The Daily Show: The Docs—A classified horror story starring Трамп, Biden & Pence
Ari Melber: Ransom or govern? Biden holds line with McCarthy “shakedown”
The Racist and Liars that Comprise the Dotard Nationalism Movement:
- Jimmy Kimmel: George Santos’ new wingman, Трамп pleads the 5th & drag queen story time with Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Lawrence O’Donnell: McCarthy votes to “defund the police” as Democrats push for police reform
- Tommy Campbell: Chinese spy balloon causes Republican hysteria
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to all Black quarterback Super Bowl
- Alex Wagner: Marjorie Taylor Greene embarrasses herself
with misinformed talking pointby opening her mouth - Medhi Hasan: It’s hard to overstate MTG’s threat to America
- Seth Meyers: Prosecutors present evidence against The Dotard in Stormy Daniels hush money case
- Parody Project: ♫ King of the Con ♬:
- Keith Olbermann: Nobody asks McCarthy about HIS antisemitic trope
- SNL Weekend Update: Трамп’s Facebook reinstated with “guardrails” and George Santos admits to dressing in drag
- Desi Lydic: Is it a real FAUX News story or some bullsit Desi made up?
- Stephen: George Santos says no more lies and MAGA states limit teaching about race
- J-L Cauvin: Superbowl predictions from The Dotard
- Ari Melber: Losing—See Трамп under oath after caving to New York A.G.
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп rants about windmills & DeSantis, the case of curious George Santos & MyPillow Mike is coming!
- Seth Meyers: The Dotard rips into DeSantis & kicks off 2024 campaign and Lindell loses RNC vote
- Jordan Klepper vs. Трамп supporters who think he’s still President
- Alex Wagner: Republicans bereft of ideas for how to shed Трамп albatross
- Tommy Campbell: Трамп’s dome plan is stupid
- Chris Hayes: The right’s ‘campaign of lies’ about the Pelosi attack
- Ari Melber: Трамп denial—After 2022 humiliation, RNC doubles down on big lie and MAGA losers
- Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best ChristianThe secret to reading an inconvenient Bible like a Christian nationalist pro
- Jimmy Kimmel: MyPillow Mike Lindell at Kimmel, Трамп won’t stop whining & Santos steps down amid investigation
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ Gosh, THEY’RE the snowflakes! ♬:
- Ali Velshi: Some Republicans ‘can’t wait’ for Трамп to die
- Chris Hayes: Трамп and DeSantis try to out anti-vaxx each other
- Alex Wagner: Republicans feign anti-Semitism standard to eject Rep. Omar from committee
- Mark Fiore: The select subcommittee of a weaponized Jim Jordan
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Tom Brady retiring
- Ari Melber: Bar’s sin—Трамп’s AG abuse of power
- WaPo: Ocasio-Cortez—Omar vote “about targeting women of color”
- Seth Meyers: Greene embarrasses herself at hearing and DeSantis tries to out-MAGA Трамп
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s heaping helping of trans-paranoia, supermodel Santos & MyPillow Mike STILL in claw machine
- Stephen sits down with George Santos
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Chris Hayes: U.S. life expectancy is declining. Biden should act.
Vice News: On the frontlines of the abortion war—Death threats and arsons
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Seen some suggest using the space lasers on the balloon. Probablyan F-22 would work better.
Vicious Troll spews:
Darryl left out this multimedia clip of Joe Biden bringing the hurtful truth to trannies like the hemorrhoid-ugly Rachel Levine.
G-clown’s parents are similarly repulsed by his very existence.
(It’s an excellent deep fake example.)
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 2
Another link.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
2, 3,
More silly fake laptop bullshit.
Vicious Troll spews:
Rachel Levine is to a woman as Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is to a millionaire.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@5 I suppose anything is possible with gender. And Republicans, as usual, are several centuries behind the times.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Donny Trump Jr. is suggesting Montanans fire their guns into the air. I can see this idiot getting the balloon, 12 miles up, in his telescopic sights and s-l-o-w-l-y squeezing off a round. Except for one little detail: Last I heard the balloon was over St. Louis this afternoon and heading for Memphis tonight. Donny Jr. is as stupid as his dad is dishonest.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A car registered to George Santos “has been ticketed for speeding at least five times since he was elected to office — including four times in school zones,” the New York Post says.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/rogue-driven-by-rep-santos-has-at-least-5-speeding-tickets/
Santos claims his dog was driving it.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
7)I doubt an AR-15 can shoot to 60,000ft.
During WWII, Ma Deuces on P-40s got a few of the Japanese Ballon bomb.
https://youtu.be/i8HrqNqXtTQ
Roger Rabbit spews:
@9 A .30-06 round fired straight up can make it to about 10,000 feet and takes roughly a minute to fall to earth. The much lighter .223 round wouldn’t make it as high. Odd that this chart doesn’t have info on the widely-used AR-15/M-16 round, but if the heavier 7.62mm NATO round can’t make it to 8,000 feet, I’d guess a .223 round would go less than a mile up. One more thing: People do get hit by falling bullets.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/question281.htm
Roger Rabbit spews:
This article describes the protocol for shooting down “objects in the sky.” Apparently only the president or Sec Def can give a shoot-down order. The pilots and their ground controllers don’t have decision authority.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A German 88’s effective ceiling was 8,000 meters (26,250 feet), which would not get you anywhere close to a balloon flying at 60,000 feet, even if your aim was dead-on. (And for that you would need a modern precision-guided munition.)
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Preston Hemphil is to the Shit-lord failure’s “reliable sources” as TSLA’s price plunge is to his claims of financial genius.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Ashli Babbitt is to patriotism as Joe the Plumber is to Republican tax plans.
Vicious Troll spews:
YouTube video about WWII Japanese balloon bombs. Railfan loves shit like this.
Vicious Troll spews:
It wasn’t because of fear of damage on the ground that we didn’t shoot down the balloon. That was Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit-type idiocy – that motherfucker will swallow anything if he thinks it will benefit the Democrat party.
It was to benefit diplomatic efforts.
We weren’t afeared that we’d hurt GOP-voting Montanans if we shot down the air balloon. We were afeared that we’d upset Xi, who’s got the goods on Hunter and Jim, the blackest-sheep members of The Biden Crime Family.
Vicious Troll spews:
Bbbbbbbbbut I was told that the Fall elections were a disaster for the GOP.
N.C. Supreme Court will rehear redistricting, voter ID cases in March
The best part is that the order finds Common Cause to be as silly and unserious as I find YLB to be:
Two is one more than the number of unserious twats who populate HA these days:
Heh.
Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:
silly and unserious
CCM anyone? heh..
C-C-C-Chicaaagooo.. How’s about some stop and frisk? Let’s do it for the kids!
Don’t do it in Memphis.. That’s Marsha Blackburn’s state.
Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:
idiocy – that motherfucker will swallow anything if he thinks it will benefit the [repuke] party.
Bruce and Nellie Ohr come to mind.. Anything babbled in print by John Solomon.
yep, that “mofo” will swallow it whole, some’in “serious”.
Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shit-lord of widbee? spews:
Xi, who’s got the goods on Hunter and Jim, the blackest-sheep members of The Biden Crime Family.
And moscow mitch in his pocket.
Freeball Jackson (I sleep naked) spews:
@20, I’ve been trying for days to get any kind of explanation for these accusations about big-big crimes.
And even before that piece of shit broke down in tears and ran away all he came up with was a tax beef with the IRS, and a clearly overblown charge about falsely checking a box on a government gun control form to accompany what turn out to be lies.
Worse than “silly and unserious”, he’s a lying, crybaby coward. Politics aside, this is the worst kind of person.
Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shit-lord of widbee? spews:
a lying, crybaby coward.. the worst kind of person.
Heh.. Agreed.
Groomers Gone Wild! spews:
“Am I being fired?”
“Well, it really depends. You see, we don’t think you are fitting in with our ‘Gay Nightclub’ vibe on staff.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/leaked-audio-george-santos
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Insanity. Evangelicals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-found-dead-pennsylvania-made-joint-decision-kill-police-say-rcna69060
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Bob himself is a deep fake. His whole life existence is lesser than his dead brother’s existance.
It’s obvious he hurts from it.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
12)Even the Raptors M61 would be long shot, plus a shower of spent 20 mm rounds landing below. A Patriot PAC-3 would be overkill on a balloon. Expect Raytheon to lobby to sell more Patriot batteries as well as it’s improved Israeli version, Sky Ceptor/ David’s Sling.
If it’s downed in anyway over the US, wonder if it flew over Whireman, not sure if they fixed the runway yet. Last year a B-2 pilot had a very expensive mishap.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
@26,
It’s too big to conceal.
It moves incredibly slowly.
It shows up on all ground based radars.
It can easily be seen and tracked by ground based observers using off-the-shelf magnification.
What are the chances the Pentagon has already deployed very effective countermeasures that pose no risk to anyone, don’t alert the adversary to the countermeasure, and result in improving security?
When House Republicans need a distraction from their ongoing failures the media always deliver.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
27)B-2s suppose have to be kept in Hangars anyway, so all tgey would have seen at Whiteman are the A-10s of a reserve unit.
The Balloon has now been shot down.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@21 “a government gun control form”
In what country? We don’t have gun control here. Deathpublicans have seen to that.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@27 They hung a tarp over its sensors?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
70% of the US population was not even born yet the last time unemployment was this low.
More than 90% of US workers had not yet been born the last time US unemployment was this low.
Biden Economic Miracle
It is of course meaningless to pensioners clinging to the dependency cycle of entitlement that Biden has achieved such incredibly low unemployment in just two years following the most recent Republican economic collapse. But it may not be meaningless to voters under age 55. Nor will it be meaningless to those over age 55 that the GOP’s only response to this is to gut Social Security and Medicare.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Interesting explainer on why shooting it down was more complicated than people think.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/why-shooting-down-chinas-spy-balloon-over-the-u-s-is-more-complicated-than-it-seems
Roger Rabbit spews:
@28 Yeah, I have a video of the shootdown posted on Handbill.US.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
29,
Do you find it ironic that the pathetic Shit-lord failure is shaking with uncontrolled rage for a white guy to be prosecuted for something he strongly disagrees with?
I don’t.
I predicted this.
I said that “moderate” conservatives dabbling in ultra MAGA Trumpism for lulz and near term “wins” would deliver themselves to just exactly this kind of cognitive dissonance. Having run out of things to shit on, they are left to shit on themselves.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@32 Why, all you have to do is point your AR-15 at it and empty your 100-round drum magazine while shaking your fist, like Donny Jr. suggested.
By the way, police asked citizens not to shoot at it …
https://www.newsweek.com/police-beg-locals-refrain-taking-pot-shots-chinese-spy-balloon-1778936
… but I’ll bet some yahoos did anyway.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A more extended video shows the balloon shedding a lot of debris as it falls.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
35)Reminds me of tge news broadcast in Independence Day.
As for weapons used, OSINT people on Twitter suggest AIM-9s did the trick after all. First kill for the Raptor. Not what it was designed to shoot down, but their is always a difference between designed to do, and what it can do,
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
House Democrats should show up next week all wearing balloon pins.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Was Doctor Dumbfuck outside shooting at the moon over Whidbey Island last night, by any chance?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Biden just popped the dumbfuck troll’s assertion he’s sucking up to Beijing.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
39,
Maybe he was dropping off dead fish at The Goonies house before a nice swim in the river?
Gggeeee Money spews:
Attending HRC NYC Gala tonight!🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Gggeeee Money spews:
Bob is a bloviating George Santos
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Hey! Any of y’all ever paid any income taxes to China ?
Trump has.
Mitch McConnell too.
They helped pay for “the balloon”.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
On the way home from a trip to Tacoma. When I switched from the 594 to PT2, the Pierce Transit bus had its farebox and ORCA reader covered up. Pierce Transit is honoring Rosa Parks Birthday with a fare holiday, instead of just a press release.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A flight tracking website had 4,000 users tracking the wrong balloon.
https://www.businessinsider.com/thousands-us-standard-research-tool-chinese-spy-balloon-2023-2
Vicious Troll spews:
The matron of The Biden Crime Family, DOCTOR Jill Biden, earlier today:
I felt such a sense of pride about the effort and that our military, you know, shot down the balloon, how coordinated it was, how thoughtful it was, that it was decided to wait until it was over water so that civilians weren’t affected…
She left out the part about the administration thoughtfully deciding to wait until civilians found out about it because of local news reporting in Montana.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 46
A flight tracking website had 4,000 users tracking the wrong balloon.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, even after the autopsy was complete, you were tracking the back of Mike Brown’s torso instead of his front.
Let’s not forget that those tracking the wrong balloon were probably 1/3 Democrats, 1/3 Republicans, and 1/3 Independents. And 100% of them can afford to buy their own copy of Barron’s.
Vicious Troll spews:
Our intel peeps knew it was coming, and knew that it was Chinese, before it reached our waters off Alaska’s shore.
It was good of him to wait until China’s spying was complete before taking out the balloon.
·
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 42
Attending HRC NYC Gala tonight!🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
She’s running.
And when you’ve gone home, G-clown, she and Bill will laugh about how easy it is to fleece you rainbow flag types.
Donald J. Trump, 2024 spews:
https://www.amazon.com/PinMart-Hot-Balloon-Enamel-Lapel/dp/B07XVRY46T
Commenter on Althouse spews:
Skin of orange
He’s just like Hitler
Except for his hair
And his hands are littler
Gggeeee Money spews:
You don’t like these🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈, do you.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
51,
I like it!
Republicans can build up the flair on their Chili’s 🌶️ uniforms and maybe qualify for a big promotion!
RedReformed spews:
Survey shows rising food insecurity in Florida
Amid Florida’s property insurance crisis as companies leave and rate skyrocket, the state insurance of last resort sees its policies swell by 50% in 2022
Florida’s citrus crisis drives up orange juice prices
Is Florida’s water ‘dirtier’ under DeSantis? Here’s what the data show
“Existential urgency”: Housing crisis clouds South Florida, expert says
Florida teacher vacancies soar to nearly 5,300 in January
Four years later and still waiting for DeSantis to address literally any of the actual problems facing the 20,000,000 Floridians who aren’t rich. Conservatives are the most easily manipulated suckers on Earth.
And yet our conservatives continue to project Hillary Clinton is the one fleecing the rubes.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 53
Silly rainbow flags and crosswalks don’t compensate for piss-poor AGI, G-clown.
Never stop working. You can’t afford to.
Vicious Troll spews:
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron @ 55 makes his strongest argument yet that homosexuals are inferior. To just about everything else.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@48 You don’t get rich by buying stuff you can get for free.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@55 Florida has no problems Ron can’t solve by asking for federal bailouts.
Vicious Troll spews:
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit provides us with a definition of a miserly millionaire-wannabe. “I own stock.” Funny.
Our investments in our horses and their proper care make my wife happy, which dwarfs everything else. I’m happier shoveling manure and tossing hay bales than you will ever be trudging to the library to read yesterday’s Barron’s, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. What’s more, I smell better at the end of the day than you do. It helps not to stink like festering catheter seepage at the start of the day.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Mississippi Republicans are trying to get their filthy, corrupt hands on $600 million of federal money meant for fixing Jackson’s water system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-water-system-state-takeover
Republicans never saw a federal bailout they didn’t want to steal.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@60 How much capital gain does your F-250 and horse trailer generate?
The dumbfuck who buys depreciating consumer goods because he can afford them scoffs at owning stock …
Roger Rabbit spews:
@60 “I’m happier shoveling manure and tossing hay bales …”
Col. Saito is impressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4AqAbw3kTQ
Roger Rabbit spews:
@60 “What’s more, I smell better at the end of the day than you do.”
Should we tell him, guys? Nah. Let’s let him “be happy in his work.”
Roger Rabbit spews:
George Santos lies about everything, including his campaign expenses.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/02/04/george-santos-campaign-finances-philip-bump-ebof-vpx.cnn
But this is the kind of lie you go to jail for.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Call sign for the Raptors involved in the shoot down, Frank01 and Frank02, possible homage to Lt. Frank Luke Jr. A WWI pilot, who shot down multiple German observation balloons.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-carolinas-with-missile
Hopefully we recover the balloon before the Chinese. Taiwan got the first AIM-9 kill, but one of the MiGs survived , with the AIM-9. The AIM-9X is way more advanced.
Steve spews:
wife
Strange name for a horse.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@67 Yeah. And he thinks owning a horse is “wealth” but owning stocks isn’t. As the man said, Funny.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
And to think that the Fat Fuck lept it a secret.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23/h_1f1e4d057e1aa906e5ef3b686e63527b
I bet the Fat Fuck probably consder needing to get Melania a horse too.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
All is quiet on the Heterosexual Neandertahl STD Virus front this morning. But that could only be a prelude to a disasterous week where this dreaded virus claims more victims leaving wives, children and pets laying dead.
But one still can’t celebrate because this dreaded, costly to the Taxpayer, heterosexually transmitted disease will not rest. It will lurk forever, and ever.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
Heterosexual Neanderthal STD on the lite.
https://plataformamedia.com/en/2023/02/01/prostitutes-in-ukraine-face-even-greater-health-risks-after-war/
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
More Hetero Neanderthal STD Virus that is so normalize. Nothing to see here.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-police-nab-2000-men-illegal-child-marriages-96892127#:~:text=Only%20155%20cases%20of%20child,men%20and%2018%20for%20women.
But Drag Queens are a problem, amirite?
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 62
How much capital gain does your F-250 and horse trailer generate?
The grandkids don’t generate capital gain, either. They’re not a miserly joy, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, so nobody here expects you to understand.
RedReformed spews:
Greed Boomers are the worst. I can say this, I’m a boomer by one year. Came acrost this wonderful trend called filial responsibility laws.
Apparently Q boomers are getting tired of not being allowed to see their grandchildren and or not having their kids take care of them since they have no money for retirement.
https://www.harborlifesettlements.com/4-ways-filial-responsibility-laws-can-affect-you/
and….
Depending on the state, if the parents prevent the grandparent from the grandchild, the grandparents might have the legal standing to be able file with the family courts and demand to be granted visitation rights. Then the rules of the visitation agreement created by the court would be the same or similar to parents’ visitation rights in that there are rules to taking the child places, visitation locations, etc and normally one of those rules is you can’t just pick up and move without changing the visitation rights agreement with the courts.
RedReformed spews:
Conservatives. “We voted repeatedly to gut social programs because fuck the poor. Why are they gutting the programs I paid into my entire life?”
Colonel Nathan Jessup spews:
I wonder if G-clown has even contemplated the simple fact that without heteros there’d be no homos.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises only to get ass-fucked by other men under the blanket of the wide range of homosexual penises that heteros provide through proper sex, and then questions the manner in which heteros provide them.
RedReformed spews:
US man cleaning out late grandmother’s apartment shot dead by police
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/ohio-wyoming-joe-frasure-jr-police-shooting
>> I’m sure the data on Hunter’s Laptop will explain the cops actions.
Hunter ‘One day at a time” Biden spews:
Cocaine and Stupidity are a hell of a drug, Jr.
Curious why such a thing was kept a secret by The Former Guy from people with very high level security clearance.
So about that bank account and the patents Ivanka got?
RedReformed spews:
“simple fact that without heteros there’d be no homos.”
If every straight man and woman became sterile tomorrow, the gays and lesbians would be able to keep the species going through traditional and non traditional means.
Been doing that for generations before societies advanced enough that LGBTQ people could live more authentic lives.
I’m sorry “Colonel Nathan Jessup”, if that is your real name, just because you can impregnate a woman, doesn’t make you special.
Vicious Troll spews:
Imagine shutting down nuclear power plants and cutting off petroleum imports so that the nation can rely on “renewable energy”.
Until the company goes tits-up because it manufactures shit.
Trump's Weird Little Penis spews:
@78,
https://youtu.be/JDYi_3bXJkA
It was tremendous how many Chinese balloons we had.
Rudy Giuliani spews:
Imagine devoting two years of a presidency culminating in an impeachment and an insurrection riot to ineptly producing a smear campaign against a recovering cocaine addict and it all turns to shit.
Rudy Giuliani spews:
Before I became an alcoholic, I was a lead federal prosecutor in my past career.
So it stands to reason I was better at framing people once.
Now I can’t even fool Tucker Carlson.
Adam Smith spews:
@80
Imagine a free market conservative jumping to the conclusion that an entire technology is shit because one of the top five manufacturers is having trouble meeting production and quality standards.
Would that be good news
For the seventh largest wind turbine manufacturer…GE?
Every day this jag hole finds a new way to embarrass himself.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 84
In a free market, Mr. Smith, where do the never-ending subsidies factor in?
Throw enough money at a company and it will always be able to turn a “profit”.
Solyndra didn’t fail, you see. There was merely insufficient ongoing external subsidy to ensure “profitability”.
Vicious Troll spews:
WaPo/ABC:
“In a hypothetical matchup between Biden and Trump, 48 percent of registered voters today say they would favor Trump to 45 percent who say Biden”
And this is why the Biden-controlled DNC wants SC to be first:
“Black Democrats narrowly prefer nominating Biden (47 percent) over someone else (41 percent), while 64 percent of White Democrats want someone other than Biden.”
Yabbut wait until Momala is dropped from the ticket and replaced by Mayor Pete. Black Democrats really hate guys who suck cock for fun.
Vicious Troll spews:
The only Democrat who thinks Trump controls the GOP is QoS McHillbilly. The rest of them know that it’s DeSantis in a landslide if they can’t Hitlerize him, right quick.
Prediction: Democrats will “other” Casey by pointing out she’s only got one breast. But she looks like she’s got two, so she’s a fake.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
65,
It’s important to remember here that, however suspicious his campaign expenditure reports appear, having large numbers of $199.99 disbursements is not a criminal violation. And of course, as you know the burden of proof in a criminal case rests on the prosecution. I think there is public interest in what Phillip Bump (and Mother Jones, and the NYT, and others) has done here exposing these fraudulent expenses. But think it is very unlikely that any criminal prosecution will come from that.
Mr. Bump has a book to flog. And CNN has 168 hours of air time to fill each week. They have a mutual interest here that diverges from the interest of the United States Attorney’s office.
That being said, I do think Santos has truly well fucked himself. But he’s probably done so on the other side of the ledger.
Very superficial digging on the part of reporters has already revealed that Mr. Santos’ campaign reported income from straw donors, donors who do not exist, and donors who are not U.S. citizens. Journalists have easily been able to uncover patterns of donations that would indicate illegal bundling and conspiracies to assemble groups of straw donors. And nobody, including Mr. Santos, his accountant, or his campaign treasurer (who has since quit and gone into hiding) have been able to explain the very large, six figure campaign loans that appear in the filings. Mr. Santos can’t explain the income. His campaign has reclassified the donations, There are no public records that would substantiate Mr. Santos ever having obtained these funds by any legal means.
And finally there is the absolutely ominous fact that the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section has requested that the FEC terminate it’s investigation of Mr. Santos and his campaign. PIN, it must be noted, has a reputation in recent years for declining to prosecute these kinds of cases, ever since AG Holder intervened in an appeal of the conviction of Ted Stevens and ordered a motion to dismiss when it was discovered that PIN prosecutors had violated discovery in the original criminal trial.
It’s possible that PIN may see this as an opportunity to finally restore some of their tarnished public reputation. If so, I don’t think they’ll attempt that by launching a long-shot on the phony expenditures.
Unserious Twat spews:
Dammit! With Trump doing absolutely nothing about three Chinese balloons, I can’t talk about Biden and his Chinese balloons anymore! Damn that Biden for shooting that balloon down!
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
In 2022 the RNC outraised the DNC $276 million to $245 million.
But the DNC finished the year with twice as much cash on hand.
Because Trump. Just in the New York state cases alone, the RNC spent of almost a million dollars on legal defense for Trump in 2022 alone.
It’s the GOP. Nobody really knows who is in charge. Probably some thumb-nosed henchman hired by Putin. But one thing is for sure: Fat Midget is not running the show. He can’t even get tickets.
I have no idea what USN 5th Fleet is for spews:
@85
Now do oil corporation subsidies and the hundreds of billions on the Navy to protect their transport of material.
It’s like you’re worried about the dime instead of the million.
Every day it’s something with this moron.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Prediction: AFP will blow half their load on big advertising buys in Ohio, New Jersey, Colorado, and California before the primaries have even begun, and months before the first major winner-take-all primaries. Fat Midget will fail to obtain a presumption of early dominance. Cheeto Hitler will survive into the late primaries with lots more delegates than Ted Cruz ever imagined. Face painted weird-beards will dominate television coverage of the GOP nominating convention before pouring into the streets of Milwaukee to riot.
Josh Hawley will unfortunately be photographed fist pumping in front of a burning police car.
GOP “2034”. We hat BOOKS! spews:
@86
In a hypothetical poll of National voters that still is discounting Gen Z voters this Dumbfuck thinks the electoral college has gone away.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
A retired Tomcat RIO’s take on the balloon shoot down.
https://youtu.be/k2xz21HvLs8
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Biden and Brave Kevin have now met for the first time to discuss what the Republican Party’s demands are for bringing legislation to the floor of the House authorizing the borrowing they previously approved in the budget.
The meeting lasted 2 hours.
Immediately after leaving the meeting Brave Kevin met with his propaganda team at Punchbowl News to explain that the hostage negotiations were very friendly and went great. When asked what was discussed, Brave Kevin responded that he would not “negotiate the details in the media”.
In other words, Brave Kevin is proclaiming at the beginning of the process that the people who will be paying the ransom will not be allowed to know how much ransom they are paying.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
93,
polls having gone so very well for idiots like the Shit-lord failure, who by the way, does not understand enough mathematics to make sense of any poll he relies on to validate his ongoing failure.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
In his propaganda release Brave Kevin explained that although he would not discuss details of his hostage negotiation, he would say that he is looking for an agreement to roll back 2024 spending to 2022 levels.
Which is in fact a lie.
How do we know it is a lie? Great question!
Because there are no fewer than 100 members of Brave Kevin’s own House caucus who have already ruled out these limits, plus another 24 Republican Senators who have pledged to reject such limits.
Republicans, especially House FREEDUMB HAIR CLUB FOR MEN members absolutely refuse to reduce or limit spending on a whole bunch of appropriations, not least of which are defense, Homeland Security, border enforcement, energy, and of course themselves. Kevin already knows all this because he’s read it in places like Punchbowl News.
Gggeeee Money spews:
No need to “Hilirize” Hiler.
DeFuckFace is no less Hitler as Hetero Neanderthals are not rapists, killers and perverts normalized to appear unlike Hitler
Gggeeee Money spews:
Easy to say you won’t vote for some today than having the only option in November.
The Dumbfuck is delusional and a Dumbfuck spinner of bullshit and idioticism. He had no choice but to buy a horse and shovel shit. He’s perfect at it!
Donald J. Trump, 2024 spews:
@89, Maybe there were three balloons. Maybe there were 300. Maybe they weren’t even balloons. Maybe you’re the balloon.
The point is, we just don’t know!
Roger Rabbit spews:
Add sexual harassment to the long list of complaints against GOP scumbag George Santos or whatever the hell is real name is.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/george-santos-prospective-staffer-complaint/index.html
Roger Rabbit spews:
Funny how doc never mentions Santos when he goes on one of his tears against scumbags. He must’ve overlooked the news reports about this one.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Looks like there’s some Republicans in Fort Collins, even though it’s not in Boebert’s district. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard has family there.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/sport/colorado-state-apology-russia-chant-utah-state/index.html
Roger Rabbit spews:
@73 “The grandkids don’t generate capital gain, either.”
Can we assume you found that out by testing the market?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
101,
Myers has audio recordings that allegedly confirm the conversations that he has shared with media.
But it bears noting that Myers is also sketchy af.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@73 “They’re not a miserly joy, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, so nobody here expects you to understand.”
It’s worse than you know, doc. I also save money by borrowing books from the library instead of buying them.
I’m reading and learning (a “miserly joy”) while you’re fucking the horse. What do you learn by fucking a horse? What horseshit smells like, that’s all.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@76 And you live to fuck women? In which case you’re burdening our overcrowded planet with more additional mouths to feed than he is.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
bunch of fucking mouth breathers with the mentallity of cavemen.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/colorado-state-apologizes-students-russia-chant-directed-ukrainian-bas-rcna69205
Unserious Twat spews:
Maybe there were three balloons. Maybe there were 300. Maybe they weren’t even balloons. Maybe you’re the balloon.
The point is, we just don’t know!
Sorry, but I’m not the balloon. I’m an unserious twat.
Unserious Twat spews:
It’s Biden’s fault. Except Trump’s balloons. Those were Obama’s fault.
Seriously.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@80 The dumbfuck doctor has forgotten the nuclear industry “manufactures shit.” Defective welds, the list is endless. At least with wind turbines you don’t have to figure out where to park your radioactive waste. Siemens doesn’t murder whistleblowers, either (so far as we know).
Roger Rabbit spews:
@95 So much for “transparency.”
Gold Member Laptop Hunter spews:
@109 The balloon count is on Hunter’s Laptop along with the Republican’s detailed fair and balanced Spending Cut plans.
RedReformed spews:
Paraphrasing Henry S Truman.
Socialism is a scare word conservatives have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 70 years.
Socialism is what conservatives called public power. Socialism is what conservatives called social security. Socialism is what conservatives called farm price supports. Socialism is what conservatives called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what conservatives called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
Conservatives are all for socialism when it helps them and only them, but they would rather die than have it also help the people they despise.
Che Guevara spews:
@114
GOP
Affordable college -socialism
Municipal water systems – Socialism
Breathable air – socialism
Ability to see a doctor without paying $10k in years you don’t need one – Socialsim
Unemployment Payments – Socialism
Libraries – Socialism
Profit caps on life saving medicine – Socialism
Gay people existing – Socialist religious discrimination
Voters under 40 – Socialism sounds AWESOME!
GOP – We gotta take away education. It’s indoctrinating us out of power.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 115
GOP – We gotta take away education. It’s indoctrinating us out of power.
Governor Youngkin would disagree with your last sentence.
Terry McAuliffe, OTOH, would utter that last sentence.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 95
… the people who will be paying the ransom will not be allowed to know how much ransom they are paying.
So, like your basic omnibus bill, then.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 92
Prediction: AFP will blow half their load on big advertising buys in Ohio, New Jersey, Colorado, and California before the primaries have even begun…
Prediction: Billionaires who support the GOP will line up behind Koch/AFP. Trump won’t be there at all by the time the first primary is held.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@114 “Socialism is what conservatives called farm price supports.”
Until they began cashing the crop subsidy checks. Then it became capitalism, and Republican farmers were just honest businessmen selling milk to the Department of Agriculture.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@116 How about if we revise that statement to say Gov. Youngkin is taking bathrooms and sports away from kids who don’t conform to his narrow-minded paradigm.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@118 Aren’t you the guy who makes predictions about elections?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Prediction: Trump will never agree to release even a single one of his delegates.
Gggeeee Money spews:
Ballon’s are floating around in their fucking empty skulls….but it’s really not about the jackassery of the Repukilan American Taliban, it’s about the moronic mother fuckers who listen to Faux News bullshit like pigs at a trough.
All a bunch of POS Neanderthal perverted killers and rspists.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
… support President Fat Midget’s 30% federal sales tax.
Because if nothing else, what the Trump Economic Collapse, the Republican Pipe-bomb Terror Attack, and the Biden Economic Miracle have taught swing voters is that all Republicans will happily put party loyalty ahead of America every time.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 121
Aren’t you the guy who makes predictions about elections?
The Troll Political Report can predict with high confidence that Momala will be every bit as big a ball and chain for the next 23 months as First Vegetable Joe Biden deserves.
Our crack political team doubts she’ll be on the bottom of the ticket if for no reason other than we doubt First Vegetable Joe Biden will run again.
Our team knows she won’t try her hand at the primary race. In 2019 a few people knew she was awful. Now everyone does.
Giving a good blowjob isn’t enough to be taken seriously. As verification of this just look at G-clown, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, and YLB.
Vicious Troll spews:
The reason Trump didn’t shoot down the balloons is that nobody knew at the time they were there.
A guy who had no qualms about dropping bombs on Soleimani wouldn’t have hesitated to shred a bit of inflated rubber if he thought it would protect the nation.
First Vegetable Joe Biden, OTOH, was shamed into doing it. I heard it was because Jill called him a pussy, again.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Also doubted JEB! would flame out.
Doubted Trump would come from behind in 2016.
Doubted Trump could hold off Lidle and Sen Cancun.
Doubted Biden would jump in in 2020.
Doubted Bernie would release his delegates.
Doubted Bernie Bros would support Mighty Joe.
Doubted Democrats would unify in the primary.
Doubted Trump would lose to Joe.
Doubted Trump would refuse to concede.
Doubted Trump would challenge his own loss.
Doubted Trump would send a violent mob to kill Mike Pence.
Doubted Democrats would win back the House.
Doubted Democrats would win back the Senate.
Doubted Democrats would flip both Georgia Senate seats.
Doubted Democrats would flip Colorado.
Doubted Democrats would perma-flip AZ.
Doubted Millennials would turn out.
Doubted Black voters would turn out.
Doubted probort voters would turn out.
Doubted Trump Flu would decimate white power evango voters.
Doubted a newly elected television comic with no prior political experience would face off against one of the last remaining global superpowers and destroy a murderous dictator while unifying democratic free Europe.
🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Too busy masturbating to pictures of his daughter between naps and cheating at golf.
Ping An Bank spews:
@128
Nobody except various intelligence services who didn’t let the moron apparently in charge know because….he was a walking security risk and they knew it.
Either that or the intelligence services under the previous guy were incompetent by design regarding China.
Pick one.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 129
Pick one.
I could pick both, or neither.
To the extent that Team Biden is claiming that Trump had a chance to shoot down spy balloons and did not, it blows that effort to bits now that it’s turned out that for whatever reason, Trump did not know about the balloons contemporaneously. Which was my @ 126 point.
But thanks for the assist. And my president is still a senile, incompetent pussy.
Gggeeee Money spews:
There goes my dyslexia….balloons not ballon’s….. not sure where the fucking apostrophe came from.
Fuck Bob
Gggeeee Money spews:
The Chinese are probably listening in to this conversation and wondering why is Bob such a DumbFuck……and thinking, “Hasn’t he heard of Jewish Space Lasers
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Cheeto Mussolini gave a PRC spy a guest pass to his Florida sex club.
She had on her, in addition to two Chinese passports and four cellphones, a laptop and USB drive later found to contain some kind of malware. More devices and $8,000 in cash were later found in her room at a nearby hotel.
Credit the assist to the empty bottle of Jim Beam lying at the Shit-lord failure’s feet.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Trump passed classified sat images around at his Florida sex club to tables of drunken guests, just like the PCR spy who got caught.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Japan (and the rest of the world) did not officially learn that their PURPLE diplomatic cypher had been broken in 1939 until long after the end of the war when it was finally made public in Congressional hearings into the Pearl Harbor attack.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
According to his now publicly released tax filings, in his first year as President of the United States Republican Donald Trump earned just over $6.5 million in income from the People’s Republic of China.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Unvaccinated people age 50 and older were 12 times more likely to die than vaccinated and double-boosted peers.
Rural areas 50 to 90% higher death rates.
500 dying every day from now until Tuesday, November 5th 2024.
Another 300,000 dead.
Vast majority of them people who usually vote, and usually vote for Republicans.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Roger Rabbit spews:
@125 “with high confidence”
Compared to what? Your other election predictions?
Roger Rabbit spews:
@130 “And my president is still a senile, incompetent pussy.”
Which one? The one who didn’t know, or the one who did?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Two utterly predictable headlines from Huffington Post tonight:
“Trump Denies Pentagon’s Claim That China Flew Balloons Over U.S. During His Term”
“Republicans Sidestep Questions On Chinese Balloons During Trump Years”
With Republicans, it’s all politics, all the time.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel appeared to distance herself from the recently circulated GOP document calling on Republicans at the state level to ramp up election denial efforts for 2024, according to WISN 12 political director Matt Smith.
“‘That’s not an official report. There’s other things that need to be added to that, including all the legal pursuits that we had, all the lawsuits that we had,’ said McDaniel.”
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-election-denial/
In other words, more lawsuits like the ones that were laughed out of court even by Trump’s own judges, and got GOP lawyers sanctioned or disbarred?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Rudy goes all-in on “Jew space lasers”:
“Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized President Joe Biden for not using secret evaporation weapons on a suspected Chinese spy balloon to ‘make it melt.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-chinese-balloon/
Roger Rabbit spews:
It appears Charles Koch has decided to pick the 2024 GOP nominee himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/koch-network-republican-primary-2024/index.html
Koch isn’t a Trump supporter, and part of his motivation is to shut Trump out. But that doesn’t make him a good guy. He’s the money behind ALEC, the group that pushes rightwing legislation through state legislatures, and he’s a major force in climate denial. His oil and chemical businesses are notorious polluters.
Ideologically, Koch is a small “l” libertarian. He believes in doing whatever the fuck he wants without interference from regulators. Nobody he picks to be our next president will be an acceptable candidate.
Beyond that, the notion of one person having that much power over our political process goes against our democratic principles. And there’s no way that, having bought a president, he won’t treat the president is an employee.
Keep an eye on this.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
I’m not sure Alina Habba is going to be available.
She’s busy picking up extra shifts at Applebee’s trying to cover $1 million in sanctions from Judge Middlebury.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
I recall being shocked and a little outraged at first, when we all learned how incredibly irresponsible President Trump was early on with classified military intelligence he received in PDBs and from other sources. But that soon passed when everyone, including sworn high ranking officers, all came to recognize that this was entirely his privilege as President. And it was clearly a privilege he was aware of, enjoyed a great deal, and intended to have fun with, regardless of any consequences to the United States.
It seemed to me everyone grew accustomed to the understanding that President Trump was unconcerned about protecting classification and security. His lifestyle and habits produced thousands of vulnerabilities, from undocumented spies on staff at his trash palace resorts, to spies circulating among the guests and admirers he surrounded himself with, to his habitual use of unsecured mobile devices, to his frequent and casual sharing of sensitive military intel during state visits.
And given his boorish, and delusional personality traits, it was also to be expected that after his humiliating defeat he would continue to be a risk while projecting that flaw onto his opponents.
What I did not expect was that Republicans would be so delusional as to join him in that projection. I’m just gob-smacked that Republicans have grown so reflexively and instinctively partisan that they would choose to compare Trump’s national security performance as CIC to any other president.
Openly inviting us to take a stroll through Trump’s shocking history of national security breaches is like inviting us all to recall how he and Senate Republicans gleefully engineered the US economy into shedding 30 million jobs in less than a year.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
The history of billionaires pouring huge sums early into nationwide nominating contests is a very checkered one.