I don’t know what’s going on in Edmonds. Special council meeting to vote on the demand people find a shelter despite not having any shelter. Several times.
Now shelter has to be 35 miles from Edmonds City Hall. That sounds like a lot. Just eyeballing it, they’re saying if there’s shelter anywhere between Everett and Seattle, they can fine someone for sleeping on a bench and send them to jail. It’s just cruel. At least it keeps not getting a vote.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated if you haven’t and get boosted if you’re eligible.
Biden only needs to fool gullible fucks like HA’s dumbest twat and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron for six more months.
Of course he can’t do it. He’s sufficiently disconnected from reality to try, but there’s a reason others before him didn’t do it, and there’s a reason First Vegetable Joe Biden hasn’t done it so far.
Team Biden is running out the clock to keep AOC from blowing up the Democrat party.
Earlier this week Powell said that a 0.75% increase in the Fed’s interest rate wasn’t under consideration.
The Street calls bullshit.
Meanwhile, as we head toward a full bear-market downturn, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit desperately tries to redefine the correction that we’re currently in as one that has barely begun, rather than one we’ve dealt with since March.
He’s not having much more success redefining his portfolio losses as, instead, huuuuugggge gains when he faces the dowdy Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Music to my ears.
May every conservative Putin lover go down in flames too, while twat eating.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ship-admiral-makarov-ukraine-war-b2073007.html
Hahahah…..I thought was you. you take the prize on that one.
Breeding will not save you!
Thank You President Biden!
God Bless President Joe Biden!
Just to clarify:
Carl: “Now shelter has to be 35 miles from Edmonds City Hall.”
Story: “During Thursday’s meeting, councilmembers added one new amendment — that any shelter offered must be located within a 35-mile radius of Edmonds City Hall – to keep people close to local social service resources. That was approved unanimously.”
And while this amendment was approved, the ordinance was not, so it’s not in effect. Comments below the story include the following:
(1) “The City Council is not responsible for solving the homeless crisis, they are responsible for protecting the interest of the city and its residents, which should be safety and enjoyment of their homes, community and life.”
(2) “Why not do what nearly every expert in the field of homelessness, mental health and addiction has recommended? Hire enough social service providers to provide coordinated outreach, and give them the resources they need to do their jobs, including the acquisition (or construction) of shelter space with services? The police should not have to be the de facto social service providers because the City fails to do the right thing.”
Which of these seems more likely to actually solve the problem? (Assuming the “problem” is “graffiti, garbage strewn about, defecation in our alleys etc.”)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-inmate-disappeared-corrections-officer-threatened-kill-ex-sist-rcna27633
Heteros! But hey it’s natural! Born that way! Not a choice!
@1 So now you’re concerned about the legality of executive orders? How cute.
Does this concern extend to “SHOOT THEM IN THE LEGS!”?
Nothing wrong with this……he’s a white man!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-man-charged-murder-death-wife-wins-republican-primary-jail-rcna27638
Maybe Pence and he blow each other too.
From the previous thread.
Justice Alito’s draft decision on Roe specifically referenced both Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized sodomy, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, saying that “none of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history.”
Uh, oh. Slavery is deeply rooted in our history. Also, women not having the right to vote, as well other women’s rights.
America’s blacks becoming slaves again. America’s women being reduced to being chattel. The mere thought of it must be enough to make a low IQ dumbfuck fascist’s dick hard for the first time in his miserable, pathetic life.
@2 Wall Street calling bullshit on a Trump appointee …
See #4
@2 It’s a slippery pole, dude. Three feet up, two feet down, three feet up, two feet down …. Yesterday, my stocks lost two-thirds of what they gained the day before. Today, who knows? All I can tell you is I’m up for the year and beating the averages. The Fed inflated financial assets and revaluation is in order. When valuations improve I’ll buy more stock. I always finish a year with more stock than I began the year with. I don’t have to work, withdraw savings, or borrow, and have all that I need and want. Works for me.
@13 well done Rog!
God Bless.
@10 They would do it if they could, and don’t anyone kid themselves otherwise. Meanwhile, sentencing homeless people to “community service” for needing to sleep somewhere is a way to get free labor for picking up litter. Even better than slavery, because you don’t have to feed the slaves.
Looks like Sinn Fein has won 16 seats so far in Northern Ireland. Could end up with the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Will be interesting to see how long it takes for the mandatory coalition to form on this one, as if SF is first, a Unionist party has to be deputy.
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2022/0506/1296516-people-of-ni-have-spoken-but-can-executive-be-formed/
Only five more 50-point daily losses and the S&P 500 will be in full bear-market territory.
Just yesterday Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was desperate to make the point that we’re barely into correction territory.
He’ll grow increasingly desperate as the weeks pass.
@ 10
Uh, oh. Slavery is deeply rooted in our history.
Steve, I’d like to introduce you to the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
13A, meet Steve. Steve has no idea who the fuck you are, 13A. Donald Trump has erased his mind of anything that happened before 2016.
Donald Trump broke Steve.
@18 Five years of conscript labor at 10 cents an hour in a prison kitchen or laundry for voting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted or taking a sip of water in a voting line looks like slavery to me. I think at this point we still have to regard the 13A as aspirational in states run by Republicans.
Here’s a guy who belongs to Oath Keepers, believes QAnon conspiracy theories, and posts on social media that anyone disloyal to Trump should be executed.
He makes his living as a contract police instructor. The Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission has suspended utilizing his services for now. Other police training agencies have not.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-extremism
Of course he can’t do it.
Already has – ya pos…
It’d be disappointing if his advisers tell him he shouldn’t do more..
Butt (echoing teh butthole..)..
the wife remains on track to having her student debt forgiven in 2023 thanks to a certain “free stuff” preznit that a pos from widbee voted for twice..
thanks for the free stuff, ya pos! wait a sec.. didn’t ya say it’s ok that my son benefits from such a “free stuff” program?
Heh. thanks for that too!
Here, you ignorant low IQ fucking traitor. allow me to introduce you to constitutional conventions.
The U.S. Constitution can be amended in two ways. The first method is the one the country has always used: Congress
proposes amendments to the states for ratification. The second method is one that has never been tried: states formally
ask Congress to call a new Constitutional Convention, opening the Constitution to change. Congress is required to call a
convention if at least two-thirds (34) of states request one. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has made
it a top priority to get 34 states to pass resolutions calling for a convention in2016.
States cannot limit the agenda of a Constitutional Convention. A Constitutional Convention would open up the Constitution to whatever amendments its delegates chose to propose, just as the convention that produced the current Constitution ignored its original charge, to amend the Articles of Confederation, and instead wrote an entirely new
governing document.
Steve broke the ignorant low IQ fucking traitor years ago. As with Humpty Dumpty, the sad sack sap will never be put back together again.
Geez, it looks like you only have 6 more states to go and you fucking fascist traitors can rewrite our nation’s Constitution.
In about three years the conferral of a law degree will be akin to handing out a participation trophy.
OTOH it’s this kind of soft bigotry that helps advance people like YLB’s kids.
Easy to explain when you are told that Portman will never have to face voters again, while Ryan will later this year.
soft bigotry
all bigotry is bad, most especially the denser than spent uranium bigotry of a shithead from widbee…
that’s some compact shit in its head. Extreme constipation…
btw, yours truly DID NOT vote for dumbya the empty suit..
DID NOT…
TWICE..
I wrote this week about how, if the low IQ traitor’s dozen cosplaying grandmothers violent insurrect had stopped the peaceful transfer of power, bringing our Democratic Republic form of government to an end, we’d now out of NATO and in a new alliance with Russia, China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Eastern Europe would now be toast as well as Taiwan and South Korea and the low IQ traitor’s raging orange man-baby would have already nuked Mexico and invaded Canada. The world’s remaining democracies would soon fall as well.
Trump Jr. goes ballistic defending his father wanting to secretly bomb Mexico: ‘Is that supposed to be a bad thing???’
The low IQ traitor would not have lived to see it all play out. I would have seen to that.
10, 15,
I wholeheartedly agree with both of your analyses that the decis is pretext and directly aimed not only at expansion to many other rights and many other precedents, but very clearly (Alito says so) at Griswold, and Obergfell, but also obviously Loving v Virginia. We should be very clear whenever any discussion about this decision is afoot, that the intent of it and the four decade project to tilt the court is to roll back all the major civil rights of the last 100 years.
However I also hasten to point out that Alito’s reasoning in Dobbs is based on something the court made up entirely on its own. There is no “textual” basis for “deeply rooted”. It is not in the Constitution, nor in any letters among Framers, no even in any original legislation. It arises from substantive due process analysis which itself is a complete fabrication of the court – who I would remind you nobody ever voted for. And it’s origins are actually pretty shameful.
Substantive due process in short is the court’s idea that an individual’s “due process” rights extend beyond mere procedure, i.e. right to timely notice, right to trial, right to civil redress, etc. Substantive due process was first created by the court in Dredd Scott as a way of bringing into the law unenumerated protections for individuals from the will of the elected majority. Essentially Taney holds that white men have an unenumerated right to own slaves. And he goes on to hold that, because of that right, Congress would be exceeding its constitutional authority if it were to ban slavery in the U.S. western territories.
Now, of course, it’s vastly modified since then, not least by the due process clause of the 14th amendment. And in its current form we get substantive due process from a famous precedent establishing case from the 1930s United States v Carolene Products that is said to have ended a very long period of history in which the court routinely overturned most regulations of business – commonly referred to as the Lochner era for the original case overturning a New York bakery regulation. Carolene codified substantive due process, established the methods and required rigor for analysis, and specifically set out unenumerated rights for protections under its holding.
The key point, however, is to recognize that they made it all up. As I’ve pointed out to the superstitious troll, the original bill of rights clearly declares that there exists an infinity of unenumerated rights, secured to the people, protected by their constitution in the 9th amendment, no stupid fucking “substantive due process” needed.
Moreover, even if “substantive due process” was a real thing. it is in fact very, very, very clear that rights like “privacy” and “bodily autonomy” are far more deeply rooted in history and tradition that “the right to contract” or “personhood” as declared in Peoples United.
Alito isn’t stupid. He knows all this. He knows everything he’s writing in his decision in Dobbs is legal reasoning entirely fabricated by courts (not by lawmakers) over many decades in order to narrow the rights of individuals for the benefit of a privileged minority. That’s entirely the point. And there’s nothing legitimate at all about any of it. Given all that we have to admit that we aren’t ever going to prevail here by means of legal arguments referencing the constitution. Alito’s decision is a declaration rejecting individual rights based in constitutional legal arguments, sound or otherwise.
It’s a simple “fuck you”.
Figuratively, but very nearly literally. He’s saying that with five votes he doesn’t fucking need the constitution. He’s declaring that between them, he and the other four can do whatever they please with your laws, your rights, your freedoms, and your electoral majorities too.
A tweet I found.
Arizona GOP efforts to conceal the corrupt details of their STOP THE STEAL FRAUDIT have now rung up over $500,000 of wasted tax dollars for legal billings fighting disclosure.
The owners of the fake company hired to conduct the STOP THE STEAL FRAUDIT have now been held by the court to be personally and individually liable for the $50,000/day in contempt fines for their failure to disclose records from the scam. The amassed total for the contempt fines is now over $4 million.
2022 is shaping up to be a referendum on GOP corruption, bigotry, authoritarianism, and incompetency. And they continue firing on all four cylinders.
Just try to imagine how badly right now they wish they could have gotten Sununu to run against Hassan.
Oh wait.
Nevermind.
@23 “Geez, it looks like you only have 6 more states to go and you fucking fascist traitors can rewrite our nation’s Constitution.”
I don’t think you have to worry about that. They just want to restore it to its original form. You know, get rid of all those pesky amendments. Put things back the way they were in 1786. Except the 2A, they’ll retain that one.
@24 From p. 3 of your link: “Moreover, the SRC notes that as of early 2022, the Council remained the only accreditor among law, medical, dental, pharmacy, business, and architecture school accreditors that required an admission test in its Standards.”
Now we know why you got into med school.
@29 “Alito isn’t stupid.”
If he’s not stupid or ignorant, that leaves evil.
@31 A jailed accused wife killer just won a GOP primary. A small one, to be sure. But we have to assume those 60 GOP voters are a reflection of all GOP voters everywhere. After all, there’s not a lot of individualism in the GOP.
Not surprisingly, the Georgia administrative law judge and secretary of state decided against disqualifying Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot. The evidence did not show that she beat a police officer with a fire extinguisher while screaming “GRAB HIS GUN!!!”, only that she wanted to do it.
35,
He’s stridently ideological and lawless. And the other four follow his lead most of the time.
Call it evil if you like.
23,
Steve, you’re missing the point.
In Dobbs, The Five are telling you straight out that the constitution says whatever the fuck they want it to say.
They’ll reverse any law they goddamn well like.
And they’ll uphold any law they goddamn well like.
The only question is how much longer will Congress and the White House go along before they either change the court or simply ignore it altogether. I promise you that is where this winds up. Not in the states. And not in conventions. The superstitious womb-worshipers figured out decades ago that it’s just easier to change the court, so long as you’re willing to do whatever it takes.
So that’s the direction they went in. And that’s what they finally accomplished with the appointment of Amy Coat Hanger.
When you boil it down like that and you recognize the polarization among the states, I think it’s pretty clear that we’ll see changes to the court. Probably a lot sooner than these idiots expect.
It doesn’t depend on anyone dying and being replaced. That’s a shibboleth foisted upon us by the womb-worshipers to gaslight the country into being ass fucked. Congress can change the court whenever the fuck it likes and the constitution has nothing to say about it.
Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.
It’s all within reach in the next six months.
Oh wait.
Nevermind.
Good grief, yet another one.
On the tweet I shared the fascists are showing in droves, “both-siding” it like they’re all a bunch of low IQ fascist doctors.
OMG! I believe I may have just shed a single tear.
Clarence Thomas whines people are ‘bullying’ the Supreme Court: report
This is what they’ve become.
Republican wins GOP nomination from jail as he awaits trial for murdering his wife: report
Oh, wait. This comes from a certain news aggregator web site along with a link to the Indianapolis Star.
Must not be true.
looks like our low IQ traitor has been pwned enough for one day. Perhaps he really does have a lick of sense.
Nah, just kidding. The stupid fuck is dumber than a sack of rocks.
@390 Just term-limit Thomas and Alito, replace them, and Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett will never again sign a majority opinion before they too are term-limited.