– Can’t ignore the sidewalks when doing street repairs in Seattle anymore.
– It’s important to assess how Downtown is doing, but maybe the success of a grocery store in walking distance to Pike Place isn’t the best example?
– Molbak’s closing is going to be a hit to the community.
– Yay for building emissions standards.
– Hey you, yeah you. Hey, wash your hands right now. Hey, I’m not done. Also, get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Help make America great again. String up a Nazi.
It’s enough to make a dumbfuck Nazi coward weep.
Russia Introduces Ugly First Electric Vehicle ‘Amber’
DeFuckface reaches new all-time low in RCP GOP Presidential Nomination Polling at 11.8%, a mere 0.2% above Nikki.
Meanwhile, Momala’s unfavorable rating is now only 0.1% higher than that of Orange Jesus.
The dumbfuck Nazi coward has been reduced to posting dick-pics of his horse.
It took 23 years, but libbies are finally on board with a handful of judges picking the president.
Progress.
Hunter Biden motion for dismissal is making progress.
It stand a strong chance of at least advancing to discovery and an evidentiary hearing to explore contacts between Weiss’s prosecutors and Trump/Trump surrogates. And that will be fatal evidence. It certainly hasn’t helped Trump at all that Weiss is on record declaring his own belief that no other similarly situated citizen has ever been criminally charged for these offenses.
Trump/GOP strategy rests in part on the presentation of a “Biden” criminal trial taking place at about the same time as a Trump criminal trial so that the two can be portrayed as “offsetting penalties”. Like a lot of other Trump strategies that too is now slipping away.
@ 3
Meanwhile, Momala’s unfavorable rating is now only 0.1% higher than that of Orange Jesus.
More people are disgusted by the thought of Momala as president than by the thought of a twice-impeached election loser and serial liar reassuming the office.
Sucking a mayor’s dick only takes a girl so far, I suppose.
Correction: The GOP nominee.
And honestly, we could not care less.
If Fat Orange Rapist is kept off primary ballots he will simply run as an EEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE in November.
And we’re cool with that. As the kids like to say “Let the voters decide”.
And it’s not as if Fat Orange Rapist was ever going to win Colorado in November anyway.
Small Tent Party™
The Softening.
Hee hee.
@ 5
Hunter Biden motion for dismissal is making progress.
Praytell, since the motion was filed on December 11, what action has the court taken?
If no action has been taken, how are you defining progress?
Quite a lot of rage building up for Republicans this morning. And a rapidly diminishing menu of venues offering audience for venting.
God help the horses and school children.
Republican rage and anxiety is good.
But the supplemental filings including records of interference in violation of separation of powers is also cool.
Not just libbies.
In February of 2016 then candidate Trump asked judges in Iowa to disqualify my primary results.
I’m okay with letting this guy decide:
https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/90c/785/21ad5cb6d4861dc38f250317418faffb41-12-angeli.2x.rvertical.w330.jpg
That didn’t seem to take long.
Colorado GOP to have caucus instead of primary if Trump ballot decision stands
The same people cheering for new rules on building emissions standards are also the same ones crying about how unaffordable housing is.
Cognitive dissonance?
@ 12
In February of 2016 then candidate Trump asked judges in Iowa to disqualify my primary results.
It’s too bad Bernie didn’t have enough money in 2015 to buy the DNC for himself. Only one candidate had a global initiative to slush-fund that type of an acquisition.
@1
I’m all for that….as long as we get to string up the marxists also….starting with a certain former city council member.
Project nothing more than weakness and corruption on the international stage and stuff like this is gonna happen.
CHINA
Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
If we’re gonna just give the Houthis the shipping lanes we’ll have little trouble just giving China what it wants. Hell, just look at everything we gave to the Taliban.
Strange to see the reversal in the Times/Sienna poll from last month to this month.
It’s tempting to conclude that the electoral model of LVs is unstable. But that would suggest that the polling the Times readers and advertisers are paying for might be very unreliable. And that might lead readers to seek out other sources for news.
“Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China”
Breaking Headline News since 1949.
Generalissimo Chiang is still dead, and thusly unavailable for comment.
All this obsessing about Trump is going to get him re-elected. Is that what you people want?
as long as we get to string up the marxists also….starting with a certain former city council member.
behold, little maxwipe living its “best life” dreaming of murdering people.. people who were one of nine on a city council and former member even…
Let us all remember the ironclad law of the HA troll:
Anyone to the left of Dino 4-time Lossi is a “marxist”..
Thanks for making our point yet again, little maxwipe.. now wipe away your tears for Dori.
21,
I definitely want him nominated.
As things stand currently I think any conceivable Republican nominee has very poor odds of flipping all the Biden states required to win the Electoral College vote. But Trump is the best option for ensuring the obliteration of the GOP.
Although I should admit if I’m being honest, that any other GOP nominee probably guarantees Trump running as a third and really splitting the “conservative” racist asshole vote. And that could foreshadow a more permanent split.
All this obsessing about Trump is going to get him re-elected. Is that what you people want?
ding, ding, ding.. braindead concern troll of the day..
earth to glibertarian… drumpf since 2016 has been on a losing streak.. what were we doing all that time?
@2 Looks like it’s designed for Siberian car camping.
@18 “Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China”
Shocked! We’re shocked, I tell you! By the way, why are those Chinese fighters buzzing around 10 feet in front of us?
@14 It seems to be lost on them, and you, that a 14th Amendment disqualification would bar him from office. So they can circumvent the primary all they want, that still gets him nowhere.
22
YLB you sound like such a clown. It’s no wonder your finances are fukt. I bet you are relying on that SS money to carry you through those golden years…lmfao
Typical of most Kshama voters, like yourself, clueless about the world and hoping that the govt keeps sending you checks.
My spirit lives on….and it lives rent free in YLBs head for ever and ever…..
24,
Trump might reverse his losing streak in a limited sense, by gaining some ground in the Electoral College compared to 2020.
Not just glibertarian analysis, but most media analysis at any point throughout a presidential election up until the night of the elections itself simply refuse to grapple with the numbing reality of the slave state Electoral College system such as we have it today.
A presidential election is in no way a nationwide popularity contest. Nor is it democratic.
It’s an all-or-nothing series of very high stakes, individual, statewide, winner-take-all contests. Only seven states were decided by less than three points in 2020. And as things stand today there are probably no more than five states where Trump can flip the script: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
That’s a total of 63 EVs. Flipping half of those makes the race too close to call. But of course what matters most is which states Trump might flip. And to project that requires we take a bunch of complex variables into a account unique to each state.
Start with states where Dobbs will be on the ballot. Nothing could produce a stronger local signal based on all the available data, especially the exit poll and ballot data from recent elections. In turnout driven contests, that likely moves Arizona and Nevada out of reach for Trump.
That narrows the contest down to Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, representing a total of 46 EVs. Here it starts to get interesting as hell. All 46 just barely flips the script for Fat Orange Rapist, yielding him just two more EVs than the bare minimum. The stakes in those three states are just off the chart. And both campaigns will spare no effort. Nor will the White House. Governors and Senators from the incumbent party will become big powerful and be in a position to make deals. That works out well for Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And the President, who has already been spending much time, will be spending some more in both places.
That leaves Trump with his most promising opportunity in Georgia where Dobbs will be much less significant, and where the modern GOP’s brand of racism and xenophobia will play well with many voters, including many educated suburban voters. But Georgia is also the place where Trump’s most overt and direct efforts to disenfranchise voters took place. The Big Lie will be on the ballot and it will hurt the GOP. It won’t be an easy get for Fat Orange Rapist, for sure.
Overall I think best outcome for Fat Orange Rapist probably has him finishing with 248 EVs, well short of the need.
My spirit lives on…
And it will live in little maxwipe’s hateful and boooorriiiiing empty skull till its ticker goes cold…
yawwwwnn…
It’s no wonder your finances are fukt. I bet you are relying on that SS money to carry you through those golden years
so “fukt” that we just remodeled our SEATTLE house.. Bank loan sailed right through.. yawnn.. Yeah, we’re making the higher payment.. no sweat and we’ll pay it off in 15 years..
SS is one of three legs of the stool. Our nest egg more like a chair.. with more than 4 legs..
hoping that the govt keeps sending you checks.
The other troll is hoping for that too.. and did a silly dance MANY YEARS ago over wifeypoo’s SS Check.. What did that say about him? heh.. you’re both a couple of morons..
yawwwwn… next?
Typical of most Kshama voters, like yourself,
Yeah I voted for her, when she was at large.. Did I agree with her on everything? Nope.. Geov Parrish didn’t agree with her socialism but was out front in support. I wanted her to shake things up.
She was one of nine.. And she’s marching out the door and still living rent-free in your booooorrriiing empty skull.. And her husband and almost all the staff of The Stranger.
Your “best life” is empty and you need Seattle and hate to fill it.. heh.. I laugh at you..
keep it up.. we like to laugh..
All this obsessing about Trump is going to get him re-elected. Is that what you people want?
There you are, you worthless bastard. Where’s my money??
32
Wait what? You are in your 40s-50s and STILL making loan payments? You couldn’t pull off a simple home remodel without a refi or loan?
Bwhahahhahahahahhahahhahahha!
I will take shitty money management skills for $500, Alex.
Given all that, I’m not surprised you voted Kshama, you tool.
The only yaaaawwnnning going on is your bank account and life skills.
You are in your 40s-50s and STILL making loan payments?
yawwwwwnn.. yeah making the payment.. no sweat.. and getting a tax break..
It was a nice remodel.. successful..
we have to repeat ourselves for the dim among us..
I’m not surprised you voted Kshama
Her district voted for her too.. right through the nasty campaigns by corporate tools and bigoted concern trolls like Cliff Mass.
So her supporters (whether they agreed with her on everything or not) can all laugh at silly hateful ignorant trolls like you and Dori Monson, laughing at how she lives rent free in your pin heads..
yawwwn…
Oh yeah, that big ole “tax break”. Hahhahahhahaha
You mean tax break on the INTEREST you are paying on the loan. Lol
I make interest, I don’t pay it.
Typical Sawant voting tool….
How’d that work out, by the way? Bums shitting in the streets, retail theft beyond all control, homeless addict camps (blowing up) all over the city, city infrastructure falling apart, terrible and broke public schools, and on and on…..
Yep, YOU voted for that….hahhahahahah
But hey, at least you got your minimum wage raise, right? Hahahhahhahahhah
Just lie back and try to enjoy it.
My accountant has forced reluctant me to take home loans. If you don’t know why that is, it speaks volumes.
A median Seattle area home is about $800k. In that general range in December there were about 200 active listings at the start of this month, representing about a two month supply. Here’s your Case-Shiller:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SEXRNSA
A ten year homeowner has doubled their investment. I guess the local economy keeps creating jobs despite Andy Ngo’s best efforts. With leverage afforded by only a 10% down payment requirement (zero for a HELOC) and income tax benefits, those earnings work out to a lot more.
Not so much for rusty sheet metal trailers in East Wenatchee.
So it’s probably a good thing that this troll owes nothing.
PS: I would not argue personally that most homeowner improvements actually produce these kinds of net earnings. Improvements generally depreciate, especially the kind of high end improvements popular these days. But at some point a civilized, modern human being wants to live in a decent home. So as long as they can afford such luxuries as running water, flush toilets, energy efficient inverter heat pumps, and Nana walls, they might as well get the least negative return on the purchase of those luxuries. So in that sense a “libbie’s” purchase of a Nana wall opening to a custom outdoor kitchen costs a lot less than a “conservative’s” sex trip to Thailand to fuck children.
You mean tax break on the INTEREST you are paying on the loan.
Shrug.. Smart people finance large investments.. using other people’s munee.. like every private equity shark out there… ya vote for Mittens Romney? He was famous for stiffing banks.. mittens and drumpf got along famous on that score..
How’d that work out, by the way? Bums shitting in the streets
Heh.. shit happens.. rain washes it way..
It’s a bit more challenging removing the shit between your ears..
yawwwn.. next?
You mean tax break on the INTEREST you are paying on the loan.
What need has this troll for any deductions on income taxes?
No income = no income taxes. Checks out.
retail theft beyond all control
That’s a myth…
that dumbasses like you swallowed whole..
Fortunately I have my
gambling lossescomplex hedging strategy to lower my tax bill.So, are Trump voters really as stupid as we make them out to be?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-nabbed-bumble-dating-app-sting-pleads-guilty-assaulting-o-rcna130593
Sure they are.
I guess the local economy keeps creating jobs despite
turn tail and run little maxwipe’s best efforts to vent out the crap between its ears…
@37 Better opponents would have resulted in a better incumbent. Same goes for the top of the ticket.
@38 “Bums shitting in the streets, retail theft beyond all control, homeless addict camps (blowing up) all over the city, city infrastructure falling apart, terrible and broke public schools, and on and on…..”
We didn’t have any of that before Reagan …
@44 So if you’re “viscous” you don’t flow easily? Somebody needs a catheter a lot more than I do.
(Yes, I know the whidbee troll didn’t post this comment, but that needn’t stop me from making fun of him … )
@45 “So, are Trump voters really as stupid as we make them out to be?”
Yes, and I haven’t clicked on the link yet.
@45 She didn’t read them their rights! Oh wait, she’s not an FBI investigator, she’s only a witness so she didn’t have to.
Undoubtedly Trumper antipathy to wearing masks helped identify a lot of them, too …
@46 Not just jobs, but high paying jobs.
@ 36
yawwwwwnn.. yeah making the payment.. no sweat.. and getting a tax break..
What tax break? Standard deduction is $27,700. You have claimed to be paying little more than 3% on your mortgage.
How could your shitty, low-income family have enough expenses to itemize, Queen YLB?
How can you be sure?
I’m almost as stupid. And I’m only just getting started.
Y’all libbies are just jealous that I get to itemize lube and ball gags for the educational viewing parties.
Standard deduction is $27,700. You have claimed to be paying little more than 3% on your mortgage.
bzzzzt.. wrong… I said 4.5 percent.. yeah. got into the market a little late..
Yes, dear kreepshit.. we’ll be able to itemize for 2023 like we did in 2022… Only in 2023 we’ll be able to deduct a full year of interest payments..
Now you and little maxwipe try your best to clear out the shit between your ears..
Aside from curing COVID, restoring the economy and conquering inflation what has that Biden guy done for all you libbies?
low-income family
In King County, “low income” for a family of 4 these days is sadly:
$100,900
https://rb.gy/p58yu4
We’re a family of 3 now as the oldest has flown the nest.
And the youngest has full-time gainful employment. And pays us modest rent.
So.. we’re well over even the 100.9k…
Rub harder between the ears kreepshit…
what has that Biden guy done for all you libbies?
given us HA “libbies” plenty of entertainment by driving always wrong wing trolls nutso..
@54 “How can you be sure? I’m almost as stupid. And I’m only just getting started.”
I’m sure. Because almost as stupid isn’t the same as stupid, just as 0.99999 isn’t 1.00000, and therefore can’t refer to the same person because a person can’t be almost as stupid as himself; and Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t just getting started, he’s being doing this for years, and is now approaching terminal decrepitude.
@57 Kept Trump for getting a consecutive second term.
How about we not do this.
No, Donald and his legal team was ordered to provide a response to specific charges and what they delivered was ‘Pretty please don’t consider this at all.’
In a normal court of law that would be a default judgement for the plaintiff as the defendant proactively has refused to respond to the brief despite the court ordering them to do so. They already ordered the defendant to respond and he did not.
But we know this ain’t a normal court. The question now is which members of the court are willing to issue an opinion that SCOTUS rulings can be ignored IF you are a wannabe dictator.
It’s really an insane legal strategy to completely ignore a deadline to file a response under the premise, ‘If I win the election I can just pardon myself so wait to deal with a current legal issue.
@62 “In a normal court of law that would be a default judgement for the plaintiff as the defendant proactively has refused to respond to the brief despite the court ordering them to do so. They already ordered the defendant to respond and he did not.”
Actually, that sounds like Giuliani, but go ahead …
Meanwhile, I’m reading the Colorado ruling, and at page 73 of the opinion I ran across this argument by the Trump camp:
“Indeed, even Intervenors” i.e. Trump and his allies “do not deny that the Presidency is an office. Instead, they assert that it is not an office ‘under the United States.’ Their claim is that the President and elected members of Congress are the government of the United States, and cannot, therefore, be serving ‘under the United States.'”
Yeah, that’s the sort of argument you get from Trump lawyers these days. To which the court’s majority responded,
“A conclusion that the Presidency is something other than an office ‘under’ the United States is fundamentally at odds with the idea that all government officials, including the President, serve ‘we the people.'”
Well, we know Trump doesn’t like that idea, but to continue:
“A more plausible reading of the phrase ‘under the United States’ is that the drafters meant simply to distinguish those holding federal office from those held ‘under any State.’”
Rabbit paw slaps forehead; now why didn’t Trump’s lawyers think of that explanation? Maybe because (choose one) …
[ ] They’re stupid
[ ] They didn’t want to
[ ] They don’t know we have two levels of government
Finally, the cherry on top is this:
“The Constitution refers to the Presidency as an ‘Office’ twenty-five times. …”
The Colorado court also pointed out that to believe the Trump lawyers’ reading of Amend. 14, Sec. 3, that the insurrection clause doesn’t apply to the offices of president or vice president because they’re not explicitly mentioned in Section 3, you have to believe the drafters intended to leave a door open for Jefferson Davis to be elected President of the United States after the Civil War.
64, 65,
It does present a real challenge to the legal hypocrisy of textualism since, in order to analyze and grant the appellant’s arguments, the six fundamentally corrupt court conservatives will have no choice but to rely on more contemporary sources from outside the original text in order to arrive at their preferred understanding of the words officer of the United States.
But I’m confident that’s a challenge the six fundamentally corrupt court conservatives can rise to meet. They’ve only got to look ahead five years to see the 14th Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause erased from existence by judicial fiat in The Slaughter-House cases. Ironically, this 5-4 “victory” signalling the end of Reconstruction was won by a plaintiff’s attorney who had previously been removed from the federal judiciary by… wait for it… the 14th Amendment.
Shocking indeed to learn that the IDF claims about Hamas using the basement of Al Shifa hospital as a command and control bunker are pure bullshit.
Not shocking to learn that official US media policy is to report a documented case of IDF commiting war crimes as “fog of war”.
My corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president abandoned Afghanistan and black America. Why not this dude as well?
WHITE HOUSE
Jailed American in Russia, Paul Whelan, says he feels ‘abandoned’ by the US
@66 There’s actually a decent argument so simple even a Trump lawyer could think of it, to wit, qualification and disqualification are not the same.
Determining whether a candidate satisfies the qualifications for office — age, residency, citizenship, and term limits — is relatively straightforward and little, if any, different from determining voter eligibility, which election administrators are set up to do.
But determining whether a candidate is disqualified from office is more complicated, and arguably requires full due process, which election administrators aren’t set up to provide.
There’s also a colorable federal preemption argument, although even the dissent admits it’s questionable whether Congress has enacted any law to enforce what is clearly a constitutional mandate, and the default choice — 18 U.S.C. § 2383 — only “might” provide an enforcement mechanism.
(So if there is no federal enforcement mechanism, what then? Do states get to substitute, or does that make the disqualification unenforceable? That’s a thicket.)
Personally, I don’t think the SCOTUS majority will uphold Colorado’s disqualification of Trump based on the process in the Colorado trial court, but in most other respects the Colorado opinion’s reasoning looks pretty solid to me.
Section Three, by its terms, doesn’t requires a criminal conviction; Congress possibly could require one, but even if 18 U.S.C. § 2383 is seen as defining the process, it’s less than clear that this law requires a conviction to impose the disqualification.
@68 Feeling is not fact, except in the addled remnants of your shriveled mind.
Whether, and when, Whelan returns to the U.S. is up to Putin, not Biden. Explain what the Biden administration should be doing that it hasn’t done to bring this about.
Stupid and illogical as always.
Cops lie. All the time. This is no secret.
But the story out of St. Louis is just nuts.
Officer plows his patrol car into a local bar. An LGBTQ+ bar but that likely has no relevance to the story.
Jumps out and begins to demand the IDs of patrons in the bar. Bar owner #1 tells him, “Your drove into my bar. That’s not how this works.” As in none of the people in this bar are suspects of anything and you literally crashed through our wall.
Bar owner #2, they apparently live above the bar comes down and starts cell phone video. Owner #2 is arrested for felony assault of an officer for as stated in the police report, “striking the officer in the chest with an open hand.”
The city has already lowered the charge from felony assault of an officer to resisting arrest a sign that they know how deep a load of shit they are in.
Officer wrote in the report that he swerved to avoid a dog in the street and lost control. Ooops, a nearby business has a security camera and it shows the patrol car travelling well above the speed limit for the street, at present St. Louis Police have provided no justification, incident response, for why he was travelling so fast. And there’s no dog. So then he amended the report to say he was trying to avoid a parked car. well a 15.5 year old with a learners permit can avoid a non moving legally parked vehicle on the street. St. Louis police Public Information have said since the beginning there is no dashcam in that car (huh, dashcam video of shootings and all kinds of other incidents exists in past St. Louis Police cases so you would have us believe THIS particular patrol SUV has no dashcam) and amended the story again to “he was distracted by the police radio.” So…why was he speeding, what was the radio call, was it in his vicinity, why are you lying about all of it? No toxicology tests were run on the officer in the aftermath.
But it gets worse. Attorney for the bar owners now say a patron in the bar shot a 30 minute video beginning just after the vehicle impacted the building. There is zero evidence of the arrested owner striking the officer. In fact the beginning of the arrest is when the officer notices he’s being filmed by owner #2. The owner who A: filming police in public is totally legal B: filming on his own private property c: attempting to stop the recording would be a criminal act by the officer d: a citizen is under no legal jeopardy for refusing to obey an illegal order by an officer.
So congratulations St. Louis PD. You just bought yourself a monetary judgement not just for damages to the bar but for false arrest, false imprisonment and perjury on an official police record. If you’re lucky they’ll settle at high six figures but seven wouldn’t be unreasonable.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-police-questions-suv-slammed-bar/63-95ef55ea-62a8-4593-8e34-f5df62d890b1
@68
Abandoned Afghanistan as in AFTER Donald released a shit ton of Taliban prisoners and set a hard deadline to be out completely and drew down troops to a level that could not sustain U.S. presence President Biden had two choices for the ketchup he smeared on the wall of Kandahar.
Keep to the deadline set by the moron who signed the agreement.
Redeploy troops, cancelling their leave and costing hundreds of millions of additional TAXPAYER dollars
Keep trying that one. It only works with brain dead “USA! MAGA!” folks. It’s a cult.
@ 71
Officer plows his patrol car into a local bar. An LGBTQ+ bar but that likely has no relevance to the story.
This from the asswipe who tried his best to inform us that the fact that the POS Antifa protester in Atlanta shot first and had gunshot residue on his hands had no relevance to the story he was peddling that the cops killed him.
ACAB is a coward and a liar. His approach to “relevance” is dishonest.
WaPo has editorialized for the overturning of the CO Supreme Court 4-3 decision barring Trump from the primary ballot.
Whether it will be per curiam, 9-0, or 8-1 with AJ DEI dissenting is yet to be known.
Libbies unhappy that he might be less of an asshole than they wanted.
Newsweek
John Fetterman Faces Rebellion From Democratic Voters
It’s not easy taking down DEI after all of that money was wasted on it.
11 publications is only enough to elevate someone to president of the most lauded university in the United States if some serious box-checking was done.
And now it turns out that she cribbed from others on 7 (at least) of the 11.
Jailed American in Russia, Paul Whelan, says he feels ‘abandoned’ by the US..
Ideally, the FBI should jail as many Russian intelligence assets operating in this country as it can to trade for this guy..
As long as this country supports Ukraine’s prosecution of the war, Whelan will stay imprisoned in Russia. That’s just how Putin rolls.
Not sure if even a negotiated settlement of the war will free him. After watching 20 days in Mariupol, giving a thug like Putin an inch, he’ll just take mile after mile.
And now it turns out that she cribbed from others on 7 (at least) of the 11.
The lady from Penn just went back to being a tenured prof..
If Claudine was tenured, she’ll be ok too..
Trolls will masturbate themselves silly for almost nothing…
But the story out of St. Louis is just nuts.
Lots of crime in St. Louie, Misery… Can only be solved by electing more repukes to the U.S. Senate after running “Citizens for Sanity” ads on the tube… ya knows.. “blacks gone wild”..
Oh shoot, the two spots are already taken by repukes.. Check their maga credentials.. Hee Hawley “checks the box” for damn sure..
This from the asswipe…
yawwwn.. projection alert…
69,
Agreed. I can only assume that they are not making this argument because they do not want to be put in a position of having to reveal defense strategy in advance of the criminal trial. Either that or it’s because there is no defense, and they have no such arguments because the motherfucker is guilty as fuck and they feel too humiliated to pretend otherwise. 50/50.
@73 Explain how a shooting in Atlanta is relevant to a police car plowing into a building in St. Louis. (E.g., can a stray round travel that far?)
@73
Has no relevance as in, if it was a closed auto repair shop he’d probably have hit and run. If it was Hetero dominated sports bar he’d have acted exactly as he did.
The business in this instance happens to be an LGBTQ focused business ‘likely has no relevance ’. It’s just a small detail the local media keeps pointing out.
So try to follow along.
Reading is FUNdamental. When you’re licking a badge, does it taste like tin or are they silver plated?
Christopher Rufo is the malignant bridge troll for hire who took millions from the Koch dark money conspiracy to conjure up CRT Mao-Mao and Cosplay Kitty Litter Box fears among Boomer Grandparents.
As with the other moral panics of Generation Mobility Scooter, this is based on the establishment of new standards and then selective application of those standards.
For reference please see The Chair of The Florida Republican Party, his loving spouse a Sarasota School Board member and founder of Moms for Liberty, their rape victim slash girlfriend slash date night pal, their three children, and the home porn movie productions made in the home where those children sleep.
Alternatively you can refer to Madison Cawthorne, MTG, Matt Gaetz, Eric Greitens, The Rapist Nominee, or any other nationally prominent Republican crusader for “trad” values with a trunk load of anal lube, cocaine, and color matching zipper masks.
I’ll be neither surprised nor disappointed if the “liberal” media fall for this bullshit being peddled by a bunch of degenerate, rapist sex criminal, goat worshiping freaks. But the rest of us have no obligation to play along. Not anymore.
@74 Neither 14A, §§3,5, 18 U.S.C. § 2383, nor any other federal or Colorado statute requires a conviction. Where will they get that from? Pulling it out of their asses like you did? I wouldn’t put it past them.
A persuasive argument can be made that imposing the §3 disqualification requires more process than afforded by the Colorado proceedings, and it even can be colorably argued that the state process is federally preempted. But there is zero authority in the Constitution, federal statute, or Colorado law that a conviction is required. Even arguing 14A, §3 is unenforceable carries more weight.
The Congress and state legislatures that drafted and ratified the 14th Amendment clearly did not intend for ex-Confederates to be eligible for office unless they were convicted in a criminal proceeding of insurrection or rebellion. They didn’t want these ex-Confederates taking over the government. Over the years, various laws were enacted and repealed, and you can argue that §3 has become inoperative through congressional neglect. But you can’t argue that a conviction is required.
Of all the choices available to you, you chose the worst one. You’re a shitty lawyer, even shittier than Trump’s lawyers.
Meanwhile, this week we saw another demonstration that when you put doctors in charge of disciplining bad doctors, no doctor will lose her license no matter how egregious her conduct is.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/washington-doctor-caught-selling-covid-vaccine-waivers-to-keep-license-state-decides/281-2ebc6844-1ab1-4f06-b674-22253a9c5cef
Medical discipline in Washington is like leaving it up to cops to decide whether to pull a cop’s certification. Doctors, like cops, circle the wagons when one of their own is accused of misconduct.
@76 Doctor Dumbfuck, who has no academic qualifications, wishes to second-guess and overrule Harvard’s internal process on political grounds (black, gay, liberal, and not anti-Palestinian enough).
Let’s take a closer look:
“Harvard’s top governing board, and the members of a subcommittee formed to look into the matter, concluded that Gay’s ‘inadequate citations’ are ‘regrettable’ but do not amount to research misconduct that would be punishable under university policies.
“All of this has only fueled Harvard’s critics …. But it’s also a reminder of how complex matters of plagiarism can be ….
“Harvard’s policy states that research misconduct includes ‘fabrication, falsification and plagiarism’ and … also states that … for misdeeds to be considered misconduct, it must meet three criteria:
“1) There must be a ‘significant departure from accepted practices’ within the research community
“2) The misdeeds must have been done ‘intentionally, knowingly or recklessly’
“3) The allegations must be ‘proven by preponderance of the evidence.’
” … Harvard officials, following their review, have not found that Gay’s mistakes meet the threshold of misconduct.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/21/business/why-harvard-hasnt-punished-president-claudine-gay-for-plagiarism/index.html
Now, I personally think university presidents should be held to a higher standard. As leaders, they’re supposed to be role models. Even if sloppy work isn’t always disqualifying for a student or even a professor, it normally should be for university leadership. But that’s me.
And that’s not Doctor Dumbfuck’s criteria at all. His criteria for firing Harvard’s president is “wasting money on DEI.” It’s their money, so they can waste it. And I doubt anybody at Harvard shares Doctor Dumbfuck’s opinion of the usefulness or appropriateness of DEI policies. You have to go to GOP House committees to find that level of ignorance, intolerance, and racism.
Does an atheist have a right to attend Oral Roberts University? And if ORU can select a homogenous student body, why can’t Harvard select a diverse student body?
Trump says he’s not an insurrectionist, but I wouldn’t take his word for it. The Colorado supreme court majority is more credible on that score than he is.
More bad behavior by liberal homosexuals entrusted with close proximity to our nation’s leaders.
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Not their fault, really. They’re just taking after Biden POS Hunter and Ashley.
@ 89
Trump says he’s not an insurrectionist, but I wouldn’t take his word for it. The Colorado supreme court majority is more credible on that score than he is.
Jack Smith hasn’t charged Trump with insurrection. And yet the CO Supreme Court has convicted him of it.
@90 Yeah, Democrats fire staffers guilty of misconduct.
Compare and contrast.
@91 The Colorado supreme court has not “convicted” Trump of insurrection. A finding in a civil proceeding is not a “conviction,” but I don’t expect a dumbfuck armchair lawyer to know that, so I’m explaining it to you.
Jack Smith hasn’t charged Trump with insurrection.
ya but what Smith has charged will mean we’re rid of drumpf forever if orange julius is convicted..
We all thought you wanted that. (heh) you old NR, yung repukelicans, WSJ Editorial Page, US Chamber suck up you…
ya know, making the rich richer w/o all the chaos and noise..
Oh I’d add club for stagnation but aren’t they kissing orange butt these days? Can’t keep track anymore..
“After filing for bankruptcy, Giuliani notified the court that he had also obtained financial advice from ‘Cricket Debt Counseling’ via the internet.”
https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-receives-online-credit-counseling-after-filing-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/
Some things don’t need comment. Besides, I’m laughing too hard to say anything.
Another domestic terrorist the FBI should investigate.
https://www.rawstory.com/john-schneider/
@88
THESE THINGS ARE WHOLLY (HOLY?) DIFFERENT.
America was founded as a Christian nation. We the white god fearing heirs to that tradition need safe spaces to be free from attacks on our faith.
Harvard is merely the oldest institution founded by Puritans on their arrival here and need to get back to merely training Clergy.
See there is no comparison. Quod erat demonstrandum.
White liberal cease-fire protester punches black Democrat woman in the face.
I suppose to a libbie it feels better to break a black woman’s nose than it does to break an egg over a white conservative woman’s head.
Both are cowardly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-scandal-colombian-woman-describes-night-of-carousing-with-agents/2012/05/04/gIQAcwyi1T_story.html
Testifying before Congress in May, Dir. Sullivan insisted the incident was an aberration – just poor choices by a dozen agents under the influence of alcohol.
No word on how many of the straight hetero manly Secret Service agents paid extra for “Around the World”.
@99,
The men with the guns and badges paid us to make a video.
Perhaps you’ve seen?
https://www.heavy-r.com/video/284396/2_Girls_1_Cup_Full_Video/
The Texas AG is demanding the medical records of Texas patients seeking gender-affirming care at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/seattle-childrens-sues-texas/281-6586ff9d-767d-4237-83f0-ca3cc626742a
Weird. All the GOP types are bitching about the same thing.
Take Missouri Lt. Governor,
twatwho took to TwitterColorado has a system similar to a few other states where a committee of sitting and retired judges puts forth a list of candidates and the Governor selects one. After a two year provisional term they must prevail in a statewide retention vote. Sometimes you call a vote an election and the winners elected. But I digress.
Of the seven justices currently on the court all but one have won their retention votes. That one has not served the requisite 2 years to trigger such an election.
2 things of interest.
None of these GOP Snowflakes are concerned about any OTHER unelected judges not even ones now shown to have grown incredibly wealthy as a direct result of corruption.
The other? Such a method of appointing judges and then electing them to stay has a name because of the first state that put such a plan into practice. It’s the Missouri Plan
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
@101
And Seattle Children’s through their attorneys said revealing said information would be a HIPAA violation, WAshington has a shield law preventing them from complying anyway and…
Fuck right off.
Mute deadline to comply has passed.
This is the GOP now. Spend your administrative salaries combing through ALL your patient records on our fishing expitition for state crimes that we don’t even have a credible suspicion have been comitted. WA is the only state we know Greg Abbott has tried it so far.
Jury acquits cops of all charges in Manuel Ellis case.
Sounds like he has a lot of personal experience with this sort of thing. He seems to know exactly how it works.
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-congressman/
104 – Yes, it was surprising. I thought those cops were going to get convicted.
DeSantis endorses high crimes and misdemeanors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/21/desantis-trump-indictments-2024-primary-00132885
Of course, what he’s really upset about is Trump stealing headlines from him. And I gotta admit it’s hard to compete with a mafia don for attention.
Here’s why I disagree with the Colorado decision.
I’ll start with J. Michael Luttig, a former Supreme Court clerk, federal judge, and Boeing general counsel. He says congressional action is “not required” to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, “[n]or is it required that the former president be convicted of the criminal offense of an insurrection or rebellion against the United States under Title 18 USC 2383.” I agree.
Luttig also said he’s confident “the Supreme Court would affirm Colorado Supreme Court’s decision based upon the objective law, which in this instance is Section 3 of the 14th amendment.” I think what he’s saying is the evidence shows Trump engaged in insurrection, so on the objective law and facts, he should be disqualified from holding office again. I agree with that, too.
Where I part company with Luttig, though, is when he says “the Colorado Supreme Court decision is unassailable in every single respect under the Constitution of the United States.” Now if you read this literally, he’s probably as far as it goes, but this doesn’t address the procedure by which a candidate is disqualified under 14A, §3. I don’t see that he addressed that at all.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/21/luttig-14th-amendment-trump-00132792
There, I find Samour’s dissent persuasive. His dissent is lengthy, but his essential point is not: The state election law process used to disqualify Trump as an insurrectionist is a summary procedure that’s “plenty adequate to handle ordinary challenges arising under” Colorado’s election code, such as whether a candidate meets the residency requirement of a school board election, but is “not up to the task” of adjudicating a Section 3 disqualification (Opinion, p. 1834). As he pointed out, the trial court proceeding didn’t procedurally comply with election code, but was a “procedural Frankenstein” stitched together from fragments of the election code and “remnants of traditional civil trial practice” (id.). Samour says that’s not good enough to disqualify someone under 14A, §3.
But beyond what the Colorado supreme court justice says, there’s what William O. Douglas said in a 1967 dissent: “A declaration that a person is permanently barred from any future public office raises constitutional issues that simple removal from office does not. … The serious nature of any such holding demands that the rules of procedural due process be complied with strictly.” The summary proceeding provided by the Colorado election code is incapable of providing the due process that Douglas had in mind. As Samour noted, the Colorado process “strip[s] the proceedings of many basic protections that normally accompany a civil trial, never mind a criminal trial,” and in this case, despite the trial court greatly expanding the process beyond what the code contemplates, “There [still] was no basic discovery, no ability to subpoena documents and compel witnesses, no workable timeframes to adequately investigate and develop defenses[.]” Thus, the decision is defensible only if you believe that permanent disqualification from the presidency can be imposed by a summary adjudication by an election administrator, or at most a state court, with far less due process than in a run-of-the-mill civil or criminal case.
Samour acknowledged that “if President Trump committed a heinous act worthy of disqualification, he should be disqualified for the sake of protecting our hallowed democratic system, regardless of whether citizens may wish to vote for him in Colorado,” but said “such a determination must follow the appropriate procedural avenues,” and commented on “the potential chaos” if “each state gets to adjudicate Section Three disqualification cases on an ad hoc basis.” With all this I agree.
While I think the Supreme Court will take this case and make a disposition, I do not think they will necessarily resolve the question of Trump’s eligibility to hold office again. More likely they’ll rule that the Colorado election code’s summary process is not a proper vehicle for making that determination, and stop there. This goes to what I said before about determining candidate qualifications being different from imposing disqualification. They might throw in some dicta that only Congress can establish the ground rules for enforcing 14A, §3, but it would be dicta. Yes, I’ve noticed this court has a penchant for vomiting dicta and declaring it the law of the land. However, that’s another story altogether, not limited to the confines of this case.
CNN reports this evening that USAF is going to reactivate the Tinian airfield in the Marianas, abandoned since 1946, “in the event of any hostilities with China.”
CNN says, “The reclamation project is part of the US military’s Agile Combat Employment (ACE) strategy, which an Air Force doctrine document says ‘shifts operations from centralized physical infrastructures to a network of smaller, dispersed locations that can complicate adversary planning and provide more options for joint force commanders.’”
In other words, make it tougher for China to take out our theater air assets in a surprise attack. As the CNN article notes, “Much of the US air power in the Pacific is concentrated on a few large air bases, like Andersen Air Force Base on Guam or Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa. A strike on those bases could cripple the US military’s ability to hit back at an adversary if too much US air power were concentrated there. And as China … grows its missile forces, the Air Force is looking for places to disperse its fleet to make targeting it more difficult.”
It may look like the Pentagon expects a war, but dispersing our forces also can have a deterrent effect.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/asia/us-air-force-pacific-tinian-island-airfield-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
I’ve done a lot of reading about what it would take to invade Taiwan, Chinese military capabilities, and what their strategy and tactics would be. There’s some evidence Chinese military planners believe they could defeat the U.S. militarily, so it’s plausible they may try to preemptively neutralize American theater forces ahead of a Taiwan invasion to forestall U.S. intervention. This might involve sinking American ships (particularly carriers), shooting down American aircraft, and attacking American bases; and the easiest way to do it, and best way to ensure success, is with tactical nuclear weapons. It’s no coincidence that China is dramatically expanding its land-based ICBM force, which obviously is meant to deter a U.S. nuclear retaliation against China if they kill tens of thousands of American military personnel. Most of our foreign policy establishment considers the likelihood of this to be low, but some recent wargames have shown China winning, so this shift in our deployment strategy may be a partial response to that.
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News – Did Bidenclown think this one up you fvcking buffoons? The fake quotes are clever but didn’t you forget to paint a little mustache on Trump?
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https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1737567329561526607
Wait someone was taping?
When me and the boss got them on the phone and begged them not to sign the election certification papers? The Wayne county papers? That phone call? He has a recording? What?!? The PRESS has the recording?
Well that’s bad but Michigan is a two party consent state so it’s not like admissible. Oh. A one party state?
Okay here’s what we go with. When I said we would get them lawyers and the boss said, “well take care of that” it DEFINOTELY wasn’t because we knew they’d be committing a criminal act of interfering and election fraud. It was for the suits we siuspected the liberal activists would file for being mad. Getting their feelings hurt they were standing up for the rightful King uh winner and they might have to pay a settlement.
It’ll be fine.
Hang on just thought of something. Jack Smith doesn’t have this? Fuuuuuuuuck.
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@112
Brandon is giving our country to the ChiComs. That’s why they paid Hunter.
It’s all on the laptop.
@113 If you don’t invite your uncles to family gatherings, you won’t have to deal with this.
“Donald Trump’s allies and supporters are outraged that a conservative news outlet,” i.e. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, “published a poll showing that Americans largely approve of him being removed from the primary ballot in Colorado.
“The New York Post reported on the online YouGov survey, which seems to show 54% of respondents either ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’ approve of the court’s ruling, while 35% said they either ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’ disapproved.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-fans-rage-over-taxes-2666759156/
As I’ve said before, polls this far ahead of an election don’t mean anything, and Doctor Dumbfuck can quote me.
It was already known, before the recording was made public yesterday, that Trump attempted to interfere in the 2020 Michigan election results. He may have committed a crime in doing so, but that’s for Jack Smith and/or Michigan D.A. to decide.
CNN reported last night (here) that RNC chair Ronna McDaniel was on the call, and told county officials not to sign the certification, and “we’ll get you attorneys.” That sounds like solicitation of a crime to me.
CNN says, “McDaniel said in a statement Thursday, ‘What I said publicly and repeatedly at the time, as referenced in my letter on Nov. 21, 2020, is that there was ample evidence that warranted an audit.’” Bullshit.
And, “Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement that ‘all of President Trump’s actions were taken in furtherance of his duty as President of the United States to faithfully take care of the laws and ensure election integrity, including investigating the rigged and stolen 2020 Presidential Election.’” Bullshit.
And Trump: “Trump … told the [county] officials on the call that Republicans had been ‘cheated on this election’ and ‘everybody knows Detroit is crooked as hell,’ according to the Detroit News. He asked, ‘How can anybody sign’ the election certification ‘when you have more votes than people,’ referring to his false claim that large numbers of dead people voted in Michigan.” That’s bullshit, too.
There’s no evidence any significant number of dead people voted in Michigan. We do know that some live people in some places voted for him twice, but I won’t go into that here. There were not more votes than people; Wayne County had a population of a bit fewer than 1.8 million people in 2020, of whom roughly 1.3 million were over age 18, and 874,018 voted in the 2020 election, a turnout of about 66%, comparable to the U.S. as a whole. Nothing in those numbers suggests ballot box stuffing.
Who the hell are these people?
McDaniel, Wikipedia says, has presided over the GOP’s loss of 7 governors, 3 senators, and 19 representatives. Newsweek says her complicity in Michigan election tampering may spell “big trouble” for her. Cheung is a career political operative who worked in the Trump White House and is now his campaign mouthpiece.