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  9. 9

    This just in. Now that Infrastructure Week has passed, trump says he will deliver his health care plan in two weeks.

  13. 13

    How about the Biden Economy!

    35,500! Yeah, rah, rah. Sis koom bah!

    Headed to 40,000 maybe even 45,000. What an amazing thing

    Vaccine Passports. Vaccine Passports! Fear the Vaccine Passports! What economy!

  17. 17

    @13 Grossly overvalued stocks, negative real interest rates, and manipulated markets are NOT a good thing. But vaccine passports ARE a good thing. Every unvaccinated conspiracy-nut super-spreader Republican should be forcibly quarantined.

  19. 19

    @15 Like his mentor Trump, he must not read newspapers. Because the ventilators have been all over the ***REAL*** news.

  20. 20

    @18 I trust you spotted this tidbit:

    “Sawyer Hackett
    @SawyerHackett
    ·
    22h
    FUN FACT:
    @tedcruz’s kids go to a $30K/year private school where students are REQUIRED to wear masks and the school does contact tracing.”

  22. 22

    Geez, I wonder when the dumbfuck traitor will show up to post something really fucking stupid in hopes of making us cry?

  23. 23

    @ 8

    Coffee is for closers.

    NPR’s All Things Considered isn’t worth much. The one thing it does well is review good movies, movies I might otherwise not see. Glengarry Glen Ross is one of them. Chasing Amy. In The Bedroom. The Crying Game. They’re excellent, all of them. I would have seen none of them were it not for NPR.

  28. 28

    QoS McHillbilly claims there is no inflation.

    The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its consumer price index rose 5.4% in July from a year earlier, in line with June’s figure and matching the largest jump since August 2008.

    The government said CPI increased 0.5% on a month-over-month basis, matching a consensus forecast from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.

    0.5% month-over-month is above 6% on an annualized basis.

    QoS McHillbilly is a lying sack of shit.

  29. 29

    Geez, I wonder when the dumbfuck traitor will show up to post something really fucking stupid in hopes of making us cry?

    It’s what angry drunk people do….hmmm.

  30. 30

    The loner Cuomosexual G-clown now has to put up with a governor who does not possess a penis.

  31. 31

    CNN wants you to know that QoS McHillbilly is a lying sack of shit.

    Inflation wiped out America’s pay raises

    those fatter paychecks aren’t going as far, thanks to rising inflation.
    In fact, compensation is now lower than it was in December 2019, when adjusted for inflation, according to an analysis by Jason Furman, an economics professor at Harvard University.
    The Employment Cost Index — which measures wages and salaries, along with health, retirement and other benefits — fell in the last quarter and is 2% below its pre-pandemic trend, when taking inflation into account. (Wages and salaries are growing at a faster pace than benefits.)

    I agree. QoS McHillbilly is a lying sack of shit.

    And YLB’s kids will bear the brunt of the inflation in the future, as well as in the present.

  33. 33

    QoS McHillbilly claims there is no inflation.

    Bob hasn’t won an argument in so long that now he has to make one up to have any chance.

    And still she loses.

    Time to call in the fake “FB friends in CO” again.

    Maybe they’ll “agree” with him.

    Then Bob can carry on a group-chat.

    Entirely between himself and the made-up voices in his head.

  34. 34

    This is truly a thing of beauty:

    https://youtu.be/GpsVaqBFrHU?t=1112

    In 2015 this asshole bowed to religious superstition and in violation of federal law unilaterally terminated Medicare contracts with Planned Parenthood.

    His party in the state legislature attempted to criminalize transgender health care because superstitious religious bigots in his state are confused and have “strange feels” about transgender people.*

    He’s fed and nurtured irrational superstitious religious zeal among his state’s citizens for as long as he’s been in public life.

    #hebuiltthat

    *He vetoed it. That should have tipped him off to what was coming.

  35. 35

    I see the dumbfuck traitor is making a stupe out of himself again. He doesn’t know jack shit about inflation. Dumbfuck previously tied it to deficits so he could blame it on Biden. This after nearly a half century when Repubican presidents racked up ever-increasing deficits year after year while Democrat presidents reduced them.

    It’s not that simple, except for a simpleton like our stupe dumbfucl.

    How about we try the Republican solution…WIN buttons!

    Inflation wiped out America’s pay raises

    Wiped out? Those who used to make $7.50/Hr and now make $15/Hr might disagree with that statement.

    I’ve grown tired of our simple-minded dumbfuck stupe’s mere existense. Long past time somebody lynched the effeminate bitch or shot the fucktard traitor dead. Preferably a black man.

  40. 40

    America’s dumbest senator wanted to put Democrats on the spot, so he offered an amendment to their budget bill opposing “defunding the police.” The amendment passed 99-0.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/booker-tuberville-spar-over-measure-to-defund-the-police-in-late-night-vote-a-rama-drama/ar-AANcNB3

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/08/11/cory-booker-tommy-tuberville-defund-the-police-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/

    I would suggest Coach Tuberville is playing out of his league.

  42. 42

    @37 “Stock is one of a number of doctors who have earned fame in right-wing communities for aligning with their narrative. One such doctor in Houston, Stella Immanuel of the right-wing group America’s Frontline Doctors, agreed with Trump’s unproven belief in taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID. Immanuel also believes that modern medicine uses ‘alien DNA,’ that the government is run by lizard people, and that Americans are getting sickened by having sex with literal demons from Hell.”

    Where the hell are the medical boards on this? Asleep? These doctors should not be allowed to practice.

  43. 43

    40,
    That was very much the story of Moscow Mitch’s “brilliant “, “super-genius”, amendment delay strategy. A series of meaningless show-votes that accomplish nothing for “conservatives” and deliver a massive, sweeping triumph to President Biden at their own expense.

    Powerless and deeply stupid clown dupes the media again.
    #owngoal

  45. 45

    Arnold says screw your freedom, Bob.

    Repukes (except for the real ones), the true RINOs, are always on the wrong side of the coin.

    Breeding will not save the dim dumb ones, evolution will take care of them.

  48. 48

    I rather pity the greedy racist incel. To pretend to be such a misogynist to own the libs will hollow out his soul. Or worse, that is his soul he’s showing us just to get some librul tears. Either way, by his words, he’s a unloved man with a desperate need for attention.

  49. 49

    Trump’s most humiliating day so far is now only a matter of time.

    Trump holding campaign rallies in Cellblock D should be quite interesting.

  50. 50

    YLB and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, explained.

    Leaked documents show Baltimore high schoolers perform math, reading at grade school level

    Now, Project Baltimore has obtained student assessment scores from just one class, in one high school, that show how widespread the problem appears to be.

    iReady is a system schools use to measure at which grade level a student is performing. In Baltimore City Schools, iReady assessments are given in math and reading, three times a year, to measure a student’s progress. The scores we obtained show some students are performing 10 grade levels below their age.
    …
    But we can report the iReady scores are for 11th graders in math and reading. Nine students completed the reading assessment, but only two scored at a high school level. One scored at a seventh-grade level. The other six scored at an elementary school level. In math, seven students completed the assessment. Two scored at a high school level. The rest, who are high school juniors in Baltimore City Schools, scored at an elementary level, including one student doing math at a first-grade level.

    Nothing like the combination of a corrupt Democratic city administration and union teachers to stifle a child’s development.

    Healthy Holly could not be reached for comment.

  51. 51

    Project Baltimore

    Project Horsesass reveals our traitor to be a low IQ dumbfuck who is desparately trying to convince us that 1/6 was nothing more than nonviolent grannies wearing tactical gear while touring the Capitol. Just an ordinary day.

    Good luck with that, you fucking traitor.

  53. 53

    @50 “The iReady scores we have are for just 16 students in one class at one school.”
    Was this a special needs class in a special needs school? The Fox News outrage report did not say.

    How does this compare to rural white schools in Tennessee?

    I could explain some of the possible reasons for this, but the greedy racist incel does not have a track record of listening to facts or caring about logic. So there is no point. It’s not about the facts or the reason, its about the outrage.

  54. 54

    I researched this on the internet and people are saying the student who failed 22 classes and missed 272 days of school is a white Aryan nation skin head wanna be with strong ADD and OCD. The school is grateful for every day the white student is not there, since he is so disruptive.

    How dare the Democratic city administration and union teachers stifle this white supremacist’s development. He’s white! He deserves the help!

  55. 55

    Blunt. True. Politico is on this one.

    FOREIGN POLICY

    Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem
    The president is unwilling to rethink his decision to withdraw U.S. troops, even as Afghanistan unravels faster than expected.

    Some critics fear a reprisal of what happened in Iraq after the U.S. withdrew troops in 2011: the rise of the Islamic State, which forced Washington to send troops back in to fend off the terrorist group.

    “No one should pretend they’re surprised the Taliban is winning now that we abandoned our Afghan partners,” Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska said in a statement. “No one should pretend to be surprised when girls and women are brutalized. And no one should pretend to be surprised when the Taliban yet again provides safe harbor to terrorists plotting international attacks.”

    Brutalizing girls and women is just how Democrats roll. You’d better get some ice on that.

  56. 56

    Chuck Schumer is a coward.

    Ted Cruz blocks 4 a.m. attempt to pass Democrats’ voting rights package

    Why it matters: The sweeping federal elections overhaul is intended to combat a wave of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states, but has no chance of winning the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster.

    Schumer attempted to pass the bill via unanimous consent, which requires just one senator to object in order to kill the vote.
    Senate Republicans filibustered the “For the People Act” for the first time in June. Moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has also voiced his opposition to some elements of the package.
    Driving the news: Immediately after the Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution at 4 a.m. ET, after 15 hours of amendment votes, Schumer attempted to pass the voting rights package via unanimous consent.

  57. 57

    55,
    We systematically hunted down and wiped out bin Laden’s network years ago.
    Two-time wildly popularly elected, Nobel Peace Prize winning President Obama took out the leader and fed his lifeless body to crabs over a decade ago.

    The perpetrators of 911 are all gone. Mission really is accomplished. There’s nothing more to be done there.
    Taliban religious police are no threat to you.
    Calm the fuck down, stop your pitiful sobbing, climb out from under the bed, and stand up like a man.

    There is no monster in that closet. A Democrat killed him.
    No additional American needs to die to soothe your fevered nightmares.

  58. 58

    55. We should be putting our attention to the failed republican coup attempt on 1-6. The conservative domestic terrorists are a much closer threat.

  59. 59

    Chuck Schumer is a coward.

    And here I thought fascist dickwad Ted Cruz was the coward for fleeing Texas as yet another Republican-caused disaster unfolded, this one eventually resulting in Republicans killing over 700 Texans.

    My bad.

    I suppose we should add those folks to the over 600,000 Americans killed by the dumbfuck traitor’s cowardly raging orange man-baby.

    Our low IQ fascist dumbfuck traitor, who has claimed here that courage is best exemplified by his posting anonimously on a blog where nobody blogs, obviously has some strange and unfortunate notions of what constitures cowardice and courage.

    Republicans killing their own voters. How clever. I wonder why Democrats never thought of that.

    That’s how to use bold text, you dumbfuck coward.

  61. 61

    Calm the fuck down, stop your pitiful sobbing, climb out from under the bed, and stand up like a man.

    The coward would first have to grow a spine. We know that’ll never happen.

  65. 65

    @ 57

    The perpetrators of 911 are all gone. Mission really is accomplished. There’s nothing more to be done there.

    Then what would be the purpose for Team Biden’s genuflecting request that the building be left standing, QoS McHillbilly?

    American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group overruns the capital in a direct challenge to the country’s government, two American officials said.

    The effort, led by Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief American envoy in talks with the Taliban, seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy as the fighters rapidly seize cities across Afghanistan.

    Calm the fuck down, stop your pitiful sobbing, climb out from under the bed, and stand up like a man.

    Before, or after, the coming reinactment of the Saigon rooftop helicopter scene, QoS McHillbilly?

  66. 66

    Biden’s crisis on the border worsens.

    AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Laredo, Texas, has refused to take in migrants who have been bused in from elsewhere on the border after discovering 40% of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to two local government officials.

    “That was very high,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said in an interview, referring to the infection rate among migrants dropped off by the Border Patrol last week. Laredo health authority, Dr. Victor Trevino, confirmed the numbers.

    The 40% infection rate is the highest known positivity rate along the U.S.-Mexico border. Last week, McAllen, Texas, reported a 15% positivity rate among migrants released from custody.

    What was it @ 57 QoS McHillbilly wrote?

    No additional American needs to die to soothe your fevered nightmares.

    One wonders how many Americans need to die due to the release of thousands of Indian variant Wuhan-infected illegal aliens.

  67. 67

    65,
    We here all recognize and mostly understand your desperate fear of “words” and “talking”.

    After all, Bob. You come here every single fucking day and kill yourself with words.
    But that’s just you being you.

    #owngoal

  68. 68

    @55 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was a fucking disaster for America. Keeping American troops in Afghanistan for 20 years was a fucking disaster for Americans. Pulling them out is going to be a fucking disaster for the Afghans. Which fucking disaster do you prefer?

  69. 69

    @66 Can’t say I’d blame the good people of Laredo if they turned away Floridians, too.

  71. 71

    68,
    Bob has made his party’s preferences very clear.

    They would like twenty more years of dead American soldiers and at least another $2.6 trillion tax dollars wasted.

    But no free community college. No pre-schools. No child tax credits. No infrastructure for safe bridges and clean drinking water. Just body piles and smoking craters.

  74. 74

    Which fucking disaster do you prefer?

    Beats me why the stupe dumbfuck would want to remind us of how Republicans invaded the wrong country resulting in more Americans needlessly dying in Iraq than all those who died on 9/11. Must be the low IQ.

    What a stupe.

  75. 75

    Speaking of Republican priorities …

    “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday the state is putting $1 billion in its budget to strengthen border security because the federal government, under President Joe Biden’s administration, has failed to do so.

    ”’Building the wall in Texas has officially begun,’ Abbott, a Republican, said at a press conference Wednesday as he signed a letter to hire a project manager.

    “Abbott also signed a letter giving $250 million as a ‘down payment’ for the construction.”

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-abbott-trump-biden/2021/06/16/id/1025372/?utm_source=thehill

    I’m sure glad their electricity grid isn’t connected to ours, and wouldn’t work even if it was.

  77. 77

    These are pretty much direct replies to QoS McHillbilly @ 57.

    Nicholas Revels
    @nicholasrevels
    I know no American really cares about foreign policy, but us groveling in front of a bunch of people we claimed to defeat 15 years ago because we can’t defend our embassy is the Fall of Saigon redux
    Quote Tweet
    Noah Rothman
    @NoahCRothman
    · 1h
    Every hour presents us with a new opportunity to plumb the depths of our capacity for abject humiliation. twitter.com/jakesNYT/statu…
    9:19 AM · Aug 12, 2021

    When you buy medical imaging equipment you always need to factor in an additional 10% per year to cover the maintenance agreement.

    Because you do. You just do. There is always maintenance.

  78. 78

    “It’s not yet clear what effect the COVID-19 surge in Florida could have on DeSantis’s political ambitions.”

    This will become clearer as Florida ICU wards fill up with grade schoolers.

  79. 79

    Abbott also signed a letter giving $250 million as a ‘down payment’ for the construction.

    That isn’t what it sounds like. A contractor who hasn’t done any work yet might, if they’re very lucky, receive a very tiny percentage of total construction costs for what’s called “mobilization”, say, like putting a trailer on the jobsite. Here they’re getting 25% of the total cost of the project.

    There’s a money trail to be followed here, and it won’t make Abbott look good. Not at all.

    Greg Abbott will never be the low IQ dumbfuck traitor’s president.

  80. 80

    @77 How many more American lives are you willing to invest in this maintenance agreement? Assuming, of course, one of them isn’t yours or that of anyone you know.

    Don’t get me wrong. I think Biden’s abrupt pullout from Afghanistan is a mistake. Afghans have a long history of summarily dispatching their enemies, and every Afghan who served in the Kabul government’s armed forces, police, or worked for the Americans is a dead man. There appears to be no plan to get them out of the country. There isn’t even an organized plan to get Americans out of the country.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/567556-us-embassy-urges-americans-to-leave-afghanistan-immediately

    Let’s face it, this is a clusterfuck. But how long do you prop up a government that can’t dcfend itself? And do Republicans actually care about what will happen to Afghan women and girls? After all, they don’t treat their own much better.

  81. 81

    Put another way, imagine giving a contractor 25% of the cost of building a $1,000,000 home for you before they do anything. If they walk away, good luck getting your money back.

  82. 82

    The Taliban are ultra-conservative religion-driven traditionalists fighting to preserve a thousand-year-old way of life against modernity.

    Republicans are ultra-conservative religion-driven traditionalists fighting to preserve a hundred-year-old way of life against modernity.

    The Taliban speak Pathan. Republicans speak in tongues. The Taliban have AK-47s. Republicans have AR-15s.

    They really are different when you drill down into the details. But not much different.

  83. 83

    Bend over, YLB’s kids. Price increases heading your way. Very soon.

    Margins Crushed As Producer Prices Explode At Record Pace In July

    After soaring to a record high 7.3% YoY in June, PPI was expected (like Core CPI) to moderate modestly in July to ‘just’ +7.2% YoY. They were wildly wrong as July’s PPI soared to a new record +7.8% YoY (up 1.0% MoM)…

    Companies margins are likely to come under serious pressure as the spread between PPI and CPI grows dramatically…

    No worries, y’all. Goldy doesn’t mind paying an additional 50 cents for a banh mi. After all, he’s funded by a billionaire, so let ’em eat cake.

  84. 84

    When you buy medical imaging equipment you always need to factor in an additional 10% per year to cover the maintenance agreement.

    Curious. When you build a new radiology clinic do you pay the contractor 25% of total construction costs before they do any work?

    No, you don’t. Why? Because even a low IQ dumbfuck like you knows better than that.

    On second thought, there’s a good chance a low IQ dumbfuck like you would do something stupid like that.

    Greg Abbott will never be your president.

  85. 85

    As gerrymandering season approaches, Democrats should gerrymander, too. They simply can’t afford to bow to do-gooder pressures. Those people mean well, but this is a cage fight.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/567441-voting-advocates-roll-out-digital-tools-to-fight-gerrymandering

    As I’ve argued before, Washington should be divided into horizontal congressional districts. Even better, draw the districts spoke-like, radiating from Seattle. Every eastern Washington fruit grower, wheat farmer, and hops farmer should be represented by a Seattle Democrat. Eastern Washington has about 22% of the state population, so every district should be 78% western Washington voters and 22% eastern Washington voters. I see nothing wrong with Walla Walla County being represented in Congress by Kshama Sawant. Even the Supreme Court said it’s okay.

    If Republicans can do it, so can we. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.

  86. 86

    Fall of Saigon redux

    Another debacle that wasted tens of thousands of decent young Americans and that Republicans sought desperately to prolong.

    I’m not going to say it was wrong to go into Afghanistan. But it was wrong to go in without a clearly identified military objective. And while (unlike Bob) I certainly don’t support female genital mutilation, as Republicans here at home teach us all every day, that is not a problem that can be solved at the point of a gun.

    For all the trillions spent and lives ruined, the west never prevented a single domino from falling. And the Soviet Union collapsed because Marxism is a failure, the Bretton Woods system was abandoned, and the price of oil fell consistently as new non-OPEC production from the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Alaska and elsewhere taught the Soviet Central Committee that they could not pump their way out of debt. Vietnam was at best a distraction.

  87. 87

    Afghanistan is going to be a debacle. Republicans will try to pretend it was Biden, not Trump, who decided to pull out. They will conveniently overlook the fact, as Doctor Dumbfuck already is, that they don’t support continued involvement either:

    “’The American people ask the question, are we responsible for the country of Afghanistan? And the answer to that is a resounding no across the board,’ said Joel Rubin, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of State during former President Obama’s administration.

    “’Of course there is broad bipartisan support for the United States government to engage diplomatically. But are we responsible, militarily, for stabilizing that country? No, I don’t think you would find any pockets [of American opinion] to say that’s the case.’

    “Dakota Wood, who served for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps and is now senior research fellow for defense programs at the Heritage Foundation, largely agreed. Looking back at U.S. involvement across four presidential administrations — two Republican and two Democratic — Wood told this column, ‘ … The window of opportunity finally just ran out.’”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/567485-the-memo-biden-faces-grim-reality-in-afghanistan?rl=1

    Biden simply read the American public’s mood. There’s no support for fighting the Taliban to save Afghans. Republicans don’t have his back. Why should he lead the charge, if they won’t leave their foxholes? Remember that when they try to blame him for “losing Afghanistan.”

  88. 88

    83,
    OMG!

    Poor, poor pitiful Tara is a’feared for her fixed income ag’in!

    Get a job you lazy fucking freeloader. Or substitute cat food for canned tuna. Beggars like you can’t be choosers.
    And maybe trim your sails. Do you really need to dine out at The Cracker Barrel every other day? Try shopping at second hand stores and cut out the premium cable package!

    If you want luxuries you have to work for them, slacker!

  91. 91

    @88 re @83: The dumbfuck apparently doesn’t realize that “exploding” producer prices are “crushing margins” because these price increases aren’t being passed along to consumers.

    If they were, margins would be maintained, not “crushed.”

    Now, of course, I’m not saying companies aren’t passing along price increases. All I’m saying is if

    “Companies margins are likely to come under serious pressure as the spread between PPI and CPI grows dramatically…”

    that’s simply a prediction that companies won’t be able to continue doing so, tit-for-tat, because of consumer resistance to further retail price increases.

    I notice the price of 2×4 studs at Home Depot is now less than half what it was a few weeks ago — down from $7.99 to $5.52 about a week ago to $3.85 on their website as of today.

  92. 92

    91,
    Relax.

    Bob only cares about producer prices when her Angry Orange Daddy isn’t doing a trade war.

    According to Bob higher producer prices means we all get rich winning the war for ‘Murica!

  94. 94

    @ 84

    When you build a new radiology clinic do you pay the contractor 25% of total construction costs before they do any work?

    No, you don’t. Why? Because even a low IQ dumbfuck like you knows better than that.

    No Moobs, that type of payment “TIPS” is reserved for the Iranians, and it’s made in cash stacked on pallets and flown out in the dead of night when Democrats hope that nobody will notice.

  97. 97

    Only 27% of black NY residents are vaccinated against The Wuhan.

    Keep that in mind when you joke about the deaths that will be caused by the Indian variant of The Wuhan.

    The Cuomosexual G-clown might want to keep that in mind before bending over bareback in the greasy alley behind the club for the pretty black dude he just met at the bar.

  98. 98

    @95 Yeah, a dumbfuck like you wouldn’t see a difference between the Taliban burkha police taking over their own country and a planned terrorist attack against U.S. diplomats.

  100. 100

    95,
    Great news, Tara!
    We all just pooled and bought you a full coverage kevlar with combat upgrade pads to reduce TBI.

    So whenever you’re ready…
    Operation Yellow Elephant has got your back!

  101. 101

    Only 27% of black NY residents…

    When you get a chance, would you look up what percentage of them vote in swing states/districts?

    Thx

  102. 102

    @100 Let’s see, if he’s in his late fifties, he would’ve been prime military age around the time Reagan was gearing up to stop communism from taking over Central America.

    Bet he didn’t enlist.

  103. 103

    Or let’s surmise he graduated from med school around the time of Operation Desert Storm.

    I’ll bet he didn’t join the Army Medical Corps to tend to our wounded warriors.

    Or volunteer after 9/11/01, when we went to war on two fronts, and there were lots more wounded warriors needing radiologists for their broken bones and shattered limbs.

    Or join the fight against Covid-19. When people were dying in ICUs and hospitals were crying out for more doctors and nurses, he was hiding in a barn and fucking a horse.

    As a Vietnam veteran, I laugh at fair-weather patriots. I’m glad they don’t serve. I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a foxhole with them.

  105. 105

    cash stacked on pallets and flown out in the dead of night

    Shorter low IQ Dumbfuck, “I have no answer for why 25% is being paid by Abbott before any work is done.”

    I wonder how much Abbott will get for his kickback after the contractor walks off the project with $250 million in his pocket after having done no work? $20 million? $50 million?

    By the way, it was Iran’s money, you dumbfuck stupe.

  106. 106

    Afghanistan is going to be a clusterfuck, but it’s a little clusterfuck. Nixon’s Vietnam policy was a big clusterfuck. Reagan’s economic policies were a big clusterfuck. Shrub’s 9/11 failures, Katrina response, and recreational war in Iraq were big clusterfucks. Trump’s Covid-19 response was a big clusterfuck. A year-and-a-half in, Republican governors have learned nothing and their Covid-19 responses are a big clusterfuck. Republicans can’t do anything right. They can’t even tie their shoelaces.

  108. 108

    South Dakota’s GOP governor is a little bit smarter than the rest of them. When you stop to think about it, her policies make perfect sense from her state’s point of view:

    South Dakotans don’t need to wear masks. Their houses are 5 miles apart. They’re already practicing social distancing.

    The 700,000 bikers congregating in Sturgis are from out of state. They will drop their money in South Dakota restaurants, bars, motels, and souvenir shops before they go home, get sick, and die. That gets rid of some bikers, and their home states will be stuck for their ICU care and hospital bills. From South Dakota’s point of view, that makes sense.

    South Dakota has only 1 seat in the House of Representatives. In other words, even a drastic population shrinkage wouldn’t cost it any seats in Congress. As long as the state still has 4 live Republicans, it will have a GOP governor, a GOP Representative, and 2 GOP Senators. No GOP politician’s job is on the line.

    Kristi Noem isn’t as stupid as she looks. Only her out-of-state fans are.

  110. 110

    @109 As you pointed out, it’s an IQ issue. They don’t know the difference between 14 years old and 34 years old.

  111. 111

    May he be raped by HIV+ cellmates every single day of his incarceration.

    ‘Let’s start a riot’: Illinois man sentenced to nearly 9 years in prison for setting Minneapolis store on fire after posting his crimes on Facebook

    “Rupert announced that he came ‘to riot,’ and is depicted handing out artillery-shell fireworks, encouraging violence against law enforcement officers, actively damaging property, breaking into buildings, and looting businesses,” according to the Department of Justice.

    Rupert was purportedly caught on video saying, “They got SWAT trucks up there . . . I’ve got some bombs if some of you all want to throw them back . . . bomb them back . . . here I got some more . . . light it and throw it.”

    The video reportedly shows Rupert asking for lighter fluid before entering a boarded-up Sprint wireless store in Minneapolis. Rupert entered a backroom of the store, knocked boxes into a pile on the ground, and splashed them with lighter fluid, according to the plea deal. Rupert then instructed a juvenile, which he brought with him from Galesburg, to light the pile on fire, according to the document. Rupert reportedly fled the building and yelled, “I lit it on fire!”

    One less Democrat voter in Illinois, it seems.

  113. 113

    Illinois man sentenced to nearly 9 years in prison for setting Minneapolis store

    What dimfuk conveniently left out:

    Matthew Lee Rupert, 29, was arrested in Chicago at 2:21 a.m. on May 31, 2020, according to WBBM-TV. He was arrested for violating Chicago’s emergency curfew order that was implemented by Mayor Lori Lightfoot after the protests escalated into violent riots.

    Arrested.. in Chicago.. due to curfew.. imposed by.. the black…

    female… mayor…

    Mmmm. funny… Glenn fucking Beck didn’t bother to leave that out..

    But our misogynist, racist troll did. Isn’t that special.. Thanks for the laughs.

  115. 115

    @ 114

    … is perfect evidence that isn’t true.

    Even better evidence: The 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

  116. 116

    Well, this didn’t age well at all.

    JULY 9, 2021, 2:37 PM
    When U.S. President Joe Biden was asked at a news conference on Thursday whether there was any comparison between his withdrawal from Afghanistan and the United States’ humiliating retreat from Vietnam a half century ago, his response was unequivocal: “None whatsoever. Zero.”

    The president went on to say that in the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War was grinding to a close, North Vietnam’s forces were far more powerful than the Taliban are today. “They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability,” he said. “There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.”

    The U.S.-supported Afghan security forces, he added, are 300,000 people strong and are “as well-equipped as any army in the world.” And with an air force against “something like 75,000 Taliban,” he added, “it is not inevitable” that the Afghan government will collapse as the South Vietnamese government did.

    Just in:

    Ruffini
    @EenaRuffini
    ·
    3h
    From
    @StateDeptSpox
    :

    this is not an abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not a wholesale withdraw …

    This should not be read as any kind of message to the taliban
    Quote Tweet
    Ruffini
    @EenaRuffini
    · 4h
    BREAKING: @CBSNews David Martin reports: A U.S. official tells CBS News the Pentagon is sending in troops to Karzai International to help with the evacuation of the embassy.

    Wouldn’t it have been easier if we hadn’t, you know, pulled so many troops out so fast?

    Ruffini
    @EenaRuffini
    ·
    3h
    Per David Martin: A U.S. official tells CBS News the Pentagon is sending in about 3,000 troops to help with the drawdown at the embassy.

    And finally:

    Ruffini
    @EenaRuffini
    ·
    6m
    NEW: Afghan diplomatic sources tell
    @CBSNews
    #Kandahar has now fallen to the #Taliban

  117. 117

    Well, surely. Otherwise he might be disturbed by questions about the incredibly rapid collapse of Afghanistan, the spike in producer prices, the 200k+ illegal aliens who tried to enter the country from the southern border last month, the 41% increase in gas prices since he became president, or whether Hunter lost his laptop to the Russians purposely because it contained state secrets.

    Steven Portnoy
    @stevenportnoy
    ·
    3h
    Biden has left the White House for his Wilmington vacation, pooler
    @weijia
    reports.

  118. 118

    @111 Looks stupid enough to be a Trumper.

    Interesting that rightwing sites assume he’s a “BLM activist” (even though he’s white and looks something that crawled out of a trailer park) or “Antifa” (I found no suggestion of that in any credible source).

    He’s too dumb to be a provocateur like this guy. Provocateurs cover their tracks. Probably just a moron who steals stuff and gets his rocks off by setting fires.

    Although 97% of the BLM protests were totally peaceful, a few of these generally lawful events provided opportunities for violent cops, white supremacists, rightwing provocateurs, and looters to do their thing. There were a few anarchists and antifa types in the mix, too, but most of the violence was committed by cops, car terrorists, and the ever-present rightwing troublemakers looking for a fight.

    This guy might be an anarchist or antifa. But until I see a plausible report from a credible source providing at least some scintilla of support for that proposition, I have my doubts. This dude looks more like a 9-year-old in a 29-year-old body who plays with matches.

  119. 119

    This isn’t Fox. This isn’t OAN or Newsmax. This is fucking CBS News tweeting this:

    Steven Portnoy
    @stevenportnoy
    ·
    4h
    After delivering remarks on prescription drug costs, Biden ignored reporters shouting these questions:

    “Is Afghanistan lost?”

    “Mr. President, are you planning to evacuate Americans from the embassy?”

    Moobs McScrote, can we get a “God Bless” for Biden here? ’cause it seems that some unforgiving types are holding him to account.

  120. 120

    I’m more interested in what the guy was doing with $370,000 in cash in his condo

    I’m sure you are. No thoughts at all about the underage girls who were victimized. By a Republican. Again.

  121. 121

    @ 118

    Interesting that rightwing sites assume he’s a “BLM activist” (even though he’s white

    Almost all of them are white, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s why black people have to tell them to STFU so often.

    New Report Reveals Demographics of Black Lives Matter Protesters Shows Vast Majority Are White, Marched Within Their Own Cities

    Ethnicity Distribution:

    A substantial majority of the protesters were white, in the cities where the data was gathered, with the highest percentage in Minneapolis (85%), followed by Los Angeles (78%), and Atlanta and New York (both at 76%). A total of 18% of the protesters were African American in Atlanta, 11% in Minneapolis, 13% in New York and 3% in Los Angeles. Those numbers remained steady during the nighttime hours. Hispanic and Asian American participation was less than 10% in all four cities.

    You embarrass yourself every day.

  122. 122

    @116 Biden probably doesn’t know much about Afghans. He has bigger problems to worry about here at home, and no free time to read up on their culture. He didn’t realize they’re famous for switching allegiances on a dime. They’ll fight for one side today, the other side tomorrow. They’re straight-up mercenaries. That’s why you see Afghan soldiers defecting en masse and handing over their weapons to the Taliban. Every Afghan with a gun is now a Taliban sympathizer. This isn’t going to take weeks. Anyone who doesn’t want to fall into the Taliban’s clutches needs to leave immediately. There’s only hours left.

  123. 123

    @ 118

    Interesting that rightwing sites assume he’s a “BLM activist” (even though he’s white and looks something that crawled out of a trailer park)…

    Interesting that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit assumed Michael Brown was a fleeing felon, even though he was bull-rushing the cop when he was shot.

    OK, not interesting, but entirely predictable when one understands how wrong Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit always is, about everything.

  124. 124

    “holding him to account”

    Members of a political party holding a president of their own party to account. I can understand why that would be a foreign concept for you.

  125. 125

    One less Democrat voter in Illinois, it seems.

    One down.

    One million twenty five thousand and twenty five to go!

    Keep fuckin’ that chickin, Bob!

  126. 126

    @121 It really sticks in your craw when white people stick up for black people, doesn’t it?

    That’s not embarrassing. Being a racist is embarrassing. As a dumbfuck, you naturally wouldn’t realize that.

  127. 127

    @ 122

    @116 Biden probably doesn’t know much about Afghans.

    I see that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit agrees with Bob Gates about Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise.

  129. 129

    even though he was bull-rushing the cop

    Got video?

    A cop with a gun chasing a black man for stealing what? A candy bar?

    Kind of like how you justify Trayvon being murdered by a vigilante stalking him with a gun.

    By removing context.

  130. 130

    Biden has left the White House for his Wilmington vacation

    With infrastructure delivered and Moscow Mitch’s ball sack in his back pocket holding his greens markers and tees.

    Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

    Gonna cry?

  131. 131

    @125 Why would anyone would think that guy is a Democrat? We don’t attract people that stupid. We all know who does.

  132. 132

    @ 126

    It really sticks in your craw when white people stick up for black people, doesn’t it?

    When they descend into vandalism, arson, and attempted or committed homicide, yes. That “sticks in my craw”, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    You were called on your stupidity because you did not know that the vast majority of those protesting at urban #BLM events are white, and you tried to worm out of it by leveling an accusation at me.

    You are a fucking clown, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You embarrass yourself, your family, and the family of SeattleJew.

  133. 133

    @132 “you did not know that the vast majority of those protesting at urban #BLM events are white”

    Look who’s making assumptions now.

    Of course I knew. Why else would you and your ilk be so upset about the BLM protests? You thought you had the blacks under control until all those white do-gooders showed up. That’s why your ilk runs over white people with their cars.

  134. 134

    All y’all predicting doom after Sturgis should acknowledge that Chicago permitted an even larger event.

    203 cases of COVID-19 linked to Chicago’s Lollapalooza

    Last Friday night we went to a live music event in Everett. Buncha old people. We sat in the back and wore masks. About 95% of the attendees did not and there was plenty of dancing up front. I don’t doubt that everyone was vaxxed – it’s close enough to Seattle and likely heavily populated with those who would seek a vaccine. So probably safe enough, although the dancing in a packed area maskless seemed unnecessarily risky.

  137. 137

    @129 Trayvon had candy, too. The fact he paid for it is irrelevant. Candy is for white people. Blacks possessing candy is an affront to white people, just as gay weddings in Vermont are an insult and existential threat to straight people in Iowa.

  138. 138

    Lollapalooza mandated VAX and testing.

    Sturgis mandated mullets and ass antlers.

    We shall see. But probably another case of Bob being appallingly shitty at math.

  139. 139

    @132 We’re pretty sure more than vandalism, arson, and homicide. sticks in my craw. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have a problem with peaceful BLM protests, you’d support them. And you would have a problem with the rightwing violence at these protests, e.g. car attacks and police violence, instead of looking the other way and pretending it doesn’t exist.

  141. 141

    yes. That “sticks in my craw”, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.</blockquote

    But violent insurrection to overthrow our government? Not so much, huh?

  142. 142

    @134 “Last Friday night we went to a live music event in Everett. Buncha old people. We sat in the back and wore masks. About 95% of the attendees did not and there was plenty of dancing up front.”

    I didn’t know Trump was in town. But then, he doesn’t get as much coverage these days.

  143. 143

    @135 “For Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, horsesass.org has replaced sex.”

    You spend more time here than I do.

    “Make sense. After all, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit can still type.”

    You can, too.

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Doc, you have no idea how funny you sometimes are, without even trying.

  145. 145

    136,
    That level of cooperation is to be expected.

    Wingman is in an enormous heap of very deep criminal shit. The things he was doing, and the way he was doing them is just next level. Plying minor children with alcohol and illegal narcotics and then fucking them and selling them to be fucked by others. And filming it. And crossing state lines to do it. Many times.

    These are just really bad criminal things. Very serious crimes against entirely sympathetic victims. Cruel, vicious, hateful stuff. And things that no judge or prosecutor can ever afford to be seen as “soft” on or “lenient”. And yet the whole purpose of a cooperation agreement like his is to obtain leniency.

    So the type and degree of cooperation really has to be very fulsome and without even a hint of reservation. I think he has himself a competent criminal defense attorney now, with some experience with federal criminal prosecutions. So it very much looks like his attorney has done the right thing for his client here, and just made him understand that his only hope not to die behind bars is to give up everyone, with receipts. That last part is probably the most important.

    Wingman is a terrible witness. His credibility is garbage. So his direct testimony is unlikely to be regarded as having much value to federal prosecutors. They need documents and records to corroborate. And they need documents and records to build the detailed timeline and populate it with specific people and specific events. For him to obtain any recommendations for leniency he has to produce volumes of documents and records. I will not be surprised if they had him wired back in December and January before the news broke.

    We don’t yet know who he’s giving up. But I can assure you he’s giving them up completely.
    It’s ironic. If Gaetz is really directly involved then he’s through and he’ll have to resign. And that scandal will make everyone forget entirely about Cuomo. Which is honestly too bad. Because a whole bunch of Democrats in Albany and media people in NYC were participants in all that. And they should all be dragged and then canceled. But now that probably won’t happen.

  147. 147

    87)The Afghan Army seems to be worse than ARVN. If the ARVN had more commanders like the General who put up a stand at Xsan Loc, maybe things could have been different. By the time the NVA got to Xuan Loc, they were closing in on Saigon.

    https://youtu.be/tGlfNNidFEk

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