Join us tonight as we close out 2023 and toast in the new year at this week’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
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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.
Dang filter..
You’re not the only one, Gman
Shaun King was banned from Instagram for being so obviously white-boy that his claims to the contrary were deemed intentionally factually false.
Real black person, re White Boy Shaun:
From her page: “Ferguson, always.”
If Shaun King and Rachel Dolezal were to conceive they’d give birth to a baby who makes Nicole Kidman seem tan.
@2, @3 – Real Republican. White, male, bigoted, angry, delusional, full of spite, fucks animals.
There’s a photo on Daily Mail of Trump with is 12-year-old granddaughter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12901189/ivanka-trump-christmas-dad-donald-sister-tiffany-marla-maples.html
She needs Secret Service protection more than he does.
@ 6
She needs Secret Service protection more than he does.
And RFK Jr. needs it more than the two of them put together, but that would make Biden look like he’s got primary season competition.
Besides, it’s not like there’s any historical precedent that might argue in favor of a Kennedy being provided Secret Service protection for any particular reason.
Nah. Nothing to see here. Besides, if the Secret Service can’t keep a Biden family member from bringing cocaine into the White House whenever POS Hunter needs a pickmeup, what good are the agents, anyway?
Are you guys sure you want to run Biden/Harris in 2024? Wouldn’t RFK. Jr. be a better choice?
@ 8
Wouldn’t RFK. Jr. be a better choice?
Not if he’s dead. See @ 7.
Actually, a dead RFK Jr. would make a better president than a second-term Joe Biden. As would any corpse, for that matter.
A corpse would run circles around Joe Biden in the current term, too.
@7
Trotting that out again?
Still haven’t looked at a Calendar?
Ok, sure. That’s the reason. The old crusty white people who are the GOP base of primary voters can be found on social media and through texting.
@8 “Wouldn’t RFK. Jr. be a better choice?”
No. We need live voters. All the anti-vaxxer voters are dead.
@10 Given your long history of wanting people dead,* it comes as no surprise that you pine for a “Weekend At Bernie’s” presidency.
* Which is incompatible with actively practicing medicine
13
Dead voters have helped many, many times in the past, however. Especially in Illinois.
@12 FiveThirtyEight has Vivek at 6% in Iowa. Every one of those respondents is a Republican. Every one is a traitor to Trump. And if none of those voters are over age 24, none would be eligible to vote for Vivek in November if he had his way.
Letter to white supremacists — it’s been around a while, but I just ran across it. This is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cyRkLb8G0
In all the fun we’ve been having over ‘Mom’s for Muffdiving’ co-founder Ziegler it almost slipped my mind that all her relevant work experience landed her an appointment to Ron DeSantis’ Disney Oversight Board.
it’s a small world after all
It’s a small world after all
It all makes sense now.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GTPRpbyuYLA
LOL ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
BTW, if you’re gonna do ad hominem, this is as brilliant as it gets.
6,
I think you’re being naive here, Roger.
Any Republican you can think of would more than gladly feed his adolescent daughters to Trump just for the approval.
That’s how degraded Republicans are now.
I destroyed 50% or Putler’s military capability using only 5% of our own military hand-me-downs and Goodwill donations.
🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️🖕🕶️
@20 True, but Trump prefers his own flesh and blood.
@21 Russian boomers now realize how lucky they were the Cold War never became hot. This generation of Russian soldiers, reservists, and convict conscripts aren’t so fortunate, and they’re not even fighting the A-team yet.
@ 21
I destroyed 50% or Putler’s military capability using only 5% of our own military hand-me-downs and Goodwill donations.
No need for further funding, then. You’ve still got 95% left.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R) is for replacing democracy with “Christocracy” and executing gays for being gay. He just won’t say so in his own district.
https://www.rawstory.com/uganda-gay/
Looks like someone modified his Wikipedia bio: “Timothy Lee Walberg (born April 12, 1951) is an American bigot serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan’s 5th congressional district since 2023.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walberg
The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit and it’s “FINISH
THEMHAMAS” mentality..one of Israel’s key objectives since the beginning of its assault on Gaza: to dismantle the Islamist political and military organization that was behind the massacre of about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and which still holds more than 100 hostages.
And critics both within Israel and outside have questioned whether resolving to destroy such a deeply entrenched organization was ever realistic. One former Israeli national security adviser called the plan “vague.”
Since it first emerged in 1987, Hamas has survived repeated attempts to eliminate its leadership. The organization’s very structure was designed to absorb such contingencies, according to political and military specialists. In addition, Israel’s devastating tactics in the Gaza war threaten to radicalize a broader segment of the population, inspiring new recruits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-war-military.html
But who am I kidding? teh kreepshit mentality requires ever more blood soaked atrocities to high five over watching faux snooze channel at vip rooms across the country.
The policy of “mowing the grass” is working just fine from the mentality’s perspective.
Among other things, I’ll remember 2023 as the year in which a low ranking junior Republican from a Florida House district of no particular significance set out to depose the Republican Speaker in order to head off an ethics investigation into his statutory rapes – and it worked.
And this story defining the modern nature of the GOP was actually overshadowed by even greater Republican “chaos”.
I knew Brave Kevin would be gone by the end of this year.But I never could’ve imagined how he’d be taken out or by whom.
Where today’s economists lose their way is when they try to apply advanced mathematics to human behavior. Studying Chaos Theory might suit their attempts in a better fashion.
TIL “chaos theory” is not included in “advanced mathematics”.
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Where today’s economists lose their way
The only thing you know about money is how to steal it from my purse.
@29 – Trying to use math to explain people’s behavior isn’t too effective. That was the point.
@30 – A remarkable post for someone who’s been dead for over 30 years.
A remarkable post for someone who’s been dead for over 30 years.
You’ve been stealing money from my purse for a lot longer than thirty years.
No more money for you. Get a job, the first in your worthless life.
@ 33
No more money for you. Get a job, the first in your worthless life.
What an honest UN would say to the Palestinian leadership.
@33 – You’re a liar, and you’re jealous because I am a multimillionaire, and you’re not.
You’re a liar, and you’re jealous because I am a multimillionaire, and you’re not.
Donkey poo. The only money you’ve ever had was stolen from my purse and I certainly didn’t earn millions being a housekeeper.
@31 People will always find a way to go into debt, and entrepreneurs will always find a way to capitalize on it.
Speaking of capitalism, Steve Ballmer is making $1 billion a year in dividends from his Microsoft stock while doing absolutely no work. Microfosft employees are fairly well paid, as wages go; Jeff Bezos’ warehouse employees less so (and get fewer piss breaks), and I’m not sure Guatemalan children cleaning chicken plants on the night shift are paid at all. The point is, it’s much better to own companies than work for them. Also, Ballmer gets a lower tax rate on his income than his Rent-A-Maid. Capitalism rocks! — but only if you’re a capitalist.
https://www.cnn.com/business/investing/steve-ballmer-one-billion-dividends/index.html
@34 If only the Israelis would let us work here in our open-air prison.
@35 I am a multimillionaire
Hey buddy, can you spare a hundred bucks for a cup of coffee?
This is what the current status of the House impeachment inquiry looks like:
“House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are suggesting that President Biden may have ‘engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress’ if he knew that his son Hunter Biden planned to defy a congressional subpoena.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4379306-gop-biden-obstruction-hunter-subpoena/
What was dad supposed to do, call the cops?
More grasping at straws:
“Trump on Wednesday demanded the Maine secretary of state recuse herself from her upcoming decision on the former president’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment, citing her past statements about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4379246-trump-demands-recusal-maine-secretary-of-state-14th-amendment-determination/
What, exactly, were those disqualifying statements? Well, she’s against rioting and trying to overthrow the government.
“California has the largest number of LGBTQ Americans, according to new research, while Washington, D.C., has the greatest percentage of LGBTQ residents and the South claims a larger share of LGBTQ adults than any other region.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4379201-states-most-lgbtq/
The South is working to remedy that by encouraging LGBTQ residents to relocate.
Meanwhile, MTG says the fact Gym and Farmer Jim are investigating whether Biden helped his son defy their subpoena is an impeachable offense.
https://www.rawstory.com/impeachable-offense-greene-biden/
MTG is learning from the cops. As Officer Friendly explains, “You’re under arrest because I’m investigating whether you’re obstructing my investigation over there.” This sometimes happens when bystanders use their phone cameras to record police activity across the street, and when it does, a civil rights judgment against the city and police department typically ensues.
If not using math was your point, then why did you turn to one of my greatest works of mathematics?
You don’t actually know much about math, do you?
That’s okay. I’m sure you are wonderful at many other things. Although I’m sad to see that it does not appear that your mother loves you, I’m sure somebody somewhere must.
@45 I doubt it. He’s unloved. You can tell from his comments. I wonder why? Girlfriend jilted him? Every girlfriend did? Employers won’t hire him? Has no friends? Maybe something’s wrong with him, not with them.
Israeli settlers behaving like Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JuXSYtxq0I
When a government is supporting them, it’s genocide. Let’s not forget the Armenian genocide was carried out mostly by private citizens, consisted in part of dislocating people from their homes and marching them into a desert, and was supported and encouraged by the Turkish government. Can anyone explain how this is different?
Another one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff-qJ-jw_Vg
Maybe it’s time for an international military force to step in and protect the West Bank Palestinians from unprovoked aggression. The settlers, after all, are criminals under Israeli law. But when the local police can’t or won’t handle the situation (in this case won’t), you call in the Texas Rangers.
Hollywood is considering making Trump the first person ever to have their star removed from the walk.
It’s bad for tourism and the city can’t afford to keep cleaning up all the dog shit and fixing all the vandalism.
@ 41
What was dad supposed to do, call the cops?
Maybe not participate in an active evasion of subpoena compliance.
@ 47
Israeli settlers behaving like
Nazissquatters.When everyone’s a Nazi, no one’s a Nazi, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
My guess is that Israel has its hands full with Hamas and Hezbollah right about now, and a couple of dozen settlers in the West Bank isn’t high on Israel’s to-do list at present.
But enjoy the videos, which are basically the same thing in the same region, reported twice. It helps take your mind off the fact that Israel is doing what it said it would. What you yourself said is necessary.
Boebert is switching districts. Improves the likelihood that the GOP keeps the seat she currently holds.
a couple of dozen settlers in the West Bank isn’t high on Israel’s to-do list at present.
cough, bullshit, cough..
Israel has built about 130 formal settlements in the West Bank since 1967. A similar number of smaller, informal settlement outposts have gone up since the 1990s, without government authorization but usually with some government support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-settlements.html
And that’s as of 2019.. It’s more now.. a lot more..
Israel is doing what it said it would.
The Greater Israel – from the river to the sea..
Well, said under its breath perhaps…
Maybe not so much under it’s breath…
Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank
A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/08/israel-palestine-west-bank-annexation-netanyahu-smotrich-far-right/
And from the same cite more on the “settler” issue:
Since 1967, Israel has built more than 130 settlements (and helped build about 140 settler outposts) in the West Bank; today, 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the territory, about 230,000 of them in East Jerusalem, according to Peace Now, an Israeli nongovernmental organization where I serve as legal advisor. Israeli settlers, who have full civil and political rights and are seamlessly connected to Israel’s infrastructure and resources, reside alongside millions of Palestinians subject to Israeli military rule who have zero say over how they are governed. Numerous leading Israeli and international nongovernmental organizations have likened this bifurcated system to apartheid. (I authored the first report from such an Israeli group—Yesh Din—in 2020.)
Boebert is switching districts. Improves the likelihood that the GOP keeps the seat she currently holds.
“another deeply unpopular, scandal-plagued, do-nothing, angertainment narcissist tried switching districts too. Didn’t matter.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1740199069698679271
“angertainment narcissist”.. I like that..
BoBo the Clown not running for reelection in her district? Nope, trying her luck on the other side of the state, where there are more goats.
@50 “Maybe not participate in an active evasion of subpoena compliance.”
You mean the father of the guy standing on the Capitol steps shouting, “Here I am, depose me!”?
No facts needed here.
@51 “When everyone’s a Nazi, no one’s a Nazi, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.”
No disagreement from me. But these Israeli settlers aren’t “everyone.” They’re rare. You have to go back to Kosovo in the 1990s, Germany in the 1940s, and Turkey in 1915-16 to find other people like them.
@51 “What you yourself said is necessary.”
Just to be clear, I never said armed civilians stealing their neighbors’ land by force is “necessary.” It has nothing to do with what I said. This isn’t a military operation, and it doesn’t involve combat against Hamas. You lie almost as much as Trump.
@56 Please take note that Dumbfuck did not claim switching districts increases BoBo’s chances of retaining a seat in Congress. It doesn’t matter to her party whether she loses the primary in her district by a little, or loses the primary in Ken Buck’s district by a lot. Either way, they probably will retain both seats.
Now that the Colorado GOP has appealed the Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from the Colorado ballot, SCOTUS will likely rule that a bureaucratic procedure to assess candidate qualifications can’t be used to enforce the 14th Amendment, and the justice married to an insurrectionist will express views in a concurring opinion on insurrection that no other justice will endorse, except possibly Alito.
🐝🤡
She’s abandoning incumbency in a close district and moving to the safest Republican, most conservative leaning open seat in the House.
A more competent party leadership would manage these things better. As it is, she will force a party spending fight in a primary where it isn’t necesarry. And she leaves open a close seat where incumbency, especially in a presidential year, helps retain the seat.
Now let’s examine the Colorado GOP’s arguments.
Argument #1: “By excluding President Trump from the ballot, the Colorado Supreme Court engaged in an unprecedented disregard for the First Amendment right of political parties to select the candidates of their choice and a usurpation of the rights of the people to choose their elected officials.”
This argument would not get Arnold Schwarzenegger on the ballot.
Argument #2: “The state Supreme Court incorrectly broadened the Constitution’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ to apply to presidents.”
This argument would not have gotten Jefferson Davis on the ballot.
Argument #3: “Only Congress – not courts or state election officials – can enforce the ban.”
This argument would not get Bill Clinton, G. W. Bush, or Obama on the ballot even if Congress voted to lift the 22nd Amendment ban on third terms.
Argument #4: “Rejecting a long history of precedent, a state Supreme Court has now concluded that individual litigants, state courts, and secretaries of state in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
This appears to be an issue of first impression, but in general, elections are conducted at the state level, not by a national authority and certainly not by Congress.
Argument #5: “With the number of challenges to President Trump’s candidacy now pending in other states, ranging from lawsuits to administrative proceedings, there is a real risk the Colorado Supreme Court majority’s flawed and unprecedented analysis will be borrowed, and the resulting grave legal error repeated.”
What other states might do is simply not before the court in this appeal. Whether other jurisdictions might “borrow” the Colorado Supreme Court’s reasoning is not a justifiable question, nor a complaint on which the court can grant relief. Every rule of law and interpretation was “unprecedented” at first, so the mere lack of precedent won’t keep a rule or interpretation form being established. Whether SCOTUS will address the alleged “grave legal error” depends on whether the appeal brief raises a constitutional or federal question or, if it fails to do so, the justices decide to address the question anyway as this majority has been known to do.
Now, it’s my own view that a fair interpretation of the Colorado statute used to disqualify Trump is for assessing candidate qualifications only, and therefore could be used to keep Arnold Schwarzenegger or G. W. Bush off the ballot, but does not establish a process for adjudicating 14th Amend. Sec. 3 disqualifications, therefore can’t be used to keep Donald Trump or Jefferson Davis off the ballot. I expect the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to be overturned at SCOTUS on that basis.
And, in any case, Congress lifted the disqualification from Davis in 1978, indicating that Section 3 (which authorizes what amounts to a congressional pardon) is very much alive and in use in modern times.
@63 Well, I don’t think her incumbency would’ve been a tailwind. As for Ken Buck’s district, there already are 6 declared GOP candidates besides BoBo The Clown, including a 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and radio host, a state representative, two former state senators, and several county commissioners, with the current and a former state house minority leaders among others considering the race. BoBo’s best hope is that as a helium balloon she’ll float above the crowd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Colorado
I don’t think any of the aforementioned candidates for Ken Buck’s seat will be afraid to take on a carpetbagger run out of her own district.
a couple of dozen settlers
Just like how J6 was only couple of dozen cosplaying grandmothers.
The dumbfuck Nazi coward excels at being an unserious twat.
When everyone’s a Nazi, no one’s a Nazi
I can agree with that. A-1 and PI aren’t Nazis. They’re just dumbfucks. You, however, are a dumbfuck Nazi. And a fucking coward.
The Civil War was about government interfering in people’s freedoms, Nikki Haley says.
She’s also called it about “different values” and “tradition” versus “change.”
She won’t say the word “slavery.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/nikki-haley-civil-war-slavery/index.html
Next question: Does your party plan to reinstate slavery after abolishing democracy?
68,
It’s a political object lesson that essentially devalues experience in office in any former slave state.
Lost Cause mythology creates a delusional false narrative that permeates public life in shitty places like SC. All any half-wit shop girl needs to do is pander regularly to that mythology and she’s half way home with the white majority voters and local media.
But that experience leaves her ill prepared to grapple with real voters from affluent, progressive, well educated states that don’t mythologize kidnapping and raping children and using them as farm machinery.
And she’s their best hope for edging out Trump the Twice Impeached Felon Rapist.
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Note with both irony and amusement that Shop Girl declined to mention anything at all about “state’s rights”.
That’s because these days Republicans are kind of skeptical about sweeping declarations of the authority of state governments. They no longer feel the same confidence they once did that states, unburdened by the arcane disproportionally of things like the US Senate or the Electoral College, are fully committed to protecting the rights of white dudes over all others.
Ask me again, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, if I am concerned that some American hostages might wind up dead if they’re collateral damage while IDF goes after Hamas.
NY native held hostage in Gaza has been killed — Hamas terrorists still holding body
Be sure and make it sound theoretical, like you did before. You know – like the only way an American could end up dead is if Israel fights back.
Hey Darryl, if you’re interested in returning to Wisconsin, there’s a job opening there.
Facing controversy over porn videos, UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has few regrets
Swinging and group sex is a hobby.
Just ask Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit. Although she engages in said hobby without Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who cannot perform and has chosen not to watch.
He has more fun getting reamed when he posts on HA.
Trump is very determined to remove Brad Raffensberger in the primary this year. And he probably has a good shot. The primary will of course produce a turnout of more strident and engaged Republican voters. And in Georgia at least, those are more likely to be Stop the Steal idiots. But there hasn’t been any public polling of the primary. So it should provide some early indicator of how MAGA lunacy is holding up in Georgia.
@71 “Be sure and make it sound theoretical, like you did before. You know – like the only way an American could end up dead is if Israel fights back.”
Refresh my recollection. Where did I say that? I don’t remember, and you frequently put words in my mouth, so I’d like to see it again. A link would be nice.
@73 They tried to get rid of Fani Willis and couldn’t. That’s a window of sorts.
“In deep red states, Republicans introduced bills that would allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant individuals for seeking abortion care.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-warning-to-republicans-anti-abortion-platforms-2024_n_656f3fe6e4b0f3e5f44ae8b3
Remember their promise they wouldn’t go after women? They were lying. They’re even going after women who miscarry like in Guatemala. They like the Central American format of government, too.
If Covid vaccines are causing “white fibrous clots,” why am I not dead?
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-embalmers/
“Of course the Civil War was about slavery, that’s the easy part. Yes, I know it was about slavery. I am from the south.”
https://www.rawstory.com/nikki-haley-slavery-civil-war/
Too fucking late.
Blaming her rake faceplant on a “Democrat plant” isn’t helping, either. If a townhall audience member can set her up, so can Putin.
What this shows, as she’s demonstrated time and again, is Haley is so gutless she won’t stand up against the tiki torch vote.
After abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban, Team Biden is beginning the conversation with Zelensky in which Zelensky will be told to abandon part of Ukraine to Putin.
Face it, libbies. The only entity that can count – truly count – on Biden’s unwavering support is his POS son, Hunter.
Putin has no need for Trump. He has Joe Biden.
@ 79
…Haley is so gutless she won’t stand up against the tiki torch vote.
Biden is so gutless he gave Afghanistan to the Taliban and he’s about to give Ukraine @ 80 to Putin.
79,
It’s not a matter of guts.
She’s a Republican. She can’t win a primary or a general election without the support of white supremacists. It’s a matter of percentages.
And ethical, patriotic, Americans and Democrats are very satisfied with 0% white supremacists and Nazis. It’s an easy call for us. Not so much for Republicans.
Ron DeSantis delivers a Xmas gift to the citizens of Miami.
Opinion
DeSantis delivers a political smackdown as Miami teachers union struggles to survive | Opinion
If the GOP would let him, he’d deliver the same Xmas gift to the nation.
Swinging and group sex is a hobby.
And Roger Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on its back to show for it..
If the GOP would let him, he’d deliver the same Xmas gift to the nation.
‘cept for cop unions. Low-life loser Walker exempted them from re-certification and “right to work”… No way Walker was going the make the Kasich blunder.
Unlikable loser on risers kon-klown won’t get that chance cuz’ the GOP is an orange besotted kult at this point.
It’s a smart maneuver to weaken Republicans.
Behold how well it worked on this troll.
Americans, our European allies, and Ukraine have to hope we can out wait Republicans holding up further assistance. And despite insipid dip shit “feels” reporting from fuckwit media sources like Politico, 2023 has been a pretty fucking good year for AFU and Zelensky.
In the spring the AFU counteroffensive succeeded in destroying or disabling about half of all the mobile artillery Russia ever had before the invasion. That left them forced to send infantry to conduct assaults without support. And that led to the kind of wholesale slaughter that inspried Wagner Battalion to all load into their trucks and APCs and start driving towards the Duma. Then Zelensky blew up about a fifth of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, forcing them to withdraw from Crimean ports. Then this winter, thanks to newly arrived F-16 AFU started shooting down every Russian advanced tactical aircraft that ventured within 100 miles of the theater.
So they did their part. Bigly. And it should buy them time. And we know Putler is playing for time, hoping that he can lull the west into complacency. We are “degenerate”, don’t you know.
And Republicans are of course helping him. So Biden is looking for ways to convince Putler that his Republican alliance is working for him and buying him the time he needs to reconstitute enough of his devastating losses and recover his capacity to take territory. Leaking this kind of unsourced outsider speculation also helps convince Republicans that their service to Putler reached some point of sufficiency that they can resume some faint shred of patriotism and duty for national security.
The profoundly stupid troll isn’t the only Republican suddenly rediscovering Slava Ukraini this week. And Biden only needs to carve away a half dozen or so.
It appears they have all the receipts.
CNN released additional reporting, including audio tapes and emails, about the interviews that Kenneth Cheseboro gave to Michigan investigators looking into state level criminal charges for the forged election certificates.
In his sworn testimony to Congress, the General Counsel of the Trump 2020 campaign testified that he had originally conceived of the forged electoral certificates as what he termed a “cast and hold” strategy in which the fake certificates would be created and then held by the campaign to be made available in the even that their court challenges should prevail. He testified that he directed a top aid to send a letter to Cheseboro terminating the campaign’s involvement in December once it appeared that there was a big effort to somehow send the fake documents to Congress with the help of Republican lawmakers. But the emails and audio contradict that claim, and illustrate a frantic effort undertaken by the campaign lawyers to obtain copies of the fake documents once it was determined that they had somehow become “stalled” in the mail. The emails show campaign lawyers coordinating an effort to send staff by air to collect copies and then hand deliver those copies to designated Republican lawmakers at the same time the campaign’s General Counsel testified under oath that he had “terminated” the campaign’s involvement.
Cheseboro also complained to the Michigan investigators that had he known that he was being set up as a fall guy for the Trump 2020 campaign he would have cooperated with the House committee and disclosed all of the information he is now sharing because he would have been released of any privilege restrictions. And that because of his “loyalty” to Trump he lost all of his net worth, having to sell his home at a loss, and liquidate other assets to retain defense attorneys. Now Trump 2020 General Counsel Matt Morgan and Trump 2020 Director of Election Day Operations Mike Roman find themselves in precisely the same uncomfortable position that they had planned to put Cheseboro in.
The coverup always gets ’em.
Adam Kinzinger describes Donald Trump’s odor situation as “not good” and says he smells like arm pits, ketchup, makeup, and ass
I wonder if Stormy will chime in.
@80 “After abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban,
Team Biden” Trump …@81 “
Biden is …Republicans in Congress are about to give Ukraine … to Putin.”The lying never stops.
The latest Rasmussen poll has Desantis trailing Nikki -4, tied with Christie. Orange Jesus leads Nikki +38
When will DeSantis and his 6″ lifts drop out? It’d be good for his feet, if nothing else.
@82 It’s a matter of guts. That is, lack of. She’s exhibiting the same cowardice as “Brave” Kevin and nearly every Republican in Congress. This may be her “Dean Scream” moment. We’ll see.
The lying never stops.
It’s all he’s got and he isn’t very good at it. If he weren’t such a dumbfuck Nazi coward I’d almost feel sorry for the bastard.
@83 Florida already has a shortage of 5,000 teachers. Just more reason to quit.
The messaging is clear: Florida is a retirement haven. Low taxes, no schools. Don’t raise children there.
@92 He lies about me, too. Even tries to put his own disgusting words on my tongue behind my buck teeth.
@87 So, how serious is this?
“Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin … to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification. The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html
The defense that the fake elector certificates were “held in reserve in case Trump won in court” just died.
Another coup plotter scrambling to stay out of prison and save his license to practice law:
“Kenneth Chesebro … is now a key cooperator in several state probes into the scheme. Chesebro … has met with prosecutors in Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, who are investigating the sham GOP electors in their own states.”
Eventually they all will.
“Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and a Pennsylvania congressman assisted in the effort to get the documents into Pence’s hands.”
This makes Johnson, who called the rioters “tourists,” an unindicted co-conspirator. The “un” should be dropped by prosecutors because participating in a felony unrelated to his legislative duties puts it outside the “Speech or Debate” clause.
@ 86
giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.
It’s a smart maneuver to weaken Republicans.
The Biden Crime Family will hand over as much of the rest of the world as can be managed in order to save itself from its domestic opponents. From Kabul to Kiev, Joe Biden will sell it out. All of it.
Backpedaling:
“Israel admits fault with pair of fatal Gaza strikes”
“Israel says troops who accidentally shot hostages were not justified”
Will anybody be punished? That’s where the rubber meets the road. I’m guessing not. This will be filed under “Lessons Learned” and forgotten by the IDF hierarchy.
It’s not that hard, Nikki.
“Florida Mayor Removes Confederate Monument Despite GOP Pushback”
And a cloth flag weighs a lot less than a bronze statue.
Local Republicans are appalled that another monument to racism is being removed from public space. It’s not being destroyed, though. “The monument will remain in city storage until members of the community and the city council can determine what to do with it, officials said.” If Jacksonville Republicans really care about preserving it, they can put in a bid for it, then display it in their GOP clubhouse as a constant reminder of their “heritage” and “traditions.”
@98 More lying. Polls notwithstanding, the troll must be worried about his party’s electoral chances.
The Biden Crime Family
If Joe keeps talking up and propping up Israel, it will the Biden Misdemeanor Family..
Look at Fetterman, he’s made “a complete recovery” in the eyes of the silly troll.
But who am I kidding? As long as there’s a guy who won’t scribble his sig on an IRS defunding bill, that guy or gal will always be a “criminal” to the deranged troll.
@103 Paying taxes is just one more of life’s inconveniences for the deranged troll to resent. Now that he’s not killing patients anymore, resentment is his full-time occupation now.
resentment is his full-time occupation now.
Perfect!
95,
Well, I’ve said all along we don’t really know what Smith’s case is in DC. Unlike the Mueller investigation, where the Barr DOJ systematically managed leaks to the media to selectively nullify the impact of the 2016 campaign corruption, there’s been no media outreach from Smith’s office. They don’t leak. And while there’s been a similar tight lipped approach in the Florida case, the Trump legal team’s pretrial challenges to the warrant resulted in them having access to and thus also leaking much of that evidence. But the DC District case has been a lock box.
So these leaks from Michigan to CNN may be the closest we are going to get. And they make it look like there is not only disunity among the conspirators that has led to cooperation, but that the cooperation has likely been productive in turning up corroborating documents. So the he said/she said aspects of Trump’s defense are presumably weakened by the presence of documents confirming key details of the eyewitness testimony.
Again, we still don’t know how Smith ties Trump personaly to the conspiracy. But I’m led to suspect from this that these campaign lawyers are going to finger him one way or another. And that also then would tend to nullify his idiotic immunity claims as well. Since a president does not employ his campaign lawyers to perform legal work on behalf of the people of the United States, he loses his claim that the scheme was undertaken as part of his official capacity as POTUS. I think it also reveals what a general stink of illegality there was surrounding this thing. Many of the fake electors apparently were balking at their role absent some kind of official legal indemnity from the White House. And it was campaign lawyers who were dealing with those fears and concerns and who ultimately made the decision to “fuck those guys” and leave them hanging out to dry as well. Legally a shit stick like Matt Morgan has no authority to extend or deny the legal protections of the Office of the President of the United States. And any effort a guy like that might take to coordinate such protection on behalf of conspiring minions would be just another violation of federal law.
Then why don’t MAGA Mike and House Republicans stop me?
The bill to “save” Ukraine has been in their hopper since before Thanksgiving. They should vote. I’m waiting. The Senate is waiting. They should approve the aid package and force Dark Brandon’s evil hand. The longer you wait, the better I look.
That joke bombed in your last set. And the one before. And last month. And at Yuks in Phoenix. It was crickets at Giggles in Akron too.
Stop trying to make that joke land.
@106 Sounds like a couple more lawyers may transition into burger flipping.
Meanwhile, more Republicans are discovering there’s no such thing in the GOP as rewarding or even acknowledging loyalty. Just a very busy queue of prison buses.
@107 Hunter is still on the Capitol steps, subpoena in hand, waiting to be deposed, too.
The funny thing about House subpoenas is the House lacks authority to enforce them. They have to go through the DOJ. And I can’t imagine even a Republican US Attorney going to court against a witness whose only non-compliance is insisting on public testimony. Like everything else House GOPers do, it’s nothing but theater.
Speaking of which the House did almost nothing this year: “a record low number of bills have been signed into law … a meager 27 ….”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/senate-congress-slow-fewest-new-laws-2023-rcna131199
Rational voters would look at this and say let’s fire these lazy employees and hire someone who will work …
Maine has joined Colorado in barring Trump from the ballot.
https://www.aol.com/news/maine-bars-trump-ballot-us-235553334.html
The Supreme Court could end the threat to democracy, and give discontented voters an escape from a Trump-Biden rematch, with a swipe of their collective pen. And they have every incentive to do so, especially the conservative justices. Why wouldn’t they want to save their party, and save themselves from a vengeful dictator who’s been fomenting mob violence against judges (they may be next)? Plus as a bonus, disqualifying the Insurrectionist In Chief would go a long way toward restoring their credibility and legitimacy.
In Maine the state’s chief election official, not a court, makes the initial determination to disqualify a candidate.
“I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision. “I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”
Exquisitely done.
As I’ve pointed out before, the argument that “the people should decide” doesn’t wash. Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t be president no matter how popular he is. Obama can’t be elected again no matter how much voters might want him back. No one under age 35 can be on the ballot. The people don’t get to elect someone who isn’t eligible for the office and that’s always been true.
I see what you did there.
I should never be asked a question that isn’t from a supporter.
I’m from the South. The War of Northern Aggression was about slavery and state’s rights. Flying the confederate flag honors my heritage. The North just wanted to destroy our economics and that’s why we founded our own independent freedom loving nation. Jim Crow, never heard of him. First Seminole NBA player?
@117 I’ve met jellyfish with more backbone than you.
“Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) criticized the decision by the Maine secretary of state to bar former President Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, saying he should only be left off if convicted of a crime.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4380963-maine-democrat-says-trump-should-be-on-ballot-we-are-a-nation-of-laws/
This argument doesn’t wash, either. A criminal conviction should require proof beyond a reasonable doubt and a unanimous jury verdict, because it can involve a loss of freedom. The 14th Amendment is not a criminal statute, and barring a person from office to protect the public logically would require a lower standard of proof and arguably a less stringent process, because it doesn’t involve loss of property or liberty. If holding office is viewed as a privilege, not a right, disqualification only entails a loss of privilege. In interpreting Section 3, protecting the public should come ahead of preserving personal prerogative. No language in the 14th Amendment requires a conviction. Golden is burdening Section 3 with a hurdle that isn’t there.
109,
The picture that emerged to me is Trump only rewards loyalty that results in success.
Drooling half wit body builders who jack themselves up on creatine and suicidal thoughts before sacrificing themselves on police lines guarding democracy are cast aside like trash if they fail to HANG MIKE PENCE.
It’s a crazy attitude. Because a conspiracy is most vulnerable when it fails. None of these assholes was offered any kind of joint representation agreement like all the Florida conspirators got. Instead they literally lined a few of them up to be the patsies and take the fall for the bosses.
“…a record low number of bills have been signed into law … a meager 27 ….”
25 of which involved the naming of a National Parks restroom. The other two funded the profoundly stupid troll’s monthly income.
119,
“The 14th Amendment is not a criminal statute, and barring a person from office to protect the public logically would require a lower standard of proof and arguably a less stringent process, because it doesn’t involve loss of property or liberty.”
I can absolutely agree with you here. I’m just not yet convinced that this is what the framers of the 14th had in mind. I do agree that it is very likely given the circumstances. But it was also a complex time.
Had those framers in 1868 intended the restriction to apply only to those convicted in a federal or state criminal court they absolutely would have included that limitation in the language of the amendment. This was 100 years after the founding. By this time the complex and challenging interplay between “lawmakers” and “interpretors” was well understood. If those framers wanted a decisive conviction by a jury they’d absolutely have said so.
But there are other complicated equities involved. The United States needed the talents and experience of those who had served The Confederacy. The scale of human carnage that we had suffered was incomprehensible. These were traitors. Undeniably. And yet…
As we should probably expect there was plenty of hypocrisy woven into how we reconstituted “The Union” following the war. And plenty of compromises were made, not all of them great. So I’m content for now to see this question fought over in the courts for now.
@122 My analyses assume logic, not partisan politics, drives Supreme Court decision-making. Color my thinking wishful.
So DeSantis spent $160 million only to be hopelessly behind the Orange Jesus, trail Nikki by -4 and to be tied with Chris Christie?
DeSantis’ 2023: More Than $160 Million Spent To Buy A Collapse In The Polls
DeSantis and his 6″ lifts need to drop out.
124,
It’s $160 million removed from the battlefield.
Let him continue. Let him continue to burn holes in Nazi pockets and further humiliate the profoundly stupid troll and other shy-Trumpers.
The Civil War was a conflict over the idea of the government’s rightful role in securing the rights and freedoms for all the people…
…unless they were Black.
Indpendent investigations by international monitors now confirm over 200 instances in which IDF ordered Gazan civilians into specified “safe haven” areas and then followed up by dropping massive bunker busting, block-leveling bombs on those areas.
US taxpayers bought those bombs.
@ 127
Indpendent investigations by international monitors…
Oh, please. Marc Galasco at HRW, anybody? Or maybe it was the UNRWA dude who doubled as a HAMAS hostage guard.
Galasco reportedly was the prop supplier for the Nazi serving dish scene in American Beauty.
Poland has reported today that some of the missiles in Russia’s latest terror attack targeting civilian areas in Kyiv violated NATO airspace in order to do so.
This marks a very dramatic escalation, brought on undoubtedly by Republicans in Congress stalling further aid shipments to Ukraine this winter. And it obviously puts the lie to Putler’s claims to be seeking de-escalation and negotiations.
As I previously mentioned, in just the last few weeks Ukraine has demonstrated a dominant capacity to shoot down Russian ground launched long range missilies and advanced tactical aircraft, venturing within range of launching these kinds of massive air strikes on civilian areas in cities like Kyiv. Owing to security agreements with NATO and neighboring countries, AFU is significantly constrained from conducting these kinds of defensive missile shield operations in any way that might implicate neighboring airspace. Russia has now decided to use those agreements as a vulnerability they can exploit, daring NATO countries to respond to this violation of their sovereign air space and their own national security.
Poland has Patriot batteries of their own. Under NATO security agreements they should be permitted to begin defensive strikes against Russian tactical aircraft using Polish airspace to conduct missile attacks against Ukraine. NATO has an obligation to defend member nations from these kinds of attacks.
@128 Still in denial about all the evil rightwingers do in the world.
Let’s be clear about something, too. It’s not Israel, but Bibi and his rightwing allies, doing this shit. Many Israelis protested his attempted judicial coup and reach for dictatorship. And let’s not forget the man is an indicted criminal in his own country. His government actively aids and abets violent settlers pushing Palestinians off their land, some of whom openly say they want Palestine all to themselves, and want all the Palestinians to “leave” (a not-very-subtle euphemism for “die,” as they know very well that Palestinians have nowhere else to go). The Israeli people didn’t vote for this; their fascist leader cobbled together a government from a patchwork collection of fascist parties. We always need to differentiate between the Israeli people and their government, which they did not wish on the world. It wished itself on the world.
128,
Offers us some dark glimpse into the 8chan conspiracy dungeons where our profoundly stupid troll now dwells full time.
Galasco left HRW more than a decade ago.
And George Soros is not fluoridating your RedBulls either.
@ 129
Nice to see QoS McHillbilly recommending an expansion of a US proxy war with Russia.
Just a couple of days ago Politico reported @ 80 that the US is telling Zelensky that he’s going to have to cede territory to Russia in order to end this thing.
Poland isn’t going to fire Patriots in a lost cause effort when Poland knows that the US won’t resupply. That’s what happens when a US president proves to the world that he’ll unthinkingly abandon prior US commitments. The world distrusts my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president because he has shown the world that there is ample reason for distrust.
“From FedEx to airlines, companies are starting to lose their pricing power”
With companies no longer able to use inflation as cover for price gouging quite as easily, we will continue to see prices and inflation come down.
“Bidenflation” indeed.
We should have no doubt that Republicans will retaliate by keeping Democratic candidates off red state ballots in the future. To do so, they will fabricate alleged “crimes” committed by those candidates, while excusing Trump’s real crimes.
Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same. One party has values and morals, and is faithful to the Constitution and rule of law; the other party doesn’t and isn’t, and only cares about seizing power by any means. Also, the two parties are not equally unpopular; one is much more unpopular than the other, and for good reasons.
@ 131
Galasco left HRW more than a decade ago.
He’s the one we know about. There’s zero reason to believe he’s a one-off in that POS organization.
In 2016 ISIS used a hospital in Mosul for weaponry and other military purposes. HRW condemned it, rightfully so. Yet HRW is silent about the Hamas usage of hospitals in Gaza. HRW is complicit in Hamas’ behavior.
@132 “US proxy war with Russia”
Trump started it? Not Putin’s attack on Ukraine? That’s what you’re saying. All we’re doing is supporting a fellow democracy under attack by a totalitarian power.
Of course, you and your fellow Republicans are against that. And miffed that we’re helping a brave country fight off your friends in Moscow.
@ 134
We should have no doubt that Republicans will retaliate by keeping Democratic candidates off red state ballots in the future.
I very much doubt it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. In the near future SCOTUS will opine that the obviously political moves made so far are unconstitutional. This will be as short-lived as the beatification of Anna Diggs Taylor by liberals.
Meanwhile, we’ll enjoy continued efforts by liberals to “save democracy” by subverting the democratic process.
@135 If silence is complicity, then you’re complicit in every act of terrorism, every atrocity, and every conflict in the world that you haven’t explicitly condemned in these comment threads.
@137 “SCOTUS will opine that the obviously political moves made so far are unconstitutional”
I’m fairly certain SCOTUS will overturn Colorado’s and Maine’s imposition of Section 3 disqualification, and I’d bet money they won’t call those rulings “obviously political” when they do, because the impartiality of those rulings is manifest to anyone who bothers to read them, which obviously isn’t you.
You also have zero understanding of the legal issues involved, or how lawyers (and SCOTUS justices are lawyers) resolve legal issues.
The question the court will address is whether state administrative mechanisms for assessing candidate qualifications (age, citizenship, residency, etc.) are appropriate vehicles for imposition of a Section 3 disqualification, and if not whether there is one, and if so what it is.
Anna Diggs Taylor has nothing to do with it. You spew more irrelevancies than a first-term student at an online law school where anybody can enroll.
“Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she was following Maine’s election law and upholding the U.S. Constitution when she disqualified Donald Trump from her state’s presidential primary ballot.”
https://www.aol.com/maines-secretary-state-explains-why-160356112.html
In her ruling here, she spells out what Maine election law says, the process she used, the evidence she considered, and her reasoning. Compare and contrast with the armchair dumbfuck’s methodology.
@ 139
… and if so what it is.
There won’t be a road map for future disqualifications, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. The Supreme Court is not about to define insurrection.
NBC News also reported that the US knew about the balloon before it entered our airspace and had ample opportunity to take it out.
“An amendment to the defense funding bill by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to prohibit all military assistance to Ukraine won 93 Republican votes Wednesday,”
…
The House (GOP) kicked off its holiday recess Thursday while the Senate will return to Washington next week as Congress faces a long to-do list that includes aid to Ukraine and Israel, which President Joe Biden says is urgently needed.
…
The White House is urging Congress to delay its holiday recess to address issues at the southern border, aid for Ukraine and Israel, and more, while slamming Republicans for “actively undermining our national security interests” to “go on vacation.”
Fox News Digital obtained a memo from White House deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser Andrew Bates that accused congressional Republicans of preferring to “go on vacation” rather than work on critical issues.
A GOP president from 2025-2032 would make this even more devastating for Democrats after that:
Virginia saw gains, but all of the other states are reliably red.
The above covers the 39 month period since the last census.
Oh, Washington state? Plus 108,000. And 107,999 of them are new homeless in Seattle.
The news @ 144 is particularly concerning to HA’s unserious twat Queen YLB, who frets that following the 2030 census California might lose a US senator to Florida.
Queen YLB’s panties are twisted so tightly that her lady bits are blue.
Serving late notice to Bourbon drunk mouth breathing Trump voters that Russia conducting air strikes from within a NATO member sovereign airspace constitutes not only an act of “expansion” but also by definition an act of war against a NATO member state as specified in the member states agreement.
It remains at Poland’s discretion to determine a response at this time. The Russian charges d’affairs in Warsaw has been summoned to appear at the foreign ministry before midnight tonight. Jake Sullivan has dispatched the US envoy to NATO to attend.
Adhering to the terms of mutual defense and security treaties is entirely within the President’s Article 2 powers lying beyond the control of House Republicans. Russian provocations like this one will eventually enable President Biden to bypass House Republican obstruction.
Ukraine successfully destroyed 75% of the drones and missiles used in the attack. The coordinated mass attack in violation of NATO airspace was intended to overwhelm AFU defense systems. But it appears to have failed. And it may result in breaking the logjam of US aid while further reducing the Republican Party’s abysmal credibility on European security.
@ 143
… a memo from White House deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser Andrew Bates that accused congressional Republicans of preferring to “go on vacation” rather than work on critical issues.
Dec 27 (https://factba.se/biden/calendar):
Dec 28:
Dec 28:
Anyone wanna see a tally of how many days since inauguration my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president has spent on vacation?
@147
And you’ll explain how a President can sign a funding bill that hasn’t passed the house at some point of course.
@ 146
A plurality of American adults believe we’re providing too much aid to Ukraine.
No, the US is not about to prod NATO allies to go to war with Russia. We’re on the cusp on an election year. The last thing Democrats will want is our allies pointing to Afghanistan and reminding us that we did not have our allies’ backs when Biden cut and ran.
@ 148
And you’ll explain how a President can sign a funding bill that hasn’t passed the house at some point of course.
McHillbilly has @ 146 already provided the pathway to funding a war most Americans do not support without involving the House, except as an afterthought via text message or other some such notification:
The longer The Biden Crime Family props up Ukraine, the longer the smoking gun documents proving Joe Biden’s global corruption beyond any doubt stay hidden.
Propping up Ukraine will last until the end of the current presidential term, POS Hunter’s pardon, or the sudden death of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president. Whichever comes first.
Don’t need to. My friends in Ukraine are managing to beat the shit out of your friends all by themselves. Another few wings of surplus F-16s might be more than enough.
😎😎😎😎😎🇺🇲😎🇺🇲😎🇺🇲😎🇺🇲
Americans support backing and defending our NATO allies against territorial incursions and attacks from an expansionist Russia currently being beaten like a spavined glue-mare by a European nation with an economy smaller than Kansas.
Republicans support Putin.
Children just are not safe around “Parental Rights” Republicans:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/parental-rights-mom-clarice-schillinger-accused-of-slugging-kid-at-boozy-teen-party-she-hosted
If they aren’t filming homemade orgy porn they are getting them drunk and beating the shit out of them.
Perhaps my greatest spank-regret ever.
What was I thinking?
What QoS McHillbilly threatens that Biden might do if the House GOP doesn’t capitulate, Blinken just did over Senate Dem objections.
@ 154
Children just are not safe around “Parental Rights” Republicans:
The children of noted Democrats such as Jamie Raskin, Kathleen Clark, Tim Kaine, and oh – Joe Biden! – fare much better, don’t they?
“The idea that a presidential candidate cannot plainly state in 2023 that the enslavement of humans is what tore the country apart more than 160 years ago is stunning in itself.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/trump-maine-ballot-2024-election/index.html
Well, we do have an anti-black, pro-Confederate major political party in our country; and she belongs to it.
@141 “The Supreme Court is not about to define insurrection.”
They kinda have to, unless they’re prepared to legalize coup attempts and violent riots to overthrow the government.
@144 “The South accounted for almost all the nation’s population gains — and more.”
You do realize that blue states, by shipping their surplus liberal voters to red states, can have the effect of turning red states blue? You don’t think all those Californians and New Yorkers moving to Florida, Atlanta, Dallas, and Tulsa for lower living costs, more affordable housing, and less traffic congestion are turning into Trumpers, do you?
@145 “following the 2030 census California might lose a US senator to Florida”
Not unless somebody rewrites the Constitution.
@146 Biden doesn’t need a congressional aid bill to come to the direct assistance of a NATO ally with our own military assets, per our treaty obligations.
@147 He can return to the White House within hours if the House gives him something to sign. Meanwhile, if they’re not on the job, he doesn’t need to be in the office.
@149 “A plurality of
AmericanRepublican adults believe we’re providing too much aid to Ukraine.”Read your own link, for criminy’s sake.
@151 “the smoking gun documents proving Joe Biden’s global corruption”
There’s a pony in this straw somewhere …
AI legal search isn’t ready for prime time.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/michael-cohen-attorney-generated-by-ai/index.html
Trump is sharing pictures of his lawyer “in sexy poses.”
https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-trump-2666293011/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=2&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s
First comes the drooling, then the slobbering, at the defendant’s table in the courtroom.
@ 160
You do realize that blue states, by shipping their surplus liberal voters to red states, can have the effect of turning red states blue?
You do realize that more libbies moving into Austin, TX, and causing the electoral votes allocated to Texas will increase the number of electoral votes awarded to the GOP candidate during presidential election years. Oh, and those new red state electoral votes will come at the expense of blue states.
And good luck with your assumption that a liberal whose job went away in a blue state and who had to move to a thriving red state to find employment will necessarily remain a liberal.
@ 166
AI legal search isn’t ready for prime time.
Neither was Claudine Gay’s scholarship. But add in gender and skin color and Harvard took the bait. She’s awful.
So did Joe Biden when picking his VP. She’s awful.
the 2030 census California might lose a US senator to Florida.
In 2030 kreepshit will pine for more repuke U.S. Senators in violent crime-ridden red states. Where are the Citizens for Sanity commercials in TN or Misery it will wonder?
panties are twisted so tightly that her lady bits are blue.
Please spare us your fantasies of what substitutes in your “mind” for what Mary Kay never has and never will give you on your birthday.
The horse will have to suffice for you “until that certain day”..
170,
He’ll have to wait a lot longer than 2030 for California to lose one of those seats. Unless the profoundly stupid troll is planning on living forever.
@ 172
He’ll have to wait a lot longer than 2030 for California to lose one of those seats.
California lost an electoral vote this past decennial, and that’s despite gaining 2.2 million residents. During the first third of this decennial, California lost more than a half-million residents.
Explain to me how that trend, should it continue, does not cost the state an electoral vote after 2030.
kreepshit, what kind of RINO are you? You haven’t shone sufficient support for the country that can do no wrong.
You said were “ok” with 40k dead. Where’d you get that number? Some lame Paul Singer publication? The gateway moron? klownhall.bomb?
The proper number was 100,000.. DEAD… THE FIRST DAY..
Folks we got ourselves a closet Papa Bush style wimp..
Such a fucking tool.
Such a fucking idiotic and profoundly stupid tool.
California will not lose a Senate seat to Florida in any lifetime the profoundly stupid troll is ever capable of surviving.
“…following the 2030 census California might lose a US senator to Florida.”
My god. What an ass. I left the hint just hanging there and the dipshit simply insisted on fucking himself right in the ear.
@ 175
It was sarcasm. Queen YLB got it – it was a reference to her contention that Cocaine Mitch would be upset about a Virginia state House flip in 2019. It was supposed to be nonsensical, as was she about the Virginia result.
I realize that a joke requiring explanation is a joke better left untold, but that doesn’t pertain to inside jokes. Or to Queen YLB, who was born a joke.
@176 this month’s cowardice about your low 4 figure once a month ss check has been quite amusing..
you were quite “happy” about Mary Kay’s check.. Now it’s your turn.. what gives?
Could it be something about HOW LONG AGO the last time you danced stoopid?
yawwwn.. next?
176,
So what the profoundly stupid troll seems to be claiming is that he stomps on the rakes he personally scatters around himself.
This is not better.
My god. It’s like the worst, most embarrassing scene ever imagined from a of Bum Fight collection.
This is almost as awkward as the attempts the profoundly stupid troll undertook to desperately sweep dirt over his FB friends from CO fiasco or the retrograde amnesia he suffered after stuffing so much faith and hope into TSLA that he was forced to sell off income producing property at a loss.
This might be a good time to return to speculating about what a huge win Congresswoman Boebert has turned out to be.
MAGA Mike in Putler’s Pocket:
https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501
@168 I realize Biden got within 3.6% of Trump in 2020 compared with 9% Trump over Hillary in 2016,* and the blue cities are growing faster than the red hinterlands.**
* It won’t be long before yuppies outnumber cowboys
** Why the hell do you think the legislature took away local control?
You can gerrymander the legislature, but you can’t gerrymander electoral votes. By the way, it’s interesting that in the upcoming futuristic movie “Civil War” the forward-thinking scriptwriters cast California and Texas as allies. They can read census trends, too.
@169 Whataboutism at its silliest and most irrelevant.
@170 Somebody should tell the dumbshit troll that in 2030 California will have exactly the same number of US senators it has now and so will Florida.
@173 “Explain to me how that trend, should it continue, does not cost the state an electoral vote after 2030.”
The discussion up to now, initiated by your comment @145, has been about US senators. Do you wish to change the subject to electoral votes?
@176 “It was a joke” is the parachute conservatives always use when they’re caught being mind-bogglingly stupid.
@178 “Rake” is what they land on when they forget to pull the ripcord.
@180 The difference between MAGA Mike and Hunter is one of them has actual influence to sell.
…in 2030 California will have exactly the same number of US senators it has now and so will Florida.
But the Senate might not.
And it won’t be because they voted Greater Idahoregon into the Union either.