I am not sure how much credit to give a proposal in a politician’s press release. So maybe I am missing something. But I like the idea of continuing to bypass the design review process for affordable housing in Seattle. I don’t know how much we need the process in general, but certainly for low income housing in the middle of a homelessness crisis, extending it seems like a no brainer.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Trump is an STD
@1 A “low energy” STD.
Our weak troll’s OCD-fueled narcissism must be such a terrible thing.
One thing about uber narcissists, they need to believe they’re the smartest person in any room they’re in. We constantly see that symptom show itself in “our room” here at HA. The weak troll needs to believe he knows more about law than attorneys and judges, and more about engineering than engineers. And no matter how many times he gets his ass handed to him, the weak troll comes back to do it again and again. Wash, rinse, repeat. He simply can’t stop.
Indeed, OCD-fueled narcissism must be a terrible thing.
I’m sure Carl will be just as happy to see House bills bypass committee review in favor of a floor introduction and House vote on the same day.
@ 3
One thing about uber narcissists, they need to believe they’re the smartest person in any room they’re in.
Er, the smartest guy in this room is QoS McHillbilly, Steve. Before that it was michael.
That guy running is AWESOME.
Either he loses in the primary and the cult gets super pissed and burns it all down
OR
He wins the primary and images of Jan 6th are all the campaign material we need.
This will work out well:
ECONOMY
Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges, Fed report says
Imagine being Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, and having to rely on prayer that this will work out well, because your family is toast if they don’t.
YLB has reason for despair and reason for hope:
Her despair is because that Democrat twat won’t be Speaker much longer.
Her hope is well-grounded in a greater-than-50% probability that the new Speaker will be an even bigger twat.
Imagine being the sad, weak dancing freak, and having to rely on prayer that this will work out well, because your political future is toast no matter what.
TRUMP/LAKE 2024 LOSERS UNITE!!!
NYT’s Nate Cohn published data indicating that Trump-supported GOP candidates underperformed the rest of the GOP by about 5 points.
Right on schedule, the sad, weak dancing freak has morphed cynical independent.
We should all pause at this moment to mourn our loss. For at least a few days now we will be deprived of the comic spectacle of the hysterical incel troll groveling rapturously mouth agape before whichever nihilistic aluminum siding salesman with picutres of pre-teens on his phone, or digitally enhanced mid-life Barbie speeding past her last fuckable day FOX chooses to offer him.
We’ll just have to make do celebrating the spectacle of GOP self-destruction in the mean time until the troll returns to his default settings. Because what difference does any of it really make so long as Every Republican You Know is always the bigger twat.
But just because we will be deprived of the usual entertainment for a few days doesn’t mean we can’t relive the greatest hits.
I’ll start it off with one of my favorites:
“The polls could be underestimating Republicans.”
Hasn’t it learned by now, it is impossible to underestimate Republicans?
Nancy Pelosi getting out of government forever is a great idea. She should simply go back to San Francisco and live out the rest of her life.
While we’re at it, it’s time for younger blood all the way around. I’d like to see a House, Senate and White House where everyone there was 60 or younger.
Let’s get rid of the old farts.
Or not.
Now try to imagine their “carefully concealed enthusiasm” when it’s some guy named Chip Roy promising to withhold their Social Security checks because someone named Elise Stefanik didn’t get a better parking spot.
Because what difference does any of it really make so long as Every Republican You Know is always the bigger twat.
Yawwwnn.. the sad incel troll has taken such a beating.. it’ll try to revive itself by laying out the kneepads for its beloved deathsatanist…
So boring..
13,
Feelings, eh?
Fuck your feelings.
Instead of “feelings” why not try nominating candidates who aren’t closeted Nazis instead? Voters really hate Nazis. Go figure.
16
Voters aren’t too keen on red-toothed commie bastards, either.
15,
“.. it’ll try to revive itself by laying out the kneepads for its beloved deathsatanist…”
That much is preordained.
But the part of the performance I enjoy watching is the pretense at “independent thinker” that goes before, as if it lends some credibility to the preordained choice to grovel. The one constant for the last six years has been the groveling. Nothing Trump or any of his lackys and camp followers ever said or did was enough to interrupt that.
Torture, sodomy, rape, meh. But losing an historic midterm is the one unforgivable sin. And yet even now the troll remains too cowardly to openly reject his orange daddy. It wants desperately to have a new Fat Midget daddy. But it must be oh so careful.
It’s just a shocking display of humiliation.
Character is destiny. And this was always the troll’s destiny. From the moment it listened to the rape tape and shrugged it off.
@ 11
We should all pause at this moment to mourn our loss. For at least a few days now …
QoS McHillbilly has held his breath in silent hope that the Democrats would hold the House.
A loss, indeed.
With any luck McCarthy can keep the idiots from impeaching a feeble, senile imbecile. A guy with spine could manage that. A twat like YLB can’t.
17,
Find someone who can teach you to count.
I understand Kari Lake has some free time now and she has some very recent experience with counting.
a feeble, senile imbecile.
LMAO…. and what a prognosticator.. inflayshun didn’t work.. minor dem going postal on a journo didn’t work.. gas/oil prices didn’t work.. babbling 538 didn’t work.. babbling every poll that stroked it didn’t work… babbling about refusing to debate an unserious tv performer didn’t work..
speaks so well to its “intelligence”… “seriously” imbecilic indeed.
Is this a good time to review? Really? Whelp. Mkay. If the troll insists.
Check the record.
I’m quite satisfied with these results. About the most optimistic I got ws predicting that the GOP House margin might be held to as few as one or two seats. Right now it looks as if my most optimistic projection is working out.
I’m a DEMOCRAT. Of course I hoped for a House hold. But I never expected it. Nor frankly, did I expect things to work out this well.
Check the record.
Democrats held every single one of the 28 Cook Likely-D, Lean-D House seats and 69% of tossups.
What that tells us is that in terms of candidates and messaging Democrats are on the right track and have been all along.
All of the Republican gains are due entirely to redistricting. All.
They lose on message. They lose on candidates. And in districts where they haven’t been able to preselect their voters, more than two thirds of the time they lose.
So we need to fix gerrymandering. And we need to target turnout. And that means state and county level organizing becomes the focus. Everything that fuck sticks like Sean Maloney and Stephanie Murphy have stood for has been repudiated by this election. Running fake centrist campaigns by appealing to “moderate” Republicans with messages that betray constituents then attacking your fellow Democrats and your President has failed again. For me, that alone makes this election a triumph. The party can now move past Third Way and rid itself of the expensive consultant class of message testers and advertising sales people.
While over on the troll side of the aisle they will be going to war with each other over which deeply unpopular themes and candidates will define them for the next two years.
GOP slogan: Just look at how much worse we could have been!
I guess after today I must really owe Rick Scott an apology.
babbling noun, verb, Chicago didn’t work… babbling fill the tank, make the rent didn’t work… Dobbs brought out millions of women and even Republican women split ballots over that..
please imbecilic troll and all your pals at the VIP lounge, continue your misogyny… that’s how we get more Dems.
24,
Ask yourself, is there some other, better messaging available to them now?
For sure, many Republicans will see these results for what they are and recognize that their only wins are being driven by disproportionate turnout. And they’ll call for that to be the focus. They’ll dredge up VOTER FRAUD yet again and recruit it to pass laws restricting ballot access, voting locations, and voting times. It won’t work nearly as well as in the past, because of the last two full years of The Big Lie and what that has now cost them. Many Republicans will flee from that messaging after this election.
But for the MAGA base and their leaders and candidates all that good information will be unavailable to them. They have passed beyond Teh Orange Event Horizon where those kinds of FACTS may not penetrate.
So what I suspect that means is that the larger messaging debate among Republicans will suffer a lot of disorganization and lack of leadership. And that is something we don’t see from Republicans most of the time. Different “leaders” will be advocating for different messaging depending on how they perceive their individual political advantages – alot like Democrats. I’m anticipating a breakdown in Republican message discipline that we haven’t really seen since before Gingrich. Perfect time for it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1592954140887773184
Should I be worried?
ATTENTION
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE
NEW GOP MESSAGE TEST ALERT
“Vampires are kinda cool.”
Even when he pretends that he doesn’t think he’s the smartest, he pretends to be the smartest. I think it has more to do with the insecurity of being the biggest Dumbfuck that is always wrong
Nooooo! Herschel gonna arrest the vampire.
How is any bank going to sell a refi at this time? Not going to happen. If they want business on Regis they gonna have to lower the rates eventually. Anyone that currently has an old mortgage with anything greater than 4% has to be dumb and they never intended on refinancing otherwise they would have done do so when rates were the lowest of low.
the smartest guy in this room is QoS McHillbilly
Like the others here, he’s sharp enough to slice and dice the likes of you.
@25 fear is a big motivator and I think I’ve seen the future of repuke fear-mongering:
https://youtu.be/qcxkPPhbNdw
The babbling about SJWs has been there a long time but I don’t think it’s been spelled out quite so well.
CRT has been a stronger sell in localities like VA cuz’ white anxiety but this is being sold here as “the great awokening”, a “master plan” this is strongly likened in her videos to Mao’s cultural revolution – put this alongside the whackadoodle Qanon shit and you have something that a good deal of the always wrong wing spectrum can get behind.
Next stop for this person is the Tucker Carlson show. I’ll have a lot more respect for her and what she’s related on-line if she REFUSES that white nationalist shit.
Looking over her substack she says that although she finds a lot on the right she agrees with, she doesn’t perfectly align with the likes of our degenerate kreepshit troll.
QoS McHillbilly has held his breath in silent hope that the Democrats would hold the House.
I don’t believe so, but we all read the ball-spiking comments you were making long before election day came. Your “Shiver the Red” bullshit looked stupid then and even more stupid now.
How does it feel to have made such a dumbass dumbfuck of yourself in front of everybody? Painful? I imagine so.
It begins.
‘Trump or death’: Trump supporters caught on video stomping on a flag featuring DeSantis
And it won’t end well for Trump, DeSantis and the GQP.
An unfortunate headline, for sure, but who here is surprised?
GOP Candidate Loses To Mom, Gets Charged With Rape
South Dakota GOP House Candidate Bud May lost his election bid to his mother, then gets charged with second degree rape.
And I thought PI’s poor mother had problems.
31,
To whatever extent I’m preoccupied with how any of us is seen or percieved, I’m preoccupied with all of us seeing that this troll is the dumbest person in the room.
Not merely because that is a true thing.
But because I really believe that spreading that message is important work to protect and advance democracy. And not for nuthin’ it’s a true thing about Republicans and conservatives in general.
None of us wants to be dumb. We all hope to be smart. And it’s generally a worthy ambition. But perhaps not the only ambition, nor the most important. I’d argue that being kind, decent, loyal, and trustworthy are probably more important to us as individuals and as a society.
We can’t very well afford to all be completely stupid. Even if we are all kind, decent, loyal, and trustworthy, we wouldn’t get far as individuals, as a species, or as a society if we are all completely stupid. We need to be at least a little bit smart, even if only on average, in order to make good use of kindness, decency, loyalty and trustworthiness.
And I’ll admit very freely that once upon a time conservatives and Republicans were generally pretty smart people, even if I still disagreed with much of what they believed. And I’ll also admit that once upon a time liberals and Democrats were generally a lot stupider than we are today. And I might even agree that at least at times, and under specific circumstances, we were dumber in general than conservatives. But that just isn’t true anymore and it really hasn’t been for a pretty long time.
But what I think is important about this is that in some crucial ways the idea, and the image of conservatives and Republicans being “smart” has stuck around and far outlived it’s usefulness, even as we have collectively begun to agree that they are most certainly not kind, or decent, or loyal, or trustworthy. Over time, perhaps in service to the myth, conservatives and Republicans came to even embrace this agreement that they are generally not kind, or decent, or loyal, or trustworthy. I think they saw that embrace as solidifying their claims to being “the smart ones”.
So here we are today, facing a political and social opposition who have for some time now embraced being cruel, indecent, disloyal, and untrustworthy as a means of propping up a cultural myth that they are nonetheless “the smartest guys in the room”.
But they aren’t. Not anymore. And not by a long shot.
The record speaks for itself. Examples abound daily and are all around us. I won’t waste my time or yours with the catalog. We all know it.
And why this matters is because empowering, in any way, a politcal minority who are stupid as fuck, and simultaneously embrace cruelty, indecency, disloyalty, and untrustworthiness is how civilizations collapse.
So I’ve been more than a little unkind myself over the years in trying to make these points. Not because I enjoy being cruel or humiliating anyone. But because it’s a powerful myth I’m attempting to destroy. Most conservatives and Republicans themselves still believe it, despite all the evidence before them. And sadly far too many of us believe it too, if only a little.
Being kind isn’t stupid or weak anymore than being cruel is smart or powerful.
We are all a lot better off being generally kind, decent, loyal, trustworthy and smart. Those are the qualities that enable us to succeed. And one way or another, whether they say it right out loud like Trump, or use code words and lies to distract from it, those are all the qualities that modern conservatives and Republicans have now come to reject.
But obviously some Repubilcans are much smarter than others:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1592978815890124801
Too bad most Republicans despise him, wish harm for him and his family, and disgree with everything he says here. But it’s a vote. We’ll take it.
@3 “One thing about uber narcissists, they need to believe they’re the smartest person in any room they’re in. ”
Which is a dumb thing to want. If you ask the actual smartest person in any room they’re in, they’ll probably tell you they wish they weren’t. It’s hard for them to fit in. And average people have more fun.
@4 I doubt bypassing zoning laws could make your neighborhood any worse than it already is. After all, you’re there with your horse, goats, and chickens neighing bleating and squawking because they’re being sexually assaulted at all hours of the night when normal people are trying to sleep.
@7 I’m as debt-free as your posts are fact-free.
@10 And those who distanced themselves from Trump outperformed by 2%, for a net drag of 7%. Also, 25% of all voters surveyed (not just Democrats) said they voted against Trump. Hey doc, I read about that survey, too.
@12 The polls, as I recall, projected a “red wave.” And, as you incisively point out, the dumbfuck doctor said that was an “underestimation” (quoting his word). Even without hindsight, it seems reckless. This is the kind of risk I don’t take in the stock market. And by the way, I’m doing much better than he alleges. I’m 18 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500 for this year.
@13 “Let’s get rid of the old farts.”
If you mean anyone not belonging to your peer group, I remind you that it’s required to be over 18 to hold public office.
@17 “Voters aren’t too keen on red-toothed commie bastards, either.”
We sure aren’t, and if one ever gets on a ballot, I’ll vote against him.
@19 “QoS McHillbilly has held his breath in silent hope that the Democrats would hold the House.”
Not me. I have popcorn interests. And nothing could do more to help Democrats in 2024 than a GOP House for the next 2 years.
It’s not the communists we need to worry about. It’s the liberal progressives.
@26 He’s obviously talking in metaphors to people who don’t understand metaphors or even know what a metaphor is.
No more effective than his previous campaign strategy of lying about diplomas and police experience he doesn’t have, how many kids he has, and paying for abortions.
@30 There’s still a pool of Republican customers to tap into.
@35 I’m curious who hit him, the rape victim, his mother, or both.
http://handbill.us/wp-content/.....ugShot.jpg
@36 High IQ societies are support groups for highly intelligent people. Are there also support groups for dumbfucks? If so, how do they work? The therapy approach couldn’t be the same. Does the group leader reward them with a dumbfuck biscuit when they “sit” on command?
@36 “And I’ll admit very freely that once upon a time conservatives and Republicans were generally pretty smart people, even if I still disagreed with much of what they believed. And I’ll also admit that once upon a time liberals and Democrats were generally a lot stupider than we are today.”
There must’ve been two population migrations in opposite directions at some time.
@37 Romney wasn’t alone; 12 Republicans voted to break the filibuster so same-sex marriage could pass the Senate.
@46 “It’s not the communists we need to worry about. It’s the liberal progressives.”
Only people who have income worth taxing, or property or capital worth confiscating, so you have nothing to worry about.
She didn’t suffer the other sympton of Neanderthal Hetero STD – death. But I’m sure that is no consolation to her. Bastard. Pervert. Probably a Pedophile too.
Newt and the Teabaggers
ONCE AGAIN, WE INTERRUPT THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING TO WARN YOU ABOUT THE NEANDERTHAL HETERO STD SPREADING RAPIDLY ACROSS GREAT AMERICA.
https://www.waow.com/news/top-stories/update-police-marshfield-man-murders-ex-wife-turns-gun-on-himself/article_08220ca6-65bf-11ed-bb0c-e30b2b8fea4c.html
https://www.wptv.com/news/state/broward/jose-pacheco-accused-of-killing-wife-disposing-of-body
I wonder if the people crossing the Southern Border are responsible for this STD. Or is it same-sex marriage laws? This is the fear of God.
Normalized murder. All you have to do is get married or have a Hetero relationship.
Nothing to see there. There are jails. That’s why they exist. Forget what the Bible says. Jails! Look the other way. It’s not happening.
Less than half the shitshow of 2016.. yawwnn.. whatevs…
Will we see an end zone dance from the kreepshit?
Wow. Tulsi made a big endorse 4 that WA-03 Nazi?
That is really horrible for her credibility… and the sad, weak troll’s. That dude is really bad.
Full Big Lie orthodoxy and pro-insurrection too.
@59
maybe he’s in jail for forged American Express Checks
Of course they’re stealing from Herschel Walker, and treating him like a “sharecropper”. It’s always about money, and cheap black labor.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/gop-fundraising-georgia-herschel-walker-rcna57241
Trump has decided to be his own campaign manager. As his first act, he allowed the 500 people attending his announcement speech to leave without paying an exit fee.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2024-campaign-2658672474/
Nature will take care of the overpopulation problem.
https://www.rawstory.com/sperm-count-is-declining-at-accelerating-rate-worldwide-study/
This research only applies to humans. Rabbits aren’t implicated.
Will we see an end zone dance from the kreepshit?
If we do, it’ll be in his own endzone.
It’s very easy to feel superior to black and brown people when those lesser races make it so easy for us to do so.
@ 65
A white supremacist, according to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, was sentenced to rot in jail for the rest of his life today.
@ 61
It’s always about money…
It is for someone your age and with your pitifully small net worth, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. The desperate scramble catch up is what makes it about money.
@ 45
And nothing could do more to help Democrats in 2024 than a GOP House for the next 2 years.
I must admit that it’s possible you are correct, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
If the GOP House impeaches Biden, it hurts the GOP.
Although the Democrats are gonna need a shit-ton of help in 2024, with 24 Senate seats (plus those of two current independents) to defend vs 10 for the GOP.
Revenue bills begin in the House, unless it’s the ACA and a perversion is repeated. The only wild spending that will occur in the next two years will be via perversions such as Biden attempted with the handout of free money to student loan borrowers. We’ll have plenty of time to watch the worsening recession resulting from the wild spending of the last two years. The GOP can sit on the purse strings and let the recession play out as it should. The Fed meddled, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has told us, and look what happened. Why should the House meddle? Just lards more debt onto the backs of YLB’s fucked kids, after all.
The Democrats will blame the recession on the GOP, because the GOP won’t spend its way out of it to help the Democrats.
And on and on.
24 plus 2 seats and two more Biden years. Yeah, the Democrats are gonna need a shit-ton of help.
I’ll take it.
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
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5h
Not final, but right now the single most likely House outcome is 222R-213D – a mirror image of Democrats’ current slim majority.
No word, yet, on whether Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will be able to use the results of the nationwide “popular vote” in 2022 for the next two years as irrelevantly as he has used the nationwide “popular vote” in 2020 for the past two years.
The resident HA asswipe who stopped calling himself a millionaire after inadvertently disclosing proof to the contrary has since provided more evidence for his pittance:
I’m up 2.2% YTD, or 5.0% counting dividends.
Real investors take it on the chin every now and then. Investors with “Target 2030” portfolios avoid taking it on the chin because they won’t live long enough to recover from it if they do.
Robinhood Dumbfuck’s return is not a “real investor” experience.
@ 63
Rabbits aren’t implicated.
I see Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has neglected to consider population declines due to rabbit bucks who can no longer get it up.
As with Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s claim to be a millionaire, Updike’s Rabbit Is Rich is fiction.
There has to be a better CA Democrat to replace DiFi than Adam Schiff. Right?
Everyone was ga-ga for Katie Porter, although this last race of hers was called just yesterday (Wednesday).
Who else?
Meanwhile, Patty Murray will be third in line for the presidency. What worries me is the incompetent, unlikable dumbass who is first in line.
There has to be a better CA Democrat to replace DiFi than Adam Schiff.
I read that Schiff raises a lot of money for the Dems.. Pelosi did the same.
Funny that kreepshit doesn’t respect anything about Schiff not even munee.
Is Schiff too “shifty” for kreepshit? heh.
Obscure detail du jour:
Better than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s investment record over the same period of time. Fewer DUIs in the Pelosi family than in the Dumbfuck Rabbit family, too.
Can’t gerrymander a state boundary.
Ohio and West Virginia are the potential tossups. And The Party of Idiots have already put Trump and abortion on the ballot.
2022 was their big chance. Had they pulled ahead in the Senate by offering relatable, electable moderate quality candidates in races like Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Hampshire, and of course Georgia, then 2024 would have given them a shot at a filibuster-proof majority. But they blew it. They dredged up freaks like Don Bolduc and Herschel Walker and ran on forced ectopic pregnancies and canceling Social Security.
Now the best they can do is play for a tie at the buzzer. And they have to do that dragging Trump and Dobbs up and down the court while Dark Brandon continues to dunk on them.
@ 74
Funny that kreepshit doesn’t respect anything about Schiff not even munee.
Schiff sent the country down a rabbit hole on the Trump-Russia collusion falsity for years, YLB. He went on a Sunday talk show and claimed he had seen convincing evidence. There is no evidence, we subsequently learned.
The ability to raise money for Democrats shouldn’t be rewarded with a Senate seat, YLB. Although given your need to have money handed to you from the people who actually earn it, I can understand why you feel differently, girlfriend.
The resident HA asswipe
look in the fucking mirror. yawwwn…
The GOP can sit on the purse strings and let the recession play out as it should.
Not even a fucking tax cut? What a betrayal. Have another cup of coffee.. what good are repukes if your pocket isn’t lined?
And what about weapon systems that don’t work for threats that don’t exist?
Apparently the repuke freakshow is asleep at the wheel on that too.
Pelosi distrusts the black guy.
Hakeem Jeffries in Driving Miss Pelosi.
@ 78
Not even a fucking tax cut?
It’s time for HA’s dumbest twat to re-read “How a Bill Becomes a Law.”
Schiff sent the country down a rabbit hole
LOL! I seem to recall the investigation of drumpf began in the Randroid Ryan freedumb kookhaus with Devin Dumbshit at the helm.
And it morphed into the investigation of the investigators.
All the way to the whimper of Durham. That wasn’t a “rabbit hole”?
How’s Bruce and Nellie Ohr doin’ for ya kreepshit? Heh.. Kreepshit is still “investigating”.
ran on forced ectopic pregnancies
LMAO!.. kreepshit is running here at HA and elsewhere on “faked” ectopic pregnancies…
So kreepshit are you running a scam to enhance a “weapon of mass job creation” to sniff out the fakes?
The state sponsored rape angle is yugely attractive for ya along with teh munee..
Y’all gonna need a new ’24 DNC presidential nominee.
California had years of massive budget surpluses. Now it could face a $25 billion deficit
Not specifically stated is the migration of higher-earning Californians into lower-tax states.
Just think how bad the numbers gonna look come primary season.
It was in May that CNBC breathlessly published this story:
From plus$100B to minus$25B in six months.
Y’all gonna need a new ’24 DNC presidential nominee.
The investigations shitshow for the next two years will mean that even an octogenarian Dem can get another 4 years.
Like kreepshit the degen maga repukes in the McCarthy kookhaus will never disappoint.
Notice kreepshit is laser focusing on an outspoken kon-klown deathsatanist critic in lieu of kneepadding..
It’ll kneepad eventually. Can’t hide forever.
California voters understand the Laffer Curve better than California politicians do.
Why California’s eco-friendly, tax-the-rich electorate killed Prop. 30
Proposition 30 would have added a 1.75% levy on annual income over $2 million, in addition to the state’s top income tax rate of 13.3%. In addition to the top federal income tax rate. When a state makes billionaires give more of their income to the government than they get to keep, billionaires choose to live in a state that doesn’t.
See last quoted sentence @ 84.
Yeah, the Democrats are gonna need a shit-ton of help.
Thank you drumpf and vampire focused Hershel Walker.. After the investigation of “wokeism” in the military (think of Joe McCarthy and commies in the army)… and countless other masturbatory score settling by a host of maga freeks…
Dems might get all the help they need.
43 and 44 – I’m over 18, while you’re just an old fart. You’re a liberal progressive, too, which is worse that being a red-tooth commie bastard because the commies know what they’re doing, while the liberal progressives don’t – because they’re idiots.
Wouldn’t David Brock want to be part of a successful 2024 campaign?
See @ 68.
You heard it here, first from me…..Breeding will not save them!
Nancy Pelosi will soon be a back-bencher. Hopefully, Joe will give her the ambassadorship to Italy to get her out of the way.
Democrat senators who voted to end Biden’s pandemic emergency:
Cortez Masto
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Klobuchar
Manchin
Murphy
Rosen
Shaheen
Sinema
Tester
Warner
Too chickenshit to vote: Warnock
Also voting to end Biden’s pandemic emergency was indy King.
That means more executive orders bypassing Congress. Just like the Founding Fathers intended.
[Edit: Apparently Schumer’s vote was recorded incorrectly. He’s reportedly a No. Explains why the numbers differ in some stories.]
It’s about bypassing the Constitution, ya dumb twat.
I’m a little bit in awe of the troll’s performances the last 24 hrs or so.
It’s the politics blog equivalent of the developmentally disabled village-idiot fire-bug, “Corky”, having just burned his family home to the ground, putting on his “official Fire Marshall” badge from third grade and going door-to-door handing out fire safety advice.
Here’s the thing, and I think we’ve already covered this in plenty of detail, and the just barely finished midterms adequately proved:
Democrats can run turnips and win.
According to the sad, weak dancing freak we did.
There just isn’t much “concern” left to be wrung out of American electoral partisanship. The bit that once served the troll adequately is now a humiliating joke. Diligently mining “weakness” among Democrats is entirely meaningless when Republicans consistently choose to place those Democrats up against jibbering, incoherent, lunatic Nazis.
That’s not to say Democrats don’t have plenty of work to continue doing. But we don’t need a completely useless and impotent failure like this troll to inform us that Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ex is not a great example of anything we stand for. Right now we’re doing pretty fucking awesome compared to a couple of weeks ago. And the best part about that (other than how much knowing it triggers and humiliates the Fayle-Troll) is that it points our best way forward.
Concern trolling Tulsi Fucking Gabbard ain’t it.
@ 95
Diligently mining “weakness” among Democrats is entirely meaningless when Republicans consistently choose to place those Democrats up against jibbering, incoherent, lunatic Nazis.
Nearly entirely meaningless. But yeah.
So the lady Norm Ornstein called the most effective Speaker of the House of the last 50 years is stepping down from the Speakership.
It was fun seeing repukes nationwide running against her, invoking her image and failing.
It’s fun seeing HA trolls bring out the hate and looking silly.
@ 97
There was that time when Woody Hayes was a very effective head coach.
He left his leadership position a loser, too.
Nancy Pelosi lost the House and lost her speakership. Spin that any way you please.
kreepshit believes tax cuts are GOOD for my kids.. heh.
@89 – Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Our 69% to your 29% will work out pretty well for us. And far sooner than I ever would have counted on.
Nancy Pelosi lost the House and lost her speakership. Spin that any way you please.
LMAO! I’ll explain things slowly for you, since you’re a bit thick.
You can’t be Speaker unless your party holds the majority. 2020 and gerrymandering saw to the 2022 House outcome and a shit quality outcome at that.
Her party lost the majority before and she won her Speakership back silly kreepshit.
She’s not getting any younger and she knows when to bow out gracefully. You’ll be fellating bonzo and its malignant metastases like kon-klown deathsatanist till “that certain day”.
Hardly.
@ 102
2020 and gerrymandering saw to the 2022 House outcome.
Not true. You swallow everything spurted to you, YLB.
GOP vote share in 2022 increased ~ 5% over that in 2020, YLB. The number of seats held by the GOP will increase ~ 5% as well.
Take a look at Illinois, girlfriend. 14 Dem seats to 3 for the GOP. The GOP did better in the midterms than it did in 2020 and yet lost seats in Illinois. Look at the IL district map and it’s easy to understand why. NY state tried the same thing but it backfired. If you want to argue that IL is canceled out by FL, fine. But if everything gerrymandered offsets everything gerrymandered, then gerrymandering isn’t a reason, is it?
You can whine about gerrymandering, YLB, but if the national composition of the House essentially matches the national electorate’s turnout, you’re essentially whining about nothing. Which fits with your pattern, ya dumb twat.
@ 103
I left it to you to link to the obvious, McHillbilly. You may have missed the last part of what I wrote @ 98:
He left his leadership position a loser, too.
There aren’t many CFL football coaches in history with five national titles. I assume you know more about Woody Hayes than how he lost his job.
LMAO! Now it’s a fan of the popular vote.
Fine kreepshit, be happy for the krap load of maga freaks in the McCarthy kookhaus.
Popcorn will be in short supply.
US politics according to HA’s dumbest twat:
GOP gerrymandering has everything to do with why we lost the House.
Dem gerrymandering had nothing to do with why our House loss wasn’t worse.
Population shifts out of NY and CA and into southern and western states had absolutely nothing to do with election results.
@ 106 is how YLB admits she was wrong about her gerrymandering claim.
She still hasn’t admitted that the VA state legislative result in 2019 affected Cocaine Mitch not one tiny bit.
US Politics according to kreepshit, “lord” of widbee:
51 Congressional districts in 2020 where Biden and drumpf were within 5 points of each other being reduced to:
34, half of that difference coming from TexASS
had nothing to do with the 2022 outcome. kreepshit just can’t bring itself to say the quiet part out loud: RATFUCKING.
It’s only been done since before Watergate days. Where’s your pride?
affected Cocaine Mitch not one tiny bit.
LMAO.. heh.. yeah cocaine mitch doesn’t even give two shits about what happens in its own back yard:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63564062
Fill the tank, make the rent in KenF’inTucky…
I’ll settle for the 2022 Senate outcome.. CCM and Raphael Warnock. Two more years where yertle’s hands turn ever more purple.
Dumb twat @ 109
Texas gained two seats due to population increase over the last decade, and there were many more Hispanic supporters of GOP candidates in Texas this year compared with 2020.
Correlation does not equate to causation, girlfriend. Pull your head out of your vagina and take a fresh look at the data.
Both sides ended up with more safe seats, and fewer competitive seats, as a result of redistricting. Both sides, YLB.
If y’all wanted Texas to end up differently then fewer of y’all shoulda left New York, and more of y’all in Chicago shoulda been nicer to business. Oh, and y’all shoulda kept the border closed.
But go ahead and blame redistricting. Swallow what got spurted into the back of your throat, YLB. By now we’re all used to seeing it before it goes down.
Tweet du jour, yesterday version:
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
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Does Pence’s book also lack a spine?
I dunno, but YLB lacks a Y chromosome.
And let’s give props to those the R-leaning women saying:
the “economy” was their #1 issue.
kreepshit calls them “shy” baby-killers..
Fill the tank, make the rent…
Receipts from Texas for HA’s dumbest twat:
Voter support of the GOP from 2018 to 2022:
Hildalgo County: 30.8% to 40.7%
Cameron County: 36.9% to 45.2%
Webb County: 28.7% to 37.7%
Starr County: 22.8% to 40.9%
Willacy County: 35.5% to 43.7%
Zapata County: 37.1 to 53.3%
That’s not the effect of redistricting, girlfriend. State legislatures didn’t vote to redraw county boundaries. That’s south Texas over the last four years.
If you ever hope to regain a lost blue district in south Texas, YLB, secure the fuckin’ border. “We’ve been to the border.” doesn’t cut it.
y’all shoulda kept the border closed.
LOL… There’s a labor shortage going on, even in TexASS and kreepshit wants to maintain a Stephen Miller policy ‘cuz….
Disease?
The judge also concluded that the policy did not rationally serve its purpose, given that Covid-19 was already widespread throughout the United States when the policy was rolled out.
“Title 42 was never about public health, and this ruling finally ends the charade of using Title 42 to bar desperate asylum seekers from even getting a hearing,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt, who argued the case, said in a statement.
Emmet Sullivan was appointed by Bush kreepshit. Thank you, lord kreepshit for touting yet another bullshit maga policy.
Dumb twat @ 115:
…another bullshit maga policy.
Girlfriend, if the policy is such bullshit, why did the Biden administration expand the policy?
expanding it to include Venezuelan migrants who have arrived at the US southern border in large numbers.
So deathsatanist can then fly them to Martha’s Vineyard at taxpayer’s expense. Nice example.
Refugees from commie-nism…
Whatevs kreepshit.. Bush appointee Sullivan called bullshit and…
In a statement following the ruling, the Department of Homeland Security said that, if granted, “the delay in implementation of the court’s order will allow the government to prepare for an orderly transition to new policies at the border.”
Biden is complying.
Swallow what got spurted into the back of your throat,
LOL! kon-klown doesn’t want you to soil the pants and drawers around his ankles..
You speak from vast experience kreepshit..
We notice you’ve been reluctant about the kneepads lately.. How’s it feel to be so deprived?
An Indiana police officer who visited a high school to talk with students about how to be good cops accidentally shot one of them.
https://www.rawstory.com/police-school-shooting/
Sometimes even well-intentioned cops don’t do what you think they do.
@66 Lookit the dumbfuck pretending to me, posting his thoughts under his own name. He can’t even do impersonation right.
@68 “the Democrats are gonna need a shit-ton of help in 2024”
No worries, we’ll get it from your party aplenty. House anarchy. Government shutdowns. Impeachments. Hunter hearings. Resolutions lauding Jan. 6 “political prisoners.” Bills to cut Social Security and Medicare, and repeal insulin price cap. Hostage taking. Attempts to elect Trump Speaker …
@70 “Real investors take it on the chin every now and then.”
So do I, just not this year. As I’ve posted many times, I invest in Big Oil, defense companies, and junk food, which speaks for itself. How are your investments in FTX, Bitcoin, and lottery tickets doing?
@70 Sounds like doc just admitted the market is handing his ass to him.
@71 My 5,000 male offspring will carry on my work.
@73 “Meanwhile, Patty Murray will be third in line for the presidency. What worries me is the incompetent, unlikable dumbass who is first in line.”
If you also get rid of the incompetent, unlikable dumbass who’s going to be second in line, you can move up Murray to head of the line.
@75 “Fewer DUIs in the Pelosi family than in the Dumbfuck Rabbit family, too.”
She has a smaller family.
We’ve had a lot of stories about people leaving deeply Democratic states and moving to Republican states, but it may not work out so well for those abandoning big government states for more freedom. That’s because the people fleeing socialist states sometimes bring the socialism with them, thus corrupting the free states.
@77 “There is no evidence, we subsequently learned.”
Only evidence of Junior blurting out, “I love it!” when Putin’s lawyer offered to swap Hillary’s emails for repeal of the Magnitsky Act.
@81 “It’s time for HA’s dumbest twat to re-read ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law.’”
I’m glad you realize there won’t be any lawmaking for the next two years. Just a lot of this.
@89 “I’m over 18”
If you are, you sure fooled us, with your convincing impersonation of a 10-year-old.
@98 “Nancy Pelosi lost the House and lost her speakership. Spin that any way you please.”
She lost the House in 2010 and regained the speakership in 2019, but in 2025 she’ll be 85. Spin that any way you please. Your horses can’t run, but even Secretariat aged off the track.
@100 “Couldn’t have said it better myself!”
Not when you’re as dumb as he is.
@111 “y’all shoulda kept the border closed”
That would make a lot of Republican farmers and business owners unhappy.
Smackdown against the authoritarianism of kon-klown deathsatanist:
“The law officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints,” wrote Walker. “Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy ‘academic freedom’ so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/17/florida-anti-woke-law-block-colleges-education-00069252
Kneepad harder, lord kreepshit.
@117 “So deathsatanist can then fly them to Martha’s Vineyard at taxpayer’s expense. Nice example.”
Last I heard, his Texass sidekick threw a very sick little girl on a bus to Philadelphia. Fortunately for her, she’s now in a state where she can get medical care, and will survive.
https://sports.yahoo.com/sick-child-treated-migrant-bus-130351590.html
@134 Republicans believe in freedom and free expression. But only for themselves, and their point of view.
People have that kind of freedom in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Cuba, too.
You know doc’s gotta be having a rough time* if somebody else’s 2.2% capital gain** triggers him.
* He’s probably sending the horse out to turn tricks.
** It’s obvious where it came from. All summer he’s been complaining about gas prices, and I’ve been thanking him for his business. Check out stock charts for Exxon and Chevron …
Careful throwing too much endzone dance behind stats the sad weak dancing freak does not understand (or conveniently refuses to think about).
Party midterm vote share is pretty closely related to presidential popular vote. It’s only relevant in terms of what it’s telling you about those voters in those places. The elections results are not determined by it. Midterm results are determined by vote share in 435 individual jurisdictions, not the national share. And presidential elections are determined by the vote share in 50 individual jurisdictions, not nationally.
So do we care what Dem midterm vote share is in the state of California?
Not as much as we care about D vote share in CA-47 or CA-22. When Republicans are moderately successful at packing and cracking, the mathematically calculated result is that they will have a larger vote share. There were 24 essentially uncontested House seats held by Republicans in this cycle, compared to just 6 by Dems. Moreover, by carefully comparing a general election vote share to a midterm, the ridiculously inept, prattling idiot is quite obviously cherry picking to his party’s advantage. Dem turnout and vote share historically falls between generals and mids. And historically, Republican vote share increases between each general election and the subsequent midterm.
The important thing about 2022 is that it continues a long term trend of this normal improvement in GOP share weakening and even reversing. When the count is complete the GOP increase from 2020 to 2022 may be 5%. But the chilling news is that it might be only 5%. All in they were tee’d up for an historic turnout advantage that never came.
The historical GOP midterm advantage is going away. Too much Ivermectin and rage drinking, combined with the dismal tyranny of demographic math. The GOP is just dying faster. And this will be yet another election in which Boomers are a dwindling minority of turnout. To make matters worse, the GOP has no message and no outreach intended to bring in any new voters. Swimsuit inspections, school gun slaughter, forced birth, $4/hr min wage, and billionaire tax cuts are not playing well to the yungins.
So just how ready was our weak troll? How’s the weak troll doing after experiencing such high expectations and then giving such a weak performance?
Whoa! Look at our weak bitch go!
The GOP is just dying faster.
And according to the silly, inane, insane and deranged babbling of the teh kreepshit of widbee, this FACT is just plain
GOOD
for my kids…
AMIRITE???
Yours truly did the usual search for recently dead repukes and there’s too many to list that put my kids way ahead of kreepshit’s stupid dance in 2024.
Dead repukes in GA, IN, CO and TX. Holey shoot.
Russia, Russia, Russia
GOP strategist pardoned by Trump now convicted of illegally funneling him Russian cash: report
@138 “the dismal tyranny of demographic math”
I suspect Republican tyranny of the sort a federal judge in Florida threw out today plays a role in the GOP’s shrinking voter base, too.
Yes, freedumb from “pandemic tyranny” played a role in that state’s election results. Surviving Floridians enjoyed their carefree, maskless cruise through the pandemic. But horse pills didn’t save their loved ones or neighbors, who died at 3 times the rate Washingtonians did.
141,
Give the poor thing credit for at least comparing midterms this time.
The cope is strong with this one.
Musk and his team just locked out the entire Twitter workforce.
No shit. The entire company is geting a pre-Thanksgiving long weekend apparently because Musk and his team became super paranoid that many of the soon-to-be-departing employees who aren’t going for the “Hardcore” option might sabotage the workplace.
Prediction: when the dust settles and the truth comes out, normal intelligent people will come to regard SBF and crypto in general in precisely the same way they regard Anna Sorokin.
It was always a con.
There was never any “there” there.
And there never will be.
And as with Sorokin, a big part of the story that will go largely untold is that behind a lot of it were more than a few overcompensated, untrustworthy, old white assholes who just wanted to party with someone else’s cocaine.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23310551-show_temp-7
Kreepshit cherry picked Hispanics, ignored the big picture:
For Rosenberg, the new Democratic ‘blue wall’ is the Latino stronghold is the Southwest United States. His research shows that in 2004, when George W. Bush won Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico, Democrats enjoyed only a 700,000 margin nationally over Republicans among Latino voters.
By the time Democrats won all four states in 2020, that margin had ballooned to 4.5 million votes nationally. “It was the first time a Democrat won those four states in 80 years,” said Rosenberg.
In 2004, Republicans controlled five of the eight Senate seats in those four states and 14 out of 21 House seats. Democrats now control all eight of those Senate seats and 14 out of 23 House seats, Rosenberg pointed out….
In the the 2022 midterm elections, Texas’ Rio Grande Valley also went overwhelmingly Democratic, noting the defeat of two highly touted Republican Hispanics, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia. Flores, an evangelical Republican congresswoman who won a special election in June, was defeated by a margin of 8.4% by her Democratic challenger Vicente Gonzalez.
https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/analysis-democrats-continue-to-dominate-hispanic-vote-despite-republican-gains-in-florida
Kneepad for kon-klown harder kreepshit. Pray it can “stop woke” its way through that blue wall of 4.5 million votes and growing.
..
Wow! Even Nancy Pelosi is calling for younger elected officials. It’s time for the Baby Boomers to get out of government permanently.
During the campaing this past summer the Republican opponent of Pennsylvania Governor-elect Josh Shapiro frequently highlighted in his stump speaches that Shapiro sent his two children to the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Adademy in Philadelphia.
Today, one week after Shapiro was declared the winner his children’s school was evacuated for a bomb threat.
Maybe Shiver the Twat will be his next handle.
I’ve got nothing to worry about for two reasons. The first is that my mom and dad are teachers at Stanford U.’s School of Law. I got the lawyers to make the government lawyers run for cover if they try to move against me.
The second reason I’m golden (pun intended!) is that I’ve given the Democrats a ton of money lately, and I’m gonna call in those makers if I need to do so.
As for the money…well, it’s somewhere where nobody except me will be able to find it. In a few months, I’m going to be a rich ex-pat, living the life of Riley somewhere the Feds can’t touch me!
I’m gonna call in those makers if I need to do so.
those maRkers… markers…
dumbass..
@152 Trolls can’t spell.
152, 153
It’s just a typo, faggots.
@154 You’ll make fewer typos if you pull your thumb out of your ass.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit did this with his AT&T shares. It’s a social media company, after all.
125)I thought Feinstein had the seniority by two months.
@155
You’re making this too easy: you’d make fewer idiotic comments if you’d pull your head out of your ass.
Do yourself a favor and just shut the fuck up and go away.
@158 “just shut the fuck up and go away”
I won’t and you can’t make me, neener neener =:D)<
You’re just a troll – and an incompetent one at that!
Stop embarrassing yourself.
@160 How can a liberal be a “troll” on a liberal blog?
Texas Republicans Introduce 17 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills
https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/17/texas-republicans-introduce-17-anti-lgbtq-bills
The legislation included bans on access to gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ topics in schools, participation on college athletic teams, and even one bill that would criminalize drag performances.
I’m sure that’ll fix the texas electrical grid problems. If not, their hate will keep them warm.
Sucks for Texas but it shows us what Forced Birth republicans would do as soon as they get power. Thanks for another campaign ad.
160,
If you engaged in fraud (and it looks like you did) you’ll be prosecuted and you’ll go to prison for a while.
But the individual depositors who gave you their money are not entitled to any expectation of recovery. They willingly put their money into the hands of a completely unregulated scheme with no evidence of any kind of credible accounting, oversight, auditing, or basic accountability. They had a limitless array of other options. They chose the worst possible option. And they did it with their eyes wide open.
That too is moral hazard.
However, the managers and executives at regulated investment banks and funds who, faced with the exact same evidence, gave you tens of billions of dollars of their investor’s capital should also be investigated for fraud. It was their job and their legal responsibility to do the exact opposite of what they did. And they lied to their investors just as much as you lied to your depositors.
His parents have never worked a minute of criminal defense in their lives. Never deposed a witness. Never drafted a pretrial motion. Never written an opening argument or delivered a closing.
This is a desperate move driven entirely by economic extreme. The $800/hr white shoe lawyers who previously represented him won’t work for crypto IOUs. And he doesn’t have enough real money to retain their services any further.
Transponder trackers showed this shit stain’s jet headed to Argentina days ago. My best guess is that’s where he is now. And he’s just blowing smoke pretending to be in the Bahamas and pretending to be involved in his defense. He’s long gone. And phoning in a smoke screen of misinformation from Buenos Aires. But not for long. He’ll need to arrange transfter to a non-extradition country very soon. Angola? Lovely.