Heeeey, the election is coming up. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by November 4. And, hey, you don’t have to just vote. There’s still time to walk a few precincts. Or whatever your favorite candidate wants. Or the coordinated campaign.
Big things like Seattle mayor could use your help. But man oh man, nobody appreciates you like a lower profile campaign.
And if you can’t do that, you can still tell your friends. Or donate, but it’s kind of late for that. Politics is not just a spectator sport.
I leave for a few days and the comment volume goes to shit.
You need me on that wall.
Howz about that inflation number? Low inflation PLUS tariff revs.
Small wonder libbies feel so unempowered. So weak.
NSPM-7 identifies a terrifyingly vague list of First Amendment-protected political beliefs as indications of “domestic terrorism,” including “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity,” “extremism on migration, race, and gender,” and opposition to “traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”
Life-long atheist, “not afraid of burning in hell”…
Headed to a MAGAstapo cell near where he lives.. Seattle last I knew.
Howz about that inflation number?
Americans are worried about the cost of basic needs including healthcare, food, housing and energy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, suggesting those concerns could be critical in next year’s midterm elections that will determine control of the U.S. Congress.
Affordability worries helped power Republican President Donald Trump’s 2024 election. But 10 months into his second term, voters have continued to face high prices for everyday staples – and are looking for relief.
Some 40% of respondents in the six-day poll, which closed on Monday, said candidates’ positions on the cost-of-living would be the single biggest factor in their vote next year, compared to 28% who said the top issue would be protecting democracy and democratic norms. Another 14% said immigration was the biggest issue and 9% said crime.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cost-of-living-worries-haunt-americans-ahead-of-midterms-reutersipsos-poll-finds/ar-AA1P6S2P?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Keep on dreamin’ from that bourbon-soaked, horsey property bubble..
@3
Very weak, expecting us to believe that voters were not concerned about those things before the 2024 election.
Name a time when voters were unconcerned about economic issues.
You are trying to make it seem news that water is wet.
Both SC senators voted to pay the military.
Nobody cares that the government is shut down. GOP has no reason to blink.
Very weak, expecting us to believe that voters were not concerned
Of course they were concerned you asswipe..
But your orange dear leader and its asshole minions and the oligarchs don’t give a shit and are cheating to cling to power..
All things go right orange pile will be impeached.. again..
@3 Tariffs are a hidden VAT tax. Republicans have long wanted to shift the tax burden from income to consumption because high-income taxpayers make out like robbers under a consumption-based tax system.
Letitia James says Trump is weaponizing the justice system against her. Well, for once, she is talking about something with which she has firsthand knowledge.
@5 What’s weak is support for your president and party right now. Obsessed with polls as you are, you should know that.
@8 There’s a not-at-all-subtle difference between prosecuting someone who committed a crime and pursuing a witch hunt against someone who didn’t.
There are 7,077 Paraguayan guaranis to the US dollar. Down here a “comfort” Uber means the AC works. And U17 girls hurl a staggering number of air balls no matter their South American nationality.
Based on what I have seen this week I do not think this is a joke:
Babylon Bee
WNBA Players Assure FBI They Weren’t Missing Layups To Throw Games, They Just Suck At Basketball
Got mixed feelings on this. I prefer our transit agencies Buy American, and the foreign companies have been Buy American compliant in the past by doing assembly in the US or partnering with a U.S. manufacturer. Case in point, Metro’s pioneering articulated buses were from a German company MAN, but assembled by AM General.(Whose domestic product, especially the diesel, was crap. Mechanics had a joke about their 40ft Diesel’s, called them AM Junkpiles)
Gillig is a great American company based in California, been assembling vehicles of various kinds since the days of horse drawn vehicles. Competition has helped them innovate in the past. So far, there electric offerings have few problems, unlike failed startup Proterra, and Canadian-American New Flyer. Not sure how NFI delivers electric buses from their plants in Alabama and Minnesota, but Gillig drives them under their own power all the way from Livermore.(NW Bus Fans FB Group, one of our members is a delivery driver for them), Problem is Gillig may innovate, but play it safe at the same time. They only assemble 29-40’, no articulated. There is only one propulsion-agnostic articulated buses, New Flyer.
Metro is giving Polish manufacturer Solaris a try, no word on where they will assemble in the US, but until they get a more permanent presence, should be NY, where their Spanish parent CAF rail has a plant. Solaris did have to modify their design to meet US Regs, but the Urbino Electric has been in production for more than 12 years. 12 years is the minimum service life using FTA grants, so it looks like it has a better reputation than some of the products here.
https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/usa-tariff-buses/
Stock Europe model Urbino Electric;
https://www.solarisbus.com/en/vehicles/zero-emissions/urbino-electric?_gl=1*1c5sdtg*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTg1MTI4ODgyLjE3NjEzNDQwMzk.*_ga_JKWEFR8KTK*czE3NjEzNDQwMzkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjEzNDQwMzkkajYwJGwwJGgw
North American model:
https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/solaris-emission-free-buses-dominate-the-business/
Also, last week a major European-wide bus trade show that is held every two years was held in Belgium. I noticed in the coverage, a good case for such a tariff. Many of the new entrants in the market, from China, although Turkey also dominated, and a new entrant from Vietnam.
https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/busworld-2025-europe-brussels/
@11 Oh look, Doctor Dumbfuck is visiting Paraguay, the South American Nazi haven that harbored Doctor Mengele and a bunch of other Nazis. Now it’s welcoming him.
So widbee dumbfuck’s answer to all the pants shitter voters who are increasingly worse off is…
nothing new from you all.. quit yer’ bitchin’
cuz Hunter’s dick pics… boxcheck.. cold..
How (un)serious and (un)intelligent..
How’s consumer sentiment? Did that use to be one of Dumbfuck’s barometers?
I guess not anymore.