– Drought in most of the state.
– From the other side of the state, it looks like Lisa Brown is hitting the ground running.
– Speaking of mayors, Mayor Harrell, why?
– Leah Sottile and Sydney Brownstone are two of the best local reporters, so this is a delight.
– It’s the year of our Lordi 2024 and Washington State politicians think overturning marriage equity is a winner. Jeez, Dave Reichert.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Underwater on TSLA as of this morning.
But my DJT is rebounding sharply!
“DELETE the email. That was a mistake“
Because Republicans are stupid attorneys for the Arizona Republican party, accidentally blast emailed the entire legislature their strategy to deal with the abortion measure coming up on the ballot. Then they begged everyone to return it and not open it and not look at it
Uh. Folks Uhm. It doesn’t work like that. The internet takes less than a second
So what was in this PowerPoint they sent to everyone on their plans? Well, the big one is probably an attempt to get ion regulations be the complete purview of the state legislature because you wouldn’t want people actually voting on something like abortion. But that’s not all the Republican Lead legislature is planning on rushing through a competing ballot measure to hopefully confuse and dilute the voting public so that neither measure measure passes or perhaps they’re much more water down measure does. Probably won’t work because people are really paying attention to abortion these days.
Arizona goes Blue
We LITERALLY want to trick you gals into letting us regulate your body. Y’all to busy with the Taylor Swift and the pretty clothes and those water bottles you love so much to notice. You should smile more.
Don’t worry. We know what you pretty girls need.
4
It’s “too busy,” not “to busy.”
NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner resigned this morning on Nazi cuddling micro-blogging platform X.
Berliner had been placed on five day suspension of duties without pay following his violation of his employment agreement with the radio network by seeking out and publishing content under his name with a fascism adjacent media network privately funded by Nazi Germany admiring billionaires. Angry and frustrated over having been passed over for promotion, Berliner used those appearances to mock and disparage his colleagues at NPR and to accuse the network’s new CEO of mismanagement and corruption. Investigators have since learned that Berliner had sought out a venue for his criticisms for months and had been turned down by dozens of reputable, objective media outlets because they viewed his highly critical essay as puerile, unsubstantiated, and incapable of confirmation in any of its specific accusations.
Having voluntarily resigned from a senior management position at the network Berliner remains bound by non compete and non disclosure clauses standard in corporate media.
Amid a flurry of design and quality control failures plaguing its products, and facing years of FAA investigations and passenger and airline customer lawsuits, the outgoing CEO of Boeing stands to be given a $45 million parting bonus by the company board.
Biden’s Illegal Immigrant Program exists to insure future elections have those illegal immigrants voting for liberal progressive Democrats. Also, its other purpose is to affect population demographics for the 2030 census and beyond.
It is a massive fraud and gerrymandering campaign.
Retiring Republican House Rep. Mike Gallagher from Wisconsin’s 8th CD announced today that he would delay his departure from Congress in order to lend his vote to passage of foreign aid bills to Ukraine.
At the same time he also shared that one of the reasons he is leaving Congress is to protect his young family from swatting and death threats from Trump supporters angered over his rejection of the Big Lie false claims about the 2020 election and his refusal to go along with the House Republican political impeachment of Homeland Security Secratary Mayorkas.
@8 That reads like a restated Great Replacement theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States
It’s false but I know nothing we say will change your mind.
Racist whites afraid of demographic change. Racist whites afraid minorities will treat racist whites the way racist whites treated minorities. Racist whites afraid of losing position and privileges. Racist whites afraid to have the out groups they hate be treated as their equal or their betters.
@9. Oh Great. How is what the Trump supporters are doing any different from the gangs in Haiti, except in intensity. Right now it’s just swatting and death threats, how soon before actual violence?
Since the Supreme court can look at the Insurrection attack on the capitol and think it’s the same as the Supreme court being heckled, It seems logical that swatting and death threats of the trumpers are the same as the murdering armed gangs in Haiti.
We are slouching toward civil war. Violent wanna be fascists on one side, everyone else on the other.
It’s false
It’s also fundamentally racist.
It posits a completely fabricated pretextual political/legal threat to stand in for a very real, but latent perception of threat rooted in racism.
Recent immigrants, including perfectly legal assylum seekers, are some of the most reluctant people to participate in census taking, especially under rules adopted by Republicans in recent years.
Undocumented immigrants constitute only 3% of the total population. And they certainly can’t vote, are unable to register to vote, and do not vote. Moreover, they show almost no interest in voting. And of course, lying racist pieces of shit can’t demonstrate any actual or even theoretical risk of undocumented immigrants having any impact on any elections anywhere. Because it never happens.
But the fabricated “threat” of election interference helps to provide important camoflauge for the underlying racism that fears “being outnumbered” by “others” who just happen to be non-white. So yes, of course, it really is just Great Replacement racism in disguise. And anyone who trots it out has very effectively branded themselves for all the world to see and know.
Uri Berliner seems pissed that NPR wasn’t parroting enough Russian right wing propaganda. Bye.
Any drift in NPR to be more “liberal” is mostly because right wing media’s sprint way from moderate conservative toward extreme fascism and apartheid and Russian propaganda makes moderate seem liberal.
11,
The thing is, they are mostly hurting themselves.
Gallagher isn’t the only retiring Republican to announce that they are leaving in order to protect their families from MAGA violence.
The Village Idiot will whaddabout this as he always has before. But while Democrats may pull funding from wayward incumbents or in extreme instances primary them, they don’t send death squads to kill their children. Judge Engoron and his clerk received enough voice mail death threats during Trump’s civil fraud trial to fill 217 single spaced pages of transcription. Imagine what happens to a Republican who votes against impeachment.
The thing is, they are mostly hurting themselves.
IMHO, I disagree. They are hurting the entire Democratic process. They are making it harder for the next politician to do the right thing, regards of political ideology.
“We will hunt down and kill ANYONE who doesn’t do our MAGA bidding.”
All the wanna be politicians with families or tender souls are not going to even consider running for office. Only the suicidal extremist with nothing to lose will run.
You don’t’ see a lot of politicians running for office in Haiti. they don’t want to die or have their families die. That’s what trumpers want.
Archery was out, but chicks with dicks were in.
More Than 200 Democrats Join Republicans To Deliver Crushing Blow To Biden
Apparently the Biden administration allegation was that bows or long rifles can be used to raise the skirt of a tranny, proving the chick has a dick.
@ 15
“We will hunt down and kill ANYONE who doesn’t do our MAGA bidding.”
And now that funding for archery and hunting has been restored @ 16 in schools, we’ll teach our next generation how to do the same.
And after that we will begin calling out cerebrally challenged homosexuals. Like The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.
@16 Jeez, is dicks in a dress all that the greedy racist incel thinks about?
Greedy racist incel, I can hook you up with links of Big Black Cock pics (or small white micro penis pics, if that’s more your thing, I don’t judge kink, if it’s consensual adults). Maybe if you rub some out, it will make you more rational.
@ 6
Having voluntarily resigned from a senior management position at the network Berliner remains bound by non compete and non disclosure clauses standard in corporate media.
NPR is corporate media?
I mean, they’re as blatantly libbie as MSNBC and The View, but…
corporate media? Really?
National Public Radio Incorporated.
Ownership control of the corporation is exercised through member stations who help fund it and who, through their A-reps elect the governing board of the corporation.
Village
Idiot
@ 20
And Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Sure. Because non-profits and for-profits are one and the same.
Because of this the just-departed Boeing CEO $45M payout will be followed by a $25M payout to the NPR CEO when that silly twat departs under pressure next month.
They’re all alike, those corporations. All alike.
For the past 24 hrs straight Roger Stone backed GOP candidate and hate radio host Mike Crispi has been roasted non-stop for his March 26 tweet bragging that he had just converted his entire investment portfolio to DJT, selling at that time for over $70.
@7 Rewarding failure isn’t how capitalism is supposed to work. Walking away from Boeing’s stock for the foreseeable future is.
@8 “It is a massive fraud and gerrymandering campaign.”
It might be if any of what you said is true. But like Republicans generally, you can’t get facts straight, either because you’re stupid or dishonest — or both.
Republicans defeated funding to control the border, then impeached Mayorkis for not controlling the border. It’s theater, all for show, and right now this clownish impeachment is in the process of being dismissed without a hearing or debate (because it deserves none) in the Senate.
Winning an argument nobody made is the only winning the Village Idiot gets anymore.
NPR is a media corporation with executives, boards, board elections, operating guidelines, policy manuals, and media employment agreements like any other corporate media employer.
FFS, this all began with this Village Idiot hoping to paint a target on the CEO of the corporation. Now that we know what a total piece of shit Berliner is, he wants to make it into a distraction from yet another failure.
@3 They can’t help themselves; they’re what they are:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/arizona-house-abortion-law-repeal/index.html
Republicans always speak with forked tongues. Everything they do is in bad faith. They had three opportunities to take a “moderate” path and refused all three times. Their true colors are showing for all to see, because votes don’t lie.
Very unlikely under the current board structure and membership, which amazingly this poll-sniffing Village Idiot has not yet bothered to research. Hint: these people do not follow Chaya Raichik.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/trump-complains-about-hush-money-trial-jury-selection.html
Trump wants special privileges no other defendant has, because he thinks he’s a special person entitled to special rules made up just for him.
It’s easy to dissect his thinking here, and that of his lawyers. If this were the rule, no juror would ever be seated because his lawyers would reject them all, hence there would never be a trial.
@10 “It’s false but I know nothing we say will change your mind.”
What mind? You’re talking to a MAGA robot. He has no more mind than an insect.
@15 “We will hunt down and kill ANYONE who doesn’t do our MAGA bidding.”
The solution is to hunt down, prosecute, and imprison the meatheads making those threats. After the first 15 or so, you won’t need to do it anymore.
@17 It appears the truly dumb troll has come out in favor of hunting people MAGAites don’t like with bows and arrows.
Next he’ll defend himself by arguing this is good for people MAGAites don’t like, because it’s to bag game with arrows.
@19 “corporate media? Really?”
It would seem so, as NPR is incorporated, and is widely considered to be media.
Next dumb question … ?
The sham Mayorkis impeachment died a quick death in the Senate.
Republicans are outraged.
According to a sports website that tracks player salaries, first-round draft pick Caitlin Clark’s contract pays her $76,535 in her rookie year, rises to $78,066 in the second year, $85,873 in the third year, and $97,582 in the final year of the 4-year contract.
https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1780018673429717329
Now I’ll wait for the team and league to say those numbers are in error, because I don’t believe them either.
It’s called “pay to play”:
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fundraising-2667802464/
Coffee mugs are extra.
While I recognize that many of my Senate colleagues find the pointless exercise of parliamentary rules to briefly thwart and delay the majority intent to be boring and less consequential than actual lawmaking and governance, I for one am absolutely exhilarated by such maneuvers.
I also eat my own boogers, enjoy smelling my own farts, and surf MILF porn.
Actually, it’s called panic.
Marquette poll: Trump by 2 in Wisconsin.
Last time Biden led a WI poll was mid-March. By 1.
Calling a black woman a jigaboo in public, while being recorded, can be expensive.
His use of the slur jigaboo was indeed unfortunate.
Trone was trying to say spearchucker. Like in the movie M*A*S*H.
@ 34
Now I’ll wait for the team and league to say those numbers are in error, because I don’t believe them either.
They are not in error, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You don’t know investing and you don’t know sports.
The WNBA is heavily subsidized by the affiliated NBA team owners, and since they’re already throwing away money on a sport nobody except a lesbo wants to watch, they don’t want a lesbo owner trying to be Jane Steinbrenner by paying salaries that no other team can match.
It’s like rent control. Except it’s athlete salary control.
She’s made more from State Farm already than she’ll make in WNBA salary over those four years. If she keeps it up she’ll be earning eight-figure annual endorsement compensation.
Meanwhile the Indiana Fever attendance will surge, but the attendance everywhere else will still suck. Unless the Fever is in town.
How many woman have succumbed to the Heterosexual Neanderthal virus because HA’s Maoists are not letting this virus come to the surface of light!
How much taxpayers money has been wasted due to the Heterosexual Neanderthals virus. The apes of violence, hate and mayhem.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t understand the concept of rich sports teams and poor sports teams. He thinks Moneyball is what he forks over to the BBC who has to wear a blindfold in order to get it up to pork Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@42 “they don’t want a lesbo owner trying to be Jane Steinbrenner by paying salaries that no other team can match”
They must not be worried about competition for talent from the Seattle Police Department, because she’d make more money as a rookie SPD cop.
Please diagram the sentence showing each clause, dependant clause, subject, object, and with specificity any gendered subject.
Extra credit for observing that whenever the Village Idiot posts he lies.
@ 44
In the Eric Ciaramella world of subjective interpretation about textual and contextual meanings, QoS McHillbilly, I’m shocked that you would profess that there is a natural intent for the use of that word by a white man while in normal conversation with a black woman.
We’ve been in that world for a quarter of a century, at least.
NEWS
Wisconsin Student Complains About Professor’s Use of the Word ‘Niggardly’
By Denise K. Magner
FEBRUARY 12, 1999
I wonder how this student would have responded to the word jigaboo. Ah, but what do I know. I’m only a white Protestant male.
@42 “a sport nobody except a lesbo wants to watch”
https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2024/womens-college-basketball-championship-draws-record-breaking-18-9-million-viewers/
According to Doctor Dumbfuck’s calculation, nearly 19% of America’s roughly 127 million adult female population are “lesbos.” I’ll bet is wife is one of them, and that’s why he fucks the horse.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4599480-arizona-senate-race-election-handicapper-leans-democratic/
It’s beginning. First the water recedes from the beach, then the wave comes in.
@36 Anything Ted Cruz does is OK with us.
@39 Trone made his millions from selling alcohol, which makes him slightly more respectable than the Sacklers. He’s what you get when politics is a hobby for the rich. His Republican opponent is a rich white guy, too, but at least he’s a career politician. PI should like that.
@ 47
It’s beginning.
Maybe, but it’s more likely that with Caitlin Clark gone, viewership will sink back to previous levels, which typically were fewer than 5 million viewers. Like I said, lesbos.
There’s a Caitlin Effect, but not like the Tiger Effect.
As true now as it was when Sean McManus said it nine years ago, Tiger Woods‘ impact on PGA Tour ratings is mathematical and predictable.
Sunday’s final round of the PGA Tour National Tournament earned a 2.3 rating and 3.6 million viewers on CBS, up 92% in ratings and 89% in viewership from last year (1.2, 1.9M) and up 28% and 32% respectively from 2016 (1.8, 2.7M).
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/07/pga-tour-ratings-tiger-woods-national/
Tiger can goose PGA interest as long as he plays, but Caitlin Clark will never again boost NCAAW interest. She’s gone.
Here’s the thing, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit: LSU won the womens’ championship gam last year and got the usual White House invite. But so did the losing team – Iowa. Because of Caitlin.
The NCAAW now gets to make Angel Reese types seem palatable to the mass market. That will go over as well as the Democrats’ effort to make Jamaal Bowman palatable to his primary election constituency.
@ 49
@39 Trone made his millions from selling alcohol …
Desperate Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit in late October/early November: Jesus turned water into wine. In making wine readily available to more people, Trone is just like Jesus.
@40 “She’s made more from State Farm already than she’ll make in WNBA salary over those four years.”
So basically it’s the same as the NFL’s cheerleader business model: You’re not paid anything, but the endorsement contracts and marriage proposals can be lucrative.
@45 Reminds me of what happened to this guy.
Well, “homophone” is awfully close to “homophobe” in spelling, if not in meaning.
Democrats behaving badly, Pennsylvania edition.
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS
Arrest warrant issued for Pennsylvania State Rep. Kevin Boyle, Philadelphia police say
Boyle, a Democrat, represents part of Northeast Philadelphia and has served in the House since 2011.
Biden taught him women are property.
@50 Wherein Dumbfuck equates politics with sports. But let’s play his game: “Caitlin Clark will never again boost NCAAW interest.”
He’s right, she’ll never again “boost” NCAAW interest. As he said, “She’s gone.” To the WNBA, where she’ll boost viewer interest. After all, she shoots baskets better than men; she’s not only the all-time women’s college basketball scorer, but also the all-time college basketball scorer, period. And for that she’ll be paid $76,535 a year to play in the pros, not counting outside endorsement and marriage opportunities.
I see that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has found a commercial market for the liquid effluent draining from his rectal cathether.
CAMPUS
Columbia Students Claimed They Were Sprayed With an Israeli Chemical Weapon. It Was Actually Fart Spray Purchased on Amazon, New Lawsuit Says
@51 Everybody notice how I cleverly steered the dumbfuck troll into defending a Democrat, which will make him persona non grata in the GOP.
@ 55
… she’s not only the all-time women’s college basketball scorer, but also the all-time college basketball scorer.
Wrong. On both claims.
First, she barely passed Pistol Pete Maravich in her four years at Iowa. Maravich set his records in three years – freshmen were not allowed to play in his day. Oh, and no three-point line then, either.
Second, you overlooked the black chick, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, in your zeal to revel in Caitlin Clark’s white privilege. Pearl Moore scored 4,051 in her career at Francis Marion in the late ’70s. Again, no shooting from behind the line for 3 back then.
Please, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Tell us more about how much you know about sports.
@54 Yes, it’s embarrassing when a Democrat behaves like the Republicans. Last time it cost him his committee assignments; he’ll probably resign this time. Unlike the GOP, the Democrats don’t reward their members for despicable behavior.
@56 He can argue it was only assault, not assault and battery.
Two of the seven jurors empaneled so far in Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records are lawyers. I guess that’s unavoidable, because nearly everyone in Manhattan is a lawyer.
Texas AG claims victory after SCOTUS rules against him 9-0.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4600506-lawyers-for-texas-rancher-blast-paxtons-claim-of-supreme-court-win/
@16
Sad
That was six months ago and the reason you’re trying to spin it as some “blow’ to Joe Biden is…
This minor tiny fraction of the education budget that no one really cares about except a rural republican is clarified to not pertain to archery and skeet shooting.
But this is a huge win for the GOP of course. When Archery and Skeet shooting funds are threatened the whole NATION is amazed how quickly the GOP rallies to fight the tyranny.
School lunches. Let them starve. School shootings. Thoughts and prayers. Music and arts classes. Communism.
Of note, President Joe Biden signed the measure. Six months ago.
Literally ANYTHING to avoid talking about the impending felony conviction of Dear Trumper, the messiah, king of kings, Lord or the unwilling Ladies, protector of the Girth, chief groper, Prince of the Pachyderms, Viceroy of the Value Meal, Ruler of Ruin
@58 I stand corrected insofar as Clark is the top NCAA Division 1 scorer, men or women. At least four non-Division 1 players have topped 4,000 points, one of whom you named.
The others I’m aware of are John Pierce (4230), Phil Hutcheson (4106), and Travis Grant (4045).
@ 57
Everybody notice how I cleverly…
Yes, everyone notice how clever Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks he is. No one who lives with him thinks he’s clever.
Maybe we should start with the low hanging fruit on this site. The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, will you praise Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s claimed cleverness?
Shorter Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 57:
Please clap.
which will make him persona non grata in the GOP.
I don’t think it babbles to its repuke buds that once upon a time it voted for Carter..
even AFTER the REAL “miracle on ice”… not that high fivin’, feel good tosh on tv.
@58
Weak sauce.
If that extra year was the difference maker and the three…
Freshman have been playing since 1972.
Caitlyn Clark has scored more than any man or woman NCAA player in the last 52 years. If the lack of a fourth year was the difference why couldn’t a single dude get it done in half a century?
The bros have had close to 40 years to make a run at it with both the extra year and the three point line and failed.
Not for nothing, Maravich NCAA 43.8% shooting in the era when jacking one up from distance was utterly absurd because there was no added benefit to a long distance shot.
Caitlyn Clark 46.2%
Pete averaged 5.1 assists per game.
Caitlyn 8.2
You can maybe make a MJ/LeBron arguement that Pete’s a better player in an era when defense was lightly played but Caitlyn Clark is the best NCAA player in the last half century
Deal with it
Not surprising Angel Reese is your only other frame of reference. You’re not even remotely aware that. 6ft freshman led S Carolina scoring in the title game to deny Caitlyn Clark a title? That’s a story that might play out in the next 2-4 years.
The sad dying misogynist boomers.
@65, 66 Buttons successfully pushed. Blinking lights are on!
34)I know one NBA player that made more money in his first year than his mother did in her WNBA career. I
One we can all get behind if you’re a civil liberties Lovin’ commie pinko liberal or an anti gubment personal freedom Libertarian or a small government conservative.
The house is going to vote tonight to outlaw law enforcement from buying cellphone based location data as a substitute for obtaining a warrant.
I’d go one further and outlaw mobile device companies from selling location data altogether but hey…baby steps.
Stable Genius.
Donald, Truth Social.
Can you imagine if a commuter near the Slausen Cutoff had a platform to tell Johnny Carson the joke isn’t funny.
I did not care for Dune Two. Here is my very long occasionally all caps tweet about why NOONE who liked it is anything but Anti-ME. the greatest knows film better thane Gene Ebert. I prefer film critics who didn’t get cancer. It’s Shalom NOT Shabbat Shalom. Motza Tov.
@72 If you put that in front of 12 ordinary people, didn’t tell them who wrote it, and asked them what they thought of it, I suspect they’d all say that person needs to be on medication.
This doesn’t sound good:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/tesla-says-in-email-it-sent-some-incorrectly-low-severance-packages.html
Colorado child sex abuse amendment fails in Senate vote after Republicans unite against it
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/04/17/colorado-senate-child-sexual-abuse-constitutional-amendment-republicans-vote/
If ultimately approved by voters, the measure would have allowed the legislature to remove the statute of limitations on cases of child sexual abuse from years ago, allowing those victims to sue.
>> Ladies and Gentlemen, the “party of family values”
Republicans protect their straight pedophiles.
…they would know anyway.
DCCC out-raised the NRCC 4 to 1 in the 1st quarter of this election year.
The sad dying misogynist boomers.
The clock is ticking for them indeed:
https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php
Just wait 15 sec.. If it was a bonzo fellatin’ kreepshit.. the world is a better place indeed.
Sunday’s final round of the PGA Tour National Tournament
Um, Mr. Sports Know-It-All, Your link is six years old. Last Sunday’s tournament was the Masters.
Dumbfuck much?
I’m glad to see that DeSantis understands that fascism isn’t evil.
DeSantis Orders Florida Schools to Teach ‘Evils of Communism’
Another day of jury selection.
Another involuntary nap by the Republican nominee.
Perhaps he’d be more comfortable sleeping in the White House situation room.
QOTD:
“You know, he looked less orange, definitely like more yellowish, like yellow.” – Dismissed juror
Under the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts for Billionaires, workers earning less than $114,000 saw no change in earnings while executive compensation continued to increase sharply and the federal deficit exploded.
A never ending supply of laugh out loud riducule for sad old desperate Joe the patholigical liar of nonsensical, inconsequential things.
Stay sane. Joe’s not.
Hummmmm
‘While Musk is increasingly conservative, he has liberals running his companies. “Musk has apparently not hired a single conservative in leadership positions at any of his companies or projects.’ ”
Because Wikipedia is a leftist ‘propaganda’ tool, doge want Elon to create Xpedia!
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1780782653362638867
>> I guess Conservapedia was not unhinged enough. Every citation will say, “I did my own research” with no sources linked.
…with no sources linked…
…other than a 27-year-old unemployed Canadian used car salesman listed on a sex offender registry.
@78 Is this what Gen Xers stare at all day? Can’t wait for us to be gone, eh? In a hurry to get their inheritances?
@80 Communism is an economic system, and as such, isn’t per se evil. The “evil” resides in how it was implemented: Seizing power by force, imposing the economic system by force, almost invariably accompanied by mass terror and murder.
I certainly have nothing against schools teaching students about the ugly realities of communism in practice; although if they’re going to do that perhaps they should also address genocide in general, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the ongoing Uyghur and Palestinian genocides.
@84 There’s a reason you didn’t provide a link to verify your post: Biden didn’t say that. This is what he said:
He was talking about his uncle, not his son; and he didn’t say his uncle’s remains were eaten by cannibals, but only expressed his personal belief that’s what happened to him. (He’s wrong about that; his uncle’s plane crashed into the sea, sank, and the bodies weren’t recovered.)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-uncle-cannibals/
Biden is being ridiculed for his mistake, and you equally deserve to be ridiculed for your mistake. Biden should have fact-checked before putting that in his speech, and you should have fact-checked before misquoting him. And there’s never any excuse for making up a quote, putting it in quote marks, and then attributing it to someone who never said it.
Raw Story says the House Freedom Caucus is planning “a defensive tactic against moderate counterparts” called the Floor Action Response Team.
If you can’t figure out in 60 seconds why this is funny, go here.
Trump’s current trial might be just his first for lying in business records, but we’ll have to wait and see whether this complaint goes anywhere.
Is this what Gen Xers stare at all day? Can’t wait for us to be gone, eh? In a hurry to get their inheritances?
If they thought bonzo and now drumpf is the end all and be all, then who needs them?
By all appearances they’re not leaving anyone a dime.. that’s a non-starter.
Senior Director of Turning Point Action (the TPUSA campaign PAC) Republican Arizona state Rep. Austin Smith was forced to resign today after it was discovered that he had committed election fraud by forging dozens of voter signatures on paperwork he filed for his reelection.
The misguided belief is that spending stupidly won’t hurt the economy or the taxpayer.
CNBC CHANGEMAKERS
A ‘deeply misguided’ political belief is weakening the economy, says Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
Someone should ask Biden if he knows the difference between cannibalism and cunnilingus.
I swear to God. They’ve all go Brain rot.
Whem the wall came down and tons of Soviet programs came to light one of them was Infektion. The SVU later confirms it was real. The soviets spread the idea that HIV was an American made bio weapon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denver
Those poor, fucked kids of Queen YLB’s.
Mortgage rates top 7% for the first time this year, Freddie Mac says
Their unserious mamma twat, Queen YLB, promised them seven rate cuts in 2024, and instead it looks more likely that they’re gonna see another rate increase.
Trump’s lawyers tried to dismiss this juror for cause. Can you believe that? They should want her on the jury, because no one on the planet associates Trump with the word “integrity,” and juror agnosticism on that trait is as close as they can get.
@ 96
The soviets spread the idea that HIV was an American made bio weapon.
Fauci and some of the people whose grants he funds spread the idea that COVID-19 was a naturally occurring virus that arose in a wet market. Immediately after a meeting Fauci convened in which several of them expressed the likelihood that it was a lab leak.
An NPR editor was suspended last week for pointing out that when this became public, NPR sat on it rather than reporting on it to correct their earlier reporting.
Hops, how does what the Soviets did differ from what Fauci did?
@92 I concede there are despicable boomers. But not all of us are. You can’t paint an entire generation with one brush. I’m not the same as Trump or Bolton or Clarence Thomas.
@ 92
By all appearances they’re not leaving anyone a dime..
Hey, at least their kids will have what Robinhood Dumbfuck’s family and Queen YLB’s fucked kids will be left. Not a dime.
I paid the renewal for the tabs for my four-year-old car today. Over 71% of the cost ($254) was for a light rail system for which I did not vote, will not use and will never live long enough to se it completed.
@95 Obviously you do.
@ 89
And there’s never any excuse for making up a quote, putting it in quote marks, and then attributing it to someone who never said it.
This from the asshole who frequently responds to documentation of his intentional falsity with “This is a liberal blog!”
That last part is in quotes and is not made up.
Why is because if he eats them, she can’t ride them to keep herself satisfied between BBC visits.
We all know why, Missus. You deserve the Big O and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit never gave you a single one.
Anyone notice that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has given up trying to drum up readership for SeattleJew’s old blog?
Is that blog still around or did Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit finally cause it to die of embarrassment?
@102 I can’t walk a mile in your shoes, because (1) I can’t walk that far, and (2) as a disabled veteran I get free tabs. But I sympathize.
The light rail promoters sold the public a bill of goods. Their cost estimates were deliberately lowball (some years ago, I calculated it actually came to roughly $28,000 per household within the taxing area). They further deceived the public by splitting the project into three stages, each paid for with another layer of taxes.
You did get opportunities to vote against it. I voted against it, too. But gullible voters fell for ST’s lies. We got Trump that way, too. I get out of paying the ST license tax (but not the ST sales tax); I didn’t get out of living under the Trump presidency.
We have another election this year, not on ST to be sure, but on Trump. Maybe more of our fellow voters will be less gullible this time. We can only hope and pray.
Perhaps Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would care to enlighten us on the reasons that the Trump/GOP tax cuts passed in late 2017 are more injurious to Seattle metro taxpayers than Sound Transit’s light rail boondoggle.
@104 You quoted me accurately. That’s great. Now come up with an example of “intentional falsity” you can attribute to me without lying about it.
Another day, another tranny manifesto about laying waste to a whole lotta people.
By all means, let’s help transition more of them, before the grow out of it and go back to becoming productive human beings.
Gotta say, that chick does a good job looking like a dude. Almost as good as Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit does these days.
@105 Here’s a better quote from that thread:
By way of full disclosure, I posted it. And nowadays it has to be qualified by adding “before you came along.”
@106 Having trouble finding it?
@ 68
Caitlyn Clark has scored more than any man or woman NCAA player in the last 52 years. If the lack of a fourth year was the difference why couldn’t a single dude get it done in half a century?
N.
B.
A.
Besides, LeBron and Kobe really sucked in college.
There’s a second reason, other than early entry into the NBA. Girls suck at defense.
@110 This would be far less disconcerting if the GOP hadn’t put guns in the hands of disturbed children.
@113 The sports genius troll would have us believe Caitlin’s ability to sink 3-pointers is entirely due to bad defense.
If that’s so, and defense in women’s collegiate basketball is so bad, then why isn’t every other female player running up her points total?
J. D. Vance wants to replace the rules-based international order with a world of self-seeking nationalistic states.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/18/jd-vance-ukraine-aid-00153201
It’s easy to imagine how that would go. History offers examples.
In the name of ideology, let’s repeal all the traffic laws too, and turn our streets into autobahns where anything goes.
@ 115
The sports genius troll would have us believe Caitlin’s ability to sink 3-pointers is entirely due to bad defense.
Goalpost-moving is football, not basketball, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
I responded to a question about the absence of record-breaking NCAA career runs in the men’s side of basketball, with two observations:
• early entry into the NBA takes the most likely players to break NCAA scoring records away from the NCAA
• tighter defense is played by men than by women at the collegiate level (also pro, but that’s another topic).
I didn’t say Caitlin Clark is not phenomenal. She is. But Maravich, in his college days, was better. So was Bill Walton. So was Lew Alcindor.
One reason, among quite a few others that Caitlin Clark is so phenomenal is because the women’s collegiate game sucks. Hopefully it won’t always suck, but today it does. When everyone around you sucks, it’s easier to appear phenomenal by comparison.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, in the NBA the Warriors’ Stephen Curry hits 3-point shots from all over the place. He only played three seasons of collegiate ball, in a small conference, before declaring for the NBA draft.
As a collegian, Steph Curry had a better 3-point FG career percentage than did Caitlin Clark, and he had a better overall FG career percentage than did Caitlin Clark. When stationary, he also had a better FT career percentage than did Caitlin Clark.
Until tonight, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you had never heard of Steph Curry. Maybe that’s because of your dismissive attitude toward black people.
@ 68, 113, 117
FKA Hops, feel free to weigh in any time you wish. After all, you’re the one who wondered why men don’t break collegiate basketball scoring records.
C’mon, Hops. Be dismissive of the lure of NBA millions to desperately poor athletes.
Hurry, before Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit realizes who Lew Alcindor is.
116 freeways without traffic rules already been envisioned
Why Johnny can’t speed.
Be safe drive offensively.
https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v32n02_1971-09/page/n94/mode/1up
Starts at page 82
102. Great Men plant trees under who’s shade they will never live to sit under.
120 – Did they pay an extra $254 for the privilege?
@117 “Until tonight, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you had never heard of Steph Curry. Maybe that’s because of your dismissive attitude toward black people.”
An alternative explanation is that I’m not an NBA fan; but what the hell, go
nuclearracist if it satisfies your itch.@121 If you have to whine about paying an extra $254 a year to drive a car in this state, you probably can’t afford the car.
The idea behind taxing car owners for light rail (besides needing a revenue source for ST’s bloated project costs) is that people who will never ride it will be able to drive their cars instead of sitting in traffic jams.
Oil prices are up and stock futures are down tonight after Israel lobbed missiles into Iran.
122)I only became an NBA fan again after Orlando drafted my cousin. Been a WNBA fan because of his mother. Great family.
Looks like Iran is now short a few of their remaining F-14s.
Mortgage rates top 7% for the first time this year, Freddie Mac says
yawwwwn.. 30 year fixed April 1984…
13.73 percent.. Wow.. kreepshit was so fucked back in teh bonzo daze..
Look at it now.. a booooorrrrriiinng misogynist mess…
a light rail system for which I did not vote, will not use and will never live long enough to se it completed.
You remind me of that other boooorrrriing blatherer who every 4 years says it won’t vote for the R or D.
Spare us and jump off a bridge already.
“The price of tickets to go see Clark … are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels around the nation.”
Specifically, tickets to watch her play against the L.A. Sparks have jumped from $14 to “a minimum of $244.”
“StubHub reports it’s seen a huge surge in demand for WNBA tickets, with overall sales for the Fever up 13 times over last year’s start.”
Specifically, when she plays against the Minnesota Lynx in July, “Tickets start at $230, with courtside seats demanding at least $1,400.”
“Last year’s WNBA season was its most-watched in 21 years, and the league saw its highest average attendance since 2018.”
Specifically, viewership of the WNBA championship game nearly doubled, from 10 million in 2023 to 19 million in 2024.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/sports/caitlin-clark-wnba-ticket-prices/
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/sports/caitlin-clark-effect-impact-wnba-salaries/
Clark is bringing in big $$$ and right now other people are getting it all. That isn’t right. Someone who makes millions for others is worth more than $76K a year no matter what the chauvinist troll says.
He just can’t stand the idea that a woman is worth more than he is.
@ 129
“The price of tickets to go see Clark … are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels around the nation.”
No one ever said lesbos are smart with their cash.
And by “unprecedented levels”, the speaker means nearing half the cost of a ticket to a NBA game.
@ 129
Specifically, viewership of the WNBA championship game nearly doubled, from 10 million in 2023 to 19 million in 2024.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, the 2024 WNBA championship is a best-of-five series, not a game, and will be played beginning October 8.
I know you consider yourself HA’s leading sports authority, but Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, I think you were referring to the 2024 and 2023 NCAA womens championship games, not the WNBA.
You are making a fool of yourself again, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Just stop. Take the L.
123)It’s also at the mercy of low-bidders, who may cut corners.One of the reason’s next week’s opening of the 2 Line is between Redmond and South Bellevue, and not all the way to IDS.
I won’t be benefiting from Metro’s new battery buses on order. At least not directly. South Base will get those, but that will send some of the 7300 series hybrids that are operated out of South to East Base, freeing up some of the older buses to be sent to North and the Central Campus. Anything is better than the 7000s used on the 31/32, my connecting route I catch at U-District Station. Was on one a few days ago that turned out had been in a fender bender that affected the suspension. Coach 7113, thought since the coach is of a model that has been out of production for 12 years, it would be stripped for parts and sent to the Alley off Holgate or to South Base Annex, Metro’s Boneyards. Nope, they fixed it, the tracker showed it on a couple trips on the 128.
@ 129
Clark is bringing in big $$$ and right now other people are getting it all. That isn’t right. Someone who makes millions for others is worth more than $76K a year no matter what the chauvinist troll says.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has no idea that the surge in ticket prices is due to scalping. The season tickets have already been sold, pricing is set, and whatever premium to face value goes to scalpers or to Ticketmaster. Same thing happens during the Super Bowl.
What about games that don’t feature the Indiana Fever? Well, in May the LA Sparks play the 2-time defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces. How much are the tickets? They start here:
A professional sports event shouldn’t cost less than a Subway footlong meatball. Unless it’s an event nobody wants to attend. Like a womens’ basketball game.
How much to get in to an Indiana Fever game in Indianapolis?
Why, tickets there start at only $30. How do I know this? From a link in Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s @ 129 silly spew.
Why only $30? Because you buy a ticket at the box office, not from a scalper. Indianapolis has a big arena and there are lots and lots of seats.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit posted a couple of weekends ago that home prices are high because supply is low. Well, if the LA Sparks would sell 18,000 tickets (its arena’s capacity) instead of only 4,200, it wouldn’t cost so much per ticket to see Caitlin Clark. Instead of yammering for the white girl to be paid more, why doesn’t Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit endeavor to open up some of the closed-off arena seating?
From not knowing who Steph Curry is to HA’s leading sports authority in only hours.
Is there anything Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit cannot accomplish?
The 7000s aren’t the oldest in the Metro Fleet, but close. That honor goes to the roughly 5-10 remaining 2009 New Flyer DE60LFs, but those are due to be retired soon. Some of the mechanics on a bus fan facebook group have given the “Ride ‘em while you can” warning. Metro’s new at retiring buses at only 12-15 years, which is what a bus’s usual lifespan. A rail vehicle, tends to last longer. The last American streetcar design of the classic era, still run in SF, and Boston, and are about to return again, to Philadelphia (after another rebuild). San Diego got about 30 years out of their first Light Rail Vehicles, even revived a tradition of American operators of the 1950s, selling the used vehicles to Latin American operators.
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/King_County_Metro#On_order
The Lynwood extension, my big complaint, is the FARE CUT the Snohomish County users will be getting. Community Transit’s commuter fare was $4.25-$4.50, but the new flat fare on LINK will be $3.00. I currently pay $2.25 if it’s between Ranier Valley stations under the current distance base system, $2.75 to U-District, it’s the same as Metro, don’t mind the small increase coming, Metro’s overdue for a fare increase, rumors it will be going to $3. First week of the month my employer pays($30). The biggest increase will be for those going between Downtown stations. I remember when LINK Started, ST chose not to participate in the Ride Free Area, If they did, it would have been a higher base fare. The Ride Free Area was great for downtown circulation, but bad for those on routes passing through Downtown. Many times when I caught the 7 on Broadway, had to pay twice, because of Pay as you leave, couldn’t use the back door.
She’s not that good (gets ass handed to him)
It’s because of the three point line (gets ass handed to him)
Bad defense! (Get dog walked)
GOALPOST!
A incomplete list of NBA #1 overall picks who played their senior season and failed to break the ever changing excuse…
Bill Walton
Ralph Sampson
Patrick Ewing
David Robinson
Tim Duncan
The other thing they have in common is all are in the NBA HOF
@102
This again? My grandparents paid for SeaTac and never got on a plane in their lives.
@122
Interesting thing about Steph Curry. Arguably the best outside shooter the game has ever seen.
Played the same number of seasons as Pete Marovich WITH the three point line and….
Didn’t even get within miles on the record.
Double Dog Dare you to show how Pete is a better player than Steph. Show your work.
Nine to three, all four Democrats joined five of nine angry Republicans on House rules to move Ukraine aid bill without accompanying border security, to the floor for a normal order, simple majority vote.
First time in decades that major legislation moved out of rules relying on minority votes.
Meanwhile, the Republican package of border security measures that President Biden and Senate Democrats had gift wrapped to Republicans months ago required a suspension of the rule to get to the floor this morning. Which means in order to pass it has to get two thirds.
And so the Republican dream package of huge budget increases for Guatemalan Toddler Torture dies. And they will never see its like again in this or any other lifetime.
The next time a Republican gets a chance to vote on border security it will be part of sweeping immigration reform legislation to streamline asylum, expand DACA, and offer pathways to legal residency and citizenship for ten million undocumented immigrants forced to live in the shadows.
Republicans chose this.
Election year magic
@133 You’re contradicting yourself. You acknowledge sky-high scalping prices, but if “no one wants to attend,” scalpers couldn’t give away the tickets.