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Happy Week Without Driving to all who celebrate. I have spent since earlier this year without a car, and usually not driving in that time. It is nice to be able to do in Seattle, but trickier and trickier the further out of the city you go. Bike infrastructure isn’t great anywhere, and there are some good suburban trails, but there are a lot of places that just are tough to get to without a car.

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

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  1. 1

    Gaetz has filed his motion to vacate. I believe that gives Brave Kevin until Wednesday night to hold a vote on the motion, unless he can convince Gaetz to withdraw the motion before that deadline.

    LET THEM FIIIIGHT!!!

    Ha ha.

  2. 2

    Not content to get sued for defamation once,

    “‘Rougue’ Judge” was how foxnews.con chose to cover today’s proceedings.

  5. 5

    I think it would be awesome if Democrats ousted Kevin with the handful of right wingers. The speaker selection was such a shot show last time make them do it all over again.

    They could get lucky and Boebert is busy giving someone a handy I. The cloakroom and Santos has a legal proceeding and just a couple more miss a flight and boom. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. How embarrassing

  6. 6

    Rambling stories about sinking boats and batteries and electrocution vs eaten by sharks.

    Rather be electrocuted.

    Biden’s really lost it.

    Wait, the OTHER senior citizen. The one who’s also a felon?

    Fuck that’s the one thing we had gong for us.

  7. 7

    So gas is now on the down slope again after a cyclical up and down and up and down….$3.29 per gallon here in Delaware. Only less than a month ago it was $3.69, it’s highest over the last 2 – 2 1/2 years.

    Now even lower than the $3.45 I reported a couple months ago.

    A .40 drop in less than a month. What explains it? Bob, you paying more? Oil companies gotz to make the money!

  8. 8

    I wonder why Doctor Dumbfuck, who calls Hunter a POS, doesn’t call Trump a POS? I’m not saying Hunter isn’t a POS, but Trump is a far bigger POS.

    Because Bob is a bigger POS than either.

  10. 10

    @7 “Bob, you paying more?”

    Yeah, he is — $5.19. Gonna turn him red. Wait, he already is.

  11. 11

    FOG (Friend Of Goldy) assumes room temperature.

    CRIME & JUSTICE
    Local journalist Josh Kruger fatally shot inside Point Breeze home

    City leaders and community members took to social media Monday to grieve Kruger’s death and acknowledge the legacy of his work as a journalist. He loved cats, and was proudly queer and openly HIV positive. He had overcome a number of struggles in his life, including bouts of homelessness and addiction, and leveraged those experiences to fiercely advocate for and write on behalf of those communities.

    “He knew he had a story to tell,” said Randy LoBasso, who worked with Kruger at Philadelphia Weekly. “He knew his past trauma could be used to help his audience see a situation in a way that no one else could show it to them.”

    Take away – as far as I know, anyway – the fudgepacking and the AIDS virus, and the prior meth addiction, and this dude could pass for Goldy:

    “Josh cared deeply about our city and its residents, which was evident both in his public service and in his writing,” Kenney said. “His intelligence, creativity, passion, and wit shone bright in everything that he did — and his light was dimmed much too soon.”

    In 2021, he returned to journalism and wrote freelance articles about the LGBTQ community, city and state politics, and other issues for outlets including The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Citizen, LGBTQ Nation, and Billy Penn.

    See, if Goldy was on Twitter, he could write about his dead journalist friend. Instead it falls to me.

    Hey, at least the dude avoided the amoebic encephalitis that has gripped G-clown all these years. That’s not a suggestion, G-clown. Unless, of course, you want it to be.

  12. 12

    5,

    It’s really up to the GOP.

    They can always offer concessions to Democrats to gain their votes on this, just like any other vote. Either side of the now divided GOP shit show caucus is free to compete for the Democrat’s votes. So it’s really up to Republicans on either side of their fractured party to either form their own partisan majority or act in a bipartisan fashion.

    Otherwise it’s almost certain that Democrats will vote “present” and sit back and laugh.

  13. 13

    @ 5

    They could get lucky and Boebert is busy giving someone a handy I. The cloakroom and Santos has a legal proceeding and just a couple more miss a flight and boom. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. How embarrassing

    Yes, because the Speaker has no control over the House’s voting schedule.

  15. 15

    Democrats have turned blue cities into shitholes.

    Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar Carjacked in Washington, D.C.

    Rep. Henry Cuellar was carjacked by armed men in the Navy Yard area of Washington DC, according to messages from an internal group chat of members of Congress.

    The text, which came from a member of Congress, said “FYI…Henry Cuellar was just carjacked in front of our building (the dorm) by 3-4 men at gun point. They took his car, phone and sushi but he is ok.”

  16. 16

    The Republican Idiot King Trump actually desired a jury trial in his NY fraud case.

    But his dipshit strip mall real estate lawyer simply pencil-whipped the filings and missed the checkbox.

  19. 19

    Instead, Doctor Dumbfuck should celebrate the arrests of the Philadelphia looters he called our attention to last week.

    He got wrong that they were “protesters,” but he got it right that they’re bad apples. Hey, one out of two ain’t bad.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/72-people-charged-looting-philadelphia_n_651b24b0e4b05c5fe1b6fb8b

    “’The bad apples who decided to ‘so called’ protest with the act of looting were, in fact, stealing,’ Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal said at the press conference. ‘“Folk were stealing while peaceful protesters were walking with the families. The thieves weren’t walking with the family in support. Rather, they were too busy stealing.’”

  20. 20

    South Whidbey Schools needs money for stuff. A lot of money. It’s so much money that the website created by its supporters won’t say how much. The closest they come is telling you that it’s a dollar a day if your home is assessed at $500k after the bonds are issued.

    If you click on the link to the actual bond issue to be voted on in November, you find out it’s $79,800,000.

    In 2020 the population of this school district was 16,208.

    The only new buildings built with this money will be for storage. Ah, but the high school will be astroturfed and there will be bathrooms designated for trans rapists to use.

    Meaning you won’t be seeing me arrested at a school board meeting because a chick with a dick raped my daughter in the girls’ bathroom. Naw, instead of covering up rape incidents this woke district just covers up the cost of everything.

  23. 23

    My congratulations to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    A few years ago he bought 3M and promptly lost 30% of his invested capital. OK, so it took a couple of years. He sold at a loss, costing his family an opportunity to afford something other than Spam for Thanksgiving.

    Not content with merely licking his wounds, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit waited a couple of months and then re-invested in 3M shares. They have since dropped another 30%. A Dumbfuck Twofer.

    Such amazing dumbfuckery deserves its own name, which is why I have created The Notadumbfuck Investment Algorithm.

    Simply listen to what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does, and then do the opposite.

    Amazingly consistent and amazingly profitable. Don’t be like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Invest wisely instead.

    Avoid the Dumbfuck Twofer by avoiding the loss the first time.

  24. 24

    G-clown doesn’t want you to know that there were trans Neanderthals, too. But only one generation at a time. They kept trying to impregnate the male Neanderthal.

    On September 25, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) announced that they were cancelling a panel discussion titled “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology,” originally scheduled as part of their annual conference in Toronto from November 15–19. The cancellation and subsequent response by the two organizations shows the extent to which gender ideology has captured academic anthropology.

    The panel would have featured six female scientists, specializing in biology and anthropology, to address their profession’s growing denial of biological sex as a valid and relevant category. While terminological confusion surrounding the distinction between sex and gender roles has been a persistent issue within anthropology for decades, the total refusal of some to recognize sex as a real biological variable is a more recent phenomenon. The panel organizers, eager to facilitate an open discussion among anthropologists and entertain diverse perspectives on a contentious issue, considered the AAA/CASCA conference an optimal venue to host such a conversation.

    G-clown doesn’t talk about the Transsexual Neanderthals. No homicide necessary for those knuckle-dragging fairies.

  25. 25

    It’s on. 1 pm.

    Jake Sherman

    @JakeSherman
    there are a few scenarios here, via me and @bresreports

    1) McCarthy wins. Seems unlikely right now.
    2) McCarthy loses on the floor. But tries to grind it out with several more votes — a repeat of Jan.
    3) McCarthy loses and leaves. Scramble for leadership. Scalise, Emmer, etc. In 98, DeLay pushed hastert into speaker’s chair. Sealed it up in a day.
    4) This could drag out for a while with no speaker. House sure to stay in session until a new speaker.
    7:29 AM · Oct 3, 2023

  26. 26

    “In actuality, I am WORTH FAR MORE than the numbers put down on the Financial Statements, not less. In addition, there is a far reaching and professionally drawn Disclaimer Clause boldly stated on the FIRST PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT. This entire case should be thrown out and dismissed. The A.G. should be reprimanded and sanctioned for bringing this case with its FAKE LOW VALUES, in order to make me look bad. Election Interference!”

    So then….YOU’RE A TAX CHEAT. Tax evasion, I seem to think that’s come up with a different non-political figure a lot.

    Glad we cleared this up. Next up the results of that audit that kept your taxes ‘unable to be released’

  27. 27

    @25

    Hastert, I’d like to point out here, was not a drag Queen.

    J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, was released from a federal prison on Monday and moved to a Chicago halfway house where he will serve the rest of his 15-month sentence for illegally structuring bank withdrawals he used to buy the silence of a former student he sexually abused.

    In the federal case, prosecutors said Hastert sexually abused at least four male students between the ages of 14 and 17 throughout his years at Yorkville High School. Hastert was in his 20s and 30s.

  29. 29

    @20. I read that as the greedy racist incel doesn’t want to pay even a dime extra to educate other people’s kids. Typical conservative.

  30. 30

    [Postings about lynching and murders of black and LGBTQ people.] Conservatives have turned Red rural lands into shitholes.

  31. 31

    @15 A symptom of the break down of law and order and destruction of the the social safety nets. All of which are being caused by Republicans.

  32. 32

    Weird how their “caring” about interstate sex trafficking of intoxicated minors depends on the degree to which Gaetz challenges McCarthy.

  33. 33

    The University of Grenada undergrad and Western Washington Governors University Law degree team Donald put together today got a mild reprimand from the judge which right wing media is treating as proof of bias.

    At issue was the Summary judgement ruling that the final act of an ongoing criminal enterprise is where the statute of limitations begins for all instances of the act. This isn’t at all controversial.

    The team tried to object to testimony about a part of the ongoing crime that if it was the sole instance of criminal activity would be beyond the limitation. But as the Judge has already ruled against Donald in that very scenario the team was politely told that the objection is without merit and they are welcome to bring that up in an appeal but as a matter before the current court…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVY26lZItM

  34. 34

    I read that as the greedy racist incel doesn’t want to pay even a dime extra to educate other people’s kids.

    That’s very elitist of you.

    Spending a dime is very significant for someone who got caught up in a fever and bought TSLA at $400.

  35. 35

    Brewing down in Houston:

    The Abbott installed superintendent for public schools is about to get sued. NAACP, ACLU and a litany of parent’s groups are filing suit over the “One size fits all, no room for localized education, you will teach that slaves learned skills and the white man never did anything ever that was immoral and the Blind Side is a totally true story” approach.

    At issue is Federally Mandated Individual Education Plans. These are not new. It provides parents and educators a path for Autistic and Neurodivergent students to succeed. Every school now has an IEP administrator to work with parents and pediatricians to develop an individualized plan for students diagnosed with neurodivergent conditions. This can be as simple as extra time to finish an exam or allowing a student a seat in a particular part of a room. (OCD is really a thing, haven’t you heard)

    But it is well known that the new Junta in Houston schools threw these out the window and have threatened to fire and have already disciplined educators who continue to follow any IEP rather than the ‘This is the ONLY way’ approach they’ve handed down.

    Well, that’s a violation of FEDERAL law.

    So yeah, Abbott’s hand picked revolutionaries are fucked and the state is looking at a YUGE payout to teachers, staff and parents.

  36. 36

    Because Bob is a bigger POS than either.

    hear, hear.. well stated..

    I mean just look over the shit this troll writes day to day…

    moldering is too kind a word for this troll’s “life”…

    Been out of the mix cuz I’m a bit busy.. and that will continue for a while longer.. but never fear, the commitment stands – here till the server goes cold…

  37. 37

    33,
    As I understand it, Alina Habba has no long term interest in retaining her licenses to practice after all this.

    She serves as King Idiot’s press spokesperson for all his ongoing criminal and civil legal shit show. That is her only paid position with the campaign. And that clearly reflects both his strategy and hers.

    He’s using the trials to expand his brand reach and grow his audience – presumably now to also include all the small time, aggrieved spouse beaters and business frauds who’ve been caught up in the system. She’s using the trials to build privileged access based relationships in big media. She wants Jeanine Pirro’s job.

    She does not need a bar card to get white-girl wasted on boxed Chardonnay and speculate on television.

  38. 38

    The troll’s presidential candidate who he voted for three times and will do so again two more times wants two American Generals to be executed.

    To talk about this here on HA would require the troll, a known coward, to leave his safe space, which these days is talking about 3M and bashing gays.

    Such a disgusting, cowardly POS he’s become.

  40. 40

    Brave Kevin is bravely holed-up in his offices behind locked doors just outside the House chambers. While outside, House Democrats are strolling the aisles chatting and chuckling.

  41. 41

    38,

    At least one of those generals is also listed as a witness for the prosecution in one of Trump’s many criminal cases.

    It’s really not too many criminal defendants who are allowed to go around before trial issuing death sentences to the witnesses testifying against them.

    None actually.

    I suppose this means drug kingpins will all be filing for elected office now. Or perhaps venue shopping for a rural, dark red House district they can buy.

  42. 42

    First motion to table is defeated.

    208 to 218. Dems seem to have all voted to table. But obviously far too many Republicans would not.

    Tik, tik, BOOOM!

  43. 43

    A correction. I misspoke earlier.

    No whip count was prepared so there was a time delay on the votes.

    All Democrats present voted against the motion to table, joined by only eleven Republicans.

    So 208 Republicans might be willing to endure a few more months of Brave Kevin. Looks like we are going to find out either way. And it looks like the Democrats present on the floor are determined that we will find out.

  47. 47

    @44 $4.5 million isn’t more than $4 billion, but this story does illustrate how Republicans have fun with taxpayers’ money.

  48. 48

    Arizona to end deal with Saudi farms sucking state water dry
    https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/arizona-end-deal-allowing-saudi-farms-suck-arizonas-groundwater-dry/75-1df565c4-6464-4774-ab7d-7f1eb7bb28d6
    >> After drying-up their own desert aquifers in 2014, Saudi Arabia began purchasing large acres of American farmland in order to grow alfalfa to be exported and consumed by Saudi cattle.
    >> This was accomplished by the Democratic governor Katie Hobbs. It was discovered the company had many violations of the agreement with the state that went unenforced for years. The previous Republican governor could have done something about it but didn’t.

  49. 49

    Dang, my dyslexia misread the numbers. I apologize for posting and would delete if it was within the time limit.

  50. 50

    Now is maybe an oportune moment to recall the wheeling and dealing Brave Kevin was compelled to enter into with the Pipe-Bomb MAGA caucus last January in order to obtain the gavel.

    First there are the public facing deals.
    Brave Kevin had to agree to put a handful of Pipe-Bombers on key committees, especially on Rules. Rules gets to write each individual rule for each major piece of legislation that dictates how it will be voted upon by the whole assembly. And Rules also holds the unique power to insert key changes to legislation after it has already been passed on by the other committees. That empowers Pipe-Bombers to force votes on politically damaging things like impeachment, funding cuts to Ukraine defense, and perhaps even really destructive shit like nationwide abortion bans.
    Next, Brave Kevin agreed to lowering the threshold for a motion to vacate, which is why we find ourselves where we are. He gave Matt Gaetz the power he is using to take him out. Idiot.
    Next, Brave Kevin agreed to modify the House rules to allow any member to raise a “point of order” blocking any legislation from moving forward if that legislation contains any new appropriations or any increases to mandatory spending programs. A full majority vote is required to overcome a “point of order” objection. And a 60% supermajority is now required to overcome such an objection to any tax increase.
    Next, he agreed to create a new select committee especially to give camera time to Wrestler Gym, one of the people trying to kill him now.
    Next Brave Kevin agreed to renew an old dead rule allowing any member to ammend appropriations to reduce any government employee’s salary to zero, for being “uppity”.
    Next, the new rules renew the previously suspended requirement to regularly raise the debt ceiling by a full vote of the House.
    Finally, Brave Kevin agreed to a full House vote on a hobby horse constitutional ammendment to Congressional term limits, that can’t ever pass.

    But beyond these are the suspected back room deals. Not too long after taking the gavel Speaker Brave Kevin quietly suspended the ethics investigation into arch nemesis and serial rapist of middle schoolers Matt Gaetz. Only to renew that ethics investigation after Gaetz defied and attacked him on the debt ceiling negotiations. A number of Pipe-Bombers now suddenly find themselves seated on sexy committees that often requires years of service and millions in fund raising for the leadership in order to qualify for. And with control over those House leadership funds (at least until now) Brave Kevin has had to make big, big promises to help re-elect crazed, and drunken Pipe-Bombers like Backpages Barbie, and help pay for the defense of criminal weirdos like George Devolder.

    To regain the gavel it’s almost impossible to imagine what Brave Kevin will give away to America’s enemies this time.

    But he will.

  51. 51

    @38, 41 Stalin shot his generals. Hitler hanged his. I’m curious which of these leaders Trump would most like to emulate? I know he wanted to hang Mike Pence, but he’s talked about firing squads, too.

  53. 53

    @49 The numbers are unimportant. What matters is how DeSantis misuses taxpayer money. He used federal Covid relief funds to bus underclothed migrant children lawfully in the US from Texas under false pretenses to Martha’s Vineyard and dump them on a curb there. He should be criminally prosecuted for that — for child neglect and abuse, if not for misappropriation of federal funds. In my book, DeSantis isn’t just an attention-seeking, power-hungry, hyper-partisan thug suffering from Short Person Syndrome who banned rainbows from children’s school lunch boxes, he’s a criminal.

  54. 54

    Little Kevin, who stooped to cynically playing politics with the freedom of the brave Ukrainian people, is no longer Speaker. This isn’t surprising as he made himself worthless to Democrats and many Republicans by double-crossing them on Ukraine aid.

    (phone rings)

    Kidnapper: We have your son.
    Man answering phone: Which son?
    Kidnapper: Kevin.
    Man answering phone: What are you asking?
    Kidnapper: $250,000.
    Man answering phone: Tell you what, I’ll pay you $500,000 to shoot him.

  55. 55

    If Little Kevin gets carjacked in D.C., he’d better hope they only want the car and haven’t heard about the GOP bounty on his head.

  56. 56

    Own it Republicans. Total chaos. How dare he not shut the government down!

    For branding I’ve got some ideas for 2024

    -The cycle of shit
    -If you’re not furloughed, we’re frowning
    -puttin’’ out for Putin
    -It’s all fun and games until someone loses their child tax credit
    -We put the fun in dysfunction
    -Who among us doesn’t love Matt Gaetz?
    -Get wrecked Reagan we yeeted you to yesteryear (this one’s for the youth vote)
    -When you say Taylor we say Jayson (crowd) Al-Dean Al-Dean

  58. 58

    210 of the 221 House Republicans voted for McCarthy; only 11 voted against him. A measly 3 Democratic votes would’ve saved him. But he couldn’t find even 3 Democrats who think he’s good for the institution. And he wouldn’t make a deal with Democrats on Ukraine aid, even though most Republicans also support Ukraine aid.

    I think this fatality should be ruled a premeditated suicide.

  59. 59

    Two of the best snarks so far
    “So Matt Gaetz has finally fucked someone over the age of 18.”
    and
    “How did we blame this on Hunter Biden?”

  60. 60

    @59 Of course it’s Hunter’s fault. If he had implicated his father, they’d be ousting him instead of their own Speaker. Hunter’s failure to corrupt his father cost McCarthy his gavel.

    Hunter is a miserable failure. This is just one of his many failures.

  61. 61

    @ 47

    @44 $4.5 million isn’t more than $4 billion

    For the benefit of the cerebrally challenged The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you are going to need to show your math on that. Meaning all of the zeroes, on both sides of the decimal point.

    And use small words.

  62. 62

    @61 You obviously don’t like to talk about politics here anymore. If you’re struggling to understand why, I can help you with that.

    It’s because you’re a fucking coward.

  64. 64

    Brave Kevin quits.
    Says he will not seek the gavel now that he has had it taken away.

    62,
    The Shit-Lord Crybaby has also quit.

    Quiet quitting is the new Republican thing.

    Nobody wants to work for my party anymore.

  65. 65

    This will certainly do wonders for the leadership PACs and the NRCC. /s

    Trump Hoovers up almost all of the small dollar donors to pay for his incompetent strip-mall lawyers.
    And we can now expect to see an exodus of mid-big dollar donors.

    The exceptions will of course be the strident, reactionary MAGAt true believers (at least the ones who haven’t been indicted, sued or seen their fortunes sucked into a messy divorce), and the moneyed class of Trump-suckers. Here come the Mike Lindells!

    And that all but guarantees that we will see more “Quality” candidates winning open Republican primaries in swings next year, and probably even a few incumbent Republicans getting a primary challenge.

    Crazy. Beautiful.

  66. 66

    In his defiant farewell speech Brave Kevin referenced his illustrious career “in business”.

    Go ahead. Check the tape. It’s nothing more than a fantasy of his.

    Brave Kevin has never worked for any business ever, other than perhaps a brief stint wearing an apron in one of his uncle’s yogurt shops in Bakersfield.

    Geezus he’s a fucking fraud.

    And yet he’s probably the best they’ve got.

  67. 67

    Brave Kevin’s farewell address is a glorious thing to behold.

    It’s possibly the most humiliating display I’ve ever seen.
    It is obviously not going to be a “fond” farewell.

    He’s naming names assholes.
    It’s like ritual seppuku.

    I love it. The media are jizzing all over themselves.

  68. 68

    @ 64

    Says he will not seek the gavel now that he has had it taken away.

    Didn’t say he won’t accept if it’s handed to him.

  70. 70

    @ 66

    Kevin doesn’t talk story nearly as well as does my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.

    No word on whether he blew the mayor to get ahead in political life the same way his California contemporary did in SF.

  71. 71

    Had Nancy cast her vote for McCarthy, this would not have happened.

    Jake Tapper
    @jaketapper
    CNN can confirm that GOP Rep @PatrickMcHenry, the temporary Speaker, has ordered Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi to exit her Capitol hideaway by tomorrow, as first reported by Politico.

    Pelosi is in SF to attend memorial for the late Sen. Feinstein.
    5:13 PM · Oct 3, 2023

  73. 73

    @ 62

    It’s because you’re a fucking coward.

    My, but how brave you try to come off when it’s 19:1 in your favor.

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