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    It was three years ago today that our dumbfuck Nazi coward saw what he says was only a couple of dozen cosplaying grandmothers parading through our nation’s Capitol Building. The dumbfuck Nazi coward also tells us that Ashley Babbitt was shot for merely climbing through a window, which was obviously just a part of the visitor’s tour of the Capitol Building that day.

    Don’t believe your lying eyes. Instead, believe what a dumbfuck Nazi coward tells you when he says that it wasn’t an armed, violent mob of fascists storming the Capitol Building to end our democracy on that fateful day. Rather, you should believe the dumbfuck Nazi coward who tells you that they were merely confused tourists who couldn’t find the Visitors Entrance.

  3. 3

    And now we know he’s a Nazi coward born into a big trust fund. Freed from birth of any cares or woes about his future.

    I wonder if that didn’t have a lot to do with his turn towards and embrace of extremist ideology and violence. Just another boring cliche. Like Patty Hearst, but with a much smaller penis.

  4. 4

    Happy cos-playing grandmothers, nearly nude dude, visitor tourism day.

  5. 5

    On this 3rd anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, let us celebrate the capture of 3 fugitive scumbags who skipped their court dates and went on the run.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-captures-three-jan-6-fugitives-florida-ranch-third-anniversary-cap-rcna132626

    “Prosecutors have accused Jonathan Pollock of punching two officers in the face, kneeing a police officer, dragging an officer down stairs, charging at law enforcement with a flag pole, grabbing an officer’s neck and pinning them to the ground and ramming a police shield into an officer’s neck.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/politics/three-floridians-arrested-january-6/index.html

    Twenty years for this fucker!

  6. 6

    Ashli Babbitt’s husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the government yesterday. He’s represented by Judicial Watch. Dream on, buddy, you won’t get a cent. Your dear departed loved one was a criminal killed by police in the act of committing a violent felony that would have earned her years in prison had she lived.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/family-of-woman-shot-during-january-6-capitol-riot-sues-us-government-seeking-30-million/ar-AA1myxt8

  8. 8

    Rep. Steve Scalise will be undergoing abortion tissue 😉 stem cell transplant treatment for multiple myeloma until mid February and will not be present to participate in any votes.

    Quite famously Rep. Scalise has staunchly opposed federal funding into the kind of potentially life extending treatment derived from fetal tissue that he will now be receiving over the next several weeks. Millions of other cancer patients would be dead today if Rep. Scalise had been able to succeed in his efforts to block life saving medical research. 🤔

    With his absence fighting to save his miserable life, on Jan 21 when Bill Johnson quits, the MAGA Mike majority will drop to 218.

    Eat shit traitors.
    😁😁🇺🇲😁🙏😁🇺🇲😀😀🫰🫰🫰🫰

  10. 10

    Either Steve Scalise is lying his ass off when he tells credulous, gowping, mouth-breathing dullards like the profoundly stupid troll that “all human life begins at the moment of conception“, or he is committing mass infanticide to prolong his own life.

  11. 11

    Imagine being all in for a candidate who spent nearly an entire day going on rants about the woman who he definitely didn’t meet ever that a jury said he sexually assaulted and a judge said he definitely raped and how he definitely didn’t do it if it weren’t for the crazy partisan witch hunt of the entire judicial system, a jury, a prosecutor, a fake victim and showed that he has spent hours and hours reading every single tweet the victim has ever posted to assert that she named a cat ‘vagina’.

    That’s your guy.

    Good luck with that.

  12. 12

    @11

    When you’ve been found liable for rape and sexual assault, found guilty of running a massive scheme to defraud banks and the taxpayers of New York you just have to Get OVER it.

  13. 13

    11,

    They don’t need that much luck when they have the NYT and a corrupt Supreme Court.

    Everyone everywhere must turn out and vote for the Democrat.

  14. 14

    *

    They had a almost billion dollar cost overrun on the magnetic elevators. Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is is this. Give me a glass of water let me drop it in the magnets that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they bring in John Deere? You like John Deere? I like John Deere.(1)

    First they say, ‘Sir, how do you do it? How do you wake up in the morning and put on your pans?’ and I say, ‘Well, I think about it too much. I don’t wanna think about it because if I think about it too much maybe I won’t wanna do it but I love it because we’re gonna do something for this country that’s never been done before.(2)

    *verbatim stump speech by the senile Joe Biden Republican Candidate for President.

    1. Magnets work under water. There is some resistance cause by water but yeah. Some magnetic materials will corrode when long exposed to water. How would one drop a glass of water into a magnet?

    2. Well first I take one leg and put it in a hole then I put the other leg in the same hole and then I fall over so while writhing on the ground I get the pants off and try again and I get one leg into a hole and the other leg into the other hole and then I make sure the colostomy bag isn’t tangled up and then I stand up and pull up my depends and fasten the button and the zipper and that’s how a big boy gets his britches on.

  15. 15

    The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is one of Communist China’s biggest state-owned banks. In the first years of the Trump presidency ICBC leased tens of thousands of square feet of office space in Trump’s buildings at ridiculously inflated lease rates earning Trump millions of dollars.

    ICBC then promptly turned around and began the financing of ICBM and nuclear weapons tech to North Korea. When Japan, South Korea, the NSA, CIA, and DOD noted this development with alarm, bipartisan Congressional leadership urged sanctions against Trump’s paymasters. And career diplomats in the State Department who specialized in North Korean nuclear containment sought to advise the White House on a response matrix.

    But instead Trump arranged an unprecedented first ever summit meeting between a sitting US President and a North Korean dictator which took place in Singapore where Trump was conciliatory to the North Korean dictator and promised no US interference. Then Trump followed this up a few months later with a second overseas trip, this time to meet with the North Korean dictator in his own country to again offer his reassurances.

    Today North Korea is repaying its loans from Communist China by selling long range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in bombarding European cities. And Republicans in Congress who are financially propped up by energy companies dependant on Russia are preventing any US response.

  16. 16

    @ 10

    Or he’s taking advantage of a less-known use of an umbilical cord after the mother and baby are done with it.

  17. 17

    He was confused because he thought the officer greeting him was one of the Amtrak porters he used to josh with back in the old days.

    RNC Research
    @RNCResearch

    After two weeks of vacation and a 32-minute speech, Biden is back in Delaware for a weekend respite.

    He was VERY confused upon landing.
    4:28 AM · Jan 6, 2024

  22. 22

    In 2018, after it was brought up to him by conservative media, Trump claimed that a donation he made to the US Treasury of $150,000 fulfilled his campaign pledge to donate any foreign profit to “the American people”.

    And conservative Dumbfucks believed him.

  26. 26

    RNC RESEARCH
    @RNC Research

    The cognitive assessment IS really hard

    Man, Camera, TV, Poodle, B-12 Shot

    See we can’t do it. He IS the smartest president ever.

  27. 27

    @ 18

    @11 – You’re not an independent voter.

    And Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is not a millionaire. He comes here for the cosplay so he can act like he is.v

  33. 33

    So if I put my previous fictions email in the “Email” field it gets moderated.

    HA Gods please fix that, I’m tired of putting a fake fake fake email address in each time

  34. 34

    There’s another important anniversary today.

    Fifteen years ago today the first cryptocurrency was created.
    And but for that, the profoundly stupid trust fund troll might still be able to afford the premium canned cat food.

    Somewhere in the trust fund troll’s distant past there was some relation who worked hard, long hours, every day, cheating the Beaners, defrauding tax collectors, stealing from Indians, and enrolling his kids in every free, Gimme-Gimme program he could just to watch in misery as the Dumbfuck went long on Cryptoland.

  35. 35

    @7 and @8

    Jesus take the wheel and drive it into a ditch!

    Maybe cancer will do what a bullet couldn’t do.

  36. 36

    Man, more dead womenz due to the dreaded Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. I’d post but my links are being blocked, and you can google them for yourself.

    Chicago! Chicago! Chicago!!!

  38. 38

    35,
    As a vacancy of the office would trigger a special election from a securely held Republican district, it would be far better in the near term for Rep. Scalise to suffer a very prolonged and increasingly debilitating period of aggressive cancer treatment involving lots of intense pain, lack of adequate sleep, vomiting, hair loss (meh), acute organ failure, weeping open mouth sores, tooth loss, disorientation, and dementia.

    Cheers and here’s hoping! Fuck traitors!

    Fuck! I left out bloody diarrhea.

  40. 40

    From the first link @ 37

    The offer comes as Israel continues to grapple with how Hamas was able to pull off such a brazen attack on Oct. 7.

    Go figure..

    Why couldn’t the country that can do no wrong secure the border with Gaza? Wasn’t the fucking wall tall enough?

    Guess they thought “towelheads” in the open air prison weren’t capable of rioting. Besides, the ass-kicking of “ragheads” on the West Bank was just getting too good.

    It was too boring guarding the walls around Gaza. Ooops.. Shit happens..

  41. 41

    Joe Biden
    @JoeBiden

    Trump lost:
    —The popular vote by 7 million
    —60 court cases
    —In GOP-controlled states
    —Before judges he appointed
    —At the Supreme Court
    —Recount after recount, in state after state

    Yet he still doesn’t understand the basic truth: you can’t love your country ONLY when you win.

    5:30 PM · Jan 5, 2024
    4.1M Views

  42. 42

    Has any Republican Mom for Orgies found any drag queens on Epstein’s lists yet?

  43. 43

    @16 As there aren’t enough umbilical cords to go around, they’ll have to be rationed, and Republican congressmen will get them first.

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    @38 I don’t wish that on anyone, not even our Republican friends who deserve it, because while I’m mean, I’m not cruel. Scalise dodged a bullet (well not all the way), and that must have been God’s will.

    Covid almost took Trump. That was God’s will, too. Ronnie Jackson was his attending physician; that also was God’s will. But Trump scraping through Covid despite Jackson’s doctoring couldn’t possibly have been God’s will. There was some deviltry in that.

  46. 46

    @ 35

    Maybe cancer will do what a bullet couldn’t do.

    Or maybe his congressional district can abandon him the way your parents abandoned you, G-clown.

  47. 47

    @41 He also doesn’t understand that most of the judges he appointed (there are a few exceptions, and rightwing litigants know who they are) love the law more than they love him.

  49. 49

    @ 40

    Guess they thought “towelheads” in the open air prison weren’t capable of rioting. Besides, the ass-kicking of “ragheads” on the West Bank was just getting too good.

    Because if you put the slur in quotation marks it makes it acceptable to use it.

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    Both the CiC and SecDef are incapacitated.

    OSINTdefender
    @sentdefender
    Despite the U.S. Department of Defense claiming yesterday in a Statement that while Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin was Hospitalized beginning on Monday he was still able to “Act using his Powers as Secretary”, it has now been Revealed that he had been in the Intensive Care Unit at Walter Reed for the last 4 Days and that Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks assumed his Duties and Powers even though she continued her Vacation in Puerto Rico; while all of this occurred Members of Congress and the American Public were still only Notified on Friday.
    8:25 PM · Jan 6, 2024

    China’s gotta love that.

  51. 51

    Look for the union label.

    FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after Alaska Airlines panel blows out

    This isn’t what Norma Rae fought for.

  52. 52

    “Rapid decompression is a serious matter,” he said. “To see a gaping hole in an aircraft is not something we typically see. In aviation safety, we would call this a structural failure.”

    I’d call it a union failure.

  53. 53

    China’s gotta love that.

    Actually, any half-wit, non-dumbfuck American patriot would have to assume that China was quite frustrated by that.

  54. 54

    Wonder what Fetterman will be like when it’s time to run for re-election.

    Cenk Uygur
    ·
    Jan 6, 2024
    @cenkuygur
    ·
    Now @JohnFetterman is telling everyone how he’s not a progressive, he rejects us and is now calling Harvard “pinko.” What the fuck? This is why people lose hope, because of frauds like Fetterman. You work hard to get a progressive elected and they turn into Republicans instantly.
    Hollywood Resistance
    @ResistItAllTX
    ·
    Follow
    He was a progressive then got mental health care. Good for him for his newfound sanity.
    2:03 PM · Jan 6, 2024

    Maybe I should wonder which party he’ll be in by then.

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    Because if you put the slur in quotation marks it makes it acceptable to use it.

    Awwwww. Bet you wanted me to call the Israelis “teh joos”…

    Hah! Nice troll way to avoid the failure of the country that can do no wrong to “secure the border” w/ Gaza..

    Not to mention that country’s obvious racism – many Israelis who have their head on straight call out clearly what is in plain sight if only Israel fanbois wouldn’t look the other way.

  56. 56

    @50 “China’s gotta love that.”

    Yeah, China moved against Taiwan two days ago. Total news blackout, because the EMP from the first nuclear weapon exploded high over the island wiped out all communications. OUr satellites can’t see the invasion fleet through the cloud cover. The only reason anyone knows something’s going on is the supply of chips to automakers suddenly dried up on Thursday. Ford and GM were the first to know Taiwan was attacked. Airborne sensors began detecting the radiation clouds Friday morning as the jetstream blew the fallout toward Whidbey Island. If it starts “snowing” in Freeland in a day or two, don’t go out and play in it; those white flakes drifting down from the sky isn’t snow.

  57. 57

    On Israel’s dark past ties to apartheid South Africa:

    For years after its birth, Israel was publicly critical of apartheid and sought to build alliances with the newly independent African states through the 1960s.

    Oh really. Shit sure changed…

    By 1976, the relationship had changed so profoundly that South Africa’s prime minister, John Vorster, could not only make a visit to Jerusalem but accompany Israel’s two most important leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, to the city’s Holocaust memorial to mourn the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

    Neither Israeli appears to have been disturbed by the fact that Vorster had been an open supporter of Hitler, a member of South Africa’s fascist and violently antisemitic Ossewabrandwag and that he was interned during the war as a Nazi sympathiser.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/23/israel-apartheid-south-africa-nuclear-warheads

    Is Bibi a racist? Fuck yeah he is..

    One night at a dinner party in Jerusalem in 1977, I heard a young Israeli talking about the Arabs in terms which chilled my blood. “In the next war,” he said, “we’ve got to get the Palestinians out of the West Bank for good.”

    To me, in my naivete, Israel’s struggle had hitherto seemed that of a brilliant little people, who had suffered the most ghastly experience of the 20th century, struggling for survival amid a hostile Middle East still bent upon their destruction. Now, suddenly, I found myself meeting Israelis committed to the creation of a greater Israel embracing the West Bank, who were utterly heedless of the fate of its inhabitants. The Palestinians were perceived as losers, a mere incidental impediment to the fulfilment of Israel’s historic territorial destiny. By a curious quirk, that young Israeli whom I heard enthuse about emptying the West Bank of Arabs was Binyamin Netanyahu, today his country’s prime minister.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/23/israel-apartheid-south-africa-nuclear-warheads

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    @51 “Look for the union label.”

    It isn’t there, and that’s the problem. These planes were assembled by $12-an-hour South Carolina labor from parts made in China.

  59. 59

    @54 “Wonder what Fetterman will be like when it’s time to run for re-election.”

    Why should we care? The Republican Party will be extinct by the time his term is up.

  60. 60

    The Civil war…that was something that could have been negotiated. So many people were killed. You get shot on the leg they just cut it off. That was something that could have been negotiated. They could have worked it out. Then no one would know who Abraham Lincoln was. He’s have been a president but not THE Abraham Lincoln. It could have been negotiated.

    Some of you darkies would have still had to be slaves but it could have been negotiated.
    …
    LITERALLY the best thing for President Biden is having Donald on the TeeVee doing interviews and out making speeches. .

    Reminds potential swing voters every couple days that the orange dude is really a dumb shit.

  61. 61

    @57 “By 1976, the relationship had changed so profoundly that South Africa’s prime minister, John Vorster, could not only make a visit to Jerusalem but accompany Israel’s two most important leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, to the city’s Holocaust memorial to mourn the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.”

    Then they went to lunch and discussed exchanging nuclear weapons materials and technology, a subject in which they had mutual and compatible interests.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Nuclear_weapons

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    I’d call it a union failure.

    Where the MAX program safety failures are concerned at least, the Boeing union’s role has mostly involved pleading with management to address safety and transparency ahead of profit.

    McDD destroyed the comity and collaboration between management and engineering that once seemed integral to the culture at Boeing.

    Unless AS reassigns aircraft, I’ve got to board a few of these aircraft in a couple of weeks. I’ll be sitting within one or two rows of that plug panel on every flight. On one my wife will be in that very window seat.

    Given everything I know about Boeing management and it’s history with that program my greatest concern will be that some shitty Chicago management penny counter will have ordered the implementation of some untested short cut over the objection of assembly experts in Renton. And that any thorough investigation of that shortcut will be prevented by Boeing management threatening retaliation against union employees.

  63. 63

    @ 55

    Not to mention that country’s obvious racism …

    I didn’t. I mentioned yours.

  64. 64

    Wonder what Fetterman will be like when it’s time to run for re-election.

    If Uygur or the profoundly stupid trust fund troll ever thought Fetterman was some groovy, hippie, hep cat, socialist that’s on them for not paying any attention.

    But he’s certainly not “pro business”. Nor “pro billionaire”. He’d raise the trust fund troll’s taxes tomorrow if he could.
    It’s perfectly natural for Fetterman to oppose Harvard.

    Harvard is a grotesquely elitist institution that perpetuates oppression. Fetterman has always stood up to oppose that.
    Good for him. Harvard needs no defense from John Karl Fetterman.
    And the fact that Cenk Uygur is so eager to offer his defense speaks volumes about what his priorities are and what kind of shitty president he would make.

  65. 65

    Happy 21st Birthday (Jan 3) Greta Thunberg!

    Thank you for all of the laughs you have given us, like this deleted 2018 tweet:

    “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”

    The only twat more unserious than Greta is our own Queen YLB.

  66. 66

    Judge Michael Luttig floated an interesting idea in this interview: Trump’s refusal to transfer power after losing the election was “insurrection.” Under this theory, you don’t even need the Ellipse speech or Capitol riot to disqualify him under Section 3.

    Luttig is a serious guy; he clerked for Scalia, worked for the chief justice, was a federal judge for 15 years, then general counsel for Boeing and a top legal adviser for Coca Cola, and was considered by George H.W. Bush for the Supreme Court. He doesn’t bandy frivolous legal arguments.

    The reality is the Supreme Court can do anything it wants to with the Trump disqualification case. What it should do is recognize that Trump engaged in insurrection, however it wishes to define it, and rule that Section 3 took effect when he did.

    This isn’t taking the decision away from “the people,” because Trump never has, and never will be, the “people’s choice.” He will never win a popular vote. He can only gain the White House via a distorted electoral system that gives unequal voting power to redneck states. So the justices needn’t have guilt feelings about thwarting “the will of the people,” because they aren’t. They’re only thwarting an angry, violent, minority mob.

    But the Constitution doesn’t leave everything up to the people, anyway, and never did. The Founding Fathers, in whose wisdom the Court and conservatives put so much store, didn’t trust the people. Presidents were to be elected by electors, not the people. Senators were to be elected by legislatures, not the people. They took away the people’s ability to elect anyone under age 35, not a natural-born citizen, or a resident of the U.S.; later, the Civil War congress and state legislatures also took away the people’s ability to elect ex-Confederates and other insurrectionists to federal offices, including president.

    Trump is an insurrectionist. According to Judge Luttig, who’s a far better lawyer than Doctor Dumbfuck, the fake electors plot was insurrection. Trump’s false claims of voting fraud were insurrection. His failed election lawsuits weren’t insurrection, any more than Al Gore’s was, because challenging election results in the manner provided for by the legal system is allowed, as long as you abide by the results as Gore did; but attacking judges is insurrection. Encouraging mob violence against Vice President Pence for carrying out his Constitutional duty was insurrection. Trump committed numerous acts of insurrection, and the Supreme Court can pick and choose which one(s) to hang Section 3 disqualification on.

    What they cannot do is look the other way at Trump’s acts of insurrection and preserve democracy. It’s one or the other, Trump or democracy. Luttig is right; the 14th Amendment prohibits and sanctions refusal to peacefully transfer power. And if the Supreme Court doesn’t enforce the Constitution, no one else can. The justices really have no choice but to rule that Trump isn’t eligible to hold office again. How they get to that conclusion doesn’t really matter as much as the conclusion itself.

  68. 68

    Aww, Bobby getting all sensitive. How nice.

    I think the HA Gods are testing out some type of new AI monitoring and moderating.

  69. 69

    The only twat more unserious than Greta is

    Is giving munee to liberal causes “unserious”???

    Gee, who close to “pool boy”‘s circle does that?

  70. 70

    @ 66

    … was considered by George H.W. Bush for the Supreme Court.

    No. He was nominated to the Fourth Circuit by Bush Sr. fewer than two years before Bill Clinton became president.

    You must mean he was considered by George W. Bush for the High Court. And while you intend that to convey Luttig’s legal gravitas, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you would do well to recall that the same George W. Bush actually did nominate Harriet Miers to the High Court.

    So perhaps rethink your praise of Luttig, Legal Eagle. You embarrass yourself.

  74. 74

    Rumors going around that The FuckHump has some type of distinct nasty smell.

    People literally have to hold their nose it’s so bad.

  75. 75

    73)I was wondering if it was the Weapons handling elevators on the Ford class to be exact?

  76. 76

    58)737s are still assembled in Renton, with some overflow production in Everett. Fuselages are assembled in Kansas, some probably do get damaged in transit, as it was rejected fuselages used to test delivery by rail for the Everett 737 assembly.

    There was one time the fuselage train derailed, but those 737s never made it to Renton. Once they were pulled from the cliff over the Clark Fork River, they were taken to a siding near Missoula, and cut up. At the time that section of the former Northern Pacific Railroad was operated by Montana Rail Link, but MRL recently gave the lease back to BNSF.

  78. 78

    Trump seems to be filing his own brief at the Supreme Court, if the justices choose to pay attention. It goes like this: Yes, I’m an insurrectionist. It’s almost like he’s trying to make it easy for them.

    He’s making his arguments in public, not directly to the Court, but they’re hard to miss. First, he’s arguing that presidents have a right to commit crimes with impunity.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-absolute-immunity_n_65982d98e4b075f4cfd23e78

    And second, when he filed his Illinois candidate paperwork this week, he refused to sign the optional pledge to not overthrow the government.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-omits-customary-illinois-pledge-to-not-overthrow-government-report_n_6599bc25e4b0f9f6621ce844

    “Hey Supreme Court, if the Electoral College puts me in office again” (the people never will), “I’m gonna seize power, overthrow the government, ignore laws and go after judges, and be a dictator.” He’s telling them, for God’s sake! I sure hope they’re listening.

  79. 79

    Remembering that moment three years ago when the armed and violent mob, that Congressional Republicans excuse and even honor, tore down the United States flag that was flying over the Capitol and put up a cheap Chinese made TRUMP 2020 flag in its place.

    Traitors must eat shit.

  80. 80

    The Supreme Court can do whatever it wants. It can save the Republican Party from Trump. It can fend off a would-be dictator and preserve democracy. It can prevent a criminal from occupying the White House. And with its six-Republican majority, half of whom were appointed by Trump, it can do this with a legitimacy no other American institution wields, enhancing the prospects for peaceful acceptance by everyone. Yes, it’s important that if Trump is kicked off the ballot, that’s done by Republican judges.

    If it fails to do so, it risks going down in history as the worst court of all time, which made the worst decision of all time, worse even than Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson. It’s putting itself in a position akin to a parole board deciding to release a deranged serial felon back into society, and running similar risks to its reputation.

    All this probably is not lost on four of the Republican justices.

  81. 81

    @ 80

    Howard Zinn’s version of history, maybe.

    If it fails to do so, it risks going down in history as the worst court of all time, which made the worst decision of all time, worse even than Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson.

    Shorter Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit: Centuries of slavery in what became these United states were nothing compared with that DC riot a couple of years ago.

  83. 83

    @81 Those cases didn’t create slavery, dumbass. “Centuries of slavery” pre-existed Dred Scott and Plessy. Dred Scott said slaves weren’t citizens. Plessy said segregation was legal. Bad as those decisions were, giving a lawless autocrat license to end our democracy is worse.

  84. 84

    @82 If trying to violently overthrow the elected government and replace it with an illegal government isn’t insurrection, then what is?

  85. 85

    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s elective medical procedure was breast implants. Complications arose when he went for DDs against medical advice.

  86. 86

    If trying to violently overthrow the elected government and replace it with an illegal government isn’t insurrection, then what is?

    The dumbfuck Nazi coward has said here numerous times that it was merely a dozen cosplaying grandmothers who were simply parading through our Capitol.

    Because he’s such a serious fucking twat as well as being a dumbfuck traitor.

  87. 87

    @86 If Trump had won, and pro-Biden rioters had assaulted cops and sacked the Capitol, Trump would’ve invoked the Insurrection Act, sent armed troops to gun them down, and there would’ve been dozens of dead “protesters” sprawled over the Capitol steps.

    But what there actually was only one dead “protesters,” and that one was a “martyr murdered by crooked cops,” because like all Republicans pro-Trump rioters get special privileges.

  90. 90

    81,

    Here is what Calabresi gets wrong:

    None of the Jan 6 defendants is charged with “insurrection”. Neither is Trump.

    Relying somehow on narrowly confining Trump’s misdeeds to just the riot he orchestrated three years ago is a cheap and lazy dodge.

    Moreover, sec 3 of the 14th Amendment specifies that government officers who were previously in insurrection against the United States are barred from office. That leaves out BLM and most of the J6 terrorists. But not Donald Trump.

    Beyond that stupid and lazy fail, Calabresi offers us an 1828 dictionary definition of a completely different word to support his bullshit textualism. The American lawmakers of four decades later, having just gone through the greatest human calamity in US history, and still struggling to comprehend the calumnies and betrayals committed by those government officers in defense of slavery, would have an entirely different understanding of the word “insurrection”. And it would be an understanding far better suited to our purposes.

    Finally, Calabresi for some reason can’t dash off this latest mash note to the GOP without including quite a few flagrant falsehoods. Whenever an interlocutor obviously and deliberately sidesteps a critical point of debate to delve into irrelevance it’s a clue. When they lie to you it’s your proof. They are not acting in good faith.

    That was just dumb.

    There are far better critiques available from far more qualified sources who are not in the same lazy hurry as Calabresi.

  91. 91

    89,
    “Ah, let ’em keep slavery … problem solved!”

    The South had that deal already.
    They had that deal four decades before they declared war against us.

    Remember?
    Desperate to appease the treasonous slave states, Congress literally enacted a binding federal statute that would have enshrined and perpetuated human slavery as official legal doctrine and as an integral institution bound up in statehood.

  92. 92

    Tomorrow should be a day of unity, when we set aside our differences, and join together in a common cause. Go Huskies, fuck Michigan!

  93. 93

    @90 “Whenever an interlocutor obviously and deliberately sidesteps a critical point of debate to delve into irrelevance it’s a clue … they … are not acting in good faith.”

    As when Nikki Haley won’t say slavery caused the Civil War?

  94. 94

    @91 They were afraid abolitionists might outvote them and change the rules. If we still had slavery, everything north and west of Texas would be “Western territory,” unadmitted to the Union, and the flag would still have 30 or so stars.

  96. 96

    Republicans have no principles. They criticize the trivial when Democrats do it, and defend the indefensible when Republicans do it. They’re partisan hacks, nothing more.

  98. 98

    The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit

    “Solar energy is the most widely available energy resource on Earth, and its economic attractiveness is improving fast in a cycle of increasing investments. Here we use data-driven conditional technology and economic forecasting modelling to establish which zero carbon power sources could become dominant worldwide. We find that, due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies. Uncertainties arise, however, over grid stability in a renewables-dominated power system, the availability of sufficient finance in underdeveloped economies, the capacity of supply chains and political resistance from regions that lose employment. Policies resolving these barriers may be more effective than price instruments to accelerate the transition to clean energy.”

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41971-7

    Commenters on reddit note that the paper possibly discounts the contribution of wind generation somewhat and maybe overestimates remaining fossil fuel generation in 2050-2060.

  99. 99

    95,
    Think about it.

    Republicans empowered human train wrecks like her, George Jingleheimer Santos Devolder, and Matt “Pedo” Gaetz to hold sway over their elected Speaker and force him out of the House and out of electoral politics forever.

    They really do hate each other.

    Republican “Values” come home.

  100. 100

    The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit..

    “Tucked under a Vancouver bridge, an energy centre sits on top of the existing sewage pumping station so heat can be captured before sewage reaches the treatment plant. Heat pumps cool down warm sewage that’s around 20C (68F) in temperature and concentrate that heat to produce scalding hot water which can be as high as 80C (176F), Pope explains. “What’s really exciting is that our heat recovery system operates at efficiencies of over 300%, so for every unit of electricity that we put in to run the heat pump, we get over three units of thermal energy or heat out of it.” Sewage is also consistently warm so heat pumps continue to operate efficiently even on cold wintry days when heat demand is highest – providing a constant source of renewable energy.”

    Harnessing sewage heat is a “missed opportunity”, according to Semida Silveira, professor in systems engineering at Cornell University in the US. “There’s a lot of heat in the world that we just throw away. Today, we have a lot of energy inefficiency,” Silveira explains, pointing out that energy efficiency could resolve half of the targets for carbon reductions in the US.”

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240103-sewage-a-low-cost-low-carbon-way-to-warm-homes

    An energy efficient future is a future without dying fossils like a kreepee misogynist from widbee or any repuke these days for that matter.

  101. 101

    @99 They performed a public service by ridding the speakership and Congress of McCarthy. Not worthy of a Medal of Freedom, though, because they only replaced him with another subversive asshole.

  102. 102

    Oh Lauren, (shakes head)

    Did you really punch your estranged husband in the face a couple times in front of a full restaurant of witnesses?

  103. 103

    “Congressional leaders reached a $1.66 trillion agreement Sunday to finance the federal government in 2024, preserving funding for key domestic and social safety net programs in the face of GOP demands to cut the government’s budget…

    The agreement, announced jointly by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), will almost surely face vehement opposition from far-right House Republicans, who had hoped to force steep budget cuts.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/07/congress-budget-deal/

    Repuke kook-haus “majority” is running on fumes these days. This should sail through?

  104. 104

    103,
    If the Republican House leadership backs the bill, and Democrats are on board, then there’s not a helluvalot Matt Gaetz or Chip Roy can do to prevent passage.

    That just leaves them to throw tantrums and punish their own leadership. Here comes another motion to vacate the chair! With the vote margin even closer than last time.

    Speaker Jeffries in three… two… one…

  105. 105

    @102 YESSS!!! BoBo is making her mark as the Tonya Harding of the GOP (hubcap sandwich, anyone?)

  106. 106

    @104 With this bill Republicans will boost deficits, because it cuts IRS fund to catch wealthy tax cheaters and make them pay what they owe.

  108. 108

    So the two boot licking Nazis, Musty Musk and Cokehead Don Jr. are pushing that too often the school shootings are perpetrated by Trans and LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈. They’re saying it occurs too often by LGBT. Ain’t that a hoot. Have they ever heard about The Heterosexual Neanderthal virus?

  110. 110

    107)I’ll go tell my neighbors that,, right now. I’m sure firefighters would love being told that they’re doing it wrong.

  111. 111

    @108 Well let’s see. According to a March 28, 2023, Newsweek article, 5 of 2,861 mass shootings in the previous 5 years were committed by LGBQT perps. This statistic doesn’t separate school shootings from mass shootings generally.

    On Jan. 4, 2024, a Washington Post article said there have been 394 school shootings since 1999, but didn’t say how many of these were committed by LGBQT perps.

    An MSN article on Jan. 4, 2024, didn’t provide numbers, but said “the truth is that the vast majority of mass shooters in the U.S. are cisgender males. The right-wing focus on gun-toting queers and shooters’ mental illness is merely a way to stigmatize queer people while also drawing attention away from gun control regulations that could help stop mass shootings in the first place.”

    That article linked to a March 31, 2023, Reuters fact-check that cited the Gun Violence Archive, which said “’the number of known suspects in mass shootings which are trans is under 10 for the last decade,’ which translated to “1:880 [or 0.11%] of the 4,400 shootings.’”

    However you slice it, and whichever data base you use, LGBQT shooters are extremely rare, and most mass shootings — school or otherwise — are perpetrated by cisgender males.

    So it’s clear that Musk and Don Jr., and numerous other rightwing haters, are intellectually dishonest, are demagoguing the issue, and are demonizing LGBQT people — which is par for the course for that set, and what we expect of them. Piss on them. We’d all be safer if we took their guns away. In Don Jr.’s case elephants, lions, and leopards, too.

  112. 112

    Hey miss, we’re sorry, but our ideology is more important than your health or life. — GOP

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMedysP9OU

    P.S., if we could, we’d throw you in prison for traveling to another state to have your dead fetus aborted; we just want you to know because we don’t think you feel bad enough yet, Dead Baby Killer. — GOP

  114. 114

    Boeing down 8% pre-market.

    The POS union that built the 737 could only hide its incompetence for 8 weeks. The plane that fell apart mid-air was delivered to Alaska Airlines in November.

    Fuck the union.

  115. 115

    @ 113

    What, no mention of the public HS basketball coach in Yonkers whose team forfeited and who was fired after letting his team yell slurs at the Jewish high school girls they were playing against?

  116. 116

    114,
    It’s looking like Spirit AeroSystems will own this fuckup. We shall see.

    It’s almost certainly a collosal assembly mistake. Something like sixteen castlleated fasteners were missing from that plug panel originally installed in Wichita.

    My brief understanding of aerospace assembly controls suggests that should not be possible. As it was described to me, things like those fasteners are produced in full kits delivered to the line, each kit uniquely tied to the airframe, and all controlled with tracking systems using things like bar codes, RFID, etc. So in theory it should not have been possible for the fuselage to leave Wichita without that fastener kit having been tracked and accounted for. And then all that would be backed by third party, hands on visual inspection of the closure before insulation and interior trim is installed.

    It would almost have to be an act of deliberate sabotage involving a conspiracy among various hourly employees all working together.
    Or… managers deliberately intervening to omit critical procedures, inspections, and safety checks.

    Occam’s Razor comes to mind.

  117. 117

    113,

    I think people should have no doubts that law enforcement work, as it is practiced in the United States, attracts individuals who are enthusiastic about being given social and professional permission to discard normal restraint when it comes to physical aggression and violence. I also think that quite a few people, sadly IMHO, regard that as a good thing.

    Police agencies clearly seek out these violent individuals, and certainly do nothing to screen them out. To the contrary, agencies feel the need to train “aggression” into new hires “for safety”. None of this is ever going to change until taxpayers agree to stop paying for it, and until younger workers refuse to accept a job that seek to strip them of normal, healthy human impulses.

    That inevitably means fewer cops, at least for a while.

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