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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/29/24, 8:18 am

You should have received your ballot. Go make sure you have it. If you haven’t got it yet, go ahead and contact your county elections office.

And, hey. Wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  1. 1

    Pay your Fucking Bulls, Donnie spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:36 am

    So now we’re learning the reason why Trump is insisting on returning to outdoor rallies despite the security challenges is largely because his 2016/2020 campaigns are still dodging past due invoices from mid sized arenas all over the heartland so there are few option of places to rent.

    This doesn’t absolve the secret service from making the secure perimeter smaller than the range of the weapon of choice among mass shooters but it does add a wrinkle.

  2. 2

    Donald and his sycophantic cult of a few supporters following him around the country spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:44 am

    It was with much fanfare that Donald J Trunp opened a TikTok account and bought followers to say “record growth.”

    Since then the actual viewership numbers have steadily dropped with each posted video.

    For example, late last week Donnie posted a video of himself having a chat with professional internet troll and soon to be Mike Tyson victim Jake Paul.

    To Date it has 185k views.

    On the same day the brand new Kamala Harris TikTok account posted a video of her and largely forgotten 90s boy band member Lance Bass.

    To date 3.2M views.

    While double checking those numbers noticed a new video on the Harris page. Been up for 6 minutes. 10k views.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:06 am

    @ 3

    On the same day the brand new Kamala Harris TikTok account posted a video of her and largely forgotten 90s boy band member Lance Bass.

    To date 3.2M views.

    While double checking those numbers noticed a new video on the Harris page. Been up for 6 minutes. 10k views.

    Yes, couples fuck a whole lot during the honeymoon. Four years after that, less so.

    Boxcheck Momala’s honeymoon week is coming to an end. Whether her numbers climb from here remains to be seen. As she is forced to speak and defend the administration’s record, her numbers will fall.

    But good on you to point out that we’re experiencing Peak Boxcheck Momala.

  4. 4

    Maybe spending years talking about age and dementia was bad spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:19 am

    “Which is incapable of solvin even the swollest smallest problem the simplest of problems we can no longer solve. We can’t do anything we are an institute in a powerful death penalty we will put this on.”

  5. 5

    Toothpaste outta the tube spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:25 am

    @3

    The sad desperation.

    Don’t worry, they’ll all come back to Dotard ranting about immunity for cops who kill black women in their homes and and JD asking immigrants who have something to offer to come you know from Denmark and Britain and other Wonder Bread complexion immigrants.

  6. 6

    Caught in another big lie. spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:32 am

    Say did you catch Elon banning a credentialed AP reporter from his app because he posted his photo that had already gone out over the wire of Donald’s undamaged ear.

    Ronnie Jackson swore there was a chunk blown off. Seems to have miraculously regenerated in the way cartilage doesn’t.

  7. 7

    Montana Goes Blue spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:46 am

    Ryan Zinke US House, R-MT on Fox News this morning claiming the Republican mutter trying to shoot Donald Trump is part of a government plot to take him out.

    Why have Qannon when you’ve got elected Republicans at the ready.

  8. 8

    MAGA Shooters spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:51 am

    This doesn’t absolve the secret service from making the secure perimeter smaller than the range of the weapon of choice among mass shooters but it does add a wrinkle.

    So what they are saying is it’s a matter of having enough money to purchase a weapon system with the longer range to a stationary target on an elevated stage with zero wind.

    Good to know.

  9. 9

    Women Voters spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:52 am

    So VIce President Kamala Harris’ TikTok pointing out the Iowa abortion ban means women won’t even know their pregnant before they can’t get a basic medical procedure reached more people in an hour than Donnie reached in 5 days.

    Calling it a ‘Trump Abortion Ban’ is smart politics.

    Iowa Goes Blue

  10. 10

    Wayne LaPierre spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:58 am

    @8

    Be sure to get the kind of weapon it is 100% legal to open carry in whatever state you’re making your plans and you can pretty much do whatever you want.

    Then sing the praises of the NRA for giving you that right.

  11. 11

    Journalists go Blue spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:02 am

    Say did you catch Elon banning a credentialed AP reporter

    Not just any photojournalist.

    The former official White House photographer and Director of the White House Office of Photography serving in both the Reagan and Obama administrations.

  12. 12

    Biden/Harris Cured COVID spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:06 am

    As she is forced to speak and defend the administration’s record,

    Trump put 14 million people out of work, blew up the deficit and gave nukes to Iran.

  13. 13

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:09 am

    @ 6 [and @ 11, equally silly but late to the party]

    Say did you catch Elon banning a credentialed AP reporter from his app…

    1. Make a silly claim that Trump wasn’t really shot and that wasn’t really blood streaming down his face when he was laying on the stage with Secret Service all over him.

    2. Experience the blowback resulting from the silly denialism.

    3. Delete your account to get away from your past.

    4. Claim your account was deleted by somebody else.

    Nice work if you can get it.

    It’s not Souza’s first effort to cast shade on anything Trump. From CNN:

    …former President Barack Obama’s chief photographer, Pete Souza, the man who documented almost every impactful moment of the Obama presidency, continues to post images to his Instagram account, and its 738,000 followers, in response to President Donald Trump’s actions and policies. A silent, social media, shade-throwing protest told in visuals from the millions of images in Souza’s archive, the photos appear to be Souza’s expression of opposition to the recent moves of the Trump administration.

  14. 14

    Biden/Harris Cured COVID spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:09 am

    As she is forced to speak and defend the administration’s record,

    Trump sent an armed mob to the Capitol to murder police.

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:15 am

    @ 6, 11, 13

    Here’s Newsweek’s take on the Souza account:

    Souza’s profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, “This account doesn’t exist, try searching for another,” implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, “Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

    Libbies are silly twats. They are reduced to arguing whether Trump took 3 mm of a bullet or only 2.4 mm of a bullet.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:31 am

    On the cover of the current New York magazine, Beyonce is flashing the “White Power” sign.

    Hey, it’s as verifiable as Pete Souza’s claim that Trump wasn’t really shot because after two weeks his ear’s largely healed, because it’s not bleeding and the tissue looks sorta pink:

    Proliferative stage
    The third stage of wound healing is the proliferative stage and that’s when the rebuilding process begins. Proliferative means that your cells are multiplying and spreading – and that’s a good thing because your body uses these cells to repair your wound.

    What your body does: Fills, defines and covers up the wound with new tissue. Here’s what happens:

    Step 1: This stage starts with filling in the wound with lots of new cells, forming new tissue. These new tissues, known as granulation tissues, are usually pink or red and uneven in texture. Your body also forms new blood vessels so that the new tissue receives enough oxygen and nutrients.
    Step 2: Your body defines what will be the outside edge of your wound. This happens naturally as the new granulation tissues form, pulling the edges of the wound together.
    Step 3: The last part of the proliferative stage involves layering the wound with epithelial cells, which are the type of skin cells that cover the surface of your body.
    How long it takes: Usually between 4-24 days. You can help the healing process stay on track by keeping the new tissue on wounds clean and hydrated.

    Signs it’s working: During this stage, the granulation tissue over your wound is typically pink or red and uneven in texture – and it usually doesn’t bleed.

  17. 17

    Journalists go Blue spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:34 am

    Silly twat snowflakes are so afraid of photographic evidence that they ban journalism.

    Don’t believe us?

    Try posting this on X.

  18. 18

    MAGA Shooters spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:45 am

    So, is this the kind of weapon I’ll need?

    https://www.milehighshooting.com/accuracy-international-axsr-300-norma-mag-27-elite-sand/

  19. 19

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:47 am

    Until I came to HA three years ago or so, I hadn’t heard the word “twat” since 7th grade. The guys using the word were losers then and they still are.

    Just sayin’.

  20. 20

    Magic Bullet Theory spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:47 am

    @13

    There’s a very simple way to clear this up. Kind of the same as tax returns.

    Meanwhile there’s a contemporaneous photo out there indicating that there was superficial wounds to Donnie’s face (2) bolstering the theory that shrapnel of some kind was the cause not a bullet.

    Show us the discharge report, Don. Or are you hiding something again?

  21. 21

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 11:11 am

    As truly shocked as I have been at the historically unprecedented outpouring of support, financing, enthusiasm and energy that Vice President Harris has generated in just a single week, I suspect that the Village Idiot is at least a little right that we are in some kind of a honeymoon period before the convention next month.

    But that being said, what matters most about these historical moments is not as much about what they represent but more about what the campaign and its supporters do with the moment.

    MAGA has had these moments too, even if we hate to acknowledge them. But they have rather consistently used them to generate in-group obedience, cult worship, and to target more hate and grievance.

    Trump’s ear boo-boo is a pretty good example. That was a moment. But the sympathy or even admiration it provoked was pretty quickly drowned beneath wave of insanity, resentment, and cult worship, sharks, cunts, n***ers, and sofas that served mostly to repulse independent voters.

    The thing to watch will be how Democrats and the Harris campaign use this honeymoon, the VP pick, and the convention bump to expand outreach and broaden their coalition in key demographics and battleground states.

  22. 22

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 11:53 am

    We’re about three open threads from HA libbies claiming that Trump cut his own ear.

  23. 23

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:13 pm

    22,

    This is a pretty monumental come-down from:
    “LIKE JESUS ON THE CROSS, MIGHTY TRUMP THREW HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A CRAZED TRANS GUNMAN ABSORBING HUNDREDS OF EXPLODING ROUNDS WITH HIS LEAN MUSCLE MASS TO SAVE HUMANITY!!!!

    THE BLOOD SPOTTED BANDAID WILL NOW BE PLACED RESPECTFULLY IN A DARKENED SHRINE IN THE NATION’S CAPITOL WHERE SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL BE BROUGHT TO WORSHIP IN ITS HOLY PRESENCE.”

  24. 24

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:16 pm

    Trump raised taxes on low income working families, doubled the deficit and put 14 million Americans out of work.

    Then a fellow Republican shot at him.

  25. 25

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:21 pm

    Republicans want to bring Big Government into your bedroom

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:35 pm

    Two comments regarding this email sent from the US Capitol Police Deputy Chief to the House Sergeant-at-Arms the day before J6:

    1. Sounds like a conspiracy to prevent certification.
    2. The House had plenty of warning, yet did nothing.

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:41 pm

    I expect climate refugees will pile into Whidbey Island by the millions when the equatorial belt becomes uninhabitable due to the climate change hoax.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/climate/heat-survivability-health-death-intl/index.html

    Lesson learned: Political beliefs don’t change reality.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:45 pm

    @26 Yeah and the incoming Bush administration ignored the outgoing Clinton administration’s warnings about al Qaeda, too.

    In most cases, doc, there’s no conspiracy; just an unwillingness to listen. Happens a lot in politics and bureaucracies.

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:46 pm

    @25 And schools and libraries, where Bibles will be required reading.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 12:53 pm

    @21 Fwiw, Snopes has debunked the couch fucking story, after tracing it to Elon’s den of lies (where else?). But for the record, what Snopes precisely debunked was the claim he mentioned it in his book, which he didn’t, and that’s not exactly the same as verifying he didn’t do it.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/

    I think it’s unfortunate, from an intellectual honesty point of view, for a person to have a scurvy lie hung around his neck like an albatross. But hey, they do it to our guys and gals all the time, so sympathy has to be rationed.

  31. 31

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:00 pm

    @17 Well, I guess he can afford to overeat better than most people can. But if I can afford a home gym, he can too, so the only reason he isn’t working out is he’s a lazy fuck. He’ll probably claim he’s too busy ruling his little corners of the world, though.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:07 pm

    Clearly, no part of the ear was “blown off.”

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/26/21/87818677-13677291-It_is_a_remarkable_turnaround_for_Trump_who_was_shot_in_the_ear_-a-16_1722024541209.jpg

    It was nicked, and like a shaving nick, it bled like fuck. Ears must have a lot of little blood vessels.

  33. 33

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:12 pm

    1. Sounds like a conspiracy to prevent certification.

    Really? And so not “cosplaying tourists” after all.

    Did the crates filled with firearms provide you with any useful clues there, Sherlock?

    2. The House had plenty of warning, yet did nothing.

    The email is dated Jan 5th, asshole. Maybe come up with something else next time.

    The United States of America would not have to treat its elections processes and its national capital like a high security vulnerability if the second largest major political party was not committed to acts of political violence as a means of obtaining power.

  34. 34

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:15 pm

    When I was recovering on the Navy hospital ship, I saw an NVA officer brought in on a litter who’d been grazed on the side of his head by a bullet. Had to be either 5.56mm or 7.65mm. There was a white furrow in his skull, but the bone wasn’t penetrated, so no brains were leaking out. No blood either; our medics must have cleaned him up. He was awake but dazed and glassy-eyed, it probably felt like getting walloped with a hammer. Our Army guys picked him up; a Navy medic told me the Marines didn’t take prisoners. I don’t know if that was true or just talk. He had a more serious abdominal wound and the medic told me our doctors wouldn’t bust their asses to save him. I have no idea what happened to him. I saw all kinds of shit on the hospital ship while I was there, including a grisly burn case. I was aboard the ship the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and the Navy cooks made cakes, so we had cake with dinner in the ship’s enlisted mess that day. The Navy food in general was a hell of a lot better than us Army guys got ashore on the dirt so I stayed on the ship as long as they’d let me. But just sayin’, I know what a bullet graze to the head looks like. Trump wasn’t grazed; just clipped in the ear. Luckier than that NVA guy. Close call, though, and when you’re being shot at, do you really care whether it’s a bullet or shrapnel? It still bleeds, hurts, and scares holy fuck out of you.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:29 pm

    Dolly Parton is a childless cat lady. Tennessee goes blue.

  36. 36

    Dumbfuck Doctor spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:33 pm

    “cosplaying tourists”

    It was a dozen cosplaying grandmothers in a stack formation looking for the visitors entrance.

    I can see that when Dear Leader declares J6 a national holiday you libbie twats will be weeping bitter tears. That is, if you haven’t been rounded up and executed for treason yet.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:34 pm

    If you offered a Purple Heart for Trump’s wound to a Vietnam field vet, he’d glare at you like you just fell out of a rubber tree.

    Purple Hearts for scratches didn’t have status there. Hell, they got worse cuts from the elephant grass.

  38. 38

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 1:38 pm

    30,
    Reports I’ve read explained that the passage describing sex with sofas was only present in the first run of first edition hardcovers of the book. Prior to publication in softcover and ebook the content received substantial revision.

    This could also be another lie. But it’s not what Snopes investigated nor what Snopes claims to have debunked.
    I have not been able to see a hardcover edition to say one way or another. I don’t know anybody with such shitty tastes. And library copies are later editions printed and bound for library use only.

    The sad thing is, once you take the trouble to familiarize yourself with this guy’s personal history in accurate detail and compare it to his manufactured mythology, the story about fucking furniture does not feel that out-of-character.
    This is one ugly, fat, weird, lonely young man living with his grandmother – think Thurman Merman in Bad Santa.

    Being diet private in the USMC got rid of his fatbody. He’s not stupid. And he got pushed. The Corp provided him with a lifetime worth of discipline. At Ohio State he had nothing better to do but study and pass exams. And then he got his ass into Yale for the weird, formerly fat, ugly, Marine-who-lives-with-his-grandma diversity he contributed to the class. And then Tiger Mom Yale prof Amy Chua took him under her wing and coached him into turning an undergrad essay into a non-fiction cri de coeur for the opiate addicted fly-overs just when that was the new “hot thing”.

    He’s changed his name something like four times since turning 18. And completely reinvented himself politically to suit whoever was willing to pay him.

    If I had to guess, I’d bet the sofa fucking was in the original hardcover edtion.
    And I’d wager he made the whole thing up, just like he’s made up nearly everything else about himself.

  39. 39

    Don’t believe what you can plainly see spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 2:45 pm

    @16

    Would be a shame if OTHER AP photogs got pictures of his unblemished ear at other events on the same day.

    Oh…

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 3:14 pm

    I just want to say that getting shot at doesn’t turn a draft dodger into a veteran, and getting winged in the ear doesn’t make him a hero. He’d be a hero if he intentionally took a bullet to save a Secret Service agent like the hero firefighter did who saved his family. Instead Trump made their job harder by wriggling free of them and exposing himself for that fist-pump photo-op.

  41. 41

    Was is a conspiracy? spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 3:27 pm

    34 – So, the Trump shooting was a conspiracy then?

  42. 42

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 3:32 pm

    41,

    It was one Republican shooting at another Republican.

    And unfortunately Republicans are only reliably on target when tazing themselves in the nut sack.

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 3:49 pm

    @38 “Reports I’ve read explained that the passage describing sex with sofas was only present in the first run of first edition hardcovers of the book.”

    Snopes debunked that, too. Traced it to the original jokester, who admitted he made it up and altered an image of the book page.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fact-check-no-1st-edition-of-jd-vances-hillbilly-elegy-doesnt-mention-couch-cushion-eroticism/ar-BB1qHszy

  44. 44

    I looked it up and so can you spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 3:58 pm

    Vice President Harris’s favorability polling now surpasses 78-year-old convicted felon Donald J. Trump in key battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsyvania, Minnesota, and Michigan.

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:05 pm

    We’re too lenient with gun crimes. People like this should be off the streets until they’re no longer a threat.

    https://komonews.com/news/local/auburn-shooting-ambush-attack-gun-firearm-crime-crisis-washington-seattle-shell-casings-shootout-metro-bus-stop-king-county-intersection-masked-suspects-victims-injuries-hospital-investigation-police#

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:07 pm

    @41 Nothing in my post @34 mentions “conspiracy.” Everything points to Crooks being a lone actor driven by his own lust for notoriety.

  47. 47

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:12 pm

    43,
    I’d recommend you go directly to Snopes rather than relying on the AI bot generated summaries on MSN or whatever that is.

    Snopes details their efforts to debunk the story, which are actually pretty minimal. But they could not verify the identities of any of their sources (problematic), nor could they directly obtain copies of the source text (lazy), instead relying on images generated by their anonymous sources, which can also be faked. So their falsification of the claim depends upon potentially faked images provided by anonymous sources.

    It certainly isn’t in the later editions. And so it hardly matters.
    Vance is weird. Trump is weird. Both are incompetent, lazy, unpopular, and have disturbing ideas about sex. Trump wants revenge and to escape eventual imprisonment. Vance wants fascism.

  48. 48

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:19 pm

    @ 46

    Everything points to Crooks being a lone actor driven by his own lust for notoriety.

    Everything except the complete absence of any written or spoken comment by the shooter to suggest this, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    You pulled this out of your prodigiously voluminous ass.

  49. 49

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:26 pm

    When did Boxcheck Momala do a complete 180 degree flip-flop on her fracking stance?

    ’cause in 2019 she was crystal clear that she wanted fracking banned.

    “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking…. we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact of the health and safety of the community.”

    Those coming GOP ads in Pennsylvania are gonna leave a mark.

  50. 50

    What happens if we fire all the fact checkers? spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 4:28 pm

    Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, favored Biden in 2020, but has since become a vocal Trump supporter.

    Other than Elon’s claim there is zero evidence to suggest he supported either of them. There are no donation that require public disclosure. He seems to have given mostly similar amounts to DNSC and RNC.

    But that he bought Twitter to ‘enhance free speech’ because Trump and Bannon and Alex Jons got banned for inciting a riot is surely circumstantial evidence that his claim to have voted for Hilary and Joe is utter bullshit.

  51. 51

    Independent Voters spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 5:52 pm

    VA Stays Blue.

    Because when a local community votes that the “Moms for Liberty” daughter of Antonin Scalia has no business at all being on the school board (62% to 38%) Governor Youngkin appoints her to the STATE school board (Board of Education) She has zero relevant experience other than pulling her kids out of the public school very publicly and then failing at running for local schoolboard but none of that matters. Best person in the entire state for the job according to Youngkin.

    How many more ways can the GOP shoot themselves in the foot before November?

  52. 52

    Independent Voters spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 6:54 pm

    John Bolton is still a fucking asshole but he’s not taking shit from Newsmax.

    “That was Trump’s deal. That was Trump’s deal,” Bolton said.

    “Are you out of your mind, sir?” Bolling clapped back.

    Bolton continued:

    Who cut the deal, Eric? Who cut the deal? Donald Trump cut the deal, didn’t he?

    Eric, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    The deal cut us down to zero. That’s what Trump wanted. He wanted everybody out. The record on that is completely clear.

    Read the deal. Eric, have you ever read the deal? I know you’ve got to go before you’re embarrassed even further.

    Dumbfuck will be undeterred.

  53. 53

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 7:08 pm

    The list of people who want no part of Boxcheck Momala’s ticket has grown to now include:

    True Gretch
    Hair Gel
    Term-limited NC guv Roy Cooper

  54. 54

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 7:13 pm

    Boxcheck Momala is so brave.

    Steve Peoples
    @sppeoples
    Harris campaign is blocking reporters from talking to voters outside the press pen here at Whitmer/Shapiro event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    12:36 PM · Jul 29, 2024

    Can’t let reporters ask about Boxcheck Momala’s flip-flop on fracking, can we?

  55. 55

    The Democratic Party spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 7:22 pm

    @53

    Still in the running, a number of people who have never fucked a couch, haven’t publicly called their wife a baby factory, hasn’t said they encourage immigration but only from white countries, AND isn’t a forced birther.

    It’s all going to be fine but thanks for your concern.

  56. 56

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 7:40 pm

    Trump would be a fool to debate Harris, and even he knows it.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/harris-trump-debate-abc-fox.html

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 7:52 pm

    @53 You know why, don’t you? Has nothing to do with Harris; he doesn’t want to make Mark Robinson governor.

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:03 pm

    @51 Youngkin got elected by pretending to be a “moderate Republican.” Nobody’s fooled anymore.

  59. 59

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:05 pm

    @50 That sure is expensive “free” speech. I don’t think he did it to give Trump and Bannon a shitposting platform, though. He did it to give himself shitposting a platform.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/elon-musk-kamala-harris-deepfake.html

  60. 60

    What an asshole. Must be a Republican.. spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:23 pm

    Vice President Harris’s favorability polling now surpasses 78-year-old convicted felon Donald J. Trump in key battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsyvania, Minnesota, and Michigan.

    It’s still hard to imagine anyone, even orange tinted dear leader, approaching a tenth of the unlikability of the Hindenburg that was kon-klown DEE-Santis.

    aka the unlikable fascist kreep kreepshit has ghosted. too funee..

  61. 61

    What an asshole. Must be a Republican.. spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:33 pm

    Ron F’s xitter stream is documenting magat weirdness:

    https://x.com/RonFilipkowski

    The magats can keep their weird, vote sane in November..

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 8:42 pm

    Trump, if elected, won’t stand for this; it’s government interference in poultry producers’ lives:

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a new rule that aims to protect consumers from foodborne illnesses by significantly reducing salmonella in poultry products that make it onto grocery store shelves and into shoppers’ kitchens.

    https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/usda-creates-new-policy-reduce-salmonella-raw-poultry/story?id=112366345

    Yes, you can get salmonella by voting Republican.

  63. 63

    The hits just keep coming for Team Treason spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 9:40 pm

    He’s fucking terrified.

    Donald J Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    OPEC NATIONS ARE GOING ALL OIUT TO DRIVE DOWN OIL PRICES IN THE HOPE THAT CRAZY KAMALA HARRIS WILL WIN THEN THEY WILL REALLY REAL THE REWARDS! SHE WILL BE A DISASTER FOR THE USA!

    OPEC nations daily production numbers are mostly unchanged since 2022 due to the caps Donald convinced them at the end of his presidency to adopt. OPEC is meeting next week and Donald is warning them NOT to increase production because that will bring down gas prices.

    And why does that terrify him? Joe Biden broke OPEC by opening the SPR and getting a handle on the surge in prices and then sitting back and watching US producers set record amounts of production in 2022, 2023, and on target to do it again in 2024. OPEC is kind of out of options as Venezuela is in a cash crisis and there’s no way they’re going to agree to a production cut, Iran’s oil is mostly under sanction and isn’t much of a factor, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are looking at a potential escalation of Israeli aggression in the region. Keeping current production is the only card they can play for Donnie. Flooding the marked to try to tamp down US production of more expensive to extract Shale Oil is probably their desired move.

    The summer gas surge didn’t really happen so this signature “I did that!” issue is off the table not just because Joe isn’t running but because Americans are paying on average $.25 less per gallon than last year. $3 average by election day is very possible.

    And meanwhile, Donald is out there saying “Please OPEC keep pump prices high for the average family. I pinky swear I will make it up to you somehow even though I’m going to lose.”

  64. 64

    Tourists Visiting the Floor of the Senate with Weapons spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:47 pm

    Absolutely ZERO self awareness.

    Rep Matt Gaetz
    @RepMattGaetz

    Maduro lost the election in Venezuela badly, then simply declared victory anyway.

  65. 65

    MAGA spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:52 pm

    Tired:

    “Fuck your Feelings!”

    Wired:

    “Calling us weird is Juvenile and hurtful.”

  66. 66

    There’s Quirky and then there’s Creepy spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 10:56 pm

    Call me weird and I’ll look at my clothes choices, hobbies, musical taste and jokes that make me laugh and go, “Yeah that tracks.”

    Call a conservative weird and he’ll call you a soy boy or a queer and say you’re persecuting their Christianity.

  67. 67

    Elijah Dominic McFuckhead spews:

    Monday, 7/29/24 at 11:05 pm

    The White Dudes for Harris Xitter account @dudes4harris organized a Zoom event that raised over $4 million.

    So of course Elmo suspended the account.

    MAGA’s greatest plutocratic backer is so cowardly and so lacking in any confidence in Trump or his ideas that he needs to silence the opposition.

  68. 68

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 1:27 am

    @63 “Venezuela is in a cash crisis and there’s no way they’re going to agree to a production cut”

    Cut what? There’s no Venezuelan oil production to cut. That country’s oil industry has collapsed.

  69. 69

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 2:30 am

    Escapee from evangelicalism explains what made her see through the bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdG8DAqkKI

  70. 70

    RedReformed spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 4:40 am

    The Elderly Senile Criminal Wants Police To Be Above the Law
    https://reason.com/2024/07/28/trump-promises-police-immunity-from-prosecution/
    Donald Trump pledged to give cops “immunity from prosecution.” The idea is both legally illiterate and dangerous.
    >> He wants them to take orders directly from him, and do shit that isn’t legal.
    >> “As long as I’m dictator, I will shield you from any consequences of your actions. Keep it that way. “

  71. 71

    Better Red than Free spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 8:58 am

    Well now The Heritage Foundation is going with ‘Stalin was good on abortion and no fault divorce.’

    Deeply weird guys.

    To remedy this, Stalin overturned the nation’s no-fault divorce law. He also implemented policies designed to encourage family life. One, Brainerd notes, was an extra tax imposed upon “single people and married couples with fewer than three children.” Others included so-called ‘Motherhood medals’ for
    mothers with several children as well as benefits for
    larger families.

    What’s more, abortion became illegal and, Brainerd writes, the 1944 Family Code “made the procedure for divorce so much more expensive and complicated that it has been described as effectively a ‘prohibition on divorce.'”

  72. 72

    Better Red than Free spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 8:58 am

    Well now The Heritage Foundation is going with ‘Stalin was good on abortion and no fault divorce.’

    Deeply weird guys.

    To remedy this, Stalin overturned the nation’s no-fault divorce law. He also implemented policies designed to encourage family life. One, Brainerd notes, was an extra tax imposed upon “single people and married couples with fewer than three children.” Others included so-called ‘Motherhood medals’ for
    mothers with several children as well as benefits for
    larger families.

    What’s more, abortion became illegal and, Brainerd writes, the 1944 Family Code “made the procedure for divorce so much more expensive and complicated that it has been described as effectively a ‘prohibition on divorce.'”

  73. 73

    Unserious Twat spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 9:21 am

    Talking to a man with a wife a two kids as though he were a woman? I’d call that…weird.

  74. 74

    Elon Musk spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 9:36 am

    Well because a manual ‘latch’ is a thing of the past and we have newer and bester ways.

    Tesla issues software fix for 1.8 million vehicles over hood latch issue
    A recall notice was issued because the vehicles could fail to detect an unlatched hood, which could suddenly fly open.

  75. 75

    RedReformed spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 11:48 am

    In case you were wondering about how you were going to buy that new RV for Clarence, gonna have to sell more.
    Trump Media & Technology Group Corp DJT:NASDAQ
    28.67 (-4.91%)

  76. 76

    What an asshole. Must be a Republican.. spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 12:08 pm

    Words of the lyin’ klown of Florida, kreepshit’s krush of its “life” that it’s now ghosting:

    “I can tell you, I’ve watched the Republicans have the House now since 2022, they’ve got really nothing to show for it. I remember the first two years we had a Republican Congress when Trump was president and they really failed to deliver in a big way. So now I think is the time to put up or shut up. We’ve shown that it can be done in Florida, so follow that lead and do it nationally.”

    https://meidasnews.com/news/desantis-house-gop-accomplished-nothing

    Wow.. Still plans to run on making the US Florida.. Took that to Iowa and fayled. Everyone hates this unlikable fascist hustler like they hate Ted Kankun.

  77. 77

    Independent Voters spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 12:26 pm

    Stable Genius.

    I said, ‘Let me use these guys to guide our military a little bit. When you can win so many races, that’s OK, you know? You guide. Same thing with coaches. You take some of the greatest football coaches, you put them at the table. ‘What do you like, coach?’ Because in it’s own way it’s not so much really different.”

  78. 78

    We are a very stupid country spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 12:35 pm

    Because once you open the door to the stupidity of ‘natural immunity’ the homeschoolers are going to bust it off its hinges.

    “We know that there’s going to be some E. coli exposure, so ljust try to increase my
    E. coli threshold by exposing myself to a bit of E. coli in your day-to-day life.
    “Just little things throughout your day, like, not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom and stuff like this.”
    Seth Rider
    Triathlete, Team USA

  79. 79

    What an asshole. Must be a Republican.. spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 4:19 pm

    kreepshit’s concern trolling in the Snowball thread is too funee..

    Its fellow bonzo buttlicking VIP room buds are cringing right now.

  80. 80

    It’s just that simple! spews:

    Tuesday, 7/30/24 at 10:15 pm

    “ …haven’t publicly called their wife a baby factory…”

    Correct: they call their wives “baby momma.”

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