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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/26/21, 8:04 am

I was going to write about how your ballot should have arrived if you live in Washington, and get it postmarked or dropped off by August 3. That’s still true, but I want to talk about masks.

I still wear one inside. I am vaccinated and that’s much better protection than a mask. But the mask provides a bit more protection against breakthrough cases. So I still wear it grocery shopping, in the common areas of my apartment building, etc. I don’t wear glasses or have stink breath, so wearing one isn’t bad for me. You might have made a different calculation, and that’s fine.

So this morning, I got some food at a coffee shop near me. And the barista was very insistent about how it wasn’t necessary. We went through several rounds of “You don’t need to wear that.” “I know.”

It seems weird to push against masks, just in general. There are still a lot of non vaccinated people, even in Seattle. And maybe one employee isn’t a lot, but I don’t like it.

Anyway, yes, the vaccine is still the single most effective way to fight COVID-19. So please get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 8:47 am

    YLB’s kids probably wish that they had been taught not to cower behind others.

    81% of recent college grads wish they were taught more life skills before graduation

    Nearly one in five (17%) college grads polled still don’t know how to cook or do their own laundry. Twenty-six percent are also feeling lost when it comes to basic apartment maintenance too – like unclogging a toilet or resetting a Wi-Fi router.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 8:53 am

    I’m sure that if only Megan Rapinoe had worn a mask during the Sweden match, the US would have won.

    Goldy✔
    @GoldyHA
    Tens of thousands of people are dying each day worldwide for want of access to a COVID-19 vaccine, yet one-sixth of US Olympic athletes are unvaccinated by choice, because freedom or something.

    These people are a national embarrassment—a disgrace to our nation and our flag. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1418505007280893952

    Jul 23, 2021

    Purple hair is a national embarrassment – a disgrace to our nation and our flag.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:00 am

    Congratulations to the entire field of the 20212020 Olympic women’s road race, for demonstrating so clearly why nobody wants to watch women’s sports.

  4. 4

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:01 am

    Remember, Carl, masked men are robbers. Any kid who grew up watching “Lone Ranger” knew even good guys were mistaken for outlaws when they wore a mask. And now that police have been defunded by Black Lives Matter aka Antifa and communities have to rely on citizen policing (aka “vigilantes”), you should be grateful that an excitable customer at the coffee shop didn’t pull a gun and yell “GET ON THE GROUND!” and order to stay there until his buddy arrived with the zipties left over from the attempt to “hang Mike Pence!” What they would have done with you after that is hard to say. So, I would advise dispensing with the mask and taking your chances with delta. Masks are dangerous.

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:03 am

    I see that Deathfrogg is now looking for housing on Whidbey Island.

    I am an introvert, conscientious Reiki practitioner, astrologer, and sound healer who requires a studio or one-bedroom ADU to live and to do my remote healings for animals (and humans). I’m building my business now and I know that it will benefit many. However, most of the rentals I’ve seen are not affordable for me.

    So, if you are an honest landlord or landlady or homeowner who is not seduced by greed and you invite caring people to move to your community, please rent me your space.

    I don’t smoke or drink alcohol. I live sustainably. I’m in my 50s and I have done a lot of healing on myself. I live by ethics and integrity. I’m also on a path to becoming a master healer. I need to relocate by August 1st due to a family situation. And I’ve already been seeking my own home for nearly 4 years. (I prefer not to end up in a homeless shelter on the street because some landlords are charging too high of rent).

    Unemployable due to life choices that have caused his psychosis. Blames his lot in life on others. It’s gotta be ‘froggy.

  6. 6

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:04 am

    The “worker shortage” isn’t what it seems. There are workers available. Just not in the age range that finicky employers want.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/gen-x-workers-may-face-the-biggest-unemployment-crisis-generation.html

    The more things change, the more they stay the same …

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:08 am

    @ 5

    I’m also on a path to becoming a master healer.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is on a path to becoming a master bloviator. From his description @ 4 of the goings-on in a coffee shop it is clear that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is unable to afford to purchase a latte.

  8. 8

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:11 am

    @1 As a med school grad and horse trailer owner, you no doubt have the required training, knowledge, and experience to plunge a shit hole.

  9. 9

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:13 am

    @ 6

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit failed to point out the ‘froggy paragraph in the piece:

    Still, the report also highlighted a reluctance to pursue training among jobseekers who are 45 years and above.

    More than half (57%) of entry-level and intermediate-level job seekers expressed a resistance to reskilling, while just 1% said training increased their confidence when looking for work.

    Learn to code. Or starve, motherfucker.

  10. 10

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:27 am

    @1 I wished more conservatives were taught to understand science so they would get the vaccines and wear a mask.
    Graduates can learn those life skill on YouTube, Conservatives do not seem to want to learn science.

    That is a fake story. Kids have been saying that since kids graduated from school. It’s not new.

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:29 am

    Every so often a Democrat speaks the truth.

    Dem VA Sen Warner on Fox on filibuster: I..wish we wouldn’t even have started this a decade ago. When the Democratic ldrs actually changed the rules, I don’t think we would have the Supreme Court we did if we still had a 60 vote margin on the filibuster but we are where we are

    https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1419305074849947653

    He’s right. Thank you so much, Harry.

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:30 am

    @7 I think we can safely assume (a) you go to coffee shops all the time, in that you claim to possess intimate personal knowledge of what goes on in such places, and (b) you don’t have to worry about anyone saying anything to you about a mask. You’re probably not vaccinated, either. Delta is so new science probably hasn’t even determined whether you can get it.

    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b6/da/cf/b6dacf15345edcf4df580f6bbdec19d6–half-horse-half-man-pagan-beliefs.jpg?b=t

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:36 am

    @11 Not having a single Democrat on the federal bench is a better alternative?

    The majority of Americans are not Republicans, nor in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, Citizens United, states’ rights, or unlimited dissemination of guns.

    It was seen as necessary to prevent minority judicial tyranny. Unfortunately, due to minority electoral tyranny, we now have minority Supreme Court tyranny.

    At this point, it’s not clear to us how to stop the further spread of minority tyranny, but we feel we must keep trying. We’re working on some ideas. We may even borrow some ideas from your side, e.g. term limiting the top court.

  14. 14

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:37 am

    @1

    Just like I said, Breeding will not save you!

    Beer belly and mobile homes. By the way Whidbey Island looks like a dump

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:40 am

    Summer of Love, 2021.

    4th person killed overnight in Seattle’s deadly weekend of gun violence

    The shooting was just the latest in a series of violent episodes over the weekend that left a total of four dead and at least five wounded, with the violence extending across all corners of Seattle:

    Not all corners. If you live in Seattle and you have a water view, you didn’t hear gunfire.

    (Note to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit: If one of your shithole walls is the exterior of an underground sewer pipe, that’s not a water view.)

  16. 16

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:41 am

    Everything the pitiful greedy racist incel posted was opposite of what the story meant

    “Perceived” reluctance? So hiring mangers are projecting on to the older workers? It may be true, it may not. it’s what hiring mangers “Perceive”.

    “Often, that is due to negative experiences of education, conflicting personal duties, and lack of available programs and financial support for mid-career workers, said Mourshed.”
    >> The training doesn’t help them (Must have gone to trump university, “96% of Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges Report Their Lives Are Worse Now Than Before They Went to School – posted on August 6, 2019”) , They have to take care of children and elders and they cannot afford to take the training with their existing school debt.

    “It comes in spite of evidence that older workers often outperform their younger peers. Indeed, almost nine in 10 (87%) hiring managers said their hires who are 45 years and above have been as good as — or better — than younger employees.”

  17. 17

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:44 am

    @14 I haven’t been there in a while. Does it look like eastern Washington, where people live in dilapidated manufactured homes on 5-acre lots filled with 75 years’ accumulation of junk vehicles and black plastic trash bags stored in overflowing abandoned semi trailers?

  18. 18

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:45 am

    @15 More reasons for national gun reform

    “In a video posted to social media, interim Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz said the shootings were linked to an abundance of guns on city streets.”

  19. 19

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:45 am

    @ 13

    At this point, it’s not clear to us how to stop the further spread of minority tyranny…

    Harry Reid blew up most of the filibuster. Democrats suffered, directly, as a result. McConnell warned Democrats, explicitly, that they would regret doing what they did.

    Now Chuck Schumer wants to blow up what’s left of the filibuster.

    Democrats will regret it this time, too. What should be clear, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, is to not play the short game in a long game world. Especially if Breyer won’t help you.

    Breyer looks good. But will he look good in 2025? 2026? 2027? 2028?

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:46 am

    I see Joe Manchin is talking about maybe calling it a day in 2024.

    That seat will flip. See @ 19.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:48 am

    @ 18

    “In a video posted to social media, interim Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz said the shootings were linked to an abundance of guns on city streets.”

    I’m pretty sure former Seattle Police Department Chief Carmen Best would say something different. It would be a politely worded version of, “I fucking told you so.”

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 9:49 am

    @19 You appear to be making very large assumptions about who will be appointing justices after the 2024 election. Maybe you hope your unelectable frontrunner drops dead before then?

  23. 23

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 10:36 am

    Rep. Jim Jordan@Jim_Jordan
    “Cleveland Indians.”

    George Takei@GeorgeTakei
    “Well, I can see why “Guardians” would rub you wrong, given your record.”

  24. 24

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:01 am

    Ted Cruz Posts Bizarre Eggplant Emoji Tweet about Biden and People Are Very Confused
    https://secondnexus.com/ted-cruz-eggplant-emoji-tweet

    Now the pitiful greedy racist incel will have to denounce Canadian born rapheal cruz since he used an eggplant emoji

  25. 25

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:02 am

    21. Key word is “former”

  26. 26

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:23 am

    YLB’s kids

    survived Flush Limpbone..

    survived Sheldon Adelson

    survived Frosty Freeze

    survived every drumpfist dumbshit who’s currently stuffing icus in Missouri (Misery) and the Death Santis orange death zone and elsewhere in the 2021 summer of sickness and death in the vote suppression states.

    And they’ll survive a silly little kreepah, kreepin’ widbee…

  27. 27

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:32 am

    the shootings were linked to an abundance of guns on city streets.”

    That’s the world klownservatics wanted.. Everyone packing heat. On streets, on airplanes, in all crowded places like floors of the House of Reps and the Senate and repuke conventions.

    Because you gotta be prepared. You never know what might happen.

    klownservatics like teh widbee kreepah are confused people.

  28. 28

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:36 am

    I geuss this is what he meant:
    “In a video posted to social media, interim Seattle Police Department Chief greedy racist incel said the shootings were linked to an abundance of uppity black people on city streets.”

  29. 29

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:38 am

    27. The greedy racist incel doesn’t want black people to have guns. He’s already advocated to cut crime by going door to door confiscating them

  30. 30

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 11:39 am

    Carl, it’s a cultural thing.

    Remember the “close talker” Seinfeld episode with Judge Reinhold?

    https://youtu.be/sRZ5RpsytRA

    It’s meta-commentary on the signalling in nonverbal behavioral cues. In more than a few cultures around the world standing more than a few feet away from someone while having a conversation with them is very rude, and implies fear, revulsion, concern – often with implications about class and hygiene.

    Pandemic social distancing has brought out a lot of these prejudices and sensitivities in people. I recall a discussion with friends early last summer about masking and circumstances, where they were debating about who would it be “safe” to be around unmasked. It was very clear that for some of them it revolved around irrelevant social markers like income, education, etc. I delighted myself by reminding them all that access to and frequency of international air travel, for example, would be a far greater indicator of risk. Or anyone who worked in public facing healthcare.

    Generally high-status social markers in our culture were (are?) often higher risk. But even now people just can’t shed these kinds of fears and prejudices. At this point I’d say it’s fairly safe to assume anyone who ever had a “W” sticker on a vehicle should be avoided altogether. Older, more conservative folks, queuing up weekly at the country club buffet scare the fuck out of me. I’m fully vaccinated. Don’t want to be anywhere near any of ’em. Crawling with death, they are.

  31. 31

    YLB laughing at pos rapey boob mcdimfook teh feckless, irrelevant widbee krackpipah, kreepah and "sugar daddy" spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 12:15 pm

    Nearly one in five (17%) college grads polled still don’t know how to cook or do their own laundry.

    Oldest is living the apartment life in Seattle, doing just fine.. Had plenty of practice in the college dorms.

    Youngest cooks his own vegan meals and does his laundry.

    teh silly kreepee kreepah of widbee has spent its entire miserable life developing its one life skill – kreepin’, which it practices daily at HA and widbee.

  32. 32

    Pay me, bitches! spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 12:41 pm

    Wow….talk about a shooting gallery in seattle this weekend!

    Hey, I thought the Street Czar (ex pimp and rapist) Andre Taylor was supposed to fix all that!!!! I mean, aren’t you all paying him $150k a year for his self described “black genius ”?

    Oh wait, maybe defunding the cops will help!!

    Hahahahahahahahahahhaha……

    Hey seattle, YOU voted for that!! Havahahahabbababababhahahhahahahahah

  33. 33

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 12:49 pm

    Little maxwipe @ 32..

    I hope you still don’t carry…

    https://www.wbtw.com/news/grand-strand/coast-guard-boater-accidentally-shot-themselves-near-little-river-inlet/

  34. 34

    YLB’s aching vagina spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 12:55 pm

    33

    YOU voted for that! Hahahahahhaahba

  35. 35

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 1:05 pm

    @34 This one lost the family jewels little maxwipe…

    https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/man-allegedly-hiding-drugs-in-backside-accidentally-shoots-himself-in-testicles/2025189114/

    Are you next? Oh that’s right.. You’re too afraid to pull the heat out of the gunsafe..

    You’d rather stroke your pieces minus their firing pins in your basement. With your trembling hands? Lot safer that way.

  36. 36

    Nikita Oliver’s Hug-A-Thug program spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 1:10 pm

    @35 She/Her/They/Them/It YLB

    YOU voted for that!!!

    Hahahahahahhahahahahaha

  37. 37

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 1:17 pm

    @36 Is it still every 36 hours little maxwipe?

    https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/unacceptable-unintentional-child-shooting-every-36-hours-msna588036

    One would suppose those parents are much more devoted to the 2nd amendment than you.

    A child death is a “small” sacrifice.

  38. 38

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 1:22 pm

    Hey little maxwipe. I still live in Seattle. Not going anywhere.

    You ran away with your tail between your legs..

    What was the stronger emotion for you: fear or hate?

    Hate is a gimme.. And given you don’t carry.. and your white flight behavior. Strong evidence for an equal or greater amount of the other.

  39. 39

    Proudly brought to you by Socialist Alternative Party spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 2:24 pm

    It’s Chop!!! It’s Chaz!!! It’s……its…….it’s The Summer of Love!!!!!! Yay!!!

    YOU voted for that!!!

    Hanahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahb

  40. 40

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 2:34 pm

    @39 behold little maxwipe waxing nostalgic… from its safespace…

    gunsafe in scottsdale?

    Here’s something to be nostalgic about little maxwipe:

    https://mediadiversified.org/2014/12/01/a-history-of-white-race-riots-in-america/

    Just for you. You would have fit in just fine.

  41. 41

    Cars are evil, so it’s ok. spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 2:51 pm

    Seattle’s newest professional sports team is here!!!

    The Seattle Street Zombies opened up their inaugural season in the Overpass Rock Throwing League a scant month ago are already making waves in the league.

    Led by team leaders Herion Harry, Joe “been arrested 72 times and still walking the streets” Shlotnick, and the unforgettable Sick Rapist Bastard Mike Oliver – this squad of winners is right at home in the Emerald City..

    YOU voted for that!!!!!!!

    Hahahahahhahahahahahahahah

  42. 42

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 3:00 pm

    You are familiar with the unhinged poster of #32, 34, 36, 39, 41? It reads like a 13 year old. aping their parent’s politics without having a clue what they mean.

  43. 43

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 3:01 pm

    @41 little maxwipe, you were a pup, when Republican Ted Bundy stalked Seattle..

    and its ‘burbs..

    What took you so long to flee to your safespace?

  44. 44

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 3:03 pm

    It reads like a 13 year old. aping their parent’s politics without having a clue what they mean.

    Oh it knows what it “means”…

    A “reward” for what amounts to stroking itself.

  45. 45

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 3:25 pm

    Seattle Street Zombies

    The way little maxwipe blathers, you’d think it wants to be all “Neagan” with the “zombies” of Seattle.

    But you’d be wrong.. Little maxwipe devoted all its energies locking its own guns from itself and then taking itself and its gunsafe to a safespace far far away..

    Scared, frightented little maxwipe. Awwwww…

  46. 46

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 3:48 pm

    for demonstrating so clearly why nobody wants to watch women’s sports.

    Not even women’s beach volleyball?

    Hmmm.. I suppose kreepee dimfuk would rather watch hairy guys grab at each other in Greco-Roman wrestling.. like Gym Jordan..

    Perhaps yours truly has been mistaken about what dimfuk’s been kreepin’ at in widbee.. The rapey misogyny spewed here is just a ruse.

  47. 47

    What? Crime is up you say?! Shocked shocked shocked! spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 4:43 pm

    Thanks to the local city clowncil and others in local city govt, the SPD has lost over 250 officers in less than 18 months.

    But hey, YOU voted for that!!!

    Hahahhahahahahahhahahahhaha

  48. 48

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 4:44 pm

    Conservatives: I’d take a bullet for my country!
    Progressives: You won’t even take a needle for your neighbors. Sit down.

  49. 49

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 4:46 pm

    #47. Got links or is this made up?

  50. 50

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 4:58 pm

    It’s Chop!!! It’s Chaz!!! It’s……its…….it’s The Summer of Love!!!!!!

    It’s not working.

    You lost the “Security Moms” for good when you put a dangerously indebted, alcoholic, gambling addicted rapist Frat Bro on The Court and put his victims on trial instead. Even with all your hysterical fright mongering, voters trust Democrats more on crime. And they don’t trust authoritarian racists at all.

    https://morningconsult.com/2021/07/14/violent-crime-public-safety-polling/

    You stuck with Trump and you fucked it all up for good. Now you can only sit back in rural isolation and watch as your “Safe Spaces” awash with Delta variant death gradually grow smaller and less populated.

  51. 51

    Ask Jenny Durkan spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:05 pm

    It was in today’s Durkan press conference regarding this weekends shoot em ups.

    You live in a cave?

    YOU voted for that!!!’nn

    Hahahahahahahjah

  52. 52

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:16 pm

    Heh. He’s serious.

    ‘I’m serious!’ Mike Lindell claims Joe Biden will ‘resign’ on Aug. 13

    God bless America, our beloved President Biden and his VP Kamala, Raw Story and Gman!

  53. 53

    Sayer of Truths spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:18 pm

    52

    Lindell and his ilk are nutcases and crooks.

    No better than crooked TV preachers.

    F-em

  54. 54

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:28 pm

    @53 Is that you, Max? How have you been?

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:48 pm

    Would somebody please invoke a red flag law on MIchael Flynn. He needs to be disarmed right now.

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/07/26/michael-flynn-rifle-comments-vpx.cnn

  56. 56

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 5:48 pm

    God bless America and our beloved president!

    The Hill/HarrisX Approve 58% Disapprove 42%

    #DeathToDumbfuckTraitors

  57. 57

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 6:02 pm

    Breeding will not save Max.

  58. 58

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 6:27 pm

    Democrats doing more good things.
    Biden reverses Trump rollback and tightens limits on toxic pollution from coal power plants

  59. 59

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 6:35 pm

    52. Whlats gonna happen when trump is not installed in August? Think anything violent?

  60. 60

    YLB spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 6:55 pm

    @53 Does Lindell’s “ilk” include your mancrush…

    Dori Monson?

    Haven’t endured a few minutes of the Monson show for years but it wouldn’t surprise me that Monson shills Lindell’s pillows.

  61. 61

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 7:41 pm

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/fox-hosts-say-aoc-pete-buttigiegs-votes-count-less-dont-kids/

    Vance, grasping for headlines, has started to argue that childless adults should not have the right to vote. The excuse for this is that the childless have “no physical commitment to the future of this country.” He targeted Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as people who, because they are childless, should be blocked from the franchise. Notably, three of the four are people of color and one is gay, underscoring how much this gambit is about appealing bluntly to the MAGA belief that only people that are like them deserve to have a say in government.

    Co-host Pete Hegseth – who has been married three times, had three children with his second wife and then a fourth with his mistress who was a producer at Fox News, and divorced his second wife to marry his mistress – said that the real issue is the “breakdown” of “the family unit.”

  62. 62

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 10:24 pm

    52)He thinks it will be Trumps reinstatement. Lindell forgot to check the Line of Succession. President Pelosi in that case.

  63. 63

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 10:49 pm

    She’s lucky that she isn’t black. She might have been shot!

    ‘Dangerous’ woman waving Trump flag drives onto mall of Minnesota Capitol — and police don’t arrest her

    God bless Raw Story!

  64. 64

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 7/26/21 at 10:53 pm

    Holiday dinners with family might prove to be a little tense.

    ‘Creepy’ Matt Gaetz is a ‘literal pedophile’: future sister-in-law

    Might also want to leave any young girls at home.

  65. 65

    Extinction spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:19 am

    @57

    Ass fucking and Bukake will not save G man.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:35 am

    @65 Trump won’t save you.

  67. 67

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 6:50 am

    Lindell and his ilk are nutcases and crooks.

    In the dark, waning Bunker Days following the failed Coup Terror Attack, your beloved ex-President invited that guy to the Oval to discuss next steps and to implement his plan for another coup attempt in the last remaining days:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/15/pillow-salesman-apparently-has-some-ideas-about-declaring-martial-law/

    This is what the Republican Party leadership was up to while the House and Senate were engaged in impeaching him for trying to overthrow the government. He was still at it.

    But it was too late, of course. By then Real America had woken up and taken the House and Senate away from you mindless fucks. Forever.

    You all go on public trial now, beginning today and for the next two years. It is not going well for you. It will get much worse.
    #youbuiltthat

  68. 68

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 7:36 am

    I thought liberals didn’t like the concept that market forces should govern wage levels.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Pitchfork Economics
    @PitchforkEcon
    Demand for workers in historically low-wage service jobs is high, forcing wages to rise. That’s great news. https://nyti.ms/3wUN2XU

    Through May, the number of “workers wanted” posts by restaurants seeking waitstaff was up 61 percent from the same period in 2019, according to job market data from Burning Glass.
    Low-Wage Workers Now Have Options, Which Could Mean a Raise
    The sharp rebound in hiring, especially in service industries, is widening opportunities and prompting employers to compete on pay.

    nytimes.com
    8m

  69. 69

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 7:53 am

    Already collectible:

    https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1400431775965396999

  70. 70

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 8:01 am

    68,
    “Market forces” like a global pandemic that dried up demand for commercial, retail space and closed half the restaurants?
    Also not for nuthin’ killed 5 million people, so far?

    There it is kids. Your “conservative” “pro-life” proposal for wage rise is to kill your grandparents.

  71. 71

    RedReformed spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 8:16 am

    It’s so weird
    “Market forces” must be left alone when they push wages down for the people the greedy racist incel deems unworthy.
    “Market forces” must be controlled when it raises wages for the people the greedy racist incel deems unworthy.

  72. 72

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 8:38 am

    JEB! and Columba must have been incredibly distant, irresponsible, and amoral parents to have failed so miserably with George P.

    Character is destiny.

  73. 73

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 8:43 am

    Illinois Republican broke down and wept during his questions for Capitol Police officers Fanone and Gonell, in recalling their trauma and heroism that day preserving democracy.

  74. 74

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:34 am

    @73 Deeply moving.

    Republicans are having a very, very bad day today, the beginning of what will no doubt be streak of very, very bad days.

    The biggest loser? The cowardly traitor Doctor Dumbfuck. The longer the hearings last, the more diminished he becomes. When this is over the only thing left of him will be his treason and maybe a trace of the dumbfuck traitor’s shallow and insipid snide.

  75. 75

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:35 am

    QOTD:

    Long after you are gone you will be remembered as heroes to our country. Those who fought you are fascist traitors and they’ll be remembered as fascist traitors.

    No truer words.

    Any of those traitors with even a scintilla of character left would do well to pay close attention. Our trolls will look away.

    At this point, they have no other choice.

  76. 76

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:45 am

    @ 69

    Already collectible

    Already irrelevant.

  77. 77

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:45 am

    Hodges, while being electrocuted repeatedly with a cattle prod as the “loving” mob of Trump supporters set upon him, hears this:
    “YOU’RE GOING TO DIE! YOU’RE GOING TO DIE ON YOUR KNEES!”

    Ranks right up there with “I have a dream“.

    From that moment forward, it’s our America or their America.
    The choice is now.

  78. 78

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:50 am

    76,
    That’s entirely the point, you sad twit. And entirely what makes them collectible.

    And what makes them collectible is also what has reduced you, and George P. to just another pair of miserable, cringing, obsequious Trump rent boys.

  79. 79

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:50 am

    Quitter.

    Simone Biles ‘super frustrated’ after shocking withdrawal from Olympics gymnastics competition

    Not a quitter.

    Rep. John Thompson won’t step down, wife denies abuse allegations

  80. 80

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:51 am

    Officer Michael Fanone is also speaking about the traitor Doctor Dumbfuck. He, too, is a disgrace, a stain on our democracy.

    The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful!

  81. 81

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:51 am

    What happens to “I have a dream.” in 2027?

  82. 82

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:57 am

    It’s all on your shoulders now, Gwen Perry.

    If you blow it, the America you hate will begin to hate you back.

  83. 83

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 9:58 am

    The US women’s soccer team, which scored no goals in two of its three preliminary matches, will advance to the elimination round.

  84. 84

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:03 am

    Barbara Boxer just switched parties and endorsed #Trump2024.

    Barbara Boxer
    @BarbaraBoxer
    ·
    Aug 30, 2020
    In Trump’s America heartbreaking violence is rampant because this president doesn’t care about solving the crisis, doesn’t understand how to bring calm out of chaos & actually is fomenting the divisions & violence. If you don’t like the violence in Trump’s America vote #Biden2020

  85. 85

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:03 am

    81,
    Most likely it gets resealed*.

    And you get to have yet a ‘nother HuhrDuhr moment.

    *Because America can’t be trusted to learn about the FBI’s extensive involvement in the Klan and role in seeking King’s assassination without demanding real reforms.

  86. 86

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:06 am

    It wasn’t a bad dismount. Biles chose to combine her dismount with a kneel for #BLM. Y’all just didn’t get the symbolism.

  87. 87

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:09 am

    It’s all on your shoulders now, Gwen Perry.

    If you blow it, the America you hate will begin to hate you back.

    Okay. You believe peaceful protest by an Olympian athlete is a disgraceful demonstration of her hatred for America.

    Now do violent insurrection to overthrow our democracy.

  88. 88

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:18 am

    @ 87

    Now do violent insurrection to overthrow our democracy.

    I believe Hillary did that on the evening of November 8, 2016. It’s why she wasn’t permitted to appear on camera and the DNC trotted out Podesta instead, Moobs.

  89. 89

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:19 am

    Gwen turned away from our flag. How disrespectful.

  90. 90

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:21 am

    If I was gonna violently do anything on a large scale, Moobs, I’d probably use firearms. As in use them. Not leave them in the car on the other side of the river or outside the District.

    Not content to pervert the words Nazi and traitor so that they no longer have meaning, Moobs sets his sights on the definition of “violent”.

  91. 91

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:22 am

    OK who’s lookin’ forward to watchin’ Simone Biles compete for gold as an individual?

  92. 92

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:22 am

    OK who’s lookin’ forward to watchin’ Simone Biles compete for gold as an individual?

  93. 93

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:23 am

    I believe Hillary did that on the evening of November 8, 2016.

    With you being a dumbfuck stupe and a traitor, I’m sure you do.

  94. 94

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:29 am

    Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.

    Chiefs staying course despite Cleveland Indians’ name change

  95. 95

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:29 am

    the definition of “violent”

    This isn’t violence. For a stupe like our dumbfuck traitor, this is the proper way to honor our flag.

    Gwen, take note.

  96. 96

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:41 am

    @ 95

    For a coward like Moobs McScrote, this is the proper way to honor our flag.

  97. 97

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 10:41 am

    Capitol cop praised for mic drop answer on why he refers to pro-Trump rioters as ‘terrorists’

    That would include all those who aided and abetted them and do so still, from the raging orange man-baby on down to our own dumbfuck traitor.

    Hang the worst of them, Walmart FEMA camps for the rest.

    #DeathToDumbfuckTraitors

  98. 98

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:05 am

    @ 97

    ter·ror·ist
    /ˈterərəst/
    Learn to pronounce
    noun
    a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

    Apply it to Antifa, Moobs.

    Apply it to the #BLM crowd that surrounds vehicles trying to pass.

    Apply it to the POS in Austin, TX who raised his AR-15 to a stopped car and got what he deserved.

    Apply it to the POS who chased Kyle Rittenhouse.

    Moobs McScrote, unless you’re willing to apply the term uniformly, it’s meaningless. Just as everything YLB spews is meaningless.

    The gap between Goldy’s Fangirl YLB and Moobs McScrote narrows by the day.

  99. 99

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:06 am

    Not content to pervert the words Nazi and traitor so that they no longer have meaning, Moobs sets his sights on the definition of “violent”.

    I don’t call you a Nazi traitor. I call you a fascist traitor, which you are. And you’re the one trying to redefine violence to mean the use of firearms. Except when you talk about “violent” BLM protestors.

    The more you post, the more you self-diminish.

  100. 100

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:12 am

    Apply it to the #BLM crowd that surrounds vehicles trying to pass.

    How many different definitions of “violence” is this stupe going to post today?

    1/6 insurrection, no shooting No violence!

    BLM, no shooting. Violence!

    Even for a fascist dumbfuck traitor, you’re a real fucking stupe.

  101. 101

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:20 am

    The G-clown Effect: Just think of all the LGBTQQblahblahblah types who are going to throw Newsom under the bus solely so that they can vote for Caitlyn Jenner.

    However, the election will be decided not by the overall electorate, but by only those who choose to take parti n the recall.And, when the voting preferences of those considered most likely to participate are examined, the outcome becomes much closer, with 47% favoring Newsom’s recall and 50% favoring his retention.The main factor contributing to these very different distributions is that, if current levels of interest and voting intentions persist, turnout is likely to be far higher among Republicans than Democrats and No Party Preference voters. And, since nearly all Republicans favor Newsom’s ouster, a larger proportion of likely voters are voting Yes.

    Moreover, nearly all sexual deviants like G-clown favor a dude in a dress over Newsom.

  102. 102

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:24 am

    G-clown’s buddies in California are gonna shiv Newsom so they can vote for Jenner.

    Which will result in the election of Larry Elder.

    #BLM. By any means necessary.

  103. 103

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:30 am

    the LGBTQQblahblahblah types

    all sexual deviants like G-clown

    I can’t help but notice that the disgraceful dumbfuck traitor’s definition of sexual deviancy doesn’t include grabbing a woman’s pussy or fucking a horse.

  104. 104

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:39 am

    Apply it to Antifa, Moobs.

    Apply it to the #BLM crowd that surrounds vehicles trying to pass.

    Apply it to the POS in Austin, TX who raised his AR-15 to a stopped car and got what he deserved.

    Apply it to the POS who chased Kyle Rittenhouse.

    It’s not working. It hasn’t worked for four years now. It’s getting worse by the day.

    Today millions of suburban Security Moms watched these calendar models draped in medals talk about laying down their lives to protect democracy while your party leaders sat off stage in the green room urging violence upon them.
    Last summer that watched for nine agonizing minutes while yet another smirking white frat paddle of a cop knelt on the neck of an unarmed man until he was dead. Martin Gugino is not ANITFA. He was somebody’s Grampa who marched in peace parades.

    This is your problem, Dumbfuck. You really can’t afford to shit on these cops while defending Derek Chauvin. Either way you lose.
    And what you lose are all those college educated suburban white voters you need in order to survive. You need “law and order” and “Willie Horton” if you are to have any hope of frightening them back into the loving embrace of Republican authoritarianism and “Stop and Beat”.

    But now, by losing your shit and setting Qanon mob violence loose against the Congress, you’ve painted yourselves into a corner. Defending the Trump Terror Attack deprives you of credibility on “Law and Order”. You can’t gain it back without abandoning The Big Lie and admitting what Trump was doing that day (and all the other days). But if you do that, then you lose most of the FOX/Newmax/OAN audience. You’ve lost the ability to knit together the coalition you depend upon. You destroyed it in a foolish and doomed effort to save Trump. You’ll never get it back.

    Loser.

  105. 105

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:42 am

    Just as everything YLB spews is meaningless.

    Oh wow had no idea dimfuk regards its rape fantasies as “meaningful”…

    Whatever gets it through the night…

    Well until the night becomes.. permanent.. and the world..

    becomes..

    a better place..

  106. 106

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:49 am

    to throw Newsom under the bus solely so that they can vote for Caitlyn Jenner.

    Oh wow dimfuk, yours truly thought Caitlyn will always be “Bruce” to you.

    Just like Chelsea Manning has always been Bradley.

    how woke of you.. but pretty obvious to yours truly you’ve always been..

    hmmm.. let’s say.. attracted?

  107. 107

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 11:57 am

    Apply it to the POS

    Who attacked a jogger?

    Oddly missing there dimfuk. Oh but no politics were at issue there, amirite?

    Ya got neighbors like those two good ole boys in widbee?

  108. 108

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:06 pm

    Apply it to the POS

    Who executed a street alcoholic carving a piece of wood.

    Our dimfuk supports “LE” to the bitter end..

    Dimfuk reserves some exceptions of course.

  109. 109

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:11 pm

    Faced by a rising public tide of outrage over having disgracefully turned their backs on heroic Capitol Police who fought and won to save democracy from terrorism on Jan 6th, today it is announced that Senate Republicans have caved and slinked back into their degenerate spider holes after opposing new funding for Capitol Police aimed at preventing the next Republican Terror Attack.

    $2.1 billion in additional spending that will clear the Senate this week will include hundreds of millions aimed at new security enhancements at The Capitol as well as backfilling tens of millions in overtime arising from the Republican Terror Attack of Jan. 6th.

  110. 110

    YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:19 pm

    Apply it to the POS

    Doin’ the “patriot” HEAVE-HO… HEAVE-HO…

    Heh. I bet at this will be re-enacted every year at the local repuke shindig in widbee.

  111. 111

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:34 pm

    110,
    Their problem is that it’s going to be re-enacted every year on the anniversary until…
    that day…

  112. 112

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 12:36 pm

    @ 107

    Apply it to the POS

    Who attacked a jogger?

    Yes. Them, too. If what they did was @ 98 “in the pursuit of political aims”, which I don’t recall seeing mentioned in what I have read. TBH I don’t think any of them are that smart.

  113. 113

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 2:27 pm

    Yes. Them, too. If what they did was @ 98 “in the pursuit of political aims”,

    And yet the dumbfuck traitor can’t bring himself to apply that to the 1/6 terrorists. An understandable position for him to take, I reckon, given as how the POS was one of the traitors who incited the terrorist attack on our nation’s Capitol in pursuit of their political aim of overthrowing our democracy.

  114. 114

    Steve spews:

    Tuesday, 7/27/21 at 2:40 pm

    But now, by losing your shit and setting Qanon mob violence loose against the Congress, you’ve painted yourselves into a corner.

    Loser.

    In this “game”, which is no game, losers hang or go to prison.

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