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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/7/25, 8:04 am

Since there wasn’t a post on Friday, this is a bit stale. King County Assessor John Arthur Wilson has got to go. Like, obviously don’t vote for him for Executive but also, he has to go. No fucking stalkers. Like I hope he gets help, but not while he has a position of public trust.

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  1. 1

    Donald os a Pedophile spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 11:30 am

    ‘I have the Epstein lost on my desk’ – Pam Bondi

    Flips through it and finds Donald. The teen from Mar A Lago groomed at Mar A Lago, Donald on flights, Epstein introducing Donals to Milanoa…

    “There is no Epstein client list” / Pam Bondi

  2. 2

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 12:13 pm

    Looks like Trump is sabotaging the stock market again so doc can buy lottery tickets on Tesla options. I wouldn’t touch it with a lineman’s pole.

  3. 3

    lmao spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 12:42 pm

    If teh babblin’ butthole aka puddydumbass were still here it’d be babblin’:

    jeebus is comin’ !!!!!

    Why? Floods in TexASS.. I love the irony…

  4. 4

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 12:47 pm

    Oh look! A Republican admits he was wrong after kids are dead.

    For the last three days, state Rep. Wes Virdell has been out with first responders in Kerr County as they searched for victims and survivors from the devastating floods that swept through Central Texas early Friday morning.

    Virdell’s closeup view of the havoc wreaked on his district has … left him reconsidering a vote he made just a few months ago against a bill that would have established a statewide plan to improve Texas’ disaster response, including better alert systems, along with a grant program for counties to buy new emergency communication equipment and build new infrastructure like radio towers.

    “I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now,” said Virdell, a freshman GOP lawmaker from Brady.

    https://www.rawstory.com/texas-lawmakers-failed-to-pass-a-bill-to-improve-local-disaster-warning-systems/

    He’ll probably get ex-communicated from the GOP and primaried for that. No, not for his vote, but for admitting that voting the party line was a deadly mistake that killed his constituents’ children.

  5. 5

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 12:56 pm

    Buried in the fine print of Big Ugly Bill is a sneaky provision allowing private jet owners to write off 100% of the cost of their planes in the year of purchase.

    https://www.rawstory.com/hidden-clause-in-megabill-gives/

  6. 6

    Through a DEI lens spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 1:44 pm

    So various outlets have been running pieces of people who went to Camp Mystic, and all their fond memories and lifelong networking of campers and something about them all struck me as interesting.

    If you look at Camp Mystic’s website, the founders are of course a white Texas family, and there’s pictures of their extended blonde family looking pretty Aryan. And then each generation that took over the camp looking every bit as white and Aryan as the previous.

    And then you can look at the current staff, and it will probably surprise you not at all to notice that the one non-white staff member is the groundskeeper/janitor.

    And then you can actually see the last few years of camper group photos, and while there are a few who look like they might have some Latino genes and one conspicuous Asian girl this camp is very very very elite white coded.

    And also non-denominational Christian, which if you’ve been around long enough is code for the kinds of Christians you don’t really want to associate with if you actually care about the teachings of Jesus.

    But I’ve spent some time in Texas so these kinds of neo segregationist, traditional clubs and societies is not remotely surprising.

    To be clear, none of these kids deserve to die for the racism in the system that produced their gathering.

  7. 7

    Booker Prize spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 3:13 pm

    They are growing increasingly desperate. Chris Rufo spends the weekend combing through every bit of public media on a tenured professor and finds a conference where he discussed a book titled

    “Hitler’s American Model
    The United States and the
    Making of Nazi Race Law”
    James Q Whitman*

    And then he sent a press release to Fox News:

    Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler’s Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.

    Aside, Mamdani’s mother directed the film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri‘s ‘The Namesake” a debut novel that flung Lahiri into the rare territory of ‘author who is brilliant beyond her years” whose further works have failed to live up. But that first one is really something.

    *A Yale Law Professor specializing in comparative international law with a long list of dry academic publishings.

  8. 8

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 3:33 pm

    @6 “none of these kids deserve to die”

    Right. This is on the adults who knew the camp was in a flood zone, there were no warning systems, and didn’t care.

  9. 9

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 3:41 pm

    Republicans can’t stop lying about the Big Ugly Bill:

    The legislation does not, as the agency put it, include “a provision that eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries.” Moreover, while the Social Security Administration memo said the law helps protect Social Security, experts say the provisions weaken the program’s funding by reducing the tax money it receives.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/why-big-beautiful-bill-doesnt-end-taxes-on-social-security-benefits.html

  10. 10

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 3:59 pm

    I think Elon Musk starting a splinter Republican Party is an excellent idea. We need two Republican parties, one to put Trumpers in, and another to put the rest of them in.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-third-party-threat-politics-desk-rcna217363

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:07 pm

    When I don’t spew, neither does anyone else.

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:11 pm

    @11 Oh look, Mr. Self Important is back.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:15 pm

    Trump’s latest brainwave is to bring back plantation slavery. It doesn’t violate the 13th amendment because the slaves will be free to be deported at any time, if they tire of being farmers’ “responsibility.”

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zCAuErrQFrA

    Here’s how it works: The immigrant farmworkers are arrested, then farmed out to the corporate farmers as forced prison labor. All perfectly legal under our present system.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO8qKVJY7Yk

  14. 14

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:20 pm

    Tank theater in L A today

  15. 15

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:21 pm

    Tank performance art in L A today

  16. 16

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:39 pm

    When I don’t spew,

    …it’s because he’s busy scrubbing out unspeakably filthy toilets and painting over toxic black mold so he can list another of the tenements he inherited.

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  17. 17

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:43 pm

    14, 15,

    They need to distract the Nazi Fucktard so he won’t off himself when he realizes how much money he lost in a single day because of his emotions.

  18. 18

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:44 pm

    Fat Hitler just announced the new August 1st tariff deadline is optional.

    Heh.

    TACO

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 4:52 pm

    14, 15 Here ya go, here’s video of the Trump regime’s armed troops sweeping through a Los Angeles park where a children’s summer camp was being held.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJGO1GBmeA

  20. 20

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

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

    While military leadership is embracing the Washington-inspired mission, sources say, the rank-and-file see the California operation as more akin to Afghanistan: doomed to failure and ultimately withdrawal.

    While everyone else got radio code names of familiar soft drinks, Vance got the code name Backwash.

  21. 21

    Pam Bondi spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 5:13 pm

    I have the Epstein list on my desk.

    Or maybe it never existed.
    Depends.

  22. 22

    G spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 5:19 pm

    The bottom line: If you look only at how many Americans are losing their jobs, this appears to be a pretty terrific labor market. If you look only at how many are being hired for new jobs, it is the weakest in years.
    The question ahead is how it gets unstuck — with a pick-up in hiring, or a pick-up in layoffs.

    From Axios

  23. 23

    not your therapist spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 6:38 pm

    6

    you are a sick person. seek professional help,

  24. 24

    G spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 7:59 pm

    Why? Floods in TexASS.. I love the irony…

    There was no time to build the Ark!

  25. 25

    G spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 8:07 pm

    @23

    What’s wrong? Can’t handle the truth?

  26. 26

    G spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 8:11 pm

    Going nowhere Fast!

    https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/unemployment-job-market-education-health-care

  27. 27

    G Gordon Liddy spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 8:40 pm

    so a bunch of face covered unbadged terrorists, many of whom clearly had no idea how to ride a horse but we’re put on one for the cameras storm troopered their way across an athletic field in MacArthur Park Los Angeles interrupting some 20 kids who up until their arrival had been playing. From the look of it, they were mostly preteens.

    All to keep us safe from those lawbreaking criminal record having ‘illegals’.

    And when the mayor of LA showed up and wagged your finger at them and told them to go home to Mom, they just left knowing that they had no authority to be there in the first place.

    Donnie and Kegseth are quite literally trying to start an incident where they can shoot some civilians and kick off a civil war.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 8:45 pm

    Netanyahu nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is like a bat calling rabies its best friend.

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 9:22 pm

    @27 Kidnappers and serial killers will have a field day. Now they can brazenly grab women in broad daylight and nobody will call the cops, because they’ll think it’s just ICE doing their dirty work, and nobody wants a reputation as a crank 911 caller.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/7/25 at 9:55 pm

    Will wingnuts boycott the Superman movie because the superhero is an immigrant?

    https://www.aol.com/james-gunn-shrugs-off-jerks-013000476.html

  31. 31

    Through a DEI Lens spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 12:24 am

    @23

    You REALLY don’t want to look at the year of founding, the founder, his ‘men’s club’ ties, the people who took it over….

    Sometimes tragedy sheds a light on a White Supremacist cult that was flying under the national radar for 100 years.

    @8
    That it was there for 100 years led to complacency. That the 100 year storm happened after the governor sent national guard who COULD execute a quick evacuation in favor of border wall theater AND in the immediate aftermath of DOGEy dismantling of weather prediction should give people most likely to deny ‘climate change’ in favor of GOP dogma…

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 1:30 am

    I think ICE agents should wear clearly visible identification. Swastika armbands would work well for this. Then everyone will know who and what they are.

  33. 33

    not your therapist spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 7:54 am

    31

    Shorter: Sure am glad those Christian summer camps got destroyed. Sorry/not sorry about the kids tho…collateral damage we can call it.

    Such a weird first post about the subject from you – but enlightening just the same.

    Seriously guy, just own your hate and stop trying to cover it up.

    Go seek some help.

  34. 34

    WWJD spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 9:13 am

    NoemSpeak, “Some weren’t worthy, like those little Christian campers.”

    Kristi Noem on Texas floods: “I’m extremely grateful for God’s hand in that whole situation, because hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people were saved.”

  35. 35

    Through a DEI lens spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 9:22 am

    @33

    I can walk and chew gum.

    Tragically kids died in a flood.

    Racism exists in America.

    These are independent and just to be redundant unrelated thoughts that for a brief moment exist simultaneously

  36. 36

    RedReformed spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 9:24 am

    Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and US officials on signal.

  37. 37

    Den Haag spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 10:34 am

    Imagine if the allies had just firebombed the camps.

    Israel’s June 23 airstrikes on Iran’s Evin prison, where hundreds were held, killed 79 people and destroyed much of the prison including the visitor center, above, which also housed. the prosecutor’s office. -Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

    About 100 transgender inmates are missing after their section of the prison was flattened, and the authorities say they are presumed dead, said Reza Shafakhah, a prominent human rights lawyer, who added that the government often treats being transgender as a crime. The chief prosecutor of the prison, Ali Ghanaatkar, despised by government critics for his handling of political prisoners, and one of his deputies also were killed.

    They were in prison because being a Jew transgender in 1939 Iran is a crime in itself. Their lives also meant nothing to the IOF

  38. 38

    Like I’m really smart at digging myself out so I have algriculture spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 10:43 am

    Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (R-zero relevant experience) has it all figured out. We can deport all the farm workers. It’s not a problem at all.

    There will be no amnesty (for farm workers) The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100 percent American participation, which, again, with 34 million … able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 11:28 am

    @38 Like those able-bodied adults on Medicaid are going to give up their present jobs and relocate away from their families and friends just for the opportunity to do low-paying, backbreaking, outdoor work as field hands …

    … or maybe Rollins has in mind recruiting their kids.

    What a total dumbass. But then, what Republican isn’t?

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 11:29 am

    Where is Ted Crud while Texas mourns? Sightseeing in Greece.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-greece-trip-amid-texas-floods_n_686cdf1be4b0dd2148c6a561

    And lest we forget how vile Ann Coulter is, she reminds us by saying, “We didn’t kill enough Indians.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ann-coulter-didnt-kill-enough-indians_n_686c4d80e4b086b32e2417ad

  41. 41

    Man car television train kitten grab cognitive aced spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 11:38 am

    More on the cabinet meeting later, but he seems fully in control of his faculties and speech.

    Asked about California high-speed rail

    It shouldn’t never been built because airplanes do it better. And you can drive it. No problem with driving it. The road aren’t even crowded.

  42. 42

    Some DEI hires are more DEI than others spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 12:04 pm

    Marge Green‘s boyfriend got the new media seat at the press briefing where he tried really hard to tee up a question where the groomed child bride twat at the podium could tee off on Joe Biden for the lack ofresponse to the Texas floods. But because he’s super smart, he asked her about the “Texas hurricane.“

    Yes. We all heard it right. Hurricane.

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 12:11 pm

    Speaking of MTG, she thinks DOJ should “drop all charges” against a Utah doctor who vaccinated kids with saline and didn’t tell the parents their kids weren’t protected against Covid-19.

    “I am writing a letter to the DOJ asking all charges be dropped against Dr. Kirk Moore. who is facing thirty five years in federal prison for destroying thousands of vials of COVID-19 vaccine, giving his patients vaccine cards without taking the shots, and injecting saline into children whose parents wanted them to believe they got vaccinated without risking the deadly side effects,” she explained. “This man is a hero, not a criminal.” Greene noted that Kirk had been charged by President Joe Biden’s administration, not Donald Trump’s DOJ.

    https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-vaccines-2672944617/

    Which is a good reason to let any criminal go free, amirite? Same with the 1,500 rioters who tried to kill members of Congress, hang the Vice President, and turn our country into a dictatorship. And while you’re at it, use millions of taxpayer dollars to pay off the family of a domestic terrorist. And then argue we can’t afford school lunches for poor kids.

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 12:17 pm

    If an anonymous chat participant seeks to incite the group to disrupt a Republican townhall, you should immediately suspect the culprit is a staffer working for the Republican, because she probably is.

    https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lawler-republican/

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 12:39 pm

    This lawsuit will settle for at least $2 million. Meanwhile, why is San Diego PD officer Jonathan Ferraro still a cop, instead of facing felony assault charges?

    https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/07/07/sdpd-parking-lot-attack-homeland-security/

    There is zero criminal or civil immunity when an off-duty cop, acting 100% in a civilian role, makes racist slurs and then beats the shit out of an older man in a Costco parking lot simply because the victim asked him to move his vehicle so the victim could back out of his parking spot. And when his cop pals show up and haul the severely injured and unconscious victim off to the police station to inflict further abuse, instead of to a hospital, there’s zero immunity for that, either.

    Two million? If I were on the jury, I’d fine the SDPD $5 million for this one; and if I were a sentencing judge, the perp would get 10 years in San Quentin and never be a cop again.

  46. 46

    Snarky spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 1:09 pm

    Over on the BlueSky people are making fake NYT headlines about how desperate they are to get the corporate centrist billionaire elected even though he already lost.

    My fav so far

    New York Times

    Zohran Mamdani Used the 10 Items Or Less Aisle. We Counted 11

  47. 47

    Case CLOSED spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 1:28 pm

    So yesterday, AG Bondi dropped the cover-up that Epstein actually killed himself. He had no client list. There’s nothing more to see here. We’re done with this now.

    So in the cabinet meeting when a reporter asked her about it, including why she said she had a list and now says there is no list and particularly why there is still a one minute gap on the tape of Epstein‘s cell (later DOJ would attempt to clarify, saying we always reset the tapes in our prisons at night, which is setting off a round of weird how Epstein knew the precise moment that would happen to act) Donnie jumped in to make sure everyone knows that you’re no longer to ask any questions about his pal the child rapist, and his girlfriend, his other good friend, the child groomer and rapist.

    could I just interrupt for one second are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? this guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking we have Texas we have this we have all of the things and our people still talking about this guy this really close friend of mine that I used to party with creep? That is… Unbelievable you want to waste the time? I can’t believe you’re asking me a question about Epstein at a time like this. When we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like uh a desecration.”

    That’s it I’m done you all need to stop asking me about this guy. I was photographed with who was fucking lots of little girls and you definitely need to stop asking about the day. He introduced me to a really young hooker who became my wife and you really need to stop asking about me about groomers. I’m a goddamn president. I have nothing to hide at all.

  48. 48

    Person, woman, camera, little girl, Epstein, lovely jet, great guy, Joe Biden spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 2:02 pm

    More Cabinet meeting
    Q so who ordered the halting of delivery (of weapons to Ukraine) last week?

    Guy who is supposed to be in charge of all of that kind of shit: “ I don’t know why don’t you tell me.”

  49. 49

    Heil Elon spews:

    Tuesday, 7/8/25 at 2:29 pm

    Remember. IT’S NOT FAIR OR ACCURATE TO DAY ELON MUSK IS A NAZI.

    He just reprogramed his Grok AI to blame the Jews for Hollywood liberalism and report the true facts that they control the global banks. That’s it. Not an anti-semitic trope in his vocabulary. Not one.

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