Multi-Billionaire's
rocket explodes

don't know whether
to be happy or sad
for the Fascist but

at least he's Still got
his GINORMOUS
MEGAPHONE
to sell his
Fascism
with.

how many more
Wars will he
Incite?

he and Rupert Mudroach
can spread Hate and Lies
and all's Anyone can Say
is -- well they're fucking
RICH so they've got
FREE REIGN so

STFUA.

try telling
Them that.

oh and
HAPPY
4:20!

"If you're thinking, "I wonder if...," then the I'm here to tell you the answer is yes: "

There was never any doubt!

“You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world…”

-Bob Marley

Happy 420 y’all!

that Ludwig kid sounds like he's awake, or "woke" as the young people say.

3 shooters in AL makes more sense. the 20-year-old is likely to get the death penalty - AL has the highest per capita sentencing rate in the US.

"During the Tuesday meeting, Sawant made a point to correct any use of the word "prime" sponsor as she believed all three council members were equal co-sponsors."

Waaah, the Trot has a sad.

yeah
& as the
Neolibs & Cons
say 'ANY Win for
the People is a Kick in
the Nutz to the Kapitalists'

so they'll Happily
Kick Kshama
to the
Curb.

blah
& blah blah
Blah & Blah
blah 'BLAH Blah blah
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Blah.

@8 so shocking that after 10 years of denigrating her colleagues and acting like a toxic asshole none of them want to include her in anything they do.

It's a big bada boom.

It done did a Tesla flip and went off the radar.

It is an ex-rocket

"El Paso" is a better track off the Marty Robbins album. The Dead covered it pretty well, but there's nothing like the original.

"Saddle Tramp" lol

Abortion is a human right. The state has the power to retaliate against people for exercising it, but it does not have the right to take it away.

I was and still am concerned by calls for the Biden administration to simply ignore court rulings. Our government has many problems - and judges are a part of that problem - but doing away with judicial oversight while leaving the rest of the system intact is not progress. While the administration is on the right side in this fight, they have previously granted legitimacy to the government of Saudi Arabia, denied rights to asylum seekers, and ended the rail worker's strike with the threat of state violence. Even if they were on the right side of those issues, setting a precedent that the executive branch can simply ignore a court ruling they disagree with is dangerous. I shudder to think what a second Trump administration would do with that precedent. But I also want to be clear: this concern only applies because the administration wields state power.

Doctors who provide abortion care against the wishes of the state are heroes. They are risking their physical safety, threatened both by the state and by violent mobs, in order to protect the rights and the safety of the patients under their care. This is the very definition of heroism. There may be practical considerations to take into account here - if you do it too prolifically, the state will prevent you from helping more people, and it could inspire violence against those who defend abortion rights. But in principle, providing healthcare to people whom the state is actively oppressing is heroic.

Fortunately, abortion rights do have one massive advantage rarely seen in civil rights struggles: overwhelming public support. Even in the deepest of red states, when you put abortion on the ballot, the people overwhelmingly vote to protect abortion rights. The ground work is done here, we just need to push the government to get across the finish line. But even once we do, we should not be complacent. We were complacent for decades after Roe v Wade, and the alt-right poked and prodded until they found a weakness that let them roll back our rights. Which rights will they go after next? RBG won many important victories for gender equality, but she did so by arguing for a particular interpretation of texts that were not explicitly written about gender equality. As we have unfortunately seen, the Supreme Court is in no way shape or form bound by precedent. We need to be proactive in safeguarding our rights. We need the Equal Rights Amendment.

In solidarity we are strong.
In self-interest we are weak.

@2 kristofarian and @4 fluxum: Happy 420!

@11 Will in Seattle: The Muskrat should have named its giant space dildo Titanic instead of Starship. Like the Orange Turd, everything Elon touches turns to shit.

Happy 420 to all who celebrate!

@auntie grizelda - you are totally on point my friend!

@11: Says someone who praises the virtues of EVs.

@15 so true

“If he [RFK, Jr.] hopes to continue his family's White House legacy…”

What legacy? Getting assassinated? Picking someone up at a house party and drowning them on the way home?

It’s pathetic this guy gets any media coverage - he’s GoodSpaceGuy with connections.

@17- you can understand the advantages of EVs and think Musk is a lunatic at the same time. Many of us drive non-Tesla EVs for exactly that reason.

I’ve said it before, but man, those SpaceX launches make a Scientology gathering sound sedated.

@16 diFrankieFox: Thank you. I try. Every so often Griz slams one out of the park.

@15 Will in Seattle: It's a shame Elon couldn't have been blown up inside his giant overhyped space dildo. Then the world would be less one insanely corrupt, selfish, and globally destructive billionaire.

@25 Anthropromise Me: I remember when that film came out. I used to have a record album from the 1968 film adaptation, directed by Ken Hughes, and starring Dick Van Dyke. Roald Dahl co-wrote the screenplay. What's not to like? I had to give the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang theme song a listen, and immediately found myself singing along to the lyrics after all these years. Nothing like the good old days.

@10: Worse yet, right after the Stranger had posted about Comrade Sawant Leading Glorious Victory Over Evil Capitalist Landlords, it turns out someone else — someone actually still capable of advancing legislation through the Council — had done it. Now the Stranger has laboriously transcribed CM Sawant’s bitter, petulant whining — without any apparent understanding this made her look worse, not better — shows just how far deep in the tank they remain for this lamest of ducks.

@28 makes you wonder what TS will do once she's gone later this year? She's a cancer on the city but like Trump she drives clicks and ad revenue for them. Despite the list of ill prepared ideologues they've been pimping for the fall I don't think any of them could hold a candle to their dear leader and that's assuming they actually get elected. If we're lucky Sawant will spread her wings like Nikkita Oliver did and leave Seattle behind as part of the launch of her national movement.

@28,

The Stranger thrived for several decades prior to Sawant's arrival on the scene. They'll continue to advocate for a progressive agenda and those candidates/policies that do likewise.

@30: The Stranger’s first two decades differed greatly from the past several years. Now there’s no print edition, and places which once employed the Stranger to advertise to potential customers have many other channels. Dan Savage has all but left the building; if he finds a formula to monetize his product independently of this place, he’ll be gone in an instant as well.

There’s also a huge difference between “advocate for a progressive agenda and those candidates/policies that do likewise,” and the full-throated roar of constant propaganda the Stranger has unrelentingly blasted for years on her behalf. The former adds to our democratic dialogs; the latter has simply spread her extremist poison throughout Seattle’s civic discourse.

The SeaTac lawsuit is interesting. I understand the Delta and Alaska connection, as the both have maintenance bases there, but don't all of the airlines have some responsibility, in addition to the port?

And what about Boeing and Paine Fields? Boeing field is certainly in a lower-income area. Paine, maybe not so much. And that airport down in Renton at the southern end of the lake?

@32: When I worked at Boeing, we performed ground-testing on aircraft at Paine, Renton, and of course Boeing fields. Whenever practical, we’d fly out to Grant County airport in Moses Lake, because we could ground-run our jet engines at high speeds there at all hours and never have anyone complain about the noise. We used to note that every last person complaining about our noise in Puget Sound had moved into their homes knowing full well there had long been a full-service airport nearby.

@24 Anthropromise Me I don't think so. Depending on where the abortion takes place, the doctor, if caught, will at a minimum lose their license, endangering their economic well-being which has implications for their physical and psychological well-being, and in some places they face a prison sentence, a direct threat to their physical and psychological well-being. And all this for the sake of protecting their patient's rights, including the patient's physical and psychological well-being.

What is heroism if not putting yourself at risk for the safety of others?

@24 Anthropromise Me: Doctors performing safe, legal abortions free of neofascist RepubliKKKan white men & RWNJ obstruction are definitely heroes to women and girls facing unwanted, unplanned pregnancies, and forced childbirth.
If men and boys could experience the same dire consequences from sexual assault, rape, and incest that women and girls do there would be an abortion clinic on every street corner, most likely outnumbering all the churches and gas stations combined.