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Stephen: Biden at 1 year

SNL Weekend Update: Political news of the week

WaPo: How Biden has responded to “four historic crises”

Jon Stewart and friends: The FBI should sit MLK day out

The Deplorable Bunch:

Trevor: Dr. Bernice A. King—Continuing the King family legacy

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

SNL: A message from President Biden

WaPo: Biden’s news conference, in 4 minutes

Stephen: Sen. Elizabeth Warren defends the existence of the U.S. Senate

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The Remix Bros.: ♫ Joe.I.Am’s Count The Vote REMIX ♬

The Daily Show: These people failed Martin Luther King Jr. day

Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow: Cliffnotes from Biden’s marathon press conference

Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Sinema Girl ♬:

Samantha Bee: Biden’s 1st Year as POTUS—The yays and mehs

Stephen: Rich people. They’re just not like us. Us pay taxes.

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Comments

  1. 1

    Stephen: Rich people. They’re just not like us. Us pay taxes.

    Actually, we shovel manure, and like it. ’cause it’s not our job.

    And then we pay taxes. Lots of them.

  2. 2

    The Trump case being compared to US vs Nixon. At least in the latter, a Justice with a conflict of interest recused himself.

  3. 3

    We’re supposed to believe someone that he pays lots of taxes when he can’t even do math and figure out what my AGI is.

  4. 4

    Many Republicans hope Americans and especially the media will put Trump behind them in 2022 and look at their party in a new light. They want you to see Republicans as more than just angry, truculent, blowhards who beat up girls and children and periodically attack Congress. They want you to see Republicans as an “alternative” to and a safeguard against “rising threats” represented by “woke culture” and “CRT”.

    Here’s what that alternative looks like:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/billybinion/status/1483996545976471553

    This is very literally what qualified immunity is. A horror show that releases mobs of entirely unaccountable, gun toting kill squads into our communities to run wild as what they would argue is “the only means available” to keep our communities safe.
    They are not the only means. They don’t keep our communities safe. They merely exchange one form of threat for another.

    And “the new face of the Republican Party” intends to make qualified immunity a lynch pin of its political identity.

  5. 5

    What do you get when you replace police?

    DaShawn McGrier, a Safe Streets violence interrupter at McElderry Park, was one of the three men shot and killed Wednesday night on E. Monument Street, a spokeswoman for the organization confirmed.

    McGrier had been working with Safe Streets for a little over a month, going to welding school by day and joining the anti-violence program at night, said Living Classrooms Foundation spokeswoman Meg Ward, who called him hardworking and a devoted, present father.

    DaShawn McGrier, a Safe Streets worker, was killed Wednesday night in a quadruple shooting.
    DaShawn McGrier, a Safe Streets worker, was killed Wednesday night in a quadruple shooting. (DaShawn McGrier)
    Living Classrooms is a nonprofit that operates Safe Streets sites in the McElderry Park and Belair-Edison neighborhoods. He was working at the time he was shot, Ward said.

    The “violence interrupter” became a violence recipient.

    Can this group still call itself Safe Streets?

  6. 6

    Arizona Democrats unhappy that they inadvertently elected a woman with a spine.

    PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many Democrats consider essential to preserving democracy.

    Sinema faces a vote of disapproval and possible censure from leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday, a symbolic condemnation for the woman who just three years ago brought the party an Arizona Senate seat for the first time in a generation.

    HA’s leading spineless woman, YLB, wholeheartedlh approves this action.

  7. 7

    What QoS McHillbilly hopes you won’t find out.

    Jay Caruso
    @JayCaruso
    ·
    4h
    From what I have read this is the *fifth* police officer shot in New York City this year.

    This year is 22 days old.
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    Christi Paul
    @Christi_Paul
    · 5h
    NYC lost a police officer last night when he was responding to a domestic call. His fellow officer seriously injured
    https://cnn.com/2022/01/21/us/nypd-officers-shot/index.html

    ACAB is QoS McHillbilly’s credo. No ragrets.

  8. 8

    A very predictable consequence to the green light given to Putin by First Vegetable Joe Biden.

    Lucas Tomlinson
    @LucasFoxNews
    BREAKING: State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday: U.S. officials
    7:14 AM · Jan 22, 2022

    Minor incursions don’t violate sovereignty, you see, and to the Biden Crime Family they are A-OK.

    And China is watching. Taiwan, too.

  9. 9

    7,
    And yet it’s still safer than sweeping up on construction sites.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/workplace-fatalities-25-most-dangerous-jobs-america/1002500001/

    Plus no drug testing, which is an especially nice bonus for someone who gets to carry a gun.

    You’re a fucking clown, Bob.
    Which isn’t saying much. World’s full of clowns. But having given yourself to Trumpism (and thus “professional” clowning) you should rethink being this lazy about it.

  10. 10

    As any serious person who isn’t suffering from crippling laziness can easily see, police work is far from the most dangerous work in America. So if we are going to examine how we make work safer (and we should) a serious person not crippled by laziness would be willing to compare different kinds of work and the different things we do to make that work safe for those who perform it.

    Why on earth should it simply be assumed that police work (obviously not nearly as dangerous as many other common, and familiar types of work) in order for it to be made safe, must consequently endanger all the rest of us?

    To put this in some perspective, here are the four reports about qualified immunity cases that lazy Bob objected to:
    https://reason.com/2020/06/15/police-qualified-immunity-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-baxter/
    https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accused-of-stealing-over-225000-protected-by-qualified-immunity-and-cant-be-sued-fourth-amendment/
    https://reason.com/2019/07/16/court-rules-police-officer-who-shot-10-year-old-is-protected-by-qualified-immunity/
    https://reason.com/2021/06/09/qualified-immunity-police-onree-norris-raid-wrong-address-11th-circuit/

    Don’t be like Bob. Don’t be lazy. When you have a moment this weekend read those. All four are very short. And they give a good, well rounded summary of the current state of qualified immunity protections provided to police in the United States.

    And don’t be confused by dumb or ignorant rhetoric from badge bunnies like lazy Bob. Personally suing the individual police is normally the only civil remedy available to people injured by their aggressive indifference to public safety and human rights. An individual common plaintiff normally may not sue a city, county, or state in cases like these unless they can show that the police involved shooting their children, or their dogs, or destroying their homes, or beating them into a coma were in doing so specifically carrying out official government policy. If you can’t point to a document or record that instructs the police to do that specific thing in those specific circumstances then you may not sue. You don’t even get to file the suit at all. You first beg the court’s permission to file. And when you fail to meet that test (and you always will) you are then denied permission.

    That’s our system. And that’s why the kinds of incidents described in those four reports are so incredibly common. There is no remedy. There is no accountability. And there is no reason for any of it to change. Ever. Not with qualified immunity – the thing Republicans have sworn to protect, expand, and enshrine in law.

  11. 11

    @ 9

    To QoS McHillbilly, because patrolling isn’t The Deadliest Catch, there’s no reason to pay any attention when a cop buys it on the job.

  13. 13

    @5 “What do you get when you replace police?”

    Wrong question. You should be asking, What do you get when you replace bad cops with better cops?

    Police departments need to be more selection in who they hire, train and supervise them better, and take control of discipline away from police unions. Then you’ll get something better than @4.

  14. 14

    @2 Speaking of conflict of interest, Justice Thomas’s wife, a certified MAGA Stop the Stealer, runs a shop that lobbies the Supreme Court for rightwing clients with cases before the court. And her husband doesn’t recuse himself from those cases, and doesn’t have to, because there are no enforceable ethics standards applicable to the Supreme Court. Justices can do things that would get any lower judge hauled before a judicial ethics commission. They don’t have qualified immunity; they have absolute immunity.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

  15. 15

    @10 The first thing you do to make work safer is not vote for Republicans, because they’re against workplace safety rules. They don’t want to compensate workers injured in unsafe working conditions, either.

  17. 17

    14)When I was referring to US Vs Nixon, I believe it was Rehnquist that recused. Thomas should recuse when his wife is involved. At least this time, he was the lone dissenter. I believe his wife is still using the hearings as a way to deflect criticism.

  18. 18

    11,
    Because policing is safer than sweeping up on construction sites, there is absolutely no comprehensible reason for any of us to be forced to live in fear of contact with them.

    It is not for their safety that this is tolerated.

    Were that so then our laws would empower construction laborers to “unflinchingly discharge their duties” and violently attack lazy, indifferent, or merely inattentive passersby upon a “perception of threat” and where doing so would not “violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”

  19. 19

    14,
    And it is because there are no such ethical constraints that we are all wise to reject the confirmations of nominees who have any history of dabbling in pubic hair, “boofing”, gang-bangs, or criminal obstruction.

  20. 20

    @ 23

    …including that he has been supported by Democrats in the past, but to never mention that he’s actually a registered Republican.

    Maybe that’s because he doesn’t sound like a Republican:

    I’m running for city council because I believe that with a fresh set of ideas and a forward-thinking approach, we can become even greater without sacrificing any of our positive features.

    Ideas like requiring tenants to be given at least a 60-day notice when their rent is going to be increased, giving families on a budget more time to plan, or look for a new place if need be.

    Ideas like establishing a municipal broadband system, which would not only be a source of revenue for the city, but would offer residents a cheaper and faster option for high-speed internet. This would treat internet as a public utility, and end the near-monopoly held by Xfinity and CenturyLink.

    And ideas like changing city policy to allow voters to choose their own mayor (currently the mayor is appointed by the city council), giving voters more control over their city government.

    His candidate bio:

    I’m endorsed by the King County Labor Council, King County Democrats, and many others.

    He even went to Evergreen State College, a breeding ground for liberals with serious mental health issues.

  21. 21

    @ 17

    14)When I was referring to US Vs Nixon, I believe it was Rehnquist that recused. Thomas should recuse when his wife is involved. At least this time, he was the lone dissenter.

    Rehnquist was Nixon’s Chief of Staff. That’s a little more direct involvement in Nixon’s political business than fucking one’s wife once a week.

    Thomas wasn’t the lone dissenter. Kavanaugh wrote a separate opinion dissenting from the concept that executive privilege does not end when a president’s term ends, but he did not agree that it applied to Trump in this case.

    If you want to talk recusal, talk Kagan WRT the Affordable Care Act.

  22. 22

    The latest update to the transit tracking app pantograph pro includes new agencies, like Pullman Transit. Started with just Puget Sound, but the creator now includes other regions. On the operating Electric Bus front, Pullman Transit is beating Puget Sound today. With a whopping 2 buses. What makes it more interesting, is that those 2 busses are the only 2 busses Pullman Transit has on the road right now! The agencies with real time feeds they have access to in Oregon have us all beat with TriMet and LTD putting out 7 busses.

    None are Proterra, the TechBros attempt to dusrupt the bus industry. It’s not the drive system entirely that is the issue, but the frame being of composite construction. Heard Metro’s Proterra Catalysts are sidelined with cracked frames, and the manufacturer is no help. Metro’s future purchases of battery busses are going to be New Flyer XE40 and XE60, which is an electric drive on their popular Xcelsior Platform, which Metros fleet also includes XT40, XT60, XDE35, XDE40, and XDE60. Pullman Transit used to just buy Puget Sounds used busses, still were last year to boost social distancing.

    https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/07/20210720-whyy.html

    Proterra, BYD, and Green Power Bus are three manufacturers I would not buy from, but Green Power is setting up their East Coast shop in West Virginia, need to diversify their economy. They got a good shuttle/Microtransit model, this category doesn’t have the brand loyalty among operators that full size busses have.

  23. 23

    Gosh! Ya think?

    https://www.axios.com/trumps-friends-alarmed-legal-pick-3e28ee26-3325-481d-9e08-245be18d56c9.html

    “He has some lawyers that are very sophisticated with years of experience litigating, and he has now fallen prey to inexperienced lawyers who are just telling him what he wants to hear,”

    “Had”.
    Trump “had” some “sophisticated” lawyers with the right experience. Now he’s got Jeffrey Clark, a career regulatory and administrative attorney about to be indicted on criminal felonies for contempt and obstruction, arguing appellate litigation before the DC Circuit and the Supremes. And then of course, he’s got Lawyer-Snooki to defend him against the Manhattan DA and the NYAG.

    I think he’s being set up.
    I think this may in fact be the GOP plan for getting Trump out of the way before 2024.
    It’s either that or I once again have to recalibrate my expectations of “conservative” stupidity and self-destruction.

  24. 24

    …fucking one’s wife…

    What an odd way to phrase it.

    “One’s”

    The indefinite possessive, as though precisely whose wife is either unknown or not important.

    Associate Justice PLAYER!

  26. 26

    Good video about TechBros trying to disrupt freight rail, with autonomous pod cars carrying containers. I’ve seen the track local freight works on around here, this wouldn’t work, especially on the UP Duwamish Industrial Spur, and the spur BNSF uses to deliver reefers to Coastal Transportation. Coastal’s operations are down the street from where I work, and these reefer cars are often double parked, They just put a plank between the cars to service the cars on the other track. Just like their freighters, which are also old school, as where their boats go, Dutch Harbor is the metropolis with 18 wheelers. The other communities, doubt an ATV will be able to pull a trailer with a 20 or 40 ft container. Pre-pandemic, wouldn’t want to be driving on Nickerson on some Thursdays in the summer. Besides their weekly sailings, in the summer they have a monthly sailing to the Pribloffs, and it’s a rush to get them loaded before 3pm on Friday.(No openings of the Ballard Bridge during peak hours). The trucks can get backed up waiting to get in the gate.

    https://youtu.be/nJNvpG5gktM
    I’ve seen the rail operation side from the trail, and they can’t do it 100% autonomously, as there is a driveway into a storage yard crossing the tracks, and a cross street. BNSF sometimes uses remote control on the switch job, but the belt pack controls were supposed to reduce the crew to 1, instead, still needs two.

    In the video, the trailer car showed being tested by DB, and short electric local freight of SBB, is a good what could have been in Yakima if YVTC hadn’t had constant conflicts with city officials siding with bad motorists. Perhaps they wouldn’t have the constant copper wire thefts that the heritage tramway operation has. It would be fatal trying to steel wire if the juice is flowing.

    Still, it’s interesting seeing TechBros trying to reinvent the wheel.

  27. 27

    ACAB is QoS McHillbilly’s credo. No ragrets.

    This from our self-anointed low IQ spellchecker.

    Looks like the low IQ idiot clown still isn’t ready to talk about how his “dozen cosplaying grandmothers” have been indicted for seditious conspiracy, much less talk about how

    Gorsuch

    Kavanaugh

    Coney Barrett

    weren’t there for him when his treasonous ass needed them most.

    .

  28. 28

    It’s sad for anyone to have to die or be killed, but life is dangerous.

    Mathew Sheppard was killed in the line of life.

  29. 29

    To QoS McHillbilly, because patrolling isn’t The Deadliest Catch, there’s no reason to pay any attention when a cop buys it on the job.

    That’s your delusion and spin.

    Just because two cops buy it like you say, doesn’t give them a license to shoot a kid with a gun or choke them out as an excuse.

  30. 30

    …kid with a gun…

    Absolutely no gun required.

    In the third report I posted, the 10-year-old boy shot by Coffee County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff Matthew Vickers was not armed in any way.

    This is America. Police hold our children at gunpoint and shoot at them all the time.
    In this case it was because the family dog annoyed the Deputy. So the Deputy blasted away carelessly and shot a little boy.

    And thanks to qualified immunity there can be no lawsuit and no accountability for that. Because this is America.

  31. 31

    @18 Yeah, I remember Bob jumping up and down with glee over the Seattle cop pepper spraying that black guy minding his own business.

  32. 32

    (CNN)The Arizona Democratic Party’s executive board announced Saturday that it formally censured Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for voting to maintain the Senate’s filibuster rules, effectively blocking Democrats’ voting legislation that is a key priority for the partypossesses a spine.

  33. 33

    @19 There is no wisdom in the Republican Senate caucus, only extreme partisanship and Sen. Collins’ “disappointment” at the behavior of nominees she then votes to confirm.

  34. 34

    …the Seattle cop pepper spraying that black guy minding his own businesswho was obliviously walking through the middle of a riot with a cell phone stuck to the side of his face.

    That would be the black guy who then went onto Facebook and claimed that the cop, who video showed was stationary at the time, ran up to him and intentionally sprayed him in the face.

    That would the black guy who Goldy said was intentionally targeted because he was known to police as an activist.

  35. 35

    @ 28

    Mathew Sheppard was killed in the line of life.

    Matthew Shepard was a crystal meth dealer and was killed by his sometime sex partner.

    It’s very clear to all of us, G-clown, just how precious this man’s life was to you, because you misspelled not just his last name but his first name as well.

  37. 37

    Taiwan is toast.

    vComfortably Smug
    @ComfortablySmug
    ·
    6h
    Number of Countries we had to evacuate 2016-2020: 0

    Number of Countries we had to evacuate 2021-2022: 2

  38. 38

    @21 “fucking one’s wife once a week”

    I rather suspect his involvement with her is a little more than that, unless you want us to believe that they never discuss her lobbying clients with cases before the court, and when he decides in their favor it’s based purely on the law.

    But here’s the thing, doc. Judicial ethics aren’t only grounded in actual fairness. Judges have a responsibility to maintain an appearance of fairness, too. And the appearance of his refusing to recuse himself from cases in which his wife’s lobbying clients are parties frankly sucks.

    Any county court judge who did that would be summoned before the judicial ethics commission.

  39. 39

    @21 “If you want to talk recusal, talk Kagan WRT the Affordable Care Act.”

    Once again you display your ignorance of how the legal system functions. Law students are trained to argue any side of a case. A Solicitor General’s job is to argue the government’s position in court, which is to uphold the law being challenged. The S.G. could leave government for a private law firm and the following week argue to strike the law down because now she represents a client or group of clients opposed to the law. None of this compromises the lawyer’s ability to render impartial rulings on the same or similar issues should the lawyer be appointed to the bench. Neither does holding personal opinions about the issue a judge is ruling on, unless the judge happens to be a conservative judge. Conservatives play by different rules.

  41. 41

    @ 27

    ACAB is QoS McHillbilly’s credo. No ragrets.

    This from our self-anointed low IQ spellchecker.

    Steve hasn’t seen We’re The Millers. This might be the only Jennifer Aniston movie he hasn’t spanked to yet.

  42. 42

    @34 So your position is that cops are entitled to pepper spray anyone present at a scene of disorder, or riot as you put it, without regard to whether they’re participating in the disorder or rioting?

    Does that include babies in strollers, too? Or just black teachers?

  43. 43

    Forged Georgia voting certificates:

    https://www.americanoversight.org/american-oversight-obtains-seven-phony-certificates-of-pro-trump-electors

    Relevant Georgia criminal statute:

    https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-21/chapter-2/article-15/section-21-2-566/

    Any person who:
    Willfully tampers with any electors list, voter’s certificate, numbered list of voters, ballot box, voting machine, direct recording electronic (DRE) equipment, electronic ballot marker, or tabulating machine
    shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.

    Six other states. In total probably about 100 criminal defendants.

    Better call Snooki

  44. 44

    @35 “Matthew Shepard was a crystal meth dealer and was killed by his sometime sex partner.”

    According to this book. About which the Matthew Shepard Foundation has this to say: ” … based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.”

    Some Amazon reviews:

    “Debunked”
    “Not Credible”
    “Complete Garbage”
    “Discredited”
    “This book is fiction”
    “Trash”
    “Complete Lie”
    “Baloney through and through”
    “A poor piece of Scholarship”
    “Hogwash”
    “The Book of Lies”
    “Biased and Completely Inaccurate”

    Not mentioned: Typical of Doctor Dumbfuck’s “sources”

  46. 46

    @44 (continued) But we don’t have to just go on review headings. Here’s what someone who (unlike Doctor Dumbfuck) actually read the book had to say:

    “Read ‘The Book of Matt’ with great interest. The author writes in a Dan Brown DaVinci Code kinda way, which is entertaining – with mysterious clues pointing him in directions. It all falls apart though when you find out that many many sources (such as the producer at 20/20) say that interactions they have personally had with the author were fictionalized, misquoted, or embellished. The author fails to mention that the *real* reason his article was cancelled where he planned on detailing all his ‘shocking’ findings about Matthew Shepard, was because… the editors didn’t find any credibility to it – couldn’t corroborate it. The author also fails to mention that the *real* reason his book exists is because of his close personal friendship with Henderson’s attorney – and the book is really a piece of propaganda for Henderson. It is bad, and almost in a comical way. He spends a page detailing his breakfast at the Bellagio. In bad fiction writing ways, he details how he suspects the Clintons were out to get him. ha ha ha ha. This book is soo bad. He decides to believe every single source he has, even though there is no proof they ever knew Shepard, and was themselves on Meth for years and years. The little proof of corroboration, in the author’s mind, is just further proof that there is a vast national conspiracy. In articles and interviews since the book’s release, whenever someone challenges the author – he gets defensive – but fails to produce any evidence – or attacks the source of the criticism. If it weren’t all so serious, it would be comical. A Trump book for a Trump world. The author reminds me so much of Trump in attitude – that it was hard in retrospect to take anything he said seriously. Bad fiction that has since been debunked (including by sources he cites in the book ‘that isn’t how my interaction went at all!’ – one said). Bad bad poorly written fiction.”

    Note, Henderson is one of the two men convicted of murdering Shepard.

    This book may not be good enough for prime time, but it’s good enough for Doctor Dumbfuck — who never, ever, needs credible proof of anything before passing judgment on people he doesn’t like. That’s because he’s a dumbfuck.

  50. 50

    “The UK foreign office said in a Saturday statement it has information that the Russian government is planning to ‘install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/europe/bulgaria-romania-russia-intl/index.html

    They’re forgetting what happened to Ukraine’s last pro-Russia dictator.

    They’ll have to occupy that country forever. And use brutal repression to stifle popular uprisings. And then they’ll have in interminable guerrilla war on their hands.

    Russia, meet your next Afghanistan.

  53. 53

    50)Some of the troops he wants out of Romania are ours. I believe Romania and Poland are home to Aegis BMD systems, hard to move. I don’t mean the primary weapon of Arleigh Burke class DDGs, but the Aegis Ashore. Vlad never liked Bush or Obama’s plans for BMD in Eastern Europe. Even though it is defensive, Aegis Ashore launches the Standard Missiles from the same MK41 vls systems , and although primarily a SAM/ABM, the Standard has proven to be versatile, adapted to have a secondary ASuW role.

  54. 54

    I’ll I said was “ Mathew Sheppard was killed in the line of life”

    It is evident that homosexuality sets Bob off.

    How is what I said not true, that the dude was killed?

    Bob, you’re the one interjecting whether it is was a hate crime or not. But I see that you have credible evidence that it wasn’t. You’re a Dumbfuck.

    How do we know whether any of the cops killed in the line of duty didn’t deal drugs on the side.

  55. 55

    @54 Bob absolutely, positively must paint Shepard as a drug dealer. Whether it’s true or not is immaterial to him.

  57. 57

    So your position is that cops are entitled to pepper spray anyone present at a scene of disorder, or riot as you put it, without regard to whether they’re participating in the disorder or rioting?

    What it means is that a black man peacefully walking across a sidewalk, parallel to a police line, minding his own business just as this video shows, deserved to be pepper-sprayed for being a black man and he’s damned lucky he wasn’t shot dead as the low IQ racist troll wishes he had been.

    Bob absolutely, positively must paint Shepard as a drug dealer. Whether it’s true or not is immaterial to him.

    What the lying, low IQ traitor absolutely, positively must do is make the subject of discussion here anything but how his “dozen cosplaying grandmothers” were indicted for seditious conspiracy and how

    Gorsuch

    Kavanaugh

    Coney Barrett

    betrayed our low IQ traitor and his raging orange man-baby and how the walls are now closing in on both of them.

  58. 58

    It is evident that homosexuality sets Bob off.

    The low IQ spellcheck failure is afraid to look inside himself and see what he’s become, that he’s a freak who fucks farm animals but who dreams of fucking 12 year-old boys.

  59. 59

    Not mentioned: Typical of Doctor Dumbfuck’s “sources”

    Our low IQ idiot traitor doesn’t have anything anymore. All he’s left with is pulling shit from his low IQ ass and flinging it at us like he’s an angry little monkey.

    That, and spellchecking comments.

  60. 60

    That, and spellchecking comments.

    I should add that he’s also reduced to regurgitating debunked lies he told years ago. We really don’t have to waste our time humiliating him anymore. He does that to himself every time the low IQ idiot posts anymore.

  61. 61

    Maddow’s misplaced diatribe against Mike Pence was a waste of good oxygen. Of course Pence (and everyone else) knew that Republican would-be electors had phonied up fake electoral college certificates in seven states that Trump had lost. It was absolutely no “secret” whatsoever. This had never happened before since 1876. Pence got appropriate legal advice (and didn’t go along with Trump’s bullshit scheme). But the ever shrill Maddow twists reality, and makes Pence into some evil conspirator, despite Pence telling Trump to go to hell and performing his legal duty.

  62. 62

    61,
    Don’t know if any of them will go to jail over it.

    But it very much looks as if at least some of them will go to trial over it. In a couple of those states there are crim statutes covering what those Republican Party officials did. It might not matter that they did it for lulz or for art or “were just asking questions” or whatever other dumb excuses they come up with. And it might not matter that they were acting at the prompting of one of Trump’s lawyers.

    But if any of that were to matter, as part of an affirmative criminal defense, then they would have to go to trial and introduce all that evidence. Which opens those communications up to discovery and deprives them of any claims about atty-client priv. I guarantee you the reason Trump had Giuliani running this game was so that he could hide it behind atty-client privilege.

    Which may mean either they waive privilege or they throw a big crowd of state party officials under the bus. Either way, I’m happy. And America is better for it.

  64. 64

    I’ll decide how I feel about Mike Pence’s character and sense of patriotism after I see how he responds to a subpoena.

  65. 65

    @61 I haven’t seen Maddow’s diatribe, but I’m glad you’re still with us, Richard. I assume you got all your shots.

    Pence did the right thing in the end, but don’t forget that he felt he had to get Dan Quayle’s permission first.

    Not the kind of backbone you want to see in a president. But he’s pretty much burned his bridges in the GOP anyway. Most of his own party wants to hang him.

    By the way, are you still a Republican? And if you are, how do you manage to remain a Republican after what has happened, and is happening, to the Grand Old Party?

  66. 66

    “Is you taking notes on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy?”

    Why yes.
    Yes they are:

    https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-exposes-nationwide-racist-campaigns/

    “As our recent actions have shown we can walk down busy avenues at prime time in Seattle and deface the largest most well protected mural in shitlib Olympia without so much as being accosted once,”

    Leaders maintained records and quotas of crimes by members. And then leveraged the proof of those same crimes to maintain loyalty and obedience among the rank and file members. The precise nature and detail of criminal activities were directed and formatted by the leadership, often to include the use of promotional materials sold by the leadership to the members. So the criminal enterprises served not only to expand recruitment and drive membership fees but also drove commerce to the leadership web stores.

  67. 67

    @66 nothing to see there or talk about. Move-on, says Bob the Fuckhead.

    No Republican should be looking the other way, but most are, shamefull to even consider oneself a Repuke.

    Breeding will not save them!

  70. 70

    NBC News poll:

    TOTAL POSITIVE TOTAL NEGATIVE D/S
    Liz Cheney ………………………………………………………… 23 29 -6
    Joe Biden ………………………………………………………….. 39 48 -9
    The Republican Party ………………………………………….. 34 44 -10 Donald Trump ……………………………………………………. 37 51 -14
    The Democratic Party …………………………………………. 33 48 -15
    Kamala Harris ……………………………………………………. 32 49 -17

  71. 71

    Do you think that your family’s income is going up faster than the cost of living, staying about even with the cost of living, or falling behind the cost of living?

    Going up faster…………………………….. 7
    Staying about even………………………… 30
    Falling behind……………………………….. 61

    (Link @ 70)

    Just wait until the market’s down another several percent and inflation ticks up to 8%.

    The ass-fucking that YLB’s kids will be getting can be traced entirely to the unserious cheerleading of YLB and her girlfriends at the DNC.

  72. 72

    Looks like our low IQ dumbfuck traitor still isn’t ready to talk with us about how his “dozen cosplaying grandmothers” have been indicted seditious conspiracy and how their connection to Roger Stone is a direct link to his raging orange man-baby.

    Nor is he ready yet to talk about how

    Gorsuch

    Kavanaugh

    Coney Barrett

    betrayed our low IQ dumbfuck traitor and his raging orange man-baby when they needed them most.

  73. 73

    Steve, sorta defuses your objections to Trump’s appointees when they vote the same way that Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan vote, doesn’t it?

    I’m sorry Christine Blasey Ford got your hopes up. At least you got to know PJ and Squi a little bit.

  74. 74

    Since April 2020, trust in the CDC has fallen 25%, and distrust has risen 30%. (Link @ 70)

    Everything Joe Biden touches turns to dogshit.

  76. 76

    Steve, sorta defuses your objections to Trump’s appointees when they vote the same way that Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan vote, doesn’t it?

    On one vote, you low IQ idiot. The one that betrayed you. Still don’t want to talk about that, do you? How about how you tried to whitewash what you called “insurrection crap” with your “dozen cosplaying grandmothers” who have now been indicted for seditious conspiracy?

  77. 77

    @ 75

    False assumptions don’t make you a millionaire, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Neither did the totality of your miserable career.

  79. 79

    The low IQ dumbfuck believes that his using bold font will trigger libs. All the low IQ dumbfuck accomplished with that so far has been to inform me that my using bold font would trigger the low IQ dumbfuck.

  80. 80

    @ 76

    Looking forward to the sedition trials, Steve.

    How bad was the behavior? Was it worse than efforts to delay or hinder? ’cause those behaviors are covered by the same statute.

    Until then, run with it, Steve. Compare it to 9/11 or the Pearl Harbor bombing for added drama. You’re gonna need it.

  81. 81

    @71 Speaking of the market, when the Fed inflates stock prices by air-popping fiat money into the financial system and then turns off the air popper, it’s only logical that stock prices should come down from their inflated heights, no?

    By the way, the S&P 500 is down only 9.6%, and the Dow is down only 7.8%, from their 52-week highs, which is not a “correction.”

    True, Nasdaq is down more than 10%, but a sector is not “the market.”

    Will it get to your coveted 10%-15%? By golly, it ought to, when you look at the stretched valuations and elevated P/Es. But that remains to be seen. The 10-year Treasury has fallen back to 1.77% (after jumping to 1.84% from somewhere around ~1.4%), which is a real rate of interest of, say, roughly minus 5%. So I’m not sure TIAA* to stocks just yet. Although we see some money leaking out of stocks, this could be just another head fake.

    Here’s a suggestion, doc, just for you: Why don’t you short the whole fucking market? Every stock out there?** And see what happens to your munee?

    * there is an alternative
    ** this is not a recommendation, nor is it something I would do

  82. 82

    @73 “sorta defuses your objections to Trump’s appointees when they vote the same way that Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan vote, doesn’t it?”

    Not really. Kavanaugh could vote for upholding Roe v. Wade, and striking down all the Republican anti-abortion laws out there, and having a rapist on the Supreme Court would still suck.

    And Christine Blasey Ford would still be a better woman than you are.

  83. 83

    Now think about Sinema, who was elected on a pledge to be independent-minded, also voted for important Democrat bills and to confirm liberal judges, and voted twice to convict a GOP president.

    As thanks for all that, Arizona Democrats want to make her seat a. much more difficult hold for the party in 2024, all because of one vote, which would not have changed the outcome. Boneheaded move and a clear unforced error by liberal politicos in AZ.

    Matthew Yglesias
    @mattyglesias
    ·
    6h
    I’m thinking about how a guy from a state where Biden won 29 percent of the vote delivered the decisive vote for the American Rescue Plan, to confirm innumerable judges, and all things considered has the highest Progressive Value Over Replacement Senator in congress.
    Quote Tweet
    Ari Rabin-Havt
    @AriRabinHavt
    · 22h
    Still thinking about how a man who drives a Maserati, lives on a yacht and made millions off of coal chose to eliminate up to $300 a month in tax cuts that benefitted 305,000 kids in his own state – temporarily lifting 50,000 of them out of poverty. Shame on Joe Manchin.

    Think about that, as the border situation worsens and AZ swings back toward the GOP during the runup to 2024.

  84. 84

    @74 Why should we be surprised? Your tribe trusts QAnon and horse pills more than medical science, and stands in the rain for weeks waiting for JFK Jr. to reappear. You keep forgetting 50% of the public has below-average intelligence. In light of that, it’s amazing those numbers aren’t worse.

  86. 86

    @77 “False assumptions don’t make you a millionaire, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.”

    Couldn’t agree with you more. Assets make me a millionaire.

  88. 88

    @ 86

    Assets make me a millionaire.

    No, they make you a punchline, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    You overshared, and it’s clear that you’re not a millionaire.

    Hey, and in the Biden economy this year’s $1 million is next year’s $930,000. BFD.

  89. 89

    Anyone can be a millionaire. Ask G-clown.

    Nearly 22 million Americans are millionaires. Here’s how they got wealthy

    There’s nothing special about acquiring a million dollars. G-clown’s nearly there, which proves it.

  92. 92

    How bad was the behavior? Was it worse than efforts to delay or hinder? ’cause those behaviors are covered by the same statute

    DOJ seems so far to have handled these “concerns” very well, despite all the frantic shrieking from the FOXpublican Peanut Gallery about “over prosecution” and “shitty streaming channels” on the DC CDF televisions.

    They are carefully and responsibly negotiating plea agreements with the vast majority of those charged. The pleas being entered are reasonable, fair, and just. And DOJ has even faced some criticisms from a judge or two about their own sentencing recs, with judges pointing out that the DOJ language describing the criminal conduct being pleaded seems to mismatch relatively low range recs.

    But that language is of course very relevant. Because only the conduct of individuals not charged as part of any conspiracy is what matters to their individual charging and sentencing. However, for defendants charged with conspiracy it is the conduct described in the conspiracy of many individuals that matters. These “speaking indictments” and at times dramatic descriptions contained in the filings in other cases bear directly on the allegations facing these sedition defendants. DOJ is building a larger case involving more people facing much more serious criminal charges. Charges, I should add, deriving from an entirely different statute.

    So while the Oath Keeper defendants are being charged under a different criminal statute, the criminal conduct of others, including others charged under different statutes, bears directly upon them and their cases. Part of the conspiracy being alleged involves the plans by these defendants to make use of the criminal conduct of others ( Bob’s “cosplaying grandmothers” stabbing police in the neck with tasers and beating them with fire extinguishers) in furtherance of their conspiracy to oppose by force the authority of the United States government.

    This is how prosecutors build criminal conspiracy cases. This is very typical. The only thing really very different about this case is that the defendants facing the felony conspiracy charges are suburban middle aged white business owners from comfortable middle class families instead of urban racial minorities from poor families. I’m pretty sure it’s really that last bit that explains all of Bob’s “concerns”.

  93. 93

    @ 91

    Your financial status is pathetic, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Millionaires don’t include their primary residence among their assets in order to get there.

    You misunderstand the basics, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Your wealth is comical. For a retired attorney you’re in the bottom 10-15%. It’s not something to crow about. It’s something to be embarrassed about. For you a five-figure change in paper wealth is a big day. For most of us it’s merely Tuesday.

  94. 94

    Until then, run with it, Steve. Compare it to 9/11 or the Pearl Harbor bombing for added drama.

    You mean comparison as in how you wrote that the Weather Underground bombing of the Capitol which did little damage was just as bad as an insurrection intended to end our democracy?

    Yeah, as though the Weather Underground bombing had the support of an entire major political party and the sitting president of the United States.

    I recall how you called me “poorly read” because I didn’t bring up the “1969” Weather Underground Capitol bombing. I was very impressed with that. I was impressed that you’re such a well read low IQ idiot that you couldn’t even identify the correct fucking decade during which the bombing took place.

  95. 95

    84,
    You keep forgetting 50% of the public has below-average intelligence.

    It sure is nice that they all voluntarily put on bright red hats and lined up on one side of the ditch for us.

    Just sayin’

  96. 96

    @ 92

    …judges pointing out that the DOJ language describing the criminal conduct being pleaded seems to mismatch relatively low range recs.

    Agreed. Although this conduct is being admitted to in the context of those low range recommendations, which have already been agreed to by both sides. Raise the prosecution’s sentencing range demands and the prosecution will then have the burden of proof to deal with.

    The context is important here. Also important here is the pattern of overcharging by DOJ, with charges reduced if the defendant coughs up some info – you have brought this up yourself, QoS McHillbilly. Which raises the questions of whether overcharging is being done now because there’s more serious charging to come against a smaller number of more important conspirators once the needed info is coughed up by those currently under indictment, or is what we see now all we’re going to see. It’s been a year, after all, and it’s not like there isn’t readily available video proof of individual and group conduct.

    Could be either. Until we know, best not to beat one’s chest with too much bravado, QoS McHillbilly.

  97. 97

    @96 Doc trying to play lawyer is always good for laughs. I’ll let Elijah handle this one.

  98. 98

    A Republican election official, former city clerk, and erstwhile candidate for state representative shot her deadbeat tenant for nonpayment of rent.

    The day before her local police charged her with first-degree murder, she posted on Facebook, “The current cry is hold police accountable. I truly believe police would do a far better job if COURTS would hold CRIMINALS accountable.”

    Let us hope so.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/connecticut-elections-official-ellen-wink-accused-of-murdering-her-tenant?ref=home

  99. 99

    @93 “Millionaires don’t include their primary residence among their assets in order to get there.”

    I can think of someone claiming to be a billionaire who not only included both of his primary residences in his loan applications but multiplied their value times three.

    I don’t live in a Florida castle, but I don’t worry about extradition to New York, either.

  100. 100

    94,
    The real irony of course is that the WU bombing campaign served to justify a collection of local FBI joint task forces formed in concert with local police departments, spread out across the United States exclusively in large cities, and focused on infiltrating, destabilizing, and framing local grass roots progressive political organizations. Local police made petty drug arrests (Yay Mod Squad! Cool!) and used those to leverage CIs as infiltrators. Infiltrating CIs would then either engage in entrapment or plant evidence as needed to justify search and arrest warrants. Once in the system they turn whoever they can and coerce false statements, or simply plant more evidence. Then lather, rinse, repeat. If things get messy they just arrange for a jailhouse assassination and move down the org chart.

    Notable is that in the Jan 6th case, where an enormous violent mob armed with actual pipe bombs and heavy weapons tried to take over Congress to prevent a democratic election, there is absolutely no such widespread law enforcement effort to target political groups, many of which were directly involved in helping organize the attack.

    I’m not arguing there should be.
    The Republican Party of Michigan, or Georgia, or Arizona, or Women for America First, or the owners of Publix should only be investigated by the FBI if there is evidence of them breaking federal laws – there is. And they should only be arrested and prosecuted if there is enough of that evidence to convince a grand jury that there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being investigated was the person who committed it – not quite yet.

    I am arguing that the same sweeping deference to the presumption of innocence being extended to all these nice rich older Judeo-Christian conservative white people should be extended to every other person in the United States all the rest of the time.
    I’m saying every family and every community in the United States, regardless of age, income, ethnicity, religion, or political ideology should enjoy the same “hands off” approach when it comes to how they choose to express themselves.

    Which guess what? Means lots fewer cops.

  101. 101

    @100 These people should thank their lucky stars Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t the authority deciding how much due process they should get.

  103. 103

    Also important here is the pattern of overcharging by DOJ

    And yet you don’t say how.
    And that’s because it isn’t actually important.
    At least not to your point of view.

    I’m not sure to what you allude, but what I’ve often said is that our system runs on “load ’em up and deal ’em down”. And that’s as true here as it is anywhere.

    So what?

    I assure you, these particular lesser defendants are being dealt with better than any run-of-the-mill criminal defendant ever sees. Lesser charges? Of course not. That would defeat the system and its objectives. But what they do enjoy is a whole lot more attention, both individualized and collective, than any similarly situated criminal defendant would ever enjoy in any part of the federal system. Every single line prosecutor working on these cases knows as surely as they know the sun will rise, that the minute anyone fucks up one of these lesser criminal cases, procedurally or otherwise, that half the U.S. Senate, half the House, and three or more television networks will be triggered into action promoting it as “THE GRAVEST MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!!!!”

    As you point out it’s been a year. I’m frankly amazed they’ve made it this far. But it just goes to show how incredibly careful and attentive they are being to every single fucking detail. Trust me when I tell you it ain’t always like this.

    These stupid fucks are not being “over charged”.

    It might be argued that they are being “over prosecuted”. Over prosecuted in the sense of the enormous investment of talent, resources, and attention being poured into every aspect of their cases. It’s not a lack of due process. If anything it’s an extra heaping helping of due process. But the problem with that argument comes back to the sedition thingy.

    As a loyal Republican I’m sure you disagree, but Real America wants a lawyer who clears their calendar for cases that threaten to take away our democracy.

  104. 104

    98)If Convicted, would be life without parole, Connecticut abolished the death penalty. Got no problem with that, used to be for the Death Penalty, but I would not be comfortable making the decision as a juror.

  105. 105

    @103 “These stupid fucks are not being “over charged”.”

    As I’ve commented before, they would be summarily shot in many countries. They’re luckier than shit they did this in America and not somewhere else.

  106. 106

    @104 There are a few criminals I’d have no problem sentencing to death as a juror, although I wouldn’t do it unless I was absolutely certain of their guilt, not just persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt. Those would be the especially vicious criminals who have absolutely no respect for innocent human life.

  107. 107

    @ 103

    And yet you don’t say how.

    And neither did you.

    In our normal everyday criminal justice system prosecutors routinely bring very serious felony charges with the scantest of evidence. If they knew much about juries or even cared they might think twice. But that isn’t how they operate. They overcharge defendants every single fucking working day of their lives in order to get easy plea agreements.

    You didn’t say how. And of the two of us, you’re the one with three years of postgraduate education that should have allowed you to do so.

    And therein lies the problem. You would have to prove guilt. So rather than meet that burden of proof you overcharge in order to force them to plead to something less.

    …we have to recall that in our system proving guilt in court in front of jury is seldom part of most criminal prosecutor’s job. Stack ’em up and deal ’em down is how we do it in the U.S.

    The DOJ will deal ’em down to something that…

    wait for it…

    is not sedition.

  108. 108

    @ 106

    @104 There are a few criminals I’d have no problem sentencing to death as a juror, although I wouldn’t do it unless I was absolutely certain of their guilt, not just persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt.

    Hell, recall what you were willing to do to Rittenhouse, without a trial. After your behavior WRT Rittenhouse, you have no reason to respect a result in any trial.

    You’re a fucking clown, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. And a really shitty liar.

  109. 109

    The DOJ will deal ’em down to something that… is not sedition.

    Maybe.
    That also would not be unusual.

    But I think it would be exceptionally unusual given the nature, the demeanor, and the totality of prior statements from most of these defendants. Oh, I won’t be at all surprised if one or two of them has already inked a deal, under seal, for greatly reduced charges, in exchange for cooperating against the others.

    That’s also a completely routine part of our system.
    The other attorneys will find out about it during disco, of course. But that could be months from now. And if it is handled the way these things normally are, the precise identity of the cooperator will be redacted, at least initially. After all, these are all individuals who have proudly published blood oaths to murder anyone who dares to betray them or their cause.

    Fuck Around.

    Find Out.

    Lately Bob and his fellow “conservatives” have been doing a lot of “finding out”.

  110. 110

    That would be five or more interest rate hikes in a midterm election year, libbies.

    FEDERAL RESERVE
    Inflation surge could push the Fed into more than four rate hikes this year, Goldman Sachs says

    As bloviating Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit tries to convince HA @ 81 that the market is not beginning to enter a period of major reset by claiming that there is no alternative to stocks, realize that had an investor held cash – cash is an important alternative to equities – in November that investor would not have lost 10+% in NASDAQ or 9.6% in the S&P 500.

    Sometimes not being a loser is a preferred alternative. As a loser his entire miserable life, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not understand that.

    Don’t be like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Don’t hurt your family’s future, as Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has done to his family’s future.

    Don’t be a dumbfuck.

  111. 111

    @ 109

    Maybe.
    That also would not be unusual.

    That’s enough of an admission for now. More than I expected, TBH.

    Those charged with seditious conspiracy might not be guilty of seditious conspiracy. You heard it here first, and QoS McHillbilly offered a grudging acknowledgement.

    Now that I’ve successfully teased it out of him, somebody tell me again that I’m not an attorney.

  112. 112

    Early in the 3rd, Stafford has completed twice as many passes as Brady.

    Tom Brady’s last game?

  113. 113

    Yup.

    Comfortably Smug
    @ComfortablySmug
    ·
    6h
    Solid sign that your country is about to be taken over:

    @SecBlinken
    tweets that you have his full support and commitment

  114. 114

    Flashback: There was little unclear about the message Trump sent when Soleimani bought it.

  115. 115

    Those charged with seditious conspiracy might not be guilty of seditious conspiracy.

    What’s guilt got to do with any of it?

    Try seeing how much clever laughter you provoke from the grieving families of children gunned down by drug soldiers in a turf war.

    The guys who murder their children, dismember their bodies, and wall them up in old houses get deals. After they lead them to the old house and show them which walls to open up. They don’t walk. But they absolutely get deals.
    Because this is America.

    Career feds working criminal prosecution have to learn to live with deals like that or they don’t go far or last long. Next local pol you see pimping her/his resume with claims of “fighting the war on drugs” as a former AUSA, just think about that for a minute.
    This is how the sausage gets made. Nobody but you thinks it’s pretty.

  116. 116

    The Economist:

    Gun-ownership in America is diversifying, because of safety fears

    Of the 7.5m Americans who bought firearms for the first time between January 2019 and April 2021—as gun-buying surged nationwide—half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic, according to a recent study by Matthew Miller of Northeastern University and his co-authors. The share of black adults who joined the gun-owning ranks, 5.3%, was more than twice that of white adults.

    Maybe it’s that “Liberals Must Arm.” movement I’ve heard so much about.

    Or maybe it’s people getting ready for when Antifa decides to start a riot in their neighborhood.

  117. 117

    106)With the Death Penalty, it’s final. If it turns out somebody else did the crime, they effectively get away with it. I do see a few cases where it was a deterrent. The Dereck Bentley case in the UK, where his partner was the guy who killed the cop, but was underage. The gunman never committed another crime again. Then there was the opposite, such as the bombing of Canadian Pacific 108, insurance fraud/murder was the motive, Canada executed three over it, but similar motive/method was used in the bombing of United 629 moments after the DC-6 took off from Stapleton Airport. On that one the FBI built up a good case, only to have to have the local guys prosecute.It was interesting tracing the bag on that one, thanks to a baggage handler in Chicago losing his keys and the cargo hold being searched at Stapleton, leading to bags being moved and only luggage originating in Denver being loaded into the hold where the explosion began.

  118. 118

    @107 “The DOJ will deal ’em down to something that… wait for it…
    is not sedition.”

    In exchange for bigger fish.

  119. 119

    @108 “Hell, recall what you were willing to do to Rittenhouse, without a trial.”

    Where? Did I ever say he shouldn’t get a trial, or due process? No. It’s you who talks like that, not me.

    There was, of course, no question of fact for a jury to decide. He shot those three people. There were only two things for a jury to weigh in his case: The judge’s self-defense instructions, and jury nullification.

    And I never said he shouldn’t get a trial on those issues.

  121. 121

    @110 “cash is an important alternative to equities”

    Currently appreciating at a rate of -7% a year, as you’ve pointed out.

    Lose in stocks, lose bigger in cash; lose in cash, lose bigger in stocks; hmm, which to choose?

    It’s tough being a capitalist these days, although not as tough as being a wage slave.

  122. 122

    @111 “somebody tell me again that I’m not an attorney”

    Happy to oblige. You’re not an attorney unless you have a license to practice law.

    P.S., knowing just enough about law to make you dangerous to prospective clients doesn’t make you an attorney.

  123. 123

    There was little unclear about the message Trump sent when Soleimani bought it.

    Soleimani? Anyone else? The black guy killed Osama and Awlaki and others..

    What message was sent? Four more years perhaps?

    drumpf was so busy babbling “no collusion” over helicopter noise it forgot it was in a pissing contest with a black guy who made fun of drumpf at the press dinner over drumpf’s racist animus.

    Forget 4 more years of that chump.

  124. 124

    @116 You said it, so I don’t have to.

    I doubt blacks are arming against “antifa.”

  126. 126

    Sunday afternoon stock futures don’t mean anything, so I won’t say Doctor Dumbfuck’s 7.5% “correction” is over just because S&P futures are up over half a percent right now.

    Since March 2020, we’ve gotten nothing but market dips, so maybe what he needs is a highly infectious super-killer variant for his dreams to come true.

  127. 127

    @125 Civil wars are always easier to fight against toddlers and grannies. They get messy when the other side has guns. Maybe they should forget the whole civil war/race war/extermination thing.

  128. 128

    Maybe they should forget the whole civil war/race war/extermination thing.

    Looking on the bright side, the low IQ traitor who is showing us today just how desperate he is to say “It wasn’t seditious conspiracy!” would be among the first casualties.

  130. 130

    129,
    The only thing Gingrich lacks at this point is big shoes and a bicycle horn.

    Congress can’t lock anyone up, or even put them on trial (except for a president) without a DOJ.

    Have Republicans got one of those?

    Gingrich is only being called in to fill green room seats reserved for Trumpaloompas currently facing criminal indictment.

    By the DOJ.

    They’d have called Dersh but the kid fucking thing has kinda ruined his viewer response. Advertisers hate to buy slots for an audience of viewers puking on their shoes.

  131. 131

    @128 I’m not confident that people who can’t read and never pick up a newspaper will get the message that blacks and liberals are buying millions of guns. Last week I read about someone on the right bragging “we have 8 trillion bullets” meaning he thinks they would win because they have more guns. While that likely will remain true, because only Trumpers and Q followers are stupid enough to spend all their disposable income on amassing an arsenal of 20 guns per person, an ammo stockpile that could blow up a house or at least the garage, tactical gear, and bugout kits, I would argue that 4 million blacks and liberals with 4 million guns are better armed than 500,000 militia members with 10 million guns. You can only shoot one of them at a time. Anyway, this whole discussion is ridiculous, the whole idea of “cival war” is ridiculous. They should spend their time in GED classes learning to read, instead of “training” on somebody’s farm to become incarcerated seditionists.

  132. 132

    Not that anyone here, except for HA’s Dumbfuck, questions the validity of Roger’s claim to being a millionaire, but I am here to say that Roger truly is a Millionaire. No surprise to me that Bob is wrong. Bob has never been right about anything.

    I saw a list of stocks Roger owns, in an elaborate spreadsheet that Roger shared with me, and I can verify there’s over a million dollars in his investment accounts, not even counting real estate, Roger is a Millionaire. We know that it hurts Bob to believe that so he’d like to deny the fact. Just like he has no fucking glue what my AGI is, or if he does he doesn’t want to disclose it becuase he doesn’t like how high it is.

    Just like he had his head up his ass about believing that Roger has a home gym setup too.

    Now I understand why Bob’s mother resents having such stupid a son.

  133. 133

    @129 Sure sounds like they’re going all-in banana republic. Just remember, take the cigarette, refuse the blindfold, and give the order to “Fire!” yourself. That’s how Batista’s men went out, in front of Castro’s firing squads, and we’re just as good as them.

  134. 134

    Early in the 3rd, Stafford has completed twice as many passes as Brady.

    Tom Brady’s last game?

    What is this? Your sugar side? I doubt Steve plans on having a beer with you.

    Or are you trying to normalize your seditious mentality?

    Hey look everyone! Bob wants to be friends and talk about football.

  135. 135

    @129 That’s correct, Bob’s never been right about anything. It’s hard to see from inside a shit-lined tunnel.

  136. 136

    @134 He’s trying to be non-controversial, because controversy usually doesn’t work out well for him.

  137. 137

    Well guys, I gotta head downstairs to my gym for my workout. Keeping holding the fort, and I’ll rejoin the crew at the battlements later, if doc is still around. I’d be going into hiding about now if I were him.

  139. 139

    amassing an arsenal of 20 guns per person

    A friend of mine had over 400 in his house, plus ammo. When he became critically ill, that many guns in a house in Rainier Valley became a bit of an issue with the SPD. They wanted them out of the city. We had to use a huge 10-ton truck to take guns and ammo to his brother’s farm on Whidbey.

    No reason why the low IQ dumbfuck should be concerned about an angry liberal friend of mine with over 400 guns living near him. After all, at best he can only fire two of them at a time.

  140. 140

    Not that anyone here, except for HA’s Dumbfuck, questions the validity of Roger’s claim to being a millionaire, but I am here to say that Roger truly is a Millionaire.

    Our low IQ dumbfuck doesn’t even have a yacht, let alone a waterfront spread on Orcas with a 100′ dock. No private jet. What a loser.

  142. 142

    After giving Putin the go-ahead for a minor incursion into Ukraine, First Vegetable Joe Biden now weighing whether to send several thousand troops into eastern Europe.

    Apparently there are some assets held by The Biden Crime Family at risk if Putin decides that a minor incursion should morph into something a little less minor.

    This is what happens when a leader fails to project strength. Afghanistan last summer told Putin everything he needed to know.

  143. 143

    CNN’s reporting:

    State Department officials urged Americans to leave the country now, warning that State Department assistance would be “severely impacted” if there is Russian military action in the country.
    The officials said they wouldn’t provide evacuation flights yet, urging Americans to take commercial flights now, warning that State Department assistance would be “severely impacted” if there is Russian military action in the country.

    Let’s recap, shall we? The State Department is telling Americans in Ukraine:

    1. We won’t help you leave now.
    2. We can’t help you leave if there’s an invasion by Russia.

    As long as The Biden Crime Family can get its assets out of Ukraine, fuck the rest of it.

  144. 144

    @143 At least he isn’t holding the now-arriving military aid to Ukraine hostage for fabricated dirt on Trump. Even if he were so inclined, which he isn’t, he wouldn’t have to, because Trump creates dirt on himself, and none of it is fabricated. You, of course, vote for dirt.

  146. 146

    Our low IQ traitor “told Putin everything he needed to know” about him when he posted the first of what would become nearly 8,000 pro-Putin hashtags.

    Putin’s response was, “That’s my boy!”

  147. 147

    The Packers can still make it to the Super Bowl if Mike Pence has enough courage!

    MAGA!

  148. 148

    Since annexation my town has new schools, new roads, new bridges, and better television. While Ukraine quarantines in filthy hovels wearing masks and picks through trash dumps for recycling, here in Crimea we all have good jobs, a booming economy, and all the shops and restaurants are open and thriving. We all enjoy freedom of movement, plenty of good food and good liquor, and great entertainment. Life is good. We can say what we like and do as we please. Life has only gotten better for all of us since annexation.

    But here we prefer to be Russian. Because we are Russian.
    And we will stay Russian.

    What concern is any of this to all of you?

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