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Happy new year, everyone! May 2024 be happy and prosperous for you all. Including you, Doctor Dumbfuck. Don’t say we’re not gracious.
Happy New Year..
Did I missing the dying troll’s stoopid dance over its first low 4 figure once a month SS check?
Prolly.. like I give a F.. yawwwn.. next?
More entertainment from teh fatuous trolls, that’s what’s next!
Let’s start off teh triggerin’ with..
The Coming Biden Blowout
2023 had its share of krappy ads to suffer through while watching youtube.
Epoch Times? Yeesh..
One of the more obnoxious was Hillsdale College. A magnet for well heeled always wrong wing munee. Few places turn my stomach more..
Ads from such blathering bs artists like Art Laffer (author of the KansASS “miracle”) or “virtuous” farmer/academic Victor Davis Hanson, (the worst political pundit of all time, next to (barely) teh gateway moron). VDH, true believer in the “stolen” election of 2020.. at least the first few days after the election.. Did the freek change its mind? Who cares? Oh and Michael Anton.. is he still there? The Oracle of Orange, nowadays forming a consensus for a “red caesar” to save ‘murica…
Some of the ads from Hillsdale were funny in a self-parodying sort of way.. Profs no-one’s ever heard of extolling the wonders of ptolemeaic geometry, classical muzak and of course teh bible and jeebus! that apocalyptic preacher from galilee.. get behind me joos, get born again lest ye burn for eternity!
But just yesterday I got a gift in my youtube feed re: Hillsdale..
A bit of a skeleton in its closet. Oh my what a gift…
George Roche III – Hillsdale College’s Deadly Sex Scandal
The name of this channel will trigger teh kreepshit’s misogyny. I wondered about this channel proprietor – a stand up comedian and film maker. Is he an always wrong winger? What drew his attention to that shitty school? And in the video there’s an even shittier school mentioned.. A cult on a sailing vessel reminiscent of LRH only the leader preached the gospel of Atlas Shrugged.. nauseating to the core.
The guy’s content is overall not half bad and I chortled at the sleazy shit discussed re Hillsdale..
Enjoy.. Happy New Year..
Each and every 2024 HA spew has mentioned me.
Well, it’s 2024. This is the one year in four that Democrats will have to pretend, again, that they care about black people.
For the period 01/01/2018 through 13/31/2023: +15.94%.
For the period 01/19/21 through 12/31/2023: +6.25%.
@4 In that case, you have a lot of names and labels here.
@5 Somebody has to. Republicans don’t bother.
Remember when Lindsey Graham flipflopped on impeachment? Now he’s flipflopping on Jan. 6. He must be running for vice president. What a suckup. And to think I used to respect this guy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4383307-graham-backtracks-on-earlier-jan-6-criticism-of-trump-it-depends-on-what-the-conduct-is/
There is no genocide in Gaza! — Bibi
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4383588-netanyahu-rejects-claims-accusing-israel-of-genocide-in-gaza/
Just dead babies in bombed maternity wards and mountains of rubble where homes used to stand (see photo in CNN article here; you will have to scroll down).
Now that New Year’s Eve, the ball drop, and quarter-stick dynamite firecrackers (windows rattled in my neighborhood last night) are behind us, it’s back to business as usual on HA.
I look forward to another year of holding Republicans accountable for their crimes against humanity.
As I’ve often said in the past, the topic of the HA comment threads is, “Republicans suck.”
noun, verb, THE LEFT…
I had the perfect stump speech…
Y’all see my girlfriend? She’s hot.. very appealing color to her skin..
Why didn’t Republican voters like me?
Happy New Year HA Maoist Gods. Not sure why you are censoring me. That’s your prerogative but it’s very un journalistic to be so biased.
Too sensative to the failings of The Heterosexual failings that is the The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.
Ladies did you survive last nights grooming?
Stop the biased Censorship, Maoists!
Just because it is pointed out that heterosexuals are violent angry hateful individuals doesn’t mean you have to censor me
@ 14
… doesn’t mean you have to censor me
I think it’s the combination of your psychosis and your festering circumanal monkeypox ulcerative wounds that does it, G-clown.
@15 What’s your excuse?
Another year of gap-widening between Queen YLB’s fucked kids and me.
Get to work, ya pussies. Two Social Security draws in my family need your support now. Ask your mama Queen YLB why she continually votes to make your miserable lives even more difficult.
Another year of gap-widening
Until that “certain day”…
the clock ticketh.
Two Social Security draws in my family need your support now.
Sorry kreepshit household in widbee, your checks are “cancelled”.. See the previous link..
5,697 deaths per day.. Some of ’em gotta be degen repukes like the little “man” of the house.
Dang a third of the way through teh bonzo buttlick generation.. Making “progress” aren’t we?
Welcome to the year in which the Republican nominee catches his first felony conviction.
Enjoy!
I know I will😂
RCP:
By trying to remove Trump from the ballot, and miserably failing, libbies set up the next Trump administration.
Think on your sins.
Happy New Year
2023 Republican Hot:
Launching campaigns early will unify us.
2024 Republican Hot:
Nominating a convicted felon will empower us.
By trying to
remove Trump from the ballotimpeach Joe Biden…Nothing will help Dem turnout more, cept maybe for orange loser on the ballot…
Hunter’s dick pics touch ha trolls and degen repukes only..
Go Chisum Gym and Farmer Jim!
How “unlikable” was that midget fascist dictator of Florida with risers in its silly cowboy boots and a pained, fake smile?
Only thing more unlikable was that klown’s supporters..
Heard they blew 200 million on that jerk. Not since JEB! has there been a bigger fayle.
Guess they can always hold out hope for drumpf wearing an orange jump suit in 2024.
@ 24
How “unlikable” was that midget fascist dictator of Florida with risers in its silly cowboy boots and a pained, fake smile?
Less than Biden.
Less than Momala.
Less than Trump.
If you are going to paint DeSantis negatively, Queen YLB, you need to use something other than his unfavorable rating.
And if DeSantis does prevail in the primary…
Glad you asked, girlfriend?
@25 BIG YAWWWN….
Holding out for the orange jumpsuit to match the uv or spray tan..
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/iowa/
More than 55% of voters hate Joe Biden’s and Momala’s guts.
FLOOR FIGHT!!!
I can’t wait.
Democrats should all be shitting ourselves in 2024 looking at Biden’s poll numbers. But we aren’t.
Because they are running Trump.
Swing district House Democrats should all be crawling all over each other to do “bipartisanship” with MAGA Mike. But they aren’t.
Because they are running Trump.
Corporate lobbies and K Street should all be canoodling with the RNC and pouring money into GOP campaigns. But they aren’t.
Because they are running Trump.
G20 leaders should all be hedging by seeking relationships with the potential new US leadership. But they aren’t.
Because they are running Trump.
Republicans should be preparing to sweep into unified power and run the table in November. But they aren’t.
Because they are running Trump.
In order to “pwn the libs” Republicans made Trump inevitable. Now they have to live with that. And it will cost them everything.
What a Hockey Game at T-Mobile Park. Glad the Kraken won the Winter Classic, we needed the 2 points, I just expected Vegas to score a goal, they are supposed to be good.
Watched from home, but a good bonus for me I was a ticket holder, possibly the only Kraken game to be served by SOUNDER. Can’t partner for games at CPA, too many transfers. Also, most Kraken home games are at 7pm, rarely does BNSF let Sound Transit run a special SOUNDER run that late.
@20 “By trying to remove Trump from the ballot”
You can’t get anything right, can you? Nobody is “trying to remove” Trump. The Constitution removes him. He’s ineligible because the 14th Amendment says so, and the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine secretary of state are merely its agents. Blaming them is like blaming the tow truck driver when you get towed from a no-parking zone.
@ 28
How adorable! QoS McHillbilly thinks the DNC primary will be smooth as silk and will end with a spry, corruption-free octogenarian as the unanimous choice at the convention.
I can wait. The next several months will be a lot of fun. Not for Queen YLB’s fucked kids, of course, but they deserve every bit of pain coming their way.
@ 31
He’s ineligible because
the 14th Amendment says so…It’s four partisan Democrats in CO who say so and a 2020 Democrat elector in ME who says so – that’s five people, total. Each of these partisans know what’s coming and, to their collective credits, have stayed their decisions in advance of the SCOTUS smackdown.
but they deserve every bit of pain coming their way.
lmao.. that fantasy of pain “ends” with YOU ending and the rest of your degen ilk..
you “ending” meaning DYING.. Like Limbaugh.. like Ken Starr.. like Orrin Hatch.. like countless other repukes…
And in accordance with your own silly babbling..
Almost 6k each and every day…
yawwwn.. next?
knock, knock, knock..
Know what means for kommander kreepshit?
THE PAIN
Will one, or both of Queen YLB’s fucked kids die before I do?
@36… Odds on fav – you die first.. have another scotch on yours truly.. Good for the old ticker.. heh.
but scotch..
that’s slooowww poison…
a knock on the door – that’s way quicker shit… heh..
Everyday that goes by.. 6k boomers expire.. how many of those are degenerate repukes who think and do like kreepshit?
The world’s a better place with that shit gone.
And those that live? They spend like there’s no tomorrow.. Life is short – they live it up.. who can blame them?
That helps the old economy – making life better for the kids.
Sorry kreepshit. your silly check is cancelled..
@33 “It’s four partisan Democrats in CO who say so and a 2020 Democrat elector in ME who says so – that’s five people, total.”
That’s a negative. Ineligibility under the 14th A is based on objective facts. Trump is responsible for those facts. He chose them of his own free will. And it’s not just 5 Democrats in CO and ME; there’s a long list of former judges and legal scholars who’ve concluded the Insurrection Clause applies to him. And their legal reasoning skills are light years better than yours.
@36 What do the actuarial tables say about healthy young people versus a sixty-something lush with equine syphilis?
John LeBoutillier is a blue-blooded Harvard MBA who was a 1-term congressman (R-NY) over 40 years ago, and is a political commentator. He made an interesting prediction today: Trump will take a universal plea deal to stay out of prison and drop out of the race.
“LeBoutillier predicts that, after failing to get immunity from the Supreme Court, Trump will discover that special prosecutor Smith has amassed much more evidence against him than he expected. He will also be frantically worried that the jury pool is not from his base. … ‘A plea deal would fit with Trump’s longtime modus operandi. In civil litigation he is all bluster, and then, at the last minute, he settles. He will do that in this case, too: Negotiate a deal in which he pleads guilty and withdraws from the campaign in return for a guarantee that he will not be sent to prison. Facing three other criminal trials, he may very well agree to a Universal Plea Agreement that keeps him out of prison on all cases in exchange for a guilty plea and an admission of responsibility.’”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trial-2666843514/
@33
Where SCOTUS deciding that the plain exact original language of the 14th Amendment to Constitution isn’t ‘original’ at all plastered across the. news cycle will be a yuge PR win for the GOP.
Apparently.
Which way will Clarence “Road Trip” Thomas come down. Maybe Alito can find. Alito gonna quote an 8th Century Manuscript on the definition of engaged?
Washington won a heart-pounder against Texas and will play Michigan for national championship.
The teams were very evenly matched in both the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, and both games came down to the final seconds. FSU? Who are they? Oh, they’re the grounds crew.
The University of Washington Huskies, a football team based in SEATTLE, WA has barely survived being defeated by the TexASS Longhorns.
I’d be more celebratory but it was pretty sad how that game almost collapsed for the Huskies in the last minute of the game.
The Huskies survive to play another day.
Trolls and Seattle haters whine, “WE GOT ROBBED!”
The last minute of the game is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7jghDC-paI
41,
Teapukes continue to fantasize about an imaginary deus ex machina event that will somehow deliver them from Trump.
Their fate lies only with themselves.
And it now lies after November of 2024.
Perhaps then, as they pick their way through the smoking ruin of their party, steering themselves carefully around the MAGA street prophets wrapped in STOP THE STEAL banners standing on piles of empty fruit crates and shrieking about “GROOMERS” they will wise the fuck up.
But I doubt it.
There is no such thing as “universal plea agreement”.
@46 “There is no such thing as ‘universal plea agreement.’”
What do you expect from an MBA? But at least this guy has a better grasp of evidence than the dumbfuck doctor does.
44)Go Huskies. In the playoffs, I’ll support any of our teams.
A new poll confirms the lowest-IQ third of the U.S. population is poorly informed, gullible, and just plain stupid.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4384619-one-third-of-americans-say-biden-election-illegitimate/
Don’t hear much from climate deniers anymore. They’ve gone underground. Global warming is now so obvious denying it makes them look stupid. Of course, they are stupid, and always have been. What you get from them now is feeble excuses for pumping oil and opposing alternative energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/red-alert-in-antarctica-the-year-rapid-dramatic-change-hit-climate-scientists-like-a-punch-in-the-guts
Analysts, cautioning that Iowa and New Hampshire often throw unexpected curves, will cite JEB! in 2016. Going into January of that year JEB! was seen by many as “inevitable”.
Bush finished out of the running in both contests.
This was really the first big indication the media had that something very different was happening with Republicans. But they just weren’t prepared to see it. And a lot of the media are still trying hard not to see it.
When JEB!, the most well funded, most prepared, most “inevitable” campaign couldn’t even beat Kasich or Rubio it should have been clear that something different was going on.
But does anyone really think Trump is about to finish fourth?
@ 51
QoS McHillbilly’s wish:
… will cite JEB! in 2016. Going into January of that year JEB! was seen by many as “inevitable”.
The 2015 year-end reality:
As for Jeb Bush, he was dismissed with a mention along with all of the other also-rans.
“Many”, QoS McHillbilly? In what world? Not the real one. In the real one Trump was at 41% and the #2 GOP candidate was at only 14%. “Going into January…”.
Good post.
Here’s a piece by a Harvard student so afraid of retribution for holding an opinion that they won’t share their name.
OP EDS
I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay’s Getting off Easy.
BY AN UNDERGRADUATE MEMBER OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE HONOR COUNCIL • 3 DAYS AGO
Less striking when one considers that she got her job because of DEI and that DEI is a race to the bottom.
Let Harvard burn. But we can still roast marshmallows while it does.
How vicious @ 53 are Harvard’s POS lefties?
Let Harvard burn.
Regarding QoS McHillbilly’s false elevation of Jeb Bush, I’m reminded of that primary state contest in which prez candidate Joe Lieberman came in fifth.
Lieberman spun it as a “three-way tie for third”.
This profoundly stupid troll gave JEB! his whole heart and soul for nearly a year, before the “inevitable” became the “inescapable”. And then he moved on to Raphael Eduardo until that too flamed out.
Trump is it. Trump is their only option. Even the profoundly stupid troll is now compelled to admit that. And they alone have built this fate brick by profoundly stupid brick.
Presumably, whenever the “inevitable” Republican nominee plagiarizes Hitler that is not because of DEI.
Got it.
What’s coming:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/us/colorado-supreme-court-arrest
According to police at 1:15 am, the accused got into a car crash outside the CO supreme court house, road raged with a gun, shot out the window and broke into the building, threatened a guard to give him keys, then he went up to the seventh floor and shot at the walls a few dozen times before he called 911 and turned himself in at 3 am.
Profound. Very profound.
Dude wore a MAGA hat, teabags, and a Gadsden Flag while singing Glory Hallelujah.
The suburban white soccer mom’s are so turned on!
@58, 59
You missed the parts about the incident beginning with a traffic accident and the police saying it was unrelated to the CO supremes’ partisan opinion.
Who does your research? Queen YLB?
The very first and only time in all of recorded history when official police statements included misinformation:
https://publicola.com/2023/06/16/seattle-police-officer-was-driving-74-mph-when-he-hit-and-killed-23-year-old-pedestrian/
56% of Americans think #Trump is definitely or probably guilty of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election through false claims of voter fraud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/02/jan-6-poll-post-trump/
Not a very overwhelming statistic. Until you actually consider that since filing the indictment in August, there has been almost no information available to the media and the public responding to such polls to indicate what evidence Smith may or may not have. It’s been an incredibly well run, well managed, and efficient prosecution. The filings have all been precise, limited, direct, and responsive with very little narrative or extraneous detail. There have been no leaks or media plants. And the only leverage that Trump has been able to use to pry free information into the media has been limited to the idiotic immunity claims. And by their nature, those challenges will be very unlikely to produce any substance for Trump to leak into the media.
So 56% of people responding to the poll are sufficiently convinced that Trump is guilty of a conspiracy to use the office of the president to overturn an election he lost without seeing any of the key evidence.
That isn’t likely to get better as the trial gets underway.
Prosecution goes first. Smith seems like the type to be methodical. So the early days of trial testimony will be focused on explaining the conspiracy to the jury. Conspiracy prosecutions work like that. It’s not like a murder or a robbery where there’s an early conclusion that a crime was committed. Conspiracy prosecutions require first that the crime itself be explained for the jury. But once the prosecution has managed to explain to a jury that a crime was committed, at some point they will have to put on evidence that Trump participated in it. And we still have no idea what that evidence is.
The best guess I can offer is that there are witnesses who will testify that Trump authorized the criminal conspiracy to produce forged state certificates of ascertainment. And that Trump subsequently authorized by word or deed the effort to bring those forgeries to the Capitol and present them in order to defraud Congress in performing their official, constitutionally mandated counting function.
A lot of what has gone before in terms of media blather about this case has been produced by Trump and MAGAland to create the space Republicans will need to dismiss that evidence or to waive it away. But not knowing precisely what any of it is makes that preparation much more difficult. Trump world has not really been able to pre-cast that evidence as “flawed” or as “irrelevant” the way they want to. So without the audience having been prepared that way, how the audience responds to that when they learn it for the first time will be alot harder to control.
@ 61
Is there a traffic light at that intersection?
Doesn’t say she had the green.
@ 62
<emThat isn’t likely to get better as the trial gets underway
It has already gotten better. Down six points since last asked.
I see you chose this instead of SCOTUS granting cert on a related issue regarding prosecution’s use of mere presence as an act of obstruction.
@52
What does this tell you about Republicans?
Claudine Gay resigned. It’s okay to attend Harvard again.
There is no more obnoxious college football fan than the local who never attended the school. The guy wearing the most UW gear this week and cracking ‘Wazzu” jokes is from Shoreline. Got his AA at North Seattle and worked his way up to a middle management position at Costco Corporate. His WSU grad boss is too polite to mention their BA and just says, “I’m gonna need those TPS reports by end of day.”
Did you all catch Rafael Cruz, Princeton class of ‘92, Harvard Law, on the sideline at the Sugar Bowl in UT gear?
Ted’s legendary support for public education like the two elite pricey Houston private high schools he attended. He’s Keepin it real. Hook’em Horns!” need those TPS reports by end of day.”
@67
Please do Hillary, state residency, and the Subway Series next.
It’s apparently still plagiarism if committed by a black woman.
Who knew?
Crimson headline:
HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY
64,
It could only conceivably relate to two of the four DC charges.
https://www.scribd.com/document/662462402/Trump-Indictment
The profoundly stupid troll and the rest of MAGA world are cheerfully setting out to cut down a vast forest of Trump criminal charges with a plastic spork from the Lunchables Mom packed for them with their pipe bombs.
If it hasn’t been clear, imho the DC charges are likely to be the most difficult to prove, the easiest to defend, and certainly the least likely of all Trump’s many criminal indictments to result in a felony conviction of Trump himself. Managing to produce one single plausible element for a post-conviction appeal on just two of the four charges at this point is threatening a good time.
And where the District held that the Sarbanes Oxley charges could not be sustained at trial since the defendant conduct was not shown to have a criminal nexus directly related to “a document, record, or other object”, the recruitment of imposter “electors” and the forging and presentation of faked state Certificates of Ascertainment obviously does.
The things Trumpalos rely on to sustain their wretched hopes are getting sillier and sillier.
69,
Republicans would much prefer it if she had chosen to plagiarize Hitler.
@68
You mean how someone whose residency is in New York picked a New York professional sports team to support when she spent her early adult years in a place with no professional sports teams?
Wondering, how many times have votes by Hillary Clinton in the Senate negatively affected the funding of the New York Yankees?
I know I know. The ‘whadabout’ addiction you have is severe. There are therapists for that.
Claudine Gay resigned. It’s okay to attend Harvard again.
munee drumpfs all..
greedheads Singer (of teh washington greedhead freek shriekin’) and Ackman get a dark “scalp”..
For the pleasure of the country that can do wrong stacking the bodies of babies, women, and men, young and old with missing limbs and funny last names to the sky..
Oooh anyone who doesn’t jackboot to that is “anti-semitic”.. (rolls eyes)…
And…
‘Gay attracted more scrutiny after critics such as Ackman and Rufo highlighted instances of alleged plagiarism in her published academic work, which largely focuses on American political behavior and the role of racial identity in politics.
Harvard’s board said it first learned of the allegations in late October, carried out an “independent review” of her work and found “a few instances of inadequate citation.” The board said Gay was “proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.” ‘
And..
Harvard history professor Alison Frank Johnson, one of more than 700 members of the faculty who had signed a letter urging administrators to resist calls to remove Gay, said in an interview that she was “flabbergasted” by the president’s exit.
“I was surprised to have this decision made so precipitously and without any proper procedures being followed,” Frank Johnson said in a Zoom interview.
Stefanik cheered the news of Gay’s departure, writing in part in a post on X: “TWO [scalps] DOWN.”
MIT President Sally Kornbluth gave what critics described as a similarly legalistic answer to Stefanik’s question, but she has so far not faced major fallout. In a statement on Dec. 7, MIT said Kornbluth “has our full and unreserved support.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/claudine-gay-harvard-universitys-embattled-president-stepping-rcna131930
I guess the wrong greedheads support MIT and/or the skin color was not an issue..
Where were Singer and Ackman before Claudine Gay was hired?
Same place the Mossad, Shin Bet and IDF was before Oct 7…
Out to lunch apparently..
The problem with having a ‘Celebrity’ owner or CEO of your company is their actions or troubles at one of their companies can affect others.
Take for instance Fidelity investments pointing out that Twitter (X) lost 10 million daily users in 2023 over 2022 and that the company is worth 71% less than when the ‘Celebrity’ acquired it.
Tesla is down today. Which is weird because they posted a record number of deliveries for Q4 earlier in the day. It could be that Warren Buffet backed BYD sold/delivered more cars thanks Tesla in Q4. Or it could just be that investors are spooked that Elon is going to do something stupid like tell EU unions to fuck off.
@60 “CO supremes’ partisan opinion”
When the Constitution says insurrectionists can’t be president, ruling that an insurrectionist can’t be president isn’t a “partisan opinion.” It’s rule of law, asshole.
A Republican Dream Boat, really.
Millennial. Business guy. University of Chicago MA and JD. Blogger. Federalist Society. Libertarian free market worship. Ayn Rand fan. White (of course). Energetic. Dynamic. Aggressively friendly. Involved and active in local and state politics as soon as he and his pretty wife settled in Phoenix. Attended all the events. Raised money and gave generously. Volunteered. Worked his butt off. Finally ran for county office and won. Lots of promise. Very bright future.
But by 2021 it was very clear that other Arizona Republicans wanted him dead. He was attacked and assaulted at the same events that he’d been attending for years. He was getting death threats at his home. As Maricopa County Recorder, by the time the 2022 election was rolling around Stephen Richer was forced by the unrelenting tide of Republican threats and violence to fortify his own offices and election facilities against Republican violence, for his own safety but especially for that of his staff.
He and his family have been forced to accept armed federal protection. He’s been subpoenaed as a witness in multiple federal criminal trials against fellow Republicans who threatened to murder him and his family. For his own safety and that of his political staff he can no longer attend Republican public events in Arizona. For safety, his staff has mostly shifted to work-from-home. But because in Arizona, as in most places, public employment is a public record many have quit and the office now relies on temps and contractors. For the modest public salaries the jobs paid, Arizonans could not justify continuing in jobs where major Republican public figures like Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and Mark Finchem were routinely stirring crowds of partisan Republicn voters with calls for their murder.
The violence is now a baked-in feature of Republican politics. Most Republican voters now view violence as a legitimate response to election losses. Those losses are only just getting started. And Republicans themselves stand to suffer the most from it.
@61 If you or I killed someone by driving 74 mph on Dexter Avenue, we’d go to prison for vehicular homicide.
But in any case, lying on a police report ought to be prosecuted as obstruction of justice. Every fucking time.
Maybe we will get lucky and Trump and Biden won’t be on the ballot in November.
America needs someone entirely different.
@62 “Not a very overwhelming statistic. Until you actually consider that” half of Americans have below-average IQs, vote Republican, don’t read news, routinely reject incontrovertible facts, and mentally live in a comic-book world.
Millennial. Business guy. University of Chicago MA and JD. Blogger. Federalist Society. Libertarian free market worship. Ayn Rand fan. White (of course).
The other day our deranged troll commiserated with the “exhausted” students of Harvard..
kreepshit will lend its sympathies here as well from far away widbee. How could it not?
With a pedigree as laid out above and a last name like “Richer”..
Are you kidding me?
@63 Looks like doc is fishing to see if he can spin this as another case of “jaywalkers deserve death.”
@69, @70 Plagiarism is bad, but letting white male billionaires run universities is worse. Given that Gay’s resignation was largely Bill Ackman’s doing, I think the question that will be asked is whether plagiarism really had anything to do with it, knowing what we know about Ackman.
81,
It’s up to you.
You can always choose to reject the violent authoritarianism and criminal corruption that Trump and the party he controls now represent.
False equivalence won’t cut it for you, though. Democrats aren’t going to our monthly precinct meetings at the Labor Temple and threatening to gut local officials with rusty machettes unless they agree to fix the election for us. Joe Biden still hasn’t quoted Hitler admiringly. Not cracking jokes or bragging about rape either.
Nobody here is asking you to vote for a Democrat. Honestly.
I for one accept that you hate Democrats for “reasons”. And I really don’t care what they are. You do you.
But as long as you and people like you continue to play along mutely with conservatism’s rapid degeneration into violence, fascism, and terror then that’s on you. It’s not just some “cosplaying grandmothers”. It’s in every state and county in every Republican campaign now. You could oppose that without supporting AOC or some Seattle City Council member who dares to be a “socialist”. But as long as you won’t it will continue to get worse.
America needs someone entirely different.
I am more than prepared and qualified to address the oppressive depredations of the capital class in this country..
Under my leadership workers will be granted full ownership rights to the means of production.
If “difference” is what you want, that’s what I will deliver.
@73 “There are therapists for that.”
I don’t think there are any who would take this patient. Some people are lost causes.
…and a last name like “Richer”..
Oh, well that.
Is that important to Republicans? Do ya think?
@87 Speaking of socialists, the minute a Democrat makes money by selling a book or engaging in stock investments or business activities, Republicans are against capitalism.
But just capitalism for all. Capitalism is another of those things they want for themselves only, and nobody else is invited.
84,
Probably. But I really don’t see what that has to do with police agencies routinely using media information releases to deliberately disseminate flasehoods to serve their own agenda.
And it hardly matters at this point.
Whether or not this particular individual was specifically motivated by political animus is not the point.
The point is that, owing to the completely normal nature of Republican and Right-Wing violence in response to democracy no longer being fixed to privilege them, the public reading about this guy is just going to assume that he was going after the court.
And as we all ought to have figured out by now, for a whole lot of reasons, officials are very reluctant to admit it when public violence is inspired by Republican ideology.
@91 Public violence? Do you mean police violence?
As of Jan. 22, the GOP’s House majority of 5 will be down to 2. Just one car accident, one heart attack, and one speeding police vehicle away from Speaker Jeffries.*
* Borrowing from Doc
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4385589-house-gop-majority-to-shrink-to-2-with-ohio-lawmakers-early-resignation/
“Ken Block, whom the Trump campaign hired in 2020 to find voter fraud in the election, penned an op-ed Tuesday stating unequivocally that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen and that there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election. …
“Block, who owns Simpatico Software Systems, said his company’s findings were communicated directly to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and transcripts of depositions taken by the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol ‘show that the campaign found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of any election.’”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4385239-voter-data-expert-trump-campaign-2020-election-not-stolen/
This echoes what Liz Cheney’s book says, that Trump, Meadows, the White House lawyers, basically everybody, knew before Jan. 6 the election wasn’t stolen. This goes to proving knowledge and intent in Trump’s upcoming trials, and also is relevant for showing he is, in fact, an insurrectionist and not a confused or misled president.
Realistically, there’s no serious doubt that Trump is barred from holding office by the 14th Amendment. The only question is whether our legal system is willing to enforce it.
@91 Public violence? Do you mean police violence?
The original post that the profoundly stupid troll was sobbing over concerned an angry Colorado voter shooting out windows at the Colorado Supreme Court, holding a guard at gun point, seizing the guard’s keys, accessing various office spaces, courtrooms and chambers, setting chambers ablaze, and generally shooting up the place with his guns.
Local police initially claimed that the armed assault including domestic terrorism on the court was motivated by “road rage”.
The profoundly stupid troll demands that you accept this and inquire no further.
Another satisfied Tesla owner.
Hey look! The next Hunter Biden!
“A campaign adviser for former President Donald Trump was charged Tuesday with violating federal public disclosure laws regarding foreign agents, according to court records and reports.
“GOP lobbyist Barry Bennett stands accused in Washington D.C.’s federal court of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to the court filing.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-campaign-adviser-charged/
Of course “Storm the Capitol” is just a game. Yours for $64.99.
https://www.rawstory.com/storm-the-capitol-board-game/
97,
That’s one charge I’d really like to see Hunter Biden have to account for.
Unfortunately, because FARA violations were both a family business and a cottage industry within the Trump White House, the Barr DOJ declined to investigate.
For eight years lawless Kentucky County Clerk Church Lady has slithered around her legal responsibility for deliberately violating the civil rights of a same sex couple in 2015.
Today she has been ordered to pay $260,000 in plaintiff’s legal fees on top of the original award of $100,000 for direct damages to the couple.
Church Lady claims she intends to appeal this latest ruling. Kentucky and national Republicans have funded her legal battles since 2015.
@100 Huh. Isn’t that a taxpayer obligation? After all, she was acting in her official capacity when she violated their rights under color of law. Normally the employing agency is responsible for that shit, e.g. the municipal liabilty when a police officer throws an elderly lady with dementia to the frozen ground and then beats her senseless.
As of Jan. 22, the GOP’s House majority of 5 will be down to 2.
Then on Feburary 13th Tom Suozzi will take over George Santos’ empty seat in NY-3 and the GOP majority shrinks to just one single vote.
Can you possibly imagine what kinds of filthy, sordid deals MAGA Mike is forced into right now?
“Thank you for your patience, Mr. Speaker. I’m sure it won’t be too much longer. Can I freshen your tea? Oh. It looks like Congressman Buck is off his call. I’ll show you in now. Please, right this way. Ken? It’s the Speaker here for you.”
“Oh. Thanks Candice. This is my last one today. You can scoot. Thanks so much and have a good night. Hey now. There you are you rascal, you. Come on in. Sorry there aren’t any chairs. Carpet cleaning, or something. Anyhow, What can I do you for?”
“Thank you for making time on your busy schedule to speak to me, Congressman Buck. Although as Speaker I feel I should point out it’s a little unusual for me to be visiting you in your offices, instead of the other way around. But I’m sure you know how there’s nothing I won’t do to help get passage of the aid package for Israel and the defense supplemental. America is really counting on us to get something done here. I really need to show them we can all work together and make some progress under my leadership. So I’m only too happy to trek over here to the Rayburn. I haven’t been back since October to be honest.”
“Huh? What was that Mr. Speaker. Sorry. I’m on Grindr. Bad habit I guess. Anyway, you were saying?”
“Well Ken, do you mind if I call you Ken? Ken I know this would normally be something I’d rely on Steve for. But he told me you needed to speak to me personally about this vote. So that’s why I’m here today.”
“Steve. Scalise. Right. Actually I told that prick with ears to fuck off when he called and tried to summon me to his offices. I guess that’s why you’re here. And yes, as a matter of fact, I do mind. You can call me Mr. Congressman or you can call me Mr. Buck. Take your pick. Don’t matter much to me.”
“Okaayyy. I’m sorry about that. I’m not here to ruffle any feathers. It’s like I was saying, this is an important bill and it’s important work. I’d like to know I can count on your vote.”
“I guess that depends, Mike. You don’t mind if I call you Mike, right?”
“Nope. Uh no. Not so much I guess. Say what’s that you’ve got there?”
“This? Oh. This is for you, Mike. It’s a present. Consider it my “House” warming gift for you upon ascending to the Speaker’s chair. I had it made special.”
“Well gosh. I don’t really know what to say. That’s really very kind of you. Although I’m not sure what this is.”
“It’s a leather zipper mask Mike. Red leather. Embroidered and everything. It says “Trump 2024″ on the forehead. Here. I need you to put this on now.”
“I’m sorry?”
“You heard me fine, Mike. Put this on right now and we can talk about my vote. But not before you also put these on.”
“But those are handcuffs. I can’t put those on.”
“You’re going to have to if you want my vote. And one more thing. There’s also this.”
“Wait. What the fuck is that?”
“It’s my old Sigma Chi frat paddle from Princeton is what it is.
I need you to put on that mask, drop trou, put those handcuffs on and get down on your knees. And when I tell you to say “Hut! Hut!” God I love college football.”
Kudos to a right-wing rag for amplifying the inadequacy that is Claudine Gay.
It was either this or a Harvard admission that plagiarism is a sliding scale linked to skin color of the offender.
@104 I guess we know what horn the troll will be tooting for the next ten years.
@104
Say in your best Heddy Lamar (Harvey Korman)
Pentagon Papers!
Catholic Diocese of Boston!
Watergate!
Harvard President didn’t put in the citations!
“Bitch PLEASE” – The ghost of Cleavon Little