I am curious if other people in Washington feel like the pandemic is over? I am writing this on public transportation with my mask on. And in some places (more as of today) I have to show that I’m vaccinated. More people at my work — me included some days — are working from home than before the pandemic.
But Seattle is hopping. Downtown has people doing typical Downtown stuff. People are out and about all day. Brunch places are packed on the weekends. I am able to go to the dentist for an overdue cleaning. People are doing routine medical procedures. Most importantly, people are not getting sick and dying in large numbers.
I don’t have children, so I understand that for a population that can’t get vaccinated it’s tougher. But even then, they’re back in school unless there’s a relatively rare breakout.
Anyway, it’s still important to take precautions. So wash your hands right now. And for the love of God get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.
Congratulations Mr. President!
For some reason the majors are not running with yesterday’s Rolling Stone bombshell.
Haven Monahan could not be reached for comment.
Biggest loser: QoS McHillbilly. Anyone else notice that’s happening with increasing frequency?
Vox, last week:
It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff
Vox, in December at the rate things are going:
It’s time for Americans to buy less meat, eggs, and dairy
A question about the Rolling Stone piece:
Why would a guy who has no problem “openly testifying” demand anonymity in a magazine article for which he did not swear to tell the truth under penalty of the law?
It’s just a question.
Again, the majors are not running with this Rolling Stone bombshell. Ask yourselves why.
After digesting the Rolling Stone piece, and all of its anonymity and allegations that pertain to the Trump speech and not the Capitol riot, mosey on over to Revolver, which has a piece on Ray Epps, who suddenly went from being on the FBI January 6 Most Wanted List to nowhere on the FBI site.
Also Ray Epps’ friendship with Stewart Rhodes.
It is not a short piece.
Ray Epps was the guy that Merrick Garland did not want to discuss when asked about him during House testimony last week.
This helps McAuliffe……How, exactly?
Seems like an own-goal to me.
These right wing / anti-vax protesters don’t think their protests are any different from BLM protests.
They are confronting civilians with violence and not property, big difference between vandalizing and looting (on the periphery) than a mob violently attacking individuals. Bunch of Neanderthals. Breeding will not save them.
You are.
Poor thing.
Former VA governor and black man Douglas Wilder recommends a vote for Glenn Youngkin.
Wilder is still black, just not governor.
Governor Northam’s blackface is darker than Governor Wilder’s skin.
Thinking the pandemic is over is just a tiny bit less dumb than thinking it never was. Either leads to the temptation to become part of it.
9 when the greedy racist incel does not provide a link he’s probably lying. From the news stories, Wilder was mad at the greedy racist incel’s girlfriend vice president Harris for acting like a republican in church but Wilder didn’t say vote for the Republican.
If he did provide the link.
9 10 racists have to be racist.
The pandemic is over when liberals decide it can no longer be used to advantage. We saw the same thing with:
• civility post-Giffords
• BLM
Similarly, we’ll see Democrats pivot – quickly – away from the stupidity that’s in the BBB after they get hammered for it in November of 2022.
Dudes in skirts are dudes in skirts. They aren’t women.
TFW “civility” = not shooting a woman in the face.
Relax Bobby. No Jew could ever replace you.
Another surrender!
You could at least wait until after the vote-a-rama.
You know Bob has so much discontent from buying a horse. You think he’d learn to be with it and enjoy it than be here all day and night.
WaPo, today:
This after Donald J. Trump, Jr. demanded a correction.
Cuomosexual G-clown enjoys Chocolate Cockroach Crunch for breakfast in the morning.
19 Did you have a stroke? That was not remotely clever.
Steve might have pointed this out before, but Washington State has the worst solar power potential than any other state in the US.
I guess a horse is better investment.
21,
If only science could discover a way to generate electricity from anguished sobbing and furious choke-fapping Whidbey Island’s power needs would be solved. At least for as long as that tumor growing in Bob’s prostate will allow.
@ 21
Washington State has the worst solar power potential than any other state in the US.
It’s not about the power potential. It’s about a transfer of wealth to solar system financiers and manufacturers. Further, there was a scheme to transfer wealth from rate payers to early solar adopters, although that has collapsed now that enough people have been suckered into it.
I purchased solar panels. It cost me around $18k for the system.
I received:
1. No sales tax on the purchase – savings of about $1800
2. $5500 federal tax credit. Credit, not a deduction.
3. $500/kW rebate from the electric company. For my system this was $1700.
4. Roughly $2000-2200 per year paid @ $0.54/kWh solar energy produced by the system.
5. Savings of around $200/year because I didn’t have to pay for the electricity that my solar system produced.
6. Accelerated depreciation of the cost of the system less the federal tax credit, which was about $2500/year deduction for five years.
The rebate from the electric company and the 0.54/kWh paid to me came from other ratepayers – the poor schmucks who vote Democrat but can’t afford solar. A fund was created by the utility and a tiny surcharge per kilowatt hour used goes into it, from the ratepayer, to pay the solar system owners for each kWh their systems produced.
My entire financial layout was paid for in just over five years. For the last two years I owned the building I made money off of the solar system.
Solar power is a wealth transfer from less wealthy ratepayers to more wealthy ratepayers. It’s a green grift at the user end. At the silicon mining end it’s an environmental contaminant. Don’t be led to believe otherwise.
And thank you, poor people, for being suckered into paying for the solar system I had. BTW I’m told it no longer works.
Y’all libbies should look up Silicon Energy. This company started in Marysville and made, admittedly, gorgeous solar panels. Architects would use them to create energy-producing window shades, they were so pretty. I thought about it, but they were expensive, so I went with another brand that wasn’t pretty but was significantly cheaper, and hidden by the roof.
The company expanded to a second production site in Minnesota, with heavy subsidies both from WA and from MN. And then the panels started cracking, meaning they stopped working. And then the company went tits up. Hundreds and hundreds of consumers were left with unusable solar systems and no recourse.
Before it went tits up:
That last line turned out to be a lie.
Dude-in-a-dress “Rachel” Levine was commissioned as a four-star admiral last week.
George Patton was only a three-star general for most of WWII. He was promoted to four-star during the final month of the conflict.
@25 best i can tell the greedy racist incel is pissed that in his mind a trans woman is getting treated better than a Real Man ™.
“I am curious if other people in Washington feel like the pandemic is over?”
Depends on who you talk to. Trumper: “What pandemic?” In my neighborhood, where Trump got less than 5% of the vote, everybody still wears masks and distances, so obviously they don’t think it’s over. Nothing’s changed in eastern Washington, either — they never did. Except some of them aren’t around anymore.
@1 Next you’re going to assert his “Build Back Better” spending agenda is causing this inflation. Or have you already argued that? I don’t remember.
@2 Be patient.
Apparently no teeth, claw, or fang marks were found on, or bullet holes found in, Brian Laundrie’s skull. Maybe he picked out what he thought was a good camping spot and was drowned in his sleep by rising water.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/autopsy-brian-laundrie-s-remains-came-back-inconclusive-attorney-says-n1282259
That can be said for everything, down to farming. But you got to eat. And at least this scheme is beneficial to the environment.
Buying a horse was a e to swindle your money too. By the person who sold it to you and your wife.
It takes a stupid insurrectionist to bet everything on a congressman’s promise of a pardon.
Didn’t get anything in writing. Didn’t get it from the only guy who can issue it.
They deserve whatever they get.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-gosar-dangle-pardons-stop-the-steal-rallies_n_61770b50e4b06573573f132e
@3 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck defends the crass commercialization of Christmas, because he’s an unholy pagan. He doesn’t worship animals, though. He only fucks them.
@5 And I suppose you think Revolver is an objective news source.
Heh. Here’s a disgraced Missorrah GOP rapist trying to recast itself as GQP…
Greitens has also brought Trump World luminaries like Rudy Giuliani and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to campaign for him in Missouri. He signed on numerous Trump associates to assist his bid, among them his national campaign chair Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., and Tony Fabrizio, a Trump pollster.
Former Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon regularly invites Greitens to appear on his “War Room” podcast.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/former-governor-greitens-maga-warrior-senate-bid-517051
What an ugly klown born again as maga…
Doctor Dumbfuck would have us believe Rolling Stone isn’t a reliable source. He also wants us to know he reads it. To emphasize his affinity for unreliable sources, he then takes us straight to Revolver. And, while he didn’t mention it, what’s self-evident is that he reads HorsesAss.org comment threads, too. What he apparently doesn’t read is reliable news sources. No real surprise there.
@12 This is what it’s about.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities didn’t get any of Virginia’s American Rescue Plan monies. Youngkin promised those institutions money.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/25/glenn-youngkin-wins-applause-former-virginia-gov-l/
Mississippi’s black colleges didn’t get ARP money, either. That state is spending it on more prisons to house more black people.
Possibly some Republicans are better than others, but Wilder might be making a mistake to trust any of them.
@20 “Did you have a stroke?”
I don’t think so. My theory is he was born stupid, left motherless, and raised by wolves.
@23 “My entire financial layout was paid for in just over five years. For the last two years I owned the building I made money off of the solar system.”
A literal reading of this suggests he committed tax fraud for the first three years.
@35 Huh. Why not Mark McCloskey? Oh yeah, because McCloskey is running against him.
Speaking of McCloskey …
“posted at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday:
ST. LOUIS — City water bills for U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey’s Central West End home haven’t been paid for a year, the St. Louis collector of revenue’s office said Wednesday.”
“Updated at 10:50 a.m. Thursday
ST. LOUIS — An overdue payment of about $2,105 of city bills for water service and trash collection on U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey’s home posted in city records on Thursday morning, a city official said.”
… he’s a deadbeat. The Martin Selig of St. Louis. And now he wants to be a senator representing the entire state.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-official-confirms-mccloskey-has-paid-overdue-water-and-trash-bill/article_c99edf9d-3df1-5ac5-ae6b-2c9c2a53cbde.html
Reading about the job situation, I find it weird how parents are as desperate to get their kids aged up enough to get them into school so they can get free day care, with the same intensity as elderly people desperate age up enough to get into medicare.
@ 36
Doctor Dumbfuck would have us believe Rolling Stone isn’t a reliable source.
Haven Monahan could not be reached for comment.
Also in Rolling Stone: GWB43 didn’t win Ohio in 2004 by 117,000 votes. Kerry did.
Biggest loser:
QoS McHillbillyTerry McAuliffe.In case at center of political firestorm, judge finds teen committed sexual assault in Virginia school bathroom
HA libbies slut-shame the victim beginning in 3…2…1…
MSM aren’t running banner headlines yet, because it’s not a story yet. So far, there’s this:
“Democratic lawmakers are renewing calls to expel any member of Congress implicated in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol following reporting that witnesses recently informed congressional investigators of their coordination with lawmakers.
“A Sunday story from Rolling Stone didn’t directly tie lawmakers to the violent assault, but two sources who spoke to the outlet instead detailed multiple meetings with members of Congress to coordinate contesting the election results and plan the rallies that preceded the attack. …
“The sources also told the magazine that Mark Meadows, former President Trump’s chief of staff, played a significant role in discussions regarding the protests ahead of Jan. 6.”
(Italics mine.)
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/578377-democrats-say-gop-lawmakers-implicated-in-jan-6-should-be-expelled
None of which is anything but constitutionally protected activity. And the world already knows that dozens of GOP members of Congress refused to certify a valid election.
That’s not news. And NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, BBC, Reuters, NY Times, Washington Post, Seattle Times, and other MSM can’t run headlines saying “Dozens of GOP congressmen are fascist pieces of shit.” Even though they are.
No need to, anyway. Everybody already knows that.
A car terrorist has been arrested in California:
“A California man was arrested Saturday after police said he drove a Jeep Wrangler into a crowd of people protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Palmdale, according to the Los Angeles Times. … One woman … was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. … A witness told police that the man disagreed with the protesters and intentionally drove toward the crowd and then drove away, police said …. ”
https://thehill.com/legal/578389-man-arrested-after-vehicle-runs-into-vaccine-mandate-protesters-in-california
Car attackers are terrorists. The fact 98% of them hit BLM protesters doesn’t make it right when one targets anti-vaxxers. Anyone who attacks someone else is a criminal regardless of ideology.
But if he was in Florida, and the anti-vaxxers were blocking the street, this would be legal.
When CNN and Rand Paul agree.
Missouri will have a choice between a blackmailing adulterer who is into bondage or a gun waving deadbeat who kisses Trump’s ring I can only assume that the deadbeat is going to win
Q: What do the Seattle Seahawks and Terry McAuliffe have in common?
What a candidate reverts to when he is completely out of ideas to promote his own message.
“Folks” will vote for Youngkin because they are taking a step forward.
How to get rid of Washington’s GOP secretary of state: Appoint her to an important federal election security job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-to-tap-gop-figure-who-stood-up-to-trumps-fraud-claims/ar-AAPWLJV
@48 They’re not Capitol rioters.
That’s what you call a big fat slow hanging curve, doc.
“step forward”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvGTeR8jS9o
Chortle. It’s funny because it’s true.
Middle Age Riot
Follow on comments were great too.
51,
Might make a good name for the Washington DC NFL team.
The Capitol Rioters.
“Goofy” mascot
Cheerleaders.
The neat trick would be the league rule requiring them to recruit exclusively from the ranks of GOP voters.
I’d pay to watch that. So would you.
Best to leave this essentially blank or vague.
Remember it was only a little over four years ago that the big threat was “Sharia Law”. Not long after that it was “trafficking”. Back in the beginning of the W era it was “internet porn” and before that, during the Beloved Saint Raygun administration it was Dee Snider.
The truth is that the “threats” have to be fluid in order to shift with gradual but inexorable decline into angry madness. But also to allow “conservatives” to expand their aim and target bigger and bigger chunks of the voting population.
Heading to Paso this weekend to visit a couple of wineries and hike.
Mustn’t forget to lock down a pardon from Gav before I go.
56) Always something to deflect, even though they accuse everybody else of doing it.
58,
Time to admit that this now goes well beyond mere deflection.
Republicans recruit these grievances as a means of training their violent, reactionary base upon targeted minorities of citizens.
These memes, and fears, and “dangers” are conjured up out of the ether in order to produce suppression and denial of civil rights in favor of a rapidly dwindling white, male, cis-gendered, Xtian “norm”.
It’s all Charlottesville. The intent is that while enough of a minority of suburban white women will “sympathize” with the fear or fake danger, at the same time the targeted minority will “pipe down” and go back to quietly giving in to the routine of being second class.
Desperately Poor Bobby isn’t trying to recruit lynch mobs to go hunting for queer and trans people because he wants to distract us. It just is what it is. He really wants to promote violence toward a particular targeted minority. A few years ago it was Muslims. Then it was BLM protesters. Now it’s trans teenagers. It could just as easily be “gingers”.
Reads like a republican apartheid state
60,
That’s the goal:
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns
This guy is an audience plant. He works for Kirk. And he’s there to give him the opportunity to make this speech. But what matters is the context and the targeting. The context is violent reaction to losing political debate. And the target is all of us.
@59 “The intent is that while enough of a minority of suburban white women will “sympathize” with the fear or fake danger … ”
You mean like this? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciRhUU53wt0
Desperately Poor Bobby is going to have even more reasons to dispute Rolling Stone’s reporting:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oath-keepers-investigation-public-employees-1246358/
These are domestic terrorist groups who participated in a coordinated terror attack on Congress. Membership should disqualify anyone from sensitive government employment and law enforcement. (Membership should disqualify anyone from busing tables at Chili’s.)
Dori Monson lost out on a high school girls basketball coaching job because of offensive tweets. He’s hired a lawyer who ”is energized by taking on the seemingly impossible cases of publically perceived bad guys.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/dori-monson-wanted-to-coach-shorewood-high-girls-basketball-his-tweets-did-him-in/
https://www.superlawyers.com/washington/article/somebodys-got-to-do-it…/869f3f6e-1d46-4556-bda1-25d5b127ac0f.html
That comes pretty close to a pretrial admission that Monson is publicly perceived as a bad guy.
Was a contract signed or was it a verbal agreement? Washington is at will state.
The term at-will employment is a legal term meaning that an employer can terminate an employee for any reason without warning. However, an employer cannot fire an employee if the reason for doing so is illegal or discriminatory, such as firing someone because of their gender, race, or religion.
Is monsun arguing his right to be an outspoken hateful bigot should not be held against him? Is asshole a protected religion?
I thought the greedy racist incel was monsun for a while.
@65 Apparently the school offered him the job subject to school board approval which didn’t happen, so it appears he wasn’t fired but rather didn’t get the contract.
64)Has he tried to get his job on the Seahawks Broadcast Crew back?
Hey, Terry, how’d your day go today?
Tara Reade knows.
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