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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/23/25, 8:12 am

– It’s hot again and I am working from my un-air conditioned apartment.

– Division Street in Spokane could be a lot better.

Coming home from Drinking Liberally, the bus (49 South) was as crowded as I’ve ever seen it at 10:00. Are people taking the bus while I-5 lanes are closed? If so, welcome and I hope you stay after it opens up.

– Anyway, your legislators and member of Congress go uncontacted. Tragic, but you can fix it.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 8:47 am

    Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 billion on DEI grants, delayed air traffic control upgrades: records, industry insiders

    Homosexual spends a shit-ton of money to provide other undeserving homosexuals with taxpayer-funded jobs.

    In an urgent letter to Buttigieg’s DOT in April 2024, air industry trade association officials warned that at the current rate of hiring, it could take as long as 90 years for the FAA to reach its targeted staffing levels in some of the critical New York air traffic control centers.

    At the same time, the focus of the department under Buttigieg also shifted, with roughly 400 DEI-related grants approved, according to a review of federal spending between 2021 and 2024.

    They argued that while hiring improved in recent years, there was still a high dropout rate and surging retirements from veteran air traffic controllers.

    Just 60 grants for diversity, equity or inclusion initiatives were approved during the previous administration, totaling no more than a few billion dollars.

  2. 2

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 9:03 am

    @1

    No mention of congress not providing the funding!

    And I guess the solution in 2025 was to cut more funding and fire more people.

    Dumbfuck be dumbfucking. At least the horse is giving a good fucking!

  3. 3

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 9:24 am

    yawwwn @ 1

    hiring improved in recent years,

    vs.

    More than 130 of the eliminated workers held jobs that directly or indirectly support the air traffic controllers, facilities and technologies that the FAA uses to keep planes and their passengers safe, according to the union that represents them, the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists. That alone creates reason for concern about the impact of the cuts, people familiar with the terminations said, even if the initial firings spared the air traffic controllers themselves.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/faa-firings-aviation-safety-experts-00205160

    Hmmm. seems like incompetent pedophilia enablers running that shitshow..

  4. 4

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 9:43 am

    I think the real problems with the FFA funding and it’s deficiencies have to do with Nixon getting impeached.

    Too much time was spent having defend yourself from an investigation and all hell broke loose after that. Then Ronnie came in and fired all the traffic controllers, don’t forget that.

    See where the fault lies? We can play games, it’s a lot of fun.

  5. 5

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 9:46 am

    @3

    Pedophilia?

    What pedophilia?

    Epstein and Maxwell were caught up in a witchhunt!

  6. 6

    Cool Story Bro spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:17 am

    @1

    Sure Jan.

    Define DEI as it relates to the GrandOldPedos press release you posted.

  7. 7

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:21 am

    Babies and children are dying of starvation in Gaza. It’s not famine, it’s mass murder by a genocidal regime.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/gaza-baby-dies-starvation-spreads-hunger-israel-aid-rcna220200

  8. 8

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:26 am

    @1 Instead of hiring more controllers, Trump is hiring masked gunmen to kidnap people off the streets.

    I’ll take Buttigieg over your psychopath any day.

  9. 9

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:32 am

    Here’s an item for the troll who loves polls: Even among men, Trump’s support is collapsing.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5415569-trump-6-points-underwater-with-men-in-polling/

    As for those who still support the psychopath in the White House, something is wrong with them, including the death loving, horsefucking troll. Especially him!

  10. 10

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:35 am

    If Barack had managed this Welfare Queen YLB would be so moist.

    Live Updates
    Dow jumps 400 points, S&P 500 hits another record as Trump hatches trade deals before deadline: Live updates

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:38 am

    Hey, G-clown, this isn’t a market going nowhere.

    Wednesday’s moves follow a second straight day concluding at a high for the S&P 500. Tuesday marked the 11th closing record of 2025 for the benchmark index.

    Although perhaps the psychotic homosexual, who abhors risk in his small portfolio, can tell us why he even cares which direction the market is heading if he derives no benefit.

  12. 12

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:40 am

    BIGYAAAAWN @ 10

    “benefits all levels”

    “Expat profits coming home…”

    “Public coffers filling with cash”

    And who pays??? Don’t look here:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cnet-daily-tariff-price-impact-tracker-im-watching-11-key-products-for-inflation/ar-AA1DMcWp

    cold.. boxcheck.. dick pics..

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:43 am

    Florida passed a law against drag performances. A federal judge ruled the law unconstitutional and enjoined its enforcement. A federal appeals court upheld the ruling and injunction. Florida’s radical-right AG called the rulings “radical and wrong” and pledged and pledged to “fight aggressively and swiftly to get these bad decisions overturned.”

    Meanwhile, the vice mayor of Vero Beach, Florida, owns a local wine bar that hosted a drag performance last month, when the law against drag performances was enjoined.

    Consequently, the radical-right AG issued a subpoena demanding “surveillance video, employee work schedules and contracts or invoices that identify which performers were present at the event … information related to attendance at the event and copies” of the wine bar’s “policies regarding age verification, admission policies, security screening and ID checks” for the ostensible purpose of enforcing the unenforceable law.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5416010-florida-ag-lgbtq-pride-event-drag-show/

    Today’s legal quiz is: Can the vice mayor ignore the subpoena as void ab initio, or does she have to file a motion to quash with a court?

    For bonus points, is the radical-right AG’s dick long enough to reach around behind so he can fuck himself, or does he need a boyfriend to get assfucked?

  14. 14

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:45 am

    @ 9

    The new CBS/YouGov poll found 54 percent of men say the president is making good on his campaign promises …

    Good and hard. And fuck, so quickly.

    Is it any wonder that I can hear Welfare Queen YLB’s mournful wails all the way up here?

  15. 15

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:48 am

    Silly dumbfuck is splashing its keyboard over trader momentum plays tied to the pants shitter’s bullshit trade negotiations.

    Tariff taxes on imported stuff that fill Walmarts are a minimum of 10 percent.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/walmarts-rising-prices-and-the-ripple-effect-of-trumps-tariffs/ar-AA1IZTNC

    Who pays again?

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:50 am

    The GOP’s campaign to retain Virginia’s statehouse isn’t just trailing in polls, it’s collapsing. Even Republicans are calling it “a clown car.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5413919-earle-sears-campaign-struggles-continue/

  17. 17

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:50 am

    The GOP’s campaign to retain Virginia’s statehouse isn’t just trailing in polls, it’s collapsing. Even Republicans are calling it “a clown car.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5413919-earle-sears-campaign-struggles-continue/

  18. 18

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 10:52 am

    54 percent of men say the president is making good on his campaign promises …

    90 percent of everything is mediocre or worse..

    That goes especially for moldering rad-techs.

  19. 19

    Jimmy Carter’s Solar Atray spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:03 am

    The consequences of sucking on oil extractor’s teets well into adulthood are going to be dire.

    Chinese automobile manufacturer Xiaomi unveiled a new EV the first with over 500 miles of range and it sells in China for the equivalent of approximately $35,000

    That could’ve been an American made automobile. Just like we could have out solar-ed the Chinese. But that campaign cash that sweet, sweet crude campaign cash…

  20. 20

    The smallest man Who ever lived spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:18 am

    The Hippies at Forbes…

    Economists expect double-digit drops for the automaker’s top and bottom lines after a record decline for quarterly vehicle deliveries.

    The canceling of solar tax breaks and home install tax credits is also a drag on one of Tesla’s divisions. Elon can thank his boy Don for all that.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:19 am

    @ 15

    Tariff taxes on imported stuff that fill Walmarts are a minimum of 10 percent.

    Ah, yes. The Etch-a-Sketch tariff, which so worries Welfare Queen YLB.

    Meanwhile, shares in Toyota Motor Company (TM) are up $22 each today on yesterday’s news that the Japan tariff will only be 15%.

    You worry about the Etch-a-Sketch, Welfare Queen YLB. I’ll collect a premium on a Jan ’26 TM covered call sale with a strike price nearly $70 higher than today’s trading price.

  22. 22

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:24 am

    @19 I read all kinds of bad things about the quality and safety of Chinese EVs..

    Don’t believe the hype from China.. It’s shocking the amount of propaganda and disinformation they put out.

  23. 23

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:26 am

    Meanwhile, shares in Toyota Motor Company (TM) are up $22 each today on yesterday’s news that the Japan tariff will only be 15%.

    LMAO.. touts ONLY a 15 percent increase in price.. that the consumer will pay.. and a trader momentum play. Here today.. gone tomorrow???

    “fills the treasury. coffers.” with taxes.. on consumers..

    “Only” 3.4 or so trillion more government debt.. yeah right dumbfuck..

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:29 am

    @ 19

    Chinese automobile manufacturer Xiaomi unveiled a new EV the first with over 500 miles of range and it sells in China for the equivalent of approximately $35,000

    OK, sure. Sounds great.

    Now get it to the US:

    The Maritime Executive
    https://maritime-executive.com › article › matson-suspe…
    5 days ago — Matson suspended shipments of EVs and hybrids citing the fire danger from their batteries (Matson file photo).
    …
    evxl.co
    https://evxl.co › 2025/06/30 › cargo-ship-sinking-loss-e…
    Jun 30, 2025 — On June 3, 2025, the Morning Midas caught fire and sank 20 days later, costing the EV industry an estimated $560 million. The ship carried 750
    …
    The Emerging Challenge of Electric Vehicle Transport at Sea
    Marine Safety Consultants
    https://marinesafetyconsultants.com › the-emerging-chall…
    This article aims to delve into the intricacies of transporting EVs by sea, examining the lessons learned from recent fires and exploring how the industry

  25. 25

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:30 am

    Elon can thank his boy Don for all that.

    Interesting to see how Xitter and Grok will hype the pedo frenzy.

    Wait a sec.. didn’t the dumbfuck men include eppie files as one of the “campaign promises”..

    ooops..

  26. 26

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:33 am

    I’ll collect a premium on a Jan ’26 TM covered call sale with a strike price nearly $70 higher than today’s trading price.

    Thanks for making my point.. Trader froth..

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:39 am

    Trump’s latest brainwave — he has at least one a week — is to eliminate the capital gains tax on personal residences.

    The exemption isn’t indexed to inflation, needs updating, and its almost certain true that some seniors are keeping their homes to avoid paying the tax.

    But because the exemption shields affordable homes from the tax, eliminating this tax would increase deficits and only benefit owners of expensive homes while not putting a single affordable home on the market.

    Like all of Trump’s tax “reforms,” it’s just another tax cut for the rich, financed by borrowing and adding to debt.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/why-cutting-capital-gains-tax-on-home-sales-wouldnt-solve-housing-issues.html

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:45 am

    @21 “Ah, yes. The Etch-a-Sketch tariff, which so worries Welfare Queen YLB.”

    Spoken like someone who’s never raised a child, and doesn’t realize toys are the last thing to get cut from a family budget.

    Buying an Etch-a-Sketch isn’t just buying a toy, it’s buying sanity. Your problem is you were raised without toys, so you grew up playing with yourself.

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:45 am

    @21 “Ah, yes. The Etch-a-Sketch tariff, which so worries Welfare Queen YLB.”

    Spoken like someone who’s never raised a child, and doesn’t realize toys are the last thing to get cut from a family budget.

    Buying an Etch-a-Sketch isn’t just buying a toy, it’s buying peace and quiet. Your problem is you never had toys, so you grew up playing with yourself.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:49 am

    @26 Even bad gamblers win an occasional pot.

  31. 31

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 12:25 pm

    @ 28

    … toys are the last thing to get cut from a family budget.

    I don’t doubt that Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit will give up eating before she’ll give up her dildo shopping, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Going for The Big O can get pricey.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 12:41 pm

    @31 You’re forgetting that rabbits eat for free.

  33. 33

    Den Haag spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 12:45 pm

    🎶🎶 and I’m proud to be an AmeriCAAAN

    Staff were dismissive or abusive even when detainees were undergoing a visibly obvious medical crisis. For example, staff ignored a detained immigrant who began coughing blood in a crowded holding cell for hours. In that case, unrest ensued, and a Disturbance Control Team stormed the cell, forcing the men in it to lie face down on the wet, dirty floor while officers zip-tied their hands behind their backs. A detainee said he heard an officer order the cell’s CCTV camera feed to be turned off.

    Another detainee said a team member slapped him while shouting, “Shut the f*ck up.”
    During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said.

    Women and men alike reported that seeking help-especially mental health support-could lead to punishment and retaliation. At BTC, authorities put detainees who complained of emotional distress in solitary confinement for weeks, creating a chilling effect. One woman said: “If you ask for help, they isolate you. If you cry, they might take you away.

  34. 34

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 1:14 pm

    @11

    Driving so I’ll be short.

    When’s the correction coming?

  35. 35

    President Carter spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 1:37 pm

    @24

    I literally knew that was going to be your response about Chinese imports to the US. It doesn’t matter if China can sell cars in the US. China is selling cars in China. China is selling cars in India. China is selling cars in Europe. China is selling cars in South America.

    Donnie made a big deal about wanting to slap tariffs on European cars because we aren’t selling enough cars in Europe. It has nothing to do with the ability of US car makers to sell cars in Europe and everything to do with the ability of US car makers to sell cars in Europe. Outside of the US no one wants a land yacht. There aren’t pavement princesses taking a single child to soccer practice in a 13,000 pound SUV anywhere except this country.

    But those are the cars we insist on producing. The only American based car company with increasing sales in overseas markets currently is, you guessed it, Tesla. In most of the world automotive gas is not subsidized the way it is here. Roads are not designed for giant vehicles

    What China is already doing and will continue to do is eat away at every single market in the world where the US is trying to sell cars while we cling to our F250s and Silverados. Just go back and look at how gleeful you are with the idea that the F150 lightning is losing money while the American automotive sector desperately tries to catch up to the electric vehicles available in other markets

    And since Elon pissed away his first to market technology Lead it’s probably already over

    Your inability to see beyond the next year is quite impressive

  36. 36

    Free Trade spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 1:40 pm

    @35

    The party that points to every school snow day and laughs, “ global warming isn’t real” is not thinking about how to win this game.

    China is developing the products to sell for the next 50 years while the US still thinks on demand hot water heaters are super cool and innovative.

  37. 37

    Sue Me Bitch spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 1:49 pm

    Well, you know he’s got dementia. He can remember his third grade friends, favorite song, but he can’t remember what he had for breakfast or who we met with yesterday. It’s typical of the disease.

    WSJ: Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 2:20 pm

    Tesla reported a 16% decline in automotive revenue, as sales fell for a second straight quarter and again trailed analysts’ estimates.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/tesla-tsla-q2-2025-earnings-report.html

    Because Republicans hate his cars, and Democrats hate him. FAFO. Smart people don’t mix politics with business.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 2:23 pm

    @33 The abuse is intentional, and they want the world to know, because scaring immigrants into leaving is easier, faster, and cheaper than rounding them up.

    America is on human rights watch.

  40. 40

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 2:45 pm

    Oops1 I posted this on the wrong thread.

    Our fabulously wealthy Nazi dumbfuck trades options in his retirement years and without a single losing trade. Amazing. What else does he do during retirement? He grows little Christmas trees so he can make a little money. Oh, and he’s got a little boat to paddle around in, seeing as how someone stole his little outboard motor.

  41. 41

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 2:55 pm

    @ 35

    the American automotive sector desperately tries to catch up to the electric vehicles available in other markets

    Desperation? Really?

    Is that because California decreed that all vehicles sold there must be EVs in just a few years? [This is now being walked back, BTW]

    Is that because the free EV money comes with an expiration date, so manufacturers have to hurry the fuck up to receive it?

    ’cause it’s not because buyers want EVs.

  42. 42

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 3:56 pm

    Some big names at WaPo hitting the bricks.

    Good.

    Let ’em hide the news that hurts Democrats and amplify anything that might hurt the GOP somewhere else. With lower readership adn for less pay.

  43. 43

    President Carter spews:

    Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 4:17 pm

    Of course, dumbfuck would retort with thoroughly irrelevant points about China’s ability to sell more cars worldwide than the United States.

    Is that because California decreed that all vehicles sold there must be EVs in just a few years? [This is now being walked back, BTW]

    If by a few you mean by 2035. Which at the time it was passed was definitely a lot more than anyone would call “a few” meanwhile Donnie by executive order and the Senate are not rolling it back because California wants it rolled back. They are rolling it back as in outlawing.

    Now go back and contemplate the shortsightedness of desperately clinging on to the internal combustion engine while China eats our lunch on providing affordable electrics.

    EVs are now 22% of worldwode car sales and are on pace to be 25% by year end. 37% by close of decade. China has cars to sell. We do not. ‘Allo, Jean Claude, what would eet take to ‘ave you drive away wit dees GMC peek-up today.”

    “va te faire foutre”

    cause it’s not because buyers want EVs.

    Feelings are not facts. Or are you claiming the 10% of new car buyers in the US last year, with ALLLLLLL the IC cars available really didn’t want the EV they bought?

    I gave you the blueprint to lead the world in energy and St. Ron and his party said “Fuck it! We’re building King Cab 7tons to drive to the supermarket!

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