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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 12/17/25, 8:09 am

All right. Let’s all dry out before the next round. I hope your houses and places of employment are relatively dry.

  • I saw a lot of people biking yesterday and throughout the atmospheric river. While it definitely kept me off my bike, good infrastructure is better than good weather.
  • Pete Serrano seems like a real piece of work. Also, he has too many jobs.
  • The SPOG contract is not ideal. (second item)

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  1. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 9:52 am

    Jack Smith testified today, and here’s part of what he said:

    “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.

    “Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a bathroom and a ballroom where events and gatherings took place. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5652753-trump-documents-investigation-smith/

  2. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 9:53 am

    teh dumbfuck troll called AI “serious”..

    Sure, as in “seriously stupid”

    lmao.. 7 MILLION authors can join that class. Idiots pirated a shit ton of books to train that large language model.

  3. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 9:53 am

    I never lost my power last night. I wonder if the dumbfuck troll is lighting candles to heat his coffee-and-rum this morning?

  4. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:13 am

    @3 pse outage map seems to indicate much of the island is out.

    too bad dumbfuck is a knee jerk generac hater.

    Otherwise it would be here spewing hate over starlink. Well, unless Mary Kay put her foot down on that too.

  5. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:19 am

    @ 2

    7 MILLION authors can join that class.

    YLB, what is $1.5 billion divided by 7 million?

    The answer is $214 and change. That’s one latte per week for a year, in exchange for the world getting to read your book.

    Meanwhile, the authors’ books are now available online through the AI firm.

    YLB, the settlement has been agreed to, and you are cheerleading the dilution of the settlement figure per-author by pointing out how many authors might lay claim to some of it.

    So yeah. I agree that cheering on the dilution of the settlement is seriously stupid.

  6. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:27 am

    @ 4

    too bad dumbfuck is a knee jerk generac hater.

    Relevance? Our automatic generator is a Kohler.

  7. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:28 am

    Merry Christmas, libbies!

    MELANIA TRUMP
    @MELANIATRUMP

    MELANIA, the film, exclusively in theaters worldwide on January 30th, 2026.

    4:21 AM · Dec 17, 2025
    ·

  8. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:30 am

    Generac is the Fisker EV of generators.

  9. Pepperidge Farm Remembers spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:31 am

    Melania Knauss was an illegal. Her offspring (living and aborted) are anchor babies.

  10. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:36 am

    Prediction: MELANIA rakes in waaaay more dough ($40M, reportedly) than total donations for the Biden presidential library.

  11. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:43 am

    The answer is $214 and change.

    Authors DO NOT have to join the class. They can sue on their own.

    And 1.5 BILLION to pay out? Yeah that’s a winning consequence to any “serious” outfit. What the fuck were they thinking?

    “fair use”… too funee.

    MELANIA, the film

    Should do a lot better than the bridge tragedy movie or the bonzo biopic.

    Skin will be shown, after all.. yawwwn..

  12. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:52 am

    @ 11

    They can sue on their own.

    Sure, for some multiple of $214. Let’s say it’s 10X. What does an attorney cost?

    Let’s say it’s 100X. What does an attorney cost?

    A $1.5B settlement is chump change to a juggernaut like the AI movement. Global AI spending just this year is well over $1 trillion, YLB.

    YLB, the only ones who made bank are the attorneys. Although they’re Democrat donors, so your side will get something out of it. The trickle-down.

  13. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:54 am

    From the last thread dumbfuck babbled “coddling” is ok if it is approved by both Houses of Congress.

    Even if both the House and the Senate have Democrat majorities.

    And it can’t possibly be “coddling” if the Democrat legislation is signed into law by a guy it voted for twice.

    Joe Biden managed somehow to grant 189 billion dollars of student debt relief. Of course that had to be “coddling” cuz’ auto pen or Hunter’s dick pics or “congressional approval”.. whatevs.

  14. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:57 am

    Two of the five terrorists arrested for planning a New Year’s Day bombing in LA are trannies.

  15. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 10:58 am

    the only ones who made bank are the attorneys.

    Yep, like 20 percent. Nice work if you can get it.

    lmao… Anthropic is just the first to get caught with their pants down.

    ALL of them are gonna get sued, ya dumbfuck. They’ve all committed the same sins.

    And the costs of their business have just increased, maybe through the f’ing roof. And they have made no money.

  16. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 12/17/25 at 11:13 am

    @ 13

    Joe Biden managed somehow to grant 189 billion dollars of student debt relief.

    Biden handed out cash in arrears. DJT47 is doing it a bit differently:

    How to open a Trump account
    Any legal guardian — including a parent, adult sibling or grandparent — can open a Trump account on behalf of a child age 18 or younger, as long as the child is a U.S. citizen.

    To open an account, the guardian must file IRS Form 4547. The form can be filed separately or with your 2025 tax return. Beginning in mid-2026, you can also make open an account online at trumpaccounts.gov.

    Once an account is established, children born in 2025 through 2028 may receive a one-time $1,000 contribution from the Department of the Treasury. There are no income requirements, and everyone is eligible for the Treasury’s seed money.

    It’s been passed by Congress, signed by the president, and companies are jumping on board:

    The White House unveiled new information about “Trump accounts” on Wednesday, including an additional donation from billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio and his wife, Barbara to help fund the savings accounts for kids.

    In the last week, a number of companies, including BNY and BlackRock, also announced they would match contributions to Trump accounts for their employees to encourage early wealth-building.

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