Good morning from I forgot I was doing an open thread until I was almost at work. Take one off for the holiday, and suddenly you forgot what you do on your commute. Is it too early to tell people to wash their hands? Ot they can get vaccinated for COVID-19 and the flu while they’re at it?
Can’t Bring Yourself to Type the Word “Ass”?
Eager to share our brilliant political commentary and blunt media criticism, but too genteel to link to horsesass.org? Well, good news, ladies: we also answer to HASeattle.com, because, you know, whatever. You're welcome!
The ‘Thanksgiving Spike’ normally seen at the pump didn’t happen this year.
Holiday shopping is up 7.5% over last year so far.
When’s that recession starting?
Bibi, I’ll suck your dick if you help me get this anti-Semitic charge off me.
I’ll come to your place. Buy you lunch after.
@ 1
Holiday shopping is up 7.5% over last year so far.
Credit card debt is up 8% over last year. So far.
It’s not just the amount of indebtedness, which a lot of people conveniently ignore. It’s the debt service costs, which are due each and every month and have to be covered each and every month:
Unsurprisingly, too many people cannot keep up.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/credit-card-delinquency-rates-balances-rise
Bidenflation touches all. Just ask Queen YLB’s fucked kids.
Will this election come down to a choice of vote against fascism and women being breeding livestock vs a temper tantrum vote against high credit card bills?
Again, the greedy racist incel fantasized about violent sexual assault of a enemy’s sons. That’s not healthy.
Well, when The Fat Cow turned out to be nothing more than a grifting cunt and the house was cleaned at a Georgia elections office after the 2020 elections, the few Democrats with some common sense realized that Georgia won’t be won by whomever Democrats run for president next year.
Georgia’s Liberal Organizers Warn of a Cash Crunch and Apathy
Bidenflation touches all.
At HA Hunter’s dick pics touch teh widbee shitstain only..
btw, kids have no credit card debt. Both live ably within their means..
Nice try kreepshit!
Jason Eaton (no funny last name) shot 3 Palestinian students..
‘cuz???
Hmmmm.. role modeling?
Any time now, teh widbee shitstain will be sentencing this shooter of people with funny last names to a long sentence of ass rape in prison.
heh..
…….
…………..
the greedy racist incel fantasized about violent sexual assault of a enemy’s sons.
Oh I musta missed that one.. lemee guess? Were the fantasy perps its unfortunate “grandkids”?
There’s still time to save these “grandkids”. It could MI or stroke out.
Which if memory serves was the peak pre-COVID economic performance for The Republican Billionaire Tax Cut SHITDOWN Golden Shower Miracle.
“Hello I’m the Supply Side GOP. And now that I’ve got you all carrying a record load on that Discover card I’m gonna put 30 million of your asses out of work.”
@ 8
Oh I musta missed that one..
He was talking about you and your fucked kids, Queen YLB.
Although I never considered you to be the enemy. After all, skirt-wearing cowards holding tin cups on the street corner while polishing Goldy’s nutsack are targets for mockery, not assault. Unless the assailant is a scabbard-wearing mentally ill person in Pioneer Square holding a broad-blade sword, that is.
@3 “Unsurprisingly, too many people cannot keep up.”
Unsurprising, because people have been living beyond their means forever trying to “keep up” with the Joneses.
The problem isn’t inflation or debt, it’s financial illiteracy coupled with a commercial culture that spends untold billions on advertising and promotion to turn “wants” into “needs” in weak minds.
Credit cards aren’t a problem for people and forest creatures who think of them as high-rent debt instead of cash cards. If you drilled down into it, I’ll bet you’d likely find the 8% rise in credit card debt isn’t evenly distributed through the population, but rather is skewed toward the same demographic that votes for Trump. In other words, the dumbest 40% of the population.
skirt-wearing cowards holding tin cups on the street corner while polishing Goldy’s nutsack
Wow kreepshit, you must cut quite a figure on a widbee street corner..
for Goldy…
You do it for to relieve stress.. heh..
Dang, didn’t you babble that sad ending for that repuke mayor is good for my kids?
Stupid dance month is just a few daze away…
….
……
The Party of Forced Birth(R) now wants to add forced marriage to its repertoire of individual freedoms:
“Right-wing commentators … have ramped up complaints in recent months that it is too easy for people — specifically women — to get divorces.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/us/no-fault-divorce-explained-history-wellness-cec/index.html
Looks like these assholes are realizing no one wants to stay married to them.
@7 “Here’s what we know about Jason Eaton—the alleged shooter of three Palestinian college students—who pleaded not guilty Monday one day after he was arrested in connection to the Vermont shooting. …
“Eaton, 48, reportedly had ‘a lot of struggles in his life,’ his mother, Mary Reed, told the Daily Beast Monday …. Reed told the Daily Beast that her son had struggled with mental health issues including depression ….”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/alleged-shooter-of-3-palestinian-students-pleads-not-guilty-here-s-what-we-know-about-him/ar-AA1kBDqn
Sure sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We now live in a society where Republicans have armed the mentally disturbed haters among us.
Although I never considered you to be the enemy.
knock, knock, knock…
Manchinema IRS audit team calling for teh widbee shitstain!
knock, knock, knock…
CHECK’S IN THE MAIL!
….
……
@10 Only a dumbfuck in Second Amendment denial thinks swords are the problem.
How very swampy:
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pardon-kushner-drug-smuggler-jonathan-braun-doj-predatory-lending-2023-11
Impotent Dumbfucks are far more concerned that a guy loaned his brother some money.
I guess there’s no other choice but to entirely abandon democracy in favor of rule by a succession of ruthless cocaine addicts with spray tans.
@ 17
Not included in the article is any indication that the DOJ did anything to try to stop the pardon process.
Maybe this is why. Maybe it’s because there was no reason at the time of the pardon for the DOJ to care. Hard to know. One would think that McHillbilly would have pointed that out.
Had he looked, though, he wouldn’t need to guess.
@17 “Impotent Dumbfucks are far more concerned that a guy loaned his brother some money.”
They’re not. They don’t give a damn about the loan. It’s just another vehicle for attacking Biden. Everything Republicans do — the lying, the propaganda, the gerrymandering and vote suppression, the attacks on elections, schools, and the legal system, etc. — is what an unpopular minority does to get power they can’t get by legitimate means. Every bit of it is aimed at seizing control over society and other people’s lives without popular consent.
Here’s a guy with a “sword”… of sorts..
https://youtu.be/LMYBVVcdahc?si=mLkWgiCQWSu3GQQ6
A 3 inch knife that was legal to carry yet an “enemy” dealt with “appropriately” by Seattle LE..
Reality take: a native american street alcoholic whose life vocation was wood-carving..
i.e. kreepshit approved..
It’s past time to not only repudiate Reagan’s toxic gun culture, and reverse the GOP’s deadly gun laws, but to impose stiff prison sentences for criminal use of guns.
With no white privilege.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/opinions/opinion-america-once-valued-life-more-than-guns-how-did-that-change/index.html
skirt-wearing cowards holding tin cups on the street corner
Given the dumbfuck’s predliction towards projecting his shit onto others, this one is interesting. It’s now common knowledge that he’s a dumbfuck Nazi coward. And anyone who is supposedly retired and is desperately trading options while growing Christmas trees to sell probably isn’t very far from holding a tin cup on a street corner.
But a skirt? Let me guess. Pink lace? And he always wears it when he’ in the barn, no doubt. Clumsily dropping his trousers and shorts wouldn’t be necessary. He’d need only lift his pink lace skirt and drop his pink lace panties.
@ 21
… impose stiff prison sentences for criminal use of guns.
With no white privilege.
And, apparently, no concern from Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit about how this will worsen the disparity of black vs. white incarceration.
Because Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has long ago forgotten about how to connect dots. His knee-jerk response still works, even if his corpus cavernosum doesn’t.
@ 19
They don’t give a damn about the loan.
Incorrect. We’re dying to see the proof of the money initially flowing from Joe to Jim, as is claimed by The Biden Crime Family. ’cause this would prove the “loan”.
All we’ve got now is the proof of money flowing from Jim to Joe.
Democrats should be eager to prove that the money was loaned prior to the return. Problem is, there is no proof.
Because there was no loan.
Much of the rise of Fascism in the white conservative voters is growing realization that they are going to demographically lose their White Privilege soon. They would rather abandon Democracy than abandon their White Privilege. Am I wrong?
“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said he spoke with Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) ‘at some length’ during the holiday recess ‘about his options’ as the embattled lawmaker faces a likely third vote on his expulsion.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4329393-johnson-speaks-to-santos-about-his-options-amid-threatened-expulsion/
WTF? There should be only two: Resign or get kicked out.
“Trump over the weekend revived his calls to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act if he wins the 2024 presidential election. In a Truth Social post, the leading GOP presidential candidate claimed … the failure to repeal the health law … was ‘a low point for the Republican Party.’”
Good, because, “Trump reinjecting life into the health care debate could backfire for Republicans, who have largely given up campaigning against ObamaCare, an acknowledgment that health care is a losing issue for them.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4328871-trump-obamacare-alternatives/
“Paris mayor calls X a global sewer”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4329365-paris-mayor-x-twitter-elon-musk/
I don’t disagree.
Liz Truss, who lasted just 49 days as Britain’s leader, and you wonder why it was that long, is meddling in U.S. politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/27/liz-truss-republican-president-election-2024
Doesn’t she have better things to do? Like tending to matters at home?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-grovelling-apology-husband-27918143
@24 What the dumbfuck does in his barn and on his computer:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/APRD62/clutching-at-straws-male-APRD62.jpg
Or at the time of the pardon maybe Jeffrey C. Clark, Sweaty Pink Meatball, and Jeffrey Rosen had a baby and named it $100,000 for a commutation, $500,000 for a full pardon.
Others have suggested that the DOJ had it’s hands full right after a sitting president and half the Republicans in Congress had staged a failed coup attempt.
Meh.
Dumbfuck’s gonna give Shortbus II a run for his money, I see.
Nor any crime.
Which is the real problem that has been vexing convicted rapist facing 94 felonies Commander Pamper Pants for a half dozen years and also what drove him into bed with Russian GRU.
Well, that and the hooker pee.
Uh huh.
@24
There is no reason to suspect you didn’t dip your hand in the Vaseline and type that with one hand.
Comer is playing you and you don’t even know it.
“But, but but, but…..there’s no PROOOOOOOOOF!!!! Ergo, there was no loan.” That long word was your moment of climax. Clean your keyboard dude. That’s nasty.
“I think it was President Reagan who said,
What the fuck would you know.
What I said was, “I did not kill that Tijuana hooker back in ’38. Sure, I was there. But it was that dirty kike Lew Wasserman.”
That’s exactly what I said.
“Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America…. Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was, you know, an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America.”
~ Republican Rep. Ken Buck, Face the Nation, Nov. 26, 2023
Pretty soon they’ll even be calling themselves “Nazis”.
Cuz that’s true too.
NYT is reporting that the ceasefine has now been extended a couple more days.
And none of the negotiators even bothered to consult with Freeland or Laura Loomer.
Dumbfuck might want to check the wife’s medicine cabinet:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/dangerous-unapproved-injectable-tightening-gel-seized-minnesota-cbp
She’ll just have to go back to non-stop kegels after her bulls from the Navy base are done digging her out.
The filing opposing Donald DeathThreat’s motion to set aside his gag order included 275 pages of single spaced transcribed audio voicemail threats from Republican Trump supporters directed at court staff.
Reflecting the “traditional conservative Republican value” of threatening to cut a woman’s tits off.
The republican health plan is simply “We promise to block Health Care for the people you hate.”
@33 Imagine a country without government. Actually, we don’t have to imagine, because one exists. Somalia.
Doc, if you and your fellow government haters don’t like it here, why don’t you move there?
@34 “Comer is playing you and you don’t even know it.”
He knows it, but doesn’t care. Farmer Jim and Doctor Dumbfuck can’t handle the truth.
@40
Amendment by Senator Tuberville inserts the following language to the bill:
@43 Tommy is best known as a coach, so most people overlook that he played college football, usually without a helmet.
@43. I had to check if that was real. It seems like something he would do.
44,
What the fuck is Trump’s excuse then?
“No, I know both names very well, never mix them up, and know that they are destroying our Country. Also, and as reported, I just took a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it. Also ACED (a perfect score!) one taken while in the White House.”
Person, woman, man, camera, tv
He really is an imbecile.
Unserious twat alert:
Queen YLB goes to J-school and comes out even dumber and sillier.
@46 No, he’s a vile, venal man who knows how to manipulate imbeciles.
More unserious twattery from the UN:
Small wonder Queen YLB thinks she’s as serious as anyone else with XX chromosomes on the left. That’s how far liberal twats have lowered the bar.
@47 Yes, it was a real question, and JKP took it seriously and gave a serious response. Here’s the video of the entire exchange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxdT2TMip0
Not serious: You and Chris Houck.
@49 “In response to a request from Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for U.N. Women said the organization ‘unequivocally condemns all forms of violence against women and girls, as well as any use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, which is a grave violation of human rights. It is never acceptable. International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law must be respected and upheld at all times.’
“The spokesperson said Bahous had spoken about the issue at the Security Council’s Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security on Oct. 25, saying, ‘Every act of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, is unequivocally condemned, irrespective of the nationality, identity, race or religion of the victims.’
“The organization said an independent commission of inquiry had already started ‘collecting and preserving evidence of war crimes committed by all sides since 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a complex attack on Israel and Israeli forces responded with airstrikes in Gaza.'”
https://news.yahoo.com/united-nations-slammed-silence-over-174157036.html
Why isn’t that good enough? Investigating Hamas’s atrocities isn’t their jurisdiction, so why do they need to comment on it?
This criticism is part of an emerging SOP of Israel’s supporters: If you don’t overtly condemn Hamas, you’re antisemitic. That’s bullshit.
None of Doctor Dumbfuck’s posts in this thread mention Hamas. According to that logic, that makes him anti-Israel and a Jew hater. That logic is bullshit.
This isn’t the Israel we knew and supported in the past. Even this former IDF soldier says so. As a matter of obvious principle, nobody should be above criticism.
Unserious twat alert:
Says an unserious twat.
Jon Stewart makes the point better than I can, except I would add that Israel’s apologists want to shut down conversations. They want to silence critics of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, because it’s indefensible.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8CGh8-eN4RE
My position is you can support Israel, which I do, while criticizing Netanyahu’s rightwing government, which I also do. The two aren’t inconsistent. Israel would be a better country if Netanyahu was replaced by a moderate.
This made me chuckle:
Russell Shaw on Xitter
Men in such shows as “It’s A Pine Ridge Christmas”, “Yule Time Militia”, and “A Holiday Coup” coming to the Fox Christmas channel.
You, too, Jew, can get your family member held hostage by Hamas released to the ICRC later this week.
Family of the First American Released by Hamas Bought Hunter Biden’s Art
POS Hunter’s pieces now start at a cool $300,000, plus a buyer’s commission now at 37%. We have several pieces available. Which would you prefer?
heh. the closer stupid dance December approaches the more free rent seriously deranged kreepshit doles out for the vacuum between its ears.
heh.. for the love of a LOW 4 FIGURE ONCE A MONTH SS CHECK..
“seriously”..
DeSantis aide lay ‘dead or dying’ outside governor’s office for 24 minutes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/peter-antonacci-death-desantis-aide-office-b2454552.html
Imagine. Just imagine if this happened outside of a Clinton office. Man would Fox “News” and outlets like Breitbart would be going berserk and calling for arrests with foam falling from their mouths.
DeSantis sees corpse lying in the hallway-
“Nobody wants to work anymore”
Jared Kushner sold dismembered journalists for a lot more than $300,000
Once kreepshit soils its SS check with what little seminal fluid it can muster.. it has this to “seriously” fap to:
Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s attorney, told Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, that the president’s son will answer “any pertinent and relevant questions” lawmakers might have, but said his questioning must take place at a public committee hearing.
“A public proceeding would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements,” Lowell said. “Your empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end.”
“We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public,” he wrote. “We therefore propose opening the door. If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-testimony-agreement-public-hearing-house-oversight-committee/
Will they show the dick pics, kreepshit “seriously” wonders?
DeSantis aide lay ‘dead or dying’ outside governor’s office for 24 minutes
Heh.. Klown DEE-Satanist “death squad” hit…
drumpf will call for an investigation.. well.. not that he has to given the unlikability of kon-klown w/ risers..
@60
James Comer…”No. If we cant do this in closed door and control the narrative it’s not worth doing. And we were thinking more like October 2024.”
He’s very concerned about the black agenda falling along the wayside and issues like laws of 50 years ago that are now being abolished or gutted, to include issues like the Voting Rights Act, what happened in Arkansas last wk, affirmative action — Supreme Court — as we’ve seen it, ban on books, and he’s also even brought up issues of the Congo and the lack of information from the WH.
Heh.. teh widbee shitstain mocks a black journalist..
If only teh babblin’ butthole was still here..
Maybe teh butthole would wonder why does kreepshit “seriously” hate black people? heh.. butthole.. it’s only too obvious isn’t it?
December 13 was the date Ultra-MAGA Republicans demanded in their subpoena.
If ultra-MAGA Republicans refuse the witness’s agreement to appear at the place and time they specify in their subpoena, they lose the ability to refer the witness for indictment on charges of refusing their subpoena.
No DICK PICS and no charges.
Wow. That must be almost as disappointing for that sad cuck-troll as the look of contempt his wife gives him while she’s being aggressively hollowed out by a 27-year-old E-5 from Oak Harbor.
the look of contempt his wife gives him while she’s being aggressively hollowed out by a 27-year-old E-5 from Oak Harbor
Wife? The dumbfuck Nazi coward doesn’t even have a horse. It’s all just a pack of lies.
I decided to peruse the archives some more, this time October 2012. Rather prescient of Roger.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Tuesday, 10/30/12 at 7:19 pm
I wonder what would happen if Obama won a close election and the GOPers then tried to detour the selection of the next president to the House by refusing to recognize one or states’ electoral votes?
This has to be the dumbfuck Nazi coward
Serial conservative spews:
Tuesday, 10/30/12 at 8:40 pm
Detroit News poll has Romney down only 2.7 points in Michigan.
Team Obama just placed a large ad buy in Motown.
That would be the Michigan with a GOP governor who won in a landslide.
The Pain. It’s beginning..
ROFL! “The Pain.” Yup, that has to be the dumbfuck Nazi coward A decade later he was still at it.
The dumbfuck just can’t help it. Dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck..
Rather prescient of Steve as well.
Steve spews:
Tuesday, 10/30/12 at 10:30 pm
“The Pain. It’s beginning.”
Project much?
Feeling “The Pain”, are you? Too fucking bad. Just imagine, in a few days it’s gonna really fucking suck for you.
Little wonder that the dumbfuck Nazi coward can’t keep Steve out of his head.
“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota said Tuesday that Johnson has not yet decided how he will handle efforts to expel Santos this week.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/28/politics/santos-resolution-expel-vote/index.html
In other words, they don’t care about his dishonest, lies, and crimes; they only care about political advantage.
The GOP is a party without values or morality.
67,
Same ignorant, racist bullshit.
Different sock puppet.
Different day.
It must have been so disappointed and humiliated to see its beloved white crony capitalist overpowered by vigorous Black manhood.
And where is Willard today?
The loneliest man in DC, having crawled like a dog to beg permission to kiss Donald Death Threat’s giant wrinkly fat ass, is now retiring in disgrace and slinking quietly into irrelevance.
At least the troll can fap away it’s holidays:
https://www.amazon.com/Romney-Reckoning-McKay-Coppins-ebook/dp/B0BTZXZF4K
A classic Republican profile in degradation.
@66 It’s not hard to predict what Republicans will do. They’re quite transparent and blatant, and they haven’t had a new idea since 1900.
Shrub is in relapse.
McSame is dead.
Willard is cucked.
Fat Midget has failed.
Cheeto Jesus is the nominee.
And Matt Gaetz is “the future”.
@ 58
Imagine. Just imagine if this happened outside of a Clinton office.
One need not imagine people dying as a result of their relationship with the Clintons. The Clinton Machine took down many, many people. The left eats its own, sometimes sooner rather than later.
Oh, regarding your link, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron:
I don’t recall Barack Obama keeping his chef alive, either.
58,
Well played, Red.
Got the poor thing to reflexively leap to the defense of Fat Midget, the most humiliating failure of a Republican since ¡JEB!
Pittman (Trump appointee) has recused in Birdshite lolsuit filed in North District of Texas.
Former First Lady Melania Trump attends the memorial for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
She hasn’t shown up for a single one of her husband’s criminal hearings.
I’m a big supporter of term limits for members of the House, Senate and Supreme Court. I would like to see the Constitution amended in several ways:
1. Increase the terms of members of the House to four years and reduce the terms for the Senate to four years. This puts the House and Senate on a more equal footing in regard to employment and helps end the feeling that the Senate is the world’s most exclusive club and synonymous with Britain’s House of Lords.
2. Limit House and Senate members to only two of those four-year terms. This will help prevent politicians from “camping out” in federal employment and building personal empires at taxpayer expense.
3. Limit the terms of Supreme Court judges to sixteen years. Given the increases in life expectancy since 1783, we now have people well past their mental “use-by” dates in the Supreme Court, and it’s time to put a limit on the geriatric crowd. Sixteen tears is quite enough for a person to be in that job. (I chose sixteen years because the Founders seemed to be fond of even-numbered term lengths. Also, sixteen years gives each Supreme Court judge time to be on the bench for at least four presidential elections. That’s plenty!)
4. One other ting I want to incorporate in these improvements in a mandatory waiting period before someone “terming-out” in the House and Senate can run or hold ANY position of employment in the federal government. I propose this term to be at least ten years. So, a person in the House of Representatives who has had two terms in the office would be barred for at least ten years before he or she could, for example, run for the Senate or serve as the Secretary of Agriculture. The idea is to end politics as a lifelong pursuit by elitist political class. It would be a tremendous boost to diversity in government, and I know everyone reading these words supports diversity. Let’s put that into action!
@77 You just empower political machines or organized “gangs” that way.
Who’s up? Oh it’s his or her “turn” now…
Embargo periods mean they just “serve” the party machines in any of a host of different ways while waiting their “turn”..
What’s wrong with empowering individuals? They can change their minds or buck their party (see Manchinema,heh knock,knock,knock). Individuals run on their record and have to answer to the voters.
I thought you glibertarians were all about the “individual”?
HA troll “DEI”
Whites only..
the rich always get richer..
all “abnormals” (queer, transgender, off-color skin ‘cept for a few buttlickin’ tokens for show) EXCLUDED..
@73
Dragging out the ‘Clinton Death Toll’ again I see. It’s like ‘We Built This City’ an objectively crappy thing that still pops up on the radio despite nearly everyone knowing it sucks. It’s the “Play it Again Sam” of conservative lunacy. It’s the thing that birthed QAnon and Adrenochrome and Pizzagate
Good comeback.
One of the biggest differences here is the level of security outside a Governor’s office. You know, things like video cameras. Someone in a control room in the security office left a guy on the floor for 20+ minutes without summoning aid.
Maybe it was a spray tanned guy too busy enjoying the show to call the National Guard?
@56 So you and Townhall* are handwringing over trading 3-year-old terrorists for 3-year-old hostages?
Of course I’m against Hamas taking hostages, especially children. That’s bestial. I’m also against Israel locking up hundreds of Palestinian children on flimsy pretexts; that’s bestial, too. But I’m thinking if I were forced to live under the Israeli police state in the West Bank, and Israeli troops were kidnapping my children, it might occur to me to kidnap some of theirs in order to get mine back. What goes around, comes around.
Both sides need to stop this shit. Israel needs to stop first, because Hamas (and whatever replaces it**) won’t stop until they stop. And you need to stop cheering it on.
* “In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described Townhall as being among ‘ten fringe publishers’ that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change.”
** Anybody who thinks Israel’s operations against Hamas will end Palestinian terrorism and retaliation has rocks in their head. What Israel is mainly accomplishing by killing thousands of innocent civilians is increasing Palestinian militants’ ability to form new terrorist organizations and recruit new generations of terrorists.
@77
One more time…this is stupid.
Conservatives (and Libertarians are just Conservatives who don’t want to admit it) believe in running the government like a business.
“I’m sorry we know you’ve increased profit in your department every single year including a whopping 13% both of the past two years AND you designed a method of doing the job with 2/3rds of the staff it used to take AND our company has gone from the second biggest selling widget in the world to a solid number one while you’ve been with us.
But eight years is the limit so you need to be out of the office by January so we can get your replacement up to speed. Thanks for your service. That will be all.”
The only people who get to decide when a Representative or Senator is past their due date are the voters in their districts. Now should California have sent a clearly diminished Diane Feinstein back for that last term? No. But a majority of them thought it was fine so that’s just the way it goes. Were she not dead it’s doubtful they would have made that mistake again if she ran in 2024. Glithcy Mitch has two more years left of clearly not all there service to Kentucky.
@58 “DeSantis sees corpse lying in the hallway-
“Nobody wants to work anymore”
LOL! The Republican social security plan is work for subsistence wages until you drop dead. Very similar to the Nazi labor system for Jews, Russian POWs, and French civilians but with a little more food.
Two more times, this is stupid.
You already have term limits you dunce.
House members face reelection every two years. Senate members every six. Remember?
The very instant a simple majority of voters in any jurisdiction is ready to move on they do.
And if it isn’t too “libertarian” of me to point out, just who in the fuck are you to decide who represents a state or district that you don’t even live in? Just what in the fuck is supposed to be so “libertarian” about telling other voters in other states and districts who they may or may not vote for?
That isn’t “individual liberty” at all. That’s pedantic meddling of the worst kind, you complete and utter fraud.
@73 “The Clinton Machine took down many, many people.”
Just can’t let go of this old, hoary, discredited Vince Foster conspiracy theories.
“I don’t recall Barack Obama keeping his chef alive, either.”
In other words, Obama should’ve locked him up when he had the power, so he wouldn’t drown while paddleboarding without a life vest.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/cause-of-death-of-obamas-chef-tafari-campbell-revealed/
You’re so full of shit it the sea level would rise if you took a shit.
@75 Why? Did Elon give him stock?
@77 No amendment to restore the original intent of the Second Amendment? That might actually be more pressing than purging experience from Congress.
@82 People like him want term limits because the honor system hasn’t worked. Nearly every Republican who promised to serve only X terms ran for reelection when their self-imposed time limit was up. I guess they couldn’t bring themselves to give up the power, salary, and perks.
Congressional term limits probably are unconstitutional unless enacted by constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court has indicated such. And their would be unintended consequences; inexperienced Members would be more dependent on staff, and you’re end up with unelected staffers effectively making policy decisions. Weak minds locked into rote thinking don’t think of these things.
Charlie Munger is dead.
“In the Senate and the House, we see the likes of Sen. John Fetterman and Rep. Matt Gaetz turning their august chambers of debate and protocol into C-Span’s version of ‘The Gong Show.’ It didn’t use to be this way …”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4331588-the-gop-red-waves-never-came-except-on-long-island-heres-why/
Another Republican who’s ignorant of history.
Even Sarah’s dad, in a fog of conspiracy theories, thinks impeaching Biden is a bad idea. Not because there’s no evidence to support it. Not because Republican senators won’t vote for it.
em>Because House Democrats won’t vote for it.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4331549-mike-huckabee-biden-impeachment-vote-political-disaster/
The most important issue for the Supreme Court to take up right now is whether Republican House members have a constitutional right to infect Democratic House members with a deadly virus for which there was (at the time) no vaccine or cure.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4330862-house-gop-lawmakers-who-flouted-chambers-mask-rule-take-legal-fight-to-supreme-court/
In other Supreme Court news, conservatives are asking the justices to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4323743-supreme-court-moore-tax-case/
Gas prices are falling, winter heating bills are dropping, and now apartment rents are, too.
Now there’s three things for GOPers to be in denial about: (1) Climate change, (2) the 2020 election, (3) and the economy.
“Lawyers in the Texas attorney general’s office said Tuesday that women should sue their doctors, not the state, over a lack of access to abortion in defending the state’s strict law.”
The Texas Attorney General’s Office argued, “If a woman is bleeding, if she has amniotic fluid running down her legs — then the problem is not with the law. It is with the doctors.”
Except if I’m a Texas doctor, I’m not going to run the risk of a zealous prosecutor with no medical training second-guessing my medical judgment and trying to throw me in prison. Even if the jury acquits me, my legal defense could cost a half million dollars, plus countless hours away from my practice. So I’m going to tell the patient and her family, “I’m very sorry, but I don’t perform that procedure.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4331412-texas-ags-office-argues-women-should-sue-doctors-not-state-over-lack-of-abortion-access/
Laws like this are deliberately vague because the intent behind them is to shut down abortions altogether by terrorizing doctors and patients. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn’t paying attention.
Why Mike Pence should never be president:
“Former Vice President Mike Pence briefly considered not presiding over the ceremony that formalized his coup-attempting boss’s 2020 election loss, once again raising questions about the contemporaneous scheming about Iowa’s Chuck Grassley presiding in his stead.
“In his daily planner, in which he also took journal-like notes, Pence on Christmas Eve in 2020 wrote it might be better to abdicate his constitutionally proscribed role overseeing the Electoral College tally to avoid bruising then-President Donald Trump’s ego.
“’Not feeling like I should attend electoral count,” he wrote, according to a report Tuesday by ABC News. “Too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. Therefore I’m not going to participate in certification of election.’”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-jan-6-trump-vote-certification_n_656657dbe4b03ac1cd17b6c8
He’s a spineless jellyfish that’s why. If he’s afraid of bruising Trump’s ego, how in hell could he stand up to someone like Putin, Xi, or Netanyahu?
Facing prison, Trump changes his tune: “It’s Putin’s fault!”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2666375855/
By the way, let’s not forget that Trump was president only because of the outdated Electoral College, and even then only because of Russian interference. For once Trump is telling the truth: Putin inflicted him on us.
Young voters helped Biden win in 2020, therefore young voters shouldn’t be allowed to vote in 2024, because that might happen again.
https://www.rawstory.com/campus-voting/
There are other reasons to prevent young people from voting. For example, if you want to draft them to die in a losing war against a pissant third world country, they might vote for politicians who oppose your war. That’s how we got the 18-year-old vote in the first place, and boy was that a setback for GOP warmongers.
In other campus news, cancel culture is a real thing, but the people pushing it aren’t who you’re being told they are.
https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk-arizona/
@76
Heard a whopper of a Q conspiracy about a week ago. So crazy I don’t think anyone thinks it’s real but then again, harvesting Adrenochrome from babies as a ‘fountain of youth’ is BOTH insane and an old Anti-Semitic trope…
Baron is actually the love child of Donald Trump and Diana, Pincess of Whales who was good friends with Melania. Melania agreed to raise the illegitimate child as a favor to her friend who faked the car crash to escape the spotlight.
With JFK Jr, I’d imagine.
I guess it’s possible that the child a low level bureaucrat in the Yugoslav Communist system could have become a close confidant of a nine years older one of the most photographed Royals of England in history who had managed to stay hidden for about a decade before she had a kid with The Donald.
So it makes sense a nude model with few credits in her portfolio would be besties with a Southern Baptist grandma type and feel compelled to go to a funeral without he, ahem, better half.
@99 I’ve started to think there’s more to these outlandish conspiracy theories than stupid Trumpers swallowing them whole. Psychologists could have fun with this, or be totally flummoxed by it, snowed by their study subjects.
Anyway, my thinking is even stupid people can’t possibly believe this stuff, so there’s something else going on. What could it be? One possibility is a form of rebellion; another is trying to annoy people they don’t like, or a thought process like, “Let’s drive them crazy.”
One of the clues is that Elon Musk is simply too smart to believe the conspiracy theories he promotes on his soapbox. True, there are people who join cults and follow deranged leaders even unto death, and there are numerous documented historical examples of mass hysteria, and the Republican grassroots aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer.
But I strongly suspect, I’m almost convinced, there’s something else going on, kind of like it’s all a joke and the joke is on us, by people enjoying a cheap laugh at our expense.
Another clue is that I have a relative, who has belonged to Mensa, who constantly passes on rightwing lies, and when confronted with fact-checks, acts like it’s all a big joke. To him, lying and joking are interchangeable.
Without question, Trumpers seriously believe the 2020 election was stolen, but that requires less suspension of belief than the wild conspiracy theories routinely embraced by conservatives. Equally plainly, many Republicans are low-information voters, and some are genuinely stupid. But I don’t think that fully explains the prevalence and popularity of rightwing conspiracy theories.
Joos: just because I visited your kibbutz doesn’t mean I don’t know the protocols of your elders.
Edgar Welch is a hero to the truth.
@100 I want to add that I do think Trumpers tend to rationalize things they don’t like (e.g., Biden’s win) in a Sky Daddy sort of way. Very likely they buy into explanations that lack evidence or don’t make sense as a way of avoiding what they don’t want to hear or deal with.