencies hit hard in Trump’s first term are being decimated now.

    7:18 AM · Feb 14, 2025

  141. 141

    @112 “It’s funny to see the losing side so committed to spewing hatred …”

    Wait, what? Who falsely accused Springfield, Ohio, legal visa workers of stealing pets?

    Who demonizes immigrants as rapists and murderers?

    Who demonizes gay people as “groomers,” tries to erase the existence of trans people, and aims to make their lives a living hell?

    Who’s trying to revoke the constitutionally guaranteed citizenship of children of immigrants?

    Who calls Democrats “demonrats”?

    Please stuff your sanctimonious crap back up your stupid ass.

  142. 142

    Each and every public university should have its own DOGE. Think of all those administrators who are not necessary.

    Paul Campos in the NYT on administrative bloat

    UO Matters
    https://uomatters.com › 2015/04 › paul-campos-in-the-n…
    Apr 5, 2015 — According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, …

  143. 143

    @115 The government isn’t shut down, so what’s the point of closing a popular recreation area?

    Oh wait, the government is shutting down, and all the staff are being let go — permanently.

    Another apples-to-grenades comparison by HA’s intellectual dwarf, Doctor Dumbfuck.

  144. 144

    This is a figure from the tweet @ 140.

    Why did Biden grow USAID workforce by 17% over three years, after Trump grew it by 6%?

    Why did the Department of Energy need nearly 18% more workers during the first three years of Biden’s term?

    Why did the State Department increase its workforce by 19% during the first three years of Biden’s term?

    Oh yeah. Parts of the federal government need a hatchet taken to them.

  145. 145

    @120 My daughter is safer in the company of illegals than she is among Republicans.

  146. 146

    @130 Apparently a guy with a dying heart worries the Covid vaccine might give him blood clots. I hear aspirin is a good blood thinner.

  147. 147

    @139 I wouldn’t call firing a probationary immigration judge for “poor performance” before his first day of work an injustice; I call it reinstatement with back pay.

    And doc, before you go off half-cocked about federal probationers not having appeal rights, read this.

  148. 148

    @ 1145

    My daughter is safer in the company of illegals than she is among Republicans.

    She’s a moll, then. A sidepiece for M-13 members.

  149. 149

    @144 Trump didn’t fire 17% of USAID’s workforce, he fired all of it.

    Trump didn’t fire 18% of NNSA’s workforce, he fired all of it.

    But I’ll concede you don’t need diplomats if your foreign relations consist of surrendering to Putin. He can do that with his own signature.

  152. 152

    @151 She’s a mid-career professional who manages the IT department of an investment firm in one of America’s technology hotspots. You, with your fancy medical degree, manage a horse barn.

  154. 154

    On what planet does a billionaire who owns multiple for-profit businesses, along with a social media platform dedicated to disseminating propaganda, who’s never run for any political office or ever received a single vote, get to look over your tax returns and take down your SSN, home address, the names and ages of your minor dependents, who your employer is, how much you make, where you bank, and what stocks you own and dividends you receive? Even POTUS doesn’t have access to that kind of information. Fuck this guy.

  155. 155

    I hope the Flag bill in Olympia fails I like the state flag the way it is. Say, I wonder, is there a movement to change King County’s flag back? It was changed in 2007 after the state approved the official name change from Franklin Pierce’s VP to Martin Luther King Jr. all they did on the flag was replace the crown with an image of Dr. King.

  156. 156

    His justification excuse:

    “We do find it rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” Musk told reporters on Feb. 12 while in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump. “We’re just curious as to where it came from.”

    Inheritances. Investments. Spousal wealth. Previous employment. Wrongful death settlement for loss of a family member. Rich uncle. Winning lottery ticket. Book deal. Sale of a family business. Real estate. Art. Intellectual property.

    Apparently he’s never heard of the janitors who die leaving millions in their wills. It’s not what you earn, it’s what you save. What a dumb MF.

  157. 157

    Musk and the White House have not said what federal data the DOGE team has been able to get to, or what’s been done with the data that’s been acquired.

    And now they want to see your tax returns?

  158. 158

    I remember a law school case that went roughly like this:

    Lawyer: I have a client who desires to pay taxes but remain anonymous.

    IRS: How much does he intend to pay?

    Lawyer: One million dollars.

    IRS: Here’s a subpoena for his name.

    Lawyer: I’ll go to jail first.

  159. 159

    Remember kids, when the lights go out next winter, you heard it all here first, straight from the Dumbfuck’s stupid pie hole:

    Transmission planners and line maintenance workers are “not necessary”.

    Democratically elected lawmakers: “not necessary”.

    Courts and trials: “not necessary”.

  160. 160

    @156,

    They can also inherit an emerald mine staffed with slaves.

    Or so I’m told. 😉

  166. 166

    You, with your fancy medical degree, manage a horse barn

    It keeps the other horse happy.

  168. 168

    @ 153

    I want to see his tax returns.

    Why? What’s the point?

    After all, you saw one of Donald Trump’s tax returns. You saw his Deutsche Bank loan application. What did those revelations do for you, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    Did either of them lessen DJT47’s power? Did either of them increase yours?

  169. 169

    Good news!

    Elon Musk’s DOGE has succeeded in saving the US government so much money it can now invest in things that really matter.

    For example, the $7 million the US government was spending on food aid in Sudan will now be used to buy Cybertrucks. And the $18 million AIDS prevention program? That money is now freed up to buy even more Cybertrucks. $3 billion for tuberculosis vaccines? That money will be going to Cybertrucks. $4.3 million in agriculture contracts for US farmers? Even MORE state-owned Cybertrucks.

    Humanitarian aid? Cybertrucks.
    Consumer financial protection? Cybertrucks.
    Cybertrucks. CYBERTRUCKS. CYBERTRUCKS!
    CYBERTRUCKS!!!!

    DOGE estimates that when they’re done the US gov could be able to buy as many as 93 million Cybertrucks.
    A 45000% increase in state-owned Cybertrucks over the Biden administration!

  170. 170

    @168 “Why? What’s the point?”

    If he gets to see mine then I get to see his, because what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, that’s the fucking point.

  173. 173

    Sometime as early as Wednesday, probably early Thursday morning our little 50 employee site will hit our pie-in=the-sky goal we set when we went public of 40million registered users.

    We got there in just over a year. We will go from 39M to 40M in just 8 days. At this rate we’ll be at 50million around the end of May.

  174. 174

    @169 Cybertrucks, Cybertrucks and more CYBERTRUCKS!!!!

    And tell ’em teh BONE SENT YA!

  175. 175

    For all who celebrate, today is the anniversary of the date when Rush Limbaugh finally won the ultimate victory in his lifelong battle with pill addiction.

    👍😁🥂🎇🍾🎆👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  176. 176

    An award for the combined traits of boxchecking and functional incompetence!

    NAACP Image Awards®
    @naacpimageaward

    A trailblazer in every sense, Former Vice President
    @KamalaHarris will be honored with the prestigious Chairman’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards. 💐👏🏾

    6:08 AM · Feb 17, 2025

  177. 177

    Who will be the first Democrat to blame the Delta plane crash today in Toronto on DJT47?

  178. 178

    Who will be the first incel pizza driver to admit to his CoD clan that he got played when he actually believed that he wouldn’t have to pay income taxes on his tip income?

  179. 179

    @177 I’ll wait for the accident investigation. Because it occurred in Canada, there’ll be one. Now let’s consider what’s happening here in the USA:

    The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees …

    The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance ….

    Other FAA employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system the Air Force had announced in 2023 for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles, through a program that was in part funded by the Department of Defense. It’s one of several programs that the FAA’s National Defense Program manages that involve radars providing longer-range detection around the country’s borders.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-faa-firings_n_67b33e05e4b0c6b4a5049c8b

    ATC already was short-staffed, and now it’s more short-staffed. Good luck up there, you’ll need it. As for me, rabbits don’t fly.

    A better case can be made for getting rid of the folks who staff our perimeter defense, because we don’t need a national defense anymore. We’ll all be Russian nationals soon.

  180. 180

    179)Wonder if Greyhound will see an upsurge in ridership? They aren’t ready if that happens, too many cuts. Their German owners have been absorbing it into the FlixBus brand. Now if new buses are needed, may be a problem. Both companies they buy from are Canadian.

  182. 182

    There have been at least six fatal aviation incidents since Donald Trump became president, according to news reports and a search of the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) database:

    January 25, 2025: Charlottesville, VA
    January 29, 2025: Potomac River Mid-Air Collision
    January 31, 2025: Med Jets Flight 056 Crash (Philadelphia)
    February 6, 2025: Bering Air Flight 445 Crash (Alaska)
    February 10, 2025: Private Jet Crash in Scottsdale, Arizona
    February 15, 2025: Small Plane Crash Near Covington, Georgia

    That last crash came “just hours after ‘hundreds’ of pink slips were reportedly handed out at the agency,” The Daily Beast reported.

    https://www.rawstory.com/stupid-beyond-belief-musk-and-trump-blasted-as-doge-fires-hundreds-of-faa-employe/

    They’re all Biden’s fault, aren’t they, doc?

  183. 183

    You don’t want your kids vaccinated? Then don’t have kids. Pretty simple. But if you do have kids anyways just send them off to play in heavy traffic, an interstate highway preferably.

  184. 184

    @180 I don’t think people will go back to riding trains and buses. e. The masses will still fly; they’ll just assume greater risk, some unknowingly. They’ll just have to get used to frequent crashes again.

  185. 185

    How does a small nation like Canada defend itself against a big, belligerent neighbor like the U.S.?

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-canada-2671168975/

    Defense alliances will help, but to avoid having to depend entirely on other nations, who themselves are being threatened, the obvious answer is acquire a nuclear deterrent.

  186. 186

    @ 179

    As for me, rabbits don’t fly.

    As for the Dumbfuck Rabbit family, none of its members can afford to.

  188. 188

    From the Department of Now the Truth Can Be Told, Politico version:

    Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
    Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.

    It’s been a shitty economy for awhile now. It’s just that now there’s no reason to sugarcoat it because Boxcheck Momala lost.

    I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

    And yet Welfare Queen YLB wore her sweater set, pearls, and short pleated wool skirt, and cheered like the silly cunt she is in hopes that Boxcheck Momala might be able to utter a clear sentence just once before November 5th. She couldn’t.

    Now it’s time to tell the world that for most of 2024 the economy sucked, and somehow it’s the fault of DJT45, now DJT47.

    GLWT.

  189. 189

    @ 187

    Welfare Queen YLB: HA’s Dumb Cunt 2024 Election Denier.

    She didn’t even pick up on this:

    Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.

    IOW if Boxcheck Momala is given every single additional vote that the author wants her to have, while by the same reconfiguration of the tally Donald Trump is given NO additional votes, this falsity would be enough for Boxcheck Momala to have a plurality of the national popular vote.

    HA’s unserious twat outdoes herself with the denialism.

  191. 191

    every single additional vote that the author wants her to have

    Brain fart.. We don’t elect Presidents by popular vote. Palast names the swing states Kamala won if not for your ilk and the racism and misogyny which motivates the vote suppression same as it did for Jim Crow.

    Palast brings receipts. You bring hate.. You’re a bore.

  192. 192

    Troll triggered. Mission accomplished. Thanks for the free entertainment.

    Now until the server goes cold I’ll stack the free rent I receive from living in the troll’s pin head.

  193. 193

    While widdle Marco is in Israel, Netanyahu shuts off aid flowing theough the Egyptian border, violates the cease fire with airstrikes and announces the commencement of ‘President Trump’s plan’ of ethnic cleansing.

    Weirdly, Muslim’s for Trump leadership isn’t making themselves available for comment.

  194. 194

    @186 “Afford” has nothing to do with it. The Great Mother Rabbit Spirit endowed rabbits with a superior mode of transportation, namely, lucky rabbit’s feet.

    By the time you drive to SeaTac, check in, go through security, wait to board your delayed flight, then take off and hop over the mountains to Yakima’s lettuce fields, I’ll already by there.

  195. 195

    Some information is emerging about the Toronto crash. First, videos show snowy and icy conditions, but Toronto’s airport has what a veteran pilot told Fox News called “very long runways.” (According to Wikipedia, two are over 11,000 feet.)

    This pilot said the plane, on approach, was bucking 70-knot winds, was descending at 1100 feet per minute (500 fpm is normal), and doing 125 mph at 500 feet of altitude (160 mph is normal).

    As everyone now knows, the plane ended up upside-down with at least one wing sheared off. This pilot speculated the plane could have flipped on landing because of a wingtip strike.

    In other words, if the plane was being buffeted by strong side or quartering winds, and the pilot was constantly making aileron corrections trying to keep the wings level and corrected too far, a wingtip could have struck the ground at high speed and sheared the wing off.

    The pilot commentator didn’t identify a cause (that’s the job of the accident investigators), but suggested a prudent pilot would have aborted the landing and gone around, or asked to land at an alternate airport.

    So I won’t be surprised if this crash ultimately is attributed to pilot error, if the accident investigation doesn’t turn up some sort of mechanical failure.

  196. 196

    It’s been a shitty economy for awhile now.

    Oh really.. This from the article:

    The problem isn’t that some Americans didn’t come out ahead after four years of Bidenomics. Some did. It’s that, for the most part, those living in more modest circumstances have endured at least 20 years of setbacks, and the last four years did not turn things around enough for the lower 60 percent of American income earners.

    To be fair, the prevailing indicators aren’t without merit. It is, for example, useful to know how the wages of full-time employees have evolved.

    By “at least 20 years” means repuke-onomics have meant the rich got richer and the poor got poorer for AT LEAST the last 20 years.. The common wisdom is since 1973 more or less.. Like 40 percent of american households today can’t scrape 400 dollars together for an emergency. It’s a damn shame no thanks to trickle on economics.

    And by “some did”.. yep we did.. With family members working in Health Care there was plenty of overtime pay and union negotiated pay raises and retention bonuses.

    So covid was a gut punch. It froze the economy and repukes leveraged the crisis at every turn to where they are now.

  197. 197

    Information is beginning to emerge about the Toronto crash. First, videos show snowy and icy conditions, raising the possibility the plane skidded on the runway; but wind seems to have been more of a factor.

    The plane was having problems while still in the air. The approach was abnormal. A veteran pilot told Fox News the plane was descending at 1100 feet per minute (500 fpm is normal) and doing 125 mph (160 mph is normal). The apparent reason: 70-knot winds.

    Even if the pilot was struggling with the approach, he shouldn’t have overshot the runway, because the Toronto airport has very long runways. (According to Wikipedia, two of the five runways are over 11,000 feet, and the other three are all over 9,000 feet, and the airport sits at low elevation, less than 600 ft. above MSL.)

    The plane ended up upside-down with at least one wing sheared off. Fox’s pilot-commentator speculated the plane could have flipped on landing because of a wingtip strike.

    If the plane was being buffeted by strong side or quartering winds, and the pilot was fighting to keep the wings level, he could have corrected too far, and a wingtip could have struck the ground. This would shear the wing off, and this plane in fact is missing one of its wings.

    The pilot commentator didn’t identify a cause (that’s the job of the accident investigators), but suggested a prudent pilot would have aborted the landing and gone around, or asked to land at an alternate airport, so I won’t be surprised if this crash is attributed to pilot error. It’s less likely to be blamed on ATC, because the pilot is in command of the plane and has discretion to land or not land.

    You don’t have to be a pilot to wonder why someone would try to land a commercial airliner in 70-knot winds, even if the wind is head-on, if in fact that’s what happened. It’s not as simple as adjusting the plane’s airspeed for the headwind.

    If a pilot on approach is correcting his speed for a 70-knot headwind, and the windspeed isn’t steady, and most strong winds aren’t, variable gusts would make it nearly impossible to manually keep the plane at the correct airspeed with throttle adjustments.

    So, the decision to land in these conditions probably was pilot error.

  198. 198

    “So my friend and I were at an Antique Show today. We were talking with a dealer who told us she needs a good show, because her job with the Federal Government was just eliminated and benefits for her non-verbal autistic 20 year old were just cut. I remarked “well I hope you didn’t vote for this” but the look on her face, and silence, confirmed that she did. “

  199. 199

    FBI presentation “scams targeting seniors” Monday, Feb 17th has been cancelled
    A new executive order from the federal government was signed that no longer allows the FBI to do community outreach

    Trump Did That.

  200. 200

    @187 My view of voter suppression is that it’s bad, and in some cases even illegal, but unless the voters are physically prevented from voting, is their choice to not vote.

    But Trump didn’t need voter suppression in 2024. It seems pretty clear that several million voters for Biden in 2020 chose to sit out this election because they didn’t like the candidates, or were miffed by Biden’s support for Israel’s Gaza war, or whatever the reason.

    Trump also affirmatively won over some black and Hispanic voters, again for whatever reason, and we’ll just see how that works out for those voters.

    Elon Musk’s $270 million expenditure on electing Trump, and then being given such a large role in his administration that he’s nearly the de facto president, when the rest of us are limited to donating $2500 to a presidential campaign, is dodgy at the very best. It was also hidden from voters, none of whom were told that Trump, if elected, would turn over governing to Musk.

    Also, voters did not knowingly vote for Project 2025 and the mass evisceration of the federal government. On the campaign trail, Trump said he’d barely heard of Project 2025, didn’t know what it was, and wasn’t going to implement it. All of that was false; but America’s voters knew, or should have known, that Trump is a prodigious liar. Despite that, 77.3 million of them chose to vote for him anyway.

    There’s no evidence those 77.3 million votes weren’t real. There’s no evidence of ballot-box stuffing, or widespread voting fraud. I believe Trump really was elected.

    You can argue until the cows come home that Harris actually won this election, but I won’t agree with you. Here’s why:

    1. No election is perfect, a perfect election is unattainable, so imperfections in an election — especially anecdotal or speculative ones — are not a sufficient basis to set it aside.

    2. If you support the rule of law, which I do, a certified election result is valid unless the fraud or imperfections are such that a judge sets the election aside. A legal election contest through the court system is the sole means of disputing and setting aside an election result.

    3. The election process is precisely defined by election laws, which spell out the process for counting and reporting votes. Deadlines are hard; and certification is conclusive. The election laws cut off disputation of results after a specified date. Even if later on, discrepancies are found that would have changed the result, after all deadlines for challenging an election have passed and all the legal remedies specified by election laws have been exhausted, the result stands. The reason for this is the need for finality; the public’s strong interest in filling the office by a date certain overrides the weaker public interest in an accurate result.

    In summary, as a lawyer, I’m a strong supporter of following the laws; our election laws spell out how a winner is determined; and the result of that process — not second guessing or later forensic examination of the election — is what we are to abide by under the social contract represented by our laws.

    It was this process and social contract that the January 6 rioters violated. It was this process and social contract that Trump’s election lies violated. If you and I don’t abide by that process and social contract, then we’re no better than they are, and our argument is no better than theirs.

    The key to this is agreeing to be bound by the legal result, even if that’s different from the actual result. That may be hard to swallow for some, but it’s what we must do to preserve the rule of law over our elections. And on this basis, Trump is the duly elected President of the United States.

  201. 201

    @ 194

    By the time you drive to SeaTac, check in, go through security, wait to board your delayed flight, then take off and hop over the mountains to Yakima’s lettuce fields, I’ll already by there.

    Earlier this month, arrival at Masterpark Lot C, shuttle to SEA, TSA, and through check-in at the Alaska lounge front desk to seated with a Bloody Mary was 25 minutes.

    It’s not what you’ve heard, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. And you can’t afford to drive to Yakima, anyway.

  202. 202

    If you’re a federal employee and still have a job, today you’re getting paid for doing nothing.

    Meanwhile, most of the rest of America is working because it’s a Monday.

    Boo fuckin’ hoo to those of you whose jobs are unnecessary. GTFO.

  203. 203

    Before the election, during a political discussion, a Trump supporter asked me if I would accept the election result if Trump won. Without hesitating I said, “Sure.”

    It appeared to catch him off guard, and I strongly suspect that wasn’t the answer he was expecting, because that’s clearly not what millions of Trump supporters did in 2020.

    His mistake was assuming I, a Democrat, think like a Republican. I really don’t think these folks can put themselves outside their own box, or process that we don’t think like they do.

    Of course, my thought process is colored by the fact I have much deeper knowledge of election laws and processes than most people, and I think like a lawyer, not like a layperson. #220 above explains my thinking, and is very much a thought process grounded in law and legal process.

    #200 explains why I accept, and abide by, election results I don’t like. It’s also what makes me a much better citizen than Republican election deniers. By “better citizen” I mean more mature, grown up, responsible, constructive, and respectful of the civic rights of others — all of these things.

  204. 204

    @ 203

    #200 explains why I accept, and abide by, election results I don’t like. It’s also what makes me a much better citizen than Republican election deniers. By “better citizen” I mean more mature, grown up, responsible, constructive, and respectful of the civic rights of others — all of these things.

    I’m sure you did not intend it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, but Welfare Queen YLB’s election 2024 denialism @ 187 makes her childish, irresponsible, destructive, and disrespectful of the civil rights of others. In addition to being a dumb cunt.

    It’s your list of descriptors, dude. Not mine.

  205. 205

    @188 Voters may not be statistically literate, but they know how they feel. Call it intuition, if you will, but they can sense whether they’re getting ahead or falling behind.

    You and I both read Barrons. That magazine’s articles contain discussions of the flaws in government data. And numbers, even if accurate, don’t capture the misery people feel.

    In popular vernacular, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I wouldn’t go that far in characterizing economic data, most of which is ballpark reliable, but when you understand how economic data are gathered, you appreciate its limitations. Most of the errors occur in the gathering stage, not in compilation or analysis. In other words, economic data analysis is vulnerable to GIGO simply due to the sheer difficulty of discerning what’s going on in the economy.

    Nor is that a valid characterization of statistical data in general. A good way to end up dead is by repudiating science based on data analysis. There are many perfectly valid statistics. Most scientific data is valid. Much of the economic data is valid, or at least close enough to be useful. In hindsight, we know the pre-election polls of voter preferences were within their MOEs.

    So, I’m willing to accept, without argument, your contention that the economy was worse than the data indicated and Democrats either believed or argued to voters it was.

    But that totally begs the issue. You’re asking the wrong question. The right question isn’t whether the Democrats’ perception of the economy was off, but whether electing Trump will make it better? That’s TBD.

    What’s more, the economy isn’t the only matter of importance; Trump’s election has put many other quality of life aspects and positive social values at risk.

    Decent people don’t support Trump. The man is a piece of shit, and that’s been common knowledge for years. Even if you have legitimate grievances, and correctly believed Harris wasn’t the answer to your problems, if you still support Trump now, you deserve to be looked down on.

  206. 206

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s claim of 70 mph winds in Toronto at the time of the crash is bullshit. Max wind speed was over a third less than that.

    CNN:

    At the time of the landing attempt, the sustained winds were at 52 km/h, gusting as high as 65 km/h, from a 270-degree angle. The gusts are near the operational limits of the aircraft, with a total crosswind component of 41 km/h.

    65 kph is 40 mph, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You useless, bloviating fuck.

    The tower audio has been released. The plane had been cleared to land.

    Remember when you claimed that the guy who ran over the Dancing Grannies in the Wisconsin Xmas parade was white, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit? It’s because you can’t wait to spew stupid shit whenever anything happens.

    You useless, bloviating fuck.

  207. 207

    Awfully weak liberal response to the changes Team DJT47 is making.

    It’s almost as if it’s expected to pass constitutional muster. Take an Obama-era program created without a vote by Congress, modify its purpose, and voila!

    People like saving money, and an awful lot of them are voters.

    Is it possible that the left went overboard on all of its spending in the last 4 years? Why, I think it is.

  208. 208

    @200 It’s disappointing that no one here yet has drilled down into Palasts’ arguments..

    I’d expect that from the bloviating name-calling dumbfuck.. the freek is a childish, hateful bore.

    I wouldn’t expect that from you Roger. Swing states are how Presidential elections are decided and evidence of massive vote suppression of people of color in those states deserves to be taken seriously.

    There’s no evidence those 77.3 million votes weren’t real. There’s no evidence of ballot-box stuffing, or widespread voting fraud. I believe Trump really was elected.

    Let’s say they were.. Over 3 million votes from people of color ruthlessly suppressed across all the swing states makes all the difference in a close election. Biden barely squeaked by as it was in 2020, as did orange pants shitter in 2016.. Kamala would have been no different in 2024.

  209. 209

    @204,
    Is this a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 this degenerate piece of shit troll disputed the lawful election outcome for more than six months of shit posting Q-anon conspiracy bullshit that included “bamboo fiber evidence”, blue ink pens, blank sheets of paper, and random server traffic that he lapped up and spit out here like an anthropomorphic liver fluke?

    Like every other Republican Nazi, our profoundly stupid troll was so seared with disappointment and regret in 2020 that he rejected the most basic principles of democracy forever.

    That’s why he’s found it so easy to move right on into fascism these days.

    Don’t ever let him get away with claiming otherwise.

  212. 212

    Staci White said she voted for President Trump because she wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into the U.S.
    Now, with widespread federal layoffs and expected cuts, she worries her family will lose their house if her partner is laid off from his government-adjacent job. At the dialysis unit where she works, staff have started doing drills for what to do if Immi-gration and Customs Enforcement comes to deport their patients, some of whom are in the country illegally.
    “When we said safer borders, I thought he was thinking ‘let’s stop the drugs from coming into the country,” she said. “I didn’t know he was going to start raiding places.” She said she didn’t believe he would actually follow through on some of the more hardline policies he touted during the campaign.
    “Now I’m like: Dang, why didn’t I just pick Kamala?”‘ said the 49-year-old Omaha, Neb., resident, referring to the former vice president Democratic nominee.

  213. 213

    A Trump Voter Regrets:

    “We voted for border security. We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard. This possibility is looming over countless families right now. We don’t know what our financial future holds. ”

    Republicans did this.

  214. 214

    People like saving money, and an awful lot of them are voters

    Sounds good now. Let it set in for a year and then tell us how much they love it.

    Also why aren’t more undocumenteds being deported!

    Still 6-7 million to go.

  215. 215

    @ 208

    Over 3 million votes from people of color ruthlessly suppressed across all the swing states makes all the difference in a close election.

    Welfare Queen YLB fails to understand that, if cast, they would be illegal votes.

  216. 216

    @ 211

    More Americans voted AGAINST than for.

    Which seemed to be no problem at all for Democrats when it happened to Bill Clinton both times.

    And is also irrelevant, G-clown. And an exceptionally weak argument. Stiffen that wrist when you raise your hand to try to make a point.

  217. 217

    @ 213

    “We voted for border security. We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard.

    Yabbut you got border security.

    And your husband is in the federal government. You know he does not work hard. Today, for instance.

  218. 218

    they would be illegal votes.

    Babbled w/o any backup…

    Typical from the idiot bore.. yawn… Try again.. Take Palast point by point..

    What a coward.

  219. 219

    @207

    Yep. People like saving money. They also like safe airlines. They like saving money on eggs. They like having Medicare that pays for a good chunk of their medical expenses. They REALLY like their processed food like Doritos and Hostess cupcakes. They like their autistic kids having a 504 plan and being able to go to school allowing parents to earn money working instead of home schooling. They like knowing that measles is an eradicated disease. They like having affordable family vacations to National Parks. They like free museum days, brought to you by the National Foundation for the Arts.

    What they are about to learn is President Musk took all that away costing them thousands of dollars in new expenses so they could get $129 back in a tax refund. Well unless they have a net income over $1m and then they get a shit ton of taxes just waived. No refund required.

    This is where a Dumbfuck runs into the reality that ‘deficit lowering’ by picking around the edges of the budget while increasing the really expensive stuff like the Pentagon is an esoteric argument that doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference to a family budget.

  224. 224

    @220, 221, 222, 223

    I resent all of you as I complain about my horse barn. None of you are worth a dime. Minimum wage is theft.

  225. 225

    Apartheid Baby and confirmed White Supremacist dabbling with Eugenics? OK, the baby mama appears to be a loon right wing influencer but her story definitely feels plausible.

    Elon and I were not ‘together’ despite the claims circulating. Elon and I used IVF with PGT-M & CRISPR to ensure our baby had the best traits.

    Elon managed the process and assured me everything would be alright. Our little one’s DNA now includes enhancements from other organisms for superior intelligence & health and we couldn’t be happier.

  226. 226

    This happened today:

    The Social Security Administration ‘s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency …

    Acting Commissioner Michelle King’s departure from the agency over the weekend — after more than 30 years of service — was initiated after King refused to provide DOGE staffers at the SSA with access to sensitive information, the people said Monday. …

    King’s exit from the administration is one of several departures of high-ranking officials concerned about DOGE staffers’ potential unlawful access to private taxpayer information.

    And the White House said this:

    “President Trump is committed to appointing the best and most qualified individuals who are dedicated to working on behalf of the American people, not to appease the bureaucracy that has failed them for far too long.”

    https://www.aol.com/social-security-head-steps-down-022801146.html

    This is bullshit. SSA didn’t fail me. When I retired my application was promptly processed, and for years I’ve received my monthly benefits like clockwork, and without interruption. Now, for the first time, I’m not sure I’ll continue to.

    It’s ridiculous to think Trump, one of the most self-centered people on earth, cares about how well the SSA bureaucracy serves the citizenry.

    This weekend Barrons, a respected and credible financial publication owned by the same family that owns Fox News, reported that some wealthy anti-Trumpers who are not nuts are moving cash and stocks to foreign safe havens because they’re afraid Trump will seize their assets. So far that hasn’t happened, but they don’t trust him, and I don’t either.

    Today we learned that Elon’s quasi-authorized hackers are trying to gain access to Social Security beneficiaries’ personal information. What do they need that for? Certainly not to make SSA more efficient, or fire its employees. The most conceivable purpose of this is to match Trump (and/or Musk) critics to the Social Security rolls and then fuck with their benefits. This hasn’t happened yet either, but that doesn’t mean it won’t.

    I won’t go into other things they could do, like martial law, suspending due process, and hunting people who aren’t members in good standing of the Trump Tribe. What I can say right now for sure is that Trump and Musk are acting in bad faith.

    This has nothing to do with making life better for the American people. You don’t do that by shutting down medical research or impounding child care funding. We’re seeing the kind of steps ruthless people would undertake to establish a dictatorship. Why else do they want Social Security recipients’ addresses and veterans’ medical records? What else would you use that information for?

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    @201 “seated with a Bloody Mary”

    I’m absolutely not surprised that you’re one of those obnoxious assholes who gets drunk in the airport lounge and then gives the flight attendants and other passengers a hard time until thrown off the plane by the captain and deplaned by the airport police.

    That’s why I get to Yakima on my feet faster than you do on wings.

    Alcohol should be banned from airports.

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    @202 “If you’re a federal employee and still have a job, today you’re getting paid for doing nothing.”

    No, you’re not. If you’re a V.A. radiologist, you still have to review all the x-rays and CAT scans on your desk. If you’re a Social Security intake worker, you still have to process all the applications in your inbox.

    Being a federal worker and having a federal holiday simply means worker harder on the work days. And if you’re a federal worker, you’re probably working for an agency that’s understaffed, and consequently working your ass off.

    If you’re a federal worker working at home remotely, you’re probably working today, and maybe you worked on Saturday and Sunday, too.

    It’s obvious you’ve never had a government job, doc, because you don’t have a fucking clue about government work.

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    @204 I don’t know who posted @187, I don’t agree with that post, and I posted #202 to instruct that poster on why I disagree with it and to encourage him or her to go along with the system. Which is asking a lot. And is much, much more than your tribe was willing to do when their candidate lost.

    Yes, doc, I’m better than every single one of the 15,000 rioters who tried to overthrow our democratically elected government on Jan. 6, 2021, and I’m trying to teach my fellow liberals to rise above their level because if we’re not good citizens there won’t be any good citizens, because your tribe sure as hell aren’t.

  230. 230

    @204 “I’m sure you did not intend it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, but Welfare Queen YLB’s election 2024 denialism @ 187 makes her childish, irresponsible, destructive, and disrespectful of the civil rights of others. In addition to being a dumb cunt. It’s your list of descriptors, dude. Not mine.”

    Not quite. In fact, not within a country mile. #187’s denialism doesn’t remotely compare with the rioting, violence, and cop beatings that occurred on Jan. 6. It’s well short of Trump’s election lies and the division and lawlessness he encourages. It’s nothing more than harmless whining.

    Your vote for Trump did more damage than his (or her) whining on HA does. That whining arguably is childish, but it doesn’t rise to being irresponsible, destructive, or disrespectful of the civil rights of others. Your vote for Trump does all of the above.

  232. 232

    #187’s denialism

    It’s not denialism. It’s pointing to a well researched article. It deserves to be taken seriously.

    Be serious. Read it. Refute the author’s research if you can. Or just admit that he might just have some facts on his side.

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    irresponsible, destructive, and disrespectful of the civil rights of others.

    EXACTLY what YOU support for people of color who don’t care for your orange pants shitter and the tax cuts you shill for.

    You’re a self centered racist and misogynist low-life.

    And a moldering bore to boot.

  234. 234

    @207 “Is it possible that the left went overboard on all of its spending in the last 4 years? Why, I think it is.”

    Federal spending grew 82% during Trump’s presidency and fell 14% during Biden’s presidency.

    Deficits steadily increased during Trump’s presidency and steadily declined during Biden’s presidency.

    Trump added more to the debt than Biden did.

    https://polidiotic.com/by-the-numbers/us-federal-deficit-by-year/

    You suck at this.

  235. 235

    Spoyou’re saying it really IS about white supremacy and ‘Great Replacement’ Manifesto.

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk

    The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters.

    That’s what it’s all about.

    Truth.

    10:48 AM • 2/17/25

  236. 236

    @208 “It’s disappointing that no one here yet has drilled down into Palasts’ arguments..”

    Because Palast’s arguments are irrelevant. They’re armchair quarterbacking. Certifying an election slams the door shut on contesting that election no matter how compelling the evidence of a flawed or stolen election is.

    If you want, you can use his arguments in a discussion of how to improve future elections. But applied to the 2024 elections, they’re pointless, because that election has been finalized, and election laws decree that finalized results are irreversible.

    So, with respect to 2024, Palast’s talk is just talk. If you disagree with that, your dispute isn’t with me, but with the system, because that’s how the system established by law works.

    I’m not in the business of disputing or overthrowing elections outside the law. That’s a Republican shtick, and I’m not a Republican.

  237. 237

    @210 Ahead of its time, but wouldn’t survive an encounter with F-16s or F-35s.

  238. 238

    Certifying an election slams the door shut on contesting that election no matter how compelling the evidence of a flawed or stolen election is.

    It was “certified” by the repuke vote suppressors who bungled it in 2020. Who could ever conceive of an incumbent President tanking an re-election? It wasn’t supposed to happen especially after pants shitter’s people found 10 million more voters than they had in 2016.

    This is denialism of all too obvious vote suppression as a result of draconian laws passed in the wake of pants shitter’s loss in 2020. Almost everyone agrees Gore won Florida in 2000 – he just went about the recount bass ackwards. And vote suppression through purges was a factor even back then.

    “Certification” doesn’t mean bad shit didn’t happen.

    If you want, you can use his arguments in a discussion of how to improve future elections.

    Yes that’s what we have to do.

    because that’s how the system established by law works.

    And the system in the various states like Georgia’s SB202 was designed to suppress the votes of people of color. It’s still on the books and will be a factor in subsequent elections.

    Roger, Jim Crow was law on the books too.

  239. 239

    @213 Federal employment in many cases is career employment. There is no civilian counterpart for a nuclear weapons assembler or a foreign aid worker. In theory, federal workers laid off in mid-career can retrain for other jobs; but in reality a 50-year-old isn’t going to be hired for an entry-level job in the private sector. This is indeed devastating to many of those now being fired by a heartless billionaire. It’s also a loss to society, because for many, it marks the end of their productive years.

    This doesn’t mean people should be kept on government payrolls just so they have an income. But they aren’t just losing their jobs; the public is losing the services they provided. In some cases, competence is being replaced with incompetence; in all cases, service to the public is being replaced with loyalty to Trump. That’s not good for anyone but Trump and Musk.

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    @215 “Welfare Queen YLB fails to understand that, if cast, they would be illegal votes.”

    This may come as news to you, but African-Americans have been citizens since 1868.

  241. 241

    @217 You didn’t get paid holidays? You were a slave? No, I think you’re a white guy who wants other people to be slaves.

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    @235 A guy who got very rich from people smarter than him designing electric cars and space rockets apparently thinks we pay taxes to give handouts to illegal immigrants.

    Actually, illegal immigrants work very hard to grow our food, fix our leaky roofs, and empty our bedpans, and pay taxes to give us handouts.

    Put Musk in charge, and you end up with no less food, leakier roofs, bed sores, and no Social Security or Medicare.

    He may be the world’s richest man, but he isn’t the world’s smartest man. He can’t even figure out how to use a condom (12 kids and counting).

  244. 244

    @238 “Certification” doesn’t mean bad shit didn’t happen.

    Certification isn’t intended to mean bad shit didn’t happen. It means the election is over, no matter what happened.

    You may not like the concept. You should embrace it. It’s what stands between us and the Jan. 6 alternative.

    Presidents and administrations come and go, but once you lose the democratic process, it’s awfully hard to get it back.

  245. 245

    @244 You’re confusing my assertion that bad shit happened with the outcome – a BAD outcome.

    I’m not denying that repuke vote suppressors made sure their bad shit was “certified”.

    I am asserting that bad shit happened, people’s civil rights were trampled on and the vote suppressors got away with it. Jim Crow was “legal” and it was a crime against humanity.

    I sure as shit won’t “embrace” the loss of democracy but no I won’t assault cops over it. There are better ways. Bringing up Jan 6 is a cheap shot. Totally misses the original point.

    Kamala Harris may very well have won 286 electoral votes if not for outrageous vote suppression in the swing states.

  246. 246

    @245 When I was in high school, three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi for registering black voters. Today, blacks can register and vote, but Republican legislatures are throwing up all kinds of obstacles.

    Palast does great investigative journalism; in 2006, he exposed a vile GOP voter suppression scheme aimed at black soldiers serving overseas.

    We have to fight these battles one battle at a time. We aren’t going to win them all. Voter suppression won’t be eradicated in one or two election cycles. But it only works in close elections. We have to turn out our supporters so elections aren’t close.

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    Pete Hegseth went to Europe and gave a speech that, with no concessions by Russia, gave Putin two big wins: He suggested Moscow could keep captured Ukrainian territory, and said Ukraine would not be part of NATO.

    Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who chairs the Senate Armed Service Committee, called it a “rookie mistake.”

    MSNBC reported “Hegseth tried to backpedal a day later.” It’s too late. The damage has been done.

    There’s a way, however, for Trump to repair Hegseth’s misstep: Fire him. Treating his words as a firing offense is the only way to convince Putin that Trump, not Hegseth, makes policy — and is in charge.

  250. 250

    Poor YLB……look who’s an election denier now!

    Hahhahahahahhahahhahhahhahahaha

    Would be fun to pull up some of YLBs posts from 4 years ago.

    It was stolen!!!!!!!1111eleven

  251. 251

    Watching to YLBs post election meltdown has been a joy to watch.

    She is now in full denier, “it was stolen!!” mode.

    The progression from early November to know has been impressive.

    Get the popcorn kids, this is gonna be entertaining!

  252. 252

    DOGE cuts USDA jobs at world renowned research facility in the middle of Nebraska – Cattlemen Association members who voted for Trump are shocked

    “It’s the largest research center of its kind in the world. We just can’t emphasize enough how important the work they do there is for the beef cattle industry. They’ve been revolutionary on so many things. ”
    The facility, which has been conducting long-term research on cattle genetics for over 60 years, is now facing questions about its future viability.
    Republicans did this.

  253. 253

    On Vicious Troll’s favorite network some of the hosts are bragging to their audience of suffering MAGAturds that it’s all okay because Trump is disabling the government to hasten The End Times.

    The fires, flooding, and planes falling from the sky sure fits that narrative.

    But who knew the end times would feature $10 eggs, closing all the parks and forests , and having to cook your own insulin in the spare bath?

  254. 254

    Washington County, Utah Voted 74% for Trump/Vance
    Crisis at Zion as mandated job cuts hit popular national park
    One of Utah’s most popular attractions will understaffed after 100 people offered seasonal jobs at Zion National Park saw them rescinded.
    “The park needed more funding. There’s a lot of deferred maintenance that hasn’t been done,” she said. “It’s the second-most visited park in the country, and if that’s not worth preserving and throw some money at, I’m not sure what is.”

    Republicans did this.

  255. 255

    91 disabled kids in one PA school district abruptly cut off from a support program to help them transition from high school to life after school because the DOGE brigade hit ctrl+f for “transition” and never bothered to read any further
    Republicans did this.

  257. 257

    Ron DeSantis is floating a proposal to eliminate property taxes.

    Paying for fire departments, police, the roads….

    I guess the Federal Funds Faerie will leave it under the pillow.

  258. 258

    Head of criminal prosecution division at DC US Attorneys office quits citing a demand from the Trump administration to open a prosecution of a contract issued during the Biden administration.

    Citing in her letter does not specify the department or entity receiving the contract but indicates that no evidence was provided even suggesting illegal behavior. (Eds note, bet it’s Rivian).

    “During my tenure, which has spanned over many administrations, I have always been guided by the oath I took…to support and defend the Constitution” her letter reads.

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    Waddle Marco, twisting himself into fusilli,

    “He’s the only leader in the world who can make this happen who can even bring people together to begin to talk about it in a series way is President Trump. He’s the only one in the world who can do that right now. The second thing I would say is that in order for a conflict to end everyone involved in that conflict has to be OK with it.” And that’s why I’m here at the messiah’s, the chosen one’s, the only one’s request in Saudi Arabia negotiating with only one side to force Ukraine to give us their rare earth minerals and comply with what Donald and Vlad require.

  260. 260

    a proposal to eliminate property taxes.

    Ultimate knuckling under to the insurers which is killing the retirement dreams of bonzo and pants shitter luvin’ boomers.

    Awwwww..

  261. 261

    Weird that the Canadian FAA officials are wrapping up their press conference and not one comment on DEI or a reporter asking of the pilot is black.

    We could do that here if we tried.

  262. 262

    Want to go visit the national parks?
    Sorry.
    The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don’t get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they’ll be closed. Rangers are fired.

    Republicans did that.

  264. 264

    I am teaching PMDB (Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior) today. I have just been told I have to omit any references to gender, even when talking about increased violence towards women, and even during the sexual assault portion (I’m not allowed to discuss who may be victims of sexual assault). I am no longer allowed to say the words transgender, non binary, gay, lesbian etc or acknowledge them in any way if brought up by attendees. I have a standard response I’m supposed to say about there only being “2 genders”. In fact I am supposed to state this no less than twice now in the 4 hour class. “Should I fail any of these directions this is grounds for dismissal”

    She is not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

    Republicans did that.

  265. 265

    Pro-Trump ‘Shazam’ star to Musk: “People who voted for Trump are losing their jobs”

    Republicans did that.

  266. 266

    “It’s the second-most visited park in the country, and if that’s not worth preserving and throw some money at, I’m not sure what is.”

    96,000 electric “tanks” that get stuck in an inch of snow, can’t go through a car wash, and automatically cut your fingers off is apparently “what is”.

    Fuck Utah. They won. They need to get over it.

  267. 267

    “People who voted for Trump are losing their jobs”

    Hasn’t he heard?

    That’s fake news. And it’s disloyal to bring it up. He goes on the list too.

  269. 269

    Never again.

    Never again.

    Never again.

    Never again.

    Never again.

    Never again.

    Okay, maybe just this one time.

  270. 270

    Goaded on and controlled by billionaire buddies Republicans in Congress have now voted to repeal the $5 limit on overdraft fees banks can charge the desperate, impoverished weird-beards who voted for Fat Hitler and just lost their jobs because of it.

  271. 271

    It was a mistake for the Trump administration to negotiate with the Taliban without the Afghan government at the table. It is a mistake to negotiate with Russia without including Ukraine at the table.

    Fat Hitler stabbed Afghanistan in the back and sold it out to terrorists. He will do precisely the same thing to Ukraine if the EU and what’s left of NATO lets him. This entire catastrophe is custom designed on order to splinter NATO for Putin. The most successsful security partnership in the history of the human race is being undermined by the Republican Party to serve Putin’s needs. A third of the voters wanted this. And another third either didn’t care, or wanted cheaper eggs when they were still selling for $3.

  272. 272

    @ 266

    “It’s the second-most visited park in the country, and if that’s not worth preserving and throw some money at, I’m not sure what is.”

    Well, a few more weeks of DOGE and we’ll certainly have the money to throw at it:

    Savings

    Let’s balance the budget! DOGE’s total estimated savings are $55 billion, which is a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings.

    https://doge.gov/savings

  273. 273

    A Republican is someone who thinks registering pregnant women is constitutional but registering guns isn’t.

    House Bill 807, nicknamed the “Save MO Babies Act,” was proposed by Republican state Rep. Phil Amato. The bill summary states that, if passed, Missouri would create a registry of every expecting mother in the state “who is at risk for seeking an abortion” starting July 1, 2026.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5151439-missouri-bill-registry-pregnant-women-abortion/

  274. 274

    @251 I have a suggestion. For you, not YLB. Here goes:

    Either learn how to spell “now,” or type with your fingers not your thumbs.

  275. 275

    @252 Fuck them. They voted for this. Elections have consequences. Beef is bad for their health anyway.

  276. 276

    @255 You can only pray their parents voted Republican, so they’ll never do it again.

  277. 277

    @258 In addition to her oath, there’s the small matter of keeping her license to practice law. Disbarring federal prosecutors could become a cottage industry over the next 4 years.

  278. 278

    @259 Donald “Peace In Our Times” Trump is the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.

  279. 279

    @262 Stop wringing your hands over national parks. They’ll be fine without human visitors.

  280. 280

    Well, a few more weeks of DOGE…

    Can we hold you to this?

    Wait. Don’t answer. You’ve never stood behind a single one of your thousands of bullshit proclamations before. Why ruin a perfect record.

    In two years time when Bonneville Power has become EnergeX, “your utility of the future”, and you are paying 36 cents per kWh just as your panel efficiency drops below 50% you’ll have to power your Colecovision with bicycle-coconut-battery generator like Gilligan. Only essential bullshit posts.

  281. 281

    @265 Fuck ’em. Elections have consequences. What did they think they were voting for? If they thought they were voting for other people to lose their jobs, then double-fuck ’em.

    It’s not that we Democrats lack compassion. We’re simply powerless to help them. They’re like a person who wandered out on thin ice, and we don’t have a rope to throw to them, because they burned the rope.

  283. 283

    @271 It’s easy to end a war by surrendering to the enemy. World War 2 dragged on because Hitler and Tojo found it very difficult to surrender. Trump has none of their reluctance. Unlike them, he won’t end up dead; Putin as a comfortable apartment waiting for him in Moscow.

  284. 284

    @272 Strangely, that’s roughly the value of Elon’s federal contracts.

    You didn’t think the taxpayers would get their $55 billion back, did you?

  287. 287

    President of NYU Repukes forced to resign and go into hiding from death threats after describing Baron Trump as “an oddity”.
    NYPD refused to respond to the reports that included text messages and voice mails containing credible, and specific death threats.

  288. 288

    285,
    The only thing stopping Fat Hitler from giving Nazi Salutes is his Parkinson’s.

  289. 289

    @ 249

    Pete Hegseth went to Europe and gave a speech that, with no concessions by Russia, gave Putin two big wins: He suggested Moscow could keep captured Ukrainian territory…

    Prior to the February 2022 invasion, Biden said he had no problem if it was only a minor incursion.

    After the incursion Biden said Ukraine would have to give up captured territory.

    and said Ukraine would not be part of NATO.

    Biden did nothing to advance Ukraine’s prospects of joining NATO as a member. Biden did nothing but bullshit about prospects that Ukraine could join NATO even in his early days as Obama’s VP:

    Biden Says U.S. Still Backs Ukraine in NATO

    The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com › World › Europe
    Jul 21, 2009 — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Tuesday that the United States would continue to support Ukraine’s bid to join NATO despite Russia’s objections.

    The only thing DJT47 has done is end the false hope perpetrated by Biden as VP and by Biden as president. Ukraine isn’t going to join NATO. Period.

    All Hegseth did was tell it straight, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. As a bullshitter, you don’t like straight talk. We get that.

  290. 290

    Lidl Marco grovelling before the weakest and most compromised Putin we’ve ever seen is obviously him incinerating his own political future in service to the Trump family.

    And as usual he’s far too dumb to understand that.

  291. 291

    @290 Remember a guy named Jeff Sessions? Neither do I.

    Cabinet secretaries are expendable, and Trump cabinet appointments have proven to be a graveyard for political careers.

  293. 293

    @280 Never mind BPA, there’s a bigger problem looming:

    Murray: Trump layoffs leave Hanford nuclear site with ‘skeleton crew’

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/murray-trump-layoffs-leave-hanford-nuclear-site-with-skeleton-crew/?

    Although nobody has been talking about it, I figured this would happen. Not specifically the firings and layoffs, but rather defunding the cleanup, which employs 10,000 people and costs billions a year. Trump and Musk, of course, don’t have to live next door to the radioactive mess the Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear weapons buildup left behind. Neither does any Republican senator. If Hanford’s corroded and leaking radioactive waste storage tanks rupture and spill their contents into the Columbia River, Portland could become uninhabitable, but never mind that. Portland residents are all antifa, anyway.

  294. 294

    Sec Def BeerBong McShotgun is being audited for failing to pay his taxes.

    So of course he blames “woke DEI” and Biden.

  295. 295

    The Trump-Musk duo are hellbent on cutting federal spending on programs conservatives don’t like, and with GOP cooperation in Congress, the budget axe is likely to fall most heavily on federal spending on health care.

    Medicare has its own dedicated funding (although that doesn’t necessarily render it immune), but Medicaid is the program most likely to bear the brunt of moving billions of dollars from health care to Elon’s pockets (taxpayers won’t get anything out of this; Trump’s fiscal plans will increase deficits and debt).

    If Trump-Musk and GOP congressmen can’t eliminate or sharply reduce the Medicaid spending (including ACA) that provides basic health care to tens of millions of Americans, then they want to shovel those expenses onto the states.

    If the wild spending cuts are a backlash against the welfare state; well, for every backlash, there’s a backlash to the backlash. Where will states get the money to take over the federal share of Medicaid, you ask?

    An answer is in sight: the growing “tax the rich” movement. It won’t get any traction at the federal level while Republicans control the White House and Congress, but it turns out it’s growing, well, like wildfire at the state level. For example, in last week’s local municipal elections, Seattle voters passed a millionaire tax.

    But it’s not confined to Seattle. “Tax the rich” is gathering momentum in lots of other places, too. Read and enjoy:

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/states-tax-the-rich

    Currently, the federal government collects about two-thirds of all taxes paid in the U.S., and state and local governments collect the other third. Federal taxes tend to be progressive, while state and local taxes tend to be regressive. Let’s say the Trump-Musk era of slash-and-burn flips the script so two-thirds or even half of taxes are paid to state and local governments. Doesn’t it make sense, then, to make those taxes less regressive by taxing the rich? And if this happens in tandem with untaxing the rich at the federal level, the rich won’t be worse off, they’ll just be paying the same amount to different tax collectors.

    Makes sense to me.

  296. 296

    USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

    https://www.aol.com/usda-says-accidentally-fired-officials-225110749.html

    They did no such thing. The Trump-Musk mass firings, without regard to job function or individual employee performance, are intentional and by design.

    If the NNSA, FAA, and USDA firings (and many others) have unintended consequences, they don’t really care.

    Managers at the agency level may have concerns, but it’s out of their hands. In fact, they’re probably going to be on the chopping block, too.

  297. 297

    Republicans campaigned against “defunding the police,” a fake issue, because no police got defunded. But gullible voters swallowed it whole, and elected Republicans. Now the entire fucking government is being defunded.

    You’re going to die in the next pandemic. Or in a plane crash, or from untested drugs, or unsafe food. Or from lack of medical care or from unaffordable insulin or from mass starvation. It doesn’t matter what you die from; you’re gonna die. This administration will make sure of it.

    That’s intentional and by design, too.

  298. 298

    256

    Unlike in your neighborhood(we know how much you love Asian neighbors…not), we love the locals and they love us. We have great relationships with locals and expats. Being respectful and intelligent goes a long ways….too bad you possess neither trait.

    I know, foreign countries scare and intimidate you.

    Ok, please continue with the “it was stolen!!!!1111eleven” stuff, it’s great show!

  299. 299

    274

    Ya I saw that also, was in a hurry and that’s how it goes?

    Anything else pops? Or is that the best you can muster?

  300. 300

    The election was stolen!!!

    I have all the proofs!!!!

    Just ask YLB, she will tell you!

  302. 302

    @300

    Greg Palast?

    Wow a troll has actually used a fact finder’s name..

    A first step..

    Dino 4-time Lossi always referred to Chris G. or anyone else it was trying to unseat as “my opponent, the incumbent”. Poor liddle maxiwipe – unable to learn from its “betters”.

  303. 303

    So far no Democrat has assembled into a heavily armed mob, ferryied machine guns across the Patomac river, attacked Congress while attempting to assasinate the Vice President, and beaten police officers to death with hockey sticks and fire extinguishers.

    But we will continue to monitor the tense situation existing in the pus-filled syphilis tumor in Puddy’s prefrontal cortex.

  306. 306

    According to Trump Putin’s right-hand man, Ukraine was the aggressor:

    Trump says Zelensky ‘should have never started’ war with Russia

    President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for the three-year war with Russia, arguing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should have never started it.” …

    He spoke after U.S. and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine officials.

    “I think I have the power to end this war. And I think it’s going very well,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on the heels of the meeting between U.S. and Russian officials.

    “But today I heard, ‘Oh, well we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump continued. “You should’ve ended it in three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down. But they chose not to do it that way.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5151545-trump-ukraine-zelensky-war-russia/

  308. 308

    In today’s myriad court actions against Trump,

    A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily reinstated a member of a three-person federal employee appeals board who was fired by President Trump.

    U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said Cathy Harris, who chaired the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) during the Biden administration, must be reinstated to her position and returned full access to the benefits of her office until further order of the court. The judge also barred recognizing any other person as a member of the MSPB in Harris’s position.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5151616-federal-judge-orders-reinstatement-of-merit-systems-protection-board-member/

    #somuchwinning

  310. 310

    The White House said Monday that Elon Musk is technically not part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), even though the tech billionaire is said to be leading its sweeping cost-cutting efforts.

    Musk is an employee of the “White House Office” and serves as senior adviser to the president, according to a court filing from Joshua Fisher, director of the White House Office of Administration.

    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5150599-white-house-elon-musk-doge/

    He’d better be showing up at the office every day, and putting in 40 hours a week, which all federal employees are required to do.

  311. 311

    It was stolen!!!1111eleven

    The closest YLB comes to traveling outside the US is a google search.

    Hahhahahahahhahhahahahhhhahahhahabba

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