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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 5/14/25, 8:08 am

Good morning.

– More changing areas are coming to men’s bathrooms.

– The Washington AG’s office is making it easier to report sexual assault.

– The air freshener thing is funny, but who needs pine explained to them?

– Keep ICE out of Spokane parks.

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  1. 1

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:02 am

    Sec RealWorldBro changed his wife’s flight itinerary to stay away from Newark, then went on TV to announce to all the suckers that the airport was perfectly safe.

  2. 2

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:52 am

    There will be no Fraud or Waste with this spending. Every penny will be accounted for and will not be wasted.

    https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/nuke-spending-cbo-report-criticism

    They want you to think they are saving money cutting everything else and eliminating waste but no waste spending $1T. Only the Poorly Educated would not see through the bullshit. It’s just a shift of where to actually waste money.

    It all comes down to $, and nothing else.

    And now raising the debt limit isn’t held hostage.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-unveils-plan-raise-195039770.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kZW1vY3JhdGljdW5kZXJncm91bmQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKViCG9x5RI_uVytt5Ia_qSrKJ6k4FIH4FN0MYN0Iu5RcQNBYtWjyA_-rEBQMTvkXbyrdMHF87AMMYb3UBd4aTE7wEDjQCj-0PvXVlfF9LOqANayMDT1UARdhJR7Y_s04_wX4t2cYOcFUAca0s4sKsUhU3NqZS95iYcB9spCiMPC

    Republicans are beyond hypocrites; they are the most corrupt individuals living and dead.

  3. 3

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:53 am

    @1

    suckers all around.

  4. 4

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:55 am

    I can’t make sense of Carl’s “air freshener” link, but I’ve heard some cops consider an air freshener in a car an admission to having drugs in the car, or at the very least probable cause for a warrantless search of the vehicle.

  5. 5

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:58 am

    All them South Afrikans will buy a Tesla!

  6. 6

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:59 am

    Republicans claim the House rules give them a prerogative to regulate where AOC’s eyeballs are pointing.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5299989-ocasio-cortez-medicaid-miscarriage-exchange/

  7. 7

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:01 am

    This is Genocide.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/israel-hits-gaza-hospitals-in-deadly-strikes-after-pause-to-allow-release-of-edan-alexander

  8. 8

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:02 am

    In other political news, Democrats claim another election upset. It seems Republicans aren’t popular these days, even in red states.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5299111-democrat-ousts-republican-omaha-mayoral-race/

  9. 9

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:02 am

    In other political news, Democrats claim another election upset. These days, Republicans aren’t popular even in red states.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5299111-democrat-ousts-republican-omaha-mayoral-race/

  10. 10

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:23 am

    @7 Of course it’s genocide. So is blockading food supplies.

    https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2025-05/gaza-hunger-israeli-blockade-humanitarian-aid-world-indifference.html

    No one seems able or willing to stop the Gaza genocide, just as no one helped the Jews after Hitler unleashed his “Final Solution.” Couldn’t even get the Allies to bomb Auschwitz.

    But this much seems certain: History won’t ignore mass murder of Palestinians. Future generations will remember Netanyahu as another Eichmann and Israel as being like Nazi Germany.

  11. 11

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:26 am

    Was for this before and after Sound Transit bought buses from BYD. Although it does give New Flyer a near monopoly on articulated buses.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/bill-seeks-to-tighten-prohibition-on-federal-funding-for-transit-equipment-from-china/

  12. 12

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:28 am

    Fitting name for this new Air to Air Missile. Better than Standard like the SAM it is derived from.

    https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/aim-174b-gunslinger-nickname-hinted-at-by-commander-naval-air-forces-and-u-s-pacific-fleet/

  13. 13

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 10:28 am

     Duplicate

  14. 14

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 11:17 am

    As part of the broader deal Fat Hitler and MAGA are cutting with Bukele and others to help stabilize and consolidate their own regimes, the DOJ just cut a deal to resettle 17 of the most violent and dangerous “MS-13” members of the Sinaloa cartel family members of El Chapo in quiet U.S. communities, hopefully on Whidbey Island.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sinaloa-cartel-leader-family-enters-us-deal-trump-administration-mexico/

    Meanwhile, warrantless, armed, violent ICE Fat Ass raids of restaurant kitchens continue all across the country, sweeping up random unidentified tias and abuelas leaving toddlers abandoned in train stations and gas stations.

  15. 15

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 11:31 am

    Here’s another one of the people ICE Fat Asses are locking up while Fat Hitler builds refugee resorts on Whidbey Island for El Chapo’s entire family to operate out of:

    https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-05-13/fabian-schmidt-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-since-his-detention

    I’ll bet he’s got one or two tattoos.

  16. 16

    Germs aren’t real spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 11:36 am

    Good witness

    RFK Jr: The president is not trying to do tax cuts for billionaires. He’s trying to have no tax on tips and no tax on overtime

    SANDERS: $235 billion through the estate tax

    RFK Jr: How many billionaires do you know that are making overtime?

  17. 17

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 11:46 am

    When their access to healthcare gets cut I’m not going to be any more interested in listening to them whine than before when food prices stayed up, gas prices rose, and they lost their jobs at the USDA. Faster dying in Red Murica is fine with me.

  18. 18

    Marco Rubio spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:10 pm

    @10

    I need to see you social media profile NOW!

  19. 19

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:23 pm

    The Wisconsin judge who dumbcunted her way into a decision that laws do not apply to her when she helped a woman-beating violent illegal alien to (briefly) escape detention by ICE has been indicted.

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:26 pm

    @15 So basically he was disappeared into a hellhole, held for weeks without due process, tortured and taunted, and then abruptly released when his family found out where he was.

    His “crime”? A DUI conviction years ago. Which makes him one of Trump’s “very bad people, savage criminals.”

    Say, didn’t someone just post above about the Trump regime letting a whole cartel kingpin family into the U.S.? How much did Trump get paid for that?

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:28 pm

    The only thing Trump and the GOP have going for them is half the American public is illiterate and doesn’t read any news, but that’s all they needed to seize power and act like assholes with the full weight of federal law enforcement behind them.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:31 pm

    @15 I guess he wasn’t White Afrikaner enough.

  23. 23

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:31 pm

    So, it’s not just the current president who wants to cut free health care funding for illegals.

    It’s the dude who wants to be the next president doing it, too:

    U.S. News
    California governor outlines $12 billion deficit and freeze on immigrant health program access

    California was among one of the first states to extend free health care benefits to all poor adults regardless of their immigration status last year, an ambitious plan touted by Newsom to help the nation’s most populous state inch closer to a goal of universal health care. But the cost ran $2.7 billion more than the administration had anticipated.

    But Newsom will grandfather in the illegals who are already gettin’ free shit:

    Those who are already enrolled won’t be kicked off their plans, and the changes won’t impact children. Newsom didn’t say how long the freeze would last.

    I’ll spoil the fun. It will last until True Gretch forces him out of the primary.

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:43 pm

    Under President Newsom, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will statutorily be euthanized because there isn’t enough health care funding to go around to everyone, because it’s being used to treat the AIDS affliction of the illegal alien who raped Welfare Queen YLB’s youngest and most promising fucked kid.

  25. 25

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 12:44 pm

    @ 21

    … half the American public is illiterate and doesn’t read any news …

    And then there’s Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who doesn’t read anything past the first paragraph.

  26. 26

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 1:00 pm

    One hour ago.

    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/content/dam/News/static/pdfs/wi/0514_Dugan_Motion_to_Dismiss.pdf

    I love that in order to support her claims to judicial immunity from prosecution for her actions while presiding within her own court she cited Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 630 (2024).
    Reap dumbfuckery, sow dumbfuckery.

    To wit: “Judges are entitled to absolute immunity for their judicial acts, without regard to the motive with which those acts are allegedly performed.”
    as compared to: “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives”

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 1:57 pm

    RFK Jr. says people shouldn’t take medical advice from him in heated House hearing

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-outbreak-congressional-hearing-rcna206776

    Then why the fuck is he in charge of federal health agencies?

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:00 pm

    @18 To dox me, SWAT me, or deport me?

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:01 pm

    @19 The presumption of innocent applies, except in DOJ and your comments, where everyone is presumed guilty.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:06 pm

    @24 Doctor Dumbfuck just posted a death threat against me. I’m not surprised, because I know I’m getting under his skin, which is a very good thing.

  31. 31

    FKA Hops spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:07 pm

    @19

    Deeply conservative US Atty, presents a tiny bit of info in a proceeding where there is no defense allowed.

    Are you not aware of how a grand jury works?

    At trial he’s going to have to come up with a JUDICIAL warrant to prove ICE had jurisdiction and even then, no jurisdiction WITHIN chambers.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:14 pm

    @26 A prompt summary dismissal of the indictment with prejudice will be a slap in the face to Bondi and send her back to law school.

  33. 33

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:22 pm

    Calling a Toronto Maple Leafs fan a “51st state anti semite loser” did not go over well with the National Hockey League.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-cifu-51st-state-suspended_n_6824a9e3e4b021b5064a8818

  34. 34

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 2:25 pm

    Another one:

    A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Georgetown University scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri must be released from Texas immigration detention, saying he poses no threat to the community and that the Trump administration likely violated his First Amendment rights when masked ICE agents snatched him outside his Virginia home in March. …

    The Trump administration accused Suri of “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media” when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and revoked his visa nearly two months ago.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/badar-khan-suri-georgetown-released_n_6824d9d5e4b021b5064ab5f4

    It’s almost as if Netanyahu is running ICE.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 6:11 pm

    When Trump speaks, nothing is as it seems:

    The White House claims Trump “secured $600 billion in deals with the Saudi government and firms.” But, according to The New York Times, “the details the White House provided were vague and totaled less than half that number. And a closer look at the projects the administration provided shows several were already in the works before Mr. Trump took office.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-qatar-jet-corruption-concessions-rcna206761

    Just yesterday (@104), the gullible doctor was bragging (in bold letters, no less) about “600 billion Saudi investment in U.S.” …

  36. 36

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 6:19 pm

    I’ve finally figured out what Trump gets in return for sucking up to the Saudis: Idi Amin’s old apartment if he needs to go into exile someday.

  37. 37

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 7:18 pm

    Are you not aware of how a grand jury works?

    Looks like he isn’t aware. Hence his name Doctor, I say Doctor!, Dumbfuck.

    And as noted in posts that followed up above.

    Give him hell boys!

  38. 38

    AIPAC spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 7:36 pm

    There is so much anti-semitism at Columb….

    What?

    The Afrikaaners the President is giving favored refugee status to?

    Kleinhaus, a 46-year-old farmer, told reporters that threats to his life and land forced him to flee. “We just packed our bags and left,” he said. He arrived Monday with his daughter, son, and grandson, and is being resettled in Buffalo, New York
    …

    The Bulwark news site said it reached out to Kleinhaus on LinkedIn and confirmed that the X account belongs to him. A post from April 2023, which was deleted on Wednesday, reads: “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group. They are not Gods chosen like to believe they are,” adding: “Leave us alone. We all believe in the God of Abraham, Moses and Jacob.”

  39. 39

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 8:14 pm

    36)Would Melania go with him?

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:07 pm

    Conservative judges have decided black people need the attorney general’s permission to vote.

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5165561/voting-rights-act-north-dakota-section-1983-private-right

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:13 pm

    @39 She’s not that stupid. She only married him to get the graft after he overdoses on cheeseburgers.

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:16 pm

    @38 What happened to Trump’s policy of kicking out antisemitic immigrants? Did that flutter off into the mist like his China tariffs?

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:25 pm

    Temperatures are rising over an altercation between three Democratic lawmakers and immigration agents at a detention center in New Jersey, as Democrats say the administration is using the incident to improperly target political opposition.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5301063-democrats-dhs-noem-ice-new-jersey/

    Don’t they realize it’s police SOP to file assault charges if a cop bruises his knuckles from beating on a handcuffed suspect?

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:31 pm

    In case you missed it, your taxpayer money is being used to prosecute frog embryo smuggling. But that’s a really serious offense, so all is good.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5301240-harvard-scientist-kseniia-petrova-charged-with-smuggling/

    Coming soon: Felony indictments against green card holders for parking more than 8 inches from the curb.

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:39 pm

    Remember the UnitedHealth exec who got offed by a vigilante? I’m not endorsing that, of course. I’m against people taking the law into their own hands. If you think a corporation is a criminal organization, let the law deal with them.

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth Group for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/unitedhealth-under-criminal-probe-for-possible-medicare-fraud-report-says.html

    This report came less than 24 hours after UnitedHealth Group’s CEO quit, and presumably is thinking about fleeing to South America.

    This, not bullets, is the right way to handle the situation.

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 5/14/25 at 9:53 pm

    Remember the Idaho teacher threatened with termination for putting up a welcoming poster with brown hands in her classroom?

    She resigned today. Her resignation letter told the school district she doesn’t wish to teach in a school district that caters to racists. She wasn’t the only West Ada School District teacher to quit:

    Nerissa Armstrong, a Meridian Middle School teacher with 15 years of experience and two Teacher of the Year awards, also resigned over the district’s handling of the situation. “You made it extraordinarily clear that diversity is not welcome here,” Armstrong wrote in her resignation letter. “You have reinforced that educators and parents who stand against this intolerance will be maligned and dismissed. Therefore, I am not welcome here either.”

    https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/sarah-inama-announces-resignation-from-west-ada/277-f1be0c21-355e-465f-96a2-91c0b71877aa

    This school board, superintendent, principal, and some of their parents don’t deserve these teachers. Idaho is a white supremacist enclave, and not the right place for them. They should come to Washington.

  47. 47

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 12:37 am

    In today’s political news,

    Trump regime greenlights police thuggery against black people.

    https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trevor-kirk-plea-deal-los-angeles-trump-jury-nullification-rcna206887

    There was never a time when Republicans didn’t intend to cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid.

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-trump-agenda-bill-takes-shape-massive-medicaid-cuts-line-rcna206804

  48. 48

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 2:51 am

    More political news:

    US reportedly plans to slash bank rules imposed to prevent 2008-style crash

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/15/us-reportedly-plans-slash-bank-rules-imposed-prevent-2008-style-crash

    Gabbard fires officials who released memo contradicting Trump’s Venezuela gang claims

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/tuli-gabbard-trump-national-intelligence-firings

  49. 49

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 5:21 am

    As she runs her agency’s current biennium completely out of money in just a few weeks, DHS Sec Dog-Shooter just submitted a supplemental for an additional $50 million for a new personal jet because the one she has now isn’t nice enough for her.

  50. 50

    Republicans spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 9:50 am

    ‘France gave us the Statue of Liberty.” Sen. John ‘Box of Rocks’ Kennedy

    And then Grover Cleveland transferred it to his Presidential Library.

    Guys, we need to get on the right side of this one. Like LITERALLY everyone knows it’s an illegal gift. LITERALLY everyone knows.

  51. 51

    Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 9:55 am

    Just give him some canned tomato soup and call it homemade. Serve it in a fancy dish. Call it a state dinner. He’s a moron and will give us everything if we act like we respect him.

    Qatar’s Gift to Trump Is Unsold Plane It’s Been Trying to Dump for Years

  52. 52

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 9:58 am

    With the full support of the GOP the current President of the United States stands in open contempt of a 9-0 unanimous Supreme Court order.

    https://youtu.be/7YlCTjGCH20

    The reasons offered by the government of El Salvador for why they have not released Abrego Garcia are that the U.S. State Department under the administration of the President has not issued any “visa”, that their agreement between El Salvador and President Fat Hitler to indefinitely detain Abrego Garcia remains in place despite the Supreme Court order, and because they still have not been given any permission from the President to release Abrego Garcia from CECOT.

    The Constitution has been nullified by the GOP in an act of sweeping authoritarianism.

  53. 53

    Medical Research spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 11:12 am

    Only the best people.

    Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?

    RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times

    Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 1:34 pm

    Coming and going, Elon Musk is a fraud.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5302053-elon-musk-america-first-pac-second-lawsuit-petition/

    Meanwhile, it’s obvious Trump is selling foreign policy decisions for personal gain. His worthless crypto coins and media company stock, the golden tennis sneakers and other junk he sells for exorbitantly inflated prices, etc., are vehicles for bribery; and the hotel concessions and airplane are bribes. This is plain as day to anyone with eyes, and the Supreme Court and Republican Congress give him permission to do it. The buyers are Persian Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar; and his shifts in Middle East policy fit to a “T” their Christmas shopping lists.

  55. 55

    Dog-shooter Noem spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 1:41 pm

    @52 It’s okay, because we haven’t started doing it to our own citizens yet, except toddlers.

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 2:33 pm

    It’s pretty sloppy prosecution when a magistrate dismisses your charges against dozens of defendants for lack of probable cause. Just more evidence this is an administration of amateurs.

    https://www.aol.com/us-judge-dismisses-charges-against-202531760.html

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 3:39 pm

    MAGA Mike thinks the solution to the House budget impasse is to fund a higher SALT deduction with deeper Medicaid cuts.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-float-compromise-medicaid-salt-deduction-trump-bill-rcna207087

  58. 58

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 5:33 pm

    “Make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice.”

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness

    Today marks 1 year since Biden agreed to a debate with Trump

    From
    Joe Biden
    6:11 AM · May 15, 2025

    Five edits in a video only 14 seconds long.

  59. 59

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 5:41 pm

    @ 57

    … deeper Medicaid cuts.

    What Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit intended to write is that able-bodied Medicaid recipients would have to do a bit of work, sooner, in order to continue to receive Medicaid benefits.

    He doesn’t know this because he didn’t read the piece to which he linked. He never does. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a lazy, useless, bloviating fuck.

  60. 60

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 5:54 pm

    @59 If you had any capacity for critical thinking you would realize “work requirements” are a ruse. Most Medicaid recipients are either working poor, elderly in nursing homes, or children. They’re either already working or they can’t work.

    There isn’t remotely $700 billion of “waste, fraud, or abuse” in the Medicaid system. It follows that they can cut that much from Medicaid only by changing the eligibility rules or putting up barriers to getting Medicaid benefits.

    The GOP swindlers chose the latter. In reality, “work requirements” are nothing more than a paperwork burden designed to push eligible recipients off the Medicaid rolls. Not only that, they’ll save no money at all, because administering them will cost more than they’ll save.

    This is exactly what Democrats say it is: Republicans are taking health care away from tens of millions of the neediest Americans to pay for tax cuts for the rich. And maybe also a military parade for Trump and a new jet for Kristi Noem on the side.

    I think you’ve been channeling horse anus so much you have horseshit coming out of your mouth and typing fingers.

  61. 61

    We kept telling you it was bullshit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 6:15 pm

    Oh. ‘Member way back a month or two ago when Elon claimed 40% fraud rate in Social Security. And the famous, Lutmick bit about anyone calling about a missed payment is a fraudster and firing most of the agency’s call center workers and DOGEy building an AI program to find the fraud in the calls.

    2.

    Not 2% of calls.

    Not 40% of recipients.

    2 cases now suspected of fraud.

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 6:16 pm

    United Health Group stock was worth $600 on April 11. Today it’s worth $274. That’s what a DOJ investigation of Medicare fraud did to them.

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/unitedhealth-medicare-fraud-investigation-df80667f?mod=hp_lead_pos1

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: On paper, UNH doesn’t look like a greedy corporation. Since 2019 its profit margin has consistently been about 6%, which isn’t what I’d call excessive. However, some remarkable stats appear in Value Line’s last UNH report (dated Feb. 28). Since 2019 its revenues, earnings per share, and dividend all have roughly doubled. There also have been stock buybacks. So if UNH management has been ripping off Medicare, the money went to (1) executive salaries and bonuses, and (2) shareholders. So while corporate greed isn’t reflected in the profit margin, it shows up on the bottom line. The outside shareholders, of course, were clueless and innocent, but now they’re suffering a catastrophic loss of stock value, while the execs will get to keep their inflated salaries and bonuses. But who knows, maybe some of them will go to prison.

    More info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzL0tNQ_8k

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 6:24 pm

    @61 UNH may give us an opportunity to watch Republicans be a whole lot less exercised about rampant corporate fraud.

  64. 64

    G spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 6:45 pm

    @46

    Strong words, strong action.

    Good for them, more people need to do that.

    I know I plan on telling my employer when I leave. And I plan on returning every charity donation that I decline to donate because Transgender people need more support… and that it’s is relatively free to do so.

    And that the current government may hold their purse, so I plan to hold mine.

  65. 65

    G spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 6:57 pm

    Killing it Boys!

    Ignore the troll, he is as Dumbfuck as the most Dumbfuck.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 7:23 pm

    @65 Like Trump, he craves attention. That’s why he’s constantly posting clickbait here.

  67. 67

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 7:41 pm

    @ 62

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would have you believe that United HealthCare doubled its revenues because it doubled its prices.

    He’s full of shit. UHC doubled its revenues because it bought other companies’ revenues:

    Year
    # Acquisitions
    2023
    1
    2022
    4
    2021
    1
    2020
    2
    2019
    5
    2018
    4

    In doing so it also dramatically increased its debt:

    Total debt by year
    Year Total debt Change
    2024-12-31 $76.90 B 22.97%
    2023-12-31 $62.53 B 8.53%
    2022-12-31 $57.62 B 25.26%
    2021-12-31 $46.00 B 5.83%

    Sometimes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, to catch a clue you have to read a bit beyond what the Value Line sheets tell you, although had you read all of what Value Line has to tell you it should have been possible for you to figure out where the UHC revenue increases came from.

    You are a useless, bloviating fuck, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Small wonder you have blown your family’s chance at a good life.

  68. 68

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 7:48 pm

    In a new post on Instagram, Comey said he saw the shells and “assumed” they were “a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

    Comey added that, “It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”

    Comey claiming not to know that 8647 was code for taking out Donald Trump is as believable as Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s claim that he didn’t know that eggplant is a slur against black people when he used it in reference to a black person.

  69. 69

    G spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 8:37 pm

    @66 jealous little boy, isn’t he.

  70. 70

    G spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 8:49 pm

    @68

    Never outspoken of your own. You have no conviction, just partisan bullshit.

  71. 71

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 9:49 pm

    @67 Where does the word “prices,” or any reference to prices, appear in my comment @62? Please be specific.

    The dumbfuck troll sure likes to make things up and put words in other posters’ mouths, doesn’t he?

  72. 72

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 10:25 pm

    @68 Doesn’t take much to trigger Republicans, or Doctor Dumbfuck, does it?

    I didn’t know “86” is Mafia jargon, or what it supposedly signifies, until I read the Newsweek article the doctor helpfully linked us to. Neither did Comey, who replied on Instagram, “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

    But evidently a lot of Republicans, including the president’s son, are familiar with Mafia doubletalk. which makes you wonder who they’ve been associating with.

    Comey didn’t create the purported “message,” he merely saw it on a beach and posted a picture of it. If his photo is a crime, then so are images of crosshairs on Democrats. The geese sure are making honking noises that sound like, well, geese.

    #hypocrites

  73. 73

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 10:38 pm

    Will Clint Eastwood be prosecuted for this scene? What about scriptwriter David Webb Peoples? Or actor Richard Harris? They’re all just as guilty as James Comey. For that matter, Doctor Dumbfuck is guilty, too, of linking to a magazine article with a picture of the “message.” I mean, really, how far can folks run with this … ?

  74. 74

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 11:08 pm

    It seems an unusually high percentage of Kari Lake’s Senate campaign donors want their money back.

  75. 75

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 11:26 pm

    By the way, has anyone noticed there’s a pattern of Republicans attacking free speech? Which includes

    – Kidnapping a foreign student off the street for criticizing Israel in a college newspaper editorial

    – Kicking the Associated Press out of the White House briefing room for not adopting Trump’s “Gulf of America” nomenclature

    – Attacking academic freedom by cutting off federal research funding to universities and threatening their IRS status

    – Threatening to “investigate” James Comey for posting a picture of what someone wrote on a beach with seashells

  76. 76

    Boston Massacre spews:

    Thursday, 5/15/25 at 11:46 pm

    @62. The spark sometimes comes from out of nowhere.

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: On paper, UNH doesn’t look like a greedy corporation. Since 2019 its profit margin has consistently been about 6%, which isn’t what I’d call excessive

    There is the problem. A middleman making ANY profit on seeing a doctor, kind of a necessity of life, is fucked up. That people are ‘investing’ in keeping people from obtaining a necessity of life is parasitic.

  77. 77

    You can’t say ANYTHING anymore spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 12:06 am

    @68

    No one associated that with violence until snowflake republicans who openly call for ‘Hang Mike Pence’ and similar death threats got all snowflakey.

    “86 the Bud Light” ( The keg of Bud Light is empty. Don’t let anyone order it)

    He’s 86’d (Je was such an asshole he’s no longer welcome in this establishment)

    86 47, kick the guy out for bribery.

  78. 78

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 2:32 am

    @76 Insurance plays a legitimate role in society. You have car insurance, and home or renter’s insurance, right? Insurance spreads risks. The healthy help pay the bills of the sick so no one is bankrupted by an illness.

    As with any other private enterprise, a private insurance company needs to make a reasonable profit to attract capital. The shareholders have to be paid for the use of their money.

    The only insurer that doesn’t need a profit is the government. Government programs operating on insurance principles are the best deal around. Privatizing that insurance raises costs to consumers, because then you have to add a profit margin.

    Republicans hate anything they can’t make money from. That’s why they oppose Security and Medicare. They used to like food stamps because Republican farmers make money from that program.

  79. 79

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 2:51 am

    @77 You can buy an “8647” t-shirt online. Are they going to arrest everyone who does? Of course not. They’re singling out Comey because they don’t like him.

    This is Baseball Rules. As they see it, prosecuting Trump was like our pitcher hitting their batter. (Never mind he’s actually a criminal, and was crowding the strike zone.) The unspoken rule in baseball (Dumbfuck, a former minor leaguer of no note, knows this) is that if a pitcher hits a batter, the batting team’s pitcher will hit one of the pitching team’s batters in retaliation. That’s what this is, they’re getting even for the charges brought against Trump by going after people on the liberal side.

    It’s a game. A hardball game. They’re throwing a fastball at Comey’s head. The thing is, they’re no good at it, and they miss most of the time.

    I don’t recall what position Dumbfuck played in the minors. He may have posted it, but I don’t recall. If he was a pitcher, probably most of his pitches went into the stands, although he may have killed a catcher and umpire or two. Accidentally, of course.

  80. 80

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 6:37 am

    @ 76

    A middleman making ANY profit on seeing a doctor, kind of a necessity of life, is fucked up.

    A nurse is a middleman. So is the SEIU-affiliated hospital janitor. Their unions exist to enrich them, driving up costs ultimately borne by the patient.

    Their existence is fucked-up?

  81. 81

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 6:55 am

    350,000 rely on the NJ Transit Authority to commute to and from work. It’s the nation’s third-largest mass transit entity.

    Today the trains stopped running because the engineers demand to be paid $170,000, on average.

    Gonna be hard getting to tonight’s sold-out Shakira concert in the Meadowlands (Met Life Stadium).

  82. 82

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 8:02 am

    Forbes being so cruel:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/05/16/elon-musks-tesla-robotaxi-rollout-looks-like-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

    #TeslaTakedown is working

  83. 83

    Natalie Mains spews:

    Friday, 5/16/25 at 8:23 am

    Grandpa, the dining room closed at 5:30. Don’t forget you have chair aerobics in the wellness center tomorrow

    I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy

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