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Come the hell on, Microsoft (h/t).

When we talk about the worst in the nation gender pay gap in Seattle, often Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon come up. As if manufacturing and tech just have to favor men. It doesn’t. It’s choices we make. It’s systematic discrimination in our largest companies, and down the line. It’s seeing 238 internal complaints and not doing anything.

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  3. 3

    Kris Kobach’s voter fraud trial keeps being entertaining. His expert witness Jesse Richman…

    In another survey, Richman looked at suspended voters — those who didn’t provide proof of citizenship — and flagged any names that appeared to be foreign. (ACLU ATTORNEY) Ho asked if, for example, a name like “Carlos Murguia” would be flagged. When Richman said yes, Ho informed him Murguia is a federal judge in the same courthouse where the trial is taking place

    And there’s the rub of ‘voter fruad’ and ‘sanctuary cities’ ranting If you are slightly darker than white or have an ethnics name, you need to PROVE you are an American.

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    2,
    “But Republican groups stopped airing ads mentioning tax cuts toward the end of the Pennsylvania race after realizing the issue wasn’t moving voters.“

    Why the fuck would it? The tax scam was carefully and deliberately crafted to bypass hollers and trailer parks in places like Western PA. The only thing these people know from Roypublicans is Dirty Meskin Roundups, Gun-fapping, more and cheaper Fentanyl, and higher beer prices. If some ISIS group doesn’t hurry the fuck up and bomb a train in the U.S. the Roypublicans will have to do it for them.

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    ‘Liberal’ MSM (and Paul Ryan) is falling over each other attributing Lamb’s win to his being a conservative Democrat. Ok. More conservative than…

    Conor Lamb campaigned on Universal Health care, tax cuts for workers and higher on corporations, strong Unions, choice, and his final campaign ad was on expanded universal background checks.

    Or they’re pointing out that Pennsylvania is traditionally blue and a gerrymandered safe GOP district swung 20 points to the Dems and there’s nothing to see here. Just a blue state going blue.

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    @3 Well, at least they didn’t try to kick the judge trying the case off the voter rolls. Only his colleague down the hall.

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    Meanwhile, Trump’s “growth economy” chugs ahead at full steam …

    “The Federal Reserve of Atlanta has had to walk back, in a big way, its headline-making forecast that the first quarter would feature eye-popping economic growth. Where back in late January the central bank district was calling for a 5.4 percent GDP gain, it released a reading Wednesday for its widely followed GDPNow tracker that slashed that projection all the way down to 1.9 percent.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/all-that-optimism-for-hot-first-quarter-economic-growth-is-rapidly-fading-away.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Heck, that’s worse than Obama and Yellen. Oh, and for a complete rundown on the Trump economy, try this analysis on for size:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/12/14/comparing-the-trump-economy-to-the-obama-economy/?utm_term=.6753cc4866f1

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    Add Fox to the growing list of rightwing libel defendants.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/theranos-ceo-holmes-and-former-president-balwani-charged-with-massive-fraud.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The First Amendment right to lie is very expansive. It has to be, to prevent the government from becoming an arbiter of truth, or controlling what information citizens can say. We don’t, after all, want to turn into China. But the right to fabricate isn’t unlimited when it hurts innocent people. Notwithstanding the First, there’s still such a thing as actionable libel in our legal system. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

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    5,
    let ’em. I hope they go with that. If those corrupt, Russian abetting, child molesting fucks think they are going to move a Trumpist White Nationalist agenda in a Dem controlled House let ’em live that delusion right up until Jan. of next year.

    Even if all 24+ pickups are “conservative” Democrats it still means saving ACA, ending the stupid wall, really going after Putin, six or more committees investigating President PornFucker, another dozen or more committees investigating $30,000 dining room furniture, and a long series of painful votes in the the other chamber forcing Senate Roypublicans to openly defend NRA gun-fapping, white nationalism, wife beating, and Russian conspiracy to defraud going into 2020. Sounds ideal.

    And if they cling to the delusion about their appeal to their hillbilly base they are more likely to back down from the Ayn Rand – Heritage Foundation agenda, and work cooperatively with “conservative” Democrats already in Congress, especially in the Senate, to preserve social safety net programs and reduce inequality. Shoring up swing state support for “conservative” Dems again just in time for 2020.

    They are beyond the White Nationalist Event Horizon. They can no longer see themselves reflected in Real America because no light or energy can escape the vortex of irrational fear and venal will to power. Their only real appeal to their constituency lies in naked racism, white supremacy, misogyny, bigotry, and greed. If they heed the patronizing moans of Hoover Institution elites and arrogant Acela Corridor Bow-ties like David Brooks they’ll abandon what little appeal they have left among the masses. That fate is inescapable now. But buying into that particular media delusion will only hasten it.

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    “‘My opposition to her is over her direct participation in interrogation and her gleeful enjoyment of someone being tortured,’ said Paul, a libertarian who has staked out dovish positions on US foreign policy that buck the GOP mainstream. Paul read quotes he attributed to Haspel in which she allegedly mocked a captured al Qaeda suspect as he was being waterboarded. Paul’s opposition to Haspel’s nomination raises the prospect that the White House may struggle to gather the votes needed in the Senate to confirm her as the head of the CIA. If all 49 senators in the Democratic caucus vote against Haspel, Paul and another Republican voting ‘no’ would block her from taking over the agency.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/rand-paul-opposes-trump-picks-for-secretary-of-state-cia-director.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I don’t put much stock in this. Sen. Paul is two-faced. His vote will flip if Trump throws him a tiny bone. And we’ve already seen that Republicans like Collins will give away their votes in return for nothing as long as what they’re voting on has an “R” on it, notwithstanding whatever bluster they put forth to try and look like something other than rubber stamps for Trumpism.

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    Andrew McCabe, a career FBI man, became acting director when Trump fired Comey. Trump doesn’t like him:

    “Trump has repeatedly criticized McCabe, and in January it was reported that Attorney General Sessions had been pressuring FBI Director Wray to fire McCabe. However, Wray refused and reportedly threatened to resign if McCabe was removed. McCabe announced his resignation as deputy director on January 29, 2018. He had been expected to retire in mid-March, and will be on leave until his retirement becomes effective.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe

    So, McCabe doesn’t even work there anymore; he’s just burning up leave time until his retirement date. But now, the mean little bastards he works for want to fire him to deprive him of his pension. Oh, and thank you for your public service, Mr. McCabe.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-officials-recommend-former-2-at-fbi-andrew-mccabe-be-fired/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m curious. If a president is fired, so to speak, by Congress, does he still get the presidential pension? I don’t think so, and as I recall, that was why Nixon resigned when told he wouldn’t survive a Senate vote.

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    I would caution that Liberals not gloat on the fact of the Blue Tide probably coming. My fear is that some of those that are shifting away from Trump/Republicans will be turned off and vote against their own feeling just because they don’t want to side with a Democrat.

    You have to remember – everything is mind over mater – this is proven with how Republicans campaign. They don’t talk about policy as much as they turn people against their opponent – fear mongering.

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    @11

    I’m betting if someone tried to fire him at this late hour out of spite to kill his pension an enterprising attorney would be more than willing to take an age discrimination suit on contingency.

    And that would lead to discovery so I’m sure there’s a WH attorney counseling against it. But 45 is that stupid and vengeful so…

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    There are some fine people…
    This got some play earlier but the tale is now so ripe with Hillbilly/Trailerpark carnal stereotypes and ‘good Christian values’ that it deserves a closer look

    Matthew Heimbach helped organize the Charlottesville hate rally. Now he’s been arrested for allegedly beating up his wife and his wife’s stepfather, after cheating on his wife with her stepfather’s new wife, who is also Heimbach’s spokesman.

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    @13 McCabe is only 49, so age discrimination might be tough to prove, plus you’ve got defendants who will testify, “His age had nothing to do with it. We committed political discrimination, not age discrimination. We deprived him of his pension because he’s one of Obama’s men and we hate his motherfucking guts so much that we’d have him shot by a firing squad if we could.”

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    @ 11, 13

    From Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s link @ 11:

    The bureau, asked for a response, said that it had no personnel announcements, but released a statement saying, “”The Department follows a prescribed process by which an employee may be terminated. That process includes recommendations from career employees and no termination decision is final until the conclusion of that process.”

    This wasn’t political if it was done by career employees. There’s also the IG report forthcoming, which will probably line up with the internal FBI report.

    McCabe’s possibly going to be toast. If so, the same HA libbies who will criticize Sessions for not ignoring the recommendations resulting from the DOJ process will be criticizing Sessions if he ignores the recommendations from the Mueller process.

    Being a libbie at HA means you get to demonstrate that hypocrisy as SOP.

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    @17 Right. The fact Trump asked McCabe who he voted for* has absolutely nothing to do with it.

    * From the same article you’re quoting above; you didn’t by any chance miss this gem, did you?

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    @17 “There’s also the IG report forthcoming, which will probably line up with the internal FBI report. McCabe’s possibly going to be toast.”

    Why bother? The guy’s on leave and officially retires on Sunday.

    But, more to the point, I don’t see how Sessions will get that IG report, review it, and complete the termination process with just 2 work days left to do it. And if he does, it sure as hell won’t look like there was any “process.”

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    Meanwhile,

    “Wednesday morning, Lamb’s lead stood at 641 votes — out of more than 224,000 votes cast, according to unofficial results. Election officials said there are about 200 absentee votes and an unknown number of provisional ballots still to be counted. The four counties in the western Pennsylvania district have seven days to count provisional ballots.”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pennsylvania-house-race-tighter-than-tight-dem-claims-win-as-gop-continues-to-hang-in/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: So, there aren’t enough absentee ballots left for Saccone to catch up, even if he wins every single one of them, so what’s left of his hopes now depends on the provisional ballots. Not impossible, but then, neither is winning the Powerball jackpot. Just improbable, that’s all.

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    @ 19

    Why bother? The guy’s on leave and officially retires on Sunday.

    You answered it yourself. To affect his pension.

    It’s hard to drive home the point to someone who is shameless that a shameful departure from the FBI is punishment.

    So a shameful departure from the FBI, without all of the retirement money an individual who has committed misconduct was counting on, gets the message across.

    Lemme put it this way, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit:

    If there were a financial cost to you for each of the times you posted something 100% incorrect on HA, you would post your obviously stupid comments with less frequency. Because you can’t afford your meager retirement as it is.

    If McCabe ends up several hundred dollars short of what he was expecting each and every month once his pension payments begin, it may make him think twice before behaving similarly when he takes his next job.

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    “Why bother? The guy’s on leave and officially retires on Sunday.”

    Exactly. And as we know from judicial watch and the like winning a lawsuit isn’t required. once it’s filed you can start asking for documents once the documents are out they somehow start getting leaked to the press. Is screwing him out of his pension in the next two business days worth it?

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    @ 22

    …once the documents are out they somehow start getting leaked to the press.

    OMG, the irony in all of this.

    Pilsner, you probably have no idea that McCabe’s in trouble, in part, for leaking information that ISN’T out, do you?

    Andrew McCabe, Ex-Deputy Director of F.B.I., Will Be Faulted for Leaks

    But Justice Department rules prohibit the dissemination of confidential information, and the inspector general’s report is expected to criticize Mr. McCabe for disclosing the existence of a continuing investigation to The Journal.

    When an inquiry uncovers evidence that an agent has violated Justice Department regulations, the inspector general typically refers the matter to the F.B.I.’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which handles questions of punishment.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/justice-dept-andrew-mccabe.html

    It takes an act of abject stupidity, Pilsner, to make Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit appear intelligent by comparison, but congrats. You’ve managed it.

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    @21 “you posted something 100% incorrect on HA”

    Yeah, I was wrong when I suggested shorting GE at $23. It’s gone way up since then … er, oops. Looks like you’re the one who fucked up that time.

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    @24

    When you have to go to a 9 year old take as a retort…

    @25

    Hey, this is why we call you dumbfuck. Assuming that everything there is to keep secret has been leaked.

    Oh the irony.

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    @ 23

    Family and I moved cross-country for residency. I had already started, and before the others joined me our three cats and a dog were shipped via American Airlines, with a stop for plane change at O’Hare.

    One cat and the Dalmatian escaped at O’Hare. The cat was found a few hours later in a tunnel under a runway, and was surprisingly easily recaptured and arrived a day later than the other two cats. The Dalmatian escaped because a well-meaning baggage handler opened the pet carrier despite a sign on the door stating DO NOT OPEN FOR ANY REASON because she had tipped over her water bowl.

    She shot out of the carrier and because gate to the pet enclosure at the baggage terminal was left open by the same guy who ignored the sign on the carrier, she escaped onto the airport tarmac.

    She was finally recaptured, nine days later.

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    @2 “Is screwing him out of his pension in the next two business days worth it?”

    I guess to them it is, because they can’t have him shot and any petty, mean, vindictive revenge-taking they commit against him after he’s no longer with the Bureau will get them sued. So they have to take away his stapler while he’s still employed there.

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    @24 “Is it worth it that y’all libbies try to place GWB43 under citizen’s arrest”

    Exactly what “y’all” are you talking about here? We didn’t have anything to do with this. But I can’t think of it happening to a nicer guy; after all, he got 4,486 American soldiers killed by invading the wrong country. And 9/11/01 wouldn’t have happened in the first place if he had read the intelligence reports and acted on them in a timely manner:

    “Bush’s approach in most situations seemed a reactive combination of calculations to avoid his father’s mistakes and to reject Clinton’s policies. This was especially clear in international affairs: in his first nine months he reversed Clinton’s policy toward China, proclaiming it no longer a ‘strategic partner’ but a ‘strategic competitor’; in the Middle East, by withdrawing U.S. involvement in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; toward Korea, by abandoning the negotiated accord that had frozen the North’s nuclear program and by humiliating President Kim of South Korea, who was promoting North-South reconciliation, during his March 2001 visit to the White House, contributing to a wave of anti-Americanism in a country that was among the staunchest American allies; by withdrawing U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty on global warming; and by forsaking Clinton’s efforts to address the dangers of international terrorism.

    “During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on this last subject for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team, including Vice President Cheney. One briefing lasted half a day. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism in the NSC, the single most knowledgeable expert in the government, gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism.

    “Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser, overlapped for four months with the new Bush people. He submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. ‘We are going to be struck again,’ he wrote. But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. It was not high on their priority list. I was never invited to one meeting. They never asked me to do anything. They were not focusing. They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. They were concentrated on what they thought were higher priorities than terrorism.’ The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting they discussed using unmanned Predator drone spy aircraft, but no decision was made. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Kerrick, ‘September 11 gave them something to focus on.’”

    — Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.

    But, whatever, this kind of negligence is all the reason Doctor Dumbfuck needs to defend him, because he’s a dumbfuck.

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    @25 Yeah, when a vindictive president orders the FBI to conduct a politically motivated witch hunt against his former opponent to satisfy the blood lust of his adoring lynch mobs he stirred up, you’re not supposed to leak that to the press. Doing so might help protect our democracy from the tyrannical behavior that Doctor Dumbfuck loves to rationalize, or something like that. Doctor Dumbfuck, then a student at a Grenadan community medical college, probably cheered and stamped his feet when Nixon fired Archibald Cox, too.

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    You read the New York Times..

    yep..

    “Mr. Trump has seized on that issue in repeatedly criticizing Mr. McCabe, a lifelong Republican who did not vote in the 2016 election.”

    Same article you cited @25.. Dumbfuck, indeed.

  39. 39

    @34 Well, here’s some evidence he might be a Republican:

    “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not vote in the 2016 presidential general election, but did vote in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, according to two Virginia campaign consultants — one Republican, one Democratic — with access to the Virginia campaign participation rolls.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/andrew-mccabe-vote/index.html

    Now, admittedly, the same article says,

    “While McCabe chose to participate in the GOP primary, that doesn’t necessarily provide any insight into his political leanings. Voters in the state are free to bounce between party primaries as they choose.”

    … so that’s hardly definitive. But do you have any evidence he isn’t? His wife doesn’t count, because he’s not her, and lots of married couples vote differently and have disparate party loyalties (see, e.g., James Carville and Mary Matalin).

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    35,
    relax. This is just bullshit dominance theater by and for the Great Man-Baby. It is no doubt mostly intended to get the attention drawn away from another stunning defeat.

    If there is any kind of appeals process for loss of earned benefits (I honestly don’t know in the case of the FBI) do you really think a review board would want to send this message to the rank and file? You know these guys pass up great careers at white shoe firms to sit at metal desks for twenty years. In the process they get to risk their lives for us and they are frequently asked to put themselves in situations certain to create very powerful enemies. Enemies like bloated, rage-Tweeting fart bags who humiliate their wives by fucking porn stars and champion white supremacists and Nazis. I think his pension will work out just fine.

    But hey, it gave Doctor Dumbfuck a good hour of relief from the searing regret he now finds himself consumed by.

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    @40 I’m guessing he’ll get his pension simply because Sessions won’t get off the toilet before Sunday if for no other reason.

  42. 42

    @ 35

    Yeah, when a vindictive president orders the FBI to conduct a politically motivated witch hunt …

    You must mean Obama. The IG opened his investigations more than a week prior to Trump’s inauguration, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    DOJ watchdog opens review of Comey’s Clinton email investigation

    The review’s scope includes allegations that FBI Director James Comey violated established procedures when he publicly discussed the bureau’s findings and when he sent Congress updates shortly before the election about new evidence agents had discovered.

    Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced in a statement Thursday that his investigation will also explore whether FBI and Justice Department employees improperly leaked information prior to the election.

    Oh, and Comey was on-board with it:

    “I am grateful to the Department of Justice’s IG for taking on this review. He is professional and independent and the FBI will cooperate fully with him and his office,” Comey said in a statement. “I hope very much he is able to share his conclusions and observations with the public because everyone will benefit from thoughtful evaluation and transparency regarding this matter.”

    So was Team Clinton:

    “My reaction is that it’s entirely appropriate and very necessary but also not surprising,” former Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon told MSNBC.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/justice-department-watchdog-opens-review-of-clinton-email-investigation-233549

    The piece is dated January 21, 2017.

    Read it all, motherfuckers.

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    @ 40

    You have one more minute to realize one does not correctly end a sentence with a preposition.

  45. 45

    @42 So you think Trump is upset with McCabe because Comey’s leaks might have handed him the election? and you wonder why we call you a dumbfuck.

  46. 46

    @44 Elijah didn’t capitalize the first word of a sentence, either. How the hell did you miss that one? Are you fucking blind?

  48. 48

    Actually, to give credit where due, the way Churchill put it was…

    “This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put. And while we are on the subject of errant pedantry, might I respectfully suggest you eat a bag of dicks.”

    I might have added that last bit.

  52. 52

    @48 What we have here is an English language connoisseur from whom the nuances and fine points of grammatical correctness did not escape.

  53. 53

    The FBI continues to engender confidence.

    In February, the FBI said it had all the evidence it needed and that an assistant U.S. attorney had probable cause to charge Johnson.

    On March 5, Jupiter police checked in with the FBI to see where they were with the federal charges and the agent said the affidavits would be “coming in the next several weeks.”

    A week later, Johnson was in jail for the fatal stabbing in Palm Beach Gardens.

    https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime–law/breaking-feds-planned-charge-gardens-teen-for-international-school-threats/0oRF1KCDKL4BWqB7Kgg0zO/

    I bet if Andrew McCabe hadn’t gone on leave the FBI would have had those affadavits in place soon enough to stop this kid from killing.

  54. 54

    @51 I hope, for your sake, you’re not going to tell us you invested in Theranos instead of GE. At least GE stock is still worth something.

  55. 55

    @53 “affadavits”

    Go ahead, tell us that was a typo, and try to convince us you’re not a dumbfuck with a medical degree who can’t spell “affidavits” correctly.

    Or, if you’re fast enough, correct it before your editing time expires.

  56. 56

    Time’s up. Too late now. You had your chance to avoid looking like an illiterate dumbfuck and blew it.

  57. 57

    Almost forgot. For most of you,

    Today is Steak and BJ Day.

    For Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, it’s Clean Catheter and Fleet Day.

  58. 58

    News out of Pennsylvania.

    All absentees are counted Lamb still up by over 600. There are not 600 provisional ballots to be rejected or certified.

    Major news organizations have called it except of course FOXNews. Their banner headline is there may be a recount and still too close to call.

    WH claiming Lamb won because he embraced Trump policies. Like Universal health care, gun control, choice…

  59. 59

    54,
    Dumbfuck probably thinks turtlenecks make him look smart too.

    Same way he apparently thinks Democrats should start taking campaign advice from Fox News.
    Clinton’s mistake wasn’t calling you assholes “deplorables”. It was backing down from it. The PA 18 results clearly indicate that growing numbers of your fellow Trumpanzees have finally accepted the shame, humiliation, and widespread reprobation your gullibility has earned you.

    You asshats lined up like hungry baby birds to have an emotionally retarded narcissistic sociopath spoon feed you (and Fox News) the incompetent meming of pimply teenaged script kids toiling for beets amid the crumbling ruins of a failed commie empire. You people are a public disgrace and a laughing stock of the developed world who look on in shock and awe as you mindlessly slaughter each other with bump stocks, rage-Tweets, and Gold-buggery scams.

    Hillary Clinton can’t trash you. None of us can. Nothing we say, however critical can penetrate the Orange Event Horizon. You were so determined to punish the dirty hippies, uppity BLM activists, and feminazi bitches that you voluntarily beat us to the punch and trashed yourselves, just to deny us the pleasure.

  62. 62

    Conservatives, hell bent on losing the next generation of now energized voters, have spent the day screaming on Twitter at students walking out of class demanding full background checks, bans on “assualt rifles” and mental health car access are UnAmerican and how dare they when they don’t march out for all the babies killed.

    Students calmly telling them, “This is a Pro-Life Movement #NeverAgain”

    Fetus lives – PROTECT! Living Children – FUCKING COMMIES!

  63. 63

    “South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) says he thinks the National School Walkout is a ‘shameful’ attempt by a left-wing group to use students to further their political agenda.”

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/03/14/gov-mcmaster-walkout-shameful-orig-vstan-bdk.cnn

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Their left-wing political agenda is to not get shot in their classrooms. The right-wing political agenda is to do nothing about the school shootings and mass slaughters committed by gun-toting maniacs.

  64. 64

    …mentally ill misfits who can buy AR-15s with no questions asked.
    Also known as “School Resource Officers”?

  65. 65

    I take 64 back. They don’t shoot the children. They hide quietly in the broom closets.

  66. 66

    @62 They proved a long time ago the only lives they care about are the ones that aren’t born yet. Soldiers, black people, churchgoers, concertgoers, and schoolchildren are expendable.

  67. 67

    Speaking of Fox News giving campaign advice, Chris Stirewalt had some for people who are actually running for office, instead of an old retired lady from Chappaqua.
    “And herein we have the challenge for Republicans: How do you tell people in the same breath that your policies are working, but that America is teetering on the brink of failure? If peace and prosperity aren’t good enough to run on, what would be?”
    Another 9-11 is about all I can think of. Got one of those?

    Wanna know why Trumpanzees in all-white PA-18 can’t be reached by happy talk about jobs and tax cuts? Do ya Chris?
    Because damn near none of them have jobs or pay taxes.
    These are angry old white men and their yet obedient long-suffering wives just hanging in there for the next script for Oxy or trip to Dollywood. If your devotion to Randian pieties means can’t give them a discount from the Scooter Store then you’d better give them a seekrit-Mooslim Kenyan usurper with a fake Hawaiian birth certificate to hate on.

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    How do you know Paul Ryan is lying when he says that Connor Lamb could have run as a Republican?

    Because he’s Paul Ryan, the Roypublican party’s leading intellectual.

    Maybe, possibly, kinda sorta, Connor Lamb could have gotten onto the ballot as a Republican…

    …in 1960.

    But there is no way in hell he could have cut it with the demands of the hooting racist wife-beating mob of Russian enabling child molesters that today passes for the Republican Party. This is some world class shark-jumping here by Ryan. He can’t say dumbassed shit like that and retain his pretense of being “the smart one”. He know exactly who his voters are these days. That’s why he recruited that meatbag in a suit Rick Saccone when Tim Murphy got caught arranging abortions.
    Ryan is toast. To most of his caucus now he just looks like a shiny turd with a big pot of mid-term campaign money to hand out. When that money is gone, so is he.

  70. 70

    That tax scam is sure helping Republicans win these special elections!

    If only that dumbass drumpf would stay away and not run its s-hole mouth

    Heh.

  71. 71

    70,
    according to President Stupid he closed the gap…
    …for Saccone.
    Not only is that weirdness the official talking point from the White House, but Ryan and McConnell are signed on and playing it on auto-repeat.

    I sincerely hope President PornFucker can find the time between golf, naps, Pringles, and Space Force tryouts to visit every single Republican incumbent in their home district and read some happy talk about tax cuts for rich guys from a teleprompter.

  72. 72

    @67 The problem with promising to bring back steel and coal jobs is that you have to bring back steel and coal jobs.

  73. 73

    @71 The problem I see is that given 119 House seats the GOP won by smaller margins than PA-18, that’s too many for Trump to campaign in all of them, so the Dems have to figure out another way to take them off the GOP’s hands.

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    @75 I see Trump is reduced to hiring CNBC contributors. At least I won’t have to see Kudlow on CNBC anymore.

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    Demorat War On America News–
    Townhall
    https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/03/12/why-democrats-would-lose-the-second-civil-war-too-n2459833

    Headline–
    Why Democrats Would Lose the Second Civil War, Too

    Snip–
    It’s obvious that the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans. Taking their cue from the elites in Europe and Canada who are stripping dissenters of their free speech rights and religious freedoms, the leftist elite is moving to solidify its hold on power here with the eager assistance of tech companies and the moral support of the Fredocons who yearn to return to pseudo-relevance as the ruling class’s slobberingly loyal opposition. In California, the leftist government is practically firing on Fort Sumter. And nationally, these aspiring fascists are especially eager to disarm Normal Americans – doing so would be an object lesson in who’s the boss, as well as solving that frustrating problem of the Normals having the ability to resist.

    Democrats, who think history began when Obama was elected, don’t understand the dangerous game they are playing when they talk about how they want to impose their brown shirt vision upon red America. The keyboard commandos of the left seek to hand wave away the massive strategic challenge of imposing control by force upon a well-armed, decentralized citizenry occupying the vast majority of the territory, so they babble about drones and tanks as counterinsurgency trump cards. But there are no trump cards in war. There are men, with rifles, standing on patches of dirt, killing the people trying to push them off. That’s the ugly reality of war. And multiply the usual brutality of war by ten when it’s a civil war.

    There are two Civil War II scenarios, and the left is poorly positioned to prevail in either one. The first scenario is that the Democrats take power and violate the Constitution in order to use the apparatus of the federal government to suppress and oppress Normal Americans. In that scenario, red Americans are the insurgents. In the second scenario, which we can even now see the stirrings of in California’s campaign to nullify federal immigration law, it is the blue states that are the insurgents.

    The Democrats lose both wars. Big time.

    Let’s talk terrain and numbers. Remember the famous red v. blue voting map? There is a lot of red, and in the interior the few blue splotches are all cities like Las Vegas or Denver. That is a lot of territory for a counter-insurgent force to control, and this is critical. The red is where the food is grown, the oil pumped, and through which everything is transported. And that red space is filled with millions of American citizens with small arms, a fairly large percentage of whom have military training.

  79. 79

    In another thread someone posted about the religious zealots saying that they hope Stephen Hawklng went to hell for his comments on religion (or something to that effect.”

    Hawking’s comment that probably set them off:

    “When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/551152-when-people-ask-me-if-a-god-created-the-universe

    And this gem: “Modern physics leaves no place for God in the creation of the Universe” http://www.age-of-the-sage.org.....igion.html

    I can hardly wait to see Piddles’ venom filled hate responses.

    Yet another reason I like and admire him for his science and intellect.

  80. 80

    @79 “In another thread someone posted about the religious zealots saying that they hope Stephen Hawklng went to hell for his comments on religion (or something to that effect.”

    That was me. I disagree there was nothing before the Big Bang. I have it on good authority (an astronomy magazine I found in a dentist’s waiting room) that our universe was created when physicists in the previous universe decided to test their own big bang theory.

  81. 81

    @77

    TLDR
    But I’ll get right on TownHall and it’s right wing views and a lifelong republican OpEd writer’s opinion on what’s wrong with the Democratic Party the proper amount of attention.

    Then I’ll get on, “How Capitalism Can Be Better” a rare work by Mao Tse Tung. Super rare a first edition is like $14,000 if you find it.

    Yeah, the party is doomed. They can’t even win a GOP Gerrymandered district or nearly turn a state chamber in a single election or pick off safe Rs in state races anywhere.

    And have you seen how the GOP is dominating in the new voter outreach? Shit. Gonna be a long winter when the kids start voting NRA GOP in huge numbers

  84. 84

    83,
    And if it’s a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government (which it very much is) then that is one more direct connection to President SpaceForce!, and one more potential cooperating witness.

  86. 86

    White House sources, obviously alarmed by both the stunning collapse of support in Roypublican Trumpland and also by the rapidly accelerating mental decline of President SpaceForce! are sharing with the media tonight reports that the Raging Man-Baby is preparing to shit can Jeff Sessions over Andrew McCabe, then replace him with Scott Pruitt, and also shit can McMaster to be replaced by John Bolton (although the last one may be delayed until he can stop confusing him with Michael Bolton and this guy).

  89. 89

    @85 The “Normal Americans” he speaks of do some very abnormal things, such as fucking farm animals.

  90. 90

    @89 Kinda interesting to see guys like him ranting about waging guerilla warfare against tyranny at a time when they control all three branches of government. Who are they going to fight? Each other? Or are they waiting for the next black guy to get in? (I thought I heard them locking and loading when Ben Carson entered the race, but maybe it was just my imagination.)

  92. 92

    Life as a partisan, by experts on the subject.

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar.....a-partisan

    Generally speaking, you have better housing, clothing, food, medical care, weaponry, and close support if you fight on the government side. Most people become partisans because they have no choice, e.g., if you’re a Jew being hunted by Nazis, either flee to the forest and hide, or stay in the village and die.

  93. 93

    Wherein Trump admits he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when discussing policy with world leaders:

    “President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he made up some of what he said in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, The Washington Post reported. Trump said that, during that meeting, he insisted the U.S. had a trade deficit with Canada without knowing whether that was really the case, according to the Post, which obtained an audio recording of the president’s Wednesday fundraising speech.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/trump-says-he-made-up-information-when-speaking-with-trudeau.html

  94. 94

    Wherein Trump admits he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when discussing policy with world leaders:

    FIFY

  95. 95

    Our doctor hung his hat on $1.50/week tax cuts delivering the vote for the GOP and Putin. It didn’t work out that way, did it? SAD!

  98. 98

    The longstanding goal of GOP tax policy is to eliminate all taxes except those on wages. The entire tax burden is to be borne by labor. This is entirely consistent with the GOP’s messaging on work i.e., if you work very hard to enrich the bosses, you will be rewarded with kind words. Note: Expecting to be paid or get similar tax privileges is a bridge too far; don’t go there. After all, someone has to work and pay taxes, and you can’t expect the privileged classes or their children to do that, because being exempt is the whole point of being privileged.

  99. 99

    ” … Ben Carson said he was as ‘surprised as anyone’ when he learned his staff had ordered a $31,000 dining set, but … [a]n email from Carson’s assistant … cites ‘printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out.’ The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request from … a watchdog group ….”

    https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/14/emails-show-ben-carson-chose-dollar31000-dining-set-despite-denials/23385798/

    Speaks for itself; no comment needed.

  102. 102

    This fuckin’ guy…

    Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA

    “I will be filing a bill tomorrow that will prohibit airlines from putting animals in overhead bins. Violators will face significant fines. Pets are family.”

    One dog dies but kids in schools….

  103. 103

    99,
    sounds like something a Congressional oversight committee might want to investigate. Probably gonna need to see some personal financial records too including gifts, travel, etc. Just this idiot and Ryan Zinke alone will probably account for about 24 investigative committee staff positions in 2019.
    And that’s just one of the ways we build our bench while emptying theirs.

  104. 104

    “Mr. Cohen’s role in President Trump’s 2016 campaign, including but not limited to any payments he made or facilitated to third parties during or in connection with the campaign, is therefore directly relevant to the Action. Therefore, we ask that Ms. Clifford preserve any documents or electronically stored information…”

    Pop quiz! Exactly how much weight do courts give to NDAs in the context of a court issued subpoena?
    Bonus points! How much when the safety school lawyer who wrote the NDA is also the plaintiff bringing the Action?

    Yes. That’s right. It is…
    …another…
    #owngoal

  105. 105

    @102 Take what you can get. Even if Republicans won’t save kids’ lives, at least they should spare the dogs.*

    * They still want to outlaw reporting farm animal abuse, though. If they couldn’t abuse farm animals, they’d have to go without sex.

  107. 107

    @100

    Much better!

    The present administration figure heads make Nixon look like Mother Teresa.

  108. 108

    @105 so long as horses aren’t included….we wouldn’t want Bob to not have some sort of outlet (or inlet).

  110. 110

    $50 says 45 was shocked to see an Indian guy when he was told the Irish PM had arrived.

    Psssstttt… he’s also gay.

  111. 111

    Something important about PA 18 that Dems should not overlook.

    Lamb did it mostly without national party support. He did it without Lujan and the DCCC, without big national donor group PACs, and he did it opposing Nancy Pelosi. That opposition to Pelosi was not just pandering or posturing in a WWCM district. But even if it was, it won’t be when the rubber hits the road. Like every member, Lamb will spend a majority of his time preparing for and running his next campaign. Unique in his case he will be running immediately, maintaining full staffing and operations for his campaign from yesterday morning through November.

    So every vote he takes from now until then will be predicated on the next group of older, more conservative, less educated white people he needs to vote for him. He will remain openly opposed to Nancy Pelosi, and by extension the national party leadership that she represents. If the right vote comes along, he may even break and side with the child molesters.

    National Democrats can’t really take much credit for Lamb. But they may take lessons. And probably a whole lot of moderate Dems running in swing districts carried by President SpaceForce! will closely study and seek to emulate and repeat what he did. So while the mids may shape up to be a blue wave election, it might not be the precise shade of blue some nationally oriented progressive Dems expect. This may be the Dems “Tea Party” year, in which the national party organs are bypassed and de-emphasized to a great extent, at least in terms of Congressional races.

    That has important implications for 2020 and the Presidential primary. Many of these groups of disaffected, aging, less educated, white voters in key swings like PA will not be participating in Dem primaries. But they will participate in November that year. And if the DNC and the Congressional party leadership repeats the mistakes of the past they could earn us all another four years of the Russian puppet show. And don’t kid yourselves that some of them wouldn’t prefer that. For many senior incumbent Dems in Congress, opposition to Fuckface Von Clownstick is powerful political JuJu that makes it easy for them to raise money and deliver votes in their progressive states and districts.

  112. 112

    “The Treasury Department announced sanctions Thursday against several Russian individuals and entities, including a notorious ‘troll farm,’ for their roles related to interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. It is the Trump administration’s most public rebuke yet of Russians over election meddling” that Trump insisted never happened.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/treasury-sanctions-putins-chef-other-russians-over-cyber-related-threats.html

  114. 114

    @111 PA-18 is heavily unionized, the decisive issue in this election was union pensions, and the unions told their members to vote for Lamb because of that issue, so a lot of what happened in PA-18 that won’t transfer to other races. Nevertheless, there are some lessons to be learned.

  116. 116

    114,
    The outcome was hyper-localized. Saccone ran a nationally focused campaign. Inside his own campaign he raised and spent barely one fifth of what Lamb raised and spent. But Saccone benefited from a massive investment of outside money and spending – the mirror image of the campaigns. Outside groups spent more than 10 million in the district on Saccone compared to only 2.5 million on Lamb. Saccone ran as “Trump before Trump knew he was Trump”. Lamb never mentioned Trump’s name.

    My point is these voters responded to the local issues. And they didn’t just ignore the national issue messaging. There’s mounting evidence to suggest that PA 18 voters reacted in direct opposition to the national issue messaging.

    Look, most of these people voted for President SpaceForce! in 2016. Many of them probably regret that now. And that’s a good thing. They should regret it. They should feel ashamed of it. To whatever extent they do, they are that much more likely to want to try to fix their mistake, if not by voting for a Democrat then at least by staying home. But in districts like PA 18 the ones who come to the polls may not respond very positively to a local candidate, asking for their vote, who spends too much time reminding them of what complete fucking idiots they are.

    That’s my job. That’s your job. That’s Stephen Colbert’s job, and Alec Baldwin’s job, and Rex Tillerson’s job (new job) and Robert Mueller’s job. And it’s Doctor Dumbfuck’s job, and Piddles’ job, and Shortbus’ job, and this guy’s job. We got that covered.

    But the candidates themselves, running in these kinds of districts are probably going to go to school on this and stay as far away as they can from mentioning what a disgraceful human being the voters of those districts put in the White House. The DCCC did spend about $1 million in PA for Lamb. But they did it very quietly and they didn’t spend it bitching about President Stupid.

    Part of the reason the Roypublican Party got Cheeto Jesus as their nominee and party boss is because the party leadership set the Presidential primary up to be a contest to crown The Birfer King. They spent eight years honing a national referendum on The Millitant Black Guy. And Trump simply out-bigotted them all. If the DNC responds to nationally focused progressive base Democrats (like us) by creating a primary competition designed exclusively to select the most talented Trump-basher we could lose.

  117. 117

    A new pedestrian bridge at a Florida college campus has collapsed and killed several people.

  118. 118

    It’s fun when they eat their own. Liz Cheney crawled out of her hole because John McCain still thinks torture is bad/illegal.

    The Enhanced Interrogation Program saved lives, prevented attacks, & produced intel that led to Osama bin Laden. The techniques were the same as those used on our own people in the SERE program. No one should slander the brave men & women who carried out this crucial program.

    The multiple publicly released investigative reports conclude the opposite that no actionable intelligence was firebird from torture and in some cases known intelligence attempting to be confirmed through torture was not confirmed. So either you’re lying/making shit up or there needs to be a Congressional investigation about how you, who have never held security clearance knows classified intel. Daddy tell you?

  119. 119

    @118

    Enter Meaghan

    “My father doesn’t need torture explained to him.”

    Mic drop.

  120. 120

    @117

    The construction firm that built the bridge is going to lead to some uncomfortable questions. Ties to Manafort, winners of a contract to build a school for Guantanamo the most expensive ever built by DOD at almost a quarter mil per student, founder also has ties as Cuban CIA collaborator, came under scrutiny for possible kickbacks and below market leases to GOP Dade Co commissioner Bruno Bereirro….

  122. 122

    LMAO!!! Donny Jr, the idiot son of an idiot son.. (Fred Drumpf was total racist piece of work).

    Donny Jr said (in favor of Saccone) “all the other side has is hate”… LOL! This from a frequent reader of the hatestheonlyway pun-idiot.

    Fuck you Donny Jr, idiot son. Your side LOST!

  123. 123

    Hey that kooky karsen is in hot water over that fancy office furniture.. The freak’s minions are expiring like flies.

    The koo-koo may turn out to be one no-good chickenshit LIAR..

    This is real bad news to the babbling butthole troll..

  125. 125

    @123

    Not only is Carson in deep-shit trouble for the furniture, don’t forget about his son: http://thehill.com/homenews/ad.....ons-son-in

    Trump, “I’ll choose the best people for my administration”: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/09/15/trump-ill-choose-the-best-people-for-my-administration.html

    Best at what? Raping and pillaging the country for their own gain? Sure, you betcha!

    Never, ever thought I would say this, but Trump and his clan are making the Wasilla Hillbilly look pretty smart and good by comparison. https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/and-now-your-next-episode-wasilla

    Sad thing is, you just can’t make this shit up.

  128. 128

    If you’re gonna burglarize and vandalize a mosque, it’s probably not a great idea to brag about it on the internet:

    “Tempe police said they arrested two women who broadcast themselves snatching items from a Tempe mosque earlier this month, mocking Muslims for nearly 25 minutes with children in tow. Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer were arrested about 3 p.m. Thursday, according to Detective Lily Duran, a Tempe Police Department spokeswoman. They face felony burglary charges. ‘Based on the details of the crime, an enhancement of hate crime will be considered for sentencing,’ Duran said.”

    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-breaking/2018/03/15/tempe-police-arrest-tahnee-gonzales-elizabeth-dauenhauer-tempe-mosque-incident/430481002/

    But most bigots aren’t deep thinkers to begin with.

  129. 129

    Golly senile idiot wabbit, even the CNN libtards claim if McCabe lied about leaking then he needs punishment… https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/opinions/firing-mccabe-fbi-opinion-campbell/index.html

    However, I am also aware that an FBI special agent’s word is his or her currency, and when an agent jeopardizes his integrity, he or she is no longer of much use to the organization. From the moment newly minted special agent trainees step foot on the grounds at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, they are drilled on the importance of always telling the truth. The FBI’s motto of fidelity, bravery and integrity is plastered on walls throughout the academy and in every field office across the country, always serving as a reminder of the importance of maintaining high professional standards. In the FBI, honesty is a black and white issue, with zero shades of gray.

    PuddyCommentary: Once again the senile stoooooooooooopid idiot wabbit makes a worthless comparison. Can’t compare McCabe to Trump. Why? “an FBI special agent’s word is his or her currency”. So why isn’t McCabe being treated like Michael Flynn? Hmmm…? Why is it a perceived luxury for federal prosecutors and high level special agents that routinely charge others with even borderline false statements (Remember Michael Flynn was exonerated by James Comey) but rarely face such charges themselves. Why does James Comey get a pass when he lied about the documents he took when he left?

    Once again it sux to be roger stooooooooooopid idiot wabbit!

    Till Next Time!

  130. 130

    Once again Mark Levin is 100% correct! http://thehill.com/homenews/me.....ector-test

    “I have a challenge for you: Why don’t you take a lie detector test? Why don’t you take a lie detector test so the American people can be sure that you, all over TV, ubiquitous, you might as well be on airport radar and sonograms. You’re everywhere, sir,” the conservative radio talk show host added. “You tell us you don’t leak. OK, take a lie detector test because I believe you do.”

    PuddyCommentary: Schiff will never take the test. Why? When a libtard speaks all that flows are lies!

    Till Next Time!

  134. 134

    So much loon HATE! Of course, that might not be the loon’s worst quality. Let’s see. There’s the batshit insanity. Oh, and of course, treason.

    Hate, insanity and treason. That’s one fucked up mix. But that’s our loon for you. SAD!

    That said. it’s still nice to see that the loon’s friends haven’t lynched him yet.

  135. 135

    @130

    Levin and Puddy. Now there’s a real Mensa pair right there.

    You know lie detector tests don’t work right? Especially not for trained intelligence officers. You know they aren’t considered reliable enough to be used in a legal setting?

    I took one in college to get a promotion that involved handling a large sum of cash on a daily basis. “Have you ever knowingly violated company policy?” “No” That was a lie. “Have you ever used company resources for personal matters?” “No” That was a lie.

    I passed and got the job.

    Meanwhile, a pissant former nobody in a long gone administration bleating on the radio about a sitting Congressman…. yeah, He’ll get right on that.

  137. 137

    @129 ” … if … lied … then … needs punishment … ”

    You do understand how ironic this statement is, and how silly and hypocritical it makes you look, don’t you?

  138. 138

    The gender pay gap has little or nothing to do with a company having lots or few sexual harassment claims. If you compare two software engineers of opposite sexes of similar backgrounds at Microsoft you will find a very small gap or no gap. If you compare Boeing engineers or Boeing line workers you will find the same thing. If you compare public school teachers you will discover a very small pay gap. Now the fact public school teachers are not paid as much as cops is much more interesting. When you compare traditionally male and traditionally female occupations some things stand out such as the poor pay women get. It has nothing to do with sexual harassment. It has to do with men willing to go where the work is. To put in longer hours. To be available at all hours. To do messy jobs. In occupations where women are willing to do those same things there is little or no gap in pay.
    Still societies willingness to pay police a lot more than teachers clearly is in part because of society placing more value on the male dominated occupation. Pay more and you will have more male teachers. If society respected teaching like in Japan, and Europe and you will have more male teachers.

  139. 139

    @1 What situation worse? And are these wife beaters running as wife beaters? In Afghanistan it can be ok, or politically astute to run as a wife beater. In a very few nations it can be politically astute to run as a husband beater. And then there is spousal mistreatment in the gay, and lesbian community. And we are not even touch BDSM where some folks want to be beaten, is it ok for a male politician to beat his wife because she likes it and they are into BDSM? And the spankings are just for fun?

  140. 140

    @2 And Paul Ryan’s PAC supported Lamb. And Lamb is very conservative and out Republicaned the Republican. So no in such a race the Republican tax plan is not going to be a big issue.
    So are the fun recounts starting yet? Maybe in the end it will be decided by a coin toss.

  141. 141

    @3 Of course using the Socratic method the question has a problem as it must assume that Judge Carlos Muguia is a resident of an area that is purging its records. It’s possible as a Federal judge he is not a resident of the city the district court is in. Or even the state the court is in. This is even more true of Appeals and Supreme Court judges. Was a federal judge purged? Of not then the folks doing this are not doing a particularly good job or purging people with foreign names off the rolls.

  142. 142

    @7 Just when did the Atlanta Federal Reserve become the National prognosticator for the US? Not like I’ve heard of that, nor have I heard the name of the ground hog at the Atlanta zoo. Two things in Atlanta with no claim to fame, wonder why? Now coca cola still makes a refreshing splash, and stock is traded. And that Fanta brand is going strong, wonder if it’s a favorite drink of the black panthers, as opposed to RC cola. Wouldn’t a Fanta ge better with a moon pie?

  143. 143

    @10 Assuming the Dems will vote as a united block is an assumption, and if Senator Ryan I a true two faced politician he can count on some of his Democratic colleagues to give him cousin. And just how is VP Pence going to vote…

  144. 144

    @11 Yes a federal employee who has been around for 30 years is golden, and can just retire, and generally is fire proof. As far as an impeached President not getting his retirement, security detail, is an assumption. And impeachment has no effect on a Presidents retirement pay

  145. 145

    @41 Does not matter what Sessions does. He already has his retirement in the bag. Sessions is going to screw him out of 5 percent? The difference between retiring at 29 years and 30 years. In any case Uncle Sam owes the guy a retirement unless Sessions charges him with a crime and he goes to Federal Prison, and even then he may receive his retirement.

    https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/fers-information/eligibility

  147. 147

    @46 Upset because you did not get to put on your editor hat? Or you selectively use your editing skills on some, but not those who politically agree with you? You would do Pravda proud.
    You would never make it as a Stars and Stripes editor as you would be expected to be harder on friends than on other colleagues.

  148. 148

    @55 It’s ok he is a doctor and allowed to screw up legal speak. And he could have been going for the more manly, and heroic avowal.

  149. 149

    @56 You do realize the use of the word dumbfuck really lessens the point you were trying to make. Rather passive aggressive, and even troll like. Of course it’s ok as you are not a Russian troll, so your trollish behavior is of no importance. Please do not go out in the sunlight as you may suffer severe stiffening.

  151. 151

    @72 China’s President for life can do bring back coal and steel jobs. Not just because he is a magic man.

  153. 153

    @152

    Like pointing out that PA law says there can’t be one except in very narrow circumstances? So far, PA-GOP has yet to find sufficient legal justification for a recount.

    But they can whine about it. To paraphrase, why didn’t they use 2009-2015 full control of the legislature and Governor to pass a new recount law if they didn’t want to have to follow it?

  154. 154

    140,
    Know what? If you hapless gullible dumbshits are going to deploy obvious bullshit to assassinate your own leadership I’m perfectly okay with that. And if you want to sleep through a wave year mid term dreaming about mythical far away recount triumphs that’s cool with me too.
    You go girl.

  155. 155

    Last night more WH sources confirmed Kevin Drum’s reporting from a day earlier that the idiot man-baby President SpaceForce! is going to replace National Security Advisor McMaster with John Bolton. Bolton’s principle qualification is that he is invested in starting two entirely new wars: one in the Middle East, this time in Iran, and a conventional ground invasion of North Korea. Bolton has proposed supporting these war efforts by re-instituting a military draft and imposing a federal sales tax like the EU’s VAT.

    #winning! #youbuiltthat #MakeAmericaBleedAgain

  156. 156

    T Sec spent over $1 million on military aircraft travel in six months between spring and fall 2017. Didn’t fly commercial even once. Wouldn’t even fly private charter. No explanation offered.
    https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-gets-mnuchin-travel-documents/

    Manifests indicate T Sec’s wife and chosen media were included on a number of trips. Most common aircraft was C40B – a luxury business modified 737-700, C40B employs a crew of 10, has multiple fully staffed galleys, conference rooms, fully equipped sleeping accommodations, and high tech multimedia rooms. Average passenger manifest count was 18. Average cost per passenger: over $10,000.

    #swampdraining

  160. 160

    We already know Republicans hate teachers and students. Now, a teacher has caught a Republican governor fibbing about her pay — and proved it by shoving her paycheck up his lying ass.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elisabeth-milich-arizona-teacher-posts-pay-stub-salary-nearly-unlivable/

    It also should be noted that the Republican governor in question is a multimillionaire businessman who has been criticized as a “sleazebag” for his ruthless business practices and a tax deadbeat.

    http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com.....me-6445884

  161. 161

    @138 “If you compare two software engineers of opposite sexes of similar backgrounds at Microsoft you will find a very small gap or no gap. If you compare Boeing engineers or Boeing line workers you will find the same thing. If you compare public school teachers you will discover a very small pay gap.”

    I can’t make these comparisons, Mark, because I don’t have the pay data you’re citing. Can you please provide the data or sources you’re relying on? Thanks.

    Carl didn’t provide much information, either, but he did provide some basis for his argument, however sketchy.

  162. 162

    @139 “In Afghanistan it can be ok, or politically astute to run as a wife beater.”

    If you’re running as a Taliban candidate.

  164. 164

    @142 Whatever its shortcomings, the Atlanta Federal Reserve knows more about the economy than you do.

  166. 166

    @145 “Does not matter what Sessions does.”

    Not so. There would be a significant financial impact on McCabe and his family:

    “If he makes it to his 50th birthday on Sunday while still in federal service, he’s eligible to begin drawing a full pension immediately under provisions that apply to federal law enforcement officers, said Kimberly Berry, a lawyer in Arlington, Virginia, who specializes in federal retirement issues.”

    Whereas, “if McCabe is dismissed, he will probably be eligible to begin collecting his pension at about age 57, although he would likely lose access to federal health coverage and would probably get a smaller pension than if he were to stay on the federal payroll through Sunday, experts said.”

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/andrew-mccabe-fbi-legal-recourse-jeff-sessions-466603

    My guess is lawyers and experts specializing in federal retirement issues know more about this than you do.

  167. 167

    Doctor Dumbfuck posted that McCabe deserves to be fired and lose his pension if he lied.

    I’d like to hear what Doctor Dumbfuck thinks Trump’s punishment should be if HE lied.

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