The first two items - utility gouging and paid time off. The Strongly Support and Somewhat Support for both add up to 79%. But the columns themselves don't line up to the same endpoint. And then, the Don't Know's are different values ... but magically both rows are now perfectly lined up at the end of THAT column.
You align from left-to-right when you make a graphic like that. Because that's how we read in English. And you can miss me with the "underlying data issues" excuse... because you aren't presenting the underlying data, you are PRESENTING a visual summary of that. Which needs to be eloquent and accurate all on it's own.
Someone screwed up ... And should be made to issue a public apology or be drawn and quartered at the very least.
This article reminded me of a recent Progressive ad, in which Flo tells her client that she needs a vacation. The woman stands there, confused as to what a vacation is, recalling moments like sitting down to log hours or enjoying a song during deliveries. Flo tries to explain, then gives up, admitting she's never been on a vacation either.
OT: Here in soggy Saddle, WA we're looking at sunshine for the next week and maybe hit 80 on Monday. 30 out of the last 40 months here have been drier that average. Obviously, as the Orange Oaf notes, no climate change, that is just liebrawl nonsense.
My "truth", about my three terms as President, is answering all your stupid questions about my cognitive ability.
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Trump: "Anybody running for President or VP should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination! By doing so, we wouldn’t be surprised at people like Barack 'Hussein' Obama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting 'ELECTED.' I took the Exam three times during my ('THREE!') Terms as President"
DOJ getting ready to add another indictment against Comey
Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday that the Justice Department is looking at charging former FBI Director James Comey with leaking classified information, following his indictment on charges related to alleged threats against President Donald Trump.
Two people familiar with the DOJ's thinking told Bloomberg in an exclusive interview that the timing on that indictment appears to be up in the air.
Trump has long alleged that Comey was a "leaker," saying that he "sent" Columbia University Law Professor Daniel Richman classified information with the instructions to leak it to the New York Times for a 2017 article.
OT- accountants telling me I'm unhirable for pointing out AI is taking away creative jobs. I swear it's a cult, and I've met dogs and cats smarter than most accountants.
Yeah, got called a “difficult hire” by one who assumes my 44 year old ass is a kid. It’s a profession drenched in ageism with an edge of transphobia and general conservative fuckery. Honestly reevaluating my job choices
Money and experience are the issues there. Ironically for such an anti union field whining about a shortage of new comers, they act an awful lot like closed shop unions strictly regulating how many they take in
Housing affordability can be addressed by increasing the capital gains tax. Billionaires are pumping their money into real estate to save on taxes. This is what caused the 2008 financial crisis and it still hasn't been fixed. So instead of buying bundles of loans they're buying the actual real estate.
We don't have to pump a trillion into building new housing if the existing homes aren't being bought up by investors. Also, it brings in revenue to help balance the budget.
At any rate, if nothing is done we're headed for another real estate driven crash. That'll lower housing prices the hard way.
Almost every shit ass thing that has happened since 1984 is a direct result of rich people with too much extra money laying around desperately searching for "investments" to make even more money, rather than investments in businesses or products that are actually useful/good or just "investing" that money in a functional, modern society via proper taxes. :P
No one needs fuckhead private equity buying up perfectly fine businesses, debt loading them, & running them into the ground for short term profit. In a society with any kind of honor, these guys would be forced to cut open their own stomachs in shame.
Yes, please. All of this. And give us back the $50 Trillion the top 10% took from the rest of American workers over the last 45 years.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar
WARREN: Do you have any explanation for these perfectly timed spikes in trading activity other than insider trading?
HEGSETH: Everything we've done is completely above board
WARREN: What does that mean?
HEGSETH: I'm focused on doing my job
WARREN: You're not paying attention to this insider trading?
1:05 PM · Apr 30, 2026
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2049897828781035868
i mean, that's not actually drunk hegseth's job and he is clearly in way over his head already with the job he still has now. . .
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would allow federal food benefits to be used for hot rotisserie chickens.
The House voted in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, 384 to 35, to add hot chicken to the list of foods eligible for purchase with SNAP benefits.
Yet, the bill also included $187 Billion in SNAP program cuts. :(
Well, yeah, there is that, but HOT CHICKEN!
Yay!
Trying to head off the bread riots with 'let them eat cake' bills.
Big Chicken strikes again.
no hot garlic bread? fucking monsters.
Ugh. Pedant Mode Engaged.
The chart is wrongly built, and wrongly labelled.
The first two items - utility gouging and paid time off. The Strongly Support and Somewhat Support for both add up to 79%. But the columns themselves don't line up to the same endpoint. And then, the Don't Know's are different values ... but magically both rows are now perfectly lined up at the end of THAT column.
You align from left-to-right when you make a graphic like that. Because that's how we read in English. And you can miss me with the "underlying data issues" excuse... because you aren't presenting the underlying data, you are PRESENTING a visual summary of that. Which needs to be eloquent and accurate all on it's own.
Someone screwed up ... And should be made to issue a public apology or be drawn and quartered at the very least.
This article reminded me of a recent Progressive ad, in which Flo tells her client that she needs a vacation. The woman stands there, confused as to what a vacation is, recalling moments like sitting down to log hours or enjoying a song during deliveries. Flo tries to explain, then gives up, admitting she's never been on a vacation either.
Guaranteed paid days off.
Note that people in the 51st (Canada) and 52d (Greenland) states are not going to give up those days off just to be subjects of Trumpotania.
Oh, I think Greenland is just dying to be liberated from those 4-5-week vacations.
Mexico says no siesta, no deal.
OT: Here in soggy Saddle, WA we're looking at sunshine for the next week and maybe hit 80 on Monday. 30 out of the last 40 months here have been drier that average. Obviously, as the Orange Oaf notes, no climate change, that is just liebrawl nonsense.
We're gonna need bigger seashells.
Seems most everything with the Orange Oaf is a shell game.
Fuck all that socialist shit. The effort is afoot to privately control our water.
What would you pay for a glass?
My "truth", about my three terms as President, is answering all your stupid questions about my cognitive ability.
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Trump: "Anybody running for President or VP should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination! By doing so, we wouldn’t be surprised at people like Barack 'Hussein' Obama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting 'ELECTED.' I took the Exam three times during my ('THREE!') Terms as President"
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mkq6qbt2us2m
UGH, just FOAD already. We've all had enough of this version of Weekend at Demented Bernie's.
President who is a convicted felon: OK
President who is a convicted felon but can't identify which one is the camel: Well that's just ridiculous
Three terms?
Are you questioning a man who has identified camel three times. Three times! In a row!
Counting was not on the test.
Neither was math computation.
DOJ getting ready to add another indictment against Comey
Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday that the Justice Department is looking at charging former FBI Director James Comey with leaking classified information, following his indictment on charges related to alleged threats against President Donald Trump.
Two people familiar with the DOJ's thinking told Bloomberg in an exclusive interview that the timing on that indictment appears to be up in the air.
Trump has long alleged that Comey was a "leaker," saying that he "sent" Columbia University Law Professor Daniel Richman classified information with the instructions to leak it to the New York Times for a 2017 article.
https://www.alternet.org/james-comey-doj-charges-2676836301/
judges will soon install a new inbox specifically for documents received from todd blanche conveniently mounted over a paper shredder.
Maybe they’ll find that lost Creedence also too.
He did shell President Trump. It was seashells, but still.
he doesn't know how to use the seashells.
Trump tweets something that invalidates the charges in 5...4...3...
It wasn't like he showed Iran attack plans to randos at his trash palace or anything.
They got nothin'.
But he hurt President Pedophile's fee fees!
I'll mail him a box of Kleenex.
And he was caught picking his nose once at the FBI
Look, an actual plan. Trump's plan was 'Only I can fix it.' No word on how.
Yeah..."Only I can fix it--for my master Putin!"
Pramila Jayapal never relents in her campaign to make me endlessly proud of voting for her.
OT- accountants telling me I'm unhirable for pointing out AI is taking away creative jobs. I swear it's a cult, and I've met dogs and cats smarter than most accountants.
my blue heeler cross was a CPA
Dogs and cats understand the value of humans.
Yeah, got called a “difficult hire” by one who assumes my 44 year old ass is a kid. It’s a profession drenched in ageism with an edge of transphobia and general conservative fuckery. Honestly reevaluating my job choices
Hugs. That sucks.
Start your own shop. Fuck them.
Money and experience are the issues there. Ironically for such an anti union field whining about a shortage of new comers, they act an awful lot like closed shop unions strictly regulating how many they take in
Unlike many accountants, dogs and cats understand that they are fed by the labor of others.
Someone has to open the cans and scritch behind the ears.
WIN!
Housing affordability can be addressed by increasing the capital gains tax. Billionaires are pumping their money into real estate to save on taxes. This is what caused the 2008 financial crisis and it still hasn't been fixed. So instead of buying bundles of loans they're buying the actual real estate.
We don't have to pump a trillion into building new housing if the existing homes aren't being bought up by investors. Also, it brings in revenue to help balance the budget.
At any rate, if nothing is done we're headed for another real estate driven crash. That'll lower housing prices the hard way.
Almost every shit ass thing that has happened since 1984 is a direct result of rich people with too much extra money laying around desperately searching for "investments" to make even more money, rather than investments in businesses or products that are actually useful/good or just "investing" that money in a functional, modern society via proper taxes. :P
No one needs fuckhead private equity buying up perfectly fine businesses, debt loading them, & running them into the ground for short term profit. In a society with any kind of honor, these guys would be forced to cut open their own stomachs in shame.
no to low interest loans are much cheaper than paying taxes.
AND ending housing from being bought and traded by equity shareholding
Write off. Way up/way down.
OT: This shithole country is losing billions of dollars worth of military stuff, and the Suckretary of WARGH isn't talking about it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/us-military-equipment-worth-billions-of-dollars-destroyed-in-iran-war
/FFS
Drunk Ass Pete replies "well that's why we need to increase war spending by half a trillion!"
Cause Hegseth fucked up aalll our toys.
"I haven't lobster tail or steak in weeks!"
But we're winning!
Some of those radars were a billion alone.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴.
Hey, it’s not HIS stuff!