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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 5/12/25, 8:06 am

– This was written before the pause (to 35%), but tariffs are still a problem.

– More Redmond light rail.

– Come on REI. Do better.

– I still don’t know who I’m voting for for City Attorney, but the Hacks and Wonks interviews with all of the challenges make me glad they’re running.

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  1. 1

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 8:39 am

    Enjoy this one on me.

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86muKNH/

    She should have just gone to the toddler park and hurled a few “N-bombs” at three-year-olds and all her financial woes would disappear.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 8:56 am

    @ 1

    I thought both of Welfare Queen YLB’s fucked kids were XY.

    Too bad that chick didn’t buy TSLA in early April. She’d be far happier today.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 8:59 am

    Elections have consequences.

    The White House said the energy budget proposal cancels more than $15 billion in carbon capture and renewable energy funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law that former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, signed in 2021. It also proposes to cancel $6 billion from that law for EV chargers.

    “The Biden Administration spent more than three years implementing these programs, but built only a small number of chargers because it prioritized over-regulating and ‘climate justice’ goals,” the White House said. “EV chargers should be built just like gas stations: with private sector resources disciplined by market forces.”

    Let TSLA install them, let TSLA profit from them.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:02 am

    The plan would cut $80 million in Interior Department renewable energy programs including offshore wind energy projects.

    Just think how happy this will make the Kennedy clan. And their uber-rich liberal Nantucket friends.

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:02 am

    @ 3, 4

    The money saved will help fund the restoration of the limitles SALT deduction.

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:05 am

    Sure, fewer windmills, but the eagle population will grow much more quickly.

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:13 am

    As libbies wail over the DJT47 interest in a Qatari plane, recall that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had to rescue our astronauts when Boeing couldn’t.

    DJT47 is looking elsewhere for Air Force One replacements because Boeing has failed miserably on that project as well.

    Boeing is awful. Unsurprisingly, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a (miniscule) Boeing investor.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:17 am

    Behold the virtues of DEI hiring!

    Local News
    Amazon driver seen on video pooping, peeing at 2 Los Angeles homes

    The woman’s face is clearly visible, and she appears to make eye contact with the Provenchers’ Ring camera at one point.

    When asked for a statement, Amazon provided the following to KTLA:

    “We reported her to ICE. Hey, not much more we can do. We’re spending all our money to deport the boss’ girlfriend to outer space again.”

  9. 9

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:20 am

    Ridley Scott:

    In space no one can hear you scream.

    Jeff Bezos:

    In space Lauren’s new tits don’t sag as much.

  10. 10

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:30 am

    450 days of Joe Biden kissing Hamas’ ass did nothing to free this American.

    World Politics
    Hamas releases American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander

    Hey, but Biden did manage to free POS Hunter from federal indictment and conviction. So he wasn’t a completely useless president.

    The Trump administration got it done in fewer than 120.

  11. 11

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:43 am

    I guess the MAGA sobbing must have triggered something.

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:51 am

    Biden’s last year in office really sucked.

    This benchmark adjusts 12 months of jobs data to make them as accurate as possible and always covers a period from March of one year to March in the following year. In early 2025, the BLS published the annual benchmark figures for the period from March 2023 through March 2024. The result: a staggering drop of 598,000 nonfarm payrolls.

    In other words, the monthly reports had overestimated the number of jobs during those 12 months and were revised down by nearly 600,000. That’s on top of the individual monthly reports already being revised down throughout the year-long period in question.

    And the downward revisions to Biden-era jobs data are set to continue. From March through June of last year, the economy supposedly added 398,000 nonfarm payrolls, according to the monthly job reports, yet the BED data show a net loss of 163,000 private-sector jobs for that period.

    Instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000 of them.

    Say, do you think it’s possible that Donald Trump’s resounding victory was not all Boxcheck Momala’s fault?

  13. 13

    The corruption is so thorough its hard to keep uo spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 9:58 am

    Well this is all perfectly normal.

    Capitol Police are currently in a standoff with DOGEy brownshirts who are attempting to get access to the copyright office.

    Issues, Executive has no Authority over the office or Library of Congress though the librarian of Congress is an executive appointment that has up to now been uncontroversial. DOGEy/Donnie tried to fire the head of the Copyright office.

    1. DOGE is under a court irder NOT to fire anyone.
    2. The Executive branch has no jurisdiction over the copyright office

    Capitol Police are under the Legislative Branch and as of this morning they are protecting a department of the Legislative Branch from staff of Executive.

    And what exactly is the aim here for Douche er Doge
    ? the purpose of the copyright office is to accept works assign the copyright and file it so that anyone who owns a work can file suit for appropriation of that work. Oh now I get it AI has scrubbed every bit of information on the web most of it copyrighted and paid for none of it so they’re trying to get rid of that evidence.

    Vee have vays of makeeng you place in OUBLIC DOMAIN!

  14. 14

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:13 am

    In exchange for getting absolutely nothing from China we agreed to remove the gun we had pointing at our own head.
    However, to prove our toughness we will continue to point the gun at our own foot.

  15. 15

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:17 am

    By the way, in case you missed it, I am an insurance company with a very large army equipped with ICBMs.

  16. 16

    RFK Jr, an actual heroin addict spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:26 am

    Before vaccines 1 in 5 babies did not survive past the first year of life.

    We can have that all back again!

  17. 17

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:31 am

    We made Jimmy Carter give up his family’s peanut farm before he could be sworn in as President.

    MAGA wants Trump to get a free flying pimp-mobile from Qatar.

  18. 18

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:37 am

    We’re gonna call you the Second Coming of Hitler. We’re gonna designate you formally as a right-wing extremist party. But because we’re getting called on it, we’re gonna let you slide.

    Archive: May 9, 2025
    Germany Halts Surveillance of AfD Amid US Pressure and Legal Challenge Over Extremist Label
    Berlin hits pause on AfD surveillance as pressure from Washington turns a domestic dispute into a transatlantic standoff.

    Germany’s leftists watched as the J6 Committee’s misbehavior blew up in the faces of Democrats, most notably that of Boxcheck Momala, and destroyed The Cheney Shadow Presidency. A bit more popularity due to dishonest mistreatment, and AfD will wield an absolute majority of support next time around. Can’t have that.

  19. 19

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:39 am

    @ 16

    Before vaccines 1 in 5 babies did not survive past the first year of life.

    Before AIDS Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was able to achieve erection.

    The lesson: Sometimes a single sentence does not properly convey intent.

    Besides, it’s far more likely that her BBCs are infecting Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit with venereal disease than the other way around.

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:55 am

    Tell us you’re too toxic for endorsement deals without telling us you’re too toxic for endorsement deals.

    Angel Reese Threatens to Quit WNBA Over Low Pay as Caitlin Clark Backs Her Call for Change

  21. 21

    RFK Jr's Brain Worm he got from eating barbecued dog spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 11:07 am

    Mmmmm. Good ol’ diptheria.

    Make it great again.

  22. 22

    Xi plays Chess while Donnie plays Fisher Price ‘My First Pacifier’ spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 11:15 am

    Positive early Senate GOP reaction to Trump pausing his own tariffs:

    “Terrific,” says Ted Cruz.

    “Relieved “ says Ron Johnson.

    “Great leadership,” says Eric Schmitt.

    Weird there’s no, ‘This stupid son of a bitch shaved trillions off the stock market to walk away with nada, zilch, buokis, dick, nothing. And bt tonight when some Fox News host says he’s not being firm enough the wind will blow the tariffs right back on the table. This. President. Is. A. Doddering. Senile. Fool.”

  23. 23

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 11:19 am

    You CAN have 30 dollies.

    But only if they are a gift from Qatar.

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 11:48 am

    … walk away with nada, zilch, buokis, dick, nothing.

    Welfare Queen YLB’s kids not accidentally inhaling enough fentanyl from the house next door to kill an elephant isn’t nothing.

  25. 25

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 11:49 am

    @ 24

    … walk away with nada, zilch, buokis, dick, nothing.

    Six trillion dollars in new business investment in the US.

    If half of it materializes it’s a massive win.

  26. 26

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 12:13 pm

    @25,
    You left out the free border wall on the southern border paid for by magic elves.

    And the tattoos.

  27. 27

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 12:49 pm

    Liberals told us tariffs are a tax, and ol’ Joe told us paying taxes is patriotic.

    Economy
    Tariff receipts topped $16 billion in April, a record that helped cut the budget deficit

    If a Democrat president had done this he’d be the biggest patriot of all.

  28. 28

    America spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 1:37 pm

    If they’re cooking the dogs and cats, why wouldn’t they be cooking the reports from the Treasury?

  29. 29

    Secretary Sean Duffy, ready for "dick"tation, Mr President spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 1:56 pm

    “By the way, during covid, when people weren’t flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems.

    What were those idiots thinking????”

  30. 30

    Just Pointing Out The Obvious spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 2:04 pm

    WE hate Trump because he is racist.

    YOU hated Obama because you are racist.

  31. 31

    Just Pointing Out The Obvious spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 2:09 pm

    It’s 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a “sky palace” jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he’ll own after he leaves office. “Everybody relax,” he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

  32. 32

    Just Pointing Out The Obvious spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 2:12 pm

    It’s really something to think that women’s rights vary from state to state, all across the country. While men keep the exact same rights wherever they go, regardless of which state.

  33. 33

    White Americans First! spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 2:23 pm

    America’s native born white supremacists have worked hard their whole lives, played by all the rules, paid their taxes, and stuck to their principles of bigotry and race hatred even in the face of constant mockery and criticism from liberal elites.

    It hardly seems fair now, after a lifetime of that sacrifice for their duty to the white race, that they should suddenly be forced to compete with Afrikaners for their jobs.

  34. 34

    The states have so many rights it’s hard to keep up spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 2:53 pm

    Starting to seem like I’m right @13

    Republicans are trying to cram AI deregulation into budget. Reverses existing and bans any state level AI regulations through 2035.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:06 pm

    REI’s board is still stuck on the notion that only suits with major corporation experience are qualified to run a member-owned co-op. That’s exactly the kind of people who got REI into the trouble it’s in.

  36. 36

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:12 pm

    @3 “Elections have consequences.”

    Sure do. Struggling folks in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, and South Carolina who thought they were voting for cheaper bread and eggs will now have no one to call when water comes creeping in under their door sills and their houses float off their foundations. It’s too bad we have so many stupid voters in our country. You’re one of ’em, but thank goodness you live in a state where it doesn’t matter.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:15 pm

    @5 No, it won’t. It’s earmarked for an F-18 to replace those that fell off an aircraft carrier last week, but can pay for only one of them.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:17 pm

    @18, 19 “Sometimes a single sentence does not properly convey intent.”

    Sometimes incoherent babbling doesn’t deserve a response.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:18 pm

    @20 Weren’t you the poster who complained that WNBA salaries are subsidized by the NBA? Isn’t wage cuts for WNBA players what you want?

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:21 pm

    @24 A warm and fuzzy thought, but delusional. Trump is far more likely to reduce the farm labor supply than the street fentanyl supply.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:21 pm

    @24 A warm and fuzzy thought, but delusional. Trump will be better at reducing the farm labor supply than the street fentanyl supply.

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:24 pm

    @25 Are you actually dumb enough to believe a six trillion dollar paper gain in market value makes six trillion dollars available for business investment?

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:26 pm

    @27 A Democratic president would’ve done none of this, and that’s the point.

    Where’s the troll who claimed Democrats and Republicans are the same? In hiding? Or exile?

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:29 pm

    Where are the black South African refugees?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-south-africans-arrive-us-refugees-protected-trumps-carve-rcna206373

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:35 pm

    Here are Doctor Dumbfuck’s “welfare queen” immigrants:

    Fifty years ago, at the age of 12, Huy Nguyen fled Saigon with his family as a refugee. Today, after a long road, the Nguyens boast three generations of medical professionals who say they are grateful for the chance to achieve their dream.

    When they first arrived in the U.S., they settled in Iowa and became the first Vietnamese American family in the Quad Cities, according to the Davenport Public Library. Nguyen’s mother worked as a house cleaner. His father worked as a security guard and eventually got his high school diploma at age 45. He went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree and became a chiropractor in 1981.

    By then, Huy Nguyen was already set on becoming a surgeon. Now, Nguyen’s three children are working to become doctors as well. Two of Nguyen’s children graduated from the same medical school as their father — Kansas City University.

    As refugees in the 70s, the family went through a difficult time and started out on welfare. Once a chiropractor, the older Nguyen decided he wanted to pay back all the help they got from the welfare system.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/family-saigon-welfare-three-generations-doctors-rcna206362

    Yeah, this is what happens when you let people of color into the country: You get competent doctors instead of wasting a medical school education on a native-born white guy who hates immigrants, fucks horses, and votes for Trump.

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:36 pm

    Trump is flying in more white racists while spending billions to deport people of color, including U.S. citizens. At least one religious denomination is having none of it.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/5296385-episcopal-church-us-refugee-program-white-south-africans-afrikaner/

  47. 47

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:41 pm

    One brain worm wasn’t enough …

    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Sunday that he took a dip in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek with his grandchildren, despite long-standing warnings that high bacterial levels make the Potomac River tributary unsafe.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5295429-rfk-jr-rock-creek-swimming/

    It’s one thing if he does that to himself, but I think he should be reported for child abuse.

  48. 48

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 3:43 pm

    Why does a presidential library need a 747?

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5296040-trump-qatar-gift-triggers-controversy/

    And why would POTUS fly around in a private jet that’s probably bugged by the donor?

  49. 49

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 4:18 pm

    Electing a president who’s a convicted felon, white supremacist, and seditionist merely because he claimed he could lower egg prices probably wasn’t a good idea.

  50. 50

    G spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 4:22 pm

    @44 they look inbred

  51. 51

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 5:18 pm

    @ 45

    Today, after a long road, the Nguyens boast three generations of medical professionals…

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, why would you be so cruel as to quote a passage that you know will be triggering to Welfare Queen YLB?

    “Asians” scare her, and the innumerable accomplished ones cause her to simply lose her shit because she knows that her fucked kids cannot come close to providing the same level of professional support, and never will.

  52. 52

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 5:25 pm

    @ 48

    Why does a presidential library need a 747?

    Well, in Bill Clinton’s case, it’s a safe space he can go to get blown by a library intern, because #CrookedHillary doesn’t have a key to the upstairs office.

    In Ronald Reagan’s case,

    Can you go inside Air Force One at the Reagan Library?
    AI Overview
    Yes, you can walk inside Air Force One at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Visitors can explore the actual Air Force One, tail number 27000, including the authentic staterooms, galley, and cockpit. The library also includes an exhibit on President Reagan’s 1984 parade limousine and a Marine One helicopter.

    It’s a little unnerving to ponder that the leader of the free world – of whichever party – is shuttled about in a 747 only one decade newer than the one on display in Simi Valley. More unnerving after you take the tour, which I did, about 6-7 years ago.

  53. 53

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 5:28 pm

    @ 49

    Electing a president who’s a convicted felon, white supremacist, and seditionist merely because he claimed he could lower egg prices probably wasn’t a good idea.

    Nominating a presidential candidate best known for emptying Willie Brown’s balls and tickling his asshole from a perch on her knees definitely was not a good idea.

  54. 54

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 5:30 pm

    Moreover, none of those children need to shave twice a day despite claiming to be only 10 years old.

    Inevitable West
    ·
    May 12, 2025
    @Inevitablewest

    🚨BREAKING: The first set of White South Africans fleeing Genocide have arrived in the United States

    Notice how there’s women & children?

    booker9e1
    @booker9e1
    ·
    Follow
    Hey, liberals!! This is how real asylum seekers look like: COMPLETE families with women and children, and definitely not just large groups of military age males .
    12:22 PM · May 12, 2025

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:01 pm

    @51 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, why would you be so cruel as to quote a passage that you know will be triggering to Welfare Queen YLB?”

    Because I knew it would trigger you, and I’m being cruel to you.

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:04 pm

    @52 So you’re saying the 747 being gifted by Qatar to Trump will be a display model at his presidential library?

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:05 pm

    @53 Even if that was true, between the two, one is light-years better than the other. So you, of course, voted for the criminal because you love fascists.

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:07 pm

    @54 So if the litmus test for legal admittance to the United States is “fleeing genocide,” shouldn’t we also be admitting Palestinian women, children, and old people?

  59. 59

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:21 pm

    The best thing about the WNBA is watching all the cheap shots.

  60. 60

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:25 pm

    @ 58

    … “fleeing genocide,” shouldn’t we also be admitting Palestinian women, children, and old people?

    Sure. Just as soon as they admit what “From the river to the sea.” really means. What it means, you hypocritical fuck, is genocide of the Israeli Jews.

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:31 pm

    @60 That has to be the False Equivalency of the Year. Who’s starving who, dumbass? You are downright childish.

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/gazas-entire-population-faces-critical-levels-hunger-report/story?id=121706450

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:36 pm

    Seattle’s notoriously bad traffic got a lot worse today when a collision in the Mount Baker Tunnel set an RV on fire inside the tunnel and closed eastbound I-90 until further notice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM3OFbQGmfI

  63. 63

    Just Stating The Obvious spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:37 pm

    “A land without a people for a people without a land.”

  64. 64

    Sponsors Needed, Won't You Help? spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 6:43 pm

    @54,
    https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/s/DPWe3kgq2n

  65. 65

    G spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 7:04 pm

    Ohh Bob really doesn’t care about the Jews. They will not replace Us! Exploitation. He isn’t worried about humanity. I mean tossing people from atop buildings doesn’t bother him. He doesn’t care about the Jews.

    Yes, he is a child being childish.

    And don’t say anything about The Heterosexual Neanderthals Virus! He might start to cry.

  66. 66

    G spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 8:29 pm

    This is why Bob likes the white “family”. Same reason Donnie and Elonia too.

    Just google White South Afrikan’s antisemitism

  67. 67

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 8:39 pm

    Trump is a comedian. If you don’t think so, watch this Jon Stewart video:

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

  68. 68

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Monday, 5/12/25 at 10:11 pm

    62)Looks like the tunnels smoke ventilation system worked. I was looking at the SFD Log, one unit not deployed was MVU2. It’s a special vehicle for such emergencies in tunnels, Sound Transit bought it for the SFD. Ironically, rarely used as intended but has been deployed to building fires.

  69. 69

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:36 am

    @27 “Tariff receipts topped $16 billion in April, a record that helped cut the budget deficit”

    None of which was paid by any foreign government, manufacturer, supplier, or exporter. Every cent of it was a tax on American businesses and consumers.

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:38 am

    There is no such thing as an innocent Republican. The entire party, including all of its elected officials and voters, is guilty of supporting and protecting Trump, and making possible this administration’s incompetence, lawlessness, and corruption.

  71. 71

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 8:55 am

    @ 70

    … is guilty of supporting and protecting Trump, and making possible this administration’s incompetence, lawlessness, and corruption.

    The list of enablers doing the same for The Biden Crime Family’s incompetence, lawlessness, and corruption fully explains the rise of DJT II.

    Because it includes nearly all of the media.

  72. 72

    Mom’s dead spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 8:56 am

    I voted for Donald because eggs and gas and illegals.

    and they understand We’re doing what a lot of smart people would do but we’re not being necessarily politically correct you saw what we did yesterday yesterday with healthcare. We’re cutting our healthcare by 50 to 90%..”

    Editors note: he’s not talking about saving an individual 50 to 90% of their medical costs. He’s talking about eliminating Medicare and proud of it.

  73. 73

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 8:59 am

    Lessee…

    Increasing employment, slowing inflation…

    DJT47 hitting stride.

  74. 74

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:01 am

    @ 69

    Every cent of it was a tax on American businesses and consumers.

    Patriots, you mean.

  75. 75

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:03 am

    @ 65

    I mean tossing people from atop buildings doesn’t bother him.

    Depends on who is being tossed.

    Be careful up there, G-clown. I don’t think the parapet railing is strong enough to support both you and the stranger ramming into you from behind.

  76. 76

    Just Pointing Out The Obvious spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:10 am

    The Biden Crime Family’s incompetence, lawlessness, and corruption

    If they can feed themselves on barbecued dogs and cats, what else can the paranoid nourish themselves with?

  77. 77

    Times Square Mosque spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:38 am

    They’re scared shitless of the young TikTok star.

    Kat is running for Congress. Kat has a medium-Large Audience. Kat is doing non traditional campaign events like ‘bring a box if Tampons to donate to homeless shelters, get a selfie with Kat’ and over the weekend, ‘Bring a paintbrush, tarp, tape, white paint, whatever you have and help is turn our new campaign office into a campaign home.”*

    How did the GOP primary opponent try to fundraise off it?

    The candidate posted on the BookFace

    9th District, Illinois – The Rocio Cleveland campaign is raising serious concerns over recent reports that opponent Kat Abughazaleh is seeking volunteers in the Ninth District for efforts tied to a proposed initiative referred to as the “Home of Hezbollah.” Such efforts raise alarms about associations with organizations that pose a threat to U.S. national security and global stability.

    Rocio Cleveland strongly condemns any support-direct or indirect-of groups designated
    as terrorist organizations, and reaffirms unwavering commitment to protecting the safety and values of American communities.

    “This district deserves leadership that stands firmly against terrorism and extremism in all forms,” said Rocio Cleveland
    “I will always defend the interests of our allies, including Israel, and
    ensure that our policies reflect peace, democracy, and security.”
    As the campaign moves forward,
    pledges to bring principled, vigilant leadership
    to the Ninth District and work tirelessly to keep our communities safe from radical influences.

    See she has a funny last name and her Dad is a Palestinian living in America since the 80s. No Mom is 7th generation pure white stock but what’s important is…ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE LEFT!

    *My personal fav, “Every $5 donation for the next 4 hours gets a cell phone picture of my cat.” Each taken and sent to the contact individually. Raised $1100.

  78. 78

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:50 am

    Sure, I may be racist.

    But you guys were mean about it. And that’s much worse. 😥

  79. 79

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 9:55 am

    What with all of the preaching on HA about how liberals must arm an’ shit, I thought it would be useful to aid Welfare Queen YLB in her sidearm selection efforts:

    What Guns Women Really Seem to Favor

    Pistols: Trusted Brands and Optics Preference
    At the 2025 A Girl & A Gun National Conference, a total of 1,028 pistols were logged during the Gear Check process. Among the major brands, several standout models emerged as favorites among women shooters. GLOCK, who was the Title Sponsor of the event, had another strong showing with the G19, followed closely by the G34 and G17. SIG Sauer’s P365 XL also ranked highly, reinforcing its reputation as a viable option for everyday carry and training. Walther’s PDP F-Series earned the top spot for the second year in a row across all brands, and far outpaced other Walther models, thanks to its ergonomics tailored specifically for women. Smith & Wesson showed a strong presence with a mix of Shield and M&P variants.

    Welfare Queen YLB, I highlighted the one that might nestle most comfortably next to your womanly curves.

  80. 80

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 10:01 am

    Many more books to come, but this will do for now (Tapper & Thompson):

    David Plouffe, who was a key adviser for the Harris campaign, blamed the then-veep’s election loss squarely on the ex-commander in chief, according to a new book CNN’s Jake Tapper co-authored.

    Plouffe — a senior adviser in Obama’s White House — was quoted ripping Harris’ 107-day campaign against Donald Trump as a “fucking nightmare,” according to an excerpt obtained by The Guardian.

    “And it’s all Biden,” he told the authors. “He totally fucked us.”

    It’s gonna be fun, isn’t it, getting to dissect all the reasons that Welfare Queen YLB (but nobody else on HA) was deluded into believing that Biden’s disastrous debate performance was merely because “he had a cold”.

    Think on your sins. You’ll have at least until 2036.

  81. 81

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 10:05 am

    Tim fucking Walz? Really, libbies?

  82. 82

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 10:11 am

    WSDOT, on FB:

    But take note a new flammable cargo restriction is now in place in both directions of I-90 through the Mount Baker & Mercer Island tunnels.
    This will likely be long-term.
    Flammable cargo must detour around Lake Washington via I-5 & I-405.

    Some reason flammable cargo can’t take the 520 bridge?

  83. 83

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 10:40 am

    A plot to further empower the Chinese Communist Party and Ukrainian oligarch thugs.

    EXCLUSIVE Excruciating moment Biden couldn’t recognize A-list star who’d backed him for years, as top Dems leak grim new details of plot to trick Americans

    In one of the most shocking revelations, Biden was reportedly so impaired that he didn’t recognize Clooney at a star-studded June 2024 Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles, the book says, claiming it left the actor ‘shaken to his core.’
    ‘It was obvious to many standing there that the president did not know who George Clooney was,’ the authors write.
    Another Hollywood VIP guest reportedly said: ‘It was like watching someone who was not alive. It was so awful.’

    Man, that must’ve been some head cold. Isn’t that right, Welfare Queen YLB?

    Or maybe George Clooney is just getting really old really fast, and no longer resembles his more familiar self.

  84. 84

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 10:42 am

    @ 83

    ‘It was like watching someone who was not alive. It was so awful.’

    Quadrennium at Bernies.

  85. 85

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 11:25 am

    DJT47 is here to make sure that when they’re finished with school, Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids will have the income necessary to subsidize my Social Security payments.

    E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
    @RealEJAntoni
    ·
    What a difference a president makes:

    Inflation-adjusted weekly paychecks fell 4% under Biden but have already risen almost 1% in Trump’s 2nd term:

    https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1922300591046336833

    7:39 AM · May 13, 2025

  86. 86

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 11:25 am

    George Clooney might be getting older but he still makes Welfare Queen YLB moist.

  87. 87

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 11:53 am

    I think it was 3 weeks ago today that QoS McHillbilly claimed that The Tesla Takedown was working. TSLA shares that day were at $238.

    Today they touched $337.

    Not even Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has been that wrong, that quickly.

  88. 88

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 11:56 am

    2020 Democrat presidential candidate says it wasn’t just Welfare Queen YLB who was deluded last year.

    Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸
    @AndrewYang

    Joe Biden is going to take a ton of heat from the accounts from
    @AlexThomp @jaketapper new book – and he deserves all of it. He let us all down and gave the White House back to Trump through his stubbornness, delusion and pride.

    9:49 AM · May 13, 2025

    Also delusional is the concept that Boxcheck Momala was a competent replacement.

  89. 89

    Economists who aren’t randos on the Twatter spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 12:01 pm

    @85

    Tell us about the U6 rate some more.

  90. 90

    Donnie spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 12:06 pm

    That bitch is SO fired

    Fox News host Gillian Turner to Sen. Jim Risch: “To be fair, the president issued this major executive order, but that doesn’t mean that pharmaceutical costs will automatically shoot down tomorrow … what is the enforcement mechanism?”

    Making Price Controls American Again.

  91. 91

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 12:27 pm

    @ 89

    Tell us about the U6 rate some more.

    The U6 rate is a component of the BLS monthly reports that have held zero interest to liberals. Until 2025. [Perhaps Welfare Queen YLB can scour the HA database for all of the U6 posts by liberals during the Biden years. It won’t be a long list of hits. Probably zero, in fact.]

    As conditions improve and more people move into the work force, some of them are initially employed part-time but desire full-time work.. This pushes up the U6 rate, just as it pushes up the topline unemployment rate.

    U6 rate has fallen each of the last two months.

  92. 92

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:15 pm

    @71 Another gross false equivalency from HA’s master of bullshit.

  93. 93

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:17 pm

    @74 You had to reach back 17 years for that one.

  94. 94

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:19 pm

    @75 “Depends on who is being tossed.”

    In other words, murder is perfectly acceptable to the death-loving dumbfuck doctor, as long as those being murdered are people he doesn’t like. This is why liberals must arm.

  95. 95

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:24 pm

    @77 “Rocio Cleveland strongly condemns any support – direct or indirect – of groups designated as terrorist organizations, and reaffirms unwavering commitment to protecting the safety and values of American communities.”

    So I assume she’s distancing herself from the Republican Party, yes? By the way, she’s a ballot filler candidate, running in a district that went 68% Big D in 2024.

  96. 96

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:24 pm

    @77 “Rocio Cleveland strongly condemns any support – direct or indirect – of groups designated as terrorist organizations, and reaffirms unwavering commitment to protecting the safety and values of American communities.”

    So I assume she’s distancing herself from the Republican Party, yes? By the way, she’s a ballot filler candidate, running in a district that went 68% Big D in 2024.

  97. 97

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:29 pm

    @78 Sure, I may be racist. But you guys were mean about it. And that’s much worse. 😥

    No, it isn’t. Being racist is always much worse than being mean to racists, and not only because they have it coming.

  98. 98

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:29 pm

    @78 Sure, I may be racist. But you guys were mean about it. And that’s much worse. 😥

    No, it isn’t. Being racist is always much worse than being mean to racists, and not only because racists have it coming.

  99. 99

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:36 pm

    @79 Everything you need to know about liberals and handguns:

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

  100. 100

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:38 pm

    @82 “Some reason flammable cargo can’t take the 520 bridge?”

    I expect the same reason it can’t take the I-90 bridge. But I get why a dumbfuck needs this explained to him …

  101. 101

    G spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:40 pm

    The news that gas has gone down is bullshit, it’s higher now than it’s been in the past 3-4 months. Bullshit

    Just past a gas station that $3.09, it was $2.79 about 7 months ago, and really hasn’t been a lot higher than $3.09 in the last 2 months.

    Complete bullshit.

  102. 102

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:47 pm

    @85 Let’s skip over the fact this Ph.D. type (or whoever made the chart) can’t spell “inauguration” correctly (there’s no “e” in it), and cut to the chase.

    Any dumbfuck can cherry-pick data. Here’s what inflation-adjusted weekly earnings have looked like since 2016:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1FbZI

    Summary:
    Jan. 2017: Wages dive, inflation spikes
    Jan. 2021: Wages spike, inflation dives

  103. 103

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:51 pm

    @88 Biden is the dumbfuck’s stand-in for Hillary.

  104. 104

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:52 pm

    The only thing Biden brought was a $25-30 million investment into The Biden Crime Family, and most of that was before his inauguration.

    White House announces $600 billion Saudi investment in U.S. during Trump visit

  105. 105

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:53 pm

    @104 Prove it.

  106. 106

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 1:53 pm

    @ 103

    All I did was load up on Nvidia when it was down.

    Four shares is not much of a load, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  107. 107

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:05 pm

    @ 101

    The news that gas has gone down is bullshit, it’s higher now than it’s been in the past 3-4 months. Bullshit

    Does that make you feel better about Boxcheck Momala’s landslide loss to Donald Trump, G-clown? Picking the December-January period to compare gas prices to, instead of, say, one year ago?

    Because a year ago gas price were about 45 cents higher than they are now. I bet that contributed to Donald Trump’s election.

    Know what else contributed, you psychotic fuck?

    highest recorded average price
    Price Date
    Regular Unleaded $5.016 6/14/22
    Diesel $5.815 6/19/22

    Voters remembered how Democrat spending in 2021 fucked them in the ass in mid-2022.

    Nobody gives a fuck about gas prices today, G-clown. They’re down from last year at the same time that the SPR is finally being refilled.

    G-clown, thank you for providing the opportunity to revisit one of Biden’s biggest failures.

  108. 108

    Friends of Piddles spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:06 pm

    @91

    Smell the sarcasm.

    The U6 stopped holding interest to conservatives from 2017 to 2021. Before that it was all the rage.

    But as yours truly has pointed out before, despite the long explication above the U6 is stupid because it considers every single person 17 to 70 as ‘workforce’. Disabled, high school student, golden parachute early retirement…unemployed.

    It was your favorite statistic in the Obama years. You called it REAL unemployment.

    Economists ignore it unless paid to talk about it by the GOP.

  109. 109

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:08 pm

    @106 That’s why I bought 400 shares.

  110. 110

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:10 pm

    @107 Know what didn’t contribute to lower gas prices? Donald Trump’s re-election. But it will, when the economy goes into recession.

  111. 111

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:17 pm

    Another decade or so and the only men in the Democrat party will be the ones who either wear dresses, or want to fuck other men in the ass.

    Or both.

    Robby Soave
    @robbysoave

    So let me get this straight…. David Hogg started complaining, loudly—and rightly—that the Democrats alienated young men and have no plan to win them back (and in general are too deferential to older establishment figures and identity politics), and the DNC is voiding his vice chairmanship to humor a 61-year-old Native American woman who claims the process was not sufficiently rigged in favor of a woman.

    1:22 PM · May 13, 2025

  112. 112

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:50 pm

    In today’s New Yorker, Tapper and Thompson provide a preview of their book’s content:

    The Political Scene
    How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump
    At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?

    By Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson

    Remember, the same DNC that took money from #CrookedHillary and then shut down Bernie in 2016, and then shut down every other candidate in a wide-open 2020 primary to back Biden, tried to get through 2024 without anyone finding out with certainty that Biden had become a walking turnip. Before announcing a 70 hour primary last summer before anointing Boxcheck Momala as the nominee.

    Now they need you to forget everything they did in the last three election cycles in order for you to believe that Gavin Newsom is really and truly the best 2028 candidate.

    And you will. Of course you will. There are too many Welfare Queen YLBs in your party.

  113. 113

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:54 pm

    For baseball lovers:

    Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mlb/mlb-reinstates-pete-rose-and-shoeless-joe-jackson-making-them-hall-of-fame-eligible/

  114. 114

    Good boy Dumbfuck getes a beggin strip spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 2:55 pm

    @104

    They’re going to make electronics in MN.

    Fool me once shame on you

    Fool me a second won’t get fooled again.

    Tell the same lie 50 times shame on the liberals for not believing it!

    They already gave cash to a kid named Jared with no hedge fund management experience .

  115. 115

    Bill Cosby spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 3:04 pm

    @113

    So MLB gets a shot at ‘Statutory rape is NOTHING as long as you can hit”

    Rose acknowledged in 2017 that he did have a relationship with the woman, but he said it started when she was 16. He also said they never had sex outside Ohio. At the time, Rose was in his mid-30s and was married with two children.

  116. 116

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 4:35 pm

    @115 You’re back in good graces, Bill. Society has changed. Now, performance is everything, and character is nothing. And the example for that is coming from the top.

  117. 117

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 4:36 pm

    I remember when adults were supposed to set an example for the young. Of course, there are no adults in the Republican Party, which makes it much more difficult.

  118. 118

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 4:47 pm

    Here’s a House committee hearing where Republicans call Biden, Harris, and Democrats liars, but won’t allow Democrats to call Trump or Republicans liars.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojC-KMk6ec

  119. 119

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 5:12 pm

    There’s a shitload of GOP legislative legerdemain in this video. This shows why Republicans are scammers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hITO-lyK694

  120. 120

    Keep on flippin’ spews:

    Tuesday, 5/13/25 at 8:26 pm

    Omaha NE has a Democratic Mayor elect. First since 2013

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