Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for drinks and conversation. We’ll be talking all things politics.
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.
Congratulations to ActBlue for waiting until after this Democrat POS earned a primary runoff spot before finally cutting her off.
ActBlue cuts off Texas politician Galindo after call to imprison Zionists
And how brave of MSN for leaving out the part about castrating Jews.
‘nother!
Stock futures are little changed after the S&P 500 closes at another record: Live updates
@2
Mmmmmmm. Can we eat that?
In light of TWO Federal judges dismissing cases against The Broadview Six and Kilmer Abrego Garcia for malicious prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct, the ACLU has amended their motion to unseal Grand Jury proceedings leading to the group’s indictment to a motion to dismiss.
We OBLITERATED THEIR MILITARY, they have nothing left planes, the navy is 213% sunk, no missiles, no drones, no ability to re-arm.
US says it launched ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran as peace negotiations drag on
That sewer crawlers like Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz can get elected to high public offices tells you everything you need to know about Texas and the voters who live there.
What if China announced there was no way the world would be safe if the US were allowed to get a moon base and just started bombing NASA facilities and a girl’s school?
Talarico in a landslide thanks to Trump.
It really does no good to point out “antisemitism” from the left when you ignore the real antisemitism on the right.
Consumer confidence use to be touted by bootlickers that no longer care. Their assets won’t be protected.
https://apnews.com/article/confidence-inflation-economy-4f681cecfa63fe251f5bb12bb4b949c6
Can North Korea hit Israel?
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-ballistic-cruise-missiles-nuclear-720cea7dfc5f7ec555ff9bb1f423507c
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-missile-engine-test-us-bdc130f08bed4fd569bdd041ce2c67aa
America Last.
@2
Stock futures might be up, but they is no realistic explanation of what is happening in the markets. There must be some sort of market manipulation occurring.
@12
Funny you spew. I’ve been saying this for years, here.
How else are the billionaires going to count their money?
Got to have highs for the millionaires, and make up shit to be optimistic about. It’s a Ponzi scheme.
. CNBC
@13
Well then, let’s figure out a way to take advantage of things.
Did I say Ponzi Sheme? I meant a cult.
@14
I wouldn’t waste my time. But what’s your plan? Robots and AI will enslave one day soon.
Just a pessimistic I am
@4
The fun part is when it’s dismissed SPLC has a STRONG case for Defamation and damages because as dumbfuck GLEEFULLY reported Administration friendly investment firms immediately barred naming them as beneficiaries.
That and all the public statements by Donnie and DOJ
Knowingly false statements – check
With intent to cause reputational harm – check
Causing financial harm – check
@8
Paxton had a month to come up with a fighting platform and he went with ‘ordering a potato egg and cheese breakfast taco is against our very way of life and six genders.”
Meanwhile, Talarico was ready.
https://bsky.app/profile/jamestalarico.bsky.social/post/3mmsepeeqe22o
@8
Maybe. I thought the same thing.
Someone made this comment on a DU comment regarding an article on Drumpf’s health. Best comment.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143670902
To think that HA’s Radiology Dr. isn’t as intelligent, reflects its failures.
But you know, and more importantly we know, that you didn’t. And that you are liar.
More of the Dems need to be saying the same message and with the same fire!🔥
Talarico is the Man!
Talarico already won, in a closely divided Democratic primary, more votes than the total of all votes cast between Cornyn and Paxton tonight.
More than 10,000,000 votes were cast in the 2024 November general between Cruz and Allred.
This fall we should expect a 20% drop in turnout. The winner will need to win more than 4,000,000 votes. So the real race has just started. But Talarico is already well ahead coming out of the gate. Especially since I believe most of Crockett’s voters are coming over to Talarico. But I suspect a lot of Cornyn’s voters will not come out for Paxton.
@23
That will be 👍
If he ever became President and he decided to put the Ten Commandments on display in the White House, I wouldn’t even care.
The Christian Nationalists have a different idea of what the Commandments are than his idea of what the Ten Commandments are.
Maybe not a blue wave yet.
But oh my, definitely an anti-incumbent/fresh meat wave in effect big time. And that could prove bad for Susan Collins and a few other senior citizens in Congress.
@ 3
The University of Michigan’s survey of consumer sentiment sank to 44.8 in May, marking the lowest level in records dating back to 1978, when the university began publishing the index on a monthly basis.
Gee, that sounds serious.
Perhaps we should look at how consumers viewed the bond market meltdown of 1999:
Or the Great Recession:
So consumers think things are far worse today than they did during the Great Reession, on the same day @ 2 that the stock market hits a new all-time high?
This sounds awful. At minimum it sounds comical.
@25
If the “fresh meat” does not include parties other than the Democrats and Republicans, then there will be no meaningful change in the American political landscape.
In other words, there will be no change to Business as Usual.
@26 What percentage of American consumers don’t give a shit how the stock market is doing? I’ll bet the number is higher than zero.
@27 Replacing Republicans with Democrats most certainly would change the American political landscape. And please quit trying to peddle your “the parties are the same” horseshit. They aren’t the same.
The fact that certain underlying economic indices do not support the persistent and worsening consumer and voter negativity does present an interesting question.
But pointing it out does absolutely nothing to change that persistent and worsening negativity.
Boomer incumbents and the lying troll are about to FO.
27,
As I’ve already said, if your version of “fresh meat” means you never cast another vote for any Republican ever again that should work out fine.
The problem has not been a “corrupt duopoly”. The problem has been phony “centrism” that serves to camouflage corruption and hold back reform.
Last evening Mark Zuckerberg’s 390′ superyacht traversed the Ballard locks into Lake Union.
FB comment:
The reason for 30 just might have something to do with 32.
It’s not just the naked flaunting of rapacious inequality. I think it’s more to do with the persistent, steady confrontation modern consumers and voters face from that inequality now being curated and fed to them in real time by algorithms like FB.
How ironic if the scientifically designed sense of dissatisfaction and discomfort that platforms like FB are programmed to produce should lead to the undoing of the elite wealth accumulation they enable.
The only thing that’s “comical” here is teh widbee kreepfuck in its idiot kult bubble:
“Prices remain extremely high, labor markets have unambiguously weakened in the last four years, and now we’re in the middle of a war,” said Joanne Hsu, director of consumer surveys for the University of Michigan. “I don’t think the fact that we’re lower than June 2022 should come as a surprise to anyone.”
And it isn’t just that stocks are high. They also appear really expensive.
The S&P 500 is clocking a valuation of 40.8, as measured by its cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio. That’s a metric popularized by Yale University economist Robert Shiller, who won an economics Nobel in 2013 for his work on asset prices.
The only other time it was above 40 in the 145 years of Shiller’s data was in the years just before and after the peak of the dot-com bubble in early 2000.
http://archive.today/2026.05.2.....t-af088e87
Yep, teh kreepfuck and it’s greedee shit-eating ilk are about to FO..
@ 33
How ironic if the scientifically designed sense of dissatisfaction and discomfort that platforms like FB are programmed to produce should lead to the undoing of the elite wealth accumulation they enable.
That’s assuming it was irony that the “Learn to code!” liberal crowd was undone by the DNC’s choice to run #CrookedHillary in 2016 after spending the preceding eight years weaponizing the government against the right.
Thing is, it wasn’t irony.
It was payback, and it began with Gorsuch.
Think on your sins.
That’s assuming it was irony that the “Learn to code!” liberal crowd
Funny it was a troll asswipe who has fellated every repuke from bonzo on who babbled that shit:
https://horsesass.org/2019/12/20/friday-night-multimedia-extravaganza-460/#comment-1393333
@ 34
The problem with that article WRT the Michigan consumer sentiment, YLB, is that it references the year 2000, which you dutifully parroted
The only other time it was above 40 in the 145 years of Shiller’s data was in the years just before and after the peak of the dot-com bubble in early 2000.
Things are different now, YLB, and the correlation with 2000 is a silly one. Why is that? Why, YLB, it’s in your link:
Today consumer sentiment is at an all-time low, yet for some reason you want to compare PE ratios to a time when consumer sentiment was at an all-time high.
For the record, when most people speak of the PE they speak of either TTM (earnings known) or FTM (earnings predicted). Right now the TTM S&P 500 PE is 26.47. That’s higher than typical, but it’s supported by earnings estimates going forward. The FTM S&P 500 PE is only 21.81. To me that means predicted earnings growth is around 21%.
That kind of earnings growth is worth paying more to acquire, and so the market does.
YLB, I know you don’t understand any of this. The reason I wrote the above is so that everyone else will know you don’t understand any of this.
Nothing says Texas like Opey Taylor cooking an Impossible Burger using All-Clad D5 and an induction cooktop.
From the National Nuclear Safety Administration:
NNSA Removes Highly Enriched Uranium from Venezuela, Reducing Risk to South America and the U.S. Homeland
The safe removal of all enriched uranium from Venezuela sends another signal to the world of a restored and renewed Venezuela. Thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership, the teams finished in months what would have normally taken years.
Venezuela is producing oil for export again, and its economy is improving.
Oh, and last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner? She has returned to Venezuela and is running for president.
after spending the preceding eight years weaponizing the government against the right.
LMAO.. Ok dumbfuck.. Here’s another excuse for you to whip out..
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/lois-lerner-breaks-silence-irs-scandal-111181.html
“Dirty Jew” (rolls eyes)..
From the National Nuclear Safety Administration:
NNSA Removes Highly Enriched Uranium from Venezuela, Reducing Risk to South America and the U.S. Homeland
At the point of a gun.. yawwwn.. theft in other words.. Enriched.. wtf does that mean?
A BOMB!!!!
Venezuela is producing oil for export again, and its economy is improving.
Always has produced oil.. Improving cuz’ kreepuck sez so.. yawwn..
Oh, and last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner? She has returned to Venezuela and is running for president.
She has no chance.. Listen to your bloated orange dear leader.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5671488-trump-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader/
Ok maybe a better chance since she gave her prize to orange asswipe..
Hi Bob!
Things are different now, YLB, and the correlation with 2000 is a silly one. Why is that? Why, YLB, it’s in your link:
Today consumer sentiment is at an all-time low, yet for some reason you want to compare PE ratios to a time when consumer sentiment was at an all-time high.
It’s called “bubble mania” or more kindly “irrational exuberance”
I know you don’t understand that because as many have pointed out, you live in a kult mentality.
No sympathy for your plight whatsoever.
Forget to include this link for @41
https://statbase.org/data/ven-oil-production/
So go right ahead and build your media messaging strategy around a claim the opposing candidate can visually refute at a half dozen campaign stops a day by eating a plate of ribs and washing them down with a can of Lone Star while wearing a bib for for effect.
Or just light the money on fire.
Good move in one of the biggest cattle ranching states in America.
On the mend perhaps, but not nearly as much as in years past..
The Texas beef cattle herd could be on its way to a rebuild after hitting its lowest numbers in a decade, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
From 2010 to 2014, the Texas herd shrunk from 5.14 million to 3.9 million, a 24% decline, Anderson said. There were 4.65 million beef cows in 2019, but those numbers have fallen 12% since due to the drought’s impact on forage production in back-to-back years.
https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/02/07/u-s-beef-cattle-herd-smallest-since-1951/
Blame the hot fucking weather.. or global warming..
It means fuel used to produce sources for nuclear medicine.
When a country like Venezuela (or Iran) is placed under sanctions by consortia nations controlled by the U.S. because of political disagreements they often have their supply of Mo-99 radioisotope targets cut off. That eliminates their ability to do common medical diagnostics and treatments that rely on those targets like PET scans, radiation treatments, etc. So they either produce their own or obtain other sources to be able to treat patients.
In other words, the lying troll is lying again.
It’s really quite funny at this point.
Donnie says something and the rest of the cult falls in line.
Donnie said “Talarico believes in six genders” after mishearing CIS gender, claims Talarico is a vegan because he ordered potato egg and cheese breakfast tacos (cheese isn’t vegan).”
Paxton, victory speech, “A vegan who believes in six genders isn’t right for Texas.”
RNC Chair today, “Talafreako is a creep. He’s a vegan.”
Gonna be weird for Y’all when he shows up eating some fajitas at Papacitos. When the campaign stops at Bucees for a brisket sandwich then what you got?
@ 46
PET radionuclides are produced in cyclotrons. They have very short half-lives and need to be moved from production to imaging very quickly, usually within a few hours. Molybdenum generators are not used for PET imaging.
Most radiation therapy is administered with linear accelerators, which produce ionizing radiation only when they are turned on. Molybdenum generators are not used for radiation therapy.
Molybdenum generators are used in medical imaging because a byproduct of their decay is Technetium-99m, which is used for nuclear scintigraphy by bonding it to tracers that accumulate in specific locations in the body – bone, lung, etc. The 99m-Tc decay rate is fast enough and the energy emitted is low enough that it would be impractical to try to create anything destructive with it.
Other than being incorrect about everything he wrote, Elijah is spot-on.
I’ve read it three times and I can’t make much sense out of the spew at 35. Other than it seems like a weird non-sequitur effort to change the subject to a Clinton, I guess.
Regardless, the plain fact is that consumer sentiment and voter confidence in the economy has cratered since the pandemic and is not recovering. The lying troll had no problem pounding away on that during the Biden administration despite Biden posting unprecedented job growth and the fastest economic recovery of all developed nations. It wasn’t enough then. It won’t be enough now.
But it certainly won’t be enough if the idiots that the lying troll still votes for because his cult orders him to can’t bring an end to their Israeli Sport War against Iran. Average gas prices this summer will move past $5, and Texans will be paying $20/lb for beef. And those mfers do not know how to grill fish at all, even if they could find any in the “Gulf of America” that don’t have tumors that look like Danny DeVito.
All the powerful old Boomer incumbents with name recognition are being sent to the dugout before the stretch. And voters are looking for some payback while the lying troll and his profoundly stupid MAGA cult are standing out loud and proud shrieking “BRING IT!!!!!”
How precious.
48,
Nice technical dissertation for anyone who cares (which most of us probably do not).
Doesn’t actually address the issue though does it?
“Molybdenum generators are used in medical imaging”
And where do Mo generators come from?
Sanctioned countries need HEU – note: HEU is not “weapons grade”. We just “secured” Venezueala’s HEU because we also agreed to remove the relevant sanctions allowing them to continue to practice nuclear medicine without it.
He’s lying about this just exactly the way Israel is lying about Iran.
Nuclear weapons produce damage in two ways:
1. The mushroom cloud and the big blast causing instant destruction and death within a certain radius of the explosion.
2. Longer-term damage from fallout, which affects far larger areas, including at substantial distance from Ground Zero, and for a much longer period of time.
The fallout risk from nuclides that go boom is because of very long half-lives (other than radioiodine) of the decay products and the atomic composition allowing them to accumulate in specific areas of the body, where they remain rather than being flushed out. Think radium and bone cancers or bone necrosis. The exception is radioiodine, which is far a shorter half-life (varies depending on the specific isotope) but does damage because it accumulates in the thyroid gland. This is why iodine tablets can be important in the days following a nuclear accident or intended explosion; the tablet iodine competes with the radioiodine for incorporation into thyroid tissue.
In medical imaging, the isotopes used have short half-lives and/or are quickly cleared by the body, which limits radiation dose to the patient. Isotopes used for medical imaging are not a national security threat the way isotopes used for energy generation are. Elijah.
The lady in @1 lost.
So much for that.
The other day, teh kreepfuck blamed Americans being in such crushing debt and predatory lending on Bill Clinton and public school teachers (huh?)..
So what was the repuke solution to these depredations by Democrats?
A relentless campaign to destroy the CFPB.
Btw, thank you kreepfuck for crediting America’s public school K-12 teachers for..
“sharpening the intelligence” of America’s children
Same as you credited steadily expiring repukes for making life better for my two sons.
https://horsesass.org/2021/02/17/wednesday-open-thread-18/#comment-1425736
We’ll have a real party, when it’s your turn. Dead kreepfuck. Problem solved!
Notice he declined to answer the question about where M0-99 (moly cows) are made?
Moly Cows are made through exposure of HEU targets to fission products of HEU-235 in a reactor.
If we embargo the supply of moly cows to a country they have to build and support their own reactors fueled with HEU-235 in order to supply their own moly cows.
Moly cows can be produced from low enriched targets. But the production still takes place in a reactor fueled with HEU. So you need HEU to produce moly cows, even if you use LEU targets.
He’s still lying. Again. And again. And again.
Too funny how kreepfuck gloated over Israel “cutting the heads off of snakes” in Lebanon aka Hezbollah
No doubt that beeper op was bold.. very clever of Mossad..
And totally feckless..
In recent weeks, Hezbollah has boasted that it is using new fiber-optic drones that Israeli troops have struggled to intercept, hitting both Israeli forces and northern Israeli villages.
Israel has told people there not to gather in large numbers.
“What this requires of us now is to increase the blows, to increase the intensity. We will smite them hip and thigh,” Netanyahu said.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/world/2026/05/26/israel-and-hezbollah-clash-along-strategic-lebanese-river-following-overnight-strikes/
It’s a fucking mess and will end so badly.