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If you’re a Trumpublican you should just put your ballot in the recycling. As Teh Dumbfuck has pointed out hundreds of times on these comment threads, living in the affluent, growing, economically productive, progressive Western three fourths (by population) of the state your klownsurvaturd opinion informed only by resentment has absolutely no effect on any election outcome outside of your local soil and water board. Just let it fall gently from your withered, pale, liver spotted hand and get back to your daily routine of choke-fapping to anime porn and flipping through mail order catalogs.
When an off-duty Dallas cop relaxing at home Saturday night heard a noise his training and lightning reflexes kicked in, and Quick-Draw McGraw shot … his son.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/duty-dallas-police-officer-accidentally-shoots-son-after-mistaking-him-n1072581
@1 An eastern Washington Republican is someone who couldn’t make it as a western Washington Democrat. What’s the average wage rate over there? Hard to tell because teachers and government employees are the only ones paid in currency instead of chickens and potatoes.
What’s with San Bernardino cops? Always in the news. In this newly-released video, an intoxicated suspect drops the gun and puts his hands up, and then gets shot by the police. Not that he’s any great loss to society, given his rap sheet, buuut … not by the manual.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-camera-footage-shows-san-bernardino-officer-fatally-shoot-man-n1072681
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Summary executions don’t satisfy the requirements of due process and defendants’ right to a fair trial, either. However, they’re just fine with Republicans and their Greatest Genius leader. See, e.g., Bowe Bergdahl, Central Park Five, Eric Garner, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Chicago’s public pensions are about 35% funded. That’s not a good place to be. It will probably take some sort of bailout to rescue those pensioners’ retirement funding.
Good grief, Doctor. You and your freaky friends are becoming way too fucked up in the head.
“I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President,” Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham
Take some fucking meds.
The important thing is how decisive Obama was in returning traitor Bowe Bergdahl.
On Sunday, the Muellers praised President Donald Trump and the soldiers who pulled off the mission.
“We are so grateful for them … we are so grateful,” Marsha Mueller said. They were glad there was no loss of life on our side. They are grateful their daughter and the others who were tortured and killed by ISIS have not been forgotten.
“I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been,” Marsha Mueller said.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/10/27/dead-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-held-arizona-kayla-mueller-hostage/2478713001/
Good God, Doctor, how the fuck do you find these stupid dumbfuck bastards? Do you stupid fucks post an ad on Indeed.com that reads, “Dumbfuck wanted, utter incompetence and insatiable greed prefered, as well as hatred for America and love for Putin”?
“Trump’s Public Lands Chief Wrote For A Cult Extremist’s Magazine”
“William Perry Pendley authored anti-environmental screeds for Lyndon LaRouche. Now he controls 10% of the U.S. landmass.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-perry-pendley-lyndon-larouche-environment_n_5db34813e4b079eb95a33d3e
“Crooked Hillary”
“Lock her up!”
“Punch a protester I’ll Pay for the lawyer!”
“Those sonsabitches, You’re fired!”
“Sleepy Joe”
“Pocahontas”
“Human Scum”
(Boos are a baseball game) “There’s no place for incivility!” What a bunch off pansy-ass snowflakes the 32% have become.
@ 9
What a bunch off pansy-ass snowflakes the 32% have become.
You’re right. The brave thing to do is spy on a reporter.
Speaking of pansy-ass snowflakes, the Dems’ objection to the killing of al-Baghdadi is that they weren’t informed prior to or during the operation.
The ready response from Team Trump is that Schiff cannot be trusted to keep a secret.
Nothing incorrect about that response. al-Baghdadi is still dead.
So in which way are you going to betray our country today, Doctor? Got anything in the works? I only ask because I hope the dumbfuckery @10 and 11 isn’t all you’ve got for us today.
He might have pulled out of Syria without any warning or even consultation with his senior military commanders… other than the Russian ones.
How ’bout I just @ 12 betray Sleepy Joe, Steve? This will haunt him in 2020, too. The guy has been wrong about every foreign policy issue his entire career.
Biden’s ‘no’ on bin Laden raid could haunt him in 2016
Intelligence experts believed they had located bin Laden in a Pakistan compound, but they weren’t certain, and the risks of failure were high. After most officials present urged Obama to go for it, the president turned to Biden: “Joe, what do you think?” he asked, according to an account Biden gave months later.
“Mr. President, my suggestion is don’t go,” Biden said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/joe-biden-bin-laden-raid-defense-hillary-clinton-2016-campaign-121779
Since it’s pansy-ass snowflake day an’ all, I think this is a nice contribution.
Don’t you, Steve?
Evergreen.
Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” Obama’s first defense secretary, Robert Gates, declared last year.
(Same link as @ 14)
@13 Love how Doctor Dumbfuck’s orange moron thanked Russia first, then the troops. Nothing strange and unfortunate about that!
Just more confirmation, as though need more. For these dumbfuck traitors, all roads lead to Russia.
@14 Why are you such a stupid fuck, Doctor? Did your love your orange moron do that to you? Or was it your love for Putin? Just curious.
Sure, Trumpublicans are not about to obtain a numerical majority in Cook County. And probably aren’t ever going to win statewide elections in Illinois either given the bizarre and extremist turn they’ve taken since nominating PooseyGrapper to lead them.
So I suppose the “value” of going to Chicago and yelling prepared remarks that include
“Chicago is an embarrassment to America… Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison… Rat infested murder capitol…”
is that mouthbreathers in wifebeaters sitting at home will hear it and chub up. But it doesn’t help Republicans in Illinois running for office who need votes from Cook County.
It always seemed backward and parochial to me when pols seeking statewide office in relatively blue states would simply refuse to engage in the urban counties. But none of them with any sense would publicly insult those voters or their homes. And it isn’t as though there are no Trump voters in Cook County. In 2016 Cook County cast almost a half million votes for Trump. Analysis tells us these are low information gut voters. They probably liked Trump’s “attitude” without really knowing much else. Now, thanks to insults like this, It’ll be fewer than 350,000. And that’s a large total swing for a statewide race where candidates with an (R) after their names depend on very small margins to eek out a victory.
It may be these kinds of tactics are wise within a narrow electoral college strategy focusing on turnout among a core demographic in only a few states. But simply put, it does enormous damage to the party, in the present but also going into the future. Ride-or-Die Trump may be all they have left at this point. But it is going to kill them off as a national party in the long run.
Oh, look. Steve’s having trouble attacking the message, so he @ 17 goes after the messenger instead.
So brave. And to do it on pansy-ass snowflake day really makes Steve stand out from the useless twats like YLB.
You go, girl. I mean, it’s better to attack me than to defend Biden’s history.
Cheer up, Doctor. The DJIA is above 27,000 and there’s only 23,000 more to go and the DJIA under you orange moron will finally and at long last match its performance under the commie-Muslin usurper from Kenya!
And if your orange moron were to ever to pull that feat off, and it’s not looking good, then he could try to match the DJIA’s performance under Bill Clinton.
“Oh, look. Steve’s having trouble attacking the message”
Message? All you ever post dumbfuckery. You’re the dumbest fucking HA commenter since the days of Marvin and the Klynical Klown.
All you’re here for is to be scorned and mocked for your dumbfuckery and your betrayal of our country.
Get used to it, dumbfuck.
“You go, girl.”
You effeminate piece of shit, please tell me you’re not wearing your pink lace panties again today, Doctor.
Take my word for it, Doctor. Neither myself nor YLB is ever going to fuck you no matter how times you put on your pink lace panties before posting here.
“it’s better to attack me than to defend Biden’s history.”
Damn, Doctor, you’re really fucking stupid. I never defend Democrats on this blog. All I say about Democrats is that they’re better than you Putin-loving fucking traitors.
For any loyal, patriotic American, that’s a true statement.
Rebut that, fuckface.
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His “message” that Cadet Donald J. Bonespurs is some kind of masterful and decisive military commander is unworthy of even the usual mockery.
Not even president peepee’s supporters believe that. They just believe, in spite of all evidence, that a “successful businessman” can “choose the right Generals and leave it up to them”, even thought their president has repeatedly criticized the military for being filled with “highly overrated” people who “are too indecisive”.
I’m more fascinated that Teh Dumbfuck, given the present state of affairs, is so focused on vain attempts to “trigger” these comments with this nonsense. His President had to be tricked into leaving military support in Syria by his own Generals. They laugh at him constantly. And they are appalled by his relationship with foreign adversaries.
Nobody who has paid any attention over the past two-and-a-half years would think president Russian SlutPuppet has led the military well. He’s been mostly terrified by these kinds of situations and sought in every way to avoid them. Putin saw this from the outset and has played upon it to his advantage. Withdrawing the US military from overseas operations in support of our allies certainly relieves The President of any responsibility for those operations. It also leaves the world wide open to be manipulated and toyed with by malevolent dictators like Putin, Xi, Erdogan, Rouhani, and Kim.
Even Teh Dumbfuck can’t fabricate a hedging strategy for that.
“And to do it on pansy-ass snowflake day”
What’s so pansy-ass snowflakey about today, Doc? I mean, besides you and your pink lace panties.
@5 Illinois has the nation’s worst public pension system, and is often held up by conservatives as “proof” that America needs to abrogate its pension obligations to retired public servants. This, of course, is demagoguing a real-life problem.
Washington, by contrast, is consistently rated in the top three public pension systems. Most of its components are fully funded. But even if they weren’t, there would be zero justification for stiffing Washington State’s teachers and other public pensioners, because that’s their money.
In Washington, public pensions are funded with deductions from employees’ pay, which is then invested, and pensions are paid from this pool of funds. There is no taxpayer contribution or tax money involved.
Conservatives will argue that taxpayers pay teachers’ and other public servants’ salaries. Yes, but in exchange for their work, and those salaries become the private property of the employees upon receipt. Because pension contributions are deducted from their paychecks, those contributions are private property, not public money, when paid into the pension system.
But don’t expect conservatives to comprehend that. For all their reverence for private property, they don’t know private property when they see it. How else do you explain their sticky fingers when it comes to other people’s wages, pensions, health care, and lawns? Show me a conservative, and I’ll show you a porch pirate.
@6 I don’t get excited by this kind of stuff. It’s just puffery of the sort you expect from any other internet scammer’s advertising.
@7 Exactly what I was talking about in #4. The only way your reasoning works is if you assume Bergdahl’s guilt before he’s had a trial or any due process. Obama’s approach was to secure the release of an American POW, bring him home, then let the military legal system deal with the accusations against him. You? No due process needed or wanted, just leave him in enemy hands, or (according to some of your ilk) shoot him.
Nothing illuminates the flaws of this twisted thinking better than the case of the Central Park Five. Your orange moron ran a full-page ad in New York newspapers demanding their summary execution. Turns out they were innocent of the crime. However, they were still guilty of being black, which is enough for their racist fuck to want to kill them.
Bergdahl, in retrospect, was guilty of something. But there was no way to make that determination while he remained captive in enemy hands. What you’re guilty of is arguing that our nation should have turned its back on him and left him behind based on nothing more than your knee-jerk personal opinion of his guilt or innocence.
You suck, Doc. You richly deserve all the scorn we heap on you in these comment threads. Also, you’re a shitty armchair lawyer, even by armchair lawyer standards. You’d never pass the first question on a real-life bar exam with that answer.
@9 “Punch a protester I’ll Pay for the lawyer!”
My understanding is he didn’t pay those bills, either.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/15/politics/donald-trump-legal-fees-supporters/index.html
Not that I mind. His supporters deserve to get stiffed.
@11 Al-Baghdadi is dead thanks to the diligence and hard work of the intelligence agencies Trump despises.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/report-baghdadis-top-aide-was-key-to-his-capture_n_5db6dffae4b079eb95a6ef35
As for Schiff being unable to keep a secret, his evidence of that is what? Last week, he and Republicans in general were complaining that Schiff was being too secret.
You asswipes really are too much. Blech. Make up your minds. It’s easy to understand why the GOP is a joke to most Americans and has no credibility on any subject anymore.
@14 About time you finally acknowledged that Obama’s “go” order for the Bin Laden raid took guts. They say better late than never.
@15 “Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,’ Obama’s first defense secretary, Robert Gates, declared last year.”
Let’s begin this discussion on the premise that Gates is right. I’m not conceding that, I’m just agreeing to accept it as a given for the purpose of this debate. It needn’t be a long or complicated debate, because that still makes Biden’s foreign policy better than Trump’s in every respect. If 2020 is a Biden-Trump matchup, that still leaves Biden as the superior candidate by far. But world-class dumbfucks, and there are plenty of them, will vote for Trump anyway. So why even bother to argue with them?
And that’s my point: I’m not arguing with you. I’m making fun of you. So are all the other posters here.
“Al-Baghdadi is dead thanks to the diligence and hard work of the intelligence agencies Trump despises.”
Give Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron a day or two and they’ll be back to disparaging them.
@19 “Steve’s having trouble attacking the message, so he @ 17 goes after the messenger instead.”
Don’t overlook your role in this. You make it so easy …
33,
Disparaging them? He’s been literally getting them killed on the regular since he took office.
There’s no value in debating Republican performance on national security anymore. Since they traded their national allegiance for permission to tell racist jokes around the water cooler not a single one of them can be trusted to protect a tire dump. Top to bottom they’d sell out any enlisted war fighter in a heartbeat for a pizza coupon. And a pizza coupon is about all Trump will end up with by the time he’s done selling America out to his foreign bankers.
This is Every Republican You Know.
@24 “Nobody who has paid any attention over the past two-and-a-half years would think president Russian SlutPuppet has led the military well.”
The fact all our top brass are speaking up — something generals and admirals almost never do — tends to affirm that. Apparently he’s blown past their breaking point with his incompetence and outright treachery.
Good luck with that, Kurds. You probably know by now that Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron don’t give flying fuck what happens to our allies, not even your women and children. All of you get your asses slaughtered? Tough shit. That’ll teach you and everybody else what it means to be America’s ally these days. You don’t mean shit to us. We only give a fuck about Putin, Kim Jung-un, Erdoğan, Assad and Prince Bone Saw. They get whatever they fucking want from us.
Right, Doctor? C’mon, Dumbfuck, am I right?
You piece of shit.
“Syria Kurds expect Islamic State revenge attacks after Baghdadi death”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/syria-kurds-expect-islamic-state-revenge-attacks-after-baghdadi-death/
Meanwhile, drumpf is drooling over their oil.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/27/trump-wants-to-make-a-deal-with-exxon-or-others-to-tap-syrian-oil.html
Little mention of whether he intends to pay for it, but we know what the answer to that is.
@34 Regarding the dumbfuck who says I am “attacking the message”, whatever “message” the dumbfuck is trying to send through his comments, they read the same every fucking time.
“I’m a dumbfuck for Putin.”
Dumbfuck and his pink lace panties can go fuck themselves.
“we know what the answer to that is”
If it’s that he stiffs everybody who does business with him, then yeah. I imagine Doctor Dumbfuck being the same.
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This had to come back to bite them. Cent Com told president peepee we could have the oil if we kept troops in country. It was a desperation move. But it was gamed out in advance knowing that he was such an impulsive dumbfuck that it might come down to it. It was presumed that all president peepee really wants is a camera op and a stump speech line. So there are plans in place to give him that, without actually stealing any Syrian oil, which Putin does not approve.
“which Putin does not approve”
Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron would never do anything without Putin’s approval.
Speaking of Putin, I imagine he’s getting a little impatient with Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron, what with their failure to get those sanctions lifted.
Another domino falls. Clack. Clack. Clack. Will there be any Republicans left in the next Congress?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/politics/republican-congressman-greg-walden-retiring/index.html
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Far from the last of such announcements. I look for at least one more from the Pac NW. But since they all tend to lean on the same donor network they have to “time” these things in order to max out for each open seat. Means they have few to no opportunities to challenge to flip and will have to dig deep to hold their vulnerables.
SCOTUS has barred federal courts from interfering with partisan gerrymandering, but that doesn’t stop state courts from throwing out gerrymanders, and today a North Carolina state court did so, ruling that the GOP’s brazen gerrymander of that state’s congressional districts violates the state constitution.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gerrymandering_n_5db75dfde4b006d49173b030
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The chances of SCOTUS interfering with this ruling are nil, in my opinion, because this ruling is based on state — not federal — law. So the present legal status of gerrymanders in the United States is that they have to be challenged in state courts under provisions of state constitutions, statutes, and/or common law.
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@44 I don’t really expect the Democrats to hold a 435-0 House majority in January 2021, but it’s not totally outside the realm of possibility that the GOP could cease to exist before then.
Personally, I’d oppose that. It would be like emptying the locked wards of the criminally insane and letting the inmates wander the streets. We need a secure facility in which to park Republican voters. The GOP serves that function. As long as they’re in the Republican Party, who know where they are, who they’re with, and what they’re doing. It’s a bedlam, to be sure, but at least marginally preferable to utter chaos.
Underwear? Pink Panties? No thank you.
@48 Just give it to him straight up his ass. He’ll appreciate it.
Meanwhile, President Stoopid is spilling classified info again.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/officials-cringe-trump-spills-sensitive-details-al-baghdadi-raid-n1073001
They should yank his security clearance. If he ever had one.
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The WhitePower! WALL!!!! is entirely modular and the panel units can be transported on common freight. They can be removed, relocated, and reinstalled anywhere.
Something to keep in mind.
If Trump and the Child Molesters are humiliated and disgraced out of office does anybody think Bob will answer the call, gun up, and head out into the Red Dawn?
Will any of them?
WOLVERINES!!!!!
@52 If Trump is removed from office, I’d avoid D.C. pizza joints for a few days. Especially those with basements. But also the ones without basements.
@5
Yeah, defined benefit plans are coming to an end.
+24.17% for the period January 1, 2018 through October 28, 2019.
NYT is reporting tonight that a decorated Iraq war hero who was the senior Ukraine expert on the NSC confronted Sondland multiple times objecting about his demands on behalf of president Russian SlutPuppet for the ilegal quid pro quo specifically naming Biden.
Perjury.
Sondland is one of those guys. They tell themselves they must be the smartest guy in the room because they have money. They tell themselves they can talk their way out of the jamb and come out clean on the other side. If he has a good lawyer now, and if he is not in a secret JDA, that possibility still exists. But only if he gives up all the other conspirators.
Can’t help wondering how tearing down an LTC career Military Purple Heart recipient because he had the traitorous notion to run concerns about Donald/Ukraine by his supervisor is going to play with military voters.
It’s already started. Over on Fox News he’s committing espionage for being a Ukrainian immigrant as a child who speaks Ukrainian and wasn’t really NSCs Ukrainian expert.
Hasn’t anyone seen my worthless son?? Where has he gone? I tell you, my life has been hell ever since he skipped his hearing. Damn him!
@55 Want details? Here are the details:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/29/impeachment-probe-official-to-testify-he-heard-trump-call-voiced-concerns.html
This witness is going to be highly credible. Army officer, war hero, NSA’s top Ukraine expert, and all that. And damning, too, because he was on the call and has first-hand knowledge.
P.S., This witness says he isn’t the whistleblower, and I believe that, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it turns out he’s the whistleblower’s source, and the whistleblower is one of the superiors he reported his concerns to.
P.P.S., This witness will tell Congress that Trump’s actions, in his judgment, damaged our national security interests.
@57 If I knew — not saying a do, just floating a hypothetical — do you really want him back? Asking because I wouldn’t.
What you said gives me pause. It’d be nice if he’d pay me back the $10,000 bail I had to forfeit, but I know that will never happen. So all I should really hope for is to get my purse back. Can you help me?
Ouch! This one’s going to hurt, Doc.
“Opening Statement of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander S. Vindman”
“I have a deep appreciation for American values and ideals
and the power of freedom. I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend OUR country, irrespective of party or politics.”
I can see why you would already despise him. You know, what with his being patriotic and all that. Hmm, what else does he say?
“For over twenty years as an active duty United States military officer and diplomat, I have served this country in a nonpartisan manner, and have done so with the utmost respect and professionalism for both Republican and Democratic administrations.”
Uh-oh. Public service. We’re all familiar with the contempt you have for those people, Doctor. What do you call them? Chumps? Fools? Idiots? They should have gone for the BIG BUCK$ like you did. Like your orange moron. Am I right, Doc?
“On July 25, 2019, the call occurred. I listened in on the call in the Situation Room with colleagues from the NSC and the office of the Vice President. As the transcript is in the public record, we are all aware of what was said. I was concerned by the call. I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine. I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. This would all undermine U.S. national security. Following the call, I again reported my concerns to NSC’s lead counsel.”
https://static.politico.com/69/13/cdffb8a4420a8a4d8a65439570f2/vindman-statement-final.pdf
You and your orange moron are so fucked. And you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Live in shame.