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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/18/25, 8:14 am

Hey, it’s under 80 degrees for a few days anyway.

– I don’t know if the US Attorney stepping down is related to the ICE related arrests but the timing is a lot.

– Good news if you feel like you need to protect dogs or kids in hot cars.

– After months in ICE detention, I can’t blame Alfredo Juarez Zeferino for accepting deportation, but dang.

– Ballots dropped this week. Get them postmarked or dropped off by August 5.

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  1. 1

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 8:43 am

    Obliterated?

    The United States has assessed that only one of Iran’s three principal nuclear facilities was destroyed in U.S. strikes last month

    damage at the Fordow site have been the clearest to assess,

    The objective to collapse the deeply buried infrastructure at Fordow “seems to have succeeded,”

    But there are still significant unknowns, including whether the centrifuges at the deepest levels of Fordow were destroyed or rendered inoperable, or if they were moved before the bombing.

    Much less is known about the efficacy of strikes at the other two facilities, the aide said.

    The bunker-busting bombs were not used at the Isfahan site because the Pentagon had assessed it was “pretty much impenetrable,” the aide said. Isfahan, the country’s largest nuclear research complex, has bunkers that are even more deeply buried — and beneath harder rock — than the terrain at Fordow. Instead, a submarine fired a salvo of Tomahawk cruise missiles to destroy surface targets.

    Iran’s program was degraded by “one to two years,” [Sean] Parnell told reporters earlier this month.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/18/iran-nuclear-bomb-damage-assessment-obliterated/

    Yeah right on that “obliterated” shit.. And what happened to “regime change”? Yawwwn..

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:29 am

    Welfare Queen YLB cheered when the helicopters crashed in the desert during the attempted hostage rescue in Jimmy Carter’s last year in office, too.

  3. 3

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:44 am

    Here’s one to trigger teh dumbfuck:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4buEhrAsN5A

    A survivor of the always wrong wing kult..

    “with a terrifying liberating act of being real”

    “if you support mass deportations while praising Jesus, no, hard pass”

  4. 4

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:51 am

    Over the past 6 months the DJIA is +262.02 points.

    Going nowhere fast

  5. 5

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:52 am

    Over the past 6 months the NASDAQ is +1,121.

    Going nowhere fast

  6. 6

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:53 am

    when the helicopters crashed in the desert during the attempted hostage rescue in Jimmy Carter’s last year in office, too.

    lmao.. let’s see that was April 24, 1980..

    So not only did YOU vote for Carter after the real life “miracle on ice”, Feb 22, 1980..

    You voted for Carter after the failed hostage rescue.. As your partner in slime liddle maxiwipe would bleat: Wow, just wow!

    And are you equating the Iran bombing raid stunt that doesn’t stop the Iranian enrichment program, doesn’t result in regime change with the failed hostage rescue?

    mmmm. it sure does seem that way..

    I bet your frat bros made your ass pay during hell week.. No worries dumbfuck. you had your eyes on the prize – being able to at least try to notch one in the brother’s “body count” book.

  7. 7

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:53 am

    Over the past 6 month the S&P is 243.96.

    Going nowhere fast

  8. 8

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:54 am

    The Markets barely keeping up with rising inflation.

    Going nowhere fast

  9. 9

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 10:06 am

    Reading Fareed Zakaria is kinda cringey but there’s some ok troll triggering shit here:

    Trump signals that his administration is fearlessly executing mass deportations. But the numbers reveal a different reality. Since February, his administration has deported 14,700 people per month on average, according to NBC News. That’s far below Obama’s peak in 2013, when he deported 36,000 per month. And it’s not even close to the Trump administration’s reported goal of deporting 1 million people in a year.

    Trump’s deportation dragnet is less effective than those of his predecessors because it is chaotic, theatrical and detached from the systems that work.

    Trump has prioritized optics over outcomes. What his administration lacks in strategy, it tries to compensate for with spectacle — sweeping up schoolchildren, targeting families, broadcasting raids on social media.

    But this is a rare case of Trump’s Teflon wearing thin. Immigration was once his strongest issue politically. Today, it is fast becoming a vulnerability.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/18/trump-deportations-obama-cruel/

    Then Zakaria cites some poll stuff which puts me to sleep. Ok if it is real I guess. I’m skeptical.

    Most of the “legals” hate the “illegals” no matter if the “illegal” is a criminal or just a slob working at bottom of the barrel jobs. Been my experience my whole life. Even the repukes who line their pockets with their cheap labor hate them even as they’re carted away by ICE or Border Patrol leaving the greedee repuke fuckers in the lurch.

  10. 10

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 10:13 am

    You voted for Carter after the failed hostage rescue..

    almost forgot..

    kreepee dumbfuck, your fellow always wrong wing trolls are FACE PALMING at you!

    lmao..

  11. 11

    Capitalism spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 11:08 am

    G,

    Just keep your money in a coffee can under your bed.

  12. 12

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 12:50 pm

    There’s a pos in widbee who along with moral reprobates like Rand Paul want to see an octogenarian retired scientist and civil servant spend the rest of his life in a prison cell.

    This happened about a year ago.

    https://youtu.be/Y1vaooTKHCM?t=596

    I’ve fast forwarded past the debate rules. This guy, Peter Miller, won a $100,000 prize debating someone who is a proponent of the lab leak theory of covid 19 origins.

    Miller started as a believer in lab leak but after reviewing all the evidence believes natural or zoonotic origins is way more likely.

    The debate is long and I’ve only linked to part 1 (there’s like 20 hours total, a lotta mullah is at stake) but Miller takes apart all the cringey bullshit that animates asswipes like kreepee dumbfuck.

    His opponent is no nut and believes lab leak can be proved with a probability based argument, using stuff like Bayes Theorem.. Whatever.. Miller won the debate and made bank. 100k.. Oooh.. Bet that triggers kreepee dumbfuck to no end. lol..

    Points made:

    Any evidence of natural origins tends to play into lab leak giving fuel to the klownspiracists.. Parts of the virus found in bat caves – oh they were brought into the lab. Animals like racoon dogs were highly suspect – they were brought into the lab too. Like contradictions in the 4 gospels of the New Testament – the true believers have an (often ridiculous) explanation for everything.

    All early cases of the virus infecting humans and making them sick were connected to the Wuhan wet market. All evidence points to the wet market which sold wild animals being the origin of the pandemic. The lab leak theory would be settled in its favor if you had more cases of lab researchers and people connected with the lab getting sick but all cases were associated with the wet market.

    Wuhan not a likely place for a pandemic to start as it’s 1000 miles away from a bat cave? Just as likely as other Chinese cities who had corona virus outbreaks like Sars-2 – almost if not just as far away.

    3 researchers who got sick from the Wuhan lab? That was made up

    There’s not just ONE lab leak theory – there are like at least a dozen and they contradict each other. “A conspiracy in search of a theory”

    The evidence that Covid 19 was engineered in any way is weak.

    Anthony Fauci is like Ahab’s white whale for Rand fucking Paul the nutty opthamologist and kreepee dumbfuck teh nutty whateverthefuckitclaimsitwas.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 1:04 pm

    @9 Not only is Trump deporting fewer illegals, but he’s going after easy low-hanging fruit — snatching kids from schools, worshippers from churches, and field hands from fields, which requires very little effort. At some point voters will question spending so much on so little.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 1:26 pm

    Ever wonder what happened to the ethics complaint against Pam Bondi? It was filed on June 5 and rejected by the Florida bar association the same day on “jurisdictional grounds.”

    What are those “jurisdictional grounds”? The Florida bar association said it “does not investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.”

    This means there is no conduct by a Florida-licensed attorney in an appointed federal office they would ever investigate or take action on for ethics violations no matter how egregious or prolific.

  15. 15

    Marketwatch spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 1:43 pm

    Coca-Cola “HFCS is safe to consume and is metabolized exactly the same as cane sugar* and we have no plans to replace it”

    They went on to say, we haven’t spoken to him at all. There is no way we’d abandon profit and the American Farmer to go back to imported cane sugar in our US Products. It is curious though that right after he got off the phone with the Wall Street Journal about their Epstein piece he made up a story about us that got on the front page..

    * this has been studied at length and is true no matter what RFK and the ‘wellness industry’ tells you.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 2:50 pm

    @ 12

    Miller started as a believer…

    In the first few seconds of the linked video to which Welfare Queen YLB is attaching her reputation as a trained scientist we learn that Peter Miller is not a virologist. Because he wrote it in his video on the first page he recorded.

    So, who is he?

    Peter Miller is a software engineer, extreme rock climber and hobby blogger…

    So, a rock climber debates a poker player about the origins of The Wuhan. It’s recorded on YouTube, all 20 hours of it.

    Well, I’m sold, Welfare Queen YLB. I’m sure your video would convince Darryl, too.

    [Yes, those last two sentences were sarcasm.]

  17. 17

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 2:59 pm

    @16 and leaves out that the debate was judged by a Pharma exec with a background in biology and a mathematician.

    oh and Miller won 100 k..

    Miller wanted scientists to be involved but they turned him down. Debate is not their thing – peer reviewed research is..

    Dumbfuck of course doesn’t bother with any facts that Miller won the debate with.. And doesn’t bother to review the judges’ summary of the debate.

    Dumfuck is a coward. (who as a moldering asswipe in widbee thinks his ilk has won any kind of debate over facts.)

  18. 18

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 3:10 pm

    Oh and another thing came up during this lab leak thing:

    Richard Hanania is a right wing writer who unlike most has some brains. Has written a lot about woke, woke, woke, woke, woke… He was skeptical of lab leak early:

    In fact, it was the Obama administration that paused funding for high-risk GoF studies in 2014. The ban was lifted by none other than Donald Trump in 2017. At the time, outlets like Scientific American and Science covered the decision, in articles that quoted scientists talking about what could go wrong. Remind yourself of this the next time you see rightists trumpeting some headline showing the media being wrong about something. These people create no new knowledge, and spend their time criticizing those who are trying to report on complicated issues in real time by selectively clipping headlines collected over the course of years. They then use this as an excuse to call for blindly following Trump, since his mistakes don’t count.

    https://substack.com/@richardhanania/p-163398434

  19. 19

    Little Tiny YLB spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 3:14 pm

    6

    glad to see I am still living in your head…lol. I don’t even need to show up and I’m still at the forefront of all your thoughts.

    Flattered, truly.

    You sound bitter – still angry your application into that sorority got denied? Where did you graduate from? Oh thats right, nowhere.

  20. 20

    Little Tiny YLB spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 3:14 pm

    6

    glad to see I am still living in your head…lol. I don’t even need to show up and I’m still at the forefront of all your thoughts.

    Flattered, truly.

    You sound bitter – still angry your application into that sorority got denied? Where did you graduate from? Oh thats right, nowhere.

  21. 21

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 3:31 pm

    @19,20 you repeat yourself… and bore me.. nearly.. to “tiers” (your partner in slime, teh dumbfuck loves that ‘tiers’ shit)..

    otherwise, my stalker is back! Never fayles, I’m here it’s here.

    Ya mean nothing to say about dumbfuck voting for Carter?? after “the miracle on ice”? after the fayled hostage rescue?

    He’s on the record about it. He voted for Carter.

    No “wow, just wow”??? Aww you disappoint me stalker.

    btw, you’re not mentioned @6.. little confusion there.. knock back another bourbon. another toke off the meth pipe. set yourself straight.

    I sense you’re a bit offended at yours truly’s opinion of frat trash. No doubt you’d fit in just fine with that ilk. Lotsa “bros” stuck in junior high there. And no doubt you’d at least try to notch one in the frat “body count” book.

    Dang, you are OBSESSED with yours truly. Thanks for the laughs, my stalker.

    btw, I’m a college graduate and proudly refused that greek kult shit as did my two sons. I write here mostly in complete sentences. Left junior high babble at junior high.

  22. 22

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 3:50 pm

    So, who is he?

    LMAO.. Thanks for that link dumbfuck.. Turns out the “poker player” is Saar Wilf..

    An Israeli.. from the country that can do no wrong..

    And he’s fucking rich. From Tech startups AND poker playing.

    That blogger you linked to, a Phd, calls his rootclaim side project “pompous”..

    Wow, how “antisemitic” of him to call his sideproject that.

    And how “antisemitic” of you to dismiss a rich Israeli as a mere “poker player”.. I thought you worshiped Israel and munee.

    Geez at least I gave Wilf credit for being mathematically literate.

  23. 23

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 4:22 pm

    Metro fares going up a quarter effective August 30. Haven’t seen anything official, but a mechanic blabbed about it and someone posted it. It was something internal asking drivers and mechanics to inspect farebox placard holders, so the placards can be properly displayed.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1m3blsd/upcoming_metro_fare_increase/

    If true, it’s about time, especially after Sound Transit flattened LINK fares to appease the new Snohomish County riders. The fare on Metro will go from $2.75 to $3. Same as on LINK.

  24. 24

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 4:29 pm

    DJIA. YTD 1950. 1 Year 4055

    NASDAQ. YTD 1615 1 Year 3169

    S&P. YTD 429. 1 Year 792

    1 year ago was July 18, 2024.

    October 2024.

    DJIA 43,239… today 44,342 1,103
    NASDAQ 18,712 today 20,896 2184
    S&P 5854 today 6297 443

    Now factor in for rising inflation

    Going nowhere fast, my CD’s opened a year ago are making 4.5%. Thanks to high interest rates and the Feds.

  25. 25

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 4:38 pm

    @ 24

    Now factor in for rising inflation

    Don’t forget to factor in for share dividends paid, which result in a decrease in the share price on the quarterly ex-dividend dates. Nearly cancels out “rising inflation”.

    I know, you’ve never heard of ex-dividend dates.

  26. 26

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:02 pm

    2,
    Vicious Troll climbed out a bathroom window when his Chardonnay drunk ex-wife threw a drink in the face of a very “tough” looking dyke at the Hong Kong Garden in Clinton.

  27. 27

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:05 pm

    TACO
    Don’t start shit if you aren’t prepared to finish the job.

    Trump Always Chickens Out.

  28. 28

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:09 pm

    Has Fat Hitler sued Murdoch yet?

    That’s all anyone needs to know.

  29. 29

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:18 pm

    There’s some talk about pants shitting hitler’s use of the world “enigma” in its birthday blow job to Epstein.

    It’s an anagram of “gamine” – a female street urchin, typically thin, short hair, playful, mischievous, conveys a sense of elegance and boyish charm.

    pants shitting hitler’s birthday blow job to Eppie was pedo talk.

    I don’t think eppie cared for pants shitter’s drawing though. that evokes a more mature woman – not eppie’s type.

    Pants shitter claims it doesn’t draw pictures. It fucking lied:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-drawings/

  30. 30

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:31 pm

    It’s all 💯% true.

    Fat Hitler is a pedo.

    Because he will not sue Murdoch. And truth is an invulnerable defense.

  31. 31

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 5:36 pm

    BREAKING!!!!

    Fat Hitler has filed in Miami federal court.

    We love it when fascists fight other fascists.
    Can’t wait for discovery to be produced onto the pages of the Wall Street Journal!
    😆😂🤣

  32. 32

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:21 pm

    OK, but other than that how was the concert?

    Local
    Teen dies after 50-foot fall at Seattle’s Gas Works Park during concert

    FAFO, pimply version.

  33. 33

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:25 pm

    @21 small correction.. liddle maxiwipe, teh foul stench of sedona is indeed mentioned @ 6. Please excuse the hasty misreading.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:26 pm

    @ 31

    5:31 p.m.: Because he will not sue Murdoch.

    6:17 p.m.: Trump sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch over Epstein letter story

    Man, QoS McHillbilly’s predictions are disproven nearly as quickly as Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s.

  35. 35

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:29 pm

    For years libbies have claimed that defunding NPR and PBS accomplish little because only 2% of their revenues are federally funded.

    Just now KUOW told its listeners that the real number is 5% for Seattle and 8% for the Tacoma jazz station.

    Oh, and a rural station in eastern Washington will take a 20% haircut.

    Looking forward to see just how little this accomplishes. Time to cough up, libbies. Bet my wife donates more to her fave public radio station than 3/4 of you liberal fucks donate to yours.

  36. 36

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:32 pm

    A question: If Coca-Cola is made with cane sugar, won’t this mean more corn can be turned into ethanol to reduce fossil fuel consumption?

    And if so, why are libbies so happy that Coca-Cola won’t do it?

    I’ve no dog in the hunt, as I typically drink Diet Dr. Pepper.

  37. 37

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:33 pm

    Don’t forget to factor in for share dividends paid, which result in a decrease in the share price on the quarterly ex-dividend dates. Nearly cancels out “rising inflation”.

    I know, you’ve never heard of ex-dividend dates.

    Nope. I’m not greedy for money nor do I like risk. Happy with 4.5% and absolutely no risk.

    How do most 401ks factor in dividends?

  38. 38

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:42 pm

    A question:

    An answer. Anyone serious about maintaining their health greatly limits their intake of cane sugar and never consumes anything with high fructose corn syrup.

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-high-fructose-corn-syrup

    And diet sodas are no improvement on that score. Dori Monson shotgunned can after can of diet coke daily his whole career and the inflammation led to an early grave.

    Ooops. I just didn’t do my two sons any favors.

  39. 39

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:54 pm

    @ 38

    I just didn’t do my two sons any favors.

    As if raising them on a street corner with tin cups in their hands did.

  40. 40

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 6:57 pm

    @ 38

    And diet sodas are no improvement on that score. Dori Monson shotgunned can after can of diet coke daily his whole career and the inflammation led to an early grave.

    Welfare Queen YLB, if you’re going to use one guy as an example to prove your point, doesn’t Donald Trump’s age despite “shotgunning can after can of [D]iet [C]oke daily his whole career equially disprove your point?

  41. 41

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 7:02 pm

    Trump sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch over Epstein letter story

    Filing is not even remotely the same as successful suit.

    Man, the bleatings of the performatively sad Nazi Fucktard are humiliated almost as quickly as OfDumbfuck drops to her knees at the sight of another non-white NCO meat bag.

    It’ll be fun to watch TACO Don crumble before discovery. But it might be even more fun watching him squirm to try to produce.

    Remember how that went with E Jean Carroll? It’ll go worse this time because Fat Hitler is the moving party. But how would the Nazi Fucktard know that? He’s just an angry, cuckolded unemployed rad-tech.

  42. 42

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 7:02 pm

    As if raising them on a street corner with tin cups in their hands did.

    Heh. Goes a ways.. Apartment life in Seattle, tickets to Kraken, Mariners.. Vacations at seaside getaways.

    Admittance to professional school. A studio apartment within walking distance. All set. Just gotta put his head down and work towards a goal.

    Youth and a life.. in great contrast to a moldering fuck frittering its “golden” years on HA. yawwwn..

    Do us all a favor and shotgun a lotta Diet Dr. Pepper.. Make RFKJr proud.

  43. 43

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 7:04 pm

    doesn’t Donald Trump’s age despite “shotgunning can after can of [D]iet [C]oke daily his whole career equially disprove your point?

    The recent official White House reports of circulatory collapse and congestive heart failure are holding on your other line, dumbass.

  44. 44

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 7:09 pm

    doesn’t Donald Trump’s age despite “shotgunning can after can of [D]iet [C]oke daily his whole career equially disprove your point?

    Monson was really bad. Had cases of the stuff lying around. Famous for it. Always had an open can.

    Pants shitter, not nearly the diet coke addict, is still sundowning in front of everyone. His poor diet is catching up to him. He won’t last the term.

  45. 45

    We didnt need the money...well actually, yes we did spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 8:01 pm

    “Ooops. I just didn’t do my two sons any favors.”

    Ya, charging your kids rent since they were juniors in high school certainly confirms that.

    Parents of the Year…..

  46. 46

    It really does matter spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 8:07 pm

    21

    “btw, I’m a college graduate…..” lol, of course you are, but…….

    Seattle Central Community College doesn’t count as a college.

  47. 47

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:05 pm

    @24

    Furthermore, if it wasn’t evident at first, the point is that most of the 1 year gain came between July 18. 2024 to 1/1/25, before the inauguration of dumpy.

    Now maybe some of that, during that time, was part to do with the newly elected and the speculation of how great it would be.

    How did that work out for them? But hey they were able to get TACO to back down. Otherwise he’d might not be in the Whitey House right now.

  48. 48

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:08 pm

    TACO: the only friend I’ll be able to count on is Kingm Jung Un

  49. 49

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:19 pm

    Looking forward to see just how little this accomplishes.

    If you listened to NPR this morning you would have heard the impact of what it will do.

    The %s that you mention are off, they are too low. Some stations get 70%. Rural America will loose all common smarts and only get dumber. Thats what you can expect.

    But theres’s always streaming so they’ll always get national news, just not what’s happening around their home that’s surrounded by trailer parks.

  50. 50

    G spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:25 pm

    Welfare Queen YLB, if you’re going to use one guy as an example to prove your point, doesn’t Donald Trump’s age despite “shotgunning can after can of [D]iet [C]oke daily his whole career equially disprove your point?

    Swollen ankles? Maybe just give it some time.

    But soda won’t do me in, I haven’t taken a sip of soda in over 20 years. What they put in it doesn’t bother me. Put arsenic in it for all I care. And I saved on inflation all those years.

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:41 pm

    @25 In theory, yes, but in real life that’s only one of many factors that affect stock prices; and, depending on the company, dividend distributions may have little or no correlation to the stock price.

    For example, JNJ, which pays a quarterly dividend of $1.30, went ex on May 27 but it’s price went up to $153.25 that day from $151.64 the previous trading day.

    Something very similar happened with Lockheed, which went ex on June 2 but its price dropped only 26 cents from the preceding trading day, from $479.08 on May 30 to $478.82 on June 2, then rose to $480.17 the next day and $482.21 the day after that.

    Why would this be? One reason is ex dates often coincide with earnings announcements, and investors care more about earnings and guidance than capital withdrawn from the corporate treasury to distribute to shareholders.

    But you know this, amirite?

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:44 pm

    @28 “Has Fat Hitler sued Murdoch yet?”

    Yes.

  53. 53

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:44 pm

    @30 Trump hates that truth is a libel defense. Real Hitler simply had his critics murdered. Fat Hitler is envious.

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:52 pm

    @32 Doctor Deathlover is thrilled whenever someone dies. An extra gold star if the victim is a kid! The question is, why doesn’t he have his own Darwin Award yet, because he’s as dumbfuck as they come?

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 9:55 pm

    @35 Time to cough up, libbies.

    Why should we, when we’re already supporting eastern Washington big-time?

    Bet my wife donates more to her fave public radio …

    You let her spend her own money? Didn’t know you had it in you.

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 10:00 pm

    @40 You call yourself a doctor and argue Trump is a picture of health? He can barely walk.

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 7/18/25 at 10:09 pm

    Genius secretary of state just effectuated a swap of Venezuelan hostages held in El Salvador for American hostages held in Venezuela.

    That’s actually not a bad strategy. If another country grabs our people, we should grab theirs, so we have something to trade. No doubt they’re happy to have their gang members back.

    Maybe we should do more of this.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/men-trump-administration-sent-el-salvadors-cecot-prison-exchanged-pris-rcna219643

    Of course, this may not have been planned at all. Maybe Bukele told Rubio, “We’re tired of these guys. Either trade them to Venezuela, or we’re going to deliver them back to you.”

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    lmao spews:

    Saturday, 7/19/25 at 9:18 am

    My stalker returns!

    Ya, charging your kids rent since they were juniors in high school certainly confirms that.

    No numbnuts, just the youngest since he was an adult and working a full time good paying job and only after the refi for the remodel.

    Oldest had long flown the nest. yawwwn.. where does it get that “juniors in high school” dumbassery? Who can fathom a dope who never mentally graduated junior high?

    Seattle Central Community College doesn’t count as a college.

    lmao…. never attended. Understand they have a kick ass culinary program. My alma mater is out of state. yawwwn.. what a miserable racist dope to look down its nose at a decent community college in the heart of the city. Too many darkies there for teh aroma of sedona? Whatever..

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