Seventeen years ago today I clicked “Publish” on the very first post here at HA, with obviously no fucking idea how blogging would soon take over my life. Had I to do the past 17 years over again, I wouldn’t, even if I wanted to, because how could anyone even hope to retrace the bizarre path I followed from accidental activist to foul-mouthed blogger to talk radio host to foul-mouthed Stranger writer to mysterious behind-the-scenes benevolent-plutocrat-funded progressive propaganda king?
That said, how’d the past 17 years turn out? Well, on May 10, 2004, I wrote this:
I have serious political goals, and I intend to pursue them. I intend to help educate the public and the media about an astonishingly regressive tax system that gives billions of dollars of tax breaks to wealthy special interests while placing an almost unbearable burden on the backs of middle- and low-income families. I intend to work for real, progressive, tax reforms that provide meaningful relief to those who need it most, assure adequate funding for essential public services, and create the kind of positive, rational business environment that all citizens want. And I intend to continue my efforts to expose Tim Eyman as the lying, thieving, blowhard even many of his most ardent supporters admit he really is. (Did I mention Tim Eyman is a lying, thieving, blowhard?)
But I also intend to have a little fun.
Well, progress report: this year the state legislature passed and the governor signed into law a modest capital gains tax—Washington state’s first bit of progressive tax reform in forever. Meanwhile, after losing a long drawn out civil suit brought by the state Attorney General, Tim Eyman is in the process of paying something like $5 million in fines and legal fees for at least some of the many crimes he’s committed over the course of his lying, thieving career. I can’t say exactly what I had to do with the outcomes, but it was something. Also, I did indeed have a little fun along the way. So progress!
Anyway, a big thanks to all the loyal readers and vicious trolls who helped make HA more than just a narcissistic exercise, and an especially big thanks to Darryl and Carl for keeping it going these past few years. Don’t know if I’ll ever come back to regular blogging, but if you miss me, I do spit out the occasional foul-mouthed tweet.
In the end, the good guys always win.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight like hell to make it happen sooner.
Well done, Goldy.
HA. A blog where nobody, you know, blogs anymore.
Let Elijah and Roger post here. It’d be an actual blog again.
Thanks Goldy for taking the risk and doing the blog!
From sniffing out FEMA incompetence for free, to sniffing Nick Hanauer’s throne for cash, in only 17 years.
Congrats!
Thanks Goldy for taking the risk and doing the blog!
Indeed.
Y’all HA libbies know that Labour got its clock cleaned last week, right?
PIERS MORGAN: Beware President Biden – if you go woke, you’ll go broke, as your self-imploding liberal friends across the pond in Britain are proving
If Hillary Clinton were a Brit, she would have sounded like this in 2016:
Defeated Labour councillor: ‘The voters have let us down’
Being a liberal means shit is never your fault.
I might need a new screen name.
You can’t work in the Biden administration until you have sufficiently deleted all evidence of your prior misdeeds.
I was in Texas last week. My biggest potential risk during the trip was the way Jiffy Park packed the shuttle van on the way to, and from, the airport. In Seatac.
As you’re a pussy, it doesn’t fit. Try “Traitor”. Shorter, to the point, and it’ll fit like a glove.
A reminder, traitor. Unless you’re talking about 1/6 and your role in inciting a treasonous insurrection to overthrow our government, you are off-topic.
@ 10
Steve, I don’t think celibacy is making you a nicer person.
Oh, Steve. Somewhere there’s an Antifa mask in Maricopa County with your name on it. You’re a real brave dude as long as it’s 20-to-1 in your favor.
handbill.us is Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s narcissistic exercise.
It’s also now an embarrassment to the family of SeattleJew.
Here we have a dumbfuck traitor who believes anonymously posting treasonous comments on a blog is a display of courage.
It takes no courage to post on a blog, traitor. Not for me.
Not for you. Courage is my late friend Larry Dahl, who sacrificed his life to save his comrades and for doing so was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In which a fascist traitor again claims to speak for a deceased Jew’s family.
@ 13
Courage is my late friend Larry Dahl, who sacrificed his life to save his comrades and for doing so was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Steve, that’s not nearly as courageous as what YLB does, every Friday night.
’cause on Fridays when the sun sets, YLB comes onto HA and pronounces herself a hero. Not just any hero, either. HA Hero is what YLB calls herself.
Your friend Larry Dahl can try as hard as he likes but he’ll never be able to be an HA Hero.
Larry Dahl will never, ever be the hero that YLB is, Steve. Live with that.
Hey, look!
The ’80s are calling again.
Russian criminal group suspected in Colonial pipeline ransomware attack
First Vegetable Joe Biden is paralyzed, because any response demonstrating spine and Russia drops the dirt on Hunter.
Larry Dahl has been dead 50 years.
Steve will be milking it for the next 50. Look, everybody! Steve was friends with a MOH recipient!
Everybody knows somebody famous, Steve.
By throwing himself on that grenade, Larry Dahl in his final living act flaunted his white supremacy by denying his black Army buddies the opportunity to save their colleagues and immortalize themselves.
Somebody triggered the dumbfuck traitor again.
Just pointing out to you, a stupid fucking traitor and a coward, that you posting stupid comments anonymously on a blog nobody reads requires no fucking courage whatsoever.
@13 “was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
With all due respect, the medal is not called “the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Not meaning to be disrespectful to any of the recipients, however don’t want to give any credit to the treasonous members of that body of government.
@ 19
Steve, we’d all be more kind if we all used our real names.
If we all used our real names and were held accountable, Steve, we might regret some of our earlier posts, when we were pleased to hide behind our anonymity.
I guess what I’m saying, Steve, is that the anonymity around here is a given, and more than one of us conduct ourselves with the expectation that we’ll remain anonymous.
…posting stupid comments anonymously on a blog nobody reads requires no fucking courage whatsoever.
It also comes with no accountability whatsoever.
@ 20
I looked that one up, too. Then I decided it was too petty to post.
Blasts from the past:
http://horsesass.org/open-thre.....ent-959055
http://horsesass.org/open-thre.....ent-959057
And now for some homophobia:
http://horsesass.org/open-thre.....ent-959053
Tell me, again, about the benefits of anonymity, Steve.
@22 ” Then I decided it was too petty to post.”
That is rich, you thinking anything is petty after supporting Trump and his ilk.
There is nothing wrong with teaching people the correct name of our nation’s highest honor for valor for the members of the Armed Services.
You on the other hand support the “Big Lie” and the people that spread it.
So easily triggered.
That said, your comment isn’t begging our forgiveness for your treason so you’re still off-topic.
@ 24
You go right on believing that, Newt. It seems important to you.
Vicious Troll
Just the tiniest bleat of honesty from our rapey moron.. Beneath the slime at the bottom of the troll barrel would be more honest.
But let’s be grateful for small miracles..
Thank you moronic, rapey HA ZERO troll. Heh. On the way to “that certain day”…
Somebody, who shall remain anonymous, once wrote:
It must be nice to enjoy the complete lack of accountability necessary to claim that using the terms faggot and cunt can be done, and apparently so freely and repetitively, without belittling gays and women.
Who knew that was possible? Steve, did you know?
Your problem is that I believe it and you are not anonymous to me.
Solar panels. That was really fucking stupid of you.
@2 I’m already blogging. Here.
Wasn’t my intention, but the TrumPlague took SeattleJew from us, and left me holding that bag, so there l am.
Now I’m stuck with editing Shortbus’s comments, too. And edit them I do. I can quite decide whether he’s trolling or stupid. My most-frequently posted rejoinder is, “Stop making excuses for these people.”
Of course, Doctor Dumbfuck has no excuses. He knows better. He chooses to be a horse’s ass. Or to keep one busy.
Really, for HA fans who want Roger Rabbit posts, there’s a whole blog out there. A lot of interesting, educational (which can opener to buy), and downright funny stuff on it. Last night, I posted this:
http://handbill.us/2021/05/10/.....e-carwash/ Takes only 30-40 seconds to watch it, and it’ll make your day (it did mine).
Also, I did indeed have a little fun along the way. So progress!
Progress.. Things getting better.. Nothing drove our trolls more krazy over the years.
From Chris Gregoire prevailing over Dino many-times Lossi to sustaining a reasonable gas tax to the build out of Sound Transit.
Good on ya Goldy.
@4 You have no idea how much your horse is thanking Goldy right now. Without his blog, you’d be in the barn all the time.
In business, they bottom-line everything, so why not bottom-line things here, too?
Bottom line: Goldy won, Timmeh lost.
The good guys don’t always win, but did this time.
Shorter, simpler @5:
When your tireless and boring crusade for a return to bygone days of Don James* glory have failed you, it pays to become an MLS fan.
*He cheated. A lot.
@26 “You go right on believing that, Newt. It seems important to you.”
Again, priceless. You are the one that won’t let go of your lie about GE stock.
I have yet to see you disavow the actions of Donald Trump and his ilk. I’ll believe you support him and the “Big Lie” until you prove otherwise.
10,
I think it fits fine.
But of course I’m hearing it in my head pronounced with a decided lisp, and some “Cancel Culture” sofa feinting.
Reflecting back over the last 17 years (I’ve been here almost as long as the blog), Republicans haven’t grown worse over time.
They were vicious, violent, stupid, ignorant, incompetent, treasonous, and racist back then, too. If they could’ve voted for Trump in 2004, they would have done so, with all their heart and soul.
In 2004, they had to settle for re-electing a lying warmonger who ignored 9/11 warnings and then invaded the wrong country and squandered 4,507 American soldiers’ lives to give al-Qaeda a base in the heart of the Middle East and bring ISIS into being. For them, that was good enough while waiting for the Messiah.
And meanwhile, if you didn’t buy into Shrub’s yellowcake lies, applaud Blackwater contractors murdering civilians and American helicopter pilots gunning down Reuters journalists with cameras, and thought the whole shitshow maybe was a bad idea, they called you “unpatriotic” and a “traitor.”
We vowed then we would never forget or forgive, and we haven’t, and never will.
But don’t get me wrong: We don’t hate them. We pity them.
As we’ve always said, it sucks to be them.
38,
Perhaps “hate” is too strong a word.
But let’s be clear about who Republicans and “conservatives” are now.
They are America’s enemies.
Whatever concept you may have of what “America” means, if it includes an embrace of even the most fundamental democratic principles ensuring that all citizens are entitled to participate in selecting their leaders, and that those leaders shall be constrained by and accountable to the law, then there can be no other conclusion for you but that Republicans and “conservatives” are opposed to America.
They are. That’s who they are now. At some point in the years ahead some “conservative” Republican controlled legislature somewhere is going to refuse to certify their own election results because they don’t agree with them. Arizona is humiliating itself right now in attempting to test this. But as we’ve seen so many times these people adjust themselves to that kind of humiliation very comfortably. They will get themselves right with it. And then they’ll do it. They’ll simply cancel an election result because they don’t like who won.
It will be unlawful. It will disenfranchise perhaps millions of voters. And they’ll be proud of themselves for having done it.
It will happen. Sooner than any of us want to admit.
They are enemies of America. It’s overdue for all of us to recognize and admit it. Say it with me:
Republicans are enemies of America.
There isn’t a labor shortage, there’s a wage shortage.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/economy/labor-shortages-pay-gaps/index.html
If you pay them, they’ll come.
@39 Back in the day, the Viet Cong were America’s enemies. I didn’t hate them, hell I didn’t even know them; I merely had a proprietary interest in them dying so I didn’t have to.
Kinda the same deal now with insurrectionists armed with spears, Trumpilitias armed with AR-15s, etc., except nowadays I prefer to let FBI agents and U.S. attorneys do the heavy lifting.
@ posts number in single digits: Looks like doc is jumping between aliases now. I’m not sure anyone is really looking for the dumbfuck traitor, or really cares to find him, but I understand his impulse to look over his shoulder. Might be a herd of angry horses out there.
Indeed. It didn’t begin with the insurrection on 1/6 and the end isn’t in sight. They may yet end democracy in America.
Many of these people who are “the enemies” were cleverly manipulated to be in the space they now occupy. Not so with Doctor Dumbfuck. For the doctor it was a decision. He chose treason.
#DeathToTraitors
God bless America.
@13 During the Iraq war, Sgt. Alwyn Cashe plunged into a burning vehicle to save his men, and later died from his burns. Wikipedia says,
“On December 4, 2020, the president signed H.R. 8276, which authorizes the President to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Alwyn C. Cashe for acts of valor during Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving in the United States Army.
“The awarding of Cashe’s Medal of Honor to his family was delayed by the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. On or around January 5th, it was expected that the award ceremony would happen before former President Trump left office on January 20, 2021.
“However, on January 11, 2021 it was announced that it was now expected to happen after President Biden assumed office on January 20th.” Because Trump was busy with other things, namely, trying to overthrow the election.
Fucking traitors. All of them. No active duty soldier, or veteran, who respects our heroes should vote for any Republican. They’re betraying their comrades if they do. And I’ll bet many of them won’t, now that they understand that much better than they did before January 6.
42,
More a matter of Dumbfuck running away from his own collapse.
Witness his suddenly emerging interest in the UK brand of conservatism – which not-for-nuthin’ includes unlimited abortion-on-demand at taxpayer expense, government owned healthcare, government owned industry, guaranteed basic income, universal free educational benefits, outlawed death penalty, nearly all citizens and most police forbidden to carry guns, and a 45% marginal income tax that kicks in at £150k.
Let that sink in for a bit, and in no time at all Dumbfuck will discover Austrian-style “conservatism” where on top of all that, they make the churches pay taxes!
@14 He never reads it, so he’s bloviating about content he knows nothing about; of course, he does that here, too.
Doc is a troll in the truest sense. If you’re for it, he’s agin’ it.
You’re for stopping a pandemic, he’s for spreading it.
You’re for saving lives, he celebrates death.
You’re for decency, he’s for immorality.
Etc., etc., etc.
’cause on Fridays when the sun sets, YLB comes onto HA
And laughs at a moronic troll whose ego and narcissism made it break faith with its sky daddy..
For what? Oh yeah.. ownin’ teh libs
Heh.. Keep lyin’ rapey HA ZERO.. It’s all entertainment for us HA HEROES..
@15 He also doesn’t pass up an opportunity to mock a Medal of Honor hero who threw himself on an enemy grenade to save his buddies’ lives.
What a filthy, disgusting creature he is. He makes a slimy garden slug look cuddly by comparison.
The only thing gone woke is the racists like you Bob, one can only hope you and the others go sleep. You racist bigots.
@19 The good news is Larry Dahl never had to be in a foxhole next to doc. If an enemy grenade came into doc’s foxhole, he’d pick it up and toss it into Larry’s foxhole.
He’s a Republican traitor, so of course he doesn’t get it. It isn’t wrong because it makes you look bad. It’s wrong because it is damaging our nation. He damn well knows this, but he’s okay with that. He just wants better optics as he and the rest of the Republican traitors attempt to put an end to democracy.
‘It makes us look like idiots’: Arizona Republican admits he was wrong to support ‘ridiculous’ vote audit
“It makes us look like idiots,” he told the Times. “Looking back, I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous.”
@20 “Not meaning to be disrespectful to any of the recipients …”
He is, and couldn’t make it any plainer.
@21 You first.
And don’t forget I defended your anonymity when someone else started to “out” you.
I have a suspicion the FBI knows who you are and where you live, though.
That’s good enough for me. If they know, I don’t need to.
@22 “Then I decided it was too petty to post.”
What a laugh! If you ever decided anything was too petty to post, you’d never post.
@24 He seems to be immersing himself in Steve’s 2009 posts this morning. I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten around to me yet. I was well established here by then.
The doctor’s idea of courage is being outnumbered in a blog thread. Nice to know that my posting at (u)SP wasn’t just me having fun being a liberal asshole to a bunch of stupid wingnuts. It was a display of heroic courage!
What a dumbfuck.
Doctor Dumbfuck is having a giant sad today because his favorite restaurants are still closed. And it’s beginning to look like they always will be.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/economy/labor-shortages-pay-gaps/index.html
@17 in the first 2009 thread he linked to might be the funniest comment I’ve ever posted here.
51,
Don’t laugh.
This is them prying open the Overton Window.
All this is needed too.
Biden’s poll rise and Trump’s collapse all happened too suddenly for them. So they are using the tools they have to lay the groundwork for 2024. It starts with The Big Lie, then the lawsuits, then the terror attack on the Congress, then The Purge, etc. Along the way they have to normalize this idea of a state legislature intervening in this fashion.
They need to get far enough along, and normalize it all enough, so that by Jan of 2025, with one or two Republican states refusing to certify their counts as required by law, Republicans in the House and Senate can try again to overturn the result they don’t like. And with or without a majority they will be doing it again in 2025, only this time the rioters will open fire and so will some of the GOP members.
Don’t kid around about this shit. They absolutely plan to do it all again, and to keep right on doing it. When Lindsey Graham says the party can’t move forward without Trump this is what he means. If they take back the House they can do it without bloodshed. But failing at that, they will start shooting. That is why they are sending members like Boebert and MTG. They intend to unleash a slaughter from within the joint session and kill as many Democrats as they can. But it starts with these idiotic performances like the one in Arizona. Exactly the way it started with idiotic performances last time. One minute you were laughing at Trump’s Taco Bowl. The next minute you were stunned into silence at Trump’s Guatemalan Toddler Torture.
58,
Wow. What a fascinating trip.
What strikes me more than anything was that not only were there many more trolls (although still just one doing almost all the lifting), but that the bulk of the troll posting was focused on stealing traffic to random, fringe, right wing blogs, every single one of which is now defunct.
On this day twelve years later when Goldy is celebrating HA’s seventeenth year.
@58 That’s funny, alright. Too bad Klynical Klown isn’t around to share our enjoyment. He’s probably dead by now.
He was some BIAW honcho in Olympia, as I recall.
Only in Texas, where anything goes …
https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2021/05/10/video-shows-tiger-prowling-houston-neighborhood-before-its-held-at-gunpoint-by-deputy-driven-away-by-man/
The BIAW guy was troll hero Mark Musser. He was the reason I came here. I was hoping he was one of the Marks posting here. He was one of those who were calling progressives “liberal-fascists”. He’s still around, but now he’s into calling progressives green Nazis.
What a fucktard. Damn near as stupid as Doctor Dumbfuck.
Jenner just lost the California recall election if there is one. You can’t do this and get Republican votes.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/552762-caitlyn-jenner-says-election-was-not-stolen-calls-biden-our-president
Spoken like a true pussy. Bob could never cut it as a minority.
Eight goals? That’s nothing. Kim Jung un had 18 holes in one in a single round of golf.
Vladimir Putin scores 8 goals — leading his hockey team to a 13-9 victory: report
The BIAW guy was troll hero Mark Musser.
This couldn’t be Klynical though right? Klynical was a professed CPA and small business consultant. This Musser guy is a MD, pastor, missionary and yes, always wrong bullshit purveyor.
“First Vegetable Joe Biden is paralyzed, because any response demonstrating spine and Russia drops the dirt on Hunter.”
Hunter! Drink!
45)Probably to punch my buttons, as I have made posts in the past about foreign elections. In fact, I mentioned the Mayors races for Greater London and Greater Manchester on Saturday. Both Labor incumbents, both re-elected. In Manchester, the incumbent wants to replace the Thatcher-era deregulated/privatized bus operations with a franchise model. The big conglomerates will fight it, but who are they going to complain to, a Prime Minister that is the former Mayor of London that oversaw franchised bus operations? Read part of PM Johnson’s Bus Back Better plan, it’s not what Thatcher would have liked, but it’s not going back to the days of the National Bus Company, either. Basically a middle approach, maintaining private operators, while trying to avoid the worst aspects of the current system.
You’re all gay, seeing how “gay” consumes all of your minds.
I didn’t realize how much homophobia and bigotry went on here, before my time.
And to think my comments, at one time were being censored. Like I thought at the time, I was being censored because some were being overly sensitive to the heterosexual faggots.
It’s interesting to see how gay people live in your heads. But I can understand. When the head is so empty and so void, something has got to fill it.
Gman, that little faggot is a millionaire.
Avoid red states. They’re disease-infested swamps of non-inoculated Trump supporters.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/us/us-vaccination-rates-states/index.html
Say, we haven’t seen A1 pork sauce for a while. I wonder if he got?Covid and died? Seems like the type who would. See @71 for details.
71. I can see health insurance companies at some point attempting to restrict coverage of covid for those that refuse the vaccine, or pricing it to the point that the jab couldn’t be refused.
I have enjoyed reading and posting in HA. Learned much and sharpened my opinions. Thanks.
It’s unfortunate that the Ape 🦍 isn’t here to defend the use of his bigoted homophobic comments. Maybe the fucker has got a banana 🍌 up his ass.
If you look up those words you’ll find them in the dictionary, and you’ll probably see the pictures too.
64,
Like a lot of wealthy people in showbiz, Jenner believes in the myth of “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” “moderates”. It’s taken the majority of Democrats forty years to figure out they don’t exist anywhere in numbers sufficient to affect the outcome of elections. But a few of them are influential.
Up until Trump, posing as a fiscally conservative, socially liberal moderate was one way for a Republican to sneak into office with the support of Democratic voters. But that was all before Trump, and The Purge. People like Collins, Murkowski, and Capito pose a real danger to the republic by protecting terrorists and avoiding the tough questions. And Jenner is applying for a position that was phased out in the last reorganization.
69,
I’m just bored to tears with ignorant, ranting, Murican conservatards duping themselves into believing that somehow Thatcher = Reagan, or some other silly shit.
Obviously the UK is a fundamentally different kind of government, electorate, and political system. But the sight of stupid American conservatives celebrating pro-conservative oscillations in European countries is a joke to me. Every single cherished ideal of Murican “conservatism” (to whatever extent Murican “conservatives” still cherish them) was swept off the European political stage decades ago.
In some peculiar ways of course Europe remains more conservative that the US. Class distinctions and social stratification have persisted in ways that probably enable more progressive policy. But the GOP and American “conservatives” abandoned Tory-style defense of the country club decades ago when they decided to go after the Klan vote to survive. A Republican politician can afford to be rich as hell. They can afford to be educated. They can afford to be cultured. But they can’t under any circumstances afford to be exclusive.
But of course, that’s what makes Bob such a flaming hypocrite. Elitism is the one element of traditional “conservatism” he values above all.
And he can’t have it.
It fuckin’ kills him that the only remaining context in which he can “own the Libs” compels him to link arms with Chewbacca Bikini, and the pimply, middle-school fanboys of Andrew Anglin. Johnson may share a haircut with Dylann Roof. But that’s about as far as the comparison goes.
It seems quite clear now that Special Counsel Durham violated DOJ rules when he obtained phone records and attempted to obtain email records of journalists last year.
Whatever else this reveals, it provides a nice, clean lawful justification for terminating Durham’s position and ushering him into retirement. Having already obtained Durham’s resignation from his position as U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, now Garland has what he needs to both wrap up the fishing expedition and then credibly asses the lack of results. Now finally, after years of breathless pimping, FOX News, Tara, and Every Republican You Know will finally get their Huhrduhrham Report. And it will be a burger without the patty.
77)Probably waiting to gloat over the Social Democrats in Germany being way behind right now. September’s a long way off, and polls can’t be trusted anymore, but right now, the CDU/CSU is running neck and neck, with the Greens. A lot has happened since the Green party’s early days, they’ve been in coalition with the SDP on the Federal level, and with the CDU on the state level. They have even run Baden-Wurteneberg since 2011.
@73
I agree.
Insurance companies should treat them like smokers, if you smoke, you can get insurance but they charge a premium for your choice to smoke.
According to most conservatives, heath care insurance is not a basic human right. If that is the case, then the for-profit insurance companies certainly have a right to charge as they see fit, and even deny coverage, for those that refuse to get a Covid vaccine shot.
To hear the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging right wingers screech, “My body, my choice!” is truly entertaining. Oh wait, that doesn’t apply to a woman when she is pregnant.
79,
Not as familiar with German government policy history as UK.
But I’d be willing to bet that much like the UK, a conservative government in the Germany would be a stretch-goal utopian liberal government in the US in most respects.
I wonder if that dumb twat Kirsten Gillebrand would be surprised to learn that pipelines are NOT infrastructure.
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National gasoline gallon price week of Jan 19, 2021: $2.38
Price this morning: $2.98
That’s a 25% increase in fewer than four months. Well done, ol’ Joe.
If you’re vaccinated, you should be able to act as if you’re vaccinated.
I have zero problem with a grocery store, a restaurant, or a gym restricting my activity unless I’m wearing a mask. I have a bit more of a problem when it happens without any scientific basis, as we are beginning to learn WRT outside dining and other outdoor activities. To some extent Inslee is beginning to understand this, too. Which is good. (He’d be a decent presidential candidate when Kamala turns tail in 2023 the way she did in 2019.)
It’s just not enough of a problem for me to refuse to conform. The pandemic has enriched me – and anyone else who chose to pour cash into the market in ’20 April – far beyond anything I could have imagined. I can wear a mask in public places to hide my smile.
Shorter 85:
Fuck the staff.
Always a classic.
Greedy racist incel is lying. Gas prices are going up because of more demand. People are leaving the home. Thanks to the Democrat’s successful vaccine program.
85 is really a case study in a way to understand the break down in the social contract in times of crisis.
Early on, way back last spring, I did my best to try and urge friends, neighbors, relatives, coworkers, just about anyone I could to try really hard to experience the pandemic from the perspective of some low wage retail or service sector employee being told to stay at their post, “No Zoom for you!”, etc.
You work from home in your cargo shorts and then run some errands. And you maybe encounter and come within striking distance of a half dozen strangers. The 57 year old grocery clerk gets the same shitty, rotating schedule that changes daily with the scramble to find day care. And they get to be up close and smelling the body odor of a thousand people in a shift. You can stock up and limit your trips when the local infection numbers get sketchy. They can only stay home if they are willing to get fired, lose their health insurance and learn to live in their car.
But you saw people shopping as families. You saw people going to the grocery store just to “get out of the house”. You saw people just not giving a shit about all those “essential workers”.
And now job vacancies in a lot of those “essential worker” positions are hard to fill.
Amazeballs.
“I can wear a mask in public places to hide my smile.”
What he can’t do is wear a mask in public to be a decent human being and show a tiny fragment of respect for someone he considers “beneath”.
Re: the breakdown in the social contract:
There are millions of people who are staying home with more income not working than they received, while working, before the pandemic.
Breakdown, indeed. Even Biden opposes it.
I saw not one family shopping for the purpose of getting out of the house. I saw plenty of families shopping the same way they did before the pandemic hit; you don’t leave 4 year-olds at home while you shop. The pandemic did not change that.
Both administrations threw trillions of dollars at the problem. It’s likely that more than half the money was wasted relative to intended use, but it did have the effect of stoking the markets and enriching those of us who didn’t panic and sell early last Spring.
The smile on my face is because my enrichment comes at the expense of YLB’s kids, who will shoulder the burden of the inflation to come. Meanwhile, YLB cheers on anything the Biden administration does, because YLB is 1) unserious and 2) knows no better. Such stupidity is often funny.
One more thing: Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who claims to be a capitalist, feels the same way. He just feels it a day after the rest of us, because he doesn’t read Barron’s until it’s become old news.
Evergreen State College might not survive on its own.
Nobody wants the job. Understandably. They saw what happened to Weinstein and his spouse. They saw what happened to the police chief. Who the fuck wants to subject themselves to asylum rule by the inmates?
So now (2nd link)
Maybe it can merge with Democracy Now. Or the pillow manufacturing startup that used to be part-owned by David Hogg.
Heh.
“I can wear a mask in public places to hide my [vertical] smile.”
teh kreepee always wrong emperor of widbee wears no clothes..
you wear the mask on your face noodist kreepah..
Tim Tebow’s mother didn’t abort him. G-clown’s mother didn’t abort him.
Source: Jacksonville Jaguars expected to sign Tim Tebow as TE
Win some, lose some.
Tebow repackaged himself in another role so that he would fit in the NFL.
Kaepernick insisted on coming back as a starter, even though in his last NFL season he was benched due to underperformance.
One of them made it back. One of them was serious.
I found this humorous.
Slow Electric Vehicle Charging Is Making Drivers Switch Back to Gas
The article goes on to point out that range anxiety wasn’t usually an issue. It was for my wife and me – the LEAF didn’t quite do it on a longer day, particularly in the winter months. We turned in the leased vehicle 3 months early. We trickle-charged and that worked pretty well for us. It was a battery capacity issue.
I’d do an EV again now that it’s easy to find an inexpensive one that will provide 150 miles of range. We don’t drive enough to justify another vehicle acquisition, tho.
It’s interesting that it’s now OK for the NYT and CNN to publish pieces that delve into just how filthy the mining for battery elements is. That’s always been the dirty secret that libbies hide from the public – they use taxpayer subsidies to pay for their “clean” cars and solar panels. Clean here, maybe. Not where the mining is done. And not where fossil fuels are burned to supply the electricity to charge the batteries.
YLB’s kids already pay for the EVs used by those who can afford them. YLB’s kids probably won’t be able to afford one for quite awhile. But hey, they’ve got light rail!
Poor kreepah..
All polls show Biden’s programs are popular..
Even with repukes..
How miserable teh kreepah is shivering in its widbee safespace..
And my kids will “smile” indeed over that “certain hole in the ground” because?
the world will be a better place…
Yours truly has investments too. Didn’t do no panic selling. We’re doing just fine here at the homestead.
Dress warmly kreepah…
Last time I looked there were a lot of LEAF vehicles back from leases, 2 years old and maybe 20k miles, being sold by used-car dealerships for less than ten grand. If the battery range isn’t an issue, it’s an attractive deal.
It’s also 50%+ depreciation from the new-vehicle price, AFTER the government rebate. Probably close to 65% depreciation from the pre-rebate price. That’s a lot of depreciation in only two years.
Want an EV? Wait a couple of years. You’ll pay less for it, and YLB’s kids will foot the bill for your savings.
YLB’s kids already pay for the EVs used by those who can afford them. YLB’s kids probably won’t be able to afford one for quite awhile. But hey, they’ve got light rail!
Both live in-city and are enthusiastic users of public transit and the occasional uber..
One hasn’t even bothered to get a drivers license.
Who the F needs a car payment? How out of touch with this latest generation is teh smelly kreepee old fart of widbee?
Another day, more lies. What a fucktard.
Revisiting the Colin Kaepernick false narratives
@ 98
Who the F needs a car payment?
YLB, each and every time the government subsidizes a vehicle sale or subsidizes the sale of the solar materials used to charge an EV, your kids pay for it.
Your kids have a car payment, in effect, even if they don’t have a car, girlfriend.
As city dwellers, your kids pay so much for rent that they can’t even afford a vehicle if they wanted one, YLB. I’m not out of touch with that part of their generation.
There’s a scene in Norma Rae that goes something like this:
Norma Rae: We ain’t got a dog.
Union organizer: You don’t need one.
In the same vein, YLB, your kids don’t need a car. They’ve already got the payment for someone else’s. What’s more, you saw to it that they’d get stuck with it.
@ 98
One hasn’t even bothered to get a drivers license.
Laziness is another part of your kids’ generation that I’m “out of touch with”, YLB. Your lazy spawn can’t drive a car, but he knows Grand Theft Auto inside and out. You must be so proud.
Q-lady Greene is damned near as stupid as our dumbfuck.
We must pass my bill,
The Fire Fauci Act.
No one elected Dr Fauci. He is the highest paid federal employee.
At his direction, shutdowns & masks are ruining our country, for what appears to be a man made virus that Fauci paid for with our money.
YLB, each and every time the government subsidizes a vehicle sale or subsidizes the sale of the solar materials used to charge an EV, your kids pay for it.
Government subsidizes all kinds of things even things you like – like fossil fuels.. Billions of dollars a year for oil and gas.
Both my kids are just fine kreepah… One has a management job and is living the apartment life in Seattle. The other is studying to enter professional school to have the sort of job that keeps him ahead in life.
Keep having fantasies about my kids kreepah..
Even teh anal rape ones…
You do klownservaticism fine. You make HA HEROES laugh at you and your “wonderful life” in your widbee safe space.
On and on and on until.. “that certain day”..
Sure, the Q-lady is dumber than a stump, but she still has more smarts than our dumbfuck traitor.
“Businesses are failing,” she said. “Our border is being invaded. We have, you know, we’re sending all this money overseas for more people to invade us.”
“We need to care about the real issues that matter. We need to stop the masks, stop the vaccines and stop COVID-19 from controlling our lives.”
A Raw Story link.
3…2…1…TRIGGERED!
Which has absolutely nothing to do with Bob’s ELITIST declaration that he shouldn’t have to wear a mask simply in order to reassure the safety concerns of low wage workers in retail and hospitality who unlike him, have no option to stay home.
Bob figures it’s their own damn fault for not being as “good” as him. For having blown through their retirement savings paying for end-of-life cancer treatment for a spouse or child. For having no other choice but to show up at the register every morning at six to stare down the fog of Bob’s fetid cofeve breath. Vote for Trump. Get more. More of this.
“Fuck the staff.” Should make a fine boat flag.
Granholm is differentiating between a gasoline shortage and a “supply crunch”.
Sure.
How many times has the dumbfuck told us that none of the traitors at the insurrection were armed?
I did bring a weapon on property that we own. Federal grounds or not. The law is written, but it doesn’t mean it’s right law. The people that were around me were all carrying too.
Of course, with him being a radiologist with x-ray vision who can see concealed weapons that we can’t, I believed him. Heh.
What a dumbfuck. So fucking stupid. Oh, and a traitor.
Look at dumbfuck, swinging from a rope
Thought he’d get away with treason
The dumbfuck was a dope
Steve, spawn of a woman who routinely debased herself as the center of Nazi gang-bang parties filmed in 8 mm @ 107
You know the dude’s a notorious braggart, right? Like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and investing.
There’s this, too, Oh Child of Nazi:
The dude’s charged with the equivalent of stealing a stapler, Steve. Dial it down, Drama Queen.
NRA lawyers just soiled the company whites, failing to convince a Federal bankruptcy judge in Dallas that their self-described “cringe-worthy” client wasn’t trying to corruptly employ federal bankruptcy protection to avoid civil accountability for fraud, embezzlement, and tax evasion.
Line forms to the left.
It’s over.
NRA
BYE
BYE
107,
It’s been well known from the beginning that was just another Small Lie in support of The Big Lie.
They even had cases of gasoline bombs waiting in nearby cars and ammo cases filled with 37mm grenades and launchers.
Next time it will be worse. Unless we stop it now.
Worse is what people like Teh Dumbfuck want.
@ 110
…ammo cases filled with 37mm grenades and launchers
Link please. Flares or smoke?
The NRA bankruptcy judge goes by “Cooter”.
Biden will visit Detroit this week.
Also Detroit this week:
Ex-UAW President Dennis Williams gets 21-month sentence in corruption probe
Not exactly Norma Rae’s union.
They are cop killers!
Plain and simple.
I see the dumbfuck traitor @108 is triggered. Again. It’s becoming too easy. Hell, these days the dumbfuck traitor is even triggered by 12 year old comments.
Wait ’til the dumnbfuck traitor gets a load of this.
America loves President Joe Biden more than ever!
AP-NORC Approve 63% Disapprove 36%
God bless America.
And God bless Gman who, unlike the dumbfuck traitor, is a true American patriot.
@ 114
Plain and simple.
Like your cerebral development, G-clown.
@ 115
Yes, Steve, in a world in which 46% of the respondents are Democrats and only 17% are Independents, Biden reaches 63% approval.
Darryl taught you better than this, Steve.
@117 There he goes again. Triggered.
What a dumbfuck.
@ 118
Your mother swallowed Nazi sperm for fun, Steve.
Here you go, traitor.
Triggered again @119.
I see you need a clue, Dumbfuck. It’s because your attempts to insult me are so fucking stupid, lame and ineffective that I ignore them.
Perhaps if you were to try harder, traitor, you could do it, but I doubt it. You’ve proven yourself again and again to be too fucking stupid to pull it off.
111,
How’s this working for you, terrorist?
Your terrorism is “less lethal”?
Your terrorism is “incompetent”?
Your terrorism is “only kidding”?
I’ll admit, there is an obvious willingness amongst many influential Americans to pretend that a direct terror attack aimed at Congress is some kind of weird fluke. But they’ll get it eventually. Five to eight thousand attackers surrounding Congress, staging weapons, drawing diagrams, beating the shit out of cops, smashing down barricades, fencing, doors, and windows and breaking into offices and chambers intent on murder requires planning and organization. And if nothing is done about that, it will happen again. They’ll get it. Because more than anything they don’t want it to happen again.
So go ahead keep pretending it’s harmless LARPing.
That’s how they’ll know you as we already do.
@ 122
Typical summer weekend in The Durkan Kill Zone.
Make it whatever you want. One gunshot and it wasn’t fired by a protester/seditionist. Not much of an overthrow if you ask me.
It wasn’t for lack of trying, that’s damned sure. Your intent was utterly clear. You wanted to overthrow our government and install a raging orange man-baby as dictator. That you were too fucking stupid and incompetent to pull it off is your problem.
HANG MIKE PENCE!!! HANG MIKE PENCE!!! HANG MIKE PENCE!!! HANG MIKE PENCE!!!
You’re going to hang for your fucking treason, dumbfuck, and you truly have it coming to you.
@108 People are entitled to take terrorists at their word. Even if they don’t really mean it.
To see how this works in the real world, the next time you see a cop, say “I have a gun, and I’m going to kill you!”
We’ll miss you. Trolls used to be plentiful on this blog, but now they’re scarce. I suspect a lot of them are dead.
Did they mount an insurrection to overthrow our government? No, they did not. That was you traitors who did that.
Go ahead, keep trying to “move on”. Someday we will…after we see you and the rest of you traitors swinging from ropes for your fucking treason.
@117 In which case it appears we’re getting all of the independents, and all you’re getting is the hardcore Trumpers, i.e., the bottom third of the IQ curve.
“Students For Trump” co-founder gets prison for impersonating a lawyer.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/552962-students-for-trump-co-founder-gets-over-a-year-in-prison-for
Trump’s social media platform isn’t doing so great.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trumps-blog-isnt-lighting-internet-rcna890
@127 – The left side of the Bell Curve of intelligence is NOT populated with the those you are eluding to. Charles Murray pointed that,out, and you know who he was talking about.
Which has as much to do with an organized terrorism attack on Congress to assassinate members and destroy the electoral college vote as help wanted signs have to do with your arrogant, elitist demands to make service workers smell your bad breath.
Your whaddabout game sucks about as badly as your terror game.
Gonna cry?
And all he had to do was simply make it up.
Like “the steal”.
Like “the invisible dungeon”.
Like “the laptop”.
Like the “FB friend in CO”.
Amanda Chase, who pushed Trump to declare martial law, loses GOP nomination for Virginia governor
i read the establishment GOP changed the rules to block her. Too much crazy.
No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman.
‘Agitated’ Ocasio-Cortez berated and screamed at Border Patrol agent during Texas visit, government documents show
Liberals wanted to give Nick Sandmann a sentence worse than this.
John Roberts
@johnrobertsFox
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7h
The 15 year-old who killed Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar has pled guilty to felony murder. Because of her age, she will be remanded to juvenile detention and will be released when she turns 18.
I assume the vicious troll lost, on paper, several million dinars of his immense paper wealth, which measures in umpties of paper dinars, in today’s stock market shitstorm.
@135 So he finally got into a college — Jefferson Davis’ alma mater, no less — after two years of trying?
@130 I offer as Exhibit A … you.
“Agitated” would undoubtedly be perceived as “vicious” by any desperately lonely incel only accustomed to encountering women in a state of unconsciousness.
… cock rings,
Death Panels™,
Pizza Dungeons,
Chemtrails,
Laptop,
Open Border,
Bell Curve,
Bamboo Paper,
Socialism,
etc.
etc.
Someday, perhaps not too long from now, when the transformation and debasement is sufficiently irreversible, I’m going to explain to credulous dupes like Teh Dumbfuck and PDF exactly how they came to this point of reflexively and self-destructively engaging in these sorts of pointless myths. And why the irresistible impulse to do so is now coded into Murican “conservatism”. For now I’ll just say it gladdens me to be here to see it unfold first hand.
Soon to become Democrats.
71% of Republicans under age 45 want to raise taxes if it means creating jobs.
81)The CDU has not gone after unions with the zeal the Republicans have. Partly because they are protected in the Constitution, as a way to prevent some of the influence industrialists had prior to the Federal Republic’s founding. Coalition’s are the norm, My favorite is the Jamaica Coalition It is led by the CDU(Black), Free Democrats (Yellow), and the Greens. It’s a combination of the conservatives, a socially liberal but pro-business party, and environmentalists.
Next up: “Liberals are fighting to save Liz Cheney.”
Sure, Jan.
133)Used RCV, I believe. They’ve tried to block it’s use at the state level in Maine, and soon, Alaska.
Bob supports cop killers.
Plain and simple.
Liz Cheney for President! Even if I wouldn’t vote for her in the General.
That bitch can kick some ass.
How to start up and operate a 501(3)c ponzi/pyramid scam right in the open.
They know that they’re dealing with a bunch of rubes. They know those rubes will suck up to anyone who mentions “Socialism” and “Deep State” in disparaging terms. All they have to do is provide a hole for people to throw their money into and those rubes will happily empty their bank accounts and hand the money over to them.
3500% ROI.
Right in the fine print: “returns on your investment will be paid quarterly from a percentage of Algebravictory’s gross sales…”
Heh.
Good lord I’m in the wrong business.
@ Myself @ 147
It’s just a continuation of the fundraising/Capital harvesting scams that the GQP has been operating since Tricky Dick was running in 1967.
147,148,
Ooooooooh. A chance to earn “hearts”.
Fuck. Makes my head hurt.
According to the “business plan” in the prospectus, 10% of revenues to be set aside for ROI, but 80% of revenues to “staff” comp. No wonder he’s crowdsourcing.
Obviously the fact that it’s a math program is the joke.
148,
Students for Trump were much more direct.
You have to admire the efficiency.
They created a fake law firm. Built it mostly with images, copy, and graphics stolen from existing real law firms (even the lawyer bios). Then they began marketing for clients and of course funding client trust accounts. They never offered services. They never even retained a single lawyer. They just told Trump voters “Give me your money and I’ll represent your legal interests“. And then they went out and bought wristwatches and phones.
I’ve been told something slightly amazing about this by someone involved in the cases: they suspect these guys knew they’d be caught and actually factor it into their plan. They suggest that by doing the big crime early in life, and sort of “getting it out of the way” they will benefit in a few ways. First they believe that being young, white, college educated from good families with no priors they won’t even do time. Next, they expect to benefit from the experience – almost like a younger mob crew member does a bit “for the experience” and to demonstrate “quality”. And they hope to bank some of the proceeds for later on – crypto plays a key role here. And finally they hope the conviction will lend credibility to their bio. It’s like their white, conservative, Kentucky version of working a couple of seasons on a crab boat – including the broken teeth and smashed fingers.