Swing by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally this evening. We’ll be watching a few elections around the U.S., engaging in discussions about politics, and having 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.
The pointless billions of tax dollars being incinerated by President Grandpa in the Persian Gulf on behalf of Israel is definitely bringing out the cult purists like our lying troll.
It’s embarrassing to see them debasing themselves once again.
Looks like I called the top.
Enjoy the long dip, idiots.
Ayatollah Khamenei, who FA’d for far too long, has been FO’d with extreme prejudice.
And he’s been replaced by,
Ayatollah Khamenei?
Huh. This seems wrong somehow.
@3 So now Iran is a hereditary monarchy again, just under a different name.
4,
With cruise missiles and an obvious but now disabled nuclear capability.
Fun.
Heavily armed masked man arrested near Ken Paxton campaign watch party in Dallas
https://www.rawstory.com/dallas-paxton/
Looks like ICE is patrolling the Texas primary.
In North Carolina, Michele Morrow, a nutcase who said Obama should be executed, extended her losing streak by getting 6% of the GOP Senate primary vote. Previously, she lost a race for state schools superintendent (2024) and a local school board election (2022).
In Texas, James Talarico is ahead of Jasmine Crockett, 53% to 46%, with over a million votes counted; while on the GOP side Cornyn is slightly ahead of Paxton, 43% to 41%.
@ 3, 4
It’s not completely certain that Ayatollah Junior is still among the living. He was originally among the 40 or so Iranian official higher-ups who were reportedly reduced to room temperature on Saturday, and he has not yet been seen, although if he’s alive it’s understandable that he is not out in public. Or even photographed next to a screenshot of today’s Al Jazeera.
After the Texas Republican leg redistricted last summer the Republican Sec of State never updated any of the published precinct maps showing voters where to vote.
Today hundreds of thousands of voters were turned away from precinct polling places and could not vote because they followed the Republican Sec of State maps that sent them to the wrong polling places.
Looks like Talarico in Texas.
Thanks, CBS.
@ 9, 10
• It doesn’t seem to be statewide.
• The suit primarily involves Dallas County.
• The confusion is apparently among Democrat voters.
• In Dallas County Jasmine Crockett is currently up 61-32 with 70% of the cast votes counted, so if there are “hundreds of thousands” of uncast votes, then calling it for Talarico might be a bit premature.
Care to revise your bullshit, Elijah?
Elijah @ 9 blames a Republican for a problem that is not happening statewide. In fact, the precincts were updated more than two months ago:
Little time for Democrats to inform voters, maybe. The GOP didn’t go running to the courts because their county apparatchiks are incompetent like the Democrats apparently did.
So it’s hundreds, not Elijah’s claimed “hundreds of thousands”, of affected voters. Elijah was off by a factor of 1,000.
@11 Confusion caused by the Republican secretary of state and the Dallas County Republican Party.
Will they read the room?
North Carolina’s Carla Cunningham was the decisive vote, forcing North Carolina’s police to comply with ICE. In a floor speech prior to the vote, Cunningham stated “not all cultures are equal“
Tonight she lost by almost 50% to a progressive pastor and anti-ice activist in a safe blue district.
The message is clear. Collaborate at your peril.
Cornyn and Paxton get a runoff. Nothing like draining the finances early, eh?
The mullah who got killed in that attack against Iran recently was an Islamic cleric who said “No” to nukes. The guy that replaces him won’t say that. Iran will pursue a path towards nuclear weapons, primarily to tell the Americans to mind their own fucking business.
In fact, there are 30 or 40 non-aligned nations who now are looking at their hold cards and coming to the conclusion that they must get nuclear weapons to prevent domination by the US.
Supporting Zionism-no-matter-what is going to have some serious consequences. The West has fucked around and, in a few years, they will get to the find out part.
Started a war in Ecuador now.
‘If you could go back in time and kill Pete Hegseth’s Grade School bully…”
11, 12,
Oh look.
The lying troll is desperate and turns once again to lying.
Sure, bigot.
While you were distracted yesterday Fat Hitler also ordered the U.S. to enter into the civil war in El Salvador’s that was restarted by President Bukele in 2022.
Venezuela, Iran, El Salvador.
A brief note on why, once again, the lying troll is a lying troll.
Note his spew completely ignores the stated facts. Instead he observed that problems were concentrated in Dallas County and that it most affected Democrats.
First, let’s dispense with the obvious (and frankly ridiculous). Dallas County is overwhelmingly Democratic. So any disenfranchisement focused on Dallas County will of course disproportionately impact Democratic voters. This is not accidental. This is by design.
Like many other counties in Texas, since 2019 Dallas County relied on operating countywide voting centers where any voter registered in the county could cast their ballot. But ahead of this year’s midterms the Dallas County Republican party blew that up. They unilaterally decided to shift back to precinct level polling places for this party primary. And by state law in Texas, what one party decides is imposed on the county. So Dallas County was forced to switch the party primary away from the open voting centers to precinct based polling locations at the insistence of the tiny white minority of Republicans.
And so, not surprisingly, the problems are concentrated in the almost entirely Democratic county where the racist white minority of Republicans forced the change.
But the problems got a huge lift from the intentional malfeasance of the racist, white Republican Secretary of State.
So, you see, once again, the lying troll is a fucking lying troll.
I’ve got a little more on dumbfuck’s peculiar “behavior change” for the next thread.
I hope the freek’s “monitor” is watching.
About as close as the American Press comes to telling a politician, “That’s utter bullshit.”
The Trump administration is a cesspool of misconduct.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/labor-secretarys-top-two-aides-resign-investigation-alleged-department-rcna261537
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minnesota-judge-federal-prosecutor-contempt-ice-immigration-rcna261583
@20 Just for the record, Dallas County is predominantly Hispanic (40%), with whites (27%) moderately outnumbering blacks (21%), with Asians (6%) the next largest ethnic group, as of the 2020 census.
@ 20
So Dallas County was forced to switch the party primary away from the open voting centers to precinct based polling locations at the insistence of the tiny white minority of Republicans.
Which does not change the fact that Democrats have had since December to inform voters of the change. Which is what I wrote @ 12.
I also wrote that you were off by a factor of 1,000 when you claimed that hundreds of thousands of voters were affected. I see that you did not call me a liar for mentioning that.
Would you have been happier had I written that you were off by a factor of 10e2?
It turns out that Mojtaba Khamenei is not yet the new ayatollah.
It also turns out that nobody has seen him since the Saturday strike on daddy’s compound.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-supreme-leader-gulf-attacks-israel-tehran-trump-rcna261634#rcrd102892
So a state-linked news agency claims he’s still breathing, but his wife isn’t.
Not what he wrote.
Also not what he wrote.
The lying troll wrote that, according to an unnamed source, “hundreds of people unable to vote”. He even put it in bold. I’m sure it’s yet another crushing MAGA disappointment that thanks to legal interventions most of the voters who were initially turned away from polling places were eventually enabled to cast their ballot. This A/B test in disenfranchisement would appear to have been a failure.
Sad trombones for lying troll.
@ 14
The message is clear. Collaborate at your peril.
The message is clear. Democrats need future votes from illegals more than they need safe streets. Choose the latter and find a new job.
It’s apparently coincidence that she shares the same surname with a disgraced recent former NC Democrat candidate for US Senate, Cal Cunningham. Had his serial infidelity not been exposed just before the election, he likely would have won.
The Trump administration should stop protecting pedophiles by withholding the Epstein Files.
And Republicans in Congress should stop helping them do that.
Now is not a good time for us.
Democrats need future votes from illegals more than they need safe streets.
Funny that repukes have long relied on cheap labor from UNDOCUMENTED immigrants.
Like this orange freek that kreepfuck fellates..
Congratulations to whomever is running Iran, for drawing NATO into the war. As another enemy.
@ 31
Funny that repukes have long relied on cheap labor from UNDOCUMENTED immigrants.
While Democrats have increasingly relied on illegal votes from them.
While Democrats have increasingly relied on illegal votes from them.
Oh so apparently repuke employers in meat packing, ag, construction, etc. have “enabled” this for Democrats. Funny, I’ve long said – don’t like them being here – don’t hire them. One would think repuke employers would do that. But noooooooo…
However on the voting score, little to no proof of that whatsoever..
Don’t believe me. Go look at the Heritage Foundation’s own documentation of voter fraud. You’ll find plenty of republicans in that list like Jane Balough.
yawwwwn… another silly masturbatory troll fantasy skewered.
Five minutes of Jim Jordan taking apart Boxcheck Momala’s running mate.
A reminder that both Hair Gel and True Gretch sent word to Boxcheck Momala’s people that they had zero interest in being considered as potential running mates.
@28 Blatant nonsense gets you nowhere on this blog, but I guess you have to resort to it, because it’s all you’ve got.
Does this ________ GOP chances in upcoming elections?
Help/hurt
Emmanuel Damas a Haitian immigrant with an asylum claim waiting to be heard, also known as ‘a person in the USA legally’ until said claim is heard, died in a Florence, AZ detention facility.
According to officials, Damas complained for weeks of tooth pain but no medical services were provided by ICE, also known as ‘a violation of US and International law’. The infection killed him after it spread throughout his body.
@28
We point once again to Utah’s extensive audit of their voter rolls and registration system to ‘remove non-citizens’ in 2025. Of the 1.6 (rounded) million registered Utahns the GOP led search found ONE, yes one non citizen registered to vote. And for that one person they could find no record of a cast ballot in any election.
You know that Santa isn’t real?
The Dogma of the cult must be repeated at every opportunity even when it’s as valid as a three dollar bill.
Five minutes of a Pedophile protector the GOP elevated to committee chair.
Every post you make runs into the Epstein files.