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It looks like the election was good for Democrats. But Seattle will get more conservative. At least the housing levy passed easily.

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  1. 1

    /r/SeattleWA toasted to the memory of Dori Monson.. To Dori! Seattle will always be dying…

  3. 3

    Oh, please, thou homosexual with the fourth-grade intellect, tell us more about dictatorships.

    Zelenskyy rules out wartime elections

    “Now is not the time for elections,” Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, trying to put to rest a growing debate amid Russia’s grinding invasion.

    “Now is the time for defence, for battle, on which the fate of the state and people depends, and not for farce, which only Russia expects from Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a speech. “I think this is not the time for elections.

    “We must come together, not divide ourselves, not disperse ourselves in quarrels or other priorities,” he added.

    Who needs stuff like, say, democracy when you can continue to bribe the president of the United States because you’ve got numerous pieces of smoking gun evidence of his corruption?

    Meanwhile, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron shoves others aside so that he may lick the taint of Hamas, which has prevented elections since it defeated Fatah in civil war.

  6. 6

    How long until liberals pronounce themselves thankful for the willingness of the Court’s majority to issue the Dobbs decision?

    They wanted the decision left to the states. It’s left to the states.

  7. 7

    Well, yeah. His preferred team is losing.

    UN chief says Gaza deaths show something ‘wrong’ with Israel operation

    The UN report on children and armed conflict includes a list intended to shame parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to implement measures to protect children.

    You’re not gonna shame a group that takes pleasure in beheading babies and burning babies alive.

  8. 8

    @3 “you can continue to bribe the president of the United States because you’ve got numerous pieces of smoking gun evidence of his corruption”

    Great! All your tribe has to do is produce that evidence, and then Biden will bow out, and we’ll get a younger and more dynamic candidate to wipe the floor with your ass in 2024.

  9. 9

    Texas goes socialist:

    “Texas voters on Tuesday decided to put billions of dollars into natural gas power plants as part of an effort aimed at increasing the reliability of the state’s electric grid.”

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4299638-texas-gas-power-plants-electric-grid-reliability-approve/

    It seems “free market solutions” to power outages didn’t work there. Meanwhile, Maine voters rejected socialism; they’d rather freeze in the dark:

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4299557-maine-question-3-ballot-measure-consumer-owned-utility-voted-down/

  11. 11

    I’m a progressive Democrat, but more Conservative for Seattle is still to my Left on many issues.

  15. 15

    How long until liberals pronounce themselves thankful for the willingness of the Court’s majority to issue the Dobbs decision?

    Wow all Joe needs to do is drop the price of riding Amtrak.. ya know poor women and daughters raped by their stepfathers… Congress are you listening?

  19. 19

    @6 “It’s left to the states.”

    Just don’t live south of the Mason-Dixon line if you don’t want the religious police peering through your bedroom window.

  20. 20

    @ 10

    It’s not surprising that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit struggles to understand the meaning of Nazi, after nearly two decades of misuse of the term by HA libbies, who insist on using it in reference to anyone with whom libbies disagree.

  21. 21

    @7 “You’re not gonna shame a group that takes pleasure in beheading babies and burning babies alive.”

    Which is what Israeli missiles and bombs do to Palestinian babies, in case you haven’t noticed. But you don’t care about them, do you? “FINISH THEM!”

  22. 22

    To Palestinians a “child” is a 19 year-old son of a terrorist who died within 5 feet of a rocket launcher.

  23. 23

    @20 You’re mistaking me for someone else. I didn’t use the term “Nazi,” but one of your buddies did @12.

  24. 24

    @ 21

    But you don’t care about them, do you?

    It’s more of a willingness to sacrifice them if they’re being held in front of a rocket-firing Hamas terrorist than a lack of caring, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    But it’s nice to see you realize that you’ve stooped to the stupidity of the Queen YLB argument.

  26. 26

    Oh Marge. You want to gut Ukraine aid and use the money to build the wall. To make this point you tweeted, “6 billion people have crossed our border under Joe Biden but the only border they care about is Ukraine.”

    6b is roughly twelve times the population of every country in the western hemisphere and south of the United States. The entire population of the United States is just a third of a billion. 6b is really not that far off the entire population of the globe.

    But abortion didn’t work for you last night so it’s back to the unwashed hordes of illegals for 2024 messaging.

  28. 28

    Rick Santorum, remember that guy, did the post shellacking Newsmax hit to declare that maybe democracy sucks because the GOP keeps losing.

    It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio. I don’t know what they were thinking, but um, that’s why I thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.

    If you want people to stop calling you fascists, stop doing and saying fascist shit.

  29. 29

    Evangelical pastor blames Ohio’s abortion amendment on “the left,”

    And all the young women coming of voting age say, “There is no fucking way I’m ever voting for a republican since the left wants to treat me like an entire person with the ability to make decisions.”

  31. 31

    @ 29

    Evangelical pastor blames Ohio’s abortion amendment on “the left,”

    Would be more accurate if the blame was placed on “everyone to the left of him”.

    Hell, I would have voted for it. Once all 50 states choose sides Planned Parenthood becomes irrelevant.

  33. 33

    Hind County,MS.

    The only solid democratic voting county in the state. 62% black.

    Several polling places ran out of ballots within two hours of polls opening. After Democrats turned to a judge to extend voting Republicans sued to stop the vote.

    Because the parties are all the same. And surely the Republican Secretary of State just made an innocent mistake not supplying the county with ballots.

  36. 36

    Our troll is a big fan of cops exercising the fleeing felon standard of deadly force. What’s different about this guy?

    SWAT teams were frantically searching a wooded area in New Jersey on Wednesday for a suspected Jan. 6 rioter who bolted when cops tried to arrest him. The FBI said in a statement to News 12 NJ that Gregory Yetman, 46, was wanted in connection to the riot, but his exact charges were not specified. He was described by the FBI as a white man who was wearing a red jacket and a baseball cap when he fled. His social media accounts indicate he’s a former military police officer, News 12 reported. Tactical teams could be seen combing through backyards and searching sheds in Helmetta on Wednesday morning, NBC reported.

  42. 42

    Called to testify in the Trump family’s fraud trial, Ivanka adopts the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” defense. What else can she do?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/ivanka-trump-fraud-trial-live-updates-rcna122519#rcrd24933

    But here’s a problem: “Ivanka Trump proposed lowering net worth requirement for her father in Deutsche Bank loan, emails show”

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-civil-fraud-trial-11-08-23/index.html

    She has another credibility problem, too:

    “Ivanka Trump distanced herself from knowing anything about a discrepancy in the value of a penthouse apartment in one of her father’s Manhattan buildings that she leased … a lawyer for the attorney general, asked if there had been a purchase option on her penthouse apartment … for $8.5 million. She confirmed there was. The value of the apartment on Trump’s statement of financial condition, however, was $20.8 million, according to the attorney general’s civil complaint.”

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-civil-fraud-trial-11-08-23/index.html

  43. 43

    How long until liberals pronounce themselves thankful for the willingness of the Court’s majority to issue the Dobbs decision?

    This liberal is more than willing to pronounce himself thankful for the willingness of unhinged, extremist, pipe-bombing MAGA Republicans to continue to aggressively pursue all forms of restriction over women’s reproductive freedom.

    I’m thankful that my political enemies are idiots. And I’m thankful that a slim but consistently growing majority of voters in even ruby red states are not idiots.

  45. 45

    @ 27

    In Mississippi, they used to kill people for trying to register black voters.

    By they, he means Democrats.

  46. 46

    @ 36

    What’s different about this guy?

    Um, for starters, he ran the opposite direction from the police. He didn’t open fire on the police.

  47. 47

    Would be more accurate if the blame was placed on “everyone to the left of him”.

    Choice? REALLY?

    Not gonna give this even a split second of consideration.
    Restricting a woman’s legal right to choose has been the central animating ideology unifying the Republican Party for the last four decades. And getting past the Trumpian embrace of proto-fascism, it is the reason for the now growing schism in the party today.

    This was all pretty well predicted decades ago when, under blessed senile Saint Reagan the party bear hugged the newly emerging Christo-fascist, evango movement for some “Big Tent” engergy. While Roe was still no fully understood, what was understood was that women would become the dominant electoral demographic in the next century and that they would reject a political party that insisted on treating them like second class citizens. But that second class status for women is hardwired into the evangelical ethos. And so there has been no turning back, but instead only a glossy, DeepFake photo transformation of the revanchism and misogynistic hatred at the heart of Pro-Life.

    But Dobbs stripped away all the photo filtration protecting the Republican Party, leaving them exposed and vulnerable. They are not the party of “choice”. They are the “anti-choice” party that hates women so much they would force a 14-year-old to die suffering in agony giving birth to her rapist’s baby.

    Can’t Etch-a-Sketch that away.

  48. 48

    It’s more of a willingness to sacrifice them if they’re being held in front of a rocket-firing Hamas terrorist

    LMAO… Perfectly explains Galid Shalit doesn’t it?

    Heh.. 1 for for over 1k trade.. and hardly a missile fired.

    Great convictions there kreepshit.. Let’s stack that next to flooding the tunnels with shit water from the nearby kibbutzim so the hostages can get a bath..

  50. 50

    @42

    They care about me and my problems. I mean who hasn’t mistaken a $20 for $7 plus a buck and a half in change and been delighted to discover you actually have enough to get the medium fries with the value meal.

    She’s so relatable.

  51. 51

    @ 49

    Not able address “this guy”, you choose to substitute another guy. Does that give me license to pull out another example from a year or so ago in which police showed restraint, after which you pull out an example in which police did not?

    ’cause we could keep doing that for a long time.

    You asked about “this guy”.

  52. 52

    After the GOP got their asses handed to them in every race they spent heavily trying to win….what’s the day after top story over on the Fox News dot com.

    Former Jill Biden spox explodes at Biden’s team amid crumbling poll numbers: ‘This is inexcusable’

  53. 53

    @ 42

    “Ivanka Trump distanced herself from knowing anything about a discrepancy in the value of a penthouse apartment in one of her father’s Manhattan buildings that she leased … a lawyer for the attorney general, asked if there had been a purchase option on her penthouse apartment … for $8.5 million. She confirmed there was. The value of the apartment on Trump’s statement of financial condition, however, was $20.8 million, according to the attorney general’s civil complaint.”

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I always get full monetary value for any item I transfer to my kids.

    Otherwise someone might question my motives for gifting anything to them.

  54. 54

    @51

    I get that you’re being intentionally obtuse.

    Yes what is it about THIS guy, with a background in armed security who it is reasonable to suspect might be armed that police decided to act with restraint when he took off running as opposed to other suspects with no indication they are armed that get shot as ‘fleeing felons?’

    Seriously. What is it about THIS guy that protected him from any use of force at all?

    We all know, white guy, right wing police departments, just a good ole boy never meanin no harm.

  55. 55

    asked if there had been a purchase option on her penthouse apartment … for $8.5 million.

    These are real assets held by the companies, not by the individual trustees.

    So if the $12..3 million difference in respective valuations was meant to represent an inurrement to one of the trustees, that would be fraud.

  56. 56

    @44 Well then, I guess that shows killing Palestinian kids is an ongoing, long-term Israeli project, doesn’t it?

  57. 57

    @45 Southern racists haven’t been “Democrats” in your lifetime, so don’t you think it’s time to give that tired old trope a rest?

  58. 58

    54,
    Don’t give that piece of shit that.

    This Sobbing Shit-Lord who devotes all of his Gone Galt Retirement to Shitposting and trolling has no right to demand good faith debate. Don’t give it to him.

  60. 60

    @53 You expect us to believe you gift anything to your kids? You were the guy driving the big RV with the “We’re traveling on our kids’ inheritance” bumper sticker that I saw a few years ago.

  61. 61

    Estimated Ohio turnout 3.8 to 3.9 million. Almost equalling the 2022 Senate race turnout fueled by record spending that surpassed the previous three Ohio Senate races combined.

    Turnout is a tricky thing. It normally tails hard in mids and offs. And if/when there is a turnout surge explaining it can be complicated by a lot of variables.

    But one emerging explanation for these increses in mid/off cycles going all the way back to 2018 is that the demographics are changing, and that these changes are challenging expectations about electoral composition. This is probably one of the things that factors into polling weakness. Every poll has to build some kind of model of expected turnout composition. To do this they look mostly at historical data. But these fairly rapid changes in turnout demographics mean that the historical data for modeling the electorate are becomming more and more unreliable.

  63. 63

    “It’s not surprising that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit struggles to understand the meaning of Nazi, after nearly two decades of misuse of the term by HA libbies, who insist on using it in reference to anyone belonging to a fascist political party.”

    Fixed it for you.

    Examples of fascist political parties includes Italy’s National Fascist Party, Germany’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party, and today’s Republican Party.

    Nothing wrong with calling you a Nazi, ya fucking Nazi POS.

  64. 64

    But one emerging explanation for these increses in mid/off cycles going all the way back to 2018 is that the demographics are changing,

    Heh. Awwww.. The kinda “change” that makes a shitstain troll cry…

    One small thing we should thank Bibi’s lax control of the “border” w/ Gaza…

    Dang, when was the last time we were all BOOOREED to tiers about kreepshit babbling: NOUN, VERB, Hunter’s DICK PICS!?!?!!!

  65. 65

    Anyone out there in greater Murica who wishes to no longer risk being considered a Nazi has a very simple out available to them: stop voting for Republicans.

    Would you ever vote for a Nazi? If no, then don’t ever vote for a Republican. If you vote for a Republican, then you will have voted for a Nazi. And that makes you a Nazi. Don’t be a Nazi.

    Dan Harmon has thoughts:
    https://youtu.be/m6ZrvSOXDQM

  66. 66

    64,

    Dang, when was the last time we were all BOOOREED to tiers about kreepshit babbling: NOUN, VERB, Hunter’s DICK PICS!?!?!!!

    Do you actually think the kreepshit troll really expected that to have legs?

    A flatulent, disbarred, alcoholic attorney periodically whispering in Chuck Grassley’s ear was never going to be enough. Do you think that Shit-Lord Crybaby really expected the file tampering and Russian GRU disinformation to ultimately pan out?

    God, he must be incredibly disappointed at this point. That dog won’t hunt. Fat Midget is a flame out. Nobody trusts Haley. And now it’s becomming impossible to ignore that BEACH WEEEEK!!!! actually killed off more angry whites than they could ever afford.

  67. 67

    STATE LEVEL CHOICE!

    Republican state lawmakers in Ohio have officially reacted to passage of Issue 1 by announcing their immediate plans to dismantle the protections the ballot measure provided to women’s access to reproductive healthcare.

    Apparently the choice is between fascism their way, or fascism some other way.

  68. 68

    New Hampshire council moves to ban all art after LGBTQ mural
    https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/11/07/new-hampshire-council-moves-to-ban-all-art-after-lgbtq-mural/
    Board member Carrie Gendreau, a conservative Republican believes “homosexuality is an abomination”. Among Cahn’s fringe theories is a belief that rainbows are demonic symbols that power the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who wants vengeance on Christianity for marginalizing her.

    New Hampshire council moves to ban all art after LGBTQ mural
    Picturesque Littleton, New Hampshire frequently ranks near the top of lists of the best or most quintessential small towns in America, thanks to its bustling main street, fine dining options, and local arts scene.
    But the anti-LGBTQ animus of the town’s small Board of Selectmen is threatening to destroy that hard-won reputation, and it’s all because of a small mural celebrating diversity installed on the side of a Chinese restaurant.
    https://i.cbc.ca/1.7014475.1698804071!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mural-from-littleton.jpg

  69. 69

    Furious Ohio Republicans Report Widespread Incidents of Women Voting

    No you don’t understand. When we say “states” we mean what we want, not what the people want.

  70. 70

    @ 67

    Republican state lawmakers in Ohio have officially reacted to passage of Issue 1 by announcing …

    It’s not like they don’t have a reason to believe that the ballot measure is the final answer:

    When Michigan voters passed a similar amendment last year, they were sold the lie that parental rights would be unaffected, that late-term abortion would remain illegal, and that women’s health and safety standers would not be touched. But just last week, the Michigan legislature voted to repeal penalties for partial-birth abortions, to eliminate health and safety protections at abortion facilities, and they called parental consent laws ‘unconstitutional.’ They even vowed to come for informed consent laws and 24-hour waiting periods next. We know the same barbaric attacks on parents and children are now coming home to Ohio.

    Ohio shares a border with Michigan, and Bart Stupak’s gullibility was just not very long ago.

    Hey, I’m on your side to the extent that I think it’s gonna take a few GOP state legislative seat losses next year before the furthest right of them realize that taking the party down is a real risk if they continue to thwart the will of the voters.

    But it’s not like the local political history doesn’t give them reason to believe that the Democrats are done now that abortion is codified. So they won’t be done, either. At least realize that they have cause to continue to resist.

  71. 71

    Those enjoying the sworn testimony of Ivanka Trump will be just as happy to know that Hunter Biden and James Biden, both close POS relatives of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president, have been issued House subpoenas.

    The only remaining question is whether Biden will join Trump as an ex-president by the time his relatives are forced to testify under oath in early 2024.

  72. 72

    There’s a bright side, of course.

    VIRGINIA ELECTIONS
    Republican David Owen defeats Democrat Susanna Gibson in Virginia House of Delegates race

    We’ll still get to watch videos of her taking it in the ass any time we please.

  75. 75

    70, wut?

    Fuck off.

    Nobody is going to grant you and your fellow FORCED BIRTH REPUBLICANS any credibility when you can’t even manage to remain settled on a “principle” for even 24 hours.

    I guess you’ll just have to go back to the garage and build some more pipe bombs. “Principles” are too inconvenient.

  76. 76

    Gas went from $3.09 to $3.19 over the past month. But in the last week it went back down to $3.09….and today it is $2.99.

    Up, down, up, down.

  78. 78

    have been issued House subpoenas.

    Vanky litigated her subpoena and lost. Twice. She faced jail in Rikers if she failed to appear. And she was granted immunity. So she faced jail in Rikers if she failed to answer questions.

    Farmer Jim’s subpoenas won’t make it out of the parking garage.

    You lose again.

  79. 79

    Trump, under Oath Tuesday, no the valuation never mattered because I am the Donald and banks line up to give me loans because I am the most expertist at making money.

    Ivanka, under oath confronted with an email that states Daddy’s Net Worth HAD to be stated at a certain level to secure the Deutsche Bank loan, well yes daddy overstated his wealth because we needed the loan and all the U.S. Banks were done lending to a three times bankrupt real estate speculator.

  80. 80

    partial-birth abortions,

    The reality based community is well aware that’s not a thing.

  81. 81

    @80

    If we keep using the same tried and true propaganda we can ride that to 43% support again the next time.

  82. 82

    Sean Hannity on Fox News: “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

    Because they don’t.

  83. 83

    @82

    To be fair, we want it legal if it’s an anchor baby.

    Or an eight year old Palestinian.

    Or a teenager walking home with some skittles and a soda.

  84. 84

    @61 “the historical data for modeling the electorate are becomming more and more unreliable”

    Yes, but polls still serve the useful function of bringing comfort and joy to Doctor Dumbfuck. And if they’re off a little, it doesn’t really matter, because he’s a little off, too.

  85. 85

    @70 “I think it’s gonna take a few GOP state legislative seat losses next year before the furthest right of them realize that taking the party down is a real risk if they continue to thwart the will of the voters.”

    That’s where fascism enters the picture. They don’t have to worry about the will of the voters if they abolish democracy.

    As the Taliban said when they took over Afghanistan: “Democracy is not part of our system.” Republicans all over America are making clear it’s not part of theirs, either.

  86. 86

    @71 What makes you think Hunter won’t invoke the Fifth if he’s hauled into a House inquisition?

  87. 87

    Nikki Haley speaks to the Dumbfuck Rabbit household.

    54% of American families can’t afford diapers.

    They certainly can’t afford Depends.

  88. 88

    @ 86

    What makes you think Hunter won’t invoke the Fifth if he’s hauled into a House inquisition?

    Doesn’t matter if he does. His father won’t be the nominee. He’s already known to be a POS. He’s already under indictment. Taking the Fifth is a smart thing, but it’s also a GOP ad on auto-repeat next Fall, whomever is the Dem nominee.

  89. 89

    @73 It’s heartwarming to see voters still have moral standards, but I don’t see how that’s a good thing for Republicans.

  92. 92

    @ 90

    … maybe wages need to be higher.

    Maybe you need to wipe more completely, and more frequently. Bending over with that huge pannus in front of you can’t make it easy to reach, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  93. 93

    Drinking rules for the RNC debate:
    Socialism
    Abortion
    Israel
    Pakistan
    Open boarders
    Inflation
    Ukraine
    Loser
    Save time, just go to the ER now.

  94. 94

    Former Clark County, Indiana, sheriff Jamey Noel, who is also county and district GOP chair, was arrested today on “15 felony charges including theft, official misconduct, ghost employment and obstruction of justice.”

    Noel’s alleged offenses include “a secret recording device in the office of a former employee,” having “sheriff’s office employees perform work on his personal property while on duty,” and attempting to “fraudulently arrange for a family member to earn a retirement pension.” In addition, “During Noel’s tenure as sheriff dozens of women incarcerated at the Clark County Jail said they were assaulted by men who bought a key from a corrections officer.”

    https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-11-08/former-southern-indiana-sheriff-arrested-on-15-felony-charges

  95. 95

    @92 What this tells me is higher wages are such a good idea you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for a retort.

  101. 101

    Mom For Liberty calls police on a young adult novel.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moms-for-liberty-demands-police-investigation-school-book_n_654b9735e4b0069a0437cc06

    A synopsis of the book is here. Apparently the beef is one of the characters “almost has sex,” which is a “very serious crime.” Very worked up that a school librarian checked out the book to a 17-year-old without parental permission, even though it wasn’t on Moms For Liberty’s book ban list. (When I was 17, you could read whatever you wanted, and only needed parental permission for enlisting in the Marines to fight in Vietnam.)

  102. 102

    I guess there’s a GOP debate tonight, and it seems the contestants are feeling sorry for themselves.

    “Republican presidential candidates expressed dismay with their party’s stinging election losses this week as Democrats notched key victories across the country, including on the hot-button issue of abortion. ‘I am upset about what happened last night. We’ve become a party of losers, at the end of the day,’ former biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy said at the third GOP presidential debate in Miami.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-debate-2023-election-results_n_654c31cce4b041b06589a60d

    First thing Ramaswamy has said that I agree with. But he went downhill from there: “Ramaswamy … launched an attack against debate host NBC News, saying the network’s moderators should be replaced by conservatives like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, podcast host Joe Rogan and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.” I guess objective journalism isn’t his style.

  103. 103

    Best line of the night: Ramaswamy calls Haley and DeSantis “two Dick Cheneys in 3-inch heels.”

  105. 105

    Conservatives – “How dare you stomp on our freedoms and say that someone has to bake a cake or sell flowers or dispense a properly prescribed medication that goes against our sincerely held beliefs.

    Also Conservatives – “How dare Hudson booksellers look at their market research and decide Marjorie Taylor Greene’s book is not going to sell and not stock it. This is a violation of her free speech rights!”

    “CENSORSHIP!” Donald Trump Jr wrote in a Wednesday tweet that Ms Greene reposted. “
    Books refuses to carry AMERICA FIRST authors!” He wrote that the bookseller is refusing to offer Rep Greene’s new book “at airport bookstores!”

    Huh, super weird that the book is being released by “Winning Team Publishing’ a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Inc with zero record of best sellers AND is just one step above self publishing on the kindle app.

  106. 106

    Taking the Fifth is a smart thing, but it’s also a GOP ad on auto-repeat next Fall,

    He won’t show.

    And there is absolutely nothing that Farmer Jim or you can do about it.

    You lose again. You fucking loser.

  107. 107

    What makes you think Hunter won’t invoke the Fifth if he’s hauled into a House inquisition?

    Exactly who is supposed to do this “hauling”?

    This is very cruel of Roger to dangle this copium for the stoopid degenerate troll like this.
    Nicely done.

  108. 108

    That’s some solid GOLD ad copy, there Jerry. GOLD!

    (Dark theatrical music place. Apocalyptic voice over)
    “Without enough actual evidence to obtain any criminal indictment we went ahead and tried to subpoena the President’s son to score some political humiliation.

    And do you know what he did?

    HE IGNORED US!

    He ignored us and he called a press conference to call us pussies and perverts who just want to see his junk some more.

    GET BEHIND US AMERICA AND WE CAN PROMISE YOU LIVE NUDES OF A 53-YEAR-OLD RECOVERING METH ADDICT!”

  109. 109

    97)I remember her remark after winning her House seat when asked what she had to say about her opposition. She said he’s her constituent now.

  111. 111

    97, 98,

    Remember when the troll climbed on that Louden County hobby horse?

    Remember when I mocked his enthusiasm and told him he and his idiot pals would lean past their ski tips and crash?

    It was forgone from the very beginning. Like CRT. Born to doom.

  112. 112

    @ 106

    And there is absolutely nothing that Farmer Jim or you can do about it.

    The Biden family are corrupt cowards. Kamala Harris is a coward.

    POS Hunter Biden’s obvious personal corruption and his future cowardice in the face of the issued subpoena plays directly into the narrative.

  113. 113

    I heard Nikki Haley support means testing for SS retirement benefits.

    QoS McHillbilly will have little trouble voting for her, especially when he sees who the Democrats end up putting forth.

  114. 114

    Suburban Democrat women will have little trouble voting for Nikki Haley. Haley will protect them.

  115. 115

    @ 111

    Remember when the troll climbed on that Louden County hobby horse?

    Remember when I mocked his enthusiasm and told him he and his idiot pals would lean past their ski tips and crash?

    • The superintendent, Ziegler, has been fired and convicted. He faces a second trial.
    • None of the nine school board members who permitted what happened will serve on the next board. The two incumbents who tried to save their seats each lost.
    • The Commonwealth’s Attorney of Loudoun County lost her re-election bid.
    • The father of the raped daughter was pardoned and has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the Loudoun County School District.

    You were saying?

  116. 116

    If Nikki Haley can refer to Ramaswamy as “scum”, why could her 2016 primary opponents not refer to #CrookedHillary as a “corrupt cunt”?

  117. 117

    …plays directly into the narrative.

    How?

    Paint that picture you sad cripple.

    Explain to us how demonstrating your own weakness and impotence will help voters see crypto-fascist Republicans prancing about in hearing rooms as a better alternatives to the Democrats who have consistently delivered for them since Trump’s humiliating defeat.

    Make a big deal of it. Blow up the subpoena to giant size and hold a media event. Hold it in a landscaper parking lot. Watch America all point and laugh.

    You lose. You pathetic loser.

  118. 118

    You were saying?

    Republicans inflicting killing fields of collateral damage has been with us since the escalator ride. We’ve watched you pile up bodies of sobbing Guatemalan toddlers and rinse your hands in their blood.

    But you still lose. You fucking loser.

  119. 119

    QoS McHillbilly will have little trouble voting for her,

    I wouldn’t vote for her to preside over her own gang bang. About the only thing exceptional about her is that she lies more than most Republicans.

    Nobody trusts her. Not even Republicans.
    The only difference is that Republicans have run out of options.

  121. 121

    Trump just posted a new video on Truth calling for all Republicans to rise up in violence and prepare for “The Final Battle”.

    So pretty much just another normal one.

  122. 122

    Hey, I missed this — Louie Gohmert is no longer American’s Dumbest Congressman (TM). That’s because he’s no longer in Congress. In 2022, he ran for Texas Attorney General instead, finishing last in the GOP primary in a four-candidate field. He’s gone, gone, GONE. Good riddance.

  123. 123

    @114

    Or not

    Nikki Haley: “Whatever we can get 60 Senate votes on, isn’t that better than what we have now? And if it’s– if it’s six weeks, that’s great. If it’s 15 weeks, that’s great.”

    Fox News: “Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is pledging to sign a federal ban on abortion.”

    Haley: “Yes of course I would sign [a federal ban].”

  124. 124

    @116

    The Overton window.

    A certain someone made OPENLY being a complete asshole acceptable in politics.

    The GOP is now a party with zero policy priorities except to make as many of their political opponents feel their assholery.

    Three GOP sources told NBC News that party operatives fighting to win control of Congress are making a concerted push Wednesday to encourage Republicans to make clear to voters, in speeches and TV ads, that they don’t favor a national ban on all abortions.

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee “is encouraging Republicans to clearly state their opposition to a national abortion ban…

  125. 125

    We all tried to tell you. More people armed to go about their daily lives for ‘protection’ would inevitably lead to more people using their firearms for aggression.

    “But Muh Rights!”

    Detectives are investigating after a male was shot during a road rage incident in the Greenwood area.

    At 7:00 p.m., Dispatch received a call about a male shot in the 9700 block of Evanston Avenue North. Police arrived and found a 37-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the arm. Officers provided aid until Seattle Fire Department arrived. SFD transported the victim to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.

    Same day

    SEATTLE — The Starbucks headquarters located in the Seattle SODO district was placed on a brief lockdown Wednesday after shots were fired during a road rage incident nearby.

    According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), no one was shot, but KOMO News cameras recorded video of a man being wheeled out on a stretcher from inside the Starbucks building.

    Police did confirm that the driver involved in the road rage was injured in the crash and ended up at the coffee giant’s headquarters on Utah Ave.

  126. 126

    @125 Guns have proliferated under GOP gun policies, and while other crime is down, homicides and suicides are up. Republicans will assert there’s no connection between more guns and more gun deaths.

  128. 128

    Conservatives are against abortion Two things that reduce abortions are comprehensive sex education and easy access to birth control. And conservatives are against both of those as well.
    I don’t think conservatives know what they really want. Any thoughts?

  130. 130

    Great to hear about the positive outcome for Democrats! The passage of the housing levy is especially good news for the community. 🎉🗳️

  132. 132

    @128

    They know what they want. They want to be Hamas. They want to be The Taliban.

    Plain and simple.

  133. 133

    Can you spot the pattern:
    2020: Biden can’t win. (Biden wins.)
    2022: Biden to be slammed in midterms. (Dems do great.)
    Off-year elections: Biden in peril. (Dems win even in many red states.)
    2021-2023: Biden can’t get past GOP in Congress. (Biden achieves more legislative wins than any Dem in 60 years.)
    2020-2024: Biden too old. (Biden more successful at presidenting than every single younger predecessor since WWII. Which is all of them.)

    Take as much time as you need. If it helps at all, review the actual poll result claims and “learned” elte media analysis against the election outcomes.

    Hint: rhymes with “gaslighting”.

  134. 134

    As of today, November 9, 2023, it has been approximately 542 days since Jim Jordan of Ohio received a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.

    Rep. Jordan has never responded.

  135. 135

    Queen YLB dies a little inside whenever a libbie girl power effort goes tits up.

    Far-Left Outlet Jezebel Shut Down, Staff Let Go After Failing To Find A Buyer

    I don’t understand. I mean, what uber-feminista wouldn’t pay to read edgy content such as this:

    Michelle Obama Looks Fucking Great

    or this:

    Melania Trump Still Doesn’t Deserve Your Sympathy

    Now that Jezzie’s gone, wherever will Queen YLB find her makeup and douche recommendations?

  136. 136

    News exists in competition in an attention economy. Novel, sensational, and alarming opinions and analysis about news are more effective at attracting attention than plain facts. This attention bias is entirely independent of accuracy.

    Modern network communication technology enables zero or near zero cost publication and distribution of novel, sensational, and alarming opinions and analysis about news by any individual or group. Inaccurate or weakly sourced novel, sensational, and alarming opinions and analysis about news is always much easier to originate. Therefore the volume of innacurate, novel, sensational, and alarming opinions and analysis about news shall always far exceed the volume of relevant, factually accurate news.

    Individuals faced with the resulting media bias favoring innacurate, novel, sensational, and alarming opinions and analysis about news are consequently misinformed in ways that generally produce fear, panic, or resentment. These emotional responses of fear, panic, or resentment are effective at dulling higher cognitive functions such as critical analysis and skepticism. This in turn produces a greater audience response to commercial advertising messages. While at the very same time, the same emotional responses also heighten authoritarian impulses.

    DANGER IS ALL AROUND YOU. NOTHING IS SAFE. NOT EVEN RAINBOWS. YOU MUST SURRENDER YOUR DEMOCRACY IN ORDER TO OBTAIN SAFETY. THE SATISFACTION OF DEFEATING YOUR ENEMIES IS WORTH THE LOSS OF LIBERTY.

  137. 137

    @ 134

    Jim Jordan of Ohio received a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.

    Rep. Jordan has never responded.

    I looked it up and so can you, did you look up the historical precedent to this subpoena?

    There isn’t one. Jordan’s a lawmaker.

    POS Hunter Biden is an influence peddler.

    One of these is not like the other.

    Keep trying.

  138. 138

    @135

    Sad. A ‘zine went bye.

    Say, how’d Tuesday night go for you?
    How are the gas prices?
    How’s that Tesla margin call working out for you?
    Where’s the pain?
    Did you hear the one about the trial in New York?

    I’d feel bad for you but your horse wouldn’t even piss on you if you caught fire.

  139. 139

    …did you look up the historical precedent to this subpoena?

    I can find no legal precedent nor controlling dicta that would invalidate such a subpoena.

    So far as all my efforts can determine this subpoena still exists, is still legally valid, and remains in effect as I write these words. There is no legal record in any venue of any legal challenge to this subpoena. In that respect it is no different from any of hundreds of thousands of Congressional subpoenas that have ever been issued.

  140. 140

    Say, how’d Tuesday night go for you?

    Doncha know?

    Republicans create our own objective reality now.
    So elections only have consequences when it feeeels right to us.

  141. 141

    The Covenant School shooter’s written rants are locked down by court order. A police association and gun group, among others, appealed the judge’s decision. Then cops leaked photos of the materials to a rightwing podcaster. Way to go, chums, taking the law into your own hands — like some cops do on the streets, too.

  143. 143

    The Biden family are corrupt cowards. Kamala Harris is a coward.

    A Nazi coward calling other people cowards.

    What a loser.

  144. 144

    @137 “One of these is not like the other.”

    True, but the real question is, is that material?

    What if, for example, Congress is investigating an insurrection and a lawmaker is suspected of participating in it? Should his status as a lawmaker excuse him from responding to the subpoena?

    You’ve checked that box “Yes,” but I’m not convinced that’s the correct answer, unless we come to agreement that all congressional subpoenas are unenforceable.

  146. 146

    @ 141

    Way to go, chums, taking the law into your own hands — like some cops do on the streets, too.

    And like some IRA agent did with Trump’s returns. And another agent with Buffett’s returns, which coincidentally are in the news today.

    And like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is so senile that he has forgotten all of the leaks that benefitted the left.

  150. 150

    …unless we come to agreement that all congressional subpoenas are unenforceable.

    We have.

    At least we have come to agreement that all congressional subpoenas are unenforceable without the assistance of the other two branches.

    But this idiot isn’t actually arguing that some Magic Caped Debater can somehow clap Hunter Biden in irons and drag him to “justice”.

    He’s arguing that this open defiance of a Farmer Jim or Wrestler Gym subpoena by any random Biden will cause the dainty sensibilities of millions of voters numbed to the daily toll of Trumpism, Pipe-Bombs, stolen classified documents stored in the shitter, and death threats to judges to rise up in collective “outrage” and flip every election for the rest of all time.

    Norms are gone. Somewhere between defiantly bragging about rape, summoning National Guard helicopters to disperse crowds for a photo-op, and publicly ridiculing disabled veterans, people lost interest in norms.

  151. 151

    @150 In other words the GOP is nothing but a hysterical screaming mob of unsocialized misfits.

  152. 152

    How to make a Nazi loser weep.

    Biden and Momala both increase their leads in the latest RCP Favorability Ratings.

    Sucks to be a crybaby Nazi loser.

  153. 153

    It occurs to me that if the House can subpoena Hunter Biden, the Senate can subpoena Harlan Crow, and vice versa.

  156. 156

    More armed guards in schools doesn’t necessarily make kids safer, especially when they do this:

    “An elementary school in the suburbs of Dallas was left shaken after a security guard left a loaded gun in a school bathroom, reported WFAA this week.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/texas-school-armed-guard/

    Now for a pop quiz: Who’s more likely to leave a gun in a school bathroom or lounge?

    [ ] Security guard
    [ ] Teacher armed under GOP guns-for-teachers program

  159. 159

    Pembroke Park is a town of 6,200 people in Broward County, Florida. The mayor is a black woman named Ashira Mohammed. That’s gotta be Hamas! So, during a town council meeting today, a white male town commissioner named Geoffrey Jacobs surreptitiously called police alleging Mohammed was carrying a gun. So the cops came, interrupted the meeting, frisked the mayor and searched her handbag — and found NOTHING.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1hh0YBxzBQ

    Commissioner (and former mayor) Jacobs has a history; read it here:

    https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/04/28/pembroke-park-commissioner-accused-of-creating-hostile-work-environment-while-mayor/

    I wonder if Commissioner Jacobs is …

    [ ] a Republican
    [ ] a Trumper
    [ ] a homophobe
    [ ] a misogynist
    [ ] a racist
    [ ] mentally ill
    [ ] all of the above

    Hey, I don’t know and I’m not saying he’s any of these; I’m only asking if anybody here knows.

  160. 160

    Let’s see what else there is on Commissioner Jacobs.

    He belittled a local news reporter for reporting he failed to obtain required permits for extensive renovations to his home.

    Before moving to Florida, he was a state trooper in Arizona until he was fired from that job and lost his LEO certification.

    He had a “nasty breakup” with the daughter of a fellow officer who later became director of the Arizona Dep’t of Public Safety, sued her father for libel and lost, and an investigation turned up “eye-popping stuff: over-sexed bulldogs, wild cop parties, allegations of rape, stories of women and cops being slipped roofies, sky-stalking, relationship drama, and one gigantic…” detailed here and here.

    Geezus, this guy’s backstory reads like a made-up story in a rancid tabloid. And now a little Florida town is stuck with him. If he gets run out of there, who knows where he might land next.

  161. 161

    Geezus, this guy’s backstory reads like a made-up story in a rancid tabloid.

    Bog standard law enforcement “lifestyle”.

  165. 165

    54% of American families can’t afford diapers.

    Yeah, then stop having kids. Not sure if you forgot but kids are not a necessity. You’ve been groomed to think that.
    You shouldn’t have kids if only to eventually kill them because you suffer the heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

    The scummy bitch Niki Haley, should be paying for them, she’s the one that forced them to have the shits(pun intended).

  166. 166

    “54% of American families can’t afford diapers”

    If anything, that sounds like an argument for reinstating Biden’s enhanced child care tax credit.

    It also sounds like bullshit. It’s unlikely half of America’s babies go without diapers. What actually happens is those families economize on other expenses. Maybe buy less meat, fewer clothes, a cheaper streaming bundle, and older siblings don’t get new iPhones.

    To put things in perspective, a typical diaper expense for a new child is less than $100 a month. Compare that to the payments on dad’s pickup or what some people spend on smokes, booze, and lottery tickets. In many cases, it’s a question of what their priorities are.

  167. 167

    The only way to stop the rash of smash and grab robberies is to kill those who participate in such activities. Killing about five or six of them in the act of doing these crimes will send the correcting message to those who would even think about engaging in such behavior.

  168. 168

    Was watching the beginning of the Season Premiere of For All Mankind, it’s set in an alternate 2003. I will probably watch the rest of it as the season progresses, I just wanted to see the Leap Roll(Catches up on events in the timeline between seasons). Former Astronaut, President Ellen Wilson survived threats of Impeachment from her fellow Republicans, after she came out as a Lesbian., dropped the evangelical she had as a VP, replacing him with her Secretary of State, George H W Bush(In the show’s timeline, Reagan unseated Ted Kennedy in 76, Gary Hart won in 84, and Wilson Beat Bill Clinton in 1992), and had the greatest comeback for an incumbent since 1948. It set up a 2000 election with Gore facing George H W Bush.

    In this alternate 2003, there are mining operations on MARS.

    This season was filmed before the strike, but it also is possibly an example of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA’s concerns over AI. Presidents Nixon, Ted Kennedy, Reagan and Hart, historical footage and audio was used, even for conversations with the cast, no actors used.

  169. 169

    @167 “Killing about five or six of them in the act of doing these crimes will” will result in shopper casualties, but some loss of innocent life is acceptable to save the valuable merchandise.

  170. 170

    A conservative is someone who sees the world in black and white, and thinks every problem has an easy and simple solution.

  171. 171

    Seattle just “won” (?) the title of nation’s worst state for potholes. Given that we have one of the nation’s highest gas taxes, you’d think they could repair the roads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZx0vMlK2g

    In other local news, it just seems to me that someone who’s already been arrested 46 times shouldn’t be able to walk into someone’s home and start rummaging around. Look, Seattle is a progressive city, but enough is enough. Voters here want these people off the streets; that’s why they elected Ann Davison.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/university-district-residents-criminal-repeat-offender-concerns/281-6c661301-90c6-411a-8338-b1ad49aced8a

  172. 172

    171,
    It’s basic bad reporting.
    He’s been arrested and charged dozens of times in twenty years, some of the charged offenses being felonies. But there’s no reporting on conviction and sentencing.

    Sounds as if each time he is judged to be mentally incompetent to stand trial and he’s being turned over to the state for treatment (as the law requires). And the state has no treatment services available because Boeing needs a tax cut and “income taxes are tyranny”.

    Enjoy.

  173. 173

    … if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’

    He already did this. And both Sweaty Pink Big-Dick Toilet guy and William Barr clicked their heels and saluted like good Nazis always do.

    There’s no need to report on Trump’s threats. Report on his record.

  174. 174

    The loser that President Biden beat said
    “If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’ Mostly what that would be, you know, they would be out of business. They’d be out, they’d be out of the election.”

  175. 175

    James Comer has been criticized by Democrats after reports emerged he gave his brother a $200,000 personal loan, despite criticizing President Joe Biden for doing the same thing.

    But the Daily Beast reported on Thursday that Comer had previously loaned money to a family member, Citing Kentucky property records, the publication reported that Comer and his brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business and that one loan was for $200,000 and involved a shell company.

    https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1722667559055475015

  176. 176

    Conservative parents look to exit public schools after progressives dominate board elections
    https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/news/conservative-parents-say-public-school-exodus-will-continue/
    “I can’t send my kids to public schools because the other parents won’t obey what I say should be taught”.
    >> If we can’t force the entire school district to conform to our bigoted demand, we are going to leave.
    >> Ok.

    An anecdote about this trend. Of course it’s Missouri.
    “I recently watched a video of a father from Missouri who home schools his kids. He was very proud of the fact that he taught the “absolute minimum” from the required curriculum. Everything else comes from Bible study.
    He asked his kids, “Why is the sky blue?”
    One of the kids (I’d say 8-9 years old) answered, “I know it has something to do with air but it’s really because God wants it to be blue.”
    The father responded, “Very good!”
    >> The same people that complain foreigners are takin their jobs.

  179. 179

    Deploying the military to suppress political opposition protests, bringing criminal indictments for political opposition, and placing unqualified sycophants into key administrative positions to use the federal government to carry out political payback are not examples of “valid differences in approach” or “points of debate”.

    These are all steps that are specifically intended to destroy democratic government and usher in authoritarian control.

    The media should not present these Republican proposals as an alternative point of view within the normal debate surrounding democratic government. Because that simply is not true. These proposals are all directly contrary to all the most basic principles of democracy. There is not need to present tham as part of any continuum of debate. They are all outside the bounds of acceptable debate for any democratic society. They are abhorant to fundamental human rights and self government. And they should only be discussed in the media on those terms.

  180. 180

    “Much attention has been drawn to the fake elector schemes in Georgia and Michigan where local and state authorities charged some participants for election crimes this past summer. But in no other state were there fake electors more active in publicly promoting the scheme than in Arizona. Now those fake electors find themselves under new legal scrutiny as the Arizona attorney general announced a broad investigation into their actions ….”

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/10/politics/arizona-fake-electors-kifle-invs/index.html

    These seditionists tried to steal my freedom. Lock them up!

  182. 182

    @177 & @178 Demonizing Taylor Swift doesn’t seem like a smart strategy, given that she’s more popular than they are.

  188. 188

    Gee. What do Eric Adams, NYC Mayor, and Marilyn Mosby, former State’s Attorney for Baltimore, have in common?

  190. 190

    They’re both blue state big city Democrats facing legal peril.

    Good.

  191. 191

    189,

    Name the political party of the administration that is investigating them.

  192. 192

    @189,

    Name the President in charge of the administration that is investigating them. 😎

  193. 193

    You’re not gonna shame a group that takes pleasure in beheading babies and burning babies alive.

    Some of them might have grown up to be gay, so you should put an asterisk next to your care.

  194. 194

    Gee. What do Eric Adams, NYC Mayor, and Marilyn Mosby, former State’s Attorney for Baltimore, have in common?

    Are they both black? Are they gay?

  201. 201

    The An Appeal To Heaven flag is a signal that Johnson is a Christian nationalist in the same way that the Palestinian flag is a signal that Rashida Tlaib is a member of Hamas.

    Both contentions pervert the meanings of the respective flags.

  202. 202

    So, how do you think the DNC will get Biden/Harris out of the way so Hillary Clinton/Michelle Obama will be the ticket for 2024?

  203. 203

    @ 202

    Biden: natural causes. Maybe precipitated by acute brown pants on a podium somewhere.

    Momala: cowardice. Same thing that made her cut and run in 2019.

    Easy-peasy.

  204. 204

    Haven’t we had enough of our overseas misadventures? Isn’t it time to just be America and not have an empire?

  205. 205

    @197 All they’re doing is proving to Ohio voters that Republicans don’t respect their rights or votes.

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