The snow was nice yesterday, but where is it today? I wanted more. Oh well. It’s still nice and chilly.
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Dow 30,000 here we come.
And what exactly did he say?
Who would know better about being discriminated against as a minority? The gay guy or the white guy or the white woman?
@1 I know, it’s so exciting! My 401K is doing so well!
Makes me want to forget that Climate change will kill me.
Bob, next time you accuse me of barebacking 50 guys in an alley, remember I was probably drunk!
Who would know better about being discriminated against as a minority?
Excellent question.
I find myself leaning toward the people who were rounded up to be branded like cattle and then bred, chained, and whipped in slavery for 1200 generations.
But maybe that’s too simplistic?
Where’s Jordan Peterson when we really need him.
@5
Exactly….so vote for the Hump over Mayor Pete, should the Mayor become the nominee.
Based on the suggestion above – I would think that the question last night regarding beating The Hump and having to do so with the African American vote is pretty stupid, when the alternative is to have The Hump as President.
If he’s doing this:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-renews-attack-lightbulbs-goes-113230094.html
can’t we assume it’s because it is polling well among the “diehard Trump supporters” like bot-farm?
And what does that say about “diehard Trump supporters” like bot-farm that, having apparently restored all the COAL JERBS and completed WALLLLL!!!, they are now preparing to wage their next imaginary war on dish spots.
We’ve had a black man as president. This minority group is ~ 12-13% of the US population.
We haven’t had a woman as president. This demographic group is 50% of the US population and a majority of those who vote.
We haven’t had an admittedly gay man as president. The LGBT clan is, what, 10% of the US population?
Any real discussion of electing as president someone from a previously unrepresented group really doesn’t go past electing a woman. Just not Hillary or Warren, please. Let’s elect an honest one.
“Dow 30,000 here we come.”
Raises a question. Why is our Clinton-hating, racist radiologist always coming here to inform us that he’s still getting his DJIA ass kicked by both a black Muslim usurper from Kenya and a Clinton?
Some companies seem to be recovering from the financial pain caused by the opioid issue.
Allergan up from around $156 in mid-August to $193.91 today.
Mylan up from around $17 in early November to $22.24 today.
And then there’s MNK, which sank like a stone and hasn’t recovered.
No point to this, just some observations.
Did he speak to any of the members, like the other non black members. So the guy didn’t think to reach out because of his inexperience. Did other Dem candidates do something similar? Did Steyer reach out to any African Americans before contemplating to run?
yeah those white ones are usually Republicans. And the black voters are Democrats – no surprise with the white homophobes….and no surprise with the black homophobes, young or old.
More than 1 year ago, back when “diehard Trump supporters” like bot-farm were still counting on the Democratic primary contest to be a rugby scrum of pink pussy hats, Angela Davis afros, and chants of Burn, baby burn!, the both-siderist media gaslighters they depend on were still predicting that the GangRape nomination would produce a RED WAVE. And believe it or not, that Michael Avenatti would shape the primary debates:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/14/michael-avenatti-2020-democratic-primary-219910
He was re-arrested yesterday.
So instead, since one after another of the debates have stuck to kitchen table issues and conformed to established political norms, “diehard Trump supporters” like bot-farm and media gaslighters have had to turn to Tulsi and Klobuchar rants.
While the RapeFantasy president they support blames it all on shower heads.
We could never, ever, ever, possibly do universal health care.
Something fifteen of the other G20 economies do with ease, would be a post-apocalyptic nightmare for us in the United States.
@8 not sure what electing anyone because of anything like race, color, religion or sexual orientation matters, except for not wanting to elect anyone just because of any of those factors – that’s the problem.
“Let’s elect an honest one.”
So what’s your definition of “honest” these days, dumbfuck? Less than 20,000 lies being told to America’s citizens? If so, you might want to consider bumping that up to 30,000.
8,
Self-confessed “diehard Trump supporter” sez some stupid fake shit about honesty.
So, which one did it vote for in 2016:
The GOP nominee who confessed to a lengthy history of violent sexual assaults against his terrified female employees?
Of the GOP nominee who confessed to fabricating fantastic false claims about a history of violent sexual assaults in order to impress media nobodies?
I honestly voted for Hillary Clinton because all she’s ever been guilty of is being the most exonerated politician in history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/12/hillary-clinton-most-exonerated-politician-ever/
9,
That’s his unique way of signifying tribal affiliation.
One thing we can say with confidence is that once you get past all the bigotry, the mewling rank-and-file of GOP voters and “diehard Trump supporters” will consistently vote against their own self-interest.
@ 12
Kitchen table issues and established political norms, Democrat debate 2019 edition:
What Castro meant when he said trans women need access to abortions
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/julian-castro-debate-abortion-1385950
There is still that contingent of voters who refuse to normalize the necessity of cleaning feces out of the external penile orifice after one man fucks another in the ass.
I believe the term used by your ilk to describe those voters is “Deplorables”.
17,
When it is cornered it lashes out by diving into the TIME MASHEEN to go after a non-candidate and resorting to discussion of his toileting difficulties.
Character is destiny.
Like Every Republican You Know, it voted for one of those two GOP nominees – The Rapist or The Mental Patient.
I’m not celebrating that one of the GOP leading contenders for flipping CT-5 is a lying, child-support evading, credit fraudster, neck deep in Ukrainegate and trying to get a US Ambassador assassinated.
I’m celebrating that he’s so well connected in what passes for insider circles in the modern GOP:
https://mobile.twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1217287205766553601
I just hope he remembers to spend as much of that GOP donor money on himself as he can before he loses in November. Duncan Hunter has some free time and is down to party!
@19 Is there a Republican who hasn’t had a thumbs up pic taken with those fucktards?
Apparently “thumbs up” is a signal to Putin that all is going as planned.
For some odd reason I can imagine that as doctor exits the barn he pauses and takes a thumbs up selfie with the horse and sends it Vladimir.
Every man who runs for president is sexist if there’s also a woman in the race.
Matthew Dowd✔
@matthewjdowd
You know one clear way to demonstrate that you believe a woman can and should be president? Don’t try to defeat a woman running for President.
8:18 AM – Jan 14, 2020
21,
When cornered it may also resurrect a randomly useful Bush-bot to use as a scarecrow.
BOOOO!
The last time “diehard Trump supporters” got anywhere remotely close to having a woman to nominate Dumbfucks could see Chernobyl from Skagway. You betcha!
I’m still reviewing the debate. But I have had a chance to do a few keyword searches of the transcript.
@17 Lots of talk about global market access and universal healthcare access. But not a single mention of bathroom access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/politics/indiana-republican-transgender-rights-bathroom.html
#youbuiltthat
And once it was built, you voted for it too.
@3 If a North Korean nuke doesn’t get you first.
More likely, however, you will die from a treatable ailment your insurance won’t pay for — if you have insurance.
The GOP doesn’t need death camps. Their health policies will do the trick.
@7 “they are now preparing to wage their next imaginary war on dish spots”
That’s a typo. You meant “sun spots.”
https://bloggingblue.com/2010/08/ron-johnsons-explanation-for-global-warming-sunspots/
@8 I’ll take Murkowski or Collins over Trump, if your party is willing.
From my point of view, neither is ideal, but neither is a dog and I’d take any dog from my local pound over the individual your party actually elected president.
Which says something about your party and its voters, including you. Even your horse laughs at you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U91Zp9wWS30
The GOP would love to use literacy tests to eliminate black voters. They don’t dare use competency tests, because that would eliminate their voters.
@10 “No point to this, just some observations.”
You should post this disclaimer with all your comments.
Callback.
Susan Collins is going to agonize over her decision and do exactly what Mitch tells her to do.
Susan on Parnas documents that include the possibility of assassinating a U.S Ambassador:
@15 So far they haven’t even made a parking ticket stick, and how many millions of taxpayer dollars did they spend?
@17 I wonder how many voters out there (I mean, besides you) actually care about one man fucking another man in the ass, as long as it isn’t their ass?
I suspect most voters have bigger fish to fry than that.
You, of course, do not — being who you are.
@21 “Every man who runs for president is sexist if there’s also a woman in the race.”
Not really. It takes work. And it’s about the only real work Trump ever did in his life. You shill for him anyway, because you empathize with what he is.
@29 “well doesn’t that suggest that the House did an incomplete job then?”
Absolutely — it suggests the House didn’t prosecute enough people for contempt of its subpoenas. We can assume Pelosi et al. won’t make that mistake next time. And there will be a next time if this rogue president isn’t removed from office, and especially if he succeeds in cheating and smearing his way to re-election.
It also suggests Susan Collins is toilet paper for Mitch McConnell’s ass. Maine voters might take an interest in that come November.
Are we all clear on this now?
For Every Republican You Know it is now an established norm that their political leadership will routinely interact and socialize with criminals who openly plot the assassination of high ranking US officials.
That’s pretty devastating, if you think about it.
That Republicans have no other choice at this point but to pretend that the Parnas/Hyde/Giuliani interactions are normal and unremarkable is a indelible feature of the ride-or-die Trumpism they’ve all signed up for. But normalizing the discussion of a hit on a US Ambassador is the kind of thing that results in permanent change of ideology and character.
This is Every Republican You Know now.
And perhaps the most amazing aspect of this is how this incremental creep of degradation maintains a steady pace. Because never-Trump Republicans are so unwilling to offer any criticism of Republican Trumpers, there are really no brakes on this disaster. Let’s face it, one way or another Trump is probably clinically mentally ill. So the blame for this catastrophe really lies with the tens of thousands of leading Republican officials, donors, operatives and supporters who have all signed on to back Trump no matter what. Never Trumpers who stand to one side while their own house is burning, surrounding the fire engine but refusing to pump, are no less responsible for the resulting homelessness.
@29 the woman is beyond a Dumbfuck. Complete dumbfuck and deserves her pussy grabbed, not that anyone would ever go near that rotten fishy cunt.
So, I see China agreed to purchase a dollar amount of U.S. agricultural products that’s less than the taxpayer-funded tariff-impact subsidies Trump shelled out to farmers beleaguered by his trade policies. And this, of course, will be of no help at all to the farmers who’ve already gone bankrupt.
#artofthedeal
#winning
#maga
Some deplorables believe the earth is flat and the sun is a golden chariot. They and most of the rest believe the earth is only 6,000 years old and that Baby Jesus and loon will soon float down on a silver-lined cloud to rescue them, stranding the rest of us on burning Hell-planet.
This is to say that the earth presently being aflame is for them a very good thing. They bid it come because to them it’s another sign that Baby Jesus and loon are on their way.
Sad, though. Because Doctor Dumbfuck is an immoral sinner, we’re going be stuck with him on a burning planet for eternity after they all leave earth.
The horse fucker that he is.
@37 I don’t mind if they float up into the heavens and don’t come back down. In fact, I encourage it; we’d see the last of them. But the way I see it is they have no right to set the planet on fire or burn the rest of us on their way out.
It appears the Biblical prophecy was accurate, though; this time fire, not water, will end the world as we know it. Which makes sense; God isn’t dumb. She already tried fire, but it didn’t work; they’re still here.
Too funny!
“One day after being caught up in President Donald Trump’s impeachment, the Connecticut Republican Party is asking Robert Hyde to end his congressional bid.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/robert-hyde-should-end-his-bid-for-congress-connecticut-gop-says-impeachment-figure-is-hurting-republicans/
Maybe Hyde will end up sharing a cell with Doctor Dumbfuck’s orange moron jr. That way when I tell those two dumbfucks to go fuck each other, they get down to the business at hand lickity split.
“Indicted Giuliani associate used pro-Trump super PAC official to forward Ukraine talking points to the president’s son: report”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/indicted-giuliani-associate-used-pro-trump-super-pac-official-to-forward-ukraine-talking-points-to-the-presidents-son-report/
Good fucking grief!
“Trump literally unable to read US Constitution while filming HBO documentary: New book”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-literally-unable-to-read-us-constitution-while-filming-hbo-documentary-new-book/
“Trump didn’t know basic Pearl Harbor history when he visited famous Hawaii memorial: report”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-didnt-know-basic-pearl-harbor-history-when-he-visited-infamous-hawaii-memorial-report/
I’ll spare Doctor Dumbfuck the trouble.
“But, but Hillary was so…awful.”
31,
When it comes to ass fucking and cleaning shit off dicks, as far back as Masters and Johnson and right up to the present day, the statistics have never lied*.
The greatest expertise will be found among heterosexual men.
One must assume that this is the rare instance where bot-farm “diehard Trump supporter” speaks from ample experience.
*At least, they’ve never lied enough to suit the bigoted thumper right.
Not exactly what I’d call a good news day for Doctor Dumbfuck.
“‘Trump knew exactly what was going on’: Lev Parnas tells MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ‘he lied’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-knew-exactly-what-was-going-on-lev-parnas-tells-msnbcs-rachel-maddow/
“But, but Hillary was so…awful.”
Heh. Fecal iceberg. Rick Wilson comes up with some good ones.
“New Trump revelations are a ‘fecal iceberg’ that will only lead to more damning info: Rick Wilson”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/new-trump-revelations-are-a-fecal-iceberg-that-will-only-lead-to-more-damning-info-rick-wilson/
So what does Doctor Dumbfuck have to say about all this?
“But, but Hillary was so…awful.”
44,
Try to imagine the level of utter crotch staining panic the campaign would have to be in, for them to seriously contemplate ordering the assassination of one of our own ambassadors to help fix the election.
“And then I realized, like I was shot. Like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought ‘My God the genius of that’.”
Every Republican You Know is now Colonel Kurtz. And bot-farm is Captain Colby.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Defend Terrorists News – Demorat Scumbag Tries To Kick Wounded Soldier-Congressman Off Stage For Calling Out Demorat Terrorist-defenders.
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Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal tech who lost both legs in Afghanistan, made quite the statement Tuesday when he used part of his time to sit in silence during a congressional hearing, demanding witnesses name a single fallen soldier that doesn’t justify killing Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani.
“I want to ask a question which some people may call rhetorical,” Mast said. “If you walk out this hallway and you take a right and another right and another right, you are going to come to several beautiful walls that have the names of our fallen service members on the War on Terror. I would ask, can any of you provide me one name on that wall that does not justify killing Soleimani. I got 2 minutes and 30 seconds, I will be more than happy to sit here and wait. Somebody provide me the name on the wall that does not justify his killing.”
After a long silence, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel said, “The gentleman may continue.”“I am continuing Mr. Chairman,” Mast replied. “I got 2 minutes remaining, I will sit here and wait for somebody to provide me with the name on that wall that did not justify the killing of Soleimani.”
“I think you made your point. You are out of order,” Engel fired back.
“I will not yield back my time,” Mast insisted. “You are out of order for reclaiming my time.”
“You are out of order. You are out of order Mr. Mast. You made your point,” Engel repeated.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/15/brian-mast-n2559537
@46 Quit fucking that goat and kill yourself, traitor.
That Parnas interview? Jesus Fucking Christ! You goddamned motherfucking traitors.
Pence is up to his neck. All of them are. Get on with that fucking senate trial NOW! With witnesses! These goddamned fucking traitors have to be removed from office ASAP and arrested! Better yet, just line all these motherfucking traitors up against a wall and be done with it. We can hold the senate trial later once our country is safe and secure.
Your next comment is likely to define just who and what you really are, Doctor. I suggest you give thought to posting a comment, just one, that would reveal to us that for at least a minute or so that you can be both a Republican and a patriot. You can go back to your usual schtick after that and have fun.
For my part, I believe you can do it. You’d have to elevate your game, of course, but if you did, you could be one of the best trolls in America and you wouldn’t have to live in shame the rest of your life, thinking on your sins.
@46
Stick it up your ass mother fucker….go boo an American soldier for his right to free speech on National TV.
Go fuck yourself. You mother fucking hypocrite.
I’ve always told him that it’s not too late. Still isn’t in my eyes. All he has to do is say one sentence to redeem himself.
It’s shameful to even be an American today. Shameful that this shit is being tolerated by the fucking crazy mother fuckers.
oh how bob wished Madow was crying tonight.
There is scum roaming this country…..but hey, great day on the market…..50 fucking thousand!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/who-robert-hyde-latest-character-trump-impeachment-scandal-has-wild-n1116656
They need to stick their thumbs up their ass.
You know who could help these dumbfucks? The Hump! They just need to vote for him in 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-miners-block-coal-train-protest-pay-n1116096
A job installing some type of renewable energy source I’m sure looks good the them now, or at least should.
Where is the fucking turtle?
@49 I know what you mean. Me too. And when we start putting the deplorables in FEMA camps, I’d put a good word in for the doctor. “He’s not really one of them. For us it was just a game. You should let him go.”
Pretty awkward that a few hours before Parnas tosses everyone under the bus every single House Republican votes to say, “There is literally nothing wrong with any of this.”
260 Dems next Congress? 270?
They literally have no other choice.
Think about it. Every single one of these people began this sad decent into degradation by making a conscious decision to accept and normalize what they heard on that Access Hollywood tape. That first step was itself irreversible. And every step since has been just as irreversible. They cannot return from this.
Never Trumpers who dream of a journey back, and shy Trumpers who pray for collective amnesia are living an extended lie merely hoping to run out the clock leaving it all for some future generation to try and make sense of.
Now bear in mind that part of how all that works, part of how they normalize this kind of corruption and criminality is when part of the story falls apart even a little bit. Be assured, some part of Parnas’ allegations will prove to be false. And over running the story and getting ahead of it before all the facts can be corroborated will be how they make peace with it.
Well the ‘Pelosi’s delay gained nothing and made Dems look petty” take didn’t hold up.
See timing. Had Mitch wrapped up a sham trial last week we wouldn’t have Parnas, notes, emails, WhatsApp….
Fox News would be wall rock wall ‘sour grapes’ and Double Jeopardy (not applicable to impeachment but theirTrue fans aren’t that sophisticated)
Instead you got the GOP self own of a unanimous vote against impeachment and then ‘boom goes the dynamite’
On to the GOP senate.
“We think Hunter Biden did something and should testify.”
Dem Senate
“Cool cool. We have solid proof the President’s personal lawyer did something. He should testify. And Bill Barr. And Bolton. Request to submit facts into record.”
Mitch. “Denied.” Or “Fuck! Really don’t have a choice here.”
GOP Twitter “Somebody did something, Ilhan”
Devin Nunes 2019, “I will sue any Congressman who says I had ANY relationship with Lev Parnas.”
Devin Nunes 2020, “I didn’t recognize the name Parnas but yeah the phone records I talked to some guy named Lev and well I guess that was him.”
Merl Haggard 1996
“ And I’m duckin’ and dodgin’ and dancin’ out here in Bakersfield”
@46 Fair enough. He asked a question and got his answer: No one in that chamber would sacrifice a single American hero to keep that Iranian terrorist alive. So you can pack up your failed smear and go back to whatever sink you crawled out from under.
@56 Republicans want their policies, and they’re willing to support a lawless charlatan to get them, which tells you everything you need to know about Republican morals. They don’t have any.
@57 Rachel Maddow was asked why Parnas agreed to be interviewed. She said he figures he’s a lot safer if he talks, because if he kept all this stuff in his head, it would be easy for it to get “lost.”
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rachel-to-lawrence-lev-parnas-knows-the-truth-will-become-known-76858437508
Warren: “I think you called me a liar on national TV.”
Someone should. Trump certainly will.
62,
racist incel bot-farm traitor mewling about lies right after fabricating a metric shit-ton of lies about MAGA-Teen.
Republican “diehard Trump supporters” wear lying and hypocrisy as well as they wear plotting to assassinate US officials and rape.
Every Republican You Know
Pre trade war, 1year $185b exports to China.(USDA)
Post best deal ever, you won’t believe the things I’m doing for my great country, it’s all in how to make a deal…
2years, $200b
Left $170b behind while costing American businesses and taxpayers about $45b in increases import costs (Americansforfreetrade, sounds like a buncha soshulists)
Can someone translate, “This Motherfucker Couldn’t negotiate trading a child a Hershey bar for their pound of broccoli” into Chinese?
Non partisan Government Accountability Office (deeeeeeep state):
President Trump broke a budget law when he held up military aid for Ukraine last year, a government watchdog agency said in a decision Thursday.
The move violated the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which says the White House Office of Management and Budget must alert Congress before delaying or denying money that has been appropriated by Congress and signed into law.
The refusal of the State Department and OMB to provide information requested for the GAO investigation has “constitutional significance,” agency counsel Thomas H. Armstrong adds, because it blocks the legislative branch from doing its job.“
That last paragraph, refusing to cooperate with a DIFFERENT government investigation. Wonder if that will trouble Susan Collins?
And the hits keep coming…
Well they finally announced publicly they were investigating something.
Look over there….Stock Market!
Martha McSally is having a bad day.
And she’s been wildly out fundraised and faces a big cash on hand deficit to s hero astronaut with the law abiding gun purchase victim congressman wife….
How long before RNC/RNSC washes their hands of her or will they be forced to spend since the Top of the Ticket can’t afford losing 11 EVs under her coattails?
Here’s where a certain GOP President and partisan hack would imply she’s emotional because that time of the month and bleeding disgusting. They’re the weaker sex you know.
@67 Where? Oh over there!
Really does make you want to forget about all the problems in the World. Ice melt? But my 401k is doing soooo swell. United States of Putin? But fuck, the 401k is doing so soooo swell. Good thing I’m not black, because my 401k is doing so swell!
“…or will they be forced to spend since the Top of the Ticket can’t afford losing 11 EVs under her coattails?”
Yabbutt, um, Wisconsin… ish.
For a solid year we’ve been hearing about how the GOP Senate/EV map would open up at any moment. Billionaire tax cut was gonna do it. USMCA was gonna do it. Coal Jerbs was gonna do it. Imaginary invisible “pendulum swing” was gonna do it. Hunter Biden* was gonna do it. And now ‘Peachment” “Fuck Off Liberal Hack” gonna do it.
Yet when the gaslight smoke clears all we see is the GOP preparing to trade away their teeny tiny thin little dime for a great big fat nickle. One of the peculiarities built into our Senate system and Electoral College system is that there are times when “consolidating winnings” will produce long term structural losses. DLC Democrats learned this the hard way under Obama.
I guess now it’s the GOP’s turn.
If demographics are destiny Democrats were going to pick up Arizona and North Carolina eventually anyway. Brain cancer, bathroom bills, preexisting conditions, and McCrae Dowless just make it happen sooner.
There are always choices and compromises to be made. The GOP didn’t have to appoint an unhinged racist Trumper to fill McCain’s seat any more than they had to nominate a drunken gang rapist to the Supreme Court.
*Doesn’t it seem like it was only yesterday that bot-farm “diehard Trump supporter” was name dropping Hunter Biden in every single comment? Hey! Wha happen??
Susan Collins pulled her head out of president RapeFantasy’s ass long enough to announce that it is “way too soon” to decide if Hunter Biden should be called to testify at the RapeFantasy impeachment.
She also announced that “right now” is the perfect time to declare that Lev Parnas should be barred from testifying about the RapeFantasy administration plot to assassinate a US ambassador at the direction of Vladimir Putin.
Since the opening of the impeachment hearings the White House and the GOP have stuck to a defense script that featured the broad claim that there was nothing “illegal”. That claim was in turn supported by three main claims as follows:
-RapeFantasy Ukraine scheme was “fighting corruption” in Ukraine by ordering withholding of vital military defense assistance;
-Bidens were involved in the corruption;
-No need for a real Senate trial with witnesses and evidence because there’s nothing more to be learned about the scheme.
The documents Parnas shared with the House committee have obliterated all three of those claims.
Heh.
“FBI shows up at Parnas associate Robert Hyde’s home and business after he’s implicated in Ukraine scandal”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/fbi-shows-up-at-parnas-associate-robert-hydes-home-and-business-after-hes-implicated-in-ukraine-scandal/
Be glad they don’t come for you, Doctor. But if they do, I promise I’ll be there for you…
“Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!”
I gave you a chance of redemption @47 and you didn’t take it. That’s it. No more, traitor.
2019 Seattle A tale of VC in the Craft Beer/Restaurant industry
Mudede has a piece up over at the Stranger about gentrification generally and eateries in particular. It should be right up Dumbfuck’s alley as it ponders what happens when “middle” places are all gone.
Story number one. Homebrewer scrapes up some money and buys a tiny commercial brew set up and starts making really out there beers with strange ingredients in a nearly empty SoDo multi-use building. The beers develop a following among the Uber Beer Nerds which moves over to the foodie types when chefs like Tom Douglas add them to tasting menus because, Shitake Mushroom beer with Glazed duck wings or Sichuan Peppercorn beer with Tandoori Roti or Oolong Tea beer with BBQ Pork Bao (real things at one time at Bravehorse).
The little taproom starts serving a very small menu of inventive small plates (savory watermelon soup?) and is reviewed well and the place is jamming with beer nerds, foodies and growler fillers.
Then the VC guy comes on the scene with a dream of opening a big space in South Lake Union with a celebrity chef and beer dining. So the brewery packs up, buys some more equipment and the place opens to not much notice. It gets reviewed and most of the things being written are about the odd uneven food that’s $20-30 an entree and the beer is largely forgotten. Soon the VC guy fires the chef and switches over to pub grub with a twist (really, you can put peanut butter on a hamburger and dust fries with truffle oil? Zuccini Fritters…in a sandwich?) but it’s South Lake Union so the prices can only come down so far and still pay for the building.
It’s gone now (Q1 2019) and last I heard the homebrewer was contact brewing in Tacoma making standard IPAs under a Label that exists only as a bar and six pack offering but has no taproom and not much notice in the beer world. Trader Joe’s buys and sells a lot of it.
Story number 2:
Local beer couple mortgage everything and open a brewery, again in SoDo. It’s doing pretty well. The beers are selling and the beer community embraces it. Instead of going the food truck route they add a kitchen to the space and the beer brunches become kind of legendary though the week night menu is really just breaking even. The food is a means to the beer. Then they get a contract to sell at Safeco and Century Link. Sounders fans embrace the brewery as a pre-match location. Sounders players are known to come in after matches for food and beers. But they are having trouble keeping up with demand.
So they invite in the VC guy who in exchange for a majority stake (they should have known better) in the company upgrades the brewing capacity nearly triple and things are going great. Then the VC guy notices the food isn’t really profitable so drops it. The weekend brunch crowd disappears as does the prematch eat and drink beforehand crowd. Weekends in SoDo are like a mausoleum in the once busy space.
So the beer isn’t selling as well on premises where a brewery can get all the profit out of a keg instead of selling it at much much smaller margin to a bar or stadium which then realize the bulk of that profit. And tap house selections are a mercurial thing and the next brewer to come along often replaces a handle that’s a couple years old so now the brewery has excess capacity and unsold inventory. After another six months or so of a nearly dead taproom the VC guy adds alcoholic sparkling water over the objections of the founding couple. Then he realizes that adding table sugar to water and letting the yeast do it’s thing is much more profitable per package than barley and hops so he fires the brewing staff and brings in lower cost brewers and more automation and tells the founders it’s his company and he can do what he wants. They sell their remaining interest at a deep discount.
Just read an article about how this new market for Hard Seltzer is booming with Boston Beer and White Claw dominating but smaller companies are hemorrhaging money trying to get a piece of that. I know anecdotally that PCC and Metropolitan market have dropped the local upstart from their shelves. There’s not much ‘local’ loyalty when you’re talking about water, sugar and natural flavor as opposed to in-state sourced hops and Cascadian grown grain. You can name it after a local place but it’s still tap water and sugar and yeast and extracted ‘essence’. You can’t say ‘Artisan, pay me $2 more per 6 than that corporate swill’ when you’re talking about tap water and sugar and flavoring. The company is 100% private so no financials but their CFO left a the end of the year.
The underlying problem isn’t availability of capital it’s that VC doesn’t take the time to really understand a niche market.
Dumbfuck and his judges. Doctor is such a stupe.
“Trump favorite for Supreme Court argues that juries should consult God on verdicts”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-favorite-for-supreme-court-argues-that-juries-should-consult-god-on-verdicts/
You betrayed your country for this POS?? Oh, wait. Heh. Tax cuts. That alone was reason enough to betray your country, right, Doctor?
Fucking traitor.
OMG! I just can’t stop laughing at Doctor Dumbfuck today.
“‘Art of the Deal, baby’: Trump deluged in mockery as Ukraine announces an investigation into his associates”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/art-of-the-deal-baby-trump-deluged-in-mockery-as-ukraine-announces-an-investigation-into-his-associates/
Congrats, Doctor. You dumbfucks finally got yourselves a Ukraine investigation. Didn’t quite work out the way you had hoped though, did it?
My God, the irony.
73,
Hyde can still raise and spend lots of People’s Republic of China $$.
Just looks like it will be for a legal defense fund now.
Chairman Xi gaining much influence at FCI Ottisville.
This sort of thing is becoming a prominent feature of the great and mighty Bradley Parscale program to retake the House.
74,
Don’t mock the Claw!
Somebody will eventually decode the higher end of alco-pop and get the price point into the range needed to sustain “artisanal” producers. There’s obviously a strong demand for a beverage that is lower in alcohol and lighter bodied*. So with the right marketing and product profile someone will carve off the higher end of the market just like craft brewers did with beer. But it will always be true that the market will be much smaller and will resist scaling efforts.
*More than a few smart people planted their flags on sparkling wine and cider. For lots of reasons they may still turn out to be right.
Putting children in cages will get you arrested in this country …
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/us/alabama-children-cages-arrests/index.html
… unless you have presidential immunity.
@71 I’ve informed Susan Collins’ office that I won’t play poker with her anymore if she insists on deciding which cards in my hand I can play and which ones she can throw out.
A friendly card game is one thing, but it’s something else when the other players cheat to win. Back in Tombstone days, they’d get shot for that. Today, we have to deal with cheaters through elections.
Of course, getting a fair election from cheaters can be a problem, too.
@72 “The documents Parnas shared with the House committee have obliterated all three of those claims.”
Which may help explain why Collins is horrified by the prospect of Parnas testifying in the Senate trial. It’s not easy explaining to voters back home why you voted for corruption instead of against it. That complicates things in an election year.
@75 Things could get real interesting if Trump ever faces criminal tax evasion charges and the jurors pray, “Okay, God, what do you want us to do with him?”
@79 Craft beer took off when mass-market beer became both bad and expensive. If you’re going to charge people an arm and a leg for a bottle of beer, they at least want it to taste like beer.
Dumbfuck’s orange moron is on the toob and it is truly fucking pathetic. He’s used “the greatest” about a zillion times. It’s like he’s stuttering it…
“the greatest, the greatest, I don’t know Parnas, the greatest, the greatest, Hoax! the greatest, the greatest, Hoax! the greatest…”
You really know how to pick’em, dumbfuck. Way to go, traitor.
Live in shame.
“Of course, getting a fair election from cheaters can be a problem, too.”
Putin and the Republicans? Fair elections? No cheating? Heh.
@94
One of the ‘alternatives to beer’ may actually stick some day but in the meantime pick up a six pack of
Bartles & James
Seagrams Golden Wine Cooler
Smirnoff Ice
Zima – they tried to bring it back a little bit ago.
Bacardi Breezer
With the drip, drip, drip of the last 24 hours, it’s like our torture-fanatic Republicans are being waterboarded in front of our very eyes.
American democracy is on the line. Historic events leading us to the outcome are unfolding before us. The question is, who is going to write the history books, patriotic Americans or fucking traitors?
But what about the Northern Border?
All perfectly normal…
“Guys you know my boss. Yeah totally fucked up but I don’t need to get screamed at. It’s humiliating. Do us a solid and just let us not do it this year. Please?”
Over at the FB DoNotTreadOnUs page they are in an utterly complete state of denial. The events of the last 24 hours simply don’t exist in their dojo.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoNotTreadOnUs/?fref=mentions
Just like Doctor Dumbfuck. SAD!
Then again, who would want to talk about a FEMA camp being in their future?
@91. you were not kidding. Not a single article or post about Parnas or the OMB. One dismissive article about the impeachment walk. They said it was boring. Fascinating the double standards on display.
@92 Yeah, and they’re posting like crazy today, like they’re trying really, really hard to keep this from invading the fake reality construct in their heads in which everything is safe and warm as they drink fake liberal tears.
The face book comments for senators Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley are running about 10 to 1 against trump. Every post has been hijacked by people talking about impeachment and the OMB.
82,
Simple solution: she breaks with GOP tradition and does the right thing for her voters and constituents in Maine.
She should openly vote with the Senate Democrats on all of this. If she did that she would have no trouble at all getting re-elected in November.
But she won’t do that. Because she’s a Republican.
84,
Yeah, but I can tell you from first hand that back then nobody ever imagined you could get $20 for a 22oz bottle by infecting your fermentation with Brett.
Markets change.
87,
Zima is back? I might just have to look for that shit just for the lulz.
The Trump administration is open for business, and business is brisk.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lev-parnas-untangles-dmytro-firtash-role-in-trump-ukraine-scheme-76859973858
@89 Betcha pork sauce doesn’t post about that illegal.
A Republican is defined as someone who believes conspiracy theories, myths, and lies.
“I don’t know the guy.” — Pence
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-live-01-16-2020/h_24eb2128588a2aa03e613dd603ad7931
“I don’t know anything about the Giuliani letter to Zelensky.” — Trump
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-live-01-16-2020/h_5e1d9f01d888ce8f2662fcaa957dc44f
Republicans sure are an ignorant bunch. They don’t know much. Especially when it’s convenient to forget what they knew and when they knew it.
I’m surprised Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t crowing about the DJIA approaching 30,000 … again.
Yesterday being signing day and all.
Echoing Susan Collins, the gang over at FOX is now mostly seeking to distract by claiming that “The Pwezident can’t get a fair twial if so much deeply incriminating evidence keeps coming out.”
“We’re not going to look at all those refrigerators filled with body parts and spray painted skulls in his basement because it makes Mr. Dahmer look bad. And that would not be fair.
We find the defendant, Jeffrey Dahmer, Not Guilty!” -Every Republican You Know
@103 I wonder if all this stuff coming out now (Parnas etc.) is because Putin has decided Trump is no longer useful. Or maybe Trump disobeyed one of his instructions. Trump does have an obedience problem going all the way back to childhood.*
* “all the way back” may be a misnomer, because his childhood never really ended
Maybe Parnas is talking because he’s been ordered to, and is being provided with FSB protection to make sure he’s around long enough to talk. When he’s no longer useful, he should start to worry.
If Putin didn’t want Parnas to talk, wouldn’t Parnas have eaten a polonium sandwich by now?
I’m a very honest person. Who are you going to believe me or my former personal attorney, my current personal attorney, my campaign manager my National Security Advisor, my porn star mistress, my PLAYMATE mistress, THREE campaign advisors, that gun nut Russian bimbo and this Ukrainian who are all liars and BESIDES I DON’T KNOW ANY OF THEM IT WAS A PERFECT CALL MAGNIFICENT!!! AMERICA!
Wherein a senator who had to be appointed because she couldn’t get elected calls someone else a “hack.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/01/16/martha-mcsally-calls-manu-raju-liberal-hack-parnas-evidence-bash-bts-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
“IT WAS A PERFECT”
That was another one Doctor Dumbfuck’s orange moron kept repeating today. Too damned funny!
I can’t stop laughing. Republican fascist traitors being exposed as the traitors they are and how they’ve reacted to it has turned out to be some truly funny shit.
Too bad Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t laughing. But he chose poorly. Sucks to be him.
Susan’s last best thing is keeping Donald in place for Party and Party.
Morning consult has a new approval poll out. She’s 42-52 underwater.
Yep, been here before. Been in office 13 years, the whole state knows her and her record.
And she’s going to need to get 100% of the undecideds and move 2-3% of the folks who just don’t like her anymore into giving her another six years.
Definitely not where you want to be about ten months away from Election Day.(Note, this poll was taken before her utterly asinine statements about new evidence over the last 24 hours.)
Will Republicans ever learn? Thank God the answer is no.
What a fucking idiot.
“Lev Parnas’ lawyer releases video of Trump talking with Parnas — after president says he never spoke with him”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/lev-parnas-lawyer-releases-video-of-trump-talking-with-parnas-after-president-says-he-never-spoke-with-him/
I’ll say it again. What will save American democracy is the fact that every single one of these fascists is dumber than a stump. I swear, I’ve been to two hog callings and a county fair and I’ve never seen anything so fucking stupid as these stupid fucks.
Fucktards, all of them.
“Right-wing ‘Review Boards’ in Missouri would pave way for arresting librarians over books deemed ‘inappropriate’”
“The Missouri Library Association says it is monitoring a bill put forward in the state House by a Republican lawmaker, which, if passed, could create committees across the state with the power to jail librarians for distributing material the panels deem “inappropriate.””
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/right-wing-review-boards-in-missouri-would-pave-way-for-arresting-librarians-over-books-deemed-inappropriate/
First to go – history books and anything that has even a trace of the constitution in it.
When done with their purge, the only thing left will be the Bible and Art of the Deal.
110,
An incumbent, particularly a long serving incumbent, who trails a rando unnamed challenger by 10 points this early is fucked.
As always, the incumbent preferred framing is “steady, reliable, known performer” versus “unknown radical other”. If likely voters are already inclined to go with “unknown radical other” it is because they have settled early on “time for a change for the better” as the alternative frame. And with the challenger as yet undetermined it’s nearly the same thing as “anybody but… the incumbent”. She’s fucked. Rather she is figuratively fucking herself by refusing to do the right thing and vote with the Senate Democrats. That’s all she would have to do.
@109 Traitors? Don’t you realize we’re allies of Russia and North Korea now, and our ships might fire on the Royal Navy? POTUS has wide latitude to remake foreign policy, you know.
If this was 1938, Trump would be sucking up to Adolf hoping to get a Berlin hotel concession across the street from the New Reich Chancellery. He’d even hire Speer to design it.
It’s exciting being a Democrat right now, with so many great candidates contending for the Presidential nomination and so much energy and enthusiasm behind all of them.
For that other party that runs up massive deficits to build tile lined baby rape camps and wage losing trade wars, it’s a little bit different. If you are a Republican voter in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, South Carolina or Virginia you are forbidden to even make a choice about who your nominee will be in 2020. In Minnesota and Georgia they’ll at least let you have a ballot. And you may even be allowed to vote for a candidate other than the psychotic RapeFantasist. But you won’t see any of those other candidate’s names on the ballot and there won’t be any place on it for you to write them in. Similar schemes are being arranged in a few other states at the direction of the Republican National Committee.
On top of all that, they also have to live with the ever-nagging cognitive dissonance of knowing that even after hearing the Access Hollywood tape and their nominees admissions about it they still went ahead and cast their votes for him – having accepted that one way or another he was either a violent serial rapist or clinically insane.
For most of them I suspect they have already given mute acceptance to dictatorship by a madman as their price for victory three years ago.
How DEPLORABLE.
@115 “they have already given mute acceptance to dictatorship by a madman as their price for victory three years ago”
It’s worse for the evangelists. They’ll spend eternity in hell for a couple of SCOTUS judges.
Fuck The Hump.
Fuck all Republicans. Bunch of lawless mother fuckers – tyranny!!!!
I figure he’ll nuke something as a distraction. Maybe California, or if he fucks up as usual, Whidbey Island.
Fuck it. Just round them all up and get it over with. Fucking traitors, all of them.
“Lindsey Graham joins Devin Nunes in being implicated by Lev Parnas during Maddow interview
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/lindsey-graham-joins-devin-nunes-in-being-implicated-by-lev-parnas-during-maddow-interview/
One would think they would eventually learn. Evidently not.
“Kellyanne Conway claims she doesn’t know Lev Parnas — but his lawyer has a photo showing otherwise”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/kellyanne-conway-claims-she-doesnt-know-lev-parnas-but-his-lawyer-has-a-photo-showing-otherwise/
Is there a Republican today who isn’t a dumbfuck? It sure doesn’t look like it.
Much more of this and McConnell’s going have a decision to make.
“Internet reacts as fiery veteran Richard Ojeda jumps into West Virginia Senate race”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/internet-reacts-as-fiery-veteran-richard-ojeda-jumps-into-west-virginia-senate-race/
Two pukes fighting.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2014/oct/07/kangaroos-boxing-match-australia-street-video
They’re kicking below the belt, so they gotta be pukes.
@120 C’mon now, don’t expect her to remember every 1-night stand.
@119 Hillary was right. There’s a vast rightwing conspiracy to cover up Trump’s extortion of a foreign government to cheat in the election. And they’re all in on it.
Republicans laughably accuse McCabe of being “corrupt.” The Trump cabal makes McCabe look like an Eagle Scout.
125,
right or wrong, following the Special Counsel report the GOP was teed up to spend the next eighteen months putting the Special Counsel Office, the FBI, the DOJ, and anyone else the decided might merit it on trial with a White House and Senate bullhorn to back it up. With AG Barr’s backing they were free to launch politically motivated investigations and prosecutions targeting anyone they needed to.
So naturally president RapeFantasy hired a decompensating alcoholic to go on a criminal adventure in Ukraine that would eventually include a plot to assassinate a US ambassador.
Remember it was but a few short months ago that bot-farm troll and the troll media bubble were a ferment of excitement anticipating the next IG report or the next Barr investigation. Now, instead the president is impeached and all that bullshit has been removed from the board. Once poised to go into the campaign season on offense, the GOP is now locked into man-down defense through November. And they did it entirely to themselves. Again.
“A Seattle police officer has been fired after an internal investigation found he violated the department’s social media policy by posting profane and politically charged comments on Instagram, including rants against ‘illegal immigration’ and a post that ‘appeared to endorse violence’ against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.”
https://tinyurl.com/tyfa6f2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: One of Doctor Dumbfuck’s beloved cops. Was he going to shoot someone for being too liberal, or not white enough? Employing people like this as cops like this doesn’t make us safer. Fortunately his sociopathy isn’t hiding behind a badge anymore, at least not in Seattle.
Credibly accuses pedophile Alan Dershowitz and Disgraced Baylor University Rape Fixer Kenneth Starr will represent the President.
I fixed all those headlines and stories for the media. You’re welcome.
A Democrat is someone whose worldview is shaped by information from news sources that employ professional journalists, scientists who conduct rigorous and peer-reviewed research, the lessons of historical experience, and thoughtful analysis.
A Republican is someone whose worldview is shaped by juvenile rants on social media by anonymous strangers he knows nothing about.
All votes count equally, but not all voters are equally competent. Republicans constitute the “moron” vote. And Doctor Dumbfuck is one of them. Because he’s a dumbfuck, of course.
@126 Well, if Trumpism has taught us one thing, it’s that there’s no bottom to how low Republicans can go. The GOP is a bottomless pit of dishonesty, corruption, and depravity, not to mention their pornographic fantasies and homicidal tendencies.
Oh, and did I mention that Republicans also steal from each other, and eat their own? If the entire world was Republican, it would depopulate very rapidly.
“You’re all losers,” Doctor Dumbfucks raging orange man-baby with an acute bone spur affliction said to America’s military Generals. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”
“I wouldn’t go to war with you people,” Doctor Dumbfuck’s infantile orange moron brayed. “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/dopes-and-babies-trump-unleashed-expletive-filled-rant-at-military-leaders-after-growing-bored-in-pentagon-meeting-report/
Is there a 5 year old child anywhere in this country who wouldn’t be a better president than Doctor Dumbfuck’s raging orange infant?? I don’t think so.
Way to go, Doctor Dumbfuck. What a fucktard traitor you’ve become.
Live in shame.
Jesus Fucking Christ. This is some sick shit.
“Trump ridiculed as a ‘big baby’ for showing kids a map of 2016 results: ‘It’s his blankie’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trump-ridiculed-as-a-big-baby-for-showing-kids-a-map-of-2016-results-its-his-blankie/
Enough already. How about we make one of those kids our new president? At least our country would safer.
Yeah, right. I’m sure you will.
“Pompeo says State will investigate possible surveillance of ex-US ambassador, after more than 48 hours of silence”
“I suspect that much of what’s been reported will ultimately prove wrong”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pompeo-says-state-will-investigate-possible-surveillance-of-ex-us-ambassador-after-more-than-48-hours-of-silence/ar-BBZ3zWS?li=BBnb7Kz
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Sinclair Lewis
130,
What strikes me is the level of panic and certainty of defeat they must be experiencing in order to blow themselves up this way.
Probably no more than three or four of the Democratic campaigns have enough money to put robust independent polls into the field testing likely electoral outcomes. Most of what we’ve seen publicly are very speculative. But one campaign that has almost certainly been doing lots of these polls is Trump2020. And my guess is if they launched this self-fuckery as far back as Jan of last year it is because their early internal polls were disastrous.
132,
It’s the Trump County map showing the arbitrarily assigned “counties” that Trump won in 2016.
Because dirt votes I guess.
133,
“I suspect that much of what’s been reported will ultimately prove wrong”
In our system anything can be “proved wrong” if you are sufficiently pre-determined not to investigate it.
Which is scary in a way, considering how many police still end up getting DUIs. Since in almost all cases they are not blood/breath tested until many hours later (in a few jurisdictions not at all) and they are almost never expected to perform a field sobriety test.
Looks like it’s shaping up as a Biden-Sanders race.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/01/17/sanders-climbs-tied-biden-among-registered-voters/23903013/
Backing Trump is how you Repukes might get a socialist president. Like you, I’m a money grubbing capitalist, but I can’t say you don’t deserve it.
@132 That’s actually a very popular theme, and has been long before Trump came along, among rightwing bleaters. They’ve been flashing that county map for as long as I can remember, as if it’s some sort of proof that America is Republican through and through, and Democrats are an aberration confined to the northeast and “left coast,” when in fact they are the minority party. Various rightwing proposals for “election reform” over the years have included:
(1) Revising the Electoral College to base it on counties instead of states;
(2) Basing voting rights on property ownership, i.e., a billionaire gets 100,000 times more votes than a person worth only $10,000 (this was a favorite of the late Texas oilman H. L. Hunt);
and, of course, the more realistically attainable polling place and voter ID strategies, e.g.,
(3) In Texas, a gun permit is acceptable voting ID, but a University of Texas student ID card is not;
(4) Eliminating mail-in voting and forcing voters to go to an actual physical voting place, and then …
(5) Closing all the voting places in majority-black counties, and
(6) Making residents of Indian reservations drive 50 or 70 miles each way to vote.
Hitler was more efficient about this: He simply banned other parties, did away with elections, and made Hitler Youth membership mandatory for minors.
I’m sure that’s where Republicans would like to take us, especially those who think they’re on a mission from God to save America from liberals. But circumstances compel them to do it one step at a time, instead of all at once.
@132 That’s actually a very popular theme, and has been since long before Trump came along, among rightwing chest-thumpers. They’ve been flashing that county map for as long as I can remember, as if it’s some sort of proof that America is Republican through and through, and Democrats are an aberration confined to the northeast and “left coast,” when in fact they are the minority party. Various rightwing proposals for “election reform” over the years have included:
(1) Revising the Electoral College to base it on counties instead of states;
(2) Basing voting rights on property ownership, i.e., a billionaire gets 100,000 times more votes than a person worth only $10,000 (this was a favorite of the late Texas oilman H. L. Hunt);
and, of course, the more realistically attainable polling place and voter ID strategies, e.g.,
(3) In Texas, a gun permit is acceptable voting ID, but a University of Texas student ID card is not;
(4) Eliminating mail-in voting and forcing voters to go to an actual physical voting place, and then …
(5) Closing all the voting places in majority-black counties, and
(6) Making residents of Indian reservations drive 50 or 70 miles each way to vote.
Hitler was more efficient about this: He simply banned other parties, did away with elections, and made Hitler Youth membership mandatory for minors.
I’m sure that’s where Republicans would like to take us, especially those who think they’re on a mission from God to save America from liberals. But circumstances compel them to do it one step at a time, instead of all at once.
@138 Love your comment.
I wish there were “like” buttons here, or some emojis like Facebook. I can’t respond to everything and it’d be nice to have a way to at least acknowledge that I both read and like was written. We should probably have a “dumbfuck” emoji as well. Clicking “don’t like” about a treasonous comment left by a dumbfuck traitor would be insufficiently satisfying.
So fucking funny!
“Democratic Rep Responds to Devin Nunes’ Threat of Defamation Lawsuit: ‘Take Your Letter and Shove It'”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-rep-responds-to-devin-nunes-threat-of-defamation-lawsuit-take-your-letter-and-shove-it/ar-BBZ4yNk?li=BBnb7Kz
When Nunes goes to prison I think his cow should run to take his place in Congress.
Suck on that, Nunes. Fucktard.
@141 In the American legal system, it’s not possible to defame a Republican, because truth is an absolute defense. Nunes might have better luck in the UK courts, as a British MP, that is if he could find British voters willing to put up with him.
Our British friends must be watching this shit and thinking how lucky they are that they lost the Revolutionary War and don’t have to put up with Republicans.
@141 “‘As I am sure you are aware,’ the letter from Nunes’ lawyer began, ‘the United States Constitution and the common law faithfully protect a person’s ‘absolute’ right to an unimpaired reputation.'”
I’ve been a lawyer for over 40 years, and I’m not aware of that. To the contrary, his client has a constitutional right to trash his reputation himself, and he has done so by consorting with the likes of Parnas & Co.
How’s Nunes v. Cow coming along? Any money from that yet?
I hope for his sake that #devinslawyer charges by the hour, because he sure as hell won’t get any contingency fees from these cases.