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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Misadventures of Cankles McPaintFace:

  • Parody Project: ♫ November 3rd is Coming ♬:

    • The Churlish Bootlickers and Cuckspittles of MAGA:

    Lauren Mayers: ♫ Thanks to the Cost of Livin’, We’re Screwed ♬

    Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

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    1. Been seeing some good posts on threads playing with the Jack Smith testimony. One of the best, is asking if he stole a submarine and hid it in a New England Ricer. The punch line was, no that was Jack Ryan,

    2. Several initiatives are on Washington ballots this fall. IP26-645 is the one that repeals the so-called “millionaires tax,” which imposes a state income tax on annual incomes over $1 million. “Yes” is for repeal, “no” is to keep the tax.

      Republicans typically argue that adding a tax just encourages more spending. Implicit in this argument is that all spending is bad, including for schools, roads, and vital public services.

      A better way to evaluate state taxation and spending is to see how our state stacks up against other states. This website combines property, income, and sales taxes to get an overall tax burden. By their measure, Washington ranks 40th, tied with New Hampshire, out of the 50 states. That suggests Washington residents, in aggregate, aren’t overtaxed.

      An alternative method is to see where our state lands in per capita state spending rankings. According to this website, Washington is 25th, squarely in the middle.

      By either measure, Washington neither taxes nor spends too much, compared to other states. Rather, the problem is how the tax burden is distributed among income groups.

      It should be noted that while Washington’s state budget may appear bloated compared to other states, there’s a simple explanation for that: We count school spending in the state budget, other states do not. Our school taxes get funneled through the state budget and then passed on to school districts. That makes our state spending look twice as large as it actually is.

      According to this website, Washington has the second most regressive tax system, behind only Florida, with the bottom 20% paying over 4 times as much of their income to state and local taxes as the top 1%.

      Parenthetically, it’s not entirely an accident that Seattle has become something of a “Silicon Valley of the North,” as it’s known; and has been the home of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, and others. Washington, in fact, is something of a state tax haven for the rich.

      The “millionaires tax” aims to do two things: Raise necessary revenue, and distribute the tax burden more evenly. Opponents raise the specter of capital flight, pointing to a couple of high-profile billionaires who’ve decamped our state (e.g., Bezos and Howard Schulz). But if our homegrown millionaires object to paying a state income tax, their options are limited to Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.

      Yes, there are lower-tax states. They’re generally characterized by poor schools and less public services. After all, those things cost money, and if you don’t want to spend money on public goods, you’re not going to have those things. And there are other tradeoffs as well: Wyoming and South Dakota have cold winters and Florida, the #1 state tax haven, has hurricanes and sky-high home insurance rates.

      If you’re a diehard taxphobe, you can live in Vancouver and shop in Portland, paying Washington income taxes and Oregon sales taxes while enjoying Washington schools and public services.

    3. Zach Bryan is currently on tour in support of his second #1 country chart (#7 Billboard) album With Heaven on Top.

      The tour played Friday night at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium.

      Zach and his band took the stage wearing plain black t-shirts customized with ‘FREE PALESTINE’

      I wish I had balls.

    4. Carryover from previous:

      KOMO had a piece this very evening about how there are progressives out there

      Sinclair media has a hypothetical they are playing for MAGA eyeballs to see and get outraged about. Don’t miss Seven on Your Side all this week.

    5. We found some fraudulent votes and someone is booked for it. In Oklahoma.

      Maybe you don’t remember Sara Polston. She downed margaritas at lunch, stopped at a market and bought tequila then t-boned a car doing 70 in a 25mph school zone with such force the car she hit ended up inside a house. She was on her way to pick up her own kids from school. The bottle of tequila freshly purchased was found empty, lid on in her car.*

      Her victim survived after family was told he had a less than 10% chance.

      Poloston was convicted on felony charges but turns out, she and her family are substantial political donors to Governor Kevin Stitt (and Trump) and after less time than her victim spent in there hospital, 73 days after being sent to state prison she was fitted with an ankle monitor and allowed to enter home confinement WITH the ability to leave for scheduled appointments. Governor Stitt assured that hers was NOT a case of white or political favoritism leading to early release though his staff appears to have out Ms. Polston on the list for home release .

      She voted in the 2026 primary and the runoff. Convicted felons in Oklahoma can’t vote until 100% of their sentence, parole and restitution is complete.

      She’s now back in state prison on violation of her confinement agreement because two new felony charges with penalty of $5000 up to a year in jail make her ineligible to complete her prior sentence at home.

      *evidence presented at trial.

    8. Donnnie, in a long fake twat obsessing over daylight savings time commits a federal crime.

      Now do I think it’s funny he put Senator Tom Cotton’s personal cell number on the interwebs? yes I do. Is it a crime? Yes it is.

      Doxxing an elected federal official.

    10. State Senator Janice Bolling, co-Sponsor of a defining marriage licenses in the state to between a biological male and a biological female, staunch defender of keeping the bust of modern KKK founder in the Capitol and peddler of ‘cat boxes in schools for furry acceptance’ lies as of just this year….

      Endorses Marsha Blackburn’s Independent opponent for Governor.

    11. Remember how Trump was gonna bring manufacturing and blue collar factory jobs back to the U.S.?

      A Gut Punch In Ohio: Nearly 1,400 Laid Off At Truck Factory Just Days Before Trump Rally

      One laid off worker said he voted for Trump three times. Now, he says he’s done with the president.

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-gut-punch-in-ohio-nearly-1400-laid-off-at-truck-factory-just-days-before-trump-rally_n_6ac11bbee4b0ecc03a221743?origin=home-latest-news-unit

      Yeah. Promises made, promises broken. These voters are finding out the hard way. But better late than never.

    13. I was skeptical about AI and I followed AI skeptics but one of them is melting down:

      https://youtu.be/2zLuYU_Ub_0?si=B21iObffTsN88cMb

      Back in March he said assigning AI to code from a detailed spec was a disaster. The AI hallucinated a mess of an end product that barely worked if it worked at all. Today’s he’s just about given up. The stuff has gotten that good. Hallucinations have been solved.

      Another guy who developed a very popular web application framework has a very sobering message for fans of his work:

      https://youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?t=2284

      Look at it to the end. He asks if he’s got AI psychosis.. Well, at the very least, he’s an over the top ai optimist and wide-eyed true believer.

      There’s been a lot of focus to date on AI writing code but there’s a growing trend in “physical AI” or AI that does engineering like designing jet engines, bridges, drug compounds and what not. Physical products are way easier to build a “moat” around. This is what Jeff Bezos is doing with his Prometheus startup.

      https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/

      Bezos make a lot of nice noises about this kind of AI boosting productivity to the point of causing a shortage of human labor leading us back to one earner households and not even needing to work overtime.

      If he’s right, wow, that’ll make a widbee dumbfuck sad. Work three jobs and still can’t make ends meet, it’s because you’re too lazy. If only you’d work for nothing, you’d still have a job. (rolls eyes). Wow Bezos’ noises are a bit of an improvement over elmo babbling about a future of free stuff and government eitc on steroids.

      I say beware of billionaires selling utopian dreams. Some prominent AI researchers still believe LLM AI is a dead end. When there’s talk of shooting data centers into orbit (a million of them, even?), that should be something of a hint, of a technology that scales poorly if at all, a tech that impresses but hides behind that curtain that it’s still half baked.

      Stay skeptical. Always.

    14. @13 Elmo also promised to put a million people on Mars by 2050. That sounds like trying to sell SpaceX stock to suckers.

    15. Say remember when shit for brains POTUS hired Elon who hired a bunch of Teenagers, named the project after a meme and illegally fired a bunch of federal employees and then was told by the courts they had to be rehired with back pay because the Executive does not have the ability to rescind funding enacted into law?

      GAO has mow determined the amount of back pay while no work done is $30b.

    17. BELIEVE THE WOMEN.

      Unless they’re the one trans person the Senate Leadership Fund (PedoParty) can find to swear she had a sex change as a child and regrets her transition now.

      The Senate Leadership Fund, one of the main groups supporting Republicans, has created multiple ads about former Sen. Sherrod Brown. In them, the political action committee accuses him of “forcing childhood sex change surgery.”

      Two of their most recent ads feature a woman and social media influencer Soren Aldaco.

      “Sherrod Brown supports sex changes for minors, irreversible surgery on kids like me,” Aldaco says
      …
      Aldaco starts another ad by saying that at 11, she was groomed online, but at 15 she was told she was transgender.

      “Surgery without my parents’ consent,” Aldaco said. “I was a kid.”

      Well, as it turns out, Aldaco received surgery without parental consent because she was 19. Records show she lived and received her treatments in Texas, not Ohio.

    19. Separated at birth:

      Katie Britt’s horror face pulled over the stupidity of magat Eric Schmitt.

      Mary Kay’s horror face pulled over kreepee dumbfuck babbling about the Khalidi tape over Turkey Day dinner.

    20. A new Marist Poll survey found Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott trailing behind his Democratic opponent by three points, a development that left several onlookers in absolute shock.

      https://www.rawstory.com/greg-abbott-2677994715/

      Hoo-boy, what a pickup! There must be a huge shift in the Hispanic vote. Kidnapping their relatives, throwing them in dungeons, then sending them to shithole countries they’ve never been in* is working miracles for Texas Democratic candidates.

      * If they’re not shot by ICE

    21. Politics is so sad. November get here. And Dems don’t let the magat cult assholes get away with anything. Thankless work I know.

      How’s about a little kultur?

      A while back, months ago now, I went on about the early Fleetwood Mac (post Peter Green but featuring the very excellent Bob Welsh) but pre Buckingham Nicks as I wasn’t interested in their relationship drama played out on the “White Album” and Rumors.

      Buckingham and Nicks made a record before they joined Fleetwood Mac called.. yep, “Buckingham Nicks”. Gave it a listen. For the first time. Lyrics make me cringe a bit but the musicianship is pretty dang good. They (or their producer) attracted a bunch of good session musicians.

      And they toured to promote the record a tiny bit.

      https://youtu.be/nkppRL0uKv8?si=gXx7pLOCwLB_TBH9

      This is a very popular bootleg. Amazing document. The first song, Lola (My Love), is a bluesy number with a great sung chorus backed by a fine rhythm section. I read one of the drummers from the album session played these shows.

      Buckingham has always been a pretty good guitarist and decent songwriter if something of a total jerk over time. Nicks sings strongly here. The set gives off a nice nostalgic glow.

      Something of a balm for the present awful times. Not that 1974 was all that great.

    22. It’s pretty apparent that the GOP Party pols really never supported the Constitution, nothing but a ruse.

      They don’t care about crime.

      They don’t care about fraud.

      They don’t care about wasteful spending.

      They don’t care about the deficit.

      They don’t care about freedom.

      They don’t care about democracy.

      They don’t care about morals,

      They don’t care about religion.

      They don’t care about babies.

      They don’t care about the military veterans.

      They don’t give a fuck about America.

      They don’t give a fuck about anyone.

      They only care about themselves and their own crime and fraud and bank accounts.

    24. I found this interesting.

      [Link causing formatting error deleted]

      Can make for a hard job. I think you have to be strong to be a public defender.

    27. Really binging on early Fleetwood Mac this evening.

      Something from the Peter Green Era:

      https://youtu.be/9GPR848mhIs?si=TwvPYk-WSgGlLmWW

      Very nice. Hints at his brilliance before he more or less lost it. We also see his disciples, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer – also lost to drugs and madness.

      And post Peter Green with Bob Welsh just after he joined the band:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqw7W_8fDmI&list=RDRqw7W_8fDmI&index=1&t=193s

      Freaking awesome. Too little of Danny Kirwan’s great playing is seen in this incredible video.

      Finally a bootleg of a show, at of all places, the Paramount in Seattle 1972 w/ Bob Welsh. Danny Kirwan still in the band. Very hot playing from Kirwan on “Future Games”. One of his songs “Little Child of Mine” is a stand out, an FM fav back then.

      https://youtu.be/733GlSvigGs?si=WFb12f7ZKgK7nOUS

      Buckingham Nicks took them to the stratosphere of multi-platinum success but to my ears a lot was lost on the way there. The early stuff was so good.

    29. Biggest loser: YLB

      Let me say something that’s going to get me into trouble, which is, if you look at where you have the most acute homelessness problems, they are blue cities in blue states, to a large extent.”

      – Fareed Zakaria

      From this follows the crime.

    30. @ 27

      Buckingham Nicks took them to the stratosphere of multi-platinum success but to my ears a lot was lost on the way there. The early stuff was so good.

      It’s just so rare that YLB writes anything intelligent.

    35. @30

      It’s the heterosexual Neanderthal virus. It’s getting worse, and will only get more worse as the Neanderthals claim their superiority to the vagina and put on a front that they need to be more masculine and masculinity rules. TESTOSTERONE!
      Women will be lucky if they retain the right to vote.

    41. So we all heard the story of the Haitian legal immigrant who took his own life because a racist who really really hates black people changed his status on a racist whim and forced him to wear an ankle bracelet.

      What I hadn’t seen is he threw himself in front of an oncoming semi. A profile of that Trump voting trucker and his PTSD over all of it is here.

      It’s quite a thing.

      https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/10/pierre-damas-bel-driver-springfield/688865/?gift=4QfSWyPVV95tk3w2EN6hQoiOyfn9JWIbSDlgCa4Q-L8

    42. @20

      Maybe if Dumbfuck keeps pointing out diesel is more expensive in California Texas will stop noticing the in state price is $1.70 more than a year ago.

      Abbott’s close “Well if you lived in California you’ couldn’t afford your Hemi, burgers AND eggs. Here in Texas you can still get eggs.”

    43. The real reason behind the AI heavies calling for a “slow down”..

      https://youtube.com/shorts/2hvsjMrSZtA?si=fU0ZsOpnSG42dngE

      Cover, for the biggest IPO of all time. Shit tons of munee at stake.

      Silly rapist orangeman was oblivious to the play.

      All that munee for a profligate and probably dead end technology will suck a lot of air out of the room for more effective and energy efficient approaches – or they’ll be co-opted.

      Anyone remember vhs vs. betamax? Poor analogy I know..

    44. When Texas republicans go out for their favorite family meal they are confronted with what GOP rule has wrought.

      Free chips and salsa at Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants could soon be a casualty of President Donald Trump’s trade war with Mexico.

      The administration’s tariffs on Mexican tomato exports are making the traditional appetizer too costly for restaurants to just give away.

      The Trump administration imposed a 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes in July 2025, ostensibly with the aim of protecting U.S. farmers from foreign competition and boosting domestic production. Mexico accounts for roughly 90% of the tomatoes the U.S. has imported since 2015, worth more than $3 billion, according to a study by Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension Service.

    46. @45

      “They were supposed to fly deportees but have largely sat idle — a striking symbol of gov. waste under President Trump.”

      According to the Times, the planes in question — one of which was outfitted with a “stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin”

      Oh we get it. Reserved for teh “illegals” who used the self-deport app. They get some munee AND ride out in style.

      widbee kreepfuck beaming with pride.

    48. According to the Times, the planes in question — one of which was outfitted with a “stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin”

      At 30,000 feet we don’t have to ask for id for the teenage girls.

    50. The Frat Boys saying that the sex was consensual. Consensual as in making their actions acceptable that every mother and father should be proud of? Or consensual as in keep us out of prison.

      Nothing to see here folks, move along, it’s not like anyone involved wanted to have gender reassignment. Nor is this consensual as in gay sex consensual.

      Problem solved. Move along. Good old locker room stuff here.

    51. @ 44

      Free chips and salsa at Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants could soon be a casualty of President Donald Trump’s trade war with Mexico.

      The administration’s tariffs on Mexican tomato exports are making the traditional appetizer too costly for restaurants to just give away.

      “Free”.

      The napkins and the ice water are “free”, too.

    52. I’m not a slut because I might have said “No.” to the 6th and 7th guys that night.

    53. I am a victim because after voluntarily walking a mile from a bar to the fraternity to fuck a guy I like and voluntarily consuming lots of booze, marijuana, and ketamine in the process, I let his friend fuck me in the ass so I could experience DP. Then I got two guys expelled, one guy suspended for 3 semesters, and one guy suspended for two years.

    54. I am a victim because after voluntarily walking a mile…

      “As an undergrad student decades ago, I attended a dorm presentation describing the importance of giving and receiving sexual consent. The workshop leaders explained that if your partner said “no” or “stop” but you proceeded to have sex anyway, it was considered rape.

      A high-profile athlete on campus raised his hand and said, in utter disbelief, “That can’t be right. By that definition, everyone I’ve ever had sex with I’ve raped.”

      I was horrified by his comment, but most students laughed.”

      https://theconversation.com/dozens-of-men-failed-to-stop-an-alleged-gang-rape-at-cornell-heres-the-misperception-that-keeps-bystanders-from-intervening-and-how-to-short-circuit-it-293321

      It was funny cuz last night I was reading about Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and his downfall due to LSD.

      It was really freaking common back then to go to a party, be handed a drink, a simple glass of wine and it was spiked with LSD or worse a cocktail of bad shit.

      In Peter Green’s case, he was actually targeted by a cult in Munich, Germany that was after his money.

      C’mon… like that didn’t carry over or was fucking synonymous with Greek(!) “life”..

      A simple path to “20 minutes of action”.. yawwwn..

    55. HA Trolls:

      Turn on, tune in, drop out…

      to the “drug” of always wrong wing magatry..

    56. @ 54

      … decades ago …

      Decades ago southern Democrats like Bull Connor treated black people very differently than they do now.

      Times change.

      But not everything changes with it. For instance, after convincing Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford that of course their claims could be anonymous, Democrats are about to elevate a young woman from a Greek row laughingstock to a national laughingstock with a similar promise.

      Right about the time Jimmy Kimmel will need someone to poke fun at when he loses his TV gig and has to go back to standups in smoky clubs.

    57. Tweet du jour:

      @MostlyPeaceful
      Mostly Peaceful Memes
      @MostlyPeaceful

      Since USAID was dismantled in 2025, no left-wing candidate has won a presidential election in Central or South America.

      @KalshiPolitics
      Kalshi Politics
      Kalshi
      @KalshiPolitics
      5h

      95.5% chance Flávio Bolsonaro wins the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election

      3:25 PM · Oct 4, 2026

    58. a Greek row laughingstock

      lmao.. the only one talking about a rape victim being a laughingstock is you, kreepfuck..

      i.e. STFU bitch…

      you asked for it..

      yadda, yadda… i.e. “consequences”..

      It was only the other day that kreepfuck was calling Platner “evil” for behaving like that star athlete in the linked piece.

      High five whiskey pete if it drops in at your vip lounge.. for a proud record of “gittin’ sum”..

      yawwwn.. boring slimebag..

    59. Since USAID was dismantled in 2025, no left-wing candidate has won a presidential election in Central or South America.

      LMAO… A “CIA front” selecting lefties in the hemisphere…

      That’s a first..

    60. Right about the time Jimmy Kimmel will need someone to poke fun at when he loses his TV gig and has to go back to standups in smoky clubs.

      lmao.. 24 year run.. Jay Leno today surprises audiences at open mic night at the Ice House in Pasadena.

    62. @51 “Free”. The napkins and the ice water are “free”, too.

      So is your squatting on this blog, as in “freeloader.” In all your many years of polluting these threads, you’ve never clicked on “Make a Donation” in the upper left corner even once. Not even for three measly bucks.

    63. +8,000 point gain over 2 years or approximately 18% over 2 years.

      Wel at least it isn’t fucking negative yet.

      On average the DJIA increases approximately 10% annually.

      Going NOWHERE FAST AND GOING IN REVERSE.

    64. I’m a bad boy. and did bad boy stuff but LOVE me. I don’t have to be good, so just LOVE me.

      Get them Mexicans!

    65. A little edit on CBS’ Obit tweet

      Washington – Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress who resigned among revelations of sexual abuse and was jailed for violating banking laws related to his hush money payments to children he abused, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.

    66. @65 heh. pederast Hastert and bugman “the hammer” De Lay were quite the partners in slime back in the day.

      widbee kreepfuck was a YUGE fan boi.

    71. 69)Thought I might have a run in with them or Border Patrol today in a certain state park on the 49th Parallel. Had my Enhanced ID at the ready, no problem as In
      assed their truck twice to and from the Arch in the parking lot. Budgeted time because the WTA 75 that passed by the park at 2:55ish was the last one that makes the connection to the connection I need at Mt Vernon or I’ll have to try the Island Transit Mt Vernon-Stanwood connection, and CT’s Stanwood-Lynwood direct bus. Don’t want to try an Island Transit route I won’t be paying for with any purchases along the way.

      Only tested the limit of it’s ok as long as you stay on the manicured lawn long enough to get a camera angle on the Arch.

    72. @70 pretty good video. Thanks.

      They make men look so impotent and dumb.

      We are fucked being led by a group of men.

      Sam Altman said you have to take the Bad with the Good. Sounds like someone bent his ear and threatened him to get on board.

    75. Is Boob still preoccupied watching men in tights ride around with their asses in the air? I bet he likes the front view.

    80. President Donald Trump has allowed the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel, typically reserved for farm operations, to be used more broadly in an attempt to bring down record-high fuel costs. Trump signed an executive order … to temporarily allow truckers and farmers to use red-dyed diesel — which is exempt from highway fuel taxes — and deferred related taxes on the fuel through the end of this year. The tax-free diesel is … exempt from a 24.4 cent-per-gallon tax applied to diesel fuel sold for highway transportation.

      https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/us-diesel-fuel-prices-iran-ukraine-energy-crisis-.html

      Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Less highway and bridge repairs, more potholes.

    81. So much for kreepfuck’s vaunted stock market:

      The stock market is pretty much being kept afloat by three tech stocks.

      The S&P 500 (^GSPC) has never been more concentrated in just three stocks than it is today, with Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft (MSFT) representing over 21% of the index, per data from Creative Planning.

      The importance of these three stocks to the S&P 500 has never been greater. Only IBM (IBM), AT&T (T), and ExxonMobil (XOM) could hold a candle to the three tech stalwarts of today: In the mid-1980s, those three industrial giants at their peak made up 13.4% of the S&P 500.

      https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/nvidia-apple-and-microsoft-are-keeping-the-stock-market-afloat-140845362.html

      Three stocks.. fucking stupid to believe this is anything that means more repukes in November.

    82. Putting aside that lying about Iran’s Nukes still and suggesting that SOME cities (blue states) are OK if millions of people are killed…

      It’s pretty astounding that Donnie isn’t aware of how much in military assets, training and Pacific Theater logistics is in San Diego.

    83. @80

      Just curious, what effect will spiking demand on so called Red-Dye diesel have on the price of said fuel and what will be the financial impact on massive fueling facilities for trucking that do not and have never carried it?

      Tump’s playing hit the side of a barn with a rock while the world plays chess.

    84. @82 rapist orangeman is from Queens.. Manhattan never much cottoned to the low life.

      Perfectly suited to FL, though. Spent a whole life preparing for that.

    85. Magat meltdown:

      They’re upset because the face of loafing in Sanders’s ad is a cheese-ball-snarfing couch potato named Brad who is a young white man. The “Pizzagate” influencer Jack Posobiec labels it “Antiwhite.” Sean Davis of The Federalist calls it part of decades-long, systematic discrimination against white men. The openly bigoted investor James Fishback, fresh off getting trounced in a GOP primary for governor of Florida, traveled to Little Rock this week to rail against the “false and disgraceful ad.”

      Assessing the accuracy of a fictional character in an ad feels a little absurd, but for the record: More than 60 percent of Medicaid-expansion enrollees in Arkansas are white, and 18 percent are Black, according to The New York Times. (The state overall is about 75 percent white and 15 percent Black.) A little more than half are women. Sanders rebuffed criticism, writing, “Next thing you know they’ll say I should have used cookies instead of cheese balls.”

      The immediate and obsessive focus on a throwaway character in a 30-second ad is a lurid reminder of how identitarianism has become influential in segments of the American right, particularly young voters. This is a matter of how members of the movement understand politics, as well as how they attempt to communicate to the American public.

      http://archive.today/2026.10.0.....ke/688876/

      Ask to comment, teh kreepfuck of widbee babbled, “I got it! How’s about an ARAB dumb cunt?.. ooops.. Sorry minder.. I boo booed.. pinky promise to think on my sins… not stink from them..”

    86. As you know the election is getting close so I’m putting the sugar on, need get all my cult members feeling good. Then after the election I’ll pull the rug from under them and go back to naming more buildings after myself.

    87. @81 How many investors own only those 3 stocks? Not pension funds, insurance companies, college endowments, and other institutional investors, nor most individuals.

      The S&P 500 index is skewed by concentration, which makes it pretty meaningless for investors with a diversified portfolio, unless all their money is in an S&P 500 tracking ETF.

    88. @83 I wondered that myself, and what I came up with is red-dyed diesel is the same as regular diesel from a refining standpoint. Since it’s simply a matter of adding dye, it shouldn’t affect the supply or price of red-dyed diesel unless there’s a dye shortage or limited processing capacity for adding dye.

    89. Speaker Johnson goes on the TV to campaign for the Democrats.

      JENNINGS: Let’s say Democrats take the House. How sure are you that they would immediately move to impeach President Trump?

      MIKE JOHNSON: It’s guaranteed. Probably on the first day.

      OK first day we humiliate YOU with a speaker vote that doesn’t go 30 tries.

    90. @ 89

      OK first day we humiliate YOU with a speaker vote that doesn’t go 30 tries.

      And second day you shut down the government only to get absolutely nothing out of it, like last time.

    91. CNN reports Christa Pike is conscious and speaking.

      Her lawyers want Tennessee’s governor to commute her sentence. They argue, among other things, that prosecutors had offered her a plea deal of life in prison, she was only 18 and mentally ill at the time of the crime, and the sentencing jury wasn’t given opportunity to consider her history of being abused in childhood. A strong strike against her is she was convicted of attempting to murder a fellow inmate years later.

      Local news media have noted her case provokes strong feelings among Tennessee residents, many of whom want her executed. That puts pressure on the governor to not spare her.

      Other states have executed survivors of botched execution attempts. However, the Supreme Court has barred executing people where mental illness or defect prevents them from understanding why they’re being executed. Thus, if Pike suffered sufficient brain damage that she couldn’t comprehend why she was being strapped to a gurney again, Tennessee wouldn’t be able to execute her.

    92. I also read that the Tennessee corrections chief who resigned last week has presided over a total of 5 botched executions.

    93. widbee’s domestic embarrassment, teh kreepfuck troll has distinguished itself here in the threads as a big fan boi of Chris Rufo..

      Yours truly wonders: was CRT woke before woke, woke, woke, woke? All this always wrong wing shit blurs into the other over time.. But I digress.

      Aside from CRT, Rufo and fan boi kreepfuck touts another always wrong wing “ideal”

      MERITOCRACY…

      Nice shine to it, amirite? yeah sure.. So babbles kreepfuck felatee Rufo:

      Rufo’s “briefing book” on critical race theory notes: “Critical race theorists oppose meritocracy, especially standardized testing and competitive admissions in the education system. They claim that meritocracy is a mechanism to uphold racist structures and is derived from ‘racism, nativism, and eugenics.’”

      HOWEVER…

      Recently, however, Rufo has backed away from his previously forthright defense of meritocracy, and by all available evidence, he has done so because the principle turns out to contain a fatal flaw:

      Oh yeah? What?

      Many of the Americans who benefit from meritocracy have brown skin.

      Oh.. ok.. this is looking familiar now… Another shoe has dropped..

      More to the point, a lot of Republicans resent those brown-skinned Americans. Given the right’s commitment to anti-intellectualism and populist resentment, and President Trump’s open embrace of job promotions based on loyalty or appearance (“central casting”) rather than qualifications, Rufo’s turn against race-blind merit might have been inevitable…

      The sequence that set in motion Rufo’s conversion began with a social-media post by Bo French, a right-wing activist…

      a longtime hater of many minority groups, especially Muslims. On September 13, French complained on X about the presence of South Asian students in the crowd at a University of Texas football game. “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this,” French wrote above a picture of the students celebrating. “I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.”..

      The MAGA right had an altogether more positive response to French’s outburst. Organs such as The Charlie Kirk Show, The Federalist, and the Daily Caller defended it.

      The Trump administration weighed in, somewhat more elliptically, on French’s side. The day after French’s post, Trump posted an attack on [Karl] Rove, who had said he would vote for French’s Democratic opponent in the November election. [!!!!] “Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and completely wrong so often,” the president wrote on Truth Social. ..

      The task for the conservative-movement loyalists who wanted to remain was to rationalize this prejudice. ..

      Rufo conceded that French’s “rhetoric was bad; it’s very crude.” But the crucial question to keep in mind, he told Keeperman, was, “Is the underlying frustration coming from a legitimate place or can it all be dismissed?” They agreed that French’s frustration was legitimate. Rufo later elaborated on his reasoning by saying: “If you live in a suburb of Dallas, suddenly it’s a third or higher percentage new immigrants from India. It causes some disorientation and dislocation, which is legitimate, right?”..

      http://archive.today/2026.10.0.....ce/688870/

      ROTFLMAO… Yep, kreepfuck has been disoriented and dislocated since hell week made it love bonzo… Imagine that.. Fellow traveling with anti South Asian bigots.. resentful of them getting ahead on the merits.. yawwwn.. so typical..

    94. How many investors own only those 3 stocks?

      Point taken. But that doesn’t stop a troll from babbling that a stock index reaching new highs concentrated in 3 stocks means rapist orangeman is doin’ a heckavu jerb and the repukes will hold the House in November.

    96. @94 The stock market is doing well under Trump. If you’re an insider, privy to Trump’s moves ahead of time, you’re doing even better.

    99. I fear Susan isn’t as sharp as she once was and has reason to be concerned.

      Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.”

      Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh.”

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