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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 2/25/26, 8:28 am

Gooooooood morning.

  • Doesn’t seem like letting SPOG dictate how effective the CARE team is will work out great.
  • Hey, Tukwila, that 6-month ban on new ICE facilities is looking pretty good.
  • Big hearing for the millionaire tax today. And big day for fraudulent sign ins.
  • Go contact your legislators.

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  1. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 8:59 am

    In big special election state house results yesterday a couple of PA Dems and a Maine Dem bested their MAGA opponents with margins doubling Harris one year ago.

    National Republicans now know they have to take over elections and rig them to have a shot at winning next fall.

  2. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 9:11 am

    I’m trying my best to imagine the media and punditry reaction if a Democratic President nominated to Surgeon General a failed physician who advocates for the use of LSD and I’m unable to even wrap my mind around any of it.

    MAGA is.. very extreme.

  3. MAHA spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 9:56 am

    @2

    Birth Control pills are abuse.

    Buy my supplements.

  4. LSD spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:09 am

    2: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6985449/

  5. American Bar association spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:12 am

    Huh.

    So DOJ has been caught hiding the FBI interviews the Bureau deemed credible regarding Donnie rapping a child.

    But you know who does have a copy? According to an inventory of discovery materials within her criminal trial files, Gislane Maxwell and her attorneys.

    So for the 93rd time, why is Maxwell in a minimum security prison In which she is legally ineligible to serve her time as a convicted sex offender?

  6. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:15 am

    3,
    During her Senate testimony she is prominently displaying bottled spring water from a company she is a partner in.

    Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/live/C4cy3x0cXGg

    They just never stop grifting. And cult members like the lying troll are their prized milk cows. Raw of course!

  7. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:18 am

    DL @ 20

    It’s very hard to stand when you’ve been been violently forced to your hands and knees by a mob of masked terrorists.
    But Alex Pretti tried.
    We all saw that.

    It’s also very hard to stand after eight years on one’s knees servicingin service to The One.
    But YLB tried.
    We all saw that.

  8. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:22 am

    @ 1

    … with margins doubling Harris one year ago.

    Now, I’ll grant you that there is a point to this observation. It’s just not the one you are trying to make.

  9. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:02 am

    WTF is going on with Spanberger’s cheeks?

  10. Politically Incorrect spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:03 am

    At least the Brits and Harvard are doing something positive about the Epstein perverts in their domains.

    The Republicans will get thoroughly trounced in November, and it will be due to the Epstein debacle, largely.

  11. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:15 am

    7,
    Every day we see the lying troll here on HA down on his knees performing his ritual cult service. He evens takes the pedophilia all the way down and swallows.

    Today will be no exception.

  12. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:19 am

    there is a point

    The people who stayed home one year ago giving Fat Hitler a 1.5% margin of victory have returned to the polls.

    And they are bringing lots of friends.

    MAGA knows they have to seize control of state elections and rig the outcome in order to win now.

  13. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:23 am

    @ 10

    At least the Brits and Harvard are doing something positive about the Epstein perverts in their domains.

    The Brits are doing notably less about the Pakistani pedos in their domain. They prioritize canceling someone over a several-years-dead guy rather than going after the people in their midst still fucking minor children.

    “At least”, indeed. The very least.

  14. Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:32 am

    Next up: Public school districts can’t be sued for intentionally awarding diplomas to students they know are functionally illiterate.

    Opinion Analysis
    Court holds that U.S. Postal Service can’t be sued over intentionally misdelivered mail

  15. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:33 am

    @7 Waytogo on substance there, chief.

  16. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:35 am

    Dozens of form 302 interview reports from witnesses Fat Hitler’s own FBI deemed “credible” describing Fat Hitler raping children being suppressed and concealed by Pam Bondi.

    And the lying troll neeeeeeds you to look at something else somewhere else right now.

    Absolutely no gag reflex whatsoever.

  17. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 11:42 am

    @10 The Republicans will get thoroughly trounced in November, and it will be due to the Epstein debacle, largely.

    Which is fucked up because they should get trounced on affordability, tariffs, foreign policy, ICE abuses, corruption, wasting taxpayer money, maladministration and incompetence, health care access, and deficits, among other issues.

  18. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 1:58 pm

    17,
    Why not all of the above?

    I think what the Epstein/Trump Child Rape Scandal® will produce is a more significant measurable decline in turnout among the less politically engaged voters upon whom Fat Hitler now relies.

    It’s an odd thing that happened in 2024 (duh).
    But consistent with trends in past turnout and polarization, Harris saw her support concentrated among so-called “super voters” – folks who had voted in all of the previous four federal elections. And interestingly turnout among these “super voters” was measurably down in 2024. While Fat Hitler, in addition to gaining a big shift in support among men in general, and non-white men in particular, relied on producing turnout among less frequent, and less engaged voters, including younger whites and younger males. And turnout among these disengaged, infrequent voters was up in 2024.

    Really good insights into the motivations and influences of these less engaged voters upon whom Fat Hitler relies is somewhat thin on the ground. But one thing political scientists do seem to be confident about is that they are generally very poorly informed about the major issues. That can be very frustrating for campaigns seeking to persuade these ignorant, distracted fuck sticks by relying on running an “issues” campaign. This is especially true for those campaigns who have been persuaded by the “moderate” “Third Way” political consultant class to avoid negative campaigning and focus on “kitchen table” issues. They have a very hard time breaking through with any of these voters because, honestly, these voters pay absolutely no attention to these kinds of issues. They may bitch constantly. But they are clueless about cost of living, impacts of interest rates, tax policy, and cuts to popular programs including programs they may depend upon. Entire social media channels have sprung up and gone viral over the past year devoted to exploring these voter’s FO phase, whether they be farmers forced into bankruptcy by tariffs, latino males seeing their family members kidnapped and sent to concentration camps, or rural Medicaid dependents seeing program cuts that threaten their lives.

    But the Epsteing/Trump Child Rape Scandal® is precisely the kind of enduring viral story that does seem to break through to these dipshits. And while it may not convince them to vote for any Democrat, it’s likely to be enough to make them feel a sense of disgust with the whole process and stay home. The rest of course is up to Democrats like us to make sure every politically engaged patriot and “super voter” turns out in droves.

  19. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 2:13 pm

    “I need someone here now, or else I’m going to have to shoot this kid,” said ICE agent Israel D. Hernandez while randomly patrolling in NE Portland in October, according to a recording of his emergency call exclusively obtained by OPB.

    The alleged offense for which the ICE Fat Ass was about to take a kid’s life?

    The kid was following him on his e-bike.

    https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/25/armed-ice-officer-portland-911-call/

    Not only do DHS and Dog Butcher Barbie refuse to address the obvious and highly dangerous lapse in training and understanding of the law that the factually confirmed incident proves, they refuse to even acknowledge that such an incident even took place or return phone calls or emails.

    Every American family needs a plan for how they will respond when one of their family members is executed by ICE Fat Asses.
    Set aside some $1s and $5s, some driking water, some candles and some peanut butter for the Big Earthquake.
    Change the batteries in your smoke detector.
    And don’t forget to update your will for when an ICE Fat Ass decides to off you in the street because he thinks you looked at him funny.

  20. Premeditated spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 2:41 pm

    So after picking up a blind refugee who spoke no English on a ‘weapons’ charge, the curtain rod he used as a cane, border patrol released him at a Tim Horton’s five miles from where his family lives.

    They never saw him alive again.

    https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

  21. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 2:54 pm

    10) Makes for good satire.
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-andrew-queen-elizabeth/

    Great video on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s war service. Might be the only medal not revoked, as supposedly such medals earned(not honorary) can’t be revoked. Used to be, but King George V allegedly changed it when he amended the Royal Warrant in regards to the Victoria Cross. Although the South Atlantic Service Medal is not the VC(only ones awarded for the Falklands were posthumous), some searches say the same prohibition on revocation applies to all earned medals. The change made to the VC by George V, even applied to any VC holder who committed a crime punishable by death.

    https://youtu.be/vWwWaw19kJw?si=iEdalQd_ENO4wGR1

    https://youtu.be/95b5AEfUQl8?si=b_XByCAJ4oAx7VBj

  22. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 3:08 pm

    Political hero of the lying troll, Jimmy Bowman, just announced that he will be cutting off Medicaid new enrollments for durable medical equipment used in the home (wheelchairs, oxygen equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, etc). So Medicaid. So a whole lot of qualifying disabled poor and middle income children in Minnesota denied wheelchairs, prosthetics, lift assists, etc. for the next six months.

    Let’s see now, March, April, May, June, July, August…. so just in time for the low income, disengaged, low propensity dipshit voters upon whom Diet Private and MAGA depend to wake up and notice that another election is happening and be completely pissed. Genius.

  23. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 3:21 pm

    Q: “What’s your message to the people of Minnesota who are still upset about the ICE surge as well? This is just one more thing on top of that.”

    Vance: “Our message to the people of Minnesota is that we love them. They’re our fellow citizens. We are trying to do right by them.” By making their disabled kids crawl to use the toilet or shit the bed.

    You see, MAGA love is very different from that of a square.

    https://youtu.be/WiN_qD5scaA&t=100

  24. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 5:42 pm

    Spokane Transit Authority has put the Double Deckers back into service on routes 6 and 66. Hopefully the drivers remember, only Jefferson and Lincoln streets have the clearance for them to pass. The accident that sidelined the fleet, was caused by a driver turning 3 blocks early.

  25. lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 5:58 pm

    in service to
    The One.

    Nope that’s your shit dumbfuck.. Never voted for that doddering old repuke fart in my life.

  26. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 6:15 pm

    @19 The agent’s response would be entirely understandable if he was in Beirut and spotted a person on a bike brandishing a hand grenade with a pulled pin.

  27. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 6:27 pm

    @20,22 I’m starting to think Republicans aren’t human, and maybe not even primates.

  28. More and More Like Real Nazis Every Day spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 8:41 pm

    It wasn’t about any blanket.

    Noem left a carry on bag full of cocaine, poppers, sex toys and lube behind.
    Lewondoski was supposed to collect it but was too fucked up. When he confronted the crew and they refused to turn the plane back he lost his shit.

  29. 2 million dead Russians later spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:28 pm

    Four years ago today Russia rollled into Ukraine, again, and folks like Sen. Tuberville and Kennedy and Donnie and Lady G and the very serious hosts on FOX said it would be over in two weeks or months and there was no point aiding Ukraine.

  30. 2 million dear Russians and even more dead Ukrainians spews:

    Wednesday, 2/25/26 at 10:58 pm

    @29

    Would it be so terrible if Ukraine were to be neutral and not part of NATO?

  31. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 7:15 am

    30,
    That was the agreement that existed before Russia began invading.

    And even after, in early 2022 in Istanbul, Ukraine offered to remain unaligned and neutral, pledging to stay out of NATO in exchange for security guarantees.

    Russia countered with a demand that Ukraine completely disarm and give up all of its Eastern territory.

  32. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 7:34 am

    In 2022 Ukraine offered to agree in principle with the concept of permanent neutrality. But in exchange the Ukrainian delegation insisted on security guarantees, including from the P5 members of the UN Security Council, which would oblige the guarantors to come to Ukraine’s defense with their armed forces if it were attacked again. Russia countered with a proposal that Ukraine completely disarm and surrender all claims to its Eastern territory and Crimea that Russia had previously invaded and was occupying, in addition to additional Eastern territories that would include Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia.

    As the negotiations advanced, and Russian battlefield losses began to mount alarmingly, Russia agreed to such guarantees in principle. However, Russia added a stipulated requirement that it be granted unilateral veto power over any such decision to aid Ukraine in its defense. Ukraine rejected the principle that Russia be granted veto power over its security.

  33. Tim Pool spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:17 am

    @ 30,

    You do realize that Russia pays me, right?

  34. NATO has outlived its usefulness spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:27 am

    When Germany was reunited, the West said it would not move “one inch” East to expand NATO. The West was lying, and that’s the crux of the problem: the West lied.

    Please check out Judge Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom”, “Deep Dive” or Sonar21 over on YouTube. Pay particular attention to Professor Sachs and Colonel Macgregor when it comes to to NATO, Ukraine and Russia.

  35. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:29 am

    Repukes are completely corrupt.

    Hypocrites and Corrupt. They all should be in jail. If they’re not committing voter fraud, or bang little baby chicks, they are stealing money or committing adultery and or battery.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/wyoming-republican-lawmakers-checks-house-floor

  36. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:31 am

    When Germany was reunited, the West said it would not move “one inch” East to expand NATO. The West was lying, and that’s the crux of the problem: the West lied.

    Please check out Judge Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom”, “Deep Dive” or Sonar21 over on YouTube. Pay particular attention to Professor Sachs and Colonel Macgregor when it comes to to NATO, Ukraine and Russia.

    And when the 2nd amendment to the constitution was added there weren’t semi-automatic and automatic guns.

  37. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:37 am

    @20,22 I’m starting to think Republicans aren’t human, and maybe not even primates.

    They’re not. They are Neanderthals. And with a virus.

  38. NATO has outlived its usefulness spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:39 am

    36

    You are not very smart.

  39. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:46 am

    @ 29

    Four years ago today Russia rollled into Ukraine, again, and folks like Sen. Tuberville and Kennedy and Donnie and Lady G and the very serious hosts on FOX said …

    Four years and about two weeks ago Joe Biden said he’d have no problem with a limited incursion. That would be President Joe Biden.

    Democrats gave Vlad the green light.

  40. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:47 am

    @ 38

    You are not very smart.

    It’s mostly because he’s always got a cock in his mouth.

  41. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:57 am

    No – face it you are according to the straight white male, they’ll only defend you if you are white and beaten by a black male, but other than that their beatings will continue.

    Spread your legs and shut up, you dumb bitches, you are nothing to the Heterosexual Neanderthals, just a trophy that is Made in China.

    Women’s team captain Hilary Knight said Wednesday on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” that she found the joke “distasteful” but that she also felt the men’s team was “in a tough spot.” “I think this is just a really good learning point to really focus on, you know, how we talk about women,” Knight said. “Not only in sport, but in industry. Women aren’t less than, and our achievements shouldn’t be overshadowed by anything else other than how great they are.”

  42. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 9:59 am

    34,
    I’ll repeat it again one more time:

    RUSSIA REJECTED THE PROPOSAL OF A PERMANENT GUARANTEE THAT UKRAINE WOULD REMAIN INDEPENDENT AND NOT JOIN NATO.

    You’re a liar if you are claiming that Russia’s invasion is predicated or justified by Ukraine in any way. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a blatant and obvious war of aggression seeking territorial expansion. Russia’s efforts to coopt Ukranian democracy and obtain Ukraine as a puppet state through Viktor Yanukovych failed uterly in the Maidan uprising. Russia invaded the same year.

    These are all easily verifiable historical facts. It’s very clear you are either incredibly misinformed or simply too lazy to bother reading these historical facts.

  43. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 10:00 am

    @38,

    well, if you listen to the Dumbfuck at 39 and 40, then you’re more of a Dumbfuck.

  44. G spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 10:01 am

    @42

    it has been well established that the dude is another Dumbfuck, wonder if he likes getting fucked by a horse, like the other troll, too.

  45. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 10:03 am

    39,

    Big Yawn. The lying troll is lying again.

    Biden never made the comment the lying troll is claiming here.
    No “green light” was ever given.

    Quite the contrary.

    And the military disaster that Russia experienced in the first 48 hours beginning Feb 24, 2022 was because Putin ignored repeated warnings and because Russian military intelligence simply misunderstood how U.S. intelligence assistance could enable Ukraine to destroy their inept attempt at maneuver warfare.

    TLDR: the lying troll is a liar.

  46. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 10:39 am

    For those who may not understand, in modern maneuver warfare some element of surprise is absolutely crucial.

    One key element of maneuver warfare is that direct engagement with enemy strong points is always avoided in order to limit casualties and depletion of weapons systems and logistics. Instead rapid, surprise deployment is employed to quickly isolate key enemy infrastructure or strong points from resupply and reinforcement. Maneuver warfare thus tends to rely heavily on detailed and highly accurate intelligence about the position and composition of enemy forces. And to acheive these ends command and control is often decentralized with many tactical commanders given the authority to act independently to acheive their assigned objectives.

    But one weakness of maneuver warfare arises in part from that decentralization. If an overall plan is disrupted effectively by opposing forces, whether by loss of surprise or by intelligence failures or both, then losses can be staggering. History offers many examples of this. Because if command and control is decentralized then attacking forces facing unexpected resistance can become isolated and cut off. And if enough significant objectives of a plan are not met the entire tactical maneuver involving all forces engaging in the attack can become vulnerable to destruction.

    That’s basically what happened to Russia in the opening hours of their 2022 invasion. Russia had terrible intelligence about Ukraine’s preparedness and strong points. But perhaps much worse, because of the vastly superior intelligence and surveilance technology that the U.S. provided to Ukraine, Russia’s rapidly advancing Spetsnaz assault teams and other rapid response tactical teams were immediately surrounded and cut off by superior forces, captured, killed, and and destroyed. They were unable to secure almost any of their key objectives in the opening hours of the conflict. And as a result the entire plan failed and the losses were staggering.

    Since then Russia has been reluctantly forced into facing a prolonged attrition war in which their army must trade enormous resources of very high casualties, destruction of equipment and depletion of weapons systems in order to obtain very tiny increments of territory. Russia experiences about 30,000 casualties every month in exchange for an average net territiorial gain of less than one kilometer (about one half mile). And that’s leaving out the losses of oil and energy infrastructure that Ukraine has proved very capable of inflicting with regularity, deeply impacting Russia’s economic productivity and its ability to sustain the pace of the war.

    The primary interest that Republicans in general have, including many corrupt talking heads, in bringing about a swift resolution to the conflict now, even if it imposes terrible losses on Ukrainian sovereignty and its loss of independent democratic government, is in recognition of these economic losses already sustained in Russia. Russia is a big country with a big economy that represents a lot of opportunity to investors. Right now investment in Russia is sanctioned. But right now Russia has never been more desperate for foreign investment. Putin is no longer in the position he once was to carefully control foreign investments to funnel the bulk of gains to himself and his coterie of oligarchs and their families. If/when the war comes to an end and sanctions are lifted Putin will have no choice but to open Russia for investment like it has never really been open before.

    The greed heads don’t give one single fuck about Ukriane, about displaced refugees, or about dead kids. They are all salivating over untold wealth to be had in Russia in the years ahead.

  47. Fact post Facto spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 10:44 am

    @34

    When a US Secratary of state and not NATO made a verbal promise to Russia 35 years ago…

    But you knew that. You listen to Napolitano who never ever misrepresents history or judicial rulings.

  48. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:09 am

    Lauren Boebert gave #CrookedHillary a Get Out Of Jail Free card.

  49. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:10 am

    To put Russia’s Ukraine average monthly casualties in perspective, it’s more than 18 times what the United States suffered in Vietnam.

  50. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:25 am

    Lauren Boebert gave #CrookedHillary a Get Out Of Jail Free card.

    Unlikely.

    Most of the testimony would have consisted of versions of:

    “Congressman, I’ll be more than happy to fully answer your question in a public forum with witnesses present so that all my words can be taken down and recorded in full.”

    or:

    “You already have my complete answer to that question”

    What you wouldn’t see:

    “HAVE YOU SEEN THE DOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!”

  51. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:33 am

    According to reporting in the WaPo this morning, the GOP is now circulating a draft EO to declare a natl emergency that would empower Trump to ban mail ballots & voting machines and seize control over state election operations.

    Yes. They admit they can’t win the mid term elections without seizing control of state run elections and rigging the outcomes.

    And we’re potentially one year away from the lying troll admitting it and bragging about it.

  52. PAY no attention to the child rapist at the resolute desk spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:49 am

    Today Republicans in Congress try desperately to make the Epstein files about a guy who hasn’t been in office Since 1998

    And also his wife

    And Democrats all over the country say again “if you’ve got evidence of rechargeable offenses against those two go for it. Everyone involved should be in jail If you’ve got the evidence.”

  53. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:50 am

    @ 51

    According to reporting in the WaPo this morning, the GOP is now circulating a draft EO to declare a natl emergency that would empower Trump to ban mail ballots & voting machines

    Gee, that sounds serious. Something like a pretextual abuse of emergency powers.

    I wonder where the DJT47 crew might have gotten that idea:

    Boston University School of Law
    Scholarly Commons at Boston University School of Law
    Faculty Scholarship
    2-2023

    Major Questions and an Emergency Question Doctrine: The Biden
    Student Debt Case Study of Pretextual Abuse of Emergency
    Powers

    I love how Elijah feigns complete unawareness that none of this is unprecedented.

  54. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 12:12 pm

    And here we see how the lying troll will slide into bragging about the GOP seizing control of state run elections in order to rig them.

  55. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 12:36 pm

    Gorsuch.

    Kavanaugh.

    Coney Barrett.

    You libbies are protecting #CrookedHillary why?

  56. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 1:21 pm

    You just said Lauren Boebert was protecting Hillary Clinton.

    You’re an idiot.

  57. GrandOldPedophile Party spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 1:31 pm

    Snarky

    Jake_Vig
    @jakevig.bsky.social

    “You now have a list of male suspects from the hundreds of thousands of pages of the Epstein materials. Who do you plan on questioning?”

    REPUBLICANS: Easy. Hillary Clinton.

  58. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 1:50 pm

    @30 Would it be so terrible if Ukraine were to be neutral and not part of NATO?

    I’m sure Putin would like the assurance that the West wouldn’t come to Kiev’s aid if he tried again after restocking his military with another generation of Russian draftees.

    Oh, and also don’t forget, Ukraine gave up the USSR nuclear weapons stationed on its soil in exchange for Russia’s promise it would never invade Ukraine.

  59. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 1:57 pm

    @34 What threat is NATO to a Russia that behaves itself? How much Russian territory has the West invaded?

    Geez, even Russia wanted to join NATO. Have you forgotten that?

    And do you suppose maybe NATO’s expansion eastward may have resulted from the rise of the Putin dictatorship, his desire to reconstitute the Soviet empire, and increased Moscow saber rattling?

    Don’t you think those countries bordering Russia maybe got nervous and came to NATO asking to join?

    How has NATO “outlived its usefulness” when eastern Europe is at greater risk, and security guarantees are more needed, than at any time since the end of the Cold War?

    Are you a Russian bot? Do you work for Putin? Are you on Moscow’s payroll? Because all you’re doing here is blabbing Putin’s self-interest.

  60. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:04 pm

    @ 56

    You just said Lauren Boebert was protecting Hillary Clinton.

    No, I said Boebert gave #CrookedHillary an out. She likely did not intend for the result she got. But when she shared a photo of #CrookedHillary being interrogated, it ended the interview.

    Democrats gave #CrookedHillary an out from being president. Democrats did not intend it, but too many of them either stayed home or voted for Donald Trump.

    Which gave Democrats

    Gorsuch.

    Kavanaugh.

    Coney Barrett.

    Oh, and DJT47, too.

  61. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:08 pm

    I said Boebert gave #CrookedHillary an out.

    The lying troll said Boebert gave Clinton a “get out of jail free” card. Which is widely understood to describe a form of protection, as taken from the board game Monopoly.

    This wasn’t even a remotely credible lie this time.

    The lying troll is an idiot.

  62. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:13 pm

    @42 It’s very clear you are either incredibly misinformed or simply too lazy to bother reading these historical facts.

    I suspect it’s neither. He’s doing what all rightwingers do: Lying.

    I used to regularly post on HA my theory of why conservatives are so immoral. It’s been a while since I’ve posted it, so it’s time to remind HA readers how this works.

    It’s based on the notion that ends justify means. In simplest terms, because they’re doing the Lord’s work, anything goes.

    They don’t expect to be forgiven in the afterlife; they think they’ve forgiven in this life. That gives them a green light to keep on sinning, because it all will be forgiven. Because they’re the Lord’s chosen people doing His work. It never occurs to they’re serving Satan.

  63. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:16 pm

    Ahead of time committee Democrats were widey mocking and criticizing the oversight committee secret deposition of Hillary Clinton as a “joke” and a “clown show”.

    So as not to leave the Dems hanging, Republicans came through in style, first when they appointed a former back pages escort who gives out free drunken handies at the children’s theater to serve on the committee. But then when they abruptly terminated their own deposition because that member was sexting during the deposition with a YouTube content creator who is on the payroll of Russia.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrlv7jdnq8o

  64. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:18 pm

    Elijah hates Elon Musk so much that in late June he implored his fellow libbies to buy a 2WD Nissan LEAF in order to take down the bazillionaire.

    Elijah’s gonna need a new strategy:

    The Cheaper Nissan Leaf Has Been Delayed Indefinitely
    The Nissan Leaf S won’t materialize for 2026.

    We inquired about the specific reason behind the Leaf S’s delay—for example, was it due to customer feedback, supplier issues, or recent changes in tariffs and environmental policies in the U.S.—but Nissan declined to comment further. It also wouldn’t confirm if the Leaf S would be offered for the 2027 model year, the same year the $28,995 2027 Chevrolet Bolt is likely to begin winding down production. For now, the Leaf S Plus and Bolt remain the cheapest EVs you can buy and will stay that way for a while.

    EVs were Democrats’ grand strategy.

    In 2024 so was Boxcheck Momala, after the grand strategy of acting like there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden failed.

  65. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:24 pm

    During World War 2, German Wehrmacht soldiers wore belt buckles inscribed “Gott Mitt Uns” (“God is With Us”) surrounding a Nazi symbol.

    https://globalwarmuseum.com/produkt/german-belt-buckle-in-aluminum-makers-mark-gott-mit-uns-wwii-germany/

    It turns out that just because you believe God is on your side (or you’re on Her side) doesn’t mean She is (or you are).

  66. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:38 pm

    @ 65

    It turns out that just because you believe God is on your side (or you’re on Her side) doesn’t mean She is (or you are).

    It turns out, as well, that just because you believe acting like you give a shit about black people once every four years doesn’t mean they’ll continue to buy it and vote for your party.

  67. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:40 pm

    @ 65

    Auf Deutsch, the word “with” is mit. Not mitt.

  68. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:49 pm

    @46 It helps to understand Russia has an oil economy. Therefore, acknowledging climate change, and fossil fuels’ contributions to it, threatens the prospect of a portion of Russia’s enormous oil wealth diffusing to Western oligarchs. That’s why all mention of climate change, and all green technologies, must be ruthlessly suppressed by Trump and his lackeys. If fossil fuels go away, they go away.

  69. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:53 pm

    @48 Hillary isn’t taking the Fifth. She doesn’t need to. You can’t say the same for your Orange Felon.

  70. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:57 pm

    @49 To put Russia’s Ukraine average monthly casualties in perspective, it’s more than 18 times what the United States suffered in Vietnam.

    On an approximately 30% smaller population base.

  71. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 2:58 pm

    @ 69

    She doesn’t need to.

    She cut and ran instead.

  72. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:07 pm

    @53 Next the dumbfuck troll will argue that seizing control of elections is as benign as forgiving student debt. 💩💩💩

  73. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:10 pm

    @60 No, I said Boebert gave #CrookedHillary an out. She likely did not intend for the result she got.

    Her not being one of the brighter bulbs, even in the dim GOP chandelier, that’s possible.

  74. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:15 pm

    @66 So they’ll vote for the Klan Party instead? That’s not what 2024’s numbers show.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/exit-polls-show-majority-black-085515917.html

  75. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:18 pm

    @67 Wow. That totally invalidates my point.

  76. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:25 pm

    @71 She cut and ran instead.

    Five-alarm bullshit. 💩💩💩💩💩

  77. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:28 pm

    Looks like Cuban expats based in Florida, including a couple who are U.S. citizens, engineered their own Bay of Pigs.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/cuba/cuba-says-will-defend-aggression-deadly-us-boat-clash-rcna260792

  78. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:31 pm

    Always assume cops are lying, and never consent to warrantless entry. Super-especially if the cops are from ICE, but this applies to all cops.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/columbia-student-snatched-by-federal-agents-who-lied-to-gain-entry-governor_n_69a08352e4b059e1adf27ed2?origin=home-latest-news-unit

  79. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:34 pm

    Transgender residents of Kansas are being told to surrender their driver’s licenses and birth certificates if they don’t reflect the credential holder’s assigned sex at birth, after Republicans in the state legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to force through an anti-transgender law.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_699c2475e4b0f41da8d4babb/liveblog_69a0985ee4b059e1adf2a1fc?origin=home-latest-news-unit

    They’d be better off to move to a more welcoming state. Why would any trans person stay in Kansas?

  80. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:37 pm

    Hillary thought the deposition was going to be about Epstein.

    Speaking to reporters after the deposition, Clinton claimed that Republicans asked … about Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that claimed a pedophile ring was being run out of a pizza shop in New Jersey, and whether or not UFOs are real.

    https://www.rawstory.com/web-push-notification/hillary-clinton/

  81. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:40 pm

    in late June he implored his fellow libbies to buy a 2WD Nissan LEAF

    Sure, idiot.

  82. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:45 pm

    Remember school choice vouchers, a Republican pet project?

    In Arizona, parents given school vouchers to educate their children instead spent millions on gift cards, electric dirt bikes, custom tires, luxury hotel stays, insurance payments, wedding gifts, and condoms, lubricants and lingerie.

    https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-school-vouchers/

  83. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:49 pm

    80,

    The lying troll is obviously more hysterical than usual today because his longed for clown show did not pan out.
    And I’m sure the fact that his overwhelming disappointment can only be laid at the feet of a former out-call escort now serving as the Republican representing CO-4 is making the sting even worse.

    As usual, Republicans fuck themselves.
    Nobody else will.

  84. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 3:51 pm

    82,
    Where’s Nick Shirley?

  85. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 6:45 pm

    @ 73

    Her not being one of the brighter bulbs…

    She not being …

    You are not a bright bulb any more than you are a millionaire.

  86. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 6:52 pm

    @82, 84

    Much is being made of $10.3 million in misspent funds.

    Of course, our failed former attorney has no idea that the same funding source resulted in $440 million being socked away by parents to spent on college, instead of primary education.

    However, 12News also found last summer that ESA families had stockpiled $440 million in unused education voucher money that can be used for future college expenses.

    By all means, let’s embellish the little things.

  87. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 7:00 pm

    For those who still think that all of those Twitter employees were needed at the time Elon Musk bought it, the founder of Twitter is slashing 40% of his company’s employees.

    Because they are not needed.

    jack
    @jack

    we’re making @blocks smaller today. here’s my note to the company.

    ####

    today we’re making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we’re reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i’ll be straight about what’s happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

    first off, if you’re one of the people affected, you’ll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you’re being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

    we’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.

    i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i’d rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

    a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we’ve done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we’ve pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we’ve built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

    we’re not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i’ll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i’d rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

    to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that’s a fact that i’ll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

    to those staying…i made this decision, and i’ll own it. what i’m asking of you is to build with me. we’re going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we’re going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that’s what i’m focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

    jack

    1:12 PM · Feb 26, 2026

    I think that smell is YLB’s children just shat themselves.

  88. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 7:38 pm

    $440 million being socked away by parents to spent on college,

    …instead of strap-ons, rubbers, and and truck accessories.

    Great.

  89. NATO has outlived it usefulness spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:02 pm

    “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a blatant and obvious war of aggression seeking territorial expansion. Russia’s efforts to coopt Ukranian democracy and obtain Ukraine as a puppet state through Viktor Yanukovych failed uterly in the Maidan uprising. Russia invaded the same year.”

    You are one DELUDED motherfucker if you believe that. Watch Professor Sachs on the Judge’s channel, you fucking dolt. Maybe you’ll learn something. The Russians HAVE NO INTEREST in ruling over Ukraine.

  90. lmao spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:18 pm

    just shat themselves…

    And “Shat” is what kreepfuck bathes and dances in when people are laid off..

    The long and short of this is AI it appears to me.. “jack” wants to leverage tech flavor of the day (AI or what the fuck ever) to do “more” with less people. It’s his business to build or run into the ground as “jack” sees fit.

    We can’t all wait for dumbfuck to take a spin in its fav Nazi’s robotaxi into a wall or get cornholed by fav nazi’s rapebot and bleed to death from its anus.

    As it has babbled, great for the kids.

  91. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:37 pm

    @86 By all means, let’s embellish the little things.

    Of course, you would never stoop to that — at, say, #85. 😂

  92. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:44 pm

    @87 Maybe he should keep one of those people as an editor to capitalize the first letter of every sentence in his memos, since he doesn’t have the time or inclination to do it himself.

  93. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 2/26/26 at 11:51 pm

    @89 This is who you listen to?

    In March 2023, a group of 340 economists published an open letter to “address some of the historical misrepresentations and logical fallacies” that they said were contained in Sachs’s arguments regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war. …

    During a January 2021 interview, when questioned about China’s repression of Uyghur people, Sachs referred to human rights abuses committed by the U.S. and alluded to Jesus’ parable of The Mote and the Beam. Eighteen advocacy organizations jointly wrote a letter to Columbia University questioning Sachs’s comments. The letter’s signatories wrote that Sachs took the same stance as China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a digression to the history of U.S. rights violations as a way to avoid discussions of China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs. Stephan Richter, editor-in-chief at The Globalist, and J.D. Bindenagel, a former U.S. ambassador, wrote that Sachs was “actively agitating(!) for a classic Communist propaganda ploy”.

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

    Yeah, I see how he ended up bleating on Napolitano’s soapbox, having worn out his welcome everywhere else except Moscow and Beijing.

  94. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 12:29 am

    When Republicans control Congress, there are worse things than a do-nothing Congress.

    Republicans’ willingness to prioritize a powerful executive at the expense of effective legislators is looking like a real monkey’s paw situation as the midterms loom. Trump’s attention has been everywhere but Congress.

    https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union-midterms-trouble

  95. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 12:31 am

    Turns out Nick Shirley is not only a racist liar like J.D. Vance, which is perfectly fine in MAGA World, but also antisemitic, which is not so okay with MAGAts (also spelled “maggots”).

    https://www.ms.now/opinion/maga-world-deflates-after-minnesota-fraud-influencers-antisemitic-post

  96. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 12:40 am

    Why Trump’s Venezuela oil dreams are an illusion:

    Why wouldn’t oil companies want access to Venezuela’s resources? … In capitalist economies, companies work for their shareholders and owners, not for the government. … In business, the chief rule of investment is to obtain a return on that investment. To do that, companies seek to operate in jurisdictions where the legal frameworks are strong, contracts are respected, government services work and there are clear rules for moving money into and out of a country. These fundamentals of security and stability are the anchors for investment to prosper. None of these conditions exist in Venezuela.

    https://www.ms.now/news/trump-venezuela-oil-revenue-chevron

    Trump has a long road ahead to make Venezuela safe for Exxon, whose CEO called the place “uninvestable” last month.

  97. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 3:52 am

    96,

    More “Nation Building”.

    Oh goody. The last one of those we did was for another Republican in Iraq.
    $3 trillion. 4,500 dead Americans.
    The place remains a shambles twenty years later. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

  98. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 6:33 am

    @ 89

    … on the Judge’s channel …

    I gotta ask because I do not know. Who the fuck is “the Judge”?

  99. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 8:27 am

    Five days ago Fat Hitler lost a $220 million dollar classified surveillance drone in the straight of Hormuz.

    And he kept it secret to avoid having it mentioned ahead of his SOTU.

  100. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/27/26 at 8:45 am

    98,

    He served briefly as a NJ Superior Court judge forty years ago before becoming adjunct faculty and pursuing a career in television. In 2017 he was fired from FOX after a string of sexual assault claims culminated in him issuing wildly irrational, and widely discredited claims that GCHQ had spied on Fat Hitler for Obama ahead of the 2016 election. Fat Hitler’s own FBI Director, the Director of National Intelligence, and even GCHQ itself all issued official statements that there was no evidence of any such surveillance at any time. At the time it came to be understood that Napolitano was being manipulated by anonymous Russian representatives feeding disinformation in order to muddy the evidence of their since proven 2016 election interference.

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