Washington State has been partnering with pharmacies to give out N95 masks. But the policy hasn’t been very well publicized. I saw this Tweet back in January. But I never saw a good list of where they’re being handed out, and anyway I had several. But last weekend, I was running low, so I went to my local pharmacy and asked where they were and the lady working there went and grabbed me a handful. I hope that’s been happening throughout the state.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. Now. And if you aren’t vaccinated, please get vaccinated. If you are eligible for the booster, please make an appointment.
Honk Honk = Heil Hitler.
There are Steves in Canada, too.
This is nothing. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s losing streak stretches over decades.
3M stock sinks toward longest losing streak in nearly 4 years
I would be more bullish about GQP chances for a RED WAVE WIPEOUT taking 30 or more House seats this year if not for shit like this in swing states:
https://mobile.twitter.com/rossjonesWXYZ/status/1496513732998053889
@ 3
Swing state, but not a swing district, and there’s already a Republican incumbent in what will be the new MI-4, and another Republican incumbent running for the same seat. Carra’s a Trump-supported fool with little chance of unseating Fred Upton or Bill Huizenga, both currently serving House GOP members. Carra wasn’t even on 538’s list earlier this month.
Other than that, as long as people with ties to #CrookedHillary keep dying in suspicious circumstances, the GOP will keep pointing it out. Nobody with any real clout from the Democrat party has come out publicly and told the Clintons that they have been disastrous for the Democrat party, and that they both should have sat down and STFU many years ago. Until that happens, #CrookedHillary is red meat for the GOP.
Call this guy a “murderer” and you are merely expressing your opinion about “ordinary citizens engaging in legitimate political discourse.”
OTOH
Call this guy a “murderer” and you have done a “liable/slanduhr” and YOU WILL PAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!
I know who will pay: the dolts who eagerly click to give to the GoFundMe.
I was reliably informed that Trump was guilty. Of something.
2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case’s Future
Next thing you know somebody will be telling us that Trump didn’t collude with Russia.
Damn those activist judges! We hear that scream from the conservatives all the time. Oh wait, this activist judge is one of “theirs”, so it is OK!
The Roberts’ SCOTUS is rapidly becoming a joke.
@ 7
One need look no further than Elena Kagan’s refusal to recuse from the Obamacare cases to understand that the ethics of recusal are quite flexible.
Even a fucking clown should be able to understand that.
Bob, you stated that
This should be easy….
Do you think Sri Srinivasan is more qualified than Amy Coney Barrett?
Regardless of Sri Srinivasan’s qualifications, do you think Amy Coney Barrett has the qualifications to be a Supreme court Judge?
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2011/11/no-sign-elena-kagan-clarence-thomas-will-recuse-on-health-care-law-040802
No sign Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas will recuse on health care law
By JOSH GERSTEIN 11/14/2011 12:06 PM EST
When the Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review President Barack Obama’s health care reform law this term, Justice Elena Kagan gave no indication that she will recuse herself from the cases the court plans to hear.
My colleague Ben Smith notes that Justice Clarence Thomas faced similar calls to recuse from the same cases, based on his wife’s work opposing the law. There was also no sign today that Thomas plans to accede to those wishes
>> Why do greed racist incels and conservatives only single out the liberals to do the right thing, but not the conservatives?
@ 9
Yes and yes.
So, can the “tyrant” government issue mandates dictating to parents how to medically treat their children?
Sometimes!
Long as some Canadian trucker says so, I guess.
@10
Because Bob always looks from his clown car through his clown glasses.
Should Kagen and Thomas recuse themselves, yes. Thing is, Bob will never admit Thomas should recuse himself.
Thomas should clearly recuse himself from more cases due to his wife’s role, the same can’t be said for Kagen.
Interesting that the Canadian senate was still in debate over the Emergencies Act at the time PM Blackface Trudeau decided it wasn’t necessary anymore.
Just “interesting”. I won’t speculate.
@ 13
Name one case in which you think Thomas should recuse that is anywhere near the importance of the Obamacare cases.
Kagan recused in, like, half of the first 50 cases to come before the Court after she was confirmed, because she was involved. It was only the Obamacare case that magically the White House’s top attorney had zero involvement in, if Democrats be believed. What are the odds?
This recusal stuff is generally silly. Like allegations that Alito was dirty because he didn’t recuse in Vanguard cases because he owned some shares in Vanguard mutual funds. Silly.
What is different about the Kagan/Obamacare situation is 1) the sheer magnitude of Obamacare’s impact on the US economy and 2) Kagan worked directly on Obamacare when the concept was being developed. There was no arm’s length explanation – she was directly involved with its creation.
I only bring this up because you brought it up, Bozo Newt.
@11. Since Bob think Amy Coney Barrett with just three years on the Seventh Circuit has the qualifications to be a Supreme court Judge.
U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs – 12 years. She previously served as a state circuit court judge based in Columbia, South Carolina.
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – District court for the District of Columbia for 9 years and Court of appeals about a year.
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger – 8 years.
All of these women have more experience than Amy Coney Barrett and since Bob thinks Amy Coney Barrett is qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice, these candidates are qualified.
@15
One case Thomas should recuse himself from is Roe v. Wade.
There, I named one case. Happy now?
Go fuck your horse.
@ 16
How many years of judicial experience did Elena Kagan have before Barack nominated her?
How about former CJ William Rehnquist before Dick Nixon nominated him?
Qualifications have many forms. Not all of them are years on the bench.
Sri Srinivasan has argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He has served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. Before that he clerked for AJ Sandra Day O’Connor. He has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and has been recognized with an award from GWB43’s Department of Defense.
The problem you created for yourself, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, is that by attempting to demonstrate that Coney Barrett is inferior to two potential Biden nominees, what you did at the same time is allow me to demonstrate that each of these potential nominees is inferior to Sri Srinivasan.
Which has been my point, all along. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to make it once again.
@15
BTW, I ageed Kagen should recuse herself from the Obamacare case, yet you go on to bitch about it, but not a peep about any cases Thomas should recuse himself from.
Calling you a clown is a slur against clowns. You are in a class to yourself.
I asked “Regardless of Sri Srinivasan’s qualifications, do you think Amy Coney Barrett has the qualifications to be a Supreme court Judge?”
He said “Yes.”
Since the greedy racist incel said Amy Coney Barrett was qualified to be a SC judge, the other three were also qualified because they have more years on the bench and just as a diverse set of judicial experiences.
Because they are equal or more qualified as Barrett, and Barret was chosen over Sri Srinivasan,
therefore the three justices defined can be chosen over Sri Srinivasan.
If Democrats do the same thing, they could, because that’s how republicans do it. And that’s what the greedy racist incel agreed with.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-governor-calls-citizens-report-parents-transgender-kids-abuse-rcna17455
I think anyone in a wheelchair, but only if from birth, should be pushed off a cliff to their death.
Same thing I thought when I called him a penis. He should be euthanized for dumbfuckness.
We know, you’re just busy pulling shit out of your brains.
@18. Wow. I was not trying to imply that Amy Coney Barrett was an inferior candidate. I feel bad that the greedy racist incel jumped to conclusions and became enraged over something that was not my intent.
I was establishing that U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger are as qualified as Amy Coney Barrett when she was chosen.
Wonder why the greedy racist incel got so upset?
It’s so strange, if what matters to the greedy racist incel is who is the most qualified candidate, why he was not outraged when the republicans did not install Sri Srinivasan in one of the last three Supreme Court opening. I wonder if he will explain that.
@2 Yeah, it’s bad for day traders like you, but it’s a buying opportunity for the rest of us. Shares of a great blue-chip company are selling at their lowest price since 2016 (except for March 2020), with 50% higher earnings and dividend.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8sww99
Only day traders and dumbfucks want high stock prices. Like Warren Buffett, I’m happy when they fall, because I’m a buyer not a seller.
By the way, I see Medtronic is sinking; I don’t own that one, but maybe at some point I’ll buy it.
@3 I couldn’t resist using that one on Handbill.US. After a little digging, I can tell you this idiot has to knock off at least one, and possibly two, Republican House incumbents to make it past the primary to the general. That could be uphill. But if he gives up his state house seat to try, that’s all to the good (provided he doesn’t succeed, of course).
Doctor Dumbfuck seems to be on top of this, see #4.
@6 Trump, like Hillary Clinton and Bowe Bergdahl, isn’t “guilty” of anything until convicted in a court of law, a concept previously alien to you, which you’re discovering just now.
@8 Yeah, like when Scalia went hunting with Dick Cheney while a case in which Cheney was a named party was pending before the court.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/02/scal-f20.html
At the Supreme Court level, ethics are flexible, alright. It just seems that conservative justices do more of it.
@11 Why stop with ACB? I think we can agree, can’t we, that Trump did a shitty job of picking people to fill both natural and artificially created Supreme Court vacancies?
@12 I’m on the case.
http://handbill.us/2022/02/23/.....r-drawers/
@14 Interesting that truckers are about to descend on Washington D.C. to protest mask mandates that are being/about to be dropped. What’s this costing them? What’s diesel now? What mpg do those trucks get? How much pay will they lose while not hauling freight? How much will this diversion from productive activity add to already existing driver shortages, shipping bottlenecks, goods backlogs, and inflation?
@15 Abortion?
Not that it matters, but y’all libbies might steel yerselfs fer sum disappointment in coming days:
Salem Media news source, so YMMV. But still. Biden’s weak, Lujan’s not a lock to vote, and a month from now Biden will be even weaker. The votes of Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham might turn out to be crucial.
Childs is a good choice. Not that Jackson isn’t, but Childs comes with a safety margin that Jackson doesn’t have.
@21 “I think anyone in a wheelchair, but only if from birth, should be pushed off a cliff to their death.”
That’s already been done.
@24 “Wonder why the greedy racist incel got so upset?”
Below-average skin thickness and below-average IQ go hand-in-hand.
@34 After he does a black woman, he should put a constitutional law professor with deep experience in both domestic and foreign issues on the court. As a bonus, this individual is black, although not a female.
But boy, are we ever gonna lay a hurtin’ for certain on those Moscow whores who piss on hotel guests.
They can’t help themselves.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-kentucky-lawmakers-anti-semitic-slur_n_6216b528e4b03d0c8032d431
It’s who they are.
A memo to Canadian PM Trudeau.
This is what a national emergency really looks like:
But you keep on hiding under your bed because of that convoy woman, Justin.
“Explosions reported in Kyiv as Putin says Russia is launching an attack on Ukraine”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/putin-says-russia-open-to-diplomacy-as-moscow-hit-with-fresh-sanctions.html
“CNN team reports hearing loud explosions in Kharkiv, Ukraine”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/index.html
@ 39
To get to Kentucky you fly into Cincinnati and head south, just across the Ohio River.
Ohio State Prof Apologizes for “Jewing Down” Comments
And it’s only one state to the east to get to Pittsburgh, where the synagogue massacre took place a few years ago.
Force the conservative legislators to resign. Fire the liberal OSU assistant professor. Zero tolerance.
The correction Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit told us for months he saw no real evidence of?
Those are futures quotes.
Party’s over, especially for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@43 Party’s not over, it’s just beginning. I have plenty of cash to deploy on cheap stocks.
You’re finally right, Doc, about the 10% – 15% correction. (Note: I never said we wouldn’t eventually get one.) It’s just late, that’s all. Took several months to get here after you began “predicting” it. (A stopped clock is right twice a day, too.) And took a war.
Does anybody but a dumbfuck think a war in Europe won’t tank stocks? I assume Putin traded on inside information ahead of the attack. What were your trades?
Hunter got his. That’s what counts.
On Point: The Strategic Costs of Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian Corruption
Tonight we see the results of electing The Biden Crime Family despite the clear warnings we were given.
Here ya go. White cops run a black lawyer’s ID because they don’t know if he’s “illegally dumping” trash in the dumpster next to his law office which he says is his dumpster.
“Can you prove it’s your dumpster?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o06aWSRriro
This is the systemic racism Republicans don’t want taught in schools.
@45 It’s Hunter Biden’s fault! And Putin’s a genius! says a dumbfuck.
Look on the bright side: Putin has ended any chance at all for Joe Biden’s re-election in 2024.
48 – And Xi Jinping will be glad to give Putin a hand!
Kiev and surrounding areas are being bombed… Citizens are panicking…
Putin, orange dear ass-kisser’s “genius”, is a fucking terrorist..
Minor incursion.
Terrorism is
A. Invading a sovereign nation.
B. Parking and honking.
C. Speaking out at your child’s school board meeting.
D. All of the above.
Dying to hear what Railfan has to say about the sudden withdrawal of the Emergencies Act. He’s the one who follows their government.
Giggle. QoS McHillbilly thinks a piece of paper posted on a window is going to save the House Democrats from a November tsunami.
By the last week in November he’ll claim they’ll be saved because inflation hasn’t quite hit double-digits yet.
OK, who had the 400th day of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s presidency in the office pool?
“Alexa, how much did Candy Crowley weigh in the Fall of 2012?”
Remember that time when President Trump had to send thousands of troops in order to protect a European nation against an invasion by one of the world’s superpowers?
46)Qualified immunity will block ant lawsuit.
@52 “B. Parking and honking”
Like this? https://globalnews.ca/video/8600490/trucker-protests-security-cameras-show-two-alleged-protesters-attempting-to-set-ottawa-apartment-building-on-fire/
“C. Speaking out at your child’s school board meeting.”
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1SGC5cPQU
@55 I won’t mind you pumping $6 gas into your F-350. Yes, I own oil stocks. Yes, that will come to me as dividends.
I suspect your horse isn’t going anywhere for a while. You’ll be “riding” it in the backyard from now on.
@57 I remember an ex-president disparaging NATO and holding military aid to Ukraine hostage for fabricated dirt on the now-President of the United States.
To no one’s surprise, Fox is attacking Ukraine and cheerleading for Russia.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-ukraine-pathetic_n_621710e8e4b0afc668baeb7e
“Apart from the challenge to the US-led world order and what was once known as the free world, Americans will pay a price for this attack, though they are not, like the people of Ukraine, coming under fire. Higher gas prices and inflation are certain.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/putin-ukraine-russia-attack-us-global-impact/index.html
And the surrender monkeys are already chattering led by little maxie and Doctor Dumbfuck on HA, and of course Trump and Fox Noise to a worldwide audience and a gloating Putin.
I seem to recall Doctor Dumbfuck snarking about Biden exemption Russian oil and gas from sanctions.
“Troy Vincent, senior market analyst at researcher DTN Markets, told CNBC via email that ‘there are simply no alternatives’ to Russian volumes of oil and gas ‘that do not entail far higher prices and potentially the development of severe shortages.’
“’With this in mind, it’s clear to see how sanctioning Russian energy exports to both Europe and the rest of the world would mean mutually ensured destruction of economic growth and government budgets,’ he said.
“’Sanctions on Russian oil and gas would mean higher energy prices the world over,’ Vincent said, but noted that China’s pipeline infrastructure linking it with Russia and Beijing’s willingness to ignore U.S. sanctions put the country in a unique position.
“’China is likely the only major nation globally that could benefit from such sanctions, as they would likely increasingly soak up discounted Russian volumes,’ Vincent said.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/russia-ukraine-crisis-could-see-gas-supply-ramifications-for-the-world.html
One of three things has to be true. Either Doctor Dumbfuck (1) is for Russia and China, and against the West, Ukraine, and democracy; (2) is blowing smoke through his ass and wouldn’t turn the valves off himself; or (3) has nothing to lose from a global recession because he has no job, no investments, and no money.
Bob is a POS.
Here’s Doctor Dumbfuck’s correction:
“London/Paris (CNN Business) Russian stocks crashed by more than 40% and the ruble hit a record low against the dollar on Thursday.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/investing/ruble-russian-stocks-crash/index.html
By contrast, U.S. stock futures are down a little over 2%. It sucks to be a Russian investor right now. American investor? A buying opportunity.
It sucks to be a Putin-hugging Russia-lover, too. Which is pretty much every Fox host, Trump, most Republicans, and last and by far least, little maxie.
Oh, and the “People’s Convoy” of truckers headed for Washington D.C.? They may be paying $10 a gallon for diesel by the time they get to Iowa. Those trucks get about 6-7 mpg.
Looks like Gazprom’s gonna eat its $11 billion investment in its now-useless pipeline.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/opinions/nord-stream-2-germany-putin-gas-energy-hockenos/index.html
Maybe they can use it to pipe Putin’s hot air to Europe.
Here ya go — the thin blue line. Republicans support our police, except when they get pulled over. Then, they threaten the cop’s job and go all-in racist.
“A Republican congressional candidate in Florida was caught on police body camera footage threatening to end an officer’s career because she pulled him over for a traffic stop.
“Martin Hyde, who is running in Florida’s 16th Congressional District, was pulled over by Sarasota Police Officer Julie Beskin on Feb. 14.
“In video of the exchange, Beskin advised Hyde he was driving 57 mph in a 40 zone and was also seen texting on his phone. In a combative exchange that followed, he refused to cooperate, threatened her job and asked her if she was behaving that way because she was an immigrant.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-house-candidate-martin-hyde-threatens-police-traffic-stop_n_6216a946e4b0d1388f0ece0b
Jimmy Kimmel on why Tucker Carlson sucks up to Putin: “I wanna see the tape Putin has of him because it has to be something special.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-tucker-carlson-putin_n_62172061e4b03d0c80337166
67)Definitely got some benefactor then. Also, with diesel prices about to escalate, wished Metro had electrified Rt48, the realignments over the years has only two short gaps where it is not under wire, They’ve been working on it, but putting the poles in with SDOT streetscape improvements on 23rd Ave is the easy part, adding two new substations takes a little more time.
On Monday Degen Bob started working some overtime to smear and defame a shooting victim. Did you wonder why?
Here:
“I will never let the headline be ‘armed protestor confronts homeowner,’ which is the lie that was being peddled,” Beck wrote late Tuesday night on Twitter. “The rally was over a block away from us. It wasn’t even visible from our location. We were alone. We were a small group of women, alone. He saw us alone and he came for us. He didn’t go to the crowd. He came for us. This wasn’t a protestor altercation.”
“We were alone. We were targeted. She was wearing a dress, I was wearing a high visibility vest. My currently paralyzed friend is five feet tall. So tiny. So hopelessly outmatched by his size and violence. June put herself between our sweet, tiny friend and this monster,”
Almost everything police, badge bunnies, and Proud Boys had to say about this shooting in Sunday and Monday was a lie. The county prosecutor has since confirmed Beck’s description of the attack after reviewing the video. Having been immediately informed by his room mate that the shooter kept a large collection of firearms and other weapons, PPB knowingly left a massive arsenal of illegal weapons unsecured in the apartment for two days.
Whether by malign intent or sheer incompetence the Portland Police engaged in a cover up of a Proud Boy inspired mass shooting.
Richard Engle just reported a nuclear waste facility in Chernobyl has been destroyed. If true, the conditions there are worse than Hanford.At the very least, unless those Russian troops had the proper gear, they will be seeing long term health repercussions.
Clarification, he updated that it is reports of artillery fire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and the possibility that the shelling could destroy the waste dumps. What could be worse is if the new shell around Reactor 4gets damaged. Too bad tge Russian troops can’t even disobey this order. It’s a slow death.
Putin has the ideal candidate in Donald Trump as his puppet in charge of Ukraine. Might be a slight language problem, but Trump never made much sense anyway. Trump would have nonstop access to those Eastern European teenage whores he so fervently adores.
FOX just had Trump on to say the Russian invasion is because of the “massive election fraud” in Wayne County Michigan.
@ 76
I wouldn’t put it that way. Someone I just read put it:
@42 “To get to Kentucky you fly into Cincinnati and head south”
Wrong as usual.
When you fly to Cincinnati on a commercial aircraft, you fly into KCVG which is located, wait for it, in northern Kentucky.
But since Dr. Dumbfuck is a doctor, he may have a private pilot license and then you could fly into KLUK which a smaller municipal airport located in Ohio, for private and certain smaller commercial regional operators. Maybe this is what he was referring to, but I doubt it.
Stick to riding horses doc.
I guess it was wrong to trade the Javelin targeting data for the SPAC money?
Oh well. Maybe fat midget won’t be as treasonous.
Sorry Ukraine! Republicans gonna’ Republican!
Also on their own (and beginning to starve): the people of Afghanistan.
In private conversations by phone, online, and over coffee, all across America a few “moderate” Republicans are quietly and very privately sharing their “concerns” with each other about the Russian invasion into Europe.
What was it, ten days, two weeks ago, that G-clown wrote that Putin was backing down because of the strength and resolve of President Joe Biden?
Good times, good times.
Elsewhere your local neighborhood drunken uncle liberty still stands with Trump!
TFW “VERY SAVVY” is interchangeable with “Good times, good times.”
American exceptionalism was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?
I just want to make it very clear, that legally it really is not “treason” for Trump or Degen Bob or most Republicans to voice support and encouragement for Russia’s invasion into Europe.
That actually IS “legitimate political discourse”.
It’s a shame trump reneged on the Open Skies treaty. We could have used that info to help Ukraine.
It’s interesting, isn’t it, that the guy proven correct, once again, this week about Russia is failed GOP presidential candidate Mitch Romney. The guy proven correct, once again, this week about Vladimir Putin is failed GOP presidential candidate John McCain.
At least The Biden Crime Family was able to rape Ukraine before turning it over to Putin. Wealth transfer from Ukraine’s citizens to The Biden Crime Family was the purpose of Hunter Biden’s board service for Burisma. Hunter Biden had no actual expertise that would warrant a position like that.
When in the ungodly Nixonian hell did he become “Mitch”?
I mean, yes everyone got it that Romney was basically the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Michigan growing up with a stupid, precious name associated with a weird movie about rats. And he did nothing to help himself with his consistent “blame-the-poors” elitism.
But pretending he has a more masculine name won’t change any of that.
@ 90
Good catch. Daughter’s in labor. GMAFB.
Willard. Happy now?
This is not treason:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1496645647386263553
It’s just a political point of view shared by the tens of millions of Americans who vote for Republicans.
Russia – good.
America – bad.
78)Surprised Ohio and Kentucky didn’t do a land swap. If tge airport was in the same state been known to happen. Like the corridor that connects Zo’Hare to Chicago, or tge little exclave of SF in San Mateo County so SFO is legally in San Francisco.
Russia/China – good; because utter lawlessness, violent oppression of minorities, and ruthless exploitation of regional instability or weakness to expand territory.
America – bad; because civil rights, voting, rule-of-law, and respect for international agreements.
If Michael Bloomberg was president, this wouldn’t have happened.
Biden’s Own Aides Feared His Sanctions Wouldn’t Stop Putin
The only thing Team Biden has proved is the president’s senility.
Next AWESOME GQP look:
Kim Jong Un is “genius” and “SAVVY” leader who protects and defends his people’s “cultural traditions” and who has “some very good points” and “legitimate, longstanding grievances” against South Korea and Japan.
WCGW?
Soon to follow, the domestic ultimatum:
If Democrats and liberals don’t quit pointing out extensive Republican collusion with Russia spanning years, our friends will beat up some more of their friends.
It’ll be their own fault.
@ 96
You forgot “very fine people”.
While the invasion of Europe is under way, back home Putin’s security police are rounding up and imprisoning the political opposition and any journalists who dare to report on it. A few of them will die from injuries suffered while “resisting arrest”. One or two may die from “inexplicable” illness before they can be brought to trial.
This is what Republicans admire.
It was not so long ago that one of the less intelligent HA types was envisioning DJIA 45,000.
Hey, G-clown, are you glad you chunked all of that 401k money into those equity investments at once, rather than dollar cost-averaging into them? You really should be more careful with your retirement funds. I’ve calculated your AGI, after all, and you just don’t have much wiggle room.
@ 99
…Putin’s security police are rounding up and imprisoning the political opposition…
Well, in the past couple of weeks the world watched Justin Trudeau do it, and most of them just shrugged.
Really, what’s to lose? See @ 95.
zippy spews:
Wednesday, 1/20/21 at 10:14 am
3,
You are a fool. Because of Trump, we’re now split internally and from our allies. Even though Trump didn’t get a second term (thank god!), he gave Vlad so much more than Vlad ever expected.
To which First Vegetable Joe Biden replied, “Hold my beer.“
Degen Bob: “Whaaat? Isn’t “denazifying” a good thing?
You libbies should be thanking Russia.”
@ 103
Isn’t “denazifying” a good thing?
Half-billion dollars of damage in Minneapolis.
The Durkan Kill Zone and its associated murdered, raped, and ODd casualities.
Sometimes ya gotta break a few eggs. After all, it’s all about the Benjamins.
In for a penny, I guess.
Here’s what you might be buying into.
Russian military commanders have spend the last three months bucking up miserable deployed troops with tales about Ukrainian “Nazis” who hate Russia, and glorious stories about the Great Patriotic War. You, being a complete fucking idiot, wouldn’t comprehend what that implies to an average Russian soldier. Thirty million Russians died. Every Russian family has at least one old framed photo of their family hero along with the stories. It wasn’t just the troops. Russian civilians starved to death in the millions. They ate pets. They resorted to cannibalism.
A full scale invasion like this of a populous, advanced, modern European economy would always produce some atrocities and war crimes. There’s a real risk this could become a civilian bloodbath. And Republicans are siding with the war criminals.
There’s lots to lose.
And then?
Survivors of a Deadly Attack on a Portland Protest Were Victimized Twice: First by the Gunman, Then by the Police
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/23/portland-protest-shooting/
It’s a pretty different story than what the police were pushing well into Tuesday.
The police had footage of the incident almost immediately but still portrayed the narrative as a homeowner vs protestors that continued well into Tuesday.
The footage clearly shows that this was as unprovoked attack and the protestor who shot the suspect was acting in self defense.
The victims were unarmed and the person who shot the suspect came to them as things began escalating.
The police knew who the shooter was that night and interviewed his roommate.
Multiple people warned the PPB that Benjamin Smith was becoming increasingly unhinged and violent and were essentially told to stop telling them.
@93
Just shows how undesirable a Kentucky zip code really is, even Ohio doesn’t want it.
107,
Puts the debate about Portland Police Bureau funding and oversight into a very different light.
It’s impossible for elected officials tasked with overseeing Portland Police to know for sure why their police response to gun violence is so incompetent, and so unprofessional. But because the operation and command of the police bureau is so entirely opaque Grey’s law must be invoked: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Not one single penny of taxpayer funding should go to police who continue to insist on operating outside of normal accountability.
To the always wrong wingnut tribe…
“Russia, Russia, Russia”…
is the new country that can do no wrong.. it’s hysterical to see the always wrongers dissemble, deflect and make excuses for Putin’s ethno-nationalist megalomania…
@80 Now you’re sucking up to the Taliban, too? Is there any toadstool on this planet you don’t put in your salads?
@88 Yeah, and he even might have been president if he hadn’t called Social Security retirees welfare bums.
Of course, he doesn’t need Social Security himself, having in the bank the tens of millions he pocketed by disbanding healthy companies and laying off thousands of their employees.
@89 “At least The Biden Crime Family was able to rape Ukraine before turning it over to Putin.”
Coming from a troll who voted for Ukraine’s #2 ranked blackmailer, this is actually funny although not in the way you may have intended.
Dow plus 92 points, S&P plus 1.5%, Nasdaq plus 3.34%.
Where the hell is Doc’s correction? Does Putin have to nuke NATO for Doc to get his 10%-15% correction?
Last I heard, Russian stocks were down 40% and Russian ATMs aren’t working. I’ll bet Trump’s credit lines are frozen, too.
@95 “If Michael Bloomberg was president, this wouldn’t have happened.”
He would’ve made Ukraine the 51st state? And then stopped the Russian assault with tactical nukes?
Fair warning: Any time you or anyone else says “if (fill in blank) was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” I’m going to ask: “How would (fill in blank) have prevented it?”
The only realistic answer, of course, is “pull all support from Zelensky and hand over Ukraine to Moscow without a fight.”
@100 Even more recently, you were predicting ~29,750.
@101 With somewhat more cause.
https://globalnews.ca/video/8600490/trucker-protests-security-cameras-show-two-alleged-protesters-attempting-to-set-ottawa-apartment-building-on-fire/
@104 “Half-billion dollars of damage in Minneapolis.”
And it was all started by these two guys:
http://handbill.us/wp-content/.....load-7.jpg
https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/mitchell-carlson-umbrella-man/
@110 Hysterical, yes, incomprehensible, no. Russia has had decades to infiltrate sleeper agents and Manchurian candidates into key U.S. institutions (media, political party, White House, etc.)
@ 116
…you were predicting ~29,750.
The number I recall is 30,000. I still believe that the DJIA will fall to 30,000, and eventually will head back up.
When the DJIA was about 35,000 I said it was more likely that the DJIA falls first to 30,000 than it continues to rise to 40,000 without a significant pullback.
I still believe that. Sold a bunch of covered calls in the last few weeks with that in mind. You wanna give me two bucks/share now for the option of buying my Alcoa between now and mid-May for a hundred bucks each? Sure, I’ll take that.
I’ll bet Trump’s credit lines are frozen, too.
Don’t forget about the SPAC.
@ 119
…Russia has had decades to infiltrate sleeper agents…
China, too. Eric Swalwell fucked one of them.
Rep. Eric Swalwell refused to say if he had sex with a suspected Chinese spy who slept with 2 mayors for an intelligence campaign
Is there a good time to be asked whether you traded state secrets for quim, Rep. Swalwell? Sometime before you declare your next campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination, perhaps?
Democrats turned a blind eye to what the Chinese were doing when they were laser-focused on the lies about Trump and Moscow whores.
Laying a new keel in his Ship of Theseus.
While the FBI agents are carrying 100 boxes full of ’em out of your private sex club in Florida?
QoS McHillbilly, please clarify what you believe is the effort by PBB to hide/protect the all-but-confirmed guilty shooter, Ben Smith.
Shootings happened Saturday night. By Tuesday affadavits alleging second degree murder and other charges were filed with the county, in time for stories to be written and posted on line before 5 pm that day.
So inside of two workdays, an investigation of the shooting resulted in 2nd degree murder charges. I understand the unhappiness that he was referred to initially as a homeowner, but that’s not the same as referring to him as an aggrieved victim. Why is two days too long, when the PBB maintained all along that evidence had been inappropriately removed from the crime scent, to a point that even resulted in a victim making a public appeal for the missing evidence to be returned to the PBB?
Why so unhappy, Cupcake? You got your Murder Two charge.
On 12/5/21 I wrote that I was planning for a 10-15% correction.
On 12/3/21 the DJIA closed at 34,580.08. 10% decline from that point is 31,122.
Given that today’s low was 32,272, does anyone think that it is not likely that the DJIA will soon drop to 31,000 or thereabouts?
From that point, same question about a drop to 30,000.
We’re in a period of wild intraday swings. A bomb hits the wrong site in Chernobyl and radiation plumes start drifting to Finland again, and we’ll see even more wild swings.
Cash is a good place to be right now. Especially if you’re “Moneybags” Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, to whom a 13% cash position means roughly $10k in the bank.
Here’s what QoS McHillbilly wrote on 12/6/21:
I think the term is “Game On”, but there is no reason McHillbilly should know that. He hasn’t competed in anything more physically challenging than a breathless chess match with his sister.
Since Omicron is receding and the world is opening back up, and yet the market is lower, it’s not due to the Omicron shutdown, is it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
I said 30,000. I still think the market hits 30,000 sooner than it hits 40,000. No goalpost-shifting, QoS McHillbilly.
I’ll let the shooter’s family answer:
“Your police department in Portland sucks.”
Portland police spent the first two days immediately following a white supremacist terror attack investigating the unprovoked attack as “a dispute between a neighboring homeowner and armed street radicals”. They initially ignored and rejected evidence and eyewitness testimony that did not confirm their initial false framing of the attack. They waited more than 48 hrs to bother to return multiple voice messages and emails from people most closely associated with the shooter. They continued to promote a false narrative that witnesses to the shooting had obstructed justice and/or destroyed evidence at the scene.
Proud Boy/Patriot Prayer white nationalists have been terrorizing Portland for too long. And they’ve been aided and assisted in that by members of the Portland Police Bureau. PPB simply doesn’t want to investigate the origins of so much of the city’s wave of violence:
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/02/22/brother-of-max-train-murderer-jeremy-christian-is-suspected-in-feb-16-fatal-shooting-in-north-portland/
They prefer to keep their focus on criminalizing and suppressing criticism of police corruption and incompetence because that is their priority.
Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit, today:
I would extort Hunter Biden and his whole fucking family, that’s what I would do. What, you think Hunter didn’t misplace a laptop during one of his Ukraine visits? That would be silly of you.
“Hi. You’ve reached the voice mail of Portland Police Bureau Homicide Detective Scott Broughton. Today is Monday, February 21st, President’s Day, and I’ll be away from my phone catching awesome face shots of fresh minty powder up at Timberline. If you leave a message at the tone I can call you back when I return to the office Tuesday morning. If you are a homicide victim please hang up the phone and call 911 immediately. Have a great day.”
At least The Biden Crime Family cashed in.
Just think how effective a daisy stuck in a gun barrel is gonna be.
Small sample size.
New UNF Poll shows wide lead for DeSantis in Governor’s Race
Florida Republicans narrowly support DeSantis ahead of Trump in ‘24
President deSantis will nominate and a GOP Senate will confirm Clarence Thomas’ replacement.
@120 The number I recall is 15%. Multiply 35k by .85 and see what you get.
@122 “Is there a good time to be asked whether you traded state secrets for quim, Rep. Swalwell?”
Did he take state secrets home with him?
@125 Well, first off, I question the “Two” after “Murder” because this asshole clearly premeditated what he was about to do. You don’t need a .45 handgun to “ask someone to leave.” Nor is shooting an unarmed woman directing traffic in the head an off-the-cuff kind of thing.
Secondly, it wasn’t the cops who brought charges, the D.A. did, after reviewing irrefutable evidence this was a crime. The cops made no arrest, and brought no charges, against an individual who shot five people, all of whom were unarmed. Their reluctance to arrest and chart a mass shooter who shot up a peaceful BLM protest was palpable after 24 hours, and blatant after 48 hours. The D.A. took decision-making out of their hands.
And then you have the lying press conference in which the chief tried to paper over police inaction by falsely labeling this mass shooting as a “confrontation between a homeowner and protesters” and calling it a “complicated investigation” and pretending they didn’t know anything because “witnesses left the scene.” (At a dead run, so they wouldn’t get shot too?)
And you had the cops saying as little as possible about this mass shooting and trying to change the subject to other other shootings that were ordinary crimes, not politically motivated acts of terrorism like this one was.
It’s pretty fucking obvious what’s going on to anyone who has eyes and a thinking mind.
The Boston Marathon bomber was prosecuted by the feds and is sitting in Florence ADX awaiting execution and I’m thinking maybe this guy should be prosecuted by the feds and sit in Florence ADX awaiting execution, too. Similar crimes.
@126 You didn’t limit your prediction to 10%, you said 10%-15%, and 15% of 34580.08 is 29,393.07. Therefore you predicted a correction within a range of 29393 -31122. Closed today at 33224, so not there yet. Still over 2000 points to go just to hit the top end.
@126 Depends on what you mean by “soon.”
@126 I asked the horse about your cash position, and he said he can’t remember the last time he got oats. He doesn’t get to eat anything that doesn’t grow in your backyard. He doesn’t get paid for tricks, either.
OK Bob, since you are cheering on Putin and Trump (with Trump’s man-crush on Putin), what would have Trump done differently to prevent Putin from invading Ukraine?
I think the reason Trump has been fundraising so much recently is not for a run in 2024 (he may well do it if he isn’t compromised as a Russian asset), is to be able to pay off off some of his personal debts because he knew Putin would invade and Russian banking would be sanctioned by the West. Now maybe Trump can slither past another bankruptcy due to his friend Putin pulling the trigger on Ukraine.
You rail non-stop against Biden and his family, you always forget the Trump crime family and their deep association with Russian.
@127 The Dow is down 2004 points from Dec. 6. that’s a 5.7% decline, not a 10% decline. If you look at a chart, the Dow trended up from there until mid-January, then dipped — not corrected, but dipped — while omicron was peaking, then began rising again until war fears began taking hold in mid-February markets and pushed it down into another — so far — dip.
Back on Dec. 6, the Russian buildup on Ukraine’s border was just beginning, was barely in the news, and neither I nor you expected a war. What we did expect was an omicron peak in January, gradual Fed tightening, and possibly some minor multiple compression, but no recession. Corrections are almost always associated with recessions.
Your wild guess of a 10%-15% correction was just that, a wild guess, and not one supported by logic. It was going to take a black swan to make it happen. Here’s your black swan, but even given this war, we’re still waiting for your correction to happen.
It’s not premature to say you’re full of shit.
The Harris/AOC administration will have all Republican politicians imprisoned except for Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger. DeSantis will be tried and executed by Gov. Crist for being an ugly fucking midget.
The low IQ dumbfuck will miss out on all of this because he will be residing at the bottom of Puget Sound, weighted down with iron chains with not so much as a missing persons report being filed because nobody on the fucking planet will miss the low IQ POS traitor.
@143
Don’t pollute Puget Sound with him. He has earned the Ruth Neslund treatment for disposal.
@129 Where’s the laptop? and its contents?
I suppose next you’re going to say Putin made it disappear because he wanted Joe Biden to be president.
You’re not full of shit just about the stock market, you’re full of shit across the board.
@141 That’s easy. Trump would’ve told Zelensky to resign and hand his country over to Putin because he couldn’t expect any aid from the U.S. or NATO, and there would’ve been no war.
He would’ve surrendered Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania next, followed by Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia; and there would’ve been no war.
In return for handing over Ukraine and eastern Europe, Putin would’ve renewed his personal loans.
This Putin apologia was utterly predictable.
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1496695830715142148
Dialed into Rachel Maddow, the closest person this generation has to Walter Cronkite. She told about what the Russians were doing and how Putin could fail and be beaten. She talked about the courage of the Ukrainians and how the military, while vastly out numbered, would likely be a real problem for Russian. She talked about how Biden and NATO had for options to hurt Putin. She talked the NBC’s senior foreign correspondent, Richard Engel who in the field.
During the commercial breaks, I went over to Fox. Tucker was giving full throated aid and comfort to Moscow. Bragging at how strong and effective the Russians army is. Biden was incompetent and didn’t give enough support to Ukraine and yet Biden would be incompetent if he did anything to challenge Russia. Fox apparently didn’t have a foreign correspondent in the field, instead Tucker chatted with a freelance journalist with an Australian accent who sounded like Buck, voiced by Simon Peg from Ice Age 3. Tucker was awkward when the guy dropped that he left the military after getting a brain tumor.
It was an interesting contrast between what was important to the two shows.
I expect this is why America stayed to the time table Trump set up and got out of Afghanistan. So America would have more resources available to counter Russian in Ukraine.
@148 How can you stand listening to that POS Carlson? You have more intestinal fortitude than I do. The mere sight of his lips moving makes me gag and wanna puke.
Seeing on Twitter reports the Ukrainian Air Force may be down, but not out. Thought Vlad knew tge MiG-29 could fly from rough, unimproved airstrips? It was designed to before air superiority over tge Battlefield, they assumed normal airfields would get hit.
Reply to GOP and dumbfuck bleatings that Biden is “weak”:
“We’re not cowboys and cowgirls.”
“The administration has been careful not to outstep its European allies; instead, it sent a consistent message that any response to Putin would be unified. … Biden underscored that Putin’s ultimate goal was to divide the West and splinter NATO, and what was important, he said, was that the West stood firm together.”
“Daniel Rothkopf, who was a senior trade official in the Clinton administration, said the Biden administration is moving forward with persuading its fellow allies to take more severe actions. The sanctions imposed Thursday, he said, were ‘the best deal that was available to them, and it’s a deal that is very significant.
Everybody, at a moment like this, wants to appear as tough as they can be,’ Rothkopf said. … ‘It would be nicer to do more sanctions. But do you think for a moment that they didn’t do every sanction they could? I think they have taken every step that was available to them as a member and as the leader of the alliance.'”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/bidens-bind-no-good-options-russia-rcna17623
Shorter version: Biden is playing smart, and has the priorities right (Western unity; defeating Putin’s aim of dividing NATO nations among themselves). Republicans and Doctor Dumbfuck are “cowboys and cowgirls” playing it dumb, because they’re dumbfucks.
And PPB’s reward is …
“Mayor Ted Wheeler said Tuesday he felt ‘utter despair’ after two mass shootings in Portland over the weekend and pledged more overtime hours for the Police Bureau’s special gun violence team”
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/02/portland-mayor-police-chief-address-weekend-of-violence-deadly-difficult-and-disturbing.html
… more overtime.
Portland’s new police contract includes …
“retention bonuses, wage bumps for completing required crisis intervention training and earning higher education degrees, plus annual cost of living adjustments.”
It doesn’t include …
“a policy on the use of body-worn cameras, equipment that the U.S. Department of Justice has demanded the city require its officers wear.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/02/portlands-city-council-unanimously-approves-4-year-56-million-contract-with-police-union.html
“The absence of outrage from our city officials is speaking volumes to the community,” a Northeast Portland resident said of the mass shooting.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/02/memorial-honors-woman-killed-in-portland-mass-shooting-a-new-and-different-level-of-loss.html
“Snowball” Jim Imhofe, 87, who was re-elected to the Senate last year, will announce this weekend he’ll resign from the Senate at the end of this year, so his successor can be elected in November. He will endorse Luke Holland, his chief of staff, in the GOP primary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXtG8GrW6EQ
139,
He’s a degenerate gambler masquerading as day trading market timer.
He’s spent three months revising this prediction against the actual market performance because he knows it was a very bad bet that would have produced substantial losses. A full quarter of steady and significant losses that he is not, and will not account for on the day (if it ever comes) when the market drops below 31122. Like any true degenerate gambler, when he finally hits after months of losing, he will explode up from the table spilling drinks and knocking back chairs, and screaming triumphantly waiving his “winnings” above his head and laughing like an hysterical lunatic.
He lives for that brief moment, that irrational endorphin rush arising from faulty brain wiring. You can see it even now at 126, 127, as he expresses both satisfaction and accomplishment that finally after months of desperate waiting, the Dow briefly dropped “close” to his target bet. A horse that loses by a nose still loses. But the degenerate gambler brain experiences that “almost win” as “success”. The casino is literally designed and built from the ground up around this little tiny defect in the degenerate brain. Every bell, every flashing light, every cartoon dollar sign.
This is one of Bob’s most embarrassing performances I’ve seen since I started following the blog. He’s never exposed his inner weaknesses so nakedly before. And he undoubtedly isn’t even aware. He truly does see himself as “winning” this moment. And there’s just no telling how much he’s lost over the last quarter having committed himself to this erroneous timing strategy. He may have lost nothing. Because he may have nothing to lose.