NowThis: What are 15-minute cities and why do conservatives hate them?
Ari Melber: Трамп loses Obamacare clash with failed prediction as ACA smashes records
Electoral Dysfunction—2024:
- Stephen: Haley fumbles Civil War question as Трамп panders to Iowa’s evangelicals
- Alex Wagner: Трамп mainstreams political violence with normalizing repetition
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Biden calls Трамп a “loser” because he knows how much that word hurts Трамп
- Lauren Mayer: ♫ Oh, Nikki! ♬:
- Robert Reich: Biden vs. Трамп—Whose economic plan is better for you?
- WaPo: Why Republicans are finally embracing early voting in 2024
- Stephen: Christie drops out & in Трамп world Presidents can assassinate rivals & celebs ruin RFK Jr.’s birthday
- Rachel Maddow: Trump’s day-one dictatorship tops litany of contrasts targeted by Biden campaign
- Ian Bremmer: Gaming out the 2024 US election
- Chris Hayes: Threat of MAGA mob looms over 2024 Republican primary
- Parody Project: ♫ You gotta get out of this race ♬:
- Remix Bros: Democracy is on the ballot (Remix)
- Seth Meyers: Incoherent Трамп melts down after Biden calls him out in Jan. 6 speech
John Fugelsang: Ten facts about “Illegals”—A guide for racist idiots
Constitutional Assassins and Other Трамп Sycophants:
- Joy Reid: Трамп’s baseless rant fizzles at fraud trial that could cost him $370 million
- Tommy Campbell: Jesse Watters psychic predicts loss and it’s hilarious
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Heroic Tale of Donnie Bonespurs (satire) ♬
- Ari Melber: Трамп lawyer’s “murder blueprint” shredded by experts, other Трамп lawyers and all legal precedent
- Seth Meyers: The Dotard rants in court during fraud trial and Christie Caught on hot mic dissing rivals
- Darrin Bell: Animation of a political cartoon about Трамп asserting absolute immunity
- Alex Wagner: Judge preempts Трамп ploy to turn New York trial into circus
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ MTG’s Hunt for Hunter’s Junk ♬
- Jimmy Kimmel: Republicans thrown into tizzy over Hunter Biden surprise visit & DeSantis vs Haley & where’s Iowa?
- Rachel Maddow: U.S. GOP shows unique rejection of democracy with embrace of Трамп
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard tells DC Circuit Court he has “total immunity”
- ScaredKetchup: TRUMP SHOW 32—The Elon Musk roast, AI Lauren Boebert goes AWOL, Ivanka clones, Mavis & Forehead:
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ To Me He’ll Always Be Diaper Don ♬
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп immunity appeal shattered by judge Трамп doesn’t believe should be a citizen
- The Late Show: ♫ Трамп’s Theory Of Magnetivity ♬
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп is Everything That Трампers Say They Hate ♬
- Ali Velshi: Fiery report reveals top WH aide spilling secrets to Jack Smith
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, Neutered and Tutored. Sad. ♬
- Stella Megz: Lauren Boebert punches ex-husband!?
- Jimmy Kimmel: Reaction to Aaron Rodgers comments & The Dotard wants a giant dome to protect the U.S.
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Horrible Song (about a horrible man) ♬
- Ari Melber: MAGA lawyer claims POTUS may “legally” murder American rivals
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard negotiates the Civil War
- Liberal Redneck: The Dotard argues he should be immune to all consequences
- Joy Reid: Top Трамп ally sparks outrage by taking Big Lie to next level
- Ali Velshi: Shocking Трамп immunity claims reaching new low
- Stella Magz: Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance at House hearing & he walks out on MTG
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп did NOTHING WRONG & Florida’s war on dictionaries
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—More stupid than stupendous ♬
- Alex Wagner: Dictionaries a casualty of right-wing book ban panic
- Tommy Campbell: Lauren Boebert’s ex calls the cops on her & Трамп wants economy to crash
- Seth Meyers: Трамп’s disastrous immunity hearing and Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance in D.C
- Ari Melber: “Control your client,” says Judge to Трамп’s legal team after he lashes out in closing arguments
- J-L Cauvin: Трамп delivers eulogy for Melania’s mom
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Good Reasons for Трамп to be Paranoid ♬
- Stephen: Judge to Трамп lawyer, “Control your client,” & Christie’s hot mic moment
- The Late Show: The Dotard’s closing arguments
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Throw Your Fit, Dotard Douche-bag ♬
- Chris Hayes: Hear the strangest, most ludicrous argument from Трамп’s immunity hearing
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп’s principal occupation is now defendant
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is a disaster on every level and Musk fights illegal drug claims
- Alex Wagner: Трамп impeachment defense already blew up his immunity argument
- J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reveals that Aaron Rodgers is Q
- Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s a Loser (In Case You Hadn’t Noticed) ♬
- Ari Melber: Трамп’s coup nightmare comes true—Jan. 6 attacker’s own videos get him convicted
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week
Vox: How Michigan explains American politics
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
The Founding Fathers should have clarified whether the President is above the law in a manner like the ST6 scenario suggested in court.
The Founding Fathers should have clarified whether the President is above the law in a manner like the ST6 scenario suggested in court.
Low water levels in Gatineau Lake prompted Maersk to switch traffic to the Panama Canal Railway, currently operated by Canadian-American railroad CPKC. Traffic had been picking up before this, though, just on time saving. Although the Panama Canal Authority and the PCR better watch out, Mexico has been upgrading a railroad across the Isthmus as another land bridge shortcut, It’s another one of AMLO’s rushed and controversial legacy projects, like Tren Maya.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/maersk-shifts-some-container-traffic-to-panama-canal-railway-due-to-low-water-levels/
One controversy Tren Maya had on the Yucatán is that while the Mexico City Metro worked around Aztec ruins and even incorporated them into stations, construction of Tren Maya demolished some Mayan ruins.
1,
They did.
Trump’s appeal is just a delay tactic. And the corrupt SCOTUS denial of immediate consideration was limited to granting that delay.
Don’t be fooled by dipshit media. They are playing people for attention. The Circuit will smash the motion quickly. SCOTUS will too. But being thoroughly corrupted, it must be assumed that wealthy Republicans who directly control a few members of the Court will instruct them to delay as much as possible before rendering.
By age 3, Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father.
Trust fund trolls can certainly relate.
I certainly don’t begrudge the Trump family their enormous wealth. But I do dispute their bullshit self-mythologizing. These people are not self-made. They do not work hard. They are not more disciplined or determined. They do not practice better habits. They are not more self reliant or more resilient. They are not smarter, more creative, or more persuasive.
We should not indulge any of them in their self-deluded fantasies. And we certainly should not labor to furnish them with an economy, a legal system, and a tax system that props up and supports those delusions merely for the sake of their inflated egos and sense of their own importance.
I also want to burst another possible delusion about Trump, one that he can’t admit to, but one that is probably shared throughout the Trump family and Trump organization.
Some of the media reporting and analysis of the Trump “financial empire”, and even some admiring popular accounts of it, broadly imply that his wealth has arisen from an incredibly complex and very precisely tuned arrangement of “deals” and “assets”.
That’s also bullshit.
Pretty much all Trump wealth and capital formation comes from the same thing. And it’s easiest and most precise to describe it as nothing more than grubby check kiting.
In a common check kiting scheme a low life fraudster issues checks against accounts with insufficient funds in order to cover previously issued checks against different accounts also with insufficient funds, and so on for as long as they can. At each step in the scheme the amount issued is larger than the previous bad check, and the low life pockets the difference.
Trump relies on real estate loans instead of bank checks. But the principle is precisely the same. At each transaction the Trump family and Trump org massively overstate the value of real estate assets to secure new loans in ever increasing amounts. A portion of each new, larger loan is used to settle a previous loan. And the rest goes to the family.
There’s nothing sophisticated about it. And it’s clearly fraud. Low life fraud at that.
@6 Moreover, Trump’s far-flung businesses don’t make money. His golf courses are trophy properties. His casinos lost money. It takes a lousy businessman to lose money on a casino! Trump isn’t good at anything. He’s a classic example of a stupid, lazy heir who skates through military school, a legacy college admission, and then spends his life spending down the family fortune until nothing is left.
4)Plus, they didn’t think they had to spell it out for future originalists.
8,
I don’t think they did.
Thomas is not only a deeply corrupt person, but he’s also very stupid. And he is clearly oriented to bending his own thinking and understanding to fit what he perceives to be the political needs of any given situation.
But the rest of them won’t be going along with Trump’s bullshit. Not even Kavanaugh. And he’s a rapist.
Guvmint shitdown postponed til March.
https://www.aol.com/news/congressional-leaders-reach-short-term-222832062.html
Looks like MAGA Mike, whatever else he is, isn’t a kamikaze.
A judge swats aside Trader Joe’s SLAPP suit against its union.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-tosses-trader-joes-trademark-complaint-against-union-in-brutal-fashion_n_65a2eb39e4b07bd6950d029a
Mark Cuban swats aside James O’Keefe’s gym ambush.
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-cuban-unleashes-on-far-right-activist-james-okeefe-in-profanity-laced-tirade-2666950028/
The bad guys are 0-2 today.
‘Our little Snowflake…’
Nice.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcpFcyq/
@12 What is it? I can’t read it, cuz I don’t have a TikTok account to log into. TikTok is a Chinese spy machine, you know, and I don’t want Beijing keeping tabs on me.
GovernorKiller Abbott has blood on his hands:“Two children and a woman died trying to cross the Rio Grande on Friday near a Texas park where state officials have blocked access to federal Border Patrol officers, according to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.
“Cuellar said in a statement Saturday that Border Patrol officers learned around 9 p.m. Friday that six migrants were in distress as they tried to cross the river separating the U.S. and Mexico near Eagle Pass’ Shelby Park. Since early in the week, Texas officials, under orders from Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, have prevented federal officials from entering a stretch of border within the 47-acre city park.
“Upon hearing about the migrants, Border Patrol attempted to contact Texas authorities, including the Texas Military Department, National Guard and Department of Public Safety, but were unsuccessful, Cuellar, a moderate Democrat whose district is southeast of the park, … posted to the social media site X. Border Patrol officers then tried to go to Shelby Park, but Texas Military Department personnel at a park gate wouldn’t let federal agents through, Cuellar said.”
https://www.aol.com/2-children-woman-die-mexico-012339010.html
Abbott knows what happens to child murderers in prison, right?
LOCK HIM UP!!!
The latest Iowa GOP poll shows DeSantis at 16%. An informal survey on the ground in Iowa suggests Trump won’t get 16% of Iowa GOP voters in November if he’s the nominee.
Yes we did! We set up giant fans at the Canadian border to blow frigid air into Iowa, then turned on the Pentagon’s 15,000 snowmaking machines to create a blizzard!
“Far-Right Trump Activist Thinks the Deep State Created the Blizzard in Iowa – Now it’s the weather that is rigging votes.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/far-right-trump-activist-thinks-the-deep-state-created-the-blizzard-in-iowa/
16)Better known as Iowa in January.
Meanwhile in KC, Miami isn’t doing too good. They’ll blame it on what is her name? Don’t follow modern music much.
@17 Oh, don’t confuse them with facts. Let them enjoy their conspiracy theories while they can.
Meanwhile, Iowa gets 62% of its electricity from wind turbines, and that state’s very conservative farm folks don’t think twice about it. To them, windmills aren’t a left-wing, deep-state conspiracy to deprive them of smokestacks, because windmills have always dotted farms.
@ 5
But I do dispute their bullshit self-mythologizing.
This from the guy who keeps insisting that he’s a millionaire and a capitalist.
They do not work hard. They are not more disciplined or determined. They do not practice better habits.
This from the guy who spent two-thirds of his career underperforming while sucking at the government teat, and the last third of it unable to find work as an attorney because of how poorly he performed while he had a job.
@ 14
Border Patrol officers learned around 9 p.m. Friday that six migrants were in distress as they tried to cross the river separating the U.S. and Mexico near Eagle Pass’ Shelby Park.
Try to cross a 300′ wide river at night in January and you invite your own death.
Mexico’s citizens – or maybe Venezuela’s, I suppose – on Mexico’s soil. Let Mexico protect its own.
A couple of thoughts in closing:
• The wannabe illegals were near the park. Doesn’t say they were headed to the park.
• Look at Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit use three dead wannabe illegals to make it seem as if he supports Cuellar. Like most lefties, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit hates Cuellar’s guts because of the frequency with which he votes with the GOP.
@ 15
An informal survey on the ground in Iowa…
How big a piece of shit is Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
Here’s the full extent of the “informal survey” he claims was taken in Iowa:
If I wanted to overstate the prevalence of homosexuality among liberals, I suppose I could “survey” G-clown and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, and use the results to infer that there are no heterosexual commenters on HA.
Robinhood Dumbuck Rabbit is a dishonest POS. He lies about being a millionaire, and he lies about just about everything else.
Numerous MSM publications turned down the piece on Ackman’s wife, forcing those pushing it to turn to Business Insider.
Which didn’t vet the story far enough up the chain of command before running with it:
Still fired and outed as an unqualified, plagiarizing shitbag: Claudine Gay.
Thursday in London, an electric double-decker bus catches fire.
Friday in London, a hybrid double-decker bus catches fire.
Because it’s in Breitbart, it’s probably news to Railfan that on consecutive days in a single European city, public transit buses with battery technology spontaneously combusted, and put people at risk and created environmental hazards.
Democrats are class acts when it comes to illegals.
Hey, it take’s a lot of gardeners to keep Al Gore’s estate looking pretty.
Looks like the dumbfuck is drinking hard stuff tonight. If he means me @19, I didn’t post @5, but maybe his blurry bloodshot eyes fastened on my name @7, where I wrote about Trump.
And @20, his homicidal impulses are on full display; those migrants (a woman and 2 children) are dead because Abbott’s cops wouldn’t let federal Border Patrol agents rescue them. What kind of doctor celebrates the deliberate drowning of kids? A very drunk one with latent homicidal tendencies and a deeply ingrained hatred of brown-skinned children. (It’s not like they’re coming here to take his job; he doesn’t have a job.)
And finally, @21, he doesn’t understand what my “informal survey” is:
Click bait.
And it caught a fish. Or, more precisely, a stumble-drunk who can barely stand up and can’t touch his nose with his index finger. I hooked him in the penis with this one. He had it out taking a piss into the gutter before falling into the bushes.
It’s Saturday night on Whidbey Island.
@23 No ferries crashed into docks today? I guess this is what a slow news day on Whidbey Island looks like.
23)Hey Troll, I ride those death traps every day, Still here, obviously. Metro mechanics know what their doing, The pure electric I ride, the batteries are for backup.. They draw tge power for their motors from overhead wires, been doing it since 1941. Normally tgey replace trolleys with hybrids on the weekend, construction is the excuse, but tge normal deposit is a $1000, probably the ot for IBEW represented linemen who have to shut it down. It’s not a centrally controlled button, individual substations have to be turned off, and running jumps installed on individual segments. Wouldn’t be surprised if some of the linemen are multi-generational at Metro going back to the street railway.
By the way, most buses in London are operated by private concerns,but unlike rest of England better regulated.
One of the Hybrids I ride was built by a manufacturer no longer in the US market, but still runs well.
@24 “Hey, it take’s a lot of gardeners to keep Al Gore’s estate looking pretty.”
Only a drunken idiot posts a comment like that about our agricultural economy’s dependence on Mexican farmworkers — many of whom are illegals.
@27 He didn’t mention how many people have burned to death in car crashes from exploding gas tanks. I wonder if he has any DUIs? Not saying he does, but I feel sorry for the dog and horse.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IWdV0jOaxlg/S8dRePgFMdI/AAAAAAAAAIc/J7ibElsLsdw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/drunk_dog_on_horse.jpg
26)He should go tell the mechanics at Atlantic Base they are working on death traps, but make funeral arrangements first. As I said, probably some electricians and mechanics whose families predate Metro and Seattle Transit. They know what they are doing. He probably would be happy to hear that San Francisco is reconsidering battery buses, they were going for a big order that threw in replacements for the trolleybuses too. Seems the trolleybuses, despite their unsightly wire intersections, are going to be replaced by more trolleybuses. Unlike Metro, MUNI could repurpose the substations, perhaps restoring streetcar lines as the trolleybus and MuniMetro run 600v being an old system, unlike Seattle with trolleybus at 600v, and rail at 759vdc/1500vdc.
Vancouver tested a Solaris trolleybus from Poland recently, and I was commenting about it seeming to be a one stop North American tour on. a trolleybus fans Facebook group. Was told, people from Metro and Muni were observing. I just think no demo for a trolleybus is complete here without a Seattle Torture Test, Queen Anne Ave north of Roy St. In the mid 30s a trolleybus was tested against a Counterbalance Car, and won, in 1970, a 30 year old trolley vs a Diesel, Trolley won. Just we haven’t tested a 100% low floor one before, even the diesel ones are rare on this continent.
Meanwhile, SF continues testing battery buses, looks like they are doing what Seattle Transit did for a big order to replace inherited motor buses from Seattle Municipal Railway and wartime acquisitions (couldn’t be picky, they got some that didn’t work out well, but were available) in the 50s. Bought 5 each from three manufacturers, best got an order for 100, kept tge 5 from the second best, sold off the 5 from Mack that didn’t work out.
Up here tge transit agency to really watch out for is the former Twin Transit, looks like they will be using battery buses in Centralia and Chehalis and Hydrogen for longer range routes. Tge fueling station will be public, as it will be a strategically positioned if H2 vehicles do catch on. I believe CT is going to do the same, they have demos on order for both. Makes sense, both CT garages are in the Everett area, and depending on the type of charger they use, will use up a lot of juice getting to Stanwood and Arlington. I would prefer a mix of opportunity and depot charging.
29)On tge Bus fan’s Facebook groups I’m on, not everyone is a fan of all battery buses. We got a nickname for ones from BYD of China, Build Your Disasters. Unfortunately they got the best bid for Sound Transit’s Stride BRT route on SR522. Unfortunately, only two manufacturers for battery articulateds. Only one if the customer wants a Diesel or a Hybrid. 40ft buses, manufacturers come and go.
Here’s a somewhat larger “survey” for Doctor Dumbfuck’s perusal:
“Trump team actually can’t get any kind of crowd out for an event. Meanwhile [Ron DeSantis] has hundreds of volunteers fly/drive through the teeth of the storm to actually come to work as unpaid volunteers for him.”
And as the previous “survey” suggests, DeSantis supporters aren’t Trump voters. If they were they’d vote for Trump in the caucus.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lost-his-mojo-telerally-crowd/
The Finale of For All Mankind Season 4 was interesting. They did a time jump for Season 5, just in case. It will be set in an alternate 2012, and the Goldilocks Asteroid is in Mars Orbit being mined. Implied that it is also a refueling station, possibly a jumping off point for missions to Jupiter and its moons. Should be possible, in this alternate timeline, it only takes 30 days to get to Mars. Also, wonder how many years the NASA Traitor will get, as she ended up back in the US without her diplomatic immunity. Also, wonder if President Gore gets re-elected. He beat Bush Sr, who had only been President Wilson’s VP because he backed her after her first VP Primaried her when she came out.
Opening reel from the Premier episode of the season, which sets up the time jump between seasons. Interesting where it announces JFK Jr running for Senate. It’s not long after he died in real life. Some fans pointed out possibly Moynihan’s seat, as his uncle is probably retired from politics by now, having beat Nixon in 72 and lost to Reagan in 76. (Red Moon Landing only got him to cancel the party at Chapaquidick to head back to Washington, didn’t end the affair). Possible presidential run.
https://youtu.be/cDF_vMuFVZA?si=gAhWCbfooP1YDS7s
19,
Is Grandpa going to be okay?
28,
Grandpa’s doctor has switched him to almond milk. (Still requires millions of farm labor hours to produce).
Looks like he’s pouring Jim Beam on his Cheerios instead.
I guess in Ecuador things are rife with crime and violence, and it is getting very bad. And not a drag queen to be found, or a gay person. All heterosexual Neanderthals with the STD. If they can’t be out grooming their bitch they act up and take it out on others.
Heterosexuals really fucking this World up. Bunch of Neanderthal fucks.
Poll reporting in Iowa right now provides a good study into the way media fuck around with polling to juice audience.
Nothing much has actually changed in recent weeks. Changes being headlined and trumpeted in horse race headlines are mostly within the margins. But that wouldn’t be a very exciting story to tell.
Something to keep in mind: about 1/4 of those polled still describe themselves as “undecided”, and of those who are decided about a third are “persuadable”. Persuadability among MAGA Trump caucus goers is less than half of other candidates.
In a move demonstrating the kind political courage we’ve come to expect from modern Republicans Maryland Governor Larry Hogan waited until less than a day before the Iowa caucuses to offer his official endorsement to Nikki Haley.
They are all just completely cowardly pieces of shit. And that more than anything else is why Trump will become their nominee and why that will destroy them.
Republicans are making Trump inevitable. Never forget that. Because as we’ve already seen, when that turns to shit on them and blows up in their faces, they are going to beg the rest of us to look the other way or pretend that it didn’t happen and that they didn’t make it happen.
@12
For all y’all afraid of the clock app
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x40jxIqlfOs
14,
How very “Pro-Life” of them.
@ 32
And as the previous “survey” suggests, DeSantis supporters aren’t Trump voters. If they were they’d vote for Trump in the caucus.
In which Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit demonstrates his lack of understanding of how caucuses work.
2008 Hillary Clinton primary supporters had very little difficulty voting for Obama in November, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Relocating White House staff last night might have been a bit of an overreaction but the fencing did seem a little inadequate to restrain the protesters. One would think the White House had learned a lesson from the J6 riot.
Gallup:
POLITICS
JANUARY 12, 2024
Independent Party ID Tied for High; Democratic ID at New Low
Lemme reiterate that last part:
Bidenflation touches all. And it’s worsening. Again.
I’m sure that’ll turn right around when Momala emerges as the DNC candidate for president this Summer. Looking forward to the demonstrations in Chicago, especially after seeing what happened outside the White House last night.
At this point we all know who the “suckers” are in American political life. And we all know who the suckers are troll posting on HA.
https://youtu.be/iQ0ct9bglYo
What we may not yet comprehend is that neither newsreel films nor clever memes will ever make these suckers wise up. We have to drown them out and completely outnumber them if we want to protect democracy.
Tying Republicans.
Oh. That.
Trump’s final Sec Def Mike Esper, who was fired by Trump for refusing to help him overturn the election he lost, wrote in his memoir that Trump asked him in a cabinet meeting to order active duty troops to shoot political demonstrators in the legs.
@ 45, 46
Let’s look a bit further, shall we?
2020:
2024:
That’s a seven point flip to/toward the GOP in three years (link is January 2021, Gallup) and came despite Democrat efforts to use the J6 riots to every dishonest advantage possible.
We’ll see how much success the GOP has using the upcoming Chicago riots to advantage in the Fall.
Oh. That seven point flip? Democrats can thank Hispanic and black voters for the abandonment.
Republicans insisted Hunter testify because they wanted to badger him into ratting out his dad. If he didn’t, they’d have to “assume” Joe Biden took bribes from foreign governments. For impeachment purposes, for Farmer Jim and Republicans, that’s good enough.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/politics/james-comer-impeachment-interview/index.html
@ 47
You know, I did wonder what the Secret Service/Park Police response would have been last night had that weak fence been breached.
And then there’s the question of what their response would have been if my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president was home at the time, instead of at Camp David.
Didn’t you?
@35 I’d guess Wild Turkey. I question whether Mary Kay is willing to pay for the good stuff, everything considered.
In 2016 Brookings published a study of economic divide in US politics describing how the 2,584 counties that Trump won generated just 36% of the country’s economic output, whereas the 472 counties Hillary Clinton carried equated to almost two-thirds of the nation’s aggregate economy.
A year or two after losing to Trump, Hillary Clinton cited that statistic in an interview and complained that based on that fact alone she should not have lost the election.
This is an example of how so-called “moderate”, “Third Way” Democrats contribute to rising fascism in American politics.
Money ≠ votes in a democracy
Re the hanging curve pitched @ 49
If he didn’t, they’d have to “assume” Joe Biden took bribes from foreign governments.
Most of America already assumes this, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
POLITICS
Most say Biden has acted either illegally or unethically in his son’s business dealings
Hell, only 58% of Democrats think POS Hunter Biden’s dad didn’t do anything wrong.
The Biden Crime Family is corrupt, and the rot extends from the very top.
Just imagine how many voters will believe that my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president is dirty by the time the DNC convention rolls around.
Will Democrats turn on him in their desperation to save 2024 before that? Some will.
@40 Can’t get a smile out of that guy. No fucking sense of humor. Just “Security!”
Notice they grabbed the guy physically, even though he was no threat. I’m pretty sure that’s criminal assault in most jurisdictions.
Now win an election, loser.
I’m just so thankful Democrats on HA are not consigned by humiliation, loss, and defeat to spend all our free time painstakingly sorting through the vast pile of media survey statistical bullshit desperate for some stray morsel of nutritional hope.
We just turn out and win instead.
@ 52
In 2016 Brookings published a study of economic divide in US politics describing how the 2,584 counties that Trump won generated just 36% of the country’s economic output, whereas the 472 counties Hillary Clinton carried equated to almost two-thirds of the nation’s aggregate economy.
I’d be willing to bet that the counties Clinton carried equated to a majority of the nation’s murders that year.
Democracy means the little guy gets the same ballot box vote as the big guy. The 2016 election result means that we’re not a democracy, not really. We weren’t set up to be a democracy. It’s all in the US Constitution.
The same US Constitution that mandated Trump be elected is the one that libbies are attempting to use in order to keep Trump from being elected again. GLWT.
@42 “2008 Hillary Clinton primary supporters had very little difficulty voting for Obama in November, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.”
It was easier to vote for her. Hillary Clinton wasn’t a thrice-divorced, six-times-bankrupt, pussygrabbing insurrectionist facing 91 criminal charges in three separate jurisdictions.
But you could have a point. The kind of voters who gravitate to DeSantis might not have a problem with Trump’s dishonesty, lies, and criminality, even though they say they do.
You obviously don’t.
The profoundly stupid trust fund troll’s MAGA Random Statistical Decoder Ring is now telling him Kari Lake will sweep to victory in November with Hispanic and Black voters.
Mkay.
@ 56
Now win an election, loser.
Stand back and stand by.
@ 59
… is now telling him Kari Lake will sweep to victory in November with Hispanic and Black voters.
What it is telling me is that Biden won’t.
It also doesn’t conflate state and federal elections the way you just did. Doesn’t say one word about Lake. Or Emerson, or Palmer.
We are using every legal means at our disposal.
As opposed to pipe bombs, fake death threats, SLAPP suits, and crypto networks of foreign donors and chat bots.
We now have a reading on a larger Iowa sample size:
“Overall, 71 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers said they would vote for Trump in 2024 while only 11 percent said they would vote for Biden.”
And, according to the accompanying chart, 10% for RFK Jr. and 8% for a third party.
That’s not 16% of the Iowa GOP vote Trump doesn’t get in November, it’s 29%, with over a third of the defectors going straight into Biden’s tally.
https://thehill.com/elections/4408071-almost-half-of-haley-supporters-say-they-would-vote-for-biden-over-trump-iowa-poll/
Let’s see you mock this poll, doc.
I have two bits that says he’ll post something to the effect that polls don’t really mean that much, and Iowa isn’t important anyway.
The “scalp-hunting” preceded Oct 7..
FEW U.S. COLLEGES have generated more controversy for their response to Israel’s war on Gaza than the University of Pennsylvania. Penn’s president Liz Magill faced criticism for her answers about hypothetical scenarios of antisemitism posed during a congressional hearing by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who has herself faced criticism for embracing antisemitic conspiracy theories.
But the effort to oust Magill began months before the Hamas attack, according to public letters and people familiar with the fight over Israel and Palestine at Penn. As early as August, Magill had drawn the ire of pro-Israel lobbying groups, nonprofits, and university donors after rebuffing their efforts to cancel a literary festival on campus called Palestine Writes.
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/13/penn-palestine-writes-liz-magill/
Boosters of the country that can do no wrong like our silly and seriously deranged sycophantic troll are guilty of genocide.. Genocide means erasure of a group.. If no one knows that undesirable group has any sort of cultural expression it’s as if that group doesn’t exist, has never existed. It’s a crime against humanity as bad as what Putin is doing to Ukraine and almost as bad as what Hitler did to European Jewry.
Whenever the profoundly stupid trust fund troll’s MAGA Random Statistical Decoder Ring makes him look particularly stupid, he can always give it another spin to describe some statistically incredible ballot crossing.
Behold the Venn diagram of Ruben Gallego and Donald Trump voters:
O ________ O
@47 Abbott is smarter than Trump. He drowns them in the river to make it look like an accident. Including the kids.
@ 62
We are using every legal means at our disposal.
Every one except 18 U.S. Code § 2383.
Right after the profoundly stupid trust fund troll just got through another mindlessly repetitive screed pointing out that US presidential elections are not democratic because they consist of 50 individual winner-take-all state elections (okay, 48). Just exactly like a US Senate election.
Jesus, no wonder these fucktards keep losing.
@48 “use the J6 riots to every dishonest advantage possible”
What’s a “dishonest use” of the J6 riots? Arguing the rioters and their chief inciter are a threat to democracy? Asking voters to save democracy from this mob?
@ 65
Behold the Venn diagram of Ruben Gallego and Donald Trump voters…
Again the conflation of a popular vote state election with an electoral vote federal election. This state election may even be a three-way a la Alaska 2010.
Yeah, no difference at all.
Good post.
@53 “The Biden Crime Family is corrupt, and the rot extends from the very top.”
Looks like you’re part of the crowd that bases conclusions on assumptions, not evidence. But we already knew that about you.
Were you the kind of doctor who cuts organs out of living people based on a shadowy x-ray without followup tests?
I wonder why the profoundly stupid trust fund troll thinks Democrats would employ a federal criminal statute that Trump did not violate to prevent him from winning any more elections?
We don’t need to go out of our way. He violated all the others.
And he even admits that he probably did. It’s just his contention now that he should be immune from prosecution.
@57 “The same US Constitution that mandated Trump be elected is the one that libbies are attempting to use in order to keep Trump from being elected again. GLWT.”
As a gentle reminder, we’re not the ones who tried to violently overthrow the result of the very system you so lovingly extol in this comment.
Nobody can double down on stupid like a Republican when he’s been proven wrong. But nobody does it better than Trump. Not even our own profoundly stupid trust fund troll.
@ 71
Were you the kind of doctor who cuts organs out of living people based on a shadowy x-ray without followup tests?
You were impotent for two decades prior to the prostatic imaging that identified your carcinoma, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You were incontinent after the surgery, sure, but you could have elected something other than TURP. Your leakage is on you. And on everything you sit on.
Yes, you smell worse after surgery than before, but your fecal incontinence is to blame for that, not the prostatic diagnostics or intervention.
Don’t blame the imaging for your leaky limp dick or your fetid odor, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@60 “Stand back and stand by.”
Sounds like you’ve already given up on the 2024 election and are cleaning your AR-15 and lining up transportation to DC next January.
@75 You sure assume a lot about a patient you’ve never met. Reminds me a little of those doctors who signed opioid prescriptions for patients they’d never met.
Just imagine how many voters will believe
noun, verb antifa is a thing..
noun, verb chicago is a thing..
noun, verb, chicks with dicks is a thing..
noun, verb, fucking child whores is a thing..
noun, verb, skirt wearing dude is a thing..
i.e. throw shit against a wall and hope it sticks.. makes the troll over time look a bit stoopid and stinky but that’s a small price to pay for keeping the IRS from knocking on the door…
are cleaning your AR-15 and lining up transportation to DC next January.
“lord” kreepshit doesn’t own a gun.. woudn’t dream of mixing it up with the dipshits who hang on every bleat from Alex Jones.. the freek depends on brutal kops and dumbass j6 types to take care of “abnormals” it loathes..
Dude is whipped.. shovels horse shit and hugs trees… for its wifeypoo who is “seriously” devoted to liberal causes..
it dare not utter the word t**t under its breath.. it has ha for that.
@ 79
“lord” kreepshit doesn’t own a gun..
Not one I have fired.
Circa 1860s Remington cap-and-ball revolver given to me a few years ago. There are a couple of guys on the island who shoot these, and I’ve been planning to look them up.
I also have some gunpowder, which was/is in a tobacco tin when it was given to me.
Bang.
Were you the kind of doctor..
who over-radiated hypochondriacs?
ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching…
Does the pope relieve his self in the woods?
Malpractice is part and parcel of why it went into the long wait for its first SS check.. yawn.. done for the day..
75,
It really almost never fails that whenever the profoundly stupid trust fund troll is defeated and humiliated with facts it retreats to the comfort of penises and excrement. Like a clockwork dumbfuck.
@ 77
Reminds me a little of those doctors who signed opioid prescriptions for patients they’d never met.
You’re just upset because none of the ED drugs prescribed for you over the internet by doctors you’ve never met worked for you, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
At least your wife has a use for them. They help her BBCs get it up a third time.
There are a couple of guys on the island who shoot these, and I’ve been planning to look them up.
fellow moldering “lords” of widbee.. whatevs float their dinghy, boat, yacht, what the f ever…
yawwwn.. gotta go..
@83 You certainly have a hyperactive imagination. Alcohol-fueled, I assume.*
* If you’re assuming things, I can too. Goose, gander.
83,
Now it’s Black penises.
Of course.
The true “Lost Cause”.
At his raving post trial news conference the Republican nominee was asked by a reporter if he agreed with his attorneys arguing a motion for a grant of immunity before the DC Circuit, that as President he should be legally immune from any criminal prosecution if he were to order Seal Team Six to assasinate a political opponent.
Trump replied that he agreed with his lawyers, saying,
“If a President of the United States does not have immunity he’ll be totally ineffective”.
The Republican nominee for president believes that the effectiveness of a political leader depends in part on his freedom to order the assasination of his political opposition.
What the fuck do you call that if not fascism?
This is beyond debate, people. It is perfecty reasonable to label this candidate and the people who are supporting him fascists. Because that’s what they are. They are saying so. Right out loud in front of cameras and everything. It doesn’t need any interpretation or teasing apart of subtle nuance. Trump says he believes that a political leader like a president must enjoy freedom from consequence for ordering the assasination of his political rivals. He says it. And his supporters believe it.
Nobody owes them any duty of “politeness” to avoid mentioning that fact. Quite the contrary. It should be the first thing any truly loyal American thinks of the instant they encounter anyone identifying themselves as Republican.
Republican = fascist
I guess I also want to add that this fact about Republicans now openly advocating for empowering a president with the authority to order the assasination of political opponents should also be front of mind every single time anyone encounters yet another think-piece lamenting polarization or any lack of unity in American politics.
That’s sort of a natural consequence whenever one of the two major political parties representing a giant chunk of the voters proudly and unabashedly announces to the world that they’ve gone fascist.
When every other person riding the train moves to the opposite end of the car when some geezer shits himself that is not “polarization”.
Good thing the GOP is going to run a guy that has been found liable for rape by a jury.
PROVEN guilty of fraud in a court of law.
Will be on trial for inciting an insurrection when the so called riots happen in Chicago.
Is charged with stealing classified information from the government but at least his favorite judge is trying to make that trail happen after the election.
Imagine how many will think he’s guilty as trial evidence starts becoming public over the next six months.
Imagine how many will think he’s guilty as trial evidence starts becoming public over the next six months.
All the laptop dick pics have leaked already.. the repukes blew their wad on that one.. What’s left? dry memos on marketing Ukrainian natural gas?
Wow.. that’s bound to sway swing voters…
What’s left?
Well, as I’ve said before, we should not underestimate the Republican capacity for bullshit.
But as I’ve also pointed out, because modern “conservative” political energy (read “fascist”) has become dependent upon an ever expanding Overton Window, in order for each subsequent bullshit manufactured scandal to gain any traction requires that it be incrementally more extreme and incrementally more fantastic than the last. And the adoption of whatever that latest bullshit happens to be comes with real consequences.
This process is and has been ongoing for years now. And we’ve all witnessed the very obvious effect that it has had upon the profoundly stupid trust fund troll in that time.
A decade ago it required these dullards to entertain the suspicion that Hawaii is maybe not completely “American”.
Today it requires them to embrace fascism, as well as quite a lot of other extremely toxic ideology.
America is now the trainload of passengers quietly getting up and moving to the other end of the train car.
Republicans have shit their pants. What’s next? I dunno. They begin to eat it?
Here’s something to think about.
Many Democrats, liberals, and progressives are worried about violence affecting the election this November. Maybe you are too. Maybe you’ve been reading some of the alarming calls for just that kind of violence targeting voting places or ballot counting facilities being promoted and encouraged by Republican politicians from the lowliest of local county commissioners to the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee himself. Maybe you’ve seen some of the reports measuring an exponential explosion of just these kinds of threats coming almost exclusively from the far right and Republicans in recent months. Maybe you’ve also seen that these all go way beyond generalized, vague boasts and ego-threats to include lots of organizing and planning to support the threatened violence.
So one question you might consider asking in light of all that is this: why don’t you have any confidence that police will intervene to prevent all of that?
Oh. That. Right.
So maybe now that you understand that Republicans are fascists, that a whole lot of them, realizing that they can’t possibly win any other way, are planning to carry out violence this November to disrupt the election, and that most cops are Republicans, you might be ready to finally consider fewer police.
More police do not make us more safe.
More police make us less safe.
And we may even learn to our regret that relying on more police could cost us our democracy.
ABC News/Ipsos poll:
33% of American adults approve of the performance of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.
That’s not likely voters. Likely voters takes that approval down to the 31% range, probably.
And only 31% approve of Biden’s handling of the economy.
Remember when I said Biden was only a short distance from the 20s? Only 28% think that Biden “has the mental sharpness to effectively serve for another term”.
At least QoS McHillbilly is among those believers. So ol’ Joe’s got one in the tank.
@ 92
…why don’t you have any confidence that police will intervene to prevent all of that?
Because we witnessed the preparedness of the Capitol Police, the Democrat mayor of D.C., the military, and the FBI for the J6 events.
Police leaders committed suicide in some cases because their performance was so embarrassingly inept. At least they took responsibility afterward, if not before.
Now, the FBI plants who helped instigate the riot? Those guys did their jobs very, very well.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/foxs-tucker-carlson-blames-st-louis-rally-runner-for-jan-6-riot-36754473
This is the profoundly stupid trust fund troll’s “FBI plant”.
Yep. Pretty fucking toxic. And obviously insane.
I’d certainly agree that the Capitol Police were exceptionally reluctant to take effective steps to limit Trump’s Pipe Bomb Mob from violently invading the United States Capitol, taking over the House and Senate, and temporarilly shutting down the joint session carrying out the electoral count while calling for the assasination of the Vice President.
And so I must also thank the profoundly stupid trust fund troll for helping me to make my point about the police.
the Capitol Police were exceptionally reluctant to take effective steps
I wonder why nobody ordered them to shoot them in the legs?
Asking for a friend.
@85,
I may have inherited most of my financial security, and I may have been forced by my resulting lack of discipline (if not my toxic personality) to settle for a career as a radiation tech, but at no point in my life did I see myself falling into alignment with this kind of mindless cult worship.
This may be the reason I’m day drinking.
This is so interesting…
Six students sued Harvard on Wednesday, claiming that the renowned university had become a “bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment” that was exacerbated by the Hamas attack on Israel last October.
The case points to a screening at Harvard Divinity School last September of the film “Israelism,” which argues that American Jews raise their children with pro-Israel indoctrination. The screening caused Mr. Kestenbaum to suffer “anxiety and gross discomfort,” the complaint said.
“Antisemitic tropes displayed during that screening drew applause rather than denunciation,” the lawsuit said.
The students in the suit demand the removal of some professors who participated in the instances they list and seek unspecified compensation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit.html
Crybabies… I’ve watched the film.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9636732/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_israelism
The first thing I noticed about this article is that the “offensive” film was screened by Harvard’s Divinity School.. Uhhh.. folks that’s a Christian institution. Is there not one prof on the faculty that is Christian Zionist, who believes Jeebus doesn’t return until the world’s Jews go “home” to Israel? Believe it or not, some of the first Zionists were NOT Jews.. They were Christians. And ardent proponents for a Jewish homeland in what is now Israel.
The film is produced by Jews and it features Jewish-Americans who’ve shrugged off the deep pro-Israel indoctrination. The utter shameless distortion of history that is, let’s face it if we’re honest, genocidal in nature… The indoctrinators tell Jewish children that the land was barren before the Zionists. Only a few Arabs lived there and today Palestinians are just people who hate and want to kill Jews.
One pro-Israel advocate featured claims there is NO DIFFERENCE between Judaism and Israel. To question the policies of the Israeli government is to flirt with antisemitism.
Many scenes of the brutality of the occupation and the settlements.. If you love fucking walls, the West Bank is for you. Throw in checkpoints and soldier patrols, arbitrary arrest and detainment – hey good times for the occupied.
I wished the film-makers profiled Gaza and talked to Israeli Palestinians but maybe that’s saved for another film. Hard to believe a Gaza film will ever see the light of day but still..
The one named plaintiff in the lawsuit is clearly a brainwashed American Jew whose head exploded when the film induced intense cognitive dissonance.
It’s mind-blowing the fact that most Jewish Israelis never have any interactions with a Palestinian not even one who is a citizen. But many Jewish Israeli critics like Gideon Levy say this. And this makes it clear that Israel is a heavily segregated society. The closest many Israeli Jews come to dealing with Palestinians is brutalizing those under occupation.
The profoundly stupid trust fund troll pines for the day when he can sue HA for his “anxiety and gross discomfort,” because we call him a fascist.
❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
DeSantis is applying for a job, and this is his resume: “targeting gender and abortion rights and what he called the ‘woke mind virus’ in the Walt Disney Company and schools. He mastered Trump-style stunt politics by flying undocumented migrants from Texas to the liberal vacation spot of Martha’s Vineyard. After his time at Yale and Harvard nurtured his disdain for “elites,” DeSantis was the tip of the spear of the right’s new onslaught against academia.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/politics/ron-desantis-campaign-iowa/index.html
Now match that against the job description and see what you get. I’d grade this applicant as having no relevant qualifications or experience for the position sought.
by flying undocumented migrants from Texas to the liberal vacation spot of Martha’s Vineyard
I think that in itself is illegal, human trafficking of a sort, like what a coyote smuggler would do.
So I believe Abbot and DEE-Santis made sure these migrants were granted leave to stay in this country pending an asylum hearing, i.e. they were documented.
Please clarify if I’m mistaken.
“DeSantis was handed a participation trophy by a comedian at one of his events on Saturday. It was a cringeworthy moment that could become a pitiful emblem of busted hopes if the Florida governor doesn’t mount a comeback on Monday.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/politics/ron-desantis-campaign-iowa/index.html
It was actually worse than merely cringeworthy. Instead of taking the joke like a good sport and good-naturedly accepting the trophy, then saying something upbeat like “I’ll accept a winner’s trophy, too!,” this humorless reptile scowled, turned away, and had his security goons grab and drag away the comedian who dared to joke at his expense. Any PR person can tell you that’s deadly to a public figure’s public image; you’ve gotta go along with the joke and be good-humored about it in those circumstances. I guess Little Ron didn’t get the memo.
@87 Well, there’s always write-in. Byron “Low Tax” Looper ensured he was the only candidate on the ballot by assassinating his opponent 29 days before the election. (Under Tennessee law at the time, candidates could only be replaced up to 30 days before an election.) What he didn’t count on was the write-in vote. The victim’s widow, as a write-in, got 96% of the votes to Looper’s 4%. A fascist leader can, of course, eliminate potential write-in candidates. But for that to work, he needs a police state in place before the election.
@93 “probably”
Probably? You call this a poll? My informal survey was based on more actual voter opinions than this.
What kind of cult have I joined?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeVideo/s/DvzL8ONMEE
I used to have some of my shit together. I used to have a life.
What have I done?
Doctor Dumbfuck is a big fan of Barrons magazine — he’s ballyhooed the fact he subscribes — so he probably didn’t miss this item (at page 26 of the Jan. 15, 2024, print edition):
Barrons: “What will we be talking about a year from now?”
Panelist: “The Magnificent Six [technology stocks], instead of the Magnificent Seven, as Tesla will be out of that group. It could be a big underperformer this year. It is an auto company with a high valuation, and is losing market share.”
Presumably our all-knowing investor par excellente, with his infallible crystal ball (i.e., his Barrons online subscription that allowed him to read this Friday afternoon instead of Saturday or Sunday), will short Tesla stock first thing Monday morning, along with the herd that got the jump on him 3 weeks ago; Tesla is down nearly 20% since Dec. 27.
Because we witnessed the preparedness of the Capitol Police, the Democrat mayor of D.C., the military, and the FBI for the J6 events.
Exactly what kind of preparation was necessary for an “event” which you have repeatedly told us was merely a couple dozen cosplaying grandmothers parading through our nation’s Capitol Building??
profoundly stupid trust fund troll
Profoundly stupid? Yes. But a trust fund? That’s just another one of his profoundly stupid lies.
I remember the last time we Shivered the Pain, don’t you?
I suspect this guy has been on opioids for a long time.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-robinson-martin-luther-king-inferior-communist_n_65a2ee1ee4b0351062f20e92
They were already dead when Gov. Abbott pushed them back into the river, you see.
https://www.rawstory.com/greg-abbott-migrants-already/
@107,
Did I say Tesla?
I meant to say Polaroid.
At least I can say I never failed as completely as Ron DeSantis.
I remember the last time we Shivered the Pain, don’t you?
We obviously weren’t ready for The Pain…..of Biden winning the 2020 election.
The thing I admire most about him is that Trump charges them for the Kool-Aid.
I’m willing to die for Trump. How about you?
“You can’t sit home,” Trump said. “If you’re sick as a dog, you say ‘Darling, I gotta make it.’ Even if you vote and then pass away, it’s worth it.”
Dear Lord, please grant me my dying wish to finally own the libs.
@117
Another round of Covid slaying the elderly base of MAGA probably isn’t helpful for our chances in November.
Neither is passing our “No Constitutional right to an Abortion” measure we passed last session. If we pass it again it ends up on the November ballot. So we’re abandoning our long standing #1 principle for the sake of not getting our asses handed to us at the polls.
TBH she shouldn’t be vice president, either.
‘This person should not be president’: Kamala Harris takes hits in book on Biden
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/14/kamala-harris-joe-biden-book-the-truce-hunter-walker-luppe-b-luppen
Apparently she was going to embarrass herself. Instead she’s an embarrassment to the entire Democrat party, and will be one of the reasons the White House flips next January.
DEI was rotten from the start. Blowjobs and boxes checked are not qualifications.
119,
Well, if they wait long enough for “the yungins to go back to their video games” it won’t matter.
6,000 Boomers dying every day will see to it.
Cliff Mass’ blog, today:
The Cold Truth About Renewable Energy in the Pacific Northwest
It’s not just us, either:
Democrats spent $400 billion on renewables in order to make people die of the cold.
@120
Unnamed sources.
Well sure, that sound bad for the Vice President.
But lets stack that up against sworn testimony in court about how the Presidential candidate raped a woman in a department store bathroom, sat and gleefully watched TV while rioters smeared shit on the Capitol walls AND ordered his staff to hide the classified documents so the FBI wouldn’t find them after he insisted the FBI come seize them instead of giving them back. Oh, and the massive tax fraud that his own accounted admitted in court happened.
In a court of law, hearsay from unnamed sources is not evidence. Eyewitness testimony is.
Besides, literally no one bases their vote on the Vice President on the ticket.
Trump lawyer representing him in federal court in NY quit today.
This comes right on the heels of Judge Kaplan issuing notice and orders last night regarding his intentions to enforce his estoppel order forbidding defendant Trump from making any statements from the witness stand denying that he raped E. Jean Carrol in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room thirty years ago.
Trump is scheduled to take the stand tomorrow in his defense as part of the damages trial following a jury finding last May that Trump had raped Ms. Carrol. And there had been considerable speculation both that Trump might willfully defy the judge’s order and that the judge was preparing to levy sanctions against both the defendant and his lawyer, Tacopina.
Trump has fought to avoid and delay these trial proceedings for years, originally filing a prolonged suit arguing that as President he was immune from civil suit for any defamatory statements he might make. Over the years he has lost every time which finally resulted in the jury verdict against him last May. Similary Trump has been involved in a series of motions and complaints seeking to delay this and other impending trials. Most recently he had argued that the death of his current mother in law should result in a new delay. It is expected that Trump will immediately seek trial delay following the dismissal of his attorney. Kaplan has thus far been fairly unswayed in his intentions to start trial tomorrow.
Tacopina has also withdrawn as Trump’s counsel in his appeal of his NY state conviction for criminal fraud.
@ 123
Unnamed sources.
In the last administration this was enough to get the president impeached.
And it’s not like it was The Daily Mail that published it. It was The Guardian.
No matter who wins in November, we’ll still have John McCain for president. Let’s end the empire before it ends us.
I wish the profoundly stupid trust fund troll could make up its mind.
For most of the past year it has been its contention that Biden would either die or be forced out during convention riots in Chicago.
Now with his beloved polls turning against him, he seems to be transforming his “careful anaylysis” into something about Shop Girl winning the Republican nomination and then going on to destroy Biden in November.
I should not complain. After all, I did predict at the beginning of last year that the trust fund troll would begin 2024 by rapidly cycling through a phase of “shopping” varying different candidates and paths to victory. All of which will depend upon Gary Johnson levels of pure hopium to support those alternative candidates along with a very healthy dose of denial that Trump will run as an independent should he somehow fail to secure the GOP nom.
Smell that? Better move to the other end of the train car before all the seats are taken.
@122
Where Cliff and Dumbfuck pretend solar isn’t a thing at all.
The first large scale solar project in Kilckitat County came online in 2022. More are planned or under construction. So Cliff’s right that solar is not significant in the Pacific Northwest.
Yet.
Also battery storage of wind power is just now becoming a reality.
Cliff and Dumbfuck, “Because something is not perfect RIGHT NOW just keep on doing the exact same thing. In fact, do more of it to the detriment of all other things like…Canadian and Northwest wildfires.”
@125
Why do you know my name?
@125
I would have been perfectly happy remaining unnamed and doing my job.
@125
I wish to remain unnamed.
@125
I’m so unnamed I’m running for a house seat.
Some thoughts on that.
If I were anyone sincerely dedicated, in an EEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE sort of way, to the proposition that the United States should largely withdraw from global security agreements with other sovereign nations, I think I’d probably start by carefully examing the most powerful influences in favor of those kinds of agreements, and what gives rise to those influences in the first place.
We practice a particularly Darwinistic form of free market capitalism in the United States. We welcome and even encourage tremendous economic inequality, justified presumably on the idea that this inequality gives r ise tolots more economic growth. We fuck over workers like crazy. We essentially make it legal in a de facto sense for employers to openly steal from workers to improve their bottom lines. We only reluctantly enforce environmental and safety standards (Boeing!). We grant privilileged position in the tax code, the civil code, and the criminal code to the formation of capital. We constantly denegrate words and ideas associated with empowering individual workers and tax payers like “socialism”, “organizers”, and “activists”. We flood our communities with hyper aggressive police strangely oriented with a bias toward vigorous selective enforcement of petty common laws on the poorest citizens. And we constantly reinforce laughably ingrained myths about “economic forces” against which we are “powerless”.
All that and more gives particular rise to our determination to “keep the world safe”. But is that safe for “democracy”?
Or is it perhaps more accurate that what we are determined to do is keep the world safe for global trade and the subjugation of workers through global competition among workers?
I guess I tend to think that if I were one of these people eager to see the United States begin to withdraw from this global role I’d begin by examining prosperous, developed, post-industrial nations that have already managed to do so to some extent. And then I’d be studying their political and economic systems that make this possible. They are out there. They do not operate empires. Their citizens are all far better educated, enjoy better pay, better benefits, better public services, less crime, longer life spans, less chronic illness, and are empirically happier people.
Maybe that’s why the JBS is dead.
Because they were all too stupid to figure out that their isolationist dreams were both politically and economically incompatible with their preferences for unregulated capitalism.
“Rep. Eric Burlison wants to know the truth about aliens. In his first term in Congress, the Missouri Republican is pushing the federal government to reveal more … after he received a classified briefing about UAPs on Friday, Burlison said he’s no closer to answering the big questions he had before entering Congress. ‘There’s nothing that’s been said that’s changed my worldview,’ Burlison said.”
https://www.rawstory.com/ufo-uap-congress/
That’s because there’s nothing to tell. Does he really think our little speck is being visited by space creatures who would have to travel thousands, millions, or billions of light years to get here?
I don’t.
The mathematical odds argue we’re probably not alone in the universe, but the universe is just too damn big for interstellar civilizations to communicate, interact, and visit their neighbors.
The GOP is populated by morons who can’t think.
“Speaking to supporters ahead of Monday’s ‘First in the Nation’ Iowa caucuses about the importance of Israel to religious freedom, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis expressed outrage that there is a mosque in Bethlehem.”
https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-tells-iowans-hes-upset-about-a-mosque-in-pigsty-bethlehem-2666959285/
This is on the same plane as Iowa Republicans getting upset about two gay guys they’ll never meet getting married in a distant state they’ll never visit.
But DeSantis is showing he’s no Greg Abbott, who would send Texas Rangers and the Texas National Guard to the West Bank to tear down that mosque, put fencing around Bethlehem, and put up “Christians Only” signs to make Jesus’ birthplace safe from … um … praying Muslims???
Look, the people who lead GOP voters around by the nose aren’t stupid. They’re smart, well-educated, clever people who know how to turn prejudices, fears, and hatreds into political fodder. It’s the voters who are stupid; people like DeSantis and Abbott are something else: Loathesome.
“Geri Roll, former elections director for Pinal County, Arizona, another Republican, revealed how she had to face Trump supporters spinning conspiracy theories. … Roll explained she’d spent most of her life as a county attorney and was treated better by child molesters and rapists than by MAGA fans.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporters-when-maga-turns/
This is what I mean when I say GOP voters are the problem.
@120 Run Trump, get Biden and Harris again.
Whose fault will that be?
@122 No problem. Just keep burning fossil fuels, and you won’t have winters anymore. Then solar will work just fine, although it probably won’t produce enough power for all the air conditioning you’ll need.
@133 “We grant privilileged position in the tax code, the civil code, and the criminal code to the formation of capital.”
And the trust fund moron can’t stand sharing these privileges with a capitalist rabbit who votes for decent human beings instead of thieves and rapists, so he has to lie about the rabbit’s assets.
Look, the people who lead GOP voters around by the nose aren’t stupid.
I take exception to that. I’m as stupid as stupid gets.
For our profoundly stupid troll,
More Nikki Haley supporters would vote for Biden over Trump in November, Iowa Poll finds
Just 23% of Nikki Haley supporters say they would vote for Donald Trump in a rematch with Joe Biden, a new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows right before the Iowa Caucuses
@140 I hate to break this to you, but you’re not one of the leaders, you’re one of the led.
There is a good example available right now of how polling results can be seized upon by the media to create potentially very erroneous hopes and expectations.
Des Moines Register/NBC has published the latest Selzer poll. Ann Selzer is a high quality pollster who specializes in Iowa. NBC gives their spin. The Hill reports on that reporting and adds some more spin. Here is the kicker: The Hill headline declares
Almost half of Haley supporters say they would vote for Biden over Trump: Iowa poll
Big news, right? Lots of progressives have run with it since yesterday, leveraging this analysis to explain how some fabled Republican “silent majority” will flip to Biden when Trump wins the nom.
The Hill reports that the MOE for the Selzer poll is +/-3.7
All the availabel polling, including this one, indicates Trump is way out in the lead. So the majority of the poll respondants are Trump voters, not Haley voters. And so there’s a problem here. Because +/- 3.7 is also the MOE for the whole survey population. But in statistics the smaller the sample the large ther MOE. So how can the sample of Haley respondants, which is much smaller than the whole, have the same MOE?
It doesn’t. Here’s the poll:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24360792-iowa-poll-trump-vote
The published results of the poll show the MOE and the sample.
And it shows the population size of Haley supporters in the overall sample at n=140. Big difference. Yields an MOE of +/-8.3 (not 3.7)
But it also does not show a breakout of Haley supporters in the crosstabs. So how the fuck does The Hill reach it’s conclusion that “almost half of Haley supporters say they would vote for Biden over Trump”? That comes from NBC.
In NBC’s reporting on the Selzer poll they include their own analysis of the data showing how “half of Haley’s supporters identify as either independents (39%) or Democrats (11%) – significantly different from the polls overall makeup, which stands at 69% #Republicans, 23% #independents, and 5% #Democrats among likely #GOP caucusgoers.”
See what they did there?
It’s hardly surprising that if almost half of Haley’s Iowa support comes from #notRepublicans, then “almost half of Haley’s Iowa supporters” don’t plan to vote for Trump in November. Dog bites man. Not man bites dog.
There’s really nothing wrong with this poll. It just does not say what The Hill claims it says. And if you were a Biden supporter, or God forbid a Biden campaign strategist, and you make decisions based upon what this bullshit from The Hill is telling you, you would be fucking up big time. I pray you do not.
Don’t think for one instant that huge numbers of Republican voters are going to flock to President Biden once Trump wins the Republican nomination. THEY WILL NOT. They are Republican voters. They are going to do exactly what you should expect Republican voters to do in any election. Despite the fact that their nominee is a convicted criminal, rapist, twice impeached, fascist failure, they are going to vote for him because he’s got a fucking (R) after his name.
And not for nothing, also because fucking shit stain lazy access journalists from media orgs like The Hill are essentially giving them permission to do so. “Somebody else”, some other mythological moderate Republican, can always be counted on to save America. Leaving them perfectly free to just go ahead and let their racist grievances do all their talking for them.
Not all polls are terrible, although some certainly are.
But most poll media analysis is just pure, refined, weaponized garbage.
Republican candidates have spent over $120 million in Iowa. That works out to more than $3,700 for every vote cast in the 2020 Iowa GOP caucuses.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/15/iowa-republican-caucus-sets-new-record-for-state-political-ad-buys-.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Iowa
This math is so simple a rabbit can do it! In 2020, 32,345 Iowans voted in the GOP caucuses, and 897,672 voted for Trump in November. This means 3.6%, or roughly 1 in 27, of the November voters attended a caucus.
141,
Bad. Bad Unserious Twat.
Don’t fall for bullshit.
The poll is fine. The analysis is incredibly flawed.
Read the crosstabs. They are lying to us.
That’s a state? That’s a whole fucking state???
Geezus. That would only barely make a Congressional District in California.
@147 Yeah, and they get as many senators as California.
Alaska is worse. Every Alaskan gets 57 times as much representation in the Senate as any Californian does.
Following up a bit to 143 with another “warning” of sorts.
I expect President Biden to win in November. But I also expect the results to be quite close, especially in the few swing state contests that actually count.
When President Biden wins we aren’t going to know right away why he won. But that won’t stop the media from attempting to explain it somehow. We, and they, won’t really know the answer to that question until a few months after the election when voter file data becomes available showing better information about differentials in turnout to accompany differentials in voter preference. But ignorance hates a vacuum. And so in an time honored effort to look “savvy” media analysts will simply engage in speculation informed mostly by other speculation, and maybe some completely annecdotal reporting from a coffee shop in the middle of nowhere, or perhaps for a little “spice” from a barber shop in a “Black” neighborhood. Meh.
When the final truth comes out what we will probably learn is that in the handful of swing states that count it was turnout that made the difference for President Biden. And that the kind of people who vote a particular way in most elections pretty much will have done that again. But that a few more of the kind of people who vote for Democrats will have turned out in those key battleground states. But we won’t learn that until probably January of 2025.
In the immediate weeks and months following the election the media, relying mostly on pure speculation, will have supplied a different spin however. It will be a more hopeful and potentially positive spin. But also a potentially dangerous one. Because if I’m right, they will offer the speculative spin that Biden won becuase some mythological model of “moderate American” voter will have finally come to their senses, or “rediscovered” their faith in American democracy, or “renewed” the sense of patriotism, or whatever, and that this “change of hearts” will have made the difference. And believe me, the Biden campaign will absolutely embrace and lean into that narrative. Mandates are good for the legislative agenda.
But it won’t be true. Any more than it was ever true that some forgotten, secret underclass of “aggrieved, working class heroes” was responsible for Trump winning in 2016. In 2016 racist older white people simply turned out in much higher numbers than decent people. Since then they have not managed to repeat that. And they won’t manage to repeat it this year either.
We should not allow ourselves to be sold on any lies about who or what Republican voters have become. That is not going to change this year or any year hereafter. To protect our democracy the rest of us are just going to have to keep coming together and turning out to defeat them.
@149 Politics is about coalition-building. Bibi rules Israel because he assembled that country’s fragmented rightwing parties into a coalition. When Democrats didn’t want southern racists anymore, Nixon pulled them into the Republican Party. In recent years, Democrats have gotten affluent college-educated white males and suburban women repelled by Republican personalities and policies.
What’s happening now is the GOP is no longer recruiting new voters or trying to expand their coalition. Instead, they’re trying to keep other people from voting. This virtually guarantees their base will keep shrinking.
One of the really dumb things Republicans are doing is deliberately alienating Venezuelan asylum-seekers. Virtually all of these people are fleeing Maduro’s regime. They’re piling up on our border to escape from socialism. In the past, Western hemisphere refugees from socialism who became naturalized citizens turned out to be rabidly rightwing voters. See, e.g., Florida’s Cuban diaspora and Nicagaruans. The Venezuelan migrants are ripe for GOP recruiting; Republicans should be doing everything they can to bring them into the country and help them get citizenship. Instead, they’re loading them onto buses and dumping them in Chicago in the wintertime without food, clothing, or shelter. I don’t understand this. It’s stupid.
@poll
And that’s the thing, somewhere in the neighborhood of half of the people who select Nikki as the nominee are independent but right leaning voters. They know Trump. They’ve seen Trump. They hate Trump. of the other half, you can pretty safely assume that half of those would consider not voting at all if the nominee is Trump. The others will do their party duty and vote for whoever the GOP nominee is.
So what does the Nikki voting Biden plus Nikki voting then staying home add up to for a guy who needs to flip a bunch of states to get another term after being out of office for four years?
No one has a good answer for that but it’s not insignificant.
150)Helps that the way Israel elects the Knesset gives those allies more power. There are proportional systems that have districts.
Did you know that Boeing obtained a deferred criminal prosecution agreement from the DOJ for the ~300 lives they carelessly took by lying and concealing the truth from carriers, pilots, the FAA, and grieving families about their 737 MAX MCAS system? They did. In the terminal weeks of the Trump presidential disaster, surrounding the chaos of the insurrection fraud and pipe-bomb riot, Trump DOJ scumbags scrambled to ink a deal with Boeing to defer any criminal prosecution for the company’s criminal misconduct if they complied with a series of safety improvements and paid a very tiny fine.
Well, oops.
Aaaalmost all the way through that compliance period the fucking assholes left critical safety fasteners out of a critical air frame component and BLAMMO.
Yer fucked.
Did I fail to mention that this DPA agreement was actually in stark violation of federal law? Yep.
By law families of the people Boeing slaughtered with carelessness were required to be brought into any process of negotiation over settlement. They were not.
So it looks like the deal is blown up. And Boeing, the FAA, the DOJ, and the victim families are all going to jump into the way-back machine and relive the horror of the Robot Death Plane That Must Kill You All Immediately!!!!!
Cool.
Strong sell signal.
#nationalizeboeing
Lots of acts by Heterosexual Neanderthals but I’ll spare you the details.
Just Google it! Dead bitches groomed by the Neanderthal.
152,
I absolutely agree with your analysis insofar as it is focused on how Trump impacts election turnout.
Polling not only fails to capture that, in some cases it gives a false sense of what the next election turnout composition will be based on the last election. As I believe you rightly point out, some significant percentage of unaligned voters hate Trump. Another percentage are turned off or at least uninspired by his brand of fascist posturing, xenophobic rage, and toxic misogyny and bigotry. I too don’t know to what extent that means they stay home or to what extent that means they vote for Kennedy, etc.
But I don’t think that matters to President Biden. Because Trump, who now runs on a record of failure and fraud, and as a convicted criminal and rapist, is further burdened by the requirement to reverse his previous losses and flip quite a few states that he was incapable of winning when he was president. In order for Trump to win these key states he must overcome an already existing turnout disadvantage. And he must do so in an environment that is stacked against him – Dobbs, impeachment, criminal fraud, criminal obstruction, ongoing rape trials, racketeering trials, etc.
I know that there’s a sense of dread and apprehension among a lot of Democrats where Trump is concerned. But if we examine his actual and very limited record of political accomplishments there is nothing there to argue that he is capable of this. He is not capable, nor has he surrounded himself with professionals who are capable. Given that he may still truly believe that he won in 2020, he may not even recognize how big of a task lies before him.
More than half of caucusgoers who listed “abortion” as their number one issue chose loser Fat Midget over rapist.
But they’ll come around by November. And at that point Fat Midget will have begun growing his post-political beard.
How long before Fat Midget quits?
“911, what’s your emergency?”
“We have a fire burning we need help!”
“Right can you give me an address of the situation?”
“There are flames coming through the window.”
“Can you tell me where you are?”
“I think people are trapped upstairs.”
“Sir, I really need to know the location where this is happening.”
“1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“OK, I’m dispatching…wait…1600…get the fuck out of here.”
Nikki carries one of the few Blue counties (Story) in Iowa. She’s gonna ride all that Mo’ to a second place finish next week in New Hampshire, a lackluster finance report a day later and a total thrashing in her home state of South Carolina at which point the donations dry up.
I’m sure the glimmer of hope was warming for Dumbfuck.
@ 159
Nikki carries one of the few Blue counties (Story) in Iowa.
The same way Trump won PA on Election Night. Haley is now below 25% in that county, in which she briefly led. Trump has won 99 counties, and the only one he hasn’t won is the sole county that as of this writing has not reported any of its results.
Really, really good post.
@160 This sure drives home the depravity of Republican heartland voters, doesn’t it? If you eat bacon, you’re buying it from these folks. It’s bad for your heart and arteries anyway.
@161
At least a decade ago Tyson foods did something to piss me off. The other day I was looking at the sausage case and saw Aidell’s and didn’t buy it because, Tyson. Haven’t had any Jimmy Dean in all this time either. Foster Farms if I need the chicken.
I don’t even remember at this point what Tyson did.
But I’m already done pretending I’m not drinking Bud Light.
I’m sure there will be tons of column inches and quotes from a diner in Iowa on the low turnout and blame the snow not the terrible Candidate coronation tour.
The last time there was a contested primary in Iowa about 181,000 ballots were cast. This year it’s going to be under 90,000.
That’s some major party enthusiasm in the nation’s first nominating contest.
Maybe they aren’t willing to die for Donald?
90,000 eh?
Woo hoo! I’m the King of Yakima!
Vivek is out. Actually, he was never really in. What did he expect? That hog farmers would embrace a smooth-talking guy with brown skin and a funny name? This isn’t 2008 or 2012.
I just couldn’t take the smell any longer.
The real story of last night’s Iowa caucuses is the MAGA King, former president, and frontrunner didn’t get 49% of the individual votes.
These were split among four Trump-alternative candidates, the bulk going almost evenly to DeSantis and Haley.
Half the GOP voters in an evangelical, mostly white, farm-belt state said with their votes they don’t want Trump to be their nominee, and he hasn’t even been convicted yet.
In 2020, Trump got 97% of the Iowa GOP caucus vote. MAGA isn’t what it used to be.
@ 167
MAGA isn’t what it used to be.
Well, neither is America. Bidenflation touches everyone.
Ok Ok Ok
Nikki eked out a single blue Iowa county by one vote. A county that only 27% voted Trump in 2020.
And Donald climbed over the 50% threshold statewide.
With probably a small handful of ‘adjustments’ and voter fraud left to verify the vote total is going to be about 100k.
“I pledge my impressive number of supporters and my endorsement to Nikki Haley!” – Asa Hutchinson
“Big fucking deal, my endorsement and I urge my three delegates and thousands of supporters Donald Jesus Himself Trump. In solidarity I won’t be on the ballot in any state.”
@169,
100,000 eh?
Woo hoo! I’m the King of Renton!
Well, at least not the Iowa part of America.
Ramaswamy did a Full Grassley (visiting all 99 counties), twice. And had to drop out.
Trump showed up about a dozen times only just flying in for quick rallies and maybe a single side trip then flying back out. Won 98 of those 99 counties, and basically tied his opponent in the 99th.
It’s just a single data point. And it’s a single data point that has only limited relevance to only limited parts of general election battleground states (Iowa ain’t one). But it serves to provide a real life demonstration of something that political analysts have talked about for years now. Whatever the size of Trump’s base may be, it is absolutely unwavering in its support. Those Iowa caucusgoers were never going to vote for anyone other than Trump. Nothing else matters to them.
And even if fucking idiots like Shop Girl, Fat Midget, and our profoundly stupid trust fund troll don’t want to look at that or think about it, you can bet your ass Trump sees it.
He’s running in November no matter what.
Personally I hope he loses the GOP primary and ends up running as an indy. That would be the best thing for America and certainly the best thing for the future of the GOP. But it would also guarantee a disaster for Republicans this fall. And everything I’ve seen about them in recent years tells me that even as stupid and self-destructive as Republicans have become, their instinct for preservation of power abides and transcends. The utter weaklings who define the so-called “moderate” mainstream of the GOP will make whatever the fuck accomodations they must in order to avoid that. And that will eventually mean throwing Shop Girl and Fat Midget undre the bus and punching the gas toward November.
Rick Wilson was right way back in 2022:
“Winning Florida isn’t the flex DeSantis and his stans think it is.”
Biggest loser: Fat Midget.
Second biggest loser: you know who.
Fat Midget should get out now with some of his dignity and political viability still intact. He could take Rick Scott’s Senate seat away from him. The filing deadline isn’t until the end of April.
But he won’t. And Florida will become just that much more incrementally weakened.
In a CNN entrance poll, 68% of Iowa caucusgoers believed that Trump won the 2020 election.
We are invited by corporate biased media to marvel at such results and perhaps to dismiss the delusional views of those voters. But I think it tells a different story having to do with the widespread belief in Trump’s electability argument.
It’s not that often in modern presidential politics that a nominee who strikes out badly gets to take a second at-bat. There have been a few seemingly perennial primary candidates. But once the party faithful give their nod of approval it’s do or die. Worse for Trump is the fact that he got his ass kicked as an incumbent running with huge advantages in every respect. And he still could not close the deal. Primary partisans have tended to take that kind of losing performance as a powerful indicator of weakness and incapacity on the part of that politician. They might be able to retreat from such a loss and go back to a Senate seat. But otherwise it normally means retirement.
These voters have got to believe that Trump won in 2020 in order to sustain their belief that he is capable of winning in 2024.
There is no other option. They are compelled by circumstance to adopt what is an obviously absurd and humiliatingly delusional belief in order to be able to line up with everyone else behind Trump.
And the media seeing this, are swept into the same myth of electability surrounding Trump. And then Democrats seeing that are swept into it as well.
But look, it just is not a credible or sustainable claim that Trump won any of those contested states, counties, or precincts in 2020. Time after time when the results are poured over with granular intensity the result proves that any counting errors shorted Biden, not Trump. Trump ran and lost. Trump sued and lost. Trump appealed and lost. Trump arranged a forged document fraud and lost. Trump summoned a riot and lost.
So when I see these poll stats about Republican voters embracing this silly myth it tells me they are lying to themselves to sustain what the unconsciously recognize is a lost cause. He is not electable. It’s been proven by actual elections. And they know it. But they are running with him anyway because the only Americans they hate more than themselves are “the libs”. They are willing to accept the loss just to put American through another round of Trump.
We now have a brand new in 2024 campaign metric.
The Full DeSantis:
Vist all 99 Iowa counties, lose all 99 Iowa counties, and still claim sToLeN eLeCtIoN!¡!
@174 The crooked Dems stole the caucus vote for Trump? Yeah, that will make perfect sense to these folks with their freeze-dried brains.*
* Add alcohol to reconstitute; water will just freeze.
What FOX will not be sharing with its viewers today:
Kaplan, to prospective jurors: “it has been determined already that Mr. Trump did sexually assault Ms. Carroll, that he knew when he made the statements about Ms. Carroll that the statements were false, that he made them with reckless disregard to whether they were true or false”
Republican nominee = rapist
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus kills the groomed womenz.
Ladies get rid of the idea that you need a husband. They’re using you then they kill you. Chop chop, make me my breakfast bitch, or else!
Rapist = Heterosexual Neanderthal
@173 The new line from Trump voters is, “Yeah, I don’t care for his style, but I like his policies.”
While Trump sits phoneless in Kaplan’s court solemnly acknowleding instructions from the judge forbidding him to talk any shit or say anything critical or derrogatory about E. Jean Carrol while the jury is empaneled and trial is underway, and watching one of his last remaining attorneys get her ass handed to her by the judge, Trump’s Truth Social is blasting out a steady stream of posts attacking Ms. Carroll.
So quite clearly a pre-planned digital attack in direct violation of the judge’s written orders given to the parties before trial commenced.
And in all likelihood the reason why Tacopina quit.
Habba will be lucky to sleep in her own bed tonight. But wherever she sleeps I’m willing to bet she wakes up considerably poorer than when she went to bed.
Aside from children shooting their teachers, other kids, and bagel shop owners, here’s further evidence that possessing guns should be a regulated privilege, not an inalienable right: “Man shoots brother and fiancee he thought were doing witchcraft on him”
https://www.rawstory.com/witchcraft/
Really, you should need a prescription from a mental health provider before you can have a gun. Guns are at least as dangerous as opioids.
Heartened by the fact people actually go to prison for contempt of Congress, House Repukes will now redouble their efforts to prosecute Hunter for offering to comply with their subpoena.
https://www.rawstory.com/peter-navarro-loses-appeal/
In Jury selection in the E. Jean Carroll case, “All prospective jurors said they accepted the finding that Trump committed sexual abuse,” including the election deniers and anti-vaxxer.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jurors-election-deniers/
Nikki Haley announces she’s participated in her last debate:
“After former President Donald Trump dominated the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in a statement on Tuesday that she will debate only Trump or President Joe Biden.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikki-haley-debate-donald-trump-joe-biden/story?id=106409470
“I don’t care how they spin it—Trump got 50% of the vote in his own party after being an incumbent president. That’s not good…I don’t think it was that great of a night for Trump.”
– Former Missouri Senator Claire McKaskill on Morning Joe
This is my point. While it remains quite clear that Trump will dominate the primary, his level and depth of support, even within his own party, is historically anemic for a former office holder. And the historical record tells us that is to be expected.
Trump’s inevitability as the GOP nominee does not translate to the the general electorate. He’s polarizing as fuck even among his own party base of voters. It only gets worse for him the farther away from the trailer park he gets.
184,
Well it doesn’t speak well of her intelligence that it has taken her this long to comprehend the utter futility of what she is doing.
Consider what effect having “lost to Donald J. Trump” on their CV is going to have on any of their future political prospects.
At the risk of doing the profoundly stupid trust fund troll’s job for him, look at where Hillary Clinton is today.
You offered the voters an alternative to a demonstrably incompetent, uninformed, fascist, toxic bigot who mocks the elderly, the disabled, and injured veterans and brags about rape, fraud, and his own daughters tits.
And the voters chose that guy over you.
@186 I liken Haley to a fisherman trolling a pond to find out if there’s any fish in it, and at the end of the day going home with an empty creel.
In her case, she’s trolling the Republican Party (pond) to find out if there’s any non-MAGA voters (fish) in it, and going home with … a mostly empty creel.
In both cases, “Nah, there’s no fish in this pond.” Just the MAGA voters (suckers) Trump reeled in that won’t take any other bait.
Before a single add dropped or a single door got knocked, Fat Midget started out in Iowa at 30 points.
Then he visited all 99 counties, and spent 38 million on tv adds
And he dropped to 20 points.
He’s probably a worse campaigner than JEB! And the profoundly stupid trust fund troll went all-in. Geezus.
At probably the lowest polling point for Biden at the toughest part of the cycle, the Biden campaign set a fundraising record.
I won’t say that promises hidden enthusiasm or momentum.
But I will say it absolutely tells us how precise, efficient, very well organized, and incredibly well prepared Julie Chávez Rodríguez and her team are right now. This is just fundraising. It’s not messaging. For that we have to wait.
But I’m more confident than ever that the campaign is ready to produce the registration and turnout in key battleground states needed to win in November.
“The absence of a presumptive privilege particularly threatens the Chief Executive when, as here, a third party holds presidential communications.”
https://www.aol.com/news/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-182155078.html
Then don’t conduct White House business on private servers (e.g., Twitter’s).
@189 After months of unanswered messaging that Biden took millions in bribes from foreign governments, he can only go up in the polls after his campaign begins to blow that smear out of the water.
Of course, it would be different if he did pocket millions from Hunter’s influence-peddling. And it’s possible he did, and the GOP’s hopelessly inept sleuthing team simply failed to find evidence of the offense. Trump could murder someone right in front of them, or incite a riot, and they wouldn’t see the proof right in front of their eyes.
In that case, voters would face a choice between a fascist authoritarian of questionable mental stability who uses the office for personal gain, or a garden-variety corrupt crook who uses the office for personal gain, but it would still be an easy choice to make.
@ 167
She was FLOTUS for 8 years. She was a NY senator for 8 years. She was SoS for 4 years.
Nonetheless, half of Iowa rejected that corrupt POS.
Then America did, too.
@192 Nonetheless, half of Iowa rejected that corrupt POS.
Trump, yesterday.
Then America did, too.
Trump, 2020.
“I don’t even know what Trump could do to stop himself right now.”
I don’t know what Democrats could do to stop him in the Fall, either.
Haley insists “the United States has never been a ‘racist’ country.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4411489-nikki-haley-us-never-been-racist-country/
This was just people out walking their dogs.
Don’t kid yourself, Haley is a POS too. She’d been pandering to southern racists her entire political career. There is no “good” GOP candidate in the 2024 race.
Turnout.
It’s not that complicated. And because Trump is so obviously polarizing most of the giant war chest that Biden is still building up can be focused on that.
See how that works? The profoundly stupid troll is staring his future right in the face and he isn’t seeing it.
Good. It’s much more fun when the tears of agony are unexpected.
I don’t know what Democrats could do to stop him in the Fall, either.
Yet more evidence that you’re a dumbfuck for the ages.
@196 “And because Trump is so obviously polarizing most of the giant war chest that Biden is still building up can be focused on that.”
Meanwhile, most of the money Trump raises will be used for his legal expenses.
195,
I really have no idea what the fuck kind of line she is trying to walk here.
Evangelicals are 70% of Republican primary voters in her own state. And they are going to Trump by like three to one. And while there’s a small chance she could sneak a win in NH it’s just hospice care to keep the patient comfortable and treat the pain before the inevitable. Which is Trump being declared the GOP nominee in April. Just in time for his next trial to start.
“House Republicans are putting plans to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying congressional subpoenas on hold amid new negotiations to bring in the president’s son for questioning … which come after Hunter Biden’s attorney said last week he would agree to give testimony” on their terms.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4412020-hunter-biden-contempt-testimony/
Dropping a foreclosure when the borrower pays off the mortgage comes to mind.
199,
What legal expenses?
I don’t think he’s paying anyone other than Kise.
The rest of those mutts are working for free. Even if they don’t know it yet.
@202 He still needs paper and printer ink. Lots of it.
News reports citing anonymous sources are saying that the Capitol Police and the FBI have opened an investigation into recently published recorded remarks by Trump campaign surrogate Roger Stone in 2020 instructing a member of his security detail to assasinate two Democratic members of the House.
Headlines from the Daily Mail gossip rag:
“‘Worn out’ Trump, 77, sparks health fears”
“Visibly had a hard time walking straight and appeared to be dragging his leg”
“Doctors say neurological issue likely not the problem but he is clearly getting old”
From the story:
“Despite a resounding win in the Iowa Republican caucus last night, doctors warn Donald Trump has looked tired, gaunt and unsteady on his feet in recent months.
“The 77-year-old, normally full of energy and charisma, looked uncharacteristically frail and unsteady as he walked into a hotel in Des Moines after a busy day of campaigning Saturday night.
“Dr Stuart Fischer, an internal medicine physician in New York, told DailyMail.com: ‘I’ve never seen that in him. The walking is one issue, but the balance is another. He looked a little bit like he was on a ship at sea.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12969831/donald-trump-exhausted-health-fears-iowa-caucus-win.html
His near-death experience with Covid must have taken a lot out of him. Maybe he never fully recovered.
He’s already outlived the U.S. average male life expectancy by four years, so it’s not surprising that he’s on his last leg. The question is whether he’ll make it to Super Tuesday.
@204 I heard about that. I guess the fine legal question is whether he “ranted to” (First Amendment-protected political speech) or “instructed” (soliciting commission of a crime) them, and I assume that’s what the FBI is trying to determine.
206,
There are potential charges that go beyond the order for the hit.
At the same time in 2020 as Stone was ordering a hit on members of Congress the Trump DOJ at the direction of AG Barr had intervened in the special counsel conviction of Stone for various offenses he had committed in connection to the 2016 election. The DOJ had been seeking a six year sentence but Trump’s intervention got that recommendation cut in half. While that internal negotiation was going on one of the two House members that Stone was trying to have assasinated was launching a committee investigation into that intervention by the White House. And in addition to the tape recording of Stone ordering the assasination there are witness accounts that Stone also attempted to order an assasination of one of the DOJ prosecutors who was hoding out for the original sentence recommendation.
So given that there was very clear intent here to obstruct an investigation into improprieties at the Trump DOJ that directly affected Stone, and given that there was precisely the same intent to obstruct the internal deliberations of the DOJ over his imminent sentencing, it will probably be impossible to Stone to argue successfully that he was just “ranting”. He was at the very minimum engagin in an effort to intimidate and obstruct, even if he never really intended to see anyone killed. The AUSA that Stone targeted quit only a few days later.
@207 Stone is a piece of garbage whose parents committed a crime against humanity by bringing him into the world. He should’ve been aborted. We can only hope prosecutors will get him on charges he can’t wiggle out of. He belongs in a cage.