News that a grand jury will convene to examine evidence related to the former president set off waves of speculation on cable news, must of it focused on the organization’s CFO who is thought to be cooperating with investigators. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Goodus Boyus https://t.co/Ksb2mli959
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2021
Got CL’d (PBUH) down below…
re: #262 Dangerman
she could lose to a D who could still win the general
Manchin cannot
All the Very Serious Pundits seem to have coalesced around the idea that Manchin is somehow this miraculous once-in-a-generation Democrat who can keep winning general elections in WV as a Democrat as long as he hews to some sort of magic right-of-center line.
I call bullshit on that. If Manchin were up for reelection in 2022, or if he’d been up in 2020, he’d lose to a Republican in the general, period. You’d have (or you’ll have) TFG and the Trumpsters out there pulling away all those mythical (and now probably dead) “moderates” who may still be registered as Dems for historical reasons, but who voted for Justice for governor and TFG for president. They’re not just going to send a Democrat (even Manchin) to the Senate because grandpa used to vote for Democrats and had a picture of JFK hanging above the fireplace. His percentage of the vote plummeted from 60% in 2012 to just under 50% in 2018, and WV isn’t getting bluer.
And when those West by god Virginians go to the polls in 2024 to vote for TFG or Junior or whoever the hell ends up as the R nominee, they’re not going to split the ticket then, either. The TV ads and social media and pronouncements from the pulpit will all be a constant drumbeat of how liberal Manchin is and how a vote for him is a vote for soshulism, and that’s going to be the case no matter how he votes on ANYTHING for the rest of this session while he still holds a little power. (It’s almost impossible to imagine that after the 2022 elections, he’s still going to be vote #50 for the Dems - either we do well and he’s a less-relevant vote #53 or 54 or 55, or we do worse and he’s vote #49 and still irrelevant.)
Manchin has to know this, deep down inside, which makes his weird attempts at self-preservation even weirder. He’s in his last three years in office, period. If he wants a legacy beyond 2024, he ought to try to become president of WVU or somesuch.
And yes, it’s a VERY different situation from Sinema, who just seems to be unable to read the room and see the very different way her state is shifting and the likelihood that she’ll be primaried in 2024 and lose.
He also thinks there are TEN good people on the other side. I count two mediocre people and two who are sometimes capable of pretending to be mediocre. That still leaves me at zero good people.
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) May 27, 2021
re: #228 The Pie Overlord!
It’s like Abraham begging G-D not to destroy Sodom if he can find 10 righteous people.
I thought that was Lot. /pedant
A perfectly normal political party. https://t.co/z2gddJ3XPp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2021
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I thought that was Lot. /pedant
Abraham asked God to find the ten. God sent the angels to help Lott escape because He couldn’t find ten.
What. The. Fuck.
Republicans love to make fun of Biden’s stutter, while they can’t even coherently complete sentences. Like this word salad tonight from Brian Kemp. pic.twitter.com/biVhRv68vz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2021
Minneapolis Honors Police Brutality Victims By Dedicating Armored Vehicles To George Floyd https://t.co/3hTQzS5o08 pic.twitter.com/NGNcUydn0V
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 27, 2021
re: #6 Charles Johnson
“The government, media, and finance are ‘controlled by a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles’.” Also known as Republicans.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Yes, but the real question is, how many Democrats believe Donald J. Trump is the literal spawn of Satan? Because, you know, BSAB.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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I’ve heard people say this kind of stuff about Murdock, tfg, and madoff, so I guess it’s possible
No, it’s not a cult.
White man prays to Donald Trump for help after cop shatters his window because he refuses to get out of the vehicle. Black officer has to drag him out of the car. pic.twitter.com/dbZfe5NObB
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) May 27, 2021
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I purchased some saltillo tile for my house in Miami and noticed one of them had a dog paw print.
Made a comment to the salesman about a dog running across this tile.
The salesman said, “no they have a dog paw on a stick, that they poke into a soft tile every now and then.” “if a dog ran across pre-fired tiles, it would destroy the tiles.”
I guess Ironside gave them the green light!
Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Bought a 40-Acre Compound in Texas for Its ‘Patriots’
The Rod of Iron Ministries has become more militant since leader Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
re: #4 bratwurst
He also thinks there are TEN good people on the other side. I count two mediocre people and two who are sometimes capable of pretending to be mediocre. That still leaves me at zero good people.
I mean, if Manchin just secretly agreed with the goopers and wanted to shut everything down, he wouldn’t be publicly begging for 10 gooper votes. When they don’t materialize, it makes him look silly and powerless, and it hammers the fact that the GOP is acting in bad faith.
If Manchin wanted to blow the Dem agenda up, he’d just say that the filibuster was a Sacred Rule for the Comity of the Nation, and if ten goopers didn’t agree then that was that and we can all wallow in harmonious inertia like God and the Founders intended. But nope, he’s hoping out loud that they’ll actually come around.
re: #14 The GOP is a terrorist organization
No, it’s not a cult.
Say what you will about the author, but…
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong — faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
— Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novel series
re: #16 🌹UOJB!
I guess Ironside gave them the green light!
Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Bought a 40-Acre Compound in Texas for Its ‘Patriots’
The Rod of Iron Ministries has become more militant since leader Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Oh, look. We’ve got the Branch Davidians all over again.
If I were this guy I’d think twice about calling anyone else an “idiot.” pic.twitter.com/leLfYtNqJW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2021
re: #20 Charles Johnson
The problem with these people isn’t that they are know nothings. The problem is that they know everything, but everything they know is wrong.
A child’s perspective on Jesus. This mom is defeated 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/qSdvAABLMc
— Farah C. Fortune (@fcfortune) May 27, 2021
re: #22 Charles Johnson
Why is he bi…
Because he loves everybody.
Eh… um *oh shit, the kid’s right*
And why is he nonbinary?
Because he wears a dress.
Kid’s not wrong.
re: #17 ericblair
I mean, if Manchin just secretly agreed with the goopers and wanted to shut everything down, he wouldn’t be publicly begging for 10 gooper votes. When they don’t materialize, it makes him look silly and powerless, and it hammers the fact that the GOP is acting in bad faith.
If Manchin wanted to blow the Dem agenda up, he’d just say that the filibuster was a Sacred Rule for the Comity of the Nation, and if ten goopers didn’t agree then that was that and we can all wallow in harmonious inertia like God and the Founders intended. But nope, he’s hoping out loud that they’ll actually come around.
So he’s not deliberately sabotaging his own caucus, he’s unwittingly doing so because of an outdated/naive ideal.
I’m not really sure there’s any difference in that distinction.
You don’t get to pretend to be bi-partisan on Biden’s watch. https://t.co/qUCGKRRU5C
— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) May 27, 2021
re: #25 jaunte
“I got the receipts right here, bitch.”
I have been trying to wrap my head around why Paul Ryan giving an anti-Trumpist speech is a trending news story before he even gives it.
It has to be exceedingly obvious by now that no Republican can speak against Trump and remain in good standing. Does he imagine people will consider him brave to burn whatever rickety bridges he still has to the GOP at this point? Does he think he can join Liz Cheney and Joe Walsh among the ranks of terrible people who have earned a modicum of respect for not drinking the Kool-Aid?
I think perhaps Pauly would be well-served to study Franz von Papen and the “Marburg speech” of 1934. The fact Papen eventually spoke out against the monster he played a very specific role in creating didn’t keep him from being tried at Nürnburg.
“Some people have no shame.” pic.twitter.com/pPAmQXjppC
— The Recount (@therecount) May 27, 2021
re: #27 bratwurst
I have been trying to wrap my head around why Paul Ryan giving an anti-Trumpist speech is a trending news story before he even gives it.
It’s because he’s a Republican and our CCCP endlessly pumps up Republicans no matter what they say,
CCCP = Corporate Controlled Conservative Press
Awwwww Another MAGAT loses his job…
Boo hoo 😭 https://t.co/fujM5Yqfja
— AustinTXBuckeye (@AustinTXBuckeye) May 27, 2021
re: #31 🌹UOJB!
So no more giant loads of ammonium nitrate?
re: #27 bratwurst
I have been trying to wrap my head around why Paul Ryan giving an anti-Trumpist speech is a trending news story before he even gives it.
It has to be exceedingly obvious by now that no Republican can speak against Trump and remain in good standing. Does he imagine people will consider him brave to burn whatever rickety bridges he still has to the GOP at this point? Does he think he can join Liz Cheney and Joe Walsh among the ranks of terrible people who have earned a modicum of respect for not drinking the Kool-Aid?
I think perhaps Pauly would be well-served to study Franz von Papen and the “Marburg speech” of 1934. The fact Papen eventually spoke out against the monster he played a very specific role in creating didn’t keep him from being tried at Nürnburg.
The GQP’s business wing is trying desperately to find some way to counter to growing image of the party as an asylum run by the patients. They’re not trying to actually remove Trump’s influence, just convince the suburban white vote that voting Repub doesn’t mean supporting Trump or his sycophants.
‘We stormed the Capitol.’ California Mamalitia founder boasted of insurrection activity
Denise Aguilar, a vocal California vaccine critic and founder of a survivalist group known as Mamalitia, has said she wasn’t involved in the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, although she admits to being in Washington, D.C. that day.
But despite attempts to distance herself from the attempted coup, a since-deleted Instagram video shows Aguilar celebrating the deadly mob and suggesting she was among the rioters who roamed the Capitol grounds. She also called for similar take-overs in statehouses across the country.
Lock.
Her.
Up.
re: #27 bratwurst
I have been trying to wrap my head around why Paul Ryan giving an anti-Trumpist speech is a trending news story before he even gives it.
It has to be exceedingly obvious by now that no Republican can speak against Trump and remain in good standing. Does he imagine people will consider him brave to burn whatever rickety bridges he still has to the GOP at this point? Does he think he can join Liz Cheney and Joe Walsh among the ranks of terrible people who have earned a modicum of respect for not drinking the Kool-Aid?
I think perhaps Pauly would be well-served to study Franz von Papen and the “Marburg speech” of 1934. The fact Papen eventually spoke out against the monster he played a very specific role in creating didn’t keep him from being tried at Nürnburg.
he had his chance to rein in TFG
he did nothing
too little too late
re: #35 Dangerman
he had his chance to rein in TFG
he did nothing
too little too late
He had to wait until he got his treasured tax cuts, and to attempt (at least) to repeal the ACA.
re: #29 🌹UOJB!
It’s because he’s a Republican and our CCCP endlessly pumps up Republicans no matter what they say,
re: #33 Targetpractice
The GQP’s business wing is trying desperately to find some way to counter to growing image of the party as an asylum run by the patients. They’re not trying to actually remove Trump’s influence, just convince the suburban white vote that voting Repub doesn’t mean supporting Trump or his sycophants.
I suppose this is the bottom line: creating content with a misdirection play.
I have a dear 80 year old friend who is a lifelong Republican that refused to vote for Trump. He remains CONVINCED that voters are going to punish the Trumpist GOP in the midterms for their insanity. Putting a camera in front of a “serious” guy like Paul Ryan is how they keep people like my friend deluded into believing the GOP will one day resume being a sane political party.
re: #37 bratwurst
Not according to my relatives who want to see Ryan sent to Guantanamo for his disloyalty to The Orange Anus.
re: #27 bratwurst
It’s amazing how Right Wing billionaires continually create faux-movements and guide opinions through weaponized misinformation and our media just reports it all as if it’s organic and not an ongoing operation that hijacked our political system.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 27, 2021
re: #38 🌹UOJB!
Not according to my relatives who want to see Ryan sent to Guantanamo for his disloyalty to The Orange Anus.
That is exactly why I don’t see what Ryan could possibly accomplish. The hard core now see him has just another satanic pedophile…there is no chance to change a single heart or mind there. But, my above mentioned friend WILL be able to say “See? The GOP hasn’t gone totally off the rails!” I guess that is the reason to do this.
re: #40 🌹UOJB!
This Jew is telling you to STFU!
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“Marjorie Taylor Greene Now Claims She Never Compared Mask Mandates to the Holocaust”
it’s their M.O.
what’s one more big like on top of all the others?
Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), one of the architects of Obamacare, told Insider that he was getting “somewhat” of a case of déjà vu seeing the infrastructure discussions unfold.
Said Baucus: “I doubt you’re going to see much bipartisanship in the end. Frankly, a lot of Republicans would rather not see a bipartisan bill. They say they would, but deep down they don’t.”
re: #41 bratwurst
That is exactly why I don’t see what Ryan could possibly accomplish. The hard core now see him has just another satanic pedophile…there is no chance to change a single heart or mind there. But, my above mentioned friend WILL be able to say “See? The GOP hasn’t gone totally off the rails!” I guess that is the reason to do this.
The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing moderate Repubs that Trump doesn’t exist.
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“We’ve got to get to the bottom of this shit. Jesus. It’s a nonpartisan investigation of what happened. And if it’s because they’re afraid of Trump then they need to get out of office. It’s bullshit. You make tough decisions in this office or you shouldn’t be here.”
— Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), quoted by Politico, on Republicans blocking the formation of a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection.
re: #46 Dangerman
A new Quinnipiac poll finds 55% of voters say they view the events of January 6th as an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten, while 39% say too much is being made of the storming of the U.S. Capitol and it is time to move on.
The partisan breakdown: Democrats say by 84% to 12% and independents by 54% to 42% that the January 6th storming of the Capitol should never be forgotten, while Republicans say by 74% to 18% that too much is being made of it.
one way or another an investigation is gonna happen
Tentative relief among many progressives today that GOP counter-offer — by relying heavily on repurposing old funding — is likely so inadequate to WH that they will reject it and go bigger/partisan route, aides say
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 27, 2021
re: #46 Dangerman
Ranking a 1-term twice impeached treasonweasel who never won a popular vote nationally and who incited an armed insurrection over any of the others.
That’s no bigger tell than where the GOP is right now - a dumpster fire all while claiming they’ve never been better.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 27, 2021
I’m curious why almost no one really talks about XFiles anymore? I only ever saw the first season but I’m kinda surprised it’s fallen so out of cultural memory.
— Jessie Earl (@jessiegender) May 27, 2021
It might have something to do with The Plot crawling up its own ass after a few seasons, and it just got impossible to follow all the aliens and black oil and conspiracies in conspiracies and whatever when it’s obvious the writers were just winging it. The movie didn’t help.
Also, some wag pointed out that a lot of pre-streaming shows don’t hold up well in the streaming era when you watch them back-to-back. I haven’t re-watched the show, but it must get eye-rolling in a bingewatch to see Scully getting completely poleaxed that there are monsters and aliens. Again. Like the last forty times they investigated a case. You’d think she’d start to see a pattern or something.
i just mentioned madoff and tfg in the previous thread together
Trump on Madoff family, 2011: “For these people to sit there and claim they had no idea what was happening with their father, who was right next to them in offices and everything else, don’t believe it, folks! It’s a scam!”
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 27, 2021
re: #28 jaunte
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Just a tell on how gloom-and-doom this place is: This is an awesome move by Biden and we’ve had one response, maybe two, to this in the comments here. There’s been more written about Ryan.
re: #49 lawhawk
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Ranking a 1-term twice impeached treasonweasel who never won a popular vote nationally and who incited an armed insurrection over any of the others.
That’s no bigger tell than where the GOP is right now - a dumpster fire all while claiming they’ve never been better.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 27, 2021
re: #43 Dangerman
It is the ACA “negotiations” all over again. They’re being conducted in what all but the truly deluded can see is bad faith, the end goal is not to reach a “bipartisan” bill but to burn time off the clock, and the noise they make about wanting to “make a deal” keeps the Dem “moderates” talking about a phantom “deal” rather than what can be passed with a “partisan” vote.
re: #33 Targetpractice
The GQP’s business wing is trying desperately to find some way to counter to growing image of the party as an asylum run by the patients. They’re not trying to actually remove Trump’s influence, just convince the suburban white vote that voting Repub doesn’t mean supporting Trump or his sycophants.
I used to have more faith in the “business wing” and its ability to restore some common sense than I do now.
I thought the chambers of commerce and the big money donors would have some power to rein in the worst excesses of TFG-ism. They got steamrolled by the populist know-nothings.
And I *really* thought that the insurance companies and lawyers would have been able to stop some of the excesses of the reopen-at-all-costs movement over the past year. That was a very misplaced bit of confidence on my part. (I still wonder, when it’s all over, whether we’ll find out how much insurers and businesses ended up losing to COVID reopenings in avoidable ways.)
re: #55 ipsos
I used to have more faith in the “business wing” and its ability to restore some common sense than I do now.
I thought the chambers of commerce and the big money donors would have some power to rein in the worst excesses of TFG-ism. They got steamrolled by the populist know-nothings.
And I *really* thought that the insurance companies and lawyers would have been able to stop some of the excesses of the reopen-at-all-costs movement over the past year. That was a very misplaced bit of confidence on my part. (I still wonder, when it’s all over, whether we’ll find out how much insurers and businesses ended up losing to COVID reopenings in avoidable ways.)
Pre-2016, the business wing stopped a number of bills from becoming law here in Texas that they no longer can. I don’t see the gun law passing back then because businesses would have argued how bad it would be.
re: #52 Belafon
Just a tell on how gloom-and-doom this place is: This is an awesome move by Biden and we’ve had one response, maybe two, to this in the comments here. There’s been more written about Ryan.
a dem was gonna say this eventually.
im glad it was biden and so quickly - carries more weight and amps it up
as of yesterday ryan was “who?” oh yeah, wasnt he speaker once?
that’s news-ish
re: #52 Belafon
I think everyone’s ready for Biden to get tougher.
re: #52 Belafon
Just a tell on how gloom-and-doom this place is: This is an awesome move by Biden and we’ve had one response, maybe two, to this in the comments here. There’s been more written about Ryan.
I think it is fair to say that Biden is doing very well, Congress is apparently on a path to disastrous disappointment, the judiciary is disasters waiting to happen, and the criminal cases against Trump are moving damn slow and may amount to nothing.
This gives pessimists more material to work with than optimists.
Say this to her face, you coward. Tell Brian Sicknick’s mom that she’s “cashing in” on her son’s death. I dare you. You won’t do it because you’re a despicable coward. https://t.co/5msTzGYiS1
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 27, 2021
re: #52 Belafon
Just a tell on how gloom-and-doom this place is: This is an awesome move by Biden and we’ve had one response, maybe two, to this in the comments here. There’s been more written about Ryan.
This is indeed an awesome move. As some people have pointed out, neither Bill Clinton nor Obama had any Washington experience before they were elected. Biden’s spent his whole life in federal politics, and he can call bullshit for what it is both in Congress and in foreign policy. Fuck that, the GOP isn’t going to get a free ride off of the Dem’s hard work.
re: #58 jaunte
I think everyone’s ready for Biden to get tougher.
he’s playing them like a fiddle or a fish on a line
he won’t let them delay or try to co-opt the “pretend to care”
he’s letting them hang themselves
you might say he’s Biden’ his time
how many mixed metaphors is that?
re: #59 EPR-radar
I think it is fair to say that Biden is doing very well, Congress is apparently on a path to disastrous disappointment, the judiciary is disasters waiting to happen, and the criminal cases against Trump are moving damn slow and may amount to nothing.
This gives pessimists more material to work with than optimists.
I think too many of us remember that Obama did this sort of thing regularly, particularly in the lead-up to the first mid-terms…and it came to nothing because everything he said and did got twisted until it was unrecognizable. And we spent more time explaining to voters what Obama had actually meant than we did actually running on what he meant.
“You didn’t build that!” went from a denouncement of the rich and powerful…into a culture war attack on white people by a black president.
“If you like your doctor you can keep them” went from an assurance that people could keep their existing care…into being dubbed “Lie of the Year” by pundits.
Just watch, before the end of the week, Biden’s pointing out the truth will be turned into yet another example of how he’s killing “unity” by being so “partisan.”
re: #62 DodgerFan1988
this reply is a placeholder. the original reply, after reviewing itself, had to go take a walk to regain its composure.
— a female Faust (@femalefaust) May 27, 2021
re: #65 Targetpractice
I think too many of us remember that Obama did this sort of thing regularly, particularly in the lead-up to the first mid-terms…and it came to nothing because everything he said and did got twisted until it was unrecognizable. And we spent more time explaining to voters what Obama had actually meant than we did actually running on what he meant.
“You didn’t build that!” went from a denouncement of the rich and powerful…into a culture war attack on white people by a black president.
“If you like your doctor you can keep them” went from an assurance that people could keep their existing care…into being dubbed “Lie of the Year” by pundits.
Just watch, before the end of the week, Biden’s pointing out the truth will be turned into yet another example of how he’s killing “unity” by being so “partisan.”
But they can’t “black president” Biden, and it actually is driving Republicans nuts that they can’t.
re: #66 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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re: #68 🌹UOJB!
Did anyone expect that right wing prostitute to post anything else?
One right wing partisan hack quoting another. They’re ignoring the totality of circumstances just like they tried to do with George Floyd. Sicknick may have had a stroke, but it was because he had his head smacked with a fire extinguisher.
re: #65 Targetpractice
I am sick to death of the media choke chain on the left.
A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of pictures of a fox that wandered near my hangar out at the local airport in broad daylight. A couple of posters here thought that it looked more like a coyote. I’d initially thought ‘fox’ due to its small size and a ruddy tint in its fur. This debate has now been resolved in favor of the coyote by no less an authority than the roadrunner!
I was working in the front of my hangar, with the plane I’m building pushed outside (to dry some paint) when I had that feeling of being watched! I turned to find this sunning itself on the asphalt not ten feet away.
It stayed put while I carefully got my camera out of the car; with less than five feet between us. (I’d asked it nicely) It posed for me and stuck around for another twenty minutes or so watching what I was doing, almost coming in the hangar at one point, then the little velociraptor ran off.
It made a rapid chattering sound at me a couple of times while flicking its crest and tail. A lovely surprise encounter!
re: #67 Belafon
But they can’t “black president” Biden, and it actually is driving Republicans nuts that they can’t.
Which is why they’re skirting around him and going after Pelosi, going after Schumer, and making all their attacks about the fighting going on in Congress. Their plan for 2022 will be the same as 2010: Destroy the guy in the WH by turning his own party against him. They don’t have to make us hate Biden, they just have to make us feel too discouraged to show up.
re: #65 Targetpractice
I think too many of us remember that Obama did this sort of thing regularly, particularly in the lead-up to the first mid-terms…and it came to nothing because everything he said and did got twisted until it was unrecognizable. And we spent more time explaining to voters what Obama had actually meant than we did actually running on what he meant.
“You didn’t build that!” went from a denouncement of the rich and powerful…into a culture war attack on white people by a black president.
“If you like your doctor you can keep them” went from an assurance that people could keep their existing care…into being dubbed “Lie of the Year” by pundits.
Just watch, before the end of the week, Biden’s pointing out the truth will be turned into yet another example of how he’s killing “unity” by being so “partisan.”
there’s always this
Also Republicans: Joe Biden isn’t doing enough to unify the country. pic.twitter.com/L2ebAEjj2o
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) May 3, 2021
now i want ice cream tbh https://t.co/4bUFcCcKKy
— darth™ (@darth) May 27, 2021
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
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re: #71 HypnoToad
A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of pictures of a fox that wandered near my hangar out at the local airport in broad daylight. A couple of posters here thought that it looked more like a coyote. I’d initially thought ‘fox’ due to its small size and a ruddy tint in its fur. This debate has now been resolved in favor of the coyote by no less an authority than the roadrunner!
I was working in the front of my hangar, with the plane I’m building pushed outside (to dry some paint) when I had that feeling of being watched! I turned to find this sunning itself on the asphalt not ten feet away.
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It made a rapid chattering sound at me a couple of times while flicking its crest and tail. A lovely surprise encounter!
pix of the plane?
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
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I love how up front Biden is. No subterfuge, he’s just himself.
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re: #76 Targetpractice
He went for ice cream and didn’t get mint chocolate chip? HE’S NOT MY PRESIDENT!!!
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I prefer coffee chocolate chunk, but I’m willing to hold my nose.
re: #71 HypnoToad
It made a rapid chattering sound at me a couple of times while flicking its crest and tail. A lovely surprise encounter!
Not “beep-beep!”????
once again:
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Republicans like @LeaderMcConnell, @RonJohnsonWI, and @LindseyGrahamSC treated the January 6th Capitol Insurrection like Benghazi?
1/6/21 - NEVER FORGET #Jan6Commission #January6thCommissionNow pic.twitter.com/3CcpDaIhj3— VoteVets (@votevets) May 26, 2021
re: #3 ipsos
Got CL’d (PBUH) down below…
All the Very Serious Pundits seem to have coalesced around the idea that Manchin is somehow this miraculous once-in-a-generation Democrat who can keep winning general elections in WV as a Democrat as long as he hews to some sort of magic right-of-center line.
I call bullshit on that. If Manchin were up for reelection in 2022, or if he’d been up in 2020, he’d lose to a Republican in the general, period. You’d have (or you’ll have) TFG and the Trumpsters out there pulling away all those mythical (and now probably dead) “moderates” who may still be registered as Dems for historical reasons, but who voted for Justice for governor and TFG for president. They’re not just going to send a Democrat (even Manchin) to the Senate because grandpa used to vote for Democrats and had a picture of JFK hanging above the fireplace. His percentage of the vote plummeted from 60% in 2012 to just under 50% in 2018, and WV isn’t getting bluer.
And when those West by god Virginians go to the polls in 2024 to vote for TFG or Junior or whoever the hell ends up as the R nominee, they’re not going to split the ticket then, either. The TV ads and social media and pronouncements from the pulpit will all be a constant drumbeat of how liberal Manchin is and how a vote for him is a vote for soshulism, and that’s going to be the case no matter how he votes on ANYTHING for the rest of this session while he still holds a little power. (It’s almost impossible to imagine that after the 2022 elections, he’s still going to be vote #50 for the Dems - either we do well and he’s a less-relevant vote #53 or 54 or 55, or we do worse and he’s vote #49 and still irrelevant.)
Manchin has to know this, deep down inside, which makes his weird attempts at self-preservation even weirder. He’s in his last three years in office, period. If he wants a legacy beyond 2024, he ought to try to become president of WVU or somesuch.
And yes, it’s a VERY different situation from Sinema, who just seems to be unable to read the room and see the very different way her state is shifting and the likelihood that she’ll be primaried in 2024 and lose.
it may also be that he knows all of this and it makes him consider how transitory Democratic success would be if the filibuster goes away. Now, I tend to think that we’ve reached a point where Republicans in their current incarnation probably can’t win national elections anymore. I think 4 years from now, Arizona and Georgia aren’t going to be redder. So if the filibuster goes away, great. The democratic president will just cancel anything a Republican house and senate try to get up to. But I sort of understand Manchin’s thought process here. Still, I would just burn all my bridges if I were him. Get Biden to load the infrastructure bill up with West Virginia goodies, so that Manchin can run on a platform of being able to deliver enormous money to working-class folks there. It might work. After all, they delivered Byrd and Rockefeller to the senate when West Virginia was likely even more white than it is now.
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
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— Acyn (@Acyn) May 27, 2021
re: #83 steve_davis
it may also be that he knows all of this and it makes him consider how transitory Democratic success would be if the filibuster goes away. Now, I tend to think that we’ve reached a point where Republicans in their current incarnation probably can’t win national elections anymore. I think 4 years from now, Arizona and Georgia aren’t going to be redder. So if the filibuster goes away, great. The democratic president will just cancel anything a Republican house and senate try to get up to. But I sort of understand Manchin’s thought process here. Still, I would just burn all my bridges if I were him. Get Biden to load the infrastructure bill up with West Virginia goodies, so that Manchin can run on a platform of being able to deliver enormous money to working-class folks there. It might work. After all, they delivered Byrd and Rockefeller to the senate when West Virginia was likely even more white than it is now.</blockquote>
The Orlando Sentinel editorial board says Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) opposition to a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission is the last straw and asks readers to “consider these words.”“We need to learn as much as we can: A, because it was a shameful day — something that should never happen again — and B, because I think our enemies of this country, terrorists and others, will look to learn from that day, potentially, one day take lessons learned from it to attack us here.”
“That’s not from the Miami Herald’s editorial. That’s what Rubio himself said less than two weeks ago.”
“Sorry to say it, but Marco Rubio is beyond hope.”
no need to be sorry
re: #83 steve_davis
it may also be that he knows all of this and it makes him consider how transitory Democratic success would be if the filibuster goes away. Now, I tend to think that we’ve reached a point where Republicans in their current incarnation probably can’t win national elections anymore. I think 4 years from now, Arizona and Georgia aren’t going to be redder. So if the filibuster goes away, great. The democratic president will just cancel anything a Republican house and senate try to get up to. But I sort of understand Manchin’s thought process here. Still, I would just burn all my bridges if I were him. Get Biden to load the infrastructure bill up with West Virginia goodies, so that Manchin can run on a platform of being able to deliver enormous money to working-class folks there. It might work. After all, they delivered Byrd and Rockefeller to the senate when West Virginia was likely even more white than it is now.
The only thing that kept McConnell from killing the filibuster is that he doesn’t really care about governing.
buzzfeed “THE GRAVEYARD DOESN’T LIE”
The true number of people killed by the disastrous winter storm and power outages that devastated Texas in February is likely four or five times what the state has acknowledged* so far. A BuzzFeed News data analysis reveals the hidden scale of a catastrophe that trapped millions of people in freezing darkness, cut off access to running water, and overwhelmed emergency services for days.
*closer to 700 than 150
re: #83 steve_davis
it may also be that he knows all of this and it makes him consider how transitory Democratic success would be if the filibuster goes away. Now, I tend to think that we’ve reached a point where Republicans in their current incarnation probably can’t win national elections anymore. I think 4 years from now, Arizona and Georgia aren’t going to be redder. So if the filibuster goes away, great. The democratic president will just cancel anything a Republican house and senate try to get up to. But I sort of understand Manchin’s thought process here. Still, I would just burn all my bridges if I were him. Get Biden to load the infrastructure bill up with West Virginia goodies, so that Manchin can run on a platform of being able to deliver enormous money to working-class folks there. It might work. After all, they delivered Byrd and Rockefeller to the senate when West Virginia was likely even more white than it is now.
Here’s my thought on it: The filibuster was always a stupid fucking idea. If the Republicans win enough votes in the Senate to control the Senate, they should get to control the Senate’s business. Would that suck donkey balls, abso-fucking-lutely. But that would be their right as the majority. The minority party has way too much power in this country to be able to literally stonewall all legislation for an entire two years (or more) just because they decide they feel contrary. If we really feel like this is dangerous (and it is), then we should pair that up with changing the way the Senate works so that senators represent people, rather than states.
Betcha this doesn’t help at all, and it was a useless waste of the city council’s time.
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - In an effort to combat violence in Shreveport, Mayor Adrian Perkins, along with the city council will speak at a news conference on Tuesday, May 25.
The event will start at 2:30 p.m. in downtown Shreveport at Government Plaza to announce two days of prayer for the city.
A citywide prayer meeting and other prayer meetings will be held in each council district in June.
The city council meeting will be held after this afternoon’s event.
re: #71 HypnoToad
A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of pictures of a fox that wandered near my hangar out at the local airport in broad daylight. A couple of posters here thought that it looked more like a coyote. I’d initially thought ‘fox’ due to its small size and a ruddy tint in its fur. This debate has now been resolved in favor of the coyote by no less an authority than the roadrunner!
I was working in the front of my hangar, with the plane I’m building pushed outside (to dry some paint) when I had that feeling of being watched! I turned to find this sunning itself on the asphalt not ten feet away.
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It made a rapid chattering sound at me a couple of times while flicking its crest and tail. A lovely surprise encounter!
said “meep meep!” and was off. then discovered that in this reality, the coyote is actually twice as fast as he is, and doesn’t tend to fall off cliffs.
re: #77 Dangerman
pix of the plane?
In a few weeks, after some more painting, I’ll assemble everything and do a photo shoot. This had been a very long project and I need the motivation of it finally looking mostly complete. The last time I did this was almost a decade ago!
Democratic policies are popular.
Republican policies are unpopular.
The GOP knows they will never win another election if Biden’s agenda succeeds & the American people get the help they need.
They’re a pathetic evil minority clinging to power by lying, cheating, & obstructing.— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) May 27, 2021
This is a running gag where people pretend Republicans would be eager to strike bipartisan deals if Democrats were just a little NICER https://t.co/DPDOantzS2
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 27, 2021
re: #95 jaunte
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Senate Republicans are ready to use the filibuster to block a bill creating a commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. It’d be this year’s first successful use of a filibuster, which blocks legislation unless 60 of the 100 members vote to advance it. https://t.co/iIYvWOyLLi
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) May 27, 2021
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Caitlyn Jenner breaks out the word salad shooter.
When elected Governor of California, I will CANCEL, cancel culture and wake up the woke.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) May 27, 2021
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And we’re not going to have 60 Dem senators anytime soon so we could be long term fucked if the filibuster stays in place.
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
And we’re not going to have 60 Dem senators anytime soon so we could be long term fucked if the filibuster stays in place.
And it will get worse, as tens of millions more people are represented by the Democratic senators than the Republican ones.
Unless Democrats start moving in to our areas and flip elections (that is slowly happening in local elections here).
The DOJ’s attempt to unmask a Devin Nunes parody Twitter account appears to be an overreach of authority and must be investigated. So we’re doing just that.https://t.co/KCvDWGWEGU
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 27, 2021
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The Pittsburgh Pirates showing how to really foul up a hit by the Chicago Cubs (0:39)
had to put it to yakkety sax pic.twitter.com/OHe2GYHsgx
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) May 27, 2021
Video obtained by CBS News shows the moment a Southwest Airlines flight attendant was punched by a passenger after asking her to keep her seat belt fastened during a flight from Sacramento to San Diego Sunday. https://t.co/gQusevodYC pic.twitter.com/oOYvPdwCFj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 27, 2021
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is the greatest video set to Yakety Sax. Apparently some dude was a little upset about his girlfriend leaving, so he takes a spin through Kazan airport a few years ago. I don’t think anybody was hurt. Much.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I have come to the regretful conclusion that there are far too many assholes in society today.
re: #75 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I have a massive rare passion fruit vine, passiflora arizonica growing on my back patio. Little green fruit, lately dropping about 30 fruit a day, tasty, but I can’t keep up with them. Only problem is that they live a few years then just die suddenly, so I’ve been incubating some new seedlings that just started to sprout after 2.5 weeks.
Some good news to come out of the announcement that Buck Sexton and Clay Travis are to take over Limbaugh’s time slot:
Dan Bongino is the media loser of the day, as he has been touting for weeks that he is filling the time slot and filling the void of Rush Limbaugh — but it turns out he didn’t get the official gig.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) May 27, 2021
re: #71 HypnoToad
It made a rapid chattering sound at me a couple of times while flicking its crest and tail. A lovely surprise encounter!
Did it’s legs spin in a blurry circle before jumping up, pausing in mid-air, go “Meep-meep” before running off?
re: #110 bratwurst
Some good news to come out of the announcement that Buck Sexton and Clay Travis are to take over Limbaugh’s time slot:
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So I think Bongino got the time slot on Westwood One stations of which there are 900 affiliates, but not on Premiere networks who have 5500 affiliates.
On the last day of the legislative session:
Convention of states proposal gains second life in Nebraska Legislature (Omaha World-Herald)
It was bottled up in committee. Sen. John McCollister (R, the guy who called out the GOP for having a Nazi problem in this state) offered up the vote to get it out of committee in exchange for the bill’s author’s vote to override Gov. Ricketts’s veto of expanding SNAP benefits.
The vote means the bill will be taken up in the next legislative session.
Legislative Resolution 14 (one page)
Opposition included that such a thing has never been done before (carry over a bill to a new session by committee fiat) and that would create a mess of future legislative sessions. If Sen. Halloran wanted this so badly, he could simply reintroduce it in the next session.
Republicans painted it as the last chance to get the bill through, as it would not be taken up again by the next legislative session if it died in committee.
re: #112 danarchy
So I think Bongino got the time slot on Westwood One stations of which there are 900 affiliates, but not on Premiere networks who have 5500 affiliates.
Ah ha…I knew there had to be some explanation as to how even someone as dunderheaded as Bongino could announce getting a job he didn’t actually get.
What a shame// Foster Friess is dead. In case you forgot about him…
During the Santorum campaign, Friess sparked outrage by joking about contraception, saying that “back in my days … gals put [Bayer aspirin] between their knees” to prevent pregnancy.
Gov. Ricketts’s objection to the two bills was that “someone like Warren Buffett could get those benefits.”
Today we overrode vetoes of LB 108 to extend the gross income eligibility for food assistance and eliminate a portion of the SNAP cliff effect, and LB 306 to increase eligibility for heating assistance.
Today, the Legislature stood for the dignity of low income Nebraskans.— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 26, 2021
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Welcome to the last flight of their lives. Hope they were going home, because the bus ride is going to be a long one otherwise.
re: #117 Mike Lamb
Welcome to the last flight of their lives. Hope they were going home, because the bus ride is going to be a long one otherwise.
Be a shame if the bus company banned them as well.
Zing
I was wrong to say Caitlyn Jenner is the Phyllis Schlafly of the trans community. Schlafly was actually effective.
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) May 27, 2021
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Be a shame if the bus company banned them as well.
“She came at me first!” Uh, no she didn’t.
It would be better from a convenience stand point to have the other passengers disembark first before the Air Marshalls escorted her off the plane. On the other hand, it would be more poetic to have the Air Marshalls give her the walk of shame through the full plane so she could listen to the other passengers applaud as she heads out.
re: #112 danarchy
So I think Bongino got the time slot on Westwood One stations of which there are 900 affiliates, but not on Premiere networks who have 5500 affiliates.
There may be 5500 stations that take some sort of programming from Premiere, but there were not 5500 Rush Limbaugh affiliates, nor were there 900.
Here’s what actually happened:
Rush was on a few hundred stations around the country. A hundred or so are owned by iHeart, which also owns Premiere. That includes stations in New York, LA and Boston. Those stations had no choice but to stay with whatever Premiere fed in the Rush timeslot, which until now has been the “best of” Rush with “guest guides,” other talk hosts who try to spin old Rush clips to sound like he’s still talking about current issues. Those stations will also get the new Travis/Sexton show, because it’s an in-house deal.
Another large cluster of Rush stations in places like Detroit, Dallas, Chicago and Washington are owned by Cumulus, which owns the syndicator Westwood One. Westwood One hired Bongino to do a new show in that same timeslot.
Both Westwood One and Premiere are offering their shows to talk stations owned by other companies such as Audacy (the old Entercom), Cox, etc. that also carried Rush in places such as St. Louis, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
So now the Travis/Sexton show is competing with Bongino and a few other shows offered by other syndicators, all vying for slots on former Rush affiliates and on competing stations, too. Dana Loesch is in that group. There are others.
Bottom line: there’s no single successor to Limbaugh. Travis and Sexton get the slot on the stations iHeart owns. Bongino gets it on Cumulus stations. Everything else around the country is largely up for grabs.
That’s good news for us. None of them have the same wide appeal or influence Rush wielded. They’re just a bunch of third-tier noisemakers.
Christine Wormuth confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the first female secretary of the Army. https://t.co/Yp8awntsox
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 27, 2021
re: #120 Mike Lamb
“She came at me first!” Uh, no she didn’t.
It would be better from a convenience stand point to have the other passengers disembark first before the Air Marshalls escorted her off the plane. On the other hand, it would be more poetic to have the Air Marshalls give her the walk of shame through the full plane so she could listen to the other passengers applaud as she heads out.
This
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unanimous support from Senate Republicans is actually a red flag.
re: #123 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Or handcuff her to a chair near the entry into the airport and let the passengers throw assorted trash at her. And let the flight attendants slap her upside her stupid arrogant head. I know, I am not being nice. This does not bother me.
re: #124 EPR-radar
Unanimous support from Senate Republicans is actually a red flag.
Or it gives them cover to say “See we are willing to work in a bipartisan manner!”
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Pittsburgh Pirates showing how to really foul up a hit by the Chicago Cubs (0:39)
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— Will Galvez (@willlgalvez) May 27, 2021
Thread, nine tweets.
So many times when I tried to cover racial resentment or white nationalism my editors — and yes, I’ll name @NateSilver538 here — acted like they were protecting the truth from me. Instead they prevented Americans from learning the truth.
— Farai Chideya (@farai) January 9, 2021
Security wouldn’t let Marge Greene’s opponent into her big rally tonight. Kudos to Marcus Flowers for showing up there, and it’s someone ironic that a big part of Greene’s speech tonight is about censorship and ‘cancel culture.’ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ https://t.co/iYXMHeMp9n
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2021
“He didn’t say anything, but he had a threatening tone.”
LOL
Twitter is fun. You kinda just talk to yourself and sometimes someone replies
— Thegbemisola🍸 (@Thegbemiisola) May 26, 2021
re: #129 🌹UOJB!
Oh rub it in…the Pirates always manage to choke! 😢
That was less of a “choke”, and more like that cartoon of repeated stepping-on-rakes..
⚾️🎱⚾️
re: #134 Jay C
That was less of a “choke”, and more like that cartoon of repeated stepping-on-rakes..
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Naw….looked like a T-Ball game.
re: #125 A Mom Anon
Or handcuff her to a chair near the entry into the airport and let the passengers throw assorted trash at her. And let the flight attendants slap her upside her stupid arrogant head. I know, I am not being nice. This does not bother me.
I admit that I find a certain appeal to this. Though she’s pretty much screwed anyway.
Assault. Assaulting a crewmember is punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, and a fine of up to $250,000. If a dangerous weapon is used, the defendant can be imprisoned for life.
(18 U.S.C. § 3571, 49 U.S.C. § 46504.)
And that video clearly shows the flight attendant bleeding after being struck by her. Also kudos to the guy who backed her dumb ass down.
While the GOP passes laws encouraging vehicular homicide, they have plenty of crazed volunteers.
WTF? Driving your car through a vaccination tent isn’t a “protest”. It’s attempted murder and probably best described as terrorism. https://t.co/3C5F1leVrX
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 27, 2021
“…Virginia Christine Lewis Brown was protesting the vaccine by driving her Chrysler Pacifica “at a high rate of speed” through a vaccine tent in a mall parking lot, police said.
“No vaccine!” she yelled Monday as she plowed through the tent, according to witness accounts to sheriff’s deputies.
Brown, 36, was arrested for driving through a vaccination tent and “placing the lives of seven workers in danger,” the Blount County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. She’s been charged with seven counts of felony reckless endangerment. Tennessee attorneys claim each count carries penalties that include a possible prison sentence of 1 to 15 years and a fine of up to $10,000.”
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“…Sheriff’s deputies said they saw the SUV motoring through the cones set up in the parking lot and it kept speeding toward them. An incident report from a sheriff’s deputy notes that Brown allegedly told personnel there that “she was not there for the vaccine.”
“The deputies reported that Ms. Brown did not stop at the check-in area at the entrance of the tent but continued through the tent at a high rate of speed, then exited the tent and out of the parking lot,” the sheriff’s office said.
As Brown drove to a nearby bank, workers at the vaccine site told police how the Chrysler almost hit them, according to the Daily Times.
“I had several victims tell me she almost hit them as she fled through the tent at high speeds,” a deputy wrote in an incident report. “I was advised that they were within inches and feet of the vehicle as it came through the tent. Several victims stated that they thought the driver was going to kill them.”
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not a baseball fan, don’t care for the game in the least but that had me howling with laughter.
I’m going to head off for a nap.
The occupational therapist yesterday gave me two new exercises yesterday to add to things such as manipulating tiny coins: Do a calligraphy project, and return to playing my hammered dulcimer.
For the calligraphy project, I think I will make her a thank you note for her help.
In other yesterday news, I WON THE LOTTO ($3 and a free ticket).
re: #23 lawhawk
Why is he bi…
Because he loves everybody.
Eh… um *oh shit, the kid’s right*
And why is he nonbinary?
Because he wears a dress.
Kid’s not wrong.
Long black hair, dark skinned, socialist teachings… ;)
re: #98 Targetpractice
Wow, it’s almost like Manchin’s appeals to their “better nature” were totally fucking useless.
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or he was absolutely trolling them because he knew damned well what their true nature is, and just wanted to have them provide their own rope and tree limb.
had to be Jewish
30 years old and single, he thought his mother was a virgin and she thought he was god…
re: #29 🌹UOJB!
It’s because he’s a Republican and our CCCP endlessly pumps up Republicans no matter what they say,
CCCP = Corporate Controlled Conservative Press
Please stop insulting the Union of Soviet socialist republics by comparing then to these morons.
Jesse is such a fucking supergenius cat. She apparently learned how to turn the fan back on at night in the common room so that she can lie in front of it if she’s a little overheated (Daddy Joe don’t like to turn the A/C on until August, if he can help it). When she first found it rotating on the floor, it made her a little nervous, but now she times it up so that she walks by exactly as it rotates to the other side. She looks like that crew member in the first Star Trek movie who perfectly times up his move through the closing automatic doors.
re: #40 🌹UOJB!
Yes, but never forget that the left are the real antisemites.
re: #47 Dangerman
while Republicans say by 74% to 18% that
too much is being made of itthey’re worried about being found out.
re: #68 🌹UOJB!
Did anyone expect that right wing prostitute to post anything else?
Stop denigrating respectable sex workers by comparing then to Republican filth.
This is the utter disaster the Cheneys have foreseen, and the reason they are willing to accept a (likely temporary) loss of power to put as much distance between themselves and the Trump cult as possible. When it plays out, Liz will be ideally placed to pick up the pieces.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) May 27, 2021
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Not one of those commas make sense.
re: #154 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Another situation for me to ask… “from prison?” (at least for Gaetz)
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, but I lost all respect for him when I found out that he didn’t like Fallout 3 but loves new Vegas. What a poseur
re: #154 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Fascist calling for violent acts of terrorism.
So Gaetz is advocating his audience … do what, exactly… https://t.co/z1PMOIbgf8
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 27, 2021
Retired cops hired by a top Wisconsin Republican. A litmus test in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. A fight in rural Michigan over a small town’s election equipment.Fueled by a shambolic election recount in Arizona, the audit-bug is spreading, and, with it, the fantastical belief that President Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat could still be reversed.
The Arizona exercise — ostensibly labeled an “audit,” though its procedures are questionable at best — was ordered by the state’s Republican Senate. It has been plagued with conspiracy theories, incompetency and dissent from within the state GOP. But it has also given Trump’s supporters hope that validating his false claims of mass fraud just takes a little more digging. In battleground states across the country, MAGA diehards are making increasingly loud demands for another round of review of the 2020 results, though the contest was dubbed by election experts and Trump’s own administration as a historically secure election.
Trump has cheered on the reinvigorated recount effort and lied about what it’s shown so far, including in a statement Monday about an audit in New Hampshire.
“Why aren’t Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans doing anything about what went on in the 2020 Election? How can the Democrats be allowed to get away with this?” Trump said. “It will go down as the Crime of the Century! Other States like Arizona, Georgia (where a Judge just granted a motion to unseal and inspect ballots from the 2020 Election), Michigan, Pennsylvania, and more to follow.”
These fucking nutjobs!!
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