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Hey everyone, please learn to stand.

In an open thread last week, I mentioned that people on public transportation who stand in front of open seats are the way. But Seattle has a problem with people standing in all sorts of wrong places. In doorways. At the counter after they pay. On the curb cut when the walk sign is on.

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    What if your nation’s domestic counter intelligence law enforcement agency was conducting an investigation going back many months or years into a foreign espionage operation conducted on American soil and probably involving some American citizens in that operation?

    And what if, in the midst of the investigation of that foreign espionage operation on American soil probably involving some American citizens, a particular officer of the government sought to interfere in that investigation by various means, went on television to brag about that interference, and created a paper trail documenting that interference?

    I guess if you are a Republican voter you believe the FBI has absolutely no business investigating foreign spies when they are conducting espionage operations within the United States.
    I guess a good klownsurvaturd believes that spies have a absolute, unfettered right to privacy, but vaginas do not.

    What if David Keene got Maria Butina pregnant? Would she have to get a trans-vaginal probe and wait four weeks for an abortion?

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    Atlanta airport: More than 1 hour of waiting at checkpoints

    https://www.stltoday.com/business/national-and-international/atlanta-airport-more-than-hour-of-waiting-at-checkpoints/article_50c015eb-3dea-5d71-a0b9-b9967a9a784f.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

    “ATLANTA (AP) — Air travelers endured waits of more than an hour to get through domestic checkpoints at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta on Monday, the first business day after security screeners missed paychecks for the first time due to partial government shutdown.”

    :Lines? Lines are for little people.
    “Precheck lines for people who pay a fee for expedited screening averaged less than five minutes, TSA said.”

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    2,
    Pre is less than $20 a year. Even under a normal administration not subject to irrational self destructive tantrums, Pre is worth it for routine air travelers.

    Of course it’s useless to toothless Oxy crushing Sov-Cit trailerbillies.
    Even if they weren’t flying out of secondary wilderness shithole airstrips that don’t offer Pre, their long history of threats to government officials inevitably disqualifies them.

    #winning

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    @3 “Pre is less than $20 a year. Even under a normal administration not subject to irrational self destructive tantrums, Pre is worth it for routine air travelers.”

    Veteran + Elderly + Disabled seems to be a formula with magical properties. Last time I flew, I got free Pre by wearing my “Vietnam Veteran” hat to the airport and hopping in the screening line with a cane and limp. One of the TSA agents pulled me out of the line and led me to an unpopulated screening station, and I was through in three minutes.

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    @5 Yeah, that would come in handy against terrorists, if you can put up with the friendly-fire collateral casualties.

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    7,
    Well, don’t you think airline passengers deserve to be at least as safe as public school students?

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    @8 In the same vein that I think half of you stupid humans deserve to be safe from wars, genocides, pandemics, and global warming, but the rest of God’s creatures (i.e., pets, livestock, lab rats, and feral wildlife) don’t know how to keep you safe from your other half.

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    I guess this is the week for all the so-called “conservative intellectuals” to put on their red thinking caps (backwards, natch!) and try to “understand” their PeePee President’s deep, psychological motivation for SHITDOWN!!!

    They all seem to be stuck on perceiving this as a fundamental conflict between Pelosi’s political goals and President StinkFinger’s political goals. Maybe this makes sense if you need to find something noble in sustaining the conflict well past its pull date. But personally I doubt that Pelosi’s political goals have very much to do with it.

    In a divided government, what exactly is the Democratic Speaker of the House supposed to be losing in a Republican owned Shitdown? They were never going to obtain passage of meaningful legislation anyway. Anything worth doing was always going to face Republican Senate rejection or White House veto. Aside from restoring accountability, and producing credible investigations into the $15,000 dining room sets, no-show jobs for White House girlfriends, and the coke fueled NetJets excursions to Paris, for Democrats this was destined to be a Congress lacking major legislative accomplishments, with or without ManBaby SHITDOWN!!!

    Only now it’ll be a Congress lacking major legislative accomplishments for which voters will blame Republicans.

    #winning

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    Huh! How about that! Tax cuts and conservative Supreme Court justices. The exact same pathetic fucking excuse Doctor Dumbfuck has repeatedly laid on us. But when history is written, Doctor Dumbfuck and the Republicans are going to own a hell of a lot more than just a growing national debt.

    “The truth here is that congressional Republicans threw their lot in with Trump — totally and completely — shortly after he won the White House. They did so because they thought doing so would get them what they wanted — tax cuts, conservative Supreme Court justices –even if it meant swallowing their pride and their past views on things like the danger posed by the rapidly growing national debt.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/republicans-shutdown-donald-trump/index.html

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    #BlueLivesMatter

    Including the FBI! You discredit the FBI you mine as well say #FuckBlueLives.

    This is complete insanity – someone toss this guy out of office already. Shut Fox News down! Instigators of Civil War.

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    Report:

    Donald was furious after he told the staff to get the Clemson team Popeyes and KFC someone just went and got less, uhm, sybolic fast food.

    Steve King could be seen trying to sneak in because he was sure there was kool aid and Watermelon. One reporter even heard him exclaim, “I sho nuff love me some WateeeeMelon.!’

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    I’m sure if you google it there are probably already cases of it….but has anyone thought what good a wall would do to prevent a drone, carrying drugs, from getting across the border.

    Or in 20 years from now when technology advances and drones carry people (CES 2019) what good will a wall do if it isn’t supervised. Now maybe a drone is a little more noticeable than 1 person on the ground, but why build a wall when you can just supervise (with drones). WTF!?

    That wasn’t a mistake. I meant WTF!?

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    @19

    Wall is obsolete.

    The Jet Packs we were promised will be self gyroscoping drones that respond, Segway like, to body movements and can home in on charging stations after use. Anyone can buy one.

    Or rent… Need to get from Ballard to West Seattle in 15 or you have money and just want to go home quicker than light rail? $30 and a ‘Lyft’ will get it done. Punch in an address, strap in, drone takes you on a low altitude flight above the cars and over the water.

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    13,
    Even saying this sweeping degradation of klownsurvaturdism was about “tax cuts and conservative Supreme Court justices” tends to make it seem more “noble” or virtuous than it really is.

    Start with taxation. A cursory glance at the history of tax policy in the US tells us that it is both maleable and wildly variable politically. While klownsurvaturds rush for the smelling salts at the mention of a 70% top bracket, that was the norm during the post WWII years when Republicans enjoyed their last big “revolution”. A brief (but certainly very lucrative) tax cut for billionaires is not the stuff of which revolutionary transformation of society is built. Loooong after this tax cut has passed into dust Republicans will still be struggling to bear aloft the burden of President PeePee and his Arby’s feasts.

    Then consider the courts. While it’s certainly true that the FedSoc lists have gained sweeping influence over federal courts that may well last a decade, what does that really mean? In the time it has taken for Russian influence peddlers, domestic goldbuggery grift hustlers, and big dick toilet promoters to rise to the very pinacle of klownsurvaturdism in America, the Republican Party has become unrecognizable even to themselves. Is it really very reasonable to expect that the goals and objectives of a peculiar and narrowly focused group of constitutional constructionists can in any way be said to represent this now full fledged white nationalist movement?

    The 63 million rubes who eagerly debased themselves purely for the sake of permission to tell racist jokes in the company lunchroom will tell themselves that these things represent a great social revolution. But of course they will.
    Because they must.

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    @21 No, because it’s all they have. They’re not capable of doing or building great things, and they have to eat, so that leaves them with time clocks, lunchrooms, and water coolers. For the Darwin selection losers, that’s all there is.

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    Jesse Jackson. I remember him. Ran for president in the 80s. Wasn’t really involved in getting a black man elected in 2008. Was politely invited to some events but had no official role in the first black President’s administration.

    Doesn’t have a TV show or a radio show I know of.

    By all means. Keep at the Jesse Jackson angle so Kamala and AOC and Pramilla and Corey can say, ‘Who?’

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