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Carl has been having trouble posting from his phone app since I updated the site’s software (as if he doesn’t have a fucking computer), so until we get that fixed I thought I’d fill in and post an open thread.

No Kimmel in Seattle or Portland.

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— Essex J. Porter (@essexjp.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Sinclair-owned KOMO-4 has long been the champion of the hateful, derogatory, and deceitful “Seattle Is Dying” meme. They hate Seattle, hate our people, disrespect their viewers, and despise the First Amendment. They are a fascist propaganda mill. Their so-called “journalists” should be shunned and their advertisers boycotted. Local elected officials should refuse to grant them interviews and local candidates should deny the station political advertising dollars.

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  3. Can wee fix the numbering, so that it is aligned inside the spew box? Currently, it gets chopped of on the iphone

  4. Easy link for widbee dumbfuck:

    Goldy..

    kreepee dumbfuck wants to get with her.

    Request: Darryl should post a thread so we can all laugh at widbee dumbfuck attempting futilely to get Darryl’s attention.

  6. Ingraham: (fake news outlets say) Do you want to respond to that fake story? Did you take the money?

    Homan:
    Look I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal.

    (Case closed)

    Of course you could clear this up with the tape…

  7. Good to see you back, Goldy! Long time no see. I dropped KOMO from my news sources right after Sinclair took it over.

    This may come as a shock to Sinclair and KOMO, but the lights are very much on in Seattle. It’s dishonest to characterize an entire city based on a few imperfections every major city has.

  8. @6 The GOP’s willingness to excuse corrupt behavior by their own has destroyed their credibility.

  9. In completely unrelated news, there were over 168 reports of Grindr outages on Sunday evening, a staggering increase from the baseline number of two. A heat map showed a large concentration of those problems taking place in the Glendale area. The outages have continued through Monday morning, at one point reaching over 200 reports

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/massive-grindr-outage-reports-coincide-201506319.html

    teh kreepee dumbfuck couldn’t be reached for comment on the “competence” of Grindr.

  10. San Francisco MUNI and the Market Street Railway had their annual heritage weekend where they offer rides on vintage buses, trolleybuses, streetcars and cable cars. A high
    Ight of it is the oldest motor bus in their collection, a 1938 White that due to its small size and width, lasted 40 years on the 39-COIT. Also this year, was a recently restored 1948 Faegol-Twin Coach that MUNI thought would kill off and replace the Cable Cars. These Hill Climbers as they called them, had a second engine, They were a failure, politically, and mechanically.
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/muni-heritage-weekend-21054031.php

    https://www.streetcar.org/sfmsr-buses/faegol-twin-coach-dual-engine-gasoline-bus/

    MUNI did eventually find a vehicle just as good as the Cable Cars when it comes to hill climbing, the Electric Trolleybus. Until RapidRide G came along, Metro’s Madi’son street route, which up until 1940 was a Cable Cars route on it’s West End(Madison Valley-Madison Park, late in the streetcar era, despite 12% grade, was made into an electric streetcar, and was a trolleybus route until 1965). The Rapid Ride G line was supposed to be a trolleybus route until, but the manufacturer was unwilling to make a modification to the design It wasn’t worth it for an order of only 13. Metro, SDOT, and Sound Transit could have added an island platform at Mt Baker Station to make transfers from 7 to LINK easier. Rt7 uses about 25 Articulated trolleys. Of the two US Trolleybus operators using articulated trolleybuses(Philadelphia and Dayton only use 40ft), Metro is the only one that specified left-side doors.Some of the G’s island platforms were necessary , especially where Madison crosses I-5.
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/metro-and-seattle-promised-electric-trolleybuses-on-a-new-madison-rapidride-turns-out-that-wont-work/

  11. 7)Only thing with KOMO I use right now is looking at an old newscast they added to YouTube back in May. May 18, 1980 breaking news to be exact, plus another interview and footage from cameraman Dave Crockett.That footage was rare for sure.

  13. It’s too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It’s like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines.

    Why the fax machine is just a waffle iron with a PHONE attached. In my day we had a chicken delivered every morning and we’d eat it feathers and all. Sometimes alive. Too many feathers. Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say dickety cause that Kaiser had stolen our word twenty.

  14. Seen on Bluesky:

    Dan Satterfield

    Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?

    1. See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area.
    2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
    3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
    4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing.

  15. Goldy, if you think KOMO-4 is the problem with Seattle, then you’re either totally unaware of the past 25 years’ events, or you’re a fucking idiot.

  16. @15 It’s hard for me to see how Seattle’s most-ignored teevee station is the city’s biggest problem.

    I was gonna say homelessness, but that’s not a Seattle problem, it’s a national problem. That’s everywhere.

    Republicans deregulated mortgage lending. A homebuilding depression followed. Now there aren’t enough homes to go around. So, musical chairs. Who loses? Those with the least money. So they end up living in RVs or on the streets.

    So I really think Seattle’s biggest problem is the high cost of living here, especially Seattle’s astronomical home prices and rents.

  17. The only thing Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit can afford in Seattle is to visit the public library.

  21. Crime crime crime. Thats all some want to talk about. The crime by the homeless. The crime in the big liberal cities.

    But they don’t want to talk about the crime perpetrated by the VIRUS OF THE HETEROSEXUAL NEANDERTHALS OR THE CORRUPT PEDO PARTY.currently in charge.

  22. I know this is going to come as a shock but in ignoring a massive European study finding no link between Tylenol and autism and holing a press conference of medical quackery the group of AARP White men recommended by name,

    leucovorin.

    Leucovorin is folinic acid.

    But it’s a brand name.

    Sold by the company iHerb.

    One of the AARP White Men holding the press conference was Dr. Oz who was previously sanctioned and fined for selling ineffective supplements

    Though Oz pledged to sell his multi million dollars in iHerb stock upon joining the administration there is no record he has done so.

  23. Years ago the UN didn’t hire Donald Trump as a real estate developer. Not only has he never gotten over it it’s the reason the General Assembly Hall isn’t festooned with polished garage sale bric-a-brac and more Gold Leaf than one can imagine.

    The things he could have done to make it tacky. Wondrous things. Opulent things. Gleam like a brothel.

  26. @ 24

    … I should get the Nobel Prize.

    The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yassir Arafat.

    The CDC said protesting was more important than protecting oneself from infection and death due to The Wuhan.

    Institutions and laudatory awards no longer hold the same importance. They have damaged themselves beyond repair.

  27. @ 23

    Not only has he never gotten over it it’s the reason the General Assembly Hall isn’t festooned with polished garage sale bric-a-brac and more Gold Leaf than one can imagine.

    Now please explain why the General Assembly Hall is festooned with polished anti-Semitism.

  28. @6,

    We have been very consistent in our response to this Democrat FAKE media smear. No money changed hands.

    A FEW MOMENTS LATER…

    We have been very consistent in our response to this Democrat FAKE media smear. Money changed hands. But you can’t prove nuthin’.

  29. Say, libbies, why are you not excited about the massive leverage Chuck Schumer holds over the White House this week?

    Why Trump welcomes this government shutdown fight

    “They’re begging us to shut it down. That’s a honey trap,” said Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. By making health care funding their “red line,” Fetterman added, Democratic leaders have “effectively just painted themselves into their corner.”

  30. Border Czar Bagman is issuing billions in DHS no-bid construction contracts to shell companies with unknown ownership created seconds before the contracts are issued.

    Meanwhile granny is starving.

  32. It’s what they voted for

    The One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in July, reduced the royalty rate for federal oil and gas from 16.67% to 12.5%. If all parcels in this month’s sale are fully developed, then the lesser royalty rate will reap an estimated $22 million less than under the previous royalty rate

    Advocacy groups have also noted that a similar royalty rate reduction for federal coal will cost Wyoming about $50 million annually.
    >> Same with logging royalties being slashed.
    >> The wealth is going somewhere, just not to the community.

    But the gold plated ballroom will be swell and the stock market is just fine.

  33. Trump gets a ballroom, Oil companies get a giant pile of money, Homan gets a bag of cash, some fat MAGA douche gets a Charlie Kirk funeral fidget-spinner, and your neighbor goes blind from being unable to afford insulin.

    It’s a perfect system.

  34. @ 22

    Leucovorin is folinic acid.

    But it’s a brand name.

    Sold by the company iHerb.

    That’s like claiming that aspirin is a brand name because it’s sold by Bayer, which ignores that dozens of other companies also sell it. Aspirin is the common name for ASA.

    Libbie clowns like you make leucovorin sound like some fly-by-night neutraceutical. It’s been around for generations and it has very specific uses. Look up “methotrexate and leucovorin rescue”. It’s a fascinating, timed procedure of the administration of two drugs, enabling toxic therapy against cancer cells to be survived by the body’s normal cells.

    The new decision applies to prescription leucovorin. That form of the drug is not sold by iHerb.

  35. @ 33

    … and your neighbor goes blind from being unable to afford insulin.

    But not the “Asian” neighbors who scare Welfare Queen YLB so much.

  37. This is the GOP candidate’s second crack at the gubernatorial prize in NJ. He’s learned a few things since the last time.

    Michael Casey
    @MichaelCasey_

    Here at the New Jersey Governor’s debate

    Republican Jack Ciattarelli is here post debate getting SWARMED by press answering questions

    Mikie Sherrill LEFT the minute the debate ended, too scared to talk to reporters

    6:06 PM · Sep 21, 2025

  38. Always follow the money.

    C3
    @C_3C_3

    Remember…

    This was exact moment the LA riots ended.

    The moment the FBI and IRS announced they are investigating whoever is funding the riots.

    The riots stop. Just like that.

    Weird how that works!?

    Antifa will be the same. Go after the cash. It stops.

    From
    Collin Rugg
    4:13 AM · Sep 23, 2025

    Perhaps Chuck Todd could better understand Antifa if he spent some time perusing its funding sources.

  39. the “Asian” neighbors…

    absentee landlords.. although the one across the street did live in the house for a year or so, an elderly couple basically baby-sitting for their kids. And now it’s empty till maybe February. And after that we’ll see them only on the weekends. Their story is that the kids bought their parents an investment property. We believe they’re biding their time to acquire an adjacent property and develop it.

    The other absentee landlord we’ve never seen. We know he lives in a view property in Seattle and we’ve seen his name on other projects in our vicinity. He ordered an architect he has on retainer to handle the permitting to taking out a big tree on the property. He’s biding his time to acquire an adjacent property and develop the three story homes he’s built elsewhere in Seattle.

    My other Asian neighbors I see all the time.

    Dumbfuck be a silly dumbfuck; never misses a chance to project its own racism on others.. BLM in widbee? Panic time! yawwn..

  40. Part of a Truth Social post by the guy who cleaned Boxcheck Momala’s clock in November:

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive. They are threatening to shut down the Government of the United States unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens (A monumental cost!), force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors, have dead people on the Medicaid roles, allow Illegal Alien Criminals to steal Billions of Dollars in American Taxpayer Benefits, try to force our Country to again open our Borders to Criminals and to the World, allow men to play in women’s sports, and essentially create Transgender operations for everybody….
    There are consequences to losing Elections but, based on their letter to me, the Democrats haven’t figured that out yet.

    Agree to the CR, libbies, and your current problem goes away. Eliminating Chuck Schumer from Democrat leadership could help, too. But I digress.

  41. @ 39

    … never misses a chance to project its own racism on others..

    Remind us, Welfare Queen YLB, who it was on HA who referred to JD Vance’s Hindu wife.

  43. JD Vance’s Hindu wife.

    I referred to the man who “understands [vulture] capitalism” as a Mormon.

    And guess what?

    He lost because evangelicals don’t like Mormons.. what a bunch of racists.

  46. Did I mention this guy is/was an attorney?

    Suspect in ABC Station Shooting ‘Politically Motivated,’ Left Note Warning Trump Officials ‘They’re Next’

    Prosecutors believe the suspect who allegedly opened fire on the ABC10 station in Sacramento on Friday was “politically motivated,” Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho told National Review, explaining that a search of the suspect’s vehicle yielded a note that criticized members of the Trump administration and appeared to reference the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk.

    The Sacramento Police Department executed a search of 64-year-old Anibal Hernandez Santana’s home, where they not only found the semi-automatic nine millimeter handgun he allegedly used to fire into the station multiple times, but also various pieces of evidence that suggest that he was motivated …

    Of course he was. Otherwise he’d have to wait for the next election.

    Behold the fruits of “Liberals must arm.”.

  47. perusing its funding sources.

    The troll is just gone. Swallowed up completely by the paranoid lunacy.

  48. The line that finally unites us

    trump:

    We’ve got a lot of stupid people running this country.

  50. @26 Institutions and laudatory awards no longer hold the same importance. They have damaged themselves beyond repair.

    So has the Republican Party.

    @49 Democrats are incredibly weak.

    The Republican Party is worse. What could possibly be weaker than kowtowing to Trump’s every corrupt, criminal, and unconstitutional act?

  51. @29 Shutting down the government to oppose taking health care away from tens of millions of Americans isn’t all that bad a look. Even West Virginians might love it. They don’t like the government very much anyway.

  52. @31 A TV station that airs what its owner wants you to watch, instead of what you want to watch, may not be long for this world.

  53. @34 Look up “methotrexate and leucovorin rescue”

    Which has what? to do with treating autism? Nada. However, some doctors are experimenting with that indication:

    https://www.newsweek.com/leucoverin-autism-medication-trump-announcement-tylenol-2133978

    But,

    For now, leucovorin remains a chemotherapy support drug that some physicians are experimenting with in autism care. The FDA’s decision to approve GSK’s version ensures broader availability, but questions about its role in treating autism are far from settled.

    Of course, as a doctor you knew this when you posted your “look over here [cancer], not over there [autism]” comment above.

  54. @36 Still deflecting, eh. Trolls who deflect do so because they’ve lost the argument and need an exit from the topic. You find yourself in that position very frequently.

  55. @37 If Jack Ciattarelli is halfway competitive in polls, it’s because he’s left the reservation.

    Abortion: In favor of abortion rights up to 20 weeks.

    Trump: Called him a “charlatan” in 2015 (but, like many RINOs, has since joined the lovefest and pretended to be an election denier).

    Immigration: Supports issuing drivers license to illegals.

    LGBQT: Is against same-sex marriage, but voted to ban conversion therapy, and is for “schools promoting diversity, inclusivity, tolerance, and respect for others” (quoted from Wikipedia).

    Ciattarelli almost certainly is going by the Glenn Youngkin playbook: A wolf dressed up as a sheep, trying to sound “moderate” to win over swing voters, but who will swing back hard-right if elected. I doubt New Jersey voters will be fooled. It’s not a swing state on any day of the week anyway.

  56. @38 We know who the people funding the GOP riot against the Constitution are. The problem is the GOP is giving our money to them, so the rioting goes on.

  57. @40 Shorter version: “I demanded their surrender, and they replied with cannon fire.”

  59. @46 Well, he’s a lawyer on paper, but he worked as a health policy analyst. Parenthetically, he supports the death penalty for Charlie Kirk’s killer, but wants it for Trump, too, although he emphasized divine means in the latter case.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15118809/anti-trump-lawyer-shooting-abc-station-sacramento.html

    But let’s be clear about something. I’m not in favor of arming deranged people, liberal or conservative. Putting guns in the hands of everyone, regardless of mental state or homicidal tendencies, is entirely a Republican idea. Your ilk gave this guy a gun, not me.

    And there are a lot more deranged conservatives with guns than there are deranged liberals with guns, as shown by the fact that most political violence in our country comes from your side.

  60. @ 59

    @46 Well, he’s a lawyer on paper, but he worked as a health policy analyst.

    You were once a lawyer on paper, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, but in reality you were merely a useless bloviating fuck, and you have only gotten worse since they finally fired your ass.

  61. I see that UN-affiliated aid groups are not expecting to get funding restored any time soon.

    Geiger Capital
    @Geiger_Capital

    This is insane…

    As Trump arrived to the UN, the escalator stopped working the moment he stepped on it.

    Then the teleprompter stopped working the moment he got up to the podium to speak.

    7:22 AM · Sep 23, 2025

    ·
    These are incredible displays of weakness. But understandable, because it’s all liberals have left.

  62. @ 55

    Ciattarelli almost certainly is going by the Glenn Youngkin playbook…

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, if you mean stand by while the Democrats self-destruct right in front of you, I agree:

    News Article
    McAuliffe Saying Parents Shouldn’t Tell Schools What to Teach Big Factor in Election: Poll

    During a debate in September, McAuliffe, who served as Virginia’s governor from 2014 to 2018, said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

    McAuliffe also said that he was “not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.”

    McAuliffe’s comments came in response to remarks by Youngkin, who argued that parents should have influence over what school districts teach their children.

    The GOP has zero responsibility to prevent Democrats from shooting themselves in the foot when speaking in public.

    What, you think the GOP should have prevented Boxcheck Momala from blowing a softball question when she was on The View last Fall?

    Nope.

  63. No, the US is not going to permit Ukraine to join NATO.

    GeoInsider
    @InsiderGeo

    BREAKING: Germany’s armed forces are planning for up to 1,000 wounded troops per day in a potential NATO-Russia conflict, with hospital trains, frontline stabilization, and expanded medical services. This comes after France revealed hospitals are preparing for 10,000–50,000 casualties by 2026

    8:13 AM · Sep 22, 2025
    ·

  64. @60 I’m curious how you consider yourself useful. No hospital or clinic has a job for you. Your wife prefers you fuck the horse, not her. The horse wishes you would go away. Your hay supplier insists on cash, and won’t take your credit cards. Nobody wants you except me, and then only because if you leave HA we won’t have any trolls at all. In other words, I find you a useful soccer ball to kick around.

  65. @62 Unfortunately for Ciattarelli, he doesn’t get to run against McAuliffe. Given his squishiness on GOP positions, he’s obviously more aware of that than you are.

  66. @63 “No, the US is not going to permit Ukraine to join NATO.”

    Trump is, however, going to allow Putin to seize Estonia and violate Poland’s sovereignty, too.

    Germany and France obviously are preparing to go it alone in defending Europe, having realized their biggest NATO partner will renege on its treaty commitments.

  68. @67 From Wikipedia:

    Crusius registered to vote in 2016 as a Republican and had a Twitter account from 2017 that showed a photo of Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He also had a pro-Trump poll that included responses such as “#BuildTheWall, #NoSanctuaryCities, #KeepGitmoOpen and #BanSyrianRefugees”.

    He sure wasn’t an “armed liberal,” nor did liberals arm him.

    The dumbfuck doctor seems to want liberals to unilaterally disarm (or not arm), so conservatives won’t meet resistance when they start the civil war they’ve been talking about, or set about exterminating liberals, as they’ve also talked about.

    The Nazis thought the same way about the Jews. Mass murder is ever so much easier when the victims aren’t armed. I wonder if that’s what Doctor Dumbfuck has in mind when he takes such great umbrage at “liberals must arm”? Is he a closet Nazi with murderous inclinations toward liberals? I’m not saying he is, I’m just wondering.

  69. @ 64

    I’m curious how you consider yourself useful.

    • I have pointed out that previously on HA you have used the ethnic or racial slurs gook, towelhead, and eggplant, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You no longer use them, although you did slip a couple of years ago with eggplant.

    • You formerly posted too many specifics about your daily paper market gains, and once even posted the dollar amount of your investment account, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. I used those figures to show that your claim to be a millionaire was a lie. You no longer post those numbers, except rarely, and you are careful not to share information that is so easily used to prove that you are a fucking liar.

    • On a near-daily basis you spew some shit that is so obviously dumbfuckian in its derivation that is very easily debunked, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. I like teeing off on a slow, hanging curve down the middle of the plate as much as does the next guy, and you rarely disappoint with what you serve up.

    My first role is to minimize embarrassment to Darryl and to Goldy by keeping your racism and congenital dishonesty in check, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. My second role is to roughly triple the comments on this blog. My third and most important role is to provide a reminder that Democrat shit stinks every bit as badly as does Republican shit.

  70. Without reservation or otherwise, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit never apologized to black people for slurring them. Nor to Goldy for using Goldy’s blog to do it.

    Keith Olbermann
    @KeithOlbermann

    I apologize without reservation to @ScottJenningsKY

    Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted 2 responses to him about Kimmel because they could be misinterpreted as a threat to anything besides his career. I immediately replaced them with ones specifying what I actually meant.

    10:59 AM · Sep 23, 2025

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is human garbage, and at this point is literally a waste of food.

  71. When Darryl called out Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit for his incitement to violence language, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was not man enough to admit it.

    Keith Olbermann
    @KeithOlbermann

    I oppose and condemn political violence, and the threat of it. All times are the wrong time to leave even an inadvertent impression of it – but this time is especially wrong

    I should’ve acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I’m sorry I delayed.

    10:59 AM · Sep 23, 2025

  72. Boxcheck Momala showed her loser face on The View again this morning.

    And I do believe that moving forward we’re going to remember that the power ultimately is with the people and we have to remind folks that they cannot let their light and their spirit be diminished by who happens to be in the Oval Office at this moment.”

    Or in 2029. Or in 2033.

    After the last four years, voters won’t trust power to be in Democrat hands for a long, long time.

  73. Boxcheck Momala thought the difference between her and Joe Biden was obvious.

    I mean, whoever would have thought that Joe Biden would have sucked off a black politician early in his career in order to advance himself, the way that Boxcheck Momala did?

  74. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

  78. @64 Just as I thought, useless. Deluded, too. His only contribution to society is he’s not a practicing radiologist anymore.

  79. @70 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is human garbage, and at this point is literally a waste of food.”

    I’m a rabbit in your garden eating your lettuce so it isn’t wasted on you.

  80. @72 After the last four years, voters won’t trust power to be in Democrat hands for a long, long time.

    Then I guess we’ll need a third party because after this four years voters won’t trust power to be in Republican hands ever.

  81. slurs gook

    Didn’t dumbfuck vote for someone who used that slur? Didn’t bother it then.

    to minimize embarrassment to Darryl

    translation: Look at me Darryl! me, the dumbfuck of widbee.. acknowledge I exist, please.. boo hoohoohoo.. waaaaaah…

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