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Wednesday Open Thread!!!

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 11/22/23, 7:52 am

– Seattle has a budget. Where are the impact fees? Guys, where are the impact fees?

– Gosh, I don’t think mailing white powder to election offices when they’re counting votes is a good idea.

– Hey, get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. And hey, some free testing kits. Might as well take advantage of that. And get a flu shot while you’re making an appointment. Someone has already died of the flu in Washington, so the sooner the better.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:24 am

    As of about six weeks ago Mastodon had 1.8 million monthly active users.

    Meanwhile, Twitter/X had 245 million daily active users.

    I don’t think Democrats will be as successful on social media in 2024 as they were in 2020.

    There’s a reason QoS McHillbilly hasn’t posed about his darling Mastodon in recent months.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:35 am

    Biden wants SC to be the first 2024 primary state.

    Greg Price
    @greg_price11
    BREAKING: Charleston, South Carolina just elected its first Republican Mayor since 1877.

    William Cogswell, a former GOP State Rep, defeated incumbent Democrat Mayor John Tecklenburg in today’s runoff election by less than 1,000 votes.
    From
    Emily Johnson | Live 5 News
    6:48 PM · Nov 21, 2023

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:37 am

    The House GOP is back up to full staff.

    InteractivePolls
    @IAPolls2022
    DDHQ: Republican Celeste Maloy has won the special election to U.S. House in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District.
    7:12 PM · Nov 21, 2023

  4. 4

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:42 am

    Obama’s presidency lasted almost twice as long as the confederacy.

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:48 am

    It’s been awhile since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit bloviated about a “five-figure” daily paper gain in the stock market.

    How sad was Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s proclamation? It’s quite common for QoS McHillbilly, for instance, to experience a five-figure daily move, up or down, in the worth of his family’s portfolio. Most people who have a small bit of wealth watch this happen on a regular basis – if they’re even watching. Those people have various names for the phenomenon. The most common five names for it, in no particular order, are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

    Only to wannabes like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a five-figure daily gain the least bit noteworthy. It speaks volumes about his pitiful portfolio that he saw the need to share the event with the rest of us.

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:51 am

    @ 4

    Obama’s presidency lasted almost twice as long as the confederacy.

    The Confederacy lasted far longer than Hillary Clinton’s presidency.

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:53 am

    @ 4

    You do realize, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, that in fewer than 14 months I’ll be posting, truthfully, that the Confederacy lasted longer than the Biden presidency.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 9:54 am

    Hunter Biden’s last meth binge lasted longer than the Hillary Clinton presidency.

  9. 9

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:04 am

    Marianne Williamson’s 2020 primary campaign lasted longer than Kamala Harris’ 2020 campaign.

    Kamala Harris’ 2020 primary campaign didn’t even last into 2020.

  10. 10

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:05 am

    Amy Coney Barrett’s tenure as a Supreme Court justice will last longer than RBG’s tenure did.

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:15 am

    JFK’s last moments as the Lincoln Continental convertible sped toward the hospital 60 years ago this morning were more cognitive than Joe Biden’s thoughts are today.

  12. 12

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:15 am

    Only to wannabes like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a five-figure daily gain the least bit noteworthy. It speaks volumes about his pitiful portfolio that he saw the need to share the event with the rest of us.

    A couple of threads ago the dumbfuck Nazi coward shared a four-figure gain of $3,500 with us. . It speaks volumes about his far more pitiful gain than Roger’s five-figure gain, I’m sure.

    Dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck.

  13. 13

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:19 am

    JFK’s last moments as the Lincoln Continental convertible sped toward the hospital 60 years ago this morning were more cognitive than the dumbfuck Nazi coward’s posts are today.

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward can’t help it. Dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck.

  14. 14

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:26 am

    That Confederacy comment really sent the greedy racist incel into a lather. Wonder why?
    Here is a joke to soothe him.
    A man in an interrogation room says “I’m not saying a word without my lawyer present.”
    Cop: “You are the lawyer.”
    Lawyer: “Exactly, so where’s my present?”

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:34 am

    @ 14

    One joke deserves another.

    Queen YLB’s husband describes orgasming into her as “loading the dishwasher”.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:38 am

    It’s been so long since Steve’s been laid that he’s taken to patronizing paraplegic strip clubs.

    Because he was told they’re always crawling with pussy.

  17. 17

    Alice Cooper spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:54 am

    Wow! How about that Seattle School District! Such a success story!!

    When will they go bankrupt and have the state take over?

    And hey, as long you can check the right “equity boxes”, anybody can run the district!…….into the ground that is.

    Just another urban success story!

  18. 18

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:02 am

    That Confederacy comment really sent the greedy racist incel into a lather.

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward can’t stop babbling about Steve. Shame he’s not here to ROFL at him.

  19. 19

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:05 am

    Con artist George Santos used tax payer money to ask Only Fans models to rate his dick.

    https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/onlyfans-model-says-george-santos-subscribed-i-rated-his-d/

    This is your GOP, the party of family values.
    They are all garbage people.

  20. 20

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:24 am

    Is that what conservatives think is funny?

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:28 pm

    @7 “the Confederacy lasted longer than the Biden presidency”

    And piled up way more dead bodies, too.

    Here in the present, admiring Republicans can’t wait to start the next civil war with its attendant carnage; why do Republicans like death and destruction so much?

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:33 pm

    @6 – @11 Dumbfuck’s really rolling this morning.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IydlW6uf6gw

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:40 pm

    @16 I’ve never heard that one before; but then, I keep classier company than you do.

  24. 24

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:42 pm

    22,

    His 2024 Summer Bummer is going to be epic.

    “I can wait”.

  25. 25

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:47 pm

    First time I used YouTube TV’s multi view to seethe coverage of the incident in Niagara Falls. Fox says terrorism, others are waiting.

    Two are dead in tge car that exploded, one CBP officer injured.

  26. 26

    Politically Incorrect spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:49 pm

    If the Democrats run Biden/Harris, the Republicans will win the White House in 2024.

  27. 27

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 12:52 pm

    Been seeing reports that the car involved may have been a Bentley. If it was stolen, they had interesting tastes.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 1:14 pm

    @26 When it’s past your nap time, you’ll be hearing from your mom to turn off your computer.

  29. 29

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 2:09 pm

    More info on the Niagara Falls incident.

    https://apnews.com/article/niagara-falls-bridge-explosion-4e8f9bfeabd94a0d8aa4d96eccd179b9

  30. 30

    PI's poor mother spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 2:29 pm

    If the Democrats run Biden/Harris, the Republicans will win the White House in 2024.

    There you are! Give me back the money that you stole from my purse!

  31. 31

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 2:31 pm

    From the response to Trump’s gag order appeal in NY:

    I have been
    informed by Ms. Greenfield that she has been receiving approximately 20-30 calls per day to her
    personal cell phone and approximately 30-50 messages per day on combined sites of social media,
    Linkedln and two (2) personal email addresses. Ms. Greenfield also informed me that since the
    interim stay was issued lifting the gag orders on November 16, 2023, approximately half of the
    harassing and disparaging messages have been antisemitic.

    Exhibit D
    https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=inVGdvHSdXKWMxr30v8AXw==

    “Oh, and Allison, you are. I mean, there’s nothing you can do. About that ugly face.
    But he look at his raeli women, Israeli Jews and beautiful in shape. And then there’s
    ******* pig. Jews like you. Fat ******* stupid *******. 1 mean, lay off the
    Twinkies, you *****. You’re clearly a ***** and a child molester. You *******
    pedophilic *****. Anyway, listen. You look like ****. You’re ******* filthy.
    Ugly. Dirty. I bet your ***** smells like a ******* garbage disposal. Guaranteed.
    Anyway, lose some ******* weight. Have a little pride in yourself, you fat *****.”

    This is who Republicans are now

  32. 32

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 2:44 pm

    Republican “science”:

    Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk….so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected…

    It’s actually true that the last failed Republican administration blindly and very ignorantly pursued a COVID policy that encouraged transmission and infection of the deadly disease, undoubtedly increasing illness, injury, and death.

    “Beware of those rainbows.” 🌈🌈🌈

  33. 33

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 3:28 pm

    Friday, all King County Metro busses that can safely do so, will pull off the road at 4pm. It’s the annual moment of remembrance of the murder of Driver Mark McLaughlin. This year is the 25th Anniversary, and Operator 2106’s loss is still felt to this day.

    https://kingcountymetro.blog/2023/11/22/metro-honors-fallen-operator-mark-mclaughlin/

    An example of a run that may be unsafe to participate, is ironically Rt359’s current successor, RapidRide E, although could just hold at 45th a little longer.

    Photo stream of the Funeral Procession, tragic story about the amateur photographer who took the photos.
    https://youtu.be/ipvKm83dHPk?si=uF5fIvlukR5_e6Kw

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 3:52 pm

    CNN desires to be taken seriously as a news oranization, so of course it interviews a tranny rabbi about Israel-Hamas.

    Missing from the interview was a question about how tall the building rooftop would be from which Hamas would toss said tranny, now that so many tall buildings have been leveled as Israel takes it to Hamas.

    Maybe Tapper can ask it.

  35. 35

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 4:34 pm

    Noones lasting longer than anything. The Heterosexual Neanderthal virus will take care of everyone.

  36. 36

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 4:59 pm

    This asshole should never work in government again.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/22/stuart-seldowitz-ex-state-official-attack-food-vendor-racist-islamophobic-new-york

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wua08GXxtsM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2TaY7qTzo

  37. 37

    PI’s Grandad spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 5:15 pm

    @30

    There you are, you fucking whore! When. Are you going to repay me for bailing your happy ass out of a drug charge in Snohomish County 30 years ago. Welshing bitch!

  38. 38

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 5:24 pm

    @31 “This is who Republicans are now”

    Wrong. It’s what they’ve always been.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 5:27 pm

    @34 Yeah, Muslim and Christian fundies have a lot in common. They both want LGBQT people dead.

  40. 40

    Western Media spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:22 pm

    No one’s supposed to wonder why 12 year old children were in an Israeli prison with no charges that can be swapped for people Hamas held hostage.

    Wondering why Israel holds children without due process would be anti-Semitic.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:26 pm

    @40 Palestinians living in occupied lands don’t get due process. They’re effectively concentration camp inmates.

    https://www.pij.org/articles/1682/separate-and-unequal-israels-dual-criminal-justice-system-in-the-west-bank

  42. 42

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:39 pm

    Scummy Cunt Mums for Fascism aren’t only a bunch of Fascist pigs that don’t realy care about grooming the children, but a bunch of thiefs. Steal taxpayer money. But do Republicans really care about how their tax dollars are spent? After all they really don’t care what the Heterosexual Neanderthal STD Virus costs them.

    https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-pennsylvania-superintendent-fdd5dcecd0c8649bc73c09c76c769f17

  43. 43

    Norman Bates spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:45 pm

    42

    Someone has some serious mommy issues.

    Just…….creepy.

  44. 44

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:46 pm

    They either didn’t like the Rainbow conotation of the bridge or this was just a case of Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

    Bitch got groomed. Have to hand it to the Neanderhtal for the creative way to off the groomed one. He wasn’t buying no horse!

    https://apnews.com/article/niagara-falls-bridge-explosion-4e8f9bfeabd94a0d8aa4d96eccd179b9

    The car was flying
    https://apnews.com/video/fiery-crash-kills-2-at-niagara-falls-rainbow-border-bridge-officials-say-no-sign-of-terrorism-0000018bf970dee6a7fffdf4f4bc0000

  45. 45

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:47 pm

    @43 reread it. At first I spelt the word really wrong….i corrected it now…..now what do you think?

    Oh, and how’s your mommy?

  46. 46

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:52 pm

    44)People with Bentley’s who can’t go to a canceled KISS concert are radicalized now?

  47. 47

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 6:53 pm

    Them Scummy Mums for Fascism will one day be offed by thier hubby. Sleep with your eyes open bitch mums – don’t let the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus get you! hehehehe.

  48. 48

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 7:01 pm

    @46 he drove that thing like a champ. It could have been because the dude thought he heard the woman ask for a horse and that drove him to go beserk.

  49. 49

    Real News spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 7:12 pm

    These two look like they haven’t been touched by their hubbys in quite some time. I bet they dream of getting stuffed by Jesus.

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/fox-nation-gives-anti-lgbtq-group-most-valuable-patriot-award/

  50. 50

    Bobby Riggs spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 8:18 pm

    “Baseball great Ichiro Suzuki throws shutout against a high school girls’ team in Japan”

    Alternate headline, Ego Maniac clings to former glory.

  51. 51

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 8:45 pm

    Interesting concept from Siemens Mobility, an electric multiple unit aimed at customers who want a fast delivery. They did this with a version of their Vectron electric locomotive, the Smartron, but one of the strings attached, was it was only available in Blue, and on the 15kv 16hz AC Electrification common in Germany. Same concept for the Mireo Smart EMU.

    https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/efficiency-rails-official-rollout-mireo-smart

    The US being so behind on electrified rail. Makes this concept hard to adapt. Portions of tge NEC have different voltages(Wasn’t even electrified north of New Haven until 2000). Metra Electric in Chicago uses 1500V DC, same as Sound Transit does for LINK. Our historical local examples used different voltages. Great Northern used 11kV 25hz AC, and the Milwaukee Road used 3000-3300V DC.

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:27 pm

    @46 Could be an accident caused by a stuck accelerator. I expect investigators will look at that possibility.

  53. 53

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:39 pm

    “Colts owner Jim Irsay told HBO in an interview that he was arrested for driving under the influence because he’s rich and white. ‘I am prejudiced against because I’m a rich, white billionaire,’ he whined, averting his eyes from journalist Andrea Kremer. ‘If I’m just the average guy down the block, they’re not pulling me in.'”

    https://www.rawstory.com/billionaire-jim-isray/

    That’s news to a lot of average guys down the block appearing before judges in handcuffs.

  54. 54

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:41 pm

    @ 53

    That’s news to a lot of average guys down the block …

    Not any block in San Francisco.

  55. 55

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:45 pm

    @ 43

    Someone has some serious mommy issues.

    Yeah, G-clown’s parents have repeatedly tried to abandon him. He keeps hiring PIs to find them.

    It’s understandable, how desperate his parents are to rid themselves of him. He’s been banned from every liberal blog on the East coast. Goldy and Darryl are much more permissive. Well, that and he’s 30% of their spew volume.

  56. 56

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 10:47 pm

    @ 52

    Could be an accident caused by a stuck accelerator.

    And brake failure. And ignition failure. And gearshift failure.

  57. 57

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:10 pm

    53)Doubt he would do it in Baltimore.

  58. 58

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:10 pm

    53)Doubt he would do it in Baltimore.

  59. 59

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:46 pm

    Nothing ever changes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3kBsRpkZQ

  60. 60

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 11/22/23 at 11:47 pm

    @56 Do horses have gearshifts?

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 1:19 am

    In Mississippi black lives still don’t matter.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqt1Kmk2bI

  62. 62

    Real News spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 2:53 am

    Well, that and he’s 30% of their spew volume.

    Bullshit.

  63. 63

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 7:16 am

    So anyways, a thread or two ago I went back in the archives to August 2017 see if the dumbfuck Nazi coward had anything to say about the Charlottesville Nazi rally that had just happened. He didn’t even show up! What a fucking coward!

    So I posted about it the other day and the dumbfuck Nazi coward jumps in and tells me that of course he didn’t post following Charlottesville. It was the week of his 12th wedding anniversary!

    So I went back to the same date in 2015, his supposed 10th wedding anniversary, and there he was, posting a bunch of comments as Travis Bickle! As I’ve said before, the dumbfuck Nazi coward has no wife, no horse, no money and no life. Now I can add that he has zero fucking imagination.

    I say “zero fucking imagination” because over eight years ago he was babbling on and on about Roger’s investments!!

    I knew he was a fucking bore and a dumbfuck Nazi coward, but over eight years of posting the same fucking comment over and over again??

    Besides being a dumbfuck Nazi coward, he has to be the most boring fucking troll in the history of trolling!

    What a loser.

  64. 64

    I looked it up and so can you spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 7:34 am

    @56,

    Is that you, Laura Loomer?

    Careful you don’t shit yourself cowering beneath your desk from all .those terrist Bentleys.

  65. 65

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 7:47 am

    @ 60

    Do horses have gearshifts?

    They’re all four-speeds. Walk, trot, canter, gallop.

  66. 66

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 7:55 am

    Gonna be a fun brokered DNC convention next summer.

    The latest poll by Emerson College, released Wednesday, finds Trump leading 47% to 43% — with Biden’s edge among historically Democrat-supporting minority groups dropping significantly in just one year.

    The 81-year-old incumbent’s lead among Hispanic voters narrowed to 3%, down from 14% in an Emerson poll last November — an 11 percentage-point shift.

    Biden’s lead among African Americans was a still-substantial 47%, but down 15 percentage points from this time last year.

    Other recent national polls have found Biden slipping badly among minority groups — including a New York Times poll of six swing states earlier this month that found the 77-year-old ex-president leading in five of them, propelled by Biden’s support among nonwhites falling 33% from exit polls in 2020.

    Upthread a few hours @ 61 Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit said that black lives don’t matter. That’s not entirely true, but what is true is that black lives matter about 15% less to Democrats this year than they did a year ago.

  67. 67

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:08 am

    Book title of the year:

    Prof at public college assigned students ‘The Baby Jesus Butt Plug’ as mandatory reading

    So is it a butt plug molded in the image of a young Christ? That’s my interpretation. Of course, I realize that G-clown’s interpretation is that it’s a standard butt plug malevolently inserted into the rectum of an infant so that the offender can achieve some inhumanly twisted sexual gratification.

  68. 68

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:10 am

    This Thanksgiving, and every year at this time, I give thanks that my family doesn’t have to face its future with the financial wherewithal as pitifully inadequate as does Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family.

    QoS McHillbilly quietly gives thanks for same.

  69. 69

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:15 am

    Millionaire status means less and less, each and every passing month of the Biden presidency.

    Families Crushed as Biden’s Total Inflation Breaks 17%

    As of last month, a “millionaire” on Inauguration Day would need $1,171,000 in net worth excluding their primary residence in order to keep pace with inflation.

    Closer to $1.18M by now.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit will never be a millionaire. Not really.

  70. 70

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:19 am

    63,

    It can be very safely concluded, based simply on the documentary record, that the troll currently identifying itself as “Vicious Troll” fabricated every claim related to its own identity, family, community, and personal history.

    The proven lies easily outweigh any verifiable claims.

  71. 71

    What an asshole. I bet it’s a Republican. spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:19 am

    the offender can achieve some inhumanly twisted sexual gratification.

    Not unlike the “20 minutes of action” that teh widbee shitstain has planned for its two fascist thugs-in-training “grandkids” – i.e. no known genetic connection – makes “training” easier…

    Happy T-day..

  72. 72

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:24 am

    Happy Thanksgiving, Steve.

    Thursday, November 23, 2023
    The Desolate Wilderness

    Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton, keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony, based on the account of William Bradford, sometime governor thereof:

    So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden, which had been their resting-place for above eleven years, but they knew that they were pilgrims and strangers here below, and looked not much on these things, but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, where God hath prepared for them a city (Heb. XI, 16), and therein quieted their spirits.

    When they came to Delfs-Haven they found the ship and all things ready, and such of their friends as could not come with them followed after them, and sundry came from Amsterdam to see them shipt, and to take their leaves of them. One night was spent with little sleep with the most, but with friendly entertainment and Christian discourse, and other real expressions of true Christian love.

    The next day they went on board, and their friends with them, where truly doleful was the sight of that sad and mournful parting, to hear what sighs and sobs and prayers did sound amongst them; what tears did gush from every eye, and pithy speeches pierced each other’s heart, that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the Key as spectators could not refrain from tears. But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away, that were thus loath to depart, their Reverend Pastor, falling down on his knees, and they all with him, with watery cheeks commended them with the most fervent prayers unto the Lord and His blessing; and then with mutual embraces and many tears they took their leaves one of another, which proved to be the last leave to many of them.

    Being now passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before them in expectations, they had now no friends to welcome them, no inns to entertain or refresh them, no houses, or much less towns, to repair unto to seek for succour; and for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of the country know them to be sharp and violent, subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts.

    Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men? and what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not: for which way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to Heaven) they could have but little solace or content in respect of any outward object; for summer being ended, all things stand in appearance with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hew.

    If they looked behind them, there was a mighty ocean which they had passed, and was now as a main bar or gulph to separate them from all the civil parts of the world.

    The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial annually since 1961.

    And the Fair Land

    Anyone whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful.

    This is indeed a big country, a rich country, in a way no array of figures can measure and so in a way past belief of those who have not seen it. Even those who journey through its Northeastern complex, into the Southern lands, across the central plains and to its Western slopes can only glimpse a measure of the bounty of America.

    And a traveler cannot but be struck on his journey by the thought that this country, one day, can be even greater. America, though many know it not, is one of the great underdeveloped countries of the world; what it reaches for exceeds by far what it has grasped.

    So the visitor returns thankful for much of what he has seen, and, in spite of everything, an optimist about what his country might be. Yet the visitor, if he is to make an honest report, must also note the air of unease that hangs everywhere.

    For the traveler, as travelers have been always, is as much questioned as questioning. And for all the abundance he sees, he finds the questions put to him ask where men may repair for succor from the troubles that beset them.

    His countrymen cannot forget the savage face of war. Too often they have been asked to fight in strange and distant places, for no clear purpose they could see and for no accomplishment they can measure. Their spirits are not quieted by the thought that the good and pleasant bounty that surrounds them can be destroyed in an instant by a single bomb. Yet they find no escape, for their survival and comfort now depend on unpredictable strangers in far-off corners of the globe.

    How can they turn from melancholy when at home they see young arrayed against old, black against white, neighbor against neighbor, so that they stand in peril of social discord. Or not despair when they see that the cities and countryside are in need of repair, yet find themselves threatened by scarcities of the resources that sustain their way of life. Or when, in the face of these challenges, they turn for leadership to men in high places–only to find those men as frail as any others.

    So sometimes the traveler is asked whence will come their succor. What is to preserve their abundance, or even their civility? How can they pass on to their children a nation as strong and free as the one they inherited from their forefathers? How is their country to endure these cruel storms that beset it from without and from within?

    Of course the stranger cannot quiet their spirits. For it is true that everywhere men turn their eyes today much of the world has a truly wild and savage hue. No man, if he be truthful, can say that the specter of war is banished. Nor can he say that when men or communities are put upon their own resources they are sure of solace; nor be sure that men of diverse kinds and diverse views can live peaceably together in a time of troubles.

    But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure. For that reminder is everywhere–in the cities, towns, farms, roads, factories, homes, hospitals, schools that spread everywhere over that wilderness.

    We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.

    And we might remind ourselves also, that if those men setting out from Delftshaven had been daunted by the troubles they saw around them, then we could not this autumn be thankful for a fair land.

    The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial annually since 1961.

  73. 73

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:27 am

    @ 71

    Happy T-day..

    See? Two periods, one for each of her X chromosomes.

    Happy TG to Queen YLB, her hubby, and her two fucked kids.

  74. 74

    What an asshole. I bet it’s a Republican. spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:32 am

    See? Two periods

    It “sees things”… “things” which speak so well to its “intelligence” and “seriousness”…

    Give thanks we’re not either one of its fascist “kick the living shit” thugs-in-training “grandkids”..

  75. 75

    What an asshole. I bet it’s a Republican. spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:40 am

    The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial annually since 1961.

    And no mention of the natives who helped them survive in the new land only to be displaced when they weren’t killed by the settler colonialist’s diseases and weapons..

    typical of the knuckle dragging Journal’s editorial page…

    free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators.

    And look what they pine for today – a fatuous, pathologically lying orange-tinted red “caesar” with an elaborate comb-over, someone who can hold a fucking pen and scrawl – to codify unfathomable privilege for the few and the inexorable crushing of the many that makes it possible.

  76. 76

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:52 am

    @ 75

    And no mention of the natives …

    Those would be the “wilde men”, Queen YLB. Sixth paragraph. Reading comprehension not your strong suit, I see.

  77. 77

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:54 am

    What’s next, Queen YLB? No mention of the non-binary Native Americans?

  78. 78

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 8:55 am

    Queen YLB doesn’t like to talk about the early 1600s. Not only was there no United States back then, but there was no Palestine, either.

  79. 79

    What an asshole. I bet it’s a Republican. spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 9:03 am

    the “wilde men”

    Looking down its nose.. “the other”… again.. typical…

    there was no Palestine, either…

    Of course there was.. Palestine is just the land from the Levant in the north to the Sinai in the South and between the Jordan river and the sea. Just off the top of my head.

    There was a Palestine before there were Jews or Canaanites or whoever..

    We can talk 1600s anytime.. Not today.. Got a dinner to make for the family..

    You got a horse whose shit ya need to shovel.. Like John Dutton in an ep of Yellowstone..

    “we have people for that, sir”… heh, not kowboy kreepshit..

  80. 80

    What an asshole. I bet it’s a Republican. spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 9:09 am

    non-binary Native Americans?

    i.e. the “abnormals” you’re training your fascist grandkids to “kick the living shit”

    teh kreepshit legacy… such a hate filled fascist.. add in an olfactory hallucination it’s not far from full nazi..

    yawwwnn.. you bore me.

  81. 81

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 9:34 am

    Non-binary Native Americans
    That would be Two Spirit people.
    https://www.ihs.gov/lgbt/health/twospirit/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

  82. 82

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 9:56 am

    @65 Wrong. They’re six-speeds. Walk, trot, canter, gallop, buck, and kick. You just haven’t used the canter or gallop because every time you try, you get bucked off and kicked. The horse is letting you know what he thinks of your extracurricular barn activities.

  83. 83

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 10:54 am

    @68 I reside in urban civilization, not some rural enclave of rotting manufactured homes where the poor gather.

    https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1527-Roy-Rd_Freeland_WA_98249_M18934-91177?from=srp-list-card

  84. 84

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:00 am

    @72 Are you trying to put us to sleep? That looks more like copyright infringement than fair use.

  85. 85

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:04 am

    @75 I honestly didn’t wade through the whole thing, so maybe you could tell me whether that also describes how Israeli overlords take measure of the richness of the West Bank. Any parallels there? You know, displacing the people already on the land, kicking the shit out of them with superior weaponry (e.g., muskets vs. arrows, tanks vs. rocks, etc.), bulldozing their teepees, and that sort of thing?

  86. 86

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:11 am

    @78 That could be debated, but let’s say there was no Palestine in the 1600s. What does that get us? Well, in #67 you went back 10 years to make a flimsy and shoddy point; and in #78 you’re going back 400 years to make a flimsier and shoddier point. So, what it gets us is, you’re going backwards in your desperate reaching for a point.

  87. 87

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:17 am

    So now there’s speculation the driver of the Bentley that crashed and burned at the border crossing yesterday may have been experiencing a “medical event.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12782991/Authorities-work-identify-remains-Bentley-driver-wife-crashed-Canada-border-crossing.html

    By “we” I mean the rest of us. Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t need to wait for an investigation or determination of facts, because dumbfucks are always happy to make assumptions and jump to conclusions.

    As a side note, the Bentley model involved in the incident is aptly named “Flying Spur.” After yesterday’s event, their PR department might take a second look at that one.

  88. 88

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:32 am

    Meanwhile, this morning there are three separate Raw Story articles about the car crash, as follows:

    Canadian authorities called Fox News “irresponsible” for reporting the incident was a terrorist attack.

    https://www.rawstory.com/canada-authorities-not-responsible-terror/

    Fox News grudgingly walked back its initial claims the incident was a “terror attack” by a car “full of explosives,” then grudgingly walked them back some more.

    https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-border/

    Ramaswamy and Lake jumped the gun, too.

    https://www.rawstory.com/gop-candidates-slammed-terrorism/

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:36 am

    Paris mayor announces public transportation will be a @#$%&!!! mess for the 2024 Olympics.

    https://nordot.app/1100382517407220560?c=592622757532812385

  90. 90

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:42 am

    @83 $200K for dump? And it’s “Pending”?

  91. 91

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 11:57 am

    Happy Thanksgiving, Steve.

    I noticed in the 2015 threads that he was calling you a “dumbfuck fascist”. He was right about that, of course, but I much prefer dumbfuck Nazi coward.

    A better fit, don’t you think?

  92. 92

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Thursday, 11/23/23 at 12:36 pm

    @72 Are you trying to put us to sleep? That looks more like copyright infringement than fair use.

    Longest scroll ever. At least he wasn’t quoting Trump or Hitler.

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