After getting publicly ass fucked with the old “bait-and-switch” by his “bipartisan” Republican colleagues, Sen. Joe Manchin last week informed mega-donors that he might have to look at reforming the 60-vote-minority rule in order to get infrastructure passed.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
The Republican former guy assigned his White House Chief of Staff to direct the United States Attorney General to launch a global investigation of an Italian spy satellite conspiracy theory created by a real estate and charity scam artist in Virginia with the help of a Georgia Republican tech/charity grifter.
It’s all grifters now. All the way down.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
I wouldn’t, Carl. At least, not outside King County. The vaccine is only 95% effective, and some parts of the state, your odds of recycling air breathed by an anti-vaxxer are 100%.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 1
Manchin and Sinema are taking the heat. For now. Other senators feel the same way but have the luxury of not being outed for it… yet.
Want to pass infrastructure? Limit the bill to true infrastructure. Dump the twatty Gillebrand-ish shit that isn’t infrastructure.
You think Manchin is pressuring the GOP by leaking the contents of a phone call? He’s pressuring the White House just as much. How will you know which is the truth? By the composition of the bill that eventually passes.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
What happens when a pathological reactionary tries to grab some of Juneteenth for himself:
You shouldn’t, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You are extraordinarily unhealthy. Best that you remain in your shithole. Forever.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@4 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck labels child care and elder care “shit.” He’s now on record that single mothers and senior citizens are “shit.”
I’ll go on record and say Doctor Dumbfuck has “shit for brains.”
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Vicious Trollspews:
Former Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit fave stock GE is about to undergo a reverse split. It’s trying to send a “signal” to poorly informed investors. Like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Reverse splits can have the opposite impact on investor sentiment. In the case of GE, however, the pain has already been felt. Shares were once about $60 each. The stock has lost investors about 14% a year on average for the past five years. Over the past 10, shares have a negative return as well. The S&P 500, for comparison, has earned investors about 14% and 17% a year on average over the past five and 10 years, respectively.
GE believes it is signaling something to investors, though.
GE has to be the worst recommendation Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has ever made. Publicly, anyway.
Democrats face filibuster stress test on key voting bill. It’s not just Manchin and Sinema.
The worst-kept secret in Washington is that those two moderate senators aren’t alone in opposing nuking the 60-vote threshold.
Several other Democrats have indicated in interviews that they are reluctant to kill the filibuster or that they prefer to make “reforms” — Washington-speak for maintaining a supermajority to pass bills, even if changed a bit from the current filibuster rules.
It’s a harsh reality for progressives — both inside the Senate and outside — who had hoped their party might be provoked into nuking the filibuster and approving legislation with a simple majority.
Hassan barely won in 2016, and 2022 is going to be a far different political climate.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@8 Not following my suggestion to short GE when it was $22 isn’t the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. Not by a long shot. You’ve done uncounted things even dumber than that. Just ask the horse.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@9 “2022 is going to be a far different political climate”
Especially if Republicans keep talking about appointing a Speaker who isn’t even a member of Congress.
Turns out the Fort Lauderdale mayor – the asshole who claimed the accident yesterday was a terrorist act – is gay. And most likely a bottom.
Mayor Pete wouldn’t have called it terrorism.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
4,
Seems quite agitated. Talking about “feels” again.
This never ends well.
Limit the bill to true infrastructure.
Let’s review. Sen. Manchin was also given a very public and humiliating bipartisan-burn on Jan 6 Commission. And again, Moscow Mitch obstruction centered on “limitations”. Also of a sliding variety. “Moving goal posts” is just a sub-genre of bait-and-switch. And even a stupid fucking hillbilly like Joe Manchin can see this train coming at him… for the third time in a row.
So good ‘ol Joe has specifically enumerated his objections to S.1
To which Moscow Mitch finally replied “fuck all that shit. We won’t do any voting rights legislation of any kind. It doesn’t matter whar you place the goal.” And now Joe is the lonely, naked, shine-drunk idiot who gets to completely own that too.
He may not want to go for a third dunce cap.
You think Manchin is pressuring the GOP by leaking the contents of a phone call?
I’m quite certain the part of the call where he instructs Lyin’ Joe Lieberman’s Mega-Donor PAC to target moderate Republicans, even going so far as urging them to offer soon-to-retire Roy Blunt a cushy cash money job speaks for itself. I listened carefully and didn’t once hear him telling them to throw money behind Ron Johnson or Charlie Dent.
There’s no trail out of this holler for ol’ Joe that goes through Moscow Mitch. Joe can’t change parties. And Mitch can’t move to the middle to allow popular vital legislation to pass. To find his way out he’s looking to go around. And he’s got five or six Senate Republicans, a mega-donor PAC, and President Biden helping him.
No wonder Tara is agitated.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
Washington-speak for maintaining a supermajority to pass bills,
I guess this needs to be pull-quoted. Because it’s the part the NBC reporters pull out of their asses.
Not only is it just as reasonable to conclude that political positioning around “reluctance” and holding out for “reform” is posturing, it’s absolutely required. While solid majorities of voters want the legislation passed, nearly as solid majorities prefer that it be done within the existing framework of Senate rules. So do I, actually.
But I also want zero-calorie peanut butter and chocolate ice cream and for my neighbor to stop firing up his backpack blower at 7am on the weekends.
“When” the 60-vote-minority rule is changed it will be because the majority of American voters have had enough of Republican bait-and-switch obstruction of popular vital legislation we all support. With “reluctance” we will support changing the rules. And Senate Democrats who are saying that right now are hardly signaling their opposition. After all, until last week so did ol’ Hillbilly Joe.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 15
While solid majorities of voters want the legislation passed…
I’m reminded of the days of the $10.10 federal minimum wage debate.
There was a poll taken by the AJC. In the poll a sizable majority wanted the minimum wage increase.
When told that a median estimate of job losses was 500,000 and that up to a million people might lose their jobs because of the wage increase, according to the CBO, support cratered to below 50%.
Everyone loves them some free money, QoS McHillbilly. YLB especially, the dumb twat. Explain to them that there really is no free money, and it affects their support for shit. Unless they are YLB, the dumb twat.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
Hassan barely won in 2016, and 2022 is going to be a far different political climate.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
Stole it though. Right? Using the secret Jew-space-laser behind the moon?
“Explain to them that there really is no free money…” …and they conclude that it’s “some other guy who will lose his job.”
Demagoguery goes both ways!
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RedReformedspews:
@13 the greedy racist incel is part of the problem. It is hate dripping posts like his that help a gay person to jump to conclusions. Racists drove a car in to protesters in Charlottesvile, someone a bit more unhinged than the greedy racist incel could indeed drive a truck into a crowd of gay people.
The greedy racist incel should tone his hate down if he wanted to reduce tensions.
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Vicious Trollspews:
I bet G-clown used to dream about being fucked by Michael Avenatti.
Poor Widdle Christine, Dragged into the Spotlight by Her Pigtails
I can’t believe y’all fell for that shit. Hell, even Dianne Feinstein sat on it until there was no other alternative than to use it.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 19
… should tone his hate down if he wanted to reduce tensions.
Somewhat similar, I’d imagine, to the way libbies toned down #MeToo when it ended up picking off far more liberals than conservatives.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 20
Hell, even Dianne Feinstein sat on it until there was no other alternative than to use it.
There was an alternative to what Feinstein did. She could have let Kavanaugh be confirmed. Same way that the GOP let Sotomayor and Kagan be confirmed.
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Vicious Trollspews:
Kinda ironic, isn’t it, that RBG’s dead and Harry Reid isn’t, yet.
I wonder what hurts more – his pancreatic cancer, or the knowledge that what he did has blown up in the Democrats’ faces, bigly.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@16 “When told that …” (fill in blank)
You can bullshit people only so many times before they stop listening. The GOP is down to about a third of the population now, and even that will shrink as some die off and others get prison sentences in return for their loyalty to the guy they were sure would pardon them for their actions on his behalf.
At some point nobody will listen to them anymore. Kinda like Doctor Dumbfuck on HA …
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Roger Rabbitspews:
And, of course, you can absolutely count on Doctor Dumbfuck to describe wages as “free money.”
The designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday was the worst day of his life.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@21 “far more liberals than conservatives”
Really? It’s now your contention that conservatives have competition when it comes to “putting points on the board”?
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@22 And, you could have added, let Merrick Garland be confirmed. Oh, wait …
Wallow in past glory when you’ve got nothing else …
And any another other “red state” whose drumpf lovin’ peeps voted similarly.
And didn’t dimfuk say that was ok? A state referendum ok but a city like Seattle – not so much.. What a silly moron.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@23 Too bad they don’t have color x-rays, sonograms, or CAT scans. I’ll bet your pancreas and liver would be something to see in full color. Your brain, though, would still appear dull gray, because it is dull gray.
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Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
…has blown up in the Democrats’ faces, bigly.
Can’t see it yet?
It’s hidden behind the Jew-space-laser.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 27
… let Merrick Garland be confirmed.
While you’re dealing in irrelevancy, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, don’t forget to mention that #CrookedHillary won the popular vote.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 29
@23 Too bad they don’t have color x-rays, sonograms, or CAT scans.
They have all of that. It’s a single button-push on a workstation.
They also have rectal catheters in every color of the rainbow, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Kinda ironic, isn’t it, that RBG’s dead and Harry Reid isn’t, yet.
Kinda ironic that bonzo raygun’s brain wasted a good stretch before “that certain day” and Jimmy Carter is still breathing and has a good share left of his marbles.
Hey dimfuk you voted for mcsame right? the antidote to your uncontrollable shakes over the black guy.
McSame’s head exploded about “gooks” while asking you for your vote.
And you gave it to him.
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Vicious Trollspews:
I’m certainly enjoying the Juneteenth surge in my accounts.
DJIA
+602.14
(+1.81%)
33,892.22
It’s possible that the Biden presidency will see the greatest widening of the wealth gap in history. All without Kamala Harris ever visiting the southern border.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
All five of Sen. Joe Manchin’s Republican Bipartisan Buddies™ have now vowed to vote to block their own “compromise” election reform legislation.
“But Senator Joe. It’s bipartisanship! One of the greatest traditions we have is bipartisanship! And the biggest, most important tradition of all is the humiliation of voluntary “moderate” Democrats. C’mon Joe. It’s a big honor for you. You’ll betray a core constituency of your home state voters. And in recognition of that, we’ll make you look ridiculous!”
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
Gonna keep looking. But so far can’t find any video of Maggie Hassan getting heckled and mocked by thousands in her home state’s largest city:
Flipping Johnson’s seat is of course not enough. Not nearly enough. There’s just way too much ground to make up. But it’s part of the solution for sure. Wisconsin has to be ground zero. Followed by Pennsylvania. And the way to get it done is to register voters. Voters who now, thanks entirely to Democrats, get a day off in June where we can find them, register them, and remind them why they have the day off in the first place.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 38
All five of Sen. Joe Manchin’s Republican Bipartisan Buddies™…
It’s 11, according to Reuters an hour ago.
Twenty-one of the 100 U.S. senators – including 11 Republicans, nine Democrats and one independent who caucuses with Democrats – are working on the framework to rebuild roads, bridges and other traditional infrastructure that sources said would cost $1.2 trillion over eight years.
Looking at the three Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation who are up for re-election next year, Hassan’s approval rating is underwater in the new poll, at 43%-49%. Pappas stands at 42% approval and 39% disapproval while Second Congressional District five-term Rep. Annie Kuster registers at 43%-41% in the poll.
Sununu, who’s coronavirus performance gave him a polling boost, continues to enjoy strong approval among New Hampshire voters, at 68%-30%.
They lose ’cause more people vote for the other guy. Heckling not required.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 39, 41
Hassan very well may face a challenger with better name recognition than she has. Just as the first of several Federal Reserve interest rate increases takes hold.
It’s possible that the Biden presidency will see the greatest widening of the wealth gap in history.
Translation: when a repuke is on top, stock market advances and the repuke’s re-election is a cinch.. When a dem in office – it’s a widening of the wealth gap and Moscow Mitch’s top priority is to make the dem a one-termer.
I remember something about gas prices once upon a time. What happened to that?
Oh nothing. Black guy served TWO TERMS.
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Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
40,
Wrong bill. Once again, you’re an idiot.
This is your brain on Trump.
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Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
41,
They lose when your “former guy” refuses to stand aside and Sununu declines the invitation to a lynch mob.
#youbuiltthat
#youreallydid
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RedReformedspews:
As usual. The greedy racist incel spreads lies and distortions.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
42,
And Trump very well may let bygones be bygones.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
45,
Just bear in mind that these are the same keen intellects and laser-like insights that contend without a shred of irony that Italian space technical prowess is what penetrated U.S. election security and stole the election.
Shoes? Absolutely.
Satellites? No so much, thanks.
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Vicious Trollspews:
@ 45
Black guy served TWO TERMS.
Now, YLB, don’t sell the black guy short. He served two terms AND in the process cost his party 1,000 downballot seats, counting Congress and state executive and legislative seats.
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Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
51,
Thanks for that. With redistricting on the horizon it helps when you refocus liberals on where the real action lies.
More please. Whenever you like.
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RedReformedspews:
@51. I know i did not imagine the intense racist backlash against electing a black man. That so many of your kind had such white hot hate that we out voted you to choose the black man. When democracy doesn’t choose your kind, you get rid of democracy.
We learned. That’s why Biden is President. He was the safe choice. That’s why Ms Harris will not make it out the primaries if she runs. She is good but she is not a safe candidate.
Your thoughts?
He served two terms AND in the process cost his party 1,000 downballot seats, counting Congress and state executive and legislative seats.
Yawwnn.. It seems a lot of folks learned to keep their hand in lest an orange tinted, golf cheating, serial sex assaulting, pathological liar, conman and seditionist grabs the reigns of power..
See GA Senate..
Oh and is there yet another backlash? Indeed. See draconian voter suppression laws that are so extreme they even hurt repuke voters. Florida mail in balloting anyone?
Now, YLB, don’t sell the black guy short
Ya mean he had the potential for 3 terms? Yeah yours truly remembers ya babbled fantasies along those lines. Yeah no end of laughs from your silly fantasies about teh black guy.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
It seems the anti-lockdown president wanted to throw Covid patients into Gitmo:
It seems the anti-lockdown president wanted to throw Covid patients into Gitmo:
Donald Trump considered quarantining Americans infected with COVID on Guantanamo Bay when the pandemic first started to take hold in February 2020, a new book claims.
“‘Don’t we have an island that we own? What about Guantánamo?’ the president asked when White Officials debated where to send US citizens who had the virus in February 2020 ….”
And, don’t forget, most of the patients back then were elderly nursing home residents in their 80s and 90s … just pack ’em all up and “render” ’em to Guantanamo, and don’t tell their families what happened to them when they come by and find the nursing home empty …
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@37 What surge? The Dow is still down 600 points from the past month.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@40 “Not one word about GOP Senators blocking a bill they’re working on.”
Not one word about making Jeff Bezos pay at least $1 of taxes, either. Wait until you see the tolls. It won’t be Republicans who block that. Bernie Sanders will.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
@41 “They lose ’cause more people vote for the other guy.”
Well, Repukes aren’t going to let that happen in Georgia again, are they?
“Most of the public rejects Republican efforts to audit states’ 2020 election results, saying they believe the reviews are an attempt to undermine valid election outcomes, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
“A 57% majority of Americans say that, based on what they’ve heard about the audits conducted or proposed by legislatures in some states, they view them as ‘partisan efforts to undermine valid election results.’ Just a third say they see them more as ‘legitimate efforts to identify potential voting irregularities.'”
Since Biden got only 51% of the vote, the 57% necessarily includes some of Trump’s 47%, which means even some Trump voters don’t believe their own party’s bullshit.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
Putdown of the month:
Jim Jordan: “Average gas price: June 2020: $2.21 June 2021: $3.07. President Biden’s economy!”
Jen Psaki: “”You forgot to mention that gas prices are the same now as they were in June 2018. Or that this time last year unemployment was 11.1% — today it’s 5.8%. @POTUS agrees families shouldn’t pay more at the pump – that’s why he’s opposed to GOP proposals to raise the gas tax.”
Now here’s a guy who succeeded at becoming a pro sports even with the odds stacked against him.
Unlike some we know, including Teblowme.
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Ggggggeeee Money!spews:
I suspect others will follow. This will drive the Evangelicals and Neanderthals bonkers.
The Trevor Project, Bob.
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Elijah SFA McDotcomspews:
Senator Manchin’s proposed amendments to the S.1 voting rights bill carefully worked out over weeks of “bipartisan” negotiations with “rogue” elements of the Republican caucus, would essentially gut the legislation.
And yet all fifty Senate Republicans, including those who worked with Manchin to develop the amendments, are now committed to using the 60-vote-minority rule to block the very same amendments and kill any debate on the bill.
Republicans are meanwhile preparing to do the very same thing to him on a proposed infrastructure bill, that Manchin has said he would prefer to see passed in regular order rather than via reconciliation. And again, Manchin has lined up a team of “moderate” Republicans to “negotiate” before they jizz all over his face in front of the whole world.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
How to get environmentalists off your back:
“A Cambodian court has charged four environmental activists with insulting the country’s king and conspiracy to plotting, a prosecutor said on Monday, following the arrest of three of them last week as they documented waste discharge into a city river.”
“The president’s party has almost always lost ground in the first midterm after his election, a trend that stretches back well into the 19th century and threatens Democrats clinging to a slim majority in the House and a 50-50 split in the Senate after Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. One reason for those consistent losses, political scientists and campaign operatives agree, has been that voters who support the new president typically have not felt as much urgency to turn out in the midterm elections as the voters opposed to him.
“That risk still looms over Democrats, but the party has a unique, rarely discussed, asset in trying to avoid that fate in 2022”: Republicans.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
After getting publicly ass fucked with the old “bait-and-switch” by his “bipartisan” Republican colleagues, Sen. Joe Manchin last week informed mega-donors that he might have to look at reforming the 60-vote-minority rule in order to get infrastructure passed.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
The Republican former guy assigned his White House Chief of Staff to direct the United States Attorney General to launch a global investigation of an Italian spy satellite conspiracy theory created by a real estate and charity scam artist in Virginia with the help of a Georgia Republican tech/charity grifter.
It’s all grifters now. All the way down.
Roger Rabbit spews:
I wouldn’t, Carl. At least, not outside King County. The vaccine is only 95% effective, and some parts of the state, your odds of recycling air breathed by an anti-vaxxer are 100%.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 1
Manchin and Sinema are taking the heat. For now. Other senators feel the same way but have the luxury of not being outed for it… yet.
Want to pass infrastructure? Limit the bill to true infrastructure. Dump the twatty Gillebrand-ish shit that isn’t infrastructure.
You think Manchin is pressuring the GOP by leaking the contents of a phone call? He’s pressuring the White House just as much. How will you know which is the truth? By the composition of the bill that eventually passes.
Roger Rabbit spews:
What happens when a pathological reactionary tries to grab some of Juneteenth for himself:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/politics/ron-johnson-juneteenth/index.html
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 3
You shouldn’t, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You are extraordinarily unhealthy. Best that you remain in your shithole. Forever.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@4 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck labels child care and elder care “shit.” He’s now on record that single mothers and senior citizens are “shit.”
I’ll go on record and say Doctor Dumbfuck has “shit for brains.”
Vicious Troll spews:
Former Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit fave stock GE is about to undergo a reverse split. It’s trying to send a “signal” to poorly informed investors. Like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
GE has to be the worst recommendation Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has ever made. Publicly, anyway.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 1, 4
NBC News, today:
Democrats face filibuster stress test on key voting bill. It’s not just Manchin and Sinema.
The worst-kept secret in Washington is that those two moderate senators aren’t alone in opposing nuking the 60-vote threshold.
Hassan barely won in 2016, and 2022 is going to be a far different political climate.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@8 Not following my suggestion to short GE when it was $22 isn’t the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. Not by a long shot. You’ve done uncounted things even dumber than that. Just ask the horse.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@9 “2022 is going to be a far different political climate”
Especially if Republicans keep talking about appointing a Speaker who isn’t even a member of Congress.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/opinions/trump-house-speaker-democrats-obeidallah/index.html?iid=deanobeidallah
Roger Rabbit spews:
Trump just lost the first 2024 GOP primary.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/559382-desantis-tops-trump-in-2024-presidential-straw-poll
Vicious Troll spews:
Turns out the Fort Lauderdale mayor – the asshole who claimed the accident yesterday was a terrorist act – is gay. And most likely a bottom.
Mayor Pete wouldn’t have called it terrorism.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
4,
Seems quite agitated. Talking about “feels” again.
This never ends well.
Let’s review. Sen. Manchin was also given a very public and humiliating bipartisan-burn on Jan 6 Commission. And again, Moscow Mitch obstruction centered on “limitations”. Also of a sliding variety. “Moving goal posts” is just a sub-genre of bait-and-switch. And even a stupid fucking hillbilly like Joe Manchin can see this train coming at him… for the third time in a row.
So good ‘ol Joe has specifically enumerated his objections to S.1
To which Moscow Mitch finally replied “fuck all that shit. We won’t do any voting rights legislation of any kind. It doesn’t matter whar you place the goal.” And now Joe is the lonely, naked, shine-drunk idiot who gets to completely own that too.
He may not want to go for a third dunce cap.
I’m quite certain the part of the call where he instructs Lyin’ Joe Lieberman’s Mega-Donor PAC to target moderate Republicans, even going so far as urging them to offer soon-to-retire Roy Blunt a cushy cash money job speaks for itself. I listened carefully and didn’t once hear him telling them to throw money behind Ron Johnson or Charlie Dent.
There’s no trail out of this holler for ol’ Joe that goes through Moscow Mitch. Joe can’t change parties. And Mitch can’t move to the middle to allow popular vital legislation to pass. To find his way out he’s looking to go around. And he’s got five or six Senate Republicans, a mega-donor PAC, and President Biden helping him.
No wonder Tara is agitated.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
I guess this needs to be pull-quoted. Because it’s the part the NBC reporters pull out of their asses.
Not only is it just as reasonable to conclude that political positioning around “reluctance” and holding out for “reform” is posturing, it’s absolutely required. While solid majorities of voters want the legislation passed, nearly as solid majorities prefer that it be done within the existing framework of Senate rules. So do I, actually.
But I also want zero-calorie peanut butter and chocolate ice cream and for my neighbor to stop firing up his backpack blower at 7am on the weekends.
“When” the 60-vote-minority rule is changed it will be because the majority of American voters have had enough of Republican bait-and-switch obstruction of popular vital legislation we all support. With “reluctance” we will support changing the rules. And Senate Democrats who are saying that right now are hardly signaling their opposition. After all, until last week so did ol’ Hillbilly Joe.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 15
While solid majorities of voters want the legislation passed…
I’m reminded of the days of the $10.10 federal minimum wage debate.
There was a poll taken by the AJC. In the poll a sizable majority wanted the minimum wage increase.
When told that a median estimate of job losses was 500,000 and that up to a million people might lose their jobs because of the wage increase, according to the CBO, support cratered to below 50%.
Everyone loves them some free money, QoS McHillbilly. YLB especially, the dumb twat. Explain to them that there really is no free money, and it affects their support for shit. Unless they are YLB, the dumb twat.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
By 2022 there won’t be enough Libertardians left in New Hampshire. The bears will have eaten them.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
There was a poll taken by the AJC.
We just flipped Georgia 180 degrees in one year running a pair of candidates who both openly supported $15:
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/ossoff-warnock-join-senators-in-seeking-15-minimum-wage
Stole it though. Right? Using the secret Jew-space-laser behind the moon?
“Explain to them that there really is no free money…” …and they conclude that it’s “some other guy who will lose his job.”
Demagoguery goes both ways!
RedReformed spews:
@13 the greedy racist incel is part of the problem. It is hate dripping posts like his that help a gay person to jump to conclusions. Racists drove a car in to protesters in Charlottesvile, someone a bit more unhinged than the greedy racist incel could indeed drive a truck into a crowd of gay people.
The greedy racist incel should tone his hate down if he wanted to reduce tensions.
Vicious Troll spews:
I bet G-clown used to dream about being fucked by Michael Avenatti.
Weak Dissent. Another Lazy, Dumb, and Error-Packed Book About Me in High School
I can’t believe y’all fell for that shit. Hell, even Dianne Feinstein sat on it until there was no other alternative than to use it.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 19
… should tone his hate down if he wanted to reduce tensions.
Somewhat similar, I’d imagine, to the way libbies toned down #MeToo when it ended up picking off far more liberals than conservatives.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 20
Hell, even Dianne Feinstein sat on it until there was no other alternative than to use it.
There was an alternative to what Feinstein did. She could have let Kavanaugh be confirmed. Same way that the GOP let Sotomayor and Kagan be confirmed.
Vicious Troll spews:
Kinda ironic, isn’t it, that RBG’s dead and Harry Reid isn’t, yet.
I wonder what hurts more – his pancreatic cancer, or the knowledge that what he did has blown up in the Democrats’ faces, bigly.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@16 “When told that …” (fill in blank)
You can bullshit people only so many times before they stop listening. The GOP is down to about a third of the population now, and even that will shrink as some die off and others get prison sentences in return for their loyalty to the guy they were sure would pardon them for their actions on his behalf.
At some point nobody will listen to them anymore. Kinda like Doctor Dumbfuck on HA …
Roger Rabbit spews:
And, of course, you can absolutely count on Doctor Dumbfuck to describe wages as “free money.”
The designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday was the worst day of his life.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@21 “far more liberals than conservatives”
Really? It’s now your contention that conservatives have competition when it comes to “putting points on the board”?
Roger Rabbit spews:
@22 And, you could have added, let Merrick Garland be confirmed. Oh, wait …
Wallow in past glory when you’ve got nothing else …
YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:
Everyone loves them some free money
Esp the drumpf and de santis orange death zone aka florida..
https://hr.fsu.edu/article/floridas-minimum-wage-changes-through-2026
And any another other “red state” whose drumpf lovin’ peeps voted similarly.
And didn’t dimfuk say that was ok? A state referendum ok but a city like Seattle – not so much.. What a silly moron.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@23 Too bad they don’t have color x-rays, sonograms, or CAT scans. I’ll bet your pancreas and liver would be something to see in full color. Your brain, though, would still appear dull gray, because it is dull gray.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
Can’t see it yet?
It’s hidden behind the Jew-space-laser.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 27
… let Merrick Garland be confirmed.
While you’re dealing in irrelevancy, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, don’t forget to mention that #CrookedHillary won the popular vote.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 29
@23 Too bad they don’t have color x-rays, sonograms, or CAT scans.
They have all of that. It’s a single button-push on a workstation.
They also have rectal catheters in every color of the rainbow, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
24,
“…as some die off and others get prison sentences…”
Don’t forget death by bears.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@31 When you get around to dealing with relevancy, notice that your candidate lost the popular and electoral vote.
YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:
Kinda ironic, isn’t it, that RBG’s dead and Harry Reid isn’t, yet.
Kinda ironic that bonzo raygun’s brain wasted a good stretch before “that certain day” and Jimmy Carter is still breathing and has a good share left of his marbles.
Sweet justice.
YLB laughing at the "seriously" irrelevant, kreepah krack pipah spews:
Hey dimfuk you voted for mcsame right? the antidote to your uncontrollable shakes over the black guy.
McSame’s head exploded about “gooks” while asking you for your vote.
And you gave it to him.
Vicious Troll spews:
I’m certainly enjoying the Juneteenth surge in my accounts.
It’s possible that the Biden presidency will see the greatest widening of the wealth gap in history. All without Kamala Harris ever visiting the southern border.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
All five of Sen. Joe Manchin’s Republican Bipartisan Buddies™ have now vowed to vote to block their own “compromise” election reform legislation.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
Gonna keep looking. But so far can’t find any video of Maggie Hassan getting heckled and mocked by thousands in her home state’s largest city:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/06/19/crowd-boos-sen-ron-johnson-milwaukees-juneteenth-day-celebration/7758466002/
https://youtu.be/BrG4CYzQ5Y4?t=14
Flipping Johnson’s seat is of course not enough. Not nearly enough. There’s just way too much ground to make up. But it’s part of the solution for sure. Wisconsin has to be ground zero. Followed by Pennsylvania. And the way to get it done is to register voters. Voters who now, thanks entirely to Democrats, get a day off in June where we can find them, register them, and remind them why they have the day off in the first place.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 38
All five of Sen. Joe Manchin’s Republican Bipartisan Buddies™…
It’s 11, according to Reuters an hour ago.
June 21, 2021
9:56 AM PDT
Last Updated an hour ago
That’s funny. Not one word about GOP Senators blocking a bill they’re working on.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 39
But so far can’t find any video of Maggie Hassan getting heckled and mocked by thousands in her home state’s largest city
That’s not how Senators lose.
They lose ’cause more people vote for the other guy. Heckling not required.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 39, 41
Hassan very well may face a challenger with better name recognition than she has. Just as the first of several Federal Reserve interest rate increases takes hold.
I see nothing wrong with any of this.
Vicious Troll spews:
Hey, what’s new with Kim Gardner?
Vicious Troll spews:
Dems are going to court in CA to force signature-matching in an effort to thwart the Gavin Newsom recall.
Dems are going to court in AZ to prevent signature-matching in an effort to thwart the 2016 election audit.
YLB spews:
It’s possible that the Biden presidency will see the greatest widening of the wealth gap in history.
Translation: when a repuke is on top, stock market advances and the repuke’s re-election is a cinch.. When a dem in office – it’s a widening of the wealth gap and Moscow Mitch’s top priority is to make the dem a one-termer.
I remember something about gas prices once upon a time. What happened to that?
Oh nothing. Black guy served TWO TERMS.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
40,
Wrong bill. Once again, you’re an idiot.
This is your brain on Trump.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
41,
They lose when your “former guy” refuses to stand aside and Sununu declines the invitation to a lynch mob.
#youbuiltthat
#youreallydid
RedReformed spews:
As usual. The greedy racist incel spreads lies and distortions.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-california-verify-signatures-newsom-recall-not-mail-ballots-1569733
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
42,
And Trump very well may let bygones be bygones.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
45,
Just bear in mind that these are the same keen intellects and laser-like insights that contend without a shred of irony that Italian space technical prowess is what penetrated U.S. election security and stole the election.
Shoes? Absolutely.
Satellites? No so much, thanks.
Vicious Troll spews:
@ 45
Black guy served TWO TERMS.
Now, YLB, don’t sell the black guy short. He served two terms AND in the process cost his party 1,000 downballot seats, counting Congress and state executive and legislative seats.
Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive Noble Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on Rapepublican "Losers and Suckers", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
51,
Thanks for that. With redistricting on the horizon it helps when you refocus liberals on where the real action lies.
More please. Whenever you like.
RedReformed spews:
@51. I know i did not imagine the intense racist backlash against electing a black man. That so many of your kind had such white hot hate that we out voted you to choose the black man. When democracy doesn’t choose your kind, you get rid of democracy.
We learned. That’s why Biden is President. He was the safe choice. That’s why Ms Harris will not make it out the primaries if she runs. She is good but she is not a safe candidate.
Your thoughts?
YLB laughing at pos rapey boob mcdimfook teh feckless, irrelevant widbee krackpipah, kreepah and "sugar daddy" spews:
He served two terms AND in the process cost his party 1,000 downballot seats, counting Congress and state executive and legislative seats.
Yawwnn.. It seems a lot of folks learned to keep their hand in lest an orange tinted, golf cheating, serial sex assaulting, pathological liar, conman and seditionist grabs the reigns of power..
See GA Senate..
Oh and is there yet another backlash? Indeed. See draconian voter suppression laws that are so extreme they even hurt repuke voters. Florida mail in balloting anyone?
Now, YLB, don’t sell the black guy short
Ya mean he had the potential for 3 terms? Yeah yours truly remembers ya babbled fantasies along those lines. Yeah no end of laughs from your silly fantasies about teh black guy.
Roger Rabbit spews:
It seems the anti-lockdown president wanted to throw Covid patients into Gitmo:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9709003/Trump-wanted-quarantine-Americans-infected-COVID-Guantanamo-Bay.html
Roger Rabbit spews:
It seems the anti-lockdown president wanted to throw Covid patients into Gitmo:
Donald Trump considered quarantining Americans infected with COVID on Guantanamo Bay when the pandemic first started to take hold in February 2020, a new book claims.
“‘Don’t we have an island that we own? What about Guantánamo?’ the president asked when White Officials debated where to send US citizens who had the virus in February 2020 ….”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9709003/Trump-wanted-quarantine-Americans-infected-COVID-Guantanamo-Bay.html
And, don’t forget, most of the patients back then were elderly nursing home residents in their 80s and 90s … just pack ’em all up and “render” ’em to Guantanamo, and don’t tell their families what happened to them when they come by and find the nursing home empty …
Roger Rabbit spews:
@37 What surge? The Dow is still down 600 points from the past month.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@40 “Not one word about GOP Senators blocking a bill they’re working on.”
Not one word about making Jeff Bezos pay at least $1 of taxes, either. Wait until you see the tolls. It won’t be Republicans who block that. Bernie Sanders will.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@41 “They lose ’cause more people vote for the other guy.”
Well, Repukes aren’t going to let that happen in Georgia again, are they?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/more-than-100000-georgia-voters-face-being-purged-from-voter-rolls/ar-AALc96m
Roger Rabbit spews:
Meanwhile,
“Most of the public rejects Republican efforts to audit states’ 2020 election results, saying they believe the reviews are an attempt to undermine valid election outcomes, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
“A 57% majority of Americans say that, based on what they’ve heard about the audits conducted or proposed by legislatures in some states, they view them as ‘partisan efforts to undermine valid election results.’ Just a third say they see them more as ‘legitimate efforts to identify potential voting irregularities.'”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/politics/monmouth-poll-election-audits/index.html
Since Biden got only 51% of the vote, the 57% necessarily includes some of Trump’s 47%, which means even some Trump voters don’t believe their own party’s bullshit.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Putdown of the month:
Jim Jordan: “Average gas price: June 2020: $2.21 June 2021: $3.07. President Biden’s economy!”
Jen Psaki: “”You forgot to mention that gas prices are the same now as they were in June 2018. Or that this time last year unemployment was 11.1% — today it’s 5.8%. @POTUS agrees families shouldn’t pay more at the pump – that’s why he’s opposed to GOP proposals to raise the gas tax.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/559434-white-house-slaps-down-jim-jordan-attack-on-gas-prices
You could’ve made a case for raising the federal gas tax over much of the last 28 years while Republicans let highways and bridges crumble and rust.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
I also heard that they found gay porn at the grow site.
https://www.vvng.com/suspect-guarding-illegal-marijuana-grow-shoots-at-deputys-patrol-car/
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZXu_8nyy_/
Now here’s a guy who succeeded at becoming a pro sports even with the odds stacked against him.
Unlike some we know, including Teblowme.
Ggggggeeee Money! spews:
I suspect others will follow. This will drive the Evangelicals and Neanderthals bonkers.
The Trevor Project, Bob.
Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:
Senator Manchin’s proposed amendments to the S.1 voting rights bill carefully worked out over weeks of “bipartisan” negotiations with “rogue” elements of the Republican caucus, would essentially gut the legislation.
And yet all fifty Senate Republicans, including those who worked with Manchin to develop the amendments, are now committed to using the 60-vote-minority rule to block the very same amendments and kill any debate on the bill.
Republicans are meanwhile preparing to do the very same thing to him on a proposed infrastructure bill, that Manchin has said he would prefer to see passed in regular order rather than via reconciliation. And again, Manchin has lined up a team of “moderate” Republicans to “negotiate” before they jizz all over his face in front of the whole world.
Roger Rabbit spews:
How to get environmentalists off your back:
“A Cambodian court has charged four environmental activists with insulting the country’s king and conspiracy to plotting, a prosecutor said on Monday, following the arrest of three of them last week as they documented waste discharge into a city river.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/asia/cambodia-mother-nature-charges-intl-hnk/index.html
I predict this is one legal brief Trump will actually read, in case he becomes a king, er, I mean a president, again.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Who should go to Gitmo.
Who Trump wanted to send to Gitmo.
Elections matter.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“The president’s party has almost always lost ground in the first midterm after his election, a trend that stretches back well into the 19th century and threatens Democrats clinging to a slim majority in the House and a 50-50 split in the Senate after Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. One reason for those consistent losses, political scientists and campaign operatives agree, has been that voters who support the new president typically have not felt as much urgency to turn out in the midterm elections as the voters opposed to him.
“That risk still looms over Democrats, but the party has a unique, rarely discussed, asset in trying to avoid that fate in 2022”: Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/politics/democrats-2022-turnout-congress/index.html
There’s nothing like Republicans to motivate everyone else to vote.