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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 1/22/25, 8:14 am

More people biking the Fremont Bridge. You guys. I don’t know how much that’s people coming back to work Downtown and how much it’s bike specific.

Amazon workers taking the Interurban Trail to work will probably boost that this year as they’re required to work from the office. I have mentioned that I haven’t noticed a huge uptick in people in coffee shops around Amazon; I also haven’t noticed more bikes. Yet.

Anyway, it’s cold as fuck, go warm up.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:12 am

    It’s not so much that it’s tired.

    Some on X, the social medial platform he owns, likened the gesture to a Nazi salute, though others disagreed.

    In response, the SpaceX and Tesla chief posted on X: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”

    It’s that it’s ineffective.

    Libbies have painted everyone they don’t like as fascist or Nazi. Because this replaced a true campaign effort they badly lost both the Senate and the White House.

    Normalizing the IQ and conduct of the Welfare Queen YLBs of the Democrat party was not a wise decision for the DNC. It won’t play well in 2026 and 2028, either.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:14 am

    Vance’s Hindu wife.”

    Think on your sins, girlfriend.

  3. 3

    Good Germans spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:17 am

    Weird that not Elon, Not Donnie, Not JD have come out with, “If anyone was offended…”

    Because it was a Nazi salute. He meant to do it. They know he meant to do it. They endorse it. They heard the roar of the crowd and they are PROUD to be part of it.

  4. 4

    Donald “Goes away in the Spring” Trump spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:21 am

    “No FDA, NIH! You are no linger allowed temporarily to release any info. No press releases, no website updates.

    You embarrassed me last time saying horse medicine and swallowing UV bulbs wouldn’t cure it.

    It’s no big deal. It’s not like farmers are spreading E Coli from time to time.

  5. 5

    New York Times spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:25 am

    @1

    Nazis and Nazi sympathizers on Twitter approve of Elon doing extraordinarily obvious Seig Heil.

    Others on Twitter say it was a Roman salute.

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:26 am

    If you lie for us the confirmation vote will be a much closer one.

    Rachael Bade
    @rachaelmbade

    Curious …. “She adds that part of her reason for coming forward is ‘because I have been assured that making this public statement will ensure that certain Senators who are still on the fence will vote against Hegseth’s confirmation.’”

    Assured by whom?

    Quote
    Julie Tsirkin
    @news_jul
    ·
    23h
    BREAKING NEWS: Danielle Hegseth, former sister-in-law of Trump’s SecDef pick, said in a sworn affidavit that Pete Hegseth made his second wife fear for her safety

    Samantha Hegseth tells @NBCNews “There was no physical abuse” w/ @S_Fitzpatrick @ckubeNBC https://nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/senators-received-affidavit-containing-new-allegations-pete-hegseth-de-rcna188342
    Show more
    11:15 AM · Jan 21, 2025

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:30 am

    @ 3

    Because it was a Nazi salute.

    2024’s “Because he had a cold.” has morphed into 2025’s “Because it was a Nazi salute. ”

    Ask Welfare Queen YLB how 2024 worked out for her, both electorally and personally. Her blind devotion to the DNC defense of Bi-Done was so humiliating to her that after nearly two decades she was forced to change her HA user name.

    Different user name these days, but same unserious twat.

  8. 8

    But...What was she wearing at the time of the rape spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:39 am

    @6

    Guy has never heard of emotional abuse, verbal abuse, financial abuse…

  9. 9

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:43 am

    Pete Hegseth’s attorney, in a letter to Sen. Wicker:

    It is important to note that Ms. Dietrich told all of this to the FBI on December 30, 2024 but the FBI was unable to corroborate her claims, which were then flatly refuted by Sam, the actual participant.

    Saaaaaaay, why am I not reading MSM stories about 13 enraged Democrat senators demanding a re-hearing to discuss these newly public allegations for the cameras?

  10. 10

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:48 am

    @ 8

    Guy has never heard of emotional abuse, verbal abuse, financial abuse…

    I believe your next step is to leak the FBI investigation report so that we can determine whether those types of abuse were investigated and, if so, what was learned.

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:53 am

    Euthanasia is health care, too, Rick Larsen, WA-2.

    Abortion is health care, and people have the right to make their own decisions without government interference. This should not be political whatsoever, and a strong majority of the American people agree.

    As long as I have the privilege of serving the people of Northwest Washington in Congress, I will stand for the right to safe and legal abortions.

    More soon.

    Rick

    Where do you stand on a request for euthanasia by a 14 year-old troubled by gender dysphoria, Rick Larsen?

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 10:58 am

    Repeat after me, fellow libbies: Trump-threatened tariffs are baaaaaaddddd.

    Isn’t that right?

    Politics
    Trump threatens Russia with sanctions, tariffs if Putin doesn’t end Ukraine war

  13. 13

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 11:27 am

    Trump has revoked the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Act
    Notably the order prohibited discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, skin color, sex or nationality.

  14. 14

    My Beautiful Calendars spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 11:40 am

    @10

    I’m fine with it.

    FBI did not interview woman who accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017: Sources

  15. 15

    Time marches backwards spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 11:44 am

    @13

    Back to when America was great when you had a spic, and a negro both with college degrees and a white guy with a GED and Jew with a masters you didn’t have to explain to anyone why you hired the white guy.

    Whites are just a better fit here.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 11:49 am

    @31

    I deal in false equivalencies, straw men and ad hominem.

    Notice Me! Pick Me!

  17. 17

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:02 pm

    @ 13

    Trump has revoked the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Act …

    He revoked an EO, not a congressional Act. Do you understand the difference? Do you even know there is a difference?

  18. 18

    MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:05 pm

    @13

    It takes an act of Congress to actually do that so we’ll just slip it into the big beautiful bill so it doesn’t have to get to the Senate floor.

  19. 19

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:30 pm

    Veterans vote for Trump, VA hospital stops hiring because of Trump
    “Trump froze federal hiring on Monday in a presidential memorandum”

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:37 pm

    It’s not “cold as fuck,” Carl. Canadians and midwesterners would laugh at this remark. Daytime temps are in the 40s, and overnight temps dip to only a couple degrees below freezing. What’s cold as fuck is the heartless, compassionless GOP — all of it.

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:40 pm

    Susan Collins is “troubled” again. And will vote the party line again.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5100687-susan-collins-pete-hegseth-fbi-report/

    I can’t imagine a more cynical, two-faced politician than her. At least Trump is consistent.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 12:45 pm

    Out of 1,500 pardoned criminals, one has honor.

    Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for actions she took on Jan. 6, 2021, said she will not accept President Trump’s pardon and that his supporters were “wrong” for storming the Capitol four years ago. “Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol Police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” Hemphill told the BBC. “We were wrong that day. We broke the law. There should be no pardons,” she added.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5100927-jan-6-rioter-declines-trump-pardon-we-were-wrong-that-day/

  23. 23

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:16 pm

    @ 22

    In pointing out the honor of the guilty criminal who refused a pardon, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit inadvertently contrasts her honorable act with The Biden Crime Family’s corruption.

    Our failed former president’s last act was to issue pardons to no fewer than six Biden Crime Family members, one of whom was already a proven felon.

    The Don of The Biden Crime Family gave license to Trump to issue pardons to his favored recipients, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Joe Biden’s last corrupt act will always hang around your triple chin-adorned neck.

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:19 pm

    John Cardillo
    @johncardillo

    The reason I went with DeSantis in the primary was that he understood how to use executive power.

    Trump never used his power, but instead listened to all the wrong people who convinced him POTUS couldn’t really do anything because they wanted to rein him in.

    Not anymore.

    Trump has finally realized how much power is bestowed upon the presidency and is using his pen like a minigun, mowing down wokeism one EO at a time.

    This is absolutely outstanding.

    7:37 AM · Jan 22, 2025

    I don’t know about outstanding. But I do know that DJT47 does not have to worry about re-election, Bi-Done’s EOs have given him a road map to use of unchecked power, and unlike the chaotic two month transitional period after his first electoral win he’s had four years to plan this term rollout this time around.

    Thank you, libbies, for making this not only possible, but simple. You lit the path for DJT47.

  25. 25

    Fraternal Order of Police spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:27 pm

    Many of them will be off the streets again by June.

    Daniel Ball, indicted for throwing an explosive (to be fair, cops like to call a 4th of July smoke bomb an explosive) into a tunnel inside the Capitol on Jan 6th and pardoned yesterday….

    Has been arrested on a pending federal gun violation. These charges were pending since 2023 so the incoming administration knowingly pardoned a repeat felon.

    Good Optics.

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:27 pm

    From J6 defending attorney Bill Shipley re the pardoned J6 prisoners in DC who were not immediately released pursuant to DJT47’s EO:

    Defendants are housed at DOC under a contract with the U.S. Marshal’s Service because there is not U.S. Govt holding facility in DC.

    The U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia is a Presidential Appointee, and the USMS is part of the Justice Department. So, what is apparently happening now is the Trump DOJ has directed the USMS to go into the DOC and physically remove those J6 defendants still being held.

  27. 27

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:30 pm

    @ 25

    … so the incoming administration knowingly pardoned a repeat felon.

    So did the outgoing administration. The felon’s name is Hunter Biden. Perhaps you have heard of him.

    I wrote about @ 23 that the outgoing administration gave license to DJT47’s administration to behave in the same manner. This may be an example.

    Think on your sins. You have at least 1459 more days for it.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:40 pm

    @23 In vomiting his stupidity all over this thread, the dumbfuck doctor equates cheating on taxes and lying on a gun purchase form to violently trying to “Hang Mike Pence!”

    Dumbfucks are gonna dumbfuck, then boast about it.

  29. 29

    Sad Horns spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:40 pm

    @23

    Keep fucking that horse.

    Biden swept away the opportunity for Congress to engage in fake hearings and subpoenas that were bragged about in advance. Gym Jordan told us about the plans.

    Now Gym Jordan gets to rub one out while being told of his employee diddling teen boys and begging their siblings to never speak of it.

    Gym,
    “We’re gonna jail Fauci for not agreeing that bleach enemas cure Covid!”

    Biden, “Yeah you can fuck right off with that.”

    Liz Cheney, “Get this, he had a subpoena already drafted for me. Cocktail??”

    Gen. Milley being uncharacteristically cool, “I got a letter from judiciary
    The other day
    I opened it, read it
    It said they were suckers!”

  30. 30

    Willie Horron spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:42 pm

    @27

    Oh silly me. I left off VIOLENT.

    As in Violent Felon.

  31. 31

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:46 pm

    Meh. I had a puka shell necklace in high school.

    Inauguration Day Jan. 21, 2025
    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Wore a Symbol of Resistance to the Inauguration

    …Justice Jackson sat quietly. With her judicial robes, she wore a collar and a pair of earrings made up of cowrie shells. While Jackson hasn’t elaborated on why she wore the statement piece, according to Vogue, the move appears to be a symbol of quiet resistance.

    I resisted getting all 5s on my AP exams.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:46 pm

    @23 It shouldn’t be necessary for a president to pardon family members charged with no crimes, against whom there is no credible evidence of any criminal activity, to protect them from vindictive abuse of power; but that’s how far Trump and those who support him have dragged our once-proud nation into the gutter.

    The difference between the Biden and Trump pardons is the people pardoned by Biden are innocent (except Hunter), and the people pardoned by Trump are guilty (and, in many cases, violent criminals).

    It’s not the same.

  33. 33

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:48 pm

    @1 Normalizing fascism isn’t good for America. You dumb Republican twits went ahead and did it anyway.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:49 pm

    @ 28

    … equates cheating on taxes and lying on a gun purchase form to violently trying to “Hang Mike Pence!” parading and trespassing.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:52 pm

    @7 “2024’s “Because he had a cold.” has morphed into 2025’s “Because it was a Nazi salute.”

    Excuses for Biden’s bad debate performance have absolutely nothing to do with Musk throwing a stiff arm to a MAGA crowd. There’s ZERO similarity or connection.

    If college is supposed to teach people how to think, you must have taken a four-year-long nap in your classes.

  36. 36

    MAGA spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:53 pm

    To HR:

    What do you mean we cam’t call our Jewish colleagues ‘Oven Dodger?” This DEI shit is OVER!

    All I said to Sanjit was, ‘Move over Towelhead this is AMERICA again.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:54 pm

    @11 “Where do you stand on a request for euthanasia by a 14 year-old troubled by gender dysphoria, Rick Larsen?”

    Why are you asking Rick? You should be asking Trump and all the Republicans who want the kid to jump off a bridge.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 1:56 pm

    @12 Now explain what tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU have to do with sanctioning Russia. This comment is as addled as the one @7. Are you drinking before noon again?

  39. 39

    This machine kills fascists spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:00 pm

    @35

    Witness #1
    It was the finger

    Witness #2
    It was the finger

    Witness #3
    It was the finger

    National TV audience
    It was the finger

    Your pastor
    It was the finger

    Moms in the drop off lane
    It was the finger

    Guys at the driving range
    It was the finger

    The ghost of Johnny Cash
    It was the finger

    3rd grade child
    I got sent to the Pincipal’s. I didn’t see Miss Harris on the playground when I did that at Chrissy McMilton when she called me poop head.

    Dumbfuck
    He just has an awkward way of gesturing “We’re #1.”

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:01 pm

    @17 I’ll accept the correction. He’s saving overturning federal laws with EOs for tomorrow. This one merely authorizes racial discrimination in hiring for federal jobs.

    Yesterday, he fired four civil servants, so no federal employee is going to be safe anyway, regardless of civil service status. I suspect a purge of non-whites from federal agencies is coming.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:04 pm

    @25 The pardon doesn’t cover Ball’s felony convictions for wife-choking and cop-beating, so he’s still a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm, the charge he was re-arrested on today.

  42. 42

    PoliSci spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:05 pm

    Just a little extremely basic review session for Elon

    Not all fascists are Nazis

    All Nazis are fascists

    People who in 2025 perform the Italian Fascist Salute of Mussolini that really took off after it’s use by Nazis are definitely Fascists and probably Neo-Nazis

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:13 pm

    @26 Now why wouldn’t pardoned jailbirds be released immediately? Because Trump didn’t order their immediate release.

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively ending the Jan. 6 prosecutions and pardoning, commuting the sentences or ordering the swift dismissal of more than 1,500 cases.

    Trump’s order broke those cases into three categories. The first was a small group of 14 named defendants connected to the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases who had their prison sentences commuted ….

    The second, and largest, group amounted to approximately 1,200 defendants who have been convicted and sentenced in their Capitol riot cases. Trump granted them full and unconditional pardons and ordered those defendants currently in prison to be released immediately. …

    The third group of defendants identified by Trump’s order was those still awaiting trial or still awaiting trial or sentencing. Rather than a pardon, Trump directed the attorney general to immediately begin pursuing dismissals with prejudice in those cases. … The remaining defendants at the jail fell into the third group. As a result, they were not released Monday evening ….

    https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/jan-6-capitol-riot-defendants-dc-jail-pardons/65-9cba026d-ce9a-4c2e-ae0f-fe5a9b92c581

    You’re a dumbfuck.

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:19 pm

    @27 Wherein a dumbfuck with his brains in his underwear argues that pardoning a tax cheater who made a false statement about drug use on a gun purchase form is the same thing as pardoning a repeat violent felon.

    Throughout this thread, the dumbfuck doctor has repeatedly demonstrated his inability to use analogies properly. He’s not merely a dumbfuck, he’s an illogical dumbfuck.

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:23 pm

    @31 “I resisted getting all 5s on my AP exams.”

    Is that why teachers kept holding you back, and you were your school’s only 16-year-old sixth grader?

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:26 pm

    @34 Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Daniel Ball wasn’t charged with parading and trespassing. He was charged with detonating an explosive device in a tunnel occupied by 25 police officers.

    Another analogy fail by a dumbfuck whose logic skills are below those of a newborn.

  47. 47

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:27 pm

    @ 45

    Is that why teachers kept holding you back, and you were your school’s only 16-year-old sixth grader?

    Yes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Because AP courses are taught in elementary school. You’ve really got a handle on primary education.

  48. 48

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:34 pm

    OK, who will be the next intelligence officials to coordinate with the Democrat party for political purposes?

    Jeff Carlson
    @themarketswork
    This can’t be said enough. It wasn’t 50 intelligence officials.

    It was FIVE Former CIA Directors and a former Director of National Intelligence — all of whom coordinated with the Biden Campaign

    The CIA’s Review Board signed off & so did CIA Director Haspel.

    It was a Coup.
    Quote
    Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    ·
    7h
    🚨 JUST IN: CIA carries out Trump’s order to revoke security clearances of over 50 former intel officials who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 – NBC
    9:46 AM · Jan 22, 2025

    Make an example of them. Discredit them. Shame them professionally. MSNBC doesn’t have paid positions for all of them.

  49. 49

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:37 pm

    Sure, it’s satire, but is it, really?

    The Babylon Bee
    @TheBabylonBee

    Liberals Briefly Pause Chanting ‘Death To Israel’ To Call Elon Musk A Nazi https://buff.ly/40GmV9d

    11:30 AM · Jan 22, 2025

  50. 50

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:39 pm

    @ 40

    Nice to see Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit admit to using my user name as his sock puppet.

    This is the same Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit who ran screaming to Darryl when I did it to him.

    Pussy.

  51. 51

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:41 pm

    They’ve warned since Election Night that the GOP would do to them the same thing they did to the GOP.

    Robert Sterling
    @RobertMSterling

    The same people who…

    Shut down your business
    Yelled at your kids for not wearing masks
    Wouldn’t let you visit your dying parents
    Kicked out soldiers for refusing a vaccine
    Lied about the origins of Covid
    Tried to enact a nationwide vaccine mandate
    Censored us on social media
    Tried to create a ministry of truth
    Lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop
    Covered up Joe Biden’s dementia
    Stopped enforcing immigration laws
    Let 10M+ illegal immigrants cross the border
    Installed DEI commissars in every agency
    Raised pride flags at overseas embassies
    Let biological males compete in girls sports
    Weaponized the DOJ to attack Trump
    Used lawfare against Elon’s companies
    Wasted trillions on left-wing boondoggles
    Defended Biden pardoning his family
    Wanted to give Ukraine a blank check
    Tried to forgive billions in student loans
    Spent four years lying to us every single day

    …are very concerned that Donald Trump is going to abuse executive power.

    10:57 AM · Jan 22, 2025

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 2:50 pm

    @50 I’m accepting your correction, idiot. Take a reading comprehension course. You need one.

    What kind of moron posts a comment, then knowing full well he posted it himself, claims I posted it? A liar, that’s who.

  53. 53

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 3:06 pm

    The republicans have cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.
    Prices are expected to almost instantly go back up to $1,500 a month.
    A $1,465 increase a month.

  54. 54

    Lather Rinse Repeat spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 3:23 pm

    @51

    CruptoBro lists his fantasy world point by point and Dumbfuck thinks it’s quote worthy.

    ‘Fuck those millions of dead, muh freeeeeedom!”

  55. 55

    Jake Gittes spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 3:43 pm

    Donnie issues an order to study how taking more water from the Bay delta and delivering it to farms in the southern San Joaquin valley could have put more water into the fire effort some 150 miles west.

    The Owens river never gets anywhere near the Bay or Sacramento. And if you don’t know why I make that point you’re as ignorant as Vice President Trump.

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 3:54 pm

    @53 In the interest of factual accuracy,

    Biden’s bigger health care initiatives, such as a $35 monthly cap on insulin, a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap on prescription drugs and Medicare’s negotiating drug pricing provision weren’t affected by Trump’s executive actions Monday. …

    Arthur Caplan, the head of the division of medical ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, said that for now, it appears that Trump is proceeding on health care costs “with great caution,” leaving Biden’s bigger initiatives alone. … “Right now, he seems to be nibbling on the edges,” Caplan said.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-reverses-biden-policies-drug-pricing-obamacare-rcna188555

    This doesn’t mean he won’t at some point. But for now, the $35 insulin cap remains in place. And don’t go off on @53’s mistake, dumbfuck. You’re in no position to preach to anyone about sticking to facts.

  57. 57

    Billy Graham spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 6:01 pm

    Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

    “It was supposed to be a unifying and bipartisan church service … everybody there was shocked and mortified by the disturbing comments from this bishop who chose to weaponize the pulpit … she spewed lies.

    Imagine being immersed in Prosperity Gospel and Ass-Kicking American Jesus for so long that the notion of charity and compassion and humility are ‘Lies’.

    Y’all need Jesus.

  58. 58

    Ross Ulbricht spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 6:24 pm

    Promise made and promise kept – by Trump.

  59. 59

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 6:37 pm

    What Trumpers are like when they’re drunk.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-bar-deport-trump-assault_n_679158e3e4b0835f2b835817

  60. 60

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/22/25 at 9:59 pm

    @58 “In October 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Ulbricht and took Silk Road offline. In 2015, he was convicted of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking. He was sentenced to double life in prison plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ulbricht’s appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2017 and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 were unsuccessful.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

    Now why do you suppose Trump pardoned someone like him? Maybe he wants an expert’s help with selling his own and Melania’s worthless crypto coins. Who could be better for this task than a convicted fraudster?

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 4:05 am

    Trump is already deploying active duty military personnel to the border, so it may be just a matter of time before soldiers are patrolling American cities searching for enemies of the state.

  62. 62

    Jaye Davidson spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 9:34 am

    Let this dude win. Let’s see Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore act their fake smiles as they celebrate the moment a chick with a dick swipes their award.

    Pop Crave
    @PopCrave

    Karla Sofía Gascón is the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar.

    6:13 AM · Jan 23, 2025

    Back in my day we knew our place – men who found out what we were were moved to spontaneously vomit.

  63. 63

    Pump price is climbing spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 10:14 am

    Trump to OPEC, “Cut Price per Barrel!”

    US Drillers, “We’re only doing this because the price is profitable. Lower prices will force us to cut back.”

    MAGA, “What so I care about Oil Field jobs. I need my SUV to be full at $2/gal.”

  64. 64

    Gee if or isn’t the consequences of my decisions spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 10:36 am

    Most of us are familiar with Reddit. Anyone who wants to can start a sub Reddit Make themselves the moderator invite other people also to be moderators, but it is completely decentralized.

    In response to Elon’s Nazi salute Many highly trafficked subreddits have created a blanket policy of no links to Twatter posts. After all, if it’s a legitimate news source, you don’t have to drive traffic to Twatter so that someone can then click through to the link to the actual new site there essentially just eliminating the middleman. And using the same logic quoting a random Twatter user about something they saw is not a legitimate source.

    Along the way Elon loses millions of daily clicks. Clicks that were not organic.

    “This is my subReddit. I get to set the rules. I’m not going to platform a Nazi.”

  65. 65

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:13 pm

    A conservative Seattle federal judge has enjoined Trump’s executive order rewriting the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.

    No one except Trump’s lawyers is surprised. To help them understand his ruling the judge called the EO the most “blatantly unconstitutional” order he’s ever seen in his 43 years on the federal bench.

    They still don’t understand. As Mark Twain would say, “It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:17 pm

    To prove he’s not a Nazi, and his arm gesture wasn’t a Nazi salute, Elon is now telling Nazi jokes.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-salute-controversy-with-a-bunch-of-nazi-jokes_n_67925d50e4b07025a739deef

  67. 67

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:28 pm

    Why MAGA Mike won’t subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson:

    The reason, reports the Washington Post, is that an aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) warned last year that subpoenaing Hutchinson to testify could have unearthed “sexually explicit” text messages she had received from Republican House members.

    https://www.rawstory.com/subpoenaing-cassidy-hutchinson-could-massively-blow-up-in-republicans-faces-report/

    Presumably the unnamed GOP congressmen hitting on Hutchinson by sending her lewd text messages were married. Of course they were.

  68. 68

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:35 pm

    Trump apparently believes coal can’t be set on fire.

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-bomb-coal/

    It sure looks like Trump 2.0 will be as clownish as Trump 1.0.

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  69. 69

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:38 pm

    One of the things Biden’s infrastructure bill paid for was putting out a fire in an old Colorado coal mine that had been burning for over 100 years. By the way, Trump’s coal idiocy drew snickers at Davos.

    https://kdvr.com/news/local/underground-coal-fire-that-has-been-burning-for-100-years-is-now-out/

  70. 70

    Politically Incorrect spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:46 pm

    Trump says he’s going to release all the stuff about JFK’s assassination. I hope the Deep State Traitors to the Constitution don’t talk him out of it like they did several years ago.

    Let’s see exactly what those criminals did over 60 years ago.

  71. 71

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 12:55 pm

    @70 I agree Lee Harvey Oswald was a criminal.

  72. 72

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 1:00 pm

    It’s only free speech deserving of protection when it’s mocking non-whites or threatening Jews.

    1488 motherfuckers.

  73. 73

    1970 spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 1:41 pm

    @62

    Back in your day?

    Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man
    But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man
    And so is Lola
    La-la-la-la Lola
    La-la-la-la Lola

  74. 74

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 3:13 pm

    We learned today that Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to the woman he didn’t sexually assault in a motel room to keep from losing his lucrative job at Fox. He says their encounter was consensual, which makes her a very expensive call girl. No doubt she’s thrilled to hear that.

  75. 75

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 4:09 pm

    It’s lucky for me that so many voters waited until after the election to finally figure out that Republicans like me are actual Nazis.

    I’ll admit I was pretty nervous for a while there.

  76. 76

    Incompetent White Cis Male spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 4:35 pm

    I’m a non DEI hire! You betcha! And I’m proud of it. I got the job because I am incompetent!

  77. 77

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 8:22 pm

    @76 So how do you like working for your daddy? That doesn’t always work out so well, especially for the employee.

  78. 78

    Thomas Jefferson spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 8:54 pm

    Ending birthright citizenship will require amending the Constitution. Any president’s executive order cannot overrule the Constitution. If Trump wants to end the anchor baby issue, he will have to work with all of the States to amend the Constitution.

  79. 79

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 9:05 pm

    The weakness of liberals entering 2025 is truly amazing.

    Liberals have nothing. They will claim victory when a DJT47 nominee only gets 52 votes. Because it is all they have.

  80. 80

    Future spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 9:20 pm

    @79
    2026

    36 US Servicemen killed invading Greenland by NATO forces.

    Dumbfuck, “It’s YOUR fault because democrats didn’t oppose Pete Hegseth strongly enough.”

  81. 81

    Groomer in Chief spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 9:55 pm

    Donald pardoned Jan 6 Rioter Andrew Kyle Grigsby of Louisville, KY. He’s not a free man though.

    He is being held without bail on…

    Child porn charges.

  82. 82

    Ross Ulbricth spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 10:29 pm

    @81

    Well, at least Ross Ulbricht got pardoned.

  83. 83

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 10:58 pm

    In which Sen. John Kennedy (Trumper-LA) says “most Americans think about merit and character.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFzdHgMwuE

    🤦‍♂️😹🤣🤪😄😂

    And in a few days he’ll vote to confirm Pete Hegseth. He probably doesn’t have a clue how fucking funny he sometimes is.

  84. 84

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/23/25 at 11:00 pm

    @79 Yes, and all those GOP senators voted for “merit and character.”

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

    You’re a clown, doc.

  85. 85

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:03 am

    Ask a Republican who will milk the cows and pick the lettuce after half the farm labor force is deported, and you get a word salad.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGI97nnLPWE

  86. 86

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:36 am

    Yep..

    “The dismissal of this case cannot undo the ‘rampage that left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage.’ It cannot diminish the heroism of law enforcement officers who ‘struggled, facing serious injury and even death, to control the mob that overwhelmed them.’… And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.”

    “No ‘national injustice’ occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election,” Howell wrote. “No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when sore losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity. That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other sore losers and undermines the rule of law.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/23/doge-jan-6-marshals-federal-judges/

    lmao.. and our silly troll degenerate called them “cosplaying grandmothers”..

  87. 87

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:43 am

    “sexually explicit” text messages she had received from Republican House members.

    our dumbfuck troll is sure to support the release of those messages as examples of “traditional friendly sociable workplace relations”..

    As is bringing back n-word jokes around the water cooler.

    Those #metoo lawsuits settlements were unfortunate sacrifices made for the cause of klownservatic “traditions”..

    “Warriors” in the “cause” were Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly.

  88. 88

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:03 am

    @ 85

    … Ask a Republican who will milk the cows and pick the lettuce after half the farm labor force is deported, and you get a word salad.

    Let’s just deport the illegals with felony convictions, then. Pass the oil and vinegar.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who cannot afford to hire anyone standing outside a Home Depot, worries that the food source he claims lies freely on the ground and his his dietary staple won’t be picked by immigrants if the US begins to clean some house.

  89. 89

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:14 am

    Since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is concerned that a crackdown on illegal immigration might make his dandelions more expensive to consume:

    (((Harry Enten)))
    @ForecasterEnten

    There has been a massive shift to the right over the last decade on immigration views.

    When asked whether all immigrants here illegally (or “undocumented immigrants” in some polls) should be deported, the majority now say yes in all polls.

    Gives Trump a lot of leeway.
    0:16 / 2:44
    8:49 AM · Jan 22, 2025

    Another word to describe this? Mandate

    NY Times. 55%
    Marquette. 64%
    CBS News. 57%
    ABC News. 56%

    Fuck you, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Re kicking out the felon illegal aliens, America’s got DJT47’s back and is cheering him on.

  90. 90

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:20 am

    We won the election. We’ll write the bill.

    Republicans shoot down Democratic request to ditch party-line immigration push and write a bipartisan bill instead
    Senate Republicans are making it clear they will pursue a border package without Democratic input, despite the obstacles they face in going their own way.

    Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., laughed out loud when he was asked about the letter and whether Republicans might accept the overture.

    “That’s a letter we will ignore,” Johnson said in an interview.

    “We’re not going to wait for them. If they want to secure the border, they could have done that,” he added. “That’s not what they want.”

    What part of @ 89 mandate do Democrats not understand?

    Moreover, the GOP won’t have to rely on JD Vance for the tiebreaker the way Dems did.

    Get the fuck out of the way, libbies.

  91. 91

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:21 am

    Maybe the Senate Dems could ask their House colleague AOC to run down to the border for some more staged photos.

  92. 92

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:25 am

    Washington state wasn’t a battleground, and Jayapal’s race wasn’t a close one. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit fails to understand this.

    Democrats in battleground states and districts are breaking with the bulk of their party on immigration, as they believe that the positions of progressives and leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are out of touch with their voters. The rightward shift comes after Democrats got clobbered on the issue of immigration in the 2024 election, and lost Latino men to Trump.

    Mandate. DJT47’s got one. Watch what happens.

  93. 93

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:32 am

    Not gonna be easy.

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness

    The ATF was just caught rebranding their Chief Diversity Officer to Chief Officer to circumvent President Trump’s order.

    Time to clean house. All of it.

    1:16 PM · Jan 22, 2025

    But the GOP has had four years to learn from Democrat obstruction the last time. Oh, and all those Biden EOs give DJT47 license to do the same.

    Watch what happens.

  94. 94

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 6:52 am

    If not wrong, it’s at least really fucked-up.

    Democrats Aren’t Protesting Trump’s Executive Order Because, Deep Down, They Know DEI Is Wrong

    And, yet, there have been no noteworthy protests, much less riots, in response to Trump’s repeal of DEI. The statements from Democratic politicians have been muted. DEI is a massive, multi-billion industry employing tens of thousands of people. Creating it took decades of work. Why, then, has there been so little resistance to dismantling it?

    Most Americans agree that there are good reasons to support reasonable measures that prevent discrimination in government and other societal institutions.
    …
    But part of the problem is that DEI programs grew out of control. Much of the public has lost confidence that civilization-critical institutions will choose the most qualified candidates. As we saw with the LA fires, DEI severely hindered fire departments’ preparedness, putting the public and firefighters in danger. The preventable destruction of the fires highlighted the absurd priorities of progressives, who devoted money, energy, and mental space to DEI over human survival.

    Not discussed but undoubtedly true: DEI has held back the careers some really talented white progressives in favor of laughingstocks like Karen Bass and Boxcheck Momala.

  95. 95

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 7:09 am

    @94 From that article:

    Progressives, Democrats, and the media reacted with outrage at Donald Trump’s words and actions. Thousands took to the streets to protest his policies as racist. “Trump is a racist,” said a New York Times columnist. Rep. Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s statements “racist” and Chuck Schumer said they “drip with racism.” Even some conservatives called Trump’s remarks “clearly racist.”

    Were they responding to President Trump’s sweeping repeal yesterday of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, known as DEI? No, they were responding to various tweets and statements by Trump in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

    Interesting.. I recall dumbfuck admitting the orange pants shitter is an “obvious racist”.. And these writers that dumbfuck are touting are pointing out the pants shitter’s racism as well.

    Kinda funny to me that dumbfuck fellates the “obvious racist” as having a “mandate”.

    Whites only, the (white) rich always get richer, and all “abnormals” (“alphabet people”, people from “shithole countries, etc) EXCLUDED.

    DEI has held back the careers some really talented white progressives

    Oh this is really funny. Dumbfuck is so deranged over pants shitter’s EO’s and “mandate”, its been driven to call progressives “talented”..

    WHITE progressives of course!

  96. 96

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 7:20 am

    Does dumbfuck still blame the fires in Los Angeles County on Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass?

    and not a word about an extreme drought, poorly maintained transmission wires and 100 mph winds?

    Of course, it’s a silly moldering STOOPID dumbfuck…

    Dumbfuck is sure to fellate pants shitter when it lectures Newsom and Karen Bass about keeping the forrest floors tidy like in non-“shithole countries” in northern Europe.

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