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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 11/22/24, 8:12 am

– Happy Friday to all who celebrate. Maybe an introduction instead of an exit?

– The bike and walking path over 520 looks pretty cool.

– Anybody doing Autumn foraging?

– Seems like there could be trouble for Hanford.

– I hope glass recycling doesn’t go the way plastic bags did.

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  1. 1

    Kook DEI spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 9:34 am

    No fan of Sam Harris but

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULVYHwRMSjA&t=2715s

  2. 2

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:11 am

    Catturd™
    @catturd2

    Dear crybaby Democrats and loser RINOs.

    One way or the other, Trump is going to get Matt Gaetz in – and he will be your next AG.

    Cope and seethe.

    1:47 PM • 11/14/24 • 205k Views

    Well that certainly aged like gas station sushi.

  3. 3

    Cormac McCarthy spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:14 am

    Want to know how bad that report is?

    Matt Gaetz says he will NOT return to Congress next year.

    “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’ll be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress.”

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:36 am

    @ 3

    To a teary-eyed libbie I guess that passes for a win. He’s gonna need something to cling to, after all.

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:48 am

    A ringing endorsement of BlueSky:

    Yashar Ali 🐘
    @yashar
    UPDATE

    Just a few days after announcing that he was leaving X for good, Allan “The Keys” Lichtman has returned.

    He has since deleted the post on the right from November 19 which announced that he was “done with X.”
    10:23 AM · Nov 22, 2024

    Three days. Hell, that’s less time than the intervals between Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s bowel movements.

  6. 6

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:49 am

    Women in the Military are probably less likely than men to abandon their morals for fascism!

  7. 7

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:51 am

    @2 catturd sounds like a Heterosexual Neanderthal that is most likely to beat up the wife one day.

  8. 8

    Jay Graber spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:51 am

    @5

    They found the one.

  9. 9

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:52 am

    We can’t know at this point if an apparently erratic, undisciplined, and shockingly incompetent Fat Hitler 47 administration will succeed in any substantive way in harnassing the immensity of the federal administrative state and directing it to accomplish his signature campaign promise of forcibly deporting every single undocumented person residing currently in the United States.

    Nor can we know or predict if even some of the lesser related promises will be acheivable. His choice for “Border Czar” (a position which does not actually exist) Tom Homan suggests to the media that all these promises will be accomplished. But he also explains that it will take time and proceed incrementally, initially targeting as he puts it “all resident aliens legal or not who have committed crimes”. This obviously means that current legal residents who are holders of “Green Cards” (legal permanent residents) as well as holders of EADs and I-94 documents would be subject to deportation orders if they are found by the agency to have committed unspecified crimes. Homan refuses to say what specific types of crimes would trigger such a deportation order. Nor will he say what, if any, process would be afforded to such persons subject to this kind of deportation order. But he does clearly say that this type of enforcement would be among the very first things the new administration would implement well ahead of anything else that would require expanded resources. And as a reference he has very consistently suggested that some administrative offenses including failing to update registration information or failure to carry documents could trigger such an order. So this represents a substantial expansion of current policy wherein deportation orders are normally only triggered by aggravated felonies or crimes of “moral turpitude”.

    So it’s probably safe to predict that withing the first 100 days some version of this policy would be put into effect. And as such it would implicate somewhere between 13 million and 20 million residents, workers, students, and others currently living legally in the US. So at the very least it’s worthwhile to think about what effects this new policy would have.

    This kind of radical expansion of enforcement would put these residents into a kind of limbo wherein their status and even thier very existence would be constantly at risk from any kind of legal interraction. A workplace dispute, a conflict with a neighbor, a professional rivalry, or a misunderstanding by yet another lazy, ignorant, xenophobic cop would present an almost incalculable risk to such a person. And the opportunity for such people to be victimized and exploited by these conditions would probably explode.

    Bear in mind that these are legal residents, many of whom may play important roles in their families, communities and in their places of employment. Some, especially the most qualified and capable, will probably respond by leaving the US, at least eventually. Some are probably already looking into those options. Someone who has made investments and sacrifices to establish a business, a profession, a home, a mortgage, kids in school, and roots in their community would not willingly see all that put at risk of being stripped away over a DUI or a weird-beard neighbor killing their dog. They’ll make plans. Those with fewer resources may choose to stick it out. But if Americans are who we now appear to be, the existence of these legal residents inside the U.S. will increasingly become an unliveable experience for many if not most. And I expect that will develop fairly rapidly.

  10. 10

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:57 am

    What did I tell you. Bob doesn’t care if you think that someone other than The Pedophile Eddie Munster would be worse than he. He just wants you to not have any tiny bit of a win.

    Bob’s only existence is to see someone lose. @4 is an attempt to undermine any type of win.

    To converse with the traitorous mother fucker is to lose.

  11. 11

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:57 am

    3,

    So not the next Senator from Florida?

    Gosh. How surprising. /s

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:01 am

    @ 10

    @4 is an attempt to undermine any type of win.

    To G-clown a Trump-supporting AG nominee who will sail through the Senate is a “win”.

    G-clown’s taken it in the ass so many times that he always likes it, no matter who is doing the fucking. In this case it’s Donald Trump. Again.

  13. 13

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:03 am

    @9 heck, depending on what happens here, I may tell my employer that I’m calling it quits, that’s even if the company is still around after a manufactured crash of the economy.

    When I was hired, the hiring manager told me they waited 9 months to find a candidate to fill my position. Since being here, they finally got the aspect of work that I do under a bit of control.

    But if they think I’m going to productively work for a company that bows down to oppression then they can go fuck themselves.

  14. 14

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:05 am

    @12 no, the only win that I get is when I watch you lose. You failed medical student.

  15. 15

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:07 am

    10,

    Can you at least admire his commitment to the bit?

    There is almost no degradation Scotty P will not willingly suffer if it offers him a brief moment of schadenfreude. He reminds me of the “Scorpio Killer” in Dirty Harry when he paid a guy $200 to beat him into the ER just to make Harry look bad.

    https://youtu.be/0wAtjDAyv4M

  16. 16

    Hungry Leopards spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:10 am

    Teamsters waking up to today to the news of the plan to dismantle the NLRB.

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LGe333/

  17. 17

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:10 am

    Can you at least admire his commitment to the bit?

    Yes, certainly, like being an x-ray technician in lieu of a surgeon.

  18. 18

    Crude Jokes spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:14 am

    Hey G, how can you tell if you roommate is queer?

    His dick tastes like shit!

  19. 19

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:16 am

    @18

    go beat up your wife or girlfriend you fucking Neanderthal.

    Sounds like you know from experience

  20. 20

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:26 am

    Part of Biden Inflation that was never discussed.

    https://archive.ph/yPAQa

    Donnie’s 2016 Tariffs. The Uneducated Voter, well is just that uneducated.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:27 am

    @ 9

    His choice for “Border Czar” (a position which does not actually exist)…

    Keep fuckin’ that chicken.

  22. 22

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:29 am

    Everyone does realize why Bisexuals (who have gay sex) get a free pass.

    Now why do you think that is? Well, because boy @18 wants a bromance, he just doesn’t want to be labeled gay.

    Notice that he says roommate….not stranger… it’s his dream fantasy when he had or with his present roommate.

  23. 23

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:46 am

    Hey G-clown, Welfare Queen YLB @ 20 is using your name to spew complete nonsense.

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 11:58 am

    Good thing DOCTOR Jill runs the Secret Service, because the ICC will try to arrest her husband next.

    Taylor Lorenz‬ ‪@taylorlorenz.bsky.social‬
    ·
    16h
    Joe Biden is a war criminal who should never know peace

    Gee, it’s really too bad that BS doesn’t permit dissent.

  25. 25

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:09 pm

    2019 was so fun.

    ‪Taylor Lorenz‬ ‪@taylorlorenz.bsky.social‬
    ·
    1d
    This site really does feel like 2019 Twitter in a good way

    Back then RBG felt pretty good and POS Hunter paid the Chinese to leak The Wuhan, using some of the funds his dad got from Ukrainian thugs.

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:14 pm

    Is Rachel Maddow worth $25 million a year?

    And if so, how much does that make Boxcheck Momala worth?

  27. 27

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:14 pm

    The most recent appointee holding the press applied nickname of “Border Czar”:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_S._Jacobson

    Ms. Jacobson’s formal title was Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Southern Border serving on the National Security Council in a non-statutory role and appointed by the president to serve the first 100 days.

    Since Fat Hitler does not actually understand how his own administration will be organized in order to pursue his objectives (assuming he even has any beyond selling souvenirs) we have absolutely no idea what Homan’s title, responsibilities, or authorities will be. Fat Hitler proclaims that he will use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (one of the original and infamous Alien and Sedition Acts) to carry out immediate deportations. But that act, passing into law as it did in the 18th century when Congress was supremely skeptical of Executive Branch authority, by itself does not confer any statutory authority to any person or officer in the government other than the president himself. Subsequent acts have passed much of the original authority to what is now the Secretary of Homeland Security. And it is restricted to being applied only when a formal declaration of war exists between the United States and a foreign country, and only applies to citizens of that country. There is currently no formally declaration of war between the United States and any other country nor has there been since the formal ending of hostilities following WW2.

  28. 28

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:21 pm

    @ 27

    We colloquially refer to him as President Biden, ’cause c’mon. Everyone knows DOCTOR Jill runs the show. Why else all that Secret Service protection in Pittsburgh that weekend in July?

    You don’t need the title to be responsible for the effort.

  29. 29

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:24 pm

    ….how much does that make Boxcheck Momala worth?

    And how does that worth compare to Boxcheck Matt, Boxcheck Pam, Boxcheck Mehmet, Boxcheck Bobbie, Boxcheck Pete, Boxcheck Linda, Boxcheck Matthew, Boxcheck Tulsi, Boxcheck Elon, Boxcheck Vivek, Boxcheck Dan, and Boxcheck Karoline? Go ahead and pick just one at random. And there are hundreds more to go even before any of the inevitable firings begin.

    Scotty P’s long, tiresome investment in a “meritocratic” critique of DEI blows up in his very stupid face. 💥

  30. 30

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:25 pm

    2028 alert:

    BAY AREA STATE OF MIND
    @YayAreaNews
    ·
    March 2023: Gavin Newsom promises to build 1,200 tiny homes by Fall

    Fall: Newsom’s Senior Advisor on Homelessness offers a word salad explanation for the nonexistent tiny homes

    August 2024: $750 MILLION gone & not a single tiny home constructed
    Embedded video
    Embedded video
    3:28 PM · Nov 20, 2024

  31. 31

    The best and the brightest spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:26 pm

    Sure…that’s a good idea.

    Just wondering for the people who never took Econ, what would be the effect on Unemployment, GDP and consumer spending?

    Gunther Eagleman™

    @GuntherEagleman
    Political Commentator – America First – MAGA – Trump 2024 – Unfiltered

    Currently there are 23.4 million government employees. I say we get that down to the 2 million range.

    Fire 90% or more.

  32. 32

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:30 pm

    @ 31

    Sure…that’s a good idea.

    Right up there with defunding the police everywhere ’cause some dude OD’d in Minneapolis a few years back.

  33. 33

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 12:35 pm

    The difference between Sarah Palin and Boxcheck Momala is Katie Couric held her fire until after the election this time.

    Katie Couric criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her “inability to really succinctly answer questions at times” that left her and other voters “frustrated” to the point where people were saying, “Answer the goddamn question, please!”

  34. 34

    Vicsuos Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:07 pm

    @2 catturd sounds like a Heterosexual Neanderthal that is most likely to beat up the wife one day.

    Yeah, but have you seen what our women look like?

  35. 35

    ACAB spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:11 pm

    @32

    You still don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about.

    If you take $1m from program ‘A’ and use it to hire $1m worth of employees for Program ‘B’ where ‘A’ is police officers and ‘B’ is crime REDUCTION the net effect on the economy is zero. Unless you’re a racist POS cop with an itchy trigger finger and then you’re trying to find work strolling the mall with a taser.

  36. 36

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:16 pm

    @34 looks like the real ones… aka Marjorie Taylor Green.

    No wonder the Heterosexual Neanderthals are ok with domestic violence.

  37. 37

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:32 pm

    31,

    Department Of Getting Even “Czarina” Elmo says a 33% RIF is very doable.

    So what would 8 million new claims for UI do for state budgets?

    Scotty P seems to be saying Elmo is full of it and they don’t really mean it. Aside from his own disappointment, he’d better hope so.

  38. 38

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:41 pm

    @37

    It’s called manufactured crash of the economy so that military rule can be installed, the perfect excuse.

    Scotty P is a dipshit.

  39. 39

    Dumbest MoFos alive spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:46 pm

    @37

    So according to this internet calculator that was designed for the Kevin Bacon game, that would put every American at most three degrees of separation from someone who was literally laid off by Donald Trump.

    Do you wonder if Elmo is just looking at a list and thinking, “Why does the US Forest service need pilots? Trees don’t fly.”

  40. 40

    Herbert Hoover spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 1:47 pm

    They are going to make me look like a financial genius. They’ll finally stop talking about ‘villes’!

  41. 41

    Deficits as far as the eye can see spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 2:35 pm

    Wyoming Senator Cynthia Loomis goes on Kudlow to float a plan for converting US Gold reserves to Bitcoin.

    She’s gonna get primaried for not recommending Doge Coin and TrumpCoin.

    But it’s also a monumentally stupid idea.

  42. 42

    Elon Musk spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 2:37 pm

    @39

    You mean to tell me there are people on the payroll who sit on those mountain towers and look out the windows? They are so fired.

  43. 43

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 2:37 pm

    Heterosexual Neanderthals- what are they good for?

    Absolutely Nuttin!

    https://www.kolotv.com/2024/11/22/man-arrested-allegedly-killing-wife-burying-her-fallon/

    Bitches be groomed. Bitches grooming the bitches. The lady in the toilet isn’t going to harm you but your husband and or boyfriend will. And he’ll cheat on your ugly fart asses. But a horse and kiddy up on it!

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 4:04 pm

    @5 “Rabbit’s bowel movements”

    Unlike you, I shit out of the orifice designed for it.

  45. 45

    G Man's mom spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 4:06 pm

    please someone give my little boy g-man a hug….he desperately needs it.

    he could also use a new dress. Venmo?

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 4:36 pm

    It’s telling that when two billionaires form a government efficiency commission, the first idea they come up with is that public service should be unpaid. Next up: Making poor kids pay for free school lunches.

  47. 47

    Good Advice from Bill Maher spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:19 pm

    Bill Maher gave the Democrats some good advice recently when he said the Democrats need to be a center-left party, not an extremely left party.

  48. 48

    Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, Bill Maher spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:25 pm

    @47

    “Fuck Bill Maher” – Hari Kondabolu

    What about the Harris Campaign was far left? I’ll wait.

    Bill just stealing material from Joe Scarboro again?

  49. 49

    Good advice from Bill Maher spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:35 pm

    @48

    The Democrats can take Maher’s advice or not.

  50. 50

    Nancy Mace spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:42 pm

    Gay secretary of treasury and with kids.

    And a former George Soros employee.

    He should sail right thru.

  51. 51

    Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, Bill Maher spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:44 pm

    @49

    It’s not advice if you have start with a premise that is not grounded in reality.

    “My advice to the Purple Dragon that is burning down the town, if you want people to support you be less purple. What do you mean there’s no dragon at all?” -Bill Maher

  52. 52

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 5:56 pm

    Less Heterosexual Neanderthal could be nice too. Bill?💸

    https://www.wivb.com/news/crime/man-convicted-of-killing-estranged-wife-in-front-of-children/

    But is this really a problem? More Neanderthals needed!

  53. 53

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 6:24 pm

    @ 51

    It’s not advice if you have start with a premise that is not grounded in reality.

    It’s not reality if you’re looking around and wondering why the fuck everyone else isn’t purple like you are.

    Although it might have been clearer had he instead told you to stop being such a fucking asshole toward people you don’t agree with.

  54. 54

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 6:26 pm

    @ 50

    …a former George Soros employee.

    He should sail right thru.

    We just elected a former Democrat. We elected him once before.

  55. 55

    Dumbfuck Assholes asking for politeness spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 6:38 pm

    Although it might have been clearer had he instead told you to stop being such a fucking asshole toward people you don’t agree with.

    Nancy Mace has entered the chat

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 6:54 pm

    If “Trump is going to spend an insane amount of DOJ money and resources trying to manufacture evidence that he won the 2020 election,” as journalist Radley Balko wrote on Bluesky, that’s actually a comparatively good thing, in the same sense that you’d rather have a kid play with marbles than guns.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2669986475/

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 6:57 pm

    Elon is doxxing federal workers. Vivek wants to randomly fire federal workers based on whether their Social Security numbers start or end with odd numbers.

    https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-government-cuts/

    Not a real good start for the Two Stooges. 🤡🤡

  58. 58

    Good advice from Bill Maher spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 7:02 pm

    @51

    You are not grounded in reality.

  59. 59

    G spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 8:26 pm

    Reality is that Men are killing their wives, Men are raping their wives, Boyfriends killing their Girlfriends, Men killing their children, frat boys killing and raping.

    Are you grounded in reality? Or is your reality the reality of your liking?

    Why not face reality? Hypocrisy? Sexism? White Dragon?

    Is that right Bill Maher? Is that your reality?

  60. 60

    Just fucking give it a rest! spews:

    Friday, 11/22/24 at 10:39 pm

    For Christ’s sake G, give it a fucking rest!

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 11/23/24 at 3:46 am

    @60 Instead of telling him to stop, maybe you should tell the men killing women to stop. The one is much more socially useful than the other.

  62. 62

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Saturday, 11/23/24 at 5:26 am

    TIL “everyone else” equals 1.62%.

    Impressive /s

    See what happens when we count all the votes?

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