Regulating the gig economy should probably come at the state or Federal level. But as long as they aren’t stepping up, it’s fantastic that the city of Seattle is stepping up. First with sick and safe leave rights and now potentially rights around termination. Too much of tech is just new and exciting ways to treat workers poorly.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible
We’d be better off if white men over 50 never voted again.
Once you stop running for president you realize it’s OK to cashier a useless twat.
LOCAL NEWS
Director of state’s Office of Equity fired by Gov. Inslee’s office
Oh, I bet there’s a paper trail, honey.
There’s a paper trail for that, too.
Give us everything we demand, without any exceptions or limitations, and then we’ll talk.
No.
Spend less. Easy-peasy.
Noted conservative rag The Atlantic says that my corrupt, incompetent, senile, fossil of a president has his head up his ass if he thinks the 14th Amendment is his way out of the problem he has created for himself.
IDEAS
There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling
The Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t give Joe Biden a way out of this crisis.
The sooner Democrats admit that their senile leader has checkmated himself, the sooner this silliness will end.
Spend less. Easy-peasy.
We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.
@5
We’ve been down this road.
“We want massive cuts to the VA, Social Security and SNAP”
“No but we’re willing to freeze spending levels.”
“Okay we got that and we’re on board but also we want massive cuts to the VA, Social Security and SNAP and a bathroom bill.”
“Seriously no but we’ll give you work requirements.”
“Awesome so that and the spending freeze AND massive cuts to the VA, Social Security and SNAP and a bathroom bill, make the Trump billionaire tax cuts permanent and subject to supermajority repeal, zeroing out of IRS enforcement budget and a shiny new bicycle for all the Republican House members.
Oh and Marge wants to kill some gays on live TV with immunity.
None of this is unreasonable you just have to compromise.”
Heh.
Even finer that it’s true.
@ 8
Good one. No, really.
Spend less. Easy-peasy.
I saw a small news story concerning some Rhode Island legislator who was found, passed out in his car, with a crack pep in his hands. The cops found some other party favors in the car, too.
Maybe that’s what the Dems and Reps need to do: smoke some crack and come to a deal.
Wouldn’t that be sumthin’.
Ron DeSantis spells out possibility to cement ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court
And we would owe it all to the decision by Democrats to back their leadership in 2015-2016, all while knowing #CrookedHillary is as corrupt as they come.
Think on yer sins, libbies, as all y’all blindly back yer Dem leadership yet again.
I don’t wanna seem @ 12 greedy. I’m actually fine with the concept of a cemented 6-3 conservative SCOTUS majority.
Although admittedly the reason to eat dessert first is that there might be more than one dessert.
(While standing idly on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette, holding an empty gas can, and watching an ex-wife’s house burn down)
Spend less. Easy-peasy.
INPUT: Spend less. Easy-peasy.
OUTPUT: Give us everything we demand, without any exceptions or limitations, and then we’ll talk.
@ 15
OUTPUT:
Give us everything we demand, without any exceptions or limitationsPass a bill in the Senate so a conference committee can be convened, and then we’ll talk.Apparently Chuck Schumer’s role is to do whatever the hell Joe Biden and Cocaine Mitch tell him to do.
“Spend less.”
Ok. Pay for what you already put on the credit card, Convince your fellow Americans that it’s a good idea. Follow the rules and pass future budgets where America spends less.
GOP presidential candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday she would sign a federal abortion ban into law if she were president
https://thehill.com/homenews/4019017-haley-says-shed-sign-abortion-ban-but-more-republicans-are-needed-in-congress/
Well, there goes kreepshit’s “amtrak” solution.. heh..
@18 Oh I’ll do that too!
(now that it’s “safe”)
INPUT: Pass a bill in the Senate so a conference committee can be convened, and then we’ll talk.
OUTPUT: Pass a bill in the Senate that we are already telling you we will not even put on the calendar in the House so Leonard Leo and billionaire PACs can run ads with in next year’s Senate races.
Pay your bills. Easy-peasy.
May 1:
White House digs in on debt strategy after House Republicans pass their plan
The Democrats’ messaging will focus on the effects of proposed GOP cuts to programs for veterans’ medical care and nutrition assistance for women and young children.
Clearly an error in judgement.
18,
So far as I’m aware there is not one single announced candidate for the GOP nomination who has said they would oppose a sweeping and intrusive federal ban on safe, medically necessary reproductive healthcare imposed upon the individual states against their will.
They all either directly support this, or simply refuse to admit it.
It is a litmus test requirement by the Bible-thumping, EVANGO extreme right. In less than 12 months the Republican party went from “let the states decide” to “forbid the states deciding”.
They will precisely repeat this same routine pattern with birth control within five years if they are allowed to do so.
@ 17
Follow the rules…
The “rules” say the Senate is supposed to do something now. See @ 16.
…pass future budgets where America spends less.
We’re doing that at the same time.
Biden invoking the 14th Amendment as an end-around Congress would run headlong into the forthcoming SCOTUS opinion on Biden’s effort to end-around Congress by handing out free money to student loan debtors while handing the bill for it to taxpayers who had nothing to do with it.
All y’all libbies really don’t want that. Think about it.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit loves the new swimwear at Target because he can use the “tuck” feature to hide his urinary and rectal catheters while getting a tan.
Target’s Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s massive pannus already hides his tiny junk.
I think the media portrayed the default negotiations the way they did in the beginning because they really hoped that House Republicans could engage in negotiations.
I think that was a very naive hope.
So the trick moving forward and off of that framing will be for the media to figure out who to blame for their own miscalculations about how divided and extreme House Republicans have become since Trump was elected. They will naturally be bothsiderism inclined to try to find some way to share the blame with Democrats. How conservatives respond to that will play a significant role on whether or not the negotiations survive or are killed off.
At some point the White House communications strategy will be forced to make a tough choice weighing the political consequences of taking some of that blame for the sake of keeping the negotiations alive against the consequences of breaking off and engaging in counter-attacks.
My gut tells me it’ll be full on attack politics by this weekend.
McCarthy has no other moves available to him. And the White House will reluctantly come to that conclusion.
AOC and Bernie wouldn’t have minded owning it.
Meanwhile, Jayapal is promising rioting in the streets if Biden caves and some of her people have to, well, go out and do a wee bit o’ work. It’s not free shit if one has to do a wee bit o’ work to get it.
Why?
Make this case.
Assuming that Kevin simply can’t bring around enough of his own party to reach a 218 vote threshold of any composition that also assures him enough of his own party votes to hold the gavel, then default is inevitable.
So one way default directly follows a party-line House vote resulting in a collapse of negotiations.
And another way default directly follows a SCOTUS ruling some weeks/months distant from now.
@ 27
My gut tells me it’ll be full on attack politics by this weekend.
McCarthy has no other moves available to him.
GOP has called for Yellen to show her work. She hasn’t. GOP has pointed out what The Atlantic wrote @ 6 about, which is that the last time brinksmanship came to this point, Treasury had a plan.
GOP negotiator has said on camera that once Democrats agree to cut spending, the dam breaks.
Then it becomes a negotiation of how much spending will be cut, and where those cuts will occur. That’s where McCarthy loses some of his reps but Hakeem provides some of his to ensure passage.
We’ve way, way overspent. There’s nothing wrong with clawing some of that back. Nothing at all. McCarthy needs to see a negative number, likely a very small negative number. Democrats are petrified that giving it to him will hurt turnout next year.
If that’s why the government shuts down and Yellen has to initiate the payment plan we all know she has, well, OK. We’ll make it to June 15th. She has yet to demonstrate otherwise.
They already do. This is not a credible complaint.
And Biden already offered this concession and House Republicans are now rejecting that offer.
The firehose of falsehood that always accompanies these kinds of public policy debates coming from the right eventually reveals the hypocrisy.
“WE DEMAND THAT YOU STOP TEACHING THE CRT”
Okay. Done.
“NOT ENOUGH. WE WANT BOOK BANS FOR THE COLOR PURPLE.”
It’s already on the restricted shelves and requires a signed permission slip.
“NOT ENOUGH. NOUN, VERB, GROOMERS!”
Okay. Now you aren’t even making any sense. I know it must seem to you like you are making sense. But the truth is it’s obvious you’re all fucked in the head and just making shit up as you go.
Shorter @ 29
Democrats won’t give up anything. Schumer won’t bring the House bill to the floor. A default will result.
@ 31
And Biden already offered this concession…
And then Jayapal & Co. made him walk it back. CNN, yesterday:
It was floated so that gullible fucks like y’all could use it in arguments like this, while Jayapal & Co. have been reassured that Biden was lying through his teeth to the GOP when it was floated.
Spending cuts. Easy-peasy.
This is not a budget bill.
There is already a current budget enacted and passed. It will not expire until next fall. House Republicans are perfectly free to begin those negotiations now, and that’s what the White House has asked them to do. They are refusing to do so until the Senate agrees to their current bill. Which is not a budget bill.
Turning the established budget process on its head just because a Republican Speaker of the House is incapable of managing his own members and refuses to free enough of them to vote with Democrats is not going to happen. The US Treasury should not be held hostage to the fading political ambition of a Kern County fast food worker.
The 2024 race is beginning to take shape: Biden vs. Putin Surrogate.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/opinions/russia-putin-banned-americans-list-trump-ghitis/index.html
A vote for Trump or Territorial Dispute DeSantis is a vote against Ukrainian freedom.
@ 34
The US Treasury should not be held hostage…
Indeed. Which is why, as with the last time, there is a plan for Treasury to meet interest payment requirements. See @ 6.
Spend less. Easy-peasy.
Your turn now.
Show your work.
The devil is always in the details. And both Biden and progressives know that the overwhelming majority of recipients of assistance who can work do work. So Biden has said he is open to negotiating new work requirements so long as they don’t simply amount to a roadblock. One option that has been floated in past negotiations (that Kevin refuses to take up) has been investing in an automated, electronic verification system to allow the working poor to certify their work hours and income without onerous paper records requirements and impossible to schedule in-person appointments. Progressives have demanded reassurances from the White House that this is the kind of direction they will go.
You’ve made a very specific claim about the White House having rescinded some part of an offer. But the only evidence you’ve provided is your own colorful speculations (which don’t cut much around here, sorry, maybe stop lying all the time) and the speculations of an “unnamed source” to CNN. Geezus.
Calm the fuck down. You’re hysterical.
@5 “’We negotiate in this country and you come up with compromise,’ Mike Lawler said.”
Translation: Pay the ransom and we won’t shoot the hostage.
Pay your bills. Easy-peasy.
Exchanging trite aphorisms will not save Brave Kevin.
@ 34
“Gee, honey, we’re running low on cash. We’ve committed to spend a lot of money between now and October 1 on frivolous shit, and it’s shit we don’t really need and shit we were fuckin’ drunk when we decided to buy. I think we should sell some of it and stop buying those monthly subscriptions for a lot of the rest of it. Whaddya think?”
“I’m sorry, Kitten, we told Jimmy that even though he makes nearly $150k we’d still give him $10k. Now I know we didn’t have the money when we told him that and we knew that we’d have to steal from the money your parents gave you power of attorney to prudently manage, but we made that promise to him so he’d show up for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. I think we need to steal from your parents just as we planned. After all, we agreed to do it last year. We can’t just go back on our agreement.”
@6 That’s a law review note, not a court ruling.
The “senile vegetable” is playing his cards well. He’s making reasonable offers that voters agree with, but won’t yield to terroristic demands. If the other side doesn’t come to the table with reasonable compromise, he’ll invoke the 14th to save the economy. And then the Supreme Court will wreck it. It’ll be their fault and everybody will be mad at the court and Republicans. Not bad for an eighty-year-old who, by the way, is kicking Putin’s ass in Ukraine, too.
@10 et al.: “Spend less. Easy-peasy.”
On what? Meat inspection? Air traffic control? Rail safety? Emergency response to the next Cat 4 to devastate Florida? Law enforcement?
Oh. Yeah. Law enforcement. Stop wasting money persecuting Jan. 6 patriots and going after Trump for stuffing a few papers in his back pocket to sell later.
@ 37
The devil is always in the details. And both Biden and progressives know that the overwhelming majority of recipients of assistance who can work do work. So Biden has said he is open to negotiating new work requirements so long as they don’t simply amount to a roadblock.
Let’s look at Medicaid. GOP is targeting able-bodied recipients without dependents. By requiring these fuckin’ deadbeats to work 80 hours/month, GOP expects to save $109 billion over 10 years.
How many would be affected? CBO says 600,000 fuckin’ deadbeats.
GOP isn’t going after “the overwhelming majority”. It’s going after the rest of them.
@11 The Pukes already did, and I see no reason for the Dems to.
@14 “(While standing idly on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette, holding an empty gas can, and watching an ex-wife’s house burn down) Spend less on fire departments. Easy-peasy.”
Ftfy, Republicans refuse to be specific about spending cuts, so help them out here.
@ 42
“Spend less. Easy-peasy.”
On what? Meat inspection? Air traffic control? Rail safety? Emergency response to the next Cat 4 to devastate Florida? Law enforcement?
How about on college grads earning six figures, who won’t get the $10k Biden promised them?
How about on Chinese firms supplying EVs and reaping gobs of subsidies from the IRA passed last Fall?
There’s plenty of wastefull shit like that to cut, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Give the hyperbole a rest.
@18 They all would, every last one of them. Even the ones who deny it. And then they’ll start hanging doctors and mothers.
@24 Pay your fucking bills or we’ll never give you a credit card again.
@ 45
Republicans refuse to be specific about spending cuts, so help them out here.
From Chip Roy, sent yesterday:
https://roy.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/roy.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/roy_hold-the-line-memo_5.24.23_0.pdf
Last year all y’all libbies claimed that Manchin wasn’t specific about what he wanted, when he had provided it in writing to Schumer months earlier. Republicans have told Democrat negotiators what they want.
Democrat negotiators just haven’t told you, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@25 Excellent. That’s exactly what we do want. We’ll even provide security at the Supreme Court building and individual justices’ homes. Lots and lots of security. That is, if we can find marshals willing to work without pay.
@ 48
@24 Pay your fucking bills or we’ll never give you a credit card again.
“Double my credit line or I won’t make my monthly credit card minimum payment.”
Admit it, you knew it was stupid 11 minutes after you sent it.
@30 “GOP has called for Yellen to show her work. She hasn’t.”
You’ll either see it on June 1 or you won’t. You don’t have much longer to wait.
@ 52
You don’t have much longer to wait.
You don’t have much longer to scare people over a deadline that isn’t real. It’s why Democrats are bemoaning Schumer’s failure to pass the debt limit increase via reconciliation when he had the chance to do so. They know they’re holding a losing hand this time around.
@36 After trillions of dollars of tax cuts, which mostly benefited insanely rich people, don’t you think there’s a little room to close a few tax loopholes?
Kevin doesn’t think so. His caucus doesn’t think so. They’d rather burn the country than, say, eliminate the tax deductibility of personal use of private jets and yachts.
Really, doc, you’re arguing from a position of weakness.
“We don’t need another hero.”
Ike finally got what he wanted.
From trying to kill the president to jay-walking.
White House U-Haul ramming suspect Sai Kandula jailed until next week, charges downgraded
If he wore a MAGA hat he’d be facing the death penalty. Instead he’s a non-citizen, so he’ll be released without bail, and charges will be dismissed in a few more days.
@40 Well I think one thing we can all agree on is clawing back the $500 billion or so of Covid relief paid to businesses (and people pretending to own businesses) they weren’t really eligible for. We can agree on that, can’t we? Can we?
@ 54
From clean debt ceiling bill to closing tax loopholes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s side has gone, all while claiming that my side is the one arguing from a position of weakness.
Doesn’t feel that way.
How you know it’s not a serious person with a serious grasp of economics.
@ 57
@40 Well I think one thing we can all agree on is clawing back the $500 billion or so of Covid relief paid to businesses (and people pretending to own businesses) they weren’t really eligible for. We can agree on that, can’t we? Can we?
Yes, we can. You think the GOP wouldn’t go along with a serious Democrat proposal to do this?
We could start with going after that $32 billion in fraud in California. An aggressive effort to claw that back from largely Democrat-voting fraudsters is going to get how far with Democrats in Congress and in the White House, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
Go ahead. I dare you.
@43 You’re right, the devil is always in the details. For example,
“The requirements would also be more equitable for those who are working to support their families, said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. ‘That single mom that’s working two or three jobs right now to make ends meet under this tough economy, she doesn’t want to have to pay for somebody who’s sitting at home,’ Scalise said.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/congress-eyes-work-rules-millions-covered-medicaid-98967684
Except that single working mom isn’t paying income taxes. But she will, if Republicans get their way:
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087137508/sen-rick-scott-wants-every-american-to-pay-at-least-some-income-taxes
So, really, Scalise is looking ahead at the GOP’s next set of demands.
@46 How much has student debt forgiveness contributed to the national debt, last year’s spending, or this year’s spending to date? Show your math.
It is spent.
It paid for shit all around you. We said wanted it. So we bought it. Now it’s time to pay the bill. It’s that simple.
Lying about it won’t change that anymore than it will supply a lonely hermitic day trader with “FB friends” or restore all the money he lost on Tesla.
And it won’t save Brave Kevin.
@49 “Reform #4: Rescind the $80 billion Democrats gave to the IRS to hire 87,000 agents that will target working- and middle-class taxpayers the most. Recouping these funds will not only save billions in inflationary spending right now, it also reduces
the size of a weaponized agency and protects hardworking American families and businesses.”
Flat-out lie. Chip Roy, ha ha ha. That’s even better than quoting Newsmax or OAN. Doc, if all you’ve got is Chip Roy, you got nothin’. Not even a pair of deuces.
Now do line-item spending cuts. Explain how you take 30% out of the so-called discretionary budgets of federal agencies without impacting meat inspection, air traffic control, rail safety, and similar or equivalent functions. Show your math.
61,
…she doesn’t want to have to pay for somebody who’s sitting at home,’
She also doesn’t want to lose one of those three jobs because she has to go stand in line at an understaffed Louisiana state office for six hours to fill out a form in ten minutes.
And she doesn’t want to have to pay for a week’s worth of groceries on child care so she can stand in that line either.
@53 “You don’t have much longer to scare people over a deadline that isn’t real.”
Don’t look up.
@ 62
@46 How much has student debt forgiveness contributed to the national debt, last year’s spending, or this year’s spending to date? Show your math.
Biden administration has canceled $66 billion in student debt
CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com › 2023/05/14 › biden-administrati…
May 14, 2023
A good chunk of that $66 billion is charged to taxpayers in one way or another, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. The math is in the article. Since Biden did it, it was added to debt either last year or this year.
You’re welcome.
@58 We’ll still take the clean bill.
@60 “You think the GOP wouldn’t go along with a serious Democrat proposal to do this?”
Convince me. Start by fully funding the “Department of Justice, including its 93 U.S. Attorneys, and other federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the HHS Office of Inspector General, the IRS Criminal Investigations Division, the U.S. Postal Service Postal Inspection Service, and the FDIC Office of Inspector General” to carry out this function.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/government-enforcement-misuse-paycheck-protection-program-and-other-covid-19-relief
@ 68
And you’d still take Hillary Clinton as your 45th president, too.
While you’re at it, ask to have your erectile capability restored, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@67 Your link doesn’t work, but it did take me to CNBC’s homepage, where I see Tina Turner has died.
@70 One of those is feasible, the other is not. One is past history, the other is here and now.
But we’re not demanding a clean bill anymore. We’re only asking you to make the mortgage payment instead of burning the warehouse down.
41,
That’s why the fool ducked that one.
What most impresses me about this rather voluminous performance by our troll today (compared to the doldrums he’s been in over George Santos and Fat Midget) is not just the volume.
It’s the certainty.
He’s actually somehow really certain that a SCOTUS intervention to shut down the US Treasury would a) be effective in some way; b) be more politically injurious to Biden than an economic nuclear winter with 15 – 20% unemployment; c) represent some sort of “triumph of principle” for a court that most Americans have now discovered has none.
He really thinks Brave Kevin is deviously triggering some well crated political trap, rather than vamping his way through a burning building to Rick Astley.
64,
Flat-out lie.
Of course. So what’s new?
It’s the firehose of falsehood. They intend to try to fill up the space with more bullshit than anyone can shovel out.
Solution: leave the space.
14th Amendment here we come.
These are all A-B testing for whatever smear they hope to deliver on the weekend shows. Which is about the point all negotiations will entirely collapse. I’m hopefully assuming that Yellen and her team have been workshopping contingencies since January.
Let’s just hope the bond markets are not completely gutted. But one thing is likely: the cost of new debt will be much higher. And once again Republicans will have needlessly added to the debt for the sake of a stunt.
@74 I remember 16% mortgage rates. My burrow is paid for, but I feel for the youngsters. Less for fools who borrow against their equity to buy F-250s and horse trailers.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s failing re-investment into 3M shares (he lost 30% in his first investment) hit a new 52-week low today.
He’s down another 20% this time around.
Couldn’t happen to a bigger dumbfuck.
The US won’t have any trouble paying its interest obligations.
Just think of all that 1040-ES cash rolling in on June 15.
Half of which is already gone. Leaving just 2.3 against $1 trillion of first half debt plus another $3.1 budgeted for a total obligation $4.1 trillion.
Troll must now show us $2 trillion in cuts that Senate Republicans can support.
This lying is still just as tedious when it’s done with numbers. We learned this in 2020 when he spent the year lying about COVID.
@77 “discretionary spending is merely allocated”
Ethanol subsidies are allocated discretionary spending. Eliminate them, and save billions.
Another one!
4.5 years in Prison for the the asswipe who put his feet up on Speaker Pelosi’s desk.
One of them is sitting in a prison cell talking about their struggle and doing some painting.
In Mississippi, standard police protocol on domestic calls is to shoot the kid who called the police.
https://www.rawstory.com/greg-castor-indianola/
“According to Economics Professor Jason Furman, the problem isn’t just about cutting a few things here and there, the way Republicans are making it sound. ‘There will potentially be money added to defense, which means an even bigger cut to non-defense,’ Furman explained. ‘Maybe the Republicans will be disappointed with the top-line spending cuts, but then what will the Democrats think when a bunch of the non-defense cuts are happening, not really to cut the debt but in order to fund extra defense? There’s a lot of difficulties on all sides here.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-debt-ceiling-defense-increase/
Of course, don’t expect Doctor Dumbfuck to be honest about that, either.
“Let’s not pretend this is about the debt when you raise defense spending. When you started out saying he wanted to reduce tax enforcement, things like work requirements have little budgetary impact. He should not pretend this is about the debt,” Furman said.
But I won’t say this has nothing to do with deficits or the debt, when Biden is doing his part.
“To illustrate that fact, the White House proposed reducing the deficit by $1 trillion over ten years. It comes after Biden’s past efforts that cut the deficit by $3 trillion, [Furman] said in a speech Sunday.”
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-debt-ceiling-defense-increase/
Things are going great for us here in Georgia…why?
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement plans were derailed Wednesday evening by massive technical glitches on Twitter that kept him from declaring his candidacy.
“’Servers are straining somewhat,’ Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, was heard saying on the app’s live audio stream where he and DeSantis were supposed to have a conversation that included the governor’s first verbal announcement of his White House bid.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/twitter-glitches-plague-desantis-presidential-announcement.html
I’m guessing Musk maybe didn’t pay the rent on the servers.
@85
It was the deep state fouling up our servers. They’re terrified.
All this is so scary.
@84,
Kandiss Taylor has a really good pod. Rodent should give it a listen. It’s only 30 min. Very insightful. She has good points.
How is it possible that the Deep State could outsmart Elon Musk?
Asking for a friend.
Trump lost badly.
Biden won by a lot.
When Biden took office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.3 percent. Now it’s 3.4 percent, tied for the lowest figure since 1969. Even more impressive is the 4.7 percent rate for Black Americans: Not only is this the lowest rate in recorded history, but it also represents the smallest-ever gap between Black and White workers.
@ 90
Trump lost badly.
Biden won by a lot.
OK, let’s play!
#CrookedHillary lost badly.
Trump won by a lot.
“A Republican-led investigation on Wednesday accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP’s conservative stars into new political and legal risk.”
https://www.aol.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-161145164.html
WEEETCH HUNT!!!
@92 “OK, let’s play!”
Okay.
NO!!! STOLEN ELECTION!!! SEIZE THE CAPITOL!!! MILITARY COUP!!!
Hillary lost badly.
Trump won by a lot.
Yes. This is a very true thing.
And yet for some reason it lacks the the same salience and pathos.
It also lacks the violent armed mob attack on the Congress and the effort to assassinate the Vice President. Which is also a very true thing.
@91
But what about the REAL unemployment rate the U6!
also at 6.6, up a tiny bit from the all time record low of 6.5 12/22.
That probably indicates more unaffiliated workers have moved into the actively looking for work but who really knows about a 10th of a percent.
Two Thirds of survey respondents who describe themselves as having voted for Trump in 2020 tell poll surveyors that they believe Trump either “probably” or “definitely” won the 2020 election.
@97
We’re gonna write this wrong
Sing the same song
Kill the queers
shoot beers
There ain’t no Trans
We got plans
Then some plans
and some plans
and a plate of flan
So long Joe
Time to Go
We gonna do some things
smoke some things
drive some things
Cause the ladies don’t matter at all
bahwiddahbaw.
(Every Trump Voter’s favorite song next year and then….
He gets stomped)
Have no shame Girl. He would have done the same to you, in a minute bitch.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/timeline-utah-mom-kouri-richins-husband-death-fentanyl-rcna85787
Call 1-666-YOU-DEAD
Ohhh well, you can’t win them all.
https://people.com/kansas-woman-daughter-killed-murder-suicide-moms-husband-7503283
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus kills a couple more. The family must not have had a dog to kill too.
This Heterosexual Virus really does happen wayyyyyyyyy wayyyyyyyyyy wayayayayayayay way too often.
Teach that Neanderthal who boss is! Amen. Thoughts and Prayers for the Neanderthal POS Hubby.
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus would get more attention if the majority of the victims were the men. Maybe that’s what it will take to know why this happens.
Take that bitch. Fuck you cunt. No, take that you fuck POS!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-woman-allegedly-kills-husband-hammer-sign-divorce-papers
Whatever happens in NY criminal court notwithstanding, I don’t think it’s very productive to speculate or attend to media speculations about the Special Counsel investigation in Florida.
One thing we know for sure since last summer is that other than filings and arguments before federal judges, the DOJ has remained disciplined and silent about the investigation. While in the mean time various entities from Trumpworld, including even a few of his own lawyers, have sought to influence the media, the public, the DOJ, and the courts with deliberately misleading comments offered anonymously.
Mostly these planted “leaks” are intended to sow in the minds of those who pay attention to them a sense of chaos or disorder that Trump can then exploit for political purposes. Another effort seems to involve disclosing certain details of what the investigation has discovered in order to get ahead of it in public, and carefully mislead or mischaracterize those details to Trump’s benefit. The investigation itself has nevertheless remained exceptionally disciplined and efficient throughout.
The best thing anyone can do is just wait for the indictments.
Suddenly Older Americans worried debt default means no Social Security
Who did older Americans vote for the past election cycles again? Proudly. With their hand on and their country in their hearts?
The republicans fighting for the debt default.
Well R Boomer, you didn’t save anything for retirement and spent 40 years tearing down every social safety net you could. I know you hate it when there are consequences to you, but here we are. Time to get those bootstraps out, buy less avocado toast, and get a job.
In 2020, when Travis Scott (do you know who he is?) performed “Antidote” live streaming on Fortnite (do you know what that is?) over 12 million logged in to enjoy the show.
In 2019, when Marshmellow (do you know who he is?) performed his hit “Happier” live streaming on Fortnite (do you know what that is?) over 10 million watched.
When Fat Midget finally made his long awaited actual official announcement that he is running for president only 108,000 people were tuned in to Elmo’s defective, badly malfunctioning BirdShite to see it live.
Res ipsa loquitur.
103,
I am reliably informed that any sufficiently motivated senior can earn a substantial additional income by diving into the water hazards on local golf courses for Titleists.
I’ll bet those copper arthritis bracelets are worth something too.
What’s all this business about the debt and spending? We’ve got Modern Monetary Theory, so we should just create money out of thin air and use it. It’s a no-brained!
I can see why the other unserious twat doesn’t talk about favorability polling anymore.
Favorability Ratings: U.S. Political Leaders
Favorable
Joe Biden 41.3
Donald Trump 41.0
Ron DeSantis 40.3
That is all we ever have done in all of recorded human history.
Glib concern trolling requires first a credible concern. If you don’t actually understand what money is go play with your poop.
@ 104
I don’t remember Trump’s announcement from 2015.
I don’t remember Barack’s announcement from 2007.
I don’t remember GWB43’s announcement from 1999.
I don’t remember Biden’s announcement 2019.
I DO remember #CrookedHillary’s inability to speak on Election Night in 2016. I DO remember Howard Dean’s famous 2004 scream. I DO remember Trump’s idiotic pronouncement on Election Night in 2020.
Some stuff matters a few days down the line, some stuff doesn’t. The only current way to measure Elon Musk’s performance on a day-to-day basis is via TSLA share price. TSLA is up $2.31 right now, three hours after market open and what, 15 hours after a badly rolled-out announcment on his social media platform.
Some stuff doesn’t.
108 – You idiot! I’m the biggest proponent of MMT. We can create as much money as we need to spend however we want.
@ 108
Glib concern trolling requires first a credible concern.
Heinrich Brüning was unavailable for comment.
I took a leak outside my barn this morning. An EPA official rushed in to declare the yellow piss puddle a “water of the United States”.
I don’t remember Trump’s announcement from 2015.
Donald J. Trump was already a globally famous celebrity brand in 2015.
I don’t remember GWB43’s announcement from 1999.
Dubya entered the race the eldest son of a former president with the unified backing of nearly all of the Republican Party leadership and having already out raised the rest of the primary field.
I don’t remember Barack’s announcement from 2007.
I don’t remember Biden’s announcement 2019.
You do now.
While it may be that Fat Midget can’t do any better than this kind of humiliation, I still retain hopes that the Shit-lord Crybaby can. What is the point of hedging away from Fat Midget now? He is already fully pregnant with Fat Midget’s stillborn campaign. Can’t “coffee boy” him into the corn field now.
We always have.
Always.
And here we still are.
Private banks create more money. More than 57% of GDP is money created by private banks and other private financial institutions.
You’re better at playing with your poop.
Liberals must arm, sayeth Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Really, the only difference is that Rhodes didn’t have a Darryl nearby to smack him down for spewing that violent filth.
Trump came down the escalator surrounded by actors paid to pretend to be paid cheering supporters
What “violent filth”?
My friends and fellow club members were simply visiting our nation’s Capitol as any tourist might, and took an opportunity to express our dissent, as is our Constitutional right.
In 2011 we didn’t default, and yet Standard & Poors lowered US debt ratings by a notch.
It never raised it back up.
Anyone notice any massive increase in US borrowing costs between 2011 and, say, March of 2021?
Obama didn’t spend his presidency hiding.
Unprecedented corruption and incompetence this term as well.
that violent filth.
From the pos who wants to train its “grandkids” to “kick the living shit” out of its perceived enemies:
i.e. anyone it hates.. the menu changes every day.. usually connected with neurotics fears of losing its fookin’ munee…
steel-toed boots are the weapon of choice, guns (which are only for fascists) are optional.. the fantasy is to make the scapegoat suffer and control them though fear.
Wow, a liberal exercising his or her 2a rights is “violent filth”..
Of course.. Only the fascists are supposed to arm.
Over 400 million guns in the hands of maybe 45 percent of households..
Guess how many of those households lean always wrong wing?
119, 120,
There it is.
The dawning moment where a Trumpaloompa Bubble Boy first notices that Brave Kevin’s depthless weakness will not pan out as promised on OAN and RT.
“A group of 35 hardline Republicans sent a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Thursday calling for additional demands in the debt ceiling talks and floating a new strategy.”
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/debt-ceiling-negotiations-05-25-23/index.html
Everything you need to know about Republicans can be summed up in two words: BAD FAITH.
Their word, their signatures, their contracts … aren’t worth shit.
124,
I think it has to be admitted that McCarthy went into this process of negotiating with the White House fully knowing that he could never in a million years get them to a vote on anything that could get a bipartisan passage in the Senate.
Biden may have suspected as much all along, but believed that he had to at least go through the motions to prove it. Doing so afforded McCarthy and his team hours and hours of camera and microphone attention for them to spout bullshit and lie. So it really just comes down to when/how Biden begins the push back that will end the negotiations entirely.
The holiday weekend is ripe.
Mississippi cop who shot an unarmed 11 year old in the chest after the kid dialed 911 for help, is awarded a fully paid vacation.
https://www.wjtv.com/news/state/protesters-rally-in-indianola-after-11-year-old-shot-in-chest-by-officer/
This happened Saturday, five days ago now. They’ve got BWC. It’s an encounter that lasts no more than 30 min. The full analysis can be completed in 72 hrs max. Then refer the file and release the BWC.
The media describing these people as “protesters” is an outrage. These are honest, reasonable citizens demanding accountability from their own government who is shooting their children in the chest, FFS. After five days of stonewalling ANYONE would be trying to draw attention to this. As they should.
Scenario: he was responding too aggressively, with his weapon drawn and aimed at the occupants of a private home at 4am. Then he was startled. He shot the child in the chest “on accident”. Okay. He’s fired. Immediately. And charged at a minimum with reckless endangerment.
This isn’t unreasonable or unfair. Barney Fucking Fife needs to be NOT A COP anymore if his intense Spidey Senses honed by hours of Warrior Training™ produce these results.
It has to start somewhere. Yes, of course police training is atrocious. Yes, of course police recruitment is a disgrace.
Remember, these are employees whose primary job role is to drive around in a car, operate a radio, and take accurate crime reports from victims. There is just no reason that we as citizens should be somehow content that this is accompanied by the routine shooting of our children.
This kind of absolute minimum accountability as I describe it here doesn’t require any kind of tectonic shift in the law or in the institutions of the law. It only requires willingness.
Politically-motivated witch hunts by partisan prosecutors do happen. This is what one looks like.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana-doctor-ohio-girl-abortion_n_646f3a18e4b0a7554f3d20c6
@103 “Who did older Americans vote for the past election cycles again?”
In 2020, it was close to 50-50 (see chart here).
You’re forgetting that a lot of older Americans don’t have much besides Social Security, understand perfectly well who’s trying to take it away from them, and don’t vote for Republicans.
The stereotypical Florida “Villages” retiree with a Trump sticker on his golf cart is a former business executive, real estate developer, or investor who’s been voting Republican his entire life.
Those people aren’t representative of senior citizens. They care more about getting away with tax cheating than their Social Security checks.
@106 Government shouldn’t print money. Real money only comes from God, and that’s the only money you can trust. Be sure to leave some of it in the Sunday collection plate for the pastor who told you this.
@109 I remember Nixon’s resignation speech and Trump’s two impeachments.
Well there’s two possible scenarios here.
Mom of the decade who knows best for the care of YOUR children Lauren Boebert’s son made a false report of a crime OR Lauren Boebert intervened to provide cover for an abusive parent.
Tell us more about the abuse of letting your kid read a book or seek counseling and gender affirming care.
@112 “I took a leak outside my barn this morning.”
I have indoor plumbing.
@116 We won’t need guns if your tribe stops threatening to exterminate us and gets rid of theirs.
Ball’s in your court.
Doctor Dumbfuck is outraged by the notion of self-defense. So were the Germans when the Warsaw ghetto Jews returned fire. Likewise every genocidal dictator in history. That’s the company he’s keeping when he posts nonsense like that.
You see it is all much much better since I fired everyone. I was able to get less than 80K people in a chat to watch my boy from Florida, sure it’s merely a coincidence that I’m hoping he’ll sign that bill that make me NOT liable financially for killing anyone when my rockets blow up, anyway less than 80K in a chat before the platform gliched out and started failing in all kinds of new and innovative ways.
What?
No Way! There’s no way the old owners got 400K to watch that New York Lady play Among Us without a hitch in 2020. I don’t believe that. Fake News!
@ 127
Politically-motivated witch hunts by partisan prosecutors do happen. This is what one looks like.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit prefers to pick and choose the situations in which a physician is required to follow state law requiring him/her to report sexual abuse of a 10 year-old girl.
@118 Today the governor who threatens to jail teachers dangled pardons for all that violent filth if he’s elected president. Trump, too.
@135
Yeah but we blew away the previous record for Assholery in a single chat.
@119 “Anyone notice any massive increase in US borrowing costs between 2011 and, say, March of 2021?”
What I’ve noticed is that continuously since 2009 the Federal Reserve has forced savers to subsidize borrowers; and now that using other people’s money isn’t free anymore, the economy is in danger of contraction.
@120 “New Fox News poll shows 47% would blame Biden for a default, 44% would blame GOP.”
If that’s all a Fox poll shows, you’re in trouble.
@122 It’s 30 percent.
Hey, how come all y’all libbies have stopped askin’ questions about those pipe bombs left at RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5 a couple o’ years ago?
@126 You’re forgetting that in Mississippi black kids are used for target practice. (And, sometimes, fishing bait.)
Not a Drag Queen.
Heterosexual Neanderthals are a detriment to civilization.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-founder-sentenced-18-years-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-cas-rcna85852
Heterosexual Neanderthals are a problem in general. What’s the reason why this world is so fucked up – look no further.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brian-laundries-mother-offered-shovel-burn-reading-note-rcna86197
@136 “a physician is required to follow state law requiring him/her to report sexual abuse of a 10 year-old girl”
She did. “[P]ublic records show Bernard met Indiana’s required three-day reporting period for an abortion performed on a girl younger than 16.”
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-indianapolis-indiana-422e435f97bf0b66559dd565c4d1387f
“Testifying under oath, Bernard said she complied with legal requirements, and her lawyer, Kathleen DeLaney told ABC News in a statement that the doctor reported possible child abuse to social workers and state authorities.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/indianas-attorney-general-files-complaint-doctor-gave-child/story?id=94215243
Here’s what the complaint against her is really about:
“[Attorney General] Rokita claimed that Bernard’s testimony before a judge … violated her professional obligations …. ‘Dr. Bernard violated the law, her patient’s trust, and the standards for the medical profession when she disclosed her patient’s abuse, medical issues, and medical treatment to a reporter at an abortion rights rally to further her political agenda. Simply concealing the patient’s name falls far short of her legal and ethical duties here,’ Rokita said in the statement.”
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-indianapolis-indiana-422e435f97bf0b66559dd565c4d1387f
That’s right, the AG is going after her medical license for saying a 10-year-old child was raped without naming the child. As I recall, this same AG claimed she made the story up because she didn’t name the child.
Don’t be surprised if she sues Rokita and the state of Indiana.
I don’t post that liberals should arm, I post that liberals must arm. Every mosque, gay bar, and Democratic campaign HQ needs armed guards, and if the guards see someone lighting a molotov cocktail or planting a pipe bomb or breaking in with an AR-15, they ought to shoot first and ask questions later. If Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t plotting to do any of these things, he has nothing to personally worry about. Which makes you wonder why he’s so vociferously against liberals defending themselves.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago employees rehearsed moving classified documents boxes.
https://www.rawstory.com/classified-documents/
Fighting hate and antisemitism isn’t code for going after conservatives. It is going after conservatives.
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-hate/
Meanwhile in Louisiana one of the few remaining Republicans with an ounce of humanity and Christian values actually listened to medical experts and pediatricians and families grappling with how to care for kids…
And cast the deciding vote to defer the state’s Anti-Trans bill meaning it dies in committee at least for this legislative session.
It most assuredly would have passed and been enacted if it had gone to a full floor vote.
He also made note before casting his vote that there are zero known cases of a minor receiving gender altering surgery in the state of Louisiana.
Right wing freakout about protecting groomers is underway of course.
Yes, I am the Whistleblower in the IRS who has been feeding Comer all the dirt on the slow walking of the Hunter Biden case. I went on CBS and gave an interview confirming that it is me.
Well yes, I did file my complaint in 2020. Wait, that date, that’s Joe Biden covering for his kid. The Biden Justice department is weaponized. Hang on, you’re saying everyone in charge at DOJ in 2020 was a TRUMP appointee? How does that work? The election was 2020 and it was stollen by Biden and then we had a nice pleasant tour of the Capitol and the Hunter story was buried. There’s no way it’s the same FBI director since 2017 in charge of all this. Unpossible. No WAY. You’re telling me the IRS Commissioner for a full TWO YEARS after I started this blowin’ of the whistle was the guy that Trump appointed two years before I started blowin’? My mind is LITERALLY blown
It’s clear as DAY! They were all in the tank for Hunter and part of the anti Trump Deep State.
Bunch of heterosexual Neanderthal POS white trash people.
https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-husband-violence/
Cancer to civilization
This is what bad faith looks like:
“House Republicans are preparing a package of tax cuts they could take up soon after Congress gets finished with its debt ceiling crisis. Taking up the tax legislation would represent a reversal of Republicans’ recent focus on reducing the federal budget deficit since more tax cuts would further deplete government revenue.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debt-ceiling-tax-cuts_n_646f8242e4b02325c5d9bc1d
@151 I can see the headline now: “Trump buries Hunter Biden investigation”.
Now why would he want to do that? Maybe because investigating Hunter might draw attention to his own crimes.
Oh, yes. Girl, you know it’s true.
Poor, poor Democrats, electing a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil as their party’s leader only to learn that he’s incompetent and senile even when he isn’t corrupt.
Blaming Biden alone isn’t totally fair. Schumer was the one who didn’t want to do this via reconciliation last year. Deal with it.
I learned something new today: You can quite literally convert a standard AR-15 to a machinegun with a piece of coathanger wire. This video shows what it looks like.
I’ve had enough. Machineguns are illegal unless it’s registered, you have a federal license, and pay the tax. Go after these fuckers and throw their asses in prison.
http://handbill.us/2023/05/25/.....achinegun/
Shorter @ 157
Coat hanger on a rifle is bad.
Coat hanger in a woman will do in a pinch.
Coat hanger in a woman will do in a pinch.
Well then.. Why fly a mistress to Mexico?
When kreepshit just saved some always wrong wing billionaires some munee..
An Applebees gift certificate is on its way to widbee.
157
I actually know a guy who has three machine guns with the appropriate licenses.
@158 “Coat hanger on a rifle is bad.”
No, coat hanger in a rifle is bad. Except then it’s not a coat hanger anymore; it’s a gun part. An illegal gun part.
HUGE win for Doctor Dumbfuck, but also a HUGE loss.
The Indiana medical board ruled Dr. Bernard violated patient privacy laws, but also ruled she didn’t violate reporting requirements. She was fined $3,000, reprimanded, and allowed to keep her license to practice medicine.
One out of two ain’t bad compared to his investing track record.
I’ve got enough money.
I’ve got more than enough.
I just don’t feel like paying any of these bills right now.
Ahhhhh, yes, you can talk about all the other autrocities in the world but when it comes to the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus theres no words, just complete acceptance.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/suspect-allegedly-kills-ex-wife-injures-womans-current-boyfriend-after-learning-of-pregnancy
Bob stop pretenting you care about anyone. Your motive is just to exploit an issue for your “winning”.
Heterosexual Neanderthals are a detriment to society and civilization. Breeding will not save them.
Call 1-666-YOU-DEAD Beiatch!
Deficits/Debt? Well control the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus and maybe you get somewhere.
Just a domestic scuffle. Heterosexual Neanderthals infected with the Virus just having a small issue.
https://dunyanews.tv/en/Crime/726114-Man-kills-wife,-injures-daughter-over-%E2%80%98honour%E2%80%99
Vrrooom, Vrroooom……I’m a Heterosexual Neanderthal and like to pollute the environment with a noisy shitty car.
Vrooom, Vrooom.
Bideflation helps “all levels”:
Americans who fill up their cars this Memorial Day weekend will catch a break — at least compared with a year ago, when gasoline prices were soaring.
The national average price for regular gasoline is a full dollar a gallon lower than a year ago. Drivers paid over $4.60 in May 2022, and prices had reached $5 by the second week of June. This week, they paid just over $3.50 a gallon for regular gasoline, according to AAA, the motor club.
Many energy experts said they expected prices to stay around these levels for much of the summer, barring a major disruption to global oil supplies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/business/energy-environment/oil-gasoline-prices-summer.html
However, at HA, Hunter’s dick pics “touch” kreepshit only.
In other news, kon-klown and the other dwarves stick to the “woke” schtick..
@93. What did Paxton do to piss off the republicans so badly? Feed a black kid? Close a tax loophole? Say a bad word about trump?
Minnesota Gov. Walz signs paid family, medical leave bill into law. Florida signs laws allowing the state to kidnap trans kids from their parents.
Both sides are not the same.
After Tuesday’s special elections, Democrats are now overperforming partisan lean by an average of 10 points this cycle. This is 2018-level stuff.
Most Millennials and Gen Z are bucking historical trends of getting more conservative as they age, and are more motivated to vote for human rights.
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@168 Kept their cut of the “appreciation” money.