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Dope. Seattle just passed an ordinance to make us a sanctuary city for abortion. This means, for example, we won’t enforce warrants on abortion related crimes in places where it’s illegal. I certainly hope that this can be a model for other municipalities and for the state as a whole in the future.

Thanks to all of the Councilmembers who voted for it, and especially to Councilmember Sawant. I love when Seattle does bold things.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  3. 3

    The last thread closed with the low IQ Nazi traitor for the 9,000th time accusing Hillary of being a crook, and for the 9,000th time, failing to identifying a crime she committed.

    Then for the 1,000th time, the low IQ Nazi traitor informed us that it was Hillary who gave us Trump. By inference, it was those who voted for Hillary who gave us Trump. The 1/6 insurrection would be also be Hillary’s fault. And ours.

    No surprise here that the shit of a low IQ Nazi traitor comes out smelling like roses.

    Uh-uh. No. It was the low IQ Nazi traitor who gave us Trump. It was the low IQ Nazi traitor who gave us an insurrection in our nation’s Capitol on 1/6.

    Fact. Anything and everything that is wrong about America is the fault of the low IQ Nazi traitor.

  4. 4

    Also:

    Also hysterical: Drivers doing something careless and @ 11 killing innocent people.

    LMAO!! It’s hysterical that you babble about a 70 year old Dem politician (who declared that she’d exit her seat before the accident) who’ll get a slap on the wrist due to repuke “freedumb” policies on driving while babbling or texting.

    WI is highly gerrymandered to repuke advantage, o kreepshit “lord” of widbee…

    And it’s also hysterical that you so typically called her “murderous cunt” and then cucked out and deemed her merely “uncaring”… awww… how kompassionate..

    Yes, she’ll be served a civil suit and by all appearances she’ll probably receive a judgement not in her favor..

    It’s hysterical whenever you babble and spike the ball so far from the red zone..

  9. 9

    @3 “No surprise here that the shit of a low IQ Nazi traitor comes out smelling like roses.”

    Maybe rabbits have better noses, because to me his shit has smelled like shit from day one.

  11. 11

    God Bless Joe Biden. Didn’t have to be rushed to Walter Reed like some beached whale Neanderthal.

    God bless the miracles he’s pulling out on Wall Street. Biden! President Biden.

    If we had the fat whale we’d be in a depression and a fascist state right now.

    God Bless President Biden! Thank You Joe!

  16. 16

    It’s too bad that most doctors are professionals. It would have been nice if they mixed up the IV drip line with an oxygen line on the fat fuck beached whale when he was at Walter Reed

  18. 18

    @8 “But the choice between traditional conservatives and Trump-backed firebrands is also tapping into working-class conservatives’ frustrations with a state economic and political system firmly controlled by Republicans, highlighting the gap between voters who have profited from Arizona’s rising home values and tax cuts tilted toward the wealthy, and those who feel left out and are eager to punish the Republican establishment at the ballot box,” the report states.

    >> Trumpers are upset that their republicans are not hurting the right people. Republicans are hurting them, not just the people they hate. They didn’t agree to THAT.

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    15)I’ll believe it when it happens. Too many times he pulled his support at tge last minute.

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    This means, for example, we won’t enforce warrants on abortion related crimes in places where it’s illegal.

    So when a father impregnates his 10 year-old daughter and brings her to the Civic Skunk Works Martini Bar and Abortion Abattoir next to Goldy’s hammock, he’ll have a safe place to shack up, protected from the statutory rape arrest warrant issued by his home state.

    Got it.

  24. 24

    This is scary.

    Kyle Martinsen
    @KyleMartinsen_
    Here’s 20 seconds of a pre-recorded speech Joe Biden gave yesterday. Take a look at how much the White House edited it.

    (I did not edit this in any way)
    7:10 PM · Jul 26, 2022

    Imagine what they’ll have to do to him by the time 2024 rolls around. We’ll be talking full Weekend At Bernie’s.

  25. 25

    Jay Powell gives First Vegetable Joe Biden a stirring endorsement:

    The Hill
    @thehill
    Fed Chair Powell: “We didn’t expect a good reading, but this one was even worse than we expected.” https://trib.al/9e7E3Qh
    6:16 AM · Jul 28, 2022

    Nice to see a bit of honesty out of one of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s appointees.

  28. 28

    Wow not much has changed:

    The agencies said that by denying minorities equal access, including through deploying loan officers almost exclusively in majority-white neighborhoods, Trident prevented them from building wealth through their homes, depressing property values in Philadelphia; Camden, New Jersey and Wilmington, Delaware.

    They also said Trident tolerated a racist culture, citing its failure to discipline a senior vice president who posed for a photo in front of a Confederate flag, and employee emails that referred to underserved communities as “ghetto” and one that exclaimed “BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!”

    Trident did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/berkshire-hathaway-subsidiary-settles-u-153224811.html

    “This settlement is a stark reminder that redlining is not a problem from a bygone era,” said Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general from the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

    Hey lord kreepshit, another reminder that John James or Larry Elder standing in for you, is your ticket to the pristine whiteness of Orcas Island.

  29. 29

    Wow not much has changed:

    The agencies said that by denying minorities equal access, including through deploying loan officers almost exclusively in majority-white neighborhoods, Trident prevented them from building wealth through their homes, depressing property values in Philadelphia; Camden, New Jersey and Wilmington, Delaware.

    They also said Trident tolerated a racist culture, citing its failure to discipline a senior vice president who posed for a photo in front of a Confederate flag, and employee emails that referred to underserved communities as “ghetto” and one that exclaimed “BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!”

    Trident did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/berkshire-hathaway-subsidiary-settles-u-153224811.html

    “This settlement is a stark reminder that redlining is not a problem from a bygone era,” said Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general from the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

    Hey lord kreepshit, another reminder that John James or Larry Elder standing in for you, is your ticket to the pristine whiteness of Orcas Island.

  32. 32

    @24 A dead Biden talking with a ventriloquist is a thousand times better than the candidate you voted for because you’re a dumbfuck.

  33. 33

    Thank God for President Joe Biden!!!

    God Bless him. The market is up and he’s an awesome guy responsible for all of it! He’s kept us from a Great Depression and a fascist fucking government!

    He’s a miracle worker!!!

    Thank you Joe!

  35. 35

    @28 The Seattle Times ran an expose on another Warren Buffett business, mobile home manufacturer Clayton Homes, because of its predatory business practices. That Berkshire-owned company also had another scandal involving the sale of formaldehyde-laden units to FEMA. Two scumbag companies owned by the same man isn’t an accident. People have this image of Buffett as a grandfatherly teddy bear; he’s anything but that. He’s an exploitive capitalist. But he’s gonna pay me a lot of money for my Occidental stock one of these days and I’ll take his dirty, racist, poor-people-exploiting money when he does.

  36. 36

    Trumpers ‘gasm to recession news in hopes that it will hurt Liberals.
    But Liberals worry about the education our kids.
    Veteran Wife Teaching With No Degree Sparks Fury as Florida Bill Kicks In
    https://www.newsweek.com/veteran-wife-teaching-no-degree-florida-bill-viral-reddit-1728814
    “Today in my classroom, I had a soon to be teacher observe me in my classroom for 2 hours,” said the alleged teacher. “She was my age. She did not have a bachelor’s degree. Her husband did 4 years in the military 30 years ago.”
    “The state of Florida gave her a five-year teaching certification because she’s married to a veteran,” the writer said. “She was a waitress. She starts teaching 3rd grade next week and the only thing she had to do to get this teaching certification was to observe certified teachers and their classrooms for a total of 12 hours.”
    A Florida bill allowing military veterans and their spouses to teach without a degree has already spawned stunning stories from the state’s classrooms. A prospective teacher had to inquire about the meaning of “phonetic spelling, reading fluency, and mathematical operations,” said a viral post.

    So Trumpers are also ‘gasming over destroying public education if hurts the teacher’s union. We are becoming a smart Blue State, stupid Red State nation.
    I notice our pet trumper won’t move to a Red State. He likes leaching off the Smart people.

  37. 37

    With Daddy Twump being the run away, overwhelming favorite to clinch the GOP nom early in 2024, and having learned for sure that DOJ is focusing on Trump as “target” of an investigation, we will now be subjected to a peculiar form of hand-wringing.

    Legal scholars and other members of the commentariat will begin to warn us about “how dangerous” it may be for a powerful political leader to be prosecuted for the crimes he commits. They’ll mostly say that it could delegitimize the legal system and shatter public trust in the system when a popular elite becomes the focus of law enforcement authorities.

    But when you hear or read that shit you need to ask yourself why it is that the same “concerns” about legitimacy and public trust simply don’t exist whenever law enforcement goes after a powerless poor person, as they do tens of thousands of times every single day in America.

    What matters to legitimacy and trust is not whether a person suspected of a crime is prosecuted.

    What matters is HOW. Trump and his minions will be granted every conceivable ounce of due process available. And everyone else should get at least the same.

  40. 40

    Life just got a lot worse for Fauntleroy ferry riders. The Cathlamet sustained heavy damage from a docking collision about 3 hours ago and is out of action indefinitely.

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    @38 What the low-IQ dumbfuck traitor doesn’t realize is Washington’s minimum wage is pegged to inflation.

  42. 42

    @35 We’re only a few years away from the majority of Florida voters signing their ballots with an “X”. Then all the signatures will be challenged because they’ll all look alike.

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    It’s pretty obvious why Florida is scraping the bottom of the barrel to staff classrooms. Who wants a criminal record for saying the word “slavery” or pinning up a rainbow in a classroom?

    A state that elects and reelects someone like DeSantis doesn’t deserve to have teachers or schools.

  46. 46

    From several stories on Raw Story this morning, it appears a whole bunch of Republicans are severely bent out of shape that Manchin is finally cooperating with Biden.

    House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy said “he feels lied to.” Sen. Cornyn said “it ‘poisons the well’ in his relationship with Democrats.”

    What fucking relationship? Voting against everything they do? Will he retaliate by voting against coal plants from now on?

  48. 48

    In other news …

    “Susan Collins: Democrats’ Climate Deal May Doom Bipartisan Efforts On Same-Sex Marriage”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/collins-same-sex-marriage_n_62e2d05ae4b0d0ea9b751b87

    “Trader Joe’s Workers Unionize In Historic Vote In Massachusetts”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trader-joes-workers-unionize-in-massachusetts_n_62e18b7ae4b07f83766b83b4

    “‘Fox & Friends’ Tries To Comfort Trump After Reporting Very Bad Poll Numbers”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-and-friends-appease-donald-trump-bad-poll-numbers_n_62e2af6ee4b0d0ea9b74d8a5

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    Republicans have incorporated climate change into their Armageddon plans. They don’t intend to fry with the rest of us, because they expect to be raptured up. They don’t appreciate how hot it is where they’re going.

  51. 51

    If Republicans are counting on air conditioning to survive climate change, why did they oppose the infrastructure bill? Where do they think the electricity to run their A/C will come from?

    And does anyone actually believe they were going to vote for legislation to protect same-sex marriage?

    Meanwhile, Little Marco and other GOPers argue such legislation isn’t necessary because same-sex marriage already is a constitutional right under Obergefell. And we all know this SCOTUS doesn’t overturn precedents, especially those relating to privacy rights.

  53. 53

    As of 2:55 pm, southbound I-5 is completely blocked at the ship canal bridge and south, by what King 5 News says is a truck fire at Mercer Street. KING 5 has live aerial coverage. The fire is out, but there’s foam all over the roadway. The truck is a charred wreck. Looks live they have the express lanes closed, too.

    It was a big fire. KOMO 4 News says WSP reported propane and oxygen tanks were on the truck, and some exploded and flew off the freeway.

  54. 54

    This sure is a bad day for commuters. They won’t be able to get through Seattle for hours, and when they finally do, there’s no ferry. I’m sure glad I don’t have to commute. It’s much better to be a capitalist! Everyone should be capitalists, and no one should work.

  55. 55

    I don’t know who is going to run for president in 2024, but I hope that all the candidates are under the age of 60. It’s time for baby boomers to retire.

  60. 60

    “Nearly one third of people killed by US police since 2015 were running away, driving off or attempting to flee when the officer fatally shot or used lethal force against them, data reveals.

    “In the past seven years, police in America have killed more than 2,500 people who were fleeing, and those numbers have slightly increased in recent years, amounting to an average of roughly one killing a day of someone running or trying to escape, according to Mapping Police Violence, a research group that tracks lethal force cases.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/hunted-one-in-three-people-killed-by-us-police-were-fleeing-data-reveals

    Did you say something about fleeing felons, doc?

  62. 62

    “Justice Samuel Alito, appearing for the first time in public since penning the opinion that reversed Roe v. Wade, mocked foreign criticism of the decision during a speech he delivered in Rome.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/samuel-alito-religious-liberty-notre-dame-rome/index.html

    Of course he’s defensive — he’s got much to be defensive about. Everyone in the world, except maybe the Pope, thinks he’s a clown. Maybe that’s why he’s showing his face in Rome.

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    @ 59

    …a black person couldn’t do this and walk away from it.

    Clearly you don’t recall the 2021 Washington DC carjacking by two teenage girls that killed the Uber driver. They did far worse and walked away from it.

  64. 64

    In Colorado’s GOP primary for secretary of state, Pam Anderson got 268,614 votes (43.06%), Tina Peters got 180,036 votes (28.86%), and Mike O’Donnell got 175,136 votes (28.08%).

    Today, notorious election denier, gadfly county clerk, and indicted election crimes defendant Tina Peters paid the $255,912 fee for a statewide recount.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/tina-peters-mesa-county-clerk-recount-loss/index.html

    This isn’t about overturning the results, of course. It’s about proving elections can’t be trusted. If the recount gives her 13 more votes, she’ll screech “see! I told you they’re dishonest!”

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    @ 57

    Conservatives engineered a federal indictment of NOLA’s progressive D.A. and today a jury returned “not guilty” verdicts on all charges.

    Not quite.

    The dude’s tax preparer admitted filing returns that illegally reduced the DA’s tax bill, and the dude’s law partner was convicted of four counts of tax fraud and will be disbarred, but the dude himself is a total angel.

    He’ll be indicted and convicted for something else, in about five years.

  66. 66

    52)Looks like the Can’tLandIt took a really big hit, never seen one of the pickle fork ends crumble like that. Could be the Captain totally or partially to blame, or mechanical error. Remember the issues the Issaquahs had in their early years.

  67. 67

    @61 They didn’t walk away. They were pulled from the wrecked car by bystanders. The cops had no excuse to shoot them. They didn’t lead police on a high-speed chase or ram a patrol car, and they were detained by the time the cops showed up. They had reason to shoot the white woman, and if she’d been a black man, what will you bet he’d be dead?

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    52)Loved the ST Alert telling riders on the 510 to expect delays. Most 510 series routes turn back at Northgate now, with a few trips to Downtown to appease those who loved their 1 seat ride. Don’t like to gloat, because LINK does have issues too at times, especially the Rainier Valley segment with motorists who think the extended green light allows them to turn left, when the light is being held for the train. It benefits the motorists not turning too, though.

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    and if she’d been a black man, what will you bet he’d be dead?

    Zero dollars. And he knows he’s a racist bigot. He a Proud Boy.

  72. 72

    Republicans like soldiers the same way Republicans like babies…
    when they’re out, Republicans won’t support them.

  73. 73

    @58. So…… 2/3s of the people shot by cops were shot while staying put and complying?
    Kind of explains why more people are fleeing the police.

  75. 75

    @64

    The captain of a merchant ship is ALWAYS responsible for what goes on in their ship. On WSF, the quartermaster actually steers the ship, under the direction of a qualified watch officer (it may or many not be the Captain on watch at that moment). None the less, even if the Capt. isn’t on the bridge at that moment, they are still responsible for all actions and activities of the vessel.

    There may have been a mechanical issue (not uncommon for WSF), but make no mistake about it, the Chief Engineer reports to the Captain.

    The dolphin isn’t the only thing that took a big hit yesterday.

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