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– Those stickers are so mean to Nazis. Also, I appreciate the article becoming self-aware at the end.

– I understand Seattle politicians giving Seattle or regional businesses people. But you can just not with Musk and Thiel.

– I think of Representative Strickland as a median Democrat. If she supports something, many Democrats also do, and if she’s leading there’s probably close to consensus. So I was glad to see her specifically sponsor a bill protecting transgender service members.

– Hey go call your legislator or member of Congress.

Comments

  1. 1

    I think HA libbies should claim a reward from the GOP for making DJT47 possible. Easiest dot-connecting ever.

  2. 2

    Why Baltimore school students cannot read.

    Heritage Foundation
    @Heritage

    From 1950 to today, there’s been a 100% increase in the number of students in public schools, a 243% increase in the number of teachers, and a 709% increase in the number of non-teaching staff, which are largely administrative positions. Only 47.5% of people in the public school system are actually teachers.

    @lindseymburke
    2:05 PM · Feb 26, 2025

    In 1950 there were 2.36 teachers for every non-teacher employee in public schools. Today that ratio is 1:1.

    It’s not for the children. Hasn’t been, for a long time.
    ·

  3. 3

    From Egg Prices to Housing, US Inflation Is Heating Up Again
    Businesses surveyed by the Dallas Fed in February reported that an index of prices for raw materials doubled to the highest since September 2022, around the time when overall US inflation rates peaked. One food manufacturer responded that the items it imports will get more expensive because of tariffs, and higher prices will be borne by consumers.

    Republicans did that.

  4. 4

    @ 3

    … US Inflation Is Heating Up Again

    The rate of inflation has increased in each and every month since September, 2024. Don’t make it sound like a DJT47 phenomenon, because he was only president for 11.5 days of that stretch of time.

  5. 5

    Blue City Austin, TX:

    Rent is too fucking high. We are going to rezone for apartments and build tons of units.

    Average rent down $400/mo

    Seattle:

    Wallingford Resident meeting with Mayor and Council:

    everything around it was 100 years old. I get to look into the face of a building that’s modern and ugly, and they get the joy of looking at my well-maintained, beautifully restored 100-year-old house. That’s not fair.

    Bruce Harrell:

    We understand and are willing to work with you.

  6. 6

    In 1950…

    …your kid with mild dyslexia, who would go on to become a decorated Marine combat captain and distinguished professor of law at Georgetown, was called “retarded” and sent to the sweat hog class to play with blocks.

  7. 7

    Ever time Fat Hitler waives off a press corp question by saying “You’re fake news. You’re pathetic. Next question.” the Nazi propaganda news company counts it as a reporter’s question being “answered”. Also every time, without anyone asking, Fat Hitler tells a reporter how to report something that’s also an answer. Also every time he “Truths”. Also every time actual President billionaire tweets.

  8. 8

    @ 6

    In 1950… …your kid with mild dyslexia, who would go on to become a decorated Marine combat captain

    And in 2015 your kid with severe emotional disturbances and a recurrent history of unprovoked physical violence would go on to get a Masters in Gender Studies so it could teach five year-olds how to tuck in a blue-city public school system.

  9. 9

    @ 5

    Blue City Austin, TX

    Yeah, Austin is really choked by those large bodies of water on each side of the city. Really impacts housing density, they do.

    The Austin Politics Newsletter
    https://www.austinpolitics.net › save-our-sprawl
    austin tx sprawl from http://www.austinpolitics.net

    Save Our Sprawl

    Jul 27, 2023 — SOS was fighting the good fight against sprawl. The resulting political compromise recognized at least a theoretical distinction between healthy, …

    To Solve Urban Sprawl in Austin, We’ll Have To Mix It Up

    Medium · Carly Rose
    20+ likes · 3 years ago
    austin tx sprawl from medium.com
    Tackling urban sprawl means changing the way we approach development in Austin’s urban center. We need to focus on redesigning our existing …

    Highway to sprawl: How I-35 shapes where people live in …

    KUT
    https://www.kut.org › transportation › highway-to-spra…
    austin tx sprawl from http://www.kut.org
    Jun 29, 2023 — I-35 is more than a road. It’s been sculpting Austin’s housing scene for more than 60 years, encouraging endless sprawl and making gridlock …

  10. 10

    @ 7

    …waives off a press corp question by saying “You’re fake news. You’re pathetic. Next question.” the Nazi propaganda news company counts it as a reporter’s question being “answered”.

    Every time Bi-Done used a cheat sheet to call on 2-3 pre-selected “reporters” who asked pre-planted questions fully approved by his staff after which his staff would shut down the event, the media counted it as a “press conference”.

  11. 11

    Fat Hitler has extended a personal invitation to a Russian state-owned, Putin controlled “journalist” with TASS, an agency that facilitated a Russain state bounty program on U.S. Marines serving in Afghansitan, to attend the bilatteral between himself and President Zelensky. AP and Reuters are kicked out. That also counts.

  12. 12

    Americans brace for higher prices as Trump’s policies begin to take effect.

    Republicans did that.
    Democrats make food and goods more affordable. Republicans make them more expensive.

  13. 13

    Justin Sun, a Chinese national, founder of CCP crypto Tron, and business partner with the CCP, has pumped more than $50 million in tokens into Fat Hitler’s crypto fraud scheme World Liberty Financial. Yesterday Fat Hitler ordered the SEC to terminate its financial fraud prosecution of Sun.

  14. 14

    @ 12

    … higher prices as President Trump’s policies begin to take effect.

    President Trump’s policies include refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

    Why was it drained to near-empty state?

    Democrats did that. So that they could win in 2024.

  15. 15

    12,
    Atlanta FED is now projecting Q1 GDP to be negative (-1.5%).

    Last week it was +2.3%

    Move fast. Break shit.

  16. 16

    Why was it drained to near-empty state?

    To break OPEC.
    Worked too. Also popular.

  17. 17

    Earlier this week the Nazi Dumbfuck proclaimed without a shred of evidence, that President Zelensky had capitulated to Fat Hitler offering up mineral reserves and dropping security guarantees. Today Zelensky centered his negotiating position in the bilat around a demand for security guarantees.

  18. 18

    @ 16

    To break OPEC.
    Worked too.

    I don’t think 80 bucks a barrel “broke OPEC”.

    HOUSTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled lower on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time, and said he would immediately declare a national energy emergency, promising to fill up strategic reserves and export American energy all over the world.
    Brent crude futures closed down by 64 cents, or 0.8%, at $80.15 in early settlement due to the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

  19. 19

    In case any of you patriots are interested in helping take down a fascist snitch-line set up by Nazis to target public school teachers and try to get them fired here’s a link for you:

    https://enddei.ed.gov/

    If you see something, say something. Anything at all helps. For instance it’s been alleged that a pedophile lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washing DC.
    Also another pedophile has just been invited to attend a meeting of the Florida Young Republicans.
    Also a whole bunch of pedophiles have been gathering at a private Florida sex club in Miami Beach. Plenty of things to be shared.

    They ask for an email. Any email will do. George Santos for example. You can also upload files with “evidence”. No data limits. So, for example, you could upload the entire contents of multiple Social Security databases or even thousands of cat photos in super high resoution, lossless TIF.

  20. 20

    Brent crude, Biden’s last day in office: $80.15/bbl

    Brent crude, today: $73.25/bbl.

    Yes, let’s talk about oil prices climbing now that DJT47 is president.

  21. 21

    Important reminder for y’all:

    Every single Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

    You are going to need to remember that in the years ahead.

  22. 22

    “I’m not going to vote for Medicaid cuts,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said, noting that more than one-fifth of Missourians are on either Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. “It’ll need to be changed.”

  23. 23

    @ 21

    Every single Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

    Nearly all of them claimed lockstep that there was nothing wrong with Bi-Done until it was way too late, too.

  24. 24

    22,
    MAGA Mike Jesus just claimed that he would roll the DOGE cuts up into the budget resolution along with the Medicaid cuts and force Democrats to sign the bill or shut down the governmment.

    Formally accounting for and documenting all the DOGE cuts would force House and Senate Republicans to “find out”.

    How’s he supposed to win this fight if he can’t even defeat a coward like Josh Hawley?

  25. 25

    The two NOAA tsunami warning centers defunded and facing shutdowns following DOGE staff cuts.

  26. 26

    @ 25

    The two NOAA tsunami warning centers defunded and facing shutdowns following DOGE staff cuts.

    Let Byron Allen’s The Weather Channel handle it. It’s not like the government’s handling has covered itself in glory:

    NPR
    https://www.npr.org › 2019/09/19 › false-tsunami-warn…
    Sep 19, 2019 — Emergency sirens wailed on Hawaii’s Oahu and Maui islands Wednesday evening, warning of a tsunami, but the alert turned out to be a mistake.

    While’ we’re at it, we can dump NASA’s space exploration efforts and outsource it to Space-X. Far cheaper and much better performance in private hands; Musk has proven that more conclusively than anything else he has done.

  27. 27

    Putin’s bitches JD and Donnie gave you everything but the double penetration on camera in the oval office.

  28. 28

    @26

    That’s been the dream for two decades. You want weather? That’s $4.99/mo in the AppStore.

    $125K to rebroadcast it on your local TV stationn

  29. 29

    It’s good to see Republican Josh Hawley stand with the Democrats to protect Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

  31. 31

    No one could have imagined

    Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon…”

  32. 32

    Will cash strapped farmers pass on the cost of paying to get worse weather reports, when they used to get better ones for free?

    How is the republican plan improving affordability of food? Won’t that cause inflation?

  35. 35

    @4 You miss the point. The Orange Easter Egg campaigned on a promise of bringing down food prices, won on that promise, and that’s a promise not kept. Who’s at fault is beside the point; don’t make promises you can’t keep.

  36. 36

    @8 Seattle does pretty well for an economy built on gender studies.

    By the way, they don’t teach doctors how to be decent human beings at the medical school you went to, do they? Or maybe you just played hooky from that class.

  38. 38

    @11 So that explains Trump and Vance trying to bully Zelensky into surrendering in front of the “media.”

    It didn’t go well for Trump and Vance.

  39. 39

    @11 So that explains Trump and Vance trying to bully Zelensky into surrendering to Putin in front of the “media.” It was a setup. And it didn’t go well for Trump and Vance.

  40. 40

    @14 “Why was it drained to near-empty state?”

    It wasn’t. Half full isn’t “near-empty.” But let’s drill a little deeper, shall we? Biden sold that oil for $96/bbl. Even paying today’s prices, it can be refilled at a big fat profit. When was the last time the Orange Moron made a profit at anything? The best President Musk has been able to do so far is lie egregiously about fake DOGE savings.

  42. 42

    @20 Yep, a weakening economy will bring down oil prices. Every time.

    Oil prices fell to two-month lows on Wednesday as a surprise build in U.S. fuel stockpiles signalled demand weakness and a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine continued to weigh on prices. …

    “This would take us a step closer to Russian sanctions being lifted, removing much of the supply uncertainty hanging over the market,” the note said.

    Downside risks on oil prices increased because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies, such as initiatives to support higher oil exports by Iraq, said Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen. Trump’s tariff policies could also trigger a trade war and curb economic growth, Hansen added.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-edges-up-after-us-stockpiles-report-helps-offset-worries-rising-supply-2025-02-26/

    It’s not a magic wand, dumbfuck. It really isn’t.

  43. 43

    The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military ….

    “It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News.

    The official continued: “Russia is fighting a two-pronged war in Ukraine: A military one but also an economic one. They’re trying to crush the economy, but USAID has played a central role in helping it be resilient, [including] shoring up the energy grid…We’ve provided vast amount of support to the Ukrainian government to avoid a macro economic crisis.”

    https://www.aol.com/news/state-department-terminates-u-support-193604178.html

    First you sabotage your bargaining position, then you bully your ally into negotiating on the enemy’s terms.

    #artofthedeal

  44. 44

    38,
    It was setup by a media event by the Nazis in order to create the pretextural casus belli to justify what comes next which will be not only Fat Hitler abandoning all support for Poland Ukraine, but actively opposing them in the coming escalation. Fat Hitler will turn over US intel, targeting data, communications codes, and strategic planning intel about not just Ukraine, but all NATO allies, to his real boss and then dare them to continue to resist Putin’s aggression.

  45. 45

    This isn’t about saving money and small government. Don the Con really fooling the stupid

  46. 46

    45,
    By their own admission and according to their own lame, absurdly optimistic estimations, their proposed budget will add an additional $19 trillion dollars to the debt over the next ten years. Those numbers are straight from the text of the resolution that House Republicans just approved almost unanimously.

    They don’t give one single fuck about savings, efficient government, or debt. It’s all a huge lie that the media play along with.

  47. 47

    @46 What they can’t give themselves in tax breaks and self-dealing government contracts they plan to steal.

    NASA is already a Musk business. By the time this regime is out of office the FAA, weather service, and post office will be Musk businesses, too.

    There’ll be a solution for that, though. Just nationalize them.

  49. 49

    I’ll bet Rubio already wishes he had his Senate seat back. It’s too late. The moment he left to become a Trump hireling, his career was over. He’ll either be thrown under the bus, or crushed by it. It’s happening.

  51. 51

    @49 one slip up and he might eventually be hung by Drumpf’s goons.

    Rubio is a temp. DEI hire for Drumpf.

  52. 52

    48,
    Nazi Dumbfuck will just call Bolton crazy, because that’s what Fat Hitler says. And the Nazi Dumbfuck is obedient.

  53. 53

    @51 Everyone in the cabinet, every department head, and even Musk — they’re all temps. They should have learned from Trump’s first term that nobody working for Trump has job security. They’re merely there to be used and then discarded.

  54. 54

    @52 Nah, he’s no Nazi, merely a chickenhawk warmonger. A Vietnam draft dodger who spent his career agitating to send other people’s kids to wars he wanted to start. The surprising thing is he’s Trump’s kind of guy, but Trump turned on him anyway. That wasn’t due to ideological differences, because they don’t have any; it’s what happens when you put two sociopaths in a room together.

  55. 55

    The video I linked @48 also has a couple of clips featuring Two-Faced Lindsey Graham.

    Graham 12 days ago: “I want to tell you and your people you’re the ally I’ve been hoping for all my life. Not one American has died defending Ukraine. You’ve taken our weapons and you kicked their ass. And I’m very proud to have you as our ally.”

    Graham today: “So, what I think, a complete utter disaster. What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don’t know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again. He either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change.”

    There is no Trump ass Graham won’t kiss, and no flip-flop Lindsey won’t make to serve his puppet master.

  57. 57

    Hidden behind the headlines about today’s stormy meeting at the White House is this gem of a story:

    White House staffers were seen today loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One.

    “The FBl is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement, referring to the classified documents case against Trump that was dropped after he won the presidential election last year.

    The FBI had seized a trove of classified materials from Trump’s Florida property in 2022. Trump later pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing in response to allegations that he willfully retained national defense information after he left office following his first term and that he directed the deletion of security video at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

    The Justice Department last month also dropped its case against Trump’s co-defendants.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-white-house-live-updates-rcna193942

  58. 58

    @56 He’s not the only one.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy today.

    “Only our American President can put these two countries on a path to lasting peace. President Zelenskyy needed to acknowledge that, and accept the extraordinary mineral rights partnership proposal that President Trump put on the table,” he wrote in a post on X.

    He also said that the Oval Office exchange today was “an American President putting America first.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-white-house-live-updates-rcna193942

  59. 59

    “Say, Volodymyr, I can’t recall. you ever thanking the United States and the American people for the help we have provided to Ukraine and to you, personally. What gives, dude?”

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
    @ZelenskyyUa

    Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people.
    Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

    11:22 AM · Feb 28, 2025
    ·

  60. 60

    @ 57

    No more need for DJT’s personal belongings. He won, bigly, despite the silly raid.

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