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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s January 20th, and it’s been one hell of a year. The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will be getting together this evening. Because we need a drink!

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room starting about 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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  2. Donald Trump’s approval rating severely underwater with key voter group

    “The two issues that propelled Trump into office—inflation and immigration—are now becoming his Achilles’ heels, especially among independents, said Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and the director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London.

    “He has failed to resolve the affordability crisis, and whatever political benefit he once gained from tightening the U.S.-Mexico border is increasingly being offset by perceived domestic overreach by ICE,” he told Newsweek.

    Good start on the way to November.

  4. @3 The broken record player is back. Ignore him.

    I mean, really, posting the same thing over and over and over doesn’t make it true or elevate discourse. You’ve got him pegged. He’s as you describe.

    And also, Trump? Really?

  5. Trump … vows ‘no going back’ on Greenland

    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/greenland/trump-leaks-macron-text-greenland-nato-rutte-europe-davos-rcna254907

    The thought that immediately comes to mind is that if Trump sends U.S. troops to seize Greenland, the Danish and other defenders have every right to shoot at them, but here’s the catch: If we cheer for the victims of this invasion, Trump and his legal thugs might accuse us of treason. You know, aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war.

    In fact, they might apply it retroactively, so notice I said “if” to cover my cute cottontail, although that could still get me arrested because these guys aren’t into nuances of language, freedom of speech, or anything else. So if I disappear immediately after the war starts, assume I’ve been rendered to one of their black sites and tortured.

    Meanwhile, Republicans are showing us what they’re not made of. They’re not impeaching him. They’re not invoking 25th Amendment. Some even support this madness. What Republicans are proving to the world is that if we were in 1930s Germany they would all be Hitler’s useful idiots.

    Well, count me out of that. I’m not giving up my right to criticize the actions of my government, and if Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t like it, he can pry my keyboard from my cold dead carcass.

  7. Is DOJ gonna investigate this guy, or is there a Catholic exemption?

    One of the most far-right Catholic archbishops in the entire country just came out against President Donald Trump’s threats to invade Greenland — and urged devout troops to refuse to follow any orders to do so. …

    Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the archdiocese for the U.S. military, … has backed the right-wing crusade against COVID vaccine mandates in the armed forces, supported Trump’s ban on transgender individuals from military service, and even told servicemembers that the Affordable Care Act undermines the freedoms for which they fought.

    However, … “in a BBC interview this past weekend … Broglio addressed President Donald Trump’s increasingly explicit threats to seize Greenland by force. Broglio’s judgment was unambiguous. Such an operation, he said, could not satisfy the Church’s moral criteria for the use of force. More pointedly, he added that Catholic military personnel would not be morally bound to carry out an order to invade a friendly nation.” …

    Furthermore, he said, if such an invasion happens, Catholic troops could find themselves compelled to engage in actions they find “morally questionable,” and could refuse such orders.

    https://www.rawstory.com/greenland-bishop/

    And if they do go after him, what will SCOTUS’s conservative justices, all Catholics, do with this? Side with Trump or their Church? The Pope should excommunicate them if they hand over one of his Archbishops for the Nazi treatment.

  8. Yes, hit the plutocrats where it hurts. I can afford the losses; they can’t because then they’d have to live like the rest of us.

    “Europeans hold roughly $10 trillion in US assets: around $6 trillion in US equities and roughly $4 trillion in Treasuries and other bonds,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote. “Selling those assets would pull the rug from under US markets.”

    The idea of a wider European boycott of US bonds appears to have unnerved US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who protested during remarks at the annual World Economic Forum summit in Davos that it “defies any logic” and urged European nations not to “listen to the media who are hysterical.”

    George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche Bank, said if Trump is intent on shredding the long-standing US military alliance with Europe, it can return the favor by backing out of its role as America’s number-one lender, which could trigger heightened inflation, dollar depreciation, and higher interest rates that make borrowing and spending more costly.

    “For all its military and economic strength,” Saravelos wrote, “the US has one key weakness: It relies on others to pay its bills via large external deficits.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-2674914681/

    No, it does not defy logic. What could be more logical than refusing to fund the military spending of a country that’s attacking you?

  9. Calls to “rise up” against the tactics Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using grew louder on Tuesday after a group of Minneapolis-area doctors spoke out about abuses they’ve seen.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2674914793/

    If multiple doctors say there are abuses, then abuses are occurring, unless you’re prepared to say doctors are liars. As for me, I know of only one who is.

  11. As President of the United States you supposed to defend Greenland from China and Russia not feed your sheep some dumb fucking justification to being a thief.

  13. @5

    Speaking of going back…

    https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf9

    Air force one with a feeble morbidly obese Alzheimer’s patient being taken to Davros has turned around.

    Medical Emergency?

    International Criminal Indictment?

    NATO allies want to charge as a spy for Russia?

    The Swiss willing to hand him over on child rape charges?

  14. Trumpy, you’re doing a heckuva job.

    Denmark will divest all US bonds from national pension fund by month’s end.

  15. @13 Newsday says it’s a minor electrical issue, which they identified as the lights going out in the press cabin, and Trump will take another plane to DAvos.

  16. @14 Denmark is divesting $100 million of Treasury bonds, which is amounts to roughly 0.0001% of the average daily trading volume in Treasuries, so it’s only a symbolic gesture. But Europe as a whole holds about 30% of publicly traded Treasuries, and dumping them all would tank Treasury bond prices. Interest rates move opposite to bond prices, so that would cause interest rates to skyrocket. FAFO

  17. Usha Vance is pregnant.

    That’s one more Hindu child on the way to frighten YLB.

  18. @ 16

    But Europe as a whole holds about 30% of publicly traded Treasuries, and dumping them all would tank Treasury bond pricesmean they have to invest it into bitcoin or TSLA shares.

    Oh, or buy their own military defense rather than rely on the US to protect them.

    There is a reason that everyone wants to hold US dollars. One would think a purportedly seasoned investor would know that.

  19. 7)They were hoping an American Pope could be controlled, but Cardinal Dolan lost. Still didn’t think an American Pope could happen, for a reverse of why s9me said a Catholic couldn’t be President.

  20. 15)Just taking the other SAM VC-25, it usually goes on these trips to, combined with a Nightwatch E-4, just in case.

  21. News Nation really getting the scoop.

    What goals do you have for ’26 in Congress for your agenda?

    TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn’t come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don’t have to be paper anymore. I’d like to have all that confirmed.

    Maybe we can suck our piece of chicken, piece of broccoli and corn tortilla through a plastic straw, the one other thing.

  22. Speaking of the one other thing, that dumb cunt at agriculture and her ‘It’s easy to budget’ had to admit today that her ‘meal’ is more like $5 not $3.

    So $5 x 3 meals x Family of four and that depression era meal is $1800/mo.

    The USDA says you should spend between 1000 and 1600 for a family of four. Dave Ramsey recommends cutting that in half.

    The economy is just going great for everybody right

  23. @18 There is a reason that everyone wants to hold US dollars.

    Yeah, because it’s the world’s reserve currency. How long will that last if the U.S. turns its back on allies, embarks on territorial conquests, and steals other countries’ resources?

  24. Tesla no longer top selling EV in Europe. The VW ID4 grew 24% in units sold 2025 over 2024.

    America “LETS BUILD MORE TRUCKS WITH BEDS TOO SHORT TO HAUL A MOUNTAIN BIKE!”

  25. @22 To paraphrase Doctor Dumbfuck @18 above, there’s a reason why Republicans are worried about the midterms and Trump doesn’t want them held at all.

  26. In Trump’s Great America …

    OK: Invading the U.S. Capitol to overthrow the elected government.

    Not OK: Entering a church to protest the invasion of an American city by some of the same people who invaded the U.S. Capitol.

  27. Surprised the Abe Assasin didn’t get the Death Penalty, but usually only one victim isn’t enough in Japan, but the heinous exception should have applied.
    https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4539/

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

    Now the timing of the decision has to be a coincidence, the election campaign doesn’t start for another week, with the Lower House not officially dissolved until Friday. (Former PM Abe was assassinated while campaigning during a House of Councilors Election)

  29. That’s one more Hindu child

    Happiest news of all would be Usha has had an affair and ooops!

    But no apparently she remains a bowman. Yuck.

    Stay indoors Usha lest ICE detains you for your Hindu “color” as kreepfuck babbles.

  30. everyone wants to hold US dollars.

    The end will come, not with a bang, but with a gradual diminishment, much like this troll over the last ten years. As global capital flees the dollar in search of a new reserve currency our cost to finance and rollover our debt will grow slowly at first. And gradually our ability to finance our military and old age entitlements will dry up. Generational financial stability among the middle class will get slowly consumed by excellerating transfers of productivity to capital and to aging family members. We will have permanently lost our capacity to secure our national interests abroad and our capacity to address catastrophic failures of markets like healthcare or housing, as more of our earning power is transferred offshore never to return.

  32. “They’re not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money.”

  33. “In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.”

    Robert Lansing.

    New York, August 4, 1916

  34. In a “stunning” move surprising to absolutely nobody, the EU has just announced that it is suspending all further work on reaching any kind of trade agreement with the United States.

    “Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake. Business as usual impossible.”

  35. “I had the two biggest pollsters with me, McLoughlin and Fabrizio, and they said, ‘Sir, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, if they came back, they couldn’t beat you,'”

  36. lmao… If Usha gives ICE/CBP any lawyerly lip about her 4A rights, she might get pepper sprayed and miscarry..

    and then silly kreepee dumbfuck will babble she FA’d and FO’d..

    yawwwn..

  37. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, “We’re producing 22 MILLION barrels of oil a day!”

    It’s actually a hair under 14. You’re only off by 57%.

  38. In just one year since being innaugurated, Trump and his family have accumulated over $1.3 billion in direct cash payments and gratuities.

  39. @ 38

    … Trump and his family have accumulated over $1.3 billion in direct cash payments and gratuities.

    And the reason you know this is because it wasn’t run through a series of offshore accounts. And there aren’t 170 SARs covering the money transfers.

  40. @ 38, 39

    Here’s the link:

    Trump Family’s $6.8 Billion Fortune Is Increasingly Tied to Crypto
    Digital assets added $1.4 billion to the first family’s wealth over the past year, making up about one-fifth of their fortune for the first time

    $5.4B to $6.8B is a 25.9% gain, vs S&P 500 17.9% gain.

    Yes, in an up year those who invest more aggressively make more money. Although digital currency fell in value during the first DJT47 year.

    Again, the reason we know all of this is that unlike The Biden Crime Family’s take, the Trump family didn’t run its income through numerous offshore accounts and shell corporations, generating 170 SARs in the process.

    Yes, the rich got richer in 2025. They did in 2023 and in 2024, too.

    And YLB’s solution is for people to “work far less hours”. You know, so they can catch up.

  41. The Trump Empire actually lost value.

    Despite the new projects, the family’s overall net worth looks remarkably similar to last year at $6.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Even as crypto made the Trumps richer, the gains were offset by the plunging value of his social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. Its shares are down 66% over the past 12 months, despite efforts to diversify into finance, crypto and most recently, fusion power.

    Gee, @ 38, why didn’t you mention that?

  42. Trump dropping in at Davos to say he won’t “use force” to seize Greenland from Denmark is like Tony Soprano dropping by your liquor warehouse to say he won’t use gasoline to burn it to the ground.

    Hint: he will use gasoline. Of course he will.

  44. @ 43

    Prove it.

    No need. Not anymore:

    CNN Poll: A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden, as VP, was involved with son’s business dealings

    The Oval Office in GOP hands through at least 2036 is proof enough.

  46. Secretary Bessent on Fox News from Davos:

    “We’re going to give guidance at some point as to ‘what is a mom & pop? Say your parents when it’s time for retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes so we don’t want to push the mom and pops out we just want to push everyone else out.”

  47. The racism will continue until Grandpa say “Nigger” on a mic.

    Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable frankly, anymore. They’re not recognizable. And we can argue about it, but there’s no argument. Friends come back from different places—I don’t wanna insult anybody—and say ‘I don’t recognize it.’ And that’s not in a positive way.… It’s not heading in the right direction.

  48. So we want a piece of ice for world protection. And they won’t give it. We’ve never asked for anything else, and we could have kept that piece of land. And we didn’t. They have a choice. You can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember.

    Dude can’t remember to wipe his ass without help anymore.

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