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2 of the 9 City Council members will be appointed rather than elected come July when Cathy Moore steps down. I have not been impressed with her, but I do think elections are the way to replace people, not stepping down mid term.

Dow Constantine, too. Although it being later in his term that he already wasn’t running for reelection isn’t quite the same. And Sound Transit wasn’t going to wait for a new CEO. It is an important job and important to fill with the right person, but so is King County Executive.

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    @1 she obviously didn’t pay for the optional Tesla, “Pedestrian, don’t run me over bro, Avoidance package”, where if she was wearing the special light weight 30 lbs transceiver, the tesla would have steered away from her.

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    It takes a little while for a president’s economic policies to ripple through the economy, but we’re just now beginning to see what the next four years will look like:

    Fed ‘Beige Book’ economic report cites declining growth, rising prices and slow hiring

    But don’t worry, the cavalry is coming! Trump has a fix in mind: Replacing the current Fed management with one that will doctor the statistics. If you tell the rubes “everything is great!” and feed them fake numbers, they won’t notice the difference, will they? Will they?

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    Senate GOP talks cutting Medicare ‘waste, fraud’ to offset cost of Trump tax bill

    Senate Republicans on Wednesday discussed the need to cut out waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare to achieve more deficit reduction in President Trump’s landmark bill to extend the 2017 tax cuts, provide new tax relief, secure the border and boost defense spending.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5333247-senate-gop-medicare-trump-tax-bill/

    Cutting Medicare to pay for billionaire tax cuts was always on the GOP’s agenda; they just didn’t talk about it. But now they’re talking about it, because they need more spending cuts to pay for deporting essential workers as part of Trump’s ethnic cleansing.

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    Yesterday, Wilders pulled his party out of the Dutch Governing Coalition. Today the NDP is going to bring down the Canadian government by voting against the Throne Speech. Guess testing whether the Canadian Voters will reward him for giving the CPC a do-over. Would be ironic if the Bloc disagrees.

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    11)Just wanted to clarify, the Bloc said they would give Carney a little time, but that was before the Throne Speech. Although there have been ways of voting no confidence without actually bringing a government down. MPs abstaining, being absent, etc. Rumors are the interim NDP Leader is being petty for not getting official party status, which his party doesn’t have enough seats for. He apparently wants to lose the 7 he has, as the party has about $40 in the bank.

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    Looks like the May jobs report from BLS this Friday will be a tough one. The ADP report released today showed private sector hiring slowing to almost nothing.

    It’s all but inevitable that Trump’s “genius” economic policies will lead to unemployment, higher inflation, and rising interest rates.

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    14)Surprised he hasn’t threatened the health inspectors. Not like the King County Health Department who busted the concessionaire at the Kingdome, which was a county facility, no PFD involved.

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    @ 17

    I’m sure Vicious Dumbfuck has some sort of silver lining to this.

    Indeed.

    • The article makes clear that the Beige Book Fed report is largely based on anecdotal information.
    • While you were whining about how consumers felt during May, the S&P 500 gained 5.09% during the month.

    Welfare Queen YLB whined while McHillbilly and I made bank.

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    @ 4

    … a consumption tax …

    Maybe if those young consumers experience some sticker shock they can redirect that spending money to paying down their student loans.

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    @ 13

    ... the party has about $40 in the bank.

    Hey, speaking of parties with rapidly dwindling bank accounts:

    The Wyoming Democratic Party’s State Central Committee is operating at a loss and could be left with about two weeks worth of funding by the end of the year, its treasurer said during a Sunday meeting in Rock Springs.

    In its federal and non-federal accounts, the state party had $36,580.20 as of May 1, Party Treasurer Dudley Case said at the meeting. But the party has been spending more money than it has been raising each month, which has led to a $21,795.32 loss this year.

    That’s about a $5,000 loss per month, in the first four months of the year, said Case.

    Maybe they can ask Liz and Dick for a cash infusion.

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    Karine Jean-Pierre has left the Democrat party.

    This pleases Welfare Queen YLB, who now sees her visibility fortunes improving in the Dumb Cunt wing of the party.

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    @ 14

    The clubhouse failed its health inspection.

    Remember that time I posted The Roanoke Tavern’s health inspection record from the City website, and Darryl deleted my spew?

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    Unique among Australias state lower houses, Tasmania uses a proportional system (but single seat/RCV districts for the State Senate),, and the incumbent conservatives Premier had the bright idea to game it, by increasing it up to 35, and increase the District Magnitude, which lowered the quota. The result, a bigger cross bench. The state opposition has now brought the Premier down.

    Looks like the main issue, Tasmanian Devils, specifically state funding of the stadium for the expansion Aussie Rules team due to join the AFL in a few years.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/day-two-no-confidence-motion-tasmanian-parliament/105376328

    As for the Ottawa motion, all grandstanding, throne speech accepted on the equivalent of a voice vote.

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    @18 “While you were whining about how consumers felt during May, the S&P 500 gained 5.09% during the month.”

    Which means it’s now only 26 points below where it closed on the last trading day before Trump was inaugurated.

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    Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office just released brutal numbers showing that the House GOP bill will add even more to the deficit and kick many more people off health coverage than previously thought.
    GOP Budget Would Explode Debt by $2.4 Trillion While Taking Healthcare From 11 Million: CBO
    Voting for republicans exploded the deficit and cut your health care.

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    Pampers maker Procter & Gamble to cut up to 7,000 jobs under tariff, consumer uncertainty pressure

    Voting for republicans caused them to lose their jobs.

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    Apparently it’s now the Nazi Fucktard’s turn to ignore leading economic indicators showing big trouble in the real economy and focus instead on how much money a few thousand billionaires are making.

    At least Democrats could show a healthy job market and growing GDP.

    Any minute now, like his well-greased, and overworked right hand, the Nazi Fucktard will regale all of working America with how the simultaneous rise of inflation and joblessness is an important feature of the MAGA plan.

    October eggs $3.37
    April eggs $5.12
    And now you are out of a job and MAGA just took away your kid’s healthcare.

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    New GOP retirement plan: GOP Plan to Raise Retirement Age to 69 Will Cost 257 Million Americans $420K in Benefits for Just 1-Year Fix
    Even with all these cuts, the CBO says the plan would only delay Social Security’s money problems by 1 year, from 2034 to 2035. That means this plan won’t fix Social Security long-term, and more changes would still be needed.

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    The Missing Engineers
    The world’s need for power is outstripping the workforce that can build it. Aging populations and anti-immigration rhetoric aren’t helping
    A shortage of skilled workers, especially engineers, is a growing problem in developed countries. In the US, the lack of skilled workers will hold back President Donald Trump’s attempts to increase manufacturing, even if the tariff regime stabilizes and businesses get ready to invest. Trump’s attacks on US universities’ international students, who tend to study engineering in a greater proportion than domestic students, will likely further sap the supply of skilled workers.
    >> I’m pretty sure they mean a shortage of experienced engineers who want entry level wages.
    >> Seems companies want specific skills and knowledge but they don’t want to pay for the engineers to learn them. “We only hire experienced engineers, let them learn on some one else’s dime.” then “Why can’t we poach skilled engineers?”

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    Somali-American leaders in Minnesota encouraged their constituents to vote for Trump because “he won’t abandon us like the left did”.
    Trump just restricted nationals from Somalia from entering the US
    >> See what NOT voting for the smart lady has got them. The left “abandoned them” by treating the LGBTQ as people and making the sin of allowing a woman be the nominee.. They wanted to erase LGBTQ from society more than self preservation. It’s what they voted for.

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    Kansas just lost $1.9 Billion Biden era CHIPS grant. 1,200 jobs with average $66k salary gone

    Was it worth those 1,200 jobs to erase immigrants and minorities and LGBTQ and independent women from Kansas society?

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    @36,

    Also, Democracts betrayed these men by refusing to respect the traditional cultural practices of mutilating the genitals of pre-teen girls.

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    @34,
    Get ready for a steadily increasing wave of violent, ultra right-wing terror attacks like those in recent weeks and months, only growing more frequent, and more deadly.

    It’s all part of the big plan.

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    Elon is over on the twatter calling Donnie, ungrateful, imagine that, for how Elon single-handedly got him into the White House.

    Donnie is on the fake twatter Saying he would’ve won Pennsylvania even biglier Without Elon.

    TSLA is in a free fall.

    I haven’t seen a breakup this ugly since Depp / Heard.

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    40,
    I wasn’t at all sure at first, but I’m now coming around to the belief that the feud is very real.

    “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terrminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
    -Fat Hitler post from a few minutes ago

    The problem of course is that there is no alternative launch capability at scale. But one option would be to nationalize SpaceX. And this is just the President to do it!

    Tesla can forget about Wankpanzers as US Postal trucks.

    #TeslaTakedown is working

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    “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

    Really???

    Do go on! Tell us all about it. We are all hanging on your every word!

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    Oh look! Trump is trying to extort and bribe Musk into supporting his doomed tax bill, but it’s A-OK because the Supreme Court said it’s fine for a president to commit crimes while in office!

    President Donald Trump on Thursday called Tesla CEO Elon Musk “CRAZY” and threatened to cut his companies’ government contracts as the two men feuded over a major tax bill.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-government-contracts.html

    TSLA is down $46 today … 💩💩💩

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    Laying a controversy to rest,

    A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.

    More than a dozen eyewitnesses, including those wounded in the attack, said Israeli troops shot at crowds in volleys of gunfire that occurred sporadically through the early hours of Sunday morning. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US and Israeli-backed aid initiative that runs the site, said that Israeli forces were operating in the area during the same period.

    Multiple videos geolocated by CNN place the gunfire near a roundabout where hundreds of Palestinians had gathered about half a mile (800 meters) away from the militarized aid site in Tel al-Sultan in Rafah. The designated route to the site along the coast, Al-Rasheed Street, is in an area under the Israeli military’s control and Israeli troops operate at a base nearby.

    Weapons experts said the rate of gunfire heard in the footage, as well as images of bullets retrieved from victims, were consistent with machine guns used by the Israeli military that can be mounted on tanks. Multiple eyewitnesses said that they saw gunfire emanating from Israeli tanks nearby.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/middleeast/israel-military-gaza-aid-shooting-intl-invs

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    43,
    Wow. That was a rather abrupt decline below $300.
    And what with the Nazi Fucktard white knuckling his way through an agonizingly slow climb back to his original strike price, this spring has really turned out to be two steps forward and a Robotaxi ride backwards at 100 mph straight into a brick wall. Geezus. This is awesome. Wow. Much agony. ·ᴥ·

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    Catfight

    Elon Musk

    Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!

    Somebody’s gonna ask the groom and child bride standing in the podium “can you categorically say Donald Trump has never had sex with an underage prostitute provided for him by Jeffrey Epstein?

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    Musk is going Ross Perot:

    Billionaire Elon Musk seemed to suggest support of a third political party as he escalated a growing fight with President Trump that boiled over Thursday.

    “Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle,” Musk wrote in a post on social platform X to his more than 200 million followers on the site, which he owns.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5335305-musk-floats-idea-of-third-party-amid-feud-with-trump/

    A couple of thoughts, though. First, I’m pretty sure Musk isn’t popular with 80% of the American public. It’s more like 1% or 2%. Second, by splitting the GOP into two parties, you’d most likely end up with the Real Republican Party and the Trump MAGA Party, with the latter being a small third party, but siphoning off enough votes from the Real Republicans to create an ongoing electoral problem for the Real Republicans. In which case,

    Go for it, Elon!

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    @45
    I can’t understand why all those liars hate me. I make the best car it’s electric it doesn’t use gas. It saves the planet. It’s all those tree huggers wanted. But I guess the only sensible thing to do is chill off the other segment of the market, they might want my cars.

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    Children receiving healthcare access via Medicaid spend way too much of their time watching television.

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    46,
    Elon seems to have gained access to every bit of classfied data during his time with DOGE.

    It will be very interesting to watch how this unfolds.
    Remember the rule:
    TACO!
    🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

    Looks like MAGA better back the fuck off.

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    Does this mean I have to go back to Stephen?

    Because I really don’t want to go back to Stephen.

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    While you were whining about how consumers felt during May, the S&P 500 gained 5.09% during the month.

    EmbarASSing.

    What’s it done since October 2024? Ass wipe

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    With the right kind of strategic thinking Senate leadership, Democrats could right now take advantage and begin piling on proposed amendments to the budget recission bill ordering the elimination of US govt contracts with Elon’s companies.

    Trump just opened the door and offered them his support.

    And doing so would drive a wedge deep into Trump’s own MAGA coalition ahead of the mids.

    But alas, Democrats do not have such leaders. Still, there may be hope that a few rogue actors will step out of line and seize the moment. If it doesn’t happen we need to primary them all.

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    Apparently it’s now the Nazi Fucktard’s turn to ignore leading economic indicators showing big trouble in the real economy and focus instead on how much money a few thousand billionaires are making.

    And the Cheerleader’s skirt and Pom Poms must stay in the closet

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    Elon Musk just stepped out in front of every single Senate Democrat by calling for Fat Hitler’s impeachment.

    Schumer is a Goddamn worm. Democrats can do so much better.
    It’s time.

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    Again, something we all knew. Je overstayed his student visa. Began working when he didn’t have the proper visa to do so and then lied about all that when he applied for citizenship.

    Tyler Pager White House
    reporter
    Stephen K. Bannon, who has been one of the most vocal critics of Musk for months, said he is advising the president to cancel all of Musk’s contracts and launch several investigations into the world’s richest man.
    “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately,” he said in a phone interview with me.

    The end of this play could be hilarious but

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    And just like that, DOGE became the DERP STATE!!!!!!!

    “Five Things” emails hitting DOGE inboxes right after midnight.

    I could never have anticipated needing this much popcorn.

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    @47

    Billionaire who names his kids qx4t’l’x$& and grew up a privileged beneficiary of Apartheid knows about ‘the middle’

    That’s a solid joke there. Good spoof.

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    @61 “I could never have anticipated needing this much popcorn.”

    You may need a bigger popcorn machine if this giant fiasco ends with Trump being removed from office and the world’s richest druggie denaturalized and deported to South Africa. 🍿🍿🍿🍿

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    There’s always a tweet…

    Elon Musk @ @elonmusk

    I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man
    10:39 AM • 2/7/25

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    So elmo sez orange pants shitter is in the eppie files. heh..

    Asked to comment teh kreepy dumbfuck babbled…

    “sob.. sob… sob….

    orange man bad…”

    As it kneepads ever harder for elmo and now jerkoff dickbrane bowman.

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    67)I’ll believe it when he boosts the algorithm on his Social Media platform.

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    Tesla wiped out $150 billion worth of shareholder value today.

    Not coincidentally that is (or was) more or less the value of the compensation award the board was struggling to shove down shareholders pie holes.

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    Mahmoud Khalil … responded to the government’s claims that he’s a threat to foreign policy … in a sworn legal declaration unsealed Thursday. …

    Khalil wrote in his multi-page declaration … “Why should protesting this Israel government’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?” …

    The Trump administration has argued that Khalil’s actions pose a threat to its foreign policy goal of combatting antisemitism …

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/us/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-case-charges

    Wait, how is “combatting antisemitism” in the U.S. a foreign policy goal? Isn’t that a domestic policy? Oh I get it, Trump’s foreign policy is aligned with Israel, so protesting against Israeli genocide and war crimes isn’t allowed.

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    75,

    How is criticizing genocide “antisemitism”?

    That’s not exactly a flattering take on Judaism.

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    A Deputy U.S. Marshall working federal judicial protective assignment at the immigration court in Tucson was arrested by ICE Fat Ass clowns loitering around the lobby on MAGA ethnic cleansing assignment.

    $100 bucks says the Marshall’s last name ends in “z”.

  81. 81

    It has been announced today that Reagan National airport will be forced to close to accommodate Fat Hitler’s birthday parade!

  82. 82

    @75 You can’t come here and criticize Israel!

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    78)On Twitter, Canadians are saying don’t deport Musk to Canada, send him to South Africa.

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    If Senate Republicans pass Fat Hitler’s budget recision bill his own personal share of the national debt will be

    22%!!!

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    @79 That deputy marshal now knows what it feels like to be black. “You match the description of someone we’re looking for.”

    ICE is being given quotas: “Arrest 3,000 immigrants a day, or your jobs are on the line.” Under pressure to meet their numbers, they won’t be careful how they do it. They’re operating without arrest warrants, and — as this case illustrates — are being sloppy about verifying identities before detaining people.

    What are the chances U.S. citizens assumed to be immigrants will be snatched off the streets, spirited away to detention camps, and held incommunicado? It’s already happening. There’s gonna be a spike in missing persons cases.

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    What are the chances U.S. citizens assumed to be immigrants will be snatched off the streets, spirited away to detention camps, and held incommunicado?

    100% because that has already happened. To children, no less.

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    Fat Hitler financial donors Lawrence Duran and Marianella Valera defrauded Medicare of more than $205 million and received prison sentences of 50 years and 35 years respectively.

    On May 28th Fat Hitler commuted their sentences. One week earlier Fat Hitler’s MAGA party passed a budget gutting funding for Medicare.

    They cited “waste and fraud”.

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    Factoid:
    Trump voters don’t want anyone they personally know to have their Medicare and Medicaid insurance cut but they really really want it take from people they don’t know.

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