Here in Seattle, our levies passed fairly easily. So good for us. A quick perusal looks like they passed in a lot of other cities. But less so in some exurban and rural areas. Does anyone have a comprehensive list?
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And if you aren’t vaccinated, please do it. If you aren’t boosted, do that.
Let’s go Eric!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-riot-jan-6-eric-gerwatowski-arrested_n_6203d7ebe4b0bb5f97173e7e
To jail.
He’ll now become one of Doc’s fave rockers.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-death-metal-long-island-capitol-insurrection-suspect-arrested-20220208-yhmk7t47qvb7zpyeoki2ysrfma-story.html
Re the Canadian trucker insurrection, why don’t the cops just walk down the line of truckers issuing tickets? Moving violations for impeding traffic, not parking tickets. Do this every day, and the fines will get pretty big pretty quickly. Too many tickets and they lose their CDL. Could start towing and impounding rigs, too.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit rejoices in the one-cent increase in 3M’s quarterly dividend.
His family will finally be able to afford the water for that top ramen package given out by the food pantry.
Remember, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit buys stocks for the dividends. It’s why GE’s plummeting fortunes a few years ago cut him so deeply.
There’s sort of a Mason-Dixon line in Whidbey Island. After the 2016 election the NYT published a nationwide by-zip code map of the presidential election results, and a clear delineation between red and blue is evident at a latitude just north of Coupeville. The closer one lives to the naval base at the north end of the island, the more conservative are one’s neighbors. The closer one lives to the “village” of Langley, the more liberal are one’s neighbors.
That line shows up again, sorta, in yesterday’s levy results.
South Whidbey school levy: 65.7% yes
Coupeville levy (there were 3): 50.8-52.3% yes
Oak Harbor bonds: 44.6% yes
In Freeland you pay twelve bucks for a banh mi. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit can’t even afford the ferry fare to Whidbey, much less buy lunch here.
@4 That’s a 3.64% yield, dumbfuck, which is 36X what your money-market cash is making.
#docgoingbackwards.com
@ 3
Re the Canadian trucker insurrection, why don’t the cops just walk down the line of truckers issuing tickets?
The Canadian PM and his family fled their residence due to the supposed national security threat posed by the protesters, and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks throwing meter maids at the problem will solve it.
The ass-pounding liberals will receive in November is because of the tone-deafness of assholes like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@5 “There’s sort of a Mason-Dixon line in Whidbey Island.”
There sure is. And you live south of it.
@7 They’ll need security, of course, so the “protesters” don’t rape them on the running boards.
Dividend yield is how Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is able to behave as if he isn’t underwater on his 3M investment.
Doesn’t change the fact that he’s underwater on his 3M investment.
Word is that First Vegetable Joe Biden’s plan to hold off the Taliban advancement into Kabul was to issue traffic tickets.
Unfortunately, it turned out that most ISIS fighters can’t read English.
@10 My 3M holding is underwater. You, of course, never ever have a stock go farther down after you buy it. Because you possess a unique ability to perfectly time the market and individual stocks.
I can’t do that. I have to guess. For example, Starbucks was an expensive stock when I bought it, and thereafter was underwater at times. In fact, just recently it’s been beaten up so badly it’s now worth only 88X what I paid for it. However, the dividend hasn’t been cut, so the annual dividend is still 178% of what I paid for it. Eventually, the quarterly dividend will exceed my cost basis.
How’s your money-market investment doing, doc? Do you DRIP your money market returns?
@ 6
@4 That’s a 3.64% yield…
You can sell a naked put on 3M shares with an April expiration and a strike price of 140, and be paid 90 cents (or more), up front. That’s a roughly 6% annualized yield on shares you don’t have to own, unless their worth falls another 24 bucks prior to expiration.
It’s easy to make more money on 3M shares than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit makes, without even owning them.
Nobody can make Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit appear more silly than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit himself. Keep bragging about your mediocrity, fool.
@ 12
And we see the predictable stopped-clock response from Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
When I was 10 I made this awesome catch in center field. Afterwards I got ice cream.
@11 Joe is sending weapons to Ukraine. Trump sent blackmail notes. You voted for …
@14 “When I was 10 I made this awesome catch in center field. Afterwards I got ice cream.”
Must be tough going through an entire childhood with only one ice cream cone.
@14 “When I was 10 I made this awesome catch in center field. Afterwards I got ice cream.”
Must be tough having to go through an entire childhood with only one ice cream cone.
@13 I think we can safely assume doc has wagered a large sum of money on naked puts on 3M shares with an April expiration and a strike price of 140. In which case it looks like he’s predicting my 3M stock will go up:
“A naked put option strategy assumes that the underlying security will fluctuate in value, but generally rise over the next month or so.”
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedput.asp
I wonder what Steve thinks about this:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
First Vegetable Joe Biden is now below 40% in the aggregate of polls tracked by RCP.
Ah, but Biden tells us he doesn’t believe the polls. So no worries!
@19 It’s true Biden’s polls are in the toilet. So badly that probably the only Republicans he could beat in 2024 is all of them.
Because even compared to Biden your tribe is awful.
Even DeSantis knows making it a crime to say “gay” violates the First Amendment, so for now he’s only making it a crime for teachers say “gay” in classrooms, basing that on the state’s authority to regulate public school curriculums, as a holding strategy until such time as the Trump Court gets around to ruling that the First Amendment applies only to Republicans.
@ 18
Nothing wrong with taking advantage of market volatility when it spikes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
It beats the hell out of having to worry about the dividend yield on a bad investment. It certainly beats getting caught publicly defending the dividend yield on GE shares just months before the dividend plunges 95%. Although I don’t actually know how that last part feels. You do.
@22 I don’t worry about 3.6% yields, doc. On the other hand, putting my money in an “investment” paying a 0.1% yield with no possibility of capital gains might make me feel I’m no smarter than you.
Missouri’s radical governor pardoned the McCloskeys, but he can’t do anything about their licenses to practice law. That’s beyond his reach.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/593523-court-suspends-law-licenses-of-couple-who-waved-guns-at-black-lives
Most of the published images I’ve seen from Windsor show light duty pickup trucks blocking the crossing with lines of commercial freight backed up waiting to either cross or turn around.
No reason for anyone to be hurt under these circumstances. But it’s also something that could be substantially solved with 12 hours of steady tow truck work and an impound lot.
Let the Proud Boys pack up their condoms and amyl nitrate, hitch up their Carharts, and walk home to the U.S. Then sell their coal rollers at public auction on the internet (just burn the Trump flags). With used trucks in short supply right now the whole thing could turn a profit for the Canadians.
Oh, and of the 6 candidates in the 2022 Missouri GOP Senate primary, McCloskey beats “other” and a guy whose family’s sewer line business got a $1,221,686.00 PPP loan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri#Graphical_summary
@ 25
But it’s also something that could be substantially solved with 12 hours of steady tow truck work and an impound lot.
I don’t know about the legality of it, but what I read is that the police/LE are confiscating the containers of fuel used to heat the cabs and supply the battery/motor juice that enables the horn-honking.
Seems to me that’s an easier approach. It’s the non-stop horn-honking that I’m seeing complained about the most.
Fauci makes a strong argument in support of Voter ID.
It is one of the important ways to keep our elections safe.
@27
“But it’s also something that could be substantially solved with 12 hours of steady tow truck work and an impound lot.”
Great plan shit-for-brains. Problem is, they are finding that most tow truck operators, especially the heavy-duty tow truck operators are not willing to participate because, while they may make money now, the are deathly afraid that it will severely damage their long-term business since they rely on these truckers all year long. Tow now, boycotted later.
@ 29
Newt, I apologize for my failure to italicize that sentence @ 27. It was a sentence written by QoS McHillbilly @ 25, and I was merely quoting what he wrote.
You clearly intended to refer to your fellow liberal McHillbilly as “shit-for-brains”, and not me.
I do agree that McHillbilly’s spews are increasingly poorly reasoned. Just wait until he spews on the evening of the first Tuesday in November.
A liberal says the quiet part about QoS “shit-for-brains” McHillbilly out loud.
Heh.
For many years Minneapolis Police have filed affidavits seeking no-knock warrants using boilerplate language simply copied and pasted from a template. Citing the reasonable suspicion standard for 4th amendment warrants the Supreme Court held in Richards v Wisconsin, 1997 that the use of copied and pasted “boilerplate language” is not sufficient to justify a no-knock warrant.
In response to the Amir Locke murder by a violent police gang in a no-knock raid illegally obtained using the prohibited boilerplate language, Mayor Jacob Frey has announced a “moratorium” on no-knock warrants that provides for a few narrow exceptions.
Minneapolis police have responded by modifying the illegal boilerplate language they routinely use to reflect those new narrow exceptions.
Years from now we’ll be referring back to that time First Vegetable Joe Biden destroyed the unions.
Remember when Steve said MAGA heads were gonna explode?
Nah. With Lujan out indefinitely, Biden’s gonna need more southern support for his pick.
It’ll be union member heads exploding. No one will miss them. Moreover, the nation will be more productive without them.
@ 32
Wait until QoS “shit-for-brains” McHillbilly learns what the DOJ did to get its FISA warrants.
@30
No, I clearly intended to refer to you as shit-for-brains. You just make silly assumptions about things.
You are a serious grammar Nazi, always pointing out mistakes in posts. So you claim you made one; looks to me you wrote it as you wanted to own it, so own it.
@27 “It’s the non-stop horn-honking that I’m seeing complained about the most.”
Along with setting fire to apartment buildings and locking the tenants inside, stealing food from homeless shelters, and assaulting local residents for wearing masks.
@28 Your party wants to keep elections safe from black voters.
@29 I’m pretty sure the Canadian military has tank recovery vehicles (i.e., tow trucks for tanks) that potentially could be put at the disposal of Ottawa police. They don’t have to worry about boycotts.
https://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/equipment/vehicles/armoured-recovery-vehicle.page
@33 Joe left that reservation a long time ago, and Republicans are still chewing the skin off their hands over it.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/593421-how-republicans-came-to-revel-hating-joe-biden
29,
And Degen Bob,
Talking about Windsor border crossing, not downtown Ottawa.
Again, maybe I’m mistaken but it looked to me like most of the vehicles blocking the crossing were light duty pickup trucks, mostly with U.S. plates flying Trump flags. Good money to be made there, if you ask me.
Situations change rapidly in the 21st century world of Proud Boy ball sucking and pee drinking. Our approaches to dealing with them must adapt just as rapidly.
Most of the country disapproves of First Vegetable Joe Biden, too.
Josh Kraushaar
@HotlineJosh
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@DrLeanaWen
: “It’s a serious problem when most of the country is actively defying C.D.C. recommendations. Governors and local officials are seeing the sentiments of the people they’re serving. And public health has to meet people where they are”
nytimes.com
Dropping Indoor Mask Mandate, New York Joins Blue States Easing Covid Rules
After a scare in November, New Jersey’s governor and other Democratic leaders held back-channel talks over lifting mandates and helping voters impatient with restrictions reclaim a sense of normalcy.
@40 Looks like solid semis to me.
https://www.marketbeat.com/images/associated-press/canadas-covid-19-protests-threaten-border-trade-with-us-2022-02-08-4-primaryphoto.jpg
However, you can do something about this guy.
https://ac.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/truckers-block-key-us-canadian-border-crossing-as-anti-mandate-protests-go-worldwide_620379528041b.jpeg
@41 I can live with the suicidal tendencies of Biden-haters. It’s their homicidal tendencies I object to.
The truckers on the bridge didn’t pick a very good tactical position. This is like an infantry battalion holing up in a tunnel. Just block off both ends and wait for them to run out of food and water. The only way off the bridge is by jumping off. It’s a long way down.
Say, didn’t Republicans recently legalize running over protesters who block roads on the U.S. side? I think they did.
Let’s see:
– Rising unemployment combined with big cuts to unemployment benefits;
– Filthy water and toxic air;
– Unsafe housing;
– legal child labor sweat shops;
– Teachers quitting resulting in overcrowded classrooms and gym coaches teaching algebra;
– Mandatory religious indoctrination in schools, courts, and public meetings;
– School uniforms, hair cuts, and daily loyalty oath requirements:
– Legalized forms of rape;
– Swimsuit inspections for pre-teens at public beaches;
– Elimination of public health services to limit endemic diseases;
– Massive shortages of qualified nurses;
– Open carry of machine guns by convicted child abusers;
– Forced birth;
– Access to voting restricted by race, gender, party;
– Hyper-criminalization of marijuana;
– Warrantless, no-knock, open fire raids of your bedroom;
– Regular public book burning;
– Anal cavity search to attend PTA parents night;
– Pipe bombs and credible death threats as a normal part of “legitimate political discourse”;
– Arrest and imprisonment for voting while (fill in the blank);
– Death sentence for burning a flag, accolades for burning a homeless person;
– Cracker Barrel on every corner in place of Starbucks
Welcome to Red Murica in century ’21.
41,
In all of these states it’s only GOP “ORDINARY CITIZENS ENGAGED IN LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE” getting hospitalized and dying.
Now that Omicron rates have dropped below critical levels for hospital staffing, passively allowing the infection and death rate among TEAM KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN to steadily rise while resuming normal life is an undeniable public service and contributes overall to increased public health and well being.
This is a good thing.
I’m gonna give QoS McHillbilly huge cred @ 46 because I assume that in the middle of the work day he took the time to spew that substantial list freehand.
I’m also gonna ask him where I can buy my own machine gun. My usual guy ran out.
@48 Cut and paste in 10 seconds. We’ve seen this before. Many times.
Republicans, unlike cheese and wine, don’t get better with time.
@48 “I’m also gonna ask him where I can buy my own machine gun. My usual guy ran out.”
The Black Panthers Militia must’ve bought up what Three Percenters didn’t take.
You don’t need one anyway. You’re too old for this shit. You’re just going to be a passive observer, watching the show from your 5 acres in the middle of no man’s land.
The horse will know when to run away. They can tell when it’s time.
48,
I deliver too.
https://otbfirearms.com/nfa/transferable-machine-guns/
Now whaddabout you? Whitey tape bitches?
Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police are giving MTG a sad.
The National Archives has now issued a formal request to the DOJ to investigate the altering, destruction, and theft of presidential records by Donald Trump and his employees during his four years in office.
WEEEEETCH HUUUUUUUUUNT!!!!!!
BUH…BUH…BUH…BENNNGHAAAAZIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely priceless.
More than almost anything else, they’ve robbed themselves of whatever decent shot they had of prolonged, credible, damaging House investigations in 2023 into 2024.
And that was all they had to look forward to.
52,
Figures.
Only a Republican would order gazpacho in February.
@ 54
Without gazpacho I don’t have anything to spill on my white pants.
55,
Ivermectin?
Or sharted?
Witnesses now report seeing Donald Trump eating some of the documents he had torn up.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-eat-documents-paper-omarosa-b2010616.html
For important context, remember this: Every Republican You Know would eagerly vote to make him president again tomorrow. And about a third of them actually believe he still is.
This swimsuit would be illegal in Florida. It might make a white student feel bad about his Stars and Bars bookbag.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/593584-young-swimmer-allowed-to-race-in-blm-swimsuit-after-initial-ban
Watch this. Watch this prolonged, awkward pause beginning at about 35 seconds:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1491193256545243139
That prolonged pause is the precise moment Ronald Reagan’s famous eleventh commandment comes back to pound midterm Republicans in the ass.
Remember they did all this to themselves.
@55 Who the hell wears white pants anymore?
Who misses Al Franken in the Senate?
Same types of people who would miss MTG were she not in the House, probably.
@ 60
@55 Who the hell wears white pants?
Those of us in summer months who, while wearing them, wouldn’t by doing so advertise to the world that our ass is four octaves wide.
Which explains why you don’t know anyone who wears them.
61,
You’re going to want to take a seat before you read this post any further.
Okay. There. Are you sitting down? Okay. Good.
Now, here’s the thing, and I’m sorry as hell to be the one to have to tell you this since it’s pretty obvious you didn’t know before now.
But nobody misses white guys when they are gone.
60,
Thurston Howell III wore white pants.
So did Lovey.
Trevor Noah went after Joe Rogan. Which is fine, whatevs.
For balance, here’s what Noah had to say in his own defense a few years ago, when the Twitterverse brought up Noah’s substantial number of misogynist and anti-Semitic jokes:
Yes, just as Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s use of the slurs towelhead and gook are not a true reflection of his inner goodness, which instead was represented by his use of the slur eggplant.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit is evolving, you see, and now employs racial slurs he thinks nobody will catch. Like eggplant.
@ 64
Thurston Howell III wore white pants.
So did Lovey.
Both millionaires. Which explains why Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who is not one, didn’t know they wore white pants.
Mary Ann.
Twice, before breakfast.
@ 63
But nobody misses white guys when they are gone.
Missin’ isn’t about you, shit-for-brains. It’s about me.
66, 67, 68,
Whatever you say, Bob.
@ 69
I’m reminded that YLB thinks that loafers are people like her who made a career choice, and not an accessory to set off the white trousers.
@62 Is there something wrong with white cottontails?
@64 That was a long time ago.
@65 Still doesn’t know a fencepost from a vegetable. A rabbit knows what an “eggplant” is, dumbfuck. It’s for eating. Any other connotations you put on it are strictly yours.
@68 I’m sure you will, the day you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. All you’ll have then is the horse’s ass.
the slurs towelhead and gook
Babblin’ butthole claimed it didn’t vote for McSame either…
oh.. wait a sec..
Actually that was one case where johnny mcsame wasn’t the same as Bush…
Dumbya didn’t use “gook” while asking people for their vote.
who made a career choice
Hmmm.. my “career choice” saw two kids through college and on my way to a ok retirement. nothing fancy.. certainly not “rich” by any means.
oldest is a team leader with the respect of his bosses, peers and subordinates.. left the nest – on his own living the apartment life in Seattle.
youngest is serious about pursuing a profession. a profession I can’t wait to rub in the face of a silly jerk who made the life choice of being a shithead on a tiny liberal comment forum.
ho hum..
In its referral to the DOJ requesting that they open an investigation into the intentional theft, altering, and destruction of records alleged to have occurred during Trump’s four years in office we have now learned that the evidence includes highly classified documents containing national security and defense related information stolen and hidden in a private residence in Florida.
By this time next year DOJ will be conducting a Special Counsel investigation into Trumps selling Javelin missile guidance tech to the Russian tank commanders invading Ukraine.
While Speaker McCarthy will be overseeing Rep. Gazpacho ably assisted by Rep. Teen Beat as they seek to uncover the magical secrets of Brigadoon!
The fat fuck should be hung or in jail!
Boy the DOW has managed to jump back from its non correction.
That only means that Bob’s pom poms and skirt have to stay in the closet!
We need to reapeal non smoking laws! The Tyranny! Freedom!
Grab your Fire Extiniguishers and Flagpole spears!
So sad. He became addicted to “Stop the Steal” and ended up living in his car, traveling from city to city, hoping “he’d soon hear the evidence he was looking for — from Giuliani, or … Sidney Powell or … Michael Flynn” because they kept telling him, “It’s coming. It’s coming.” Missed Thanksgiving and Christmas with his family. Met people who’ve now lost their jobs and families. Ended up outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 (says he didn’t go inside) watching something “very bad.” Very sad. Maybe he can get a book deal out of it.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/stop-the-steal-cult-january-6/index.html
An unvaccinated Ontario trucker missed out on the protest. Very sad.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/americas/canadian-trucker-dies-covid-19-mother-message-trnd/index.html
@77 Were they able to piece together the evidence that passed through his digestive tract?
It occurs to me Trump is a security risk. How would Putin handle that? Just curious.
Thurston Howell III wore white pants.
You can likely guess who else wears white pants.
@81.
I bet Bob can figure out his AGI.
Did Cocaine Mitch call it a “violent insurrection”?
Well shit..
Confidence remains high that orange dear leader will run.
44)The blockade is in Windsor. The truckers on the bridge are actually trying to work.
84,
It’s probable that a big part of the reason for Putin’s moves now is down to Trump having handed him the keys to the kingdom.
Remember DWAC.O opened and merged with TMTG in October.
Poutine moved into Belarus and Eastern Ukraine in November.
DWAC.O originally opened at $10 and today trades at $80. It rose to $95 in the first two days of trading. More than enough to finance the $900 million merger.
Trump sold Ukraine to Poutine.
Someday, perhaps before not too long, when some of the orange dust has settled, I sure hope somebody somewhere conducts a credible investigation into how, and why, a degenerate, seven times bankrupted, serial sexual assault perpetrator was allowed to steal and unlawfully possess for over a year hundreds of thousands of highly classified documents in an unsecured private sex and drinking club in Florida.
That might be helpful for prevention the next time ruthless communist authoritarian dictators are trying to take over the world and shit.
@88 I stand corrected. They must be very polite truckers to put up with this.
91)Some of the interviewed said they oppose the mandates, but the blockaders aren’t winning friends among them. Probably will lose more support if their rigs end in the River because the bridge is taking a load it wasn’t designed for. Plus, the UAW and CAW might be weighing in. Auto plants are now idling. Trudeau can’t call in the Army unless Premier Ford asks. Seen many on Twitter joking Ford probably doesn’t know Windsor, Sarnia, and Ottawa are in Ontario.
Anti-mandate convoy in Wellington, New Zealand, The y thought these cops would be like the Ottawa Police. No selfies with them outside the Beehive, Mugshots at the jail instead. Apparently all the parties are in unison in Wellington.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/police-arrest-convoy-protesters-at-new-zealand-s-parliament-1.5775517?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3A%7B%7Bcampaignname%7D%7D%3Atwitterpost%E2%80%8B&taid=6204846870e35d0001b6e8cd&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Seven point five, bitches.
First Vegetable Joe Biden is making Jimmy Carter appear downright competent by comparison.
Seven point five. The pounds of classified documents Trump was able to consume in a single setting.
Seven point five. The number of chins between Stacey Abrams’ mouth and sternum.
The number of points the low IQ dolt’s IQ dropped while posting @94, 96.
The number of documents it took for the low IQ moron’s raging orange man-baby to clog the WH toilet.
Something to think about:
The federal law that has been enjoined nationwide by a radical district court order and subsequently upheld by the 5th Circuit, blocking the president’s vaccination mandate for federal employees, is the very same federal law that empowers the president to prohibit drug use by his employees and require drug testing.
That is just one fairly tiny example of the regulatory framework over the federal workforce that would be unwoven by this court order if the Supreme Court chooses to let it stand unmodified. There are predictably a great many more. Working in a federal government agency as a rank and file employee is a work life defined by rules and regulations, almost all of which are written by the agencies themselves, empowered by the president, and supported in law by 5 U.S. Code § 7301.
Many of these things are seemingly mundane and even trivial, such as workplace dress codes or appearance codes. Others could obviously have more far reaching and potentially serious consequences to regulated vital infrastructure like transportation, energy, and science.
The lower court order is basically hot garbage in the sense that it inveighs against the statutory authority without describing any limitations or tests. Left alone it would throw the doors open to unlimited civil rights litigation against every workplace regulation. The 5th refused to consider the lower court ruling or modify it in any way, leaving it entirely intact. If the Roberts court does likewise you shouldn’t be too surprised in the near future to find yourself getting a pre-flight TSA inspection from somebody wearing nothing but a sock, high as fuck on mushrooms, and insisting on speaking exclusively in Esperanto.
@ 99
The federal law that has been enjoined nationwide by a radical district court order and subsequently upheld by the 5th Circuit, blocking the president’s vaccination mandate for federal employees, is the very same federal law that empowers the president to prohibit drug use by his employees and require drug testing.
This is Fleeing-Felon-argument-after-a-thug-is-shot-in-the-front-of-his-torso-several-times bad. This argument is so bad I’m surprised it wasn’t Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit who made it.
The prohibition of drug use by employees is a requirement that certain substances cannot be introduced into the body. And something that exits the body in the form of urine may, after exit, be tested to ensure compliance.
The vaccine mandate is a requirement that one of a group of approved certain substances must be introduced into the body. And testing will be conducted by a device that is inserted into the body.
The drug policy and the vaccine mandate are exact opposites, QoS McHillbilly.
I think I know the reason for the foolishness by shit-for-brains QoS McHillbilly. He’s auditioning for a gig at handbill.us.
It was nice to see Joe Manchin dance on BBB’s grave.
Grace Panetta
@grace_panetta
New Manchin statement on inflation figures: “As inflation and our $30 trillion in national debt continue a historic climb, only in Washington, DC do people seem to think that spending trillions more of taxpayers’ money will cure our problems, let alone inflation.”
6:37 AM · Feb 10, 2022
Deaths in WA state due to The Wuhan are still climbing, with the 7-day average now up to 51/day. Two weeks ago it was little more than half (27/d) that figure.
This likely factors into Inslee’s reluctance to do the free-from-The-Wuhan dance so far. Since the data on masking hasn’t changed, he can’t claim a sudden shift in the data. He’s gotta wait until the Omicron spike is clearly passing.
DeSantis got his state through it early, and caught hell for doing it. Since what Florida experienced was or is being experienced by all of the other states, free choice is looking pretty good right now. It’ll be looking even better in late 2023 and 2024.
This political fact is why shit-for-brains is left with telling us @ 100 black is the same as white.
It’s over, bitches. Y’all hung The Wuhan around Trump’s neck in 2020, but it’s around y’all’s neck and yankin’ on First Vegetable Joe Biden’s hair plugs in 2022.
Own it.
POLITICO Playbook: House Dems break against mask mandate
Explaining that shit-for-brains got it backwards @ 100 when he defended the mandate takes a little more effort than merely pointing out that if people like Gavin Too Much Hair Gel”” Newsom and Stacey “7.5 Chins On A Good Day” Abrams feel that they don’t have to abide by them, neither should the rest of us.
It’s not to late to put up a decent primary challenger to The Obese One in Georgia, libbies. She’s toast after the weekend.
It’s nice to see Proud Boys wearing police badges getting prosecuted for committing hate crimes under color of law.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-man-bomb-threat-ottawa-mask-mandate_n_62053ef6e4b083bd1cbba238
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old anti-masker dumbass decided to support the “Freedom Convoy” by calling in a bomb threat to tie up the police in Ottawa, Ohio.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-man-bomb-threat-ottawa-mask-mandate_n_62053ef6e4b083bd1cbba238
@94 That’s Trump’s Fed chief who’s printing all that money, dipstick. The most you can blame Biden for is renominating him.
But if you’re going to criticize, you should also give credit. What this inflation buys us is no recession. Inflation or recession. Recession or inflation. Take your pick. You’re gonna have one or the other.
Which do you prefer?
@100 Almost as bad as your stock market predictions, eh? Did you really think a stock market propped up by zero interest rates and $120 billion a month of money-printing would correct? But maybe there’s still hope for you. The QE (we’re told) will soon end, and the Fed may raise interest rates to (gasp) 1.5% by year-end (which is a negative real rate of only 6.0%). And the 7.5% (annualized) inflation print is wiping out the last few days’ gains this morning. We’ll see how long that lasts.
@101 Yeah, who needs child care assistance to go to work? Just leave the toddlers at home unattended, so you can work that waitress job paying $2.30 an hour plus tips.
@103 The rule, as I understand it, applies equally to all members. So do the fines. It’s not the Democrats’ fault that all the offenders are Republicans. That’s the Republicans’ fault.
@104 I think you just said that if the mayor runs a red light, there shouldn’t be any traffic laws, or something like that.
The hypocritical actions of a couple of prominent politicians doesn’t prove the mandates are bad policy. Maybe they are, but you haven’t offered one scrap of evidence or reasoned argument to support that.
All you’ve done in that comment is put your illogic and intellectual dishonesty on display.
To put things in perspective, all today’s market drop does is knock back the averages to where they were two days ago.
I’ve been working on an options trading concept based upon the stock purchases by Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Goes something like this:
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit tells the world he bought ABC shares. They are trading at $XX/share when he does.
After waiting about two months the trader sells a naked put against shares of the same ABC corporation, with a strike price about 20% lower ($XX * 0.8) and an expiration date about four months out. The premium from the transaction is collected up front and can be immediately put to work as desired.
Four months later, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will certainly be underwater about 10% on his investment, and without ever owning the shares the options trader ends up closing out his position with a gain of 10-15% (depends on market volatility at the time the put is sold) based on the ABC share price on the date Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit made his purchase.
It takes a bit of risk, because the trader is betting that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is stupid to an extent less than 20% of the value of the ABC shares on the date he purchases them. So far, with the exception of Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s nonsensical support of GE, he’s been stupid less than 20%. Although in a 7.5% inflation environment I really should say he’s stupid less than 27.5%.
Having some trouble naming this options trading method. “Capitalize on the Imbecility and Indiscretion of a Bloviating Dumbfuck” seems to be a bit too much of a mouthful, if not inaccurate. Maybe C2IBD?
Or Hare-Brained Scheme, perhaps.
Sinema joins Manchin, and announces she has come to bury BBB, not to praise it.
Ambition should be made of less stupid stuff, libbies.
@112 “It takes a bit of risk,”
As dishonest as you are, at least you’re honest enough to admit there’s no such thing as free money or risk-free trading.
There’s investing, and there’s gambling. Owning stocks is investing. Options trading is gambling.
I’m an investor. You’re a gambler.
I just want that to be clear.
@ 114
I’m an investor. You’re a gambler.
I just want that to be clear.
As do I, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s definitely a gamble that you’re less than 20% stupid as an investor. You’ve shared so much evidence that you’re far worse than 20%.
The
Cuomo/Zucker/Acosta/Toobin network has Biden disapproval nearing 60%.I don’t wanna live in a world in which NL pitchers don’t have to take their turn at the plate along with everybody else.
I wonder if Railfan has seen the DC Metro news yet.
It’s not all bad. After all, mediocrity sounds better than incompetence.
CNN prepares to abandon Biden.
Despite all the handwringing over inflation, there’s a school of thought that argues disinflation, not inflation, is the real problem.
One of the most visible advocates is Cathie Wood of ARK Invest, who argues, “We don’t have an inflation problem.” She argues inflation hawks are failing to factor in productivity, and she also expects oil prices to fall although not everyone agrees with that. Disinvestment and neglected production infrastructure are limiting producers’ ability to ramp up production, and OPEC is having trouble fulfilling its own self-imposed production ceilings.
Her views are an outlier, but she’s not alone. Other pundits voice similar claims. For example, this one contends, “Disinflation, and ultimately deflation, is a more significant threat than inflation over the next two years,” and “we already see the month-over-month inflation rates declining towards [the] levels seen since 2009.” He continues, “Given the correlation between interest rates, inflation, and economic growth, there are several reasons to expect disinflation in the months ahead,” and goes into them with charts and data.
Meanwhile, another writer (here) also ties the January inflation print to “surging natural gas and oil prices,” and points out that last week “the Atlanta Fed estimated first-quarter GDP growth at just a 0.1% annual pace,” which argues against aggressive Fed tightening, fear of which is behind today’s market drop (the implication is the market will quickly snap back when this concern fades).
These market watchers — and many more like them — think inflation is like the omicron variant, a sharp spike that quickly subsides, and they believe that strong deflationary forces embedded in the economy (caused by demographics, technology, etc.) will return the inflation rate to the baseline rate either by year-end or sometime next year. If true, that would make long-term bets on inflation bad bets, and also make betting on aggressive Fed rate hiking a bad bet. If businesses are overshooting on inventory building, production cuts will come, and if consumer spending isn’t growing, almost any tightening could squeeze the economy into contraction.
My overall impression from all sources, taking into account consensus or mainstream views, is that the economy is more fragile than recent growth figures imply, inflation is about half due to temporary factors (supply chains, and consumers spending their savings all at once), and about half due to Fed policy that probably was too loose. With consumers hunkering down (retail sales were flat in the 4th quarter), and the Fed now beginning to tighten, both of those inflation pressures should begin to abate.
And it’s entirely possible that by this fall the political problem for Biden and the Democrats will not be inflation, but recession.
I’m also seeing comments that consumers are tapped out, the consumer spending surge is over, and nearly all of 4th quarter’s growth is due to business inventory-building, backed up by data and graphs.
100,
The district court order does not enjoin the order based in any way on any of the things you are claiming in your post.
You lie. Again. Of course. Because lying’s all you got.
The court quite bizarrely referenced the separate ruling in the OSHA mandate case – bizarre because the federal employee mandate is authorized by an entirely different statute and the OSHA enabling statute was never introduced. Citing the SCOTUS decis in the OSHA case, the district court held that COVID represents no risk to workplace safety of any kind.
Ignoring the truly bizarre nature of that declaration, it is certainly true that a colorable argument can be made (has been made many, many times) that certain substances introduced into the
Congressman’semployee’s body during a week long vacation with teen hookers in the Caribbean do not present a workplace safety risk the following week. Nor frankly would wearing a tube sock over his dick or insisting on speaking only in Esperanto.The standard described in the ruling is workplace safety. Using your shit-for-brains logic the president can prohibit federal employees from eating french fries, based apparently on the well established and time honored legal principles of “ins and outs”.
You’ve made yourself into a fucking clown again.
@115 This stupid rabbit stuck money in an IRA and got a 1,300% return in 20 years. You’re making, what, 1/10th of 1% a year on your mattress money? Wow, that’s 2% in 20 years.
102,
The deaths by their own hands of Trump voters who support the violent overthrow of democracy is perhaps unfortunate, but ultimately good for society.
Thoughts and prayers as we move into the future without them.
104,
Okay, first off you are calling yourself “shit-for-brains” here.
Time to stop drinking maybe?
Second, the two Democrats you cite are both fully vaccinated and boosted. So nothing about their personal choices in any way implicates a vaccination mandate – BECAUSE VACCINATED. See how that works, Shortbus?
And third, neither of them works for Joe Biden.
THEY ALL WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS, TOM HANKS, AND HUGO CHAVEZ!
Right?
@121 Doesn’t he always?
You wonder how someone so illogical managed to interpret x-rays. Probably the best answer to that is he doesn’t interpret x-rays anymore.
Nevada’s Democrat governor is the latest to tell First Vegetable Joe Biden to get it over with and croak already.
Gov. Sisolak lifts mask mandate in Nevada effective immediately
Thinly polled Nevada most recently had Cortez Masto up 9 over the Laxalt boy, but well below 50. Her true numbers might not be that good.
From link @126: “Also, the governor’s office encouraged any at-risk individuals with underlying health issues to continue to wear masks to to help protect their persons.”
In Ottawa, that will get you assaulted.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/moo-shu-ice-cream-employee-assaulted-ottawa-1.6341207
The next time they complain about protesters blocking streets …
Beto, running for prez 2020:
Beto , running for gov 2022:
Protecting more Texans means purchasing more firearms.
It’s going to be a joy watching Democrats run from everything they ran toward only two years ago, because they are trying not to get swept up in the red tsunami that’s coming.
There might even be fewer like-minded people that YLB can cower behind.
Memo to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 126, 127:
The distance from Las Vegas to Ottowa is 2,491.9 miles.
The irrelevance of comparing politics in the two locations is staggering.
For Degen Bob’s most recent soaring hypocrisy, please see 104, shit-fer-brains.
Still no luck with that BLS report Bob?
Over the four years of the most failed presidency in all history, Trump staff routinely had to summon maintenance to clear toilets that had been clogged up with documents.
https://www.axios.com/maggie-haberman-book-trump-papers-2d59d593-8b89-4edd-8623-8ef709af524f.html
House Oversight has wasted no time launching an investigation into the five years of Trump/GOP classified record theft and destruction. They should have a referral to the DOJ before summer.
Approved by voice vote.
Technically that means no Republican voted against it.
Including Rand and Josh.
@ 132
Still no luck with that BLS report Bob?
Not this month, and I doubt the coming revisions will make a dent, either.
@129 Well waddya know, a two-faced politician now whistling a different tune, kinda like Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
@130 I wouldn’t call Confederate flags and swastikas uniquely Canadian, but setting fire to an apartment building and sealing the residents inside to retaliate for complaining about loud truck horns seems to be their original idea. So I guess you could say their “politics” differs from ours in that “Trumpatriots” haven’t thought of napalm yet. But ideas travel fast, and that’s probably coming soon to an election office near you.
“News Flash: Patriots have stormed the Capitol. No surprise. The deep state has awoken the sleeping giant,” Monique Miles, a now-former Virginia deputy AG wrote on Jan. 6. “Patriots are not taking this lying down. We are awake, ready and will fight for our rights by any means necessary,” she posted on social media.
“In comments on her post, Miles allegedly referred to the riot as a ‘peaceful protest’ and said people shouldn’t believe the mainstream media. The Virginia Attorney General’s Office said it had not seen Miles’ comments before they had been reported by the [Washington] Post,” but they sure have now, and she’s no longer employed there.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/virginia-deputy-attorney-general-resigns-january-6/index.html
I wonder if this is her?
https://blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2015/04/virginia-monique-miles-running-for.html
What really struck me, though, is her excuse:
“‘The posts were made at a time when the news was still developing re: the facts around the election, the court cases, the Rally on the Ellipse and what happened at the capitol,’ she wrote in an email to the newspaper. ‘That was before all the audits occurred. What we know now about the election today is very different from what we knew on Election Day 2020 or even what we knew on the day that President Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 ….'”
What “audits” is she talking about? If election officials count ballots and the media reports the results show Biden won, we don’t know who won? After the official recounts and dismissed lawsuits, we still don’t know who won? After the electoral votes are counted and certified, and the president-elect is inaugurated, we still don’t know who won? It took her another year to figure who won?
Too stupid to be a lawyer. But dumb enough to be a Republican.
139)A similar convoy is going to D.C. Hope the National Guard is ready this time. Plus, have the 3rd Infantry Regiment surround Arlington National Cemetery. The Sentinels might need a little backup., after what happened with Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown. Although ours is in the middle of the National Cemetery.
yawwwwn.. shiverin’ in widbee said what??
wtf cares…
Elon Musk runs a racist car company.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/tesla-sued-by-california-which-alleges-racist-treatment-of-black-workers.html
@140 As you would expect, paranoia and conspiracy theories bloom like hothouse orchids among the Ottawa truckers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/canada-truckers-protest-mindset-intelligence-reports
143)I was referring to reports a similar one that will start in California and work it’s way East. Our truckers have too much time to listen to SiriusXM Patriot. I was listening to SiriusXM Progress Dean Obedallah today and he was talking to two semi-regular callers that were truckers. Margie is a an interesting character, engages in insightful conversations about the trucking industry, and what she sees, but thought Dean wasn’t sounding the alarm enough, because our truckers carry guns. Kendall is a right winger, sometimes has a cogent thought, but tends to spout paranoid theories. Like the Freedom to. Vote Act is secretly going to replace all Republicans.. He said he doesn’t know about any American convoy, and I would expect him to be in it. Some other truckers said the promoters would likely fail to get passed the CHP.
Trailer for the final installments of a comic book/Graphic Novel style web series playing on what passed for conspiracy theories in Canada prior to the current ones. The cancellation of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor, and the theory one was snuck out of the factory before DND Personnel arrived to carry out Diefenbakers instructions. They have repelled another recent air incursion by MiG-31 and TU-160s, but still need to retake a bases in the Northwest Passage being occupied by Russians. Also, the Arrow(flown by a retired RCAF General with a little Bruce Wayne streak) and the RCAF have a little unfinished business with the Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier.
https://youtu.be/cr_3GeRriRQ
In the story, they started it while Trump was President, and not getting much help. Also, in the story line, Vladsego can’t take getting bested. Episode 10 was interesting, although it featured a new Russian weapon that may veer from reality a little.
https://youtu.be/JhNRd7IUO4g
Somehow at the end of the last Republican administration vital government defense data classified as Top Secret was stolen, transported to Florida, hidden in a private sex resort, and kept there for over a year.
Trey Gowdy has absolutely no comment about any of this.