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  1. 1

    I didn’t like the results of the Seattle City Council elections.

    So the only possible course of action is to gather, speechify, storm the East Precint, March to City Hall then smear feces on the walls of Council Chambers while stealing a laptop.

  2. 2

    Do cops actually direct traffic at busy intersections when the traffic lights are broken? If so, saw a major dereliction of duty this morning at Rainier and MLK Jr Way this morning. Some motorists were treating it as a 4 way, but only for motorists. The Pedestrian bridge only covers where the two streets meet, doesn’t cover the other half of the intersection, normal crosswalks are used, and the cops should not be MIA between 8-9AM, Franklin High School traffic.

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    It would be nice to have someone other than Biden and Trump in November. They are both too old.

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    “My party is completely delusional right now.” – Dean Phillips

    Steve 🇺🇸
    @SteveLovesAmmo
    I seriously cannot believe CNN actually aired this!!! 👀🔥

    Rep. Dean Phillips on meeting MAGA for the first time.

    “I gotta tell you guys, I went to a Donald Trump rally a couple of nights ago. I’ve never been to one. I had an event across the street. I saw the line of people waiting in the cold for hours.”

    “And I thought what the heck. I’m going to be a leader who actually invited people, doesn’t condemn them.”

    “Met probably 50 Trump people waiting in line. Every single one of them: thoughtful, hospitable, friendly. Al of them so frustrated that they feel nobody is listening to them, except Donald Trump.”

    “A diverse crowd, people that have never been to a Trump event before.”

    “My party is completely delusional!”

    Remember this when Hillary Clinton or the Biden Administration says that MAGA needs to be “deprogrammed”.
    0:06 / 0:33
    2:14 PM · Jan 23, 2024

    4.8 million views since yesterday.

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    My president is completely delusional.

    i.e. drumpf since 2016 currently running for its “third” term.

    they feel nobody is listening to them, except Donald Trump

    no doubt drumpf will keep the ai-powered manchinema irs wolf from kreepshit’s door..

    knock, knock, knock…

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    @2 I recently read SPD has 500 unfilled cop jobs. I think it pays enough (six figures before overtime). But taking away their license to run over POC (pedestrians of color) and murder street people has severely narrowed the applicant pool.

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    The consequences of Keep rockin’.

    David Folkenflik
    @davidfolkenflik
    LATimes confirms 115 journalists laid off, or about 23 percent; newsroom will be at approx 385.

    NOTE: Taken in combination with last year’s layoffs, the Los Angeles Times has laid off about one third of its newsroom in less than a year.
    12:03 PM · Jan 23, 2024

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    @3 It would be nice to have an election in which one of the two nominees isn’t a Hitler-quoting fascist leading an armed mob of racists so voters could actually have a choice. Oh sure, there’s still a choice of sorts, and we know what choice you’ll make.

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    Yes of course. If you can’t at least pretend to be a white Christian male who wants nothing other than to get a wage job and maybe one day become middle management then you just aren’t an American.

    Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity’

    “Darryl George has been suspended repeatedly by the Barbers Hill Independent School District for his hair. The teen’s family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit saying the punishment violates the CROWN Act, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” which became law in Texas in September.

    The law is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination. But the school said the law does not address hair length and that is the reason for George’s suspension.

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    “Nikki Haley refuses to say if she believes Vice President Kamala Harris, a former U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and District Attorney, is ‘more dangerous’ than Donald Trump.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/nikki-haley-dodges-and-deflects-when-asked-if-kamala-harris-is-more-dangerous-than-trump/

    Dragged her feet on hauling down the Confederate flag. Wouldn’t condemn slavery. Above all won’t say a bad word about Trump. What an utter fucking milquetoast. She’d be clay in Putin’s hands.

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    @112 Interesting that in 2024 a school superintendent is still pushing 1950s-style rigid conformity in his schools.

    But keeping black students in their place may not sell very well to a civil rights case federal jury in 2024.

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    In today’s Bill Ackman news, the stridently anti-Palestinian hedge fund billionaire has purchased a 5% ownership of the Israeli stock exchange, and people are walking away from the TED organization after it invited him to be a main speaker at this year’s conference.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/bill-ackman-and-wife-neri-oxman-buy-stake-in-tel-aviv-stock-exchange.html

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/24/ted-fellows-resign-bill-ackman-speaker-conference

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    Another Trump Voter loses his chance to bring him back.

    “You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.

    Six years for storming the Capitol. Donald won’t be alive to vote for in 2032 pal. He can lose and keep trying as long as he likes Morbidly obese 77 year olds aren’t likely to reach 85. Good work.

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    @ 17

    … people are walking away from the TED organization after it invited him to be a main speaker at this year’s conference.

    What TED stands for:

    Inclusion
    Ideas are for everyone. They can’t be fenced off by borders, whether of geography, religion, politics or culture. And no single origin, race, gender, identity or class can claim preferential ownership over them. TED is committed to a global mindset. We seek to source ideas from everywhere and to make them widely and freely accessible. Powerful ideas, expressed and distributed with care, can bring different groups together and create a shared vision of a future worth pursuing.
    …
    Inclusion
    Ideas are for everyone. They can’t be fenced off by borders, whether of geography, religion, politics or culture. And no single origin, race, gender, identity or class can claim preferential ownership over them. TED is committed to a global mindset. We seek to source ideas from everywhere and to make them widely and freely accessible. Powerful ideas, expressed and distributed with care, can bring different groups together and create a shared vision of a future worth pursuing.

    https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/how-ted-works/ted-s-curation-guidelines

    People who cannot deal with someone who thinks differently than they do take the cowardly way out. Good.

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    @ 18

    Morbidly obese 77 year olds aren’t likely to reach 85. Good work.

    The end to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is approaching. Mentally, for him the end has already arrived.

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    This was the election that was cancelled because the Democrat mayor’s Democrat supporters committed fraud by stuffing the ballot box.

    POLITICS
    Bridgeport mayor wins do-over Democratic primary in race marred by ballot irregularities

    The result? Democrats voted to retain the fraud.

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    A little bit more on @ 24:

    • Both of the election workers who were caught on video stuffing ballot boxes pleaded the Fifth during questioning.

    • The mayor Democrats just voted to retain?

    He was the city’s mayor from 1991 to 2003 when he was convicted of racketeering, extortion, and accepting bribes and kickbacks. He spent seven years behind bars, but the overwhelming majority of Bridgeport Democrats voted him back into his old office once he was released.

    Why would Democrats do such a thing? Because so many of them are immigrants who are being taken advantage of by natural-born Democrats:

    According to the 2020 five-year community survey, 48.2% of Bridgeport’s population speaks a different primary language at home other than English, 33.8% percent of the city’s total population speaks Spanish at home, and 22.5% speak English less than very well.[138] Bridgeport has the largest percentage and population of Hispanic Americans in the state of Connecticut. The city is known for having one of the largest communities of Puerto Ricans in the United States; Bridgeport has the 7th largest Puerto Rican population in the United States, with 30,250 people claiming Puerto Rican heritage in 1990, that number has grown to about 31,900 (22.10% of the population) in 2013.[139][140] 45,270 people (31%)[141] of Bridgeport’s population is foreign born in 2010. Other than Puerto Ricans, 5.4% of Bridgeport’s population was noted under Mexican in 2013,[142] a number that has grown to 5.8% (8,479 people) in the 2020 five-year American Community Survey, meaning Bridgeport has the largest Mexican population in New England.[143]Dominicans are 5,248 (3.53%) of Bridgeport’s population. The total Latino Central American population (Guatemalans, Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Panamanians) is 6,701 people total in the city (4.507%). 8,454 South Americans (5.697%); 4,020 Equadorians, 2,326 Colombians, Peruvians, and then populations from every Latin American nation except Bolivia can be found, with the smallest group being Paraguayans at 16 people according to the census.[144][145] [146] Bridgeport also has the largest Cuban population in the state, with more than 1,000 of the state’s 10,600 Cubans living in Bridgeport, although down from the at least 5,000 Cubans in Bridgeport in 1980, and even more before that time in the 1950s according to the CTPost. Bridgeport was once a major destination for migrating Cubans, but many families have since moved to the city’s suburbs or Florida. Bridgeport, along with Danbury, CT were considered as a potential locations for a new Ecuadorian consulate, but it instead opened in New Haven, CT, due to its immigrant welcoming mayor, in 2008.[147]

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    they do take the cowardly way out

    Says our resident dumbfuck Nazi coward.

    Democrats voted to retain the fraud

    Says the dumbfuck Nazi coward who, in the this year’s presidential race, will vote two more times for a criminal who has actually been convicted of fraud.

    All of this is to say that dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck.

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    @24 “Democrats voted to retain the fraud.”

    Posted the day after New Hampshire GOP primary voters voted to retain a fraud and liar.

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    @25 Why are you criticizing immigrants when native-born, English-speaking Republicans aren’t any better at electing people who aren’t criminals and you yourself voted for a candidate who took the Fifth?

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    @21

    Show me where “Gets to be keynote speaker no matter who he advocates ‘finishing’” is one of those values.

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    @22

    Cited irrelevant case law. Overruled.

    Hair is not speech. Dress codes can be enforced at public schools. The school in question has a “Hair above the collar” code which if you had bothered to look into before citing a totally irrelevant point the student adheres to by pinning his braids above the shoulder.

    The state also has a specific law covering ‘ethnic’ hair that did not exist in 2007.

    If you Google the high school’s football team you’ll find an official image published by the school of a white kid with hair below the collar. So there’s that too.

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    What if our Congressional Post Office had been giving out the drug that killed Michael Jackson, Prince and Phillip Seymore Hoffman?

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    WHEN IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION GOING TO TAKE THE FENTANYL CRISIS SERIOUSLY? We have an open border where all these drugs are pouring across and no one is doing ANYTHING. Traces of it were found in the LINCOLN BEDROOM. It’s as easy to get as an aspirin. Just go to the Resolute Desk and ask for the Quarter pounder without cheese and extra ketchup and no questions asked they hand you your opium.

    Wait, 2018?

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    I visited my dad all the time and sometimes I could use some pharmaceuticals. I was allowed. I was a white house employee. It’s one of the best parts of the job. Free is better than paying.

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    Why do you think I love the guy? It was a non-stop bender of THE highest grade drugs. Not like that shit we had in the 70s cut with baking soda and if you rolled into Cleveland and couldn’t find your guy you had to go to the black neighborhoods and find some of that street shit. Every time I got to go it was a better high than the last time. Sometimes there were hookers. No, I never met Epstein, why?

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    So after the Oklahoma Governor signed an executive order banning TikTok on all state owned devices and banning use of the platform by any state employee….

    The State Superintendent of Schools appointed Libs Of TikTok founder and right wing activist to the Library board that determines if challenged books can be returned to shelfs.

    Oh BTW, she does not and never has lived in Oklahoma. Her only qualification is….to infuriate anyone who isn’t MAGA.

    Side note there are at least two criminal investigations under way against her for doxing Twitter and TikTok users.

    On Wednesday, a school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received two bomb threats the day after LibsofTikTok tweeted about the school’s librarian, who had posted a tongue-in-cheek video on social media saying she wasn’t finished “pushing her woke agenda” on kids. (“My radical liberal agenda,” she wrote in the post, “is teaching kids to love books and be kind.”)

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    Just curious.

    How sure are we that we don’t have to spend a shit ton of money to prop up Cancun Ted and The Orange Guy to NOT lose Texas in the coming cycle?

    Houston Chronicle

    Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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    “In blow to Fox Corp., judge rules Smartmatic case over 2020 election lies can proceed”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/media/fox-corporation-smartmatic/index.html

    There goes another billion dollars. Maybe more. The Murdochs profited by peddling lies to their gullible audience. Every penny was made by sullying the reputations of Dominion, Smartmatic, Freeman and Moss, and others. Those profits belong to them, not Fox; in addition, Fox should owe them compensatory damages, punitive damages, and legal fees.

    Fox isn’t a news organization. It’s not even a yellow journalism organization, or a sleazy tabloid organization. It’s beneath that; it’s an organization that sells lies for profit. It’s a cancer on America’s soul, and deserves to die.

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    They are both too old.

    It would be “nice” to have a jet engine in my butt hole that got me to work without traffic and also blasted out sweet sweet rainbow flavored soft serve frozen yogurt.

    What.

    The.

    Actual.

    Fuck.

    Is.

    Wrong

    With.

    You?

    Grow the fuck up you whining piece of shit and get with the fucking program. Joe Biden may not be your absolute perfect most extra special favorite flavor of hipster artisanal root beer, but he does actually know the actual fucking difference between Nikki Haley and The Speaker of The House of Representatives. And also, by the way, not for nothing , but just in case you are not already a complete traitor to the human race, Biden wants to actually preserve democracy. Oh my fucking God who dropped you on your head you idiot? I’m so sorry-not sorry.

    Fuck you.

    Pull on your big boy pants you fucking snowflake pansy-assed loser and make some kind of rational decision.

    Nobody gives a single dry popcorn fart what you specifically in particular extra special “want”.

    FUCK YOU.

    You are just one of 350 million of us. GET IT?

    Choose.

    CHOOSE.

    Then live with that choice forever.
    And no matter what do not expect to blame the rest of humanity for that choice just because it was not perfectly tailored to suit your precious snowflake tastes.

    FUCK YOU THIS IS COFFEE DRINK IT AND SHUT THE FUCK UP

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    9)Normally I’m against the use of red light cameras, but this particular intersection, if it will help with enforcement. Although FHS should remind the students who take LINK to use the bridge, some do, but others use the crosswalk. One of my issues with red light cameras, is they use a flash, could end up causing crash.

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    “Trump warns he will blacklist Nikki Haley campaign donors”

    “In a post on the Truth Social social media platform, former U.S. President Donald Trump said that anyone who contributes to Haley’s platform ‘from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them, and will not accept them.’”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/25/trump-warns-he-will-blacklist-nikki-haley-campaign-donors.html

    No problem; Biden will accept their money and support.

  48. 48

    Only 50% of the conservative leaning voters who took part in the NH GOP primary were willing to identify themselves as Republican.

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    President Joe Biden is more popular than Dean Phillips in Phillips’ own district.

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    @44 – You can rant and rave like a spoiled little girl if it makes you feel better, but you can’t change the fact that Biden and Trump are both too old for the job. Also, Biden is losing his marbles.

    “Highly educated coastal elites” are morons.

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    Senator Lindsey Graham testified before a Fulton County grand jury that if you told Trump “that martians came and stole the election, he’d probably believe you”. He also suggested to the grand jurors that Trump cheated at golf.

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    A DOD Inspector General investigation reports that Trump’s Surgeon General Ronny Jackson was regularly providing dangerous powerful narcotic stimulants and sedatives to Trump and his White House staff without any required medical record keeping.

  54. 54

    Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show one day a week for the sole purpose of mocking the Republican nominee.

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    @51

    Does that give you feels?

    President Joe Biden won more votes than any candidate for any office on the United States ever.

  58. 58

    From Trump University to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit Legal Eagle School of Law in not much time at all.

    Thursday, January 25, 2024
    ABA Seeks Comments On Proposal To Allow Accreditation Of Fully Online Law Schools

    When social distancing becomes a how-to manual.

    Don’t miss the climax at the conclusion of each of the Jeffrey Toobin lectures!

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    @ 53

    A DOD Inspector General investigation reports that Trump’s Surgeon General Ronny Jackson was…

    The report did not name Dr. Jackson.

    The OIG report does not mention Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House Medical Unit director from 2010 to 2014 and the president’s physician from 2013 through 2018.

    Further, Dr. Jackson was not Surgeon General.

    I looked it up and so can you, asshole.

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    @ 53, cont:

    …was regularly providing dangerous powerful narcotic stimulants and sedatives to Trump and his White House staff without any required medical record keeping.

    There was medical record keeping.

    • Storage and inventory processes that were ineffective. In our analysis
    of the White House Medical Unit’s controlled substance records, we found
    that medications, such as opioids and sleep medications, were not properly
    accounted for, in violation of title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
    section 1304.22 (2019).7
    In addition, the White House Medical Unit used
    handwritten records to track the inventory of controlled substances.
    These records frequently contained errors in the medication counts,
    illegible text, or crossed out text that was not appropriately annotated.

    There is no mention in the report of unrecorded dispensing.

    Further, there is no mention in the report of medication dispensed for President Trump.

    I looked it up and so can you, asshole. There’s a reason this report hasn’t been in the news cycle. It’s a nothingburger.

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    Not in the DOD IG’s report: Mention of cocaine dispensed in the White House during the Trump administration.

    We’ll have to await the Biden administration DOD OIG report in order to learn which White House Medical Unit member prescribed cocaine to a Biden family member.

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    Looking forward to former FLOTUS #CrookedHillary and MichelleO slugging it out for the nomination on the DNC convention floor.

    𝔹𝕦𝕕…
    @bud_cann
    Megyn Kelly reports on the 93 year old, extremely active, well connected, legendary columnist Cindy Adams saying Barack Obama is lining up donors for Michelle Obama’s announcement in May that she’s running for President.
    2:16 PM · Jan 24, 2024

    And that’s assuming that DOCTOR Jill doesn’t try to make it a three-way fight. It’s clear that she loves leading her husband around by the hand and being stage-photographed doing presidential stuff like prepping for the G7.

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    @ 62

    The good news for Democrats is that they only need to spend three more months pretending that Joe Biden’s increasingly obvious cognitive deficiencies are a very normal thing for a president of the most powerful nation on earth.

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    It’s clear that she loves leading her husband around by the hand and being stage-photographed doing presidential stuff like prepping for the G7.

    Nancy’s astrologer strongly advised Nancy to stick to leading Bonzo to the podium..

    https://youtu.be/6JTtI3D6lqk?si=BglCbfNg1-T4tUZm

    The stars shone more favorably on Nancy being a power behind the throne.

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    Our dying troll, shit lord of widbee fancies itself as a John Dutton type who when in a crisis over an impending IRS audit retreats to the horse barn to shovel shit.. oh and other rumored activities..

    It also fancies itself as a Johnny Appleseed hugging and nurturing trees on kreepshit acres..

    Heh.. This just dropped in my youtube feed.

    https://youtu.be/Gff-DF3qKBE?si=6eQPbICcZJcBDxSy

    Careful how you plant ’em lord kreepshit.

    What’s next for lord kreepshit? Bonzo recreated on his show for the cameras “ranch” by clearing brush and hand building fences..

    After barely surviving a second term, Nancy said enough of this pioneer shit and moved their asses to Bel-Air.

    Does George Dumbya Arbusto still own that “ranch” in TexASS?

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    RNC has announced that they will assign presumptive nominee status to Donald Trump and hand over control of the party data operation, fundraising, state level operations, and party primary operations to the Trump campaign.

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    The revised version of the petition to place an abortion rights measure on the ballot in Nevada this fall has now been approved and signature gathering is now under way.

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    @50 “you can’t change the fact that Biden and Trump are both too old for the job”

    A “fact” is something that’s real. Biden’s doing the job pretty well, so you can’t say his age should keep him out of the job, because that’s not real. It’ll have to be something else. How about an arbitrary retirement age like in the old days? In the 1950s it was 65 and out, whether you wanted to retire or not, to make room for the youngsters. You seem to like the 1950s a lot.

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    Trump took the stand in his rape trial today and testified only very briefly, answering just three questions with most of his response stricken from the record. Angered by the judge’s ruling to strike his testimony Trump, who turns 79 next year, was shaken and weak as he left the court after his very brief spell on the stand muttering quietly in between what appeared to be gasping or sobbing.

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    @58 “Rabbit Legal Eagle School of Law”

    Aka University of Washington School of Law, a well-regarded institution of classroom learning.

    I was 1 of 140 students selected from 2,200 applicants for my class. Could you have done that?

    You can deprecate me, doc, but leave the U.W.L.S. out of it. It’s a fine school. By the way, which Caribbean correspondence medical school is your MD diploma from?

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    @62 Gossip writer quoted by someone using a screen handle named after a beer. Typical Doctor Dumbfuck “source.”

  75. 75

    @63 “The good news for Democrats is that they only need to spend three more months pretending that Joe Biden’s increasingly obvious cognitive deficiencies are a very normal thing for a president of the most powerful nation on earth.”

    That’s plenty of time for Trump to perform his Mussolini act in front of the two-thirds of voters who don’t want to live in a fascist country.

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    @65 There’s no reason to believe the IRS takes any interest in him. Not enough tax revenue to be had from a social security check.

  79. 79

    Not enough tax revenue to be had from a social security check.

    Reporting zero income is defrauding the government and subject to severe penalties.

    That’d about give the troll a stroke or MI.

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    @74,

    X (formerly Twitter) under Elon Musk is now tracked by CISA as a major producer of election misinformation.

    Studies indicate that the personalities most attracted to these forms of misinformation are generally anti-social loners who struggle in normal social settings and have difficulty recognizing common social cues.

    One possible name for such people is “asshole”.

  81. 81

    @59
    @60
    @61

    When you come out for encores, do ‘Al Gore invented the internet’

  83. 83

    @80 I like “stupid” better. It’s more accurately descriptive. Of course, he can be an asshole and stupid at the same time, so “stupid asshole” works, too.

  85. 85

    Hey, remember when HA Legal Eagle Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wrote that he saw nothing wrong with Fani Willis’ behavior?

    A current and former law partner to Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor leading the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia, have been told to expect a subpoena to testify at a hearing next month on whether he and the district attorney who brought the case should be disqualified over their alleged affair and financial ties, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

    The district attorney, Fani Willis, also is expected to be subpoenaed, sources say, and possibly others in her office.

    Good times, good times.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s command of basic ethics concepts is why he was able to “retire” early.

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    @ 66

    RNC has announced that they will assign presumptive nominee status to Donald Trump and hand over control of the party data operation, fundraising, state level operations, and party primary operations to the Trump campaign.

    Some people have all the luck. Remember when #CrookedHillary had to purchase that control from the DNC in 2015?

    Read the full memo, obtained by NPR from a Democratic source:

    “This Memorandum is intended to memorialize our agreement regarding the creation and operation of Hillary Victory Fund (Victory Fund), a joint fundraising committee of Hillary for America (HFA) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

    “HFA is prepared to raise and invest funds into the DNC via the Victory. In return for this financial support, HFA requires the appropriate influence over the financial, strategic, and operational use of these JFA-raised funds.

    “Commencing on September 1, 2015 HFA agrees to raise funds for the Victory Fund sufficient to fund the DNC’s data, technology, analytics, research, and communications operations. Specifically, HFA will agree to raise and to instruct the Victory Fund Treasurer, Beth Jones (who is employed by HFA) to transfer from the Victory Fund a minimum of one million and two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000.00) to the DNC from its share of the net proceeds under the allocation formula on the first day of every month (beginning October 1, 2015) for these activities (the “Base Amount”). In the event that the Victory Fund is not in possession of adequate net proceeds allocable to the DNC on the first of the month to make such transfer, it shall make the required transfer as soon as adequate funds are available.

    “HFA’s obligations under this agreement, and the release of the Base Amounts each month are conditioned on the following:

    With respect to the hiring of a DNC Communications Director, the DNC agrees that no later than September 11, 2015 it will hire one of two candidates previously identified as acceptable to HFA.
    With respect to the hiring of future DNC senior staff in the communications, technology, and research departments, in the case of vacancy, the DNC will maintain the authority to make the final decision as between candidates acceptable to HFA.
    Agreement by the DNC that HFA personnel will be consulted and have joint authority over strategic decisions over the staffing, budget, expenditures, and general election related communications, data, technology, analytics, and research. The DNC will provide HFA advance opportunity to review on-line or mass email, communications that features a particular Democratic primary candidate. This does not include any communications related to primary debates – which will be exclusively controlled by the DNC. The DNC will alert HFA in advance of mailing any direct mail communications that features a particular Democratic primary candidate or his or her signature.
    If asked by a State Party, the DNC will encourage the State Party to become a participant in the Victory Fund.
    Sponsor Message

    “Once HFA has raised the first $1,200,000 and it has been distributed to the DNC, HFA will be granted complete and seamless access to all research work product and tools (not including any research or tracking the DNC may engage in relating to other Democratic candidates).

    “The parties also agree that they will enter into an agreed upon voter file licensing agreement. As consideration for that agreement, HFA will raise an additional $250,000 into the Victory Fund that will be distributed to the DNC no later than March 31, 2016.

    “In addition, HFA will also raise funds for the Victory Fund that will distributed to the DNC in excess of the $1,200,000 monthly base amount (Excess Amount). The Excess Amount raised by HFA that is distributed to the DNC will be spent on the DNC’s data, technology, analytics, research, and communications operations as directed by HFA (Special Projects). Although the DNC will remain responsible for the day to day execution of those Special Projects, HFA will determine (in consultation with the DNC) the Special Project’s scope, strategy, staffing, budget, and manner of execution.

    “Finally, HFA agrees that on a monthly basis the Victory Fund will provide the DNC a list of receipts and disbursements from the Victory Fund. The DNC agrees to provide monthly financial reports to HFA as it relates to the use of the funds distributed by the Victory Fund to the DNC.

    This #CrookedHillary buyout of the DNC took effect September 1, 2015. That was four months before the corrupt cunt barely beat Bernie in Iowa (by 0.25%, and neither hit a majority), and before Bernie cleaned her clock in New Hampshire by taking more than 60% of the vote.

    Contrast 2016 DNC with 2024 GOP, in which Trump has become the first nonincumbent candidate in nearly 50 years to win both Iowa and NH.

    Trump assuming control of the RNC operation is because Trump is overwhelming any other candidate. This is very different than 2016, when after months of receiving every benefit Donna Brazile could think to give her #CrookedHillary essentially tied in Iowa and lost badly in NH.

    This is how you got Trump in the first place.

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    @85 HA armchair legal “expert” declares getting served a subpoena = guilt. So how many “guilty’s” do we put after Trump’s name? Mark Meadow’s? Pete Navarro’s? and so on …

  88. 88

    In other legal news, “Trump was on the witness stand for mere minutes on Thursday. The defense’s questions were effectively pre-cleared by the judge, as Trump was not allowed to re-litigate the verdict from last year.” Trump’s strip-mall lawyer then “asked her client whether he stood by his testimony in a previous deposition denying Carroll’s allegations.” The judge “cut him off, instructing the court to strike everything Trump said ….”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/takeaways-from-donald-trumps-testimony-at-the-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Comment: This kind of representation is expensive, because no lawyer wants to give up his or her hard-won license to practice law for a song. I read the other day she’s gotten $2.5 million so far, not including what she’ll bill for the last six months.

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit Question

    Which is dumber, (1) flipping off another driver, or (2) shooting at a driver who flipped you off?

    I’m thinking #1 because the flipper lost her 6-year-old son, whereas the shooter is only going to lose 40 years to life.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/marcus-anthony-eriz-aiden-leos/index.html

    I think the best idea is to drive courteously and don’t react to what other drivers do. The GOP policy of putting guns in the hands of psychopaths has changed the imperative from defensive driving to passive driving. Now you have to avoid provoking the road rage shooters out there.

  91. 91

    ” … Trump said Thursday he did not support a push by allies at the Republican National Committee (RNC) to effectively make him the party’s presumptive nominee, even as former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley remains in the primary race.

    “’While I greatly appreciate the Republican National Committee (RNC) wanting to make me their PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE, and while they have far more votes than necessary to do it, I feel, for the sake of PARTY UNITY, that they should NOT go forward with this plan, but that I should do it the ‘Old Fashioned’ way, and finish the process off AT THE BALLOT BOX,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4430342-trump-rnc-should-not-pursue-resolution-presumptive-nominee/

    Meanwhile, he’s threatening to excommunicate anybody who donates to Haley or supports her.

  96. 96

    More Gen Z Americans identify as LGBTQ than as Republican

  97. 97

    Robert Reich @ RBReich on Xitter

    So let me get this straight. Gov. Abbott of TX says he’ll defy federal law because an “invasion” has happened at the border, but the GOP refuses to fix the border because that would hand Biden a political win? Have I got that right?

    Andrew Lawrence @ ndrew_lawrence on Xitter

    Starting civil war II over a states right right to drown children in a river with razor wire

  98. 98

    @97 As an unpopular minority party locked into a strategy of tearing down instead of building up, the GOP will subordinate national interest to partisan expediency every single fucking time.

  99. 99

    essentially tied in Iowa and lost badly in NH.

    And won the Southern States same as Joe.

    Black voters chose Hillary because they knew her, as a first lady of a southern state, as the spouse of a southern governor who mixed for decades in countless southern election cycles. They knew Joe as well. Right or wrong black voters get a say in the Dem nomination process..

    Contrast with the repuke party.

    btw Bernie’s not a Dem.

  100. 100

    Well, that didn’t go well.

    “Kenneth Eugene Smith has become the first person in history to be executed with nitrogen gas … following a 22-minute ordeal where he appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. He shook violently and pulled on the restraints on the gurney, continuing to breathe the nitrogen gas heavily until he … passed out.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13008191/Kenneth-Eugene-Smith-nitrogen-executed-first.html

    “Media witnesses said he appeared conscious for several minutes into the execution, and then he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney for two minutes. That was followed by several minutes of deep breaths until his breathing slowed and it was no longer perceptible to media witnesses.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-prepares-first-us-nitrogen-gas-execution-inmate-kenneth-smith-rcna135568

    Might as well have just put a pillow on his face and held him down while he thrashed and kicked. This was the same thing.

  101. 101

    “Physicians and human rights experts have condemned the execution — which relies on an untested method known as nitrogen hypoxia — because there are concerns it could be painful and inhumane.”

    https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/25/24050932/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-death-penalty

    “The American Veterinary Medical Association recommends giving even large animals a sedative when being euthanized in this manner, while Alabama’s protocol for execution by nitrogen asphyxiation makes no provision for sedation of human beings prior to execution.”

    https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/01/alabama-plans-to-conduct-first-execution-using-nitrogen-gas-united-nations-torture/

    “Death penalty experts have decried what is in effect a human experiment.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/alabama-execution-nitrogen-kenneth-smith

    “This month, United Nations experts raised the alarm that Smith’s execution could constitute torture”

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/nitrogen-gas-execution/index.html

    Yeah, well, now we know …

  102. 102

    It was a crackpot idea:

    “Nitrogen hypoxia is a method of suffocating a person by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen, starving them of oxygen until they die.”

    Railroaded through Oklahoma’s rightwing legislature:

    Then representative Mike Christian of Oklahoma first proposed using nitrogen gas as a potential form of execution … after the state came under fire for multiple botched execution attempts using lethal injection.

    “The idea partly came from Michael Copeland, then an assistant professor of criminal justice at East Central University in Ada, Okla., who co-authored a white paper on the subject with two of his colleagues at the university.

    “’The entire proposal for nitrogen gas was the product of a 14-page report made by a criminal justice professor,’ says Corinna Barrett Lain, a law professor at the University of Richmond …. ‘He’s not a doctor. He doesn’t have any medical training. He’s not a scientist. But he knew one of the legislators.'”

    Which was good enough for those guys. Never mind that,

    “’There is a claim, that I think is baseless, that nitrogen gas inhalation would cause a death that would be peaceful and not cruel,’ Zivot says. ‘There’s no evidence for any of that.’”

    The capital punishment zealots went ahead with their little human experiment anyway.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-execution-method-touted-as-more-humane-but-evidence-is-lacking/

  105. 105

    @97 There’s a precedent for dealing with this sort of situation.

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

    Eisenhower, a former army general, knew what to do. He put the state national guard under federal orders, kept them in their barracks, and sent the 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas to preserve federal authority against a recalcitrant governer.

    Same deal here. Federalize the Texas National Guard, stand them down, and send the U.S. Army to evict the Texas Rangers from the public park. Give the troops loaded weapons in case the Rangers decide to shoot it out. Back them up with armor and air support, and park an aircraft carrier offshore of Galveston where Abbott can see it. Deal with him as you would Syria or Libya. Let ’em know who’s in charge.

  108. 108

    90)Maybe sees a market for some of Turkey’s indegenous weapons industry. Interesting who their shipyards were building a few warships for before last year.

  109. 109

    105)He’ll probably reactivate the Texas. Although this isn’t the movies, and the movie Battleship, that was the Missouri, not a nearly 110 year old dreadnought.

  110. 110

    USA Today has an article here recounting the many problems encountered in carrying out the death penalty, following Alabama’s fourth-straight botched execution.

    In my opinion some killers deserve to be dead, but nobody likes cruel or painful executions (well, maybe some Republicans do, but they won’t admit it). There are issues of random imposition, racial bias, and a flawed criminal justice system; dozens of exonerations of death row inmates suggest a high risk of executing innocent people, aggravated by the fact courts often turn a deaf ear to innocence claims and tolerate egregiously flawed police investigations and trials.

    The easy thing to do is get rid of executions altogether. But that’s politically difficult in states with third-world legislatures, and this Supreme Court majority doesn’t seem inclined to take the constitutional ban against “cruel and unusual” punishment seriously; after all, they just allowed Alabama to use a quack execution method.

    So I don’t know where this goes from here. The next botched execution? Likely.

  113. 113

    God Himself calls upon you all here, now, to stand among the faithful in defense of your sacred homeland and martyr yourselves before the cruel bullets of federal tyrant Biden in Texas.

    Go now.

    Give your lives to His cause and for our sacred liberty 🙏🗽

  114. 114

    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is so emotionally weakened and broken by the NY rape trial that he became completely overwhelmed and had to stand and rush out of the courtroom in the middle of the plaintiffs closing arguments.

  116. 116

    Yes, UN employees participated directly in the Hamas slaughter of Israelis.

    26 January 2024
    From Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General

    AMMAN,

    “The Israeli Authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on 7 October.

    “To protect the Agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay. Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.

    No, it’s not from Fox.

    https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/serious-allegations-against-unrwa-staff-gaza-strip

  117. 117

    -REPUBLICAN BORDER CRISIS ALERT–

    With this morning’s sudden reversal by Mitch the Glitch, informing the Republican Senate minority in a meeting of his plans to use Senate rules to block border security funding in order to prolong and deepen the border crisis in Texas, it now officially becomes a REPUBLICAN border crisis.

    From this point forward Republicans own the mess that they created and that they are not allowing anyone else to clean up.

    –END REPUBLICAN BORDER CRISIS ALERT-

  118. 118

    @116 Wherein “alleged” is transformed to “participated” on the Whidbey hermit’s keyboard.

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