I am glad that King County is down to an r of 0.5. As frustrating as the last year has been, that’s definitely a great sign. I am glad that the Puget Sound region is doing well enough to get into the phase 2, but I worry an early reopening is going to reverse some of those gains.
Anyway, wash your hands right now.
While you were out:
The Republican Party, at the highest national levels, began a debate among themselves and their followers about “The Jews” starting forest fires with space lasers.
They are batshit insane.
https://patriots.win/?from=11SKC3OmlU
@2 Didn’t find a space lasers post, but looks like these folks will still be litigating the 2020 election on their message boards in 2120.
I think we’re beginning to see the limitations of democracy and what happens when dumbshits can vote.
4,
I don’t think so.
I think all of us are being constantly sold on a partial lie. That the only way democratic government can accomplish anything of use is through bipartisanship. But for more than three decades, with remarkable consistency, surveys have shown that more than twice as many democratic voters are supportive of their elected representatives working across the aisle. And Republicans have consistently used this to their advantage, but also to America’s disadvantage.
Specifically they’ve used that willingness of Democrats to move rightward in order to “get things done” as a way of gaining structural advantages in future elections and future public debates. And they’ve done this by driving up partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and extremism on the right. Democrats have been consistently trading away future opportunity in exchange for small short term gains for decades. And it has to stop. Only when it stops will we see this rising tide of partisanship and division begin to subside. Because Republicans have been driving it. And every single concession they get they use to drive it further.
Consider the appallingly one-sided debate about “unity”.
“Conservative” Republican base Trump supporters, driven by lies promoted by the party leadership, and extremely violent rhetoric, and encouraged and supported by every single major prominent Republican, attacked the Capitol and sought to assassinate the Vice President and House and Senate members. The President obstructed the efforts to respond to the attack, even going so far as to ignore the pleas of his own party members in Congress.
And in the ensuing aftermath amidst calls for “unity” championed by the new Democratic President, Republicans offer absolutely nothing by way of response to what they did.
Nothing other than demands that we forget about it, move on, and pretend it didn’t really happen. And most importantly demands that we pretend they didn’t do it.
They did. They created and spread the lies. They created and promoted the threats, the violent rhetoric, and the public demands for the attacks. They called on their followers to do it.
And they have absolutely no intention of owning up to that. And they demand that we all just ignore it and forget about it.
Concessions to those demands, “for the sake of national unity” will
guarantee that it happens again. America simply can’t afford that. But if we let that happen, if we make concessions to the idiotic pretense that Republicans at every level are engaged in attacking democracy, then that will not be a failure of democracy. It will be a failure of Democrats.
…I worry an early reopening is going to reverse some of those gains.
You’re correct to worry, Carl. King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties are permitted to open even though 84% of the ICU beds in these counties are occupied.
Combine this with the fact that the new case rates in this region of WA is increasing. New cases mean more hospitalizations.
I’m rather surprised that having only 11% of ICU beds available for the next wave or mutation is considered a positive indicator.
Under the Inslee plan, COVID-19 deaths are a good thing because they make ICU beds available for the next infected patient.
If one agrees that lockdowns are necessary in some situations, wouldn’t 84% ICU bed occupancy with an increasing COVID-19 infection rate be considered one of them?
This seems silly. This seems contrary to science.
That little faggot got his own jet airplane.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/959159376/damn-refreshing-mayor-pete-gets-friendly-reception-at-senate-hearing
https://www.newsweek.com/missouri-faith-leaders-tell-josh-hawley-resign-sell-his-soul-career-1565315?amp=1
Even the churches don’t want hawley.
I called his office today and told him he should vote to impeach Trump and then resign
The new acting director of the Division of Enforcement at the SEC is the spouse of the man who committed adultery with lovely Lisa Page, Peter Strzok.
@ 8
Will someone please explain to The Even Bigger Fucking Moron that senators do not vote to impeach?
And then recommend this book to The Even Bigger Fucking Moron?
Is it possible that The Even Bigger Fucking Moron has not yet heard that the House of Representatives impeached Trump earlier this month?
Or does The Even Bigger Fucking Moron simply not understand?
Nobody ever asks me why I refer to him @ 8 as The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
Nobody needs to ask.
The Greedy racist incel has got nothing so he’s reduced to calling Mayor Pete names.
Liberals , Black people , Gays and lesbians, Immigrants , Pretty much anybody threatens the greedy racist incel because anyone’s better than him
Cuomo one-ups Hillary’s “At this point, what does it matter?” line.
@10 Oh darn , Hawley won’t know what do.
I will call him again In case he’s not as smart as the greedy racist incel and can’t figure it out.
Cori Bush moving office away from Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘for team’s safety’
>> Seems like a good idea. She seems unstable. Better yet, avoid most Republicans.
Easy come, easy go.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit crowed about his MMM shares earlier this week. Today they’re back down to a level close to the price he paid for them.
Hey, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, tell us about the importance of MMM’s dividend.
While you’re at it, tell us about your AT&T shares. Having given up on ever accumulating your first million, have they made you your second million yet?
HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR.
HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR.
HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR. HAR.
That was a haiku of HARs.
It’s because of people like Cori Bush that the McCloskeys bear arms, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
Bush is the kind of hypocrite that claims to fear for her safety in a passageway in the Capitol building but has no trouble being part of a throng of a hundred people accosting homeowners.
Both parties have elected assholes into Congress.
Walmart’s answer to the Fight for $15.
Walmart will use robots to turn stores into automated fulfillment centers
The good news, libbies, is that y’all can still laugh at all of the people who will continue to shop there. Good price on Blue-DEF.
Selling covered calls as the Biden era began is turning out to have been a wise choice.
I’m guessing the S&P 500 index will drop 10 points or so with every executive order the grandfather of Hunter Biden’s bastard child signs. We’re at, what, 42 and climbing?
I’ll live long enough to benefit from the recovery from the Biden era. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, not so much.
In the first full week of share trading in the Biden era, the DJIA fell nearly 600 points on Wednesday and fell well over 600 points today.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family members take their own lives in shame and despair over his inexplicable choice to sell GameStop shares short on Tuesday morning. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit too busy editing handbill.us pieces for its two readers, Mark and Rujax!, to notice.
@10 I will be happy to explain to The Biggest Fucking Moron Of All that countless people, no doubt yourself included, use English words in vernacular ways the don’t precisely conform to their dictionary or legal definitions, as a form of shorthand or abbreviation; for example, instead of saying “impeach in the House” and “convict in the Senate,” it’s easier to simply say “impeach” to refer to the entire process, especially on contexts where it’s not necessary to break the technical process down into its constituent components to facilitate the listener’s understanding.
This must be differentiated from, say, a Republican spelling “too” as “to,” or vice versa, etc. The former arises from a desire for efficiency, clarity, and brevity in writing and speaking; the latter from stupidity, ignorance, and lack of education.
Now, it will be understood that some listeners are so deficient of understanding that every goddamned thing has to be spelled out for them. But not everyone has time to do that. And some listeners aren’t worth the effort in any case.
Yesterday John Kerry received two Pinocchios for claiming that 50,000 lost coal mining jobs could be recovered by growth in the solar industry, and that miners need only
learn to codedevelop the skills to manufacture solar panels.Shares of First Solar Inc (FSLR) were down 5.6% at close of trading today.
This is starting out well.
I can’t help noticing that the words “solar” and Solyndra have a lot of letters in common.
@5 Other societies with experience in coping with armed Maoist insurgencies might be able to offer useful insights on how best to deal with that type of dissent.
For now, I’d just lock up Republicans who behave like armed Maoist insurgents.
@23 Buggy whip jobs shouldn’t come back, because the world has moved on from horse-and-buggy transportation technology.
The world also is moving on from coal-derived energy production technology, and needs to, for human survival.
I’m sorry about the coal mining jobs. AT&T doesn’t employ hundreds of thousands of telephone operators anymore. Legions of typists have been displaced from offices by computers and word processing software. Soon, automated driving technology may send truck drivers the way of coal miners.
C’est la vie. Shrug. Happens to all of us, sooner or later. E.g., computers are faster, more accurate, and less expensive than radiologists, and don’t have quirky personalities of their human counterparts.
@16 Sounds like somebody we know just lost his ass on Reddit.
@18 Yes, but not equally so.
I tweaked the commenting policy on Steve’s blog today to make the blog more useful to its many readers. Instead of a rules-based system, I’ve gone to a “letters to the editor” approach, similar to newspapers and magazines, in which comments will be considered for posting based on their usefulness to readers. This may have the side effect of making Handbill.US comment boxes less accessible to people who have nothing to say but insist on saying it anyway.
Tara’s credo through more than four years of steady losses.
Things got so bad, a few weeks ago she and her 4chan GFs tried to burn it all down in a fit of rage.
Ended up tasing themselves to death instead.
@21 I’ve never traded Gamestop shares in any manner, and it’s apparent you won’t be able to satisfy Handbill’s commenting standards, so it looks like you’re stuck in the HA cesspool for good.
Amazon will replace humans with robots no matter how little they were paid. Robots don’t get sick or need to leave early because of elder care or day care or vacation.
UBI in our future
Well, we can all be thankful that Andrew Cuomo is NOT the governor of this state.
Amazon will replace humans with robots no matter how little they were paid.
And dimfuk kreepin’ from widbee safespace will bleat, “if only they accepted a minimum wage of 0.00/hour they’d still have jobs.”
@33 And New Yorkers, despite all their travails, can be very thankful Ron DeSantis or Kristi Noem isn’t the governor of their state.
He probably has ancestors who argued the slaves were grateful to be slaves.
If they object to being paid nothing they will be replaced by steam powered machines. And then where will they be?
36,
Ancestors?
That’s a good one.
Kevin Farzad
I know this GameStop stuff is funny, but you have to remember this is hurting real people who own multiple boats
kim possible facts
don’t feel too bad for the hedge fund managers. if they can’t land on their feet, they have a $1400(ish) stimulus check coming in a few months :)
worse comes to worst, they could always get a job that will pay $15/hr by 2025!
rent strike vibes only
Have the hedge fund managers considered making coffee at home and swearing off avocado toast?
Dark Souls Wetland Management Plan
They should learn to code
Robert Reich
Do hedge fund managers not have bootstraps?
@35 – Anybody but Jay Inslee or Gavin Newsom would be better for New York. DeSantis and Noem would definitely be improvements over Cuomo. Hell, a chimpanzee would be better than Cuomo!
I see Whidbey is on the list. Looks like they’re coming for you, doc. Under the guise of training exercises. The traitor roundup will begin soon.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article248839374.html
@39 I could possibly be sold on the chimpanzee; but DeSantis or Noem, no. Your reasoning is defective.
So Joe Biden’s approval numbers are higher than orange dear leader’s EVER WERE?
Waytogo MBNA Joe!