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Jimmy Kimmel: Dana Carvey’s Dotard Трамп, Barack Obama & Joe Biden Impressions

Drunk History: Unbelievable moments in US political history

Electoral Dysfunction:

Roy Wood, Jr.: CP Time—The history of Black governors

Трамп and His Imbeciles:

Ronny Chieng teaches you about Asian veterans

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Comments

  1. 1

    Interesting seeing FOX and the GOP beginning to turn on Trump, Monday Evening they were singing a different tune.

  2. 2

    @1 Nobody loves a loser. They probably won’t even raise bail money for him. They’ll figure they’re better off if he’s behind bars.

  3. 3

    32 posts on Truth Social today but fuck those suckers. There’s nothing in it for them. Not one word about veterans today.

    They don’t deserve it.

    The military loves me.

  9. 9

    5,
    The Real Pain is the unendurable prospect that a modern Trump-Republican majority in the House might actually have to compromise, and work in a bipartisan fashion if they hope to pass any legislation.

    Think about just how noteworthy it is that even now, as the media analyze and dissect this election and its implications, the “b-word” has not been mentioned even once. The very first minute Democrats regained a majority, first in the House in 2018, then two years later in the Senate, the media began pounding away about “bipartisanship” and how “imperative” it would be for Democrats to negotiate, compromise and seek consensus across the aisle.

    But in the ongoing media analysis of what is expected to be a slim House majority for Republicans there is no mention at all of Republican leaders beginning the work of negotiating and compromising with Democrats. None. All the attention is being shifted to the Freedom Caucus and the potential for a leadership revolt. And there’s no point in kidding around. The Freedom Caucus will gain concessions from the Speaker. Likely to be included in those concessions are a new rule allowing amendments to receive a floor vote if 10% of the party cosponsors, and a new rule preventing legislation from advancing out of rules unless a majority of Republicans already agree to support it.

    Either of these two rules would enable an extremist, obstructionist minority within the GOP to prevent any bipartisan legislation from moving forward. The media and the GOP are conceding in advance that in order to form a majority leadership in the House the GOP will abandon bipartisanship before they even begin. There is absolutely zero expectation or demand for the GOP to behave responsibly or to enforce discipline on their own extremist members.

    Remember all the criticisms directed at “The Squad” and “The Progressive Caucus” when Democrats regained the House? Remember how important it was for Democratic leadership supported by “moderates” to reign them all in? As a fig leaf Pelosi immediately took impeachment or even investigation of Trump’s constitutional abuses off the table. By March the new Speaker had PR arranged a puff-profile in the WaPo to define her agenda and she very pointedly declared that she opposed impeachment. And she went on to address the clear need to work across the aisle to get legislation passed.

    All we will hear from Speaker McCarthy is his agenda for impeaching Joe Biden, investigating the FBI and the “stolen 2020 election” and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new office budget with mini-gym and lap pool. We’ll be lucky if they don’t default the Treasury.

  10. 10

    9)They don’t know how to negotiate and compromise. Used to getting the Democrats to cave, and the media calls it compromise.

  13. 13

    11)Especially if those affected by the trolling by those who paid for tge Check Mark, sue. Then again, the Former Guy’s supporters will say payback for the advertiser boycott. Although some would say Lockheed Martin deserved to be trolled.

  14. 14

    @9 “a modern Trump-Republican majority in the House might actually have to compromise, and work in a bipartisan fashion if they hope to pass any legislation”

    Why do you think they’re interested in passing legislation? Just curious.

  16. 16

    @13 There’s no advertiser boycott, just hazard avoidance. Walking around a downed power line isn’t boycotting electricity.

  17. 17

    Why do you think they’re interested in passing legislation? Just curious.

    They haven’t seen a military boondoggle they didn’t like. And even Cocaine Mitch likes it an occasional bridge, highway, waterway rehab in repuke back yards.

    Other than that, everything else can wither on the vine as long as it doesn’t mean more votes for Dems, and gerrymandering and other vote suppression takes care of that.

  19. 19

    Especially if those affected by the trolling by those who paid for tge Check Mark, sue.

    Parody is protected expression. Elon bought the company specifically to make that point.

    Shareholders like the sad, weak dancing freak have simply got to be willing to see their retirement savings obliterated for the sake of propping up the fragile ego of a billionaire.

    But those companies should definitely stop advertising on a platform that deliberately and affirmatively damages their share price.

  20. 20

    14,
    McCarthy, Scalise, and Banks probably have special tax cuts they’d like to pass, some financial regulations they’d like to roll back, and maybe even some virtue signaling to their voters about police funding. But if they want any of it they’ll have to make deals.

    But my point really isn’t about what McCarthy or McConnell want, or even what their voters want. My point is that every time Democrats obtain any access to power, however limited, the media across the spectrum begin calling upon them to compromise and negotiate with the GOP “for the good of the nation”. But for some reason the minute Republicans have any access to power that “good of the nation” disappears from existence.

    What does America want? Do they want bipartisanship? That’s the default setting according to every single journalist, editorial board, and “independent” voter being interviewed in an Iowa coffee shop by Salena Zito. But if that is really true, then why does that demand from voters for bipartisan compromise suddenly retreat the minute a old white guy in a blue suit holds the gavel?

  21. 21

    “ANTIFA” BOO!

    Now for a bus load of “those” freeks, lord kreesphit would break out the kneepads and fete them at the VIP room.

    And they’re wearing a mask – awwww.. how considerate.

  22. 22

    16)Understand that analogy. Had a real one of those where I work. Downed utility pole, huge puddle, and railroad track.

  23. 23

    19)Lockheed Martin probably was on Twitter for propaganda purposes. The average American can’t buy a F-16.

  24. 24

    Update from King County Elections. Seattle Prop 1 has taken a small lead. If it holds or grows, Ranked Choice Voting will be used in city elections.

  25. 25

    On my way home from Everett, with the LINK disruption, I actually like the train even more. The bus bridge shows just how even a high capacity bus can be inneficient.

  28. 28

    26,
    Shocking. What a tremendous accomplishment for a great candidate.

    And not just a terrible failure for Republicans.
    But also a terrible repudiation for the DCCC and that fuckstick failure Maloney – who, not for nothing, as I write this is sitting in a room with NYT reporters blaming other Democrats for his own miserable failure. What a piece of shit.

  30. 30

    NP: Senator Cortez-Masto congratulations on being re-elected to the U.S. Senate.

    What is your reaction to the fart noises coming from that POS troll from widbee over the journalist slain by a minor Democratic official?

    CCM: Well, I’d first like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the journalist. I hope justice is served speedily and the perpetrator of the crime pays for that awful crime.

    As for the troll, well that head up its ass moron can huff its farts and go fuck itself.

  32. 32

    That’s right, Hershel @31.. Your dear leader picked you..

    You all in MAGA land, you can send the check to me as well.

    I’ll make sure Hershel gets them.. (wink, wink)

  33. 33

    my power… my precious power… all of a sudden y’all in my kookus don’t like me…..

    my hands are turning more and more purple..

    vote for me.. please…

  34. 34

    Wonder whose going to be Senate President Pro Tempore now. Based on seniority, could be Murray or Feinstein. Probably the latter, as Feinstein has the earlier seniority date by about 2 months.

  37. 37

    31,

    You just lost your special election turnout message.

    Are you going to Disneyland?

  38. 38

    Final Prediction (giving trolls an EPIC hard on, see a doctor if it lasts more than 7 hours)

    GOP 54
    D I 46

    Hey maybe we should have listened to the folks saying, “You’re underestimating the ‘young’s’ in your ‘likely’ and adding a bunch of weird internal polls.

  39. 39

    @33 Precious, my precious …

    At least now Senate Republicans won’t have to fight over which of them gets to be majority leader.

    One Senate race to go; that one can Manchin-proof the Senate for the next two years.

  40. 40

    Do yourselves a favor, liberal progressive Democrats and talk Creepy Joe out of running for re-election. If you Democrats nominate and run Biden, you will lose.

  42. 42

    @40

    Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Red Wave

    Hahahahahahahahahaha

    We’re never going to vote for your party. Ever.

    And we just got a taste of swinging an election how we wanted.

    Ahahahahahahahahaha

    Joe could die the week before and he’s wining over anyone with an R after the name.

    Ahahahahahahahahah

    Sure…we’ll take you advice.

  57. 57

    LMFAO! Not at the GQP for failing to take the Senate. LMFAO at what a dumbass the weak, ineffective dumbfuck has made of himself. Most epic fucking self-pwn in the history of epic fucking self-pwns.

  60. 60

    From the Raw Story, GOP is dead story.
    Outer Limits • a few seconds ago
    “The American Fascist Party? The American Christian Nationalist Party? The American We-Only-Care-About-Billionaires Party? The American White Supremacist Party? The American Put-Women-In-Their-Place Party? I mean, the possibilities are infinite.”

  61. 61

    57

    He gave himself a full six years to get it done. It was bound to be epic.

    I’m actually starting to wonder if maybe the personae of GodwinHA, Vicious Troll, Shiver the Red, etc was really all an elaborately conceived, six year performance art project with this election as its finale.

    Either way, the humiliating destruction of the GOP is all very real. And very spectacular.

  62. 62

    @58

    Dissolve Parliament

    Vote of no Confidence

    Pick the Premier at the next Party Conference.

    Jr is president now unless he dies. Then it’s Eric. No women, sorry Ivanka.

    Race you for it.

    Coin flip

    DIBS!

  64. 64

    Do yourselves a favor, liberal progressive Democrats and talk Creepy Joe out of running for re-election. If you Democrats nominate and run Biden, you will lose.

    If Republicans gain narrow control of the House, Democrats can safely nominate a turnip and we will win.

    Thanks to more than six years of out-and-proud money grifting, Big Lie election denial, searing misogyny, Stars-and-Bars Lost Cause racism, middle-school swimsuit inspections, book burning, kitty litter mythology, gun humping over the dead bodies of First graders, and JOO SPACE LASER the House GOP is an ungovernable mob of poo-flinging, coked-out howler monkeys. A two seat majority will empower the worst among them and ensure that the next two years will be dominated by their unhinged appearances on voter televisions. The dominant theme of the 2024 Republican primary season will be the unanswerable question “which one of these weak, crippled midgets can get behind the wheel and keep this car from hurtling off the cliff?”

    By November of 2024 indy voters will be too frightened to trust returning any Republican to the White House.

    This is yet another #owngoal

  66. 66

    A two seat majority will empower the worst among them and ensure that the next two years will be dominated by their unhinged appearances on voter televisions.

    My advise to the GQP? MTG as house speaker.

  67. 67

    I’m actually starting to wonder if maybe the personae of GodwinHA, Vicious Troll, Shiver the Red, etc was really all an elaborately conceived, six year performance art project with this election as its finale.

    I don’t see our weak, ineffective troll ever coming back. He’s too much a fucking coward to do that.

  69. 69

    It’s been a few days now since former mayor, youth advocate, PA State Lieutenant Governor and recovering stroke patient John Fetterman wiped the floor with vacuous, fatuous carpetbagger and quack remedy salesman Mehmet Oz.

  70. 70

    I just want to make clear that I personally don’t believe that Republican leaders like McCarthy are actually powerless to cure their party of the MAGA cancer. But like a lot of advanced stage cancers, I think the effective treatment would be fairly aggressive and involve some a lot of real damage to the party that would require years of recovery – well beyond the 2024 cycle.

    And while all that might be possible (albeit requiring much stronger and more determined leadership that is available) it would still have to take place in the wake of Dobbs. Whatever happens for the GOP going forward it will happen with them dragging around a 10 million vote anchor. It’s hard to even imagine what any real attempt to cut out the MAGA faction from the party would look like in that context. Any hope that the GOP might have to lessening the terrible damage of Dobbs will depend upon some very nuanced and disciplined messaging to voters if it is to have any hope of retaining the support of the Bible-Bros. That isn’t going to happen in the midst of an intra-party food fight, fueled by social media memes and Trump rallies.

    I admire the ambition that is clearly being expressed by many Republicans to rid themselves of MAGA in the wake of this election disaster. I just don’t think it is any more realistic than their claims of a RED TSUNAMI this year. Structurally they just are not in that position. My best guess is that leaders will try. But they just won’t have enough stomach to stick out the losses.

    And it is worth pointing out that the safer off-ramp was presented to them several times before. And they refused.

  71. 71

    @70 Actually I believe the GOP went through this before after the defeat of Barry Goldwater when they purged the Bircher and other nutjob elements out of the party.

    Both those elements never went away and while they didn’t appreciate being purged, they never were going to support Democrats. So they became the ones who danced to the dog whistles..

    And as they say, the inmates eventually took over the asylum. It’s still under-reported how drumpf got 10 million MORE voters in 2020 than it got in 2016, most of whom it seems never participated in previous election cycles. It seems unprecedented to me.

    And as long as drumpf breathes, they’ll be a drag on the GOP.. Practically impossible to purge.

  73. 73

    Trump is calling his political allies and encouraging them to blame Mitch McConnell for GOP’s poor midterm results, report says
    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pressing-political-allies-to-blame-mcconnell-for-midterms-cnn-2022-11

    Trump is seriously over estimating his sway here.
    Appropriate comment:
    “He will eventually split and make his own party, take about 15 percent of the gop vote.
    Mark my words, in the next few months you will see sudden turn from fox and support form the GOP on the investigations and conviction of Trump.
    Then they will pretend they never liked him, just like they pretend for W Bush, McCain and Romney now.”

  74. 74

    This is exactly what I mean when I’m talking about party message discipline:

    https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1591828975000891393

    It’s President Biden’s call. And I suspect we’ll hear from him pretty soon after the GA special. But if he decides to continue his fight then the party rallies to it’s leader. And people stop running messaging that weakens all of us and empowers Republicans.

  75. 75

    Well, that seem healthy. /s

    “Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit,” Trump said in an interview with NewsNation that aired Tuesday. “And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all. But it will probably be just the opposite.”

    The former president even congratulated himself for encouraging certain Republican candidates to run for office. “I’ll probably be given very little credit, although in many cases, I told people to run,” he complained. “And they ran, and they turned out to be very good candidates.”

    And this who Kill Social Security Republicans supported over a cliff.

  76. 76

    @74. I vote for whom I think and feel is the strongest Democratic candidate in the primary, the one that most supports Democratic values and can get elected. Then I will vote for the best candidate and party to support Democratic values in the General Election. If the Forced Birth republican politicians and the tax cuts for the richest Republican party started instead to support Democratic values I would consider them, but it doesn’t seem likely any time soon.

  77. 77

    Imagine a first term, Democratic president with Biden’s record of accomplishment, now capped by this midterm election.

    Then make that president Black, or a woman, or gay.

    How would you respond to “concerns” about that president’s ability “to handle the job” given all the “disadvantages” of their Blackness? Or given all the “disadvantages” of the gender? Or given all the “disadvantages” of their gayness?

    Republicans would NEVER throw away an incumbent advantage like this. Not ever.

    If you want a 46-year-old president you can have him.
    He’s right there.

    His name is Ron DeSantis.

  78. 78

    On this day in history I landed in a
    Boat that I didn’t know how to pilot at Alki and decided this was mine. A couple years later I declared that the people who were here when I landed weren’t allowed on MY land after dark.

  79. 79

    @77. Agreed. Biden is our strongest option. In the last cycle, I thought Elizabeth Warren was a great candidate, but I knew that Biden was stronger because he was more electable. That he turned out to be so wildly effective is just icing on the cake.

  80. 80

    76,
    Just keep in mind that part of the price of holding an open primary with a dozen challengers (Andrew Yang? Howard Stern? Roy Cooper? Eric Adams?) in 2024 is that hundreds of millions of dollars that Jaime Harrison might put toward ground organizing, canvassing, and GOTV in the states to flip/hold state houses, to flip/hold House seats, and to pull swing Senate seats across the line, instead gets spent in places Iowa, New Hampshire. South Carolina, California, and Texas.

    Part of the reason for Democrat’s relative success this year is owing to Harrison tripling the budget for ground game organizing and GOTV in swings this year, compared to 2018.
    That’s where we won turnout. Preserving democracy means we have to do it again in 2024.

  81. 81

    The Supreme Court helped out the Democrats mightily with their overturning of Roe v Wade. The Court should have waited to hear the case AFTER the election. They clearly did not see how much abortion case would galvanize the electorate against the Republicans and the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    As for me, I was completely happy with leaving the abortion situation unaltered by the court. When they agreed to hear the case, they set in motion a way of denying the Republicans what the Republicans had thought was in the bag – control of the House and Senate. This is one of those instances where the conservative Court shot itself (and the Republicans) in the foot without any good reason for doing so.

    Abortion is just about the best poverty-avoiding technique out there. It’s as plain as the nose on your face – you shouldn’t have children if you can’t afford them, and abortion is a good tool to avoid a life of struggle and poverty.

    Now, if we could just get those low-income women to get abortions rather than popping out kids to fill the welfare rolls!

  82. 82

    @81,

    So having been shown to be entirely wrong about nearly everything for so many years, what on earth makes you confident you got things suddenly right this time?

    Asking for a friend.

  85. 85

    I’ve got no problem with re-electing President Joe Biden, God Bless him. But can he get re-elected if in 2 years his mind isn’t all there?

  86. 86

    @83,

    If you aren’t able to answer the question because you put someone else’s words in your mouth it’s okay.

    But help a brother out. I need to know what to do next. Right?
    Me and my team just burned down about $2 billion of Uihlein and Griffin money. And I’m pretty sure those dudes have contract killers on speed dial. If you know a way out of this mess I could really use a lifeline.

  87. 87

    PI they’re stupid enough to repeal same sex marriage too.

    I told my independent friend that I thought they would overturn Roe v Wade after the election, boy did I give them too much credit for thinking they were crafty…..bunch of Dumbfucks.

  88. 88

    As much as this is a high victory, Democrats can’t get too cocky. Forget about Trump and tell the people why Repukes are such Dumbfucks.

    And be sensible all the time instead of just most of the time.

  89. 89

    If the Democrats run Joe Biden in 2024, the Republicans will win the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate.

  90. 90

    @73 Republicans sure are a vicious backstabbing bunch, aren’t they? There’s no safety in making friends with them.

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