Uh, the fuck? Why you being weird? Stop.

This is one mood for me.

I read the rest of the article, I regret it. Earlier that day his daughter had asked him how he would feel if one of the women Trump sexually assaulted had been her and he responded he had two other daughters who lived with him so he wouldn’t be all that bothered. What a piece of shit. Oh also he’d relapsed and had a bottle box of wine. Checks out.

The article gets way worse, "Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row:

“How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much. "

Holy fucking shit.

Yeah, there is perhaps no pistol more known for unequivocally not firing unless the trigger is fully pressed from the center. There are in fact three different independent safeties in a glock. Man murdered his daughter, I do not accept complete ignorance of firearm use as a defense for someone who owns a gun and chose to pull out a loaded weapon and point it at someone.

He’s simultaneously pretty moderate and rabidly anti-gun, he seems unelectable to me.

I’m not seeing the problem then with buying knockoffs

Health benefits at ALL ages, loneliness and isolation kill.

You can believe in police reform while also believing that offering people the “freedom” to live in flammable and filthy encampments and do fent, meth and alcohol in urban centers with no effective mechanism for forcing people to get help against their will is neither “compassion” nor effective police reform. And again the reality is Vancouver enjoys a river and only busses they have jurisdiction over of buffer room from that and I cannot bring myself to blame them for wanting to keep it. That said, god I want a congestion tax on the bridges for Washington drivers. (I also, to be clear, want the Max system expanded, I just get their perspective)

Also side note, ticketing is pretty ineffective on the TriMet system. It’s essentially a tax on people who can sort of afford to pay fare but don’t. It does not deter addicts etc because they aren’t getting kicked off, just getting a ticket they won’t pay and there’s no real mechanism for enforcing beyond that point.

It’s an easy scapegoat but again, C-Tran is doing much better in both ridership metrics and funding than TriMet. And ODOT has been vocally against bus lanes as well.

Yes. Some alternate questions for you. Do you think people who live and work in the Portland metro area have a right to have access to safe and reliable public transit. Do you think a bus or train is a cost effective way to provide shelter for someone too dysfunctional to use existing shelters? Do you recognize that road congestion is worse than ever yet transit use is down in Portland and people do die on our roads. Two things can be true, doing nothing and shoving the problem onto TriMet is not working.

Trimet trains/busses/shelters are theoretically supposed to be for transit use only, by paying customers, who don’t eat, drink, smoke, do drugs, litter, harass, commit crimes etc while on Trimet property (including shelters except for the eating part). It also even still has increasingly lax rules about bringing giant wagons and carts onboard that often delay transit, and often occupy space needed by transit riders with disabilities. In practice this is all unenforced to the point that the rules are essentially voided, rules are only rules if they’re enforced. I have trouble blaming the Vancouver nimbys for not wanting it. This exert from an OPB article illustrates it fairly colorfully

"Nancy Miranda of Yacolt, Washington, described her safety concerns when riding TriMet light rail in Portland.

“People urinating, pan handling, even physical abuse. Many times, I’ve felt threatened,” Miranda said.

“Light rail is perceived by many, because police aren’t always on there, as a high-speed way to import mentally ill drug addicts and criminals from Portland to Vancouver,” warned Gary Gaskill. “Whether that’s true or not, it is a perception many people have.” "

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/12/clark-county-transit-punts-decision-i-5-bridge-light-rail-funding/

I assure you, odot also hates transit. Also though, it is TriMet not C-Tran facing a budgetary crisis because of lack of funding from their constituents, Vancouver sucks but it’s hard to blame them for being leery of a MAX line considering the state of TriMet use enforcement.

Yeah but odot kinda hates transit.

Yes.

49% think Trump this term is doing a better job as President than Biden did his last term, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

LFS only.

With a spoon under a running faucet. It’s the perfect tool for peeling an egg.

Sure, there are lots of agender people and also various trans “gender is fake” people. The only real “requirement” for being trans is you wish to identify with gender differently than society expects you to. And even that feels like an incomplete definition.

I assure you that is not an insurmountable obstacle to being a lesbian.