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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleEnjoy the spectacular weather and stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally this evening. We’ll be discussing politics, elections, and democracy, and raising a glass to Dolly. Feel free to stop by.

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

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

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  3. Imagine living a life where everyone can quote you the day you die and no one gets fired for that.

  4. 3)Wonder if Tgere is a cosmic reunion for the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Her, Burt, Jim Nabors, and Dom Deluise were such a great ensemble cast.

  8. I’ve been watching some videos on YouTube about paternity fraud. Apparently, it is becoming quite a problem. The sad part is that many men cannot get out from court-ordered child support even though they took DNA tests proving they were not the fathers of the children in question.

    This is toxic femininity, the female counterpart to toxic masculinity.

    (Get on YouTube and do a search on “paternity fraud.” Lots of great videos will appear for your viewing pleasure.)

  9. Couple economic notes:

    Tesla announced a $5000 increase in the price of Cybertuck. Given that the projected 250k unit a year project sold few units in the last quarter AND SpaceX bought most of them the price increase can only be described as a desperate attempt by Elon to hide massive losses.

    Ford pulled the plug on the F-150 lightning with better sales numbers.*

    Dick’s/Footlocker had a disastrous earnings report. Declining same store sales, death, and I mean DEATH of big ticket items as consumers value shopped, big ass marketing push to try to stop the bleeding didn’t work.

    If that result is replicated in a few more retailers we’ll know the Depression is on and people aren’t going to make discretionary purchases for a while.

    *at sub $30k the Fathom looks like it could be something.

  10. Nepo Baby Darlene, of the ‘I don’t know about that’ fame is the nominee.

    Pick up.

  11. @ 2

    Those two unfortunates are hereby awarded Darwin Awards.

    Wait until HA’s failed former attorney and perpetual useless, bloviating fool learns that the two dead from measles were recent immigrants*.

    [* An immigrant is not the same as an international visitor.]

  12. @ 8

    The sad part is that many men cannot get out from court-ordered child support even though they took DNA tests proving they were not the fathers of the children in question.

    It’s also sad that the US can’t easily get rid of TPS types who become illegals when their TPS time ends.

    At least HA’s failed former attorney and perpetual useless, bloviating fool doesn’t have to worry about paternity entrapment, given his widely publicized inability to successfully achieve erection at any time in the last three decades.

  13. @8 The sad part is that many men cannot get out from court-ordered child support even though they took DNA tests proving they were not the fathers of the children in question.

    Because being the legal father doesn’t always require being the biological father. Courts consider factors in addition to biological parentage. The child’s best interest always comes first.

    https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/family-law-blog/2025/october/child-support-and-non-biological-parents/

  15. @ 9

    Dick’s/Footlocker had a disastrous earnings report. Declining same store sales, death, and I mean DEATH of big ticket items as consumers value shopped, big ass marketing push to try to stop the bleeding didn’t work.

    Not one word about the boneheaded acquisition of Foot Locker less than a year ago:

    The real pain for Dick’s is coming from the Foot Locker acquisition

    Dick’s bought a shoe company just as athletic footwear demand began to crater.

  17. Darlene’s trying out the new winning message. No sick pay and die early.

    (our parents) if they were sick, they had to get up and go to work…my mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later”

    And now I want what my brother worked to get. Gimmie. I deserve it. My name’s Graham.

    Pick up.

  18. YLB is slightly less afraid of Usha Vance now that the Second Lady is starting to sprout a few grey hairs.

    YLB sees aging as proof that Hindu bitch won’t live forever.

    [Psst… nobody tell YLB about punarjanman.]

  20. @15

    Jim “Bear Sterns is just fucking fine” Cramer doesn’t stop to analyze WHY the athletic shoe market nosedived right about the time of the first round of tariffs and the exploding price of food and gas

    But do go on..

    If you go ack and look, the suggestion is if more apparel retailers release ba numbers then we’ll know this isn’t a Dick’s/Fot locker issue.

    The right is trying t claims scalp from woke Nike. Sales probably aren’t down. They probably waited too long on the Caitlin 1 release.

    Under Armor also reported a 3% decline in revenue last quarter riven by 9% decline in North America. Every bit f their net income can be traced to Tariff refunds that, of course, are not passed on to consumers as refunds or price reductions.

    ‘The warning signs have all been bright and garish
    Far to great in number to ignore”

  21. @19

    If Bill Gates an 99 homeless people are in a bar and bill buys $10m worth of food and drinks for himself each person spent half a mil on average but only Bill eats.

    Looking for that last thread of rope, eh?

  22. @ 21

    If Bill Gates an 99 homeless people are in a bar and bill buys $10m worth of food and drinks for himself each person spent half a mil on average but only Bill eats.

    If you’re ginning up an example because you think you’ve got a slam dunk it’s best if you aren’t off by a factor of 5.

    Oh. One more thing. Only about 40% of those homeless people are likely to even have a job. Bill’s been covering their asses for decades.

  23. more thing. Only about 40% of those homeless people are likely to even have a job. Bill’s been covering their asses for decades.

    You were within millimeters of the point.

  24. If Bibi & Company are arrogant and stupid enough to want to take on the Turks, then they deserve what’s coming.

  25. @16 If you wanna brag that your kids would be half-horse, half-human, go right ahead. Everybody knows you didn’t contribute the horse cock; you contributed the horse’s ass.

  26. @17 Graham’s parents owned a restaurant, bar, liquor store, and pool hall, so they didn’t have paid sick leave as such but they got paid whether they showed up or not. As for working when they were sick, I wonder how the health inspectors felt about someone with a highly contagious flu mixing drinks and serving food?

    As for Darline herself, she held state jobs, so she had a salary, paid sick leave, and health insurance and pension benefits; so when she talks about people having to go to work when sick, she’s speaking in the third person about other people, not herself.

    More pertinent to her qualifications to serve in the U.S. Senate is whether she knows Korea is divided into two countries, how that came to be, and whether she knows one of them is nuclear-armed and the other now must surely be thinking about it.

  28. @22 Bill’s been covering their asses for decades.

    Are you referring to the higher billionaire taxes and increased spending on Medicaid and food stamps under this Republican administration?

  29. Trump’s mail-in voting victory, tentative and conditional as it is, could turn out to be an own goal if Trump ultimately gets his way.

    Election law attorney Ben Ginsberg said Monday that President Trump’s executive order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting will largely impact Republican voters.

    “One thing is, I think you’re going to see some blowback from Republicans in the coming weeks, because after all, Republicans are the older party and older folks like to vote by mail. They’re the rural party,” Ginsberg said during a Monday appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”

    “And certainly vote by mail is important to people in rural areas. And thanks to Donald Trump, there are many more low propensity voters in the Republican Party,” he added.

    Ginsberg has served as counsel to the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and Republican Governors Association.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6050455-trump-mail-voting-order-impacts-gop/

  32. “Because being the legal father doesn’t always require being the biological father.”

    Yeah, and that needs to change like right now! Of total recorded births in the US, about 4% have the wrong guy listed as the dad. Of those who guys are suspicious about paternity and conduct DNA tests, about 30% are NOT the dads. The family court system is horribly, horribly biased against men, and these lying bitches know this. That’s why DNA tests at birth should be mandatory throughout the US.

  33. @ 26

    … one of them is nuclear-armed and the other now must surely be thinking about it.

    They’re both nuclear-armed. South Korea does a much better job keeping it a secret than Israel did.

  34. @ 32

    That’s why DNA tests at birth should be mandatory throughout the US.

    Why wait that long? Make the fetus pole-dance around the amnio needle.

  35. @32 Who’s going to pay for those expensive DNA tests? Taxpayers? Dads? Moms?

    How much sense does it make to mandate a DNA test when paternity isn’t disputed, which is a vast number of childbirths?

    Use your brain, that’s what God gave it to you for.

  36. If Bibi & Company are arrogant and stupid enough to want to take on the Turks, then they deserve what’s coming.

    I sure hope they make that mistake. Please Lord.

  37. @32 It sounds like you’ve either been cuckolded or have been fooling around. When did you get served the child support papers?

  40. @ 35

    Who’s going to pay for those expensive DNA tests? Taxpayers? Dads? Moms?

    Planned Parenthood. Since they claim to offer complete womens’ health care, not just abortion services. Let them help the woman know who to sue for child support. After all, like PDF is pointing out without coming right to the point, a lot of them don’t know who the father is. Why should they be allowed to just pick one?

  42. Facts not in dispute.

    Enis Kanter is a paid staffer and spokesperson of the America First Policy Institute. The America First Policy Institute bought the ticket that allowed Kanter to be courtside to get into a shouting match and storm the floor. America First Policy Institute also paid for the tickets used by transphobes to be courtside at Key Arena to see Sophie Cunningham.

    We found the paid protesters the right is always butthurt about.

  43. @ 42

    We found the paid protesters …

    Enjoy this.

    Gonna be a lot fewer paid protesters now that USAID has been slashed.

  45. @41 Not quite. I rely on reputable public sources of information. You, not so much, but this time you admit you’re flat-out guessing. Which, for you, is an improvement over your usual M.O.

  46. @43 You mean there’s going to be a lot fewer children’s lives saved:

    From 2001 to 2024, USAID had an average budget of $23 billion a year and missions in over 100 countries in areas as diverse as education, global health, environmental protection, and democratic governance. From 2001 to 2021, USAID programs were estimated to save between 4.1 and 4.7 million lives per year, including between 1.2 and 1.7 million children under five.

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

    There’s no evidence of any “paid protesters” in that spending, but this time I won’t accuse you of guessing.

    You’re lying.

  47. I hope is Israel is stupid enough to attack Turkey. They’re too chicken shit, they rather go after defenseless children and woman.

  51. Use your brain, that’s what God gave it to you for.

    Them fuckers don’t have an brains, just penis head.

  52. This is so sad.

    Iran’s Executive Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah said Iran could not import gasoline because of the US naval blockade and warned that the current fuel situation could not continue, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.

    “Continuing on this path is impossible,” Ghaempanah said, adding that domestic gasoline production was insufficient and that “with the US naval blockade, we cannot import gasoline.”

    He’s wrong, of course. The blockade certainly can continue.

  55. Anybody see the new UNH poll?

    Shocking new numbers from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shook up Granite State politics Wednesday with the report that U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas is losing a head-to-head matchup with Republican John E. Sununu, 45%-43%, and losing ground to progressive primary opponent Karishma Manzur.

    According to UNH, Pappas’ lead over Manzur has fallen from a 61%-18% advantage in April to just 47%-34% today.

    GOP pickups in MI and NH will be the consequences of four years of Democrats pretending that there is nothing wrong with Joe Biden and nothing incompetent about Boxcheck Momala. You don’t recover from that level of dishonesty in only two years.

  56. @ 53

    trackers-cant-find-it

    Tankers turn off their AIS equipment in order to pass through the Hormuz Strait without being detected.

    Trackers then cannot detect these tankers.

    Incompetents such as HA failed former attorney and perpetual useless, bloviating fool then claim that the stealthy transiting tankers do not exist.

    Low information voters like YLB buy into the claim the same way they bought into Biden’s debate performance in 2024 being caused by nothing more than “a cold”.

  57. @56 Low information voters like YLB

    🤣😂😂😅😭😹🤤😁😁😄

    Nobody is more low information than MAGA idiots.

  58. RFK Jr. isn’t just a liar, he’s a perjurer.

    … Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines.” New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.

    Kennedy … preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccines …. The letter raises questions about how truthful Kennedy was in testimony before Congress.

    During an arduous confirmation process where he needed the support of some skeptical Republican lawmakers to advance, Kennedy also pledged to maintain vaccine policies that, once in office, he moved to change.

    https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kennedy-samoa-vaccines-mmr-ba6ad3ffadca48599b1c178a392fb37b

  59. @49 If J6 rioters weren’t paid protesters and paid goons before, they will be after Trump hands them taxpayer checks.

  60. @55 Dumbfuck accusing Democrats of “dishonesty”???

    😄😁🤤😹😅😂🤣🤪🥳🤠😆😀🤭

    “How do you tell If a Republican is lying?”
    “His lips are moving.”

  61. @ 57

    Nobody is more low information than MAGA idiots.

    Not exactly a defense of YLB’s awareness. But since Darryl stopped defending YLB I suppose it will have to do.

  65. Just a friendly reminder to whoever might be listening that Canada controls 13 of the 15 locks in the St. Lawrence Seaway connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

    #FAFO

  66. @63 it’s misinformation purposely done to great skepticism and doubt with in government. They’re not always just stupid, many times it is per the play book. Sow cynicism, skepticism, make people numb to reality. It’s an attempt to brainwash and white wash the truth.

    Like the push to call the news fake

  69. A federal judge has again blocked the USPS from complying with Trump’s EO on mail ballots. The Supreme Court simply held that the initial injunction was premature because USPS hadn’t finalized its rulemaking on the subject. Last week, USPS did so, and inevitably and not surprisingly, the plaintiffs refiled their complaint, and the court reissued the injunction. The 11-page order is linked below in case you want to read it.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.298449/gov.uscourts.mad.298449.218.0_1.pdf

  70. In other legal news, a Florida grand jury has made findings that Republicans “misappropriated” [read: stole] $10 million from a Medicaid overbilling settlement [read: fraud] and used it for political purposes, but declined to indict the perps due to insufficient evidence. Apparently denying responsibility, which Republicans excel at and have honed into an art form, got a long list of DeSantis administration officials off the criminal hook.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6056407-grand-jury-desantis-hope-florida-scandal/

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC5ztguz1srPqz65ibtZSnD5LwmNot/view

    Don’t hold your breath for Florida’s AG to investigate further in order to develop a criminal case; he’s one of the perps.

  71. Now ask yourself if DeSantis and his wife* had their fingers in this theft of public money.

    “Somehow, a bunch of people involved in making this happen all wound up getting huge promotions from Governor DeSantis.”

    * The money was diverted to her favorite charity, and from there went straight to PACs fighting a marijuana legalization initiative.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO89Abj14cc

  72. Rather than hire a legal team to defend what would have been a losing effort the petitioners for the Mayor Wilson recall vote have withdrawn.

    There are actual standards in law that can trigger a recall and the publicity sluts they are found out from every law firm they contacted that they would be happy to take their fees but they would lose.

  75. There is absolutely no reason for the US to be conducting military operations and imposing economic sanctions against Iran. If Zionism wants to have a war with Iran, then it is up to them to carry out that campaign WITHOUT involving the US.

  77. How Not To Inspire Public Trust In Your Police Department

    In this video, the police chief of Chetek, a town of about 2,200 people in northwestern Wisconsin, complains about being “ridiculed” after citizens expressed their concerns about Flock cameras. Then he says,

    “I ought to do background checks on half the people that make comments.”

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YOvwRz4nCBE

    So I went to the internet to find out who this 🤡 is. The police chief of Chetek, Wisconsin is Ron Ambrozaitis, according to the city website. Yep, that’s him in the video.

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