Please join us this evening for an adventure in political punditry over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us out on the back patio. We start at 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.
Trump may have near-total control of the Republican Party, but it’s a party of lightweights. As ex-RNC chair Michael Steele points out,
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/democrats-senate-bid-sherrod-brown-ohio-jd-vance-rcna225866
“Oklahoma plans to screen teachers from New York and California applying to work in the state with a new test to determine their views on a range of topics regarding their political ideology.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/oklahoma-ads-america-first-teacher-173036493.html
It’s a nothingburger.
Avg. teacher pay in California: $101,804
Avg. teacher pay in New York: $95,615
Avg. teacher pay in Oklahoma: $61,330
(Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay-by-state)
Number of California and New York teachers applying for teaching jobs in Oklahoma: De minimis. This gambit is just Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters trying to divert attention from his pornography scandal.
General Anthony McAuliffe, defender of Bastogne, on 22 December 1944, replying to German surrender demand: “Nuts!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe
Ex-Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on 19 August 2025, replying to Trump calling himself a “war hero” on conservative radio: “This is nuts!”
https://www.rawstory.com/adam-kinzinger-2673902589/
The main thing to note is Kinzinger used three times as many words as McAuliffe to convey the same idea. Politicians talk a lot; generals don’t.
Doctor Dumbfuck really outdid himself for dumbfuckery in the last thread by claiming the West Bank has Gaza’s land area.
https://www.aol.com/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-002106684.html
And if that doesn’t work …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niCG-LDrN9Q&list=RDniCG-LDrN9Q&start_radio=1
How impregnable is Trump’s border wall? See for yourself …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFk0kwrN9k
You do know, don’t you, that China’s Great Wall did not, could not, and was not designed to keep the Mongols out? It kept their horses out.
Walls just don’t work well to stop human border crossings, but I guess Trump doesn’t know that, because he doesn’t read history and is an ignorant fuck
All the Chinese achieved by their herculean efforts building a vast border wall was to make invaders to fight on foot like they had to. The Mongols took over northern China anyway.
It’s a commercial to sell jeans, that’s all. Get the fuck over it!
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Looking forward to seeing women and children jumping that wall on those ladders and ropes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
The wall, of course is only one deterrent to illegal alien entry. Others include not being let loose into the US to await a court date like Biden did until it was clear that it would cost Democrats the White House, at which time it was too late.
Oh, and then being hauled out of your place of employment by ICE and deported has been effective as well, as we found out last week when we were told that 1.6 million illegals have already self-deported.
So enjoy the less than 100% effectiveness of the existing border wall, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Meanwhile, the 99.5% of illegals who decide not to chance it are enough to satisfy those Americans who are glad DJT47 is doing what they elected him to do.
Weak sauce, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
When republicans get serious about stopping border crossings, they will put the people who hire the illegals, in prison. Until then, it’s just theater for the rube votes.
@9 Border wall AND $160 billion for immigration enforcement doesn’t make the wall look so good, does it?
Women and children don’t have to climb over Trump’s wall. They can crawl through the holes cut in it.
https://thehill.com/latino/596624-trump-border-wall-breached-thousands-of-times-by-smugglers-report/
Over 99% of the fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. comes through ports of entry, where Border Patrol can inspect only 1% of cargoes. And the smugglers are Americans, not migrants.
Why aren’t these billions of taxpayer dollars used to intercept drugs at the border, instead of squandering them on rounding up immigrants who just want to work, and whose work we need?
Because of racist politics that appeal to freaks like you, that’s why.
A budget crisis a century in the making is coming to a head in republican voting Oregon’s rural counties. If nothing is done, rural counties will find themselves with no money to pay for sheriff’s departments or other essential needs.
Republican Oregon timber counties have had a choice: receive funding from Secure Rural Schools, or get a cut of the federal government’s timber revenues. Most have typically gone with Secure Rural Schools since the payments were larger. Congress needs to regularly re-authorize the program, and lawmakers have not renewed Secure Rural Schools funding. Without the program, counties have defaulted back to federal timber revenues, which are just a fraction of what counties have been used to. Bright red Klamath County expects one-tenth of what it received through Secure Rural Schools.
but it gets better….
This year’s budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill, requires federal agencies to ramp up logging. But it also includes a provision requiring “all monies” from those new timber sales go into federal coffers. That will mean nothing from new logging contracts will be shared with the counties that house those forests.
>> It’s what you all voted for. You just didn’t think you would be hurt.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/18/oregon-timber-counties-fail-congress-funding/
Trump is demanding Goldman Sachs fire their economist.
Trump wants Goldman Sachs to fire their long standing, well respected Wall Street economist for speaking the truth on the effects of tariffs going forward.
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Yeah, and Al Gore invented the Internet!
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It’s not enough to mock them. OK Edufucker said it was partially about a religious test.
3-5 teachers from each state getting subsidized (like a lady who has no website building business) like Thiel funded the Gawker suit would utterly bankrupt Oklahoma.
Get a couple Jewish teachers on board and them you’ll REALLY see what anti-semitism looks like and it ain’t a couple dozen undergrads saying “Genocide is bad!”
@15
Jeezus, that was 26 years ago.
It’s like the Beach Boys on tour. All but one of them is dead.
2047 you’ll be saying ‘Let’s go Brandon’
Nancy Mace on
SSTVNewsmax2“In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I’ve worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here.”
She’s of course talking about the Biden bill she and every single member of the Republican party voted against.
There is no end to the stupidity of Republican TV viewers.
@18 Republicans are working overtime to ensure the next generation of voters are even more ignorant than the current crop with people like Ryan Walters leading the charge.
I get to touch. When you’re a star you can do anything. Anything at all. Grab ’em by the pussy.
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I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
It’s a pretty stunning declaration of absolute ignorance for any dumbfuck who spends as much of his “golden years” as he does Stanning for violent Israeli occupiers. All he really “knows” is whatever bullshit is being fed to him from Xitter. He’s a bona fide clown and he proves it every day.
7,
Surprise! Humans evolved from arboreal primates. Our skeletons and muscles have changed a lot and we’ve lost many adaptations advatageous for climbing as we evolved upright bipedal locomotion. But we still retain more than enough of them.
Or they can easily just walk through in the sections where it has collapsed.
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Far more fentanyl enters the U.S. from Canada.
Republicans don’t care about slowing or eliminating illegal immigration. If they did they’d fund USCIS courts, reform the Immigration and Nationality Act, and go after the hundreds of thousands of U.S. employers who routinely hire and employ undocumented immigrants as slaves.
But instead they are sending soldiers to patrol peaceful Black neighborhoods and mace barbecue stands.
This is a very cool summary of “Israel in Movies”:
https://youtu.be/7rLgFYpakh8?si=Dj22m1kB5SdsnvEa
A fun quote:
‘David Lehrer, Western regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, described JDL’s members Wednesday as “thugs and hooligans”.’
Better late than never..
LMAO.. and our Israel fellator in chief, teh kreepee dumbfuck, will be pleased to know the record of “Hanoi Jane”, Vanessa Redgrave’s co-star in “Julia”.
too funee..
Like a 4th Grader caught lying..
Narrator: there was no trade agreement.
Oh look, the Racist in Chief is fake-twatting a demand for the resignation of an mostly unknown FedReserve governor.
Because she’s a she and black obvs.
From Judge Berman’s ruling denying Pam Bondi’s motion to unseal the Epstein Grand Jury transcripts:
“The Government is the logical party to make the comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files. By comparison, the instant grand jury motion appears to be a “diversion” from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files already in the government’s posession. The grand jury testimony is merely a heresay snippet of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged conduct.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.518648/gov.uscourts.nysd.518648.77.0.pdf
Why won’t Fat Hitler release the Epstein Files?
Because Fat Hitler is all over the Epstein Files.