– This story about a cat interrupting a city council meeting in Liberty Lake is delightful.
– The House Our Neighbors campaign did quite well, a W is a W, of course but in this case, a large victory makes it tougher to marginalize.
– The high speed chases law moving forward had me worried that this legislative session would be all backsliding on police reform. So it’s good to see that the qualified immunity bill is moving forward.
– And hey, there’s some ambitious gun control too. Feel free to contact your legislator on these or anything else important to you.
– Wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Dooooo it now.
And Putin.. one year after..
And Murdoch
And MTG.. oh yeah.. please the fucking mypillow guy.
Just as they were in 2021 and early 2022, ultra MAGA Republicans are too comfortably distracted by performative cruelty stunts and anti anti-WOKE crusades to notice, but already in 2023 Democrats are quietly racking up wins and posting ballot results running well ahead of 2022. And these are results in weird, off schedule special elections where once again turnout historically favors the GOP/TRUMP base of pre-diabetic Christian Nationalist retirees.
Democratic and independent voter enthusiasm for Joe Biden is polling about as low as any incumbent since Carter. But the good news is that if those voters go to the polls they are not voting for the Fat Midgets being offered by the GOP.
And so far the turnout reports show them still turning out.
So, inflation still a thing, eh?
Wasn’t it December or so that YLB was singing so gaily about inflation having peaked?
It’s not like the markets aren’t noticing, either:
US mortgage rates rise for the third week in a row
Up a half-percent in the last month. Not so good for YLB’s fucked kids.
And it’s certainly hitting the consumer at the retail level:
1.1% in just a month, after inflation. What’s that, annualized? Why, it’s another ass-fucking applied to YLB’s kids, that’s what.
Sing more, ya dumb twat. It’s all you know to do. Well, that, and hiding behind Goldy.
Well, it’s a good thing Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit sold in the low $120s the 3M shares he bought in the high $170s so he could take a tax loss, and then repurchase them in the high $110s.
Cause now he’ll be able to take another tax loss.
A dog stock is a dog stock, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Repurchasing it doesn’t make it any better, it just makes you the failed investor who doubles down on stupid.
@ 2
And these are results in weird, off schedule special elections where once again turnout historically favors the GOP…
Links to the races you are referring to, please. If turnout favors the GOP but it’s a D+12 district, a 3-point swing to the GOP doesn’t do much. Gotta show us something more than a dead Virginia congressman in a deep-blue district.
A recession extending into 2024 at the same time that Florida announces another surplus won’t be good news for YLB.
Unless her fucked kids move to Florida, that is.
If you really want to reduce crime in that shithole city you oversee, Muriel, hand out free Glocks and concealed carry permits to registered vehicle owners instead.
FAKE NEWS!
Who cares, anyways?
With America’s progressive city streets flowing like rivers with the blood of gang banging thugs and rioting ANTIFA, with mandatory cat litter urinals in liberal schools, and with our Southern border becoming World War Z conservatives will sweep back into power next year led by the greatest President in history!
Feeble Joe Biden now crawls like a whipped dog before Vladimir Putin and Speaker McCarthy. The great nations of the world are all now turning against Biden’s tyrannical war of Nazi aggression. BIDENFLATION has destroyed the working classes, emptied the factories and job sites, and created a zombie army of starving unemployed digging through our trash.
Americans from every walk of life yearn for a return to the GREATNESS of 2020.
MAGA!
Shorter @ 8
Did I say 2023? I meant 2018.
LMAO! Let’s review…
A silly kreepshit troll voted for Carter even after the actual “miracle on ice”..
Carter appointee Paul Volker jacked up the fed funds rate starting in October 1979..
by April 1980 it was at 17.6 percent… Later it would approach 20 percent..
And in November 1980, a silly kreepshit troll in training would VOTE FOR THAT.
i.e. it “fucked” itself.
Volker chalked up two recessions or hard landings as result of his policies.
Silly kreepshit you’re the expert here on “fucked” as by your silly definition you brought it on yourself.
And you proved it even further when you allowed a zoomer redneck to play you, make you relent on your feckless “rule”, allowing the zoomer to fuck you in the ass.. and put a junker on blocks as the cherry on top.
heh. you make me laugh.
Oh what’s the fed funds rate today? 4.75 percent.. A long way to go to 20 percent. A year ago it was 0.25 percent.
yawwwwn…
Sure there are outliers…..Jeffery Dahlmer for instance and maybe a few others….but disproportionally gay people aren’t as Neanderthalish as heterosexuals.
Heterosexuals suffer from Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. They mame, murder and perform hateful acts such as in tiki torch marches, and hate crime acts. Heterosexuals really take the cake when it comes to being violent and disgusting.
Consumer spending also rose more than expected as prices increased, jumping 1.8% for the month vs. the estimate for 1.4%. Adjusted for inflation, prices rose 1.1%.
Who’s doing the spending causin’ ‘flayshun…
Jerkoffs like kreepshit…
“almost 90 percent of cumulative pandemic relief expenditure” occurred by June 2021. In fact, by the second quarter of 2021, the combined tax and spending policies at all government levels — local, state, and national — were actually subtracting demand from the economy. Yet inflation didn’t pick up until the second half of 2021 and didn’t truly get going until 2022…
From the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2022, they note, aggregate personal wealth in the U.S. went up by $26.1 trillion, mostly due to a skyrocketing stock market. Forty percent of this accrued to the top 1 percent, with another 33.4 percent going to the next 9 percent — meaning that about three-quarters of the increase went to the top 10th of Americans. And in late 2021, Ferguson and Storm write, “affluent Americans came out in force and started spending.” The economy could not in fact generate enough supply for what the rich wanted to buy. But the best solution for this kind of lopsided demand would have been progressive consumption taxes rather than broadly slowing the economy via the Fed.
Then Ferguson and Storm detail four supply shocks — i.e., problems that would have generated inflation even if the government had never sent any relief to regular people.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/18/inflation-climate-change/
Factors like climate change will bake inflation into the cake.. If the Fed keeps going like it’s feared, it will only break shit and maybe even worse than what Volker did as there’s so much public and PRIVATE (e.g. corporate) debt.
shit-lord kreepshit pwned again..
It’s one thing if inflation was due to policy or outside factors, but reality doesn’t mater to any fuck puke.
Just like they don’t care what the effect of climate change will be on inflation.
Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
Send me the government check!
Homosexual Transportation Secretary can’t blame Trump for what happened.
It’s not a total loss, libbies. Y’all can still blame #CrookedHillary’s loss on Trump.
Tennessee Republicans Vote to Make Drag Shows Felonies
https://www.newsweek.com/tennessee-republicans-vote-make-drag-shows-felonies-1783489
>> Does this mean if someone is wearing the “wrong” gender’s clothing (as dictated by Republican judgment) to the grocery store or park, they can be charged with a felony because they are performing drag in public? Women in pants. They are coming after you.
“Frankly, I’m glad our lawmakers are distracting me like a cat with a red dot by going after defenseless people which have nothing to do with me instead of drawing my attention to the fact that I’m under paid, under educated, could lose my health care should I even have it, have a decreasing amount of social safety nets, can’t buy a house because things are insanely expensive and corporate greed spiking inflation to the point that my grocery bills have about doubled over the last couple of years. But I get off on seeing others who aren’t like me suffer, so it’s a fair trade.“ – Every republican you know.
@ 15
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron missed this part:
Good to see you carrying NAMBLA’s water, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
Well, I certainly hope that Generac shares don’t fall below $92.50 each between now and mid-August.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will interpret the preceding sentence as the same as me betting that Generac shares will increase in price. Nah. For all I care they can drop $24 each from current level, and I’ll still be paid in full.
A recession extending into 2024 at the same time that Florida announces another surplus won’t be good news
No one has to move anywhere.. least of all a repuke shithole like FL..
As long as local repukes like kreepshit have something to whine about..
https://houserepublicans.wa.gov/safe-wa-budget/
yawwwwnn.. try harder next time kreepshit.
The very very serious people are mocking a worn pair of shoes today.
What shoes were the Senator wearing as he hightailed it out of the way of the mob he incited on Jan 6th?
@ 19
The very very serious people are mocking a worn pair of shoes today.
Boot mockery is so 2022.
Such short memories.
Not everyone can be Trump’s height. At least I have good hair.
He was also a bundler for #CrookedHillary in 2016.
If you dig a bit into the boot story about Mayor Pete, you see photos of him standing next to men who don’t spend their spare time fudgepacking other men.
And you realize that Mayor Pete is Little Mayor Pete.
It’s time for Pete Buttigieg to claim his status as Short King
When asked, the Secretary’s office declined to comment other than to opine that height isn’t everything because girth counts, too, and that the Secretary’s girth is ample, as he is not circumcised.
After four years of Drumpf, this will be an opportunity.
It’s time for Pete Buttigieg to claim his status as Short King.
Stack him next to shit-lord Putin and he’d be ok, after all Mayor Pete holds his own well with any Faux Snooze shithead…
the Secretary’s girth is ample, as he is not circumcised.
Heh.. kreepshit’s fantasy date with Slayer Pete went a bit too well it would seem.
Because this seems normal:
Yeah. That went well.
The nationally televised humiliation that Trump was compelled by the Constitution to endure was partly owing to the massive failure of Republicans in the 2018 mid terms, but also owing to this:
https://youtu.be/6wm-NtMkqz8
SHITDOWN!
Trump took a devastating 60 seat House loss into budget negotiations and shut down the entire government over a stupid vanity wall that almost no Republican can even bring themselves to remember.
Maybe because it fell over in a wind storm.
This delusional reference back to 2018 proves my point.
The very same tone-deaf maniacal focus on ultra-MAGA fetishes (like WALL!!!) is what fucked them in 2018. And again in 2020 (BEACH WEEK!!!). And again in 2022 (BORTIONS!!!). And so far, all indications are the Trump ruled GOP is going to do it all again.
DRAGQUEENS!!!! isn’t going to fare better than any of the others. It’s good for FOX. Just not good for winning elections. But it seems they no longer have any choice.
@7 Why is the MAGA Dumbfuck solution to gun violence always more guns? Because dumbfucks gonna dumbfuck.
@4 What miracle stocks are you holding that go up when the whole market is down? Feel free to share with the rest of us.
@10 Yeah, and the dumbfuck troll is squeaking about “fucked consumers” when it’s runaway consumer spending that’s keeping inflation high; and the way to bring it down, of course, is to throw a wet blanket on consumer spending by ending free borrowing. How you do that without a recession is beyond me.
Bob really having penis fantasies today. The horse might be getting jealous, and the wife might be wanting another horse.
@ 30
What miracle stocks are you holding that go up when the whole market is down? Feel free to share with the rest of us.
In which Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, without realizing it, stumbles upon the whole point of options trading.
@16 Making persons exercising free speech rights criminally liable for children overhearing their constitutionally-protected speech raises interesting legal questions.
“Interesting” because we now have a Supreme Court that doesn’t respect precedent; its lodestar is Federalist Society ideology. Without this court, the Tennessee legislature’s antics would be as boring as dice with sixes on every side.
@17 Who’s the gambler on the other side of that trade?
@23 et al.: The very, very serious troll is now going after Buttigieg for wearing boots while standing in toxic mud.
@33 I admit my understanding is incomplete about where you find the investors who keep handing you the risk-free money you claim to be making. You’re like a guy who comes home from a racetrack making it sound like every horse he bets on wins.
We learned today that Senator Snowball retired because of long-Covid.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ex-sen-inhofe-retired-due-to-long-covid-after-opposing-covid-aid_n_63f8e9b7e4b0735bf8777e81
White supremacist says being placed on “no-fly” list for threatening to strangle a flight attendant who told him to mask up is “political persecution.”
https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-no-fly-list/
@3 “1.1% in just a month”
This is the inflation report Doctor Dumbfuck is screeching about: “The core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred measurement of inflation, rose 0.6% in January and 4.7% from the prior year, coming in above economists’ expectations.”
Also, “The report added to worries that the Fed may have to keep rates higher for longer to quell inflationary pressures.”
Now, he reads Barrons, as do I, and anybody reading Barrons on a regular basis knows Wall Street is suffering from a severe case of Pollyanna Syndrome and investors have their heads up their asses thinking the Fed is going to start cutting interest rates, and this unrealistic thinking goes a long way toward explaining the January rally that is now unwinding as the expectations balloon slowly drifts back to earth.
But wait, there’s more: “’Another reason why the market is having trouble to some degree, I think, is not just about inflation being hotter or concerns that the Fed has to stay tighter for longer,’ Sonders said on Friday. ‘But there was just a lot of speculation that kicked back in —speculative froth.'”
Speculative froth. Now where does that come from? From options traders, for one thing. Horse-track gamblers betting on the direction of stocks like Medtronic and Generac, instead of making investment decisions based on economic and company fundamentals. Gamblers so impressed by their own intelligence they’ve convinced themselves they can roll the dice and come up snake-eyes every time. Except they don’t get to pick the dice.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
If you ask me, stocks are still expensive, and this is all algorithmic trading anyway.
34,
Yes. But the Court will still have to articulate some new standard they can live by.
Content based restrictions are historically viewed with heightened skepticism and subjected to more arduous testing.
A green light to states allowing for intrusive interventions based on content means you are leaving it up to the states. That’s not always a bad thing, per se. But it can lead to trouble remarkably fast.
And you can’t square a concept like “contemporary community standards” with originalism or with textualism.
When the Framers said “expression” it’s very clear they didn’t have in mind or particularly favor any single type or category of expression. So if this Court wants to resurrect and revisit that concept to expand the authority and application of “contemporary community standards” they’d be moving very decisively away from Fed Soc approved notions of originalism as the magic bullet to shoot at “activist judges” and “social engineering by legislatures” in order to protect the interests of wealthy white dude-bros.
And remember, from when we’ve discussed this before, Miller is an “and” test. All three prongs of the test must be met in order to justify a government intervention restricting expression. Giving the community standards clause unlimited reach and authority, while stabbing originalism in the neck, would still accomplish nothing if these restrictions fail on the other two prongs of the test (which they always do).
So that leaves Roberts dumping Miller entirely and replacing it with… very likely something that doesn’t work. Because Miller represents a century of incremental progress toward something that could be applied practically. And practicality encompasses work by artists like Dread Scott, Lisa Carver, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andres Serrano on unrestricted public display in museums and art galleries, and works like Trainspotting, Fight Club, Delta of Venus, and Catch 22 on unrestricted shelves in public libraries.
They know better than that, even if beer-drunk clay-eaters in Tennessee don’t.
And you’ll note that the agonizingly stupid fucking troll isn’t accusing the Guggenheim or Marriott Hotels of “carrying water for NAMBLA”.
Which might just be an oversight due to the usual, you know, ignorance on his part as well as all the day-drinking.
A Montana MAGA thug, after threatening to kill a Democratic senator, dared the FBI to show up at his door. They obliged.
https://www.rawstory.com/jon-tester/
Too bad he didn’t resist arrest, but he’s not totally stupid.
In red states, drag shows are criminal speech, and threatening civil war and the lives of Democrats are not.
Any “national divorce” should include disarming and sequestering the red states to render them harmless.
Everyone deals with stress in their own way. My way is shameless self-promotion!
Re the Liberty Lake cat:
The cat’s identity was not immediately confirmed.
For now they have assigned the name YLB to the fat pussy.
So does the Washington State Lottery.
For the Black community, bitcoin represents an opportunity for wealth preservation
I wish I could say it’s a joke, or even an opinion column. It’s not. It’s CNBC. In the Equity and Opportunity section.
WTF, CNBC.
@41
Well just for fun….for the originalists…what were some of the most popular books of the 1780s.
Start with The 120 Days of Sodom, by The Marquis De Sade (that name has taken on further cultural meaning), the tale of four rich aristocrats attempting to find the ultimate sexual satisfaction through an orgy of 36 teenaged men and girls held captive for their pleasure. (But, but, but, homo is a new made up thing that we need to beat out of the kids)
Then Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a now famous tale of two rivals taking pleasure in humiliating one another through the seduction of young courtiers. But this is a good one for the right as the object of both men’s advances ends the novel horribly disfigured from smallpox so…no whore goes unpunished.
Also very often read at the time Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman the early feminist writing of Mary Wollstonecraft. She’s largely forgotten outside of women’s studies university programs. It’s the story of a widow emerging from her dead husband’s imprisonment of her in an insane asylum (They could do that to women then with little resistance) Included in the work is the character of Jemima, a house servant beaten and raped by the master of the house who becomes pregnant, aborts the baby and becomes a prostitute. (But…surely abortion is a very new and very illegal thing that the founders had no concept of, right Justice Alito?)
Or maybe the serialized short Novels of the Fictional Baron Munchausen whose Boastfulness is only outdone by his capacity to consume alcohol and lusty debauchery.
All this filth that was available to the founding fathers. Can someone find some pearls to clasp.
@ 47
All this filth that was available to the founding fathers.
Not available to the children in the 1780s: child labor laws.
At some point in the last 240+ years we began to protect children. Protecting them from adult-oriented entertainment would seem to be part of that. Apparently protecting them from the original words of Roald Dahl is part of that.
Why do libbies find it wrong to protect children from drag queens, but not wrong to “protect” adult university students from the perspectives of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson?
I abandoned my hospitalized husband so that I could go ziplining with my kids in another country. I know I’m a shitty American but I hope they let me back in!
Not the Federalist Society, nor the Supreme Court, nor Republicans.
The Fair Labor Standards Act occupational standards for youth are what the pathetic Shit-lord Failure is grasping at through the Bourbon fog. Passed into law by COMMUNISTS from the Democratic Party and signed by DEGENERATE SOCIALIST FDR in 1938. First nationwide law forbidding children under the age of 16 working in dangerous factories or mines. Vehemently opposed by the GAWAD FEARIN’ GOP at every turn.
Damn. No more pit ponies. No more “Pony Boys”.
Stay Gold.
@48,
Do you have some children that need protecting?
DM me @NESTORSDADDY49221
@46 Maybe you should stick to reading Barrons. You wouldn’t have as many heart palpitations.
@48 Back when only the male elite could read, and literary filth was their exclusive privilege, it wasn’t considered a problem.
Why do conservatives find it wrong to protect children from the hundreds of thousands of hours of Playboy Channel Swap House, Cheater Wives, Voyeur House, Hot Yoga, and SWINGtv, force fed into Mariott Hotel Group guest rooms but not wrong to “protect” adult university students from drunken Zoom harassment by Chad from Sigma Chi?
46,
Agreed. I’m actually shocked.
Although to be fair, CNBC would certainly not be the first or only “business” journalists to reveal that they understand neither what money is, nor what cryptocurrency is.
For the group: cryptocurrency that depends upon blockchain technology is neither “untraceable” nor “anonymous”. I promise you. If a 24-year-old grad student from SDSU can trace it and tie it to an individual nearly ten years ago, then any nation-state that cares to can do so quite easily today.
What it is is incredibly vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation and outright theft. And those two things are just about its only purpose for existing at all.
And for the profoundly stupid libertarian troll, the only thing likely to keep you from going to prison for the illegal shit you’ve probably done with crypto to avoid paying taxes is that you are simply too poor to bother with. Your desperate preoccupation with the price of cat food last year gave that away long before you spent your vacation money covering your Tesla fuck up.
@48
Missing the point again.
Originalism is a bullshit theory that is only used as a means to get back to a deeply conservative version of the society that never really existed.
None of the books referenced are easily accessible to children even today. Likewise, Grade School Libraries in America don’t have a copy of ‘The Bluest Eye’. Middle school, not many. Apparently we have to protect 14-18 year olds from the concept that incest and prejudice exist. Like none of them have ever heard Mom and Dad yukking it up with the Jeff Foxworthy special about a family tree that doesn’t fork. In the modern era your “Protecting Children” line amounts to removing even passing references to race, gender, or love that does not strictly follow the Straight White Supremacist Prude model of a society that never existed. Shocking that book about a chinese family passing on their Lunar New Year Dumpling traditions is on the list of challenged books in Florida. Why? No gays, no politics. Just race and racism. Full stop. We have to protect the children from NOT thinking Chinese are dirty foreigners and enemies.
Meanwhile, like the heirs of Theodore Geisel letting a couple books go out of print, the heirs of Roald Dahl, fully aware that their now famous ancestor was a right fucking prick about anything NOT WHITE have chosen to hire someone to edit any FUTURE editions of his work to remove the bits that even a smart 11 year old finds a little odd. They’ve decided that making changes and continuing to market the books is preferable to having them fall out of fashion like say ‘Baron Munchausen’ that no one cares about anymore except the ultra Monty Python nerd who wants to know everything about Terry Gilliam. There’s a book about the Space Needle called “Wheedle on the Needle” where in the original 1960s edition the Wheedle is WAY more of a dick and vindictive than in the editions printed in the 90s. At some point the publisher decided, “Hey if we tone that down a little and introduce plush toys…..we can make more money.” Why does a dumbfuck hate Capitalism?
@ 55
Agreed. I’m actually shocked.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 52 didn’t see a problem with it. He understands so little and ends up getting taken by others in the market so many times, he just figures it oughta happen to everyone else, too.
To me, cryptocurrencies are gambling. Been to Vegas for conferences twice in the past year, and didn’t wager a dime. Unless my mutual funds invested in crypto, I have avoided that temptation as well.
Of course, I have that luxury, not having ruined my family’s financial future the way Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has done to his.
@ 56
There’s a book about the Space Needle called “Wheedle on the Needle”…
Never heard of it.
A few years ago I bought the Seattle music album “Wheedle’s Groove”. Any relation?
My crypto-confession:
In 2016 I opened a Coinbase account and tried without success to setup a wallet on a thumbdrive so I could put $100 worth of Bitcoin in it. After 20 minutes or so frustration I lost interest and quit.
Had that effort been successful it’s hard to say if I’d be as skeptical about crypto as I am today.
A Homobhobe, a Trans Phobe and an Anti-Semite walk into a pub and the bartman says, “Hey, aren’t you the lady wrote ‘Arry Potter?”
A few years ago I bought the Seattle music album “Wheedle’s Groove”. Any relation?
A racist like you probably liked that all-white white funk bands got gigs and black funk bands didn’t.
I knew both sides, and was in the middle, playing in Seattle’s first mixed-race funk band, which was the house band at a CD dive called the African Hut.
Push was the all-white band that got most of the funk gigs. Good guys, all of them, especially Big Joe Erickson, who started the band. I went to high school with those guys.
Big Joe went on to be a songwriter for notable black vocalists, then died way too young.
@56. It’s weird that nobody brings up the original way that Ompa Loompas were illustrated in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book. It’s like that little bit of racism has vanished down the memory hole.
https://indica.medium.com/the-revolting-racism-of-roald-dahl-f024a3196c80
@57 “Unless my mutual funds invested in crypto, I have avoided that temptation as well.”
You don’t know what your mutual funds invest in?