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– 2 years late, but congrats to SPD on firing a giant fuckup. Hopefully now the good apples can finally note that it’s bad to kill someone and then joke about it.

– Not just the Puget Sound, housing is expensive in Spokane too. Hopefully some of their newish reforms will bring prices down over time.

The Stranger has a bill tracker. I would advise you to find a bill you find interesting and good. Track it, sure, but also contact your legislators and try to get it passed. Maybe find an org that’s doing lobbying.

Comments

  1. 1

    Wow!

    I guess I talked myself into it over the years just so I could piss of liberal pussies.

    But it turns out the orange man really is bad.
    Huh.

  3. 3

    @2,

    If I’m being honest, neither are most conservatives I know.

    But I’m still going to pretend like it’s a huge celebration since I know that doing so will piss you off.

  5. 5

    @3 Wrong again, I’m not pissed off, just a bemused observer. You’ve never been right about anything.

  6. 6

    It appears this domestic terrorist is one of theirs, not one of ours.

    A Virginia man accused of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history and using President Joe Biden’s photo for target practice must stay in jail until trial, a federal judge ruled, writing that he has “shown the capacity for extreme danger.”

    Brad Spafford, 36, is being held on a federal firearms charge for allegedly owning an unregistered short-barrel rifle. Prosecutors say he faces more potential charges for the explosives, including devices found in a backpack labeled “#nolivesmatter.”

    Spafford, a father of two young daughters, also stored a highly unstable explosive material in a garage freezer next to “Hot Pockets and frozen corn on the cob,” according to court documents.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-accused-stockpiling-150-homemade-163342911.html

  7. 7

    Why should Canada be a state? Canada has 10 provinces, so shouldn’t it be 10 states? The Democrats would still get 45 more House seats, but would get 20 instead of 2 more senators. That would make up 555 instead of 537 electoral votes, with 278 needed for a majority. Red states would lose House seats and electoral votes. The whole idea is fine with me, if Republicans can get Canadians to go along with it.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/canada-new-state-electoral-college-001966

  8. 8

    There is NO cause and effect here but it’s a good time for a reminder.

    The alleged liberal Hellhole of Los Angeles County in it’s most recent budget defunded the pokice cut $23M in funding to fire departments and increased the budget for police and sheriffs by $138m.

    Various commentators and Rep. Andy Biggs have taken to the airwaves today to blame a freakishly severe windstorm spread fire not on ‘climate change’ but on liberal policies in Los Angeles and Gavin Newsome.

    Because that’s the thoughtful prayerful response.

    There’s likely editorial meetings on if calling a flying ember an illegal alien invasion is too much.

  9. 9

    8

    LA County has a budget of over $45 Billion dollars…….pretty sure they coulda found $23 million for the fire dept if they wanted to….

    But at least they came up with $730 million to take care of bums and addicts…..sorry LAFD… 

    nice try……insert another quarter and play again?

  10. 10

    @9 Nothing is new about this. California’s hills have been burning for thousands of years. But municipalities are hungry for tax dollars, and are dominated by developers, so they allow builders to build where no one has any business putting homes. The problem begins and ends with prioritizing the Almighty Dollar over common sense.

    Another example, closer to home, is tens of thousands of homes built on top of Mt. Rainier’s old mudflows — and their inhabitants — will simply disappear when, not if, the mountain erupts again.

  12. 12

    @9

    Throughly missing the point.

    DJT twatted about why Gavin Newsome (spelled wrong) is personally responsible that the fire is not yet under control.

    His cokehead son about how DEI is DIE because there are fires.

    They are LITERALLY making political sport out of people losing everything while it’s still burning.

  13. 13

    – Not just the Puget Sound, housing is expensive in Spokane too.

    That’s not what the article says, Carl.

    As of the end of November, the median price of a home in Spokane County was $415,900, which was slightly higher than in November 2023, when the median price was $407,750, according to Spokane Realtors.

    Tom Hormel, Realtor and designated broker at RE/MAX of Spokane, said the overall market has shifted from a strong seller’s market, where buyers often had to compete with multiple offers, to a very soft seller’s market where homeowners must consider upgrades, fresh paint and other perks to get homes to move.
    …
    “It’s a little bit of a neutral market,” he said. “We are still a little more toward the seller’s market with the low inventory, but we have a little bit of a lack of buyers in the market right now.”

    The article says the median price climbed 2% in the last year and the market is somewhat neutral.

    The likelihood is that buyers are sitting on the sidelines until a more meaningful drop in mortgage interest rates occurs.

    You bit on the “skyrocket headline”, when the truth is nowhere near that, Carl. Very Dumbfuck Rabbit of you.

  14. 14

    Confidential to ACAB:

    The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (aka “Cop City”) Has Been Built

    Oh. And your homosexual hero tent dude was shooting at cops (and hit one) at the time he was killed by return fire.

    Well done, ACAB! Well done!

  16. 16

    Message: I care.

    BIDEN: My son lives out here, by the way. They got the notification yesterday that their home has probably burned to the ground. Today, it appears that it may be still standing. We’re not sure, but the good news is, I’m a great-grandfather as of today. My granddaughter (inaudible) baby girl, baby boy so I’m gonna remember this day for a lot of reasons.

    The good news is that POS Hunter didn’t start the fire while he was free-basing.

    Small wonder that Biden’s approval numbers are Nixonian.

  18. 18

    @ 12

    They are LITERALLY making political sport out of people losing everything while it’s still burning.

    You don’t remember much about the Florida hurricanes, do you, Hops?

  19. 19

    It was all fun and games back when then-President Trump wanted to fill California’s reservoirs, and liberals prevented it.

    Court Derails Trump Administration’s Efforts to Take More Water from Bay-Delta
    Preliminary Injunction Helps Protect Endangered Species Until Court’s Final Ruling
    May 12, 2020

    The last new reservoir in CA was build in the 70s. Hey, at least the fire fighters aren’t getting hurt since they don’t have any water with which to fight the fire. Yay for safety!

  20. 20

    As insurers continue to pull out of CA and the few insurers who still write policies there jack up rates, I’m sure looking forward to Welfare Queen YLB criticizing CA the way she criticizes DeSantis’ FL for its insurance challenges.

  21. 21

    @ 12, 18

    Hops will no doubt feel better knowing that it’s not just conservatives who are using the wildfires as an easy way to score political points.

    “The University of Missouri extends its sympathies to all those affected by the wildfires in California. We find the statement by Karen Piper — a retired professor — to be deeply offensive, and it does not reflect the university’s viewpoint or values. We are reviewing this matter.”

    Ms. Piper found humor in the destruction of James Woods’ home by the wildfires. And then felt the need to share her sense of mirth.

  23. 23

    @13

    Dumbfuck, do you ever get tired of being the way you are.

    The median home price in Spokane in January 2015 was $171K. In January 2020 $262K, Near the beginning of 2025 $416K.

    That’s an 143% rise in 10 years. So if you were Spokane High Class of 2015-2020 you went off to college thinking you could always move back home, open an accounting business or a couple espresso shops with your Business degree or work IT for the county with that CS Degree, you know the kinds of majors you call “useful” and not “Dance”, and then buy a home in say 7-10 years… Yeah, you’re fucked.

    Dumbfuck, “BUT IN THIS VERY NARROW TIMEFRAME OF A FEW MONTHS THAT I DEMAND YOU LOOK AT IT HASN’T GONE UP THAT MUCH.”

  24. 24

    @18

    Can you show me either a President, Vice President, current or elect putting out official statements that a Hurricane is Ron DeSantis’ fault?

    We can go back. Hurricanes happen in FL on the regular.

    Rick Scott’s fault?
    How about Charlie Crist?
    JEB! ?

    That gets us back 25 years.

  25. 25

    Well this is awkward.

    Imagine if the son of a President were sent on a diplomatic trip at the behest of his father. Now imagine that son is widely known to be a drug abuser. Now imagine one of the people he made a video with in that country with is a convicted drug dealer in that country. Now imagine his Father the President posted that video as a success of the idea of the son’s mission of diplomacy.

    No, not that kid. Don Jr.

    The man shown in a video posted by President-elect Donald Trump to Truth Social pleading for the U.S. to buy Greenland is a convicted drug dealer, according to local media reports.
    …
    But Danish media reported that Trump might want to think again as the man featured in the clip, Timmy Zeeb, is known to authorities for all the wrong reasons. Zeeb is a convicted drug dealer, violent criminal, and serial offender, according to Danish media outlets DR News and B.T.

    DR News reported that way back in 2009, the unofficial Greenland spokesman actually escaped from prison. Ten years later he was sentenced to four years in one of Greenland’s largest cannabis cases.

    In 2018, he was also outed as the ringleader of a significant hashish smuggling operation. Police confiscated 4 million kroner, the equivalent of more than $500,000, from him.

  29. 29

    @19

    Nice try. The largest water sources for Southern CA are Lake Cachuma, Lake Casitas, Lake Castaic, and the Diamond Valley reservoir. The closest to the current fire is Diamond Valley.

    All of them are either at or above their historic average levels.

    The closest source to the current situation is Diamond Valley. It is also the one that is currently the greatest percentage ABOVE its historic average level.

    What your dumb-ass President was referring to was diverting even more San Joaquin Delta water via the viaducts to the farming communities in the southern Sacramento valley which would do Fuck all for the Los Angeles area. The proposal would have devastated not just the “tiny little fish” the dotard was so upset about but also the very significant summer tourism industry of boating and fishing in the Sierra foothills and potentially cause water shortages in the Northern CA end of the valley. This is a 100 year old conflict between Northern and Sothern CA agriculture.

    “Why I could solve it in a day even before I’m sworn in by giving Southern California everything they’ve ever asked for. Screw you Willows, no one needs your rice or Almonds!”

  30. 30

    @9 Trump believes he can solve every conflict on the planet by giving one side what they want. Ukraine a Russian province, Taiwan a Chinese non-autonomous borough, a reunified Korea under Kim, etc. Every one of his foreign policy objectives can be achieved by either invading small defenseless countries or surrendering to big menacing ones.

  31. 31

    @21

    Yes, a professor who no one has ever heard of before now is EXACTLY like the President Elect and his drug addicted son.

    Keep trying.

  34. 34

    Elon twats that DEI failed to put out the fires out after goading by the openly racist Chaya Raichick.

    Good time to remind you Elon’s family immigrated to South Africa after Apartheid was initiated to take advantage of the suddenly up for grabs land and Elon hates the Kaffir.

    BTW, did you know that Elon’s brother is rumored to have been involved with Epstein’s prostitutes and there are whispers that one of them he ‘dated’ for more than a year went on become a wife of someone else.

    It’s only a rumor so I really don’t care. Do you?

  35. 35

    No one Everyone predicted this.

    The number of abortions performed in Kansas reached a record high in 2023, with the largest segment of patients actually coming from Texas, according to a recently released state health report.

    Kansas’ 2023 Annual Summary of Vital Statistics documented the highest number of abortions in the state since it began tracking the procedure in 1976. The nearly 19,500 abortions performed in 2023 were a 58% increase from 2022, which recorded around 12,300 procedures.

  36. 36

    @ 23

    First of all, that 2015 Q1 figure was NOT $171k. It was 171.04, relative to an index of 100 in 1995 Q1. It’s important to understand the difference. Here’s my link, because you didn’t provide one:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS44060Q

    Second, this reference is for all home transactions, not the median home price. So when Carl whines about the top end prices and I point out that the median home price changed little during the period his reference covered, it does you little good to claim “Yabbut…” and then avoid addressing the median home price, while criticizing me for pointing out that Carl did not address median home price while his linked article specifically did.

  37. 37

    Let’s recall that others on this list were Boxcheck Momala and The Fat Cow:

    Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, with Karen Bass emerging as one of several key contenders

    By MJ Lee, Jeff Zeleny and Jasmine Wright, CNN
    Updated 4:13 PM EDT, Fri July 31, 2020

    Surely there were more competent Democrats than these sad fucks, one of whom Bi-Done could have picked.

    This might be the best example of DEI blowing up in Democrats’ faces. It’s certainly been noticed by some pretty big corporations and by some pretty big universities, who are busy unwinding their DEI forays as quickly as possible.

  38. 38

    Is a sitting SCOTUS justice making a call to the head of the executive branch to ask for a favor in hiring his assistant to an executive branch position

    A: corrupt
    B: totally corrupt
    C. Fucking corrupt
    D. Totally Fucking Corrupt

  39. 39

    @ 38

    Is a sitting SCOTUS justice making a call to the head of the executive branch to ask for a favor…

    E. The opposite of what happened.

    Answer E is correct.

    “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position. I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” said Alito.

    Trump doing a reference check is standard business practice. It should be standard government practice although if people actually did it, incompetent fucks like Boxcheck Momala and Karen Bass would never advance to their current positions.

  41. 41

    @39 Oh look, the dumbfuck troll wants us to believe shady characters like Trump and Alito operate according to standard business practice.

  43. 43

    Standard business practices also include interviewing the “hot” female applicant for the executive role just so we can look at her tits.

  44. 44

    @39

    ‘It would be utterly inappropriate for me to speak to someone who not only has had cases in my court but also has several cases that will shortly be before my and is guaranteed to have cases before my court in the future.”

    “Please I really want this job.”

    “Well for you my boy I’ll do a thing that is a textbook example of a conflict of interest. Make sure no one knows. Oh shit is that a reporter?”

  46. 46

    Look on the bright side. There will be hundreds and hundreds of clean-up and construction jobs available in the Los Angeles area during the next several years.

  47. 47

    I’m currently in Europe and this morning was watching BBC, the only English-language channel my hotel receives.

    I would like to point out this speech by the Foreign Minister of Great Britain:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-locarno-speech-by-the-foreign-secretary-9-january-2025

    Specifically, I would like to point out this passage:

    That’s why I want to lay out 3 realist principles that will guide our foreign policy to get us to a more progressive 2035.

    First, we and our allies must relearn the Cold War manual. Long-term thinking, not short-termism. Consistent deterrence, not constant distraction.
    …
    And second, to be taken seriously by opponents and allies alike we must put our money where our mouth is. That starts by facing the facts. Donald Trump and JD Vance are simply right when they say that Europe needs to do more to defend its own continent. It is myopia to pretend otherwise, with Russia on the march.

    So this government will lay out a clear pathway to reaching 2.5% of our GDP on defence.

    That’s the FM of a very leftist British PM – the FM’s a black dude, BTW – mincing no words in telling British pussies to grow the fuck up and admit that the world has gotten meaner and more dangerous, and that the DJT47 response to it is spot-on.

    This is no time for giving the Welfare Queen YLBs of the world the microphone. Giving them the microphone has handed us the very weak Biden administration and an emboldened Putin.

    The US military must be less DEI and more threatening to our enemies. It might give Welfare Queen YLB nightmares. But she’s scared of losing her fucked kids’ rent payments in an improving Trump-fueled economy, so she’s not sleeping well, anyway.

  49. 49

    @ 46

    There will be hundreds and hundreds of clean-up and construction jobs available in the Los Angeles area during the next several years.

    There’s also a lot of land suddenly available for building high-rise Section 8 housing. California Democrats won’t be able to resist converting McMansions to Watts On The Beach.

  50. 50

    Dear Sirs,

    I’m a Minister of Parliament.

    My informal cabinet title is that of Foreign Secretary. My formal government title is that of Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. There is no “Foreign Minister” in the UK.

    And since some of you people don’t seem to understand, none of my constituency voted for that office. They vote to elect me their MP. My fellow MPs form a voting majority and use that voting majority elect the officers to His Majesty’s government.

    What we do not do is assemble a coterie of billionaires to vie for the attentions and favor of a fat man wearing women’s makeup.

  51. 51

    @ 50

    Noted.

    What we do not do is assemble a coterie of billionaires…

    What we – the liberals among us, that is – are great at doing is ignoring sexual abuse of children when it’s by people we don’t want to receive bad publicity.

  52. 52

    I have said that I would have liked to fuck one of my daughters when she was an adolescent. But I didn’t ever actually go through with it.

    Instead a friend of mine from Palm Beach hooked me up with a lookalike and I fucked her instead. I didn’t check her age. That’s not my problem.
    MAGA!

  53. 53

    Loser.

    State Watch
    Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules

    At least Navy Joan won’t have to compete against chicks with dicks when she joins a NCAA womens’ team.

  54. 54

    If you’re a Dem unable to answer basic questions, never let yourself get caught in a dead-end hallway in an airport.

    “Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?” Blevins is heard asking her on the video.

    Bass says nothing and stares ahead blankly.

    “Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today,” Blevins presser her.

    Bass, again, does not respond.

    “Elon Musk says that you’re utterly incompetent,” Blevins tells Bass, referencing social media posts from the billionaire and ally to President-elect Trump blaming her and other California Democrats for the blazes.

    “Are you considering your position? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster,” Blevins asks Bass, who continues to ignore him. “No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?”

    I don’t think she’ll be True Gretch’s running mate. Or re-elected mayor.

  56. 56

    California liberals voted for the homeless encampments that started the fires. California liberals let the brush grow to provide cover so they wouldn’t have to see the homeless.

    Now they can all be homeless together.

  60. 60

    It was fun, wasn’t it, watching Barack and Donald telling each other Biden jokes today at Jimmah’s funeral service.

  62. 62

    @56

    You know this because…… it had to be an illegal alien trans homeless criminal because no one has ever tossed a cigarette out a car window and wind has never blown down a power line or anything of the sort.

    Also you are sure of this because you’re an asshole.

  63. 63

    Huh.

    Danish News (DR) is reporting that staff of Don Jr. handed out hats and offered a free diner to passerby including homeless Greenlanders to pose a supporters for the photo op.

    Which makes sense because, as a bit of campaign swag for a donation and citizen of Denmark would be barred by law from buying a Red Hat directly. It is possible that a citizen of Greenland can purchase a MAGA hat from a private seller and pay international shipping to get one but you don’t see any Americans wandering around in Modhi hats or waving a Nigel Ferage flag from the back of the pick up.

  64. 64

    Them damned Indians is at fault!
    They shoulda included some kinda warning on the box er sumthin.

    How’s I ta know that that damn “21 Gun Salute with Report” cake couldn’t be launched from a Tesla on the 210?
    Fuck’s sake it was New Years, bitches!

  65. 65

    @64,

    The fat chicks love the “24 Piece Screaming Panty Dropper with Colored Smoke”. It works for me every damn time!

    USA!!

  66. 66

    “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position.

    I could very easily have waited to do so until after today’s hearing. But I chose not to because FUCK ALL YOU LIBERAL PUSSIES!!!

    Bite me.

    I do not care.

    White men of proper breeding like me are the natural rulers of all mankind. And it’s time you people heard that news.
    Fuck off.

  68. 68

    Again for Welfare Queen YLB:

    More interaction between a different set of two two-term presidents:

    Reese Gorman
    @reesejgorman

    The belly tap is remarkable

    5:07 PM · Jan 9, 2025

  69. 69

    Bi-Done is the only president this millenium who couldn’t win a second term.

    I wonder if Welfare Queen YLB has given that any thought yet.

  71. 71

    And then there’s Hillary, sitting in the row with the other First Ladies.

    #CrookedHillary is jealous of the $40 million payday Netflix awarded to Melania.

    Welfare Queen YLB hates Melania’s poise and beauty. And that Michelle O decided to skip the whole thing so she wouldn’t be upstaged by Melania.

  72. 72

    It will be Bi-Done’s turn very soon.

    Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh

    BREAKING: Jill Biden and Kamala Harris completely ignore each other after being forced to sit next to each other.

    Jill Biden literally turns her head away as soon as she sits down and looks visibly aggravated even being near Kamala. Wow.

    CNN: “You didn’t see a typically warm greeting between the First Couple and a Second Couple.”

    H/t
    @jacobkschneider

    4:39 PM · Jan 9, 2025

  73. 73

    After Gore’s loss he and Clinton got into a big argument in the Oral Office.

    That could never happen this year. Bi-Done can’t go 30 seconds without forgetting the topic of any verbal exchange.

  74. 74

    Low self esteem gossipy junior high school mean girl is so very MAGA!

    You all wish you could be this serious.

  75. 75

    Just totally normal of Elon to retweet a simple ‘Totally True” about a diatribe about Hitler being a communist because the Nazi’s put Socialism in their name.

    This is the stuff of F graded Intro to PoliSci papers.

  76. 76

    @47 “The US military must be less DEI and more threatening to our enemies.”

    Well yes, when you treat black, Latino, and female soldiers like shit, that detracts from military effectiveness.

  77. 77

    It doesn’t actually look like $2 trillion in efficiency savings is going to be possible.
    I was pretty high on ketamine when I said that the first time.

    $2 trillion in deficit spending isn’t enough to trigger inflation. It doesn’t work like that.

    I’m actually high on ketamine right now.

  79. 79

    All I did was lie about Hunter Biden and set off a couple hundred million in government investigative waste and for that it’s SIX YEARS? What happened to freedom of speech?

  81. 81

    @78,

    Brave patriot gave his all for freedom just like those heroic pets in Springfield.

    They shall not be forgotten.

  82. 82

    There will probably be several property insurers that will go out of business due to the catastrophe in California. The ones who don’t fail financially will have some very tough years ahead, but, barring another major catastrophe like the one in Los Angeles County, they probably will remain in business. All will not do so well on profitability.

  83. 83

    Hey, remember when Elizabeth Warren got her panties in a twist over Pete Hegseth’s tattoo?

    “You were also removed from President Biden’s inauguration because of concerns that you were an insider threat after reports that your ‘Deus Vult’ tattoo ‘was a Christian expression associated with right-wing extremism,’” she wrote to Hegseth.

    “We cannot have a Defense Secretary whose fellow servicemembers feel concerned enough about to report as a potential insider threat.”

    The same symbol was used for the cover of Jimmy Carter’s funeral program.

    Liberals are such silly twats over pretty much everything. Remember the cadets at the football game accused of White Power racism

    https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/790229945/cadets-were-playing-game-not-flashing-white-power-sign-military-finds

    for giving the “OK sign” to the TV cameras?

  84. 84

    Newsom’s literally not gonna recover from his disastrous oversight of California.

    Gavin Newsom literally lies to a woman about the fires, and we can literally see that it is a lie.
    WOMAN: “Governor!… I live here! That was my daughter’s school! Please, tell me what you’re going to do!”

    NEWSOM: “I’m literally talking to the President to specifically answer the question of what we can do….”

    WOMAN: “Can I hear? Can I hear your call? Because I don’t believe it.”

    NEWSOM (showing her his phone): “Um, I’m sorry. There’s literally — I’ve tried 5 times. I’m walking around to make the call.”

    I hope you’re watching Gov. Hair Gel, True Gretch. Don’t lie so obviously when the world is watching you.

  85. 85

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit uses clothespins to corral his multiple indwelling rectal catheters.

    Donald Trump Jr.
    @DonaldJTrumpJr

    David Muir, the supposed moderator of my father‘s presidential debate, who instead chose to be a participant, is so vain that as people in Los Angeles are losing everything, he used clothes pins to make his fake fireman’s jacket more form fitting.
    Sick!
    From
    Jack Osbourne
    6:12 PM · Jan 9, 2025

  86. 86

    @85 There should be a congressional investigation. Better to occupy the incoming Republican congress with clothespins than anything serious.

  87. 87

    It’s just so weird that the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States won’t take a radio patched call from a guy claiming to be a fire battalion commander from Altadena.

    So weird.

  89. 89

    @88 The only people dumber than Democrats are Republicans. Trump again?? Really??? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  90. 90

    Get out your checkbook, Rupert:

    Fox Corp, the parent of Fox News Network, failed to convince a New York state appeals court to dismiss a defamation claim in electronic voting systems company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit over the network’s 2020 post-election coverage.

    A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan ruled on Thursday that Smartmatic sufficiently alleged the Fox parent was directly liable for on-air statements suggesting Smartmatic helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election to favor Democrat Joe Biden over Republican Donald Trump.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-09/fox-must-face-smartmatic-2-7-billion-defamation-lawsuit-ny-appeals-court-rules

  91. 91

    We do have an immigrant problem. Rupert Murdoch is an immigrant. So is Elon Musk. These foreigners have inflicted massive damage on our country, far worse than any migrant murderer, rapist, or gang member. They should be deported.

  94. 94

    Oopsie – there goes the stock markets.

    Nobody does things as good as me. Nobody!

  95. 95

    @88

    Shoeonhead,

    I saw your video about the election of Trump and it was spot-on, 100% accurate!

    Roger, you should give it a viewing because it’s funny as hell and says exactly what was wrong with the Democrats in the 2024 presidential election. In fact, all of you liberals here on HA should give it a look-see.

  96. 96

    @88, @95 – The YouTube video was funny as hell! Good job, Shoe!

    The rodent and all the other liberal progressive trolls here should see it.

    Thanks for reminding me of it, Lib!

  97. 97

    @85

    You know the funniest thing about this complaint is my confession that I have zero relevance, personality, skills, or identity without tying it to my father.

  103. 103

    California’s legislature is in special session.

    Not because of the wildfires.

    The special session was called to stop Trump.

    California’s legislature is a joke. California’s governor is a joke.

  105. 105

    Los Angelenos voted for their disaster.

    Los Angelenos voted for Karen Bass.

    Stupidity should be painful. And smoky.

  106. 106

    @100-105 Witness the effect of leaded I-5 fumes on a toonerville loon. The stupid.. it burns..

    We’re told 10 people would be alive today if not for DEI.. and a fish.

    Hardly a drop of rain since early Spring and 100 mph Santa Ana winds, naaah.. Don’t even mention climate change and no one in memory has seen dry conditions that extreme.

    ho hum.. times we’re living in..

  107. 107

    dumbfuck has to make excuses for the the inexcusable from the EU?

    well fascism is catching on there.. again.. must be that.

    back to vacay for yours truly.

  108. 108

    The Pacific Palisades reservoir was empty.

    I had to water my swimming pool. A lot.

  109. 109

    The US military must be less DEI and more threatening to our enemies.

    lmao.. “less”?? What happened to NO DEI???

    Isn’t that what the drunk and rapist Hegseth is gonna bring to the table?

    translation: dumbfuck can’t wait for more stoopid hard enough.

    kinda boring if you ask me..

  110. 110

    @108

    I would have been fine with drinking contaminated water. Why would t to repair it? Ever? #FLINTSTRONG

  111. 111

    How to identify a psychopath in three easy steps..

    Yep, that’s dumbfuck. Passes that test easily. Totally BORING psycho.

  112. 112

    White guys ate actually right. We should have left the reservoir filled with legally undrinkable water instead of slated the repair for well outside the typical fire season.

    And once the warning came out from the national weather service we should have filled it. I know it takes a month but we could have done it in two days if we really wanted to.

    And I KNOW I’ve been in water and power my entire career including a top position at PG&E.

    I’m just a woman from Puerto Rico. A DEI hire. You can’t expect me to know how to run such a department.

  116. 116

    @115 Yes, I know Trumpers have fragile feelings, but that’s their problem. Maybe they’d be tougher if their fathers and teachers had smacked them around more when they were kids.*

    * I’m generally not in favor of this, but in their case that’s education, not child abuse, because normal intellectual training doesn’t get through to them.

  125. 125

    @102 Nah. 2028 will pit two 3rd-termers against each other, Trump vs. Obama.

    Sure, the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to 2 terms. But Repukes are already saying it doesn’t apply to them. Well, if not the goose, then not the gander, either.

    Also, the Supreme Court has already ruled that ballot disqualifications are unenforceable.

  127. 127

    The Trump bump is gone. The DJIA is more than 1,000 points below its pre-election level, and the Trump Inflation hasn’t even started yet. The Wall Street rats are jumping ship before it does.

  128. 128

    @123

    For fuck’s sake. I’ve been in the ground 35 years and they’re still pulling that shit?

  129. 129

    LAFD got a $53 million dollar budget increase for this fiscal year.

    Republican trolls are running wild telling lies and spreading false information in the middle of one of the biggest disasters in California history.

    And you fools are falling for it.

  130. 130

    I’ve been watching NewsNation a lot these days. They remind me of how CNN used to be about 40 years ago.

  131. 131

    @ 129

    LAFD got a $53 million dollar budget increase for this fiscal year.

    That’s not what the fire chief is saying:

    In an extraordinary public airing of grievances, Crowley acknowledged to a reporter with KTTV that the city, and by extension, Mayor Bass, failed its residents during the wildfires.

    When pushed several times if the city had failed, Crowley’s response was unflinching: ‘Yes.’

    The stark admission sent shockwaves through the city, as Crowley detailed the dire state of her department.

    Years of budget cuts, she said, had left the LAFD grappling with crippling staffing shortages, outdated equipment, and insufficient resource – issues she claimed had been repeatedly brought to the city’s attention.

  132. 132

    Manly men make Welfare Queen YLB moist.

    johnny maga
    @_johnnymaga

    🚨 BREAKING: Tim Walz throws his support behind David Hogg for DNC Vice Chair

    In a statement to Politico Playbook, Walz praised Hogg’s “unique ability to connect with the American people and to speak to the strengths of our party.”

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    2:54 PM · Jan 10, 2025

    Moreover, Hogg is an experienced businessman, having once started a business that manufactured pillows. No, really.
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  133. 133

    Walz’ support could mean that there really aren’t any other options.

    Yikes, DNC.

  134. 134

    @130 Well you won’t have to think about CNN much longer because they’re paywalling their website now so nobody reads it anymore.

  135. 135

    The LAFD Fire Chief is lying and so are the trolls.

    The firefighters union was stuck in negotiations with the city when the city budget was being renewed. $75 million of the total appropriation for the LAFD was set aside in a reserve specified by a memorandum of understanding for appropriation to cover negotiated compensation terms. When the contract was ratified the $75 million was transfered from the reserve.

    Republican trolls are running wild spreading enormous lies in the middle of a human tragedy.

    Stop falling for it. It makes you all look like fools.

  136. 136

    Presumptive incoming Trump administration officials have been pressuring LAFD Fire Chief Crowley to blame the Mayor. They call for Crowley to be fired for being an “unqualified DEI hire”. Then under mounting pressure for her resignation, they arranged for her to give an exclusive interview to a local television station owned and operated by the Murdoch family who have previously been compelled to admit under oath and in sworn statements that they lie to their viewers to comply with demands from Trump and Trump employees.

    Only the dumbest and least informed people fall for these clumsy lies.

  137. 137

    134

    Thanks for the info. I don’t give CNN much thought, in any event. CNN has become superfluous.

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