Nothing happened over the weekend. No news. Or it’s possible that I didn’t sleep well over the weekend and am half-assing this. Um, the legislature starts today. So that’s something.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
He’ll never let it go. Never.
And he will be the 2024 nominee.
@1
Not receiving the endorsement of the ‘orange headed love child of Rupert Murdoch and David Duke’ would be a badge of honor to most.
@2. GOP senator says Trump’s election allegations are unfounded
“The election was fair, as fair as we have seen,” Mike Rounds said.
“Senator” Mike Rounds is going to have a very hard primary.
2, 3,
It’ll cost Republicans tens of millions for an otherwise safe seat.
And, because Trump is doing this shit in every state, it will keep The Big Lie as the defining campaign theme from now into 2025, and beyond.
The Republican Party is literally tearing itself into shreds over one sad loser’s fragile ego and the humiliation of his ignorant followers. But they are being very successful at getting the political media to focus elsewhere. That helps a little. So far. But the efforts to distract may run out of steam if a) Trump continues to escalate; b) the pandemic crisis eases; and c) Democrats develop adequate message discipline.
What do we talk about?
– President Biden’s unprecedented success at rescuing the nation and the economy from Trump’s enormous failures.
– Congressional Democrat’s unprecedented success at passing landmark legislation supporting the Biden recovery.
– The Republican Party tearing itself apart at Donald J. Trump’s insistence. And their longing to do the same for the rest of us using mob violence and authoritarianism.
President Biden and Democrats in Congress want everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.
Donald J. Trump and Republicans want you to drink your own pee.
For some choosing between these two options is a struggle.
@5
For some, the choice is clear (or yellow) and not a hard choice to make. I imagine that the people that sent MTG to Congress would gladly drink pee, especially if they thought it would prevent C-19 and at the same time give Biden the finger.
@5
I think most republicans in Congress want everyone to get vaccinated also, they just can’t admit it out of fear of Trump and his cult. Just like they know but are afraid to admit Trump lost the election.
6,
I’m a huge filthy stinking elitist commie liberal Democrat who looks down his nose with utter disdain on every “conservative”.
And you know what would really piss me off and make me cry?
If “conservatives” everywhere sent me money, cash especially, in particular twenties, fifties, and hundreds. Or just delivered it to my door in grocery bags. That would make my head explode with rage and frustration and send me into fits of helpless sobbing.
Really. It would.
Please feel free to pass this along wherever and however you may see fit.
7,
I don’t really think so.
Of course, most of them are vaccinated and boosted themselves.
And probably no more than a dozen Congressional Republicans drink pee. But only recreationally with no expectation that it would protect them from a deadly infectious disease.
But I do think most of them would prefer to see more Americans go unvaccinated because of how that will continue to prolong the pandemic and disrupt the economy. In particular, I think they are in love with how the media have become obsessed with every single potential speculative reporting detail about “COVID disruption” because of how it suggests “danger”, “risk”, or “suffering” to an increasingly restive and fragile audience.
We’ve gone from breathless (and entirely unfulfilled) predictions of EMPTY SHELVES to what is now supposed to be a “potato crisis”. I did not actually think a “potato crisis” was even possible.
It gives the media something to report, especially something “dire” which keeps people doom-scrolling and driving revenues. And that gives Republicans confidence that they can leverage “crisis” into a referendum on leadership and restore them to power. Which is what got us into the crisis to begin with.
Certainly, on some distant, abstract level Republicans recognize that prolonging the pandemic will kill people, mostly their own voters. But never forget that most Congressional Republicans hold relatively safe seats in protected districts or empty, rural states. There’s less risk to them individually and personally.
the people that sent MTG to Congress would gladly drink pee, especially if they thought it would prevent C-19 and at the same time give Biden the finger.
Yes! This must be exactly what boob mcdimfook and its klownservatic buddies do once a week or more at the local widbee VIP lounge..
A “pissing contest” never had more meaning in the never ending battle over “who is the most klownservatic?” Heh..
10,
Perhaps it is time for us to modify the old expression “drinking the Kool-Aid”?
Jim Jones 2024! “What could go wrong?”
@11
The Kook-Aid (Jim actually used Flavor-Aid) in this case is the inane information that Trump and his ilk produce.
Hell, just slap a PBR label on it and they wouldn’t be able to taste the difference. Maybe Buckhorn, or some other favorite cheap pisswater beer that is swilled in the south.
Some slick marketing and you could probably achieve what Trump was trying to do with injecting bleach and shoving a UV light up their ass. I can see it now, “Have a tall, cool, LGB*, with that crisp and relaxing taste. Enjoy that sweet aftertaste knowing you are giving Biden the finger and bolstering your immunity to COVID-19. Perfect for the office or beach party!”
*Let’s Go Brandon
@4 Also, Biden’s working to save the country Trump tried to sell for a cheap political smear.
@11
Maybe instead of “drink the Kool-Aid”, “Hold my beer” is better.
QoS McHillbilly, prolly: “Oh, sure, for this they activate their body cameras. So fucking staged.”
Police: They don’t do what you think they do.
(Pretty incredible video with train crashing into a crashed plane at the end. Railfan would approve.)
Alternate QoS McHillbilly @ 15:
“Oh, sure, for a white guy they take a risk.”
How secure QoS McHillbilly must feel in the knowledge that for him the world is always Heads I Win Tails You Lose.
Hey, Jill Biden, do you approve of Kamala’s new Comms director?
How many of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s employees silently believe his term is illegitimate, Doctor Jill?
Bet the number is not zero.
She might go down. She won’t make it easy.
She’s as useless as Maria Cantwell, who nonetheless keeps on winning.
Stopped clock alert.
Still, no greater punchline than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s investment history.
@ 8
If “conservatives” everywhere sent me money, cash especially, in particular twenties, fifties, and hundreds. Or just delivered it to my door in grocery bags.
I assume you meant “conservative Democrat”. Unfortunately for you, Manchin still opposes SALT limitation repeal, QoS McHillbilly.
I lack Doctor Dumbfuck’s ability to predict stocks. All I know is what I see and read. For example, this CNBC story says, “Strategists do not foresee other major indexes or sectors making the same dramatic move for now, though they may face a pullback,” and quotes one Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity strategist at RBC, as saying, “I would say I’m still within the category of any kind of broader market downturn would be in the 5% to 10% range, as opposed to 10% to 20%. 10% to 20% would be a growth scare, and I don’t think we’re in a growth scare.”
I doubt Ms. Calvasina has a reliable crystal ball, but I think she’s better positioned than Doctor Dumbfuck to make educated guesses; and it appears she doesn’t think he’ll get his 10%-15% correction unless something causes a “growth scare.” So, I’m inclined to think for now that he’s fucked.
@15, 16 Those cops are heroes. They saved the man’s life at great personal risk to themselves. Most cops are decent hardworking folks who do their jobs professionally and well. Our concern is the few bad apples. If we could purge police agencies of the Klansmen, Nazis, White Supremacists, Proud Boys, psychopaths, and race murderers who’ve infiltrated law enforcement, the police wouldn’t be a story anymore.
@17 There’s more cause for complaint about the 2000 election than the 2020 election, but Gore and the entire Democratic Party accepted the results of a Supreme Court decision that was genuinely controversial, while Trump and the entire Republican Party did not accept the results of an election that presented no cause for controversy.
Democrats and Republicans are not the same. Democrats are markedly better, even in defeat — especially in defeat.
@18 If Cortez and Cantwell keep McConnell from having a majority, they’re useful even if they do nothing else.
@19 Jazon Rantz, haw haw haw haw, another of Doctor Dumbfuck’s “sources” …
Let’s just say CDC is a better source of pandemic information and guidance than any rightwing talking head, and let it go at that …
@ 21
I doubt Ms. Calvasina has a reliable crystal ball, but I think she’s better positioned than Doctor Dumbfuck to make educated guesses; and it appears she doesn’t think he’ll get his 10%-15% correction unless something causes a “growth scare.”
Leave it to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 21 to quote an article that refers to a 10% drop in the market within a single trading session, only then to conclude that a drop of 10-15% over a much longer period of time is unlikely.
10% within a single trading session – that is a growth scare.
This will really stick in Republicans’ craw, especially coming on the heels of Confederate hero Bobby Lee’s statue being torn down:
“A new US quarter featuring the late Maya Angelou went into circulation Monday, the US Mint announced, making the legendary poet and activist the first Black woman ever to appear on the coin.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/politics/maya-angelou-quarter-issued/index.html
@26 Learn to fucking read. Your reading comprehension sucks. The market didn’t drop 10% in a single trading session, and the CNBC article didn’t say it did. It said, “The tech-heavy Nasdaq sold off hard early Monday, falling roughly 10% from its all-time high during the worst of the decline.” The Nasdaq, which is not “the market,” only the tech sector, was down 2.72% at the worst of today’s trading session.
Nasdaq closed above 16,000 on exactly one day in the last 12 months. That was Nov. 19, closing at 16,057. It closed today at 14,942, which is a decline of 6.9%, nowhere near a 10% correction, using the one-day high as a baseline. You can’t do fucking math, either.
And Nasdaq isn’t “the market.” It’s the high-flying, overvalued tech sector. Energy, materials, bank, and healthcare stocks are doing fine.
15, 16,
Over what?
An argument you manufactured entirely in your own head before spewing it out in front of us entirely in your own comments?
Bob, you literally just made that entire premise up without any participation from anyone else, liberal or otherwise. This is you “winning” a debate with the voices that live in your head. Followed by you performing a shirtless, face painted end zone dance to celebrate it.
In any other context we would call that public masturbation using your own feces for lube.
I haven’t actually seen anything that desperately weird or sad since Puddy kicked it.
A 10% loss of anything – intraday or over a longer term – is significant. It’s instructive to note that 10% is the lower end of the range of 10-15% that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit quoted @ 21 as a “growth scare”.
Here’s a bit of history of intraday losses:
For reference, a 777 point loss from a level of 11,000 is about 7%.
The scariest thing about Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is that he reads something, and then takes away a completely different conclusion than the one that a wise reader is likely to draw.
Last Monday, the NASDAQ declined 10% intraday. I need no other reason to be comfortable with a little more than 10% of my market investment assets in cash. There are way too many Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbits in the world. Most of them are at least smart enough to keep their fucking mouths shut. Ours isn’t, which makes for frequent instances of comedy gold. Make sure you check HA on October 20 this year – Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is especially imbecilic on the 20th of October.
@30 I’m sorry you own nothing but high-flying, overpriced tech stocks and your ass is hanging out in the wind as a result, but that’s your problem. You made bad decisions. The S&P 500 is down only 3% from its 12 month high. If you’re down 10%, maybe you should diversify more. My portfolio is up 2.2% since Jan. 1.
31,
You got it all wrong, Roger.
If Bob is down 10% he’s a big winner!
He gets to claim a big victory over some imaginary foes and vanquish some imaginary dirty Leftists.
At least it keeps him safely at home where we don’t have to look at it.
“Monday, Emily Hernandez, a college junior who was photographed holding a broken shard of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sign victoriously over her head on January 6, pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol. According to the plea agreement read aloud in court, Hernandez went to the Capitol building with her uncle and a friend. Hernandez admitted to taking home the broken sign, in addition to a red ‘Keep Off Fence’ sign, a fire extinguisher pin and tag and a ‘Please Do Not Touch’ sign from the base of a statue inside the Capitol. She returned all the stolen signs to investigators in late January.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/politics/january-6-four-defendants-plead-guilty/index.html
Fucking thief. Probably pulled up Biden yard signs, too.
House committee has now learned that Republicans forged various documents alleging to “certify” wins for Trump in states where he actually lost, and then attempted to have them recorded at the National Archives.
Just cosplaying grandmothers. e
A movie made for old troll travis desbickable…
https://youtu.be/VMP21LO0Guc
aka herr dicktor dimfook..
It might not be a good idea to praise your wife on Twitter for shoveling the driveway after working a 12-hour hospital shift while you sit in a warm house watching her work through the window.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-reyes-snow-shoveling-tweet_n_61dc9334e4b04b42ab839ac3
@35 He’s probably dead by now. No mask, no vax, and no living friends to attend his wake. They’re all dead, too, or in ICUs.
@32 Evidently if his stocks are down 10%, then “the market” is down 10%, never mind the indices, because his portfolio is the index, or at least the only one that matters to him.
Does horse pee count?
Asking for a not so friendly Dumbfuck.
Hear that Bob? Arrogant not to believe. That’s you, one of the arrogant.
Pentagon confirms authenticity of new unidentified aerial phenomenon
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/pentagon-confirms-authenticity-of-new-unidentified-aerial-phenomenon-110343749962
Montana Rail Link is shutting down. Their lease on the former Northern Pacific mainline between Livingston, Montana and Bonners Ferr, Idaho was until 2047, but MRL is citing the changing nature of freight traffic. Currently, 90% of their traffic is bridge traffic from BNSF, including an interesting freight that originates in Wichita, Kansas and ends in Renton, Washington. Operation will continue as it reverts to owner BNSF. Just a couple years ago, MRL owners were lobbying the Association of American Railroads and the Surface Transportation Board to increase the revenue threshold of Class Is, because all that bridge traffic was pushing them to thae threshold at the time.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/montana-rail-link-to-end-operations-with-bnsf-taking-over/
One of the reasons that Montana Rail Link wanted the threshold raised, was that their would more stringent regulations, including financial reporting requirements.
https://www.railwayage.com/news/stb-amends-railroad-classification-thresholds/
One of their longest running locally generated traffic was the Gas Local, moving gasoline around the break in the Yellowstone Pipeline. The break was caused when a tribal government wouldn’t renew the easement through their reservation.
https://missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2019/09/yellowstone-pipeline/
@40 I don’t know what to make of the unidentified aerial phenomena. I’m skeptical it’s extraterrestrial. Given the trillions of stars in the universe, it seems certain that technological civilizations exist or have existed on other worlds, but the distances are too great to make interstellar travel realistic. Unless there’s a shortcut through space that our physicists don’t know about, how would they get here across the vast distances of space?
A vehicle launched by a civilization a million light-years away, traveling at nearly the speed of light (if that’s even possible), would need over a million years to get here. And how would it send signals back to its parent civilization? Even if it could accurately aim those signals at a receiver, it would take over a million years for the signal to return “home.” So you’re really talking about an ET civilization that has to be within relatively few light-years of us, and the odds of such a civilization, coincident in time with ours, are dramatically smaller.
Based on what we do know about physics, our presence on earth would be detectable via the broadcast signals we’ve sent into space, or lights from our cities, only a little over 100 light years out. The odds of technology-enabled intelligent life co-existing in time with us within that range are small indeed. And even if one is there, it’s not guaranteed they’d detect us.
While this doesn’t rule out alien visitors (which most likely would be drones), I think the odds are far greater that these phenomena, whatever they are, originated here on earth.
My best guess is that governments don’t tell the public what military technologies they’re developing, and they have to test those gadgets, so unless it some sort of optical or electronic illusion, it would most likely be something from somebody’s skunk works, and most likely but not necessarily ours. Anything the size of an aircraft is hard to hide; if you take it out of the hangar and fly it, somebody will see it, so you’ll need a cover story to explain it away.
This is the sort of thing governments lie about. If our government says, “it’s not ours,” that doesn’t prove it’s not ours. It’s also possible China has something we don’t. Russia, less likely. Aliens, maybe, but that explanation makes the least sense of all. Consider human psychology. People’s imaginations tend to run wild when they see something they don’t understand or can’t rationalize.
I’m simply saying the extraterrestrial explanation is the least likely explanation, but the first explanation most people will resort to upon seeing a technology they’re unfamiliar with.
House committee has now revealed that the forged certificates of ascertainment falsely certifying elections wins for Trump in Arizona and Michigan, were prepared by Republican National Committee member Kathy Berden of Michigan with the assistance of the Republican electors from each of those two states.
Detroit News reports that Michigan AG Dana Nessel is now investigating Berden and the other sixteen Michigan Republicans.
@45. Seems they should go to jail.
46,
It looks like criminal fraud to me.
The whole thing in Michigan began with a bit of fraud-theater on December 14th of last year when a Chicago attorney with the Thomas More Society led a group of Republican state lawmakers who attempted to disrupt the official state certification ceremony by presenting the false electors in person. That attorney claims the faked documents were prepared and delivered “just in case”.
I don’t think he’s a very good attorney. And I think he’s now facing bar discipline because of this stunt. And my guess is he’ll be receiving a subpoena to appear in Michigan. He should exercise his right to remain silent. But I have my doubts that he will.
Since these nice people licked stamps and put the documents into the U.S. postal system they’ll probably also face federal mail fraud charges.
As a reminder Trump fell short in Michigan by 154,000 votes and did not present any official request for a recount nor challenge the official state count.
The names of the co-conspirators to the fraud who posed as electors are: Kathy Berden, Hank Choate, Amy Facchinello, Clifford Frost, Stanley Grot, John Haggard, Mari-Ann Henry, Timothy King, Michele Lundgren, Meshawn Maddock, Marian Sheridan, James Renner, Marya Rodriguez, Rose Rook, Ken Thompson and Kent Vanderwood.
Local media who had been alerted by the Republican group witnessed Michigan state police turning the group away and preventing them from disrupting the official electoral proceedings that day. The House committee has learned that it was Republican National Committee member Berden who then sent the faked documents to the National Archives and to the office of the Vice President. It is not yet known if any of the other participants in the attempt to disrupt the state proceedings assisted her with that.
@ 41, 42
Consequences, Railfan? Is it a service shortfall, a transit cost increase, both? Or neither?
@ 47
That attorney claims the faked documents were prepared and delivered “just in case”.
In 2000 Gore was shut down for two reasons:
• The US Supreme Court repeatedly told Florida’s supreme court that its decisions were unconstitutional. The second time, it did so in a 7-2 decision. Scalia’s words in a subsequent interview: “…not even close.”
• Gore spent so much time protesting that he didn’t contest soon enough, and essentially ran out of time.
If Trump 2020 was going to be successful, it had to not only convince the courts of the merits of its claims, but it had to have its ducks in a row so that the states at issue could have its (Republican) EVs counted. This is the “just in case” basis for the duplicate documents.
Gore, had he been successful at SCOTUS in 2000, would have needed his own set of FL duplicate – “forged”, using your terminology – documents in order to move quickly enough to have his elector slate in FL counted.
Florida 2000 taught both sides not to dawdle.
That having been said, too many GOP operatives were fucking idiots a year ago. Dwarfed the number of Democrat fucking idiots four years before that.
@43 “Consider human psychology. People’s imaginations tend to run wild when they see something they don’t understand or can’t rationalize.”
Hence, how God gets so much influence, especially in the GOP.
Ted Cruz:
Jill Sanborn, FBI National Security Branch Exec. Asst. Director:
Ted Cruz:
Jill Sanborn:
“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask … even as all the other justices in attendance did so …. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who normally sits next to Gorsuch during hearings … is diabetic, putting her more at risk at contracting Covid.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/11/supreme-court-justice-neil-gorsuch-has-no-mask-despite-covid-spike.html
Asshole.
@51 Which proves she didn’t answer two questions. It proves nothing else.
The S&P 500 isn’t down 10% today, either.
Here’s Cruz questioning Sanborn.
Senator Cruz Questions FBI Official About Ray Epps Role in January 6
Senator Ted Cruz questions an FBI official on the role played by Ray Epps, a Marine veteran, who was seen in video from January 6 urging Trump supporters to go into the building. The FBI official declines to answer the questions.
@ 53
It proves nothing else.
You are correct, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It does not prove that Ray Epps is why there are no sedition charges against anyone, a full year later.
In fact, it would be irresponsible speculation on my part to suggest a linkage. But here we are.
Everything the January 6 commission does is an in-kind donation to DeSantis 2024.
Think about that.
Lyin’ Ted: Did you see that Tucker? Did you see what I did on the hill?
If memory serves, some fucking idiot reposted something here tweeted by some other fucking idiot about FBI involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Whoever that was, the House Jan. 6 panel just politely called both of them fucking idiots.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/11/ray-epps-january-6-capitol-riot-probe-dismisses-claims-of-fbi-involvement.html
49,
The documents were, as I said in my post, fabricated and then sent to the office of the Vice President and the National Archives.
The Republicans involved forged letterhead from the Michigan Sec of State along with signatures purporting to be from that office.
Bob, you can prepare any documents you like claiming any fucked up fantasy you care to proclaim on these pages. Say you’re a doctor. Say you’re a multi-millionaire. Whatever. “Just in case”.
Who knows? Maybe some day these dreams of your will come true.
But as soon as you present those documents to any authority with the intention of deceiving them about your qualifications or your wealth then you will have committed an act of fraud.
The preparation of the documents would not be the act of fraud. Even placing the documents into a fancy embossed leather portfolio, dressing yourself up in a rented suit, calling the local media, and then presenting yourself with your documents at a rented lectern in a landscape truck yard would not be an act of fraud. But applying for a loan with them would. Or trying to pass them at a local hospital.
That’s what these fucktards did. Maybe they just got carried away. I don’t know if the Thomas More Society lawyer was involved in sending the forged documents to the Vice President and the National Archives. But we are being told that a member of the Republican National Committee did. Maybe she can talk her way out of it. I’d advise her against trying. But she might just be that dumb. Fraud is an intent crime, after all. And maybe she can convince prosecutors that she’s as stupid as you just showed yourself to be.
53,
It proves that no competent lawyer, testifying under oath, can or will answer an overly broad question. Ask that question in a court of law and it gets a sustained objection.
As asked, even if Cruz limited the question to FBI agents only, it could not be answered. As we ought to know by now, and thanks largely to people like Ted Cruz, people like Jill Sanborn can lose their job and their pension if they answer such a question even inaccurately. But by including confidential informants in the question guaranteed that it could not be answered under oath by any employee of the FBI. Not without risking their career to an overzealous IG spurred on by partisan politics.
Wherein Dr. Fauci tells Lying Asshole Rand Paul to shove his bullshit up his ass.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/01/11/dr-anthony-fauci-rand-paul-coronavirus-hearing-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/
Kentucky voters elected two of the worst Republicans in the Senate, McConnell and Paul. Other Americans should have nothing to do with that state.
The last time UGA won a national championship, Herschel Walker was on the team.
I think that might come up during campaign season.
I didn’t even know there’s such a thing as a “gay panic” defense that functions in the courts as a sort of license to murder gay people.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/589298-new-hampshire-moves-to-outlaw-gay-panic-defense
What’s next, mandating funerals for fingernail clippings?
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/589307-delaware-ag-sues-town-over-ordinance-requiring-cremation-or-burial-of
The Bulwark makes for a good read from time to time:
Former Jeb Bushie Tim Miller on the shambling, hallucinatory mess that is Steve Bannon:
https://www.thebulwark.com/i-spent-insurrection-week-listening-to-steve-bannon/
During the week run-up to insurrection anniversary day.. The sleazy video about the middle-aged Chinese billionaire is hysterical.. Talk about flooding the zone with shit..
Then there’s the very always wrong wing Amanda Carpenter. Former Ted Cruz and Jim “Waterloo” DeMint staffer on what it means to be a repuke in 2022:
https://www.thebulwark.com/what-it-means-to-be-a-republican-in-2022/
She says they’re all fucking eating each other. Break out the popcorn.
And she doesn’t write too flatteringly about her groveling, obsequious former boss:
https://www.thebulwark.com/ted-cruzs-humiliation-isnt-the-worst-part/
What a miserable asswipe. Antifa or blm beating on a kop is “terrorism” – an always wrong winger doing the assault is mere “rioting”..
Oh where have we heard that before?
@ 66
She says they’re all fucking eating each other. Break out the popcorn.
Keep thinking it’s about Trump. It’s not.
DeSantis looks stronger every day. Democrats will have to nominate Michelle Obama. No one else has the spine to stand up to him.
Because there won’t be a vote.
He’d cut too many of his Democrat colleagues off at the knees.
48)May actually speed goods movement. Interchange traffic sometimes has to be resorted in the classification/hump yards. Slows traffic down, and loads that can’t be classified on the hump, sometimes the locomotives run through, most of the time, they don’t. Although BNSF says nothing is changing as far as employees, so probably keeping manned helpers on the Rocky Mountain crossing as MRL had issues with the radio signals needed for a distributed power operation. At least buying modern locomotives, they eliminated a set of helpers. Used two require a set mid-train, and on the rear.
https://www.progressiverailroading.com/short_lines_regionals/news/BNSF-to-take-over-Montana-Rail-Link-line-as-lease-ends–65629
I think it would be rather hilarious to see the DNC primary come down to a cage match between Hillary and Michelle O.
What would Bill Clinton say about the primary success of a black Democrat candidate this time?
She’s running.
66,
Some day sooner than we deserve, we will be treated to self-righteous demands before an empty chamber on CSPAN from a Senate Republican or two, demanding to know, on behalf of all the “regular guys”, why President Ocasio-Cortez did “NOTHING” to prevent crypto-currency fraud like FJBcoin.
I propose that she respond with the following tweet:
President Ocasio-Cortez
@POTUS
United States government official
Let’s go Brandon!
3:51 PM · Oct 11, 2029·The White House
Relatedly, OJ’s 99% sure of the identity of Nicole Brown Simpson’s murderer.
What a clown.
Since her divorce in 2020 I’m growing more and more concerned that the former VP candidate whose sense of public service was best expressed by quitting on the Alaskans who elected her, may not be getting the kind of gentle, sweet loving that a long-devoted incel like our Bob could provide and that she so very much deserves:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1480699672742092802
“The liberals not the conservatives are the ones who pound pound pound”
LPT for Bob: bring plenty of Boy Butter.
But there’s good news too. I’m told she’ll let you go family style on the daughters when they are at home between husbands, prison terms, and rehabs. Only one catch. Trig gets to watch.
Here’s a neat discovery that may help poor Bob dull the long, lonely hours between day-trading sessions and his monthly “Big Night” choke fapping from his wife’s bedroom closet while her bull services her.
Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans account!
https://onlyfans.com/racheldolezal
What’s another $9.99 a month?
@ 74
She’s a decent artist.
In case anyone needed to know, here’s why Bob and Senator Reek are so mad at the FBI tonight:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-sentenced-plot-target-journalists-and-advocates
Effectively fighting domestic terrorism makes “conservatives” collapse into fits of rage and sobbing.
And eighty four months in big-boy federal corrections is no joke.
He may also want to bring plenty of Boy Butter.
This is a refreshing change from Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit begging people to check out handbill.us.
All Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has to promote is hisv desecrated corpse of SeattleJew’s honest blogging effort.
77,
Quite a state for “conservatives” to be in, lying awake tossing and sweating, and praying that the 2024 nominee “merely” engaged in delusional rants about dead birds and drinking pee.
My money says that hangup comes when Inskeep tells him he lost.
Somebody had to do it eventually.
We will never know why Trump gave this guy a pardon:
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/kodak-black-sexy-good-time-canucks-panthers-game
@77 I’m pretty sure Steve’s blog has more followers with IQs above 75 than his does.
@79 He didn’t pardon him, he commuted his sentence, and promptly violated his conditions of release.
@76 That boy is a gun collector, too.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/us/kaleb-james-cole-guns-seized/index.html
Or, was. Now that he’s a convicted felon, he can’t have guns, and after he gets out of the Big House, if he’s caught with guns he can be sent back up for that. He seems like the kind of person who should be permanently institutionalized. Not right in the head, you see.
82,
Acting crazy with guns is a “white civil right”.
https://abc7.com/shotgun-deputies-shoot-woman/9594259/
Of course there’s a connection to the Bundys.
Of course there is.
@ 79
…Trump gave this guy a pardon:
Swear to God, I read this “Trump gave this guy a hard time”.
In the first video, I thought, “Well, at least he’s wearing a mask.”
The second video makes it clear that the “mask” is his headband.
Q: What number comes after January 6?
A: 7% inflation
@ 80
I’m pretty sure Steve’s blog has more followers with IQs above 75 than his does.
Only if your two readers are as indiscreet with their IQ scores as you are with your posted evidence that you really, really suck at investing, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Forged elector documents reportedly now sent by 5 states, suggesting a coordinated effort. Hard to imagine who would have been behind that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rachel-maddow-unearths-five-fake-state-documents-declaring-trump-victory-in-2020-election?ref=home
Nothing that a few giveaways to the rich in the BBB bill can’t fix, amirite?
@ 87
Hard to imagine who would have been behind that.
Bush v. Gore was behind that.
There isn’t enough time to get everything done, include myriad recounts. SCOTUS wasn’t going to change the deadline, which is what Gore needed if he was to eventually prevail. So red states – all states – know that they have to have their own electors already in place, RTG, for the federal court push. Hence the dueling elector slates. “Forgery” is a misnomer.
Unfortunately for Republicans and “conservatives” the 2024 nominee failed to make any mention whatsoever of dead birds or butt flashlights or nuclear strikes on hurricanes during his abruptly terminated interview aired this morning on NPR.
In nine minutes the 2024 nominee devoted only two to any topic other than his historic loss in the 2020 election. And he reiterated his intention to make his humiliating 2020 defeat by President Joe Biden the centerpiece of the 2022 and 2024 campaigns.
Biggest tell:
“The number of ballots doesn’t mean anything. It’s who signed the ballots. Where did the ballots come from.”
The problem for “conservatives” isn’t that Trump won’t shut up about his humiliating failure. The problem for “conservatives” is that in talking about why he was so thoroughly defeated he explicitly lays out the Republican plan to win: 1) eliminate ballots cast by the wrong people; 2) eliminate ballots cast in the wrong places.
He’s saying they object to the people who voted and they object to the places where they live. He’s saying those people should not have their votes counted.
@ 89
Richard Posner’s book, Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts, includes a strong argument that had Gore moved nearly immediately to contesting the election rather than spending so much time in the protest phase, things might have turned out differently for him. There were other problems, of course, including Gore’s initial effort to cherry-pick the counties he wanted to be recounted, and the Florida Supreme Court’s repeated decisions later found unconstitutional by SCOTUS. All of that wasted precious time.
The falsity of “forgeries” will be clear in future elections, when the Democrats fall short and run to the courts for relief. That’s when QoS McHillbilly will explain it in more eloquent and smarmy terms than I can manage.
I can wait.
87,
As I pointed out previously to the pathetic, dissembling, shambolic incel troll, safe harbor provisions in the 3 USC sec 5 are irrelevant. I have no idea what orifice he pulled this out of (the less I contemplate it the better).
The ruling relates to the manner in which ballots are counted as they implicate the Equal Protection Clause. The holding was that the Florida Supreme Court order for a manual recount would be unconstitutional on those grounds. The court found that the mechanisms for the manual recount being ordered would have resulted in disparate treatment for certain ballots and thus voters. This has less than nothing to do with acts of fraud being perpetrated in an attempt to overturn an election after the state has certified its unambiguous ballot counting results. It’s pure distraction.
The question however remains whether or not any of the forged documents discovered by MSNBC were also delivered to the Vice President and the National Archives in an attempt to defraud those offices and agencies and disrupt the election. At least in the case of Michigan the documents were.
91,
you just can’t help yourself. You do stupid. And then you double down on stupid.
“Contesting an election” has a specific legal meaning in each state.
I await your offer of citation to the relevant Michigan statute that calls for forged election certification documents as part of a lawful election challenge.
No citation and you’re an idiot.
Again.
Surprise.
BTW, “Gore’s initial effort to cherry-pick the counties he wanted to be recounted” was in fact the issue at stake in the holding you quoted. You fool.
Little wonder on my part at least that it has only taken one year for the “independent” “conservative” who “never voted for Trump” to make the transformation to vehement promotion of The Big Lie.
This too was foreseen.
Seems to me it was only days ago that Bob was predicting that “inflation” and “BLM” would be the defining themes of the midterm campaigns.
This morning, under the influence of less than nine minutes of Trump Effect, Bob can’t talk about anything other than “the stolen election”.
It’s perfect.
So just how deep is our shambolic dissembling incel troll into the Trump Stop the Steal/Patriot Purge delusion?
Yesterday Bob gave us Ray Epps. Epps is an Arizona Republican who owns a wedding and event venue who traveled to The Capital on Jan 6 and took part in rioting outside. He’s never been arrested because he never entered the building. He appears on video outside yelling and screaming, just like 3000 other Trump voting older white folks frustrated that their fears and obsessions no longer define society, and egged on by a humiliated loser at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Epps has testified under oath that he is not “a fed”. Public records identifying him and tracking his activities and whereabouts are readily available. There’s almost nothing special about him. But Bob can’t quit him.
While this is ongoing, FOX and their leading prime time star Tucker have been trolling their audience of drooling mouth breathers with this guy:
https://www.kmov.com/news/cardinals-superfan-addresses-being-at-u-s-captiol-during-jan-6-insurrection/article_67806cc4-6f3e-11ec-8261-6f3bf53f36db.html
Tucker identifies him as “clearly a law enforcement officer” and an “agent provocateur” who infiltrated the Jan. 6 mob to make Donald Trump’s supporters look bad. Tucker began using Rally Runner to stir up idiots like Bob back in December, demanding to know “Who is this person and why hasn’t he been charged? That’s a simple ask.”
Rally Runner also never stepped inside the building. Mr. Runner (his legal name) is a regular fixture at Cardinals games, has a promotional business related to his unique persona, is available for promotions and events, and has a large and moderately monetized social media presence. He has yet to be deposed under oath. But it seems unlikely that “the feds” would hire someone so public and prominent to serve as a “secret, undercover agent provocateur”.
Stop the Steal, Patriot Purge and related Qanon conspiracies will never stop. And as long as all they need to reanimate their own delusion is another random rally attendee appearing on video yelling at a camera they’ll never run out of potential “feds” planted in the crowd as Crysis Actors.
I think the next time a U.S. Senator demands that an FBI official account for one of these losers the answer should be a curt “Let’s go Brandon!”
This morning, following months of evidence gathering, depositions, and prolonged negotiations toward a criminal immunity agreement, Rep. Matt Gaetz’s former live-in sexual partner testified before a federal grand jury in Orlando Florida. The woman and her attorney were identified as they entered the court this morning. Neither the woman, her attorney, nor the AUSA have been willing to comment on her testimony so far.
The woman, a former staffer, who has previously stated that she was in an “open” relationship with the Florida Congressman since 2017, accompanied him on a trip to the Bahamas along with Joel Greenberg and allegedly several underage teens for a weekend of sex and drugs paid for by a donor. Greenberg has since pleaded guilty to sex crimes in an 88 page plea in which he also agreed to cooperate and testify. Early reports indicated that the woman had offered her cooperation as early as May of last year. But it appears that prosecutors struggled to reach an agreement on immunity in exchange for her cooperation.
That prolonged negotiation would suggest that her cooperation may include her admission to having committed crimes of her own while witnessing crimes of others. We may expect entry of a plea agreement to those crimes by her and her lawyer later this week or next. If that happens it would indicate that an indictment against the Congressman is imminent.
@86 If I had two readers and they were both pumpkins, either one of their IQs would exceed yours.
@89 “‘Forgery’ is a misnomer.”
Forgery is not a misnomer when you pretend to federal authorities to officially represent a state when you do not.
Forgery is not a misnomer when you use a state seal on an official-looking document that is not official and you have no authorization to use that seal.
Shortbus tried to use the same “alternative slate” argument in a comment on Handbill.US, which apparently is the rightwing argument du jour circulating on r/w platforms, to which I replied:
“By your reasoning, if you print facsimiles of $20 bills on your computer printer and try to buy groceries with them, they’re not counterfeit, they’re ‘alternative’ currency. Tell that to the judge, and see what he says.”
@90 “they object to the people who voted”
Of course they do. Here’s why:
http://handbill.us/2020/11/20/.....epublican/
@ 93
“Contesting an election” has a specific legal meaning in each state.
And at some point you’re beyond dealing with the state judiciary and you are forced to jump to the federal system. Bush v. Gore as a federal suit was to stop unconstitutional activity at the FL state judiciary level – remember, it was a 7-2 SCOTUS decision that the FL supreme court was deciding incorrectly, when the latter court ignored the per curiam SCOTUS ruling. If something has to happen by the safe harbor date you had better have your docs in place to get what you want at the federal level, and that means an elector slate of your own.
Don’t tell me that the necessary timeline doesn’t require planning numerous steps ahead of what any lower-level court may be considering. Both sides learned important lessons from 2000.
Defending “forgery” is beneath you, QoS McHillbilly.
@91 “There were other problems, of course, including Gore’s initial effort to cherry-pick the counties he wanted to be recounted”
That’s nothing, Trump and the entire GOP want to cherry-pick the voters whose votes are counted. (Hint: Whites only)
@92 “The question however remains whether or not any of the forged documents discovered by MSNBC were also delivered to the Vice President and the National Archives in an attempt to defraud those offices and agencies and disrupt the election. At least in the case of Michigan the documents were.”
No, it was a script proposal for a SNL skit. The intent behind it was comedic satire. It was all a joke.
Idiot.
@94 You should be surprised it took that long. It’s obvious where he’s been on this since day one.
99,
Just more indicia of how widespread the Q-kakistocracy has grown among so-called “conservatives”.
This stuff isn’t even passable as bullshit anymore.
And they are all lapping it up and regurgitating it with vigor and perfection now. The cognitive and intellectual deficits this produces are breathtaking.
– Face painted Cardinals superfan is “a fed”.
– Obvious forgeries submitted to defraud are merely an “alternate slate”.
– Mike Lyndell has evidence to indict “over 300 million Americans” for election fraud.
– Republicans can win even without Trump’s 20 million excess turnout.
On a pretty basic level their brains have stopped working.
@105 “Mike Lyndell has evidence to indict ‘over 300 million Americans’ for election fraud.”
Which is basically everybody still alive after Covid’s first sweeps, including him.
“On a pretty basic level their brains have stopped working.”
I would argue they never had any, or they wouldn’t have been Trump supporters to begin with.
105 Honestly facts and truth no longer matter to republicans, what matters is setting up an apartheid dictatorship so the people they hate get punished more than they do. Nothing else matters.
Wow. Only 33 percent. And just think, HA libbies: this number is gonna continue to decline.
Q poll:
The 11% of Democrats who didn’t offer an opinion are too uncomfortable admitting that First Vegetable Joe Biden has been a devastating failure.
Say, that reminds me: anyone notice that Steve never offers a defense of Biden anymore?
101,
I refuse.
You’re an idiot. We’ve established this to a certainty.
I’ve done my duty here.
It’s been more than 3-1/2 hours since I invited you to find any state statute that sets forth document forgery as part of a lawful challenge to an election.
I refuse to walk you through this as an exercise.
Unless and until you show that the “unconstitutional activity” addressed in Gore has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with submitting forged state documents to certify a federal election…
…Let’s go Brandon!
First Vegetable Joe Biden’s approval with men: 26%.
Most men prefer a strong leader, after all. Like Michelle O.
White, 4-year degreed men would prefer that the GOP win control of the House (plurality, 48%) and the Senate (majority, 51%) this Fall.
Y’all HA libbies are largely white, 4-year degreed men, amirite?
102,
That was the key element in the decis.
Gore won an order from the state court to hand recount selected counties. It was a statistical argument.
SCOTUS held that this violated the Equal Protection Clause.
They were not wrong.
Still has absolutely nothing to do with a Republican National Committee member submitting forged documents in an attempt to defraud. Bob is delusional. This is his brain on Trump.
This is all of their brains on Trump.
They can’t help it anymore. It’s a bug burrowing into the basal ganglia forcing them to stare blankly and groan out rote memorized garbage. And because this shit now defines them it will also define everything they say and do going forward. It’s no longer a choice. Bob should have quit this hours ago. He can’t.
This too was foreseen.
108, 110, 111,
Bob, you just spent the last two days promoting and defending absurdly impossible and humiliating lies on behalf of Donald J. Trump, almost certainly because he demands it of you. He will be your nominee in 2024. And he will define your midterm strategy. You have no choice. You will do and say as you are told, no matter how ridiculous, stupid, or humiliating it may be.
So it really doesn’t actually matter how Biden polls.
Trump still defines your day and your news cycle. With him you lose. Without him you lose. The polls have nothing to say about it.
And you did this entirely to yourselves.
The Q poll was conducted January 7-10, and only 50% of the respondents think the January 6 Capitol storming was an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten.
In August that number was 57%.
Y’all libbies are losing the messaging war. By November that number will be 40%, and by November 2024 it will be 30%. It won’t help that there won’t be any substantial number of people charged with “sedition”, and possibly none. But everyone will know who Ray Epps is and why the FBI is desperate to prevent this.
Try fighting inflation, not public school parents.
Still searching the document for the data on Afghanistan. I’ll keep you posted.
@ 113
Trump still defines your day and your news cycle.
Uh huh. It’s not the GOP doing navel-gazing and wondering if focusing too much on Trump will cost it control of Congress.
Boris Johnson appears to be in political hot water for partying during lockdown.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-fighting-premiership-covid-party-scand-rcna11886
It’s better than I do this now than wait for someone to hand my ass to me.
Ignore @ 111. All of it.
Fucking Q-poll did something screwy with its 4-year college results and I misread it. Apologies.
@112 I’ll bet Biden would poll better against Trump or DeSantis than he does on “Approve – Disapprove.”
Because no matter how awful voters might perceive him to be, they’ll think Republicans are worse, as was demonstrated in Nov. 2020.
Without Trump you lose 20 to 25 million general election voters nationwide.
This is why you suck his cock so greedily.
Without Trump your turnout numbers collapse. You’ve lost too many key demographics since 2016. Especially suburban women. You need his excess turnout. It is just that simple. If Trump disappears you can expect to have some isolated success in states and districts where you manage to run just the right kind of “moderate” “centrist” Republican. But we know those will be isolated. Because Trump’s Bundyville followers now define your primary contests in more places than you can control. Evidenced by the plain fact that you Bob have now become one of those Bundyville followers, spouting rote-memorized idiocy about “FBI plants” and “alternate slates of electors”. Nice.
But always remember, Trump won’t disappear.
@ 119
I’ll bet Biden would poll better against Trump or DeSantis than he does on “Approve – Disapprove.”
You’d win that bet, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. In this poll (Harvard/Harris)
If the election for president were held today and were
between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who would you
vote for?
Biden got 45%. The problem is, Trump got 48%.
Thanks for playing, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Trust me Bob. I’m a proud Democrat.
I’ve heard this one before. Every single year, in fact.
Including the years when we’ve handed you your asses.
I’ve come to regard it as a natural artifact of having a more diverse and widely educated/widely read base. We don’t have the crutches you “conservatives” rely upon to prop us up in defiance of objective reality. And it doesn’t help that the “liberal media” play into it, preferring a “persuasion” model of the electorate over a “turnout” model.
But there has never been a more potent turnout signal in modern politics than Donald J. Trump. He knows it. And you know it too, even if you are ashamed to admit it. That’s what you’ve got to admire about Ted Cruz. No shame at all.
@ 122
But there has never been a more potent turnout signal in modern politics than Donald J. Trump.
Here’s where your rationale fails you, QoS McHillbilly:
Trump also drives Democrat voter turnout, which is the only reason you got 81 million votes for a fossil. If Trump isn’t there in 2024, what DNC nominee will turn out Democrats against the GOP nominee?
There’s Michelle O. Who else?
Congratulations! For the first time a very long time you are right about something. Buckle down and really apply yourself and maybe you can make a habit of it.
But here’s two things about that.
As long as Trump is around, shitting himself on NPR, or falling down ramps, or endlessly talking about JOO SPACE LASERS, or whatever the latest lunacy may be, and especially as long as there is a highly profitable cottage industry of Trump surrogates living every day in the national media doing even worse, then Trump can drive Dem turnout, even if he isn’t on any ballot.
And as long as Trump is around, Republican candidates will have to answer for him wherever they face a competent Democratic challenger.
We can run on Trump. You can’t. You can only run Trump himself. Which isn’t actually better for you.
And here you were hoping you’d be running on Afghanistan.
@121 Here’s a couple of interesting data points from that poll:
Biden/Trump/Don’t Know
Men 43% 50% 7%
Women 46% 46% 8%
Urban 56% 36% 8%
Suburban 48% 44% 8%
Rural 63% 30% 7%
Rural goes 63%-30% for Biden? Huh?
and
If the 2024 election for President were held today and it
was between Ron DeSantis, the Republican and Joe
Biden, the Democrat, who would you vote for?
Biden 43%, DeSantis 36%, Don’t Know 21%
If the 2024 election for President were held today and it
was between Ron DeSantis, the Republican and Kamala
Harris, the Democrat, who would you vote for?
Harris 42%, DeSantis 37%, Don’t Know 21%
Substituting Harris for Biden gets DeSantis a measly 1% more — and he still badly trails her. Looks like she’s not quite as unpopular as you claim.
@124 The best thing doc and his tribe have going for them is the IQ curve. Only half of us can be average or better, which means they have an ample supply of dummies.
125,
Rural goes 63%-30% for Biden? Huh?
Yeah. Huh indeed.
It’s a problem with labels in polls like these. Where do they come from? How are they arrived at? What are they actually measuring?
If it’s response by postal code, then how are they splitting “rural”/”suburban”/”urban” postal codes? If they leaned their suburban/rural split one way that would explain a lot. Lots of vigorous data out there indicating suburban decline for Trump. If they split or weighted against “suburban” and in favor of “rural” then I’d expect to see a result like that.
There’s a history in polling of big fights over this shit. And COVID only makes it much worse. ZOOM-from-“home” means “home” can be almost anywhere. Some of the conventional geographic alignments may weaken and campaigns could mistakenly reach very bad conclusions as a result. Redistricting committees too.
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128,
That’s some of your best work ever.
I look forward to more just like it.