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Wednesday Open Thread

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Try to stay dry, geez. I have failed, even with a heavy raincoat. It doesn’t cover from the knees down. Anyway, you didn’t come here to read about my soaked ankles…

  • Following the Spokane 9 has been at turns inspiring and harrowing. Hope the people who took plea bargains can figure out what’s next.
  • The SPOG contract passing is all kinds of gross, but maybe Saka has seen the light.
  • Here’s hoping Mayor-elect Wilson turns off the cameras that are easily abused by ICE and other Federal criminals.
  • Pathway, more like pathetic-compared-to-sidewalk-way.

Comments

  1. Here’s hoping Mayor-elect Wilson turns off the cameras that are easily abused by ICE and other Federal criminals.

    Well, that’s one way to interpret your link.

    Another is that she fucking lied to dupe libbies into supporting her:

    Mayor-Elect Wilson Won’t Commit To Shutting Down The Surveillance Cameras She Campaigned Against

    But now that she’s won her race and even as cities across the state have opted to backpedal on their own surveillance systems, Wilson’s not making any strong promises to shut off the cameras she initially opposed.

    “I’m aware of the decisions by Olympia, Redmond, and other cities to turn off their surveillance cameras, and I’m going to work with immigrant rights groups and civil rights advocates to evaluate whether Seattle should also scale back or disable the surveillance expansion that was authorized by the outgoing mayor and council,” Wilson said in a statement to The Burner.

    So it’s “Hey, the cameras are there because of The Evil Bruce. But now that I’m about to take office, I’m fine with having them while claiming that my hands are tied.”

    Meanwhile, gullible fucks like Carl provide Mayor-Elect Katie the necessary cover.

  2. Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease…

    dan turrentine
    @danturrentine

    I have said it since late Spring, when I heard from two birdies in her orbit:
    @KamalaHarris badly wants to run again in 2028.

    From nytimes.com
    7:12 AM · Dec 9, 2025
    ·

  3. She means @ 2 the illegals. The criminals. The chicks with dicks whose boyfriends murder conservatives.

    “This sounds really corny,” she said in the wide-ranging interview with The New York Times in Nashville. “But we have to stand for the people. And I know that that sounds corny. I know that. But I mean it. I mean it.”

    That’s why voters picked the lying asshole instead of her.

  4. The chicks with dicks whose boyfriends murder conservatives.

    The “boyfriend” was one hell of a fucking shot..

    One shot.. with an ancient bolt action WWI vintage sportified rifle.

    Not bad for an angry queer who was raised Mormon. lmao..

    Dang, is kreepfuck trembling in terror before the sticky keyboard atm?

  6. @5 I understand Oswald scored high as a marksman in the Marines. A cheap Italian mail order rifle and a magic bullet..

    But Ted Kankun’s dad was involved somehow.

    Your beloved orange pants shitter babbled so..

  8. “Hey, the cameras are there because of The Evil Bruce. But now that I’m about to take office, I’m fine with having them while claiming that my hands are tied.”

    Again the kreepfuck is having an attack of the vapors.

    That Katie will conduct surveillance on conservatives in Seattle and sic the “boyfriends of chicks with dicks” on them.

    Sorry always wrong wingers, your plans for a beach head in Seattle are foiled.

    Anyone remember Don Ward? Stefan Sharansky? Ann Davidson?

  9. DJT47 does something good for YLB’s boys:

    MoneyWatch
    Trump administration moves to end the SAVE plan for millions of student borrowers

    Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in Tuesday’s announcement that the Biden Administration’s policies unfairly shifted student loan debt onto American taxpayers. The Education Department estimates the SAVE program would have cost taxpayers more than $342 billion over ten years.

    The Biden administration announced the SAVE program in 2023, calling it the “most affordable student loan repayment plan ever.” The plan allowed 4.6 million of the program’s more than 7 million enrollees to lower their monthly bills to $0 per month, according to Protect Borrowers, an advocacy group.

    Money not spent by the taxpayer and instead paid by the fucking deadbeats is money YLB’s boys won’t have to pay interest on in the future.

  10. No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman, Island County edition:

    At the close of an Island County commissioners meeting, Chair Melanie Bacon (D-Langley) read a prepared statement expressing frustration with the personal animosity between Commissioners Janet St. Clair (D-Camano Island) and Jill Johnson (R-Oak Harbor). While praising their work on the budget, she said the behind-the-scenes disrespect and hurtful behavior meant she could not support either as 2026 chair and believed making one of them chair would worsen the situation. Bacon ended the meeting before they could respond. The next day, at a work session, both St. Clair and Johnson said they would support Bacon remaining chair, though Johnson denied responsibility for the conflict and referenced prior grievances.

    Bacon’s observation was self-serving, to an extent: The three-person commission will remain under her chairpersonship.

  12. No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman

    Next thing you know, kreepfuck will babble repuke Ted Bundy was a “chick with a dick”.

  14. @ 11

    Don’t help students so they can buy houses and cars and start families.

    YLB, do we make their mortgage payments for them, too, so they can go on European vacations and invest in cryptocurrency?

    Is there any point, at all, when we stop coddling them?

  15. do we make their mortgage payments for them, too

    naaahh.. just start state owned enterprises instead.

    aaahh.. the man who “understands [vulture] kapitalism” is smiling your way..

    Bonzo is grinning in its grave.

    Aren’t they?

  16. @ 13

    You need to read beyond the title and subtitles of your links, YLB:

    That trend appears to have reversed in the last two years, however. This year, the S&P has tallied 412 reorganizations versus 269 liquidations, suggesting more companies are turning to bankruptcy court as a way to reduce debt rather than close their doors.

    Companies incurred high-interest debt during the Biden years, and now are offloading the debt and replacing it with lower-interest debt. Shareholders get wiped out and bond holders take a haircut, but the company continues to operate.

    YLB, fewer companies are closing their doors under DJT47 than they did under Biden. That’s what the article says. More companies are offloading their Biden-era high-interest debt and replacing it with DJT47-era debt at lower interest rates.

    The article reports the opposite of what you need to be true, YLB. Ponder that for a bit.

  17. Is there any point, at all, when we stop coddling them?

    Your whole life has been driven towards “coddling”..

    Don’t tax me! One dime!

    Not for Star Wars.. not for peacekeeper missiles… not for B1 bombers.. not for endless wars.. not for an endless occupation of Afghanistan.. especially not to compensate for tax cuts for assholes way richer then you’ll ever be..

    Not one penny.

  19. Are Democrats racist and misogynist if they don’t waste as many tens of millions of dollars propping up Jasmine Crockett as they did propping up Beto!?

  20. I was not so long ago that YLB was counting on seven rate cuts during 2024 so that Biden could be re-elected.

    YLB fell a bit short. Come to think of it, so did Biden.

  21. Prime rate was 3.25% when Biden took office. It took Biden not long at all to drive up the prime rate by more than double, to 8.5%.

    The middle quintile of Americans suffered for more than a year before the first prime rate cut from that level.

    Prime rate of 8.5% helped drive Joe Biden from office.

  22. counting on seven rate cuts during 2024

    Yep, debt relief of any kind is welcome news..

    You just said so yourself @ 16.

    @20 stick in “cold” before the comment time out. you’re getting soft.

  23. @1 I can think of someone else who’s breaking campaign promises, namely, “I’ll lower the price of eggs and gas,” and instead the voters are getting a war with Venezuela, because this is most definitely an act of war. The question is, with how many countries?

    U.S. forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News. … Venezuela is a member of OPEC. Most of the South American nation’s oil exports go to China.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/us-venezuela-oil-tanker-seize.html

  25. Besides this possibly being an attack on Chinese interests, there’s also South America’s reciprocal defense treaty:

    The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, commonly referred to as the Rio Treaty, is a collective security agreement established in 1947 among countries in the Americas, inspired by the experiences of World War II. This treaty emerged from the desire for multilateral military cooperation in the Western Hemisphere and marked a shift from the historically unilateral approach of the United States, as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine. Under the treaty, an attack against one member is considered an attack against all, promoting solidarity among signatory nations.

    https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/inter-american-treaty-reciprocal-assistance

  26. @ 23

    … breaking campaign promises, namely, “I’ll lower the price of eggs and gas,” …

    Questions:

    1. What were the prices of eggs and gasoline when DJT47 took office?

    2. What are they now?

    3. How does this constitute “breaking campaign promises”?

  28. No money for food stamps, Medicaid, or ACA subsidies, but Trump will manage to find $1-2 trillion for his upcoming war against Venezuela. And when he does, the last vestige of GOP credibility on fiscal matters will be shot to hell.

    #gophypocrisy

  29. It took Biden not long at all to drive up the prime rate by more than double, to 8.5%.

    Not long at all? From March 3, 2020 to July 26, 2023 – that’s 3 years, 4 months, 23 days, amirite?

    How did he do that? Don’t say spending cuz the prime only dropped from the peak to the end of Biden’s term.

    To a dishonest schmuck like you it can only go one direction – up..

  30. @4 with an ancient bolt action WWI vintage sportified rifle

    I would not want to be on the getting end of a Lee-Enfield .303 in working condition (which most of them are). A trained British soldier could achieve a rate of fire of 35 rounds per minute.

    This ancient bolt action WWI rifle gave the Mujahedin a decisive advantage over the Russians during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, because it outranged the Russkies’ AK-47s. The Afghans took up positions in rocks overlooking the highway beyond the AK-47’s range and preyed on Russian supply convoys with those rifles. It was very effective. The USSR lost that war.

  31. @ 29

    Not long at all? From March 3, 2020 to July 26, 2023 – that’s 3 years, 4 months, 23 days, amirite?

    You need to look at the graph going back 50 years, and the steepness of the graph line during the increase. The last time the graph was that steep was late in the Carter era.

    YLB, Biden presided over the worst inflation rise since Jimmy Carter was president. Feel free to blame The Fed for being late to increase rates, while claiming that Biden had nothing to do with it, as is your MO.

  32. @9 unfairly shifted student loan debt onto American taxpayers

    That’s rich considering taxpayers pay for most non-parochial K-12 education and have subsidized tuition at public colleges and universities since forever.

    Also, taxpayers benefit from an educated public, because people with degrees earn more, and therefore pay more taxes. Over a lifetime of enhanced earnings, these students will more than repay whatever they would get from SAVE.

    What’s more, burdening young people with crushing student debt means they will delay marriage and childbearing, won’t buy homes, won’t buy as much stuff, all of which hurts the economy and reduces its ability to employ the taxpayers supposedly being saved from financial perdition by scrapping SAVE.

    You’re a financial illiterate, but we already knew that, didn’t we? By the way, how much taxpayer assistance did you get to attend medical school?

  33. @30 apparently Charlie Jerk never imagined deadly consequences from its ugly homophobia and transphobia – and in deep red Utah of all places.

    FAFO..

  34. @10 The woman hater is in full flower this morning, I see …

    I assume the horse is a stallion, not a mare …

  37. Biden presided over the worst inflation rise since Jimmy Carter was president.

    But his policies had nothing to do with that otherwise, from your babbling, there would be no easing of the CPI during his term.

    It was a pandemic fueled supply shock that affected all countries and led to political fallout to both left and right leaning governments but you’ll never admit to that because you’re hopelessly wedded to lies.

  38. @14 IIRC, you’ve posted about owning apartments with inherited money. So, weren’t you coddled with your daddy’s money?

    By comparison, I worked my way through college with dirty, backbreaking, minimum wage jobs, then enlisted in the army to get G.I. Bill benefits so I could go to law school. Did a full tour of duty in Vietnam. And repaid all my student loans in full. I don’t consider myself coddled. I’ll bet I’m a lot less coddled than you.

    So please spare me your preachy shit.

  39. @16 more companies are turning to bankruptcy court as a way to reduce debt rather than close their doors

    The GOP considers this profoundly immoral when individuals saddled with medical debt do it, which they’ve incurred because the U.S. is the only industrial society without universal health care, but they’re perfectly fine with businesses screwing their shareholders, bondholders, suppliers, and pensioners in this fashion.

    #gopohypocrisy

  41. @ 37

    But his policies had nothing to do with that otherwise, from your babbling, there would be no easing of the CPI during his term.

    In which YLB proves complete ignorance of the intentional downstream effect of Fed decisions to increase the discount rate.

  42. @21 It took Biden and the worst pandemic since 1918 not long at all to drive up the prime rate by more than double, to 8.5%.

    This omission is material, don’t you think? Very intentional, too.

  43. There’s been over a million layoffs this year..

    And kreepfuck, pants shitter and even the stock market dances over that shit.

    Go figure.

  44. @24 I’m sure they’ll welcome your help. That’s not far from you, you’re still young enough to do that, and I assume not too proud to perform physical labor. If you can shovel manure from a recreational horse out of your barn, you’re fit enough for this duty. So you’re going, right?

  45. @35 Bring them [Iranians] to Mount Vernon and hand them sandbags.

    You do realize this is against current policy, don’t you? Importing Muslims to perform essential labor there aren’t enough Americans to do? Das ist verboten!

  46. the intentional downstream effect of Fed decisions to increase the discount rate.

    Yep, restrict credit so businesses layoff people, they buy less stuff and those businesses stop being so greedy and cut their prices. If that doesn’t work there’s always bankruptcy court to shield them from creditors.

    Wonderful..

  48. @ 43

    There’s been over a million layoffs this year..

    And GDP growth will be 3% or better.

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

  49. As liberals look back on everything they lost in 2025, they should take note that SCOTUS, in a 9-0 opinion on Ames authored by KBJ, eliminated the excessive burden that heterosexuals alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation were required to bear.

    9-0 KBJ opined that homosexuals were given an unconstitutional advantage in the workplace, and it needed to end.

  50. @ 46

    … those businesses stop being so greedy and cut their prices.

    So it’s greed, then, that compels businesses to raise prices when they face increased tariff costs? Not the tariffs themselves?

    Your spews on this are becoming clownish, YLB.

  51. Democrat Eileen Higgins won the runoff for Mayor of Miami, breaking a three decade Republican hold over Miami. Democrats enjoy a 5 point registration advantage in Miami. But for the past 28 years Republicans have typically enjoyed a sizable turnout advantage over Democrats, especially in off years and midterms. This year flipped that script with Democrats producing an eight point turnout advantage over Republicans, overperforming their registration advantage for the first time in any election since Obama in 2008. Analysts are interpreting the shift to what they argue is a huge dropoff of Latino support for Republicans and an equally large dropoff of Latino turnout among registered Republicans in Miami.

    In other important news, Republicans rape children and then use the power of government to bury the evidence.

  52. And GDP growth will be 3% or better.

    AT LEAST 1 percent of that due to the AI bubble.. which will be fabulous for jobs.. (rolls eyes)

    @50 And here kreepfuck pretends businesses are never opportunistic when it comes to their pricing power.. yawwwn…

    Tell that to these guys..

    “This is not at all surprising,” Drew Powers, the founder of Illinois-based Powers Financial Group, told Newsweek. “Companies across multiple industries have been posting record profits since the COVID-19 crisis while consumers have faced the highest inflation in recent history. The math can only point to companies raising prices above the general level of inflation. As the old saying goes, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste.'”

    (ROLLS EYES)..

  53. So pants shitter babbles that Maduro ships drugs to the U.S.

    Venezuela’s oil exports rose this year to a daily average of about 900,000 barrels, Reuters has reported. Its largest importers are China and the United States, particularly after the Trump administration in July reissued a license to the U.S. energy giant Chevron to resume operations in Venezuela.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/

    It’s a fucking lie. Pants shitter has a bad fetish for oil. Normally pants shitter would admire a dictator like Maduro as it admires Pootie and Kim Jong Un, but Maduro’s politics atm is a welcome distraction from the Eppie files.

    Besides there’s munee to be made invading Venezuela.

  54. I guess the Church is speaking out against ICE’s policies…

    but hey they got their ban on abortions, so per the Trump Admin. Shut the fuck up!

    Signed Cat Woman, Bug Eyes, Beauty Bondi, Kegseth and Fat Hitler!

  55. 45)Army Corps of Engineers has been activated to manage Ross Dam. Seattle City Light does well with it in normal times, but flood management is ACE’s job.

    Interestingly, Ross Dam is named after a Superintendent who a mayor fired on the night before a special election over a Charter Amendment giving City Light the responsibility over Dam Construction and operations (instead of a City Engineer). Mayor Edwards thought he could beat the papers with the news, but failed. The Amendment passed, he was recalled, Ross rehired.

  56. @ 52

    AT LEAST 1 percent of that due to the AI bubble.. which will be fabulous for jobs.. (rolls eyes)

    It’s no bubble. Your pro school child is already losing sleep over that fact, YLB.

    Now the share price climb to date may be the bubble. But AI is very real.

  57. I’m sure the Biden inflation boom had nothing to do with people “not needing the money, but we took it anyway”

    Lulz.

  58. Your pro school child is already losing sleep over that fact..

    He doesn’t lose sleep over anything.. He’s special that way.

    LLM’s hallucinate.

    i.e. they make shit up.. a lot like teh kreepfuck of widbee..

    Way to bet the bidness on an artificial crazy person, Walmart or whoever. (rolls eyes)

  63. Poor YLB, little man who is scared to travel the world. To frightened to experience other cultures.

    You are really missing out….

    Will check in with ya when we return in a month…

  64. @63 lmao.. Been to Mexico, liddle asswipe..

    Akumal Bay, heard of that? Seen Tulum, Chichen Itza.. Coba.. other stops along the way.. Made a final stop in Cancun cuz we thought we’d get a deal on Rum.. not much of a deal..

    And La Paz..

    Do us all a favor and you do you, wear your magat hat..

    Might end up this way.. The world will be a better place for it.

  65. The Epstein files will never be released because there are many prominent Zionists on that list. The Trump Administration sold out to the Zionist lobby to win in ‘24, and the people in that lobby – IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS – told Trump to NOT release the names on that list. They paid to get Trump in the White House, and they will make sure Trump never divulges anything or anyone in re Epstein.

    The criminals on the Epstein list will stay unknown for centuries. We can only guess at who the true pedophiles are.

  68. @56 AI is just another technology the destroys some jobs and creates other jobs. Right now it’s creating a lot of construction jobs. The financing and energy hunger of those facilities looks dodgy, though. And this isn’t a great time to be trying to ban wind generation in the U.S. because you have a grudge against a wind farm elsewhere for spoiling the views from your money-losing Scottish golf course.

  69. @ 64

    @63 lmao.. Been to Mexico…

    Meaning Taco Bell. It was a silver anniversary dinner, so a special occasion. They supersized the Mexi-nuggets.

  70. @66 – It’s very easy to be a white supremacist when the other races make it so easy for us to do.

  71. YLB is nothing if not timely. Mere hours after she refers to AI as a “bubble”, it’s leaked that TIME’s Persons of the Year are the architects of AI.

    Now remember, libbies, according to YLB Tesla’s nothing more than an AI bubble, and Elon Musk’s wealth will collapse to nothing any day now.

  72. @ 23, 26

    Still waiting for the failed, former lawyer and current useless, bloviating fool to explain why Donald Trump broke campaign promises to lower prices of eggs and gasoline, if both are cheaper now than when he assumed officce.

  73. Meaning Taco Bell.

    Ok smartass, where is Akumal Bay? No fair using teh interwebs.

    I fondly remember a nice little roadside eatery just north on the highway from there. Great for seafood.

  74. TIME’s Persons of the Year are the architects of AI.

    Can dumbass list the two Nobel Prize winners who made a significant biochemistry advance using Deep Machine Learning?

    No fair lookee at interwebs..

    Yep, dumbfuck, AI is being used for some porn you may like.

    There’s all the value you need there. Who cares then if it makes shit up? A practical infinity of excuses for you to glaze your keyboard.

    “Serious” indeed.

  78. @72 You don’t get it, do you? His deal with voters was only to lower prices of gas and eggs. That’s what he was elected to do, period. Unleashing ICE terror on communities, taking health care away from millions, provoking a war with Venezuela — those weren’t part of the bargain. He blindsided them.

    If you don’t believe me, check out what’s happening to his approval ratings now that people are seeing the whole package. They wanted lower gas and egg prices, not this other shit.

  81. @ 74

    Who cares then if it makes shit up?

    You and your fellow libbies seemed to care little when the NIH and CDC did this during the COVID-19 scare of Spring, 2020.

    The major difference is that Tony and Rochelle knew better.

  82. @ 80

    It’s nice to see the admission that there will be elections in 2028. For months we’ve been told by silly liberals that they’ll be cancelled and that Donald Trump will anoint himself king.

  83. the NIH and CDC did this during the COVID-19 scare of Spring, 2020

    Yes Virginia, kreepfuck still believes there was a lab leak.

    And prays Fauci dies, dressed in orange. But not before the Khalidi tape is revealed on the Hannity show.

  84. @81 What “shit” did they make up? Best practices for containing a highly infectious disease that was killing huge numbers of people? Is that the “shit” you’re talking about?

  85. @82 He can anoint himself whatever he likes, but as of 12:01 pm on January 20, 2029, he will hold no office, have no authority, and be owed no obedience. Also, he’ll have no immunity for anything he does or attempts to do from that moment on.

  86. Over a million Americans were laid off in 2025.

    Over a million Americans died of Covid.

    Kreepfuck dances to Gdp numbers, the Dow 30 and SS checks that will never be cut much less cashed.

  87. Every legal story now is either

    Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

    or

    In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

  88. Three-time Trump voter on his failure to fix the economy:

    “My kids’ daycare went up. I can’t afford the cost of food. Using credit cards for everyday expenses. No money left after their bills are paid. Pretty much just a whole bunch of financial mess… I’m very, very let down …

    And yet, she’d do it again if republicans would stick to hurting trans people, illegal immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQ and Black people
    Zero empathy, zero interest in the rest of humanity. She doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone else. That’s why she voted for Republicans, And that’s why she’ll continue to vote red.

  89. US farmers say Trump’s $12 billion aid package won’t cover losses
    The farming industry has lost nearly 25 billion since the beginning of the year, so yeah it won’t even come close. Not to mention this bail out is almost certainly aimed at corporate farms, every small farmer who is underwater thanks to tariffs is probably going to have to file for bankruptcy and be absorbed by corporate farms.
    >> It’s what they voted for. I don’t know why they are not more grateful.
    >> They will keep doing voting for republicans if republicans “promise” to stick to hurting trans people, illegal immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQ and Black people.
    >> “I just can’t vote for Democrats”. Ok then, FAFO.

  90. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia ordered released from DHS custody immediately.

  92. Kristy Noem and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

    GOLDMAN: If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, correct?

    KRISTI NOEM: Joe Biden left us–

    GOLDMAN: I’m not asking about Joe Biden

    NOEM: *keeps talking over him*

    GOLDMAN: The answer is yes

  93. Kristy Noem and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

    Getting caught lying to Congress live edition

    MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

    NOEM: We haven’t deported veterans

    MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

    Eds note: He’d been in the USA since age seven and has a Purple Heart for getting shot twice.

  94. Kristi:

    I have to leave this hearing early because the FEMA Review Board…

    (Runs away)

    2026 you’ll be under subpoena

  95. Kristy Noem and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

    NOT TESTIFYING EDITION

    Xinis orders the immediate release of Anrego Garcia from custody.

    Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

    (See active asylum claim, illegal arrest, violating Judicial order, etc.)

  96. Kristy Noem and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day.

    Shows video of ICE Officer assault in NYC Courthouse and points out Noem PERSONALLY reinstated in three days

    GOLDMAN: If that officer’s conduct was ‘beneath the men and women of ICE,’ why did you reinstate him?

    NOEM: Sir, that investigation was competed. I can give you that investigation.

    GOLDMAN: I wrote you two months ago. Why haven’t I gotten it yet?

    NOEM: I’m surprised you haven’t gotten it

    GOLDMAN: I’m not surprised. You ignore all requests from (Democratic Congressmen)

  97. @95

    Speaker Ocasio Cortez January 2027

    “The Sergeant at Arms will return the Secretary to her seat or take her into custody if she refuses to comply.”

  99. Groomed Child Bride at the Podium wants to get on on the Felony Contempt charges

    Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?

    LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker

    Ahem, Sweetie, the word you’re looking for is ‘alleged’

  100. AP is clowning.

    The good news for Trump is that his overall approval hasn’t fallen as steeply. The new poll found that 36% of Americans approve of the way he’s handling his job as president, which is down slightly from 42% in March. That signals that even if some people aren’t happy with elements of his approach, they might not be ready to say he’s doing a bad and while discontent is increasing among Republicans on certain
    issues, they’re largely still behind him.

    What they’re referring to is his numbers on handling of the economy are even worse. But to describe a six point drop and now hovering at close to 1/3 of Americans approving.
    job as president as good news is

    Tooooooooo
    Daaaaaammmmnnnn
    Ffffuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnny

  101. Just saw a video on the six bands Neil Young hated the most. I laughed at some of his one line zingers:

    6. Styx: cruise ship directors with amplifiers..
    5. Journey: emotionally manipulative and formulaic
    4. Genesis (Phil Collins era): artificial and soulless
    3. The Eagles: musical accountants
    2. Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham/Nicks era): exploiting personal drama. lacking genuine emotional depth..
    1. Billy Joel: emotionally hollow. On offered a collab with Joel: “I don’t do jingles.”

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Ev5pSotmSgU?si=g6C3B96GmS3J2H7j

    Just saw Young perform on TV, last Farm Aid. Full on 80 and still burning up that stage. Rust never Sleeps. Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.

  102. Fat Pedophile’s efforts to use the federal government to extort a MAGASTAPO racist gerrymander in Indiana failed resoundingly today by a vote of 31 to 19 in the Republican controlled Indiana Senate.

  103. A second federal grand jury has refused to vote an indictment sought by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor in the Fat Pedophile MAGASTAPO Department of Justice against Letitia James, the Attorney General for New York, as political retribution against her for having obtained a civil fraud judgement (https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-wins-landmark-victory-case-against-donald-trump) against the Fat Pedophile, his anchor baby failsons, and several high ranking officers in his criminal fraud scheme in New York.

  104. 100,
    Significant Lame Duck energy from the Fat Pedophile.

    Probably have to invade Venezuela any day now.

  105. Republicans Block Bill Averting Health Care Premium Hikes Next Year
    >> When family members die because you couldn’t afford care, remember that Republicans did this to you

  106. Indiana is one of the reddest states, but despite having voted for Trump, in this moment they look like the most reasonable Republicans in the country.

    Indiana’s Republican-led senate voted against a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, despite months of pressure by President Donald Trump for a rare mid-cycle redistricting. Twenty-one senators from the Republican supermajority and all 10 of the chamber’s Democrats voted down the redistricting proposal. … Democratic state senators spoke against the redistricting legislation one by one during Thursday’s session.

    “Competition is healthy my friends,” said Sen. Fady Qaddoura. “Any political party on earth that cannot run and win based on the merits of its ideas is unworthy of governing.”

    (Qaddoura is a Democrat.)

    https://www.aol.com/articles/indiana-redistricting-final-deciding-vote-050409327.html

  107. Apparently, the people directly involved in the case aren’t too keen on spending time in prison for Happy Meal Duce

    Abrego Garcia is a free man this evening

  108. Here we’ve been afraid of a fascist takeover, but suddenly the Trump/MAGA/GOP regime looks like a tottering house of cards.

  109. “Competition is healthy my friends,”

    Funny. Peter Thiel is notable for babbling that competition is for suckers.

    Thiel is a fascist. period. end stop.

  110. Missouri voters needing about 160,000 signatures to put the gerrymander maps to a vote turned in 300,000.

    Missouri Secretary of State says “NAH I’m gonna violate the law put it on the ballot for the midterms and use the new maps anyway.”

  111. State of Colorado Dept of Corrrections

    “Bless your heart.”

    Donald J. Trump ® ®
    @realDonald Trump
    For years, Democrats ignored Violent and Vicious Crime of all shapes, sizes, colors, and types. Violent Criminals who should have been locked up were allowed to attack again.
    Democrats were also far too happy to let in the worst from the worst countries so they could rip off American Taxpayers. Democrats only think there is one crime – Not voting for them! Instead of protecting Americans and their Tax Dollars, Democrats chose instead to prosecute anyone they can find that wanted Safe and Secure Elections. Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest. Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the
    “crime” of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!

  112. Here’s all the evidence you need that either ICE hires psychopaths, or working for ICE turns normal people into psychopaths. Either way, ICE makes our streets less safe.

    And there’s no excuse for ICE continuing to employ these people following their arrests.

    https://www.fox19.com/2025/12/08/ice-agent-arrested-held-no-bond-order-prosecutors-request/

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ice-agent-pulls-gun-on-17-year-old-but-it-quickly-backfires-on-him/ar-AA1QAJOV

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

  113. By the way, the off-duty ICE agent who pulled the gun on the teen driver had ZERO “police” authority to enforce traffic laws, on or off duty, or to detain any U.S. citizen for any reason. He is an immigration enforcement agent, not a police officer. ICE agents aren’t required to attend a police academy or have a police certificate.

  114. @110 We know Republicans are lawless. What else is new? And yes, the lawlessness of the Republican Party is a national emergency …

  115. The Missouri Secretary of State won’t lose a vote breaking the law because….

    The trump voters love that the Missouri Secretary of State just made 300,000 liberals cry

    The entire media ecosystem out side of NPR tell the trumpers that it doesn’t matter how corrupt republicans are, the Demonrats are 100x worse.

    The hate wing media endlessly tells the trump voters that the Demonrats will take away what is rightfully the trumpers and give it to undeserving scapegoats. It’s the fault of those scapegoats, not republican policies, that the Trumpers are poor and sick and miserable.

  116. Kristi Dogslayer isn’t a lawyer, so she can’t be expected to understand the concept of prosecutorial discretion. She doesn’t know the difference between good or evil, either. Her low-level mental functioning only sees black and white, no shades of gray. But isn’t that all Republicans?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knx1NnqmCSQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9NXWgAl-8

    By the way, isn’t animal cruelty a crime, and if she’s going to deport people for traffic tickets, shouldn’t she be deported for that?

  118. 117)Wouldn’t put it past the DoJ to try obstruction charges against Grand Jurors if the boss calls for it. Any prosecutor that does, might as well be looking for a lawyer for their bar disciplinary process.

  119. @118 I can’t say I’d be terribly shocked if the amateurs at the DOJ tried that, but I figure they’d go for petty ways of making life miserable for “noncompliant” jurors — IRS audits, combing through their mortgage records, tailing them hoping to nail them for littering on federal property, detailing FBI agents to camp outside their homes …

  120. I wouldn’t be sorry to see Larry Ellison and his spawn go bust. That won’t happen, but if the 40% drop in their net worth since September makes buying Warner Brothers Discovery and its CNN subsidiary less affordable, that’s good for us.

  121. Even U.S. black soldiers buried in the Netherlands aren’t safe from Trump’s racism:

    In 2024, two panels related to African American participation in the war were installed, one of which noted the million African Americans who enlisted but were “fighting on two fronts”, both against the Nazis in Europe and against America’s segregationist policies. In November 2025 Dutch historians, politicians, and citizens raised alarm when the panels were found to have been removed. The removal was believed to be part of the Trump administration’s elimination of signage related to diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives ….

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_American_Cemetery

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

  123. 121)I believe for the Wereth 11, it was the German farmer who arranged for the memorial to the massacred African American artillery men. Only Belgian who was formerly German in that town that wasn’t a collaborator.(Before he gave shelter to the 11, he was already hiding German Deserters.)

  124. DOJ announces that they just need Kilmar Abrego Garcia to come into an ICE facility to fill out some paperwork for a gift card

  126. I’m not actually personally familiar with the lifestyles of Palm Beach billionaires to know for certain if this is “normal, routine” stuff.
    But at least to me, and setting aside the Trump branding, etc, it seems like putting out a convenient bowl of rubbers for your party guests strongly implies things about that lifestyle.

    https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/house-oversight-083462-copy.jpg

    Taking a photograph of that bowl and saving it in your family scrapbook of mementos implies even more.

  127. The Estate has provided minimal redactions to these photographs; the redactions are limited to nudity,” the lawyers wrote.

    So, bowl of rubbers, nude children, and the Republican President.

    Troll: “What? WHAT???”🤷

  128. @ 125

    a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face

    Which the committee said came from Epstein’s estate, according to CNN.

    Notice the invoice pad next to the condoms. The Democrats on the committee want you to believe that Jeffrey Epstein was selling Trump-face condoms to his guests for $4.50 each. And providing them with an invoice for tax purposes.

    Elijah is all-in on this. Because this is one way the rich get richer.

  130. They aren’t releasing the files.

    If the FBI investigation exonerated Fat Pedophile they would have released them all the minute the 2,000 agent/lawyer “review” was completed last May.

    He raped children. And they have no choice but to defend him for it.

  131. @ 130

    He raped children.

    Well, surely. The Democrats are withholding the Eiffel Tower photos of The Donald and Slick Willie. The photographer was #CrookedHillary and the photos were found on her home-brew server.

  132. 131,
    Desperation.

    There is a very good reason why a majority of Indiana Senate Republicans voted to reject and defy Fat Pedophile’s demands that they dilute their Congressional District majorities.

    Blaming Clinton, Biden, Obama, Harris, Carter, or Angela Davis won’t make it go away. But I guess the troll has gotta try.

  133. Heh.. well done troll.. the Menendez “underage hookers” thing was actually..

    a distraction from the habitual perversions of the “birther in chief”..

    heh.. just kidding.. indulging in a bit of klownspiracy.. you fux do it all the time.. lmao

    Or is it? Chuck Johnson? Tucker shitferbrains with the kooky laugh? the daily white nationalist whiner? heh.

  134. Thanks largely to the Republican Billionaire Bailout Bill, U.S. national debt has risen $2.3 trillion since Fat Pedophile took office in Janurary.

    And Trump raped children.

  135. DHS Secretary Dog Butcher Barbie’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad week just got much worse.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.208.0_2.pdf

    After the en banc circuit sent the case back to the district last week, this morning the district denied the government’s motion for reconsider its order finding probable cause for contempt. The district will now proceed with that public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the DHS’s violation of the court’s order to stop and return deportation flights to El Salvador in violation of the due process rights in the Fifth and Fourteenth Ammendments guaranteed to all persons in the United States.

    Having already issued lawful subpoenas approved by the Circuit, Judge Boasberg will next week begin deposing the criminals on record. And perhaps in a fit of profound impudence and over confidence in their tortured understanding of the law, the DOJ has already admitted into the court record its sworn statements that the orders to disobey the court came directly from the Dog Butcher herself. So it now appears that, coming straight off a resoundingly poor performance before the oversight committee this week in which the Secretary was repeatedly forced to admit her disregard for the law, a specific legal inquiry will begin wherein the lower ranking employees at DHS and DOJ will be required to either implicate themselves or implicate her in a case of criminal contempt of court.

    And she butchers pets.

  136. That phot at Epstein’s estate of the six young women photographed with Donald Trump?

    They were contestants in the beauty pageant owned by one of Trump’s companies.

    Which is why Elijah chose to focus on the photo of condoms being sold at a flea market but falsely claimed by Democrats to have been part of the Epstein estate photography.

    Elijah knew, you see, that the beauty pageant contestants would be too easy to identify.

  139. There’s a very good reason almost two dozen House Republicans joined Democrat’s discharge petition this week bringing to the floor a full vote on legislation restoring union representation to federal employees stripped by the Fat Pedophile.

    And beckoning our attention into distractions about the teen pageants the Fat Pedophile used to recruit child trafficking victims doesn’t help make it go away.

  141. @135 I thought the best part of the hearing was when she was compelled to thank the victims of her abuse for their and their loved ones’ military service. And boy, was that a half-hearted thank you, barely audible. I can practically guarantee this woman’s political ambitions will end with her DHS flop.

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