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It’s the last day before a few hot ones. In the past a couple of June days over 80 wouldn’t matter much. But with global warming, and having already had a heat wave it’s just kind of gross. At least the air is not smoke filled yet.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  1. 1

    No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman.

    Of course, neither Melania Trump nor Casey DeSantis could ever embody the class and effortless elegance of Michelle Obama or Dr. Jill Biden. Those First Ladies have used fashion not as a punitive tool to stick it to political enemies—nor as a bored, nihilistic shrug—but as something generous and welcoming. Think the pure sweetness of Michelle’s Jason Wu floral gown for the Obamas’ first inaugural ball, or Jill’s pastel blue coat that echoed the colors of Ukraine’s flag when Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House. In those moments, we remembered that fashion is not only a way to look and feel great, but a way to be inspired to help other people feel great about themselves, too. We remembered that fashion is a joyous extension of who you are and a symbol of what you want the world to know about you and about what you stand for. Think Bernie Sanders in his woolen Inauguration mittens. Think poet Amanda Gorman in her radiantly cheerful yellow coat that day, the color of sunshine and hope.

    What? Nothing about #CrookedHillary’s muu-muus? If that’s not peak fashion then I don’t…

    By contrast, Casey DeSantis’ coat is just like her husband Ron DeSantis’ campaign: Crude.

    The above from Daily Beast’s Katie Baker. And if you don’t get the drift of her prose, just focus on the title:

    Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania

    And John Edwards’ wife Elizabeth was the Susan G. Komen Roseanne.

  3. 3

    Joe Biden thinks his son was killed in Iraq. And some even less believable things about his other son.

    RFK Jr. thinks John Kerry won the 2004 presidential election.

    They’re currently running # 1 and # 2 for the DNC presidential nomination.

  4. 4

    Elon Musk is not the least bit creative.

    TECH
    Musk’s Neuralink valued at about $5 billion despite long road to market: Reuters

    Neither his cars, nor his rockets, nor his satellite transmission are always perfect, you see. And don’t get me started about Twitter.

    He’s a DeLorean who stores his money in Krugerrands.

  5. 5

    Catholic Church Dioceses, Swamped By Incidents of Sexual Abuse of Children, Declaring Bankruptcy
    At least 20 state attorney generals have launched investigations into the Catholic Church. For example, a recent report by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul found that “451 Catholic clergy abused 1,997 children in Illinois between 1950 and 2019,”
    >> The conservatives don’t care that they were not Drag Queens.

  6. 6

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

  7. 7

    10 SYMPTOMS OF THE WOKE MIND VIRUS:
    1. You read books and don’t burn them.
    2. You embrace science.
    3. You are willing to change your mind when new information becomes available.
    4. You understand that most issues are not black and white.
    5. You believe in true equality for all people.
    6. You like to share.
    7. You embrace cooperation.
    8. You respect others’ rights.
    9. You believe culture and the arts has value.
    10 . You care for the planet and all of it’s life.

    >> No wonder conservatives hate woke so much.

  8. 8

    No one treats a woman more viciously…

    than a BOOOOORIIIINGGG moldering kreepshit troll from widbee…

    However it dare not cross librul Mary Kay.. She’ll take it to the fucking cleaners.. Another BIG YAWN..

    But in other news check out the latest from Bob Menendez:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/03/menendez-new-jersey-investigation

    And wife Nadine..

    https://www.current-affairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bob-Menendez-Wife-Nadine-Arslanian.png

    Go kreepshit.. “fucking” fantasies out your miserable you know what! LOL. Be “vicious”.. heh..

  9. 9

    Musk’s Neuralink valued at about $5 billion despite long road to market: Reuters

    Doesn’t even pay for a month of kreepshit’s favorite taxpayer munee blackhole:

    Afghanistan.

  10. 10

    The prime value of today’s fascist, putinesque, kreepshit politics is: NEVER SHOW WEAKNESS..

    Republicans, right-wing judges and MAGA activists have set out to trample on free speech and individual rights in the name of battling “wokeism.” If they don’t like what teachers say about history, gag them. If they don’t like certain books, ban them. If they don’t like a corporation defending LGBTQ rights, retaliate against it. Their crusade has become an expression of not only white Christian nationalism but of contempt for the Constitution and the First Amendment.

    But last week, U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Parker, appointed by President Donald Trump, stood up to the thought police and the MAGA bullies in striking down the so-called drag queen ban (the Adult Entertainment Act) in Tennessee.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/06/republicans-woke-court/

    There you have it kon-klown and your kreepshit butt kissers. Go to war against the “woke” judges.. heh..

  11. 11

    Why do drag queens want to ‘strut their stuff’ around little kids?

  12. 12

    @11. Who are you to tell parents they are not allowed to have drag queens in sparkly outfits and overly long eyelashes reading Clifford the big red dog to the parent’s children at the library?
    How is that strutting one’s stuff?

    Please tell me you also don’t want want Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, in sparkly outfits and long eyelashes and showing way more skin than most drag queens, to be strutting their stuff in front of children either.

    It’s the same thing.

  13. 13

    On to local homophobes…

    I suspect Wassim Fayed Sammamish Planning Board member is going to have a rough time after making public comment at a board meeting.

    “(lgbtqia) are people that are promoting diseases and infestations into the minds of our kids”

    A. There aren’t enough MAGA to swamp his restaurants with support.
    B. The MAGA that’s here won’t eat that terrorist towelhead food more than once.
    C. The words….”as a Muslim” gets you branded at a terrorist among the MAGA / American Christian crowd so they don’t give a fuck if you fail

    The LGBT community and specifically creating a pride month for them. These are some of the most wealthy, the most connected people. I had a person who reported to me at Microsoft. He left Microsoft for a job to be an activist in that community that pays double what he was making at Microsoft, so these are not a minority people who are disenfranchised and then we need to club them as part of the minority people. So, in my opinion, these are people that are promoting diseases and infestation into the mind of our kids in schools. So we as a community we should stand up for this and that’s my belief and that’s where I come from. I don’t believe this is the right way of life. God created us a male and a female and to go and go against the creation of God and to spread diseases in the community is something that we should speak up against or at least I would like to speak up against because that goes against my belief. So that’s what I would like to share. I believe in diversity. This is my life. I believe…I love the diverse community in Sammamish, but if someone wants to choose a lifestyle that’s to themselves. They decide on themselves. They do it privately. That’s theirs. But to go and make it a thing to promote this in every movie, in every TV show, everywhere teaching our kids and poisoning our kids with this I don’t believe this is the right thing to do. So I appreciate the time that I was given and I wanted to share my opinion on this. As part of the training I don’t believe that LGBT should be part of the minority.

    So it’s a choice, it’s a disease and it’s being forced down kids’ throats with every single movie…..in a Universe of TV and movies that he imagines where there aren’t LITERALLY millions of shows that have zero non-CIS characters.

  14. 14

    Someone should clue the Shit-lord Crybaby into the fact that Sharyl Atkinson was terminated from employment at CBS once she went Full Q.

    And here we find ourselves yet again. Looking on in wide wonder as the “intellectual conservative” resident troll aligns himself with “JOO space lasers”, cannibal satanic pizza dungeons, and “Derp State” conspiracy fables, while “fartin’ in bathtubs and laughing his ass off”.

    Dear God. The price these sad fools pay.

  15. 15

    …based on privately executed stock trades described to Reuters by five sources with knowledge of the matter.

    Why not?

    It worked beautifully for FTX.

  16. 16

    No, no, no.

    We meant “Hang Mike Pence for President sign We’re 100% Behind him”

  17. 17

    that Sharyl Atkinson was terminated from employment at CBS once she went Full Q.

    Oh I guess kreepshit will learn to luv Sharyl.. After all, it’s a big fan of Lara..

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/media/newsmax-lara-logan-ban/index.html

    Too krazy for even the “fair and balanced” outfits.

    What happened to Logan in Egypt was horrible.. If that had something to do with her going batshit, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

  18. 18

    @ 15

    It worked beautifully for FTX.

    Different billionaire – one without a track record of proven and repeated success. Although I’ll point out that it worked beautifully for SpaceX.

  20. 20

    Trump remaining Last Lawyers Standing, Jim Trusty and Lindsay Halligan, managed to get a 2 hr meeting at main Justice this morning. No word on who they met with, other than to note that his official schedule had the AG out of the office today.

    Grand Jury in the stolen classified documents case has reconvened after an hiatus of several weeks.

    Trump is throwing plates of ketchup at walls on Truth Social.

    Stay tuned kids!

  21. 21

    …one without a track record of proven and repeated success.

    Pay attention folks!

    Looks like the Shit-lord Crybaby is about to go long again, just like he did with Tesla last December.
    Safely speculative until there’s an IPO. Then we can all sit back and hoot with laughter again.

  22. 22

    Speculation on purpose of the meeting at DOJ:

    My best guess is Smith is prepared to present a bill to the Grand Jury, is formally informing Trump’s latest named attorneys of that, and giving them an opportunity to have him appear to respond before a vote is taken.

    Trump will decline.

    But not before throwing food, apparently.

  23. 23

    @19 My investment horizon is 10 years. Yours is 10 minutes. It’s not surprising you can’t grasp that I don’t care what 3M’s stock price is today. Day trading is for fools.

  24. 24

    Regardless of one’s investment horizon, we should all be concerned about the attempt to replace the world trade monetary units from the dollar to other currencies. China is working hard to establish the yuan as the world’s reserve currency, and that will not be good for our investments and markets in the US.

    If the Chinese are successful, our debt will be far, far less attractive to foreign investors, and our government will have to offer T-bills and T-bonds at substantial discounts to par to sell the debt instruments to foreigners. That means interest rates here in the US will skyrocket to levels that will far exceed those of the Eighties. Mortgage loans could rise to levels as high as 20 percent or more, and credit card rates could increase to more than30 percent. That ain’t so good for the US, our markets, our economy, and our retirement savings.

    The reason China stands a good chance of pulling this feat off is that they are a gold-based currency. Other nations have been stockpiling of gold for decades while we are still printing fiat money.

    It doesn’t look so good for us,

  27. 27

    @24 “The reason China stands a good chance of pulling this feat off is that they are a gold-based currency.”

    You must’ve read this instead of this. A little information packed into a small mind crowds out all other information.

  29. 29

    Remember the Martha’s Vineyard migrants? They now get to stay in the U.S., because they’re witnesses to a crime.

    “Last fall, Salazar issued special certifications to all of the migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard declaring them to be official victims of a crime and paving the way for them to stay in the United States under a special visa for those helpful to law enforcement,” the report said.

    https://www.rawstory.com/immigrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard/

  30. 30

    Every conservative you know, “Why should I have to pay for schools that my kids don’t go to. That’s why we should have vouchers. And it is utterly ridiculous to offer free college. If you can’t pay your own way then you have no business getting an education. I’m am sick and god damned tired of MY tax dollars paying to solve the homeless problem in the cites.”

    Give me some subsidies because I should not have to pay for my own choices

    10 states and scores of local governments sue FEMA over higher flood insurance rates

  31. 31

    @1 Woman treating a woman viciously…..

    You ever hear about the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus?

    Should I do a quick Google search tonight?

    You are out of your dumbfuck mind.

  34. 34

    The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus (STD) on fire tonight!

    Call 1-666-YOU-DEAD you groomed beatch.

  35. 35

    Why do drag queens want to ‘strut their stuff’ around little kids?

    Reading a book is struting your stuff?

    Same reason Football players wear tights. Cheerleaders (Bob) puts short shorts on and titties poping out, and Hooters Girls, same reason woman walk around the streets with their asses and titties hanging out.

    Better question – Why are you asking such a dumb question. Maybe you should ask, Why are Neanderthals fucking killing thier wives, kids and pets?

    Why do you hate Freedom?

  36. 36

    10 states and scores of local governments sue FEMA over higher flood insurance rates

    Shouldn’t they be too busy building volleyball arenas for millionaire athletes with federal welfare money?

    Maybe they need a work requirement.

  39. 39

    @30 Someday we’ll get tired of their whining and let them be self-sufficient.

  40. 40

    At 35 – Answer the question: why do drag queens want to perform in front of little children? Drag queens are clowns by another name, and clowns are creepy.

    When the kids are adults, they can see whatever they want. For now, let’s just let them be kids and not pawns in the culture wars.

  41. 41

    40,

    Milton Berle
    Johnny Carson
    Robin Williams
    John Travolta
    Barry Humphries
    Dustin Hoffman
    Tom Hanks
    Donald Trump
    Rudy Giuliani

    All performed in drag before audiences of children.
    Did it frighten you then?

  42. 42

    @40

    So now it’s not the sex you are worried about, it’s the “creepiness”. Any other creepy things that you would like to ban. Who made you the dictator who decides creepy and not creepy?

    Ban heterosexual marriage and relationships to save woman and children and pets.

  43. 43

    If there is anything that promotes gay sexuality it is men in WWE snd NFL in tights. Ban that shit.

    Rape is promoted by bras and bikinis. Ban women’s provocative clothing. Put scarfs or bags over their faces

  44. 44

    42,

    What are the chances this hypocritical lying fraudulent piece of shit troll loser is heading straight over to Ronald McDonald House to stage a protest?

  45. 45

    43,

    I guess at the age of nine the troll watched Mrs. Doubtfire at the Multiplex Cinema and it turned him “half gay”.

    GOD DAMN YOU SHARI REDSTONE!
    /s

  46. 46

    Brian’s mom was Terry Jones in a dress so that movie clearly repopulated the Holy Land with gay Atheists.

  47. 47

    @13

    Resigned.

    Would be a shame if he lost a ton of money when his restaurants go belly up this year. His biggest commercial account with Metropolitan Market….cancelled.

  48. 48

    It was wrong of the owner of Tanoor restaurant to state that all of those acronym’d types spread disease. This is false.

    Only the ones like G-clown spread diseases like HIV and monkeypox.

    Oh, and hereditary stupidity.

  50. 50

    @48 Sounding syphilitic there kreepshit.. Shit messes w/ teh brane.. heh…

    oh what am I saying.. shitferbranes sounds like that all the time.

  51. 51

    @ 23

    @19 My investment horizon is 10 years.

    Why, then, make all these bloviating comments about your

    – FIVE FIGURE GAIN! on an up day in the market

    – two-day percentage gain in 3M shares exceeding the gain over the same period in TSLA shares

    – one-day 6% gain in AT&T shares,

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    You’re a fucking, bloviating clown of an investor. You choose poorly, find yourself stuck with a dog of an investment, and then have to do the Pee Wee Herman “I meant to do that.” dance, by adding, “Because I plan to hold on to these dog shares for another decade.”

    Because you have to, in order to get back your original investment, Loser.

  52. 52

    FIVE FIGURE GAIN! on an up day in the market

    this from a complete booooreeee who in December wants to dance to a LOW FOUR FIGURE ONE DAY A MONTH SS check..

    yawwwn..

  54. 54

    @ 52

    … wants to dance to a LOW FOUR FIGURE ONE DAY A MONTH SS check..

    Looking forward to dancing on the necks of Queen YLB’s fucked kids as they labor to pay the taxes to support the generation of tens of millions of monthly checks just like the one I’ll get.

  55. 55

    Nothing to see here, just another white liberal doing First Amendment shit WRT a conservative Republican in Congress:

    Fort Wayne man charged with felony in harassment of Congressman Banks

    In his messages, Thompson said he owned a gun as allowed by the Constitution and told Banks to choose between himself or his daughters, according to the June 2 filing.

    “Here’s the choice. Your daughters grow up without their dad or you grow old without your daughters,” Thompson allegedly said. “… boom, boom you pick …”

    To Banks specifically, Thompson said he hoped the representative died in a car crash or “(got) his brains blown out,” in an expletive-filled series of messages.

    He was arrested Friday and the Allen County Superior Court scheduled an initial hearing for today.

    Anyone else notice the similarity to G-clown postings?

    Leave it to a liberal to rely on his Second Amendment interpretation when threatening a conservative.

    The funniest thing about this is this liberal asswipe is helping Congressman Banks become Senator Banks.

  56. 56

    Looking forward to dancing on the necks

    yawwwwnnn.. looking forward to that “dance” being CANCELLED by hundreds of repuke boomers dying DAILY…

    we’ll keep Mary Kay..

  57. 57

    Nother!

    Bill Oesterle, a founder and the longtime chief executive of the popular home improvement review website Angie’s List and a former player in Indiana Republican politics, died on Wednesday at his home in Indianapolis. He was 57.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/business/bill-oesterle-dead.html

    Awwwwww.. Will never get a SS check. but following from teh deranged babblin’ of teh widbee kreepshit, this bit of news is..

    GOOD..

    for my kids…

    AMIRITE???? So much more where that came from.. yawwwwn..

  58. 58

    Well, the key to any defined benefit program is to live long enough to get those benefits. Everybody knows that.

  59. 59

    I guess little Donny The FuckHump can’t defend himself so he has to call up the Mob and rial up the people to schlep for him.

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-indictment-2661001471/

    How great it would be if this guy went down in a plane or helicopter mishap.

    Speaking of Plane crashes, anymore news on the plane that went down in Virgina? I suspect something to do with Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

  61. 61

    @ 56

    yawwwwnnn.. looking forward to that “dance” being CANCELLED by hundreds of repuke boomers dying DAILY…

    Yabbut your fucked kids, Queen YLB, will still be slaving away. The only thing that will change is the people standing on their necks. ’cause there are many, many more boomers to come.

    What there are fewer and fewer of, Queen YLB, is workers like your fucked kids, to pay in while we take out. So send your fucked little shits out to labor so that my comfort level will be padded, while I am here. And when I am gone their labor will pad the comfort levels of others who don’t need it, but who earned it and aren’t gonna turn it down when it’s offered to them.

  62. 62

    Trump in the news yet again.

    ‘All of those golfers that remain ”loyal” to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ”thank you” from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year,’ Trump wrote on his social media network in July of 2022.

    ‘If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were.’

    I don’t feel badly about Tiger missing out on his cut of a billion dollars. And I have to wonder how much Saudi money will head Trump’s way.

    Hey, y’all will need something to claim during the years 2025-2028. Let it be Trump in bed with the Saudis.

  63. 63

    Claim: YLB’s fucked kids will be slaves to the entitlement community their entire fucked working lives.

    YLB’s retort: Yabbut they’ll only be your slaves until you die. Then they’ll be slaves to someone else indistinguishable from you. So Ha Ha Ha.

  64. 64

    Like the magnet scene in The Big Easy.

    Jeremy Herb
    @jeremyherb
    ·
    23h
    NEWS: An employee at Mar-a-Lago drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, w/
    @kpolantz

    @kaitlancollins

    Fuck, Ellen Barkin was hot then. That was before liberalism.

  65. 65

    Long Live Kim Jong Un!!!!!’ MAGA!!!!

    How about that Stock market! Did you see the Mariners Game? Hillary!

  66. 66

    @ 58

    Well, the key to any defined benefit program is to live long enough to get those benefits. Everybody who isn’t a dumb twat like Queen YLB knows that.

    Still true.

  67. 67

    Like the magnet scene

    Except Mar a lago’s security video isn’t stored on metal oxide tapes.

    A flood can short out a hard drive. But water doesn’t automatically destroy the data stored on the platters. If left in contact for a prolonged period of time corrosion can result in data loss.
    But since the flood occurred after Team Treason had received an order to preserve the data issued by a federal judge, they were legally obligated to take measures to prevent that prolonged exposure and to immediately notify the DOJ about the incident.

    We can only speculate, of course. But it has certainly been my sense that Evan Corcoran has absolutely no intention of taking any consequences for the bloated, orange criminal. So the fact of either the “swimming pool mishap” or any subsequent failure to protect the drives just means more assholes going to jail for felonies. And if they cut out the lawyer then those felonies probably include criminal obstruction.

    I guess they should have worn a wig like Remy.

  68. 68

    The idea of Based Trumpers like our troll still nurturing fantasies of Trump’s prowess as a master criminal genius are another good indication of just how fully detached from objective reality angry old white guys have become. And it offers great promise that President Joe Biden will have an easier time getting reelected than we might have hoped.

    They’ve gone “full retard”. And just like Tugg Speedman, having gone there “for the art” they are now finding it impossible to come back.

  69. 69

    OK pendojo, now you got no one to do the chamba and all you go loco because the pueblerinos are all mala pata with the fields not getting picked because we all said no manches when you all said la Migra was going to get us and arrest mis amigos for just giving us a ride in la carro.

    you all like mandigo for us to pretend you gringos were kidding about all that.

    ¡Puchica! the time is different now that you get you needed us.

    ¡Púdrete! Ron DeSantis and all you pinche lameculos. Nosotros trabajamos en Georgia.

  70. 70

    “My investment horizon is 10 years.”, said Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit as he invested heavily into Eastman Kodak shares in 2013.

    “My investment horizon is 20 years.”, said Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit as he invested heavily into Enron shares in mid-2000.

  71. 71

    @64

    And you can provide us with some receipts for resurfacing the pool because that is literally the only sensical reason an employee would be given the task of draining an pool of that size.

    The Beach Club extends the Mar-a-Lago Club property to include the two most captivating acres of direct access private beach anywhere on the East Coast. Each member and guest that arrives at the extraordinary Beach Club will have an oceanfront experience unlike anything ever had before. The complex includes a 132 foot by 50 foot pool, whirlpool, a private beach, and a charming full-service beachfront Bistro.

    By the way, you and your club are aware that there is no such thing as a private beach in the State of Florida and all land between the water and the average high tide is public?

  72. 72

    @71,
    Why would you carefully catalog all of the associated crimes?

    That just doesn’t make any sense.

  74. 74

    The same Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit who wanted all y’all to know that 3M gained 8% while TSLA only gained 4% during a two-day period late last week doesn’t want all y’all to know that during the last five days 3M lost half of its gain and fell back below $100/share, up 4% during that period. Meanwhile, TSLA kept rising and is up 10% during that period.

    This is the same Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit who claims, suddenly, to invest with a 10-year horizon. Because he prays that 10 years from now I won’t be around to point out that he failed as an investor during our coming decade, and not just during our last one.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit brings a last-millenium mindset into the current one. He’ll be glad to sell some WaMu stock, cheap.

  75. 75

    All the investment claims Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has made on HA. Probably, what, 20,000 spews of his have been about his investments?

    How many times, prior to yesterday, has he mentioned his 10-year investment horizon?

    Queen YLB holds the keys to the archive. I bet the answer to my question is none.

  76. 76

    @ 73

    Sununu’s right. The GOP nominee can prevail with 35% support. Hell, Romney’s path to success in 2012 was with roughly 25% consistent primary support.

  77. 77

    How a Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit 16-year investment horizon works out, 2017 version:

    GE stock price today is $23.83

    GE stock price December 31, 2001 (the year Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit says he first invested) was $23.81, after adjusting for dividends and splits, which Yahoo helpfully does for me.

    IOW a stock Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has called “one of my larger positions” has for 16 years performed like a low-yielding CD.

    My Notadumbfuck Method

    http://horsesass.org/friday-ni…..nt-1313391

    of investing. Validated yet again by its namesake. Newt, thanks for your help.

    Say, how come Newt doesn’t ask Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit for investment advice anymore?

  78. 78

    @43 “Ban women’s provocative clothing. Put scarfs or bags over their faces”

    That’s already been done. This apparel is called “burkhas.” They’re coming to America soon.

  80. 80

    The “culture war” isn’t hard to understand. It’s not about drag shows, pride flags, or books. This is how it works: Republicans decide who they don’t like, then figure out what they like, then make that illegal in order to go after those people. It works like the Nazis’ Jew laws: The ultimate aim is making it illegal for people to exist.

    A federal judge in Florida saw through this. In blocking DeSantis’ ban of gender-affirming medical care the judge, after saying, “Gender identity is real,” observed, “Nothing could have motivated this remarkable intrusion into parental prerogatives other than opposition to transgender status itself.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/florida-transgender-ban-court/

  81. 81

    I think a credible argument could be made that, under the right circumstances, Trump could wind up in key early battlegrounds with a bit less than 40%.

    In that scenario the pathetic mewling Shit-lord Crybaby’s best hope would be for a “consensus” “moderate” (read not-Trump) Republican to stand alone to sweep up most or all of the remaining primary vote.

    That ain’t happenin’.

    There’s obviously now a spectrum of Trump opposition ranging from strident outspoken criticism to “Just Like Trump, but without the baggage”. And it can’t be overemphasized that these people like Haley, Scott, Pence, Christie, and Fat Midget are challenging Trump because they have billionaires committed to backing them all the way into the early battlegrounds.

    Which means those early battleground voters are going to have Thirty Wonderful Flavors of Asshole to pick and choose from. And pick and choose they will, dividing themselves up along their own personal spectrum of assholery.

    Leaving Trump with 37% in the closest, “winner-take-all(most)” states and giving the not-so-near miss challengers one or two delegates to take into the convention.

    Personally I’d prefer it to be closer. I can think of nothing more enjoyable than watching female neck-beard Ronna Romney struggling to maintain optics in convention spin rooms devolving into fistfights as America looks on munching popcorn and laughing. It’s the reality television Trump dreams of.

    But the gods just don’t love me that much. And Trump will most likely end up owning the convention.

  82. 82

    My doc wanted me to get an abdominal ultrasound because, decades ago, I smoked. It seems there is some causation between smoking at an earlier age and abdominal aneurysms later in life, even if the person involved has given up tobacco years and years ago.

    So, I got an appointment with the ultrasound folks and went to my appointment this morning at 9:00 am. A young lady in her mid-twenties did the ultrasound for me, and I asked her how she got into the career. She said she went to Bellevue College for two years in a program for ultrasound technicians. I asked her about student debt, and she replied that she did not borrow to get her training.

    I went on to ask her about her job, and she told me she liked the position very much. She makes good money and has job security because she studied something that provided real, hands-on training for a marketable skill.

    Contrast this with young people who borrow money for pie-in-the-sky college “degrees” with little marketability. Those student usually have student loans with no worthwhile skills to earn money to repay the loans. It’s like they bought a house that’s invisible, can’t inhabit and can’t provide the cash flow to repay the house loan, much less provide anything for a decent future,

    This young lady has it figured out: learning trade or skill is not something only the “little people” do, and it sure beats the hell out of going into debt for thousands and thousands of dollars to get a piece of useless paper from a college or university. Why should this young lady (and those like who are living in the real world) have to pay with their taxes to bail out those self-appointed wanna-be elites who made poor choices about education and training? These same college attendees, fifteen minutes after they’re bailed out, will be looking down their elitist noses at those like the ultrasound technician as unworthy riff-raff because those meritorious people didn’t get some Ivy League/university/college piece paper. That’s why I’m am totally against student loan forgiveness.

    (For the record, the ultrasound was clean, no problems.)

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    Yabbut they’ll only be your slaves until you die.

    LOL!!! translation: kreepshit believes it will live forever…

    On a LOW 4 FIGURE ONE DAY A MONTH SS CHECK..

    that expires when IT expires.. combine that with hosts of repukes dying DAILY…

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    will still be slaving away.

    Nope… both of them have plenty of savings for emergency, short term and retirement saving goals..

    A shitferbrains like you matters little to them. And in WA State?

    You’re a complete nonentity.. yawwwwwn.. next?

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    @82 Look who prefers well-paid peasants to educated voters. Are we supposed to be surprised?

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    PI would have us believe all college degrees are worthless, lead to unemployment, and society has no need for structural engineers trained to keep buildings and bridges from falling down. Don’t need teachers, librarians, or radiologists, either.

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    @82 “That’s why I’m am totally against student loan forgiveness.”

    Another reason is you were too stupid to get into college, so you resent spending tax money on tuition relief that’s better handed out to well-off business owners.

    Total cost of Biden’s tuition relief: $400 billion
    Total Covid-19 relief to businesses: $1.7 trillion

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/11/us/how-covid-stimulus-money-was-spent.html

    Rightwing assholes never object to giving taxpayer money to businesses. But let someone offer a few crumbs to the working class, and boy, do they go ballistic. Hey, guess what, people owing student debt pay taxes, too.

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    @51 “Why, then, make all these bloviating comments …”

    You know why:

    – Republicans keeping the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour
    – Republicans expecting people working for $7.25 an hour to survive without food stamps, housing assistance, or Medicaid
    – Republican tax laws that allow a billionaire to deduct his private jet as a “business expense” when his cleaning lady can’t deduct her bus fare to his mansion as a legitimate work expense
    – Republican tax laws that tax capital gains and dividends at half the rate it taxes wages
    – Republican tax proposals that would eliminate taxes on unearned income entirely, and put the country’s entire tax burden on wage earners

    I never posted anything false untrue about my stock gains. Nor was I lying when I said the Republican minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. My math is right, too: A worker, often doing dirty and strenuous labor, making the Republican wage gets paid $60 for an 8-hour shift; if I make $6,000 in the stock market that day, I’ve been paid 100 times as much as he was for doing nothing. This is our system, doc, and I mock it. MOCK IT. Got that? Because it deserves to be mocked. Don’t like it? Good.

    I’m not against capitalism. I’m for every worker being paid a livable wage, so they can fucking live. I’m for the people who do this country’s work having food, shelter, and health care, and unproductive capitalist leeches like you and me being given what’s left. And I don’t see why you and I shouldn’t pay the same taxes they do.

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    @54 Lookit the retired doctor bragging about being a Social Security leech. No doubt it’ll be a severe disappointment to him to learn he’s actually getting his own money back.

  90. 90

    @70 “’My investment horizon is 10 years.’, said Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit as he invested heavily into Eastman Kodak shares in 2013.”

    I’ve never owned Eastman Kodak stock. Look who has to lie to make his “points” …

    But isn’t that all Republicans? If they had to speak the truth, they wouldn’t have any points.

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    @74 Having deduced in advance this would happen, you day-traded 3M and Tesla by shorting the former and going long the latter, and have huge gains to show for it, yes?

    You don’t lose money on a stock unless you sell it, idiot. If 3M doubles in 10 years, I’ll make money. Meanwhile, I’m collecting a 5% dividend. If 3M goes bankrupt, I’m fucked. Having weighed the probability of that, I’ll take my chances.

  92. 92

    @75 “All the investment claims Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has made on HA.”

    You don’t make any. Taking into account your general lack of modesty, a reasonable inference is that you have no investment results worth bragging about.

  93. 93

    @76 “Romney’s path to success in 2012”

    I guess if you define “success” as losing by 5 million votes and 126 electoral votes, and earning a footnote in the history books.

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    @85, 86 & 87:
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    @82 Look who prefers well-paid peasants to educated voters. Are we supposed to be surprised?

    So an ultrasound technician is a “well-paid peasant?” That really fits in well with your elitist personality, rodent. You are a fucking snob beyond imagination. You and your ilk “pretend” to care about the “working class,” but all you really care about is your fucking egos. You probably think that electricians, plumbers and HVAC people are peasants, too. What fucking elitist arrogance! So much for the Democrats being the party of the working class.
    =
    PI would have us believe all college degrees are worthless, lead to unemployment, and society has no need for structural engineers trained to keep buildings and bridges from falling down. Don’t need teachers, librarians, or radiologists, either.
    =
    No, no no! I am definitely in favor of STEM majors. What I think is a tragedy is a bunch of high school kids who believe that a college “degree” is the only path for them, and they think they can achieve that with some useless course of study like “gender studies” or like art appreciation. It’s OK for Bill Gates’ kids to major in that kind of silliness (not that they would), but a person borrowing money to get an education should look at the process as a financial investment and choose a major that will generate the cash flow to service and retire the debt. It’s common sense, but you liberal progressives don’t have much of that.
    =
    @82 “That’s why I’m am totally against student loan forgiveness.”

    You borrow the money, you pay it back. It’s that fucking simple, you fucking dolt!
    =
    Another reason is you were too stupid to get into college, so you resent spending tax money on tuition relief that’s better handed out to well-off business owners.

    Actually, I have a master’s degree and several financial education certifications.
    =
    Rodent, you are truly, truly a fucking jerk and an elitist cocksucker.

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