I have been spending some time in Tacoma recently. And I still don’t have a car. I feel like something is missing from my understanding of the culture on the bus.
Tacoma bus people are so laid back, even in rush hour. Nobody who was paying with cash had it ready. Some people didn’t even get up to board until the bus had opened its doors. Do none of you have somewhere to be? No connections to catch?
Also, I don’t understand sitting. Most people who got on alone took the outside of two seats. And nobody moved in even when people were standing.
I hope this doesn’t come across as too judgy. I’m sure if I grew up with it, that Metro busses would feel pushy, squished together, and rude. But it’s quite a culture shock even in the Puget Sound.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Fuck them new variants.
Now you appreciate why most Americans prefer privately owned vehicles over communal transportation despite the traffic congestion and climate impacts. Plus buses and light rail don’t go everywhere people need to go; and suck for hauling groceries, lumber, work tools, and horses.
We all know Trump is in it for himself, and won’t do anything unless there’s something in it for him, as was clear when he stood over the graves of American soldiers killed in the Normandy invasion and said, “I don’t get it, what was in it for them?”
So, it should’ve come as no surprise that he didn’t pardon any of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists before leaving office. The only surprise was that he neglected to pardon himself. Lately, however, he’s floating pardons for convicted Jan. 6 rioters, some of whom are facing lengthy prison sentences.
Which raises the question, what’s in it for him? An obvious suspicion is that he plans to sell pardons if he returns to the White House, but that may be too blatant (and illegal) even for him (and likely would invite a record-breaking third impeachment). So, what’s in it for him?
“New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggested Tuesday that former President Trump sees a ‘political advantage’ in floating pardons for those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. … ‘He thinks that it rallies his supporters.'”
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-sees-political-advantage-floating-125259636.html
The story notes he’s been fundraising to help Jan. 6 defendants; I would simply note he won’t use his own money, if he has any, to help them with their legal expenses. But he doesn’t really have to; most of those losers probably qualify for public defenders.
In today’s legal news, the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case has ruled “a trial is needed only to determine how much Trump must pay[her] in damages” in her second defamation lawsuit against him.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4189475-judge-hands-e-jean-carroll-partial-victory-in-trump-defamation-lawsuit/
Everywhere we look, we see the rule of law closing in on the lawless MAGA cult and its pied-piper leader. Good! The law, judges, and juries are the chief bulwark standing between us and our society becoming another Somalia. Let’s hope and pray this Maginot Line continues to hold. So far it’s holding.
A black man who was picked out of a lineup by a blind person has been exonerated years later by DNA evidence.
“’Eyewitness misidentification, as in this case, is the leading contributing factor of wrongful convictions and has contributed to 64% of the Innocence Project’s 245 exonerations and releases,’ the organization said.
“A study of more than 3,000 exonerations since 1989 showed that Black Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of serious crimes, according to a 2022 report by the National Registry of Exonerations.”
That’s because to white folks, including those who can’t see, all black people look alike.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/us/leonard-mack-rape-exoneration-dna-new-york/index.html
So Wisconsin republicans look like they’re all in on committing political suicide.
Let’s just say they DO impeach a Supreme Court Justice for the obvious to everyone “misconduct” of being a Democrat who thinks the gerrymandering of state districts so that a party receiving 42-45% of the votes controls 66% of seats in both House and Senate may be a wee bit undemocratic.
Governor Evers gets to, with much fanfare, place said justice right back on the bench, talk about how the margin of victory in a fair statewide election was double digits, and the entire slate of Democratic candidates gets to run on newly redrawn maps in 2024 on a message of the OBVIOUS slide into fascism by the state Republican party as a whole. Will of the voters and all that jazz.
Please do it. C’mon GOP. Turn Wisconsin into California. You have the power to never hold a statewide office or elect a Republican president for the foreseeable future.
All you have to do is carry out this plan y’all are talking about. But you have exactly the number of Senators needed so it will take all of you. Like, the whole entire party. Like no one to be able to say they weren’t a part of the party that wanted to end democracy.
DO IT!
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus costing taxpayers tons of money but we love it!
Please tape my baby girl! Her tits are just developing!
Anyone seen the horse?
“I hope this doesn’t come across as too judgy“
Sorry, you’re too late.
Won’t let me post a nice Heterosexual Neanderthal massacre that occurred today. Censorship again?!
I’ve taken Pierce Transit a few times lately, spreading my shopping around. Plus observing the construction of the T-Line, was shocked Tacoma has a slightly higher sales tax than Seattle, since voters rejected Pierce Transit’s last request for an increase, and the way they tried to gerrymander a yes vote, probably turned off those on the fence. Glad to see the free ride on the T-Line uis coming to an end. Once the extension opens, it will be the same fare as Pierce Transit. Too bad the old Theater District Station wasn’t bi-directional, it was basic, but its decorations still did a great job honoring the Rialto and Pantages. Theater lights on the shelter, playbills on the sidewalk.
@8 Yeah, one of mine got deleted this morning, too. For too many links. It was a roundup of news stories about DeSantis opposing federal disaster relief for any state but his own (as another Cat 5 hurricane barrels toward Florida this morning), Comer fishing for evidence that as V.P. Biden did something more sinister than represent official U.S. policy with regards to a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor holdover from Ukraine’s overthrown Putin-era government, a new poll showing Trump with a strong lead over Biden among people who don’t bother to vote, and Clarence Thomas filing a “corrected” financial disclosure but still with material omissions.
Too many links. Damn.
10,
Those are probably just default settings built into WordPress to prevent bots from using the commenting platforms to spread spam or drive SEO. Just reformat your posts.
@11
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5,
I’m not entirely sure what impact the impeachment might have on the whole of unaligned voters.
But it would almost certainly trigger a massive turnout by Democrats, unaligned women, and unaligned younger voters.
Here’s the ACS breakdown from 2020 according the PEW of the voting eligible pop in WI:
– Voting-eligible population: 4,412,888
– Breakdown by sex: 49.2% male, 50.8% female
– Breakdown by age: 20.0% 18-29 years old, 23.1% 30-44 years old, 34.1% 45-64 years old, 22.9% 65+ years old
– Breakdown by race: 88.7% White, 5.9% Black or African American, 1.9% Asian, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.0% Native American or Alaska Native, 0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 1.4% two or more races
– Breakdown by education: 1.9% less than high school education, 5.1% some high school (no diploma), 31.0% high school graduate or equivalency, 22.6% some college (no degree), 10.4% associate’s degree, 19.7% bachelor’s degree, 9.4% graduate or professional degree
But of course turnout is the key.
The Catalist data for WI comparing 2016 to 2020 gives some indications of what trends might be affected.
https://catalist.us/what-happened-in-wisconsin/
And it’s notable that these are all pre-Dobbs trends.
The April election set new records for turnout, surpassing even the 2020 primary, and driven largely by women, college educated, and younger voters. So it isn’t at all unreasonable to predict that an impeachment effort would produce another record turnout next year. Republicans in the minority are in a tough spot, searching with growing desperation for some issue to use that will trigger enthusiasm and turnout of mobility scooters. They may calculate that an impeachment fight would have that effect.
But it’s far more likely that they simply want to retain their unconstitutional maps for one last cycle, turnout consequences be damned. Local and state level Republicans used to be eager to make some sacrifices for the national party, for statewide races, and for the sake of the Congressional delegation. But that was all before the Finding Out began.
The lying degenerate Bremerton football coach has now quit after a single game.
So Associate Justice Gorsuch who quite knowingly entered perjured testimony into his published decision, has further destroyed the court’s credibility, and further eroded the civil rights of non-Xtians to be free of compulsory prayer rituals all so that yet another tedious “prayer warrior” can go out onto the speaker circuit and soak up the excess funds of the mobility scooter mob.
Coach Kennedy, who btw can only barely read at an eighth grade level, will publish his memoir next month.
Just imagine if every Heterosexual Neanderthal Killer was on the loose. My babies tities are just rippening – it would be a lot of fun!
@14 quitter… jeebus frowns…
Oh look Tuckems devotes a “show” (hardly anybody watches these days) to…
Obama is gay!
Sinclair has served time for forgery, fraud, and larceny in Arizona, Florida, and Colorado. He’s got a record and is known to be less than honest but Carlson believes him on this issue.
“Larry Sinclair has been in and out of prison 40 years ago, he’s got a criminal record by definition and he’s poor, he’s got a disordered life, he’s missing a tooth,” he continued.
“I think he has a record of deception..”
Asked to comment, teh kreepee shitstain of widbee babbled, “well sure.. larry sinclair and all butt.. whadabout’ teh KHALIDI TAPE????”
Earth to tuckems and kreepshit, Obama served TWO TERMS, TWO TERMS.. How’d your cheetolini (R, loser) do?
Hello!
It’s me!
https://www.wyff4.com/article/south-carolina-deputy-shot-home-invasion/45021933
Scum Mums for Fascism have yet to comment. They’re very busy.
Tacoma bus people are so laid back, even in rush hour. Nobody who was paying with cash had it ready. Some people didn’t even get up to board until the bus had opened its doors. Do none of you have somewhere to be?
Years and years of being paid to do nothing will do that to a person. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit did that his whole career until someone finally noticed, and then he was “retired” early.
I was in West Seattle today. Saw a bunch of “closed bus stop signs”. Saw them first in a residential neighborhood and thought little of it.
But then I saw it on Beach Dr SW, and it seemed more noteworthy.
Did bus service in West Seattle get cut way back so they can plow Greg Nickels’ street more frequently?
Demorat-Pfizer National Committee Demorat Presidential Preference Poll;
Preliminary Results:
Biden – 275
Kennedy – 3,742,363
Others – 35,907
Counting continues…
Update- Emergency!!! DPNC attacked by pack of rabid dogs, DPNC building evacuated, counting suspended…
Update- Rabid dogs gunned down by FBI Rabid Dog Squad, counting continues…
Final Results:
Biden – 95,853,291
Kennedy – 4,193,952
Others – 39,702
@ 5
Please do it. C’mon GOP. Turn Wisconsin into California.
A liberal begs governors DeSantis and Abbott to send their buses full of illegals to Green Bay.
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
————————
How Demorat crooks verify mailfraud ballots crashes and burns in Arizona.
“This is how they steal elections in Arizona. Hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots are trafficked or inserted with no chain of custody documentation, and someone forges a signature. Sometimes, all it takes is a random scribble on the affidavit.”
“The Court finds the Special Action states claim upon which relief can be granted. The Court finds the Plaintiffs have correctly defined registration record. The 2019 EPM creates a process that contradicts the plain language of A.R.S. §16-550(A). Therefore, this portion of the EPM and the instruction from the Secretary do ‘not have the force of law.’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/breaking-huge-voter-identity-theft-arizona-judge-defines/
@ 13
The April election set new records for turnout, surpassing even the 2020 primary, and driven largely by women, college educated, and younger voters. So it isn’t at all unreasonable to predict that an impeachment effort would produce another record turnout next year.
Regarding post-impeachment turnout to support an incumbent president, more than 11 million more voters chose Trump in 2020 than chose him in 2016. It wasn’t enough.
buses full of illegals
You can’t transport anyone in this country across State lines unless they’re allowed to be here LEGALLY..
Otherwise contact the FBI and report the shitstain Abbott. The asshole is committing the crime of human trafficking.
HA HEROES thrash the HA ZEROES (trolls):
https://youtube.com/shorts/E2oCzqxn4DI?si=EDMDHX06GTAA6v5e
fuck yeah..
8
nobody reads your stupid shit anyway…..
25
Sounds like something a 14 year old would say.
comical.
“Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values. That has included … openly criticizing women who have not married and had children.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/was-childfree-woman-enjoying-saturday-came-culture-warriors-rcna103581
So tell me again how forcing women to get married and have children is being for “freedom.”
@ 25
That’s a lion queen being thrashed by a bunch of incel water buffaloes. So yeah, you’re spot-on, Queen YLB. A bunch of liberal POS pool their body weight resources to beat up a female. Just like liberal pussies cornering a conservative woman in San Jose
and pummeling her with eggs.
Even when it’s 20 on 1 in her favor, Queen YLB cheerleads.
Queen YLB offers a “fuck yeah” @ 25 to nature’s cruelty.
Then whines when something she likes ends up on the losing end of an argument.
What a silly, hypocritical twat is our Queen YLB.
Sounds like something a 14 year old would say.
Nope just pointing some fun at trolls like little maxie, peripatetic HA ZERO rubbing one out to a Dori Monson monologue..
That’s a lion queen
LOL! We’ve had female trolls here too like Proud ASS, Chardonnay and Christmasghost but so what?
The end of that video features a dumbshit male lion predatory troll getting the thrashing it deserves.. How convenient of the degen troll to leave that out.
Substitute that dumbshit male lion for repuke Ted Bundy..
Sub in that dumbshit male lion for the bottom of the barrel, beneath the slime, racist, misogynist, shitstain troll of widbee.
@30 there it goes again rubbing one out to misogyny after it accuses your truly of what it does all time..
nature’s cruelty
kon-klown sez it wants to “slit throats” and kreepshit rubs one out to kon-klown in its “serious” maga boots..
The irony is rich..
a bunch of incel water buffaloes.
LMAO… the kreepshit troll is a fucking idiot.. How did the Buffalo herd get to be so many?
They fucked ya dumbass..
And now that they’ve dispatched a pride of dumbshit lion predators, they’ll maintain their numbers and fuck some more..
The troll is too stooopid.
19)Some routes got suspended recently, usually Peak only routes. Although they are planning on rehiring those who quit or worse over vaccine mandate. Some mechanics may not want to rehire. Although Atlantic base mechanics would be quick learners for battery electric buses, since they already work with trolleybuses.
The bus route, before I moved, that I used to catch to get to work, the 50, Othello Station-Alki, uses a short bus, 35ft Some portions could justify a longer bus, ridership wise, but drivers told me once, it’s because of a tight turn in West Seattle. During Seafair, Metro closes all stops on Genessee St for the 50. Although if the Seattle and Rainier Valley had held on until the Hydros came, would have been a great ridership generator.
cornering a conservative woman in San Jose
https://youtu.be/HZPUW3B6h6g?t=12
yeah right..
And it never will be you fucking loser.
After all these years, I still live rent-free in their nightmares.
Good.
NPR yesterday aired an interview with Fran Drescher about the entertainment industry strike.
What a sad, sad position the striking workers are in. Bob Iger’s correct that they are just deluded in their demands.
And they took Amtrak:
Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling from those with bans and access to abortion pills via telemedicine continued to expand.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/us/abortion-data-bans-laws.html
All thanks to teh widbee shitstain and its knock-down drag outs w/ Mary Kay over kreepshit’s barely repressed casual misogyny at home.
“But hunee-snookums… they can buy an Amtrak ticket…”
Bob Iger’s correct
kon-klown’s a feckless asswipe.. yawwwnn..
but “FAFO”, babble, babble…
Elon is one of Vlad’s best friends and most valuable allies:
“Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet ….”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
@ 40
Read the CNN piece. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s comprehension has declined significantly in the last few years. The piece does not relate what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks.
Read the piece and you’ll realize that it’s likely that Musk did exactly what Biden’s State Department and NSA team wanted him to do. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit failed to realize this.
Why Texas could turn into a higher education desert:
“The political climate in Texas is the leading contributor to professors’ desire to leave the state, a new survey of more than 1,900 Texas faculty members found. More than a quarter of those professors said they planned to look for positions elsewhere in the country this year as a result of political interference and widespread dissatisfaction with the state of higher education in Texas. …
“About two-thirds of Texas respondents said they would not recommend out-of-state colleagues take positions in Texas. Of the professors surveyed, 57% cited the state’s political climate as their top reason for wanting to leave Texas. The second and third most cited reasons for a desire to leave were anxieties about salary and concerns over academic freedom, respectively.”
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-political-environment-driving-faculty-to-leave-survey-finds/
@37 “Bob Iger’s correct that they are just deluded in their demands” to be paid for their work.
P.S., how’s Disney’s stock doing?
@41 You mean cave in to Vlad’s nuclear threats?
@ 44
… Vlad’s nuclear threats?
Look who still didn’t read the CNN piece correctly.
What Ukraine wanted SpaceX technology to support was an offensive strike against Russia’s Crimean fleet. Musk likened it to a Pearl Harbor scenario.
Pearl Harbor sparked the direct entry of the US into WWII. The war in the pacific ended with nuclear strikes.
Musk understands and respects history. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not, and makes it clear to all.
Another year of exposure of the contents of the laptop formerly owned by POS Hunter Biden should just about do it.
CNN Poll: A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden, as VP, was involved with son’s business dealings
My corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president is also a POS.
[Full disclosure: the poll methodology sucks]
Democrats are settling on their 2024 campaign strategy. It’s coming down to
“Vote for the crook. It’s important.”
I read it.
It does.
Anyone else who reads will also see that it’s a perfectly accurate quote.
@37 “What Ukraine wanted SpaceX technology to support was an offensive strike against Russia’s Crimean fleet.”
Which you could liken to Ukraine’s Battle of Midway moment without much effort.
“Musk likened it to a Pearl Harbor scenario.”
Does he mean that time Japan bombed Hawaii after the U.S. Army invaded Japan and occupied some Tokyo suburbs?
While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets influences people’s lives. About half of Americans (51%) say they don’t believe in astrology and 22% are unsure.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-reports/2022/04/26/one-four-americans-say-they-believe-astrology
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.. and the typical pos degen troll..
and the typical pos degen troll revisited:
Washington, we have a problem — politically, informationally and societally — when 15 percent of Americans agree with the QAnon statement that the U.S. government, media and financial worlds “are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”
Or when 20 percent agree with this statement: “There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”
Or when another 15 percent agree that “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/study-finds-nearly-one-five-americans-believe-qanon-conspiracy-theories-n1268722
Asked to comment, the degen pos troll from widbee babbled, “yabut if it gets my beloved kon-klown inaugurated sporting its ‘seriously’ fab white maga boots, I’m all for it..”
Russia invaded Ukraine, seized Ukrainian territory, bombed schools and hospitals, murdered civilians, kidnapped Ukrainian children, and blockaded Ukraine’s grain exports; so why shouldn’t Ukraine sink Russia’s Black Sea fleet???
What’s next from the maker of Self Driving Cars That Crash (TM), “Ukraine should throw the war, because Putin might use nukes to avert defeat?”
52 – Yeah, and the West promised to never advance NATO eastward when East Germany and West Germany re-united.
49,
The modern Republican European security formulation:
Our dictator pal backers can invade. And our European allies are not allowed to fight back.
Musk is just another bog-standard Republican.
@50. At one time the majority of the people thought the world was flat. Didn’t make it true.
Yeah, and the West promised to never advance NATO eastward when East Germany and West Germany re-united.
Politicians talk to each other and say what they’re going to do..
States make formal agreements in writing..
Point to the agreement..
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/candace-owens/fact-checking-claims-nato-us-broke-agreement-again/
NATO didn’t expand.. Eastern Euro countries that had a history with Russians (Poland, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, etc..) JOINED NATO..
Russia since the Czars always wanted hegemony over Europe. The only way to secure Russia’s borders is to expand them.. It’s understandable – Russia’s been invaded over 50 times in its history. Fucking Napoleon invaded Russia..
53,
You’re a liar.
No such promise has ever been made by NATO. The claim is Soviet era agitprop created and promoted by Gorbachev to sow division among NATO allies during the German reunification as a way to stem “the contagion of democracy”.
You’re a lying tool of a Marxist dictator.
@55 Unlike rabbits, who need critical thinking skills to survive in the wild, you stupid humans aren’t born with such skills; and some of your U.S. states are now outlawing the teaching of those skills.
In Florida News.
In the past, Immigrant workers from across the US raced to Florida to help rebuild after Hurricane Ian devastated the region.
But now, nearly a year later and days after another major hurricane hit, some of those workers say this time they’re staying home given the policies enacted by the Republicans.
>> The locals will to glad to pay Americans and American wages to get work done. I’m sure they won’t complain.
Florida Expected to Approve Classical Exam as a Competitor to the SAT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/sat-alternative-florida-classical-learning-test.html
“An alternative to the SAT and ACT for only a small number of mostly religious colleges, the test is known for its emphasis on the Western canon, with a big dose of Christian thought.”
>> Will schools and businesses recognize their diplomas if trends continue?
Texas paid a bitcoin miner more than $31 million to power down during heat wave
https://www.tpr.org/technology-entrepreneurship/2023-09-06/texas-paid-a-bitcoin-miner-more-than-30-million-to-power-down-during-heat-wave
>> Republicans are bad with other people’s money I think.
57 – Just keep poking that bear, asshole. Fuck around and find out. You people are trying to start a nuclear war with a nation that has lots of nuclear weapons. Reneging on promises is going to end you and all living things in the Northern Hemisphere and probably a good part of the Southern Hemisphere.
Just keep doing what you’re doing, asshole!
@59 What American workers? I heard there’s a labor shortage.
I guess you could say DeSantis is creating a new generation of do-it-yourselfers in Florida.
@60 Which will get you admission to the new New College, assuming you can spell your own name.
Get a load of the surrender monkey @ 53 and 62. He’d give Putin all of eastern Europe without a shot being fired. After all, why should Americans defend European democracies? What’s in it for us? Besides preventing the rise of new dictatorships and another world war?
62,
Finding out? Isn’t that what you and Igor are doing right now in Donetsk, and in Bakhmut, and in Moscow?
Two months of “winning” followed by twelve months of losing. To a nation the size of the state of California with an economy one fifteenth the size.
Better double down on the lying and propaganda or someone may smear some Novichok on your door knob. You owe them. They intend to collect. Get to work, bitch.
Jobs. Peace. Really good wine and cheese and chocolate. Fun vacations. Better skiing. Santander, Montreux, Eva Green. I could go on. But I prefer to stop with Eva Green.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/newly-declassified-documents-gorbachev-told-nato-wouldnt-23629
You people are trying to start a nuclear war with a nation that has lots of nuclear weapons.
Asswipe.. No we’re telling Pootie to stick to its side of the fence.. The world needs its oil, its wheat and other commodities. Pootie should stroke out and its successor pull Russia’s collective head out of its ass.
If anyone is going to “poke the bear”, it’s the Ukrainians as they have good reason.
Russia is in demographic collapse, has hardly any warm water ports, and its rivers, unlike Ukraine’s, flow the wrong way. Sux to be Russia. No one wants to be them. They should mind their own fucking business. Take care of their own. Sheesh..
@69 Politicians talking.. Nothing was put in writing..
If anyone’s at fault, it’s Gorby but he had little choice as the Soviet Empire was collapsing all around it.
Look at how well Pootie is doing in Ukraine.. It’s a fucking mess and thousands of Russian and central Asian youth are dying for nothing.. They’ve resorted to baiting young Cubans with construction jobs and then shipping them to the front.
Imagine that and all of Eastern Europe in that mess to hold together the Soviet Empire.
How “woke” are the insurers?
In the aftermath of extreme weather events, major insurers are increasingly no longer offering coverage that homeowners in areas vulnerable to those disasters need most.
At least five large U.S. property insurers — including Allstate, American Family, Nationwide, Erie Insurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway — have told regulators that extreme weather patterns caused by climate change have led them to stop writing coverages in some regions, exclude protections from various weather events and raise monthly premiums and deductibles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-disaster-climate-insurance
The repuke dumbshits, drumpf, rama-scammy, kon-klown and their minions like the widbee shitstain babble that climate change is a “hoax”..
Tell the “woke” insurers repukes.. set ’em straight.. divest, whatever.. you claim you know better.. (rolls eyes)..
@68 Plus freedom for 745 million people.
Oh, we don’t care about other people’s freedom anymore? America used to. Well, some Americans apparently don’t now. But some of us still do.
What’s in it for us? Being part of a global community. Being respected. And being on the right side every time evil crops up again in world history.
69,
Nope.
You can’t change to a new claim without first repudiating the earlier claim. You said NATO made promises. Show us the evidence that NATO met, and voted on a new basic charter treaty that would include such promises and that any of the member nations ever ratified such a treaty.
A political challenger to Helmut Kohl can make whatever vague promises he deems useful during a run up to a campaign. The most spineless US President can look on a shrug when James Baker seems to support those offers as part of the negotiations. But that is negotiation. It is not commitment. And it certainly is not commitment from NATO. Such a commitment would have absolutely included corresponding performance guarantees from Warsaw Pact. Such performance from the Warsaw Pact also never materialized. How could they?
It would be only a few months before the August Coup harliners attempt to assassinate Gorbachev for even negotiating on Germany.
The failure of those negotiations was well observed and well documented. And they had everything to do with Soviet hardliners losing their shit and blowing it all up. Which led ultimately to the collapse of the Soviet Union as well.
FAFO indeed.
Sad that the USSR failed? Fuck you. The USSR was a monstrosity. It was built to fail. And its collapse will be celebrated down through history forever. You lost, asshole. Deal with it.
Would it be so terrible if Ukraine was a neutral country, just like Switzerland? After all, we get along well with the Swiss, and they’re not in NATO. When Democracy Now and Judge Napolitano are saying avoiding a nuclear war with Russia is good idea, maybe we should giver them a listen.
BTW, why do we even need NATO any longer?
Neutral Ukraine is the same thing as occupied Ukraine.
Russia is an evil aggressor. They invaded a completely unaligned, independent sovereign neighboring state simply because they assumed (wrongly) that they could get away with it. They are right now deliberately launching precision weapons attacks on civilian targets like hospitals, and elementary schools. They have castrated POWs with box cutters (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/05/tracking-the-faceless-killers-who-mutilated-and-executed-a-ukrainian-pow/) and raped adolescent girls in occupied areas (https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-crimes-russia-controlled-areas). Wake the fuck up.
Stop watching Praeger videos. They only make you more stupid than you were before.
Putin has authorized the recruitment and employment of terrorist saboteurs inside of Poland. Putin has authorized drone attacks inside of Romania.
NATO is the only thing keeping Russian criminal terrorist aggression in check.
And Trumpublicans would have the US withdraw from NATO and abandon our European allies. It was stupid for Trump to argue for the US to withdraw from NATO in 2017. It is even more stupid today.
BTW, why do we even need NATO any longer?
After about 2050 when Russia is in the full throes of demographic collapse..
Russia will join the EU if it isn’t there already. Then you have what you want: no need for NATO, unless it’s to defend against the Chinese which has just as bad of a demographic problem, worse even.
In that case Russia joins NATO..
There’s no way the paranoid cult of the Russian deep state can hold out for that many more decades. It doesn’t allow itself to think out of the box of what the Soviets had after WWII and it has always craved hegemony over all of Europe to boot.
This conflict in Ukraine is probably Russia’s last war.
@76, 77 & 78:
Do me a favor: go watch Judge Napolitano’s video with Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University on YouTube today. You guys have bought into the Neo-Con War Machine, hook, line and sinker. Just do a search on “Judging Freedom on YouTube,” and the video will pop up.
Sachs is no crazy Republican warmonger and no Trump supporter, either. You guys, through supporting Biden’s attempt to get re-elected as a “war-time president,” are supporting the political and philosophical agendas of people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton.
Just do me a favor and watch the fucking video over on YouTube. Do this before the nukes start exploding.
Judge Napolitano’s video with Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University on YouTube today… Sachs is no crazy Republican warmonger and no Trump supporter, either.
LMAO.. Yes Sachs is part of the anti-imperialist left in America, together w/ Noam Chomsky, Cornel West and Richard Wolff. Together w/ the american alt-left (Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard),…
they are all mostly well-intentioned, learned people and hopelessly naive about Russion history, a thug like Putin, his cronies and where they all come from – uhh.. it’s called the KGB.
Watch this video and wake up:
https://youtu.be/017WGzJ5fHA?si=7Kxo63L4Yr2ElOlX
Musk likened it to a Pearl Harbor scenario.
Pearl Harbor sparked the direct entry of the US into WWII. The war in the pacific ended with nuclear strikes.
Musk understands and respects history.
I see you guys already dealt with this horselshit.
I’d say it’s probably a toss up now as to whose cock the dumbfuck wants up his ass most, Vlad’s cock or Elon’s. Not that it matters. All he’ll get up his ass is what he usually gets, horse cock.
Another. The bar spray guy gets 6½ years.
Nuclear War….Climate Change.
It’s inevitable anyways because Neanderthal Heterosexuals suffer a severe deadly virus.
Breeding will not save them.
Bombs Awayyyyyyyyyyy! Ice sheets will really melt then, won’t they!
I’m sure the other unserious twat would now agree with me that it sucks to be DeSantis.
RCP Favorability Ratings
Momala Harris 36.8
Ron DeSantis 35.3
@76 something a Drag Queen would never do,
Mum Scum for Fascism isn’t any worry to them nor do the Mum Scum care.
Bombs Awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
I see my worthless son was here. The asylum he’s in now needs to do a better job of keeping him away from the internet. That said, I do like how they keep him isolated from other patients.
@75 “Would it be so terrible if Ukraine was a neutral country, just like Switzerland?”
Ukraine was a neutral country, minding its own business, until Russia invaded it probably intending to use it as a springboard to invade Poland in Putin’s quest to reconstitute the Soviet empoire.
@79 Frankly, I think there are better sources of intellectual thought than Andy Napolitano.
@84 “Ice sheets will really melt then, won’t they!”
I dunno. Maybe a few decades of nuclear winter would trigger a new ice age. But then we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming or heat waves, would we?
Whatsa’ matter with Wisconsin?
At issue for Wisconsin Republicans are Justice Protasiewicz’s stated views on Wisconsin’s legislative maps. In a deliberate strategy to energize and win support from Democratic donors and voters during her campaign this spring, she was unusually blunt about her positions on issues including abortion rights and the state’s maps, which she called “rigged.”…
Former Gov. Scott Walker, who remains popular among Wisconsin Republicans, said the Assembly was “obligated” to impeach Justice Protasiewicz if she tried to rule on the maps.
IMPEACH! IMPEACH! Butt, as usual, the other shoe sadly drops…
Justice Brian Hagedorn once compared homosexuality to bestiality, called Planned Parenthood “a wicked organization” and wrote that “Christianity is the correct religion, and that insofar as others contradict it, they are wrong.” He has said those statements would not warrant his recusal on cases about abortion, gay rights or religion.
So far, Republicans appear remarkably unified around the idea of impeaching Justice Protasiewicz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/justice-protasiewicz-impeachment-wisconsin.html
Of course! As they say: IOKIYAR…
Here’s a fresh kill by The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.
https://whnt.com/news/northeast-alabama/scottsboro-man-charged-with-murder-of-wife/
💰💰💰💰💵💵💵 Scum Mums for Fascism not worried, and don’t care……they are busy powdering the vagina. Be groomed ladies!
Bombs! Bombs!
This body is a little cold. The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is running wild.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-murdered-his-pregnant-wife-when-she-disrespected-him-fatally-shot-her-father-in-back-because-he-couldnt-look-into-his-eyes/
Scum Mums for Fascism not concerned!
Drag Queens just a distraction tactic by those cunts. This Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is atomic!
You people are advocating for a nuclear war with Russia. Take some time to think about that and what the consequences of a nuclear exchange with Russia would mean.
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
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Dear Demorat Chickenhawk Warmongers, get ready to get Joe Demento shoved up your ass.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr on the New Tricks the DNC is Pulling, Says He May Need to ‘Look at Other Alternatives’”
“They’ve made rules that if any candidate sets foot in the state of Iowa or sets foot in the state of New Hampshire, then none of the votes that are cast for that candidate will be tallied. In other words any delegate that I win in New Hampshire or Iowa would go instead to the President…If you add up all the super-delegates that they control, and all of the automatic delegates that just go to the party, I would have to win almost 80% of all the states”
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1699945645430247711
Fani Willis bitch slapping Gym’s demand to hand documents to his committee before his ‘deadline’ of today.
What’s wrong with that?
I mean you probably don’t care about Climate Change, The big Haux!
Nor do you care about the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.
Nor the fascist movement of the American Taliban (We are Russia!).
Nor the fascist movement of the Scum Mum’s of America.
Is nuclear war really a concern of yours? Why? Because it effects you fat ass?
87, 88 & 89:
Judge Napolitano is a Libertarian, so you big government types don’t like that. After all, the rodent has bet his entire life on Big Government. I bet even the Vicious Troll is a secret admirer of Big Government, as long as his version os Big Government means constant overseas adventures and warfare.
But you fucking idiots ought to watch the YouTube video to see what Jeffrey Sachs has to say about Ukraine, Russia and the West. After all, he’s liberal progressive Jew, and that’s a person from your main tribe of progressives, socialists and communists. If Jeffrey Sachs is criticizing this shit, and Seymour Hersh and Democracy Now, too, then there must be something you’re all missing. Getting involved in Ukraine is a ploy Biden hopes to use to get re-elected, and it ain’t gonna work. Watch the video.
Note to PI’s poor mom: No comment necessary. We’ll just assume you said something that’s cute, inane and a lie.
97
You’re a fucking idiot.
Okay.
So we are fucking idiots.
We are “tribal”.
And our “tribe” includes “Jews”, “socialists”, and “communists”.
PI is no mere libertarian, which isn’t saying much.
PI is a Bircher.
That’s perfect.