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Lewis Black asks airlines to fix their shit amid recent catastrophes

Mother Jones: How conservatives laid the groundwork for progressives’ Target boycott

The Reign of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Robert Reich: 2025 is a major election year—VOTE!

John Oliver: Sports betting

The Deplorable Squad:

Michael Kosta: Survive the apocalypse in luxury at this doomsday prepper ranch

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

Comments

  1. 1

    With the JFK Files release, was it routine for investigators at the time to include the SoSec numbers? If it was, can see why that should always be redacted.

  5. 5

    Little Marco apparently learned nothing from watching the first Trump administration from a Senate perch:

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s role as the country’s top diplomat isn’t shaping out as he expected as he has found himself taking a back seat to President Donald Trump’s close friend, billionaire real estate developer Steve Witkoff, according to a CNN report.

    https://www.rawstory.com/rubio-trump-2671382290/

    Rubio’s political career is over. He’s not only expendable; he’s toast.

  7. 7

    In today’s pipe bomb news,

    A 54-year-old Everett man was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime after police say he blew up his friend’s neighbor’s car using a pipe bomb in December and called the woman an anti-Black slur. The Everett man, who is white, was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree arson, malicious mischief, possessing an explosive device, using an explosive without a license and hate crime. He was previously reported to police for calling the victim, who is Black, a racist slur and was arrested in 2020 after he pointed a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/everett-man-arrested-for-detonating-pipe-bomb-in-hate-crime-police-say/

    According to Trump’s AG, this isn’t “domestic terrorism” unless the car he blew up was a Tesla and he did it to hurt Elon’s business, not kill the black neighbor.

  8. 8

    Why Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is comfortable in the Democrat party.

    Libs of TikTok
    @libsoftiktok

    “We need a Democratic Party that farts harder for us.” – AOC

    Swalwell isn’t enough??
    From
    Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
    2:03 PM · Mar 21, 2025

    Fewer people in the Democrat party notice the stench emanating from Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s rectal catheter and diaper because they tend to smell the same way.

  9. 9

    @ 6

    OLYMPIA, Wash. — A convicted killer, originally sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, could walk free next week, despite concerns from family members of one of his victims.

    Former Washington Governor Jay Inslee authorized the release of Timothy Pauley on Inlsee’s last full day in office in January.

    Inslee’s career is over, too.

  10. 10

    Just think, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, back to October of 2017. If instead of defending your ownership of the sinking GE you were actively purchasing TSLA shares, you would be a millionaire by now. Just like Elon Musk‘s employees.

    We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn’t even know what stocks were, we’ve made them millionaires.

    And I just want to say that I’m incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”

    Three days after your GE defense, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, TSLA shares closed at $22.46.

  11. 11

    Say, why isn’t Tesla a union shop?

    We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn’t even know what stocks were, we’ve made them millionaires.

  12. 12

    From 2021-2024 the nation watched Democrats pack the country with illegals from the worst places and tell Putin it was OK if he invaded Ukraine only a little bit, while increasing the rate of inflation to 9%. Then the nation went out and voted.

    This is the Democrat response in advance of 2026 and 2028:

    Catturd ™
    @catturd2

    Democrats now have a 27% approval rating and their new strategy is domestic terrorism.

    In case you’re wondering why their anti-American party is circling the drain.

    3:40 AM · Mar 22, 2025

    You never go full William Ayres, Democrats.

  13. 13

    Bowman pulled the wrong fire alarm on this one. FA:

    Thomas Hern
    @ThomasMHern
    ·
    Jamaal Bowman just called Elon Musk an “incompetent thief” and “Nazi” on CNN.

    A lawsuit waiting to happen.

    FO:

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk
    ·
    I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound.

    8:38 PM · Mar 21, 2025

  14. 14

    I wonder whether Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has stopped asking what Elon Musk has accomplished lately:

    SpaceX sets rocket re-use record Friday with a nine-day turnaround

    March 21 (UPI) — SpaceX has set a rocket re-use record for launch-turnaround by sending a Falcon 9 up twice within nine days early Friday morning. The previous record was 14 days.

    The rocket launched at 2:49 a.m. EDT Friday form Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission was for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

    It’s really one of the stupider questions Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has asked.

  15. 15

    On the bright side, he’s too far gone to light a pipe bomb fuse.

    The Biden family — and the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in — is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today…. These people drank so much of their own Kool-Aid… that they believed — and still seemingly believe — that an 82-year-old man with a 38% approval rating on a good day, who can’t sit down for a simple traditional 10-minute pre-Super Bowl interview, was the answer for Democrats in 2024 and now this same group thinks the Bidens are the answer for Democrats now?

    To be fair, Welfare Queen YLB believed it, too. Bless her precious little unserious heart.

  16. 16

    @ 15

    QoS McHillbilly didn’t believe it. Not for a minute. But he told Welfare Queen YLB and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron to believe it. And the rest of you stood silently by while he did it.

    Enjoy The Trump, HA libbies. You certainly did your level best to earn it.

    Think on your sins.

  17. 17

    Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease…

    Politics
    Kamala Harris is double-digit favorite to win 2028 Democratic Party nomination: poll

    How weak is the Democrat party right now?

    Harris, 60, has a stunning double-digit lead over her closest potential competitor, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who garnered just 10% support from his party.

    Well, she is taller than he is.

  18. 18

    Speaking @ 17 of short, incompetent, unlikable failed Democrat nominees for president, Mike Dukakis’ wife Kitty died yesterday.

  19. 19

    @ 17

    A reminder that Bill Clinton polled at 2% in December of 1991.

    “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — reportedly one of the finalists for Harris’ veep in 2024 — both garnered a 4% backing.

    New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (3%), Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (2%), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (2%), Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (2%) and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (2%) were among the Democrats receiving less than middling support in the poll.

    Want the Rust Belt back, libbies? The Jew/True Gretch or True Gretch/The Jew. Although there’s a catch: You’d have to dial back the blatant anti-Semitism, and I don’t think you can do that.

  21. 21

    @ 20

    So, Latinos for Trump
    How you doing this morning?

    “Thank you, President Trump, for protecting the investments we have made in our businesses and in our country.”

    Politics
    ‘It’s not personal’: Trump’s deportation efforts find support among South Florida Latinos

    President Donald Trump’s doubling of immigration arrests and ramping up of deportations could have a disproportionate impact on South Florida, home to some of the nation’s largest communities of Cubans, Venezuelans and other Latin Americans. But reaction here to Trump’s crackdown has been far more muted than during his first term, reflecting both the rightward shift of Latino voters and a belief among some that restrictive border measures are necessary.

    “I understand some people feel a little bit betrayed because most of us voted him in,” said Frank Ayllon, a 41-year-old sales representative from Miami. “I feel like a lot of these people are taking it very personal. And it’s not personal. It’s just that you’ve got to understand that this has been an open border for many years.”

  22. 22

    Interesting.

    The guy who wants to tamp down Anti-Semitism just refers to a Large State Governor ad ‘the Jew’.

  23. 23

    The people most worried about possible cuts to SNAP subsidies are in the top floor of the offices at Coca-Cola.

    An astounding 20 percent of the $113 billion annual SNAP budget — $23 billion annually — is used to pay for unhealthy foods and beverages purchased by SNAP participants.
    …
    In its current form, SNAP operates as a de facto subsidy program that props up some of the unhealthiest parts of the food industry. Take, for example, the most frequently purchased item in SNAP — sugar-sweetened beverages, which comprise 9.3 percent of all SNAP expenditures. This part of the SNAP subsidy, by our estimates, drives 20 to 25 percent of U.S. revenues for Coca-Cola and Pepsico.

    Besides providing no nutritional value, the regular consumption of sugary drinks produces health outcomes similar to alcohol, including liver disease, obesity, high blood pressure and other cardiometabolic diseases.

    Say, guess who’s bankrolling the opposition to potential SNAP cuts?

  24. 24

    @ 22

    And Steve was fond of using the word “nigger” when by using it he felt he could project the slur onto the other side.

    There’s very little that I do that’s original. I used “The Jew” in the same context that Welfare Queen YLB told us that she is not fond of Vance’s “Hindu wife”.

    Perhaps you should pay just a little bit of attention to what your friends are writing, not just to what your opponents are writing.

    You might ask Welfare Queen YLB why she referred to Mrs. Vance in that way, for instance. Let her ignore your question, not just mine.

    Do you still feel that this is “interesting”?

  25. 25

    Where are the HA libbies who celebrated the harassment of GOP lawmakers in town hall meetings earlier this week?

    GOVERNMENT
    Hecklers removed at Bennet town hall in Golden as frustration with Trump erupts

    Shouldn’t they be celebrating the stifling of free speech at Democrat-held events, too?

  27. 27

    lmao.. man oh man I was so happy “that Mormon” motormouth used car salesman lost to the black guy..

    and kreepee dumbfuck had a sad…

    I mean he was/is Mormon amirite? Just a simple statement of fact. Hell yeah.. Dude tithes hella jack to the Church straight out the of millions (billions?) in his Roth IRA. Nothing could be more Mormon.

  28. 28

    Jamaal Bowman said Elon Musk is a thief.

    Ron DeSantis
    @GovRonDeSantis

    For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it. Today, I met with
    @elonmusk and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the same day. Other states should follow Florida in supporting DOGE’s efforts!

    4:19 PM · Mar 21, 2025

    Ron DeSantis returned more than $878 million to the US Treasury.

  29. 29

    You might ask

    And it’s been answered.. But dumbfuck is too unintelligent and unserious to comprehend.

    I don’t care what anyone’s religion is as long as they don’t hurt anyone.

  30. 30

    @ 27, 29

    I guess that’s the explanation. Welfare Queen YLB referred to Usha Vance as “Hindu wife” because that’s what Vance is.

    It’s the same reason that I refer to Welfare Queen YLB as an unserious twat.

  31. 31

    because that’s what Vance is.

    Wow.. dumbfuck is the verge of something…

    Not yet ready though to graduate from dumbfuckery and unseriousness..

    Keep on doing you dumbfuck and your “filthy jew” schtick.. So “intelligent”.. yawwwn..

    Dang almost forgot. Gotta say hello to my stalker.. I live rent-free in its empty head. Hi liddle maxiwipe.. Spare a copper for the homeless in Sedona. Congratulate your neighbor on their new basement ADU.

    I’m done for the day.

  32. 32

    It’s nice that both Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush have demonstrated this week that Democrats were right to primary their useless asses out of the House.

    It’s reasonable to ask why it took Democrats so long.

  33. 33

    DJT47 and DOGE are taking down the Democrat party’s funding infrastructure.

    • USAID

    • Department of Education

    • VOA

    • ActBlue

    • IRS

    • DEI at all levels – federal, university, state, municipal

    With the wings of these grifter agencies severely clipped and the 2030 census rapidly approaching, Democrat hopes and dreams are vanishing more rapidly than Joe Biden’s remaining cognition.

    What will Democrats do in 2028 when they find a level contribution playing field? What will Democrats do in 2032 when 10 of their previously reliable blue state electoral votes are shifted to southern red states?

  35. 35

    Move along, nothing to see here. Just a bunch of public employee unions threatening to take down the second-largest city in the nation:

    LA Times
    L.A. city budget shortfall grows to nearly $1 billion, with layoffs ‘nearly inevitable’

    Minutes after Szabo’s presentation, council members went behind closed doors to take a fresh look at the city’s contracts with a wide array of unionized public employees — police officers, firefighters, trash truck drivers, librarians, park maintenance workers and many others.

    Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky, who heads the budget committee, said the council will need to look at the possibility of asking unions representing city workers to defer the scheduled raises or make other concessions.

    Sure, they will. In exchange for retiring with full benefits after 7 years of service. Which Bass will agree to in order to be re-elected.

  36. 36

    Remember Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a black woman as his running mate? Let’s look at the top four:

    Boxcheck Momala – she was incompetent, incomprehensible, and brought you DJT47.

    Karen Bass – currently fucking up LA faster than anyone would have thought possible.

    Stacey Abrams – The Fat Cow lost again in 2022 to Brian Kemp, then saw the non-profits she created proven to have broken numerous federal laws. Last seen on the receiving end of $2 billion in grifted funds courtesy of whichever Biden Crime Family member fired up the Autopen that day.

    Val Demings – I actually had hope that she would be the choice. But she wasn’t, which forced her to become more liberal and in doing so more stupid, in order to improve her national prospects. But she lost to Marco Rubio when she tried to be a senator, and she has since devolved even further into liberal insanity. RIP.

  37. 37

    Maine’s Democrat governor is the latest to confirm that yes, the November election results were a mandate:

    Maine Universities Back Down To Trump, Will Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports

    Universities in Maine have caved to pressure from the Trump administration on the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports.

    Maine, with the support of Democrat Governor Janet Mills, had been defying an executive order issued by President Donald Trump to prevent males from competing against females in athletic competitions.

    And then the governor caved, explicitly naming DJT47 as the reason:

    “The University of Maine System (UMaine) has clearly communicated its compliance with Title IX’s requirement to protect equal opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports, as articulated in President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order,” the statement says. “Any false claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentially criminal financial liability.”

    Pretty much the only Democrat still unwilling to admit that DJT47 won a mandate is Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  38. 38

    @23

    Reheating the same atguements.

    Walmart
    Dr. Pepper. 2L $1.29
    Minute made 100% Pure orange Juice 1/2 gal $3.49
    2% Milk 1/2 Gal. 2.69

    Shorter conservatives “DRINK FLINT WATER! IT’S FREE!”

  39. 39

    Once more unto the breach:

    Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter

    DJT47 was unable to convince Elon Musk to found a military contracting company, so it’s either the perpetual fuckups who are Boeing or we let the Tik Tok dudes have a crack at it.

  40. 40

    @10 Why didn’t you buy Tesla shares for $22 in October 2017, when the company had yet to make a profit? Think how rich you would be now, if you had bought shares and held them, instead of losing your ass trying to time the options market?

  41. 41

    @ 38

    Reheating the same atguements [sic].

    “Don’t you know it’s the water, that makes it Olympia beer”. I still remember that jingle.

    “It’s the water. And a whole lot more.” Another Olympia beer commercial.

    Tell us another bad municipal water story that justifies poor people spending 9% of their SNAP dollars on Pepsi.

  42. 42

    @11 “Say, why isn’t Tesla a union shop?”

    Not for the reasons you think, given that,

    Despite allegations of high injury rates, long hours, and below-industry pay, efforts to unionize the workforce have been largely unsuccessful.

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

    By the way, how are those stock options working out for recent hires?

  43. 43

    @13 Now all Elon has to do is get past the (a) public figure, and (b) truth is a defense doctrines.

  44. 44

    42)Wonder if his German operations will go the way of another notorious anti-Union American company’s operations in Germany.

  45. 45

    @23 Oh look, the dumbfuck hopes Trump voters will lose their government Coca Cola subsidy.

    By the way, if you look into it, some states don’t allow soda pop purchases with SNAP benefits. Guess which states don’t restrict unhealthy eating? Guess which states have the highest obesity rates? Guess which states have the highest concentration of Trump voters?

    Do you still need to wonder why Trump doesn’t restrict purchase of soda pop with SNAP benefits? I suppose because his solution is to do away with SNAP benefits altogether and let his own voters starve.

  46. 46

    @ 42

    By the way, how are those stock options working out for recent hires?

    Investment wizard Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who claimed in 2017 that investors who held onto their GE shares for 2-3 years would be glad they did, fails to understand that stock options granted to employees typically vest at a later date, either gradually or commonly not for as long as five years.

    It’s not the current valuation, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s what they’ll be worth down the line. Down the line is when you’ll be dead, so you can’t factor that in, can you?

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit puts the lie to his claim of millionaire status once again.

  47. 47

    For those who have forgotten, Elon didn’t start Tesla, he provided some financing, then pushed out the founders. In other words, he’s a corporate raider, not a founder. And much like Bill Gates, he got rich from other people’s ideas.

    How many of Tesla’s 170,000 workers are TSLA stock option millionaires, dumbfuck?

    Meanwhile, nostalgia buffs can look forward to TSLA shares being $22 again, thanks to Elon’s foray into politics.

  48. 48

    @ 47

    How many of Tesla’s 170,000 workers are TSLA stock option millionaires,,,

    Tesla employs 170,000?

    The Big Three, combined, employ fewer than 150,000 UAW autoworkers.

    Perhaps stop thinking about the millionaire employees and start thinking about the shrinking jobs at the Big Three while Tesla is growing its work force.

    Shrinking jobs at the Big Three was part of what UAW agreed to in the last contract negotiations, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  49. 49

    $ 47

    Meanwhile, nostalgia buffs can look forward to TSLA shares being $22 again, thanks to Elon’s foray into politics.

    Morgan Stanley says $450 and Wedbush says $550. But let’s listen to investment guru Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who predicts that TSLA share valuation is going to plummet 95%.

    Everybody pay careful attention to the guy who can’t afford to drive to the library to learn on Saturday afternoons what Barron’s subscribers learned before the markets open on Friday mornings.

  50. 50

    @45

    How easy it would be not to lie about these things but then it wouldn’t fit for you.

    Your own leeeeenk

    the most frequently purchased item in SNAP — sugar-sweetened beverages, which comprise 9.3 percent of all SNAP expenditures. This part of the SNAP subsidy, by our estimates, drives 20 to 25 percent of U.S. revenues for Coca-Cola and Pepsico.

    Dumbfuck…9% on Pepsi. You fall for the manufactured outrage of course

    Many brands of Milk, aside from being a no prep high protein item, are sugar added.

    So is a glass of 100% RDA Vitamin C Apple Juice or Cranberry juice.

    But say ‘Those irresponsible poors are spending 9.3% on soda” gets you all hot and bothered.

    Because…you’re so….easy.

  51. 51

    Groveling pathetic MAGA crybaby Joe Biggs is sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing, eating up all the food, and sobbing into his pillow:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capital-joe-biggs-proud-boys-b2710493.html

    Click and read, but maybe someplace quiet so your fits of laughter don’t disturb anyone. Honestly one of the funniest fucking things I’ve read in ages.
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  52. 52

    @48 Tesla employs 170,000?

    It’s “about 140,475,” according to Value Line’s Feb. 7 update. I didn’t have time to look it up, because I had to go and do something at noon.

    Tesla employs 0 UAW auto workers, because Musk is anti-union, and now he gets to choose the NLRB board.

  53. 53

    @49 You laugh at me for reading Barrons at the library on Saturdays for free, while you pay for access Friday night after the markets close for the weekend, and now you’re saying I don’t go to the library?

    Which is it? Do I go to the library, or not go to the library? Make up your mind, doc. Have you been checked for schizophrenia?

  54. 54

    New Social Security requirements pose
    Huge barriers to rural communities without internet, transportation

    Republicans did that

  55. 55

    @46 “It’s not the current valuation”

    It’s sure as hell not. And any time you value an investment “down the line,” you have to discount it to present value, which is a purely mathematical process apart from market risk.

    And right now, market risk for Tesla options vesting two or three years from now looks like, well, an added discount factor.

    The best thing that could happen to Tesla shareholders and employees holding unvested options would be for the absentee CEO to either resign or get removed by the board or some other event.

  56. 56

    Everett Transit dumping several electric buses from a company that tried to be the Tesla of the transit bus industry. The difference was, existing builders quickly adapted with battery offerings of existing designs. In the interim, ET is going with reconditioned Diesels as they transition to a half hybrid, half battery fleet. Everett Transit might have been the last operator of Proterra’s in Western Washington, as Metro and Pierce Transit have already retired their Proterra buses not long after the bankruptcy and parts became harder to find. The fleet wasn’t big enough for Metro to do their traditional method of sourcing parts for buses not longer being manufactured .

    https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/everett-transit-set-sell-off-electric-busses/NC237PKG5RGRHEDH5K2ZYZHJCM/

    https://www.everetttransit.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=55

    Bus manufacturers do come and go. Just looking at the roster of what Metro inherited, GMC no longer building transit buses, Flixible is gone.(Same with Twin Coach).

    Metro is giving Solaris of Poland a try. Their main offering, the Urbino Electric, has been in production for 12 years now, which is the minimum amount of years Metro would have to use them if using Federal Funds(ET and Metro exceed that) As for the company Everett Transiit’s reliable Electrics come from, they have been in the Transit business for 50, made school buses before that, and started out building horse drawn vehicles.

  57. 57

    @48 “Perhaps stop thinking about the millionaire employees”

    I didn’t bring up the fantasy of millionaire Tesla employees, you did, have you forgotten already?

  58. 58

    @49 “Morgan Stanley says $450 and Wedbush says $550.”

    Of course they do. Nobody on Wall Street makes a dime unless investors buy stuff. Morgan Stanley and Wedbush are in the business of selling financial services. They’re not going to tell their customers don’t buy investment products. The inside joke on Wall Street is that analyst projections are a joke. You should know that, so I assume you’re throwing out this talking point knowing full well these numbers are meaningless.

  59. 59

    @51 So now that the taxpayers aren’t feeding him anymore, and his family has to feed him, he feels even more useless than he did in prison? That’s because he is. Hey, if he picked up laundry skills during his four-year stint behind bars, may his family can put him to work folding their laundry. Then he’d feel useful again.

  60. 60

    @54 I think you meant to say “Republicans did that to Republicans.” After all, who populates rural communities?

  61. 61

    @ 58

    … these numbers are meaningless.

    They are to people who do not understand them. Thanks for self-identifying, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  63. 63

    @ 56

    Remember how much Boxcheck Momala loved electric school buses?

    Emblematic of her failure, those buses.

    The $200 Billion Electric School Bus Bust
    “I love electric school buses!” – Kamala Harris

    Electric bus enthusiasts like Kamala Harris will tell you that spending an extra $150 billion or so is worth the price to theoretically save children from diesel exhaust (despite the major improvements in diesel technology and much cleaner diesel fuel mandated in recent years). But they are silent about the number of actual lives lost by children mining the raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.

    Using data supplied by Pacific Gas & Electric, Colorado journalist Cory Gaines noted that the $260,000 cost differential between diesel and electric school buses means that any school district wanting to take advantage of the predicted much lower operating costs will need major help with the huge upfront capital costs. Which means both federal and state subsidies – and higher taxes to pay for the subsidies.

    Noting that electric buses have longer downtimes and higher towing costs, plus require (again upfront) costs for installing and maintaining charging stations – and other hidden costs, the payback on the electric school bus (at an average of 16,000 miles per year, a high-end estimate) comes out to about 20 years – longer than the lifespan of the bus. And that’s if nobody dies or is injured by a school bus fire.

  65. 65

    US debt will explode above 200% of GDP in two decades if Trump’s tax cuts become permanent, CBO says — putting it at unsustainable levels

    Republicans doing that

  67. 67

    From the Cato Institute, a rightwing think tank:

    Even President Trump said that Medicaid won’t be touched. But without the cuts, Congress could not continue with the Trump tax cuts enacted in 2017. …

    Immigrants generally pay more in taxes than they consume in benefits, partly because they consume less welfare than native-born Americans. Kicking all non-citizens off welfare would boost those fiscal benefits even higher by reducing the outlays.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5208050-medicaid-reform-cuts/

    In other words, we’re already taking advantage of non-citizens, so let’s take even more advantage of them to fund billionaire tax cuts. Typical conservative morality.

    But morality aside, even on pragmatic terms, it doesn’t make sense. America’s food supply is heavily dependent on non-citizen labor. Farmworkers don’t have employer-paid health care. If you kick them off Medicaid — which they’re paying taxes for — you’ll have a less healthy and less efficient farm labor force, less food production, and higher food prices.

  69. 69

    President Trump instructed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday to sanction attorneys and law firms if they engage in “frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious” litigation against the U.S. government.

    That’s actually the courts’ job. Judges, not the executive branch, impose Rule 11 sanctions.

    “Lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate the laws of the United States or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable,” Trump said in a memo released by the White House.

    That’s actually the bar association and state supreme courts’ job. They, not the executive branch, enforce lawyer discipline.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5208866-donald-trump-justice-department-law-firms-government-litigation/

    The larger issue here is that at the present time, frivolous arguments aren’t coming from those challenging Trump’s executive (and ultra vires) actions, they’re coming from the government lawyers defending his actions.

  72. 72

    @ 71

    No, you’ll just see the ABA descend into irrelevance.

    Why did the ABA take USAID money? Why did it claim that shutting down the USAID was illegal without explaining why it believes so, and why didn’t it acknowledge its conflict of interest at the time?

    The ABA didn’t utter a peep when Biden disregarded the SCOTUS opinion about handing out free money to student loan recipients. So why is it popping off about DJT47?

    The ABA will become a joke like the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a joke.

  73. 73

    @ 71, 72

    Rather than embarrass a Biden nominee who had no business on the bench of a federal court, the ABA elected to issue no opinion at all:

    Aides were under the impression that the American Bar Association would rate Wamble “not qualified” for the nomination, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke candidly on condition of anonymity. The ABA has not issued a public ruling on Wamble on its website, and never made an official judgement on him.

    Nine months as a nominee is usually plenty of time for the ABA to weigh in. The dude’s sole qualification:

    He is the son-in-law of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)

    .Making him a judge wouldn’t have been DEI. It would have been nepotism.

  74. 74

    @66

    It was just DAYS ago you were all hot and bothered about the auto pen.

    So…

    Either Donnie is 100% full of shit and trying to pass legal jeopardy to an underling OR he signed it and is too senile to remember.

    It was like 6 months ago the mental acuity of a president was your daily multipost concern.

    What a moron you are.

  75. 75

    20k came out to hear AOC in Tucson today.

    Rep. Andy Biggs is checking voter registration cards at the door to make sure only Republicans see him and STILL someone leaked video of him vowing to overrun the 16th Amendment.

  76. 76

    @ 74

    Either Donnie is 100% full of shit and trying to pass legal jeopardy to an underling OR he signed it and is too senile to remember.

    Or he signed it and is now lying about it.

    But hey, did you see that as of today Venezuela will take back its own terrorists? No need to dump them off in El Salvador anymore.

    In the Fall of 2026 Democrats are going to be the party that wants to keep the terrorists. Keep it up, Hops.

  77. 77

    @61 I understand analyst projections perfectly well, dumbfuck. That’s why I do my own analysis.

  79. 79

    @72 The troll who thinks ABA and SPLC are jokes is a joke. When he’s an armchair lawyer he’s an even bigger joke.

  80. 80

    @76 “Or he signed it and is now lying about it.”

    That’s certainly a possibility given his proclivity for lying.

  81. 81

    Q – How do you determine if they are a terrorist.

    A – name ends in ‘z’.

    Q – Why are you paying legal settlements to all those ‘terrorists?’

    A – The radical left doesn’t know what a gang tattoo looks like.

    Q – don’t they know about soccer?

  85. 85

    One of the people that the Nazi Fucktard is so terrified of that he wanted them kidnapped and sent to a contract torture facility in El Salvador is a homosexual makeup artist whose socials indicate such dangerous gang tendencies as makeup tutorials and posing with wild flowers.

    I’m so scared. 😬

  86. 86

    But hey, did you see that as of today Venezuela will take back its own terrorists?

    Including the notorious gay makeup artist?

    That will please the Nazi Fucktard. He’ll be dead within a week if he returns to Venezuela. That’s why he was granted legal asylum in the first place. Venezuelan authorities want him dead. Because gay.

  87. 87

    69)Probably going to see an EO taking over the Bar soon.

    There is no “nationwide” bar in the US. Admission to practice complies with our federal system and is controlled state-by-state. Many states have practice reciprocity agreements avoiding the necessity to take multiple state bar exams. Practice before the federal courts is on a district-by-district basis with each district setting it’s own rules, but generally allowing all attorneys admitted in good standing in that state to practice and appear.

    That’s why the EOs Fat Hitler issued against Perkins Coie, Skadden Arps, and Paul, Weiss were limited to federal courts and also why they have been set aside.

    MAGA and our own Nazi Fucktard are afraid of lawyers, makeup artists, and vegan actresses from Vancouver.

  88. 88

    the signed proclamation has been filed with the Federal Register:

    The point is that Fat Hitler said Lidl Marco signed it. Not him.

    You are also full of shit.
    And you’re a Nazi.

  89. 89

    @ 88

    And you’re a Nazi.

    Aw. You must have noticed that I had a spare $30k in cash in one of my retirement accounts, and I used it to get back into TSLA this past week.

    Also Nazis: The entire state of Minnesota.

    Bill Melugin
    @BillMelugin_

    As Gov. Walz gloats about Tesla stock dropping, records from the Minnesota State Board of Investment show that as of 6/30/24, the state of Minnesota had 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund, and 211,000 shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund. I’ve reached out to Walz’s office to ask if MN still holds $TSLA, or if they’ve sold since then. Will update when I hear back.

    Quote
    Tim Walz
    @Tim_Walz
    ·
    Mar 18
    If you need a little boost during the day, check out Tesla stock 📉
    12:22 PM · Mar 19, 2025

  90. 90

    @ 86

    Venezuelan authorities want him dead. Because gay.

    Curious, then, that Biden secretly permitted Chevron to do business in Venezuela in violation of sanctions that were in place.

    Not curious, really. Corrupt.

  92. 92

    AOC prepares to move to Burlington.

    Sanders was visibly irritated. “Right now, I am very proud that the people of the state of Vermont sent me back to the Senate with 63% of the vote,” he said. “Right now, I’m Vermont senator. That’s what I do, and I’m very happy to do it.” Then, in a rare moment of honesty, he admitted what many had suspected: “I am 83 years of age… And I’m tired.”

    And your wife caused a small liberal arts college to go tits up, Bernie.

  93. 93

    Not curious, really. Corrupt.

    Also completely irrelevant!
    Wheeeeee!🤡

    Sorry about that.
    I suppose clowns scare you too.

  94. 94

    I guess having now established that the Nazi Fucktard is frightened out of his mind by homosexual men probably makes it easier to understand his intense bigotry.

    But nothing will ever explain his intense preoccupation with anuses, rectums, and feces.

  95. 95

    The Easter Egg roll, brought to you by Scott’s Turfbuilder and Fabergé the finest Russian Eggs.

    The White House lawn is for sale and sponsorship.

    Republicans did that.

  96. 96

    @ 95

    The White House lawn is for sale and sponsorship.

    Republicans did that.

    Ah, but Joe Biden’s POS brother and POS son did it first.

  97. 97

    87)Wonder if his orders apply to anyone who has even the most minute connection to the firm? Specifically did any of his Casinos do business with Loomis Armored? Perkins was their local counsel in WA. In the Gardner case, wasn’t good counsel, they had the company work rules, and union contract, negotiated by the Plaintiff who was suing for wrongful termination. The plaintiff even agreed with the rule, but the situation in the 1994 North Spokane Robbery felt he had a duty to intervene.

    First heard of the case due to a TVW Documentary on the inner workings of the State Supreme Court. Perkins lawyers in Oral Arguments brought up the Lynwood Robbery that highlighted why the Loomis Driver was not allowed to get out of the vehicle. That driver rushed to the aid of his partner, didn’t see the other robber, and was killed. Court ruled on the question for the Plaintiffs, and an out of court settlement followed. The documentary chose this case because it wasn’t on the case itself, but a question of Washington Law that the Spokane Federal Judge hearing the case had. It’s the groundbreaking and blockbuster cases that gets all the media, but are only a small portion of the caseload.

  98. 98

    97,
    Big firms like that won’t always be on the side of the angels.

    You have to believe in that part if you are going to believe in and defend the entire legal system. Jeffrey Dahmer deserves a good lawyer. It should not be about who they represent. It’s supposed to be about how they do it.

  99. 99

    Looking at the website for the restored MEHVA, finally updated the roster. The old site hadn’t been updated since the third generation of trolleybuses gave way to the fourth. There have been a few more retirements on the Diesel side since then. Looks like the first hybrid has joined the vintage fleet. About time, the entire first batch of DE60LFs, the 2600s have been retired, and second batch 6800s, days are numbered. Only about 5 of them show up every day on the Pantograph Pro tracker, and the majority of them are Sound Transit buses(assigned to and operated by Metro, originally for soon to be discontinued rt550).

    https://mehva.org/fleet

    Also, they got status reports for what is available for tours/charters. Figured that t none of the Trolleys would be operable, the excursions were usually on weekends, and Construction companies can veto those dates.(It’s like call before you dig, but the construction company has to put up a deposit, to pay for the linemen’s time turning off the overhead wire. It’s not done from a central center, nor should it).

    Seattle Municipal Railway 210 and 1705 are definitely out of service. 210 was a 1918 Birney, last I heard it was just the frame, needs a total reconstruction, and since nowhere to run it, 1705, a Kenworth,I have seen pictures of it in storage, it had a long career with Seattle Transit, even after revenue service was finished. Its final use was as a Vault Bus. Something a relatively new, Public Transportation Benefit Area Authority made up of two islands that doesn’t charge fares for fixed routes never needed. The vault bus was used to empty fareboxes.

    The Proterra buses, will never be in the MEHVA Fleet, although the volunteers have been creative in the past. Like Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle 3152. For ease of maintenance, it had a few engine changes after retirement, and had to be put back in revenue service each time for a short period of time. 3152 was actually part of an experiment when Metro bought it as a test of a potential replacement for diesel, Methanol. Before 1990, it had been converted to Diesel.

  100. 100

    @96

    Your world of bullshit must be comforting to you.

    The Trump Administration is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll event.

    Sponsorships range from $75,000 to $200,000 and offer branding opportunities on event signage, souvenirs and social media.

  101. 101

    jakemgrumbach.bsky.social‬
    alright here’s a Take: checks and balances (and federalism) were supposed to protect against tyranny.
    But instead they just prevented a “tyranny of the majority” from doing universal health care and gun control, and it turns out they do basically nothing to stop an autocrat

  102. 102

    Attorney General Pam Bondi once again attacked members of the judiciary in a Fox News interview Sunday … and saying the Supreme Court will ultimately hear the court battle over the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

    “The Supreme Court will get involved,” Bondi said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This is an out of control judge, a federal judge, trying to control our entire foreign policy ….”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/attorney-general-supreme-court-involved-alien-enemies-act-case-rcna197682

    Deporting an asylum seeker because of his tattoo, without any evidence of criminal activity, isn’t foreign policy; but yeah, go ahead and litigate in the courts whether federal judges have jurisdiction over deportations, that’s preferable to defying their orders.

    And I’ll accept even a political decision by a partisan Supreme Court, because at least that pretends to still be governed by rule of law, in appearance if not substance, which is better than nothing.

  103. 103

    Funny how quickly we went from talking about egg prices to this:

    Republicans have … made government cost-cutting a centerpiece of the second Trump administration.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-john-curtis-politicians-not-honest-wont-touch-social-security-rcna197659

    I don’t recall any Republican candidates talking about that, but all it took to get there was one election in which dishonest Republicans didn’t tell voters they were really electing Elon Musk and voting for cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, weather reports, park rangers, special education, medical research, and answering the phones at Social Security with benefit cuts coming.

  105. 105

    @33 “What will Democrats do in 2028 when they find a level contribution playing field?”

    I suppose they’ll recruit billionaires fucked over by Trump’s policies.

  106. 106

    @35 Beat cops don’t really need to make several hundred thousand dollars a year, and they don’t really need a half dozen backups to investigate some old guy for walking while black.

  107. 107

    @41 Have you ever thought about why Olympia beer wasn’t made in Flint, Michigan?

  108. 108

    @63 After repeatedly assuring us that stock in an electric vehicle company is going to do great, the dumbfuck bashes electric vehicles. I’m telling you, he’s schizophrenic.

  109. 109

    @89 $30K is usually the minimum I invest in a stock. And I actually thought you were richer than me …

  111. 111

    @94 “But nothing will ever explain his intense preoccupation with anuses, rectums, and feces.”

    Oh, it’s easy to explain. He’s an asshole congregating with his own kind.

  113. 113

    @98 “Jeffrey Dahmer deserves a good lawyer.”

    Please rephrase that. Jeffrey Dahmer deserved to be murdered in prison. The integrity of the legal system deserves protecting by providing good lawyers to awful defendants.

  114. 114

    Ex-GOP Rep. Mia Love’s family just announced she has died.

    This has been expected, as her daughter told the media earlier this month her mother was no longer responding to brain cancer treatment.

  115. 115

    Ex-GOP Rep. Mia Love’s family just announced she has died.

    This has been expected, as her daughter told the media earlier this month her mother was no longer responding to brain cancer treatment.

  116. 116

    For chrissakes Elon, get rid of that bad haircut! Do you cut it yourself in a mirror?

  117. 117

    Officials at the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department are anticipating tax revenue to drop more than 10% by April 15 compared with last year, the Washington Post reported Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the situation.

    The loss of tax receipts is expected as more individuals and businesses don’t file taxes or attempt to avoid paying balances owed to the IRS. The amount of lost federal revenue could top $500 billion, the paper said.

    Officials said the prediction is directly linked to shifting taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trump’s cuts at the IRS, the Washington Post said.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/tax-revenue-collected-by-the-irs-set-to-plummet-report-says.html

    “What IRS? We don’t need no stinkin’ IRS!” — DOGE Boyz

    This absolutely blows out of the water any pretense that DOGE firings are about reducing deficits.

  119. 119

    The $500 billion the government will lose as a result of Republicans encouraging tax cheating and nonpayment of tax debts is more than the entire ~$336 billion federal civilian payroll.

    DOGE isn’t about streamlining government, making it more efficient, or saving taxpayer money. It’s about drowning government in the bathtub so oligarchs can do whatever the hell they want.

  120. 120

    Plans by the Social Security Administration to create stronger identity checks to combat fraudulent claims could weigh heavily on Alaskans who must fly hundreds of miles to reach agency field offices in cities, community leaders warn.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/alaskans-to-pay-heavy-price-as-social-security-moves-to-in-person-checks/

    I feel bad for the Alaska Natives, but not for the Republican voters up there. They asked for this. Elections have consequences.

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