We’re in the worst of all possible worlds regarding stand to the right. Most people at the underground light rail stations stand to the right on escalators. But! Enough people are standing 2 deep or just on the right that it’s ruining the whole thing. When I am in a hurry, I would like to be able to walk up them.
At least the Capitol Hill Station escalators work.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
We'd be better off with a DEAD Trump spews:
And Rupert Murdoch.
Ron DeSantis spews:
Trump and the GOP get what they’ve always dreamed of:
A real, intense income tax audit of Trump.
We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected. spews:
We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
After opening slightly up from the Tuesday closing, TSLA appears today to be settling in bouncing between 136 and 139. So it may be that 140 is a new price ceiling.
All downhill from here. The only question is how “thrilling” will the descent be?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!
Roger Rabbit spews:
Kari Lake’s election challenge trial is off to a rocky start.
The judge’s clerk worked until 11 p.m. last night renumbering exhibits because her attorneys didn’t do it properly, and her technical witness admitted he couldn’t say ballots affected by printer problems weren’t counted.
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-judge-thompson/
Meanwhile, Lake claims her attorneys dropped the Katie Hobbs subpoena “strategically” (yeah, they don’t wanna be disbarred) because they won’t have time to put her on the witness stand in light of the more important evidence they have (eye roll).
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-election-trial/
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
While Twitter implodes and TSLA stock price continues its collapse (we hope!), Mastodon has blown up:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/tech/mastodon-twitter-usage/index.html
It’s actually important to note that the user number mentioned in this piece is, according to Rochko, from November. That’s grown a great big bunch in the last couple of weeks, and the activity is spiking. In the last week a bunch of tech money investors have poured in trying to buy up instances (servers) to somehow gain a financial foothold. Although it’s anyone’s guess how that would work out financially. And while hard numbers of accounts are relatively certain, account activity, traffic, and engagement is not as easily known.
This is precisely because Mastodon is so decentralized into tens of thousands of instances (host server entities) in the cloud. As time goes on devs will continue to roll out new and better tools. But how those tools interact with each instance and its user accounts is unknown, and maybe unknowable. Because of the way ActivityPub defines interactions and admin controls I think it will prove impossible for anyone to ever really know precisely how “big” or how “active” the Fediverse really is. And that’s probably a good thing. Because it also means that it will be impossible for any individual or corporation to establish control or seek to monetize the content of others.
Go build your own fucking instance running your unique version of Mastodon, deploy it to your organization or your “tribe” of followers, and try your luck at monetizing their content with their permission. Unless you have a trust fund you’ll need to raise enough to cover your hosting. But that’s not much. You’ll need to deliver value to them to gain their willing cooperation. Because they already have sixteen thousand other instances they can choose from. So your instance should have something to offer them in return, besides arbitrary moderation decisions, Nazi trolls, and constant invasive surveillance.
I think it’s going to be different. And probably a lot better.
Thanks, Elmo!
Roger Rabbit spews:
More voting fraud found!
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-congressman-who-questioned-2020-election-results-illegally-voted-in-three-elections/
Vicious Troll spews:
The biggest disaster of the Biden presidency was his mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
The second biggest disaster of the Biden presidency is Kamala.
One Alfa for me! spews:
8 – Biden has made a mess of the markets, too. It won’t last more than a couple more years, though. Eventually, every bad politician leaves office.
RedReformed spews:
@7. Move along. Nothing to see here. They were not black or a woman so it’s not a big deal. – Every Forced Birth Republican you know.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
I wholeheartedly agree.
And that’s great news.
Because Mike Pompeo is responsible for the release of the 5,000 active Taliban militants and terrorists who helped bring down the elected government:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-confronts-mike-pompeo-asks-do-you-regret-giving-taliban-legitimacy
Because following their release the Taliban endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2020.
And mostly because Trump himself inked the agreement with those Taliban militants to abandon Afghanistan in the first place.
Biden should have done better. But there’s no point now in dissecting all the ways Afghanistan went wrong. Other than the political point that Republicans need anything at all they can point to as failure after Biden has notched the most successful first two years in history.
None of the other Republican short plays have paid off. This is the best they can do.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Terrible. The NH Disease takes another.
When does it end?!
New Hampshire! Live free or Die of all places! Maybe upset that Dark Brandon is making them insignificant?
https://www.wmur.com/article/hooksett-shooting-police-new-hampshire/42289585
Put a hook in her! Neanderthal Hetero Disease, gone fishing.
Gggeeee Money spews:
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-226403.html
Was it something I said? Or was it something I did? Just like every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Listening to my favorite song on the radio.
Roger Rabbit spews:
So how did things go in the first day of Kari Lake’s two-day election challenge trial?
Her witnesses didn’t establish the faulty printer settings were intentional. They didn’t establish that any votes weren’t counted because of the faulty printers. They didn’t establish that a vendor snuck extra votes into ballot boxes. Her attorneys admitted her allegations are “speculative.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/12/22/no-evidence-of-misconduct-in-1st-day-of-kari-lake-election-challenge-trial/69745880007/
They have to feel embarrassed. Or maybe not. Maybe Republican lawyers aren’t capable of feeling anything. Maybe they’re only worried about Rule 11 sanctions and that vendor suing for defamation.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Trump bargained with terrorists!
America is better off with Trump in a plane crash.
86795309. 8675309. Jenny Jenny who can I turn to? Jenny I need to make you mine. 8675309
Jenny I go your number, got your number on the wall. For a good time. Bang bang.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Grand mother got ran over by a raindeer. She had. Hood prints on her foreheads. You can say that there’s no such thing as Santa, but you can say we believe!
Better she didn’t killed by grandpa!
Gggeeee Money spews:
We’d be better off if Dolly Parton were President. What a beautiful woman she is!
We have to believe we are magic. Nothing can stand in our way!
Roger Rabbit spews:
Kari Lake probably is too stupid to realize she’s about to get her ass handed to her.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Brains aren’t their forte, as we know
Gggeeee Money spews:
Just saw a black man (good looking) and a white woman (good looking) kiss each other while walking on the sidewalk. What a beautiful thing. Kissing each other not for the color that they aren’t.
But we can’t have any of that in the name of FREEDOM!
Gggeeee Money spews:
Bob, Save America! See if you can broker a deal between these two twats!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-drama_n_63a10cf6e4b0aeb2ace6b7e3
Otherwise, it would just be nice if The FuckHump died in a plane crash… then there would be peace in this world, amirite?,
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 17
We have to believe we are magic. Nothing can stand in our way!
Not Dolly Parton. You must have OD’d on Santorum.
Gggeeeee Money spews:
https://www.google.com/search?q=man+kills+wife&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=QQ-DSFt5E12LYM
Gggeeee Money spews:
No shit. You assumed I was making reference to Dolly Parton and the song. But I wasn’t. You are a classic Dumbfuck. And you can’t have a Dolly Parton on your team, she doesn’t want you!
Gggeeee Money spews:
Good morning!
https://www.newsweek.com/man-kills-lawyer-after-mediation-meeting-wife-1768660
Either dead or behind bars, that’s where Hetero Neanderthal Disease will get you.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Rare form of Hetero Neanderthal Disease is when the woman kills the man.
https://english.newstracklive.com/news/wife-kills-husband-with-lover-for-illicit-relations-in-kannauj-uttar-pradesh-sc103-nu764-ta322-1262131-1.html
It does happen on occasion but rare and when it does it usually does involve the kids. But even that isn’t out of the question. Remember Susan Smith! Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. Is she free nowadays?
Why are you here, lord "kommander" kreepshit? spews:
Biden has made a mess of the markets, too
How did he do that now? More taxes? More regulation?
Biden didn’t do a fucking thing asswipe.. Pandemic, changing demographics, a China melting down, globalization falling apart, Putin being a murderous asshole did a number on “markets” that couldn’t fucking cope..
But keep clinging to that glibertarian bullshit noise you live for.. The rest of us will just yaaaawwwwnn…
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Good morning to all!
TSLA having opened this morning trading at 136 has dropped in early trading. It is now below 130 trading just a few points above our strike price of $125.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! And God Bless Presidents Biden and Zelensky!
Gggeeee Money spews:
I have an LLC. I think what I’ve been doing wrong is that I’ve been making a small profit.
What I think I need to do is actually ru. It into the ground a bit….be more successful like The FuckHump, and the CumDump Musk.
I wish Elon would tell everyone the truth about whether the rumor that he’s a pedophile is true or not.
Go TSLA!
Merry Christmas! Keep Christ in Christmas!
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 28
Yup. June expiration, so you can cheer for TSLA to go bankrupt before then.
Or for Mastodon to go tits-up. Either one is fine.
Kosher Bacon spews:
Is free speech THAT big of a problem for you ultra-leftist progressives?
Vicious Troll spews:
Somehow I think Sinema gets a LOT more than 13%.
Not just me who thinks that. So does Joe Lieberman. So does Lisa Murkowski.
So does Ruben Gallego. Especially Ruben Gallego.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 31
Is free speech THAT big of a problem for you ultra-leftist progressives?
Yes. Next question.
Vicious Troll spews:
Kamala wants to be Zelenksy’s running mate next time around in Ukraine. She knows it’s her only chance to win a nationwide election.
Vicious Troll spews:
Zelensky: America, we need your help and continued support.
Taliban: Yeah, about that…
Vicious Troll spews:
This hasn’t been news for a long time.
Not sure I get the point of “currently”. What, is it like the inauguration balls, where people party-hop all night? I know ol’ Joe gets up a lot but that’s to go to the can.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Freedom in itself is a big problem for fucking Repukes. Fake Freedom lovers. Heil Hitler!
Vicious Troll spews:
Too many Democrat senators understand that ending Title 42 will hurt the country. Schumer can’t afford to permit a vote on it.
Politically, Schumer and First Vegetable Joe Biden need Title 42 to be extended by SCOTUS so that Democrats have “the right” to blame, and not by Congress. It’s cowardice, but we’re used to that.
Vicious Troll spews:
The omnibus bill will provide $3 million for a LGBT museum in NYC. The museum’s back door will open to the greasy alley in which G-clown takes it bareback from a line of strangers each Saturday night.
Tickets will cost extra on Saturdays but the museum will stay open late for the back door festivities.
See what I did there?
RedReformed spews:
@31. No. But you are going to have to be more specific about what is making you feel butthurt.
RedReformed spews:
Musk Lifted Bans for Thousands on Twitter. Here’s What They’re Tweeting.
ttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/musk-twitter-bans.html
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon. They returned to lying about COVID vaccines. They returned to lying about elections being stolen because republicans did not win and they returned to lying about Democrats and Hollywood personalities are engaged in widespread sex trafficking and pedophilia and evil Drag shows and rainbows.
And journalist who are critical of Musk get banned.
Phree Speech Baby!
RedReformed spews:
Rule of law (but defund social security) republicans, where is your outrage?
We Haven’t Seen Trump’s Taxes Yet, but It’s Clear the IRS Failed America: The IRS is required to conduct audits of the president and vice president while they are in office—but Trump apparently got a pass.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-havent-seen-trumps-taxes-yet-but-its-clear-the-irs-failed-america
The IRS is required to conduct audits of the president and vice president while they are in office. This requirement arose in 1997, likely in response to concerns over President Nixon’s tax troubles. But the policy–enshrined in the IRS manual, section 4.8.4.2.4–was not followed during Trump’s term in office. During his four-year term, the agency opened only one unfinished audit–of this 2016 return. As the Committee characterized it, the IRS presidential audit program was “dormant” during Trump’s term.
>> I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, but didn’t audit trump. What’s different? Oh yeah, trump is a republican.
>> The dictator doesn’t have to follow rules. Rules are for underlings.
>> Republicans don’t care what republicans do, if it keeps republicans in power.
>> Trumps tax audits are on Hunter’s laptop!
RedReformed spews:
The wanna be Republican dictator is throwing a temper tantrum.
Donald Trump Demands Reinstatement, insisted that President Joe Biden isn’t the rightful leader of the country and the government should be overthrown.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-reinstatement-suggests-overthrowing-government-1768621
Great guy you republicans picked.
I’m sure Hunter’s laptop will solve things.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Bunch of animals.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143010761
Check out the Link to the NY Times video documentary implicating the 234th Regiment.
Fuck Putin! Fuck Repukes that support Putin!
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
More Hetero Neanderthal Disease
https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/man-kills-brothers-wife-over-family-disputes-iranian-media/
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
TSLA – 125.8 right now.
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh!
RedReformed spews:
You republican will vote for anyone who says they will hurt the people you hate. Have you no standards?
‘Openly Gay’ Rep.-Elect Republican George Santos Didn’t Disclose Divorce With Woman
“I am openly gay, have never had an issue with my sexual identity in the past decade” And the marriage was in 2019.
The Times said it found no records that Santos worked at two Wall Street firms or graduated from Baruch College in New York
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) said on Wednesday that it was inquiring into allegations against Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), including that he fabricated claims about his Jewish heritage.
Genealogy records also counter the biography on Santos’s website, which says his maternal grandparents fled Jewish persecution from Ukraine, settled in Belgium and fled again during World War II.
The Jewish news outlet The Forward reported on Wednesday that both of his maternal grandparents were born in Brazil before the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.
Does have a rap sheet in Brazil for stealing credit cards and two evictions for not paying rent
RedReformed spews:
Huntsville City Council privatizes public library operations despite pushback from residents
The decision to enter into a 10-year contract with Library Systems & Services came a few months after Huntsville city officials ordered library staff to remove a “Read With Pride” display highlighting books with LGBTQ+ themes.
“This move to contract out our public library is about one thing and one thing only: Our library had the audacity to recognize that LGBTQ people exist and that they are a part of our community,” one resident told the city council before the vote. “This business of contracting out was never a serious issue prior to that rather innocuous display.”
All to rid the collection of materials that dare to treat LGBTQ people as people. Greedy Racist Incel, are you proud of your tribe. Would your brother?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
TSLA 123.89
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
And especially to our phenomenally stupid market timing troll who this morning became the proud owner of TSLA shares that already lost enough value to wipe out his premium.
Rule of icebergs, kids. What you see floating above the surface is just the vaguest hint of the size and scale of failure below the waterline.
And now we all get to point and laugh as the price drops even further. Unless he sells right now!
Who knows? Who even cares?
More consistent losing from just another conservative emotional wreck gibbering and shaking and muttering about Twump!
Once again Merry Christmas to all. And enjoy this entirely predictable Christmas Miracle.
RedReformed spews:
Headlines in the last 24 hours
Tesla offers discounts in Canada/Mexico, raising demand concerns
Tesla Inc. is offering US consumers $7,500 to take delivery of its two highest-volume models before year-end, adding to indications the carmaker is struggling with demand.
Tesla ‘full self-driving’ triggered an eight-car crash, a driver tells police
These Tesla Drivers Are Done With Elon Musk’s Twitter Drama
Surveys find Tesla’s brand image is falling, and sales people say “a lot” of customers canceling reservations and not signing new leases blame Musk’s Twitter behavior.
Elon Musk has been trying this week to defend Tesla’s abysmal stock performance in 2022. The electric vehicle giant has seen its stock plummet by 61% this year, making it the 11th-worst performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2022.
I’m sure that will be turned around with hearings into Hunter’s laptop start.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Think about that.
A dozen leading Senate Republicans are so completely unwilling to rely on Kevin’s leadership abilities next year that they caved on this.
And let’s be clear.
They don’t really even know what’s in the bill. A staffer for Rand Paul did a text search to find this appropriation. None of them will have read it before signing. They know the top lines only. And they know there are hundreds more spending items just like this one that they have no choice but to take right up the ass, no spit.
Kevin is a Christmas Miracle too.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
FREDOOM!
(misspelled but I decided to keep it as is) Doom by the Mother fuckers.
Oh….Ps. America would be better off if The FuckHump died in a plane or helicopter crash.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 51
They don’t really even know what’s in the bill.
The Pelosi Rule.
Nobody knows what’s in the bill. And somehow this passes for good governance.
Vicious Troll spews:
As QoS McHillbilly cheers the ongoing decline in Tesla shares, it’s perhaps useful to keep in mind that Ford’s shares are down nearly 60% from their January high.
Despite the Bronco, the F-150 Lightning, and the Mustang Mach-E.
I’m now underwater on the naked puts I sold on Ford shares several months ago. March expiration, strike price at $12. Most of the Ford shares I own were acquired through put exercises. Then they go up and I sell covered calls. I don’t expect Ford to ever do much, but it’s a fairly reliable return of 12-14% or so through a combination of dividends and options strategies.
And then there’s the Bronco, the F-150 Lightning, and the Mustang Mach-E.
Why are you here, lord "kommander" kreepshit? spews:
are down nearly 60% from their January high.
Irrational exuberance over Ford going electric.. Everyone at the time (January or thereabouts) was saying “it’s only 1 percent of their business” or something like that.. This is stupid.
No matter.. Speculative fever.
I don’t care about TSLA but I understand the valuation is absurd. The “Mars shot” had to come down to earth somehow. Seems way overdue.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
The Democrats who wrote it do.
It’s great for Democrats and our constituents and voters.
For Republicans it’s an unprecedented humiliation and defeat, considering that they won control of the House next year. But as this demonstrates, in the case of Republican lawmakers majority control and $1.85 gets you 12 oz of burnt tasting coffee in a compostable green and white cup…
…and the sounds of Democrats laughing.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
MERRY CHRISTMASS!
I’m sure the trolls will approve of me using that message.
https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107053742-16512503012022-04-29t160201z_587487638_rc23xt9hew69_rtrmadp_0_twitter-m-a-musk-pay.jpeg?v=1671733057&w=740&h=416&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
are down nearly 60% from their January high of $24 dollars.
TSLA is down 63% from $400.
It is, of course, an apples to oranges comparison.
And the comparison implies that I (or any of us here on HA) even give a shit about the future of Tesla (or Ford).
I’m here to mock the troll, who quite spectacularly shit the money bed right before our very eyes this month and just in time for Christmas. And this is worth noting not because of whatever financial impact this has on the troll, or his miserable suffering wife and horses (not necessarily in that order).
It’s worth noting because whenever this troll is getting his teeth kicked in politically (which is almost all the time) his most common tactic to alleviate that cognitive dissonance, and restore his sense of well being, is to pretend that “it doesn’t matter because I’m rich, bitch!” Somehow it has always served as a kind of consolation for this troll that despite all of its moral depravity, misogyny, racism, and loneliness, it is “more financially successful” than its critics.
But here we are, witnessing perhaps the only honest opportunity to test the claim. And the result is a financial catastrophe, at least as far as its claims of financial competency are concerned. Going long on Tesla at the beginning of this month was an emotional decision. It was driven by a juvenile emotional need to “win” at a point in time when the troll had been losing a lot. This is what degenerate gamblers do.
All the financial bragging, all the casual mentions of “deals”, all the income and employment mockery, it all springs from the same juvenile emotional need. I know this is cruel to have done this to him. I know it was cruel to take advantage of his stupid boast. But I also know it was necessary. It’s necessary for Democrats, liberals, and progressives to drive the point home miserably, cruelly, and pedantically that Republicans and conservatives suck at finance. They succeed when they do by cheating, grifting, and victimizing others. And that they are not capable of making the measured, careful, and rational decisions needed to collectively increase the common good, which is the fundamental purpose of government. They are petty, emotionally juvenile, and impatient. The record is clear on this. As it has been for many decades now.
Using this troll, however cruelly, to make an important point is the price I’m willing to pay for the sake of progress and for never having to entertain idiotic comments about GE or unemployment ever again. I realize it won’t stop the troll from making them. But henceforth our simple, short response will be…
Roger Rabbit spews:
@31 We’re not the ones censoring American history in public schools so the slaveowners’ descendents’ feelings won’t be hurt.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@33 Show your work.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@35 I’ll bet you now wish Trump hadn’t handed Afghanistan to the Taliban, wiping out 20 years of sacrifice by American troops, don’t you?
Roger Rabbit spews:
@36 Oh, so you’re saying Cheney is a Democrat now?
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
Roger Rabbit spews:
@58 There’s actually someone more financially stupid than he is, i.e, a man claiming to be worth $10 billion whose best year of income beat a money market account paying 1/10th percent by 14 basis points.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 61
I’ll bet you now wish Trump hadn’t handed Afghanistan to the Taliban, wiping out 20 years of sacrifice by American troops, don’t you?
I wish Biden had taken care of the 14,000 Americans before abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban.
From what I’m reading the 2024 Democrats fear GOP investigations into Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan more than they fear anything else.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 58
I’m here to mock the troll…
And I’m here, in part, to be mocked. I’m here despite YLB’s desperation for HA to be converted into a safe space for all gender-bending unserious types like her.
“Why are you here?” Such weakness. Such cowardice. Such femininity.
Why are you here, lord kreepshit? spews:
And I’m here, in part, to be mocked.
LMAO!! Why so “serious”????
“Seriously” deranged…
Such femininity.
Heh.. Watch those repuke seats turn,, in “serious” fashion.. See Michigan. See Arizona.. See Moscow Mitch’s hands turn purple.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Finally finds the one thing he’s good at, after all the wasted years of talent and effort.
Shame it doesn’t pay. Especially now that he needs it.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@64 You must be reading Breibart or InfoWars, because I haven’t read that in any reputable news outlet.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Hard to say where TSLA will land, but if we assign a P/E of 25 to trailing earnings, it’s worth roughly $80, so Dumbfuck might want to promptly sell his freshly-acquired shares.
Naturally, everyone is curious what suddenly sent Tesla’s stock into freefall. A major shareholder dumping a very large number of shares all at once could explain it.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@67 There must be some way to monetize it. He should ask SBF.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A witness who refused to be thrown under the bus, and decided the perpetrators should pay instead of her.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-testimony-trump-pressure/index.html
The surest way to turn a collaborator into a cooperator is demanding they take the fall for you when everybody’s about to get caught in criminal activity.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
In November Democrats won the Gen Z vote in all 50 states.
In less than ten years Gen Z and Millennials will be the largest U.S. voting block turning out.
And even with Democrats only just this second finally figuring out that they have to pay attention to these voters and begin outreach and messaging tailored to them, this voting block already supports Democrats by over 60%.
There’s no sign that I can see that Republicans will moderate their messaging and policy on gun proliferation, women’s reproductive rights, or basic economic fairness, which are the three most significant issues for these voters. Republicans are completely on the wrong side of this growing demographic bloc of voters and they appear to be moving away from them on all their most important issues.
My sense is that this won’t change. And that while it probably dooms Republicans to steady political declines over the coming decade, it also sets up some conflict between voters and the federal courts. The strident excesses and overreach we’ve seen from federal courts in the last four years may presage a period of significant political unrest pitting the majority of voters and their elected representatives against an increasingly detached, indifferent, and isolated federal judiciary.
That’s a very bad time to have a presiding judicial official overseeing it all who either does not believe in judicial ethics, or lacks the credibility as a leader to implement any. But a court system that is seen by the voting majority and by their elected representatives as unethical, unaccountable, and out of step is also a court system begging to undergo radical reform. And that is something else that John Roberts is probably ill-suited to.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
From what I’m reading the 2024 Democrats fear GOP investigations into Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan more than they fear anything else.
That sounds just about right to me.
As I said already, I don’t think much else is available in the Tucker/MTG/Trump smear machine to make anything out of.
Biden botched the Trump/Pompeo wind-down of a completely pointless Republican war. Then a few months later he completely destroyed Russia and Putin without lifting a finger and with both hands tied behind his back.
So while saying that Democrats fear a prolonged probe of that botching is true, the word “fear” is doing a whole bunch of heavy lifting for the “KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN” party.
Gggeeee Money spews:
He’s implied that he has thousands and thousands of friends but he spends the majority of his retirement years trolling in a place where he looks to be mocked (needs attention). Why? Because he has no friends, not even real Facebook friends.
Gggeeee Money spews:
I feel like Indian culture isn’t too progressive when it comes to the gay world. Hence they seem to suffer from the Hetero Neanderthal Disease.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/karnataka-man-kills-woman-who-spurned-his-advances-tries-to-kill-self-2312496-2022-12-22
Gggeeee Money spews:
Not too many Europeans are killing their wives. I think has something to do with their more progressive views on sexuality. They don’t have as much issue with topless woman.
In American, men restrict the women as to control them and to reflect possession, that and over salting the food, or over cooking the steak, well can lead to death due to the STD Hetero Neanderthal .
Proud boys wouldn’t exist if woman weren’t sheep and prudes. I mean you don’t want them spread eagle all the time but, not do we need to see some of the saggy titted woman, but they need to stop living as obedient.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
You have to wonder how much more breeding is needed to compensate for all the carnage and death caused by Hetero Neanderthal Disease in order to sustain the species.
https://www.wdtn.com/top-stories/ohio-amber-alert-suspect-could-face-federal-charges-as-days-missing-stack-up/
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
I think another reason why Bob still hangs around is that he thinks he may still have a shot of having that beer with Steve.
Thoughts and Prayers!
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
sad that the richest nation in the world has to inch along at 30 mph. The failure that is Conservatism.
https://democraticunderground.com/10143010910
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
America would be better off with The FuckHump dieing in a plane or hellicopter crash.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Tweet Tweet!
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/tesla-shares-slide-on-demand-concerns-elon-musk-twitter-distraction.html
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Wheelchair-bound Teapublican Arizona Governor Ducey has bowed to President Dank Brandon’s superior strength and authority and agreed to remove his $80 million toxic scrap pile from public lands along the US southern border.
Roger Rabbit spews:
After two days of trial Kari Lake’s attorneys proved that Maricopa County election officials dealt with typical election-day problems in a competent and transparent manner.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kari-lake-wraps-up-trial-with-no-clear-evidence-to-overturn-election/ar-AA15AcwQ
Roger Rabbit spews:
@72 “a court system that is seen by the voting majority and by their elected representatives as unethical, unaccountable, and out of step is also a court system begging to undergo radical reform”
Or the other two branches could point to that as justification for ignoring its rulings. I’m not saying that’s the preferred constitutional outcome, but in a system based on consent of the governed, legitimacy isn’t something you want to lose, because you might also lose the ability to enforce your arbitrary decrees along with it.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@82 How many taxpayer dollars will the removal cost? I may have read somewhere another $20 million of waste, fraud, and abuse, but I could be mistaken.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Telling police at the scene that you were trying to kill the convenience store clerk, and hope you did, won’t be helpful at your sentencing.
https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-hate-crime/
On the bright side, he’ll make plenty of new white supremacist friends in prison. The prisons are full of white supremacists.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-tesla-shares-are-tanking-elon-musk-explains-rcna62789
Poor Elon. But he still hasn’t come out and dispelled the rumors that he is a pedophile.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
84,
I absolutely agree.
And like you though, I’d prefer to see the federal judicial system undergo massive reform rather than see it ignored and swept aside.
It isn’t as if John Roberts has his own police or really any other means of enforcing Samuel Alito’s rulings.
Lorenzo de Medici spews:
It looking like SBF’s associates are looking out for themselves and throwing Sammy under the bus. Ellison and Wang are pleading guilty and copping plea deals, and that ain’t gonna turn out so good for Bankman-Fried.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
All I can possibly add here is that if Kevin we’re a Div1 head football coach and he heard his AD make such a remark he’d list his house tomorrow morning.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
One draw back to my connecting bus’s snow route, catch it a Husky Stadium Station instead of U-District Station. Husky Stadium Station is too deep, but it has to be, it’s a few hundred yards North of where the train crosses under the Canal. Other than that, the connecting route is quicker than its regular route.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Newly elected New York Republican George Santos completely fabricated his entire campaign resume and bio.
He might not even be a US citizen.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
On a naval history YouTube channel, they joked “And Things got Worse” is the Russian National motto. Well that’s definitely the case with their only Aircraft Carrier. Leaving dry dock after it’s latest dry dock period, the Kuznetsov caught fire, again!
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-unfortunate-aircraft-carrier-has-caught-fire-again
EvergreenRailfan spews:
92)Anything true on his resume?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
94,
We can’t even be sure we know his true name.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Save $15.99! Don’t buy the print edition, download the Jan. 6 committee report here!
Roger Rabbit spews:
January 6 committee report! Save $15.99! Don’t buy the print edition, download it free here!
Roger Rabbit spews:
@93 Good. Saves us the trouble. (It would be easy prey in a conflict with NATO.)
Roger Rabbit spews:
@92 That’s interesting. They should demand his naturalization papers. He can’t be sworn in or serve if he isn’t a citizen.
Then there would be a vacancy, with the seat likely returning to the Dems, cutting McCarthy’s majority to 3 seats, which means Greene, Boebert, and Gaetz could team up to blackmail him at will.
Until suicides, icy roads, homicidal GOP spouses, and felony arrests flip the majority back to the Dems.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@88 Interesting article here.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23507944/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-elena-kagan-ruth-bader-ginsburg-retire
Roger Rabbit spews:
Lies are so profitable a billion-dollar judgment won’t put Fox News out of business. But it would be nice to see them forced to pay up.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/22/23523385/sean-hannity-fox-news-defamation-dominion-lawsuit
Roger Rabbit spews:
Vince Haley, a Trump speechwriter (and another lawyer who should be disbarred for conduct prejudicial to the rule of law), floated an argument that state legislatures have “a constitutional right” to override voters “if that prevents socialism.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/jan-6-committee-final-report-live-updates-rcna62676
New rule: A Republican can’t be president “if that prevents fascism.”
What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. See how that works?
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
2 degrees in Tennessee….that’s got to be a wake up call.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
New Rule. Repukes get to make up New Rules…..as they go.
Russ 2K spews:
102 – Yep, that global warming is a real thing.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@102 Proves to the rubes that global warming is a hoax.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@104 Yep, it sends the polar vortex farther south. I’m glad you comprehend that. Most rightwingers assume global warming can’t be causing colder winters where they live, because they can’t handle counterintuitive information.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58425526
Roger Rabbit spews:
The so-called “Twitter files” are another nothingburger.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/politics/twitter-files-elon-musk-fbi-hunter-biden-laptop/index.html
Well, not exactly; they establish Elon Musk as a spreader of false conspiracy theories. That’s somewhat of a big deal.
Roger Rabbit spews:
KING 5 News reports that all of Island County lost power around 5 p.m. yesterday, and we haven’t heard from Doctor Dumbfuck since shortly after noon yesterday, so I gather he’s still hooking up the bicycle generator, trying to figure out which color wire goes where.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 107
KING 5 News reports that all of Island County lost power around 5 p.m. yesterday…
San Juan County, not Island County, you dumbfuck.
Islands in the Puget Sound are like persons of color to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. He cannot distinguish between them, and sees no reason to exclude any of them from his slurs.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“We proved without a shadow of a doubt that there was malicious intent that caused disruption so great it changed the results of the election,” Lake said. “We provided expert testimony. We provided experts. The other side brought in activists to try to save face. They admitted that they’ve known about these ballot problems.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2022-arizona-governor_n_63a556fee4b0d6724fb58e26
Kari Lake is living in a dream world. It’s almost heartbreaking to watch. We should try to laugh instead. I hope her lawyers have a grief counselor on standby.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@108 Alluding to race is to you what arm salutes are to Dr. Strangelove. Neither of you can help it.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
105) So bad, METRO has suspended service. So far, LINK 1 line is still running. One practice other rail operators do in situations like this, cancel overnight closures, to keep trains running to keep tracks and wires clear.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Real Christians don’t ask God to knock out the electricity. That’s an abuse of prayer.
https://www.rawstory.com/pastor-greg-locke-prays-that-the-lights-would-go-out-at-knoxville-drag-show/
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 106
The so-called “Twitter files” are another nothingburger…. Well, not exactly; they establish Elon Musk as a spreader of false conspiracy theories.
Interesting that CNN supplies this quote in support of its story:
That was back when the first or second tranche of Twitter files had been released. Taibbi hadn’t yet seen the ones that showed direct FBI involvement in the laptop story.
With clear evidence at hand, now the FBI claims it’s a nothingburger, and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit dutifully if stupidly parrots the claim.
Let’s not forget that time that Bill Clinton said himself that he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
Things change as new facts emerge. Like GE’s dividend, for instance.
Roger Rabbit spews:
The Arizona Republic journalist who’s been reporting on the Kari Lake election challenge trial wrote yesterday, after the two-day trial concluded, that “it should be followed up with sanctions, as a warning to candidates that they’d better come to court armed with something more than sour grapes if they want to overturn the results of an election.”
Meanwhile Lake, who can’t tell the difference between “opinion, speculation, and wishful thinking” and “actual evidence in a courtroom,” is doing a victory dance — and asking her supporters for money.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/12/23/kari-lake-trial-bombshell-is-a-bust/69752622007/
The judge hasn’t made his ruling yet, but we know what it’s going to be: A rude awakening for a nut who lives in a dreamland.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@113 Exactly which straw are you grasping for that isn’t there in the CNN story?
This one? “But so far, none of the released messages explicitly show the FBI telling Twitter to suppress the story. In fact, the opposite view emerges from sworn testimony by an FBI agent at the center of the controversy. And in interviews with CNN, half a dozen tech executives and senior staff, along with multiple federal officials familiar with the matter, all deny any such directive was given.”
This one? “Musk and his conservative allies have insinuated the released messages provide evidence of illicit behavior by the FBI, suggesting the exchange of secret files pertaining to Hunter Biden, and improper payments made to Twitter. But CNN’s interviews with people directly involved with the interactions and with those who have reviewed the documents disprove those claims.”
This one? “Another interaction that has drawn suspicion is an internal message from early 2021 … showing that the FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million beginning October 2019. … The FBI says the bureau is obligated under federal law to reimburse companies for the cost they incur to satisfy subpoenas and other legal requests as part of the FBI’s investigative work.”
This one? “As the released communications show, Twitter initially acted to suppress the story for a few days in part out of concerns that Hunter Biden, the son of the then-Democratic presidential candidate, was being targeted as part of a foreign election interference operation similar to the one Russia carried out in 2016. What Twitter did not know at the time was that Hunter Biden was the subject of a federal criminal investigation. Since as early as 2018, the Justice Department has been investigating Hunter Biden for his business activities in foreign countries. In late 2019, nearly a year before the story first emerged in the New York Post, the FBI had used a subpoena to obtain a laptop that Biden allegedly left behind at a Delaware computer repair store. According to sources at the FBI and at Twitter who spoke to CNN, none of that information was disclosed to Twitter executives trying to decide how to treat the laptop story, nor to anyone else for that matter.”
This one? “… the released Twitter messages have yet to reveal a smoking gun showing the government ordered a social media company to suppress a story …”
This one? “In a statement to CNN, the FBI said, “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”
This one? “At the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, a team reviewing the internal communications released by Musk says it has identified the 10 documents Chan sent to Roth. ‘I reviewed all 10 of these documents personally and I can say explicitly there is nothing in these 10 documents about Hunter Biden’s laptop or about any related story to that,’ an FBI official involved in the review told CNN.”
You’ve got exactly what Kari Lake has: Opinion, speculation, and wishful thinking. And like her, you can’t tell the difference between that and actual evidence that can be used in a courtroom.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
I don’t even want to say it, because last time I had concerns about the virus from the start of the Pandemic, it all pretty much came true.
But I’d start to consider travel screening and restrictions.
37 million Chinese infected (estimatd by Chinese) with COVID in one day. At this kind of rate, I would think that it makes variants popping up all that more possible. Sure, I’m not a doctor or a scientist but not sure one not speculating that.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
TSLA 124.44 USD ⬇ −0.92 (0.73%)today
Merry Christmas everyone!
Happy New Year!
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
115,
What they’ve got is what we already knew.
Federal and local law enforcement, from FBI, to DEA, to DHS, to the eighth grade drop out wife-beating county sheriff down the road, routinely obtain access to the individual account records and data held by social media providers without anything like normal probable cause. And it should be noted that, at least until recently, Twitter was one of the very best such providers at resisting law enforcement requests unless they were properly authorized and documented.
This should concern anyone who maintains accounts with social media providers. They can’t be trusted with your data. And if your attitude is that “there’s nothing to worry about if I have nothing to hide” then you really don’t appreciate how police do their job. Which is probably because you think their job is public safety or some shit.
But none of it has anything to do with LAPTOP. And LAPTOP is working out about as well as TSLA did.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
A useful LPT for any Republican, Trump voter, or Libertardian Sov Cit inclined to vandalize police cars with hammers as a way to express your “election doubts”, when the FBI comes for you with a warrant, barricading yourself inside your miserable, stuffy Sherman Oaks pre-fab hamster hotel will result in additional, and potentially more serious criminal charges.
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/12/23/capitol-insurrectionist-arrested-in-la-after-standoff-with-fbi/
Merry Christmas, motherfucker.
Two years later and thanks to the tireless efforts of volunteer, online investigators we are still identifying, locating, and arresting this human garbage who attacked all of us and tried to take away our votes. Nowhere is safe. None will escape.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Pretty much the entire budget for next year just danced past Kevin flagrantly baring its naked ass in his face, accompanied by nine of his own Republicans, as it heads off to Mighty Joe Biden for his signature.
A Christmas gift to America, that Kevin the Grinch is powerless to steal.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Kevin’s parting words before crawling home to California to sulk ““In 11 days, all this changes.”
Nah. Not really. Not until September. That’s nine more months of MAGA failure and humiliation away.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Was just looking at Pantograph Pro app tracking Puget Sound transit ops for agencies he has feeds for. Right now, looks like Skagit and Whatcom transit are operating, more than what the 5 central sound agencies have right now. Only Sound Transit has services running, and that is LINK. Nervous about the segment in my neighborhood, MLK Jr Way is at grade, just takes one motorist sliding down the hill getting stuck in the intersection to cause a major delay.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@116 “But I’d start to consider travel screening and restrictions.”
Isn’t going to happen. You’re on your own now. Get all your shots, mask up, social distance, and avoid fundie churches, GOP meetings, and other hotbeds of transmission.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@121 All it takes to put Kevin back in the minority is for 10 Republicans to not make it through the holidays.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@119 What took so long to ID him? He sticks out like a moose dick.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
97)Thought tgey would have learned the dos and don’t s of carrier operations from shadowing ours during the Cold War. Fortunately, they never were able to develop a good catapult, one of the reasons they use a ski jump to assist in launching SU-27;flankers.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Grab them
Hos by their pussy!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRquJDj4/
Gggeeee Money spews:
I’ve got all my shots and agree on everything else. But a new variant could make it a whole new ballgame.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@128 New variant = new shot. So far, vaccine makers have been on top of emergent strains. But it may not always be so; with Covid-19 raging out of control in China, that country is a variant factory.
I now understand China’s draconian lockdown policies that led to protests. With inferior vaccines, and multigenerational households (most of China’s elderly live with young people), isolation was their best defense and now they’ve lost that — and, with it, control of the virus.
They’re probably trying to figure out how to make sure it kills off the pro-democracy elements.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Pillow Guy doesn’t believe DeSantis won Miami-Dade County. Good.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3786368-mike-lindell-questions-desantis-2022-election-win-i-dont-believe-it/
His methodology is to look at “deviations.” In his universe, it’s not possible for voters to split their tickets, or vote for a party in an election, then vote for a different party in another election. Therefore, it’s not possible that a county which normally votes Democratic went for DeSantis by 11 points. It’s not even necessary to count the votes; if he doesn’t believe the outcome, that’s all the evidence anyone needs that the voting machines were rigged. Hooyah!
Roger Rabbit spews:
Another Arizona GOP election lawsuit gets tossed for lack of evidence.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3786811-arizona-judge-dismisses-gop-ag-candidates-election-challenge/
Roger Rabbit spews:
Elon Musk announces he’s going to stop making Tesla’s stock go down for a while.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/musk-twitter-tesla_n_63a5facfe4b0fe267ca2b350
It’s been dump without the pump.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
119,
Yeah. The FBI have been very careful about these on-line identifications.
Quite the contrast with “fits the general description”.
The sense people have gotten is that the local offices in Southern California are extremely reluctant to pursue any more of these misdemeanor cases unless all the evidence tying the identified suspect to the crimes of January 6th is completely documented, and presented to them gift wrapped, including current address and whereabouts. Then the FBI reluctantly appear on the trailer doorstep “to ask a few questions”. And if the Weird Beard “cleverly” denies everything and clams up, they shuffle away kicking dirt. The problem is that there is a dedicated very hard core of amateur online researchers in California, and especially in the LA area, with very impressive digital tools and now two years of experience tracking them all down.
Recognize anyone?
https://seditionhunters.org/perpsheet/
The amazing part is that nine of ten of these fuck sticks confess right then and there, in the midst of spouting all their bullshit about FREEDUMB. This particular rare bird barricaded himself with guns. Not gonna be a misdemeanor now.
Roger Rabbit spews:
We learn today the reason the Pentagon didn’t deploy National Guard troops to the Capitol on Jan. 6 is because they feared what Trump might use them for.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coup-jan-6-committee_n_63a61a8ae4b0ae9de1b0a829
Vicious Troll spews:
GM has slid down a place in global vehicle production, and now is fourth, passed by Hyundai.
GM is a shithole company. The taxpayers had to give it billions upon billions in tax-loss carryforwards, said Barack Obama, to keep it from going tits up, and that’s AFTER the money it was forgiven in bankrupcty.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“Scandal-plagued Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) appears to have yet another scandal on his hands. A source described as a ‘GOP insider’ tells the right-wing Washington Times newspaper that a Santos campaign staffer in 2021 raised money for the candidate by impersonating an aide to GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on a telephone call with donors.” And McCarthy didn’t seem to mind very much.
https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-scandal-2659007946/
Roger Rabbit spews:
@135 Get a load of the bitter little hermit troll raging against the bailout that saved UNION autoworker jobs. Presumably he’d be okay with bailing out a right-to-work plant making Chinese cars.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Donald Duck and Elon Shmuck should have given GM some words of wisdom and bussiness acumen.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Unfortunate that there will never be a vaccine for HN Disease. That STD is inccurable.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
See what I did there @138.
You don’t have to argue or debate the point at hand, just point out to the individual that his whole life of supporting idiots is even a bigger shithole.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@140 Even worse, he’s so small, he’s incapable of feeling small.
David Attenborough spews:
If you look carefully at the video provided in comment number 127, you will see the labourious undertakings that lead up to the highly destructive, or damaging, actions that result from the disastorous affliction of the Hetero Neanderthal Disease.
HN Disease, as we like to call it in the world of science, begins with innocent locker room talk but eventually the wife tumbles down a set of stairs, or myesteriously one takes their own life in a padded cell. Did he use his underware to take his own life? Was the dame wearing high heels and had a bit too much to drink? These are the questions that are so fascinating when studying the intricacies and variations of HN Disease.
Not all the detriminets are as difficult to understand. Most simply manifest with a gun, and bang bang, or bang, bang, bang, bang if the kids and pets are also harmed.
There really is no counter to this affliction, very little can be done. Since the birth of the caveman, man has held a club in his hand to beat things with. Decades, Centuries, and Millenials pass without much noticeable change – Neanderthals resist. Neandethals resist to be humans, possibly in an effort to dehumanize the others, they are blind to even knowing they are HN positive. Walking hand in hand with the victim, putting on quite a show for the neighbors. But then bang, bang. Or bang, bang, bang, bang.
” What does it mean to humanize yourself?
Self-humanization is defined as the tendency to view oneself as more essentially human than others. Researchers have claimed that people attribute human nature traits more strongly to themselves than to others, but not uniquely human traits.”
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
This guy looks a bit like Hitler. Shorten his mustache, then put Hitler in a clown suit, and they’d be Identical Twins.
https://democraticunderground.com/1017792373
Now that’s what Twiter is for. That. And porn.
Roger Rabbit spews:
This was fished out of the comments to a Seattle Times article and sent to me via email:
“Benevolas: So far today I’ve rescued about 15 pedestrians unable to navigate the counter balance on Queen Annie. I set up a mountain climbing rope with caribiners, slip knots, pulleys and harnesses. It stretches across the Ave and kinda looks like a big giant elastic net. With the help of a few patrons from the local bar, I’ve been able to get the helpless, stranded pedestrians harnessed and pulled to safety. I’ve even taught the mostly sober patrons helping out terms such as “on belay” and “buckle up”. So grateful for our local community being able to come together in a time of need. Please stay inside if you can today.”
“In reply to Benevolas: Thank you Benevolas!!!! I for one am glad for your help and all that you comforted me with, even though I didn’t think I needed mouth to mouth resuscitation from one of your helpers. For those of you who were not there here’s how it went down – literally! My husband is 5’03” on a good day and tips the scales at about 275. I’m at height weight proportional male at 6’08” and 218 soaking wet. Anyway – this morning he starts taunting and pestering me about going from our condo on Queen Anne to 1st And Denny where Shawn Kemp’s bud shop it. One thing led to another, my husband calling my 95 year old mom and saying “I’m sorry you raised such a week man’!! Well – I had had enough so I put on my boots, helmet, mouth guard, elbow and knee pads and gloves yet I forgot a ‘cup’. (for the nether region) Got my bike out of storage in the garage/basement and went out side. I realized it was icy on Highland yet we’re only two blocks from Queen Anne avenue. Once there I hoisted my svelte bod onto my Klien bike and that’s about the last thing I remember. I thought the Queen Anne counter balance would have thawed by 11 am. I have a few fragmented memories before I lost consciousness. After going over the handle bars and my nether region being hit by the goose neck to the handle bars, I realized that it was BAD. I remember bright lights, and people yelling ‘what were you thinking’? and going way faster than I ever have. Fast forward. I heard what I now know to be Benevolas yelling – ‘Hold; Hold; Hold: NOW belay!!!!! Caught like a fly in a spiders web. Like and F-18E hornet landing on a carrier deck. The weird thig is one of the inebriated assistants started doing mouth to mouth resuscitation on me. Someone yelled ‘Stop that’!! Later two of Benevolas’ patrons dragged me up the hill on a circuitous route and brought me back home. I am almost injury free except for a skinned chin and a very sore nether region. Thank you Benevolas!!!”
I’m wondering if any of our HA crew were fortunate enough to witness this operation? It must have been a sight to behold.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@142 “Since the birth of the caveman, man has held a club in his hand to beat things with.”
Yes, but some do it with more style than others.
https://youtu.be/HeaQzfE2kHw
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
@144 funny.
What is a counter balance….term I’ve never heard of….counter balance to a draw bridge? Why would he have thought it would be thawed out and why would it have mattered?
Roger Rabbit spews:
@146 Nowadays it’s a nickname for the Queen Anne Avenue hill. This is where it came from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Counterbalance
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
@147 Seattle has some crzay ass grid naming system for the streets.
Vicious Troll spews:
Ya gotta forgive her for this one. Hell, G-clown calls it Happy Schlongza.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
42 canisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items likes scissors, needles, or screwdrivers’
That’s what Secret Service confiscated from the attendees at the Trump White House political rally on the White House grounds.
Most of the terrorists who attacked Congress never even went there and were never screened.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/man-charged-with-murder-in-wifes-gruesome-decapitation-death/
Police have called it “Domestic Homicide”. Or as we know it, and as David explained, Hetero Neanderthal Disease.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
148)Would have been great to keep, supposedly snow wasn’t a problem for the counterbalance cars. Trolleybusses on Rt2 and 13 have to go up the back way during snow events, using Rt1-Kinnear.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@149 Given your weird obsession with sexual language and imagery, your community would feel more comfortable if you stay away from playgrounds and schools.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@152 Built before cars, and put out of business by cars. The city acquired it in 1919, and in a 1940 test, the counterbalance underperformed a trolley bus at climbing the hill under normal operating conditions. It couldn’t operate in the snowstorm of 1916. The only comparable system still in use, the San Francisco cable cars, is a money-losing tourist attraction. No city has retained street railways, except as tourist attractions, because among other reasons they have much higher accident rates than buses and trolleybuses.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@152 It couldn’t operate in the snowstorm of 1916, and underperformed a trolleybus in a 1940 hill test.
Vicious Troll spews:
G-clown’s Xmas Eve service:
Vicious Troll spews:
Actually, I’m pretty sure I caught COVID-19 at the gym. Had no other potential exposures that week.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s gym is a rubber band tied to a doorknob in his basement.