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True story. I wanted to start out this message with a count of the number of days to the midterm elections. So I fired up a browser window and had the following conversation with Google’s search AI (word for word transcript with some filler removed, emphasis in the original):

Me:

how many days remain until the 2026 midterm elections

Google Search AI:

There are thirty days remaining until the 2026 midterm elections, which will take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses

Me (double checking after suspecting the AI made a mistake…):

isn’t it 28 days?

Google Search AI:

You are completely right, it is exactly 28 days.

The 2026 midterm elections will take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Counting from today, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, there are exactly four weeks (28 days) remaining until election day. Thank you for catching that oversight!

Me:

How on earth could you get such a simple question wrong?

Google Search AI:

I completely understand your frustration. It was a careless math error on my part, and there is no excuse for getting a simple date calculation wrong—especially when you gave me the correct number.

I mistakenly calculated the days as if the month had 31 days instead of looking closely at the calendar. Because October 6 and November 3 both fall on a Tuesday exactly four weeks apart, the math is straightforward:

3 days left in October (after the 28th) + 25 days = 28 days

I am programmed to be accurate, but in this case, I failed to verify my own calculation before responding. I appreciate you calling me out on it, and I will do better to ensure accuracy moving forward.

We’re all doomed!

So enjoy life while you can. Stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally for a drink and discussions about politics, elections, and how stupid our future AI overlords are going to be.

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.

Comments

  2. We might all be doomed, but I’d rather be wealthy-doomed than Roger Rabbit-doomed.

    The Associated Press
    @AP

    BREAKING: The U.S. stock market hits an all-time high as expectations rise for companies to keep making more money.

    US stocks rise to a record on expectations for companies to make even fatter profits

    From apnews.com
    1:17 PM · Oct 6, 2026
    ·

  3. @2

    The guy who says he doesn’t own stocks only gambles on individual stock valuations in the future.

    Sure Jan.

    We know.

    You’ve never been able to keep your story straight.

  4. See, the problem with handing $25 million to black “voters” and not getting anything in return is you could have used that $25M in October.

    James Talarico’s Campaign Goes MIA. What’s Going On?

    … Talarico’s last public sighting in Texas came on Saturday, Sept. 26, more than a week ago. He then left for a fundraising trip to New York City, where the VIP dinner ran $27,000 a plate. The guest list included a filmmaker who called America a “s***hole” and a group that advocates child sex change surgeries.

    The absences piled up from there. Talarico skipped his in-person Sept. 30 speech to the U.S. Hispanic Business Council in the Rio Grande Valley and joined virtually from a hotel instead. The explanation attendees got was, “His staff says he’s ill and was unable to travel.” During that remote appearance, Talarico said he had to seek treatment at an urgent care clinic in Dallas, and social media users have disputed that timeline.

    Then came the recycled footage. On Friday, Oct. 2, the campaign posted video from a Feb. 22 rally, held before Talarico had even won the Democrat nomination, and tried to pass it off as current.

  5. Meanwhile, down the road a piece:

    Animals
    Whidbey Island’s ‘beloved’ elk dies, sheriff’s office says
    Bruiser was the island’s only elk. He wandered the island for about 14 years.

    All these island hunters and yet nobody ever took him out. Bruiser wouldn’t have survived a weekend in Pioneer Square.

  6. A reason why the GOP is not yet panicking:

    In the last few election cycles, we’ve seen a pattern of Democrats looking competitive in red state Senate contests during the summer only to fade by Election Day. I wanted to test if this was a consistent pattern, not just the selective memory of a Republican. 3,312 polls over the last four election cycles in the old FiveThirtyEight archive confirmed the pattern. In each of those four cycles, the Democratic candidate’s margin was overstated. The average polling error across all polls was D+3.7, and 73% of polls released overstated the Democrat relative to the election result.

    A GOP Senate will confirm Alito’s replacement nominee.

  8. Gaza started a war and lost it bigly.

    One might also assume that, given the scale of devastation in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank, support for a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might have declined. This was not the case. When respondents in the West Bank were asked which solution they preferred to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—two states, one state, a confederation, or “other”—56 percent selected a two-state solution, a rise of seven points from the Arab Barometer survey conducted in 2023. Over the course of two years of devastating conflict, support for a two-state solution had risen even more in Gaza, from 54 percent in early October of 2023 to 64 percent in October 2025. Over the same time frame, support for a confederation increased by ten points in Gaza, to 20 percent; support for one state dropped by four points, to five percent; and support for “other”—a choice that often reflects a preference for armed resistance—fell from 20 percent to seven percent in Gaza.

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/palestinian-territories/palestinians-want-two-state-solution-gaza-israel-amaney-jamal

    Really no surprise that Gazans now want to try something different.

  10. Mommy in WA tried to stab her kids to death. Because the silly women on Lindsay Clancy’s jury panel said Hey, no biggie.

    U.S. soldiers subdue woman armed with knife at scene of rollover car crash on I-5

    The car rolled multiple times, Dattilo said. The semi-truck driver was uninjured.

    As the passengers exited the car, passersby saw the woman attempt to stab the juveniles with a knife.

    Two uniformed JBLM soldiers driving on the highway pulled over and ran to the scene to subdue the woman, Dattilo said.

  11. @4

    That’s a lot of projection about a guy up six in the polls.

    Even your fellow nutjobs know what’s up.

    Daily Wire

    A planned black voter outreach event featuring Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has been canceled, organizers announced Monday, days after he switched another appearance to a virtual format because of the flu

    The group he cancelled on released a statement of support for voting for Talarico as a cancellation announcement.

    Yep…blacks for Paxton is totally a thing.

    The desperation is thick.

  12. @ 11

    Yep…blacks for Paxton is totally a thing.

    Doesn’t need to be.

    There only needs to be enough blacks for Jasmine Crockett.

  13. In power generation news, Six Flags, Magic Mountain California brought their solar parking lot online.

    Every space in the lot is now covered by solar paneling, expected to provide the entire power needs for the park as well as a shaded spot for every visitor.

  14. Susan Collins tried to take credit for making the cuts less severe in the big Billionaire Blowjob, the cuts that forced some rural Maine clinics to close.

    Jackson appeared ready.

    Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out”

    Pick Up

  15. @2 I certainly feel a sense of doom hanging over my portfolio, which is now up only 14.8% this year. I was doing much better until the market tanked in September. However, things could be worse; you have to explain away your Apple stock clownpost.

  16. @4 The alternative to Talarico is Paxton. Are Texas voters dumb enough to prefer scum like him? Possibly. You sure are.

  17. @6 I don’t know what will happen on Nov. 3, but I know for sure Republicans will whine like babies if they lose.

  20. @ 13

    In power generation news, Six Flags, Magic Mountain California brought their solar parking lot online.

    Every space in the lot is now covered by solar paneling, expected to …

    … hide the next set of traumatic brain injuries from the rest of the park visitors.

    Six Flags shuts down X2 rollercoaster after more than 100 allege brain injuries

    A law firm that represented the family of 22-year-old Christopher Hawley, who died after riding X2 in 2022, said the closure was not enough.

    While the Hawley family is “relieved to hear that Six Flags is finally closing the X2, it does not change the fact that Christopher Hawley was killed by a dangerous roller coaster that was allowed to operate for nearly two decades,” attorney Brent Wisner of Wisner Baum LLP said in a statement to the BBC.

    Hawley’s family settled a wrongful death suit with the theme park in August.

    “That tragedy cannot be undone,” Wisner said, calling for legal reform, proactive regulation and proper governmental oversight.

    “We cannot rely on profit-centered corporations to do the right thing only after enough people have been hurt,” he added. “We hope that whatever replaces the X2 is safe.”

    Whatever replaced it is a solar parking garage, apparently.

  21. Been looking at coverage of the American Public Transportation Association’s TRANSFORM and Expo conference, besides a Polish bus manufacturer’s new Electric battery bus that might be a winner that will be running in Seattle next year(Urbino Electric has been in production for 15 years, but design had to be altered for the US), and Stadler’s battery train that will soon be running on one METRA branch, one interesting development might be what Sound Transit is looking for for their Series 3 LRV. 190ft long, replacing current 95ft long LRVs that run in trains of between 2-4 cars. I want a bidding war instead of a win because only one manufacturer qualified.

    https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/light-rail/longer-trains-could-be-one-feature-of-next-siemens-light-rail-equipment/

  23. @20 “That tragedy cannot be undone,” Wisner said, calling for legal reform, proactive regulation and proper governmental oversight. We cannot rely on profit-centered corporations to do the right thing only after enough people have been hurt,” he added.

    What? Is the rightwing troll going all liberal on us, and calling for govmint regulation of private business, because they’ll injure and kill us for profit if the govmint doesn’t supervise them?

  24. The stock market(Ponzi scheme) has been doing what it’s been doing over last 3-4 years, just look at the graph. And actually if you look at the graph the DJIA is below what it should be doing.

    It reaches historical highs every day/month/year annually, typically. Look at the chart

  25. Donnie has Cardio Pulmonary Hypertension.

    He told the story of his ‘need’ for a daily aspirin regimen. It was meant to be cute but that’s the treatment for CPH.

  28. Yesterday the dumbfuck troll wondered @4 why Talarico went missing from the campaign trail, and insinuated it involves black voters.

    Who would’ve guessed Talarico caught the flu? Not a radiologist with years of medical school training.

  29. Yesterday I noted in the previous thread @80 (and somebody asked about it @83) that Trump signed an EO authorizing sale of untaxed red-dyed diesel to truckers.

    Today two groups representing fuel station owners said, “We do not expect most reputable diesel retailers and fuel marketers to do this … first, the tax is still owed, so there’s limited upside.” Also, “The logistical challenges outweigh any visible upside: Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems.”

    https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6133775-industry-warns-truck-stops-dyed-fuel/

    Another half-baked Trump idea bites the dust.

  31. @ 30

    Republicans are getting crushed in Iowa polls.

    If any poll result is reliable, it’s one out of Iowa.

  33. @ 29

    Also, “The logistical challenges outweigh any visible upside: Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems.”

    Another half-baked Trump idea bites the dust.

    And yet diesel prices are down from $6.529 to $ 6.199 over the last two weeks. That’s a 33 cent decrease. Meanwhile, gasoline dropped 12 cents over the same period.

    More diesel in the system for truckers means less upward pricing pressure due to shortages. It doesn’t take much for a downward price swing to result in increased supply.

  34. @ 26

    … call black voters in TX “deserving” of Jasmine Crocket:

    Not at all. Crockett is sitting out the TX Senate race, and her followers are likely to do the same in substantial numbers.

    Black voters sitting out the midterms because one of their most visible leaders is sitting out the midterms will not be good for Talarico.

    We all deserve the leaders we choose. YLB, you very much deserved the electoral result provided to you by Boxcheck Momala and Tim Walz.

    Elections have consequences, you see. This Fall, Haley Stevens will be among the first to tell you this.

  35. Attorney General Todd Blanche complained that the wave of prosecutors who left the Justice Department “hate us” and have banded together against the department in opposition to President Donald Trump’s leadership.

    https://www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche-prosecutors-hate-us/

    Ya think? They have an ethical obligation to not work for him. I’d bet that bar disciplinary committees wouldn’t be too impressed with DOJ’s current leadership, either.

  36. @ 23

    … they’ll injure and kill us for profit if the govmint doesn’t supervise them

    Six Flags was subject to plenty of government supervision. Government could have stepped in years ago to put a stop to the ride.

  37. Crockett is sitting out the TX Senate race, and her followers are likely to do the same in substantial numbers.

    LMAO… you slurred her as unserious and vacuous. You could have called her a “dumb cunt” or “unserious twat” which is curious because your og desparging remarks came way before 10/5/2025.

    TexASS is a generally bad place that would elect a hopelessly corrupt pedo protector so kreeps like you can gloat over “deserving” black voters.

    Yes, you said “enough blacks” not “her supporters”.. cuz you’re a low life.

    Now up to peeps in TexASS to turn the tide – if at all possible.

  38. Black voters sitting out the midterms because one of their most visible leaders is sitting out the midterms

    And apparently black voters can’t think for themselves and rather have a lying, corrupt pedo protector represent them.

    Wow, it never ends with this fool.

  39. @ 38

    And apparently black voters can’t think for themselves …

    Neither could you, YLB. All evidence to the contrary, you were duped into claiming that Biden’s embarrassing debate performance in 2024 was because “He had a cold!”

    It’s not skin color, YLB. It’s willingness to suspend disbelief because you’re all-in on an ideology.

  40. @ 37

    … you slurred her as unserious and vacuous.

    It’s not a slur if it’s an accurate characterization, YLB.

    If Jasmine Crockett was a serious Texas Democrat she would be working for Talarico this Fall.

  41. I hear Angie Nixon is running a spirited campaign..

    AM: you’re for de-funding the police.

    AN: I’m for putting you in JAIL for stealing 10 million from Florida taxpayers.

    Spirited or no, FL is a waste. Looks like FL voters wants yet another repuke thief to go to DC.

  42. you were duped into claiming that Biden’s embarrassing debate performance in 2024 was because “He had a cold!”

    Thank you.. I had you going “cold” daily until November..

    But you look kinda dumb with this hanging over you:

    https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/state-of-the-union/generic-congressional-vote

    Oh and what about “asian” or “hindu”?

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

    Enoble yourself kreepfuck.. make it a daily thing. Your ilk thinks so “deeply” and “seriously” about things.

  43. You could have called her a “dumb cunt” or “unserious twat” which is curious because your og desparging remarks came way before 10/5/2025.

    LMAO.. silly me.. “curious” no longer..

    kreepfuck merely stepped lightly avoiding laughs at shameless misogyny and racism.

    Well “enough blacks” and “deserving” takes care of that.

  44. you’re all-in on an ideology.

    oh that’s even funnier… “seriously” “non-ideological” kreepfuck..

    AIPAC and friends luvs ya for it.

  46. “Six Flags was subject to plenty of government supervision. Government could have stepped in years ago to put a stop to the ride.”

    Yes, We THE PEOPLE prefer Measles.

  47. It’s been an interesting day..

    We’ve all witnessed kreepfuck counting on “enough blacks” who are “deserving”..

    I bet it was white knuckling it over the PUMAs coming through way back in 2008.

  48. @39 willingness to suspend disbelief because you’re all-in on an ideology

    You just described MAGA voters to a “T”.

  49. @41 Spirited or no, FL is a waste. Looks like FL voters wants yet another repuke thief to go to DC.

    What do you expect? Florida is full of retirees who don’t want to pay taxes for things like schools.

  51. @ 41

    Looks like FL voters wants yet another repuke thief to go to DC.

    YLB still hasn’t gotten over FL voters turning their collective backs on Andrew Gillum.

    Andrew Gillum arrested again after testing positive for meth

    Facebook · FOX 13 News – Tampa Bay
    5.2K+ reactions · 1 month ago
    Andrew Gillum has been arrested. Gillum was charged with drug and paraphernalia possession, was acquitted in a separate 2022 federal case.

    FL voters are not good enough for YLB until they pick the corrupt, bisexual drug addict.

  52. @51 I certainly wish the memory of Andrew Gillum to do its best to enable you to look the other way from current day repukes robbing FL taxpayers of millions of dollars and bringing their corruption to the nation’s capitol. Positive bullet point on the resume.

    I’d expect no more from you.

    Next up, kreepfuck reposts tweets from LindellTV.

  53. Please enjoy the bodycam video of this lovely child, a product of the public school system in Virginia.

    @_Patriot1776Q_
    Patriot
    @_Patriot1776Q_

    🚨 A 6-year-old shot his teacher. Richneck Elementary, Jan 6, 2023.

    Court unsealed Officer Brian Torrez’s bodycam Oct 6, 2026.

    🎥 The Virginian-Pilot / Daily Press

    Oct 6, 2026

    The video isn’t even necessary. The audio track is plenty.
    ·

  54. The Talarico piggy bank is empty.

    Hell, even Beto! had enough dough to keep spending all the way to November.

  55. Hasan Piker claims a Democrat scalp.

    One black leader in Detroit who asked not to be named told CNN about a conversation with Abdul El-Sayed that left a feeling, in his words, that “they believe they don’t necessarily need to work as hard to get the Black vote.”

    He said he never received an invitation he was promised by El-Sayed to join a roundtable with him.

    So the leader took a meeting with aides of El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers — but felt guilty about it.

    “I felt so bad, I texted him,” the leader said of El-Sayed. “But I didn’t hear back. So, f**k him.”

  56. The troll isn’t exactly predicting Republican victories in November. He’s merely hoping without evidence.

  58. Please enjoy the bodycam video of this lovely child, a product of the public school system in Virginia.

    6 years old. Where’s the parents kreepfuck? Did they lock up the guns? Even liddle assiwipe sez it gets that right.

    The kid was taught to say “fuck you bitch”.. at 6 years old. Please show us the reader approved by the school board.

    Next thing you know kreepfuck will recommend a nice christian school funded by the taxpayer who will wash the kid’s mouth out with soap, give him a swat if need be..

    No way that kid brings a handgun to that fine example of “school choice”..

    https://fox59.com/news/students-expelled-after-handgun-ammo-brought-to-suburban-christian-school/

    They even post the 10 commandments on the wall.

    yawwwn.. simpleton troll..

  59. @ 56

    … predicting Republican victories in November.

    I predict the House flips and the Senate doesn’t.

    For Democrats it should be enough that much of the Senate will turn over, on both sides of the aisle.

  61. Interest Rates be Rising.

    Will it be hard enough

    Is this Cost-Push Inflation, that will only get worse?

    Gas, Cheap Labor Shortages, Wage Increases.

  62. It”s greeting to feel like people are starting to scare on over spending…. no Demand-Pull.

  63. Trump appeared tonight to try to reframe his comment that Iran could “hit” San Diego or Los Angeles, seeming to argue that Iran would take the cities out if it had access to a nuclear weapon.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-texas-senate-2026-midterm-election-congress-live-updates-rcna601953

    Somebody please remind the dumbass that Iran would also need to acquire an intercontinental delivery system. Probably one more sophisticated than a shipping container.

  64. The Hartford Courant reports on the 12th Domestic violence homicide.

    By Justin Muszynski
    Hartford Courant
    Twelve people have now been killed so far this year in Connecticut as a result of domestic violence — a number that continues to disproportionately affect women.

    “With this run of murders, I’ve stopped calling them homicides because it’s so sanitized,” said Mary-Jane Foster, president and CEO of the Interval House — the largest agency in the state of Connecticut dedicated to ending domestic violence. “They’re murders. People are losing their lives. And it sometimes just seems unbelievable that it could be happening as it is.”

    Kind of what I’ve been saying…. it is being “sanitized”. The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

  65. @33

    A month ago diesel was at $5.90.

    ‘You see, we lit the building on fire but then we brought a hydroflask to dump on it.”

    And what Dumbfuck doesn’t acknowledge is the taxes weren’t waived, they’re deferred. So if you fill up you 500gal semi today you’ll save $.20-.30 a gallon. And you keep doing that every week for the rest of the year.

    And then if you’re back on your feet in 2027 you’re gonna get a bill for $1500 for the deferred taxes. Pay up Suckers.

    Also, according to AAA diesel is at $6.31 nationally so there’s that.

  66. Rando don’t want to be named person makes claim.

    $50 says the source is Pastor Lorenzo Sewell.

  67. Angel Reese delivers free throws to close out the fourth and overtime. Atlanta Dream move on to finals. 23 pts to go 2-0.

    On the other side defending champs Las Vegas just took their final time out down three with 7 seconds to play.

    After trading free throws Golden State gets a block on a layup to preserve the win and go up 2-0.

    Both these games were one possession for the final three minutes.

  68. In other news…..

    Tonight’s girls high school basketball update. Hazen defeats Lindbergh 55 to 38

    No trannies played on either team.

  70. Ah. The Biden 2020 campaign strategy.

    As of this morning, Talarico’s campaign schedule does not have a single event for the candidate planned before the election. That’s not the “flu,” that’s the “fled.”

    ’cause Rose Garden strategy is already taken.

  71. @ 67

    Both these games were one possession for the final three minutes.

    Once Caitlin Clark exits the arena nearly half the world no longer gives two shits.

    Christine Brennan
    @cbrennansports

    A bit of good news for the WNBA: Instead of losing 55% of TV audience when Fever go out (info below), the drop for semis Game 1 vs Game 1 of Fever-Aces a week earlier is 44-47%:

    2.11M Fever-Aces ABC

    1.17M Liberty–Dream ABC

    1.12M Aces–Valkyries NBC/Peacock

    All Sun vs NFL games

    The WNBA is composed of two things:

    1) A skilled, popular woman with two years’ pro experience.
    2) Thugs.

    The WNBA is a one-trick pony. Too many of its players are dedicated to ruining the career of that pony.

  72. @ 67

    Atlanta Dream move on to finals.

    Incorrect. The semis are a best-of-5 series and only two games have been played.

  74. @73

    That’s your point?

    More than half MNBA teams make the playoffs.

    More than half MLS teams make the playoffs.

    Exactly half of NHL teams make the playoffs

    Half minus two NFL teams make the playoffs which is the exact same equation as 2027 when WNBA expands.

  75. @ 74

    We weren’t talking about MLS.

    MLS is pretty much a joke, too.

    “As of right now, no one is interested in buying even 1% of this club because our setup here, the market and the situation we are in, is not something where you can invest,” Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster said last month. “We have been the second-best team in North America, and we have been, again, the last team in revenues in all of MLS, and that doesn’t fit together.”

    Sorting out the struggling markets will be crucial for MLS, where 19 of the league’s 30 teams were unprofitable on an operating basis in 2025, according to Forbes estimates.

  76. Whiskey Pete delivering remarks in the expendable city of San Diego. In a flight suit. Doing his TopGun era

    There were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of symbol of dysfunction of low morale or a failed mission. I know it’s the exact opposite.”

    Ed’s note: there were eight reports of sailors attempting suicide during the USS Lincoln’s last bilge overflow, no food deployment.

  77. No, really. Where’s @ 9 the silly twit who bemoaned the SpaceX share price in August?

    FCC Green Lights SpaceX’s 15,000 Satellites for Starlink Mobile
    The FCC’s grant is crucial to SpaceX’s effort to turn Starlink Mobile into a potential rival to the big three carriers. The 15,000 satellites have been also cleared to use the acquired EchoStar radio spectrum, and also frequencies from T-Mobile.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-green-lights-spacexs-15000-satellites-for-starlink-mobile

  78. @75

    I coulda sworn the goalpost was right here on ‘half the teams’. Now it’s over there on franchise value.

    Side note: that Juggernaut Miami is 14 pts off in third. W-D-W-D-D last five. Speaking of single players, Messi will likely retire after 2028 leaving Beckham with a steep drop in club value. Miami’s second most impactful player is a 39 year old Uruguayan who is retiring at the end of the current season.

  79. @ 76

    Ed’s note: there were eight reports of sailors attempting suicide during the USS Lincoln’s last bilge overflow, no food deployment.

    So, things are improving in DJT47’s miliary, then:

    Eight attempts in a strike group of 6,000 sailors over 10 months is actually low, experts say. The Navy reported 356 suicide attempts across the service in 2024, while there were more than 1,500 attempts among all active duty personnel that year, according to the latest annual report.

    In Joe Biden’s navy,

    There were 7 suicides in 2022.
    There were 8 suicides in 2023.
    There were 10 suicides in 2024.

    https://www.dspo.mil/Portals/113/2026_CY/documents/DSPO_ReportonSuicide_CY24_20260317_508c.pdf

    We done trying to score cheap points off our military members yet?

  81. @7

    A SINGLE group vs the entire navy.

    Sweet Jesus you’re bad at this.

    Eight attempts in a strike group of 6,000 sailors over 10 months is actually low

    More than some entire years. But OK.

  82. @ 80

    It’s not corruption at all.

    You are correct. It’s technological advancement. Amazing what the private sector can do.

    Small wonder so many in the public sector are hellbent on preventing it.

  83. In 2024 65% of active service members who attempted suicide had a prior mental health diagnosis.

    Lowering the bar to entry into the armed services comes with some costs.

  84. Sweet Jesus you’re bad at this.

    It’s like he keeps feeling a chad hanging from his ass and each time he checks on it he then smells his finger and thinks he’s smelling roses.

    Thank You.

    He’s not only a Dumbfuck but a proud Nazi

  85. @ 81

    In 2024 there were 1,515 active duty personnel suicide attempts among the military’s 1.34 million active duty members. That’s one in 884. (Page 17 of link 2 @ 79)

    During its deployment there were 8 suicide attempts on the USS Lincoln. That’s one in 750.

  86. Thinking out loud, does explicitly tying a war to Domestic Political consideration help or hurt?

    President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm election, explicitly tying the timing of potential further military action to the domestic political calendar.

    “We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social,

  87. Another way to look at it.

    Call it the Yankees/Dodgers or Lakers/Knicks viewership theory.

    The WNBA semifinals averaged 1.15 million viewers for its two opening games Sunday, up 10% compared to the two first games of last year’s semifinals. Both games were against the NFL’s Week 4 Sunday slate.

    Now that Indiana has a roster spot for a quality six player maybe they can make a deeper run.

  88. @ 86

    Thinking out loud, does explicitly tying a war to Domestic Political consideration help or hurt?

    Thinking out loud, having made this statement if the president then attacks Iran in the runup to the election, will the lying liars of IRGC call him a liar? Or will there be no remaining mechanism for Iran’s Republican Guard to communicate with anybody?

  89. @ 87

    The WNBA semifinals averaged 1.15 million viewers for its two opening games Sunday, up 10% compared to the two first games of last year’s semifinals.

    This is the first year of a new media deal:

    Key Details of the Media Deal

    • Term Length: 11 years running from 2026 through 2036.
    • Total Value: Approximately $3.1 billion ($281 million annually), which is roughly 6.5 times the value of the previous agreement.

    Does paying 650%550% more than last year to gain 10% more viewers than last year sound like a good deal?

    Or does it sound like Talarico paying black influencers $25 million to gain zero additional black voters?

  91. @89

    You try so hard.

    Calculate 10% growth in viewership year over year over the 11 years of the deal.

    Weird the networks are happy with 10% over the first of 11 years.

    But keep looking at two games on one day. It’s good for your claims.

    The WNBA had its best season since 2000, as games averaged 771,000 viewers in the first year of a new media-rights pact. That’s up 17% from last season as well. Even when including Peacock-exclusive games, the average is 731,000, and the superlative remains. There were 51 games that drew over 1 million viewers this season, which is 32 more than reached that figure last year.

    Side note: was the previous TV agreement under market value in its final years?

  92. Pedos stick together.

    Epstein associate and traveler on the Lolita Express jet announces he will award the Presdential Medal of freedom to admitted steroid user Roger Clemons.

    As a 26 year old married man with two kids Clemons had an affair with then 15 year old rising country singer Mindy McCready. McCready was later engaged to MAGA washed up actor Dean Cain who at least had the sense to wait for her to be voting age though nine years older than Mindy. They began dating(publicly) when McCready was 1 and Cain was 29 (ew).

  93. @90

    Maybe because no independent pollsters have done one? Most recent wrapped on Sept 30.

    Now if you’re leading big you don’t release an internal for fear of voters thinking it’s in the bag.

    If you’re losing big you risk fundraising drying up.

    If it’s close, you release.

    What’s the likely scenario here?

  94. So glad I have Solar.

    Drill baby drill!

    Heating oil cost up 86% over last year
    What state officials fear as consumers ask, ‘Do I buy groceries?’
    By Christopher Keating
    Hartford Courant
    With home heating oil prices skyrocketing, officials are urging Connecticut residents to reach out for assistance before the freezing weather whips across the state this winter.

    The current price of $5.91 per gallon is 86% above the average at this time last year and up 50% from June, officials said. The ongoing war in Iran has put a strain on consumer budgets as the volatile price of oil jumps up and down with the news about negotiations, stalled talks, and how many ships are getting through the narrow Strait of Hormuz that is more than 6,000 miles away from Connecticut

    So glad that that Ponzi Scheme is doing so great!

  95. In 2024 there were 1,515 active duty personnel suicide attempts among the military’s 1.34 million active duty members. That’s one in 884. (Page 17 of link 2 @ 79)

    During its deployment there were 8 suicide attempts on the USS Lincoln. That’s one in 750.

    Is the per capita?

  96. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle … had asked a donor and supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump to pay a $100,000 credit card bill just before her confirmation hearing, promising him access to administration officials if he did. …

    Rubio said he was aware of The Wall Street Journal’s report, which was published late Wednesday, but had no idea if it was true and he would not address it.

    “You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things,” he said at the foot of his plane as Guilfoyle, who was there to see him depart Greece, looked on.

    https://www.aol.com/articles/rubio-refuses-guilfoyle-allegations-062527000.html

    The normal way you address this is launch in investigation. But not, apparently, this administration, which history will remember for its corruption and grift. Well, if Rubio doesn’t investigate it, a Democratic Congress will.

  97. @96

    Not just an administration but a whole corrupt family and business associates and business men. The whole system is corrupted. The whole country is corrupted.

    What a way to win over more constituents. They don’t want to, and it can only mean one thing, and that is that they are planning for a dictatorship.

  99. He may not like their “yuck-yuck world,” but he’s made himself part of it by supporting them.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6136893-eric-deter-trump-business-dealings-guilfoyle/

    You are what you vote for, in this case a sea of corruption. By the way, this guy is himself a piece of shit, or at least the Kentucky bar thought so when it suspended his license to practice law.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6137160-guilfoyle-deters-texting-allegations/

  100. @75 I wonder how many MLB and NFL teams would be profitable without taxpayer-funded stadia?

  101. @77 Now you know what Elon bought with his $400 million in campaign donations to Trump and his Republican allies in the last two election cycles.

    I mean, was there any chance at all that Trump’s FCC would turn down his ask? He even got EchoStar’s and T-Mobile’s frequencies. Sheesh.

    My guess is those companies didn’t pay enough protection money to the Trump Mafia.

    #gopcorruption

  102. @79 I guess the recruiters didn’t explain to those young men what the “fun, travel, and adventure” promised by the recruiting posters is really like when they get deployed, huh.

  103. @82 No wonder at all what Musk will pay for access to public airwaves.

    Which makes Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ask for $100K to pay off her private credit card look dirt cheap. But then, the access she’s selling isn’t as valuable or useful as the access the FCC dispenses.

    An FCC where 2 of the 5 seats are vacant (1 Republican, 1 Democrat), and Trump is filling only the Republican seat.

  104. @83 So you’re saying the 8 Lincoln sailors who attempted suicide during this deployment were mentally ill before they joined the Navy, and weren’t driven over the edge by conditions aboard the ship? How do you know that? Did you steal their enlistment and medical records?

    This comment is about as logical as your Apple stock post was.

  105. @85 In Vietnam, when soldiers went crazy, they didn’t try to kill themselves. They killed their officers.

    There were two fraggings of officers in my unit while I was there. That’s not counting the mechanic who fragged one of our trucks. They shipped him somewhere, too. Probably Okinawa or Japan.

    That’s also not counting the guy who snatched the captain’s .45 from a holster hanging on the CQ bunker wall and began hunting me after I beat him at chess one time too many. I spent that night sleeping under a hooch with the rats. I quit playing chess with him.

    Military service is stressful. Sometimes the dogfaces who go out on patrols or swab decks reach a breaking point when conditions imposed on them become inhuman. That doesn’t mean they were crazy before their service.

  106. @88 As Iran seems to have the upper hand right now, and has had it all summer and basically since the war began, logic argues Trump would put on a “show of strength” before the elections, not promise to do so after. So, the question becomes, what is he afraid of? The Iranians or voters or both?

  107. @98 It didn’t take long for Gov. Polis’ commutation of Tina Peters’ prison sentence to look like a mistake.

    When you commute an inmate’s sentence, it’s usually predicated on an expectation of acceptable behavior after the individual returns to the community.

    Not in this case.

  108. @70 Rose Garden strategy? Or just an old-fashioned nasty flu bug?

    His campaign says he expects to return this weekend. “He’s like, really sick,” a Texas Democrat involved in the race told NBC News.

    https://www.rawstory.com/james-talarico-2678059926/

    Apparently Doctor Dumbfuck never encountered a bad case of flu during his career as a medical student and radiologist, or ever had one himself.

  109. So the guy whose employees piss in empty soda bottles to be able to do nine hours of deliveries on eight days we’re gonna have a bunch of time off and still make good salaries.

    Forbes:

    Jeff Bezos Claims Al Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families

  110. Lowering the bar to entry into the armed services comes with some costs.

    Hang Bowe Bergdahl!

    For kreepee dumbfuck and co. feelz..

  111. @110 It’s possible the kreepee dumbfuck could get into the military now. They’re gonna need more doctors.

  112. I wish MAGA Mike success in his new endeavor. Really, I do.

    “Heaven forbid, if we lose this majority or whatever, I don’t know what my next chapter of life is,” Johnson told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “If God moves on our hearts and says we should, you know, go back to my hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business, I’ll do that with equal fervor. I mean, I just want to be of my highest and best use to God and to my country.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6137660-johnson-gop-house-majority-louisiana/

    Shreveport needs gardeners, too.

  113. We don’t know much yet the ICE shooting in NYC today. What prompted the shooting is unclear. We’re told the victim was not the immigrant the ICE agents were looking for, was shot in his car, then was taken to a hospital by city police where he is alive, the 5-year-old in the back seat wasn’t injured, and an ICE agent brandishing a semiautomatic rifle kept bystanders and local residents away from the scene.

  115. Ossoff 2028 kicked off at tonight’s debate.

    Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he’s sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump.
    …
    First of all, no Georgia family or small business should pay a dime more to subsidize the energy consumption of these data centers.

  116. @114

    That’s not a serious proposal. No MLB owner other than the biggest spenders want to give up four home gates to give the Dodgers potentially two post season sell out crowds.

    That’s a ‘See we made a concession’ item down the road.

  117. Watching Susan Collins do the Parkinson’s Shake all through the debate reminds Mainers she’ll be 80 at the end of another term. When she was a still fuckable age for the GrandOldPedo party of twenty the digital watch became a thing.

  118. Pleasew enjoy this moment of tonight’s debate where Mike Collins refuses to condemn his Neo Nazi influencer son-in-law, then tries to tie John Ossoff to Hassan Piker before finally settling in on “you need to vote for the neo Nazi in order to keep your taxes low”

    You see those treacherous towelheads terrorists want to destroy America and raise your taxes

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mxfnxufqau2v

  119. . “If God moves on our hearts and says we should, you know, go back to my hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business, I’ll do that with equal fervor. I mean, I just want to be of my highest and best use to God and to my country.”

    Listen, I ain’t knocking the belief in a God, but is that what he attributes to all his bullshit? God determined everything in his life? Like even whether he wants him to be a Gardner or a Lying Politician?

  121. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 4,829.18 points (or about 12.80%) from the first trading day of 2024 (January 2, 2024) to the final trading day of 2024 (December 31, 2024). Measured from the previous year’s close on December 29, 2023, the index gained 4,854.68 points (or 12.88%).

    Key 2024 DJIA Milestones:

    • Start Price (Jan 2, 2024): 37,715.04 (Close)
    • Previous Close (Dec 29, 2023): 37,689.54
    • End Price (Dec 31, 2024): 42,544.22 (Close)
    • Point Gain: +4,829.18 points (from Jan 2) / +4,854.68 points (from Dec 29, 2023)

  122. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 5,519.07 points (or 12.97%) during 2025 if measured from the previous year’s close on December 31, 2024. If you measure strictly from the first trading day of the year (January 2, 2025) to the final trading day (December 31, 2025), the index gained 5,671.02 points (or 13.38%).

    Key 2025 DJIA Milestones:

    Metric Measured from 2024 Close Measured from 2025 Opening Day
    Start Price 42,544.22 (Dec 31, 2024 Close) 42,392.27 (Jan 2, 2025 Close)
    End Price 48,063.29 (Dec 31, 2025 Close) 48,063.29 (Dec 31, 2025 Close)
    Absolute Gain +5,519.07 points +5,671.02 points
    Percentage Gain 12.97% 13.38%

  123. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained approximately 3,076.38 points (or about 6.59%) from January 1, 2026, through October 8, 2026.

    Key Data Points

    • Start Price (December 31, 2025 close): 48,063.29
    • Current/Latest Close (October 8, 2026): 51,139.67
    • Point Gain: +3,076.38 points
    • Percentage Gain: +6.59% (consistent with Slickcharts)
    Would you like to see how individual stocks in the Dow Jones performed year-to-date, or compare this gain to the S&P 500?

    There still time!!!

  125. America has a deficit problem. The Iran war and ICE budget are expensive luxuries the United States can’t afford.

  127. Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize again. It went to a black woman from South Africa who served as a judge on the International Criminal Court, an institution he despises.

    The prize announcement came the same day Little Marco, on Trump’s behalf, imposed sanctions on the ICC.

    There’s an elbow in your eyes from the Nobel Prize committee, warmongers.

  128. The snark.

    Navi Pillay making extemporaneous remarks after winning the Nobel Peace prize.

    (Applause)
    Thank you. Thank you so much.

    If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump. (Laughter)

  130. At my local coffee this morning the South Asian guy who held the door open for me had his name called by the bar ‘Senhee?” (Spelled on the cup Senhi) Then the barista asked, “Is that right? Is it pronounced Senhee?”

    A Barista at a coffeehouse making $17+ tips is classier than Ron DeSantis.

  132. ABC TV affiliate in Arkansas:

    Spencer Pratt says he was told Democratic candidate Talarico is in mental health facility

    “Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it,” his post concluded. “You need very thick skin. As much as I don’t want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don’t want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn’t, and it didn’t work. I’m praying that this isn’t true, and he’s OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.”

    Apparently pretending to be something you’re not takes its toll after awhile.

    Second look at Jasmine Crockett?

  133. @ 127

    There’s an elbow in your eyes from the Nobel Prize committee, warmongers.

    Yassir Arafat a Prize winner was the elbow in the groin.

  134. @ 117

    Watching Susan Collins do the Parkinson’s Shake all through the debate reminds Mainers …

    … of Michael J. Fox.

    It’s a disease. It’s far from disqualifying. Her next term will prove that.

  135. The shooter in the latest ICE shooting has a history of making violent arrests and falsifying evidence.

    Meanwhile, the plumber running ICE blames the shooting on the victim, throwing in “we wasn’t aware the child was in the car.”

    Isn’t it their job to look before opening fire?

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6ac355f8e4b0bc90e3ffdbb1/liveblog_6ac8f295e4b01d1704f928c3?origin=home-latest-news-unit

    Earlier in this thread I posted that America has a deficit problem and ICE’s budget needs to go, because we can’t afford it. I can think of other reasons to defund ICE, too.

  137. NBC News is a more reliable source than anything the dumbfuck troll dredges up from the gutters his “sources” inhabit …

    After drawing scrutiny for his absence from the campaign trail, Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, who had been sick with the flu, returned to the stump on Friday.

    “James Talarico is back on the campaign trail talking to voters at Austin City Limits,” Talarico campaign spokesman JT Ennis said in a statement.

    Social media posts showed Talarico walking on the grounds of the festival on Friday.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/james-talarico-back-campaign-trail-absence-flu-rcna602599

    Don’t miss the comment underneath:

    https://x.com/Andylanger/status/2108645831322817021?s=20

  138. OK.

    Angel Reese leads the Dream with 22pts (remember how she can’t score) and NOW she’s in the finals.

    I think she’s gonna get a ring before CC but the Valkyries do have a bit of ‘Team of Destiny’ thing going on. Fought back to force overtime. Then dominated OT to send the MVP and defending champs home 87-77. And they did it on the road.

  139. @124

    Watching her get humiliated time and again on the debate stage also reminded voters of how old and out of touch with Maine she is.

    But good try.

  140. Dumbfuck was wondering about Minnesota Senate polling. He got two today.

    Rasmussen (GOP Internal*) did a snap two day and came up with +3 Flannagan with an MOE of 3.

    Morning Consult has Flannagan with an outside the MOE of +4.

    Probably not what he was praying for at horse night night time.

    *see what I did there

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