G’mornin’
– i am glad that enough of Seattle thinks that the Trump Administration is a threat to do at least a committee.
– Look at all of the people using their Orca Card [h/t]
– Let’s go, Walla Walla students.
– Sexism is a hell of a drug.
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Nice to see that Columbia University expelled some of the assholes who took over a university building last Spring, suspended others, and revoked some degrees. It’s a start.
Columbia’s got more work to do if it wants that $400M back from DJT47, tho:
News | Administration
Trump administration issues list of demands Columbia must meet to maintain federal funding
Too bad this letter wasn’t written after letting Columbia stew in its own juices for several months or so.
Monmouth’s last 2024 poll had it Harris 48, Trump 45.
https://www.monmouth.edu/president/2025/03/12/important-update-on-the-monmouth-university-polling-institute/
Monmouth’s embarrassing performance flew under the radar compared with Ann Selzer’s final weekend joke.
Nice to see Monmouth follow Selzer into the trash heap of polling. They were not as smart as was Darryl.
Darryl knew not to waste his time aggregating poll results that would fail to adequately detect that while Welfare Queen YLB and her girlfriends truly believed that it was only a cold that affected Bi-Done’s debate performance, not enough of them would actually turn out to vote their idiocy.
@ 2
I probably should have also included Nate Silver’s former 538 entity, which was purchased by ABC News. Last week Disney announced that they’re shutting down 538.
Welfare Queen YLB fell for “It’s just a cold.” the same way she fell for “It’s just a cold sore.”.
Jamie Dimon believes this, too.
Here’s what Woodard wrote:
Chuck Schumer agrees as well, although he won’t admit it. However, yesterday he decided to be a patriot.
25% of the jobs “created” last year are government jobs.
Welfare Queen YLB called herself a landlady because she and her husband rent out their basement so that they can afford to feed themselves.
The correct term for Welfare Queen YLB is housemate. Also, weak and unserious.
To trigger Welfare Queen YLB, please enjoy this brief video of our vice president’s Hindu wife.
And watch Welfare Queen YLB tremble in fear at the mere thought of an “Asian” in the house.
@1 Now if only Wharton would revoke the degree it awarded to the worst vandal of them all …
Happy Steak and BJ Day, Welfare Queen YLB. Give your husband a good one – after all, you’ve always done your best work on your knees. Make him erupt loudly enough for your downstairs housemate to hear.
@5 It’s playing real well in Peoria, isn’t it?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-sour-on-economy-as-inflation-expectations-hit-highest-level-since-1991-145631578.html
Please enjoy this video of Barack announcing
• the creation of DOGE
• the appointment of Joe Biden to oversee it.
Barack Obama in so many ways is a gift to Republicans that keeps on giving.
Schumer committing ritual sepuku right now.
Democrats will go into the midterms divided as a party, as a caucus, and as political leaders. Yet at precisely the same time there is more base energy and more insurgent opportunity than at any other time in the last forty years. I anticipate a lot of retirements. And a lot of fresh new blood behind a new generation of leadership. And probably the only thing that can forestall that will be a unified no vote on cloture.
The current generation of Democratic party leadership is incapable of meeting the moment and effectively confronting authoritarian autocracy.
NATO to Ukraine: No, we’re not putting the boots of Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids on the ground in your massively corrupt country. Ever.
@12 yawwwn.. silly troll beklowning itself with false equivalences..
so typical.. so boring.. a gift that keeps on giving.. to the boring klown klub..
Got better things to do today.
It’s the unique nature of the NATO alliance that each individual member in good standing “holds all the cards” at any given point in time where the membership and activities of the alliance are concerned. Citizens of the U.S. who aren’t addicted to cartoonish FOX news representations of global security, and who don’t rely on the Twitter musings of precocious middle schoolers already know this. All NATO decisions must be unanimous. That’s why every NATO member voted in favor of invoking Article 5 following the 9/11 attacks – the only time in NATO history. That’s why, until the last few weeks, so much diplomatic effort was traditionally invested by each of the members into the alliance. But that has now all come to an end.
Thanks to Republicans.
Of course any one individual member can veto the alliance at any time. Trump is merely another Orban. But that probably points out the increasing tenuousness of the alliance and the relationships it demands. NATO established in 1949 with just 12 members. Since then the alliance has voted (unanimously) ten times to expand its ranks, going from the original 12 members to 32 members today with the addition of Sweden last year. Today 30 of the 32 member nations are European. So it should surprise nobody that Fat Hitler is attacking and destabilizing Canada at the same time he is withdrawing the US from NATO. What more could Bald Hitler ask for?
For a long time a lot of the diplomatic energy focused on NATO circulated around efforts to align European security interests with those of the United States, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. Given a stance of naked hostility from the U.S. toward European allies and open U.S. collusion with Russian aggression against Europe, it makes as much sense for most European members to form their own security alliance separate from NATO, and let NATO die of natural causes over time. And that frees European nations to pursue other strategic security and trade alliances without U.S. interference.
@ 16
… it makes as much sense for most European members to form their own security alliance separate from NATO, and let NATO die of natural causes over time.
In fact, last Friday the EU voted to increase member nations’ annual contributions to their defense to 3%. A realization that they will have to start ponying up.
Now let them actually make those monetary contributions. Spoiler: they won’t.
I can really only see one explanation why any MAGA Murica Furst tard would even care whether or not Europe forms its own robust security alliance to confront Russian (and now American) authoritarian aggression:
Support for that authoritarian aggression.
Otherwise this is an admission that such a robust alliance independent of the United States leaves the U.S. weakened permanently.
Spoiler: it will.
Democrats have no leverage in this fight over the CR. And I do think the decision to advance the bill to a floor vote for a simple majorit vote by Republicans was the right thing to do at this time. But make no mistake, these people have marked themselves for a harsh judgement in the future. And they will have earned it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Angus King of Maine
@14 As I recall NATO wasn’t interested in admitting Ukraine before Putin invaded it, and even as the war raged was reluctant to consider it, so I imagine their talk may have gone something like this:
TRUMP: I don’t want Ukraine in NATO.
RUTTE: Neither do I.
TRUMP: Great! We have a deal!
#artofthedeal
“Everything I believed was going to happen under a Trump presidency has since gone the opposite direction.”
Swing voters who flipped to Trump appear absolutely bewildered that electing Trump and Musk is bad for the economy.
“I don’t think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we’re seeing now.”
They were told Republicans would that
@16 Going it alone does imply, however, that Europe will need a much bigger nuclear arsenal than it has now; and Germany, among others, will become a nuclear state. These discussions are underway.
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/03/12/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-on-a-nuclear-bomb
ADL defended Musk nazi salute asking for grace and the benefit of the doubt, now disturbed that Musk says Hitler did not kill Jews.
@19 Wasn’t King, who’s now 81, just re-elected last fall to what is probably his last term, and isn’t Shaheen retiring?
White House pulled women from Arlington graves list. Republican Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson urges Trump: ‘Bring back our history.’
Republicans are erasing women
22,
European deterrent strategy will have to change of course.
But that doesn’t necessarilly mean matching the U.S. and Russia nuke for nuke. In fact, that would be stupid. U.S. nuclear deterrent strategy is bloated, overwrought, and freighted with fifty years of cold war baggage. For example, we actually maintained a shoulder launched nuclear system until the 1970s. But as things stand right now France and the UK each have an independent capability to produce both first strikes and MAD against either Russia or the United States. France currently deploys between 250 and 350 warheads with total destructive yield of up to 80 megatons. The UK deploys between 200 and 400 warheads with yield estimated at between 70 and 200 megatons. That’s plenty.
Speaking of which, isn’t now quaint to recall that propeller headed idiot troll PI incessantly mewling about Biden heightening the risk of nuclear exchange?
That’s our problem in a nutshell: a kakistocracy being lofted into authority by collective stupidity of absolute idiots.
24,
They should have been pushed into retirement years ago. It only takes a vote of ten members to challenge the leader in the Senate. If it doesn’t happen before the midterms and they don’t get both a change in leadership, and a credible start on renewing the membership then they will lose their base.
And I need to make it clear that I do not mean Patty Murray. While it’s laudible that she spoke out in support of denying the motion for cloture, she is 74 years old. Democrats need new leadership, not just musical chairs for senior citizens.
@26 Since we have too many nukes, why not sell some of them to Germany, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Luxembourg for profit? Is that the kind of deal our transactional president loves?
Every voter needs to understand the Republican Party is a completely top-down organization. There are no independent thinkers in its ranks. All its ideas and positions, and therefore all its office holders’ talking points and votes, emanate from one or two persons.
This means a vote for a Republican school board candidate or dogcatcher is a vote for running your schools and animal control according to Trump’s and Musk’s ideology and dictates. Let me repeat: There is no such thing as a Republican candidate who thinks for himself or votes his conscience.
Accordingly, no Republican at any level is electable, no matter how much you dislike the alternative.
@ 24
Wasn’t King, who’s now 81, just re-elected last fall to what is probably his last term, and isn’t Shaheen retiring?
Didn’t Schumer just spend Wednesday afternoon proclaiming that the GOP couldn’t get it done? Isn’t Fetterman a doggedly pro-union progressive-minded Democrat?
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you can read the tea leaves of the Senate Democrats any way you want, but in any orientation of the tea, there’s one inescapable fact:
It’s really, really weak tea your party is serving up. Suck it.
@ 27
I believe you meant to write that you do mean Patty Murray.
Mom in tennis shoes was mid-90s. She’s now part of the old guard and other than leverage for Washington state, she is now part of the Democrats’ problem.
The weakness you feel, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit? That’s the sense one perceives when the other party has a de facto mandate.
Suck it.
I have no problem paying Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids a living wage for cleaning my family’s toilets.
As liberals bemoan the passage of the CR with such limited Democrat support, they should recall how much money was dumped on the useless Inflation Reduction Act, which passed Congress without any GOP support.
Our turn, bitches.
I see Rubio has declared South Africa’s ambassador persona non grata for saying in his own country Trump is “leading a white supremacist movement.”
Which is Rubio’s prerogative. But here’s an idea: Canada, Greenland, and Panama should declare him persona non grata for his remarks about their sovereignty.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5196459-rubio-south-africa-ambassador-persona-non-grata/
#goosegander
Trump and Musk are coming for your Social Security. The fact they’re waging a coordinated and synchronized campaign of lies leaves no doubt about it.
https://www.aol.com/trump-musk-want-social-security-210000213.html
Attacking Social Security isn’t something people worrying about their party getting reelected do. Draw your own inferences about larger portentions. I do.
@31 ” She’s now part of the
old guard” dike holding back fascism and we can’t spare her. She also happens to be your senator. Suck it.@32 If you think we’re a representative democracy whose Congress and President listen to the people who elected them and follow their wishes, you haven’t visited a Republican townhall or looked at a poll recently. Very weak sauce, dumbfuck.
@34 What Doctor Dumbfuck is for:
What he’s against:
Doctor Dumbfuck wants a sicker population because that enables physicians of last resort like him to get patients.
Looks like Trump plans to wall off America. Nobody gets in and nobody leaves. We’re the next North Korea.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-administration-weighs-travel-ban-004049058.html