HorsesAss.Org

  • Home
  • About HA
  • Advertise
  • Archives
  • Donate

If It’s Wednesday, It’s Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 3/26/25, 8:10 am

Good morning!

– The Senate is doing some bad stuff with e-bike and bus taxes. Transportation Choices has a petition you can sign.

– Free Lelo. Totally outrageous. Free Lewelyn Dixon. Disgusting.

– Presumably this story about Oregon water is also true of Washington.

Share:

  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print

Related

Comments

  1. 1

    A random thought spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 10:53 am

    Round of pints on me if the Auto Tariff announcement today excludes electric vehicles but only if they are made by a company starting with ‘TE’.

  2. 2

    Kevin Mitnick spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 11:11 am

    You know the kind of thing a cursory security clearance check would have found before giving a 19 year old access to pretty much whatever US Government IT systems at least until a judge tells him to get the fuck out of them.

    Exclusive: DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show

  3. 3

    Clippy, the intelligent assistant for drunks spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 11:13 am

    It looks like you are trying to describe highly sensitive, classified defense intelligence.

    Would you like to include a journalist in the chat?

  4. 4

    Pete "puking in your rose bushes" Hegseth spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 11:30 am

    Hey look. We needed something to divert attention from the gay makeup artists that we kidnapped and sent to a torture prison.

    So this is what I came up with.

    I might have been drinking.

  5. 5

    The unquenchable blood lust of 2A absolutists spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 11:39 am

    Thomas and Alito are totally good with guns being completely untraceable.

    The other seven aren’t.

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a federal ban on the sale of parts kits that permit unlicensed gun owners to make firearms at home which cannot be traced by the police.

    In a 7-2 decision, the justices agreed these homemade weapons, often referred to as “ghost guns,” qualify as firearms under federal law.

    …

    The decision upholds a regulation issued in 2022 by the Biden administration that was strongly supported by police and prosecutors.

  6. 6

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 12:29 pm

    Canada revoked its electric vehicle rebates for electric vehicles starting with “TE.”

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/5215591-canada-bans-tesla-rebates/

    It doesn’t really affect much, because nobody’s buying them anyway.

  7. 7

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 12:32 pm

    Lindsey Graham admitted “very sensitive information” was discussed disclosed during the Signal chat, but writes off the snafu as a “lessons learned” episode.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5215135-graham-signal-app-discussion/

    Graham will have no credibility until he stops acting as an apologist for these fuckups.

  8. 8

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 12:33 pm

    Why isn’t Dumbfuck on here bragging about TSLA going up today? Wait … oh. Down 7%.

  9. 9

    Tulsi Gabbard spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 12:47 pm

    A day later and on advice of council and now before the House instead of the Senate, yes I was on the Signal chat group.

    Apparently I can’t plead the fifth in a Congressional Hearing unless there are criminal charges likely or pending.

    Sorry. I’m not a lawyer I just thought I could get away with it because Putin has my back.

  10. 10

    Leady G...everyone knows and it's OK spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 12:49 pm

    Graham will have no credibility until he stops acting as an apologist for these fuckups. embraces his true self as a gay man, openly and publicly.

    fixed

  11. 11

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 1:32 pm

    @7,

    That rotten fat cunt Hillary learned she couldn’t have an email exchange about the sequence of amuse bouche at a state dinner hosting Upper Volta if she didn’t do it on a “secure server” and everyone on the chain had “Q” clearance from “Agent Orange”.
    🤡🇺🇸🤡🇺🇸🤡🇺🇸🤡

  12. 12

    The Queen spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 1:33 pm

    Economies are cyclical…. Until one day you become a fascist economy and it is no longer cyclical.

  13. 13

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 1:50 pm

    Flight data now shows a member of Pete Hegseth’s gossip girl group chat was inside Russia at the time he was texting to them.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:15 pm

    @9 Team Trump should admit they fucked up, instead of trying to lie and spin their way out of it, because everybody knows they did.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:25 pm

    This doesn’t look like a winning legal argument to me:

    Trump To Courts: What I Do With Migrant ‘Terrorists’ Isn’t Your Business

    The Trump administration is building a case in court for its ability to send people in the United States to an overseas detention camp — and then refuse to bring them home even if they’re innocent.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-terrorists-el-salvador_n_67e43a17e4b03483d8f9a801

    This is like saying to a panel of judges, “Your Honors, what my client did to the plaintiffs is none of your damn business.” The usual suspects, Thomas and Alito, might go along but I don’t see this argument being highly persuasive to the rest.

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:29 pm

    Kooky Karoline is still calling the war plans chat a “sensationalized story that’s falling apart by the hour,” echoing Baghdad Bob’s immortal words, “There are no American tanks in Baghdad!”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/war-plan-group-that-classified-info-secdef_n_67e450e0e4b03867f07e2cd3

  17. 17

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:31 pm

    Meanwhile, back on the reservation …

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded on a British journalist after being questioned about the fiasco over Trump officials sharing war planning on a Signal chat group.

    The Georgia Republican told Martha Kelner of U.K. broadcaster Sky News that “we don’t give a crap about your opinion,” and urged the reporter to “go back to your country” during her unhinged rant on Wednesday.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-british-reporter_n_67e4533ae4b00db00a3942ac

    Yeah. I can think of another foreigner who should go back to his own country.

  18. 18

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:35 pm

    Here’s their fall guy for the group chat fuckup:

    National Security Advisor Mike Waltz donated nearly $10,000 to three past Republican presidential candidates who staunchly opposed President Donald Trump – while not giving his boss a single dime, federal election data reportedly shows.

    https://www.rawstory.com/michael-waltz/

  19. 19

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:36 pm

    Earlier from the Nazi Fucktard:
    Jasmine Crockett ‘Liked’ Posts Calling Abbott ‘Hot Wheels’ in 2021

    But he still thinks it’s funny whenever Fat Hitler mocks disabled veterans.

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:38 pm

    Hey, I’m not the only one who’s reminded of Baghdad Bob by Kooky Karoline!

    ‘Strong Baghdad Bob energy’: Trump spokeswoman’s latest denial elicits instant mockery

    https://www.rawstory.com/karoline-leavitt-2671514278/

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 2:45 pm

    Where Republicans get their information:

    Drunkard Hegseth: “Nobody’s texting war plans!”

    Kooky Karoline: “Again, I would defer you to the Secretary of Defense’s statement he put out this morning …”

    Little Marco: “Well, the Pentagon says it was not …”

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 4:06 pm

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would impose 25% tariffs on “all cars that are not made in the United States” and “we start collecting April 3,” he said.

    Trump White House aide Will Scharf said the new tariffs apply to “foreign-made cars and light trucks.” He clarified that they come in addition to duties that are already in place. Scharf said the tariffs will result in “over $100 billion of new annual revenue” to the U.S.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/trump-could-sign-new-auto-tariffs-as-soon-as-wednesday-white-house-says.html

    This is, of course, a 25% sales tax paid by Americans. And it will kill the car market.

  23. 23

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 5:25 pm

    @ 6

    Canada revoked its electric vehicle rebates for electric vehicles starting with “TE.”

    Canada’s dollar is worth 69 US cents. It’s down from 79 cents only three years ago. US goods are expensive in Canada because the Canadian dollar sucks.

    So, Canada can make it’s own EVs, right? To avoid the dissuasive exchange rate involved in buying a foreign vehicle, right?

    Fate of $100 billion in Canadian EV projects in doubt as political landscape shifts
    As Trudeau prepares to exit and Trump takes helm in U.S., policies that helped prop up the industry are being scaled back or cancelled

    Canada has only made 40k EVs. That isn’t even enough to keep the Quebecois happy.

    Canada has done some really good Kabuki theater this year.

  24. 24

    Donnie the Con spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 5:38 pm

    I like to remind people that I have a Mandate.

    Forget that it’s based on lies (they wouldn’t call me a Con Man if I didn’t lie), like I knew nothing about Project 2025….and my work phone, I leave it with Melania…but anyways my Mandate, I got to keep reminding everyone that I do have a Mandate… come on, say it it with me, Mannnnndate, Man Date. I don’t want the Mandaters to forget that they gave me a Mandate. I mean if I had a real Mandate I wouldn’t have to remind those that I have a Mandate, am I right! Ivanka got some nice knockers… collectively, I got less votes than the rest of the field…MANDATE!

    The guy not on 17 State Ballots got 700,000 votes…and he dropped out of the race. Mandate! Right Bigballs! Right Hairyballs!

  25. 25

    We are the Con Party! spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 5:43 pm

    https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-senator-holmberg-minors-europe-sex-039607b7c8057932c2971b7d9f33ee98

    https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-senator-justin-eichorn-charged-minor-prostitution-4ba3e12063ed086d44a4fa34cccb1e7a

    Difference? Both Republicans

  26. 26

    Donnie the Con spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 5:56 pm

    Hey, I’m not the only one who’s reminded of Baghdad Bob by Kooky Karoline!

    Difference is that that Kooky bitch is a White Incompetent Hire.

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 6:07 pm

    @23 “US goods are expensive in Canada because the Canadian dollar sucks.”

    Now Teslas are even more expensive in Canada. #winningforelon

    “So, Canada can make it’s own EVs, right? To avoid the dissuasive exchange rate involved in buying a foreign vehicle, right?”

    Or buy cheaper Chinese models, or Canadians who were considering buying a Tesla will just shrug and buy a gas vehicle.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 6:13 pm

    @26 Baghdad Bob’s job was to boost Saddam’s morale by denying U.S. tanks were rolling into Baghdad in the background as he spoke.

    Kooky Karoline’s job is to boost Donnie’s morale by denying his cabinet is incompetent and blaming all his mistakes on Biden.

  29. 29

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 6:47 pm

    Or buy cheaper Chinese models, or Canadians who were considering buying a Tesla will just shrug and buy a gas vehicle.

    He used to say, “Am I Rite”…. But either way… he’s never right

  30. 30

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 6:53 pm

    Canadians won’t buy American whiskey. I don’t think they don’t plan on buying anything Amurika related. They seem more serious than American people. I know a few. They’re not thinking about an exchange rate, only Americans would do that. The tight wad ones.

  31. 31

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 6:59 pm

    One too many don’t👆🔝

  32. 32

    Support the Troops. Fold Star Families. spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 7:26 pm

    Picture if you will, four hours after press reports of dead American servicemen, Two hours after it was announced they were killed, a president is asked about it by a reporter….

    And he says he knows absolutely nothing about it.

    Now imagine that president is Joe Biden.

    https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1905017297892258146

  33. 33

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 7:48 pm

    @32 The families will get telegrams, but due to Pentagon staffing cuts, six months from now; and the bodies will get lost in transit to Dover. But don’t worry, they’re somewhere, and an Air Force ground crew eventually will find them while cleaning an airplane. Probably during the next administration.

  34. 34

    Donnie the Con spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 7:50 pm

    Mandate!

    They Mandated I take away their Social Security!

    They Mandated higher priced goods!

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 7:54 pm

    From news reports it sounds like the missing soldiers tried to drive an armored vehicle across a wood bridge, or tried to ford a river thinking it would float.

  36. 36

    Protecting your daughters the GOP way spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 7:59 pm

    Announced Keynote speaker, Florida Young Republicans, Tampa chapter. Andrew Tate

    Charged with multiple counts of rape, including rape of minors. human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women. Non-green card holding UK citizen on a tourist visa.

    Smarter adults told them ‘Hell No’ and he’s en route back to Romania and house arrest.

    Also, while he was in the Untied States at the direct intervention of the Trump administration intervening to het Romania to give him back is passport he probably caught another rape charge.

    According to Stern, Tate, 38, allegedly refused her pleas to stop until he finished having sex with her. It was only after he fell asleep that Stern says she rushed to the bathroom to photograph her injuries.

    The model, who reportedly met Tate last June while she was in Romania for a gig, was diagnosed as “post-concussive” four days later, according to emergency room discharge documents shared with the outlet

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 8:03 pm

    Based on which IRS employees are getting fired, it’s clear the Trump administration considers these two IRS functions expendable: (1) Enforcement against tax dodgers, and (2) the Taxpayer Advocate Service, “which helps people solve problems with their filings.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doge-irs-cuts-debt-ceiling-deadline-rcna197984

  38. 38

    ‘Four less Pensions to Pay.” Elon Musk spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 8:18 pm

    @35

    My google fu is pretty good so I could be not finding but so far no official acknowledgement, statement of condolence, twat from the underaged groomer at the podium or official White House accounts.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 8:33 pm

    @38 Be patient. They’re not even out of the water yet.

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 3/26/25 at 8:36 pm

    America’s Dumbest Senator™ weighs in about the security breach.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2SsEyOFxgM

    Trust me, his response is lightweight.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:02 am

    A gaggle of strangers in civilian clothes ambushed a Turkish grad student, threw her in a van, and flew her to Louisiana where she’s in an ICE lockup. It appears her valid student visa was summarily revoked, without notice or hearing, for “supporting terrorism.” In other words, she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as “Palestinian genocide” in the student newspaper.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-immigration-authorities-detain-international-tufts-graduate-st-rcna198158

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:30 am

    Here’s the video of the grad student’s detention.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTLu7CDOJA

    If you’re a guest in the United States, you can’t have opinions, at least not ones Co-President Netanyahu doesn’t like.

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:30 am

    Here’s the video of the grad student’s detention.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTLu7CDOJA

    If you’re a guest in the United States you can’t have opinions, at least not ones Co-President Netanyahu doesn’t like.

  44. 44

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 3:15 am

    20,000 fewer vehicles produced per day after the new Nazi tariffs take full effect.

    I’ll take the win.

    I know it isn’t the Fat Hitler intention here. But when did that ever matter. And while the high unemployment, plunging GDP, and rising inflation this will produce will cause suffering, so does our cultural and economic addiction to cars. Our North American obsession with cars is a huge drain and burden on our economic capacity.

  45. 45

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 3:44 am

    If you’d like an easy way to search for local MAGA chud fascists in your area to target for boycotting, or maybe stopping by to leave an upper decker, here’s a convenient tool:

    https://www.publicsquare.com/

    Browse to it using an incognito or private browsing sesh. Refuse cookies. Click the “Near me” button. Don’t allow location. Enter a zip code.

    Voila! Convenient map coordinates for aerial strikes, boycott, protests, etc All the fascist shit stains you want to avoid conveniently gathered in a single local map.

  46. 46

    Resist spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 3:53 am

    America is under siege by a bunch neo- nazi fascist terrorists.

  47. 47

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 6:16 am

    “Under the previous administration we looked like fools.”

    – Alcoholic wife beater Pete Hegseth

    Under this current administration we look like drunken fools someone needs to hide car keys from.

  48. 48

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 6:20 am

    One of the tattoos that the fascists are using to justify the kidnapping and torture is an autism awareness ribbon.

  49. 49

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 7:19 am

    Kash Patel’s personal and household security is being provided by private security contractors of his choosing, rather than by FBI or Secret Service.

    Because FBI or Secret Service agents would be obligated to disclose it when they observe their protectee using narcotics.

  50. 50

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 7:31 am

    Imagine the signal chats that haven’t been drunkenly shared with the media.

  51. 51

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:13 am

    While Putin actively violates the “limited” ceasefire he agreed to, and while slapping an industry killing 25% tariff on cars, Fat Hitler is offering to help his pal out by opening up U.S. markets to be flooded with Russian exports.

  52. 52

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:23 am

    “Girlfriend’s building” (residence) is not a legal target under the Geneva Conventions.

    So that’s the Trump Secretary of Defense admitting to a war crime and the Trump Vice President cheering it on and describing it as “excellent”.

  53. 53

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:38 am

    Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
    States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services. Red states rely on federal public health grants more than blue states. These grants were just cut with virtually no notice.

    Republicans did that.

  54. 54

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:41 am

    Major US steel manufacturer laying off 600 in Dearborn, citing weak auto demand
    While the Minnesota workers were told they could be brought back to work within six months, Michigan workers were given no such assurances.

    Republicans did that.

  55. 55

    Teal World’s Sean Duffy spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 9:54 am

    I literally have no explanation why flight reservations from Canada to the US for the summer travel season are down 70% from 2024 levels.

    Don’t they known this is the greatest country in the galaxy?

  56. 56

    Elon Musk spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 9:56 am

    Huh…

    Weird that the Mustang EV, the third best selling EV in the USA is assembled in Mexico.

    I had no idea.

  57. 57

    G spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 10:10 am

    Thank You President Joe Biden!

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-economy-grew-2-4-123742572.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVtb2NyYXRpY3VuZGVyZ3JvdW5kLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF8WugEDOOIgj8w4nypxecLz53Mfg_77TDwprjLjzg_nD3X6RnsoTc9G28V3-Z__DJR9jtGRJXjStmP2T8_88q0pN_54SiUF9mpqSILzsH9oR1s0JSGbntR2RYPEXXaadbgPeWQx9ysMolp4BK5EowOGxeO7idnvh1NIHbpr5LgM

  58. 58

    Why wasn’t the Commander in Chief ordering the Yemen strikes on a secure channel? spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 10:58 am

    Because Alzheimers is just a state of mind.

    we’re gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women to the women between the fertilization and all of the other things that we’re talking about it’s gonna be it’s gonna be great. We’re uh joined today, heh, fertilize.

  59. 59

    The Soy Boy Incel Republican Party spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 11:23 am

    The party that ran ads that Tammy Duckworth doesn’t stand up for America is super Butthurt over ‘Governor Hot Wheels’

  60. 60

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 11:44 am

    Frengel Reyes Mota was a taxpaying, productive, married, working parent and a completely legal resident with a pending case for asylum who had no criminal records anywhere, and no immigration violations. He came here “the right way” applying for and obtaining a legal, provisional residency while his application for asylum was being processed. He has no tattoos and no affiliations with any gangs.

    Today he’s in a torture-for-hire prison in El Salvador thanks to the new GOP Fascism and their consistently predictable incompetence.

    Yesterday the DC Circuit panel denied the Fascist’s motion for a stay of Judge Boasberg’s order. As information continues to trickle out about the true identities of the people the Fascists kidnapped and flew to El Salvador in defiance of a valid court order, the judge is now going to have to weigh the plight of these victims into any calculations about how to respond to Fascist’s contempt.

  61. 61

    FKA Hops spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 12:08 pm

    BREAKING! EXCLUSIVE!

    Leaked video of Pete Hegseth after a night at the club.

    https://youtu.be/6O1KTMOOFcA?si=O9KTo5oYWdLUIuc9

  62. 62

    New York Shield Law spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 12:21 pm

    Ken Paxton,

    “I have this default judgement of $113,000 and I demand the state of New York enforce it and extradite the defendant.”

    New York Superior Court

    “Everything in your claim is legal in the state of New York where all actions by your defendant took place. Kindly, and Respectfully…

    Fuck right off.”

  63. 63

    Donald meeting with Stefanik this morning. spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:12 pm

    I’m sorry sugar tits but we’ve seen the polling. You saw what just happened in Pennsylvania where they cheated us out of a state district we’ve never lost. You have ti stay where you are, actually ben over just a little bit. Okay. Top button, undo it. Anyway the polls are clear that there isn’t anyone who can hold your seat even with my Soaring Greatness when the lying New York Democrats don’t let me just appoint a replacement. You have to stay in the house. Imagine that, a woman staying at house like Great America.

  64. 64

    Donnie spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:21 pm

    Why tariffs?

    Electric vehicle sales in Europe rose 26% last month.

    Tesla sales in Europe plunged 40% last month.

    Gotta keep those nasty Volvos and Volkswagens BMWs out of the country for our boy Devin. You know Devin Devin Husk great guy meet with him all the time. You shit up I known his name. Who are you to correct me?

  65. 65

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 1:29 pm

    62,

    Dear Attorney General Paxton,

    Some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 2:30 pm

    @62 Imagine Montana trying to enforce its bathroom laws in Washington State …

    https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/transgender-bathroom-restrictions-take-effect-montana-governor-signs-l-rcna198472

    … and you’ll have a rudimentary understanding of “jurisdiction.”

  67. 67

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 2:39 pm

    @63 Well waddaya know, somebody advising Trump can do simple arithmetic. If Republicans lose both special elections in Florida, their House majority will shrink to 218-217. If they also lost Stefanik’s seat in New York, it would be …

  68. 68

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 2:39 pm

    @63 Well waddaya know, somebody advising Trump can do simple arithmetic. If Republicans lose both special elections in Florida their House majority will shrink to 218-217. If they also lost Stefanik’s seat in New York, it would be …

  69. 69

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 4:04 pm

    Another one. It appears the Orange Fascist is arbitrarily revoking student visas, kidnapping them on public streets in broad daylight, and spiriting them away to black sites, if he doesn’t like the content of their First Amendment protected political speech.

    This is a good place to pause and note that constitutional rights apply to everyone in the U.S. including visa holders and even illegals. (In other words, an illegal accused of a crime is entitled to the full panoply of due process rights.) And while foreign students on F-1 visas are guests in our country, it appears their visas can’t just be arbitrarily revoked. However, the Trump administration appears to be doing just that. Newsweek reported today (here,)

    A State Department official told Fox News that the agency has revoked more than 20 visas since President Donald Trump’s second term began on January 20, adding that the foreign nationals whose documentation was revoked are being processed for immediate deportation. The official added that the department is also reviewing hundreds of visas.

    These are the foreign students being singled out for visa review:

    people who have spoken out or demonstrated against the Israeli government’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

    Not “pro-Hamas,” just “against the war.” Merely expressing sympathy for the innocent Palestinian civilian victims of the Gaza war is not only enough to get you thrown out of the Trump Kingdom, but also to get arrested and thrown in jail. All of which is cloaked in “national security concerns.” This policy could have been written by Netanyahu himself. Actually, I suspect it was.

  70. 70

    When the AG is also Pravda spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 4:27 pm

    Asked point blank why DOJ isn’t investigating a now admitted violation of several US Laws, Scam Bondi gives the press a now 9 year old Whadabout

    if you want to talk about classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s home

  71. 71

    Republicans spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 6:23 pm

    @70

    We are LITERALLY the deep thinkers raised on weak clap backs and high fives and entire media networks telling us we’re never wrong.

  72. 72

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:02 pm

    Rural 2-lane highway, light traffic moving at posted highway speed, unimpeded visibility.

    A rookie trooper, with a training officer in the passenger seat, is parked off the roadway on the shoulder, clocking passing traffic. He decides to pursue a speeder going in the opposite direction.

    To do this, he’s going to make a U-turn from the shoulder across his own travel lane. He doesn’t notice the car coming up from behind him. Nor does he activate his emergency lights.

    The state patrol car and passenger car sideswipe. The cops get the civilian driver’s insurance info and tell him the state is self-insured. Later, they make him pay for the police report, delete police camera footage, and redact police audio. Two weeks after the accident, the trainee resigned from the state patrol.

    The civilian driver and his passenger went to a hospital with minor injuries. He paid a $1,000 deductible to have his car repaired on his own insurance. The only thing he wants from the state is his out-of-pocket $1,000 reimbursed.

    The state denies his claim on “qualified immunity” grounds, citing a legal case the court published with a notation that it’s “non-precedential.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKqXwYCods

  73. 73

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:21 pm

    Canada retaliates.

  74. 74

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 3/27/25 at 8:45 pm

    How Trump plans to Americanize the workforce. (Satire)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1eG4xBJOE

  75. 75

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 4:50 am

    Border Patrol Union endorsed Trump, now Trump bans fed union bargaining
    including Border Patrol

    Republicans did that

  76. 76

    RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 4:57 am

    So how is the appeasement democrats strategy doing?
    Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand promised us that if they voted yes on the Republican budget, they’d be in a better position to fight the Trump admins’ illegal reallocation of federal spending:
    Trump admin just announced $300M in HHS cuts to New York, slashing federal HHS funding by 50%

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm1QnHGWwAAsC1g.jpg:large

  77. 77

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 5:17 am

    Remember when Republicans promised if Roe v. Wade was overturned, they wouldn’t prosecute women who got abortions? They were lying through their teeth.

    Since the beginning of this year, Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in at least 10 states, including Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho and North Dakota, that aim to charge pregnant women with homicide if they seek out or receive an abortion.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5217297-republican-state-lawmakers-abortion-homicide-bills/

    Don’t be a bit surprised if they try to push this women into the electric chair or put them in front of a firing squad. That’s the next very short step. Oh, and one more thing: They don’t make distinctions between abortions (MURDER!!!) and miscarriages (MURDER!!!) You lose your baby, you die!!!

  78. 78

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 5:23 am

    As for tariffs on imported cars like Hondas and Toyotas, which Trump is about to make cost a lot more:

    The White House claims the tariffs will “protect America’s automobile industry,” which it says has been undermined by “excessive imports.”

    https://thehill.com/business/5218248-donald-trump-auto-tariffs-car-prices/

    Yeah, that’s right, he wants to FORCE you to buy American cars even if they’re overpriced junk.

    Oh, and if laid-off autoworkers think this will bring their jobs back, they haven’t been inside an assembly plant lately. The days when car factories needed thousands of workers are over.

  79. 79

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 6:21 am

    B-b-uttt the price of eggggs …

    The Federal Reserve’s key inflation measure rose more than expected in February while consumer spending also posted a smaller than projected increase, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

    The core personal consumption expenditures price index showed a 0.4% increase for the month, the biggest monthly gain since January 2024, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.8%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective numbers of 0.3% and and 2.7%.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/pce-inflation-february-2025-.html

    #itsbidensfault

  80. 80

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:04 am

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, & Nasdaq Composite are starting day trending down, are down for the week, and are all worth less than they did at the start of the year.

    Republicans did that.

  81. 81

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:16 am

    Car Repossessions Hit Levels Unseen Since 2008 Financial Crisis

    Republicans did that

  82. 82

    RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:29 am

    LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid pricey subscription costs. Users don’t want to rent the software for the rest of their lives. LibreOffice is also standalone, with creator’s data stored on their computers, not the cloud.
    Same for Adobe Photoshop and 3d Studio Max. Users are moving to open source versions to avoid being forever renters of their expensive subscriptions. In the case of graphic software, to avoid embedded plagiarism scripts as well.

  83. 83

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:32 am

    Fat Hitler’s national security advisor, who was chosen as the fall guy for the Signalgate classified intelligence spill, also has a Venmo account filled with journalists.

    https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

    Paying “journalists” to report lies is so classic Russia.

  84. 84

    RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:32 am

    America’s birth rate sparks fears for the economy
    Who can afford kids? If society wants more kids, pay the poor and middle class a lot more.

  85. 85

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 3/28/25 at 7:39 am

    Before traveling to Greenland Vice President Sofa-Fucker had his advance team head out and offer to pay Greenlanders to agree to appear in social media postings with the gender ambivalent fake “hillbilly” and his surprisingly masculine wife Usha.

    There were no takers.
    🤣❤️

Recent HA Brilliance…

  • Friday, Baby! Friday, 5/9/25
  • Wednesday Open Thread Wednesday, 5/7/25
  • Drinking Liberally — Seattle Tuesday, 5/6/25
  • Monday Open Thread Monday, 5/5/25
  • Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza! Friday, 5/2/25
  • Friday Open Thread Friday, 5/2/25
  • Today’s Open Thread (Or Yesterday’s, or Last Year’s, depending On When You’re Reading This… You Know How Time Works) Wednesday, 4/30/25
  • Drinking Liberally — Seattle Tuesday, 4/29/25
  • Monday Open Thread Monday, 4/28/25
  • Monday Open Thread Monday, 4/28/25

Tweets from @GoldyHA

I no longer use Twitter because, you know, Elon is a fascist. But I do post occasionally to BlueSky @goldyha.bsky.social

From the Cesspool…

  • Widdle Marco doesn’t get to grab the protestors on Friday, Baby!
  • Writing about genocide on Friday, Baby!
  • Good Job Everyone. on Friday, Baby!
  • Whaddabout on Friday, Baby!
  • The Chicago School of Economists on Friday, Baby!
  • Vicious Troll on Friday, Baby!
  • Friends if Bill W on Friday, Baby!
  • Vicious Troll on Friday, Baby!
  • Vicious Troll on Friday, Baby!
  • Vicious Troll on Wednesday Open Thread

Please Donate

Currency:

Amount:

Archives

Can’t Bring Yourself to Type the Word “Ass”?

Eager to share our brilliant political commentary and blunt media criticism, but too genteel to link to horsesass.org? Well, good news, ladies: we also answer to HASeattle.com, because, you know, whatever. You're welcome!

Search HA

Follow Goldy

[iire_social_icons]

HA Commenting Policy

It may be hard to believe from the vile nature of the threads, but yes, we have a commenting policy. Comments containing libel, copyright violations, spam, blatant sock puppetry, and deliberate off-topic trolling are all strictly prohibited, and may be deleted on an entirely arbitrary, sporadic, and selective basis. And repeat offenders may be banned! This is my blog. Life isn’t fair.

© 2004–2025, All rights reserved worldwide. Except for the comment threads. Because fuck those guys. So there.