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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 12/19/25, 8:26 am

Good morning.

  • Seems like a few relatively dry days in Seattle, but our friends in Portland have filled the pipe (it’s down again now).
  • I don’t know how much a Sara Nelson endorsement will matter in 2 years. But being the kind of person who endorses her, may be a vulnerability.
  • Man, fuck ICE for coming to New Holly, but really impressed by the organizing.
  • Confidential to the guy wearing shorts: No.

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  1. Shoeinhead spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 8:39 am

    You morons!

    You idiots!

    You imbeciles!

    Kamala Harris?

    Really?

    -Shoeonhead

  2. Everyoneelse spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 8:45 am

    You morons!

    You idiots!

    You imbeciles!

    A child rapist?

    Really?

    -Everyoneelse

  3. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:10 am

    There’s a reason other than AI that the stock market keeps climbing:

    Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
    @profstonge

    The BLS says we lost 41,000 jobs in 2 months.

    But control for Federal layoffs and we gained 121,000.

    Control for deportations and we gained 300,000.

    The “Weak” job numbers are entirely made of Federal layoffs and millions of illegals going home.

    4:30 AM · Dec 19, 2025

    Former federal employees looking for private industry work push up the unemployment rate, too.

  4. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:27 am

    Say, who’s looking forward to the December 2025 CPI figures when they’re released next month?

    LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Holiday travelers may be receiving a welcome gift at the pump as the holidays approach. GasBuddy, North America’s trusted source for fuel savings, predicts that the national average price of gas on Christmas Day will land near $2.79 per gallon, below last year’s price of $3.
    …
    “Provided there are no surprises; holiday travelers should see pump prices that come in a bit lower than last Christmas. We’re also seeing encouraging early trends as we prepare to release our 2026 Fuel Outlook in January, with signs that lower prices could continue into next year,” said De Haan.

  5. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:30 am

    @ 2

    Not quite “everyone else”:

    CNN
    https://www.cnn.com › harris-2024-campaign-biden
    Oct 8, 2024 — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that she couldn’t think of anything she’d have done differently than President Joe Biden during …

    I’d like to thank the ladies of The View for helping to seal Boxcheck Momala’s loss to that twice-impeached convict.

    Although we could have done it without you, it was so much more fun with you.

  6. This Post is Antisemitic spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:38 am

    The foreign press isn’t playing. Peace you say?

    Who is gonna want to be part of a stabilization force if Israel is effectively using Gaza as a free fire zone?

    RUBIO: These are the things we’re working through right now

    By any metric, the Israelis are flouting the ceasefire Trump negotiated by killing an average of 2 children a day, not allowing aid into Gaza. How long can the Israelis be allowed to show such disrespect to President Trump?

    RUBIO: That’s your characterization about ‘disrespect’

  7. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:42 am

    Winning ugly.

    But still winning. Go Hawks (12-3).

    The Rams are now 11-4 but no doubt they’re a strong team.

  8. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:43 am

    Liberals hate Flock cameras because the cameras are sometimes why they get caught.

    Brooke Taylor
    @Brooketaylortv

    Here’s how they found him:

    Police put out a picture of a second person (who sources tell me is homeless) and asked for help in finding him. The Attorney General says he came forward and “blew the case open,” by offering a vehicle description that matched video evidence. Before the homeless guy came forward he posted the description on Reddit, according to an affidavit.

    The license plate was captured by Flock cameras (license plate recognition devices widely used in Rhode Island). The plate led police to a car rental agency in Massachusetts. Agents obtained surveillance footage of the suspected shooter and a copy of the rental agreement with the suspect’s name.

    8:06 PM · Dec 18, 2025

    New cameras were put up on Mukilteo Speedway a couple of miles from the ferry. A few months ago I received two warning letters in the mail. The same day the second warning letter arrived the camera caught me doing about 50 in a 35 zone while I was rushing to make the ferry. $145 citation. Now I drive 35 or less when passing that camera. Since then, a second camera went up, across the street from an elementary school at the top of the hill.

    Flock cameras keep people from breaking the law, and provide needed municipal revenue when they do.

    And who knows how many elementary school students I might have accidentally run over at 12:55 a.m. if not for those cameras?

  9. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:47 am

    @ 7

    Amazon TV crew did a nice job explaining the rationale for going for 2 in advance of the decision. Kudos to the prep people for making sure that info was at hand.

  10. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:50 am

    2 months.

    Over the year.. Over a million layoffs. Couple that with prices at the grocery store, the Walmart, the Targets that no modest income American is happy with and you have

    stagflation..

    Oh but there’s “growth” in billionaire AI slop data centers (rolls eyes).

  11. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 9:56 am

    Liberals hate Flock cameras because

    all the info they capture is collected centrally and will be used by pants shitter nspm-7 dept of fascism to track and target people who despise and protest their white nationalist policies as is their 1st amendment right.

  12. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/19/25 at 10:00 am

    Peter St Onge, Ph.D.

    Heritage foundation hack and racist (“illegal” is a dead giveaway).. Let’s see pants shitter put him up for BLS.

    Should work out just as well as the last jerk.

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