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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 10/10/25, 8:04 am

Good morning you lovelies (and uggos). I re-download the WordPress app and the bullets look funny. Hope it comes out better, or I can find the settings to go back.

  • All the construction on East Marginal Way is done and you can go bike without any cars… in this weather… for a few days.
  • No uniformed cop at Garfield
  • I also liked Hush season 1, if you haven’t listened to it. And I am excited about season 2.
  • Food vouchers for WIC recipients in Seattle and King County during the shutdown.
  • All this drama in the East Precinct could have been avoided by not giving the position this violent asshole.

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  1. Donald J. Trump spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 9:31 am

    TARIFFS ON CHINA! HUGE TARIFFS!

    Soy bean farmers, FUCK OFF I AM MORE SMARTER. NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT TOFU THAN ME.

    GIVE ME YOUR MINERALS!

  2. Pete Hegseth spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 9:39 am

    Idaho is VITAL to Qatari national defense.

    They are guarding the Epstein files.

  3. Imbecile in Chief spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 10:03 am

    A little more about cancelling the Nevada solar plant. At 6.8gigawatts it would have been nearly double the output of the largest coal fired plant in the country, Scherer Power Plant, Georgia @ 3.6gw.

    It would basically bring another Grand Coulee Dam online.

  4. Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb DC spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 10:12 am

    We have a late in the year entrant for House’s dumbest Representative, Georgia’s Earl “Buddy” (can’t wrap his head around pronouns) Carter.

    Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s why I’m introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize.

    That’s not how Sweden works, Earl.

  5. The South Will Not Rise Again spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 10:27 am

    The call for Jimmy Fallon’s cancellation is here!

    Paramore is on a Hiatus while Hayley Williams steps out of her power punk era. Couple things, the nod to Nina Simone that other than her guitariat/writing partner the entire band is black, ‘strange fruit’

    They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
    So they don’t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them

    Link nukes the post, hayley Williams fallon

  6. Doing Great Work for the PedoParty spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 10:45 am

    House business.

    Mike gavels it in.

    Republicans block a Democratic bill to pay enlisted men during the shut down.

    Mike gavels it closed for another week.

    Mike runs to a camera crew to talk about the Democrat shut down.

    Adelita Grijalva is not sworn in.

  7. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:14 am

    They look pretty bad because they are pretty bad.

    Here’s the deal. How you classify a property as a primary, secondary, or investment home changes everything about the loan. The down payment, the interest rate, the underwriting, all of it.

    Primary or secondary homes can get by with as little as 3 to 10 percent down.

    Investment properties usually require 25 percent or more.

    So if you’re a brand new real estate investor with limited cash, there’s a big incentive to call something a “second home” instead of an “investment property.”

    But that’s why lenders make you sign a Second Home Rider, a separate document where you specifically promise you’ll use it as a second residence, not rent it out.

    You also assert like NINE times in the application process it will be owner occupied…

    Could this kind of thing ever be an honest mistake? I doubt it.

    The facts, at least as reported, look pretty bad.

  8. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:18 am

    Imagine if someone named Trump had done this:

    Nate The Lawyer
    @NatetheLawyer

    Here is the evidence that changed my mind.
    The NY AG has some real issues:

    Evidence DOJ says proves Letitia James defrauded the bank:

    1. Claimed Norfolk home was a “secondary residence” to get better loan terms
    2. Signed a “Second Home Rider” promising to live there
    3. Actually rented it out to tenants
    4. Reported rental income on her tax returns
    5. Told insurer it was owner-occupied
    6. Saved ~$18,933 from the false claim
    — Case filed 10/9/25, E.D. Va.

    3:59 PM · Oct 9, 2025

  9. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:23 am

    Let the carnage begin.

    Russ Vought
    @russvought

    The RIFs have begun.

    9:27 AM · Oct 10, 2025

    There is a bright side. Deathfrogg will have lots of company in that unemployment line. Maybe he can make a new friend.
    ·

  10. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:37 am

    It certainly would explain a lot.

    Laura Ingraham
    @IngrahamAngle

    JD Vance jokes about President Trump’s “longstanding ties” in the Middle East:

    “He also, of course, knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world — Chuck Schumer!” —

    @VP
    10:52 AM · Oct 9, 2025

    The GOP is laughing at Chuck Schumer’s weakness.

  11. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:42 am

    You libbies know that coming clean if you want any chance at all at 2028 means ripping the bandage off of The Biden Crime Family’s corruption, right?

    You libbies realize that continuing to cover for The Clinton Corruption is what cost you 2016 and its three SCOTUS nominations, and what will cost you The Wise Latina’s seat in the next two years, right?

  12. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:48 am

    Hey, at least while I’m waiting in line for TSA screening this weekend I’ll have something to watch other than SEA airport Somali aides being replaced by robotic wheelchairs:

    Noem’s propaganda video machine turns to airport lines

  13. Cool Story Bro spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 11:53 am

    I worked for the McDonald’s of home loans and here’s what I’m speculating, which contradicts at least one sworn affidavit by loan officer involved in the case.

    You should listen to me

  14. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:01 pm

    Funny thing about X – there’s no microphone to turn cut.

    Winsome Earle-Sears
    @winwithwinsome

    Maybe if Jay Jones actually pulled a trigger Abigail Spanberger would ask him to drop out.

    Maybe.
    5:50 PM · Oct 9, 2025

  15. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:05 pm

    Local ABC affiliate in VA: Winsome Sears is an uppity black woman.

    Virginia governor’s debate marked by interruptions and heated exchanges

    WSET
    https://wset.com › news › local › virginia-governors-de…
    15 hours ago — … interruptions, as candidates Winsome Earle-Sears and Abigail Spanberger clashed over key issues in the first and only showdown between the …

  16. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:22 pm

    2) Seeing the comments on Social Media freaking out about what amounts to Qatar have a training detachment at Mountain Home for the F-15s they bought. Doesn’t seem to sinister, Qatar has bought Strike Eagles, MHAFB home to the 366th FW seems like the right place. Singapore has a detachment there.

    Many countries on FMS have training detachments in the US. Luke AFB in Arizona is an example. There is also the Luftwaffe unit in Texas, and wouldn’t be surprised if the Growler was sold overseas, foreign pilots would be training at Whidbey, as the Fleet Replacement Squadron, VAQ-129 Is based there.

    https://www.twz.com/the-lowdown-from-luke-inside-the-air-forces-biggest-fighter-wing

  17. I voted for you and you fired me spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:22 pm

    The RIFs have begun.

    Nothing quite like twatting a paper trail of who the assholes are who crashed the economy in a specifically asshole way.

    Good job.

  18. There Are Jews in That Attic spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:30 pm

    Next up, El Paso where ICE stormed a house of brown people demanding to see their immigrants they can haul away.

    Shot and killed the family dog and only found citizens and legal residents who looked illegal.

  19. lmao spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:32 pm

    The RIFs have begun.

    The Washington Post previously reported that the dismissals were likely to total fewer than 16,000

    The layoffs run counter to recent internal warnings from senior government officials that such dismissals are legally questionable. In the first days of the shutdown, officials privately counseled agencies against conducting reductions in force, or RIFs, while the government lacks funding, because it would probably violate the law, The Post reported this month.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/10/trump-federal-workers-layoffs-government-shutdown/

    Worth it to see the butthurt dumbfucks of the world babbling about those long gone online antagonists who hurt its feels?

    Hardly..

  20. The Paasaain spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:34 pm

    Funny thing about X – there’s no microphone to turn cut.

    The Republican pollster has her down outside the margin of error so the desperation has set in.

    Firing gays is NOT Descrimination

  21. lmao spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:40 pm

    Winsome Sears is an uppity black woman.

    Didn’t kreepee dumbfuck call Tricia Cotham..

    a “black bitch”

    ????

    Yes it did..

  22. Donnie spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 12:43 pm

    Those Chincs!

  23. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 1:23 pm

    7,
    Eventually the Actual Nazi Fucktard will remember how humiliating this was for him with Lisa Cook.

    Thankfully that won’t prevent him from performing precisely the same MAGA monkey dance for our amusement. But eventually he will remember it and relive that humiliation all over again. And again. And again.

  24. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 1:30 pm

    The Biden Crime Family’s corruption,

    Even as billionaire CEO Patrick Byrne becomes a fugitive from a U.S. arrest warrant, still he persists.

  25. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 1:38 pm

    Goldman: “We estimate that seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims increased to about 235k for the week ended October 4th, by combining the Department of Labor (DOL)’s pre-released seasonal factors with this afternoon’s release of state-level claims.”

    Trustifarian Slum-daddies might have a very bad year end if most of their baby-mama tenants can’t make rent and the Section 8 vouchers have disappeared.

  26. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 1:46 pm

    Both Lisa Cook and Tish James have every legal right to both introduce at any trial Fat Hitler’s widely publicized personal messages to Attorney General Pam Bondi instructing her as a condition of continued employment to launch politicallly motivated prosections of all his political enemies, and, through pre-trial discovery, conduct a thorough and painstaking inquiry into the circumstances of that instruction, what actions were taken as a result of it, and all communications attendant to that.

    The prospect is mouth-watering, especially in the instance of a criminal defense in which the president loses any deference to Executive privilege.

    Of course, they can always move to withdraw the indictment.

  27. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 2:19 pm

    Been following this bill, California SB79, which would reform zoning rules that prevent more housing to be built around transit stations. It faced opposition from NIMBY groups and Labor Unions, but still passed the Assembly. Newsom was under pressure to veto it, but he just signed it. The Palisades Fire was even being used by opponents, even though LACMTA doesn’t have any plans for qualifying service in that area in the near future.

    https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10/newsom-signs-massive-california-housing-overhaul/

    As for number of transit corridors this upzones applies too, not that many for such a big state. About 6 lines in LA,4 in San Diego, 4 in San Jose plus CalTrain, 3 in Sacramento, and 9 plus CalTrain in San Francisco.

  28. lmao spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 2:29 pm

    the same MAGA monkey dance for our amusement.

    What it has always been here for.

  29. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 4:03 pm

    “The Good Americans” have now begun hiding people from the MAGAstapo:

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her

    卐 Guess 卐 what 卐 that 卐 makes 卐 Republican 卐 voters 卐 ?

  30. G spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 5:19 pm

    I think every Dem should support this, just to rile up the opposition to go after Don even more.

    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-sparks-maga-fury-with-qatari-air-force-base-in-us-betrayed-10862415

  31. G spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 7:28 pm

    https://time.com/7324832/trump-loses-nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado/

    Picture the Baby Drumpf blimp as you read this

  32. G spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 8:37 pm

    You want peace? Here, listen to this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPr6538Ao0U

    If everyone listened to this and this type of music then there would only be peace and no Neanderthals.

  33. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 9:38 pm

    1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,1 their officers, agents, assigns, and all persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
    a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

    Debbie Brockman, a senior editor and producer for WGN Chicago has now been released without criminal charges after she was violently attacked, thrown to the ground, partially disrobed, and then kidnapped during a MAGAstapo raid in a residential neighborhood in Chicago earlier today.

  34. It’s an honest question spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 9:43 pm

    Do you liberal progressives believe there should be no national borders at all?

  35. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 10/10/25 at 10:47 pm

    We believe there’s no such thing as an honest question from a Republican or conservative.

  36. Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Saturday, 10/11/25 at 7:48 am

    34,

    At least try to educate yourself.

    Most of the construction workers, hospitality workers, service workers, agricultural workers, and business owners detained and placed into cages so far have been present in the United States legally and with the permission of the Department of Homeland Security right up until the moment of their violent arrest.

    You really have to be a complete idiot not to know that.

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