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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 1/4/23, 8:18 am

The legislature starts next week. What do you want from them?

For me, it’s time — it’s past time — to get density around transit stops. Come on. Let’s get it done.

I would also like as much funding for abortion as we can get. If we have the votes, and the polling looks good, we should have a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights.

And for you, I hope that you wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  1. 1

    We'd be better off with a DEAD Trump spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:11 am

    And Rupert Murdoch.

  2. 2

    Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:12 am

    Quorum present..

    Popcorn at the ready for another humiliation of repuke donor-darling Kevin.

  3. 3

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected. spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:33 am

    We’d be better of if Trump had been re-elected.

  4. 4

    Every butthurt repubican you know spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:35 am

    Democrats are in disarray, cannot even pick a speaker of the house!

  5. 5

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:38 am

    The first session of Congress on Tuesday saw 3 voting sessions, all of which failed to achieve a majority of votes for a single candidate.

    Vote 1: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-203, Other-19
    Vote 2: Jeffries (D)- 212, McCarthy (R)-203, Other-19
    Vote 3: Jeffries (D)- 212, McCarthy (R)-202, Other-20

    Jeffries said to a question about whether Democrats would support a moderate Republican or compromise candidate for speaker, “We are looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction. We need a partner in governance to build upon the incredible progress that we made for the American people over the last few years, by the way, with a similar majority.”

    President Biden on speaker election
    “That’s not my problem” and added that it is “embarrassing” that the process is taking so long. He added that “the rest of the world is looking” and that he himself is focused on “getting things done”.

  6. 6

    Fly on the Wall spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:42 am

    Donalds already has enough votes to deny Kevey unless a bunch of people decide to leave the chamber right quick.

  7. 7

    Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:44 am

    Donalds just voted for himself..

    NEVER KEVIN! 4-times running!

    Not since Dino 4-time Lossi’d has it felt SO GOOD…

  8. 8

    RedReformed spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 9:47 am

    McCarthy: Fine, if you won’t elect me speaker, let’s take a break and talk things over.
    GOP: Nope, you don’t have the votes for that, either.

  9. 9

    Kevin McCarthy spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 10:09 am

    How do I feel? It’s like you’re the super pretty cheerleader shoe-in for Homecoming queen as a senior and just enough people hate you that the girl you make fun of sneaks in and wins the crown. Just gotta sit in my seat and act like I’m not ready to cry.

  10. 10

    Kevin McCarthy spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 11:20 am

    “I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It’ll be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down.”

    – Kevin McCarthy

    Back in Jan 2013 when I worked for John Boehner right alongside Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan we needed every vote we could find to keep the guy in the Speaker’s chair. But it helped that Blue Dog Democrats were ready to work with us and supported the boss. A bunch of them sat out roll call to lower the quorum and worked behind the scenes to lobby for him among moderate Republicans. In the end Boehner squeezed through one last time.

    We showed Dems our gratitude by launching seven new oversight committees to weaponize the Congress and go after their presumptive nominee, conducting fifty three separate investigations of her. The success of that effort speaks for itself. We got Trump elected two years later.

    Would I be wrong to ask for their help again?

  11. 11

    Byron Donalds spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 11:24 am

    Just in case any of y’alls thinks a dude like George Santos is unusual as a House Republican, you probably should know I’ve got a couple of felony convictions and ran a finance bribery conspiracy before I got into politics.

    But no homo.
    Just wanna be clear about that.

  12. 12

    Donald J. Trump, 2024 spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 11:48 am

    Trump Steak
    Trump Airlines
    Trump Vodka
    Trump Magazine
    Trump Mortgage
    Trump: The Game
    Trump University
    Trump Ice
    Tour de Trump
    Trump News Media
    Trump on the Ocean
    Trump Network
    Trump Plaza
    Trumped!
    Trump Institute

    So much winning you’re going to be sick of it!

  13. 13

    GOP Shit Show spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 1:18 pm

    Round Six goes to Jeffries. He’s undefeated.

    Sorry Kev.

  14. 14

    THE Democratic Party spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 1:20 pm

    LIVE UPDATES Some Republicans are asking Democrats what concessions they would need in exchange for votes to lower the threshold needed to elect a speaker
    VOTE TRACKER: Follow along with our live count

    Anything less than expulsion of insurrectionists is a hard no, bitches.

  15. 15

    AFL-CIO spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 1:23 pm

    Republicans are considering appointing four members each from the pro-Rep. Kevin McCarthy and anti-McCarthy camps to negotiate a path forward on choosing a House speaker, one GOP source tells CNN.

    The big sticking point is the Pro McCarthy four start from a, “Nothing is acceptable except you letting our boy be speaker” position and that’s probably not great.

  16. 16

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 1:42 pm

    14,
    I’d be very surprised for Democrat’s leadership to support anything that helped Brave Kevin.

    They’d like to see him gone as much as the FREEDUMB caucus. There’s just too much bad blood. Kevin’s betrayal of the Congress after the J6 Terrorist attack is now legendary. Then comes his two full years of steady threats of “payback” targeting specific Democrats by name. He’s toxic.

    Any move toward the GOP is only likely to come with Brave Kevin out of the way. I think they’ve got to figure this one out on their own. And that’s probably going to mean blowing up the institutional norms that support party cohesion.

  17. 17

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:00 pm

    Valerie Cipollina, 50, a Monroe County, Pennsylvania, domestic violence arrestee, sold sensational allegations about the Idaho murder suspect to Daily Mail, a tabloid that pays for stories and isn’t very fussy about their accuracy.

    In previous threads, I called Cipollina a liar. Today, the Monroe County jail warden did, too.

    https://www.rawstory.com/bryan-kohberger-2659065118/

    I’m not saying I believe Bryan Kohberger’s innocence claims. I am saying Cipollina is a lying sack of shit and nobody should believe her.

  18. 18

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:06 pm

    The combination of Casey DeSantis’ caped gown and gloves was enough to make YLB moist.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:07 pm

    By now, we all know Republicans aren’t one big happy family, so this story will surprise no one.

    A newly-elected GOP congresswoman from Florida has hired a law firm to threaten a MAGA asshole with a libel suit for calling her a witch and alleging she fucked Matt Gaetz.

    https://www.rawstory.com/anna-paulina-luna-rumors/

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:08 pm

    @ 17

    I am saying Cipollina is a lying sack of shit and nobody should believe her.

    The Kavanaugh kerfluffle was the same thing. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and those like him wanted to make Julie Swetnick’s lawyer the next president.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:12 pm

    Tell us that Ketanji Brown Jackson got the job because she’s black and female without telling us that Ketanji Brown Jackson got the job because she’s black and female.

    Cori Bush
    @CoriBush

    FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.

    His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic.
    8:56 PM · Jan 4, 2023

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:13 pm

    B-b-but don’t they understand that Donalds channels Frederick Douglass?

    https://www.rawstory.com/scott-perry-frederick-douglass/

    P.S., thank God for Raw Story!

  23. 23

    Gov. Kari Lake, Arizona's only true, duly-elected governor spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:14 pm

    “With President Trump, they did this in the middle of the night and our movement was so big and so powerful that they couldn’t just do this in the middle of the night. They had to pull out all the stops and do this in broad daylight, so everyone saw it. The way we get it changed is we get the real governor, the duly-elected governor, myself, in there to work with lawmakers, to change our laws, put some teeth into the laws, and frankly, we need to recall every one of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”

  24. 24

    Gen Z Snark spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:15 pm

    You MAGNIFICENT bastards!

    https://i.postimg.cc/LXcz40kD/speakers.jpg

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:18 pm

    @24 Well done. And well posted, too.

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:18 pm

    @ 19

    “I didn’t wake up one morning when I was going on the ‘Bubba the Love Sponge’ show and say I am going to pull a bunch of stuff out of my ass and talk about it,” Tito told the website.

    Substitute horsesass.org for the radio show in the preceding and this is exactly how Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wakes up each morning.

  27. 27

    Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:25 pm

    LMAO!! the repukes in the “mccarthy” kookhaus…

    such weakness…

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 2:29 pm

    @26 Dumbfuck disparages me by quoting a libeler. How cute. Makes you wonder where he woke up this morning (probably in a barn stall).

  29. 29

    Very Severe Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 3:27 pm

    Vote 1: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-203, Other-19
    Vote 2: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-203, Other-19
    Vote 3: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-202, Other-20
    Vote 4: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-202, Other-20
    Vote 5: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-202, Other-20
    Vote 6: Jeffries (D)-212, McCarthy (R)-202, Other-20
    This is cutting into our hearings on Hunter’s laptop!

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 3:34 pm

    @21 “Ketanji Brown Jackson got the job because she’s black and female”

    That’s only two of her qualifiers. The rest are:

    Harvard A.B., magna cum laude
    Harvard J.D., cum laude; Harvard Law Review
    District court, D.C. Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court law clerk

    Except for black and female, this is textbook Supreme Court track. In the past, black and female would have kept this supremely qualified lawyer and jurist off the highest court (and lower courts, as well). All that’s changed is “black” and “female” no longer disqualifies gifted and accomplished lawyers from the federal judiciary. Something that hasn’t changed is you’re still a racist misogynistic dumbfuck.

  31. 31

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 3:45 pm

    27,
    “such weakness…”

    Wait till you see these freaks try to “govern”.

    And by “govern” I merely refer to the series of poorly planned and scripted television events designed to “own the libs” and deliver emotional payback for the owner of a private sex club in Florida, scheduled to take place between appearances on FOX and at CPAC events scattered in various US cities. This was as much as they could have hoped for after the Senate split became final. And now they won’t even be able to pull most of this off.

    It’s the Party of Beeper Kings now.

  32. 32

    Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 3:49 pm

    heit supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.

    Perfect(ed) description of the agenda and legacy of teh babbling butthole troll and its crush4lyf Ben “kookanut” Karsen..

  33. 33

    Aunt Amy spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 3:56 pm

    @30

    A couple years on my first court and BAM my whiteness and willingness to do whatever Heritage wants and that’s all I needed.

  34. 34

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:24 pm

    But no homo.
    Just wanna be clear about that.

    Bet you got HN Disease then, that pretty clear. Hopefully you have no wife and kids, or pets. Save anyone from dying there.

  35. 35

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:28 pm

    @23

    https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-2659066237/

    She’s got that Hail Hitler White Power fist throw down pretty good.

    She’s a Nazi…..just like the rest.

  36. 36

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:34 pm

    Makes you wonder where he woke up this morning (probably in a barn stall).

    I hear he’s so desperate nowadays that the he’s found at the Vets Office after breaking in……he’s on the outs with the horse and looking for new petsfreinds to hang with.

  37. 37

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:36 pm

    Except for black and female, this is textbook Supreme Court track. In the past, black and female would have kept this supremely qualified lawyer and jurist off the highest court (and lower courts, as well). All that’s changed is “black” and “female” no longer disqualifies gifted and accomplished lawyers from the federal judiciary. Something that hasn’t changed is you’re still a racist misogynistic dumbfuck.

    Well said.

    And the irony is that every fucking business man got his job for being white and male. Other than that those Neanderthals would be out killing thier wives and kids.

  38. 38

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:40 pm

    And now they won’t even be able to pull most of this off.

    It’s the Party of Beeper Kings now.

    I have know idea what a Beeper King is but let’s hope that means they forever hold grudges against one another and have egos the size of Bob’s horses’ cock. For 2 years it would be fun to watch these mother fuckers eat each other up and the FuckHump in jail or hung from the gallows.

  39. 39

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:43 pm

    A couple years on my first court and BAM my whiteness and willingness to do whatever Heritage wants and that’s all I needed.

    Come on, speak the truth, you spread your legs quite often too and even for Clearance, it was your pubic hair!

  40. 40

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 4:48 pm

    It would be great to see this happen in the US House or Representatives.

    https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/01/04/moderate-republican-jason-stephens-snatches-ohio-house-speaker-position-in-surprise-upset/

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 6:13 pm

    DeSantis is hard at work making Florida colleges racist again.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/desantis-asks-state-colleges-data-critical-race-theory/story?id=96189743

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 6:25 pm

    “Anti-woke” is simply a new term for racism.

  43. 43

    Lord Dunsaney spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 6:39 pm

    42 – Nope, “woke” means stupid, ridiculous and dumb-ass.

  44. 44

    Why are you here, kommander kreepshit, shitlord of widbee? spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:02 pm

    “woke” means stupid, ridiculous and dumb-ass.

    i.e. a Ken Burns documentary is “woke” but The Turner Diaries is “edgy”, “un-PC” and “thought provoking”..

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:10 pm

    @44 There’s someone who wouldn’t recognize a dumbass even when standing in front of a mirror.

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:12 pm

    Typical Republican, baselessly accuses Democrats of drinking in the House chamber, then acts like it’s a big fucking joke.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-kat-cammack_n_63b5ea8be4b0cbfd55e61420

  47. 47

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:18 pm

    get a load of this horse.

    https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1610736403876569088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1610736403876569088%7Ctwgr%5E3277387b765d455553d902ccf4a60160f60b248c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fkevin-mccarthy-speaker-kat-cammack_n_63b5ea8be4b0cbfd55e61420

  48. 48

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:21 pm

    https://twitter.com/HuckSawyer1/status/1610741902726533120?s=20&t=c5DuaIT7iMMhkSd-i_isjQ

    The house is not in order because she stomped thru and rattled everything off the shelves. Fat pig….sorry to all the obese, but when you want to act like a pig and look like one too then you get to be called a fat pig.

    Really, fuck the high road….get down low and dirty with these pigs. Fight fire with a torch gun.

  49. 49

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:27 pm

    About time the HN STD does the culprit in.

    https://twitter.com/MayaOppenheim/status/1610633459046776834?s=20&t=NmOqa4ThPe6-6uZeYjju8A

  50. 50

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:31 pm

    Musk has been kind of quite…..I wonder why? hehehee

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 7:57 pm

    @47 Sure it isn’t a hippo? Whatever it is, the zoo doesn’t want it back.

  52. 52

    No Woke Zone spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 8:29 pm

    I’m gonna pass on all the woke shit and stick common sense instead.

  53. 53

    Nikkita Oliver spews:

    Wednesday, 1/4/23 at 8:34 pm

    Hey all you wokesters, please don’t forget about meeeeeeee! I promise I’m still important!!!

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:22 am

    She may not be governor of Georgia, but, “Any time you see Ossoff and Warnock and President Biden in Washington, you are looking at the work of Stacey Abrams,” said the Rev Al Sharpton.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/04/stacey-abrams-georgia-legacy

    Abrams denied Georgia to the GOP, and the dumbfuck doctor can suck on it.

  55. 55

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 7:14 am

    Brave Kevin bravely offered to lower the motion to vacate to a single member.

    This just might do it kids.
    For sure it’s going to get him a change in the count.

    But remember that to avoid catastrophe he must ensure that at least ten of the twenty change their vote to him by name instead of to “present”. And to prevail at least eleven must change their vote to him by name.

    More entertainment!

  56. 56

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:14 am

    Millennials aren’t getting more rightwing with age.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/millennials-radicalism-not-getting-more-rightwing-with-age
    The shift is remarkable. According to an analysis by the Financial Times, if millennials were following previous trends, someone aged 35 would be about five percentage points less conservative than the national average and would gradually become more conservative. The reality, says the FT? “They’re more like 15 points less conservative, and in both Britain and the US are by far the least conservative 35-year-olds in recorded history.”

    Interesting :
    “We’ve been fed this “everyone turns conservative as they get older” bullshit for decades. What’s actually meant is that boomers turned more conservative as they got older, in history’s greatest ever collective expression of “I got mine and the rest of you can fuck off.”
    I’m in my 50’s. All of my Gen X friends started out left wing or liberal. They’ve all gotten married, had kids, had careers and businesses. Not a single one of them has “turned conservative.” Not one. All that’s happened is that maybe they’ve become slightly more “moderate,” or at least slightly less militant. In my experience, the people of my generation who are now conservatives were always conservatives.”

    “Always found deeply insulting that my parents would assume that somehow as I got older I would become racist and vote against my own interests”

    “We aren’t down with hating gay and trans people, we aren’t down with forcing victims of rape to give birth, we aren’t down with water shortages due to climate change, we aren’t down with giving corporate welfare to big-box landlords who want to buy entire subdivisions, we aren’t down with keeping a foot on the neck of people of color, the idea that the earth is 10,000 years old doesn’t merit any acknowledgement let alone voucher funding, we are sick of your shit.”

    “Unlike boomers who saw the benefits of capitalism (actually capitalism with labor unions), millennials are seeing the results of winner take all capitalism.”

    “Why would I vote to fuck my self and my kid over?”

  57. 57

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:32 am

    Mr McCarthy offered a number of concessions including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber.

    He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the speaker to only one House member.

    Last night’s proposal from McCarthy would give the House Freedom Caucus two seats on the 13-person House Rules Committee,

    Conservatives want the return of “open rules” for federal spending bills, which allows amendments to be offered on the floor by any lawmaker.

    An offer to hold a floor vote on term limits for the House.

    Panels will be required to “establish oversight plans detailing how they will hold the Biden administration accountable.”

    The House Committee on Education and Labor would also be renamed the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

    elimination of pandemic protocols

    Eliminating staff labor unions

  58. 58

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:58 am

    55,
    Boomers are the products of a post WWII system of apartheid.

    Most of the New Deal, Square Deal, and GI Bill program benefits were set aside or restricted exclusively for Whites Only. They grew up in Whites Only neighborhoods, attended Whites Only public schools, went to Whites Only universities, joined Whites Only fraternities, went to work in Whites Only offices, bought their first Whites Only neighborhood homes with Whites Only lending programs, and took their kids to swim in Whites Only community pools.

    Post Boomer voters are post apartheid voters. They see the world very differently. They don’t have the same fears and confusions about race and everything that follows from that.

  59. 59

    One Alfa for me! spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:01 am

    When Elon Musk was making Teslas a few years ago, you liberal progressive dolts loved him. After all,,. he was making ELECTRIC cars!

    But let him bring free speech to Twitter, and he’s the biggest asshole in the world.

    Make up you fucking minds!

  60. 60

    Gov. Kari Lake, Arizona's only true, duly-elected governor spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:10 am

    “Katie Hobbs was not duly elected. Everybody in the state knows that. And she can play house and play governor for a while. But eventually, the truth is going to catch up and we will win.”

  61. 61

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:15 am

    56,
    The fact that Boehner had to adopt rules forbidding open floor debate during the budget process of amendments related to immigration and term limits tells us a lot about how he foresaw this collapse into an unmanageable party.

    What we are about to witness unfold over the coming months is something that has been in the offing, and held at bay, for at least a decade. The hard liners are about to go to war against their own most vulnerable swing district incumbents. They are going to force them into more and more votes they can’t defend. Then they are going to primary them in 2024. Among the concessions that Brave Kevin has been forced to is that his leadership PAC Majority Committee, his Super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund, and his lobbying arm Miller Strategies have all been forced to agree to stay out of these primaries in 2024.

    Which means that Democrats can look forward to a shit ton of incumbent Republican retirements in swings between now and 2024, and twice as many QUALITY/George Soros candidates in swing House districts.

  62. 62

    Elon Musk, a genius, spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:40 am

    @58,

    Hey friend!

    Can you do me a favor?
    I’m not going to beat around the bush. I’m going broke. With my TSLA shares trading at 105 I’ve been facing margin calls for days now on the loans I used to buy Twitter. And despite having shut down half the data centers, laid off more than half the staff, and stopping payments on all our vendors and contractors, Twitter is circling the bowl. It’s literally going broke right now just about as fast as I am. I’m not sure we can keep the doors open much longer tbh.

    Can you please just head over there and enter your credit card details for one of our new Blue accounts? Please?

    To verify I’m going to need your DOB, SSN, Mobile number, access to your email, your tax ID, mother’s maiden, postal address, checking account number and bank routing number. I promise to keep your information safe, even though I completely closed down our trust and safety division back in November. My plan is to just write it all down on one of those cool Moleskin notebooks and give it to one of my children’s butlers. And then sell it to advertisers and Russian mobsters because I really need money really badly!

    But don’t worry. Freedom! Right?

  63. 63

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:52 am

    Mayor of Crazytown! Hetero Crazytown. Santos sitting their by himself. Hehehehe. He should have lied and said he was a hetero neanderthal!

    https://youtu.be/W9P1XN4BSrs

  64. 64

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:53 am

    Woke. Nothing woke in your fucking brain, but brainwashed shit.

  65. 65

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:58 am

    “Why would I vote to fuck my self and my kid over?”

    The could get a horse…..but unlike some, they’d probably not even want to fuck over their horse….at least physically speaking.

  66. 66

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 11:29 am

    58. One alfalfa
    Maybe you are incapable of nuanced thinking and only think in binary all or none, with us or against us. Humans can competent in some areas and a horror show in others. A person could be a decent artist AND be a brutal dictator. I can appreciate that someone can be a competent admin to coordinate the engineering of an electric car AND dislike them immensely for enabling hate speech.

  67. 67

    Herschel Walker, US Senator spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 11:36 am

    I was Mandelorian of my high school. Then I had a Apextural football career and my pinnacle company profits as a businessman are well known. So my intellect is unperpendicular. People always say Herschel the smartest guy in the room.

    And one thing I know…

    IF YOU START THE SEASON 0-8 THE HEAD COACH GETS FIRED.

  68. 68

    House Democrats spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 11:39 am

    Hey…is anyone doing napkin math on if we have enough Representatives which names ending in ‘v’ and ‘w’ to get the number required to be Speaker down to say 204?

  69. 69

    Donald Duck at the Southern Whore House spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 11:44 am

    GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG! Eliminate the SPEAKER position. They don’t need a person with a gavel. WE HAD pelosi AND IT WAS NO DIIFERent. I COULD STILL GRAB HER BY TGE PUSSY! Someone’s running procedural shit now without one.

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:08 pm

    Of the 50 states, Washington has the 2nd highest average life expectancy, second only to Hawaii. As you would expect, states dotted with Trumper trailer parks don’t make the top 10; in fact, Utah is the only red state that does.

    While the story here doesn’t go into reasons why, a related story headline says, “Covid, drug overdoses drive life expectancy drop,” to which one could add guns, obesity, domestic violence, lack of education, poverty, pollution, low quality or no health care, and all the other things that characterize living under Republican governments.

  71. 71

    Mercedes-Benz spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:11 pm

    Well when there’s blood in the water we make a car backed by the craftmanship almost a century of tradition, attention to detail and comfort and then we cut in on the last remaining advantage that upstart company has to keep people buying their cars where the trim falls off and the panels may or may not come to clean lines.

    Mercedes-Benz AG plans to build a global network of 10,000 ultra-fast chargers in the latest effort by traditional automakers to rival Tesla Inc. as the electric-vehicle leader.

    Mercedes will begin adding the first stations this year in North America and later expand to Europe and China, the company said Thursday. The units will have as much as 350 kilowatts of power, enough to add 20 miles of range per minute. Tesla operates more than 40,000 Superchargers, with its V3 stations usually having as much as 250 kilowatts of power.

    Mr. Musk seems to be determined to be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of automobiles. Jump out to a 28-3 lead and lose a Super Bowl.

  72. 72

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:12 pm

    Oklahoma GOP legislators want to raise the age of majority from 18 to 26, but only for certain people. You can still buy military assault rifles and fuck your sister at age 12 there.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3800710-oklahoma-millstone-act-seeks-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-under-age-of-26/

  73. 73

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:22 pm

    @58 “When Elon Musk was making Teslas a few years ago, you liberal progressive dolts loved him. After all,,. he was making ELECTRIC cars!”

    Ted Bundy was popular, too, until people figured out he was an asshole. Teslas were popular until they started catching fire and crashing into things. Opinions can change with more information.

    “But let him bring free speech to Twitter, and he’s the biggest asshole in the world.”

    He brought several things to Twitter — mass layoffs and medieval working conditions, Trump and white supremacists, expulsion of journalists, lack of TP in employee restrooms, failing to pay rent on office space, etc. — none of which fit any conceivable description of “free speech.”

  74. 74

    Consumer Reports spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:29 pm

    @72

    It was a revolutionary product. Once the guts were solid a serious businessman would have hired a design and quality control team.

    Others decide to try to just take in as many orders as possible and push them out as fast as they could quality be damned.

    It doesn’t take long for the initial, “This is the fucking greatest thing I’ve ever owned” initial adopters to get drowned out by “I paid $90K to have the seats fall apart and the doors to leak in heavy rain?”

  75. 75

    Elon Cluck spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:33 pm

    He brought several things to Twitter — mass layoffs and medieval working conditions, Trump and white supremacists, expulsion of journalists, lack of TP in employee restrooms, failing to pay rent on office space, etc. — none of which fit any conceivable description of “free speech.”

    How dare you speak so Freely!

  76. 76

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:40 pm

    @70 Can we assume Tesla plugs won’t fit Mercedes chargers?

  77. 77

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:41 pm

    Elon, inspired by the Ford pickup that can run your house during power outages, is designing a Tesla that can run electric chairs.

  78. 78

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:45 pm

    @74 Elon is now frantically searching for my Twitter account so he can ban me. He’ll be disappointed to learn I’ve never had one.

  79. 79

    Nibiiwakamigkwe spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 12:57 pm

    I know I got caught, but I still can vote for Democrats, right?

  80. 80

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:22 pm

    Kari Lake, who seems to believe courts exist for her aggrandizement, suffers another legal setback in her war against windmills.

    https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-arizona-supreme-court/

  81. 81

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:26 pm

    Wherein notorious “Stop the Steal” organizer calls MTG a “harlot” and “whore,” accuses her of “crime,” and says he will “not be taught” by her.

    https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-ali-alexander/

    We need a larger popcorn machine.

  82. 82

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:27 pm

    Republicans never mean what they say.

    https://www.rawstory.com/dan-bishop-out-of-congress/

  83. 83

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:33 pm

    Now we may know where the inspiration came from. Assuming, of course, he’s guilty and it increasingly looks like he is. Unless you believe he just happened to leave a K-Bar knife sheath on one of the victim’s beds after a 4 a.m. date.

    https://www.rawstory.com/bryan-kohberger-sister/

  84. 84

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 1:37 pm

    Zero movement in 9th vote, following intense negotiations and more concessions.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3800187-house-speaker-election-coverage-mccarthy-negotiates-day-3-of-voting/

    Honestly, I don’t know how long Democrats should let this continue, with opportunity staring them in the face.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3801155-democrat-mary-peltola-open-to-forming-coalition-majority-with-republicans/

  85. 85

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 2:12 pm

    On the tenth ballot and now some FREEDUMB ultra MAGA Republicans are sitting out the vote for the first time, I suspect as a warning to the moderates.

    If more than ten of the freaks decline to vote by name, Hakim Jeffries becomes the new Speaker.

  86. 86

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 2:20 pm

    Baller move here would be for ten of the FREEDUMB MAGAts to sit it out. That way if every other member cast a ballot by name it would be a tie between Jeffries and all other names. And it would send the maximum warning to the GOP moderates.

    But it’s also the very high risk option, because all it would take would be on Republican to accidentally miss the vote and they’d be fucked.

  87. 87

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 2:28 pm

    To promote synergy the Tesla chargers will only work at full speed when the driver has a blue dot subscription on Twitter

  88. 88

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 3:00 pm

    Honestly, I don’t know how long Democrats should let this continue,

    I’d say at least until September.

  89. 89

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:01 pm

    Its been reported elsewhere they want to jump the pecking order for important committee assignments, defang the House ethics committee, all new spending to be offset by equal cuts to social programs rather than new taxes or cost saving measures, a guarantee the debt ceiling bill wont be ‘clean’ so they can force through all kinds of nonsense under the threat of a shutdown, to be able to bypass McCarthy to introduce bills straight to the floor, and a single vote threshold to remove McCarthy as speaker if he crosses any one of them.
    >> He would sell his soul like that to say he was speaker?

  90. 90

    Vegas Odds spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:16 pm

    0-11 Matching the longest current NCAA football losing streak, Northwester.

  91. 91

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:38 pm

    @88 You forgot this one: Remove the metal detectors so they can carry guns on the House floor.

    And the answer to your question is, yes he would.

  92. 92

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:40 pm

    Whack-a-mole continues …

    https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/63b7571f2600001a0053c7db.gif?cache=UrGtyY3dgd&ops=1280_480

  93. 93

    Charles Mudede spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:56 pm

    I hate the middle class.

    That is all.

  94. 94

    Kshama Sawant spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 5:58 pm

    @92

    Fuck you Charles, you trust-fund baby!

    I, Komrade Kshama, hate the middle class more than you do!

  95. 95

    Calvin Priest spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:00 pm

    @93

    Kshama, get off the damn internet and finish my dinner already.

  96. 96

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:01 pm

    That’s right! You should wait till 26 to live your life the way you will feel better about yourself!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/oklahoma-millstone-act-seeks-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-under-age-of-26/ar-AA160uI1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=93f3f589c8aa4521a16a3d8838f7dc5e

  97. 97

    Hannah Krieg spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:03 pm

    Have you all checked out my twitter feed, baby?

  98. 98

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:07 pm

    “Ho, go home! I am done with you,” he added. “You are lukewarm, I am spitting you out of my mouth. You played me, and no more. Everyone will know about your drunken night, because the consultants who have drunk with you will have to choose whether they fear me or whether they fear you, and they fear me, Marge. They fear me a lot more than they fear you.”

    Is it illegal to have sex with a horse in Georgia? Is that why Bob doesn’t live in Georgia?

  99. 99

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:41 pm

    “Complicating matters is the fact that at least four Republican members are leaving town Friday because of various family issues.”

    That means it takes only 216 votes to elect a speaker, which puts Hakeen within 4 votes.

  100. 100

    RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 6:43 pm

    By 26, most humans have quit developing so much of the gender affirming techniques are much less effective at making one’s body match their identity.
    My theory is that conservatives all saw or heard about the “Crying Game” movie and are absolutory terrified that the woman they hit on at the bar might be a transwoman. And if they try to fuck a transwoman, what does that make them? It keeps them up at night.
    They could care less about trans men.

  101. 101

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 7:53 pm

    Wow. HN Disease, the very far spreading heterosexual STD claimed many more, wonder if this is a record number?!

    But who noticed! Wondering if the dead’s classmates will need counseling?

    Shhhsssh. Nothing to see there.

    https://www.amny.com/police-fire/officials-8-dead-in-utah-the-result-of-murder-suicide/

  102. 102

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 7:58 pm

    Along with killing them, maybe the answer is to start castorating them before they can kill. Heterosexual STD.

    https://www.wsmv.com/2023/01/05/metro-police-involved-deadly-shooting-hermitage/

  103. 103

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:01 pm

    I don’t think I posted this one before, but how can you even keep track anymore?

    https://people.com/crime/attorney-prosecuted-domestic-violence-cases-allegedly-killed-by-husband-new-years-day/

    SOMETHING TO SEE HERE!

  104. 104

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:04 pm

    You think the Utah man was molesting the daughters?

    I do!

  105. 105

    ACAB spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 8:45 pm

    @100-103

    One more for you.

    LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) — A former Louisiana sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Tuesday to several sex crimes involving children and was sentenced to 100 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

    Dennis Perkins, a former high-ranking deputy with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office entered a guilty plea to one count of second-degree rape, two counts of sexual battery of a child, one count of video voyeurism, two counts of production of child porn involving children under age 13 and one count of mingling of harmful substances“

    He was facing 115 charges of molestation, child porn, and rape and drugging kids.

    Weird he’s not trans.

  106. 106

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Thursday, 1/5/23 at 9:21 pm

    98)Probably expecting tge same number of Democrats to do tge same?

  107. 107

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/6/23 at 2:20 am

    Mayor Pete won’t run for Senate.

    Wise. He has learned from #CrookedHillary that carpetbagging your way into the Senate won’t help you become president.

    Whether cocksucking will do it is still up for debate.

  108. 108

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Friday, 1/6/23 at 4:01 am

    Whether cocksucking will do it is still up for debate.

    In order for that to happy there’s got to be some lucky heterosexual male that enjoys that.

    Oh, and most likely one that is not black, but that goes without being likely that there are any Black important ones to suck

  109. 109

    Gggeeee Money spews:

    Friday, 1/6/23 at 4:03 am

    Why is it the Proud Boys that are leading some of the protests against Drag Queen Story Hour? Hmmm, they are so insecure about being so insignificant. These are guys that can’t get dates, like Bob

  110. 110

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/6/23 at 4:48 am

    @108 Has anyone checked to see if there’s been a run on horses recently? Of course, that could just be earth lovers trying to reduce their carbon emissions.

  111. 111

    RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 1/6/23 at 6:23 am

    @104
    What a coward
    “I would like to say I’m sorry. …I just want to make the statement: Jesus Christ has forgiven me. I’m grateful for that. I hope and pray that anybody that this has affected would also find forgiveness and healing through Jesus Christ,” he said.

    Perkins had been with the Sheriff’s office since 2002, had been the commander of the agency’s SWAT unit.

    The trial had to be delayed after the state provided 800,000 digital files to the defendant’s lawyer and they aske for more time.

    Since, if a person of color, or LGBTQ+ does anything wrong, it’s used to condemn the whole group, I await the outrage against straight white married people.

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