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Wednesday Open Thread

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All right!

  • By next week, light rail will go all the way South to Federal Way.
  • The transition for the first newly elected King County Executive in over a decade was going to be a shakeup. Still, this seems like more than might be necessary.
  • Don’t give those fuckos our voter info.
  • Range Media is having a fundraiser.
  • The legislature is going to be in session before you know it, so hey, write your legislators.

Comments

  1. Democrats have been spared the embarrassment of a Cuellar trial, which had been scheduled for April, 2026.

    Any ideas what DJT47 will get in return?

  2. The Atlantic has a profile of the governor whom YLB refers to only as The Jew.

    Shapiro knew that I would take one more run at his thoughts about Harris. What he didn’t know was that early copies of her book were then making the rounds among reporters. Having obtained the relevant sections of 107 Days that morning, I asked Shapiro if Harris had given him any heads-up about her book. She had not, he said. Then I told him that Harris had taken some shots at him.

    Shapiro furrowed his brow and crossed his arms. “K,” he said.

    The man I observed over the next several minutes was unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts. Harris had accused him, in essence, of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about featuring Pennsylvania artists in the vice-presidential residence; of insisting “that he would want to be in the room for every decision” Harris might make; and, more generally, of hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job, to the point where she reminded him that he would not be co-president.

    “She wrote that in her book?” he said in response to the claim concerning the residence’s art. “That’s complete and utter bullshit.”

    “I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies,” he added.

    Which is unsurprising, since YLB refers to The Second Lady only as JD Vance’s Hindu wife.

  3. Last night’s 13 point ➜ Democratic shift in the TN-07 is actually the smallest of all of this year’s special election shifts recorded so far, which have ranged from that +D 13 shift to a +D 23 point shift in FL-01.

    For reference, in the 2018 midterms Democrats beat their 2017 special election benchmarks by an average of 11 points. The final result produced an 8 point ➜ Democratic shift from 2016.

    However, it’s very important to refrain from applying the full effect of any special election shift to a midterm forecast because of the low and potentially distorted turnouts in specials. Still, even cutting these shift numbers in half may well prove devastating to open swing districts. So it will be very nice if large numbers of New Fascists abandon their swing district seats, as most pundits are now predicting.

  4. @ 3

    So it will be very nice if large numbers of New Fascists abandon their swing district seats, as most pundits are now predicting.

    “Most pundits” predicted a #CrookedHillary walkover in 2016.

    Ann Selzer predicted that Boxcheck Momala would win Iowa. By a lot:

    That poll, which projected a 47% to 44% lead for the vice-president over Donald Trump on the back of older women breaking for Democrats over the issue of reproductive rights, came three days before the national vote, giving Democrats false hope that Harris could win the White House decisively. When the votes were counted, Selzer was off by 16 points as the former president won the state decisively.

    The important thing is that libbies had a really good time for those three days before the election because of what Selzer told them.

    How do you libbies feel now?

  5. Another stake to be driven through the heart of The Religion of EV in little more than an hour:

    The White House will announce new fuel economy standards on Wednesday, according to administration sources.

    The Trump administration will propose rolling back the standards implemented by former President Joe Biden last year, sources told Reuters. Biden required passenger cars and light trucks to have a fuel efficiency of about 50 mpg by 2031.

    President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an announcement at 2:30 p.m. ET from the Oval Office. Executives from Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis are expected to attend the announcement.

    OK, I added the Oxford comma at the end.

  6. Not all EV news is bad. For instance, TSLA shares are up 12 bucks so far today.

    Politics Exclusive
    USPS electric vehicle fleet behind schedule with $3B in taxpayer funds spent — and only 612 trucks built

  7. One of the more honest proclamations by a transitioning male:

    I’m not becoming a woman. I’m giving up pretending to be a man.”

    He’s smart enough to realize that hormones and a dress won’t make him a woman. Nothing will. He’s making that clear up front.

    Refreshing. And hey, you don’t even need to wrestle with the preferred pronoun thing. Just call him Pastor.

  8. Turns out it won’t be climate change that bankrupts us. Nature retracted an article that insinuates otherwise.

    The authors of a highly publicized study predicting climate change would cost $38 trillion a year by 2049 have retracted their paper following criticism of the data and methodology, including that the estimate is inflated.

    “The economic commitment of climate change,” which appeared April 17, 2024, in Nature, looked at how changes in temperature and precipitation could affect economic growth. Forbes, the San Diego Union-Tribune and other outlets covered the paper, which has been accessed over 300,000 times. It has been cited 168 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.

    What will bankrupt us is all of the stupid shit that climate change zealots want us to pay for, based on their silly and unsubstantiated predictions.

    Climate change is a grift.

  9. “Most pundits” predicted…(etc)

    This is true. We have no way to predict which New Fascists will quit their seats ahead of next year’s midterms. And pundit efforts to forecast this are speculative relying almost entirely on rumors often being spread by opponents and rivals, of which there are now rapidly growing numbers among the New Fascists thanks to Fat Pedophile and the party leadership’s disgraceful efforts to protect child rapists, drug dealers, and murderers. Even degenerate characters like Laura Loomer, now granted her own office in the Pentagon, is going to bat with rumors to settle old scores.

    But the speculative nature of those predictions about widespread New Fascism retirements aren’t in any meaningful way comparable to data driven forecasts about +D vote shift based on actual election results. And the best current models of the midterms (which look harrowing for New Fascists) all heavily discount measured shift. And what the fuck? Iowa? Fucking Iowa?
    Iowa has four seats. Three of them are potentially swing. It’s compositionally an outlier state. Its only significance to major electoral politics is its now historical and bygone importance to presidential primaries. And nobody is polling it ahead of next year, so who cares? That was just a very dumb, cope-driven thing to post.

    Condolences, pedophile

  10. A memo from the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research states that at least 10 children were killed by the COVID-19 vaccine.

    I then asked OBPV to perform a detailed analysis of deaths voluntarily reported to the VAERS system– in full interest of balance. Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial, but with case reports, causality is typically assessed on a subjective scale. In this scale ranging from certain to unlikely– certain, possible/likely, and probable are broadly considered as related to the product.

    The team has performed an initial analysis of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024, and concludes that no fewer than 10 are related. If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicted in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher.

    This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.

    https://www.newsweek.com/fda-10-child-deaths-covid-vaccine-11131150

    Regarding the jab and myocarditis among young men, it is likely that YLB’s boys have a far greater risk for vaccine-induced myocarditis than they do of dying from The Wuhan.

    We have much to learn from our global response to The Wuhan. Taking a good, hard look at what worked and, more importantly in this case, what made things worse is essential.

  11. head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

    Previously fired by Fat Pedophile for insufficient groveling and adherance to the orthodox mythology of the New Fascism.

    Another strong post.

  13. @ 9

    Iowa has … significance to major electoral politics is its now historical and bygone importance to presidential primaries.

    In 2016 Iowa Democrats stole a caucus delegate from Bernie and gave it to #CrookedHillary, then refused to audit their own caucus results. This allowed #CrookedHillary to claim that she won Iowa, which helped her limp through the rest of the primary season. It was so bad that Sarah Silverman had to step in.

    In 2020 Biden garnered barely half of Bernie’s caucus votes and finished a distant fourth.

    An argument can be made that both Trump terms resulted in no small part from Democrats’ decision to either manipulate or ignore Iowa’s caucus results.

    Bygone importance is apparently Democrats’ refusal to learn the correct lessons from Iowa’s primary process.

  14. What she ACTUALLY said was

    “I’ve been heavily involved in the Nashville mayoral race because I hate this city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music. I hate all the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘IT CITY’ to the rest of the country.”

    When dumbfuck is the only appropriate name.

    When Michael Jackson had a massive hit with the song ‘Bad’ it was culturally understood that he wasn’t wallowing in EMO feelings of inadequacy. When the kids say, “That burger is FIRE” it is culturally understood that the burger is not aflame. When a Republican says, “I want to STRENGTHEN healthcare” it is culturally understood that they want to eliminate funding for healthcare and let the free market deny anyone they please.

    People who live in Vegas hate ‘Vegas’

    People who live in Manhattan hate Times Square.

    People who live in Nashville hate, Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk and Steakhouse, Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Rooftop Bar, Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa and all the “Fake Country” shit that is there to bring in the hordes of people to get drunk, cause problems, piss on things and act entitled to that ‘Genuine Nashville Experience.”

    It is culturally understood.

  15. @ 14

    It is culturally understood.

    Tell me more about Nashville culture. Maybe start with Steve Martin, because you love all the big names you googled, like Miranda and Aldean.

    In that video there are two women flanking the banjos. Wife and I saw each of them in concert, headlining their respective shows, earlier this year.

    So tell me more about the culture. I’m eager to learn from such a sage as yourself.

  16. Anti vaxxer at FDA writes memo on the anecdotal observations of 10 kids out of 22million under 18 fully vaccinated and alleged medical professional Dumbfuck proves again that he has never been near a medical textbook.

  17. @15

    So you went to Nashville as a tourist? I was there circa 2010 and unless someone is paying me for my services not planning on returning. It was crass commercialism BEFORE the celebrity Applebee’s started popping up.

    Did you think this was helpful?

  18. 13,
    When gaslighting fails (or gets called out effectively) a meandering journey into the realm of the non sequitur is almost as good for coping.

    Again more condolences, pedophile.

  19. Man, Sleepy Joe was really off.

    They have cocaine manufacturing plants, okay. And then they sell us their cocaine. We appreciate that very much.

    (C’mon, you know who really said it on December 2, 2025)

  20. So tell me more about the culture.

    I’d be just thrilled if the Actual Pedophile Fucktard could share with all us “libbies” more about his direct, personal experiences with the culture and people of Colorado.

    For example. 😎

  21. Wife and I saw each of them in concert, headlining their respective shows, earlier this year.

    Translation: “I watch a lot of YouTube in between gaslight posting on HA.” Obviously.

  22. refers to only as The Jew.

    Link? I could provide a link where kreepee shitfuck refers to Shapiro as “filthy jew”..

    And after Shapiro prescribed going after private equity for what they’re doing to healthcare in his state?

    yawwwn..

  23. Wife and I saw each of them in concert, headlining their respective shows, earlier this year.

    lmao.. a clear step up from a pitifully tired and dull goth rocker..

    Amy Lee sucks.

  24. The Second Lady only as JD Vance’s Hindu wife.

    kreepee dumbfuck not only voted for a warmonger who spewed “gook” on the campaign trail..

    it touted endlessly some dude with all the charm of used car salesman that “understands [vulture] kapitalism” with a Mormon wife in tow.

  25. a far greater risk

    the more kreepee dumbfuck stims itself on the two wheeled crotch vibrator, the greater the risk life becomes a jubilee for the two sons.

  27. Inspector General determines Scotchertary Pete violated policy by using Signal in discussing classified war plans with multiple individuals without security clearance putting the lives of service members in jeopardy.

  28. “Why isn’t Japan buying these new 16MPG F-250s? I made fuel consumption a centerpiece of these powerful beasts” -Donnie

  29. Pete’s gonna need a pardon

    Kyle Griffen
    @kylegriffen1.bsky.social

    MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General’s investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

    Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

  30. ADP

    ADP

    ADP

    Fox News:

    “A declining jobs number will lead to interest rate cuts which is EVEN BETTER than you finding a job.”

  34. “He’s right. Affordability is a con job. We can afford Christmas in Munich and Summer in St. Bart’s and a Maibach.”

    A roomful of exclusively white people as a dementia patient moves on to calling Somalis ‘garbage.’

  36. Donnie

    “They had a problem today with a bomb that went off. Hurt some people pretty badly, probably killed some people. Just happened. But we have peace in the Middle East. People don’t realize it.”

    BBC
    Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say

  37. The incredible incompetence of Pam Bondi and crew.

    Dazzling detail of Bondi holding a press conference to announce a Federal lawsuit against six states with voter privacy laws to force them to provide all their personal data on voters is THERE IS NO LAWSUIT! At least not as of the time Bondi grandstanded for cameras

    (Seattle Times)

    Indeed, a notation in the federal court docket said the DOJ complaint had been filed “incorrectly/improperly” and that the appearance in the case by DOJ Maureen Riordan and Eric Neff, was “not proper” under federal court rules. The notation said formal notice of the lawsuit filing “will not be sent until corrected.”

  38. @ 36

    Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say

    Shorter, more truthful @ 36: IDF struck back

    Four IDF soldiers were wounded on Wednesday, one of them severely, after terrorists fired at them while they were on patrol in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Wednesday.

    The soldiers, from the Golani Brigade, were performing their duties in the enclave when they were attacked. The terrorists reportedly fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the troops, sources told Walla.

    According to sources from IDF Southern Command, the incident was described as a “serious violation of the ceasefire agreement,” while other sources told Walla that “it would not pass without a response from the IDF.”

    And so IDF did.

    The broader cease-fire is holding. Which libbies hate.

  42. The one good thing about this Gaza War is the Israelis cannot “trot out” the Holocaust business to elicit sympathy and support from the West. The Israelis have proven they’re not nice folks. They’re just like everyone else when it comes to brutality.

  43. The broader cease-fire is holding.

    “The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 70,117 killed, with 170,999 injured…

    Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 360 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 922, while 617 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.”

    https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-rafah-crossing-rapid-support-forces-ransom-el-fasher-ice-detention-centers-drop-site-daily

  44. Shorter, more truthful

    Proceeds to replace one paragraph with three and not explaining why if there was a guerrilla attack somewhere else, evidence not provided natch, tents in a refugee camp were bombed.

  45. How must it feel to peel your lips of your boss’s cock just long enough to show all the world on live TV you’d agree that the sun is actually the moon if he demanded it.

    It happened today after secretary Real World tried to blame his failed FAA on Pete Buttigieg (pronounced correctly) only to have a doddering Alzheimer’s patient interrupt and say, “No, it Boot-edge-edge” and reply, “You’re right sir it’s Boot-edge-edge. I’m really sorry.”

  46. She’s white, blonde, a U.S. citizen, speaks English with no foreign accent. Absolutely nothing about her remotely suggests she might be an illegal. No probable cause, no reasonable suspicion, yet she was forcibly yanked from her vehicle, physically assaulted, and taken prisoner by armed men pretending to be law enforcement . This isn’t legitimate law enforcement by a long shot. It probably was an armed road rage incident, and these thugs should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

    https://www.rawstory.com/feds-forcibly-yank-woman-in-medical-scrubs-from-car-as-she-screams-she-s-a-us-citizen/

    The drivers honking at these Nazis clearly aren’t happy with the fascist invasion of their community.

  47. The Miami Herald says they attacked her because she refused to show ID. We’re not a “papers, please” country, and she’s not required to, unless she’s been pulled over for a traffic violation, but ICE and Border Patrol aren’t authorized to enforce traffic laws or write traffic tickets. They violently seized her for exercising her Fourth Amendment rights. I hope she sues and gets a big settlement.

  51. Trump is old, doddering, and slipping away. His recent MRI points to a tight-lipped medical problem. If he croaks in office, I’ll bet there will be huge celebrations in Times Square and cities across America. I’m not saying whether I want that, one way or the other; I’m only offering a prediction.

  52. “I can’t imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water. That is clearly unlawful.”

  53. @49 Good riddance. Rumors that Ridgway is dying are unsubstantiated and DOC says there’s been no change in his status, but we can wish, can’t we?

  54. @52 And lest there be any question about what they knew and when they knew it,

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike, according to two people familiar with the matter.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/pentagon-knew-boat-attack-left-survivors-but-still-launched-a-follow-on-strike-ap-sources-say/

  55. @ 43

    “The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 70,117 killed, with 170,999 injured…

    Requires willing suspension of disbelief, but sure. Whatever the Palestinian Ministry of Health claims, HA libbies will swallow without scrutiny.

    Boy, that famine disappeared right quick, didn’t it?

  57. Shorter, more truthful @ 36: IDF struck back

    Weren’t Palestinians just striking back? I guess Israelis are a bunch of snowflakes that can’t handle the taste of their own medicine.

  58. Requires willing suspension of disbelief, but sure.

    We can count on kreepfuck to deliver the IDF figures. Or can we?

    Boy that kreepfuck has no comment on all the funny last namers killed since the “ceasefire”…

    cuz “yay IDF!”

    kreepshit would say this guy must be “arab”…

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

    Aguilar made it to Tucker’s show but Tucker’s been a little squishy for a while, amirite?

  59. Speaking of Nashville, when Sam Moore says, ‘Play it Steve” part way through the R&B classic “Soul Man” he’s talking about Steve Cropper who died this morning in Nashville.

    721 tracks as a session guy or bandmate. Longtime collaborator with Otis Redding (co Wrote “Dock of the Bay”) .

  60. 54,
    Beautiful. The reporting coming from multiple named sources in the Pentagon now confirms that a crime was committed under either or both of the laws of armed conflict and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, both of which are fully incorporated into the United States criminal code.

    And that means that under the regulations an investigation must be commenced independent of the Department of Justice within NCIS and JAG. It’ll unfold like clockwork from here.

    God.
    Damn.
    The regulations.
    😄👍🥂

  61. @ 59

    Well done, sir. And no mention of The Blues Brothers, too.

    Never saw this guy. More of a Bonamassa fan. Or Di Meola, outside the blues genre.

  62. This is what happens when you trust a Republican:

    Florida charter school company run by GOP figure leaves parents frustrated: “They dropped the ball”

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

    A charter school is a private school supported by taxpayers’ money with no public accountability for who can attend, what is taught, or whether children learn. And, sometimes, they’re just a piggybank for some “entrepreneur”.

  63. 53)I might be against the Death Penalty, but there are a few in Walla Walla that I wouldn’t miss if they had been given the duty to clean the upper deck of the Execution Chamber and the Guard stumbles on purpose hitting the trigger.(Although impossible, saw the video about the closure of the chamber, and there was always a plank over the trap door to prevent such accidents)

  64. @55 Casualty figures aside, it’s perfectly clear that IDF has targeted hospitals, schools, food distribution points, journalists, doctors and nurses, aid workers, children in food lines, and other noncombatants.

    Pete Hegseth takes his inspiration from them.

  65. @63 Some warped people have it coming, and some states can’t be trusted to dish it out only to those who have it coming.

  66. While Dear Leader goes full racist for a second day…

    Representative Omar, “ I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he’s trying to deflect from the failures that he’s had as president … he’s fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party.”

  67. Elijah must be beside himself with joy now that the Republican he has for years claimed placed the pipe bombs on J6J5 has been arrested by the FBI.

    I wonder if it’s Ted Cruz. Or the skinny senator from Missouri, maybe.

    Elijah, what’s your guess?

    Update: It’s Brian Cole from northern VA, says NBC News. So the name of a white guy from central Kansas, meaning he’s gotta be a Republican, amirite?

  68. And then there are the libbie twats of HA, who receive their news primarily from the Palestinian Ministry of HealthRaw Story.

    Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a stark warning this week, arguing that young Americans are increasingly turning against Israel because they are consuming misleading and often fabricated social media content about the Gaza war.

    Speaking at an Israel Hayom summit in New York, Clinton said that young people were being influenced by “totally made up” videos depicting alleged Israeli actions in Gaza, many of which she claimed were nothing more than stylized pro-Hamas propaganda.

    Clinton noted that more than half of young Americans now receive their news primarily from platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, where short, highly sensationalized clips often spread faster than verified information. She warned that these platforms prioritize emotion over context, leaving users vulnerable to narratives that ignore decades of Israeli security dilemmas, Hamas terrorism, and the broader regional picture.

    Not-so-young Americans are being suckered, as well. See @ 43.

  70. Secretary Real World really knows what ‘Merca wants.

    This (gas guzler) rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers.

    Now, I owe it to myself to tell you that if you’re taking the whole tribe cross-country, the Wagon Queen Family Truckster… You think you hate it now, wait ’til you drive it.

  71. @68 Does she ever ask why Bibi gave munee, suitcases of cash, to Hamas?

    Does she ever ask why Israel, the country that can do no wrong, FAILED to defend the border with Gaza? And that the female IDF observers whose job it was to monitor the border, their reports were ignored and were taken hostage as a result?

    There can only be one conclusion: that Bibi, with the support of the settler fanatics, and most of the IDF wanted to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

  72. It wasn’t just Katie. Bruce is a shitty corrupt executive

    Via Erica C Barnett

    Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell reemerged today to announce a slate of Equitable Development Initiative grants including $183,000 to the Royal Esquire Club, the private men’s club he chaired and where he held his election night party.

    As KUOW reported, Harrell also had his city council staff do work for the Royal Esquire Club while on the clock, later characterizing the work (which included inviting people to Club events, collecting membership dues, and filling out their insurance paperwork) as “constituent services.”

    Harrell did the same thing shortly after his election as mayor, funneling $800,000 to the men’s social club through the same program, which funds organizations “working on anti-displacement efforts in high displacement risk neighborhoods

  73. the skinny senator from Missouri, maybe.

    the coward who fled from the “cosplaying grandmothers” after giving them the nazi fist pump… (rolls eyes)

  74. Biggest loser: Mark Kelly

    An initial strike on the boat left two survivors who were later seen climbing back onto the boat, the source said.

    They were believed to be potentially in communication with other boats in the vicinity and were salvaging some of the drugs that had been the boat’s cargo, the source said.

    Because of these actions, the two survivors were determined to be “still in the fight” and considered to be valid targets.

    And who made this determination?

    The source told ABC News that, as is typical with targeted strikes, a military lawyer was with Bradley providing legal advice throughout the Sept. 2 incident to ensure any actions were legally authorized.

    I’ll bet that military lawyer knows the correct definition of “fleeing felon”, unlike HA’s useless, bloviating Legal Eagle.

    Cry more, libbies.

  75. The WNBA is trying to kill themselves off. The new contract offer does include more money but…

    Lengthens and Moves up the start of the season..things that will become impossible for players:

    Playing in the NCAA Tournament because the season will start mid-March.

    Playing in the Euro League, season ends in Mid-March

    The current Unrivaled schedule.

    Other league demands, attendance at a yearly ‘combine’ tryout for all rookie players for pre season evaluation (no financial compensation), DECLINING revenue sharing yearly as the league grows.

  76. Affordability is a Democratic hoax just like Russia Russia Russia and thr pictures of me licking ketchup off a 16 year old.

    Procter & Gamble (Tide, Tampax, Gillette, pampers, etc) said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the U.S. in part because of higher costs from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

    On Tuesday, the organization estimated that tariffs will increase its costs by about $1 billion before tax for fiscal 2026, the Associated Press reported.

  78. @ 75

    … the season will start mid-March.

    The league has proposed starting training camp on April 1. Presumably the NCAA athletes are already in playing condition on that date, and they can gain familiarity with their teammates as the season progresses, following their exit from the tournament. If that’s a problem, it’s the same problem for all teams, and pro leagues like MLB seem to have little trouble assimilating traded or called-up players onto their squads.

    This isn’t the problem you think it is.

    What will eventually kill off the WNBA is the realization that the need for substantial subsidies will never go away, because the WNBA sucks.

  79. It would be so easy to google something before posting.

    The league proposed starting training camps as early as mid-March in its most recent proposal. The current CBA allows the league to begin training camp as early as April 1, but it has never opened camps before mid-April under the present CBA

    And the baseball thing is a stupid comparison. Since the turn of the century four players total have gone from the draft to the majors without minor league stint. 24 since the first draft in 1965. Seems like ballplayers need some assimilation time.

    Enjoy the video of Sarah Ashlee Barker, 3.1ppg rookie season absolutely dog walking a mouthy dude. (You tube link nukes the post)

  80. Elijah, what’s your guess?

    Reading that a beleagured Kash Patel, under fire for misuse of taxpayer resources to woo his girlfriend at taxpayer expense and desperately seeking some kind of win, based the arrest and pending charges on two year old evidence that has already been painstakingly reviewed having to do with credit card receipts, my guess would be that they don’t have a good case.

    But it’s always possible that if the guy is guilty he somehow managed to forget to destroy some incriminating physical evidence which may be collected subsequent to arrest. Or maybe he’ll just confess. But Occam’s Razor tells me to expect the charges to be dismissed after a few months of useful and prolonged delay.

    MAGA! – keeping American safe for taxpayer funded blowjobs at 40,000 feet on the way to Branson.

  81. Misouri democrats are almost assured of getting enough signatures to put the new gerrymandered map on hold until it gets a vote of the people.

    That upset Republicans so much Politico is reporting the AG is calling ICE on signature gatherers. No evidence of citizenship or not just…go fuck with these people we want to stop from doing their constitutional rights pretty please Trump Goons.

  82. ICE now hiring racists straight out of high school who continue to fail the open book entrance exam.

    And cutting training from 16 weeks to 8. When will they announce the ICE draft?

  83. I mean Putin wouldn’t launch an attack in NATO airspace right? He wants peace.

    FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.

    The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.

  84. SNAP makes you taxes too high.

    Hunter stole your job.

    Somalians

    A little-known rare earths start-up with about 30 employees has won a blockbuster funding deal from the Pentagon, three months after Donald Trump Jr’s venture capital firm invested in the company. 

    Vulcan Elements will receive a $620mn loan from the US defence department as part of a $1.4bn deal to increase the supply of magnets for industries alongside partner ReElement Technologies. The pact also includes more than $550mn in private financing and other federal incentives.

  85. Pre Trial pardon of a Texas Republican who was indicted by your current Justice Department should raise eyebrows.

    But fuck it. HE GAVE ME MONEY!

  86. @67 Perp or scapegoat? Do you trust this FBI’s competence as blindly as Dumbfuck does? Time will tell whether they got the actual bomb planter or this arrest is just another partisan show and tell …

  87. @74 Still trying to justify murder, eh? Well, I’m here to shed some light on the declaration that the survivors were “still in the fight”:

    https://www.ms.now/opinion/pete-hegseth-signal-report-military-risks-boat-strikes-double-tap

    Now how hard is it for a Navy equipped with aircraft carriers, destroyers, helicopters, etc., to pick up two guys clinging to the wreckage of a blown-up boat? Probably easier than plucking astronauts from the ocean, a skill the Navy’s had for over 60 years.

    Dumbfucks are gonna dumbfuck …

  88. @78 You suck, too, and you haven’t gone away, so who’s subsidizing you? Or do you denigrate women athletes as a hobby?

  89. @79 The woman-hating incel is just venting his antagonism toward all things female, that’s all.

    He doesn’t really enjoy fucking the horse all that much. It’s simply all he’s got.

  90. @84 While subsidizing Don Jr., are they still bleating about that solar company that Biden or somebody subsidized?

    #gophypocrites

  91. 86,
    Probably perp. Unless they’ve stooped to fabricating evidence to obtain indictments rather than just committing perjury.

    I’ve read the affidavit. According to it he used and carried his own personal phone while scouting the target locations and the tower pings support this. The purchase histories on the credit cards are fairly comprehensive. He continued to make the same purchases after Jan 6th. Enough for an indictment. Maybe not enough for a conviction.

  92. Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who has conducted a more thorough review of the incident than Doctor Kneejerk has, said:

    “I reviewed the video, and it’s deeply, deeply troubling,” Himes said. “The fact is that we killed two people who were in deep distress and had neither the means nor obviously the intent to continue their mission.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5633411-himes-drug-boat-strike-video/

    I’m not sure what two guys clinging to the wreckage of a blown-up boat, who probably were wounded in the initial strike, could do to “aid other drug boats in the area.”

    And if there were other drug boats in the area, why weren’t they attacked, too? Does the U.S. Navy have only one missile?

  93. @91 According to the affidavit, the suspect

    lives in a single-family house with his mother and other family members [and] works in the office of a bail bondsman in northern Virginia.

  94. 93,
    Yes, he does seem to fit the “incel” profile.

    The media narrative being pushed by FBI “sources” is that he’s some kind of “anarchist”. I’m not really sure what kind of “anarchist” sufficiently committed to target political party offices with bombs during a MAGA riot would spend his days keeping the sytem running smoothly by running down skip traces. But none of those MAGA people really make any sense.

  95. @ 85

    Pre Trial pardon of a Texas Republican who was indicted by your current Justice Department should raise eyebrows.

    Just as the pre-(second) trial pardon of the indicted POS son of the president, already convicted once, for everything he may have done for more than a decade should have raised yours.

  96. Joe Biden & Co were far more corrupt than #CrookedHillary & Co.

    Although each of them did give us a term of Trump. So it’s not like their sins were unpunished.

  97. @ 92

    And if there were other drug boats in the area, why weren’t they attacked, too? Does the U.S. Navy have only one missile?

    The military has many, many missiles. You ignore the fact that pressuring the drug runners who prop up Maduro might result in a bloodless coup and a political reset of Venezuela, without having to use more than a few of them on drug boats.

  98. Joe Biden & Co were far more corrupt

    Now do the crypto bro party at the White House. And that pardon of a crypto munee launderer for terrorists and rogue states?

    All of which may be a piker compared the AI bubble crowd. yawwwn..

  99. the drug runners who prop up Maduro

    drugs.. hmmm. oh yeah you voted for a guy who said this country was addicted..

    to oil..

    thanks for playing.

  101. @ 92

    Say, what else was mentioned in that story, Legal Eagle?

    “The admiral confirmed that there had not been a ‘kill them all’ order, and that there was not an order to grant ‘no quarter,’” Himes said.

    Leave it to a useless, bloviating failed attorney to leave out the exculpatory part.

  102. TD Cowen sent its guys to ride around in autonomously driven Tesla taxis in Austin.

    They liked what they saw:

    TD Cowen has maintained its Buy rating on Tesla stock with a $509 price target after analysts took three RoboTaxi rides covering nearly 40 miles in Austin. We have been tracking Tesla’s autonomous ambitions since the June launch, and this marks one of the first instances of Wall Street analysts conducting hands-on due diligence in the actual vehicles.

    The investment firm paid $1.08 per mile for approximately two hours of autonomous rides, describing the experience as “impressive all around.”

    Perhaps more significantly, TD Cowen believes Tesla is on track to remove safety monitors from the Austin fleet by year-end, a milestone that would put the company on par with Waymo’s fully unsupervised operations.

    Metric Details
    Price Target $509 (18% upside from $430.17)

    As a reminder, TSLA shares were at $238 when Elijah most recently predicted the company’s death and dismemberment. They’re trading a little higher than that now.

  104. @95 Does anyone believe for an instant that your candidate wouldn’t pardon his sons?

    In the interim, he’s sharpening his pardoning skills on various scumbags, most of whom were convicted of some kind of thievery.

    Hypocrisy much?

  105. @97 You actually believe that blowing up a few fishing boats might accomplish what the voters of Venezuela couldn’t?

  108. I’m not in favor of some tortured gerrymander of Washington state. I think for simplicity’s sake our congressional districts should consider of 10 horizonal stripes from west to east with the north and south district borders consisting of straight lines.

  110. Very cerebral contribution to the discussion.

    Very cerebral of you to ignore pants shitter pardoning the Honduran drug runner.

    All about the drugs huh? Nothing about oil or covering the crimes of the rich pedophiles.

  111. @ 105

    You actually believe that blowing up a few fishing boats might accomplish what the voters of Venezuela couldn’t?

    Yes. Know why?

    The Venezuelan government hasn’t permitted the public to own guns since 2012:

    BBC
    https://www.bbc.com › world-latin-america-18288430
    Venezuela bans private gun ownership
    Jun 1, 2012 — Venezuela brings in a new law banning the commercial sale of guns and ammunition…

    Let’s not forget that 2A exists to protect US citizens against their government, should a need arise.

    So yeah. Pissing off the gun-toting criminals in Venezuela will accomplish more than upsetting people who are unarmed and therefore unable to do anything about it.

    For a guy who used to spew “Liberals must arm.” in the most inappropriate of circumstances you display a stunning ignorance of the importance of citizens possessing some ability to defend themselves. Even if it’s against their own government.

  112. Incel isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.

    Insider Wire
    @InsiderWire

    #BREAKING: First alleged photo of Jan 6 D.C. pipe bomber suspect, Brian Cole Jr.

    2:39 PM · Dec 4, 2025

    The first thing that comes to mind is “Obama voter”.

  113. @ 112

    The pipe bomber’s daddy collaborated with Benjamin Crump.

    Brian Cole, Jr. worked for a bail bonds company run by his father that worked to free illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and sued the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security.

    Weeks before 30-year-old Cole Jr. allegedly planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democrat and Republican parties on January 6, 2021, a court ruled against the company in its lawsuit attacking the Trump administration on immigration issues, The Daily Wire has learned. An FBI affidavit in the case notes that the suspect works for a bail bond company and lives with his mother.

    Later in 2021, the company held a press conference bemoaning anti-black racism with a left-wing attorney. Cole Sr. and Benjamin Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, attempted to sic the Biden Department of Justice on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions about the bail bond company.

    SNL gonna have a field day with this.

  116. @111 Let’s not forget that 2A exists to protect US citizens against their government, should a need arise.

    IIRC, some of your buddies defined “need” as Biden winning a legitimate election.

  118. @ 103

    After all those interminably long years of waiting to ascend to the top job, he’ll be out the door and under the marble floor in the blink of an eye. Like being Pope for 33 days.

    But not like being Al Gore..

  119. The first thing that comes to mind is “Obama voter”.

    Oh we see kreepfuck was all in on 2012’s “urban vote”.. from the lips of Rmoney and randroid Ryan to its pea brain.

    And here we thought the troll gloated about higher black employment under pants shitter 1.0 leading to 2024.

  121. So kreepfuck is so focused on its heroic pants shitter killing drug runners.. Shoot first, ask questions later or not at all. That’s the repuke way now.

    So why did the pants shitter pardon a Honduran asshole who ran 400 tons of cocaine into this county?

    Trump did not immediately state his reason for pardoning Hernández. However, the former Honduran leader is connected to multiple wealthy Trump supporters, including Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. The New York Times reported in 2024 that Thiel (who bankrolled Vice President JD Vance’s 2022 U.S. Senate campaign), along with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen, worked with Hernández when he was president of Honduras’ congress to launch a “start-up city” called Próspera.

    “Próspera is a private, for-profit city, with its own government that courts foreign investors through low taxes and light regulation,” the Times’ Rachel Corbett wrote. “Businesses can choose a regulatory framework from a menu of 36 countries or customize their own.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sparks-outrage-after-pardoning-convicted-drug-kingpin/ar-AA1RmlUc

    “customize their own” regulation? As in NO regulation? Lmao.. Yet another corrupt favor for the crypto and other tech bros.

    Hernandez is the drug runner who “understands capitalism”.. yeah, that’s the ticket

  123. A record of 1,500 private jet aircraft have been landed in Davos to have very high minded conversations about inequality and carbon sequestration.

  130. “I still support Trump,” he insisted, pointing to his foreign policy and immigration crackdown, and even the tariffs. “I think he was the lesser of the two evils,” he said. He’s got no regrets.

    >> He would rather go bankrupt and die, so long he get to keep scapegoating the people he hates and avoid taking any responsivity for his choices.

  131. @ 126

    “ICE has LOST an 6 year old child after detaining his father.”

    The office attempts to release children to sponsors, which can include parents, relatives and guardians, and federal policy dictates that the government vet these sponsors via interviews or background checks.

    Despite these safeguards, some migrant children have ended up in unsafe situations, though the exact number is not known.

    It’s also protocol for the refugee resettlement office to follow up with sponsors around 30 days after the child’s release, but a percentage of these phone calls have gone unanswered during the Biden and Trump administrations.

    Both Republicans and Democrats have previously cited these missed calls to make claims that unaccompanied children were lost by those administrations. However, unanswered calls do not necessarily equate to these children being missing or in danger, experts say.

    “It does not mean that the child’s in an unsafe place. It means someone didn’t answer the phone,” said Jennifer Podkul, chief of global policy and advocacy for Kids in Need of Defense, an organization providing legal representation for unaccompanied children.

    The liberal homosexual community hangs its head in shame each and every time you spew.

  132. During initial interviews with FBI agents following his arrest, Brian Cole informed his interrogators that like all the other January 6th rioters he was there in DC that day because he believed the lie that the 2020 presidential election had been “stolen”.

    Now let us never speak of this again.

  133. #131. All the back story and what about isms doesn’t change the fact that ICE specifically lost this 6 year old boy.

    ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.

    You choose to have no empathy or human compassion. You revel in the racism and cruelty.

  134. @ 133

    … the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.

    It’s now Friday morning. If he’s since been found would you tell us?

    More importantly (although you will never be able to comprehend why it’s more important), would your unnamed source for this story tell you?

  135. @ 133,

    For what it’s worth, I never would have told you about Brian Cole’s confession to being a Stop the Steal January 6th rioter.

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