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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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SNL Weekend Update: Some political news of the week

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Rachel Maddow: OK local paper records county officials in violent and racist discussion

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Those KKKrazy Folks Flirting with Fascism:

Symone D. Sanders-Townsend: Governor Inslee on why he’s stockpiling the abortion pill that could be in jeopardy

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Shoot first, ask questions later ♬

Jordan Klepper: Andrew Tate & re-examining masculinity

John Oliver: Farming

Stephen: Some political news of the week

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    So Lindell was so sure no one would take him up on his offer, that he won’t pay out. Probably because it wasn’t the conclusion he expected.

  2. 2

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

  3. 3

    @3 Only racists, Bible thumpers, and rapists hoping to be appointed to the Supreme Court think so.

  4. 4

    “In a dissent from the Supreme Court’s order pausing mifepristone restrictions from taking effect, Justice Samuel Alito said there were ‘legitimate doubts’ that the Biden administration would have followed a court decision that went the other way.

    “’Here, the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong objections,’ Alito, one of the court’s conservatives, wrote.”

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3963753-alito-legitimate-doubts-biden-admin-would-have-obeyed-unfavorable-abortion-pill-ruling/

    I have legitimate doubts that Alito knows how to be a judge. Real judges don’t speculate what the parties before them might or might not do after a ruling; they just issue their rulings, and deal with any issues of enforcing them as they come up. I think Alito is a GOP operative.

  8. 8

    This is what happens to neo-Nazis who threaten to kill sheriffs.

    https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/cristhian-zapata-ht-jt-230421_1682096077947_hpEmbed_16x9_992.jpg

    From Daily Beast: “And just like the first two men arrested, this one also is living with his mother.”

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/cristhian-zapata-arrested-for-threats-against-anti-hate-florida-sheriff?ref=scroll

    Do we know these people? Have any of our trolls gone quiet in the last 48 hours?

  10. 10

    The DNC knows what will happen if First Vegetable Joe Biden is forced to debate a Democrat candidate for president with a brain and a spine.

    The DNC has announced that it will not hold primary debates.

    Now, about replacing Momala…

  11. 11

    Speaking of Democrat leadership cowardice…

    Sarah Ferris
    @sarahnferris
    👀 Growing number of Hill Dems breaking from Biden/party leaders and say it’s time to sit down and negotiate debt limit with McCarthy

    @nicholaswu12

    @adamcancryn
    politico.com
    House Dems worry Biden ‘can’t keep waiting’ on McCarthy debt meet
    The speaker’s debt-limit plan didn’t gain any Democratic support — but it is prompting some handwringing over when the president should head back to the negotiating table.
    1:06 PM · Apr 20, 2023

  12. 12

    @10 – The Democrats are in a flux over Harris. She hasn’t done so well as the veep, and the Democrats don’t know how to get rid of her for 2024. No Democrat wants her to be president in the event that Joe Biden dies in office after possibly getting re-elected. It’s a quandary. They are probably looking at how FDR got rid of Henry Wallace back in 1944 to see how they can convincingly get Harris out of the picture.

  14. 14

    @ 12

    No Democratthinking American wants her to be president…

    … for any reason.

  15. 15

    So, we’ve lost an American in Sudan – killed in an attack on a convoy – and we’re gonna have to go in now.

    The U.S. troops are being moved to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. Evacuation planning for Sudan got underway in earnest on Monday after a U.S. Embassy convoy was attacked in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.

    There will be boots on the ground in a nation currently in a civil war, because my corrupt, incompetent, senile president learned not one fucking thing from his disastrous decisions in Afghanistan.

  16. 16

    There’s no reason to travel to the US embassy. No one there has any idea what the fuck to do because my corrupt, incompetent, senile president, who has known about this for three weeks now, hasn’t planned jack shit.

    Travel – State Dept

    @TravelGov
    Sudan: U.S. citizens are strongly advised to remain indoors, shelter in place until further notice, and avoid travel to the U.S. embassy. There continues to be ongoing fighting, gunfire, and security forces activity. There have also been reports of assaults, home invasions, and looting. The U.S. embassy remains under a shelter in place order and cannot provide emergency consular services.

    Due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and closure of the airport, it is not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.

    In order to better help you, if you are a U.S. citizen in Sudan, please contact ACSKhartoum@state.gov.

    More at https://sd.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-khartoum-5/
    5:22 AM · Apr 20, 2023

  17. 17

    @15 – The Democrats and Republicans are just the opposite sides of the same Big Government, Interventionist coin. Both want to maintain an American Empire that we can no longer afford and is totally at odds with our Constitution.

    America should deal at arm’s length with all nations, especially our so-called allies. It’s time to shrink the empire.

  18. 18

    @11 “The speaker’s debt-limit plan didn’t gain any Democratic support”

    That “plan” cuts spending by 9%, then limits spending growth to 1% a year for 10 years. With (1) the military budget exempt, (2) inflation, and (3) population growth, it results in huge spending cuts for the rest of government (except Social Security and Medicare). The “plan” also rescinds funding of IRS enforcement against wealthy tax cheaters, which will add to deficits by reducing government revenue.

    You seriously think any Democrats would vote for this?

  19. 19

    The media describe McCarthy’s plan as an initial bargaining position, but he has only a 4-vote margin, and several GOP House members are making it clear this is their final compromise, which they came to only very reluctantly, and it’s not clear McCarthy has the votes even for this.

    Democrats can’t possibly agree to this. The McCarthy budget would gut air traffic control, workplace safety enforcement, food stamps, a host of other things. They would be slaughtered by their voters. Both sides say they want to avoid a default, but accidents can happen. The stock market has yet to react to that growing possibility.

  20. 20

    @13 Yep. He cracked down on antisemitic hate, and these tiki-torch dudes didn’t like it. All three of these losers were living with their mothers before they were arrested, who probably are glad to be rid of them.

  21. 21

    @ 19

    Democrats can’t possibly agree to this.

    Hence the growing call to negotiate.

    You’re an incredible dumbfuck, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  22. 22

    @15 Sounds like you want to abandon our embassy staff to a mob.

    @16 Our embassy staff has a reason to be there: Our government sent them. Who sent the private citizens?

  24. 24

    @21 And if the McCarthy plan is presented to the Democrats as non-negotiable demands?

    And what happens to McCarthy if it isn’t? What wiggle room does he have? Looks to me like he’s got none.

    And you call me a dumbfuck …

  25. 25

    The easiest path to a debt ceiling increase is through the Democratic caucus with a handful of Republicans who aren’t kamikazes.

    A much harder path is all 222 Republicans, or at least 218 of them, standing behind McCarthy’s plan as take-it-or-leave-it.

    Harder still is McCarthy getting his caucus to compromise with the Democrats. He barely got them to compromise with each other.

    I suspect some purple-district Republicans are doing some serious soul-searching already.

  26. 26

    20)One radio host I listened to, said to his female listeners, that the first one was available. They said they will pass.

  27. 27

    @15 Have you ever considered doing a numerical comparison of Biden’s “disastrous decisions in Afghanistan” (13 U.S. lives lost) with Bush43’s Iraq clusterfuck (4400-plus U.S. lives lost)?

    Don’t know about you, but I prefer Democratic disasters to Republican clusterfucks. They cost less American blood.

    Oh, and the need to go into Afghanistan in the first place resulted from another Bush43 clusterfuck.

  31. 31

    Hence the growing call to negotiate.

    Brave Speaker Kevin can’t get any majority to support these things.

    Let us now recall that Speaker is a constitutionally defined position irrespective of parties. It may be that Brave Kevin relied entirely and exclusively on Republicans to win election (barely, eventually) to the Speakership, but it is in fact his job to pull together the votes to support his legislation .

    Of course we shouldn’t be surprised that Brave Kevin’s supporters are demanding that Dank Brandon come to his rescue. Nobody understands the weakness of Republicans better than a Republican. But Democrats know better than to throw a lifeline to their enemy.

    To gain the gavel Kevin was forced to agree to empower, protect and support an extremist minority of partisan shit stains like Gym Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy, Matt Gaetz, and Marge. When he did that he abandoned bipartisanship and negotiations.

    If Brave Kevin wants Biden’s help he’ll have to earn it first by demonstrating that he can actually lead.

  32. 32

    The easiest path to a debt ceiling increase is through the Democratic caucus with a handful of Republicans who aren’t kamikazes.

    Roger is 100% correct.

    The leadership required of Brave Kevin is the leadership that will cost him the gavel. He must defy the Republican Suicide Caucus and release moderate, swing district Republicans to negotiate with Biden and Jeffries.

    He will eventually. But being Kevin McCarthy, he will do it in the dumbest way possible.

  34. 34

    @10

    Having another swing at THAT piñata?

    “Will you shut up, man!”

    CNN Poll: Biden wins final presidential debate

    Poll: Majority of viewers say Biden won final debate
    Debate watchers surveyed in a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll said, by a 15-point margin, Biden performed better than Trump.

    Debate-watchers say Biden won first debate, but most felt “annoyed” — CBS News poll

  35. 35

    @16

    It is recommended that US citizens leave.

    It is highly recommended that US citizens leave

    Do not travel to Sudan

    US Citizens leave the county. We cannot guarantee your safety and will be evacuating the embassy.

    “My God why didn’t you save me?

    What do you mean. I sent you a truck a boat and a helicopter.”

  36. 36

    @33

    Already did:

    On April 16, 1862, the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law. Originally sponsored by Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, the act freed slaves in the District of Columbia and compensated owners up to $300 for each freeperson.

    Shhhhh. That’s CRT.

  37. 37

    Even QoS McHillbilly @ 32 is calling for a negotiation effort between the House and Biden, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Negotiation.

  38. 38

    @ 31

    If Brave Kevin wants Biden’s help he’ll have to earn it first by demonstrating that he can actually lead.

    This ain’t December, anymore. McCarthy has demonstrated quite a bit:

    We passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Cost Act. That will lower inflation, lower global emissions, and strengthen our national security. 4 Democrats voted with us.
    We created a Select Committee on China that allows America to speak with one voice about the growing threat of Communist China. 146 Democrats voted with us.
    Then, less than two weeks ago, Republicans and Democrats, including Caucus Chair Aguilar, joined me in California to meet with the President of Taiwan.
    We blocked the sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China. 113 Democrats voted with us.
    We passed legislation to nullify D.C.’s soft-on-crime criminal code. 34 Democrats voted with us, and President Biden is signing it into law.
    We passed legislation to end the pandemic emergency. 11 Democrats joined us, and President Biden signed it into law.
    We denounced the horrors of socialism. 109 Democrats joined us.
    We passed legislation that would protect seniors’ retirement savings from woke ESG investments that play politics with Americans’ money rather than maximizing returns. It was bipartisan, but President Biden issued his first veto against it.

    Meanwhile, twice (so far) in this term Biden has told House Democrats one thing and then done another. Each time House Democrats voted according to what Biden told them only to be hung out to dry by their own party’s leader.

    Maybe we’ll hear the same about McCarthy when push comes to shove over the debt ceiling. Or, maybe it will be about beating Biden, and the House GOP caucus will stay united. Hell, there might even be some Democrats along for the ride.

  39. 39

    Dumb cunts gonna dumb cunt.

    Former Bud Light marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid, who was at that post for not quite a year, is off the brand. We understand she has decided to take a leave of absence.

    Todd Allen is now VP of Bud Light, reporting directly to CMO Benoit Garbe. It appears Todd was most recently VP of global marketing for Budweiser.

    Doesn’t mean their bosses have to put up with it.

    I read earlier this week that Bud Light’s target is Kid Rock, not RuPaul. I expect the new marketing VP understands this. The one just shit-canned clearly did not.

  40. 40

    Ray Epps will be on 60 Minutes tomorrow night.

    Fed.

    People are in jail for having done less that day than Epps did.

  41. 41

    39 – Here’s where the private sector is superior to the government sector. In this instance, a private concern got rid of someone who failed miserably. Had this been a government organization, she would have kept her job and probably moved laterally until some time passed. Then, she would be right back on track in the government employee career.

    Government is where the mediocre go for employment.

  43. 43

    No Democrat wants her to be president in the event that Joe Biden dies in office after possibly getting re-elected.

    What are you talking about? Harris is one shitshow kookhaus hearing away from being prez.. Cuz China, China, China and Hunter’s dick pic laptop.

    teh kreepshit troll read about it in zerohedge.. heh.

  44. 44

    Who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline? The answer is obvious: the West, and it was probably the Americans.

  45. 45

    “A Texas man facing multiple charges for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol … opened fire on police who came to check on him before his scheduled surrender … after a relative told authorities Pelham had a gun …. When local police arrived, the house was dark and deputies turned on their emergency lights. … Police could then hear gunshots coming from inside the house and took cover. … ‘About an hour later, at approximately 9:38 p.m., Mr. Pelham – a previously convicted felon – walked onto the porch and allegedly fired towards several deputies …. A deputy instructed Mr. Pelham to put his gun down, but he continued to wave it until re-entering his home. At 10:46 p.m., Mr. Pelham again exited the residence and fired multiple rounds.’ Authorities were finally able to detain Pelham just after midnight. There were no injuries.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-defendant-opened-fire-on-texas-police-during-welfare-check-fbi_n_6443fc7de4b0408f3e5382c0

    Too white to be dead.

  47. 47

    @37 “Even QoS McHillbilly @ 32 is calling for a negotiation effort between the House and Biden, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Negotiation.”

    I don’t negotiate with terrorist hostage-takers.

  48. 48

    @38 I wouldn’t brag about H.R. 1 if I were you. Or bossing seniors’ investments. Wall Street pros do ESG because it’s profitable, not because they’re altruistic. Wall Street has no altruism.

  51. 51

    4-1 GOP appointed Supreme Court says, “Nah, that’s bull shit

    In a landmark decision, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the Alaska Constitution’s equal protection doctrine.

    The decision follows a contentious recent reapportionment cycle: The Alaska Redistricting Board was twice found by the state’s highest court of having unconstitutionally gerrymandered the state’s political maps by attempting to give solidly Republican Eagle River more political representation with two Senate seats.

  52. 52

    35)Wonder if they read the mini-novel in Tom Clancy’s non-fiction book Airborne? IRL, the logistics of dropping a Battalion of the 82nd into Khartoum to safeguard the embassy isn’t that simple. The book was written before 9/11 and 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Although in the book, t was an interesting operation, he had it 18 hours from tge order given to wheels up, and 24 hours after,, it was 10 minutes out, and stand up and hook up.

  53. 53

    @38,

    Thin, pale, sickly looking pimply old white dude railing his sweaty, fat wife with a 10″ sleeve invites us all to watch and admire her responses.

    No thanks.

    Whatever the fuck goes on between Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans behind closed doors can stay there. I ain’t seein’ that shit.

  54. 54

    @39,
    “Hey everybody! Look at us!

    We achieved an inconsequential triumph of insignificant proportions over people you probably wouldn’t like about something you aren’t interested in!

    You should feel defeated.

    We need you to feel defeated.

    For God’s sake please say you feel defeated!

  55. 55

    Dumb cunts gonna dumb cunt.

    And the Incel troll wonders why women have never fucked him. Sad!

  57. 57

    Barry Humphries who created the globally beloved “Dame Edna” passed today after a monumental career in comedy drag.

    Ron DeSantis would have had him tortured and executed.

  60. 60

    Are you fucking kidding me? A couple delivering groceries for Instacart drove up to the wrong home and got shot at, but the police told them the shooter “broke no laws” because they were on his property.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-couple-car-shot-delivering-instacart-wrong-address_n_64443b4ae4b011a819c1c2b9

    What the cops are really saying is it’s legal shoot black people in Florida, as long as you have a hunting permit and you’re shooting them in season.

  61. 61

    The whole purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure government employees don’t get too bog for their britches.

  62. 62

    Here’s an idea: All the delivery companies — UPS, FedEx, Amazon, Instacart, Domino’s Pizza, etc. — should get together and compile a “Do Not Deliver” list of homeowners who shot at delivery people. Let ’em drive to a pickup location to get their parcels.

  63. 63

    Delivery jobs are obviously too dangerous for black workers in places like Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas City.

  64. 64

    A strong woman just makes Queen YLB look even worse.

    Megyn Kelly
    @megynkelly
    Bud Light waves the white flag, ousting disastrous VP of Mktg, weeks after destroying its own brand by going woke on gender.
    Let that be a lesson to other corporations.
    We’ve HAD IT.
    Quote Tweet
    Jennifer Sey
    @JenniferSey
    ·
    Apr 21
    Breaking in Beer Business Daily:

    @budlight Management Changes: Todd Allen Appointed VP Bud Light

    Former Bud Light marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid, who was at that post for not quite a year, is off the brand.

    We understand she has decided to take a leave of absence.

    “Today,…
    6:53 PM · Apr 21, 2023

  65. 65

    @ 62

    All the delivery companies — UPS, FedEx, Amazon, Instacart, Domino’s Pizza, etc. — should get together and compile a “Do Not Deliver” list of homeowners who shot at delivery people.

    Something like that is going on in PDX, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Except instead of not sending out drivers to get shot at, businesses are closing so their brick-and-mortar employees aren’t robbed or threatened. Perhaps you’ve heard of Walmart, Nike, and REI.

    Glad you approve.

  66. 66

    A strong woman just makes

    teh kreepshit of widbee hopelessly limp pissing away all the munee it wastes at bosley and buying out the store at the affirm clinic.

  67. 67

    to make sure government employees don’t get too bog for their britches.

    We have laws, and courts, and prosecutors and long prison sentences for that.

    It looks like we’re about half way through the insurrection plotters. Trump’s next. We’ll get to you eventually asshole. You, your pink plastic AR, and your child porn stash in the basement are just not the priority.

    BTW, only a complete asshole thinks a bowling team with a suitcase full of Chinese knockoff Mini 14s can stand up to an AC-130J.

  69. 69

    Doc’s not gonna get his hostage crisis; U.S. embassy personnel and their dependents have been evacuated from Sudan.

  70. 70

    Delivery drivers don’t get shot at in my neighborhood, and if they did, the shooter would be arrested. I guess Florida is a different place, with different rules. I suspect it’ll become harder to get deliveries there. It’s already hard to get homeowners insurance there.

  71. 71

    Believe it or not, Trump has some political skills:

    “As president, Trump would invite members of Congress to fly with him aboard Air Force One when traveling to their states or districts. When Trump endorsed a lawmaker for office over the past few years, he would frequently try to call or meet with them or host them for a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. If something happened in a member’s personal life, Trump would often reach out.”

    And while he sucks at being president, DeSantis sucks at being a candidate.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3963150-trump-desantis-2024-endorsements/

  72. 72

    Believe it or not, Trump has some political skills:

    “As president, Trump would invite members of Congress to fly with him aboard Air Force One when traveling to their states or districts. When Trump endorsed a lawmaker for office over the past few years, he would frequently try to call or meet with them or host them for a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. If something happened in a member’s personal life, Trump would often reach out.

    “Last week, when Trump attended a Republican National Committee (RNC) retreat in Nashville, he sat for three hours with Tennessee’s two GOP senators and four members of Congress from the state, most of whom the former president had either helped elect or spoken with before. The former president on Thursday hosted 10 members of the Florida delegation at his Mar-a-Lago estate for dinner. ‘Personal touch is everything for him,’ a Trump campaign aide said.”

    And while he sucks at being president, DeSantis sucks at being a candidate.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3963150-trump-desantis-2024-endorsements/

  73. 73

    @ 72

    And while he sucks at being president, DeSantis sucks at being a candidate.

    First Vegetable Joe Biden sucks at both. If Biden announces on Tuesday, it will be on a pre-recorded video rather than in front of the people with media cameras rolling on his one take, and he’ll spend his entire campaign attempting to hide his senility and his incompetence from the world.

    The only problem is that there’s no pandemic this time around. See Friday’s WSJ editorial.

  74. 74

    Maybe I missed it, but I can’t recall y’all defending Blinken against the 51 signatories letter with anything other than blind partisanship.

    This is from the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. Makes me want to see the entire transcript, since selective passages have now been leaked from each side.

    Wasn’t hard at all to find this. Even HA’s dumbest twat could have done it, but instead Queen YLB was out shopping for a new sports bra.

  75. 75

    Anyone remember Leon Panetta stating that we’d just have to go back in again?

    Jake Tapper
    @jaketapper
    WaPo: Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals
    washingtonpost.com
    Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals
    THE DISCORD LEAKS | A classified Pentagon assessment portrays the Islamic State threat arising from Afghanistan as a growing security concern.
    10:30 AM · Apr 22, 2023

    I wonder how many Americans will die in the terrorist attack that results in the US re-invasion of Afghanistan.

    More, probably, than the number of soldiers who died while my corrupt, incompetent, senile president was cutting and running in 2021.

  77. 77

    Makes me want to see…

    yawwnn.. kreepshit wanna upskirt…

    shopping for a new sports bra.

    awkward thing to wear on its shrunken nutsack but kreepshit gonna kreep..

    yawwwn.. next?

  78. 78

    I wonder how many Americans will die

    Translation: Americans dying in places most americans can’t find on a map at the hands of swarthy dudes with funny last names means another tax cut for kreepshit..

    It had little to nothing to say about this or this..

    yawwn… next???

  79. 79

    “Microsoft announced earlier this month that starting on April 25, its advertising campaign platform “will no longer support Twitter.””

    From that date, users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account through its Digital Marketing Center’s social media management tool, according to Microsoft. Users will also no longer be able to schedule, create, or manage tweets or tweet drafts. In addition, users won’t be able to view their past tweets and engagement on the Microsoft Advertising platform.

    https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform

    Relevant Image
    Musk, Twitter and SpaceX
    https://i.insider.com/603449a038aa9f00185e05af?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp

  80. 80

    @73 “Joe Biden sucks at both.”

    He handily beat your candidate, so if you’re right, what does that say about your party and its candidates? And you?

  81. 81

    @74 Between Blinken and Jordan, I believe Blinken over Jordan, and that’s not blind partisanship; it’s based on character, reputation, and track record for truthfulness.

  83. 83

    In the news:

    Across the life span — from infancy to the teen years, midlife and old age — the risk of death at every age is higher for boys and men than for girls and women.

    The result is a growing longevity gap between men and women. In the United States, life expectancy in 2021 was 79.1 years for women and 73.2 years for men. That 5.9-year difference is the largest gap in a quarter-century.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/04/17/mens-health-longevity-gap

    The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit and its buds at kreepshit vip lounges everywhere.

    Winners: my kids and Mary Kay. Yep we’ll keep Mary Kay, abso f’in lutely..

  84. 84

    Also in the news:

    In October, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed crime in New York City was “out of control” and blamed it on George Soros… In May 2022, hours after 19 children were murdered at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott swatted back suggestions that the state could save lives by implementing tougher gun laws by proclaiming “Chicago and L.A. and New York disprove that thesis.”

    In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413

    The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit who deludes itself into believing that krime will poke a hole in the blue wall. Repukes who will continue to lose national elections holding up con-man panderers to gun fetishists like drumpf.

    The biggest winner: Democrats who will continue to rack up W’s in national elections. Landed Southerners who will continue to enable gun violence culture and absorb the property of their foolish marks as they kill each other off.

  85. 85

    Friday’s WSJ editorial

    Did any of you read it?

    Yeah. Me either.

    I just can’t justify paying money to Rupert Murdoch so he can pay some whining delinquent like Tucker Carlson to tell blatant, acknowledged lies. If I needed lies I’d read the Shit-lord crybaby’s posts about imaginary “FB friends from CO” or his enormous wealth accumulated from brilliant market timing moves, like going long on TSLA right before the stock dropped by more than half.

    But rather than read predictable lies from the WSJ, instead maybe let’s think about the shift we are seeing from Republicans like the Shit-lord crybaby.

    They are figuring it out. Slowly. But unmistakably. It is dawning on them that Trump will win. The field isn’t developing the way they had hoped. DeSantis’s political skillset is clearly limited to stunts and culture wars mud fights. He isn’t breaking out of that box. Trump alumni are not obtaining any traction at all from the Trump support network. And they are not winning over the remnant never-Trump network either.

    There is still time for a Republican “third way”. But there appears to be zero appetite for that from partisan voters who take part in party primaries. They either want genuine, pure Trump, or a “less baggage”, watered down version of Trump. And the pure, uncut Trump is preferred by addicts 2 to 1.

    So Trump has pulled into a commanding poll lead already. He continues to dominate fund raising, even with only limited support from the JFCs and large donors. He probably won’t stall unless somebody does something to make his growth of support stall. And so far nobody has emerged capable of doing that. Not even criminal indictments will slow him down.

    Trump is probably assured of the nomination. So in contemplating Biden’s candidacy for reelection it makes sense to do it in this context. Biden, whatever his age, will face Trump. And so what will that look like?

    Well, again disregarding Biden’s age, and even disregarding his performance in office, a challenger facing an incumbent has the inescapable task of presenting their own record, their character, and their messaging to persuadable voters in swing states as a necessary alternative. That is, it often is not enough for any challenger, however politically talented, to present their vision as “better”. But rather it is required that a challenger establish the need for change first. A “referendum” instead of a “choice”. And this is because most of these persuadable voters in swing states are not politically engaged. They aren’t invested in these debates the way we are. They don’t care that much. They might not even vote at all. But when they do they often start out with the presumption that “they all suck equally”. And without a reason to intervene, reelecting the same guy (who sucks) is the lazy result if that guy hasn’t fucked you personally in some way.

    So of course Trump has a big challenge in portraying “Biden’s America” as a post-apocalyptic hellscape of looming threats that only he can confront. And while this is a popular and engaging message within MAGAland and among MAGA Republicans, among largely disengaged non-partisan voters in swing states these claims are regarded as risible and met with plenty of eye-rolling dismissal. Making these matters a bit worse is that fact that far too often the claimed threats that start out within the plausible realm, “parental choice” and “religious freedom”, soon drift into incoherent and unrecognizably paranoid MAGA group hysteria about “transgenderism” and “VAX TRUTH”. These evolved “fears” may serve to help MAGA and Q cultists gain control of a local health district board or even a local school board, but they won’t help Trump win swing voters where he needs them most.

    But then there is the alternative vision that Trump offers. The non-aligned and major national media have predominantly ignored reporting on that, perhaps hoping he’ll go away, but probably just too busy covering the larger shit show that is Trump. So outside of MAGA world Trump’s alternative vision is strangely unknown. So what is it? It’s interesting, for sure.

    Trump says he will (all subject to change/modification at any time):
    – Place the entire federal workforce under his direct control, eliminating federal civil service and then systematically purge the entire workforce of any employee who is not blindly and unquestioningly loyal to him exclusively;
    – Reorganize the Department of Justice to arrest, indict, and prosecute all federal employee whistle-blowers of any kind;
    – Implement a “bounty” program offering a cash payment to private citizens or public employees who uncover and report “disloyalty” on the part of federal employees;
    – Place all federal elections under the control of an as yet unnamed federal agency under his direct control;
    – Implement a national voter registration and ID system administered through an as yet unnamed department under his direct control;
    – Impose a nationwide ban on abortion at conception at the federal level through the FDA (not clear how this would work);
    – Implement mandatory nationwide stop-and-frisk (also not clear how this would be done);
    – Authorize the active federal forces of the Department of Defense to deploy into US cities upon his command to fight “street crime”, disrupt criminal “gangs”, and locate, detain and deport all immigrants without authorizing documents at the time of their detention;
    – Establish and build from scratch new “clean”, “beautiful”, and “safe” “Freedom Cities” featuring “flying cars” on “underused” federal lands like National Forest lands and National Parks lands;
    – Through another as yet unnamed federal agency Trump will enforce “new standards” for “truth” on all major media, particularly broadcast media and large media corporations;
    – Impose mandatory prayer in all public schools at all grade levels;
    – Develop and impose new curriculum at the national level on all states and school districts placing an emphasis on “patriotism”, “loyalty” and “respect for tradition”;
    – Authorize parents in every state, through a nationwide voucher program, to obtain state and federal taxpayer dollars and spend them as they see fit on whatever school or educational program they deem appropriate for their child;
    – Impose local elections of public school principals on all school districts and all states in which only parents with enrolled students may cast ballots.

    It’s very important to remind ourselves at this point how much of Trump’s extreme campaign rhetoric in 2015 and 2016 was ridiculed and dismissed, by Democrats and others certainly, but also and most importantly by Republicans. And then we must remind ourselves about precisely how much of it Trump actually went on to at least try to implement. He faced pushback, of course. And he mostly failed in the end. But the point is he means exactly what he says. Yes, these are ideas intended to excite and energize the MAGA base. They are also ideas that he would absolutely try to implement if he became President once again.

    It isn’t an alternative vision that is likely to win over large numbers of non-aligned, disengaged, swing state voters. But it may make him the most popular Republican nominee in a generation, within his own party.
    This makes the odds of Trump winning in November much worse than they ever were in 2016. But clearly folks, the stakes have never been higher.

  86. 86

    @85 nice read..

    On the looming debt ceiling disaster:

    “I don’t think lawmakers act until they get calls from investors and others in the business community saying: ‘What are you doing?’ But we’re not hearing those voices yet, because they think lawmakers have always done the right thing and acted just in time,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “It’s a very dangerous drama playing out here.”

    The administration’s attempts to enlist the support of business executives may also prove unsuccessful. White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients has personally asked top business leaders to advocate for a solution to the debt ceiling debate, according to two people familiar with the matter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private remarks. But corporate America doesn’t have as much clout with the GOP as it did in the Obama years, and it’s not clear such measures will be effective with the House conservatives who nearly derailed McCarthy’s leadership bid earlier this year.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/22/debt-ceiling-biden/

    the biggest loser: teh shit-lord crybaby of widbee when it sees its nestegg go down the shitter cuz’ ‘bortion, Q, election stolen, CRT, “groomers” and ‘pwnin’ teh libs.

    the biggest winner: hard to see anyone winning when a couple dozen maga shitferbrains call the shots and the typical greedee repuke can’t budge cuz’ the magats will primary them when they join with Dems to avert disaster.

  87. 87

    But corporate America doesn’t have as much clout with the GOP as it did in the Obama years

    Yes, well neither does Brave Kevin.

    It’s absolutely concerning and it shouldn’t be.
    But I take considerable comfort from the unmatched weakness, and cringing servility of the Republican Speaker. And I suspect the markets do too. There seems to be no anticipatory trend emerging that would price into the market any expectation that Kevin McCarthy can hold House Republicans in line and break the economy by bankrupting the Treasury.

    What an odd thing it must be to be Kevin McCarthy. Unimaginable, really. It is said that he’s a fantastically stupid and shallow person, at least for someone wielding that power. So perhaps that immunizes him from the humiliation. But to see it played at before your very own eyes, that even as you and your colleagues reach for the executioner’s axe, The Smartest Guys on Earth, with their collective necks stretched out before you on the block, are all snoozing peacefully, utterly confident that you can’t summon the strength to even lift it.

    Enough House Republicans will break ranks. Of course they will.
    They may even stampede to get across the aisle before time runs out and they once again wind up on the wrong side of destiny and humanity.

  88. 88

    I’ve decided that I can run for VP while remaining Arizona’s duly elected governor.

    Trump-Lake 2024!

  89. 89

    You can abort that thought, you wrinkled BITCH! Everybody knows he’s going to pick me!

  94. 94

    Hey, it’s going to be sunny and 68 degrees tomorrow!

    Meanwhile The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus (STD) is cleaning house and taxpayer’s wallets. Cha Ching Cha Ching! Step right up and take that silly smile off your face.

    https://www.news-journal.com/news/local/police-longview-husband-wife-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide/article_45b5bbc4-e177-11ed-9df6-87167f645be7.html

    33 years old….barely old enough to stop breeding.

    Breeding is our success!

  97. 97

    Fuck, you can go on all night, if you wanted to, talking about the fuckwads of failures.

  98. 98

    A strong woman just makes Queen YLB look even worse.

    Now that is some real serious discussion The Horse Fucker wants to have.

  99. 99

    WaPo: Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals
    washingtonpost.com

    Maybe they should ask why the American public wanted out of there and why the fuck The FuckHump negotiated with the terrorists Taliban (cousins of the Aerican Taliban).

    America needs to worry about their own terrorists. You have misdirected focus you Dumbfuck Horse Fucker.

  100. 100

    @75 Sorry now that Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban?

    Miss me yet?

  101. 101

    you wrinkled BITCH! Everybody knows he’s going to pick me!

    For what Secratary of Agriculture? Secratary of Domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammals?

  102. 102

    So the other day I get a credit applied to account from my Electrical utility provider for $170. Looks like I’ll be getting free electricity for the foreseeable future. My monthly bill for the last 9 months has been $16.00 (inclusive of all taxes and fees). I guess I won’t be paying any electric bills anymore. Maybe they’ll even be sending me a check in 30 years for a couple of hundred dollars.

  103. 103

    Some Heterosexuals have claimed to be of the more superior sexual orientation, but them superior beings really have fucked up this world. Always have and always will

  105. 105

    Star Trek The Next Generation began with a cameo from an original series cast member, only fitting one of tge three surviving actors from TOS had a cameo in the finale for this Generation, Star Trek:Picard.

    https://youtu.be/89qJpdHdL6I

    Walter Koenig voicing Federation President Anton Chekhov.

  107. 107

    “Republicans are caught in a trap on abortion, and it’s only getting worse. They know extreme abortion policies are unpopular and will cost them at the ballot box, yet any step they might take to the center on the issue risks angering evangelical voters, a key GOP constituency that is bent on banning the procedure nationwide.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-donald-trump-iowa_n_64454990e4b03c1b88c7a55d

    Sounds like Republicans are between a rock and a hard place. Should we pity them? Nah.

  108. 108

    @107

    The Republicans had to include the evangelicals in their support group to the Republicans’ disadvantage. The Democrats has to embrace socialism and communism to increase their power at the ballot box, which is disadvantageous to Democrats.

  110. 110

    The Democrats has to embrace socialism

    Such as public schools and universities, public roads, public lifesaving vaccine development and distribution, public firefighting service, public law enforcement, public courts of law, public utilities, clean water, waste and sewage disposal, Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, childhood health insurance, National Forests, National Parks, The Coast Guard, Sesame Street, public libraries, local parks and swimming pools, swimming beaches with lifeguards, air traffic control, NASA, satellite communications, and cell phones and the internet that I’m using right now to make a fool of you and Every Other Republican.

  111. 111

    If only teh babblin’ butthole jackass was still here:

    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1650297887354417153

    That idiot got all bent out of shape over AOC claiming black heritage and “threatening” its over 900k of reparations.

    Now you have a full on black dude babbling that black people should pay white people. heh.. You live long enough, you see it all.

  113. 113

    Socialism is gaining support because capitalism is failing so many voters who are not boomers and greed conservatives.

  114. 114

    I think socialism has always enjoyed broad support in the US going all the way back to our nation’s founding. You can argue that the reason for the first constitutional convention was to work out a limited set of essentially socialist principles to be implemented at the federal level to prevent the destabilization and dissolution of the union.

    Pure, naked, market capitalist systems are inherently unstable. Even as such, they nonetheless require a huge public collective investment in public laws, public courts, and public law enforcement functions in order to survive at all. The growth and stabilization of capitalist system require yet further public investments.

    All these mandatory, collective public investments in support of orderly markets have always been widely supported by Americans regardless of class or ideology. And they are all socialist interventions into the private sector.

    We’ve all just been systematically trained not to think of them or refer to them in that way.

  115. 115

    One dem state legislator does the time-honored exercise of crunching the numbers and coming up with a plan:

    The letter starts by acknowledging the obvious political reality that in a deeply divided country with an evenly divided Congress, bipartisan compromise is inevitable. And it acknowledges the economic reality that running big deficits not only stokes inflation but risks triggering a debt spiral in which interest payments eventually consume the entire federal budget. The immediate challenge, he writes, is to stabilize deficits so the nation’s debt grows no faster than the nation’s income.

    To do that, Golden sets a target of reducing borrowing by $250 billion a year in each of the next two years. Half would come through spending caps such as those floated by Republicans: capping inflation-adjusted “discretionary” spending (everything other than Social Security and Medicare) at last year’s levels, along with rescinding student debt cancellation and recapturing unspent covid funding. The other half would come from raising additional revenue in ways long favored by Democrats: raising the tax rate on big corporations to 25 percent, imposing a surtax on corporate stock buybacks, and rescinding the Trump tax cut for individuals making more than $400,000 a year.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/24/jared-golden-congressional-debt-compromise/

    the biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit who believes the poor must pay more and gets off to rampant asset inflation. And then everybody else when all their government does is tread water and over time does less and less for them. By the way, “discretionary” spending includes the gold-plated military.

    the biggest winner: unfortunately teh widbee kreepshits of the world. With a plan like this, Manchinema IRS agents are unlikely to darken their door and make them atone for their tax dodging sins.

  116. 116

    “I think socialism has always enjoyed broad support in the US going all the way back to our nation’s founding.”.
    Living in the mid west now. I would modify that. The old guard love socialism if it helps them and only them, hate socialism if it helps anyone who isn’t them.
    The younger and the urbans can’t afford a starter home, they can’t get paid a living wage. They cannot afford day care or health care. They lived by rules of capitalism and got screwed over repeatedly as the boomers, the 1%, and the corporations hovered up all the benefits. The younger and the urbans here are culturally much less bigots which is scaring the hell out of the olds and rural folk. The younger and the urbans are not angered and frighted by the “Socialism” boogyman that was used to block everything progressive. Which explains the apartheid political and cultural infrastructure the republicans enacting. For example, burning books that might lead the next generations to develop to empathy and tolerate diversity. Making it harder for younger people and urbans to vote. Gerrymandering. Defunding the State library system.
    They only hate socialism if it helps everyone.

  117. 117

    Socialism is a disaster. Only an idiot would advocate for it as a form of government and as an economic system.

  118. 118

    Like i said. Capitalism is not working for more and more voters so they are voting for something else. Address that problem if you don’t want increased social programs

    I suspect you have no ideas on how to do that.

  119. 119

    If you think socialism is better that capitalism, you must still believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.

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