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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for conversations, drinks and good cheer.

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.

Comments

  1. Security all over the place at the Vancouver hotel we’re at, but just in the tower where our room is located. We figured it was some international bigwig here for the World Cup.

    We found out Canada’s national team is here. Which probably better explains the security.

  3. Jon Ossoff gets to run against an alt-right freak who, as a House member, employed a violent criminal as his chief of staff..

  4. The algae has tentatively agree to accept $300 billion to begin a process of negotiating with Fat Hitler’s son-in-law.

  6. Absolutely nuts.

    A defense counsel filing in the Broadview 6 case informing the judge of the defense position with respect to potential further discovery of DOJ materials relevant to their Hyde Amendment motion for fees, notifying the court that the DOJ has already stipulated that defense counsel is entitled to fees from the prosecution.

    https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/0c/07/4afee6884bf697cfdb71c93b7733/b6discovery.pdf

    This is wildly unprecedented. To win fees a Hyde motion must prove to a very high standard that a prosecution was “vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith”. And a whole bunch of procedural hurdles must be cleared first.

    An accompanying filing informs the court about “additional misconduct which we anticipate is yet uncovered.”

  8. It’s now clear the reason details of the Iran deal haven’t been made public is because there is no Iran deal.

    Donald Trump said Wednesday at the G7 conference that the U.S. will “go right back to dropping bombs” if he doesn’t like the Iran deal. The U.S. President said that the proposed agreement to bring the Middle East conflict to an end, which is set to be formalized at a signing ceremony in Geneva on Friday, is “not final … and if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their heads.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/trump-us-iran-deal-g7.html

  9. @6 It occurs to me that a DOJ that lied to a grand jury is likely to also lie in Hyde Amendment motion discovery.

  10. the U.S. will “go right back to dropping bombs”

    No he won’t.

    He’s gone too far with this and he knows it.
    His party can’t afford it anymore.

    “…if he doesn’t like the Iran deal.”

    That’s ridiculous. It’s his deal. He likes it

    What he doesn’t like is what is being said about it. Which is that he lost a war to Iran.

    He’s more likely to go start another, different war. Because he’s insane. And now the midterm elections have become a referendum on that insanity.

  11. @9,

    This may go beyond the DOJ. But yes, of course they will lie.

  12. YLB’s fear of “Asians” is not wholly without foundation.

    Asian Chicago college student admits to burning cross as part of Trump protest

    An Asian University of Illinois Chicago student set up a burning cross in Grant Park in order to protest President Donald Trump.
    …
    “Last week, Lu sent a scripted video to NBC, claiming responsibility for the cross burning but saying he had no affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, apologizing to those who were offended,” NBC reported. “In the video he also criticized President Donald Trump.”
    …
    Lu graduated from Neuqua Valley High School in the wealthy Naperville suburb of Chicago.

    The student, who may one day stand trial for an arson charge, said he wants the president put on trial.

    “I put a red hat to signify the MAGA hat, the Make America Great Again hat,” he said. “So that was, yeah, that’s what I tied on top.”

    Barack’s ghost writer, University of Chicago professor and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, cannot conceal his smile.

  13. renames it to the Department of War

    names himself the Secretary of War

    fights one war

    loses

  15. 12,

    Now do the Xtian Nationalist right wing incel aerial drone plot targeting Fat Hitler’s Nitro Circus party.

  16. https://democraticunderground.com/100221311274

    1 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.
    2 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
    3 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.
    4 — Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.
    5 — Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.
    6 — The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.
    7 — The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.
    8 — The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.
    9 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.
    10 — The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.
    11 — The United States undertakes that, in light of the progress of negotiations towards a final agreement, frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be released and made fully available. These funds, whether held in the master account or transferred, will be used for any final beneficiary payment determined by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and will be fully available for use. The United States undertakes to issue all necessary permits and licenses on this basis.
    12 — The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement.
    13 — Following the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and upon receipt of assurances regarding the commencement of implementation of Articles 4, 5, 10, and 11 of this Memorandum of Understanding, and the continued implementation of these steps, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States will enter into negotiations for a Final Agreement solely with respect to the remaining Articles.
    14 — The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.

  17. Now do the Xtian Nationalist right wing incel aerial drone plot targeting Fat Hitler’s Nitro Circus party.

    Noooo, cross burning so much bigger.

  18. Today’s G7 Remarks are well, remarkable.

    In war, terrible things happen. Like you mentioned the school gets hit. Other things get hit. Bad things happen in war. War is a nasty place. I see it. I see it better than maybe anybody has ever seen it.”*
    ….
    NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children?

    TRUMP: No. It’s such a strange question to be asked. It’s a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.

    Admitting that Iran is giving up nothing regarding nuclear research,

    It’s a little hard when other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you’re not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that. You have to use a little common sense.”

    And China is laughing and eyeing Taiwan.

    We dropped a billion dollars worth of bombs on Iran”

    A billion. Sounds nice. Can we have a health care? Or maybe housing? Or zero interest student loans instead? OK we’ll settle for you shutting down the raw milk cheese guy who’s killled a few consumers.

    * The families of 60k Vietnam era Killed in Action wonder just how well you saw it.

  19. @ 15

    Now do the Xtian …

    YLB is deathly afraid of your average ballpark Christian, too. ’cause their kid(s) more frequently attend charter schools and learn something other than how to avoid metal detection on the way in.

    After which they’ll outcompete YLB’s kids in the workforce.

    So, again @ 12, YLB’s fears are not wholly unfounded. Four years of professional school tuition debt followed by thirty years mostly on unemployment does not sound pleasant, but that is what awaits.

  20. Congratulations to soon-to-be President-elect Rubio.

    Politics
    Trump says he likes idea of blaming Vance if Iran deal doesn’t work out

    Hey, why should Boxcheck Momala be the only Veep to suffer from missteps above?

  21. At least Dems might complete another toothless impeachment before Donald Trump appoints his fourth and fifth SCOTUS justices.

    RealClearPolitics
    @RCPolitics

    Jun 12
    Midterm preview with @SeanTrende, @JoshKraushaar, and @TomBevanRCP on today’s RCP podcast:

    — Macro Looks Bad for House GOP
    — Senate Map Is Worse for Dems
    — Did Redistricting War Backfire?
    — Focus on Senate races in Maine, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa

    youtube.com/watch?v=ewqHdP…

    4:26 PM · Jun 15, 2026

    So it’s not all bad, HA libbies. Except for YLB, because the next SCOTUS justice will be a 32 year-old “Asian” Republican whose grandparents – all four of them – still run marathons.

  22. 19, 12,

    What an excellent series of posts and a great topic.

    BTW, eleven years ago today violent, ultra right wing incel Xtian white nationalist Dylan Roof entered the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church in Charleston during group bible study with a handgun and slaughtered Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and Myra Thompson while Thompson led them in praying for his salvation.

    Such an incredibly strong post.

  25. @10 He’s more likely to go start another, different war. Because he’s insane.

    I agree he’s crazy enough to do that, but a loss in Greenland on top of his loss in Iran might be more than his party could bear.

  26. In today’s other news,

    – Trump is fencing off Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, and a traditional gathering place for protesters.
    – The Trump administration is taking a small Illinois city to court to block a reparations program that would compensate black residents for race-based housing discrimination.

    (From today’s Seattle Times)

  27. Jamie Bowman was just never going to win a Republican nomination:

    https://youtu.be/TWdfmDu9lDU

    But all that assumes that Thiel wouldn’t pay for a hit to install him.

    Why do you think Thiel has relocated off shore?

  28. Dumbfuck doesn’t know the difference between private and charter schools.

    Shame because googling the academic before performance of charter schools versus public schools nationwide is probably not something he wants to look at.

  29. Somebody has read the polling among mainstream American Jews.

    Mamdani: “Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I’m proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country.”

  30. Everyone knows. Everyone’s saying it.

    Well not the MAGAsphere but.

    Donald Trump Lost the Iran War. Here’s the Evidence

    As JD Vance heads to Geneva to sign a deal with Iran, it’s undeniable that this American president failed to meet almost every single one of his own stated war goals.

    MEHDI HASAN
    JUN 17, 2026

  31. Dang 5 mentions in one thread over the bogus “Asian” crap..

    Now here’s the facts:

    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“kreepfuck”).search_plain_content(“dumb cunt”).where(“comment_date_gmt > ?”, Time.zone.parse(“2025-10-05 12:00am”)).count
    => 0
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“kreepfuck”).search_plain_content(“unserious twat”).where(“comment_date_gmt > ?”,
    Time.zone.parse(“2025-10-05 12:00am”)).count
    => 0
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“kreepfuck”).search_plain_content(“welfare queen”).where(“comment_date_gmt > ?”, Time.zone.parse(“2025-10-05 12:00am”)).count
    => 0
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“kreepfuck”).search_plain_content(“fucked kids”).where(“comment_date_gmt > ?”, Time.zone.parse(“2025-10-05 12:00am”)).count
    => 0
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“kreepfuck”).search_plain_content(“robinhood dumbfuck rabbit”).where(“comment_date_gmt > ?”, Time.zone.parse(“2025-10-05 12:00am”)).count
    => 0

    That last one is really weird. Who has put the screws to the kreepshit troll since 10/5/2025? Mary Kay? Darryl?

    Whatever lame spews like GE, “cold”, “boxcheck” or “asian”.. the cucked troll is a weakened troll who consented to being censored. Only getting weaker.

    And so boring..

  32. Wait for it.. liddle asswipe, teh aroma of sedona, will drop by on break from one of the 3 locations of its doggie obedience school to pinch run for teh kreepshit..

    Fetch poodle!

  33. Four years of professional school tuition debt followed by thirty years mostly on unemployment does not sound pleasant, but that is what awaits.

    Funny that teh babblin’ butthole (Puddydumbass) crowed about its kid doing the same thing and bragged the kid did pretty good.

    When the time comes we’ll rub it in WAY more than the handful of times we got it from teh butthole..

    And we all know kreepfuck will be here for it.

    kreepfuck, teh repukes are pulling out the stops to prevent anything being done to prevent SS benefit cuts by 22 percent.

    Good for teh kids?

  34. @30 Well, he did get Iran to agree to reopen Hormuz on their terms, though to do it he had to wave a white flag and slide a lot of cash their way, which will probably turn out to be our cash (just like the border wall Mexico was going to pay for).

  36. Stop mocking my deal or I’ll blow stuff up.

    This time I really mean it.

  37. I don’t mean to be a conspiracy theorist, but you’re telling me:

    A group of teen Jabronis meet each on TikTok and plot, have $1300, go to operational in 12 weeks and were prepared to launch A drone attack and snipers on the UFC fight on the White House lawn, where Ka$h Patel was sitting front row and presumably knew about this potential attack FBI learned about on June 10 and wrapped up the initial arrests in four days and then some of the “co-conspirators“ are still running around out there Patel blows the cover of the operation at exactly the time Donnie is forced to admit to the American public they will pay for at least half of a drone proof underground ballroom that’s now a minimum $600 million from an initial proposed hundred to 200?

    This successful investigation happened under the watch of Ka$h Patel Who couldn’t find his asshole with either index finger?

    Really?

  39. We moved the agenda forward to today and I signed it electronically to prevent the existence of any photographs of me signing it.

    Because we are so incredibly proud of what we have accomplished here.

  40. The Lord’s prayer, to be repeated thrice

    We worship you Oh Leader. There is none greater than you Oh Leader. You are perfect in every way, Dear Leader. Dear Leader please show us the way to the future. By the power and foresight of you Dear Leader, Dear Leader you can never die. But if you do we will worship you Oh Leader, we will build a mausoleum on the national mall so that all in the future may walk and gaze upon your lifeless body. There is none greater than you Dear Leader. You are perfect in every way, Fear Leader.

    Ben Shapiro: “This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning … in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president”

  41. “I’m saying that if other countries have them, it’s a little unfair for them not to have some”

    – Fat Hitler earlier today.

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3moizjyry4425

    “Elimination of Iran’s ballistic capability” was the number one most commonly cited reason given by administration officials for starting the war in the first place.

    Remember a few months back when I mentioned how the U.S. Navy is actually incapable of mine clearing?

  42. @42 Now let’s see him apply that reasoning to what most countries that have ballistic missiles put on those missiles.

  43. Parker, Colorado, isn’t a small town. With a population over 65,000 (2024 estimate), this Denver bedroom suburb can afford reasonably well-trained police.

    That didn’t stop them from employing a stupid detective who arrested a New Jersey investment manager at the Denver airport for hiring a lawyer to defend his son after the latter shot his roommates.

    The charges were dropped, but the arrest cost the father his career, and last month, a Denver jury awarded him $24,040,400 against the city and now-retired detective.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/misconduct-jury-verdict-parker-police-robert-dial/
    https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/misconduct-jury-verdict-parker-police-robert-dial/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnuQ6J82YPM

  44. @37 Thruther.

    I posted here, about 3 days beofre the event, that I thought something would be staged. Bomb not drones, but why set off a bomb when you can come up with a drone story.

    I predicted this happening. I felt Donnie wanted another assasination attempt but with a real bang, not just a little whimper. But the whimper will do, I guess.

  48. Although Ireland didn’t qualify this time, was hoping they would so they can have a World Cup in the US not marred by tragedy on the Emetald Isle like last time. Ireland’s upset over Italy should have been front page news, even in Belfast, but it was knocked off the front page by a massacre at a pub in a rural county. Still unsolved,.

    Saw a documentary about it, that year Ireland qualified after a tie with Northern Ireland. The NI Captain visited the Irish team and said, despite The Troubles, go represent the whole Island. The irony is, the Pub was in an area of NI that had not been touched by The Troubles.

  49. Another kreepfuck fav:

    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).search_plain_content(“unlikable”).count
    => 99

    Applied to Hillary, Kamala, what have you..

    Well here’s a maga zoomer going off on another “unlikable” person:

    https://youtu.be/-_6hEj1NFFI?t=179

    And other grifters that make the zoomer sick to its stomach..

    I was amused.

  50. Nobody on the entire staff had a grasp of history and thought “signing the surrender to Iran at Versailles probably not the best optics”?

  52. That’s a sitting US Senator, so terrified of contradicting Dear Leader, he’s arguing for a shooting war adversary of the United States has the right to defend against the United States.

    KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles?

    SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves

    COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself?

    MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war

    That’s batshit.

  55. @53 All it has is “boxcheck”, “cold”, “asian” and transphobia.

    Economy? Pants shitter’s popularity? In the shitter..

    Seems to me it’s babbling for a “boxcheck” @ 21 and it’s already admitted that both Sandra Day O’Connor and Clarence Thomas were “boxchecks”..

    Funny moldering troll.

  56. Which of you clowns said we’d never see $70 oil again in our lifetimes?

    WTI Crude (Jul′26)
    @CL.1:New York Mercantile Exchange

    Last | 10:25 AM EDT
    73.88
    quote price arrow down-2.91 (-3.79%)

  57. Which of you clowns said Iran was finished?

    KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles?

    SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves

  58. It’s fun to imagine the lying troll sweating through the weeks ahead having to worry that at any moment Israel could sink his $70 oil futures.

  59. Fat Hilter’s surrender agreement is manifestly and significantly worse for regional and global security than the JCPOA negotiated and signed by President Obama.

    Republicans are:
    worse for the economy;
    worse for healthcare;
    worse for the deficit;
    worse for democracy;
    worse for families and kids;
    worse for the environment;
    worse for global security.

    Yes. For sure, Democrats are not perfect.
    Just better in every conceivable way.

  60. Hot takes from manly republicans mouthpieces.

    Mark Halperin
    @MarkHalperin

    Shouldn’t one of the requirements for a country to qualify to play in the World Cup that it be a country that people have heard of?

    “See the Mexican is not a race but boy can they pick strawberries. The asian is not great at driving. What is this Congo?”

  61. The rehabilitation/nomination campaign isn’t going well at all.

    DOUTHAT: What is Christian about the second Trump administration?

    VANCE: Hahahaha. Well, I think that — we have pursued a series of economic policies

    Show me in this book where Funding a war, secret police and eliminating Humanitarian aid are.

  62. Off Topic (like that’s a thing here anymore) but interesting.

    SUNO, the AI music generating company that any jackass can subscribe to and make a song about their girl, dog, truck, six pack, and blonde in a bar threatens to put country music out of business. I kid.

    But a while back leaked documents suggested more than a million songs, by playing radio into the algorithm, were used to teach the AI engine about lytics, genres and songwriting.

    Now the very deep pockets and notoriously litigious record industry heavyweights Sony, UMG and Warner have filed suit collectively for $150k per song they own the rights to for infringement.

    The total, if judgement is made in their favor would represent about 40 years of projected SUNO profit which seems “Top 40” petty.

  64. Start your stop watches.

    The Fail-Vice President has announced that, according to the Memorandum of Surrender, the sixty day period for new negotiations begins today. This marks the beginning of the kick-the-can phase of the surrender in which admin apologists can pretend that they are winning lots of new “yet-to-be-announced” goodies that don’t actually exist. This allows them to feed that bullshit to the cult members to maintain the faith while continuing their unconditional surrender to a revolutionary Islamic state.

    That makes Monday, August 17 day 60, after which the surrender will be official and you are supposed to have forgotten that the worst, most incompetent and corrupt president in U.S. history lost a war to an economically crippled third tier developing nation with no conventional air force and no conventional navy.

    There are so many lessons to be learned from this.

    Republicans will learn none of them.

  65. USA might be the most powerful nation, or was, in the world, but I guess they need NATO and Europe, and without them then they don’t have any flesh.

    Seek aid from Russia.

  66. Seek aid from Russia.

    Moscow is on fire right now after suffering more than half a million fatal casualties in their own stupid war of conquest.

    But at least they now have a lot more experience in drone fighting than we do.

  67. 66)Both sides in that conflict well experienced both offensive and defensive against drones. My favorite is the Ukranian pilots shooting them with shotguns from old trainer aircraft.

  68. 67,
    My favorites are protecting armored troop carriers with big cages of chain link fencing, using tens of thousands of meters of optical fiber to guide drones instead of radio, and protecting supply routes with literally millions of miles of overhead monofilament netting.

  69. Ten years from now, you guys will all be proven wrong about the Russia-Ukraine War. There is no need for Ukraine to be in NATO. In fact, it’s time for the US and Europe to wind-down NATO as a relic of the Cold War.

    All this Ukraine business is the old remains of the British Empire trying to re-start the Crimean War.

  70. File under ‘No one could have imagined”

    Unqualified Jr. Officer elevated to defense sec removes flu vaccine mandate for active duty troops on the advice if a batshit anti-vaxxer and

    A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas

  71. 70)Lacklamd, figured it would be them, or Parris Island, or Great Lakes. Being the bases for Basic Training.

  72. Not only is Florida — this is Ron DeSantis’s doing — renaming Palm Beach Airport the “Trump International Airport,” but according to Raw Story they have to license use of Trump’s name and are paying him with taxpayer money to name the airport after him.

  75. @70 I’ll bet there’s a lot of military careerists who can’t wait to get their 20 years in and get out, and a lot of junior officers and sergeants who are changing their minds about making it a career and no longer intend to re-up.

  76. A Reminder –
    JCPOA obtained:
    enrichment capped low at 3.67%;
    low enriched stockpile capped at 300kg;
    restricted centrifuges to 5060 obsolete IR-1 specs;
    med enriched stockpile limited to 196kg;
    med enriched stockpile removed after ten years;

    The new, “improved” Trump MAGA Republican Memorandum of Surrender uncaps all of that.

  77. It’s plain as day that Pete Hegseth’s policies promoting Christianity in the armed services inevitably will also encourage more antisemitism in the service academies, officer corps, and ranks.

  78. Inflation right now really isn’t so bad if you can just stop eating or using energy. Three experts share tips.

  79. The Iran war was a mistake by a bozo president who doesn’t know what he’s doing.

  80. I hear the coating that was applied to the reflecting pool is peeling away.

    Didn’t Bob at one time comment about the cracks developing at NYC’s Penn Station?

    Bob you are a partisan clown bootlicking for a Nazi dictator. You’re a traitorous duck.

  81. The Iran war was a mistake by a bozo president who doesn’t know what he’s doing.

    Well don’t forget he did it for Isreal.

  82. @80 I hear the coating that was applied to the reflecting pool is peeling away.

    Some Travelers knocked on the White House door, said “we’re working in the neighborhood, and have some materials left over,” and offered him a deal he couldn’t resist.

    The business genius fell for a scam no homeowner in America would. Now they’re going to resurface the parking lot at his golf course.

  83. Before long you’ll be able to buy souvenir pieces of the reflecting pool coating on eBay.

    The perfect gift for the Trumper in your family.

  85. People should send nice messages to the company that worked on the pool, express our sincere appreciation for their great work.

    Drumpf don’t give a shit, so you have to after his associates and cohorts.

  86. Well I’m relieved there won’t be a jerkoff dickhead BOWMAN running in 2028.

    Vance slams Israeli reaction to Iran deal as U.S. military lifts blockade

    “Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,” Vance told reporters in the White House briefing room.

    “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” he said.

    http://archive.today/2026.06.1.....it-hormuz/

    How dare jerky dee BOWMAN disrespect Israel this way. A country that never does anything wrong.

    Enough to give Israel kneepadders like kreepee dumbfuck a bad case of the vapors.

    And jerky db is kinda dumb here. All the lickspittles that make up the Bored of Peace – they all love the country that does no wrong

    Oh well there’s always hope of another chance once AIPAC and friends dollars start flowing.

  88. How dare jerky dee BOWMAN disrespect Israel this way. A country that never does anything wrong.

    He be doing the Jitterbug.

  90. A pool of the Reflecting Pool type probably had lots of moisture in it. Concrete needs to cure of moisture before applying epoxy.

  92. @ 91,

    Faking the stats again to support an agenda.

    It’s no worse than the Wuhan.

    Something else killed them.

    etc.

  93. Something else killed them.

    Yeah. Something else killed this young, strong, fit individual, called the flu.

  94. 69,

    Your unprompted meltdown rant on a day where Moscow is on fire is a bit of a tell, wouldn’t you say?

    If you hadn’t been conned into backing the Russian losers it wouldn’t matter to you that they are getting their asses kicked.

    We see you now, katsap.

    Slava Ukrainii!

  95. Just Bibi Netanyahu’s Security Minister openly calling for genocide.And continuance of Iran war.

    For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!

    ​With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

    ​I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.

    ​Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint—you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.”

  96. @ 76

    A Reminder –
    JCPOA obtained:
    enrichment capped low at 3.67%;
    low enriched stockpile capped at 300kg…

    All capped in the same way that Obamacare bent the cost curve downward.

    Another reminder: There was strong bipartisan opposition to what Barack did. It just did not reach 2/3 of the Senate.

  98. Well it’s Juneteenth and I have an ankle injury that’s got me cancelling my hike so I’m spending the morning finding the HR Head of people dumb enough in 2026 to post racist memes replying to companies’ and sports teams’ Juneteenth posts. People who are dumb enough to post their work in their FB profile and have a matching LinkedIn.

    So if you work for Rubbermade in Akron and posted a picture of handcuffs “Don’t Forget to Decorate for Juneteenth” or Franklin PUD (Pasco) and you posted “Why the Ni****s happy?” Aunt Jemima…

    Have the day you deserve.

  99. @ 95

    Just Bibi Netanyahu’s Security Minister openly calling for genocide.

    Now, now. You mean a second genocide.

    According to liberal doctrine Israel is already conducting the most ineffective genocide in history in Gaza.

    This @ 95 new claim is that Israel is now committing genocide in Lebanon as well.

    For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.

    By killing Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon you mean to insinuate that Israel is committing genocide against Lebanese men, whose mothers will then cry.

    See, the problem with stupidly amplifying every defensive action that IDF takes to “genocide” while ignoring the offensive actions against Israel that prompt them is that you find it increasingly difficult to keep track of all of the genocides purportedly perpetrates by Israel.

    Weak and silly, but it’s what you’ve got after losing control of the federal government by electing Biden and Boxcheck Momala.

  100. @ 98

    Have the day you deserve.

    By celebrating Republicans liberating slaves from southern Democrats.

  101. Meanwhile, in cheesehead territory a state supreme court opined without dissent that doling out educational scholarships to students based solely on skin color is unconstitutional.

    ¶4 We conclude that the Taxpayers have standing and that the
    Grant Program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
    Amendment. Accordingly, we affirm the court of appeals’ decision that the
    statute is unconstitutional     and conclude that HEAB is enjoined from
    operating the Grant Program.

    Go figure.

  102. you find it increasingly difficult to keep track of all of the genocides purportedly perpetrates by Israel.

    Shorter kreepfuck: the more genocides, the better if it means people with funny last names dead.

    Last I looked 4000 have died in Southern Lebanon since Feb 27. Once upon a time kreepfuck crowed over the heads of snakes being cut.. Look at it cheerlead for more and more and more killing.. It never ends with this dope. yawwwn..

  104. G-clown, now’s your chance to own a 6-inchfoot cock.

    As opposed to a horse’s, like yours?

  105. Now, now. You mean a second genocide.

    For once you said something right. You fucking Neanderthal murderer Nazi supporter.

  107. @ 102

    Last I looked 4000 have died in Southern Lebanon since Feb 27.

    And 3600 of them were holding an AK aimed at an Israeli when they bought it.

    YLB never mentions that part. It would be inconvenient to do so.

  108. She’s a lot prettier than Chelsea Clinton ever was.

    Paul Sperry
    @paulsperry_

    NEW: NBC News’ “Today Show” is co-anchored by Laura Jarrett, who has been covering the opening of Obama’s presidential library, which is overseen by Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, who happens to be Laura Jarrett’s mother. #MediaBias

    2:53 PM · Jun 19, 2026

    She makes Malia look even more like a dude, too.

  111. There was strong bipartisan opposition

    There is much stronger and much more bipartisan opposition to Trump/MAGA losing and surrendering.

    The lying troll must lie to cope.

  113. By celebrating Republicans liberating slaves from southern Democrats.

    By celebrating the victory of the patriotic American defenders of human liberty, human rights, and human dignity over the tyranny of white supremacist traitors who seized control over eleven states and declared war against their own fellow countrymen.

    And got their asses kicked very badly.

    Never let them forget it.

  114. And 3600 of them were holding an AK aimed at an Israeli

    SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves

  115. @ 113

    So much of that pertains to the #CrookedHillary 2015-6 campaign as well.

    Gorsuch.

    Kavanaugh.

    Coney Barrett.

    Never gonna let you forget it.

  116. To come out of an extended period of hiding to avoid facing the humiliation of the Memorandum of Surrenderᵀᴹ only to fail so badly suggests that our last remaining functional troll is fading fast under the constant cult pressure he is under.

  117. 115,
    I’ll bet that perseverative, compulsive, defensive response to failure scores rather highly in the database.
    TFW the best you can do is change the subject that you introduced in the first place.
    Cope.

  119. @ 112

    This is not the legal or understood meaning of the word.

    Liberals have never cared about adhering to any standard definition of a term they wish to apply to those with whom they disagree. This is how fascist, Nazi, and genocide have become so popular in recent years. The same years, in fact, during which they put forth horribly flawed candidates only to see them get their asses kicked.

    Which leaves them only with misuse of above-mentioned words.

  120. Trump: we will rain blows upon you until you eliminate your missile program
    Iran: you won’t
    T: and your nuclear program
    I: we’ll be keeping that
    T: fair enough. regime change?
    I: no
    T: reopen hormuz?
    I: *admires fingernails*
    T: handshake? eye contact?
    I: *closes door behind them*
    T: *to camera* deals are my artform. other people paint beautifully or write poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. that’s how i get my kicks.

  121. White supremacy sometimes has an unhappy ending.

    Cigars, a canceled lacrosse season and the scandal rocking a Massachusetts town

    If they had let a black kid join the school authorities would never have taken down the team because cigars were smoked.

  122. And 3600 of them were holding an AK aimed at an Israeli when they bought it.

    shorter kreepfuck: bombs are actually jewish israelis and discriminate between civilians and combatants when dropped in the densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut.

    She’s a lot prettier than Chelsea Clinton ever was…

    translation: kreepfuck’s got the hots for a young black woman. Fantasizes they’re “easy”.

    She makes Malia look even more like a dude, too.

    translation: Michele is a man and together with partner Barack adopted a son. Larry Sinclair INCOMING!

    Why do they let Biden continue to show his face in public?

    Nothing triggers a kreepee dumbfuck and makes it forget orange dear leader’s failures more – aside from Jill.

    Nothing entertains HA regulars more than a triggered dumbfuck troll.

    Liberals have never cared

    klownservaturds have never cared about anything aside from fantasies of wealth and unquestioned white supremacy.

  123. Pretending that genocide is a made-up word that doesn’t exist is not really any different than pretending that the civil war was about party politics.

    Both are very stupid and insulting claims that can only be repeated, but not defended or supported.

  124. White supremacy sometimes has an unhappy ending.

    translation: kreepfuck knows in its black heart of hearts that the team members are frat bound and entitled to many turns at “20 minutes of action”.

  125. If they had let a black kid join

    70 whole fucking years ago future NFL all pro Jim Brown starred at Syracuse Lacrosse for three seasons, setting team records, conference records, becoming MVP and so dominating on middie offense with his speed and physically overpowering style of play that the NCAA was forced into introducing a new rule. Considered by most to be the greatest college player in the history of the game, the professional Premier Lacrosse League names its annual MVP award after Brown.

    He might have been a “black kid”.

    Strong post, grampa.

  126. I’ll bet that perseverative, compulsive, defensive response to failure scores rather highly in the database.

    That’s a challenge to see if the code allows regex.. Oh shoot.. I included that:

    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).regex_search_plain_content(“Gorsuch(.*)Kavanaugh(.*)Barrett”).count
    => 24
    ha(prod)>

    Regex’s are tricky. Bears further investigation/refinement.

  127. Ok this is better:

    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).search_plain_content(“Gorsuch Kavanaugh Barrett”).count
    => 85
    ha(prod)>

    Verified by examining comment text. The regex subroutine has a bug.

  128. I hope for his sake the lying troll is prudent enough to sell his $70 oil futures while he can, even if it means taking some losses.

    Crude seems to be settling above $70 and may very well tick up a bit in the days and weeks ahead as the truth about the Republican Memorandum of Surrenderᵀᴹ continues to leak out.

    With Iran now setting up a mandatory toll insurance system for passage through the strait, and a key U.S. intelligence report having leaked indicating that Bibi cannot withdraw from southern Lebanon without triggering a catastrophic loss in national elections this fall, it looks as if the Holy MAGA/Israeli Sport War disrupting energy shipments from the Persian Gulf may be with us for quite a while.

    Don’t misunderstand me, I truly yearn for this stupid bullshit to end. But for that to really happen Trump/MAGA/Republicans would have to completely turn their backs on Bibi, suspend military and financial support, and take the very unpopular and self-contradictory position of supporting both Iran’s and Lebanon’s territorial sovereignty against Israel. Which I don’t think they can do without also suffering catastrophic losses in national elections this fall. But failing at that, energy supplies will remain disrupted and their huge contributions to domestic inflation will continue to get worse from now through the fall.

    Damned if you do. And damned if you don’t for Republicans.
    For my own sake, and for the sake of Americans and our economic interests, I’d prefer the damned if you do option where the U.S. cuts off Israel and watches the Netanyahu government collapse. The world would be better off, even with Iran building nukes and charging tolls.

  129. @95 Terrorists should not attack Israel. If they do, Israel should not take it out on Lebanese toddlers and children.

    This is so simple a grade schooler can figure it out. Israel’s security minister cannot. Some Israelis in powerful positions, apparently, have no sense of ethics or humanity.

    We should not be supporting a country run by people like that. Previous generations of Americans fought and died to save the world from people like that.

  130. @96 Trump and Netanyahu just gave the Iran regime more incentive than ever to build a bomb on the sly.

  132. @99 Nobody denies that Israel was attacked, has a right to defend itself, and that civilian casualties happen in wars. But only a blind, deaf, and dumb fool thinks that’s all that has happened in Gaza, and is all that’s happening in Lebanon.

  133. @100 Republicans liberating slaves from southern Democrats.

    Oh look, the silly troll is trying to equate Trump Republicans with Lincoln Republicans, as if nothing bad has happened to the Republican Party over the last 160 years (such as taking the southern Democrats into their fold and embracing their racism full stop).

  134. @119 Does this satisfy your definition of genocide?

    Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza ‘should be eliminated’

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-israeli-official-says-palestinian-adults-gaza-should-be-eliminated

    How about this?

    Israeli MPs call for the killing of every Palestinian without white flag in northern Gaza

    Lawmakers demand that the Israeli army carry out a “complete cleansing” of the region and destroy all sources of water, food and energy

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmakers-call-killing-every-palestinian-northern-gaza

    Would you prefer to just label Israel’s actions as “atrocities”?

    Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing Escalate

    Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/04/israels-extermination-ethnic-cleansing-escalate

    Make no mistake, Israel is wearing out its welcome among civilized peoples. Of course, that doesn’t include you. You’re uncivilized.

  137. Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza ‘should be eliminated

    And if a few kids are caught in crossfire?

    They (like teh dumbfuck) are “good with it”.

    Any kids left will be exported to Libya, Sudan, Eritrea – places with slavery.

  138. I don’t know about Israel sometimes.

    Woke woke woke woke…

    Anyone see a problem with “Israel Defense Force”?

    Isn’t it obvious?

    It should be “Israel WAR Force”..

    After all orange dear leader has done for them. They should get with the anti-woke program. They’ll get more respect. Heh.

  149. G man linking to democratic underground…

    Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahhabahha

  150. So fuck Jasmine Crockett.

    She’s done. No coming back now.

    She’s no Democrat.

  151. linking to democratic underground…

    To the best of our knowledge DU has never at any time either hosted or monetized the publication of AI generative pornography featuring baby rape the way Twitter has.

    Good post. /s

  152. Oh, hey. Fuck Kirsten Gillebrand all the way to hell too. She does not have any business serving in the US Senate with a D next to her name. I’d gladly take a dozen Fettermans over one Gillebrand.
    https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/theodore-gillibrand-senator-kirstin-gillibrand-apec-american-perpetuals-exchange-corporation-lux-capital/

    Democrats must incinerate the careers and futures of these corrupt dogs and cast them out of human society.

  153. 151

    Do you also sell oranges? Or just apples?

    5/10 amateur level. At least it’s an improvement.

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