– I moved to the Seattle area as a kid, and sometimes I get very confused about what we’re nostalgic for. Burgermaster? I guess.
– Get pasteurized milk. Raw milk? Do you even know what a cow is?
– Monday’s thread was about the special election, but reminder: cast your ballot, preferably for 1A if you’re in Seattle, by February 11.
– Man, Burien. Don’t be homeless isn’t a solution to homelessness.
– Anyway, today is a good day to contact your legislator or member of Congress.
Roger is kicking ass!
“Freeze? Kill Food Stamps?
No we said Deez kids need to eat!”
…annnnnd the hits just keep on coming…
https://www.newsbreakexpress.com/m/articles/?af_dp=newsbreak%3A%2F%2Fopendoc%3Factionsrc%3Ddmg_local_email_bucket_10.web2&docid=0ySrXXyw&s=dmg_local_email_bucket_10.web2_fromweb&nb_uid=-1&nb_zip=98059&email_click=DP4zYiL-1TDdYJtW&_r=0&exps=nl_bucket_exp_25_1-v46,nl_monetization_25_1-v14,nova_traffic_exp_full_12-v8&tag=passive_national_daily_headlines&meta=eyJzdWJzX3RvcGljIjogIm5hdGlvbmFsIiwgImZyZXEiOiAiZGFpbHkiLCAic2VuZF90cyI6IDE3MzgxNzk4NDJ9
No use getting your jockeys in a wad about today’s Guantánamo announcement. At its height, the Detention facility at Guantánamo housed 628 prisoners. There is no funding or infrastructure to support what they’re talking about. It’s not just the tents to house the migrants. You’re looking at 15 to 20 times the number of personnel who will then guard those people. And then there’s the question of where you’re going to house the thousands of people you’re going to need to guard and staff such a facility And mess halls for them. And food for them.
This is like turning on the faucets in California. Donnie just knows that Joe Biden decreased the number of people at Guantánamo and that people have been saying for years Guantánamo should just be closed because it’s inefficient and expensive. But there’s a significant brain dead MAGA faction Guantánamo is the way to go.
It’s a distraction. Don’t spend mental energy on it. Save it up for actual fights.
ADHD isn’t real.
We gotta get the Autism out of vaccine formulas.
Depression is a scam to sell SSRIs.
Tom Homan whines to CNN that too many liberals have taught immigrants their rights.
Because he was hoping to violate their rights when contacted by ICE.
They’re running into too many ‘illegals’ with the absolute right to be here pending an asylum hearing and they’re calling their immigration attorneys.
Also citizens who aren’t required to have any ID while not driving or purchasing alcohol or smokes but are not white.
Deported criminal is counting on Trump to let him back in the U.S., which should be no problem, because he’s an Italian Dreamer.
https://www.aol.com/joe-giudice-says-denied-attempt-232511532.html
I dunno if I’d let him in. The asshole should’ve gotten naturalized before he committed fraud if he wanted to stay.
Ainsley Earhardt makes a case for RFK Jr:
Have you MET anyone from the American Nutritional Supplement industry? If there was a pasta that keeps you from gaining weight they’d be importing it and charging $23 a box. You shilled for Dr. ‘$40 Green Coffee Extract” Oz.
They don’t get fat like us because they don’t get a morning milkshake with a little coffee, 64oz Big gulps and they don’t drive a quarter mile to get a Whopper from the drive through. This is not a hard conceptual brain puzzle.
We always want to remember that cops are human like the rest of us. While many are dedicated public servants, they are not God, Jesus, or Mother Teresa. They’re not there to help you, and some are rogues like the 20 DEA agents arrested for “crimes ranging from perjury and assault to wire fraud and money laundering on behalf of the same drug cartels” they’re supposed to be taking down. Thus, when you’re accosted by police, you should assume out of an abundance of caution they’re members of a criminal gang, and comport yourself accordingly. Assert your rights, keep your mouth shut, and get a lawyer. Name, rank, and serial number, and that’s it.
https://www.aol.com/florida-officer-pleaded-guilty-stealing-222310051.html
Trump backed down from his federal funding freeze, suggesting he doesn’t know WTF he’s doing. Extrapolating forward, his planned invasion of Greenland can be expected to cost American lives for nothing (i.e., Denmark, with NATO assistance, keeps Greenland). This guy needs a babysitter.
I’m all for Elon going to Mars, and I’m willing for taxpayers to foot the bill on the condition he doesn’t come back.
https://publicola.com/2025/01/28/city-of-burien-makes-unsheltered-homelessness-a-crime/
Burien city officials claim it creates an incentive for homeless people to go into shelters, but Burien doesn’t have a shelter, and can’t present evidence it has sheltered a single person through private or non-profit providers.
With those added facts, this law is of dubious constitutionality, because it criminalizes a status instead of behavior. I recall the Supreme Court years ago threw out a California law that made it a crime to be a drug addict.
Of course, we have a different Supreme Court now, and it’s possible individuals have no constitutional rights or protections anymore.
@3 I don’t think Trump cares about HIV or AIDS per se. He enjoys watching people die. He can’t wait for the Israelis to march the surviving Gaza population into the Egyptian or Jordanian desert without food or water. He would rather arm Russia than Ukraine, and is itching to invade Greenland to get some American, Danish, and French soldiers killed, and most of Greenland’s population with them. Don’t forget he wanted to execute the Central Park Five after they were exonerated, and had a hissy fit when Biden pardoned most of the inmates on federal death row. Trump loves death. He probably pulled wings off monarch butterflies when he was a kid. Most of the people worshipping at his feet are death lovers, too.
But they’re also in it for money, and they haven’t figured out yet that dead and deported people don’t buy stuff. Someday they’ll wake up and wonder, “Where did all the customers go?” And we’ll answer, “You killed them.” And they’ll reply, “Oh.” 🤦♂️
@4 The plan is to cut a hole in the fence so they can escape into Cuba, and let Castro’s successors house and feed them. Very cost effective.
Trump and republicans revokes temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans
Almost 60% of the Florida’s beneficiaries of the federal program are from Venezuela. Venezuelans are one of the immigrant demographics that broke hard for Trump and the GOP.
August 2024:
January 2025:
Know anybody who’s got office space for rent?
Today’s headlines from The Hill:
1:15 PM “White House budget office rescinds federal funding freeze memo”
2:46 PM “White House aide says spending freeze isn’t being rescinded despite memo”
@15 they deserve to go for supporting him.
Venezuelans probably think they are better the Mexicans
What’s the purpose of the email field?
@19 I’m guessing so Goldy/Darryl can verify posts using your screen name are by you. The email address doesn’t show on the public page, so it’s an easy way for them to spot imposters, who usually wouldn’t know your email address. Also, in case they want to contact you for some reason.
Elon is having trouble selling his cars.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/29/tesla-tsla-2024-q4-earnings.html
It might be a slowing economy (except the economy isn’t slowing), or higher interest rates on auto loans (except interest rates are coming down), or a large chunk of the car-buying population flipping him a big fat “fuck you.”
I remember when I thought Teslas were kinda cool; now, I wouldn’t touch one with an electrician’s 10′ fiberglass pole. I suspect millions of my fellow citizens don’t want to be seen driving a fascist car, either.
@20
Got it. Seems like it’s used in reverse fashion. Cause I get tired putting it in so I make up one real quick, a different one each time.
But I guess by doing so I don’t protect myself, because they won’t know now if someone else posts as me, oh well
@21.
If I owned a Tesla I’d burn it or drive it into a lake.
It’s been a while since the U.S. has experienced an air disaster, but this evening an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 crew and passengers on approach to Reagan Airport in Washington D.C., and both aircraft are believed to be in the Potomac River. Daily Mail, which has a video of the collision, says 4 survivors have been pulled from the water.
By Thanksgiving turkeys will cost $200.
Bob will have to eat horse.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-bird-flu-north-carolina-turkey.html
According to my quickie research, the last mass-fatality airline crash in the U.S. occurred in 2009. Here we are 9 days into Trump’s presidency and we get one. Involving a military aircraft to boot. But he hasn’t had time to fire the ATC controllers and replace them with political hires yet, so this has gotta be Biden’s fault.
I’m watching a D.C. TV station live on YouTube, and a commenter posted,
THE ARMY HELICOPTER WAS TOLD BY ATC TO SLOW DOWN AND LET THE CRJ-700 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER AIRLINER TO LAND AND THE ARMY HELICOPTER DID NOT LISTEN TO ATC AND KILLED US CIVILIANS THE DoD NEEDS TO ANSWER
This is Pete Hegseth’s DoD now. When somebody fucks up this badly, heads roll, starting at the top. I propose firing the SecDef.
Was that a DEI Helicopter?
Of course
Blachawk.
27)Keep hearing experts on TV referencing Air Florida 90. Too early to know if Pilot Error on the CRJ.
I’m a Blackhawk, bitch!
Shots!
Looks like it was from the Army version of the Air Force SAM flight.
Tucker Carlson’s kid, whose only job experience has been interning, has been given an admin job as dep press sec to the veep.
Not a factor, but optics are a bitch.
Jan. 22
“Move fast and break shit” has come to your DOD, your State Department, and your Medicare. We’re putting a keg stand champion from FSU a few credits shy of a communications degree in charge of the council of economic advisors. His mom is hot and gives good head.
Have fun!
Daily Mail says, “The plane is said to have split in two and is in around seven feet of water, while the helicopter is upside down and is unstable, according to the outlet.”
NBC News says survival time in 37-degree water is 60-90 minutes, and “we’re well past that now.”
Well done that’s awkward.
Jan 22
@19 & 20
He’s secretly working for a bad billionaire and we’re all going to be sold off to the Chinese to be part of Bodies 3, The Americans, See them on the inside.
Donald J Trump signs executive order banning TWA.
Donald J Trump orders ICE to deport everyone associated with Sun Country
Getting the WOKE out of the airline industry Donald J Trump issues executive order changing the name of United Airlines to ‘Some animals are more equal than others Air’
Jet Blue must change to Jet Red or face prosecution
Seriously.
How many civil suits in the first week is the record?
ICE Says ‘Sorry’ After Detaining US
Citizens for Speaking Spanish:
“My sister, in English, explained that not only are they American citizens, but that they are from Puerto Rico, they were born in Puerto Rico”
In 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team was killed in an air crash. Apparently tragedy has visited that sport again:
https://www.newsweek.com/sports/us-figure-skaters-coaches-involved-dc-plane-crash-reports-2023317
If this bill passes, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott can’t send the Texas Rangers or Texas National Guard to round up immigrants in Washington State without our governor’s permission. Good. We don’t need foreign invaders in our state, and Texicans are foreigners as far as I’m concerned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrPJ0BQt5A
Yes, America is doomed.
40-60 dead is a drop of tiny, teeny tiney, sorrow.
@42 Not for the dead and their families.
It won’t be long before many of the pardoned insurrectionists are dead or back in prison, because they’re all criminals. Here’s another one:
https://tinyurl.com/mr2pxa8b
Gas has went up from $2.60 a gallon to $3.08 since Trump took office
Isn’t it kidnapping?
When someone without any lawful authority to do so, while carrying a gun, assaults a US citizen, tackles them, puts them in handcuffs, throws them into the back of a rental van, and hauls them off to a secret hideout, isn’t that kidnapping?
In Puerto Rico it still is.
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in his senior year of high school, before he became a heroin addict with parasitic brain worms, he and his private prep school classmates were seated one afternoon with guidance counselors to prepare college admissions applications. These are often lengthy processes with information forms to be filled out. At elite private academies like this one one of the jobs of guidance counselors is to fill out the forms for the students, including collecting any letters of recommendation from faculty. But it still rests with the individual students to write a formal cover letter to accompany their application, introducing themselves to the admissions officers, telling them about who they are, why they are seeking admission, and what they plan to achieve with their education. These are very often several pages detailing the students unique achievements in a diversity of circumstances and realms of life.
Kennedy Jr.’s consisted of a single page. And all he wrote on it was his name and his signature.
His application was accepted immediately.
When people say diversity, equity, and inclusion leads to “lowering of standards” remember that these are the standards.
‘MTV’s Real World’ Star got the memo.
Taking questions about last night’s crash Transportation Secretary asserts that safety position should be filled by the best and the brightest.
Yelp, they’re going to try to make it about DEI. It’s the only thing in the entire administration playbook.
48,
FAA and Reagan National tower have no diarect control authority over military aircraft operating in proximity. They can only contact and give information.
The US Army Priority Air Transport Battalion operating that Blackhawk has been working non-stop since before the inauguration providing taxpayer funded flight services to GOP asswipes and Trump family members staying at Trump National in Lowes Island VA. That scheduling burden blew up in the past week as Trump and the GOP held a series of massive retreats, celebrations and meetings at the resort attended by all the new appointees, GOP members of Congress to prep appointees for confirmation hearings. All the transport requirements were assigned to USAPAT over the past four days. The pilots were going without sleep to meet the service requirements.
Of COURSE the want you to worry that if it’s not White it’s not alright.
Remember when Dumbfuck was all over the Transportation Secretary. Oh to have competence again.
That was on the morning after the crash. He’s waiting for his producer to make the calls and set up the interview with The Air Traffic Controllers.
Has anyone seen my horse uhm
The DEI Chickens got the flu, not me.
Donnie. Lather Rinse Repeat:
The Trump years.
Covid…point fingers and be an asshole.
Jan 6…point fingers and be an asshole.
Plane Crash…point fingers and be an asshole.
Take it away Pete:
Profiles in Courage and some other thing:
Today the College of Bishops of the ACC defrocked Calvin Robinson for mimicking a Nazi salute at an anti abortion event.
Last week after billionaire plutocrat Elon Musk gave the same salute at a Trump victory party the ADL issued a statement calling for “unity”.
@55
My Brother in Christ.
The Nazis had some things to say about your religion.
It wasn’t good. They shut down Episcopal Churches and Barely tolerated Protestants.
Of course the crash was Biden’s fault! Trump just got in office and hasn’t had time yet to fire Biden’s ATC controllers. The Project 2025 plan is to dismantle the FAA and deregulate airspace so pilots can do “whatever the hell they want,” that’s just “common sense, OK?”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/trump-lashes-out-at-biden-dei-efforts-after-dc-plane-crash.html
@56 They were perfectly willing to play footsie with yours, though, as long as you played ball with them.
Let’s face it, the Holocaust wasn’t the Catholic Church’s finest hour, although some individual priests stood far above their pope.
What an asshole:
Because you only have to go through a psych eval, licensing, background check to become one.
Take it away, Congressman
He came just short of blaming this on a ‘retard in the control tower.’
RFK Jr. thinks Medicare exists for doctors.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/rfk-jr-struggles-with-medicare-medicaid-basics-in-senate-hearings.html
Holidays honoring or commemorating darkies are DEI discrimination against oppressed whites and will not be tolerated by this administration.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5117348-pentagon-halts-diversity-celebrations/
Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later, planes started crashing into each other.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-faa-administrator-quit-spacex_n_679bb63de4b07c3c821966b2
It’s Buttigieg’s fault for quitting when Trump took over! 🐰
Trump doesn’t know the difference between “badly hurt” and dead. Also, he can’t be bothered to meet with the first responders. He has Project 2025 to implement.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-site-aviation-crash-you-want-me-to-go-swimming_n_679bf21fe4b0e1faebeef7e9
Trump Hastily named an interim FAA administrator. Usually, when you fire someone who runs an essential government agency, like the agency that makes sure planes don’t crash, who have an interim named at the same time as a firing.
A Timeline.
2023 Space X Rocket explodes
Sept 2024 Elon musk begins sustained campaign demanding resignation of FAA Administrstor Mike Whittaker over potential fines for safety violations.
Jan 16th Space X rocket disintegrates on re-entry.
Jan 17th FAA announces investigation.
Jan 17, 18, 19 Elon bitches publicly that Space X shouldn’t have to cooperate or be governed by FAA and urges firing of FAA Administrator.
Jan 20th, Donald Trump accepts the (forced) resignation FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker* who was unanimously confirmed by the Senate early in year two of a five year appointment. The position is left unfilled.
Jan 22nd Trump releases insanely titled Executive order “ FACT SHEET: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ENDS DEI MADNESS AND RESTORES EXCELLENCE AND SAFETY WITHIN THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION”
Jan. 29th Passenger plane and Military Helicopter (PAT25) collide. 67 Dead, no survivors.Air Traffic Control tape contains tower crew REPEATEDLY calling for PAT25 to confirm visual of passenger plane and pass behind it indicating the professionals at the FAA knew they were getting too close and demanding the most maneuverable craft get out of the way.
Jan. 30th, Trump blames DEI hires of course and announces a week late an interim FAA Administrator. Late in the day blames incompetence of Air Traffic Control.
* Michael ‘DEI Hire’ Whitaker is a white male, BA Louisville, JD Georgetown. Worked for TWA and United before Joining the FAA. He owns a pilots license.
Tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil will do what to gas prices? Hands, please? Anybody?
“I have a plan to visit, not the site because — you tell me, what’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?”*
This is NOT a doctored quote but a real thing I said today to reporters
All this talk that Donnie is doing about DEI is done so out of revenge for the white cops and fireman in and outside of NYC and Long Island.
Plain and Simple
@65 “Late in the day blames incompetence of Air Traffic Control.”
I guess he hasn’t heard yet the Army helicopter pilot was a female.
So far, Democrats are 4-for-4 in this year’s special elections for state legislative seats spread across 3 states (Minnesota, Iowa, and Virginia), which includes flipping an Iowa seat in a district that went for Trump by 21 points last November.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-buoyed-wins-several-legislative-special-elections-rcna190007
I plan to visit Mars.
the orange pants shitter is a notorious golf cheat aka “the commander in cheat”..
its sickening as fuck meal ticket, elmo, has been exposed as a video gaming cheat.
The accusations soured Musk in the eyes of some hardcore gamers, for whom “grinding” out challenges, “farming” loot and “no-life-ing” games are seen as virtues of endurance and self-sacrifice. By paying someone else to earn him his high-level gear, they said, he had removed most of the challenge — only to boast how quickly he had beaten others who played fair and square.
One poster on a Diablo subreddit called it “unbelievably pathetic” that the world’s richest man would feel “the need to cheat” in a video game to “claim he is good at something” most people “couldnt care less about.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/29/elon-musk-video-games-diablo-path-exile/
where does this asswipe find the time?
On a day of mourning and investigation of a plane crash, why was the Vice President, a proclaimed Catholic, getting into a theological argument with a professor of theology about Catholic Dogma for a couple hours?
And getting it totally wrong in regards to John 15:12-13 replying about ‘low IQ’ ‘elitism’ to another Catholic.
Like, if you got a big promotion at work but still spent many business hours being reply guy…
Before my bedtime there will be a Truth Social by Donnie about UnAmerican Airlines.
@74 By tomorrow there won’t be a National Transportation Safety Board.
By tomorrow the Orange Crash Investigator will have declared the Central Park Five brought down the plane and helicopter.
70)Minnesota and Virginia could have altered who’s in charge. I was expecting the DFL to take a hit in Minnesota, because of the State House.
In a new Denmark poll, over three-quarters of Danes oppose selling Greenland to the U.S., and nearly half see the U.S. as a threat to Denmark
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/nearly-half-of-danes-see-us-as-threat-and-78-oppose-greenland-sale-poll-shows
By Sunday, China will have two new oil suppliers.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/rfk-jr-hearing-trump-news-01-30-25#cm6juhtdh00003b6seuajnnvz
No more bridges or highways unless you bear children!!!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8
No more bridges or highways unless you get married and bear children!!!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8
Does marrying your sister count?
Washington Post
Good thing a week before Trump fired all the people who should have been screaming at ground crews at Andrews on the phone and demanding the Pentagon knock that shit off before someone getsp killed.
NPR worked overtime to normalize Trump so in return Republicans opens investigations into NPR and PBS to shut them down.
Why have Republicans not lowered food prices yet?
Absolutely massive public demonstrations throughout Germany overnight after CDU’s designated frontrunner candidate for Chancellor made a pact with far right, fascist AFD party.
US media obediently ignores.