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Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I’ll Be Quiet (Once I’m Dead) ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Electile Dysfunction — 2024:

Jordan Klepper calls for gun control after KC parade shooting

Big Tentacle: ♫ Evolution Made Us All ♬

Sycophants, Suckers, and Seditionists:

Mark Fiore: Cats are cute!

Grace Kuhlenschmidt: Recounts the hottest president love affairs

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Will be interesting if Trump will post tge appeal bond in this latest case.

  2. 2

    Love this story, but one record he Norman Kwong holds in the CFL can’t be beat. He was the youngest to play in a Grey Cup, at 18.Still hear stories about the 1948 Calgary Stampeders he played for. It’s the only undefeated season in Canadian Football. Surprised the organization that produces these videos released it this week. Grey Cup is in November.

    https://youtu.be/7RMv7tSYl3Y?si=i5rQK-3XkWfSd6oJ

  4. 4

    @3 It’s not “diciduous,” it’s deciduous. So, what type of tree are you? Oak? maple? hickory? a little bush? a dandelion?

  5. 5

    “Several sources familiar with the matter said that the exposure of the intelligence was extremely damaging because the source was incredibly sensitive. According to those sources, the intelligence community is now scrambling to figure out how to preserve its access.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/politics/russia-nuclear-space-weapon-intelligence/index.html

    A shoot-from-the-lip GOP congressman probably just got one of our best spies killed.

  6. 6

    He’s not wrong.

    Mike Allen
    @mikeallen

    🥊 Former AG Bill Barr brings down the house today at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples —
    and suggests he’d vote Trump if there’s no Biden alternative:

    “Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country. Voting for Biden is outright national suicide”
    11:24 AM · Feb 16, 2024

  7. 7

    @ 5

    … probably just got one of our best spies killed.

    Rumsfeld begged the NYT not to expose the federal government’s SWIFT program. The loss of a then-secret means of tracking terrorist dollars as they flowed from their overseas sources would be catastrophic to the nation’s efforts to prevent another 9/11.

    NYT didn’t listen.

  8. 8

    Queen YLB’s fucked kids sigh in frustration and helplessness. Their mother, HA’s Unserious Twat, voted for it and leads cheers for it.

    Mortgage rates shot higher Friday after a monthly government report on wholesale prices showed inflation is still persistent and hotter than most analysts had expected.

    The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped to 7.14%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the highest level in two months.

    And now her fucked kids are getting it. Good and hard they’re getting it.

  13. 13

    My dad is going to make me a federal judge! You guys, I’m so psyched!

  15. 15

    Good morning fellow liberals!

    Please join with me today in celebrating, as I always do on this day, the anniversary of Rush Limbaugh finally defeating his lifelong crippling addiction to pills.

    🥂🍾😃👍🥳🥂🎉🎶🎋🪅🍾🥳

  16. 16

    Not allowed to run a University.

    Not allowed to run a 501c3 charity

    Not allowed to run a business in the State of New York.

    Stupid mother fuckers want him to run a country.

  17. 17

    16,

    There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

    And it really is refusal. We know that much about Republicans and their groveling support for Trump The Rapist. They know that all these things are true about him. And they know that all these things that are true about him are disqualifying.

    But having now already voted for him themselves many times, to admit any of that knowledge is to accept personal responsibility and failure.

  18. 18

    Remember the Cold War phrase ‘Useful Idiot?’

    Alexei Navalny’s mother was told on Saturday that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by “sudden death syndrome” and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said

  19. 19

    You people are trying to start World War III. Now THAT’s what a bunch of useful idiots are!

  20. 20

    Voters should not trust Trump.

    That’s now a settled matter of law arising from three different court trials.

  22. 22

    Trump’s announcement that he would immediately impose a ten percent tariff on everything imported into the United States sounds very inflationary.

    Where would I come up with that kind of money? My employer sure couldn’t afford to raise my salary if all of their costs shot up 10% overnight. In fact, I bet they’d have to think about laying me off.

    I don’t think I could afford it if everything jumped up 10% the minute Trump became president. And I don’t want to find out either.

    Maybe I shouldn’t fuck around.

  23. 23

    @22

    “Brilliant plan! Tarriff’s increase Revenue” – Fox Business

    “THIS is why the liberal DA and that Activist Judge tried to kneecap him. He’s the smartest business talking man ever.” -OANN

    “My Pillow is made in the USA so this is getting me back on my feet. Thank you so very much” – Mike Lindell

    “This will make American’s as free as Russians.” Tucker Carlson

  26. 26

    5)Especially since it’s hard to extract from Russia. Always was, and lost many of them during the Cold War.

  27. 27

    Can’t get an affordable house? It’s not just the interest rate and homes being in a price bubble.
    Investors Bought 26% of the Country’s Most Affordable Homes in the Fourth Quarter—the Highest Share on Record
    https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q4-2023/
    Single-Family Homes Represented Over Two-Thirds of Investor Purchases

    The worst part about it is we let it happen with our capitalism fetish and we’re going to need socialist tactics to fix it.

  28. 28

    @6 Every time you post about your stock options, you’re bragging about how well you’re dying under Biden.

  31. 31

    @26 It doesn’t help to have dumbfucks on our side taping targets on their backs. And Doctor Dumbfuck, because he’s a dumbfuck, doesn’t see a problem with a loose-lipped GOP congressman unmasking our human intel sources.

  33. 33

    @27 Tax single-family rental income to support a program of interest-rate subsidies to owner-occupants? That would make single-family homes less attractive as investments, and more accessible to first-time buyers. In effect, it would require landlords to help tenants buy homes. I think that qualifies as socialism.

  34. 34

    17,

    And even more, if Republicans are unwilling to admit the truth they know about Trump they are at least as unwilling to admit the truth they know about themselves:

    https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1478191249047887880

    The identities of the people who helped Trump engage in insurrection on Jan. 6 of 2021 is now well known to us all and very well documented. Though many of them may have dressed as “cosplaying” weirdos with painted faces or as pretend fantasy super soldiers their actual lives, backgrounds, and identities tell an entirely different tale. These were overwhelmingly normal, average, fairly affluent and economically secure, privileged white people. Their violent rage was not triggered by economic uncertainty or marginalized social circumstance. These people were business owners, engineers, medical practitioners, real estate brokers, sales professionals, and accountants who emerged from middle class and upper middle class lives lived in or near denser population centers.

    It can not be overstated how important it is for Democrats to recognize the truly mainstream nature of this kind of violent, extremist, radicalism among regular, rank-and-file Republicans now. They aren’t shy about saying it in opinion surveys. We just have to be willing to listen. They believe in political violence as a legitimate means for them to impose their preferences on the majority. They no longer support democracy. They no longer support voting rights and voting access for all qualified citizens. They want an authoritarian state led by a dictator of their choosing. They want to impose that preference on the rest of the country. And they believe that using violence to acheive that is their right.

  35. 35

    And if you recognize and really admit the truth about who Republicans are now, it dovetails with and perfectly explains why Trump will dominate the primary process and win the nomination very easily. I’ve been saying this since 2021. If he’s out of jail and still living Trump will be the Republican nominee. Prepare for it because it’s what’s going to happen. Not because of who he is. But because of who Republicans are. It’s a fucking easy call. And our profoundly stupid trust fund troll had to be as dumb as a stick not to see it. Or trapped on the wrong side of the Orange Event Horizon.

    It’s trivially simple. The reason Republicans would never gravitate to Fat Midget’s milder form of authoritarianism is that it obviously offers them less of what they really want. It’s the near-beer of fascism. It was never a good pitch and it was always doomed to failure.

    And the reason Republicans are not now flocking in any numbers at all to Nikki Haley’s sober statesmanship and carefully reasoned arguments for stability and electability is that she offers them NONE of what they really want. They want the chaos. They want the disorder. They want the reeling, drunken, impulsiveness, rage, and potential for violence. And when Haley campaigns to the Republican base by pointing out all of what she perceives as Trump’s gigantic flaws, she is his best and most effective salesperson to those Republican base voters.

    This is who Republicans are now. Democrats must accept this.
    We must not bother messaging to Republican voters in the vain hope that they can be summoned back from the brink. They tried to violently overthrow the government. There is no retreat from such a position. If we give them the rhetorical ground on which to pretend such a retreat we will only invite more of the violence and extremism that Republicans now represent.

  37. 37

    “Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.” – Harry S Truman
    Explains the south.

  38. 38

    @37 – The problem is our educational system is turning out “graduates” that can’t read, write or understand basic math.

  40. 40

    Heterosexual Neanderthal virus really not an issue, so why are there any other issues?

    Ladies you’re being groomed by the men.

    Make them do the laundry, dishes, and house cleaning and you find yourself a nice 🍌 or 🍆, while your groomer is home doing that shit. Oh, you like doing that stuff….no? I thought so. You’ll only end up shot be your groomer.

  41. 41

    The problem is our educational system is turning out “graduates” that can’t read, write or understand basic math.

    Maybe it’s not the education system. Maybe it’s the parents that are setting bad examples. You ever think that? No? Well, you weren’t educated enough I guess.

    Yeah, blame the schools. Don’t blame yourself.

  42. 42

    That’s why Trump likes them
    Dumb…..he hates democracy. Charter schools and school vouchers is just a way to fleece the taxpayers.

  43. 43

    Charter schools and school vouchers is just a way to fleece the taxpayers…

    …to benefit the wealthy.

    People like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVoss make common cause over vouchers and charters because they are both absurdly wealthy and they don’t pay taxes.

  46. 46

    @45 I think that should be Indianans, to distinguish from Native Americans, but in any case this is just one more thing to drive teachers out of the profession and leave red states with more schools without teachers.

  47. 47

    Nikki Haley probably will lose to Trump in South Carolina, her home state and probable last stand, and very likely badly.

    The Hill says if she drops out, “she will also face pressure to decide whether to join several of Trump’s former rivals in endorsing him.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4472915-nikki-haley-donald-trump-south-carolina-primary/

    This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for her to blow whatever credibility she has left, which is already damned little after that slavery business.

  48. 48

    Hey guess what you guys?

    The new $400 Trump golden high tops are out and they’re really incredible.

    They taste exactly like humiliation!

  50. 50

    @43 A charter school is a private school funded by taxpayer money but run by an unelected board with no public accountability for who can attend, what is taught, or whether children learn.

  52. 52

    @35 “We must not bother messaging to Republican voters in the vain hope that they can be summoned back from the brink.”

    As far as I know, that was never the plan. Every Democrat I know has written these people off as lunatics beyond retrieval. You can’t get through to them because the cement between their ears has hardened and no jackhammer can break it. Not even Jesus can save them, because they think he’s on their side and Mein Kampf is the Holy Bible.

  53. 53

    @39 “Yeah, should have just let them go back in 1861.”

    Think how much longer a border we’d have to guard now.

  58. 58

    Hey guess what you guys?

    The new $400 Trump golden high tops are out and they’re really incredible.

    They taste exactly like humiliation!

    Not to mention how creammmmmmmmmy the boys will look like in them.

  64. 64

    Britain had two special elections this week, didn’t go well for Sunak. Supposed to be a general election this year, but at least one more by-election before they call that one, because of an anti-Semitic candidate, Labor is expected to lose that one.

    https://news.sky.com/story/kingswood-and-wellingborough-by-elections-odds-of-rishi-sunak-repeating-tory-1997-style-loss-have-now-increased-13072721

    https://youtu.be/VeYhBMalH7c?si=IbdpPvOxvQLjDwhY

    Some over there are comparing it to a potential repeat of Canada 93, where the Reform party split the vote with an unpopular Conservative Party, but they also had a nationalist party in Quebec take most of the PC held seats there. Not like their are regional Nationalist parties in the UK…..Wait, they got those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, although a vote for Sinn Fein is a waste, they win seats but boycott Parliament. Centuries old oath of loyalty to the monarch.

  65. 65

    You know, there really was a basement under that pizza place.
    But Deep State utility workers filled it in.

  66. 66

    The randomly selected jury pools that Trump’s very good, top lawyers pick from are Deep State.

  67. 67

    Just wait till my secret surveillance recordings come out, you guys.

    Whoo boy, those are really going to be just devastating for Democrats and Biden.

    Recently I’m having a rough time finding any major news outlet interested in publishing them. Media lawyers are such fucking cowards. And for some weird reason nobody answers the phone at Project Veritas.

    Maybe I can post the recordings here?

  68. 68

    The best people become judges, don’t they?

    Pa. judge charged with shooting ex-boyfriend in the head; tried convincing victim he shot himself, police say

    He told detectives that he was asleep for about an hour or two when he woke “up with massive head pain” and could not see.

    “He begins screaming and he hears Sonya McKnight say, ‘Mike what did you do to yourself,’” the affidavit says.

    Authorities said that McKnight allegedly tried to convince her ex-boyfriend that he had shot himself.

    Except for this one lil’ thing:

    Detectives determined that McKnight’s interview with them “was found to be deceptive” and the gun used was registered to her, the affidavit alleges. A test conducted within an hour after the shooting also found gun residue on her hands, according to the affidavit.

    OK, and this other lil’ thing:

    McKnight was also previously charged with shooting her estranged husband in 2019 after she allegedly invited him over to her home to help her move furniture…

    Dig the Psalms 91 sweatshirt she’s wearing during her perp walk. A Queen YLB, scorned.

  69. 69

    @68 has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with being a judge, and everything, I repeat everything, to do with being Heterosexual. The Heterosexual Neanderthal virus! Causing taxpayers bucu money. But it’s good to see she got her groomer.

    Straight hate….gay ❤️🏳️‍🌈

  70. 70

    I dig it too. Leviticus man.

    Heterosexual Neanderthals have fucked the world over many times. Useless bunch of twats.

  71. 71

    Nick Hannauer has an article in Time from a couple of years ago that is kind of blowing up on social media this weekend.

    https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

    It’s based on a Rand study comparing income distribution in the US in the post war period of prosperity and the growth of the US middle class to the period of economic retrenchment from 1975 to 2018 (most recent year of full data sets at the time of publication).

    https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html

    It’s really breathtaking and more than anything else, aside from the fundamental unfairness of the “supply side” con, it does a masterful job of laying out how corrosive the resulting inequality is to social order and sustainability. The most significant threats we as an American society face today have been produced by the period since 1975 in which we chose to concentrate the benefits of economic growth disproportionately among the top 1%.

    We will never succeed in restoring the pre 1975 “Great Again” American income distribution as long as Republicans exist.

  72. 72

    Here’s MAGAmurica since 1975:

    Worker: I can’t live on $7.25/hr
    GOP: So go to college

    W: I can’t afford $100K tuition
    GOP: Take out loans

    W: I can’t afford to pay these at 8% interest
    GOP: No one forced you to go to college

    W: But you just said—
    Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!

    GOP: Here’s a $2T Tax Cut

    If you are any kind of average American worker, then since the Great Trump/Ryan Tax Ripoff of 2017 you are earning less and paying more in taxes.

  73. 73

    The wife of billionaire real estate hustler Grant Cardone, who built a GoFundMe to raise money for Trump’s growing debts, could easily afford to pay off the goal herself.

    But she wants poor people to do it for her.

  74. 74

    Extreme MAGA Republicans in Alabama have managed to ban in-vitro fertilization.

    https://1819news.com/news/item/alabama-supreme-court-rules-ivf-embryos-are-protected-under-wrongful-death-of-a-minor-act

    There are no limits on extremism. That’s what “extreme” means.
    There was never any intention to limit Dobbs to “only some kinds of abortion” or even to abortion at all. Since the publication of Dobbs, extreme MAGA Republicans have gone on to ban all kinds of abortion treatment extending to total bans, expanded their reach into other kinds of reproductive healthcare like in-vitro fertilization, and have begun to target birth control.

    If they are unchecked and if our basic rights as American citizens are not restored, they will do away with birth control.
    And Trump has said clearly and repeatedly that if reelected he will sign any restriction that a Republican Congress brings to him for his signature. As long as Republicans exist our rights as American citizens are not secured.

  75. 75

    Wait a minute: Navalny dies in an Arctic prison, Biden goes ballistic and Putin’s the bad guy. Yet the Ukraine government kills me in one of their prisons and not a peep out of Joe Biden. WTF?

  76. 76

    @ 71

    The most significant threats we as an American society face today have been produced by the period since 1975 in which we chose to concentrate the benefits of economic growth disproportionately among the top 1%.

    The majority of which have been voted for, enthusiastically, by Queen YLB to the detriment of her fucked kids.

    My portfolio couldn’t have done it without gullible twats like you, Queen YLB. Now tell your fucked kids to get out there and contribute to our retirement checks.

  77. 77

    Republican voters are collectively some of the stupidest Americans…

    Ron DeSantis directs his administration to take action on “bad actors” in schools who “intentionally” politicize book challenging

    “You should not be able to try to create narratives for political purposes […] That’s a violation of your professional obligations.”

  78. 78

    @ 75

    Yet the Ukraine government kills me in one of their prisons and not a peep out of Joe Biden. WTF?

    Ukraine is chock-full of hostile actors. A few of them greatly enriched The Biden Crime Family, which sold out the United States in exchange.

    Now you know. Sorry you had to die before finding out.

  79. 79

    My portfolio couldn’t have done it without gullible twats like you

    Somewhere up above I think LBJ had something to say about this.

    Own it.

    Republican’s only hope of regaining control depends entirely on enough of the woke choosing to stay home and watching from the sidelines.

  80. 80

    75, 78,

    From Chuck Grassley’s orange stained lips to this guys keyboard. Nothing could ever be more humiliating.

    Unless it is to go down with this sinking dumpster fire of bullshit.
    Strong posts, dumbfuck.

  81. 81

    77,

    Trump’s $400 gold high tops are manufactured in China.

    Individually they are the stupidest Americans.

  82. 82

    @ 79

    Republican’s only hope of regaining control depends entirely on enough of the woke choosing to stay home and watching from the sidelines.

    Written otherwise, Dems are gonna need 110% voter turnout in the battlegrounds again in 2024.

  83. 83

    @ 81

    Trump’s $400 gold high tops are manufactured in China.
    Individually they are the stupidest Americans.

    Nike’s China-manufactured hi-tops are sold in Chicago’s South Side, directly to inner city youths who can’t afford such luxury unless they go without some of life’s true necessities.

    Nike – Chicago
    8510 S Cottage Grove Ave
    Chicago, IL 60619

    Because apparently it’s not the stupidest Americans who rob and kill each other for Air Jordans, all with the tacit blessing of Chicago’s Democrat machine.

  84. 84

    Who Is Gonzalo Lira?

    Pro-Putin American Expat. A 55-year-old Chilean American who was imprisoned in Ukraine after spreading Russian propaganda then violating his bail conditions.
    Lira gained a following by posting content online hostile to the Ukrainian government and its President Volodymyr Zelensky. Lira baselessly branded Ukraine’s leader a “cokehead,” and described the Russian operation as “one of the most brilliant invasions in military history.” Lira had justified the Russian attack by falsely claiming the Ukrainian government was a neo-Nazi regime and denied “massacres of civilian Ukrainians by Russian invaders in Bucha and other cities.”

    Navalny was no angel but he wasn’t a Putin supporter. Not being republican, I don’t see the appeal of a liar, actively trying to hurt Ukraine and support Putin. (Shrug). What’s next? A republican who fucks little boys should be the speaker of the house or a vindictive loser rapist should be made dictator?

  85. 85

    My rule is exactly the same for lazy progressive Democrats as it is for lazy “moderate” Democrats.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rep-rashida-tlaib-urges-michigan-democrats-vote-biden-primary-rcna139360

    DCCC should cut her off and Jeffries should pull her assignments.
    Not for having criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
    But for seeking to grow her support by contrasting herself with and criticizing her fellow Democrats.
    As far as I’m concerned Tlaib or any other Democrat is welcome to go after Israel for the attrocities they are committing in Gaza. And they are just as welcome to criticize President Biden’s policies supporting that genocide. That’s all fair game.

    But using your reelection campaign, funded by fellow Democrats, to withdraw support from those fellow Democrats is forbidden. I don’t care how effective it may be at generating and coalescing donations and support for your own campaign. It’s parasitic and it goes against the basic purposes of the party and the party’s funding of your campaign.

  86. 86

    Too bad for Queen YLB’s fucked kids.

    Market Summary
    >
    S&P 500
    5,005.57
    +262.74 (5.54%)year to date

    At least those fucked kids had their outstanding student loans forgiven.

    Oh, wait. My bad. No, they didn’t. Instead they get to pay for the forgiven outstanding student loans held by others.

    What a country! Queen YLB voted for all of it, too.

  88. 88

    @ 85

    DCCC should cut her off and Jeffries should pull her assignments.

    It was several years prior to your arrival, McHillbilly, but Darryl once defended the idea that primary voters should vote for Frank Chopp’s opponent. To send a message.

    If one is sufficiently liberal the belief is that such messages can be turned on and off at will.

    It’s how we got President Trump the first time. It’s part of how we’ll get him come January.

  89. 89

    Dems are gonna need 110% voter turnout in the battlegrounds again in 2024.

    Shorter: STOP THE STEAL

    Cool. Run on it. We know that, along with Dobbs, nothing is more effective at generating turnout for Democrats and suppressing turnout for Trump than The Big Lie. It’s a messaging toxin among swing voters. And it’s one of the hardest messages for Democrats to deploy effectively. Our best hope is that lunatics like the profoundly stupid trust fund troll and the extreme MAGA candidates that Trump will promote will do it for us.

    The Big Lie was so ineffective in 2020 that Republicans had to form a face-painted army equipped with pipe bombs to attack the Congress and attempt to assasinate Mike Pence.
    And that worked out really well. /s

  92. 92

    @ 90

    … PPP loans fraud to Republicans.

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron and Queen YLB now share the same brain.

    All that’s left now is for The Even Bigger Fucking Moron to bring up an early 1980 hockey game in Lake Placid for no apparent reason.

    We know The Even Bigger Fucking Moron hasn’t gotten smarter, so this must mean that Queen YLB has…

    I know. Not much of a surprise there.

  93. 93

    @83. Greedy racist incel, if you actually care about inner city black boys in Chicago, you would support sensible national gun regulations to make gun deaths less common.

  94. 94

    If one is sufficiently liberal the belief is that such messages can be turned on and off at will.

    I’ve never seen message voting work. Ever.

    Message voting belies any understanding of candidates and politicians. They do no respond in the way that it is supposed they should.

    What works is candidate recruitment, working and supporting the candidates who share your objectives, promoting those ideas, and raising your own voices. Votes for Ralph Nader in 2000 did more to turn back the clock on the environment than most votes for Dick Cheney. Votes for Gary Johnson in 2016 did more to turn back the rights and freedom of individuals than most votes for Trump The Rapist.

  96. 96

    @71 “the period of economic retrenchment from 1975 to 2018”

    Which coincided with the rightwing assault on, and destruction of, the unions that lifted America’s workers from poverty and created a large middle class, and the rise of the financialization of the economy.

  97. 97

    Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4475770-michael-cohen-suggests-trumps-mounting-legal-fees-make-him-thoroughly-compromised-he-is-for-sale/

    Trumpworld takes aim at Republicans who supported Ukraine aid push

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4473646-trumpworld-takes-aim-at-republicans-who-supported-ukraine-aid-push/

    Looks like he’s already collected a downpayment from his biggest sponsor.

  98. 98

    “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday called on his GOP colleagues in the upper chamber to demonstrate ‘some backbone’ and push for an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was impeached by the GOP-led House last week.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4475785-cruz-senate-gop-leadership-could-show-some-backbone-in-bringing-up-mayorkas-impeachment-trial/

    As far as I know the House hasn’t delivered articles of impeachment, and the Senate is in recess, so what exactly is Cruz “pushing” for?

  99. 99

    “Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said it’s worth it for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to pass a bill approving aid for Ukraine at the cost of his Speakership.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4475545-cheney-says-its-worth-johnson-losing-speakership-over-passing-ukraine-aid-bill/

    Actually the Ukraine aid bill is worth many Mike Johnson speakerships, which is saying his speakership is worth very little. Paying for Ukraine aid with MAGA Mike speakerships is like paying for a new Ford F-250 with wheelbarrows of pennies.

  101. 101

    100,
    Imagine taxpayer reactions if they were confronted with knowledge that they funded recreational and social activities for street utility workers while potholes went unfilled.

  102. 102

    Those fucking Jew-loving Muslims in Egypt.

    Egyptian FM blasts Hamas, declares it ‘outside of Palestinian consensus’

    Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry sharply criticized Hamas on Saturday, saying that “the organization is outside the Palestinian consensus, which recognizes Israel and wants to reach negotiations with it, because [Hamas] is not ready to give up its support for violence.”

    Shoukry made these comments at a press conference held at the Munich Security Conference. He also said that “we must give an account of how Hamas gained power in the Gaza Strip, and why it received financial support to increase the division between it and the other peacekeeping Palestinian factions – whether these are the Palestinian Authority, the PLO or the Palestinian public itself.”

    Referring to a possible IDF operation in Rafah and to the report that Egypt is building a buffer zone on its border where it could take in Palestinian refugees, the Egyptian minister said: “We have no intention of providing safe areas for the Palestinians, but if necessary, we will deal with it with the necessary humanity.”

    Just think how much wealthier Egypt would be if not for the carnage to the Palestinian people that Hamas has caused and to which Egypt has repeatedly been forced to respond.

    Egypt is sick of Hamas and is cheerleading Israel as IDF finished the job on Gazan Hamas batallions.

    Oh. And all with no genocide! Biggest loser is Queen YLB, who was promised genocide so that she would continue to drink the liberal Kool-Aide.

  104. 104

    @87 “Careful Greedy racist incel. your racism is showing.”

    Isn’t it always?

    Along with his penchant for posting and reposting discredited bullshit (see e.g. @78 and @82).

  106. 106

    @ 96

    @71 “the period of economic retrenchment from 1975 to 2018”
    Which coincided with the rightwing assault on, and destruction of, the unions …

    It also “coincided” with the computer age, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Wiki:

    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    Talk about your “coincidences”, eh?

    Just as video killed the radio star, computerization killed the unions. In both cases the world is better off.

  107. 107

    Batteries killed Mrs. Dumbfuck Rabbit’s need for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Of course, his decades-long inability to achieve erection didn’t help.

  108. 108

    Dumbfuck: Forgiving loans that financially overwhelmed student borrowers have made good-faith attempts to repay will destroy the economy and put the government into ruinous debt.

    Dumbfuck: The hundreds of billions of dollars literally stolen by crooked Republican business owners isn’t worth mentioning.

    Which makes me suspect you’re one of ’em. Exactly how many employees did you have in your horse barn for PPP reporting purposes, dumbfuck?

  109. 109

    The tradition of police agencies being not just allowed but encouraged to divert funding to publicity seeking, “community outreach” oriented, paid recreation for police officers has a history that goes back a long ways. But it really took hold in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the very significant concerted effort undertaken by police professionals to redefine their profession and their work in the minds of the public following a few decades of really awful, gigantic police corruption scandals.

    It’s the same concerted effort that gave birth to the myth of “police professionalism” itself. The idea for it came directly from J. Edgar Hoover who managed to do the same thing for the FBI in the 1930s and 1940s. And most of what the FBI brought to local policing, and paid for by huge federal grants and federal funding was a careful indoctrination and education of local police and local police commanders in the various propaganda methods that Hoover and his team employed to build their empire.

    But once again, it can not be over stressed how starkly the reality of police work and common police procedure differs from that mythology. It is not science. It is not technical. It is not complex.

    We don’t need or benefit from police dance teams, chess clubs, basketball leagues, drill teams, or stupid DARE muscle cars. We should not pay for them in any way. And frankly we should forbid police from using their affiliation and public employment as police officers to promote any of it.

    What we need is to completely reinvent policing in the United States from the ground up. And we will never be able to accomplish that from the inside out. We need to take all that wasted money and more and invest it in outside community safety experts to figure out how 21st century public safety should really work and then implement that, while winding down policing as we currently know it forever.

  110. 110

    An Asian-American won it.

    NEW JERSEY
    Democrats revolt against party leaders in race to replace Menendez

    Queen YLB fuckin’ hates Asians. Her fucked kids can’t compete with graduates who were raised in an educated two-person household whose adult occupants appreciate the value of work-based reward.

    ’cause Queen YLB has gotten everything by checking a box.

  111. 111

    @106 Most people did not have PCs or internet before the 1990s, dumbfuck. The de-unionization of America was well underway long before then. Full of bull-processed fodder at the back end, as always.

  112. 112

    @107 Strong response, as always. Same response, too. You haven’t had a new one since … 1890? (That’s not a typo)

  113. 113

    @92. The greedy racist incel evokes personal attacks to distract from the fact that he knows I’m right about the PPP loans. They went to his tribe so he’s perfectly fine with that blatant corruption. But student loan relief went to help educated people that are less likely to vote republican so he rails against it. What do you expect from a guy who supports a rapist loser?

  114. 114

    …computerization killed the unions.

    Information technology had nothing to do with changes in tax and community investment policy, deregulation of the workplace, disinvestment in higher education, vocational training, and job skill training, incentivizing off shore finance while discouraging domestic reinvestment, stark changes to laws regulating employer response to collective bargaining, defunding of the NLRB, gutting of worker protections and enforcement at the federal and state level, and the hollowing out of America’s manufacturing heartlands.

    But Republicans sure as fuck did.

  115. 115

    @ 109

    Make them pay stiff dues to Democrats.

    What we need is to completely reinvent policing in the United States from the ground up. And we will never be able to accomplish that from the inside out. We need to take all that wasted money and more and invest it in outside community safety experts to figure out how 21st century public safety should really work and then implement that, while winding down policing as we currently know it forever.

  116. 116

    @110 “graduates who were raised in an educated two-person household whose adult occupants appreciate the value of work-based reward”

    Well, that doesn’t describe you, does it? At least one of your parents probably communicates by neighing and whinnying. And nobody around here considers you “educated” or some who “appreciates the value of work.” After all, you don’t work; like me, you’re a lazy idler who sucks on the capitalist teat.

  117. 117

    He’ll lose on the DNC convention floor to #CrookedHillary.

    The Marina Times ⛵️🗞️
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    “One person died in Kansas City, a city in the state of Missouri, a state that Gavin Newsom is NOT governor of.

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  118. 118

    @103 Absolutely nothing in his post @92 addresses, or even acknowledges, the fact that business owners — who are overwhelmingly Republican — literally stole tens or hundreds of billions of dollars from the PPP program, most of which hasn’t been recovered and never will be.

    This is unearned money obtained by lying that represents pure income on which no taxes were paid, and that materially added to our national debt that Republican asswipes wring their hands over so much while claiming we can’t afford to feed hungry kids in Nebraska.

    Is it any surprise that Republicans are loathed and despised by people who know how to think?

  119. 119

    @110. So? Mr Kim seems like he’s a strong democrat given what Vote Smart shows as his policy record. May the strongest democrat get elected.
    DEMS IN DISARRAY. How will this hurt Biden? – Next on Fox.

    P.S. Greedy Racist Incel, your projection is coming in loud and clear.

  120. 120

    Shorter @ 114

    The development of inexpensive and effective computer technology that replaces menial human tasks had nothing to do with menial task jobs held by union members disappearing.

  121. 121

    @114 Computerization may have tangentially facilitated the more efficient asset-stripping of domestic companies, offshoring of jobs, and importation and distribution of Chinese goods of inferior quality.

  122. 122

    @109 Look who’s afraid a cop union might donate to a Democrat’s campaign. Shaking in his boots.

  124. 124

    @120 Give it up. We all know offshoring happened and who was behind it. In case you missed it, a big part of Trump’s appeal to the ex-blue collars making up a substantial portion of his base is his promise to reverse offshoring and bring those jobs back by slapping tariffs on Chinese goods. Of course, this is a promise he couldn’t, didn’t, and can’t keep because, as you pointed out, a lot of that work has been displaced by automation.

  125. 125

    @ 81

    Trump’s $400 gold high tops are manufactured in China.

    Individually they are the stupidest Americans.

    Sneaker Con, the venue where Trump debuted the sneaker collection, is an event that started in 2009 and has become one of the premiere events within the broader sneaker culture that has exploded in recent decades.

    With the rise of sneaker culture, signature shoes have moved beyond athletes to musicians, actors and more. Some politicians are now thought of as “sneakerheads,” which is slang for people who tend to rock particularly desirable sneakers. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., reportedly has somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 pairs of collectible sneakers.

    Sneakers directly associated with politicians are rare. There are a pair of Nikes designed for former President Barack Obama, but only a couple of pairs are known to exist, and Under Armour made a pair for him with the presidential logo that Steph Curry wore for a game.

    A Republican dropping $400 into Trump shoes is no more stupid than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit re-investing into 3M after losing his ass on a previous 3M investment. Losing one’s ass means no point in wearing garish shoes because one’s Depends will just fall down around one’s ankles and cover them up. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit realizes this, so he wastes his money on share investments instead.

  126. 126

    Make them pay stiff dues to Democrats.

    Sez the sideshow clown who is preparing to cast yet another vote for the guy who just spent $50 million of party donor funds on his lawyers and put his daughter-in-law in control of all the money.

    🤡🤡🤡

  127. 127

    123,
    The awful truth of where the GOP has lined themselves up and will be heading this year is starting to become faintly noticeable from inside the jizz-smeared, sticky surface of the Orange Event Horizon. So they have to make up some new reasons for the mouth-breathers like our profoundly stupid trust fund troll to stay the course.

    Also, they could hardly look any sillier than they do now that their only source for the Biden Cryme Family bullshit has been criminally indicted for making the whole thing up, and the prosecutor who has brought that indictment turns out to be a material witness against him.

    I tried to warn the profoundly stupid trust fund troll back when Weiss overturned the plea agreement, that he himself had brokered, that there would turn out to be prosecutorial misconduct behind it. In keeping with practice and history you won’t hear a word about this, especially not from Garland or Biden, until the IG report comes out recommending Weiss be suspended from the case and investigated in consideration of termination for cause.

    I don’t personally think Hunter Biden should be allowed to slip the noose just because the United States Attorney that Donald Trump hand picked to target him turns out to be incompetent and corrupt (big fucking surprise). But when it happens it will once again be yet another Republican OWN GOAL!!!!!!!!!

  128. 128

    125,
    Upon information and belief neither Rep. Jared Moskowitz nor the Greater Grand Crossing Devil’s Disciples have ever adopted AMERICA FIRST as a slogan or proposed a 10% import tax on everything.

    So I have absolutely no clue what either of those things has to do with Trump’s foolish $400 Chinese sneakers.

    I’ll never buy them either way. Nor of course would any self-respecting patriotic American. And not because we insist on “Buy American” idiocy. But we all know who does.

  129. 129

    The bad news is, since they (wisely) only had 1,000 pairs made, and since Ronna Romney was obligated in advance to buy 500 of those, the $400 shoes are sold out.

    The good news is, since the profoundly stupid trust fund troll put a huge constraint on his personal spending by going all-in on TSLA at $400, there are two other, not-gold shoe options at only $200 per pair still available. And they’ll keep right on cranking those out for as long as those fools are willing to keep buying.

  130. 130

    With her usual cowardice,

    “Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday would not say directly whether she would support former President Trump if he’s the ultimate party nominee for president.”

    https://www.aol.com/news/haley-dodges-questions-over-whether-183548382.html

    Haley is like a shifting sand dune in a desert wind. You can’t pin her down to anything. And like all Republicans, she’s a prisoner of MAGA, afraid to say or do anything that would antagonize Trumpers who aren’t going to vote for her anyway. The yellow stripe down her back is so wide it’s hard to distinguish her from a curvy undivided two-lane highway.

  131. 131

    All the problems above are a result of The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. You have to love it!

    The women, they be dying for it!

  132. 132

    @130,

    She hopes she can preserve her viability in the post-Trump universe to come.

    None of them can.

    Ask me how I know.

  133. 133

    It’s hard to read this article and not conclude that overhiring and corporate spending sprees contributed to so-called “Bidenflation.”

    By the way, consumers did, too, with their post-pandemic spending sprees, which also helped push up prices.

  134. 134

    So. 23 guys from Alabama and Missouri are putting their feet down. Until their boss gives them a manifest and it’s go or be fired.

    A group of truck drivers who support former president Donald Trump have announced that they will not be driving to New York City to express their disappointment with the civil fraud judgment that fined Trump more than $350 million.

  135. 135

    @125 “A Republican dropping $400 into Trump shoes is no more stupid than” lots of things that could be called “stupid,” such as loading up on $400 Tesla shares, but I wouldn’t call this stupid. If a Republican wants to give Trump $400 for a pair of souvenir tennis shoes, that’s his right, privilege, prerogative, and so on, and I won’t question it as long as he’s not doing it with my money or with taxpayer money.

    In fact, the more Trump strips these people of their liquid assets, the better off the rest of us are. And the better off you are, because the next time you want to buy a pickup truck, you won’t have them bidding up its price. After Trump renders all his followers destitute, to move those trucks off the lot, the dealer will have to give you a fat discount. You should thank those buyers of gold plated paint-sprayed sneakers; you’ll owe them a lot.

    By the way, I don’t see how the profit on those sneakers — and the $400 is almost pure profit — isn’t taxable income if it’s going to his personal expenses. Is he paying taxes on this?

    Now you know what he doesn’t want the IRS hiring more auditors.

  136. 136

    @127 “profoundly stupid trust fund troll”

    Radiology must be where they park the interns and residents they don’t know what else to do with, because this one sure is a dumbfuck.

  137. 137

    @134 Trump-leaning farmers could starve the cities into oblivion by refusing to sell their crops. Of course, then they would starve, too, by trying to run farm businesses without customers.

  138. 138

    @134 So the way this will work is if 23 truckers refuse to deliver loads to NYC their employers will just put them on other routes, and put the drivers on those routes on the NYC route, and everyone will be happy.

  139. 139

    @ 130

    Haley is like a shifting sand dune in a desert windevery other major party candidate facing extinction.
    It does no good to acknowledge it if it means the last of your supporters abandon you.

    But please, go ahead, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Please pile on to the last woman standing as a candidate in opposition to what you claim to hate. Your fat ass just might be enough to break her back.

  140. 140

    @ 139

    While we proclaim joy at Nikki Haley’s discomfort in supporting Trump let’s recall when Kamala called Joe Biden a racist during a primary debate, before deciding she wanted to eventually be president badly enough to become the running mate of a racist.v

  144. 144

    @139 “Haley is like every other major party candidate facing extinction.”

    No. Even by America’s low standards for politicians, she stands out for her waffling, dodging, and shiftiness. This is a candidate who took years to haul down one Confederate flag from one public building, and won’t use the word “slavery” to describe the most pivotal issue in American history, in an apparent bid to retain the KKK vote.

  146. 146

    @127 “profoundly stupid trust fund troll”

    Radiology must be where they park the interns and residents they don’t know what else to do with, because this one sure is a dumbfuck.

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😂😂😂😂😂

    I had to go thru the trouble of going offline just to make this comment.

  148. 148

    …let’s recall when Kamala called Joe Biden a racist during a primary debate, before…

    …Joe met with her personally, in private, and candidly admitted to her that yes, of course he was racist. He grew up first in Scranton Pennsylvania and later in a small apartment in Mayfield Delaware in the 1950s, in a working class Irish Catholic family surrounded by white communities steeped in racism. But the trick is that, just like his stutter, he listened carefully and he put in the work, and he overcame that racism.

    And like so many other prominent, accomplished Black political leaders before her, Harris realized she believed him and that she could trust him. And because of that Joe Biden has been able to do more to directly improve the lives of Black Americans in three years than Barack Obama did in eight.

  149. 149

    Russia is a frozen, manure splattered beet farm filled with alcoholics.

  151. 151

    Trump is not going to pay anything in that recent judgement. The verdict will be overturned because of the incredible bias against Trump.

    This is the worst example of bias in the history of the American “legal” system in our history.

  153. 153

    @148 “Joe Biden has been able to do more to directly improve the lives of Black Americans in three years than Barack Obama did in eight.”

    And Trump has undone more of this country’s racial progress than any politician since the Civil War.

  156. 156

    “This hits way too close to home and it makes me want to vomit. All the ‘thoughts and prayers’ in the world mean nothing without action to back them up. Second Amendment rights should not supersede people’s right to be safe at school, in grocery stores, in movie theatres, at church or anywhere else they go. PERIOD.” — Posted on Facebook by Amy Knopp in response to a double homicide at the University of Colorado before she learned her son was one of the victims.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-woman-found-gunned-university-dorm-colorado-identified-rcna139409

    The NRA was wrong about an armed society being a polite society. The Supreme Court was wrong to create far more expansive gun rights than exist in the wording of the Second Amendment. The Republicans were wrong to legislate the removal of virtually all regulations and restrictions on guns. We now have mass shootings, school shootings, children gunning down children, and a surge of gun violence making our homes, schools, community spaces, and even parking lots unsafe.

  157. 157

    @156. Nothing will change until legislators know they will be voted out of office if they do not pass effective gun regulations. It will take voting for a lot more better Democrats.

  158. 158

    149,

    I think that might be a little bit of an exaggeration.

    They still grow a lot of beets. Crappy soil, short summers, and bad weather. But they’re mostly a gas and oil exporter now. Like Alberta with Matryoshka dolls and potato pancakes.

    And it’s true that most of Russia suffers from terrible neglect of basic infrastructure and very low levels of public investment. But Moscow and St Petersburg are stunning. Like NYC or Washington DC if you like big cities.

    The real problem Russia faces is demographic. Historically their whole society was structured around increasing birth rate, population, and steady native born emigration first to satellite nations and then later to the west. But now they are trapped in a demographic death spiral with shrinking workforce, rapidly rising death rate, very low birth rate, and a steadily shrinking population. Valuable energy exports have helped sustain them through the crisis. But with the planet slowly beginning to transition to a post carbon energy future, Russia has no plan except war.

    But yeah, a lot of those aging seniors drink way too much.

  159. 159

    153,
    And Trump has undone more of this country’s racial progress than any politician since the Civil War.

    For Republican voters this is a selling point.

    But it’s also why their struggle to resurrect Trump and reanimate his rotting corpse is so dependent on suppressing Black voters in key states.

  160. 160

    154,

    Putin won’t be paying it directly.

    The DWAC – Trump Media Group merger slated to take place this week could deliver a few billion dollars to Trump almost overnight. A huge portion of the cash value in the SPAC has come from Russian oligarchs and Communist Chinese eager to buy a piece of a Republican nominee for president.
    That DWAC valuation is highly speculative. The SPAC shareholders may decline to merge. And he’s contractually barred from selling shares for six months. But he may be allowed to borrow against the share value. Even if that is allowed, it is likely to trigger selloffs and shareholder lawsuits.

    It will be interesting to observe in real time the mass fleecing of compliant sheep in the company of corrupt oligarchs desperate to shield their gains against a rising tide of chaos.

  161. 161

    @155

    Next step, bringing in the donor, strapping her to a table and implanting them one every 11 months until they’re all living kids they can deny a school lunch.

  162. 162

    1 Lincoln
    2 FDR
    3 Washington
    4 Teddy Roosevelt
    5 Jefferson
    6 Truman
    7 Obama
    8 Eisenhower
    9 LBJ
    10 Kennedy
    11 Madison
    12 Clinton
    13 John Adams
    14 Biden (Hey, who’s this guy?)
    15 Wilson
    16 Reagan
    17 Grant
    18 Monroe
    19 GHW Bush
    20 JQ Adams
    21 Jackson
    22 Carter
    ..
    32 GW Bush
    ..
    45 Trump (dead last)

    http://www.brandonrottinghaus......r_2024.pdf

    Hey, that’s pretty cool! They’re some pretty great names in that top twenty. Interesting guys who made a difference, even if I didn’t always agree with all of them. Too bad about that guy who came in last. No wonder he’s so angry.

  163. 163

    Guy who won Trump golden high tops with $9,000 bid is a Russian CEO with connections to organized criminal mobs.

  165. 165

    Trump The Rapist lawyer Klown Kar missed the deadline to file on Friday to appeal a lower court ruling denying him immunity from civil littigation arising from his efforts to overturn the election he lost by launching a terrorist attack on Congress.

    So now Eric Swallwell and a bunch of Capitol Police Officers may move forward with several lawsuits alleging damages arising from Trump’s refusal to act on Jan 6th that left Congress and Capitol Police exposed to an armed and violent mob for hours with no hope of rescue. It appears as if the filing deadline was missed because Trump The Rapist had, in the wake of a pair of crushing losses last week, at least temporarilly terminated his agreement with the lawyers who had been assigned responsibility for the filing, leaving them unable to perform the work as planned (or even to clean up the smashed dishes and ketchup stained gaudy gold wallpaper).

    Filings for discovery have begun. They include filings for internal White House deliberations on Jan 6th, communications before and during the attack, campaign plans and communications attendant to the gathering of the rioters, organization of those events, decisions to remove metal detectors from screening the attending rioters, communications with attendees and their leaders who have subsequently been convicted of insurrection and sedition, as well as personal communications of Donald Trump The Rapist and his use of any “burner” phones on that day.

    More good times ahead. Lots of damage in store. 🍿🍿🍿

  166. 166

    If you get a chance, check out Judge Napolitano’s YouTube channel, “Judging Freedom.” He has great guests like Colonel MacGregor, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter. These people might be the last chance for Americans to save America.

  168. 168

    Colonel MacGregor

    A favorite of Putin..

    and Scott Ritter

    Another Putin fan these days. Can you say “morally compromised”?

  169. 169

    @168

    Ritter is also a convicted pedophile.

    Don’t tell Mom’s for Liberty. He’s never to anyone’s knowledge been seen performing in drag.

  170. 170

    They still grow a lot of beets.

    And a lot of wheat.. Probably more than Ukraine. When Russia had a wheat famine, the result was the Arab Spring.

    I’ve said it before – the world needs Russia, a country rich in natural resources, that has a lot to offer the world.

    but a better Russia first, a Russia that’s shrugged off its paranoia, its grievances and the chip on its shoulder.

  171. 171

    The Catholic Church has been in business for 2,000 years and still hasn’t figured out how to think and act like Christians:

    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of a trans activist that was held last week in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, expressing outrage over what it called “scandalous behavior.” More than 1,000 people filled the pews … to honor the legendary trans activist Cecilia Gentili, who … was a pillar of New York’s trans community ….

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/19/us/cecilia-gentili-funeral-trans-activist-cec/index.html

    OK: Raping young boys
    Not OK: Funeral for dead trans person

  174. 174

    “Comedian and ‘Last Week Tonight’ host John Oliver is urging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, offering him $1 million per year … and promising him a brand new luxury recreational vehicle if he agrees to step down from the high court.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4476865-john-oliver-clarence-thomas-1-million-dollars-supreme-court/

    Isn’t this bribing a federal official? Isn’t that illegal? Oh wait, there’s precedent …

  176. 176

    @158 China stands ready to occupy the lands north of the Amur River after they empty of Russians.

  178. 178

    @166 Can you guess which is the convicted sex offender? Which is the racist who claimed white slaves outnumbered black slaves? Which draws a salary from Russian government media? Which insisted people were exaggerating the threat posed by Osama bin Laden?

    Great lineup you’ve got there, chump.

  179. 179

    All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

    Navalny was a CIA/MI-6 asset, so that makes him more important than a US citizen who criticizes Ukraine and its “government.”

  181. 181

    166,
    Republicans, like those you list, do not care about America.

    They care only about enriching themselves and gaining control over others. And any of them would gladly sell out America for a small sum of money.

    https://youtu.be/Xzd8Xhbor5w

    Facts

  182. 182

    Navalny was a CIA/MI-6 asset

    Navalny was a fiercely anti-western, Russian Orthodox, ultra-nationalist who opposed Europe and NATO as much as Putin or Trump. Any remotely pro-western political opponent offers so little threat to Putin as to be unworthy of mention, much less arrest and murder.

    Our trolls are unsophisticated, ignorant, unworldly dolts. I blame television and porn.

  183. 183

    Soon after a Nazi Trump supporter murdered a young woman named Heather Heyer in Charlottesville by running her down with a car, Republicans all over the United States got to work passing bills to make it legal to run someone down with a car.

  184. 184

    The young Nazi Trump supporter who murdered Heather Heyer with his car, had traveled to Charlottesville with thousands of other young Nazis to take part in protesting something they call The Great Replacement Theory which is an old idea they borrowed from the Nazis they admire.

  185. 185

    The Great Replacement Theory, according to those young Nazis in Charlottesville, tells them that Americans like them are in tremendous danger of being replaced and pushed out of where they properly belong in American society by huge numbers of the wrong kind of people – people who they argue are not as American as they are.

    And the reason for their gathering in the thousands, and the reason why the one young Nazi used his car to drive into a crowd of people and murder Heather Heyer, is that The Great Replacement Theory also tells them that the threat they face of being displaced justifies homicidal violence.

    In Charlottesville the young Nazis slipped and pointed their protests for a time at Jewish people. Other times they’ve slipped and pointed their protests at feminists, or Black people.

  186. 186

    But more recently The Great Replacement Theory promoted by those young Nazis in Charlottesville has been more broadly embraced by all kinds of very prominent and very mainstream Republican politicians, pundits, and spokespersons. But unlike those young Nazis in Charlottesville, these mainstream Republicans are careful to keep their employment of the Nazi idea focused on migrant families gathering at our southern border.

  187. 187

    @ 172

    With Smirnov’s indictment for fabricating claims, the air is out of the House inquiry’s tires.

    Not fabricated: 170 SARs. Numerous offshore accounts ladling money onto the Bidens. “Loan repayments” with no evidence of a prior loan, structured to enrich my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a POS president.

    The House’s inquiries are still very much alive.

    By September Democrats will be running away from Joe Biden as fast as they think they can get away with, which will not be fast enough.

  188. 188

    But these mainstream Republicans are no less strident in their insistence that the threat presented by The Great Replacement Theory is so dire and so existential to people like them that it justifies their use of homicidal violence.

    Recently some of these Republicans began to assert that justification by sending armed men to install razor wire traps in the rushing waters of the river along the southern border in order to injure and drown those migrant families.

  189. 189

    @ 175

    See you in jail, rioter.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit jumped off the insurrection bandwagon far sooner than I was expecting.

    I was expecting the day after Election Day he’d be bloviating that Democrats falsely claimed a simple riot was actually an effort to effect a bloodless coup, that the American public saw right through the lie, and that permitting #CrookedHillary’s thugs to take over the DNC convention floor was a stupid idea.

  190. 190

    The Republicans who have adopted the young Charlottesville Nazi’s Great Replacement Theory and used it to assert their authority to slaughter and drown migrant children with razor wire, also say that their Great Replacement Theory sets them outside of the law and even justifies an armed rebellion against The United States of America, which ironically is what they say their Nazi theory is telling them they are protecting.

  191. 191

    But also recently, when Democrats in Congress and the Democrat President reached out to these razor wire Republicans and agreed with them about their dire threat, and offered to approve of all the razor wire death traps and even offered to pay for all of it and more, something very unexpected happened.

    The Republicans got very angry and rejected the approval and the money. They got so angry they even voted to impeach one of the big Democrats for daring to side with them. And then as if to emphasize just how angry they were at being agreed with, they quit their jobs for a while, stormed out, and flew home.

  192. 192

    The reason Republicans got so angry and left when Democrats offered to agree with them and give them permission to slaughter and drown migrant children with razor wire is because permission is the last thing they want. And obviously they don’t want to stop the migrants from gathering at the southern border and entering the United States. They don’t want a secure border. They even said so. And they don’t want agreement or permission.

    They want to demonstrate that they alone get to decide who lives and who drowns slashed and tangled in razor wire. They want to demonstrate that they alone get to decide who gets to be considered American.

  193. 193

    You know who doesn’t believe that “all politicians are the same”?

    Republicans.

    Republicans are so sure that all politicians are not the same that they’ll even arm themselves with guns and knives and tasers, and Grizzly Gas, and pipe bombs, and they’ll attack the Congress to stop an election. They’ll run fraudulent robo-calling scams to trick voters. They’ll phony up fake state electoral certificates. They try to hang their own Vice President.

  195. 195

    @183 They still have to prove the victim was a protester and not a little old lady with a walker crossing the street in the crosswalk with the “Walk” sign to get to the pharmacy down the block to refill her prescriptions with her Medicare coupon.

    Except if she was black, the police will presume she was BLM and decline to file charges …

  196. 196

    @186 Do they keep their hands on the steering wheel and their foot off the gas pedal any better? Asking for a cemetery full of pedestrians …

  199. 199

    $60 billion for Ukraine and Israel. How about taking some of that money and securing the Southern border?

  200. 200

    “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary ripped into what he called “loser” New York and vowed to no longer invest in the state, when asked about a New York court’s $355 million verdict against former President Trump last week. …

    “This award, I mean, just leaving the whole Trump thing out of it and seeing what occurred here…And I’m no different than any other investor, I’m shocked at this,” O’Leary said in an interview Monday with Fox Business. “I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it.”

    https://thehill.com/business/4477608-kevin-oleary-says-he-will-no-longer-invest-in-loser-new-york-after-trump-verdict/

    Well yeah, it’s hard to disagree with him, if you leave the whole Trump thing out of it.

  201. 201

    Nikki Haley, who has raised political cowardice to an art form, “wouldn’t definitively say if she’ll back primary rival Donald Trump in the general election but stressed that she’s staying in the race against him because of what she called his unfitness for office.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/haley-calls-trumps-silence-alexei-navalny-agrees-putin/story?id=107320333

    Look, Nikki dear, everybody knows you hate Trump and he hates you, so why don’t you just say you won’t vote for him? It won’t cost you any MAGA votes you won’t get anyway, which is all of them.

  202. 202

    @199. Ask the Republicans what happened to the money.
    There was a plan there was legislation there was money Republicans said No, the Southern border was no big deal anymore

  206. 206

    @202 “Republicans said No, the Southern border was no big deal anymore”

    That’s untrue, and you know it. They never said the southern border isn’t a big deal. They said they’re going to keep it a big deal to help Trump in November.

  208. 208

    @200

    Kevin O’Leary’s first question in any episode of Shark Tank is “How fast can we ramp up production by offshoring it?”

  209. 209

    Not fabricated: 170 SARs. Numerous offshore accounts ladling money onto the Bidens. “Loan repayments” with no evidence of a prior loan, structured to enrich my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a POS president.

    THE PAIN!

    Sorry you’ve been red pilled. An SAR is not what you think it is. Did you take out a large life isurance policy? An SAR was generated. Did you deposit <$5000 in a single transaction. An SAR was generated. Did you get paid by ANY foreign corporation in excess of $25K no matter what the services provided? An SAR was generated. Did you make several transactions over short time that in aggregate would cross the $5,000 threshold? An SAR was generated. Did you fund an annuity and the issuer is not 100% sure of your financial disclosure? An SAR was generated.

    For someone who spends so much time on here bragging about his financial prowess, why don't you know fuck all about shit?

  211. 211

    The GOP is now a party of surrender monkeys, and it’s once again left to the Democrats to defend the free world and fend off totalitarianism.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/us-division-putin-russia-analysis/index.html

    And to our troll friend who keeps beating a drum for pulling up the drawbridge and turning our backs on the rest of the world, I’d just like to say that if you think the refugees at our border are a flood now, just wait until Putin overruns Europe and China seizes Taiwan, and we’re the only free country left on the planet. Isolationist policies like those of the 1930s won’t bring peace, they’ll invite another world war. And good luck keeping the nuclear warhead stockpiles in storage this time.

  212. 212

    The House’s inquiries are still very much alive.

    The Smirnov indictment just filed by Trump’s hand picked prosecutor shows that Weiss has evidence that both Barr and Scott Brady made false sworn statements.

    The DOJ inquiry is no longer what these stupid fucks think it is. And the targets are no longer the same targets. Farmer Jim wants to fuck around he may get to find out.

  213. 213

    Another book ban!

    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell resorted to giving away his books for free after he said he was banned by Christian bookstores.

    https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2667315835/

    But this is different: Instead of legislatures prohibiting schools and libraries from buying certain books, bookstores are refusing to sell his books. Too bad, so sad, but I’m glad.

  216. 216

    @210
    Launched in early February, Rokita’s “Eyes on Education” website allows people to “submit and view real examples of socialist indoctrination from classrooms,” looking for presentations about gender identity, privilege, and race.
    It’s amazing how “socialism” encompasses anything they don’t like.

    Flood the rat line with examples of dangerous socialist indoctrination like public roads, pubic heath systems, public police departments, public, social security and medicaid, the FDA and the Veterans Administration.

  217. 217

    By September Democrats will be running away from Joe Biden as fast as they think they can get away with, which will not be fast enough.

    Get ready for The Pain, you commie-fascist libbies!

  218. 218

    The regular orders list from SCOTUS for today is out, w/o mention of Trump The Rapist’s application for stay. Which is actually normal. Since the application came to the court at the last minute, and since it is attendant to a case that previously came before the court as an emergency application to intervene, the order responding to the stay will be published as a miscellaneous order supplemental to an earlier order. Perhaps later in the day.

    Once denied Judge Chutkan will be released to resume scheduling, now for trial to commence after completion of the Manhattan DA election fraud trial. Looks like May. Which gives plenty of time for a criminal conviction before the convention.

  219. 219

    @ 211

    …it’s once again left to the Democrats to defend the free world and fend off totalitarianism.

    By abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban, which soon invited Al Qaeda to come and play.

  220. 220

    Puff piece by CNN:

    Inside Kamala Harris’ quiet effort to break through the Biden campaign’s information bubble

    Tulsi Gabbard took down this unlikable cocksucker in two minutes during a debate. Just imagine what six months of #CrookedHillary will do to her before the final octagon match between the two at the DNC.

  221. 221

    this unlikable

    wearing 6 inch risers and a phony smile..

    yeah.. went far..

    By abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban, which soon invited Al Qaeda to come and play.

    Seen al Zawahiri lately? s’ok stay stuck on Suleimani if it makes ya feeeel goood…

  223. 223

    that thing with the tongue was soooo “likable”…

  224. 224

    No surprise that the Minnesota cops killer was a Heterosexual Neanderthal, now is it.

    The guy beat up two girlfriends and just a complete friend of Bob’s. Bob doesn’t mind sexual orientation traits that cost him money.

  225. 225

    How sweet, Bob @222 has a penchant for Mayor Pete.

    🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄🙄

  226. 226

    224 – Do us all a favor:shut the fuck up, you screaming faggot.

  227. 227

    @226 ohhh, what’s the matter snowflake? Don’t go Hetero Neanderthal now, the girlfriend/wife doesn’t need you.

  229. 229

    @226 lol.. could that be little maxwipe? dude.. stick around so we can have some fun..

    How’s Dori?

  231. 231

    By abandoning Afghanistan…

    Ordered by Trump in October of 2020 in a desperate reach for last minute votes:
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/08/donald-trump-afghanistan-us-troops-taliban

    As Commanders in Chief, Presidents get to sign treaties and move troops. Trump exercised that constitutional authority as was his right. The Department of Defense obeyed his orders and began the orderly withdrawal immediately in pursuit of Trump’s imposed timeline of December 25th 2020.

  232. 232

    “It’s not the stainless steel that’s rusting it’s the tiny particles of metal dust ON the stainless steel that’s rusting. If you clean off your car daily with windex or barkeepers friend it will be fine.”

  233. 233

    Just imagine what…

    Might just as well imagine Christmas tree cock rings, “Whitey” tapes, Swift Boats, “long form” birth certificates, Vince Foster assassination plots, Hillary strokes, confidential informants, Burisma bribes, “FB friends in CO” and Trump reelection.

    It still leads to more Republican tears. 😭

  234. 234

    How’s Dori?

    Does Dori ever get to be the big spoon with Rush in Nazi heaven?

  236. 236

    @219 “By abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban”

    That was, you should recall, Trump’s move. See #231 for details.

  237. 237

    “Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas,” that would serve as internment camps.”

    Texas: “I don’t know about that.”

    While it seems the understanding that leopards eat faces is now widepread and well established, for some reason Republicans continue to “find out”.

  238. 238

    Cool cool. In his dissent Justice Thomas argues that we should all go back to tenement housing, evictions without cause, and substantial rent increases at the whim of the landlord. Which at this point is not likely to be a person but MAA, Greystar, Morgan or some other corporation. Corporations who have already been under scrutiny for conspiring to fix rental rates by agreement in vast areas of the country.

  240. 240

    A Republican is someone who thinks an ID should be required to vote, but not to buy military-grade guns and ammunition.

  241. 241

    A sizable number of Republicans who made false claims about the 2020 election results are … toning down their election denial rhetoric and not making it the center of their campaign messages …. “That message didn’t work,” veteran Republican strategist Alex Conant told NBC News about the big steal claims.

    https://www.rawstory.com/election-deniers-2024-2667323539/

    In other words, if you’re a Republican candidate, basing your campaign and pitches to voters on a pack of lies is fine if it works, but if it doesn’t work you should move on to some other pack of lies.

    Nice work, guy.

  242. 242

    Speaking of Republican liars switching to a new lie after being caught lying,

    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) backtracked on Monday afternoon and deleted a tweet that wrongly identified a local resident as being an “illegal alien” and one of the gunmen in the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Burchett only deleted the post after the outlet contacted him on Monday and asked about the tweet, which falsely claimed Kansas native Denton Loudermill was one of the suspected shooters.

    In Burchett’s latest message, published roughly 24 hours ago, the Tennessean wrote, “It has come to my attention that in one of my previous posts, one of the shooters was identified as an illegal alien. This was based on multiple, incorrect news reports stating that. I have removed the post.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-backpedals-pushing-misinformation-kc-shooting-rcna139614

    No, buttsucker, it’s you who shot from the lip and has to eat shit.

  243. 243

    Alito thinks bigots should have a right to serve on juries in cases involving people they’re bigoted against.

    The case that furrowed Alito’s brow involves Jean Finney, a lesbian who sued her employer under state law barring sex discrimination. At trial, her lawyer asked prospective jurors whether they thought that homosexuals shouldn’t have the same rights as everyone else. Potential jurors were dismissed when they cited a religious belief that homosexuality is a sin.

    Though Alito reluctantly agreed with his colleagues (for procedural reasons) not to take up the appeal, he penned his statement because he’s “concerned that the lower court’s reasoning may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come.” He added that the case “exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges,” the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that approved same-sex marriage.

    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-alito-religious-beliefs-rcna139571

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Alito is a bigot, so it’s not surprising he defends the “right” of bigots to infect jury deliberations with their bigotry.

  245. 245

    241,
    “… but if it doesn’t work you should move on to some other pack of lies.”

    This may be a tough needle to thread.

    In order to obtain the ardent support of normal Republican voters in swing states and districts these candidates, whether incumbent or not, must make a credible showing to those regular Republican voters that they reject the election of Joe Biden as president. The easieast and most direct way of doing that is by spouting The Big Lie, etc. But as your link reveals, polling data and previous election cycles have demonstrated to Republican campaign strategists that this message is toxic to swing voters.

    And it may become increasingly impossible for these campaigns and candidates to avoid the question. As the Jan 6 trial gets back on track it is expected that Trump will once again become increasingly outspoken in his own defense. And that outspokenness will produce more and more ridiculous claims about the 2020 election as justification for Trump’s and his co-defendant’s criminal conduct in trying to overturn that election.

    Candidates and campaigns who respond to those ridiculous claims by repudiating them may win more swing votes. But for each swing voter they persuade they will shed regular Republican voters by the thousands. It’s a formula for losing in swing states.
    Conversely, if the embrace the ridiculous Big Lie claims they will turn away all of the swing voters they must win to prevail.

    I expect the better messaging will surface around the idea of “not agreeing” with the ridiculous claims but instead “defending that guy’s right to make ridiculous claims”. It may work somewhat.

  246. 246

    “When House Republicans formally approved an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden in mid-December, it was … the first time in American history that Congress authorized an impeachment inquiry without uncovering any evidence of wrongdoing against the intended target.”

    The GOPers then went fishing in a pond with no fish, and we all know how that turned out: Their worm died of old age on the hook. Here’s what Farmer Jim has to say about that:

    Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee who is leading the Republican effort to investigate President Joe Biden, says the House may not hold an impeachment vote after all. Comer told Spectrum News that the “math keeps getting worse” for Republicans, whose razor-thin majority in the House got even tighter after losing a Republican-held New York congressional seat [last] week.

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/comers-concession-republicans-might-never-vote-impeach-biden-rcna139529

    Note this isn’t a confession that they don’t have the evidence; it’s a lament that they don’t have the votes. It’s about “math,” not whether Joe Biden committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is what the once-proud Republican Party has sunk to. Even Nixon must be turning over in his grave.

  247. 247

    Here’s my State of the City address : filth, crime, drugs and idiot liberal progressives.

    That pretty much sums it.

  248. 248

    @247 Inasmuch as the “idiot liberal progressives” are no longer in office, that leaves the filth, crime, and drugs for a more conservative city council, and recently-elected conservative law-and-order city attorney, to clean up. We’ll see how they do. My guess is that waving a magic ideological wand over these problems won’t make them go away.

  249. 249

    248,
    Desperately digging up random gun-humping PTSD sufferers and recruiting them to become $100,000-a-year Kill-Machine Kops won’t make those problems go away either.

    But it will get a few golden retrievers shot.

  250. 250

    Lock them up and throw the key away.

    “Two men have been charged with murder in the deadly shooting at last week’s Kansas City Chiefs parade, prosecutors announced Tuesday. … Lyndell Mays, had an argument with another person at the rally and … allegedly drew a handgun. Others pulled out their guns, including … Dominic Miller …. [E]vidence indicated Miller’s gun … allegedly killed the fatal victim ….”

    https://www.aol.com/2-suspects-kansas-city-parade-200800088.html

    Our society and legal system are far too lenient on gun crimes. The way to prevent these incidents is by removing gun criminals and people who illegally possess guns from the streets, not for a year or two, but permanently or until they’re too old to endanger others. Yes, this will increase incarceration rates, and prison populations may skyrocket. We’ll just have to live with that, so we don’t have to live with people who need to be in a strictly controlled environment to keep the rest of us safe.

  251. 251

    @226 lol.. could that be little maxwipe? dude.. stick around so we can have some fun..

    Whoever it is, they seem unstable. Usually how The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus starts to manifest itself.

    Fake News. Fake News. Fake News. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Tan Suit. Tan Suit. Tan Suit. Deep Deep State! Rhinooooooooooo 🦏

  252. 252

    It’s sure a good thing everyone thought it was funny when Trump took that icy ramp a little slowly, isn’t it?

  253. 253

    @252 Are you referring to the time he nearly fell on his ass at an indoor rally in August 2020?

    https://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-trump-nearly-falling-151452078.html

    Was his tongue slipping and falling on ice when he struggled to complete sentences at an indoor rally in July 22?

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/trump-january-7-outtakes-message-supporters-house-hearing/index.html

    Nice try, doc, but your attempt to blame Trump’s glaringly obvious physical and mental decline on weather is less than convincing.

  254. 254

    Beware of Orange man worship:

    The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

  255. 255

    everyone

    Everyone?

    Bob is never right. Poor guy.

    Everyone. Everyone. Everyone!
    Chicago! Chicago! Chicago! Mexican! Mexican! Mexican!

  256. 256

    This is who I was talking about @250 above:

    A Kent man pleaded guilty to multiple firearms offenses for his purchase of more than 100 guns in a “straw purchaser” scheme, many of which were later connected to other crimes.

    Dion Jamar Cooper, 31, was arrested in April 2023 following a Seattle Police Department (SPD) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) investigation [that] began in January 2023 after an assault and attempted robbery of a woman in Rainier Valley …. A gun dropped by one of the assailants was originally purchased by Cooper in December 2022. …

    “Mr. Cooper lied on purchase forms and then trafficked more than 100 firearms … to those who are prohibited from possessing guns … [and] more than two dozen of the firearms have been linked to crimes,” said U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. …

    De’ondre Lamontia Phillips was identified as the person who drove Cooper to the gun shops where he bought the weapons. Phillips has past convictions that forbid him from purchasing or possessing firearms.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/kent-man-pleads-guilty-trafficking-100-firearms/281-7a153f35-f58d-47d1-90ed-79d4e3374b22

    The feds should lock them up for 40 years. This has nothing to do with race, gender, religion, or national origin; it’s about cracking down on illegal possession, trafficking, and use of guns because of the extreme damage guns are doing to society. There’s only one relevant consideration here, and that’s getting people like this off the streets and keeping them off the streets.

  257. 257

    A ‘Christian’ family moved to Russia to escape ‘LGBTQ, trans,’ but now they’re ‘ready’ to ‘get out’
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/–Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell
    Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: “I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”

  258. 258

    Another story from today’s crime news:

    On Jan. 22, Lakewood officers were dispatched after multiple people reported shots fired …. At the same time, a woman called 911 and said she was driving down Pacific Highway and her passenger had been shot. The woman pulled over outside the hotel to meet first responders.

    The victim, a 35-year-old woman, died at the scene. Today a suspect was arrested who “could face charges of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.”

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-lakewood-woman-arrested/281-5308aeb1-7dc6-4017-abcb-99af51a1aa58

    Italics mine, to point out this implies the suspect has a criminal past making him someone who absolutely should not have access to guns.

    He’s entitled to a presumption of innocence until found guilty in a court of law, to a fair trial, and to a competent attorney at public expense if he can’t afford one. The legal system — lawyers, jurors, and judges — must take great care to not convict innocent people. This should go without saying in all cases.

    With that in mind, the person guilty of these crimes should get life in prison. If he finds Jesus, let him help other inmates find Jesus too, but nevertheless he stays behind bars because society needs to punish and deter this shit.

  259. 259

    253,

    Add “icy ramp” to “thrusting erection”, “FB Friends in CO”, and of course THE PAIN.

  260. 260

    Also in today’s crime news,

    Investigators said the weapons found on the 12 and 13-year-old brothers who were arrested after a pursuit in Seattle last week came from part kits that are often referred to as “ghost guns.”

    Seattle police allege the kids fired the guns twice during a carjacking and a separate attempted carjacking before leading officers on a chase that ended in South Lake Union.

    http://tinyurl.com/mpdru7uv

    Place them in a secure rehabilitation facility where they won’t be free to leave but will receive counseling, education, health care, adult supervision, and be prepared to become constructive and law-abiding citizens when they’re released at age 21 with a binding stipulation that they can never own or possess guns, and will go to adult prison for a very long time if they violate that condition of release back into society.

  261. 261

    I was born on February 29, 1968 in Burbank, CA. That makes me an American who was killed by a corrupt foreign government for criticizing that government, just as Navalny was murdered in some Arctic prison in Russia.

    The government of Ukraine is no better or no worse than the government of Russia, which begs the question of why are the US and NATO are supporting Ukraine?

  262. 262

    A driver was shot multiple times on southbound Interstate 5 in Tukwila Monday night. According to Washington State Patrol … the victim was driving … southbound I-5 near I-405 when … shot “multiple times” and taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition …. Photos from the scene show … around a dozen bullet holes in the side of the vehicle.

    https://komonews.com/news/local/i5-freeway-shooting-king-county-driver-shot-tukwila-i405-drive-by-victim-critically-injured-2015-ford-mustang-suspect-unknown-vehicle-gun-violence-crime#

    Forty years in prison for this one, if the suspect(s) are caught and convicted after a fair trial. We’ve got to stop pussyfooting around with gunslinging yahoos and get the word out on the streets that if you shoot at someone without legal justification you’re going to be a guest in a close-supervision facility until you’re either too old or too dead to need supervision anymore. I’ve had it with this kind of behavior.

    If we’re to be stuck with individual gun rights in this country, then we’d better enforce individual responsibility for guns, too.

  263. 263

    You’ll probably be hearing soon, if you haven’t already, about a “Housing for Labor” initiative by the Biden administration that offers tax incentives for keeping a migrant in your home in exchange for help with household chores or picking crops.

    Posted on X, Elon Musk’s platform of sublime enlightenment, it’s already been viewed by 20 million pairs of eyeballs. I’m kinda surprised Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t on top of this, because he’s exactly the kind of slow-witted credulous fool who falls for satire without bothering to read the fine print or check the credibility of “sources.”

    http://tinyurl.com/6bj7prnt

  264. 264

    @261 You can’t be Mr. Lira, because he’s dead; possibly you’re his ghost, but more likely you’re a paid FSB troll, although it’s possible you’re stupid enough to work for Putin for free (even Trump doesn’t do that). According to Wikipedia,

    In May 2023 Lira was arrested and charged with producing and publishing material that attempted to justify the ongoing Russian invasion, which is illegal under Ukrainian law. Lira was released on bail, but … was arrested again for violating his bail conditions, and died of pneumonia in custody on January 12, 2024.

    At age 55, in a third world country where living conditions (not to mention jail conditions) have deteriorated because that country has been invaded by Russia, and the healthcare system (such as it was) has been disrupted by the extreme demands placed on it by battle casualties. Ukraine gets cold winters, with snow on the ground even, and if you catch pneumonia there you may be adversely affected by medicine shortages. Also, they don’t have free speech there; at least, not like we have here.

    Navalny’s case is different because he was in his own country, and knew what would likely happen to him if he returned from exile, because in Russia opposing Putin practically guarantees a prison or death sentence.

    By the way, in 1917 Congress made it illegal to criticize America’s war effort, at least until the Supreme Court stepped in. And we have people in America today who want to stifle free speech, making teachers their first targets. If Republicans get their way, people will be arrested here for the same thing Lira was arrested in Ukraine for: Saying something they didn’t like.

  265. 265

    261,
    As in life, so in death.

    You are online way too much, bro, if you actually think your bullshit is going to make any real difference or acheive any penetration beyond the lonely basements of 15-year-old incel “graphic novelists”.

    Your name, your identity, and your nasty, miserable fate are just far to weird and obscure to have any impact beyond another tawdry grift hustle. And nobody here wants books on “game” or any other creepy, dude-bro dating advice.

  266. 266

    261,
    Also,

    Russia is a frozen, manure splattered beet farm where the women grow giant moustaches and the men grow giant breasts.

    Howz it feel to have lost half of your Black Sea Fleet to a bunch of spotty 17-year-olds operating kit-built drones out of rusty Fiats?

  267. 267

    261,
    Also,

    Rossiya — eto zamerzshaya, zabryzgannaya navozom svekol’naya ferma, gde u zhenshchin rastut gigantskiye usy, a u muzhchin — gigantskiye grudi.

    🇷🇺 🥶 💩 🍠 👩🏼෴ 👨🏼（。ㅅ 。）

  268. 268

    @264

    That’s only part of the story. After I was out on bail awaiting a trial I tried to flee the country so I was jailed as a flight risk political prisoner. Along the way I accused President Zelenskyy of being a drug addict, a claim that is libleous in all of the EU and the UK and broadcast Ukranian troop movements during a war.

    I died of pnuemonia, alegedly, after repeatedly telling my family I was ill. I previously disappeared and claimed the government of Ukraine had held me prisoner for a number of years. I never provided any proof of that claim. Before becoming a political prisoner I had a deep following for my videos on how to manipulate and exploit women for sex.

    Weiredly, Zelenskyy never tried to have me poisoned. Despite American right wing media reports that I was in a ‘secret’ prison, my pre trial incaceration and whereabouts were public knowlege. Never ran against Zelenskyy in an election. Never tried me for financial crimes that most legal observers say was bullshit AND Zelenskyy never hid my body or made claims about a totally not real medical condition known as “Sudden Death Syndrome.” But thanks to the gullible Tucker Carlson and rabid right wing media in the United States I’m now as revered as Aslii Babbitt

  269. 269

    @267 Either you or Google Translate turned “moustaches” into “wasps,” but I guess that’s to be expected when trying to convert Cyrillic-script into Latin-script phonetically.

  270. 270

    @268 I’d go with flight risk if I were Zelenskyy and I wouldn’t go with Ashli Babbitt if I were you.

  272. 272

    “Multiple cases of the measles virus have been confirmed at a South Florida elementary school, with the outbreak coming weeks after a nationwide alert went out to physicians about an uptick in cases. … Manatee Bay has nearly 1,100 students, and 86 of them are not vaccinated against measles, CBS News reported citing the school district.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/measles-outbreak-broward-county-elementary-school_n_65d50006e4b0f7fbe7b45180

    I thought childhood vaccinations are mandatory to attend school? … oh, Florida.

    As I’ve said before, raising children in Florida is borderline child abuse.

  273. 273

    269,

    WordPress rejects Cyrillic.

    Emojis are okay, however. 🤷‍♂️

  274. 274

    Oh, yaz. More will certainly follow.

    CALIFORNIA
    Two Democratic candidates went there on Biden’s age. Will more follow?

    Suozzi and Porter first made the comments the same week the special counsel released his report saying Biden, 81, had “diminished faculties.” Suozzi, 61, called the president “old” on a conservative network the day before the special election for a suburban swing seat. And Porter, 50, broke from her Democratic challengers, Rep. Barbara Lee, 77, and Rep. Adam Schiff, 63, by calling for age limits as part of her pledge to disrupt the status quo in Washington.

    He’d be out by now, if not for the Kamala problem the Democrats are facing.

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    @274 It’s all relative. Trump’s faculties are more diminished than Biden’s, and yours are more diminished than everybody’s.

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    @274 It’s all relative. Trump’s faculties are more diminished than Biden’s, and yours are more diminished than everybody’s.

    Here, here!

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    Nikki Haley is too emotional to be president.

    She is so weak. I bet if asked who she would choose as a woman running mate she’d not say.

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    @274,

    Both party’s candidates are old men.

    Some old men are highly capable, very bright, and very energetic. And some are not.

    Some younger men are highly capable, very bright, and very energetic. And some are not.

    Had he won the Republican nomination and gone on to defeat Hillary Clinton, Herman Cain would have died in office less than four years later at the age of 74 after a professional career gorging on hamburgers and pizza.

    Chris Christie is a morbidly obese, remarkably unhealthy middle aged man who never exercises and who came incredibly close to dying from a virus that a troll compares to influenza. And he was twice elected Governor of New Jersey and twice backed to run for president.

    Senator Paul Wellstone was one of the hardest working, most energetic and passionate civic leaders of his generation who set the Capitol gym records for the most pushups in one minute (91) and the most pullups in one minute (28). Shortly after being diagnosed with MS he was killed in an aviation accident at the age of 58.

    Biden is an old man. So is Trump.
    But only one of them is healthy, fit, eats a healthy diet and exercises daily.

    And it is not Trump.

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