– AI can do some amazing things. But! I am more and more convinced that even if the singularly happens there will be an underpaid team making it work in the background.
– The more the merrier in a primary. I like Franz, but I don’t know enough about her national policies or much about the other two.
– I am glad Kshama Sawant was a City Council member. It was always nice that 1 member was left of me on the Council.
– Wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
I just learned that Hunter Biden is not a very nice guy.
Stuff like that’ll happen when your dad’s an asshole.
Hunter Biden hit with federal charges for evading tax
Ongoing means the DOJ won’t answer questions.
I wonder who will be the first to announce that he won’t run for re-election: Cramer or Biden?
The Hunter Biden Pardon Watch commences.
Sounds like a useful screen name, doesn’t it?
Memory check:
It should be noted that none of that $383,000 was paid to Queen YLB.
Although the withdrawn cash is not traceable, so we can’t rule out the possiblity that Queen YLB benefitted from Hunter Biden’s illegal activities by receiving some of that cash. Link @ 2.
Are we all still going to play the game that Joe Biden is spry, healthy, cognitively intact, and will be at the top of the Democrat general election ticket next year? Really?
heh…
knock, knock, knock…
AI Enabled Manchinema IRS squad calling for the kreepshit troll of widbee!
knock, knock, knock…
CHECK’S IN THE MAIL!
Stuff like that’ll happen when your dad’s an asshole.
Heh.. Like shoveling horseshit for a liberal wifey and trolling HA..
mustabeen one piece of work..
yawwwn… next? btw.. stoopid dance wen?
I can’t recall which one of y’all asswipes who chipped in with “Yabbut there’s a $30B rainy day fund.” earlier this week.
California’s budget deficit swells to record $68B as tax revenue falls
The shortfall threatens to force the state’s deepest spending cuts in a decade.
With my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president mere months away from pardoning his POS son and then resigning in disgrace, I don’t think this news does Gavin Newsom any favors.
Falling tax revenues mean taxes have to be raised, amirite?
@2, 4, 7
Let’s say they get a conviction…
“Based on evidence the goverment does not dispute the defendant has repaid the disputed amount with penalty now several years ago. Defendant shall pay $1500 fine.”
(Side note, Dumbfuck is surely aware that the cancellation of a plea agreement does not exclude the possibility of another. In fact a sane judge will likely push the parties to one or at the least mediation because other than the fact that the defendant’s last name is Biden there is little reason to take weeks or months of the courts time for a case under these circumstances.)
But you go ahead and have your wank sessions over the weekend over it.
On the Sixth Day of Xmas, corruption gave to me:
@ 10
…other than the fact that the defendant’s last name is Biden there is little reason to take weeks or months of the courts time for a case under these circumstances.
Other than the fact that the defendant’s last name is Biden his conviction would result in a prison sentence. That’s what happens to tax cheats who steal this much money and are convicted for doing so.
@12
I don’t think you understand what steal means.
IRS audit comes to a different figure than your accountants. Sure it’s a lot. Taxpayer pays the increased amount with interest and penalties without dispute.
That’s the hurdle to DOJ needs to get over. Every single prosecution witness getting asked, “Did Hunter Biden repay the tax debt and all penalties once it was determined he had additional income?”
Every single one of them saying, “Yes he did.”
Both sides will be in a hurry to plead this down. The DOJ is well aware this is a very loseable case. Defendent was ready and agreed to end this months ago.
Add this to the growing list of things you know Jack shot about, Dumbfuck.
Kamala Harris is such a useless chickenshit that she gets her hubby to take her stands for her.
@ 13
I don’t think you understand what steal means.
I don’t think you understand that my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president has plenty of time to issue a pardon.
Indictment, pp 11-12:
HA libbies did not treat the IRS whistleblowers with kindness.
Maybe it’s because deep down, HA libbies knew they were right.
Funday Friday! Yeah, it’s when the HA censors like to be commies and Doctor Dumbfuck is a lot more of a Dumbfuck!
Recession, recession, oh where outh thou Reccession!
I wonder who
I wonder who has lowest IQ, the dumbfuck Nazi coward, Politically Incorrect or A-1?
I’d have to go with the dumbfuck Nazi coward. He’s dumber than a box of rocks while the other two are merely dumber than a stump.
Free G-man!
@1 What took you so long? Slow in the head? This kid runs circles around you. She’s not a dumbfuck.
“I was not focused on – but I should have been – the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil. Plain, and simple,” Magill said in a video posted on X. “I want to be clear: A call for genocide of Jewish people … would be harassment or intimidation.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/business/upenn-liz-magill-antisemitism-criticism/index.html
Wouldn’t calling for genocide of the Palestinian people also be evil, plain and simple? As when someone says, “FINISH THEM.”
But you go ahead and have your wank sessions over the weekend over it.
It’s already begun. This thread is already wankified.
The dumbfuck Nazi coward’s desperation to finally and at long last pwn the “libbies” here has never been so painfully obvious.
If he wasn’t a fucking traitor to his country, I might even pity him. But seeing as how he’s not only a traitor, but he’s also a dumbfuck Nazi coward, I feel nothing. Well, except maybe a desire to string him up for his fucking treason while at the same time raising the average IQ of trolling on this blog.
My son’s done nothing wrong. As long as you exclude stealing from the IRS, fathering a bastard Biden, and fucking war hero son’s widow.
Oh, and fucking Jill that one time when she really needed it.
G-clown, STFU. Every so often one of my posts doesn’t go through. BFD.
My God, has the dumbfuck Nazi coward ever been so fucking boring?
A mind on dumbfuck:
a shortfall that could prompt the state’s deepest spending cuts since the Great Recession….
Falling tax revenues mean taxes have to be raised, amirite?
Sure, maybe finally fix and unwind from the fiscal disaster that was Prop 13..
And/or big ticket spending items might have to be deferred a while.. known as “tightening the belt”..
yawwwn.. next?
@26.. It’s been working pretty hard at it this morning, yes..
@2 “I wonder who will be the first to announce that he won’t run for re-election: Cramer or Biden?”
When Bill Clinton doesn’t seek a third term because of his half-brother Roger’s legal troubles.
@3 “The Hunter Biden Pardon Watch commences. Sounds like a useful screen name, doesn’t it?”
It sounds like something a village idiot decked out in a tinfoil MAGA dunce hat would mumble.
@4 “influence can take many forms”
E.g., triggering a dumbfuck in various ways
@5 “The Defendant did not use any of these funds to pay his taxes in 2018.”
And who helped him get away with it for so long? Not the Democrats who want to fund IRS enforcement.
@6 Really? Trump vs. Biden … I say again, really?
@11 In that instance, the reporter based his question on polls instead of evidence, and Biden merely pointed out that the fact stupid, gullible people like yourself believe something doesn’t make it true.
By the way, it’s an established fact that Republicans lie a lot.
@12 “Other than the fact that the defendant’s last name is Biden his conviction would result in a prison sentence. That’s what happens to tax cheats who steal this much money and are convicted for doing so.”
Your evidence for that is … what?
@13 “I don’t think you understand what steal means.”
Republicans used to say taxation was stealing.
Feeding the fed horse (thanks PETA, that one is funny like “Feed two birds with one scone)
The few traditional print and electronic media that covered BOTH of these happenings didn’t make any connection. Didn’t cover it on the same page/bloc. But over on the TikTok millions of young viewers are liking sharing and passing around videos of the fact that after with great bluster about “law-abiding gun owners rights’ and ‘wanting to pass an heirloom firearm to a child or loan a weapon so a neighbor can protect themselves and we can’t criminalize that’ Senate Republicans blocked two bills on the 60 vote threshold. One a reauthorization of the assault weapons ban AND the supported by 81% of Americans across all political parties Universal Background Checks for firearms purchases.
And then later that day, 3 dead at UNLV due to a guy who was a 100% Law Abiding Citizen until he wasn’t.
Weird how all those videos are making the point that ONE party is not willing to do anything about the slaughter of kids and the other keeps putting the bills on the floor.
@14 Well at least he isn’t denouncing the targeting of Palestinians and Muslims. You and your ilk should be happy with that.
@15 et al.: The dumbfuck doctor is on record as predicting Biden will pardon his son. He might as well. Given his track record, he has no credibility to lose.
@9
Falling tax revenues that could also rebound in 2024. Funny thing about both the budget we passed and the legislative analysis this week. They assume current levels of revenue will remain more or less constant.
The hippies over at business insider note,
That alone could cut the assumed 2024 part of the deficit by up to 66%
BTW, I already noted several programs that we may need to scale back in the short term but Dumbfucks don’t hear about that because, ‘townhall’ and ‘gatewaypundit’.
@16 You mean the Shapley that Weiss as good as called a liar?
Remember when Republicans said they wouldn’t go after women who get abortions?
“Missouri Republican lawmakers are pushing a pair of bills that would allow for women to be charged with murder for getting an abortion in the state.”
https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-republicans-abortion/
They were lying that time, too.
Remember when Republicans said they wouldn’t go after women who get abortions? They were lying that time, too.
“Missouri Republican lawmakers are pushing a pair of bills that would allow for women to be charged with murder for getting an abortion in the state.”
https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-republicans-abortion/
The next House member to get expelled may be …
https://www.rawstory.com/house-republicans-have-their-fangs-out-to-expel-hated-matt-gaetz-report/
This Republican is a liar, too: “GOP Star Tim Sheehy Forgot to Mention the Family Money in His ‘Self-Made’ Success Story”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-star-tim-sheehy-forgot-to-mention-the-family-money-in-his-self-made-success-story?ref=home?ref=home
Mine isn’t “every so often” Dumbfuck. And they say “Message being moderated” then they get deleted.
Fortunately I can log on to multiple computers and devices.
The Censors here know what they are doing. They suffer a phobia of the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.
Vicious Troll, if you think anything is going to happen to Hunter Biden, you’re mistaken. He will get off of all charges because he’s Joe’s kid.
45
Oh look, its that guy with mommy issues posting again.
45
“The Censors here know what they are doing. They suffer a phobia of the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.”
Or maybe the censors are like everyone else and tired of reading your stupid shit.
46,
He will get off of all charges
Too late for that now. So whatever Pizza Basement Q-conspiracy you think was going on, it didn’t work.
He can either beat the charges in court, or he can plead.
The third possibility, that charges would be withdrawn, as they were when former President Trump ordered his DOJ to withdraw criminal charges against his former National Security Adviser for a series of false statements he made to FBI agents in January of 2017 conducting his clearance screening and confirmation screening about conversations he had with Russian Ambasador to the US in December of 2016 that were monitored by the NSA (because they monitor the conversations of the Russian Ambasador for obvious reasons) is almost impossible.
So there will either be a plea or a trial.
Once charges are finally filed (after five years of investigation and cooperation) that triggers certain legal rights and presents legal opportunities to now defendant Hunter Biden that he did not enjoy before. His attorneys may now begin to file various motions to the District Court of Central California to obtain discovery of evidence, to challenge the filing of charges, to challenge any of the evidence in discovery, and to inquire into details about the conduct of this and other grand juries related to these charges. Not only could those motions change the complexion of the case as the public currently understands it, but naturally it may also produce delay as those issues are systematically resolved.
The prosecution case, at least as I understand it, is not terribly complicated. And that fact is amply demonstrated by how much of the indictment was devoted to a narrative description of the defendant’s “lifestyle” and spending, which are unrelated to the charges. But the defense in this case might be very complicated indeed. That’s because of the amount of evidence already in the public record of misconduct on the part of the Special Counsel bringing these charges. Whether, and how much, that misconduct implicated the defendant’s right to due process and equal protection will almost certainly become part of the defense strategy. And the inquiries into that misconduct are very likely to produce prolonged delays, as the Special Counsel and the DOJ (all of whom answer to the defendant’s father) will resist those efforts by the defendant.
There’s good information available to you in all that if you care to pay any attention to it. As President of the United States the defendant’s father has had the legal authority to intervene on behalf of his son since the day of his innauguration. But in that time his only intervention into this case came when he appointed the United States Attorney for Delaware that Donald Trump first appointed, to become a Special Counsel allowing him to operate independently of the DOJ and the various appointed United States Attorneys in each district. So his only intervention thus far has been to empower the prosecution of his son, not to weaken it or obstruct it.
As the indictment moves ahead toward a trial you can also observe to see whether or if the government intervenes to assist in the likely defense as I have described it to you. The record of communications between the former United States Attorney for Delaware (now Special Counsel) lies in the hands of the main Department of Justice overseen by Attorney General Merrick Garland who reports to the defendant’s father, the president. The record of communications and internal deliberations within and among that prosecution team investigating the President’s son, as well as their communications with members of Congress and other outside political entities unrelated to the investigation, could be simply turned over to the defense today with nothing more than a phone call by the Attorney General. You are welcome to observe and see what happens and then attempt to learn from that if you like.
Or you can continue staring glassy-eyed into the Q-abyss and growing dumber by the second.
No mommy issues here. No gramps issues either. They’ve both been dead for over 30 years for Mom and over 40 years for Gramps.
This will be the greatest life rope the profoundly stupid troll will get this cycle:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2023/12/07/iowa-caucuses-vivek-ramaswamy-presidential-campaign-flirts-with-libertarian-party-ticket/71841250007/
Will he take it?
Here is how we will know.
Should Fascist Apu manage to qualify for the November ballot in enough states for it to have any meaning, the profoundly stupid troll can attach himself to the pretense that he will be casting a ballot for a different fascist with fewer rapes and violent felonies on his record.
But the proof will be in the pudding of his comments going forward in the coming year. And there we will find him ardently defending felon, rapist Trump at every opportunity and extoling his magnificence whenever he can. His mentions of Trump, Trump supporters, Trump surrogates, and the MAGA movement will surpass his mentions of Fascist Apu by a factor of at least 100.
He will post as an ultra-MAGA Trump supporter while claiming to be voting for Fascist Apu.
50,
After we make some progress on your ability to follow and comprehend actual current events (as opposed to Alien Lizard Conspiracies) we can turn to doing some work on your counting.
For some Hunter Biden perspective, note that a pretty big software company local to Seattle has been in a dispute with the IRS over unpaid taxes for sixteen years. The still unpaid taxes are now old enough to get a driver’s license.
And nobody from Redmond has gone to jail or even faced indictment.
It’s been pointed out many times before here, and very very well documented, that it is exceptionally rare for any individual who fails to pay their federal taxes to be criminally charged.
In the case of corporations it simply never happens. The disputes just go on and on, sometimes even when they are no longer disputes.
And where the IRS accepts a decent percentage of Offers in Compromise filed by fancy white shoe tax lawyers on behalf of corporations, they pretty much never accept any Offer in Compromise from an individual filer.
Like so many other things, I’d love to see “conservatives” newly outraged over Hunter Biden’s tax fuckups embrace this newfound zeal for TAX JUSTICE on all cases. I think it would be great to watch a Boeing CFO frog marced in hadcuffs to jail for systematically ripping off taxpayers to pay for executive bonuses.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-company-pay-81-million-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-pays-23-million-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations
But all I see are ultra-MAGA Republicans in Congress proposing more and more escape hatches, loopholes, and tax giveaways to big corporations and the wealthy.
Genocide Joe OKs more spillage of Hamas blood.
The sooner Hamas is finished, the sooner Palestinians can begin to work for a living rather than receive handouts while calling for Death to Israel.
The latest RCP Favorability Ratings has Momala +2 over DeSuckface and +3.5 over Nikki.
The latest Emerson poll has Orange Jesus leading Nikki by +50 and DeSantis by +57. Put another way, Nikki is +7 over DeSuckface, a 50% lead!
When will DeSuckface finally have enough sense to end the self humiliation tour and drop the fuck out?
@ 53
…it is exceptionally rare for any individual who fails to pay their federal taxes to be criminally charged.
Parading used to not be a thing, too. But here we are.
Oh. About your claim of “exceptionally rare”:
No, not from Fox.
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/quick-facts/Tax_Fraud_FY16.pdf
There were 584 fax fraud offenders covering FY 2016. POS Hunter Biden did not file his 2016 tax return until 2020, at which time he was already under investigation.
POS Hunter Biden stole more than 90% of the felons @ 56 stole.
Hunter could get a sweet deal if he rolls over on his dad.
Shorter QoS McHillbilly:
If a dude murders another dude in 2016 but tells the victim dude’s children he’s really sorry he did it in 2020, he shouldn’t be criminally charged for it in 2023.
Shorter QoS McHillbilly @ 53: Microsoft didn’t go to prison. Why should POS Hunter Biden go to prison?
Remember that three-year period during the middle of the last decade when Microsoft 1) didn’t pay any taxes and 2) didn’t even file tax returns?
@ 55
The latest RCP Favorability Ratings has Momala +2 over DeSuckface and +3.5 over Nikki.
The latest RCP Favorability Ratings have Momala’s net at minus 18.5.
Trump’s is minus 15.2. Momala’s is worse than everyone else’s, with the exception of Cocaine Mitch’s.
By comparison, Melania’s favorability rating is plus 27.
@ 61
Made you look.
@62 At what?
Genocide Joe is A-OK with another 31 days of dead Palestinian children.
US tells Israel to end its war with Hamas within a month as growing death toll in Gaza sparks concerns
Maybe they end the door-to-door shooting and just let the hoses run to flush Hamas out of the tunnels. Water oughta be at least knee deep in another month.
“Israel says it’s detaining ‘military-aged’ men who remain in areas of Gaza under evacuation orders”
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-12-08-23/h_462f297ae80abc7ebea943b314e3ea62
Hey, this looks like Kosovo again!
“Ethan Crumbley’s defense attorney said her client is remorseful two years after the deadly Oxford High School shooting and that a lifetime in prison will be ‘extremely difficult’ for him.”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ethan-crumbley-sentencing-oxford-shooting-12-08-23/index.html
Nobody cares, and in his case, a “lifetime” might not be very long once he gets to the Big House. Just ask Derek.
Made you look.
No, you did not.
Are you ever going to pwn a “libbie”?
No. Never. You’re too much the dumbfuck to ever do that.
Meanwhile, your Orange Jesus is still looking at four indictments and 91 criminal charges. Must suck. If you want to share your pain, find someone else to share it with.
If it’ll make you feel better, Republicans are siding with your man Putin against Ukraine. We all know you’re rooting for Putin to FINISH THEM!
Parading used to not be a thing, too. But here we are.
I take it you’re babbling about your parading, cosplaying grandmothers again. Curious. Was your cosplaying grandmother”s “stack formation” part of their parade? Or was that just cosplay?
Such a dumbfuck klown you are. And a fucking traitor to your country.
Texas goes to court for the right to continue torturing this woman.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/us/texas-abortion-ruling-attorney-general-petition/index.html
There’s an alternative, of course, to all that pain and suffering: Move.
7,000 Palestinian children killed by IDF in Gaza so far. Many, many more coming. Many more to die of starvation to follow.
I guess those Gazan premies eaten by rats should have been more forceful in their “condemnations”.
7,000 Palestinian children killed by IDF in Gaza so far.
FINISH THEM!!!
56,
The profoundly stupid troll’s reference says nothing whatsoever about the percentage of tax filers in violation who are charged. These are 2016 data of those criminally charged, plead/convicted and sentenced, from the United States Sentencing Commission. It therefore relates exclusively and only to the small subset of all tax filing violators who are singled out for criminal tax prosecution, a great many of whom are deliberately targeted for prosecution and custodial sentencing. Think Al Capone. in The Untouchables if old movies are your only source of information.
As usual, because the relevant facts do not support the profoundly stupid troll’s ultra-MAGA narrative, it chooses irrelevant facts.
The overwhelming majority of individual tax filers who are in violation are never even investigated thanks largely to Republican cuts to the IRS. The very small percentage of those who are detected of having underpaid by routine audit are never further investigated and their tax violation is settled administratively via payment and penalty.
Putin tells soldiers: I will run for president again in 2024
This will bring cheer to the dumbfuck Nazi coward. We all know how much he loves Putin.
This is a false statement. Another in a now very long history of false statements from the profoundly stupid troll.
It lies about these events because the facts do not support its ultra-MAGA insurrection narrative.
There were more than 150 million tax filers in 2016.
Anyone other than a profoundly stupid troll would surely have recognized how utterly absurd the claim that there were only 584 tax filing violations in 2016 must be. That would be a rate of less than 0.004 % of all filers.
The IRS conservatively (because it is in their interest to do so) estimates the rate to be about 16 %. That would be equal to 24 million violators in 2016, of whom only 584 were investigated, charged and prosecuted.
I’m beginning to feel like the word “profoundly” is falling short.
In the realm of comically weak concern trolling this amounts to suggesting that Queen Elizabeth will be destroyed when Geraldo reveals the contents of Al Capone’s vault.
It assumes that the overwhelming majority of Americans not caught up in the Qanon fever dreams share in their paranoid fantasies enough to be crediby concerned about their implied outcomes. And it also tells us just how far gone the profoundly stupid troll is now. In order to offer up such concern trolling it has to actually believe the underlying paranoid fantasies.
I’m beginning to feel like the word “profoundly” is falling short.
Truth.
So 0.0024% of tax filing violators are ever investigated, charged, and sentenced. We’ve now shown that. The numbers can be quibbled with, of course, since the rely upon estimates of the number of filers who violate in an average year. And since the numerater we rely upon predates the ultra-MAGA Trump reforms that gutted the IRS and reduced tax enforcement, if anything percentage is quite high. But hey. Right?
That makes Hunter Biden a one-in-41,000 target. Only one in 41,000 federal tax violators would ever face a criminal prosecution like this. The odds are better of being struck by lightning. Literally.
Is it stupidity? Or is it lying?
I might have once argued that the profoundly stupid troll was deliberately engaging in lying bullshit in order to advance yet another politically motivated false narrative. But I believe the record demonstrates that the profoundly stupid troll has now been won over by simmering, bizarre, unhinged DERP STATE conspiracy theories, as amply evidenced in these and many other posts. Call it “stupid” if you like. Or call it degraded, humiliation and loss of capacity to separate reality from urgent fantasy. It makes no difference.
Add median to the growing list of things dumbfuck doesn’t know how works.
Median is not average. It is the point where there are an equal number of values above and below. For example you have a seven number set $129.99, $125,400, $189,032, 218,045, $1.4m, $989,400,029 and $331.25b
The median is $218,045.
The fact that Hunter Biden’s alleged back taxes are within the 90.7% of ALL delinquent fillers does not in any way suggest he is accused of bilking ‘more than 90% of the felons.’
Math. It’s hard for republicans.
“So you agree that my client, though delinquent, paid his taxes with penalties and interest before there was any determination of criminality.”
“Yes.”
“Tell me, how many private citizen tax fillings accounts are either missing a filling year altogether or have taxpayers filling previous years as much as five years late.”
“Millions and millions”
How cross of Govt witnesses is going to go which is why this is never going to get that far.
77, 78,
When it comes to puncturing the sincerely held beliefs of raging, spittle-flecked, PIPE-BOMB, crackpot ultra-MAGA Republicans, it is indeed a target rich environment.
Perhaps deliberately so.
Firehose of Falsehood model.
They do it right out in the open most of the time.
Either TMI on your part or you’re just a Dumbfuck, because the mommy issues comment was in reference to me not you. Probably the later,
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis … has pledged to set aside $1 million for litigation expenses” to sue over … Florida State not getting into the college football playoffs?
Priorities. How Republicans spend taxpayer money is all about priorities.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4348844-college-football-playoffs-senate/
J. D. Vance accused the Washington Post of fomenting “open rebellion” against a Trump dictatorship.
https://thehill.com/media/4349581-jd-vance-washington-post-op-ed-rebellion/
@73 I’m beginning to feel like a sucker for paying all the taxes I legally owe.
@76 “I might have once argued that the profoundly stupid troll was deliberately engaging in lying bullshit …. But I believe the record demonstrates …. Call it ‘stupid’ if you like. Or call it degraded ….”
More likely he’s too fucking lazy to do his own thinking, so he delegates that work to his “sources”.
@77 “Median is not average.”
He’s pointed that out to me a number of times, so his own dog is biting him in the ass this time. He should get a different dog.
@79 “raging, spittle-flecked, PIPE-BOMB, crackpot ultra-MAGA Republicans”
J. D. Vance comes to mind. See #82 for details.
Call it “stupid” if you like.
That works.
Or call it degraded, humiliation and loss of capacity to separate reality from urgent fantasy. It makes no difference.
So does that but it’s a lot more typing.
“Dumbfuck” says it all and it’s not much to type.
I think I’ll stick with dumbfuck.
81)They will never get it right until they do a proper tournament like every other NCAA Division. Unfortunately that won’t happen, it would be the end of the myriad of check-cleared bowls.
Dobbs will not fade from the ballot. As a legal framework for describing the extent and limitations of state authority over individual human bodies it is unworkable and fraudulent. Nature will always find a way to mock our efforts at definition and control.
Ethan Crumbley was 15 years old when he killed 4 fellow students and wounded 7 others plus a teacher. Now 17 years old, he was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. He’s expected to die in prison (perhaps sooner than anyone expects). In court today Crumbley said, “I am a really bad person.”
How is a really bad child able to get a gun? In Ethan’s case, by having really bad parents. According to Wikipedia, both have prior records (for DUI and check forgery), and often left him alone while hanging out in bars. They may have known he videotaped himself torturing animals, made Molotov cocktails, and talked about committing a school shooting. Instead of doing something about it, they bought him a handgun as a “Christmas present.” It’s evident that Ethan became a really bad child in part by having really bad parents.
I started writing this comment by thinking about adults who put guns in the hands of children. Since children can’t legally acquire guns, anytime a child has a gun, there’s an adult who did something wrong. The law should go after those adults every time, whether it’s intentional or careless, because children having guns is a really, really dangerous thing.
(I’m not talking here about supervised target shooting or hunting, although I think a good case can be made for treating guns like alcohol, i.e. you have to wait until you’re of age.)
Even if we can’t get more restrictions on guns, society should at least use tougher enforcement of the laws we have now to help bring America’s gun crisis under control. If you have a gun when you’re not supposed to, or use a gun to commit a crime, or carelessly allow someone else to get a gun, you should be locked up.
Yes, that includes Hunter Biden, provided he isn’t singled out and everyone else who commits a similar violation gets the same punishment.
By the way, Ethan Crumbley told us what his motive was. He wrote in his journal, “Hopefully my shooting will cause Biden to get impeached.” So this was an act of rightwing political terrorism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Oxford_High_School_shooting
According to Wikipedia, Ethan kept a journal and wrote in it, “Hopefully my shooting will cause Biden to get impeached.” That may tell you even more about what this family is like.
Ethan’s sentence is meant to remove him from society permanently. His parents should be gone, too, but unfortunately they’re only charged with involuntary manslaughter and will return to society, most likely continuing to be low-life parasites. Which is too bad. Society would be better off if a drunk driver took them out.
@88 They’re changing the system next year, so DeSantis is spending $1 million of taxpayer money to get one team into one year’s playoffs (and probably will fail).
After stunts like this, and the others he and other Republicans have pulled, the GOP can never again claim to be careful stewards of the taxpayers’ money.
@89 Dobbs is part of a conservative effort to shift more power from the federal government back to the states.
In the bad old days conservatives yearn for, this was called “states rights,” which mostly concerned keeping southern states segregated and preventing black people from voting.
Pushing back against federal authority is, and always has been, about race. It just has some added layers now. Today it’s also about blocking abortion and pushing their religion on schoolchildren.
But fundamentally, that’s about clearing a path to Christian white supremacy, too.
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News presents a new episode of; Ask Demorats Anything, featuring Fat Ugly Demorat Hag https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/tmp/2023/12/Clip-1-12_6_23.jpg
Today’s topic, new California law mandating gender neutral toys.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/blue-state-set-fine-toy-stores-dont-gender/
Demorat #1: Ms. Hag, does this law mean that you have to take all the dolls and cut off their dicks and twats and tits so that they’re all neutral?
Hag: No, that’s a common misconception but that’s only one way to do it. For example, you can take a boy doll and cut off his dick and take a girl doll and cut off her twat and tits, and then paste the dick on the girl doll and paste the twat and tits on the boy doll. Then you have a boy face but in a dress and with a twat and tits, and vice versa.
Demorat #2: What if you cut the dick off the boy doll but you let the girl doll keep her twat and tits and you paste the dick on her ass so it looks like a tail, or maybe paste it on her forehead so it looks like a horn. That would be cool.
Hag: That’s a stupid question.
Demorat #3: Let’s say you want the girl doll to have giant tits; if you give the boy doll a giant dick would that be neutral, or would the girl doll need to have a giant twat also?
Hag: That’s an open question, and we’re still working on it. At first glance it seems that if the boy doll gets a giant dick the girl doll should get a giant twat. But would the girl doll really want a giant twat? So it’s complicated, and unfortunately we’re out of time.
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Dobbs is part of a conservative effort to shift more power from the federal government back to the states.
What a coincidence. So is one of those vexing Bill of Rights amendments. Except for the fact that a whole buncha states ratified it. Not conservative in its day.
@94 There’s also a Supreme Court that figures out just how power is divided between the federal and state governments. But now we’re going in circles, aren’t we? The Constitution means whatever the Supremes say it means, and right now they’re on a states rights junket, because the majority are conservatives yearning for the bad old days.
Republicans don’t give a damn about women. The only viable remedy in this case is to leave Texas.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-supreme-court-puts-hold-order-granted-pregnant-womans-request-ab-rcna128856
I don’t understand why this woman is beating her head against a wall of Republican lawyers and judges. She has a car, doesn’t she? She can rent a U-Haul, can’t she?
Dobbs is part of a conservative effort to shift more power from the federal government back to the states.
While it may work as such an effort, it does not work as a matter of law. And that is why it will continue to haunt Republicans and the Supreme Court’s idealogically authoritarian majority until it is overturned.
Dobbs creates no binding reliable standard. It opens a floodgate of stupidity and superstition that was being held back by Roe for the last fifty years. It subjects all women to a mocking vaguery of incomprehensible state legislative gibberish incapable of reliable and consistent practical application.
Dobbs is premised on a myth cherished among self righteous conservatives that abortion can be tidily compartmentalized into “elective” procedures claimed to be common, casual, chaotic, and sought after by “bad girls” and which should therefore be banned, and “therapeutic” procedures claimed to be manageable, discrete, exceedingly rare sought after by “sad girls” which should therefore be allowed but carefully regulated and overseen by lawmakers. This premise has always been at the core of modern anti-abortion legal scheming. And while there are certainly those strident extremists in the movement who have held out for a no-holds-barred approach of sweeping prohibition without any exceptions, this premise has been vital to sustaining what little public support remains for the movement and for providing the legal cover to conceal the underlying cruelty, and barbarity towards more than half of all voters.
But the tidy distinction does not exist. And Dobbs will reside in the law to demonstrate that over and over again with increasingly repulsive consequences for as long as it takes to destroy the Republican Party in America, to which this impossible myth is now permanently wedded. Examples like Kate Cox in Texas will continue for as long as human life and Dobbs continue.