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Monday Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 4/18/25, 8:01 am

– The legislature is in the last few weeks. The budget is… come on Bob Ferguson.

– But at least good news on trans healthcare.

– Grays Harbor’s levee is in danger because of the Trump Administration.

– Anyway, contact your legislator or member of Congress.

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  1. 1

    G spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 8:50 am

    https://democraticunderground.com/10143442932

    Fascist pigs hate The Jews too. Just like Bob.

  2. 2

    G spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 8:51 am

    Drumpf and his cronies are purposely trying to crash the economy so there is complete chaos, fear and subservience.

  3. 3

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 10:04 am

    Grays Harbor County, didn’t they vote for him?

  4. 4

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 10:43 am

    I think $450,000 is about right for the settlement Florida should pay in this case, but if it goes to a jury trial I would bump that up to $750,000.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-american-citizen-ice-hold-florida-released-rcna201854

  5. 5

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 10:49 am

    Another judge is looking into whether the administration is in contempt of her orders.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5255893-judge-cfpb-layoffs-order/mlite/

    This is a habit.

  6. 6

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 11:05 am

    To cap a week of Great Success, this morning the White House threatened to detain United States Senator Chris Van Hollen at re-entry after his trip to El Salvador and exclude him from the United States for having embarrassed Fat Hitler.

  7. 7

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 12:21 pm

    FSU shooter:

    https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/hollywood/i-knew-phoenix-ikner-someone-filled-with-hatred-woman-s-post-on-fsu-shooter-goes-viral/ar-AA1Dbl5H

    Hat looks familiar somehow.

  8. 8

    RFKjr Did that. spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 1:34 pm

    The Measles outbreak has now spread to an unvaccinated couple in Montana.

    Contract tracing has them picking it up while traveling. Possibly through Seatac.

  9. 9

    Yeah, fuck this guy spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 1:37 pm

    RFKjr

    why don’t you see people my age, I’m 71 with full blown Autism in public. Toe-Walking, non verbal, not potty trained?”

    He asks as if Grandpa didn’t forcibly lobotomize Aunt Rosemary and hide her in an asylum until she died.

  10. 10

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 2:35 pm

    U.S. efforts to mediate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are reaching a pivotal moment, with President Trump saying both sides need to quickly show progress or his administration will exit the negotiations.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/5256410-us-efforts-to-peace-talks-reach-pivotal-moment/

    More evidence that Trump and his team are schoolboys. Other presidents negotiated for years to reduce nuclear weapons, end the war in Vietnam, for Middle East peace, etc. Trump, by comparison, is a

    QUITTER QUITTER QUITTER QUITTER QUITTER QUITTER QUITTER

  11. 11

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 2:40 pm

    Abrego Garcia said, after his arrest, he was first taken to Baltimore, where he asked to make a phone call to his loved ones, but was denied …. His conversation with Van Hollen was his first conversation he had since his imprisonment ….

    https://www.aol.com/van-hollen-reveal-details-meeting-194722153.html

    Even prisoners of war are treated better than this. The wrong person is in prison.

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 2:52 pm

    @6 All Van Hollen did was see that Garcia is alive and well, and convey a “message of love” to his wife, and the Trumpists are going batshit crazy, making it pretty damned clear that holding him incommunicado was intentional. These fuckers are all about inflicting maximum pain. And doing it without a trial or giving him any opportunity to defend himself against their accusations. They must not have much faith in their accusations.

  13. 13

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 2:56 pm

    Seven hours and none of you fucks have realized that

    • It’s a Friday thread, not a Monday thread.
    • Carl confused levy with levee.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 2:59 pm

    It’s not that hard for Democrats to facilitate Garcia’s release by El Salvador, even if the Trump administration doesn’t cooperate. All they have to do is promise the next Democratic administration will bomb the shit out of them if they don’t release the lawful U.S. resident in their custody.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:02 pm

    @13 It’s not our job to call out his mistakes. That’s your job. What took you so long? Been busy in the barn fucking the horse?

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:04 pm

    As long as he’s “saving” munee, I think Trump should defund the Lower Mississippi River levees, too, and let Mississippi and Louisiana float away on the tide.

  17. 17

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:06 pm

    @ 11

    Abrego Garcia said, after his arrest, he was first taken to Baltimore, where he asked to make a phone call to his loved ones, but was denied

    That’s not what NBC News reported:

    He was arrested by immigration authorities, and was transferred to facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Texas, the declaration said. During that time, Abrego Garcia spoke on the phone with his wife five times.

    His convo with Van Hollen was the first outside conversation he had since his transfer to his home country. I’m sure he had plenty of opportunity to speak with his fellow countrymen since his repatriation.

    Other than the five phone calls to his wife instead of zero and the hundreds of convos with his MS-13 friends in El Salvador since his return instead of zero, you are spot-on, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  18. 18

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:10 pm

    She is such a tool sometimes. Like this time:

    Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
    @profstonge

    Liz Warren in 2024: Pressures Fed to cut rates for Joe Biden’s re-election.

    Liz Warren in 2025: Cutting rates for Trump is literally destroying democracy

    🤪🤪
    Quote
    amit
    @amitisinvesting
    ·
    Apr 17
    ELIZABETH WARREN JUST NOW ON CNBC:

    “Trump should not be calling for Powell to lower rates and say he wants him fired. This is hurting the nature of democracy and will ruin the stock market.”

    Also Elizabeth Warren 8 months ago: https://x.com/amitisinvesting/status/1912874337977197049

    8:43 AM · Apr 18, 2025
    ·

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:12 pm

    This is a wolf meal I’m going to enjoy watching.

    https://www.rawstory.com/thrown-to-the-wolves-analyst-warns-loyal-soldier-jd-vance-he-s-become-disposable/

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:14 pm

    Remember when Biden claimed that congressional action was necessary to secure the border?

    Libs of TikTok
    @libsoftiktok

    WOW. Migrant crossings through the dangerous Darien Gap have plummeted 99% since Trump took office, with only 408 recorded crossers in February compared to over 37,100 in February 2024.

    Ports once filled with hordes of migrants now lay vacant. Incredible what having a real President can do.

    2:32 PM · Apr 11, 2025

    Gee. I sure hope one of those illegals who crossed in 2024 doesn’t do something awful to the child of a liberal spewer on HA.·

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:49 pm

    @18 I’m not for making Elizabeth Warren the Fed chair. I like where she is. Also, I have no objection to Trump calling for lower interest rates; he’s entitled to free speech, too. Like all of his ideas, it’s a shitty idea, but Powell’s term doesn’t expire until 2026, so I’m not worried about it.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 3:52 pm

    @20 “Gee. I sure hope one of those illegals who crossed in 2024 doesn’t do something awful to the child of a liberal spewer on HA.·”

    Statistically, your wife is far more likely to be raped by a neighbor while you’re in the barn messing with the horse than by a Skagit Valley strawberry picker.

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:06 pm

    @17 The two news reports aren’t inconsistent. It’s very likely he wasn’t allowed to call his wife when first arrested, and was only allowed to do so after being processed. That’s standard procedure.

  24. 24

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:09 pm

    13,
    Felix
    Fucking
    Unger

    Wow. The day of the week broke him.

    Very sad.

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:10 pm

    As El Salvador is no longer holding him in their prison for terrorists, and hasn’t for some time, it appears he isn’t a terrorist in their eyes.

  26. 26

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:17 pm

    @24 Small as it is, that’s the biggest coup he’s scored here in a very long time.

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:17 pm

    @24 Trivial as it is, that’s the biggest coup he’s scored here in years.

  28. 28

    Winston Smith spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:18 pm

    Oh cool.

    Covid dot gov now redirects to a conspiracy theory laden website where a very stern and serious fat man in a suit assures you that he didn’t get 1M Americans killed because Covid is not Genetically similar to anything in nature (lie), all worldwide covid cases come from a single DNA source (big huge lie) and that no evidence Covid was a mutation has ever been found (It has).

    The memory hole is deep.

  29. 29

    Dumfuck’s gonna Dumbfuck spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 4:30 pm

    @18

    Quoting rando twatters again?

    I’ll give you a minute to come up with how urging rate cuts (citation needed) is different from threatening an illegal firing of the FedChair if they don’t bow to capricious whims.

  30. 30

    Creative Artists Agency spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 5:19 pm

    There is one very famous actress singer of the baby boomer generation and one very famous millennial actress/singer eho have a standing demand that no one look them in the eye unless acting in a scene.

    Realizing they’re not the biggest assholes around.

    WSJ

    During the tour, an incensed Lewandowski pushed to fire an official who briefly turned his back on Noem while answering a question from another person in the group.

    Lewandowski argued it was grounds for dismissal

  31. 31

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 5:26 pm

    MAGA Rep Dan Meuser on Abrego Garcia:
    “Maybe he’s not a terrorist. But he’s a potential terrorist.”

    I’m a potential replacement for John Entwistle.

    The Nazi Fucktard is a potential participant in Mary Kay’s next gangbang.

  32. 32

    Juan Valdez spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 5:45 pm

    @20

    Left intentionally unsaid by Racist Chaya Raicheck and repeated by Duumbfuck, the Darien Gap is in Panama.

  33. 33

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 5:50 pm

    @ 23

    That’s standard procedure.

    If it’s “standard procedure”, asshole, then we’re not in POW territory, as you alleged @ 11.

    The POS got what any arrested criminal gets.

    The term you are searching for is “what he deserved”.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 5:56 pm

    @ 11

    Even prisoners of war are treated better than this.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, were POWs offered margaritas?

    CSPAN
    @cspan

    Sen. @ChrisVanHollen on “Margarita Gate”: “Neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us…nobody drank any margaritas…this is the lesson in the lengths that President Bukele will do to deceive people about what’s going on.”

    3:40 PM · Apr 18, 2025

    And if POWs were treated better, does that mean that the margaritas they were offered were made with top shelf tequila brands?

    You’re a Vietnam veteran, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, so you should know all about POW-MIA treatment and the cocktails they were plied with by the Viet Cong in order to persuade them to tell on their fellow GIs.

    So enlighten us. Top shelf, or just Cuervo?

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 6:52 pm

    @34 Ever heard of a “prop”?

    COCKTAIL CON: DEM SEN. SAYS EL SALVADOR PLANTED GOTCHA ‘MARGARITAS’

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador_n_6802623be4b01dc12d4bb8de

  36. 36

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 6:57 pm

    You can read more here about the lengths the Salvadorans went to, dumbfuck, to deceive gullible morons like you.

    It doesn’t take a genius to figure out Van Hollen was initially denied a meeting with Garcia because it took them a couple days to set up their Potemkin Village.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:05 pm

    Then: “Egg prices are too high.”

    Now: “Egg prices are too low.”

    And, of course, Trump is taking credit for a “92%” drop (sic) in egg prices.

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-egg-prices/

    I don’t know about you, but I’m still paying $3.99 for a dozen eggs, up from $2.99 when he took office in January.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:05 pm

    Then: “Egg prices are too high.”
    Now: “Egg prices are too low.”

    And, of course, he’s taking credit for a “92% drop” (sic) in egg prices.

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-egg-prices/

    I don’t know about you, but I’m still paying $3.99 for a dozen eggs, up from $2.99 when he took office in January.

  39. 39

    G spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:10 pm

    Just imagine, you can get citizenship via marriage but not being born in this country.

    Ohhhh, I wonder why. 🤔 Ohhhhhh, ok.

    Imagine getting a divorce after too.

  40. 40

    G spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:12 pm

    Gas is more too. It’s up .20 since Biden low of 2024.

    Day one it was supposed to be cheaper!

  41. 41

    G spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:13 pm

    I’m sure the stats on The Heterosexual Neanderthal virus are on the rise too.

    More dead bitches won’t have to read them dirty book.

  42. 42

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 7:37 pm

    He’s on the beach, sippin’ ‘ritas. So STFU.

    From CNN’s Aditi Sangal
    Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was first detained in El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, CECOT, was moved to another detention center nine days ago, according to Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

    “He’s no longer at CECOT,” Van Hollen said. “He’s at a different prison which is pretty far outside of San Salvador.”

    He gets to start a new life and beat up a different woman. Be happy for him, libbies.

  43. 43

    Math is hard for a real estate fraudster spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 8:44 pm

    @38

    And, of course, he’s taking credit for lying about a “92% drop” (sic) in egg prices.

    It was 79% last week. This week he says 92%. And as usual whenever Donnie quotes a number it is completely made up.

    US 1 Dozen large grade A average*
    Jan 2025 – $4.95
    Feb 2025 – $5.90
    March 2025 – $6.2

    As the kid’s say $0.49 for a dozen eggs? Did you bring receipts?

    * The commie deep staters at St. Louis Fed

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/18/25 at 10:27 pm

    In tonight’s political news, the D.C. appeals court has paused Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has paused the administration’s mass deportation of Venezuelans held in Texas, and Team Trump is huddling on ways to oust Jerome Powell.

  45. 45

    Now is not the time spews:

    Saturday, 4/19/25 at 7:50 am

    Funny how the right wing went all in on a photo of NOT FSU shooter at a Trump protest only to go silent at a NOT NOT photo of the shooter in a MAGA HAT, confirmation that he was very active in Charlie Kirk’s brownshirts Turning Points and got tossed from the school’s republican club for espousing White Supremacy.

    Weird.

    There is no evidence to date that this shooting was politically motivated but steeping oneself in hate speech, gun nut culture and copaganda has ancillary effects.

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