You can drive on the West Seattle Bridge. But also, if the Water Taxi, or working from home, or alternate routes, or whatever worked for you, the first rush hour might not be the best time to take it. Does anyone know if the C line will be faster? It couldn’t be slower, he types nervously.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
How are teachers’ unions going to continue to squeeze the taxpayers now that First Vegetable Joe Biden has gone onto 60 MInutes to declare an end to the pandemic?
It turns out that the list of minor girls impregnated by public school teachers since early 2020 is longer than the list of public school teachers infected with COVID-19 by transmission from minor children.
See, masks and remote learning work!
S&P 500 back into bear-market territory today.
How far into pregnancy would Stacey Abrams be before she begins to show?
Yeah, me too.
While normally this would be groundbreaking news, the fact that scientists have proven a quantum theory posed by Julian Schwinger by making “something out of nothing” isn’t a big deal to us here at HA because Dr. Dumbfuck has been doing it for years.
In all seriousness, congrats to the scientific team that accomplished the feat, it is actually a really big deal.
@2 whats the link or you are lying
Showing us every day he’s a racist incel.
6,
I really don’t think heuristic is needed any longer.
He’s just lying. Full stop.
The Republican Meltdown on Martha’s Vineyard:
When the residents of the tiny island town responded to Ron DeSantis’s stunt with a clinical demonstration of civic virtue, the right just about lost their damn minds.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167782/republican-meltdown-marthas-vineyard-migrants
So this is what it’s come to with the Republican Party. The so-called party of Lincoln has been reduced to staging inhumane tricks in a dubious effort to get people to hate liberals.
So let’s compare and contrast. On the one hand, we have a group of governors and operatives who hired a mystery woman to lure people—who were seeking asylum from the harsh political repression they’d endured in their home country as well as a dangerous journey of some 3,000 miles—onto airplanes and buses with phony offers of jobs and a future. On the other, we have a few thousand people who, by all nonideological accounts, helped these poor people out for a few days. Which of these groups behaved admirably? Was it the people with fraudulent offers of charity and kindness—or the people who stepped in to provide it?
Worth reading the full piece.
6,
I guess it beats some explanation here. But I really don’t see how anyone who has spent the past few years dabbling in a constellation of conspiracy theories challenging vaccination and a deadly pandemic, conjuring dark plots in the Ukraine energy industry, positing rape fantasies, excusing armed insurrection, and claiming stolen elections, just to name a few, can ever be taken the least bit seriously going forward. It just seems reasonable and prudent to assign falsehood to any statement he makes unless you already know otherwise.
Now that I’m ‘On His Majesty’s Secret Service’ maybe I can go back to slapping a woman around from time to time when they really deserve it. And raping that Pussy Galore woman. It’s a MAN’s world again. It will be bloody awesome to have my way with the ladies how ever I see fit. The cuck they made me be the last decade or so is just liberal nonsense about ‘dignity’ and ‘me too’ and while I’m at it, hire me some Japanese concubines. Two at a time please.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017768546
Fascist pigs.
I put a pair of Democratic Senators in Congress and all those wins for a more decent America signed by PRESIDENT Joe Biden are the result. So you go ahead and make jokes about my weight. I’ll just be over here turning the South blue, BITCH!
I could outrun that fat fuck orange guy in a dash or a mile. Probably that other asshole in
Florida too. Lindsey’s probably got me. He keeps trim for the fellas.
Maybe it’s time for these sanctuary cities, counties and states top are on a couple of million illegal aliens to show just how wonderfully woke they are. They have the opportunity to practice what they preach.
@14. Was there a call to action in that badly worded, unclear post?
@ 14,
They already have. They already do. And they’ll keep right on doing it.
You just go ahead and keep all the toothless meth heads, and pre-teens pregnant by their brothers and send all those good healthy, literate, hard workers our way. We’ll clothe them, feed them, house them, and put them to work in living wage jobs building EV batteries, solar panels, and new green energy homes in our expanding wealthy communities.
And you’ll keep trying to cure your diabetes with prayer.
Historically free market, libertarian conservatives have argued that government interventions are both ineffective and inefficient, and ultimately impoverish us all socially and economically. They’ve recruited this philosophy into many issues. But they’ve had some of their greatest success in capturing public imagination in areas of civil rights.
Free market, conservative libertarians have complained that heavy handed government cannot achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion through regulations or through legal interventions, at least not without crippling society and the economy. Instead they’ve always insisted that the pure indifference of the “invisible hand” to arbitrary distinctions like race, gender, or class would produce diversity, equity, and inclusion through the simple pursuit of efficiency and profit. And that government efforts to coerce and impose these things upon people and markets would delegitimize them and turn people against them.
How ironic then, that the minute private markets and large global, capitalist firms embrace these objectives on their own, without government coercion, free market conservative libertarians are now demanding government interventions and abandoning their free market principles entirely.
Will nobody think of the
childrenwhite men?@17. It’s like everything else conservatives do. Use the rule of law to bludgeon liberals, and then abandon the rule of law when they start to get applied to them, when their values start limiting them.
Republicans: “Stupid libs, you thought we stood for something.”
Free Market Capitalism, if you want to stop most of the illegals, put everyone who hires an illegal in private prison for a year, fine them 30% of their yearly income and take away their right to vote. Demand would dry up. Problem solved.
Also, Free Market Capitalism would want as many workers as it could get, to drive demand down for wages and benefits. Keeping workers out, is the opposite of Free Markets. You think someone with that name would know that.
Hetero Neanderthals grooming STD’s.
https://gothamist.com/news/evidence-seized-from-federal-judges-ny-home-in-sons-secret-sex-tape-case
…to cook its toasted cheese sandwiches, trim its toenails that it can no longer reach, and rinse its ass crack.
I don’t have contempt for the frailty of old white men, or even conservative old white men.
I have contempt for their lack of self awareness about their frailty and it’s implications.
Typo at 14 – sometimes the text completion fills in the blanks incorrectly.
Do you think the Obamas will take in a few dozen illegals into their multi-million dollar mansion on Martha’s Vineyard? Will the Medina crowd put their monies where their mouths are? Just how fucking “liberal progressive” are these fucking hypocrites living in places like Medina, Clyde Hill, and Beverly Hills?
Illegals – come here LEGALLY or don’t fucking come at all!
Breeding will not save them.
@ 19
… fine them 30% of their yearly income …
I am. Each and every year. The money is handed to YLB so she doesn’t have to work. Or break a nail while strapping on her kneepads.
Today’s bad news for QoS McHillbilly is Lee’s 11-point lead over McMullin.
McHillbilly knew McMullin was never close. He just needed a small bit of good news that day.
The Venezuelan asylum seekers that texas and florida sent to Martha Vineyard to score political points against liberals WERE here, following the rules for asylum seekers. Not their fault forced birth republicans lied to them.
It’s illegal to hire illegals. If you don’t want illegals coming here, put the people who hire illegals in prison for breaking the law. If they can’t get work, they won’t come here. America can absorb the asylum seekers who follow the process, I hope you are NOT arguing that any amount of black and brown people above zero is too many.
@24. Oh the poor Gaultian. Having his money looted from him and given to undesirables. Everyone’s tax money should have been spent on him. That’s only way it would be fair.
Taxes are the prices of civilization, leech. Never wants to pay for what he demands he receive. Typical.
The take-away may be the race is not as close as McMullin’s campaign said its internal polls showed — nor is Lee’s lead as large as his campaign had stated in its polling. Lee’s lead is also not as large, in the Debate Commission poll, as Republican incumbents in U.S House races.
Let’s all have it be a free and fair election.
Hey, with inflation worsening again, stiff interest rate increases by the Fed to try to tame it, and climbing gasoline prices this Fall, I’m fully willing to be surprised by the election results.
You know what would really hurt those people in Medina, Clyde Hill, and Beverly Hills? A progressive income tax on the 1%. Have them pay a steeper tax rate than their gardeners and cooks.
22,
Great news!!!!
All of your worries can be assuaged and you can stop your retching and sobbing because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE FAT MIDGET KIDNAPPED AND SENT TO MASSACHUSETTS IS PRESENT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES LEGALLY.
I know, blows your tiny walnut sized brain right up. Doesn’t it?
Each and every one of those good people, fleeing violence and political persecution by a crazed Marxist dictatorship, went to enormous pains, made heroic efforts, and overcame incomprehensible obstacles placed in their paths by damaged human beings like yourself in order to lawfully present themselves at a legal point of entry to the U.S. and apply for legal asylum.
They are not “illegal”. They did not “sneak” in. They followed the law, just like you asked. THEY CAME LEGALLY.
So, will you now apologize?
Or will you simply disappear from here and go back to masturbating to goat porn?
Either one works for me.
We’re now learning senior citizens who’ve had Covid are more likely to develop Alzheimers.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/health/covid-alzheimers-diagnosis-wellness/index.html
Any day now Trump will morph from ranting demagogue to blabbering idiot. Normal people won’t notice a difference.
@1 Still arguing public employees should work for free, I see.
I think doctors should, too. After all, health care is a public good.
@2 “It turns out that the list of minor girls impregnated by public school teachers since early 2020”
Now do groping doctors.
@3 “S&P 500 back into bear-market territory today.”
It appears the indexes opened lower and that lasted all of 15 minutes or so. I admit this wasn’t a fantastic day for stocks; the Dow ended only 197 points up, and the S&P 500 only 26 points up. Must be some tepid dip buying going on, even though Barrons this weekend told its readers not to. I guess not all the traders read Barrons.
@4 “Yeah, me too.
You’re fat and pregnant?
@5 I’m sure quantum physics flies way over the heads of evangelical Republicans and their preachers, so they probably won’t pick up on the suggestion that if the physical universe is capable of creating matter out of nothing, you don’t need a God to create the universe. If they do grasp it, they’ll probably argue their God created the electrical field and all these scientists did was convert energy into electron-positron pairs and, shit, any kid with a chemistry set can do that.
A Florida career criminal who specializes in sucker punching women and shoving jail nurses has added “Fuck Joe Biden!” to his repertoire.
https://mycbs4.com/news/local/cvs-pharmacy-employee-attacked-suspect-cursed-president-joe-biden
@24
Time for you to move east of the Cascade Curtain. There you will find a sympathetic ear to your complaint.
On this side you will only hear derision for the welfare queens for the Eastern Washington counties and the leeches that live within.
@22
Tell me you’re stupid without telling me.
Hell I used this free market system to sell books and give weekly speeches about a guy named Jesus. At last check my personal net worth was $100m. I did not help people shelter from the storm. I EARNED my money telling you about how private Citizen Christians are required by their faith to feed the hungry, clothe the naked AND find them shelter. It’s all there. Only the suckers believe it. I just got rich. It was hard honest work.
Why don’t I operate homeless shelters and give my wealth away as my Bible tells me too? Because I’m a CALITALIST. I found my con and got mine. Screw you. That Huckabee guy and his daughter get it. Praise Jesus but don’t you dare skip the collection plate in MY house of the lord. That bread is mine.
@37
A while ago I listened to the debate between Bill Nye “the Science Guy” and Ken Ham, CEO of Young Earth creationist ministry Answers in Genesis (The group that built the life-size Noah’s Ark), and wowsers, it was very entertaining to say the least.
I have no idea why guys like Nye, Dawkins, et al., try and debate the fundamentalist nutjobs.
The answer they give to anything they can’t explain is usually either A) divine intervention or B) a supernatural act. I guess for some that is easier to accept than not knowing or living with uncertainty.
@40
Grift at its best! Only one better was Ravi, he at least got some on the side too! But he got caught. Bummer.
You guys are all the same.
PT Barnum was right all along.
Guys like you are the reason we should treat churches like business, or organized crime, take your pick. We should remove the 501-C3 status from religious organizations and take that tax money to feed and shelter the poor.
@29
Methodological changes like…
Assuming R women are still R women, the youth vote post Dobbs will be same as it ever was and NOT taking into account Kansas?
Things that are as permanent as Lloyds of London.
Stonehenge
The Great Wall
Idiots on the internet spiking the ball on their market takes an hour after opening bell.
@44
“Things made out of rocks” for the Daily Double!
28,
Allow me to simplify if I may.
Utah is different.
Have you been? And I’m not talking about SLC. If you really have them you know. It sure as fuck isn’t Kansas.
Who’s going to pick thier fruit?
“The agriculture industry admits most of its hires are undocumented. “At least 50-70 percent of farm laborers in the country today are unauthorized,” the American Farm Bureau says on its website.”
https://www.fb.org/issues/immigration-reform/agriculture-labor-reform/economic-impact-of-immigration/
Wanna guess how expensive food would have to get before fat old bitter racist conservatives would go work in a field?
Here’s some history for homophobes. Get a life, you got none, and are too bitter. All you have are stunts. Breeding will not save you.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRayvS3K/
43,
In 2022 they just are deplorables.
I’ve been talking about the low response rates from Trump 2020 voters since at least June. But when I do it isn’t with any accompanying assumptions about their turnout in 2022 and beyond.
The insight that Steve Bannon and Brad DeathStar brought to Trump in 2016 was that there were large numbers of old, racist, less educated white people available to be registered and turned out. And that the right collection of cultural grievances presented in the right way could overcome their cynicism and discouragement enough to get meaningful numbers of them to vote for a change. Combine that with Bernie Bros, James Comey, and Hillary campaigning for absolutely nothing besides “more of the same” and you get four years of President Finger Rape.
For two solid years now Trump, Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and Joe Rogan have been telling his voters that it’s all corrupt, it’s all fake, it’s all rigged, and there really isn’t any point. They’ve been humiliated and degraded by their own poor performance and the corruption and perfidy of those they admire. Hillary, AOC, Fauxcahontas, and global Jews continue to dance freely through their fever dreams. And the only “FBI raids”, frog marches, and LOCKHERUPS have been Trump, his enablers, and his hapless marks. In less than two years “Sleepy Joe” has reversed all of Trump’s incompetence, restored a full employment economy, and built a green tech revolution for America, making a laughing stock of supply siderism in the bargain.
It’s just the tiniest bit possible that some of those Trump 2020 voters have become discouraged and gone Gault on the GOP.
Not counting on it. Just pointing out that some people “neeed” to find a certain explanation for something we all see in the data. But need, no matter how desperate and no matter how driven by fear, is not more data.
It’s possible now that for the first time ever, the same racist, uneducated old white people we’ve been watching for years on social media scream at fast food workers for daring to speak Spanish in their presence, righteously throwing scalding coffee at baristas, chasing and gunning down joggers from their pickups, and summoning SWAT response over parking have suddenly decided to hide the bright shining light of their unique views from the world and decline the opportunity to PWN TEH LIBS while continuing to vote in ever larger numbers. But I see nothing to persuade me that this is certain or even likely. Ardent supporters of proven, mainstream movements are usually eager to signal when given the chance. If they aren’t taking calls from survey firms it’s probably not something Dark Brandon said.
I am. Each and every year. The money is handed to YLB
Heh.. Such a fear based bleat…
The Manchinema agents of the IRS are comin’ for a degenerate kreepshit tax cheat of widbee…
what an “ass-pounding” that will be.. heh.
Conservatives are about to go ape shit about how this ‘Constitutional Sheriffs’ thing is a terrible idea.
Ken Burns has made a new documentary about “The U.S. and the Holocaust”…
It will be deemed “CRT” by the degenerate klownservatics and banned from k-12 public schools they control.
Most of Burns’ documentaries about US History discuss racism.. This makes tiffany smiley, dino 4 time lossi, larry elder, john james, drumpf, deathsatanist, noem, hee hawley, khruzz, mastriano, mtg, stefanik, goser, pedo gaetz etc.. voters go nutso…
@50
Me and my friends haven’t answered a phone call in years.
The guy driving the F-150 in Southern New Jersey (but with NY State Reg) with the bumper sticker that said “TRE45ON” seemed to me like a family man former Repuke.
As I passed him, I gave him a thumbs up.
Today I learned that Convict Leasing existed and was big in the South
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-different-kind-of-slavery/
After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions.
Southern state legislatures quickly passed “Black Codes” – new laws that explicitly applied only to Black people and subjected them to criminal prosecution for “offenses” such as loitering, breaking curfew, vagrancy, having weapons (where was the 2nd Amendment people then?), changing employers without permission, and not carrying proof of employment.
The nominal wages given to the prison laborers “drives honest labor out of employment and into starvation.” Many institutions in the late 1800s and early 1900s employed convict labor as a way to avoid strikes, shortages of laborers, and high turnover. Convict leasing undermines competitive labor markets and decreases living standards by reducing wage and employment rates among the free population. Government use of prison labor distorted incentives for incarceration.
Is that good Free Market Capitalism, or Bad Free Market Capitolism?
Forced Birth Republicans. “Can we bring it back so my favorite fast food joint won’t keep closing early for lack of employees?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/nyregion/monkeypox-cases-nyc-worldwide.html
changes in sexual behavior….unlike Neanderthal Conservatives breathing on each other on purpose…..because FreeDUMB.
Wouldn’t be much of a surprise of this dude sexual orientation.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyond-meat-coo-doug-ramsey-nose-biting_n_6328ed76e4b0bfdf5e195beb
I am 100 percent PRO HIGHER teachers pay..
Go SEATTLE Seahawks!
Are cops supposed to park their squad car, with a suspect in it, on active railroad tracks? The suspect had pulled a gun during a road rage incident, but they were now in police custody.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/officers-left-suspect-in-squad-car-on-train-tracks/73-1c6a1682-87e5-4c37-bf09-0fedc8ed4c13
Incident happened in Weld County, Colorado, probably a freight train, or possibly Amtrak5/6, California Zephyr. The RTD only serves a portion of Weld County, don’t think any of the Regional Transportation Districts rail lines serve it, yet.
@ 52,
I’m on it, pulling onto to 84 eastbound and heading straight through to Tallahassee by morning to bring that motherfucker to justice.
54,
Nate Cohn isn’t concerned that you let numbers you don’t know go straight to voice mail. He says this is because he doesn’t have enough data yet to tell him you will vote in significant numbers in midterm cycles. He’s not wrong about that either. Tracking shifts in turnout requires data scientists to look beyond the polling results. And the data scientists who have been most reliable lately have been those who have avoided doing just that.
But there is a difference between looking outside the polls for other sources of data, and looking outside the polls for the wrong sources of data. A good example has been historical trends. Many survey scientists have weighted survey results to reflect historical patterns in turnout. But just as with finance, “past performance is no guarantee of future results”. Historical trends are social trends that are affected by all kinds of changes in society. An over reliance on those patterns can, and has, produced big polling errors.
Society changes because of events often having little or nothing to do with politics or campaign cycles. Wars, recessions, sexual revolutions, civil rights movements, the decline of religion, music, fashion, literature, sometimes big changes occur very quickly and without respect for Ted Cruz and his beard. Andrew Breitbart implicitly recognized this fact when he said “Politics is downstream of culture”.
Conservatives in America have been seeking to drive the culture in a particular way for a few decades now. But it’s distinctly possible that they’ve been huffing their own farts for a big portion of that, and eating their seed corn. It’s a good grift and highly profitable. But it might not have done much to change the culture besides build a few violent street gangs of “cosplaying grandmothers”.
And younger generations who are more accustomed to and less fearful of rapid cultural change might be coming into their own and so may be less willing to go along. And what was very uncool to them about voting and politics only a few years ago might now become very cool. After all, Nate Cohn who is only 34, is a Millennial just like you.
You know, one of the nicest things about Joe Biden, aside from all the jobs, the pandemic recovery, Ukraine, and his very charming wife, is the simple fact that he’s never once begged me to pay for his personal legal troubles.
I may not agree with him about a lot of things. But I do like that about him.
@48 “Wanna guess how expensive food would have to get before fat old bitter racist conservatives would go work in a field?”
Make ’em raise their own. Dumbfuck’s horse would be better off if he ate it.
@51 I once had a barber who bitched about taxes while cutting fur. Then he disappeared. I later heard he was cutting hair in jail for not paying any for over 20 years.
‘Quiet Part Out Loud’: GOP Warns Biden Student Debt Cancellation Will Hurt Military Recruitment — “The GOP is admitting that the military relies on poor young people to keep the war machine going, and that’s why they oppose canceling student debt.”
Is this the same Forced Birth Republicans that is led by Cadet Bones Spurs, who got 5 deferments, and who called those in the military “suckers and losers?, and who voted against VA benefits recently for those suffering from burn pits?
Yeah no…. Forced Birth Republican don’t give a damn about our military, at least the soldiers in the military.
Dem Wes Moore opens 22-point lead in race to replace Gov. Larry Hogan in Maryland
Republican Hogan has been a surprisingly adequate governor, about as close to a moderate as a Republican can get in the 21st century, he even had a 60% job approval rating among Democrats going into his last reelection.
The Republican nominee to replace Hogan is, to paraphrase Hogan himself, a nut job. Maryland Republicans nominated an unelectable wacko. Cox is a full-on Trumpy lunatic who even Hogan has called out as mentally ill.
Shortly after his primary victory, Cox deleted more than 1,000 posts from Gab, a social media platform known as a haven for hate speech, and scrubbed his website of controversial positions on gun ownership, transgender athletes and an audit of the 2020 election.
I was proud to vote for Larry Hogan. To me he represented the Republican Party values I grew up with.
And I liked that he never even once talked about his step daughter’s breasts or called a woman an ugly bitch or compared her to a horse.
The only HA libbie unhappy about the flip of the MD govenor’s mansion to blue is our resident unserious twat YLB.
You see, YLB won’t be able to blame the violent crime in Baltimore on Republicans, since the governor will be a Democrat.
Blaming a city’s unrelenting crime on the sole GOP elected official running the state is a silly concept to begin with, but it’s how YLB avoids admitting the truth.
“Why am I here?” ’cause somebody’s gotta point out your silliness, girlfriend.
The 10-year Treasury yield is trading up another 10 basis points. Its yield has climbed 20% in just the last 30 days.
The 2-year Treasury yield nearly crossed 4% this morning. Its yield has climbed 22% in the last 30 days.
Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is in bear market territory again today.
Well done, First Vegetable Joe Biden.
Headline du jour (so far):
watch liveDow slides 400 points as Fed two-day policy meeting begins, rates surge
Now, we know that “surge” @ 71 is a bad, bad word. It’s why Democrats tried to get us to stop saying it when it started happening at the border, remembe?
Stop using “surge” and “wave” to describe what is happening at the border
This is why First Vegetable Joe Biden claimed that inflation was climbing only an “inch” in his 60 Minutes interview. ’cause a surge in inflation – what’s coming, that is – would be bad. For Democrats.
Ford is down 9% this morning on news that its costs are up $1 billion, ’cause Mayor Pete decided to take paternity leave rather than do his job.
Ah, the price of cowardice.
The AZ governor’s race is tipping Kari Lake’s way, if Trafalgar be believed. The August poll had Lake up 0.7%. She’s now up 4.4%.
Add 50 points to YLB’s IQ, and she could be the cowardly Democrat woman in this race.
Let us not forget where the DJIA was 5 years ago or even on March 23, 2020, 21,636. The noise from the Right is just that noise.
What goes down must and will go up, and what we definitely don’t need is a midget or fat fuck to make that happen.
Fear, fear, fear!
Unfortunately, toothless hillbillies don’t even know what a roof shingle is.
Well, when you live with horses then thats not too offensive, it’s actually admired.
A Democrat candidate for the US Senate used an employee’s NDA to pressure her from reporting his sexual assault against her.
@ 76
…or compared her to a horse.
Well, when you live with horses then thats not too offensive, it’s actually admired.
Our horses share with Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit an inability to achieve erection. Their testes were surgically removed, his have shriveled like raisins on their own.
The Dow will go up, if it doesn’t then that fat pigs don’t make any easy money, and that can’t happen, it’s impossible.
There will be a rosy fart tomorrow.
No midget or fat fuck fascist is needed.
They’ll only invite riots and insurrection and sell secrets to Russia,
Birth Control? How dare you. Does the Bible allow that?
@69. In which the greedy racist incel put his words in other people’s mouths. Lying as usual.
@73. How dare Pete Buttigieg put family over job? I’ve read that argument from incels applied to women. “She’s not a team player, she’s not worthy, like I’M worthy because she makes time for her children.”
Until the greed racist incel provides links that there is a direct causation between family leave and Ford, the greed racist incel is lying again, as usual.
@77. Compare and contrast
A state of Iowa Democratic Senate candidate acting badly
vs 875 and counting, forced birth republicans acting badly.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/25/2118816/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-35
One party is clearly better.
Jim Croce was killed 49 years ago today. This song was released the next day.
Keeping with the day’s theme of cowardly Democrat politicians behaving badly:
The official jailed in the Las Vegas journalist killing is due in court
The cowardice wasn’t just that of Telles. NPR, in the same story, avoided mentioning that Telles is a Democrat but just had to include the fact that one of its sources for the story is a Republican:
This cowardly duplicity is why I don’t donate to NPR. Dunno whether my wife still does.
We heard last week that one firm was speculating about a 100 point basis-point increase by the Fed. Later others mused about the same possibility.
How quickly is the situation worsening? Quickly enough that CNBC interviewed a dude who thinks that 125 basis-points is rational:
POWER LUNCH
Fed raising by 125 bps will put them ahead of market for first time, says Sri-Kumar
In advance of their first conference today Trump’s lawyers sent the Special Master a letter essentially pleading to be allowed a “do-over”.
Trump sues to get a Special Master appointed to review classified documents recovered from the basement of his private sex club.
In his lawsuit Trump argues that the classified documents might belong to him and that the DOJ can’t be trusted to determine what is or is not “classified”.
Trump asks the court to appoint a Special Master to review classified documents and advise the court if any of them were previously declassified by Trump.
Judge agrees with Trump and appoints Special Master.
Judge orders Special Master to start with a review of the documents that have been marked as “classified”.
Judge orders Special Master to determine if any of the marked documents have been “declassified” by the FPOTUS.
Ahead of today’s conference Special Master asks Trump to indicate which if any marked documents he ever “declassified”.
Trump responds “Nope”. Tells the Special Master he demanded to be appointed that he won’t say if he ever “declassified” any of the marked documents.
Trump tells Special Master that he might need to keep that “declassification” a secret in case he needs to use it defending a criminal indictment later.
In a lawsuit like this one seeking equitable relief, the plaintiff tells the court precisely what relief they are seeking. In Trump’s case, and with respect to the recovered documents bearing classification markings, the appointment of the Special Master to review those documents and make a conclusion about whether or not Trump had declassified them was the relief sought.
Now Trump refuses to participate in obtaining the relief his lawsuit sought. Trump’s lawyers will drag Cannon back into this. And I assume she’ll find a way to rule in his favor. Doing so will, however, simply remove from her original order the exact form of relief the plaintiff sought and perhaps substitute some other form of equitable relief not contemplated in the original lawsuit. This will bring further discredit upon her conduct in hearing and deciding on the lawsuit. And whatever additional relief she orders would naturally be stayed upon request.
It’s been less than a week and it’s already off the rails. Trump’s lawyers are scared to death that he’s facing a criminal indictment. And they are openly docketing letters pleading for it all to go away.
A responsible independent arbiter and experienced judge like Dearie won’t simply drop the objection raised by Trump or rule against it blindly.
In conference today Dearie will ask Trump to specify precisely what process they would propose the SM follow to determine if any of the documents bearing classification markings were previously “declassified” by Trump, when Trump refuses to cooperate with that inquiry and determination. His lawyers can be expected to have anticipated this question. Although it’s noteworthy that they fail to address it in their docketed letter to the SM.
I will not be surprised if their response is a demand for more delay as they “consider” the request. And the SM will probably give them the time they ask for. But I can’t help but point out how the way this process is unfolding so far has essentially substituted the judgment and timing of Trump’s lawyers for that of the courts and the SM. I assure you regular people don’t get this treatment. Ever.
My Russian backers have planted this on YouTube.
Удачи!
The leaders of the GOP 1776 Restoration Movement organized an attack to shut down the VA suicide hotline yesterday.
By last night they were appearing on FOX, Newmax, and other Republican approved media outlets to be praised and admired for their courage.
This sort of shit probably seems routine now at this point. And that’s because it really is. This shit is now woven into the identity of American “conservatism”. “Owning the libs” is the single most important thing. So anyone who wishes to rise within the ranks, to gain a spotlight, or draw attention to their movement, their “cause”, or their miserable money-grift has got to arrange and carry out these kinds of sick stunts. Harassing 12-year-old kids, mocking disabled people, kidnapping and torturing refugees, harassing disabled veterans, shutting down libraries, and making death threats are all just fundamentally necessary and normal functions in modern “conservatism”. They need this stuff to keep their base angry, scared, and resentful. They need victims and victimization to feed the sadistic impulses that now substitute for ideology among base voting Republicans.
And if you think it’s getting worse over time you’re right. It has to. People who depend upon cruelty, and sadism in order to experience feelings and emotion become desensitized very quickly. And they need more and bigger cruelty and sadism to trigger those feelings.
@ 87
I assure you regular people don’t get this treatment. Ever.
Now do the FBI’s interview process of Cheryl Mills. The FBI’s treatment of laptop and BlackBerry devices during its investigation in early 2016. The FBI’s interview of Hillary Clinton, during which Mills was permitted to provide counsel.
Regular people, Mills and Clinton?
90,
What Degen describes is both perfectly normal and entirely unrelated.
Your right to refuse to answer questions and your right to counsel are both guaranteed in the constitution’s Fifth and Sixth amendment. As with any right they are limited.
Trump’s due process rights are found in the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments. But he has not been indicted of any crime. Nor is it likely that he ever could be indicted on any crime related to the documents recovered from his private sex club so long as law enforcement are prohibited from examining those documents or using them in any criminal investigation. So his rights to due process as guaranteed under the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments are not yet implicated.
When an individual is indicted for a crime their right to due process affords them an opportunity to challenge evidence that might be introduced by the government to persuade a court of their guilt. That’s the normal process that normal folks get. And it has nothing at all to do with FBI interviews or imaginary laptop obsessions.
Trump must have been a very important character for all of you to still be talking about him over a year and a half after he left office.
The Federal Reserve is between a rock and a hard place as far as inflation control is concerned. They really should be aggressive in raising interest rates to counter the ridiculous stimulus spending that has been occurring in the US for the past 10 years or so. The financial talking heads are saying we should expect a 75 bps increase in rates after the next FED meeting, but the FED would be doing better to go for 100 to 125 basis points: it’s best to get the pain over with early rather than dragging it out.
He is the leader of one of the two controlling political parties who controls most of the party’s campaign funding and who personally chose more than half of the party’s candidates nominated for federal offices in the upcoming midterm elections.
Instead of pretending you don’t know who he is and pleading like a groveling bitch to change the subject, why not try either defending him or repudiating him?
You won’t. And the reason you won’t is because, like Ron DeSantis and Every Other Republican You Know, you are scared shitless of an incompetent, deeply corrupt, failed reality television celebrity.
@85
Retirees reduced to scouting lightly watched cable networks for a rando boutique investment firm owner who has an opinion on something.
It’s not a good look.
Aducanumab
Donepezil
Memantine
94,
This is the golden years retirement Degen was dreaming of when he missed every single Friday and Saturday night from the age of thirteen to the age of thirty five to earn his spot debriding anal scabs of homeless people.
Why on earth would anyone take investment advice from such a person?
92,
Maybe in your old age your memory for names is getting fuzzy.
Here’s a recent photo to help jog your memory:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDPvuSBW4AAOwKP?format=jpg&name=large
Ring any bells?
@ 95
…he missed every single Friday and Saturday night from the age of thirteen to the age of thirty five …
31, asshole.
Trafalgar has Keith X losing the Minnesota AG race by nearly 4 points. And this news isn’t gonna do the militant socialist fuck any favors:
U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
The above isn’t from some right-wing rag. It’s from the DOJ:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal-charges-against-47-defendants-250-million-feeding-our-future
The politician tied closed to this massive criminal conspiracy is – no surprise – Ilhan Omar. Had these indictments dropped before the primary election she surely would have lost to her Democrat challenger. In Keith X’s defense, state officials tried to do something about it, and turned to the Feds (story in the NYT, today) when a state judge wouldn’t assist.
Anyway, after half of Minneapolis was burned to the ground during the George Floyd riots and with this news dropping, all while recession is beginning to grip the US economy, it might be worth watching the Minnesota returns come election night.
Why would forced birth Republicans shut down the VA suicide hotline? That seems to be opposite of their values of supporting the troops.
Wow kreepshit that DOJ indictment accuses a lot of perps with “funny last names”…
So why not add one more with guilt by association:
The politician tied closed to this massive criminal conspiracy is – no surprise – Ilhan Omar.
The “association” being – Omar is from Minnesota. Of course she’s involved!
But the butt of its racist ire:
Trafalgar has Keith X losing the Minnesota AG race by nearly 4 points.
puts kreepshit in a strange space:
In Keith X’s defense, state officials tried to do something about it, and turned to the Feds (story in the NYT, today) when a state judge wouldn’t assist.
That’s a quandry. Why defend Ellison when it’s mooslim bashin’ time? Dang even facts puts racist kreepshit in a bind.
teh babblin’ butthole would just ignore any “turn to the Feds”.. It was famous for that..
I guess makin’ shit up about Omar made up for that.
@ 98
Republicans in the Minnesota state senate will be able to issue “I fucking told you so.” statements, as a report issued by them earlier this month laid the blame primarily on the Minnesota Department of Education.
There’s a nice article in The Sahan Journal, a publication for local immigrants.
https://sahanjournal.com/news/aimee-bock-feeding-our-future-fraud-indictment-minnesota/
Sahan Journal is the only independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota.
Since it’s critical of many members of the immigrant community in the Twin Cities, it must be run by racists.
GOP Presidential Polling:
Trump: 60%
Someone Else: 35%
Echelon / September 19, 2022 / n=465
Presidential Polling:
Biden (D): 47% (+1)
Trump (R): 44% (-1)
Echelon / September 19, 2022 / n=1056
Generic Ballot Polling:
DEM: 49% (+3)
GOP: 44% (-2)
Echelon / September 19, 2022 / n=1056
Minnesota – Governor Polling:
Walz (DFL): 48%
Jensen (R): 45%
McCaskel (LMN): 1%
McTavish (IA): 1%
Trafalgar / September 14, 2022 / n=1079 / MOE 2.9%
Generic Ballot Polling:
DEM: 48%
GOP: 44%
Morning Consult / September 18, 2022 / n=8430
@ 100
The “association” being – Omar is from Minnesota. Of course she’s involved!
…
I guess makin’ shit up about Omar made up for that.
Gee, YLB, why would I tie Ilhan Omar to this? Is this what you consider “makin’ shit up”, girlfriend?:
Ya dumb twat, maybe read the slightest bit of information about a topic prior to accusing someone of “makin’ shit up” about it.
Georgia Polling:
Senate:
Walker (R): 46%
Warnock (D): 44%
Oliver (L): 3%
Governor:
Kemp (R): 50%
Abrams (D): 42%
U. Georgia Public & International Affairs / September 16, 2022 / n=861 / MOE 3.3%
Georgia Polling:
Senate:
Warnock (D): 47%
Walker (R): 42%
Oliver (L): 4%
Governor:
Kemp (R): 50%
Abrams (D): 44%
Marist / September 15, 2022 / n=1202 / MOE 3.6%
Wisconsin – Senate Polling:
Barnes (D): 48%
Johnson (R): 47%
Siena / September 15, 2022 / n=651 / MOE 4.5%
DEM Presidential Polling:
Biden: 52%
Someone Else: 42%
Echelon / September 19, 2022 / n=509
You see, YLB won’t be able to blame the violent crime in Baltimore on Republicans, since the governor will be a Democrat.
The most violent city in the U.S. is (drum roll)
St. Louis, MO
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-violent-cities-in-america
See Hee Hawley and kreepshit run…
@ 100, 107
YLB, that same Safari Restaurant is the one at which Ilhan Omar hosted her 2018 congressional primary election watch event:
Am I “makin’ shit up” here, too, ya dumb twat?
two men named in recently unsealed search warrant affidavits donated a total of $5,400 to Omar’s campaign.
Oh wow.. kreepshit.. you’re telling us that repukes are magically immune from receiving tainted money.
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-campaign-adviser-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-sex-trafficking/
“Candidate Jones” — the unnamed Democratic message — was described in the poll as someone who says the country needs to keep getting things done for working Americans by lowering health care and drug costs; who wants to ensure that corporations pay their fair share; who stands up for democracy and rejects election lies; and who opposes attempts to ban abortion.
In the poll, 75% of registered voters said that describes them well, including 49% who said that describes them “very well.”
Mmkay. What else?
By contrast, “Candidate Smith” — the unnamed Republican message — was described as someone who says record-high gas and grocery prices are hurting Americans; who highlights the surge in violent crime and in migrants at the border; and who argues there needs to be change after lower student test scores as a result of Covid lockdown policies.
In the poll, 68% of voters said that describes them well, including 41% “very well.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/democratic-midterm-message-outperforms-gops-message-nbc-news-poll-find-rcna48382
Bear in mind this is a measure of message performance that is stripped of context. What kind of context?
Oh, I dunno.
Nothing in particular, really.
@ 114
Notice how quickly HA’s dumbest twat pivots from alleging that I’m “makin’ shit up” to “Oh, yeah? Well, the GOP does it, too.”
I’ll take that as an apology. YLB is unserious as ever. You go, girlfriend.
Am I “makin’ shit up” here, too
Yep.. you are kreepshit. There’s no evidence in that DOJ indictment that Omar was behind or aware of any of that money scamming..
You’re a tiresome pos.. in the mood for some mooslim’ bashin’ and while you’re at it, misogynistic slander against an outspoken muslim pol.
“Keith X” wasn’t too much of a target in spite of his poll numbers cuz’ facts so you had to go guilt by association.. Omar being female and muslim and just won’t shut up – the way you babble on and on about tainted campaign money – she was the real target.
@ 115
Praytell, what were the voter responses in the battleground states, QoS McHillbilly?
’cause few of us have reason to care what people in California or Alabama think.
Not to besmirch Judge Cannon but if the document is marked classified unless counsel for the Ex-President enters into evidence an order to declassify then it’s classified and property if the government. You have anything you want to enter into the record? I’ll take silence as a no.
I’ll take that as an apology.
Heh.. When Manchinema’s IRS agents come knockin’, kreepshit’s gonna be blubberin’ apologies before a judge..
oh judge, I’ll die if I’m separated from any more of my fookin’ munee. mercy! mercy!
Pray the judge is a repuke kreepshit. It will understand.
Judge Dearie just had to remind the Trump Klown Kar that they are in a hearing over a civil matter, not a criminal matter. And that the cause of the civil matter being litigated was the lawsuit they filed. Wow.
Next Dearie points out to the Trump Klown Kar that as the plaintiff in the civil dispute they bear the burden of proof with respect to their claims of privilege over the documents bearing classification markings. He points out to them that he already as prima facie evidence that the documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified documents because they bear those fucking markings. And then he once again politely reminds the Trump Klown Kar that it is for them to provide some evidence to him that those documents have been declassified.
They refused.
Klown Kar: ‘We should not be in a position to have to disclose declarations, witness statements.’
Dearie: ‘My view us you can’t have your cake and eat it too.’
This proceeding has not gone well for the Klown Kar. Dearie has questioned the entire premise of reviewing the classified documents asking at one point: “What business is it of the court?” When the Klown Kar begs the court to begin discussions of the process for obtaining clearance to view the classified documents Dearie responds that he will not be considering the obtaining of clearance, either for the Klown Kar or for himself until and unless it is determined that clearance is needed. Again “What business is it of the court”. Followed by “It’s a matter of need to know. If you need to know… you will.” Dearie goes on to inform the Klown Kar that he hopes to resolve questions about the classified documents without reading them himself. Which then fairly obviously implies that the Klown Kar won’t get to read them either. And if Dearie will not be reading and reviewing those documents for claims of privilege at all, but only considering their classification status, and making that consideration in the absence of any evidence to the contrary presented by the moving party, he should be settling that question to the court very quickly.
Unless Cannon intervenes (and in so doing repudiates her own order) Klown Kar does not get to dig through the classified documents to figure out what laws their client broke, nor do they get any kind of useful delay. Completion of the full review before the midterms seems certain.
In August, Trafalgar had Barnes up by 2 in the WI Senate race. Assign a 2-point bias because it’s Trafalgar and Barnes may have been up by 4.
Today’s Emerson poll release has Johnson up by 4.
That could be an eight-point shift in roughly four weeks.
46% of those voters think the economy is the most important issue. 17% think it’s abortion.
The GA Marist poll suggests that the difference between RV and LV is 3 points, at least in Georgia.
Warnock up 5 with RV, but only 2 with LV.
Behold the laziness of the Georgia Democrat voter. Either that or there are a lotta Democrats registered twice. Thanks, Stacey!
118,
Look everybody!
After years of trotting out one nationwide poll after another to proclaim his certainty of election outcomes, Degen just discovered survey design!
Here ya go:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22418198-220562-nbc-news-september-poll-v2
The statistical sampling questions are on page 1, then 23 through 25. Phone poll, n=1000, 750 cell phone, 48 male, 52 female.
Only 10 Latino or Hispanic. So California much?
Wow.
Should we even tell him that this isn’t how that statistic works?
Meathead
Even better when you take results of two completely different polls of completely different samples taken a month apart to infer a single poll shift? What the fuck?
This is so stupid I have to go take a break.
Whoever posted those polls, bravo to you. He’s fucking triggered as fuck right now. Degen head explosions of florid stupidity in abundance. Bravo!
@69 You seem to have forgotten that criminals are responsible for crime. But when you talk about crime, you really want to say “black crime,” but don’t because your wife is kicking you under the table.
@70 “The 10-year Treasury yield is trading up another 10 basis points. Its yield has climbed 20% in just the last 30 days. The 2-year Treasury yield nearly crossed 4% this morning. Its yield has climbed 22% in the last 30 days. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is in bear market territory again today. Well done, First Vegetable Joe Biden.”
Good, and more please. Stocks are too expensive, and savers have been screwed for years to subsidize borrowers. The economy is overflowing with moral hazard. Cheaper stocks and higher interest rates will help us feel normal again. Supply-side “voodoo economics” needs to be gone, too.
@ 126
Of course you are correct. Let’s just stick with the early summer one that hand Warnock + 10, shall we?
@71 “Dow slides 400 points as Fed two-day policy meeting begins, rates surge”
Not nearly enough. The market’s forward P/E, taking into account realistic earnings projections, is still way too high.
I’m for a full-point rate hike, but Trump’s Fed appointee doesn’t have the spine to do it.
@73 “Ford is down 9% this morning on news that its costs are up $1 billion, ’cause Mayor Pete decided to take paternity leave rather than do his job.”
I didn’t know Buttigieg works for Ford. I thought he was a public servant. What are his job title and duties there?
@74 Doctor Dumbfuck is celebrating a poll showing Kari Lake in the lead because he’s a dumbfuck who thinks her election denialism, embrace of false conspiracy theories, and threat to not certify the 2024 election are a good thing, and something to be lauded and supported.
I have things to do today, so I can’t catch up on reading this entire thread or all the day’s news. I’ll cut to the chase.
Male Republican legislators in Louisiana just handed Democrats a gift. A legislative committee just passed by a 9-2 vote, with every “yea” vote coming from a male Republican, a bill that defines “abortion” as murder and treats any woman who gets one the same, in their words, as one who drowns her baby. In other words, life in prison. No exceptions for rape, or even to save the life of the mother.
(The bill also bans Plan B contraception, and would make destroying in-vitro fertilization embryos murder.)
It’s good that Republicans are showing their hand before voting begins, so women in every state know exactly what they’ll be getting if they allow Republicans to get elected.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/abortion-bans-murder-charges-invs/index.html
As long as we are putting Georgia LVs in Wisconsin, why not?
Sorry Roger. It would appear that we broke the troll.
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DeSantis calls migrant flights “clearly voluntary.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3651492-desantis-migrants-flights-to-marthas-vineyard-clearly-voluntary/
In the same sense as handing over money to scammers, I guess.
It was such a good fraud. After we sued MDE for slow walking our funding BECAUSE the were suspicious and got a judge to rule in our favor MDE couldn’t touch us. Now dumbasses think MDE wasn’t doing their homework on us. But this has been ALL over the news for a year in Minnesota so it’s not like no one knows we sued MDE. It’s not like the timeline hasn’t been all over the Star-Tribune, WCCO, KARE, KMSP.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRaacaYU/
@ 137
But this has been ALL over the news for a year in Minnesota so it’s not like no one knows…
Ilhan Omar knew. When the news broke she donated the money to charity.
Ilhan Omar knew long before it was news, too. Who do you think she was working for with those school lunch bills? (Spoiler: It wasn’t the children.)
Q: What’s the difference between Ilhan Omar and William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson?
A: Flood waters will never threaten Ilhan Omar’s freezer.
GOP message to women: Vote for us and we’ll execute you.
Worth millions in campaign advertising to Democrats.
The only way this makes sense is if the GOP’s platform also includes votes don’t count.
Unhinged liberalism in the Dakotas.
Police: Driver admitted to intentionally killing teen at North Dakota street dance after political dispute
This is a photo of a member of a Republican extremist group.
I know, I know. Looks more like a kid that G-clown would pay money to in order to be able to blow.
Oh. I almost forgot. Rather than calling his Republican buddies to come beat up the unhinged liberal, this is the reason the kid was on the phone:
The dead teen @ 142 no doubt would have been described by First Vegetable Joe Biden as a MAGA Republican.
Biden killed that kid, by proxy.
@143
That is a stretch at best.
By the way, how many people did Trump kill by his stupidity on COVID?
Just askin’ for a friend.
This cowardly duplicity is why I don’t donate to NPR.
Heh.. NPR, not a perfect outfit by any stretch (no media outlet is), occasionally reports uncomfortable truths:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
truths that make kreepshit fear for its fookin’ munee..
Dunno whether my wife still does.
Praise be to Mary Kay and her support for liberal causes.. the support that “pwns teh kreepshit” of widbee.
So If I’m understanding correctly, a charity I thought was doing good work turns out to be really corrupt and when I found out I returned the money and your complaint is that I am not the AG, Law Enforcement OR an investigative journalist so I really should have dropped my congressional duties and become one of those professions so that I could have known sooner.
OKAY.
Meanwhile here in the deep blue 5th district I won my primary after this story had broken AND….yeah, I’m going to back to the house with probably something like 60% of the vote.
@146 but.. butt.. kreepshit was attacking Keith X”… a feckless attack because it knew someone here would mention Ellison’s efforts to hold the scammers accountable…
so it brought you up to make some “collateral damage”…
and fell flat on its ass.. Awwwww… poor kreepshit…
@142
What was he doing out at 2:35 in the morning? He’s just a kid. Clearly he is no angel. On his social media posts Cayler Ellingson can be seen partaking in Faygo orange soda which is extremely popular among the gang known as the Juggalos. Mr. Brandt was clearly minding his own business, kind of like being illegally in possession of a weapon when he just happened upon a protest of some kind and in order to protect his community he was forced to defend himself. 80s actors Jaleel White and Henry Thomas have stepped up to pay this hero’s bail and the very apolitical ACLU is providing funds for legal representation.
Governor, Mr. Herchel Walker,
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Would you care to comment on your GOP Party officials not only attempting to tamper with voting machines but also the upcoming perjury charge for lying about it in a criminal case?
Maybe you’d also like to comment on a Republican heavy hitter law firm openly and knowingly making false statements about their client to the press? Or should we just leave that to the State Bar?
Presidential Polling Average:
Biden: 45.8%
Trump: 42.7%
– September 20, 2022 –
Generic Ballot Polling Average:
DEM: 45.8%
GOP: 43.8%
– September 20, 2022 –
@142 Interesting comment.
It may not be relevant here, but I keep noticing people responding to the perception of a potential threat with deadly force as if fear, no matter how unfounded, automatically justifies killing someone.
Moreover, there also seems to be a chorus of voices misrepresenting self defense law specifically to assert that once someone does something that could justify the use of force, any use of force becomes automatically justified, even if the threat is no longer present.
The result seems to be that people have convinced themselves they’re allowed to kill people who have frightened them or may frighten them, not in defense so much as for punishment.
Whether he’s telling the truth about feeling threatened, or just recognizes that that’s the “acceptable” justification for killing someone, he seems to be operating under this kind of assumption.
Is it because we’ve had it drilled into our heads by police union PR teams and supporting media when police kill someone the only justification they need is a ‘fear for their lives’?
“Why am I here?” ’cause somebody’s gotta point out
Roger Rabbit’s objectionable language… blah.. blah.. call RedReformed names.. blah.. blah… fantasize about gman doing risky behavior… blah.. blahh.. get humiliated by Elijah..
it changes kreepshit. your desperation just gets more weird and unhinged as the horror of your empty life catches up with you..
please continue..