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I have some why am I up calls on the East Coast. So I’ll keep this short(er than usual). Do see if you’re eligible for the COVID-19 shot in Washington’s updated eligibility.

And wash your hands right now.

Comments

  1. 1

    Not a question of “if”. Only a question of “when”:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-kill-the-filibuster/2021/03/05/09c0d774-7857-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html

    $15/hr is what sells it. HR 1 is what makes it worth the risk.
    Change the rule to require a talking filibuster. Then make them vote on min wage. Once Collins, Lee, Murkowski, Portman, Toomey, and Romney are forced to break ranks, lower the vote threshold from 60 to 55. Must “save the economy”. No other choice, etc.

    “Rewriting the rules” is precisely what legislators are elected to do.
    It’s their only job.
    And once again, “conservatives” don’t want to do it.

  3. 3

    @ 1

    “Rewriting the rules” is precisely what legislators are elected to do.
    It’s their only job.

    Well, that and impeaching presidents for nothingburgers.

  4. 4

    3,
    Might as well add protecting a president from your own party no matter how many times he confesses to you that he sexually assaults women for fun.

    Shooter! Shooter! Coming out! Place those bets!
    All you have to do is roll Big Red so that it comes up with a majority of voters preferring the status quo of the last four years.
    And all that’s riding on it is any hopes you have of ever regaining a majority anywhere.

  7. 7

    “Hi.
    My name’s Greg Abbott.
    You probably remember me from my perpetually bloody nose in elementary school, from flicking boogers at the back of my head in high school, from awkwardly sidling away from me at parties in college, or from desperately pretending to be “on a call” whenever I dropped by your desk at the office.

    I’m so sorely butt hurt that most people dislike me that I’m proudly joining this effort to pass a law making it a crime to dislike me.”
    https://mobile.twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1367699473703579652

    “Hey, wanna come over to my place this Saturday to check out my collection of “historic” Klan memorabilia? Don’t say no. The Chief of the Texas Ranger Division works for me.”

  8. 8

    Katie Hill: The gift to the GOP that just keeps on giving.

    Katie Hill’s suit against ex-husband will go to trial: report

    Former “throuple” pol Katie Hill’s lawsuit seeking to block her ex-husband from revealing private photos and information about her will go to trial after settlement talks have fallen through, according to a new report.

    They must be pretty good. My guess is a bong stuck up her hoo-ha. Or carpet stuck up her nose.

  9. 9

    6,
    Yeah.
    We tilted at the same windmill for eight years of Reagan.
    Remember?

  10. 10

    Team AOC primaried this guy so that stuff like this would never show up in print:

    “We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” said Congressman Cuellar. “Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.”

    This doesn’t look so good, either:

    “Migrants are illegally crossing, potentially exposing border communities to the coronavirus and putting us at risk,” said Cuellar. “Right now, none of the migrants are being tested for COVID-19 by Border Patrol.”

    Just in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, 10,000 migrants have been apprehended in the past 7 days.

    Border Patrol data show apprehensions are increasing monthly. In October 2020, there were 71,922 apprehensions. While in November, data showed 72,091 apprehensions. In January, data showed a significant spike with 78,323 apprehensions.

    Can’t wait to see the February numbers.

  11. 11

    Kinda weird that the GOP is relying so heavily on Sinema and Cuellar.

    Less weird when one considers that so is most of the rest of the country.

  12. 12

    Word is that Team Biden is repurposing those manufactured but not yet installed border wall sections to build cages instead.

    Lotta lotta lotta aliens to house, and we don’t want them spreading the Wuhan.

  13. 13

    BREAKING NEWS FLASH:

    Upon learning that Dr. Seuss books have soared to the top of best seller data after their publisher announced they would stop publishing six volumes they deemed “no longer appropriate” for young readers due to insensitive depictions of race and ethnicity, dozens of major publishers of children’s literature are rushing to announce their own slate of canceled books.

    Hardy Boys publisher Simon & Schuster announced a mass book burning in Times Square this weekend. The estate of Jean de Brunhoff, author of the Babar series of children’s books, will hold a ceremonial book burial at an African elephant sanctuary. And Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has announced he will retire from authoring children’s books and will auction off one of his testicles to raise funding to fight “cancel culture”.

  14. 14

    In October 2020, there were 71,922 apprehensions. While in November, data showed 72,091 apprehensions. In January, data showed a significant spike with 78,323 apprehensions.

    Who was president then? I know. Seems like so long ago. Right? Who was that dude, anyway?

  15. 15

    @ 13

    If not for Jimmy Fallon would we have had President Trump?

    I think not.

  19. 19

    2022 is not going to go the way Democrats want it to go.

    Dave Catanese
    @davecatanese
    ·
    2h
    A $15 minimum wage looks as dead as that Grassley deer.

    The 8 Dems opposing advancement:

    -CARPER. DE
    -COONS, DE
    -HASSAN, NH
    -KING, ME
    -MANCHIN, WV
    -SHAHEEN, NH
    -SINEMA, AZ
    -TESTER, MT

    Both New Hampshire senators voted against it. Maybe 2024 isn’t gonna go the way Dems want it to go, either.

  21. 21

    Without a $15 minimum wage how in the world are YLB’s kids gonna be able to service the national debt and pay for my Social Security?

    Sux to be them.

  22. 22

    A problem of his own making. (I love leaks from the executive branch of government that undermine the president. Don’t y’all?)

    Scoop: Leaked HHS docs spotlight Biden’s child migrant dilemma

    Driving the news: In the week ending March 1, the Border Patrol referred to HHS custody an average of 321 children per day, according to documents obtained by Axios. That’s up from a weekly average of 203 in late January and early February — and just 47 per day during the first week of January.

    To answer your @ 14 question, QoS McHillbilly, Trump was president in the first week of January. Biden was president beginning in late January.

    Just wait until the first kid dies while in custody. Will the media cover for CBP/Team Biden again? Of course it will. They only need to fool The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

  23. 23

    @ 20

    … Georgia just passed a new law out of their state house making it a crime to provide food or water to anyone waiting in line to vote.

    Not if it’s food and drink being paid for. You missed the word free.

    We don’t mind the voting. It’s the purchase of votes that presents a problem.

  26. 26

    @ 24

    Cocaine Mitch is shopping for his replacement. (Edit: I see YLB’s on it @ 25 already.)

  27. 27

    It’s the purchase of votes that presents a problem.

    If this were even remotely true, then that is what the new racist GQP vote suppression law would say.

    Instead, the law that Tara and racist Rapepublicans are going to bat for specifies food and beverages only. Rapepublican bigot new law is strangely silent on “free” Birkin bags or COVID vaccine. Yup.

    Sure, Jan.

  28. 28

    So many “previews” of that.. certain.. day..

    Limbaugh, Adelson, Moscow Mitch, etc..

    before that.. certain.. day..

    we’ll be doing this until the HA server goes cold..

    or until that.. certain.. day..

    whichever comes first.

  29. 29

    @ 25

    That’s not just a fix. That’s a Massachusetts Fix.

    For starters, the Massachusetts legislature can change the rules, as it has done twice in the recent past.

    When Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry ran for president in 2004 and Republican Mitt Romney was governor, the legislature removed the governor’s power to fill a Senate vacancy. Then, when Sen. Ted Kennedy died in 2009 and Democrat Deval Patrick was governor, they changed the rules back because they needed that Democratic vote to pass the Affordable Care Act.

    The Commonwealth’s solons have a keen sense of situational ethics.

  30. 30

    Can you imagine The Even Bigger Fucking Moron attempting to comprehend @ 25, @ 29?

    He still has not mastered How A Bill Becomes A Law. He was left back twice in high school because of it.

  31. 31

    @ 28

    The always Unserious YLB, dreaming of the day her kids will try to take by force that which YLB’s voting booth choices have prevented them from ever being able to obtain through honest effort.

    that… certain… day…

  32. 32

    @2 This is pretty ridiculous. Nearly every Democrat is better than Cuomo. But now let’s cut to the quick: You voted for the worst your party has to offer, because you’re a dumbfuck.

  35. 35

    @3 “impeaching presidents for nothingburgers”

    You’re now officially on record as characterizing

    (a) using desperately needed military aid extort an ally into fabricating dirt on a domestic political opponent, and

    (b) inciting the violent overthrow of the U.S. government and murder of its leaders (and police guarding them)

    as “nothingburgers.”

    I’ve heard rumors you fuck horses, too.

  36. 36

    @6 Biden’s worst trait is a big mouth. Trump’s best trait is a big mouth. Does anyone have to guess which big mouth you voted for? No, because everyone knows you’re a dumbfuck.

  37. 37

    Tolls trying to compare or put in the same boat (so to speak) Andrew Cuomo with a failed Repuke Party with Insurrectionists.

    Does it really matter when the GOP candidate could rape their grandmother or wife and they really don’t care about it.

    Go Cuomo. Not one of your biggest fans, but don’t resign and tell them all to go fuck themselves.

    The guy who should be forced to resign is Joe Shmo Manchin…..Term Limits!, bla, bla, bla, bla. The Dude with the fake man chin.

  38. 38

    There’s a USA Today/Ipsos poll that indicates declining support for #BLM.

    I imagine that’s true but it’s an online poll, so I won’t go into details.

    The reason I imagine it’s true is because it’s no longer 2020. #BLM are merely useful idiots for the Democrat Party. #BLM now has three long years to wait until its next opportunity to be given cover for torching half of a major city.

  39. 39

    @7 “It’s un-American, Un-Texan, & soon to be illegal”

    Unconstitutional, too. What’s next, telling NBC they have to broadcast Tucker Carlson’s lies?

  40. 40

    To be a Troll – Hugeeeeee acomplishment in life. Be proud you low self esteem fuckers!

    You’d probably rape your own grandmothers and you wives! You Neanderthal failed breaders

  41. 41

    G-clown finds comfort spending his time reading @ 34 the musings of similarly psychotic fucks.

    C-clown’s family finds comfort each time he is involuntarily committed.

  43. 43

    @ 42

    Have you memory-holed your Fleeing Felon post on handbill.us yet, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

  45. 45

    @20 Please don’t tell them I donated to “Pizzas at the Polls.” They might try to extradite me. (They did make this law ex poste facto, didn’t they?)

  46. 46

    I know what to think. I think that Arizona is far less of a blue state than you prefer to believe.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Erika Andiola✔
    @ErikaAndiola
    It takes courage and good leadership. Thank you, @CaptMarkKelly. This Arizonan truly appreciates your vote today. @kyrstensinema, I don’t know what to think anymore. So saddened and disappointed.#FightFor15

    2h

  49. 49

    @21 “YLB’s kids gonna be able to service the national debt and pay for my Social Security?”

    Don’t worry, that was never the plan. The plan was to have immigrants pay for your Social Security, until your party derailed it. Guess you’ll have to live on your stock dividends. I can afford to reinvest mine.

  50. 50

    dreaming of the day..

    Adelson, Moscow Mitch, Limbaugh,,,

    rapey widbee kreeepaaaah…

    And the world.. will be a better place…

  51. 51

    @48 Amazing how they anticipated Trump and Republican governors 50 years in advance.

    But maybe it wasn’t so hard after all. Republicans were sending Americans to their deaths back then, too.

  52. 52

    @23 In other words, taco trucks are excempt. Leave it to Republicans to protect business profits while going after charities.

    Previously, they made it a crime to give food to the homeless. Making it illegal to give food to voters is just a natural extension of that.

    It’s obvious what’s going on here. They believe everyone standing in line to vote is a homeless person who has been bribed with a sandwich and coffee to vote against Trump.

    All that fraud they know for sure happened in 2020? It originated in the basement of Ping Pong Pizza Parlor.

  53. 53

    @ 50

    I see. Thanks for the clarification, YLB.

    I should dream of the day, then, that one of your children is painfully murdered by an Antifa goon who had been arrested the previous day for a felonious assault on a LEO only to have charges dismissed by the PDX Prosecuting Attorney.

    I see how that works.

  55. 55

    How is Team Biden doing?

    Write off student debt – failed

    $15 minimum wage – failed

    $2000 stimulus checks – GLWT

    Immigration – border crisis

    Indian-Americans – xenophobia

    Press Conference – avoiding like the plague

    Wealth Gap – widening faster

  56. 56

    “I couldn’t stand Led Zeppelin until I was in my mid-50s. My mistake.”

    I saw them on their first tour, opening for Vanilla Fudge. After an hour of Robert Plant screaming into a mic, I’d already had enough of them when Jimmy Page brings out a violin bow, sits on a stool and starts playing his guitar with it. I about puked.

    I now credit them with being a better band than my first impression led me to believe.

    On the poster for the show, under the band name, in parenthesis it read, “formerly the Yardbirds”. I’d seen the Yardbirds kick ass when they had both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in the band. They were one of a half dozen good bands opening for the Beach Boys in a New Years Eve concert. That was a great show.

  57. 57

    @ 56

    Bonham is apparently revered as an awesome drummer in that era. I played drums then but didn’t notice. Through the magic that is YouTube, a lot of his work is broken down and played in slow-motion; here’s an example of “Bonham triplets”. When it’s laid out in minutiae I can appreciate it. Usually I’m listening to something else in the song unless I choose to focus on his work. I still have sticks and a practice pad but I still can’t match Bonham at much more than half-speed.

  58. 58

    55,
    I’m looking at your list, and what I’m actually seeing are the opening bids at concession with “centrist” and “moderate” non-college white voters (Reagan Dems) in the first six weeks. It’s economic populism safely stripped of class resentment thanks to Trump and the Chewbacca Bikini Team Terrorists.

    Thanks and praise be to them! And to degenerate GQP billionaires caught stealing from the taxpayers to pay off their mistresses and hookers. Thanks to them Biden can hold the college educated suburbs with a shrug, while Cosplaying to the hard hat and lunch pail voter. Had Republicans been doing their job in the wake of an historic loss, instead of planning Mike Pence’s assassination, or Herrera Buetler’s next primary opponent, those concessions would be impossible.

    But because you’re so busy inventing new culture wars orthodoxies to test each other with, you’ve left the middle wide open for Biden to audible a keeper. Yeah, it ain’t as sexy as an air game. But as long as he’s gaining first down yardage and running the clock on Moscow Mitch’s obstruction prevent defense, we’ll take it and see what it gets us. While you keep on dropping deep as the deepest as far to the right as Trump needs you to go.

    #youbuiltthat

  60. 60

    This is good stuff.

    I read elsewhere that the different between UE benefits through July and through September is $128 billion.

    What’s wrong with running them through July and then seeing where we are?

    Oh, I forgot. They can’t do it without convincing the GOP that it’s a good idea. Dayum.

  61. 61

    see. Thanks for the clarification, YLB.

    Heh. No prob rapey.. It’s the only conclusion possible of your degenerate “thinking”

    Look I hope you take your fookin’ munee to the grave..Suitable epitaph:

    IT”S MY FOOKIN MUNEE.. FOREVER…

    My kids and Mary Kay will then draw straws over the gasoline and the lit match..

    Nobody cares about your fookin’ munee dimfook.. The world will be a better place without it. And you? Heh..

    I should dream of the day, then, that one of your children is painfully murdered by an Antifa goon who had been arrested the previous day for a felonious assault on a LEO only to have charges dismissed by the PDX Prosecuting Attorney.

    Do anything you fookin’ please rapey.. You’ll stay shivering in your safespace in widbee.. kreeepin.. Having anal fantasies about kids. Unlike (or like) these morons:

    HEAVE HO! HEAVE HO!

    LEO LEO LEO LEO…

    Look at the blood in that officer’s mouth dimfook.. Did antifa do that? Many of your ilk said yes.. See Ron “reelect me, drumpf shitheads” Johnson…

    Say it dimfook..

    And PLEASE. Let’s keep doing this till the server goes cold..

    Or that.. certain.. day…

  62. 62

    “Anti-COVID-19 vaccine flyers with false information are being left at the doors of residents in a Federal Way neighborhood. The flyers say over 900 deaths and nearly 15,000 injuries were reported following the COVID-19 vaccine. A link to a video on the flyer claims masks are a myth and not helpful in the fight against COVID-19.”

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/false-information-covid-19-vaccine-flyers-federal-way/281-46fd70a6-6b9b-4979-8b58-a7e38b3f0f40

    I don’t think any doctor would do this. It must be some other Trumper.

  63. 63

    I was wrong. It’s a doctor. Just not our resident horse fancier. Different Trumper.

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

    Here’s the lowdown on Dr. Gold:

    “Simone Gold is an American doctor, anti-vaccine activist, author, and founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, a right-wing political organization known for spreading misinformation concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. She gained notoriety when video of an America’s Frontline Doctors press conference in front of the Supreme Court building went viral in July 2020.

    “On January 5, 2021, Gold spoke out against COVID-19 vaccines at a rally in Washington D.C and the next day took part in the storming of the US Capitol Building. She spoke from the rotunda of the Capitol building, and was later arrested for her participation in the storming, having admitted she entered the Capitol.

    “In May of 2020, Gold organized an open letter to then President Donald Trump. The letter urged Trump to end the ‘national shutdown’, calling it a ‘mass casualty incident’. It cited issues of patients avoiding medical care, increased substance abuse, and greater financial instability. The letter was co-signed by more than 600 doctors, with Gold as the primary signatory.”

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