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Walker Attacks GOP Establishment For Not Repealing Obamacare; Offers His Plan for Repealing and Replacing It
Did these guys really need Trump to let them know the voters are pissed off at the establishment?
I've been baffled by this since Bush's attempted amnesty. Any half-assed political intelligence operation can go through blogs and comments to see where the the most animated voters stand on issues. But time and again, they don't bother with such simple intelligence-gathering. Net result? We all know far more about the actual GOP primary electorate than the politicians trying to court it, or the vaunted consultants telling them how to do that. So, apparently: Now the word is out. The voters are pissed off at the sell-outs of the Establishment. So now we start getting that sort of rhetoric."People all across this country are fed up with Washington, I feel your pain, I'm fed up with Washington, too," Walker said. "I think about this, we were told by Republican leaders during the campaign cycle last year that we just needed a Republican Senate to be elected to repeal Obamacare. Well here we sit, you know both chambers of the United States Congress have been controlled since January by Republicans and yet there's not a bill on the president's desk to repeal Obamacare." Walker, who has argued throughout the campaign that he is best positioned to win conservative reforms in Washington, recounted taking on legislative Republicans in Wisconsin when he won his first term as governor. "I said to them the voters had told us they wanted is to be big and be bold," Walker said. "As you can imagine, at the time, there were some Republican lawmakers who were kind of uneasy with the idea of taking on the status quo. I said it's put up or shut up time." One of Walker's Republican opponents immediately blasted the plan, however, calling it "Obamacare-lite". .... One of the central elements of the Walker proposal replaces the Obama weath-based subsidies for health plans with flat tax credits, ranging between $900 and $3,000 per person, based on their age. The Walker proposal, the first major policy rollout from his campaign, calls for "capped allotments" to states for some parts of Medicaid while allowing acute care payments to continue uncapped.Charles Krauthammer explains (on the 6:000 Fox news show) that this is essentially a grant of catastrophic care insurance, for big, unexpected and high health costs, but leaves it to everyone to either pay for more routine costs out of pocket or with their own health plan. Eh, kinda the version of "free health care" that I find the least objectionable, and the least disastrous. As you probably know, Walker and Jindal have also followed Trump in calling for an end to automatic born-here citizenship. Again, I have to ask: What the hell are you paying consultants for if they have absolutely no idea what the mood of the country is? And they don't. This apparently all comes as a huge shock to the political class. Perhaps you've been a bit too successful in insulating yourself from your constituents, huh?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Subsidize the catastrophic if necessary, you'll have private insurance in the middle, you pay for your birth-control pills and chiropractic yourself.
Posted by: JEM at August 18, 2015 07:13 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: bjk at August 18, 2015 07:13 PM (x2rNW)
yea, I can't figure this out
the only one I have seen so far that talks like me is cruz and fiorina
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 18, 2015 07:14 PM (qCMvj)
Great. Then I propose we up the ante: if we're fed up with Washington, let's get rid of it. It's the 21st century. Why do we need a capital? Mandate that each representative can only cast a vote for legislation while physically within his district, and each Senator can only cast a vote while physically within his state.
Posted by: JSchuler at August 18, 2015 07:14 PM (6i4P9)
Posted by: Kreplach at August 18, 2015 07:15 PM (mysAS)
well that's just a version of catastrophic coverage.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:15 PM (dciA+)
Now I'll be stuck either staying home, or voting for Sanders - just as a poke in the eye.
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 07:15 PM (lboSL)
Posted by: bjk at August 18, 2015 07:16 PM (x2rNW)
They are gathering data and reacting in a mirrored bubble. Among themselves. It is truly frightening.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 18, 2015 07:16 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2015 07:16 PM (TWXpK)
Oh boy, look at the time! Its already past 7:000... I have to step away from my desk and get home already.
Posted by: Serious Cat at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (UypUQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer of the Righteous And Harmonious Fists at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (qCMvj)
Leaders lead, followers follow.
But you nailed it. It's not only that they lack simple intelligence gathering. They seem to lack the basic political antennae to pick up on this from the culture. This is their business, for God's sake. Just amazing, and depressing.
Posted by: rrpjr at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (s/yC1)
Marco, OTOH, decided that it would be wise to attack any effort to eliminate birthright inheritance. I think he's figured out that his only chance is to displace Jeb. Not a good chance, it's just his only shot.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (B6LL7)
I'm guessing they had thousands of consultants screaming at then that populism makes you AkinHitlerODonnell and makes you electoral poison and you will Doom the Party.
The GOP created 'candidate school' to crank out bland androids that would speak in Approved Phrases.
Trump upended the calculus.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 18, 2015 07:17 PM (j2FM9)
Here's the part where a couple of the Republican party rump swabs posing as political thinkers tell me the Republicans have to offer a replacement because blah blah blah...
Posted by: Soothsayer of the Righteous And Harmonious Fists at August 18, 2015 07:18 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2015 07:18 PM (8ZskC)
The Trumpster is piercing that bubble. By sheer force of his own bombast. Trump may single-handedly shift the ol' Overton window (as seen from inside the bubble).
The world inside this bubble is just not computable to people who live in the real world. When you ask questions like "why can't they see this obvious fact?", it is borne of living in the real world, not their bubble. Inside the bubble, it's not obvious.
Hell, half the shit that has plaqued this country comes from thinking inside that bubble. The real world would have NEVER passed that shit on its own accord.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:18 PM (dvuhZ)
Link in nic.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 07:18 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (TWXpK)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette
Carly looks much better in jeans and a tight shirt than Cruz.
Cruz has a much better low-rider and tats, though.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (LAe3v)
"When three idiots are arguing on Twitter and you agree with one of the idiots, that makes you the fourth idiot."
-- Shih Tzu
Posted by: Shih Tzu at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (DxVXo)
The man was absolutely correct when he told Fox that his presence is what caused the record setting viewership at the non-debate.
His rhetoric is forcing others to address the issues which voters relate to.
As someone here has said several times... Trump is the first stage of the Saturn Five.
Absolutely vital to the success of the mission, but never achieves orbit himself.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (B6LL7)
Again, I have to ask: What the hell are you paying consultants for if
they have absolutely no idea what the mood of the country is? And they
don't. This apparently all comes as a huge shock to the political class.
Perhaps you've been a bit too successful in insulating yourself from your constituents, huh?
My concern about this is that they're saying this crap now because they are forced to. Not because they believe it, but because they think they have to appease us. I'd like to trust them, I really would. But I can't.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 07:20 PM (q20+R)
Posted by: USA at August 18, 2015 07:20 PM (tfM+W)
i can't deny it anymore either. They simply have not bothered to learn what the public's mood is.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:20 PM (dciA+)
It's like they all come from the uncanny valley. Disturbingly lifelike, but off.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:21 PM (LAe3v)
Trump is Batman. Not the politician we need, but the one we deserve.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 07:21 PM (0NdlF)
but they don't even know how to LIE right -- it's only now that everyone is talking about how much they hate the establishment in DC.
Apparently, before, they didn't know this would sell.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:21 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: pennyweight per hogshead at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (ydFKh)
Absolutely vital to the success of the mission, but never achieves orbit himself.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Yeah, stolen.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (0NdlF)
granting that, why did he not know this was a useful line of rhetoric six months ago?
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (dciA+)
Oh the federal government has to have a role because of the commerce clause.
Write a law allowing sale across state lines of insurance policies just like auto insurance and anything else that is necessary to facilitate this.
There is no reason for the Feds to be involved.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (mysAS)
Consultants are hangers on who don't want the uncertainty of running but still want the sweet donor money floating around.
If you need consultants or advisors to run you have no business being a politician. You only get advisors once you win and need more focussed expertise.
Posted by: Decaf at August 18, 2015 07:23 PM (CsxNC)
Too late, shitbirds.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 07:23 PM (oFCZn)
But I iz smartz, it only took 5 previous burns touching the stove coils when they are red to learn maybe THIS time I'd get burned again.
I'm so far past done with the GOP, minarchism FTW as few of those F*$&ERS as is achievable is now my 'goal'.
Posted by: Evil_Bun_Bun at August 18, 2015 07:23 PM (8qoUN)
328
BlackLivesMatter is just the new OccupyWallStreet-- an agitation scheme
to motivate liberal base and form the Narrative for Election Season.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 07:16 PM (oVJmc)
YES BINGO!
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (0FSuD)
Yes.
Because they don't friggin' care.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 15.%
Trump is the tar, feathers, rails, pitchforks and torches, lampposts and watchacallits.....that NOBODY has the balls to organize a march on DC or any state offices with.
OK. Trump is an asshole. But he's our asshole.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (7eQGn)
"My republican terrorist wants to kill you and your children and he hates women, blacks and hispanics."
"Well I would disagree with my esteemed democratic opponent. Although I can see how some people would think that."
That's how you lose to an imbecille with a terrible track record like Obama. Now they did pull out all the stops in nasty insults to beat a conservative in MI. I know what side they are on and they can suck a turd out of my asshole.
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (f+6Pd)
Carly apparently writes her own speeches. That's pretty impressive.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (LAe3v)
We should harness this wacko-bird deflection technology. Perhaps as a replacement for BMD.
Posted by: DaveA at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (DL2i+)
Here's the thing.
Did need Trump = no clue, let's fool the voters.
Didn't need Trump = liar, let's fool the voters.
Posted by: dDan at August 18, 2015 07:24 PM (hwYmz)
1. Don't be afraid to play the populism card, hard.
2. Run against the Establishment like your life depended on it.
His answer?
Oh dude I totally know.
We knew.
Why don't these idiots understand?
This is all open information. I won't take their money because I don't like this business -- but there are 100 bloggers who they could pay to do monthly "Heat Sheets" on what their commenters are thinking (as a mass, not individuals).
From such "heat sheets" they would get a sense of where active conservative people are thinking.
Instead... they.... I don't know what the fuck they do. They sit around in the same DC bars, talking to the same DC scrubs, telling each other all the same DC conventional wisdom.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (dciA+)
Exactly, Ace.
It's taken this long? THIS LONG?
Does anyone think this is in any way believable on any level?
They really shit the bed this time around.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (oFCZn)
They simply have not bothered to learn what the public's mood is.
Which brings us right to the people they hire for these big national campaigns, right?
I mean, they stink. Or they're double-agents for the DNC.
Posted by: Shih Tzu at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (DxVXo)
That was Romney's biggest problem, he thought the country was so fed up with Obama all he had to do was not offend anyone and he would be President.
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (B6LL7)
Apparently, only a moron thinks this way. The way wealthy Republican consultants like Rick Wilson think is, "Wow, people are really into that guy. We should call them retards so they'll vote for our guys instead."
Posted by: V the K at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (c/Ipt)
Posted by: pissed off taxpayer at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (wAQA5)
Does some guy just wake up one day wanting to be President, walk to the podium and say "I have a vision for this country. And as soon as my consultants tell me what my vision is, and how I am going to achieve it, I'll let you know"?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (TWXpK)
Dude, he moved the Uber-ton Bimbo!
Posted by: theorectical LIV hobbit, wacko-bird at August 18, 2015 07:26 PM (ZCFje)
Well, these consultants look at various issue polls and assign the results only some simple left-right axis. The public is to the left on this issue, to the right on this.
In truth, a simple 1D axis won't do for this, you need a few more. Second, the public does not hold a rational opinion on anything (actually, see Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, it is *mathematically impossible* for a collective, given more than two choices, to be guaranteed to be reasonable, even if every single voter in that collective is rational).
On some issues, the "the public" is hard left. On some it is hard right. When you average these together, you get "moderate". But the public isn't truly moderate squish on everything, a lot of things. They are bi-polar extremists many times.
Anyway, this is how they decide to be moderate squishes. It's a flawed analysis using flawed methodology of "public opinion".
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:26 PM (dvuhZ)
Once upon a time it was being floated as the alternative to universal. I guess it is again. I seem to recall it being vaguely considered "conservative."
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:27 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Decaf at August 18, 2015 07:28 PM (CsxNC)
Are the R's out of touch?
Holy cats, yes!!
Lindsey Graham said this yesterday in Iraq:
"If I'm President of the United States, we're going back to Iraq and we are going to pound these guys in the ground."
Never mind the homosexual innuendo, for a moment, you juvenile chimps. He wants to re-invade Iraq!! That's what this idiot is running on -- Bush's lousy policies.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:28 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (DxVXo)
Who cares what they think? What do George Will and Charles Krauthammer think?
Posted by: GOPe at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (W5DcG)
no, he says he does no prep and believe me, on that, I believe him.
However, he is a yeller, and he just says things that occur to him, and then he seizes upon what works.
at least his completely random made-up agenda is succeptible to some kind of trial-and-error pathway to success.
whereas if you have set pathway to failure and can't change it -- well, you fail.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Mobile Armor Tank Dukakis at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (Iey3T)
Better than any of those fake phoney fraud Luntz panels.
I swear that some of the candidates or a minion or two reads this blog already.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: some random meathead at August 18, 2015 07:29 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:21 PM (dciA+)
Well, I'm not sure.
I think they do know the mood of the populace. I think they'd rather pander to their big donors than the gen pop. I think Trump has forced them into commenting on things they were happy to leave be. He's pushed them into a corner and they are realizing that they may not be able to get away with just pandering to the big dogs this time. The sheep won't follow along and vote just because they say so.
Of course, I may be totally wrong, and I accept that. I'll just have another drink.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (q20+R)
How about less government planning and more free market? One thing we need is price transparency. Hospitals and clinics should advertise their prices for tests and procedures, and then people could shop around for the best price. Like they do in every other area of life.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (sdi6R)
Apparently, only a moron thinks this way. The way wealthy Republican consultants like Rick Wilson think is, "Wow, people are really into that guy. We should call them retards so they'll vote for our guys instead."
Posted by: V the K at August 18, 2015 07:25 PM (c/Ipt)
If they didn't have utter contempt for us, they wouldn't think about us at all. So I guess we should be grateful.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (Dj0WE)
A lot of this is about money.
The Koch Brothers are very open borders and they drop hundreds of millions in election cycles. Most of the big funders in the GOP are open borders and free trade whereas the rank and file are adamantly against both.
The grassroots doesn't give diddly to candidates so if you go up against this machine, you'll have no money.
I think the candidates though are seeing this money is not actually winning them elections.
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (B6LL7)
Trump is forcing the field to get their acts together, NOW, or be left out.
Make dust or eat it.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (0FSuD)
Trump has cornered them now. The likely strategies or responses to him? The Walker strategy, i.e., assertive and shameless regurgitation of Trump, or doubling down on their own stances to prove how tough and uncompromising they are. Of course, some will try to fudge the difference.
Cruz can play it down the middle because he has gone on record as supporting Trump and already has positions consistent with Trump's general drift.
Posted by: rrpjr at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (s/yC1)
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Why of cour... Oh, I see what you did there. Its rhetorical.
Ok. Back to my nap.
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:30 PM (lHASK)
Posted by: publius
Quite true, but to the illustration; no leader needs a consultant, a statistician, a handler. A leader sees the goal, the strategy, and convinced the group to follow.
The GOP beats itself with professional idiots' advice.
Posted by: theorectical LIV hobbit, wacko-bird at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: anon a mouse at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (aeRWb)
My question is exactly how you do anything with the Federal Government involved in health care (among other things) and simultaneously simplify the tax code.
Look for that dichotomy in the future.
Posted by: jwb7605 at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (M+9nV)
I totally agree.
This is why I've enjoyed Trump - I see him as a change agent, not the eventual candidate. Frankly, I was wondering when the rest of 'em were going to step up - glad it's finally happening.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (zOTsN)
i'm saying they should use bloggers for this purpose, but i'm also saying i'm not interested in doing anything of the sort. I have always been strictly, completely independent (as far as who I'm working for, etc.) and I intend to stay that way and finish that way.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (dciA+)
I probably will NOT vote for him, but that's about ALL his appeal in my eyes, I suspect that many feel this way.
I tried to tell the GOP this like a year ago then again when Trump polls started shocking them... but at this point, I just don't give a shit anymore about the GOP, they have talked the talk but not walked the walk for decades now. Screw em.
BTW funny classic un-PC sluggy freelance toon in my URL link
Posted by: evil_bun_bun at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (8qoUN)
Posted by: Timon at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (ttJbF)
Ask Jeb! why his brother never built the fence after money was appropriated in the Fence Act of 2005.
The candidate who shames the tools in the GOPe the hardest will get my vote.
Illuminating the failure theater around this Iran deal would be a great start.
Posted by: Valiant at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (2bqlb)
I think he's learning he has to shed the "nice guy" persona and exhibit a little of that fire that's guided him as Gov.
Posted by: WisRich at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (xWQFH)
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (lHASK)
they were exceptionally slow about it, but that is all we're seeing this time around.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (1eYr7)
"If I'm President of the United States, we're going back to Iraq and we are going to pound these guys in the ground."
Isn't he polling below Gilmore?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (dANw2)
well that's in there too, but i also sense they don't even know how to talk to voters (until they see someone else doing it successfully).
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:32 PM (dciA+)
And Walker has long been my preferred candidate.
But to be fair, Walker has said that he would repeal Obamacare from the very beginning of his campaign. I don't know that he has been that critical of McConnell and them explicitly prior to this, but his message, of winning in Wisconsin and beating Democrats was always implicitly anti Establishment.
And, also to be fair, Trump has been sucking up the oxygen, so it is actually hard to know what the other candidates were saying. So if they are talking loudly now, it is not necessarily because they did not know that it was the mood of the electorate, but it is their response to being left in the dust (and silence) by Trump.
Posted by: blaster at August 18, 2015 07:33 PM (2Ocf1)
also, all GOP should be running against Boehner and McConnell as much as they're running against Hillary
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at August 18, 2015 07:33 PM (dANw2)
oops, I meant to type he said it in Iowa, not in Iraq
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:33 PM (DxVXo)
No federal benefits for non-citizens. None.
http://bit.ly/1INkIKF
Also, limited time benefits for anyone who has not paid taxes recently.
Posted by: MTF at August 18, 2015 07:33 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:33 PM (dvuhZ)
"If I'm President of the United States, we're going back to Iraq and we are going to pound these guys in the ground."
Never mind the homosexual innuendo, for a moment, you juvenile chimps. He wants to re-invade Iraq!! That's what this idiot is running on -- Bush's lousy policies.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:28 PM (DxVXo)
No freakin' way, did he really say that?
We're going back to Iraq, we're going to oil ourselves up! Take our shirts off, and really get busy on those guys.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:34 PM (Dj0WE)
Yes.
Also, they will leverage their experience to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, such as Nicole Wallace, fiction writer and The View host (former?), and Steve Schmidt, prominent consultant for HBO's Palin-bashing "Game Change" movie.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 07:34 PM (NOIQH)
Political circle jerk.
Posted by: wooga at August 18, 2015 07:34 PM (YJyyQ)
But jumping on the no-birthright bandwagon looks opportunistic.
Heavens, never heard of a politician being that way.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (sPO3u)
No freakin' way, did he really say that?
Here it is, ol' chum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEfhKvAQSc
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (DxVXo)
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Anyone that has read fifty comments here would know right away that the horde is not your every day "man on the street" - unless that man was a deranged hobo with a paper bag full of spray paint & bath salts.
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (lboSL)
***
1. libss are dumb
2. libs are punishing them for going off reservation.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (dANw2)
Posted by: Brother Sevrin at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: rrpjr
One of my favorite lines is from Milton Friedman when he said something along the lines of "it's not important for us to elect the right people, but to create an environment where the wrong people will want to do the right thing"
Trump is an opportunist that's doing the same thing, he saw a niche that no one was taking advantage of. Hell, Trump was bashing Romney after the election for being too hard on illegals.
Trump was just a schrewd man that knew the pulse of Republicans better than lifelong politicians did
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (B6LL7)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (zyIlW)
Why not take their money? It's all green.
just don't let them push you around. They get what they get.
Maybe do some metrics. take a couple polls. compile the data and cha ching!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (x3GpS)
Yes. Health insurance was already far too big government. That's why we "needed" Obamacare: because government intervention in the health care industry was already causing prices to rise drastically.
That's also why they wanted to phase Obamacare in slowly: because they knew that doubling down on the same government policies that causes rising prices to begin with, would cause them to skyrocket.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (lHASK)
Posted by: Decaf at August 18, 2015 07:28 PM (CsxNC)
I think Trump decides what he likes and then hires smart people to work out the details. I trust someone who is bombastic but willing to hire and listen to talent over someone who is "Better than my speechwriter." Trump is a salesman. No one will tell him how to do that. But I think he usually knows when he needs someone to handle the details.
Posted by: WOPR at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (nRvEn)
don't. This apparently all comes as a huge shock to the political class.
It has been said here before, but Ace, many of the cobs, heck even half of the commenters here would be better paid consultants than the current cocktail consultants infecting politics. Most of the bloggers in the conservative sphere would be better consultants.
Yet no money goes their way.
Meanwhile, NBC just invested $200 million into vox. VOX. I don't get it.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (hvf9s)
If your parents are not citizens, you do not get to claim citizenship.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Amateur Idiot at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (DL2i+)
This is why I've enjoyed Trump - I see him as a change agent, not the eventual candidate. Frankly, I was wondering when the rest of 'em were going to step up - glad it's finally happening.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 07:31 PM (NOIQH)
Notice who is not getting on board. The candidates who don't, those are the Gopes. The so-called conservative pundits of the various webzines who are spewing their angry spittle at the Trump phenomenon... those are the guys suckling on Gope.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: Spork at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (W5DcG)
This blog is more of a dark alley, not the street. And you don't want to know what is going on behind the dumpster.
Posted by: wooga at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (YJyyQ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (0O7c5)
assuming they ask the bloggers the right questions, which is not what YOU the blogger thinks (who gives a shit) but what is the mood of your commenters?
One idiot's opinion, who cares.
but a thousand idiot's opinions? Now you're talking serious intelligence.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Rick Wilson at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (2iV3X)
Their choice. The thing is though, I really like Walker, yet I believe Trump would actually follow through on his promises.
These guys have a lot of making up to do:
--get with the issues that we care about
--convince me you will be our Obama, i.e. ramming through every conservative program possible, through Congress or executive fiat.
--make a blood oath that you will be true to your word.
At least this is a start from Walker. Just, where in the hell has he been?
Posted by: Grumpyguy at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (6OScs)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (sPO3u)
Why don't they fund Planned Infanticidehood while they're at it?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (DiZBp)
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (B6LL7)
Really? I always get the impression when he's speaking that he just spouts off whatever damn fool thing is in his head at the moment.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (lHASK)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:39 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Scott Walker at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (2lndx)
these comments are all open source, for god's sake.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (dciA+)
The Left just needs a boogey man to scare up votes and donations. Haliburton, Rush Limbaugh, etc. - they just need a target enemy, doesn't have to make sense.
IIRC, the Kochs only spent about 7% of what Lefty Tom Steyer spent on the most recent election, and Steyer, an "environmentalist", lobbies for things that benefit financially (green tech, etc.). But yeah, the Kochs are pulling all the strings ahhhiiieeeaahhhhh!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (NOIQH)
One idiot's opinion, who cares.
but a thousand idiot's opinions? Now you're talking serious intelligence.
Indeed. Which brings us to what that old fool George Will said -- there's a man like Trump in every barroom in America, screaming at the TV.
That's what they ALL think of us. But they don't realize We Are Legion.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (DxVXo)
GOP endorsement now means nothing to me, they have lost 100% credibility, hell the DNC is almost better because I KNOW they lie and cheat and steal and say anything, the GOP was SUPPOSED to be better, they no longer are (and haven't been for decades). Pox upon them all.
Posted by: evil_bun_bun at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (8qoUN)
i want out of politics, not further in.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (dciA+)
So, like car insurance supplemented by a personal car maintenance program (which you can actually buy). Which would be the best possible way of bringing everyone into the ranks of insured, while lowering costs.
Which is why it will never happen.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (72D6h)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ezra Klein at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: DaveA at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (DL2i+)
but a thousand idiot's opinions? Now you're talking serious intelligence.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (dciA+)
You know, that could replace the Mencken quote at the top of the main page.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (sdi6R)
1. Don't be afraid to play the populism card, hard.
Posted by: ace
THIS.
The GOP* only needed one populist. The could have curbed Trump's run in 2011, But no.
(*excluding Flynn for the sake of discussion )
They know better than us. They are professionals. They live and die by polls ... except when they don't and they aren't. (Gabe on the podcast shat on which poll again? )
The most luxurious thing about this situation for conservatives is the fact that the dick-sip Establishment knows they are being ignored. Hence the death-rattle.
Posted by: theorectical LIV hobbit, wacko-bird at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (ZCFje)
Of course the supreme court could over turn the 1989 decision that affirmed birth citizenship to children of non citizens, since they were not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the state.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (0FSuD)
Good for you Ace.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (JO9+V)
Well, these consultants look at various issue polls and assign the results only some simple left-right axis. The public is to the left on this issue, to the right on this.
In truth, a simple 1D axis won't do for this, you need a few more. Second, the public does not hold a rational opinion on anything (actually, see Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, it is *mathematically impossible* for a collective, given more than two choices, to be guaranteed to be reasonable, even if every single voter in that collective is rational).
On some issues, the "the public" is hard left. On some it is hard right. When you average these together, you get "moderate". But the public isn't truly moderate squish on everything, a lot of things. They are bi-polar extremists many times.
Anyway, this is how they decide to be moderate squishes. It's a flawed analysis using flawed methodology of "public opinion".
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:26 PM (dvuhZ)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This!!!!
What is the Moderate Position on
Abortion?
Guns?
Immigration?
A moderate position on these three probably is held by 5-10% of the people. 40% hate you for being too "right" and 40% for being too "left"
Can you win with 10% support?
That is what JeB!!! has, 20% of Republicans is 10% of the nation.
Posted by: rd at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (a/sAS)
***
In 2006 the biggest political issue was amnesty.
In 2008 Republican voters supported John McCain - the most notable Republican amnesty proponent
In 2010 the biggest political issue was Obamacare.
In 2012 Republican voters supported Mitt Romney - the architect of V1 of Obamacare.
The GOPe isn't stupid, they are just banking that the Republican electorate will continue to be.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (5LOno)
If your parents are not citizens, you do not get to claim citizenship.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:37 PM (0FSuD)
You don't need an amendment. The kids are profiting from illegal acts.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (7eQGn)
Posted by: JEM at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (TWXpK)
I'm inclined to give Walker the benefit of the doubt. He's taken on big bold issues here.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (fgSDS)
When has George ever been in a bar?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM
~~~~~
{looking forward to reading Grump928s business plan for that fucking business}
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (lHASK)
Scott "Zeppo" Walker.
He's the GOPe "Hill to Die On" fallback plan if !Jeb! and Kasich can't close the deal.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Rick Wilson at August 18, 2015 07:38 PM (2iV3X)
rick's a friend of mine and I'll appreciate it if you don't sockpuppet him. We have a rule against sockpuppeting people who could show up here.
I also think you should stop the general practice of being an asshole towards anyone who dares to hold a position contrary to your own.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (dciA+)
There's a spot for you (and every other moron and moronette) in Sharkman's Zombie Apocalypse/Civil Meltdown/SMOD Redoubt, Distillery, Whorehouse and Armory (land purchase pending), out in Washington state.
Well, if The Empress lets you in, that is.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (72D6h)
That fact about collectives is why ships need a captain and wars need to be run by one commander in chief.
Statists take it to get a hard-on for totalitarian dictatorship, but the correct conclusion is keep the collective decision making to a minimum, ie small govt, as small as possible. Let individuals be individuals and go their own way as much as possible.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (dvuhZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEfhKvAQSc
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM (DxVXo)
Good lord. I'm paraphrasing here: "Is it gonna be hard? You betcha." "Obama didn't let us finish."
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (dciA+)
That's what they ALL think of us. But they don't realize We Are Legion.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (DxVXo)
More importantly, they have forgotten that we are SUPPOSED to be the Boss...
And somehow, through slight of hand, have convinced most voters they have no power...
Its like here in California, where they use the Legislature and the Courts to consistently over ride the will of the electorate... yet somehow keep getting voted IN... because people are TOLD they have no alternative...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 07:43 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 18, 2015 07:43 PM (DGrkU)
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 07:43 PM (2iV3X)
None of them seemed to have any idea how angry the base is about the last election . It's like the George Will article saying they should purge any Trump supporters. Does the Republican party really have that many voters, that they can afford to just throw them away?
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 18, 2015 07:43 PM (5HBd1)
The problem is the consultants come from the firm of Established Establishment for the Betterment of Established Establishment Republicans.*
*A subdivision of Democrat Lites for Amnesty.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: DFCtomm at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (E1I4r)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (sPO3u)
Here I am Trumping!
Trumpy Trumpy Trumpy!
We will We will Trump you!
We will We will Trump you!
Sing it!
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (Lx5HV)
IIRC, the Kochs only spent about 7% of what Lefty Tom Steyer spent on the most recent election, and Steyer, an "environmentalist", lobbies for things that benefit financially (green tech, etc.). But yeah, the Kochs are pulling all the strings ahhhiiieeeaahhhhh!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy
The Kochs spend hundreds of millions in the political arena, you can't deny that. And early money is where the effect becomes greatly magnified. They get to pick the primary winners
The Kochs are a boogieman on the Left, but that doesn't mean that we should reflexively back them
Any progress towards free market policies are completely stripped away if you have an Amnesty
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (B6LL7)
He hires market researchers and good pollsters and maybe a couple of federal policy wonks.
Add in some people to glean the blogs for a sense of what topics are hot. Note the things the majority of people are really concerned about and note also the things that are creating the problems for the economy.
Do some panel testing to see what strikes a sample groups fancy and the wording/delivery and whamo.
That's what political consultants USED to do for their candidates. Now they do something else and they are heavily influenced by DC and big money from the PAC's and not the electorate.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Socalcon at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (lHASK)
"In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. "
-- George Will
This is kinda shit that pushes me further away from the GOP.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (DxVXo)
Which is exactly what the GOPe was afraid of.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (7eQGn)
How so being born? Their profit from the illegal acts of their parents have no bearing on their citizenship.
It should, it doesn't.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (0FSuD)
great more angry threats
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (dciA+)
Fluffy opens mouth, inserts Banhammer.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (72D6h)
i want out of politics, not further in.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:40 PM (dciA+)
So, more music threads?.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 07:46 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:46 PM (sPO3u)
A moderate position on immigration is 'enforce the current laws and don't expand anything until it's under control'.
A moderate position on guns is 'enforce the current laws'.
Note that the above 'moderate' positions don't always agree with what I'd consider personally ideal, but I believe they represent what can be 'sold' to the public at large.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Posted by: JEM at August 18, 2015 07:46 PM (o+SC1)
Nope. Reading blogs is toady-level work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2015 07:46 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (sPO3u)
out of healthcare, and the same people screaming about Republicans
having any sort of replacement policy for ObamaCare are probably the
same group that thinks Trump is A-Ok supporting socialized medicine like
they have in the UK and bringing that here.
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (B6LL7)
Why is it we never see you and trumpetdaddy in the same room?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (yQtWA)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (rwI+c)
Well, if looking at what works for some other candidate and saying "yeah dude, you should do that too", then I want a high priced political consultant job. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (DxVXo)
I will insult you, call you names, denigrate your ideas and intelligence. Now agree with me.
It's not persuasive no matter who does it. Even if I agree with you. I hate the Paulbots for it, the one issue pro pot libertarians for it, the trumpbots calling people c***servatives, the Bush Derangement screamers.
It's a temper tantrum.
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:47 PM (zOTsN)
I'll respect your rule.
As far as being an asshole, I was riffing on what your friend said about Ann Coulter on Twitter.
Ace, your friend is an asshole.
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (rwI+c)
In 2008 Republican voters supported John McCain
Like we're systematically being deprived of alternate choices.
Also still waiting for JM's most important implied campaign promise - dying in office.
Posted by: DaveA at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (DL2i+)
-- George Will
This is kinda shit that pushes me further away from the GOP.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (DxVXo)
Me, too. I have never thought highly of Donald Trump, but I have grown to admire his political acumen. He is controlling the narrative, leading in the polls, and calling out the GOPe. With his own money. Very impressive by any rational standard.
Posted by: USA at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (tfM+W)
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:49 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: 'Dick' Wilson at August 18, 2015 07:49 PM (Lx5HV)
"In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. "
-- George Will
This is kinda shit that pushes me further away from the GOP.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (DxVXo)
The American Revolution was birthed in such bars by men drinking stronger libations than beer.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 18, 2015 07:49 PM (7eQGn)
>>> Those on the right who have dumped on not only Trump
supporters ,but anyone who dares to try and defend Trump supporters are
going to regret it.
great more angry threats
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (dciA+)
Stop picking on Trump or I am going to hold my breath till I die.
Posted by: P 11 at August 18, 2015 07:49 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (zOTsN)
Yeah, and fluffy was only screwing around and it was overt the top it was obvious.
Chill out, broseph.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (DxVXo)
Politics is the art of the possible.
Politics is the art of the possible, where moderate is the art of surrendering to the irrational.
You'll note that it is not the moderate who is running the country, or stays the course in the face of opposition, or wins the war.
Moderate is John McCain. Moderate is Mitt Romney. Real great performance there, "moderation".
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (0NdlF)
Of course the supreme court could over turn the 1989 decision that affirmed birth citizenship to children of non citizens, since they were not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the state.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (0FSuD)
Easier method... get Congress to pass, and President to sign, a Bill saying it is the sense of the Congress and the Administration that 'under the Jurisdiction thereof' does not include illegals... and that is THEIR interpretation of the Constitution.
There is nothing in the Constitution which says the Judiciary gets to over ride the other TWO branches of Government on interpreting the Constitution....
ie, set up a DIRECT confrontation with the Supremes on just what limits their self imposed authority (Marbury?) has.... and is there ANY check and balance upon it...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:41 PM (rwI+c)
"Okay we searched his entire blog...looks like we need to go after the Valu-Rite and Lace Wigs contingents!"
Posted by: Minions attempting to crowd data the Horde at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:42 PM (dciA+)
If this is the same Rick Wilson and you know him and like him, Rick Wilson might be needing some advice from a friend himself.
I really never heard of him, but what he tweeted to Ann Coulter does "establishment" type reputations nothing but harm. The guy immediately went into my "ignore this twit" category.
This is the Breitbart article:
http://tinyurl.com/on7keoy
Posted by: jwb7605 at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (M+9nV)
Posted by: 'Dick' Wilson a
...
after she jumped on him for being upset that someone had made a rape threat against his daughter....?
I'll allow it.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Trump Dog at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:52 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:36 PM (B6LL7)
Yes, it's a wise and realistic remark. I appreciate the reminder. I think however it may not be wholly fair to peg Trump as an opportunist, or purely as one. It does take a certain quality of leadership to risk pointing out what others fear to point out.
Posted by: rrpjr at August 18, 2015 07:52 PM (s/yC1)
I can't find the link but there's an article on The Atlantic about Trump supporters that was interesting. Several of the folks they talked to admitted to voting for Obama.
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 18, 2015 07:52 PM (5HBd1)
-- George Will
And they deserve representation too.
Posted by: navybrat at August 18, 2015 07:52 PM (JgC5a)
Nice.
I self-identify as a Marcher Lord.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2015 07:52 PM (8ZskC)
This is the Breitbart article:
...
yeahhhhh that's because some unhinged trump supporter sent a rape threat to him re: his daughter, along with pics from her FaceBook page, and said he'd read about him on breitbart, and then Ann Coulter called him a "girly man" for making such a fuss.
So while I'm not super-anti-coulter, i"m gonna say the Outraged White Knighting on her behalf is unwarranted.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:53 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Jergens_Lotion at August 18, 2015 07:53 PM (z8IzG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:53 PM (sPO3u)
In every bar that has a back there's a snot stain on the floor from the last bow-tied pencil-neck that mistakenly walked in.
Posted by: DaveA at August 18, 2015 07:53 PM (DL2i+)
"In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a
bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth
beer and innumerable delusions. "
-- George Will
In every college faculty lounge, there sits a George Will, a man who never ran anything but know how everyone else needs to do it.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (Cu/Pk)
That reveals waaaay more about George Will than it ever will about The Don.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (hvf9s)
A good point and this, the last line of the 14th amendment supports your idea.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (0FSuD)
Ace said yesterday that Trump's plan will let us "know" instead of "guess" how people feel about amnesty/immigration, but we already did know, thanks to Brat.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (xetep)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: DFCtomm at August 18, 2015 07:44 PM "
And this is the problem. 16 of the candidates were running a white bread campaign. as if nothing is wrong with the country after 8 years of Obama's Marxism.
The damn country is on fire and only Trump showed up with a fire hose.
Walker was my first choice, but then he failed to address the issues, nonetheless address them with passion.
The winner will adopt our issues and convince us that he will actually implement them.
Posted by: Grumpyguy at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (6OScs)
Every R candidate should have a flat tax policy right f'ng now and this line ready for when someone complains about losing their mortgage deduction: "Do you want to pay more taxes with a mortgage deduction or less taxes with a flat tax?"
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: George Will at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (8ZskC)
Now, the men who built this country, who conquered it, were, well, they make Trump look like George Will. And second in modern times, well, I believe LBJ was perhaps the most vulgar man to hold the WH. Ike himself was known for a pretty bad potty mouth, too. But LBJ took the cake.
He could out cuss Trump in his sleep.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (dvuhZ)
When has George ever been in a bar?
..........................
I saw him on Bow Tie night talking to Pee Wee Herman.
Posted by: Brother Sevrin at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (wAQA5)
There is nothing in the Constitution which says the Judiciary gets to over ride the other TWO branches of Government on interpreting the Constitution....
ie, set up a DIRECT confrontation with the Supremes on just what limits their self imposed authority (Marbury?) has.... and is there ANY check and balance upon it...
Posted by: BB Wolf
I tend to think the better method is to simply ignore the Supreme Court
If you go after illegal aliens hard enough with the existing laws on the book, we'll have the problem under control
If someone wants to claim birthright citizenship, make them show all of their tax records and then charge them. Word will get out
Just getting the IRS and some sort of E-Verify to go after employers will push them back home overnight. Take away the magnet
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (B6LL7)
Au contraire, mon frere! You peasants still exist and *AND* persist in claiming that you have opinions about things. You miserable insects aren't sophisticated enough to form, let alone have, opinions. I'm afraid we're going to have get a bit more stern, now. Good news, though - all of you have a future in bio-fuels!
Posted by: The GOP Elite at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (amQXf)
Me, too. I have never thought highly of Donald Trump, but I have grown to admire his political acumen. He is controlling the narrative, leading in the polls, and calling out the GOPe. With his own money. Very impressive by any rational standard.
Posted by: USA at August 18, 2015 07:48 PM (tfM+W)
And giving kids helicopter rides at the fair was a stroke of genius. That's taking the old "kissing babies" cliche and kicking it up a notch.
Echoing many other commenters here, I don't consider myself a Trump supporter, but I like what I've seen so far. Walker has been my favorite based on his track record in Wisconsin. I like Paul's libertarian tendencies. He's the only one I think would seriously attempt to reduce the size of government. Cruz and Fiorina say all the right things, but I don't quite trust them to follow through. I could vote for any of them, though.
But if Jeb is the nominee and Trump runs as an independent, I will vote for Trump without hesitation.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (sdi6R)
Getting rid of all the Trump supporters?
Or giving George Will that Commissioner of Major League Baseball that he's been whining about wanting for years and getting his fuddy duddy ass off the TV?
Easy call I say.
Yeeeeeerrrrrrrr OUT!
Hit the showers George. You stink.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: USA at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (tfM+W)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (Lx5HV)
-- George Will
Wow... who knew the Multi Billionaires hang out in small town local bars...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (qh617)
Ace, your friend is an asshole.
...
well, when someone makes a rape threat against someone's daughter, you probably shouldn't call him a "girly man" for making such a fuss.
you should probably give that man a little space for his legitimate anger.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (dciA+)
That reveals waaaay more about George Will than it ever will about The Don.
And the bastard's wearing jeans too, George. Denim on his legs, instead of a good pair of slacks.
Makes your blue blood boil, doesn't it?
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (j2FM9)
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (0FSuD)
And I would think less of any parent who didn't lose their shit over that
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (zOTsN)
I really never heard of him, but what he tweeted to Ann Coulter does "establishment" type reputations nothing but harm. The guy immediately went into my "ignore this twit" category.
This is the Breitbart article:
http://tinyurl.com/on7keoy
Posted by: jwb7605 at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (M+9nV)
For all the convoluted theories out there regarding Trump supposedly doing Hillery's bidding, trying to ruin the chances of ANY Republican candidate, I think a much stronger case can be made that Rick Wilson is working on Hillery's behalf to sabotage the election for his alleged BFF, Jeb!
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 07:58 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 07:58 PM (zyIlW)
"In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. "
-- George Will
This is kinda shit that pushes me further away from the GOP.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 07:45 PM (DxVXo)
Even worse is that the local Donald Trumps are wearing jeans.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 07:58 PM (oFCZn)
you should probably give that man a little space for his legitimate anger.
Was it a real someone? Or a vapor someone on the internet? Because the latter are numerous and unavoidable. If you choose the web as the battleground you have to expect this and worse.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 07:59 PM (rwI+c)
Will, a man who never ran anything but know how everyone else needs to
do it.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 07:54 PM (oVJmc)
*snort and wiping monitor*
Perfect!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2015 07:59 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 07:59 PM (Lx5HV)
http://tinyurl.com/ovc84ke
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (zyIlW)
2. We have to show we can manage the overbearing ubiquitous government the democrats created better than they can.
3. We have to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!
Posted by: GOP Consultant Class at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (KH8nb)
I need to see this rape threat for myself. I no longer take other people's interpretations at face value.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (DxVXo)
amazing watching people instantly take completely 180-opposite opinions on a thing just because it concerns an "enemy"
so sad, so pathetic, so common.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 18, 2015
Impactful.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (fgSDS)
At two o'clock in the morning in a bar in Pittsburgh in a place you're never going to be again, a guy puts his arm around your shoulders and tells you the truth."--Warren Lewis
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: dogfish at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (zFLZx)
That is fair game. But enough invective. Again. Not persuasive.
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Truth hurts at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (8zvUY)
Good point.
I suppose his Twitter interface has 'delete' and 'send' like everyone else's.
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: BurtTC
I find it plausible but fanciful to believe that Trump's a Clintoon plant.
But I find it inescapable that consultants like Wilson aren't cunts of the lowest order. He would suck Hillary's dick if she wins.
Posted by: Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (ZCFje)
I need to see this rape threat for myself. I no longer take other people's interpretations at face value.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (DxVXo)
And if that did occur, it wasn't Coulter who made the threat.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (oFCZn)
I'm not taking anyone's word for it that it was a rape threat. Sorry. Want to see it for my self.
Posted by: Soothie at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (DxVXo)
i think it's pathetic how many people just want to yell about ann coulter, rick wilson, and the various other soap-opera personalities they can interest themselves in as a dramatic thing.
so keep yelling about your Soap Opera stars, and who the bad guys are, and who the good guys are.
God Forbid we should have discussion that isn't centered on personalities and heroes and villains.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (dciA+)
This non-politician works with Jeff Sessions to craft his policy on immigration. Will be interesting to see where those other policy papers come from.
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (5HBd1)
you should probably give that man a little space for his legitimate anger.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:57 PM (dciA+)
Oh please, why do some people always defend this guy?
He called someone he disagrees with a prostitute.
Fine, whatever. He was pissed. Not classy, but we all say things we regret sometimes.
Still, it's not really a defensible thing to say, is it?
I mean if my buddy called some girl who rejected him at the bar a slut, and she slapped him, I'd say "well, yeah, dude, what did you expect? That's a pretty disrespectful thing to say."
And that's in a social setting. For a professional political consultant, twitter is what most of us would call a "professional setting"
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Bosk at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (n2K+4)
If someone wants to claim birthright citizenship, make them show all of their tax records and then charge them. Word will get out
Just getting the IRS and some sort of E-Verify to go after employers will push them back home overnight. Take away the magnet
Posted by: Coolio at August 18, 2015 07:55 PM (B6LL7)
My plan for halting illegal immigration is not even FEDERAL... but could be done by the States.
Every illegal here is using fake ID, or out of State Documents.
Simply go after them for Identity fraud...
Give them court dates once detected, for 6 months later... but tell them they will NOT be pursued over international boundaries...
If they are here legally? They show up with their Documentation.... if not? I'd wager the majority would self deport, rather than face YEARS in prison...
Note, this could ALL be done under STATE Law.... no Federal involvement at all... and it really has nothing to do with immigration... thus the Feds can't over ride the State's authority to do this.
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 08:02 PM (qh617)
Or Rick Wilsons.
I don't care what the politics of the person issuing the threat
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (zOTsN)
What matters is that we put up a candidate capable of crushing either Hillary or whatever socialist hobgoblin that wins the nomination in her stead.
Walker is that person. Why? Because he lacks the baggage and downsides accompanying just about every other candidate.
I call him the Goldilocks Conservative -- not too Bush, not too Cruz -- just right.
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (IG9gl)
nah but she's the one baiting him over it.
so again, calm down with the White Knighting on behalf of sweet, gentle Ann.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (dciA+)
Said before, someone will watch and listen to what's resonating so, and form a strategy to take advantage.
Looks like 2 people, Cruz and Walker are starting.
Got no problem voting for either or both as a duo.
Something else this whole brouhaha may do is make the wrong people do the right thing, to paraphrase.
Which also could result in the ouster of Boehner and McConnell.
Extra awesome icing on the cake.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (jeCnD)
If Average Joe makes a threat, it makes you mad. If someone says 'Hey, it's that pussy Average Joe, don't be mad he's just wind'. Do you taking your mad at Average Joe out on the one who points out that Average Joe is the pussy here, rather than the pussy Average Joe?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (rwI+c)
"And......elbows? Huh."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (NOIQH)
they have absolutely no idea what the mood of the country is?
If the candidate is paying consultants to tell him what the hell's going on in the country, he/she shouldn't be a damn candidate in the first place, Ace.
Seeing that things aren't right/could stand improvement is supposed to be a part (after, I suppose, Ego and Power) of why someone runs for the Top Job.
I'm guessing -- like everyone else who talks about Trump -- that he was more or less able to suss some of this stuff out for himself and, like Perot, decided he could do a better job.
Despite some pretty reasonable people here supporting Cruz and Walker, neither seems to me to be ready. I don't think Cruz ever will be, but Walker seems to have a bit of the spark that used to motivate Perry. He might be worth looking at for '20 or '24.
A lot of people have been saying "oooooh, what a deep bench we have!" Hate to break it to you, sports fans, but the Republican "bench" has a bunch of minor-league phenoms who might make it to the Bigs later.
The Democrat bench should all be in jail, or a nursing home.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (0atQl)
Remember the incident where Curt Schilling went after the twerp who said vile things about his daughter online?
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (sdi6R)
and the personalization thing is getting ugly as hell.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (sdi6R)
I'm at that point myself and Trump is not my guy
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:01 PM (kvWer)
Stand around in front of cameras looking scared?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (oFCZn)
The Republicans had no alternatives, only the Democrats. So they ran the "vote for us or else with the Democrats win" style of salesmanship. Trump is a quasi third party that shatters that false choice.
Posted by: Saltydonnie at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (zBwYh)
so sad, so pathetic, so common.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (dciA+)
Remember when Goldstein's son was threatened by the crazy lady professor? What did he do? Did he go on twitter and talk about somebody prostituting herself to a political candidate?
No. He called the cops. And he followed through with attempts to keep his family safe.
If this guy is worried about his daughter, what's he doing on twitter? I'll take it seriously when he does.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (Dj0WE)
Meh, we do both.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Boy scout at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (VnxtC)
Posted by: Phil at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (DjpfO)
Every R candidate should release a statement in favor of zero based budgeting and a policy of no budget will exceed 95% of the previous budget until such time as we have surpluses to pay down the debt.
man this is easy, I should really charge for this stuff.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM (kvWer)
you people have fun yelling about your Internet Personalities.
i'm going to read a book.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:06 PM (dciA+)
The guy Will is describing is Cliff Claven, (union)postal worker who lives with his mother and spends his spare time being a know-it-all at the local bar. Sounds like a Democrat to me.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:06 PM (NOIQH)
Oh. It's was a joke by a comedian? But still awful right? But a internet threat is OK?
Baloney
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:06 PM (zOTsN)
so again, calm down with the White Knighting on behalf of sweet, gentle Ann.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (dciA+)
Hah sorry no I don't white knight.
Nice try.
I was merely pointing out that she didn't threaten his kid.
Frankly, he shouldn't have apologized. He said what he said. Was tasteless and classless, but Coulter's said worse.
Who cares? It's Twitter.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:06 PM (oFCZn)
Thanks for the context, didn't know about the creepy FB rape threats. Oh brave new Twitter, that has such people in it, sigh.
I get that the conservative instinct for societal civility might make someone rush to Coulter's defense. (Assuming in good faith that the person, like me, did not know the dumb thing she said and only saw the slander.) I hate condescending white knighting when the left does it, that goes for the right too. Ann has more balls than most guys in the GOP anyway, does not need the assist.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 08:04 PM (oVJmc)
Reminds me of when they blamed Palin for Gabby Gifford being shot.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (Dj0WE)
I don't know Rick Wilson so why should I believe him? Where's the email with the rape threat? Let's see it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:05 PM
IIRC, he was Dennis the Menace's neighbor.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (0atQl)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (NOIQH)
It's like what I use to tell my sons, nothing good ever happens after midnight, get your asses home.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (0FSuD)
To be fair, if someone threatened either of my daughters with rape, I'd lose my shit too.
Posted by: SMFH
Allegedly threatened. Just his word it happened.
And if it happened, that's a Federal, and probably a state, felony. So unless he turned the emails over to the authorities, don't place much cred in his claims of victimization.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:07 PM (zyIlW)
so again, calm down with the White Knighting on behalf of sweet, gentle Ann.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (dciA+)
Ann's a big girl. She can handle it. She lives for this kinda shit
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:08 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 08:08 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (kvWer)
I'm supposed to be internetty outraged over some email that I can't even read for myself??
Show me the goddam email. Let's see this rape threat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:08 PM (fgSDS)
She manufactures this kind of shit for publicity. She's a publicity hound.
OK, I do her.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (sPO3u)
Oh. It's was a joke by a comedian? But still awful right? But a internet threat is OK?
Baloney
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:06 PM (zOTsN)
No one said it was ok. It's possible to be disgusted by the threat, and not terribly worried about it at the same time.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2015 08:09 PM (ZCFje)
Allegedly threatened. Just his word it happened.
And if it
happened, that's a Federal, and probably a state, felony. So unless he
turned the emails over to the authorities, don't place much cred in his
claims of victimization.
And the problem is that Wilson blamed Breitbart for the threat from some random person.
It's like blaming Ace for something one of us might do.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (oVJmc)
Trump is the GOP's Angel of Death, sent for their deception of and disbelief in the American People.
Posted by: Minuteman at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (KH8nb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (rwI+c)
I just think something big is coming and it's not solely a we're so pissed off at the GOP thing.
Witness Sanders on the left basically doing what Trump's doing.
People have finally started to see the game is rigged. I think. I could be wrong.
I just thing it was too obvious pushing another Clinton and another Bush. Even the LIV noticed it.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (oFCZn)
Politics is the art of the possible.
Moderation produced Presidents John Anderson in 1980, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.
Whacko birds like Reagan barely won 40-48 states. It was that close!
Posted by: rd at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (a/sAS)
My "health plan"?
Work and earn money. Spend it on doctors if you get sick. The end.
Save it for your old age too, if you know what's good for you.
No middlemen. No HMOs. No government micromanaging. No Obamacare. No Medicare. Eliminating that alone cuts costs by about 70%, making self-paid health care easily affordable.
The rest of everyone else can just reap the rewards of a life ill-spent, frankly.
Charities and nonprofits want to set up free clinics and free hospitals for the poor? Beautiful. Be my guest. More power to ya.
But donations to such free clinics is up to each person's conscience and is entirely voluntary.
Not compulsory, as in the current system.
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (jBuUi)
Perhaps you've been a bit too successful in insulating yourself from your constituents, huh?
Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM
Constituents, like tourists, smell funny and simply don't have the "old money" cachet of a good lobbyist!
Posted by: Hairy Reed, D-NV at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (ftVQq)
I'll allow it.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:51 PM (dciA+)
She jumped on Rick Wilson for going into full on "blame Breitbart and John Nolte" mode for it.
Which Adam Baldwin noted was an SJW/anti-Gamergate thing: pass off internet trolling as emblematic and fully the responsibility of a party you don't like. Even if there is little to no connection of the bad act to said party.
(Well, "jumped on" being Coulter using the word "hilarious" when retweeting Nolte's write-up of it. The "hilarious" was the meltdown and blamecasting, not the being upset over the act.)
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (tmNLh)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (kvWer)
Sounds like Rick Wilson got an email saying "how would you like it if your daughter was raped by an illegal?"
Which only an internet asshole would interpret as a threat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (DxVXo)
New Social Security Policy: We will maintain it for those (picks random age) 45 and over. Those from 35 to 44 can choose to stay in or leave. Under 35 can pay nothing and invest in their own retirement.
I am like the best consultant ever. Not even trying. And yet R candidates can't even give us anything except the crap we have heard for the last 25 years in which they won't follow thru.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 08:12 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 08:12 PM (sdi6R)
I think Ann Coulter is a man like Michelle Obama and the Williams sisters.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (kvWer)
That would explain her adam's apple?
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:12 PM (0FSuD)
Shootings in Chicago- bullet placement
Numbers are those shot
Yellow means they died
White means they lived
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nuqj627
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (hVdx9)
I want it back. Sons of bitches. Their bullshit obamacare has screwed me over big time.
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (Xa4vS)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (ZCFje)
Didn't Flynn lose in a landslide? Just sayin'...
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (1RNgT)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 08:10 PM (oVJmc)
Yes, but blaming Ace seems to work!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:13 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (zyIlW)
Isn't SS only about 20 years from being a century old program introduced during a great depression? Is this model really the best to stay with?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (rwI+c)
Which only an internet asshole would interpret as a threat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (DxVXo)
If that's what was said, no, that's not a threat. That's suggesting a possible consequence for welcoming illegal aliens. Many families have had worse results from the illegals who Jeb! and co. are welcoming into this country.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (Dj0WE)
Rick Wilson, sacred honor compels you to show everyone the email.
Posted by: Will Folks at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (+jijM)
Which I couldn't square with her supposed conservativism. I began to realize her conservatism was the thickness of one of her book covers and used for the same purpose.
And
she called people some pretty vile stuff during all this. I lost all
respect for her and became pretty certain that she's either losing it or
her books aren't selling as well as they might or her biological clock
is about to go off.
I dunno but if she wants to get down in the mud she's welcome to it but I don't pay her much mind anymore.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (x3GpS)
Her Adam's Apple is so prominent because she is skinny.Women have them,they are just smaller than a mans.
Posted by: steevy
You vacation a lot in Thailand, don't you?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (KH8nb)
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:15 PM (0FSuD)
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That was the kick to my balls that got me thinking I might not be a Republican. A few more and I knew for sure.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (LImiJ)
>>> Not compulsory, as in the current system.
Set up by myself busybodies, for our own good.
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Aléxandros at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (zOTsN)
Show me on this thread where anyone said it was ok to threaten to rape someone's daughter?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (Dj0WE)
it's neat, soothsayer makes something up out of his ass, and then that quickly is accepted as an Established Fact.
Really enjoying the continuing pretend-politics-actual-soap-opera drama over the Internet Personalities.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:17 PM (x3GpS)
But this is OK?
What's THIS??
Show me the email and I'll tell you if I think it's okay. I'm not taking Rick Wilson's word for it that he received a rape threat.
Posted by: Will Folks at August 18, 2015 08:17 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (ZCFje)
It was not millions, it was only a few ReichMarks...
Posted by: Erwin Rommel, author of Infantry Attacks at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (qh617)
Which only an internet asshole would interpret as a threat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (DxVXo)
If that's what was said, no, that's not a threat. That's suggesting a possible consequence for welcoming illegal aliens. Many families have had worse results from the illegals who Jeb! and co. are welcoming into this country.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (Dj0WE)
And that's the thing. We don't even know that much, since Rick Wilson won't show the email.
It could be as real as one of Harry Reid's friends for all the world knows.
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (tmNLh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (kvWer)
Dammit.
That was me.
Show me the email. I'm not saying anything is okay.
I want to read the email for myself.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (zyIlW)
That's suggesting a possible consequence for welcoming illegal aliens.
Many families have had worse results from the illegals who Jeb! and
co. are welcoming into this country.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM
Was it bad enough to justify his response?
I gather this "Rick Wilson" person is a friend or Twitterz-buddy of Ace's. I guess you cut your friends some slack, but I think the guy should have had enough class to step back, take a deep breath, and realize his response would making him look like a pathetic horse's butt to millions of people.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (0atQl)
Really enjoying the continuing pretend-politics-actual-soap-opera drama over the Internet Personalities.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:16 PM (dciA+)
Hence the word "if."
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (Dj0WE)
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That was the kick to my balls that got me thinking I might not be a Republican. A few more and I knew for sure.
Posted by: The Great White Snark
Gang of 2005, all 3 branches of government held by GOP and they bend over and take it up the ass and swallow
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (fgSDS)
Uh, that's pretty much our entire reason for existing.
Posted by: The GOP Establishment at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (amQXf)
There are parallels between the Repubs and the Whigs of old. But while history rhymes, it never really repeats, so things will be a little different.
With the coming economic collapse (of the West, maybe the whole damned world) in a debt destruction conflagration, wars, even civil, may be likely in the cards.
We are going through the one of those big moments in history. In 50 years, they'll be a narrative about how it all played out and those of us in the middle have no clue about that narrative. But we'll see it when it's over.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: USA at August 18, 2015 07:56 PM (tfM+W)
The hell you say!
Posted by: Liberals that issued death threats at Scott Walker's Family at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (hvf9s)
Rick Wilson Nascar or Breitbart?
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:18 PM (kvWer)
GQ
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (0FSuD)
Didn't Flynn lose in a landslide? Just sayin'...
What I mean is, maybe it was the money, but maybe the message doesn't have as much resonance in the wider world as it does with us here. I have a hard time believing that the only reason milquetoast republicans keep winning the nomination is because of shitty consultants.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (1RNgT)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:19 PM (fgSDS)
And that's the thing. We don't even know that much, since Rick Wilson won't show the email.
Exactly. But Ace accepted it and he wants us ALL to accept it as truth and fact. But has Ace read the email??
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (DxVXo)
Hell no. This is politcal consulting to get votes, you can't say I am killing social security, but you could say I am saving social security for grandparents and not making their grandchildren live under a system that even the grandparents don't like that much.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (2iV3X)
When the R establishment demonizes just-plain-folks organizing into things like the Tea Party, what they get is Trump.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: SMFH
You threaten to rape my daughter I will likely skip the informing law enforcement part and get right to the taking care of it part.
But
I won't blame some dickbags threat on John Nolte and Breitbart.
Posted by: traye at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (N8WBd)
We should maybe back off this subject as too much is not known publicly. I'm sure Ace knows stuff he can't repeat publicly and yet he defends his friend.
I can see the Ewok hairs bristling a bit.
Time for some soothing music or some Baco's.
I just eat them straight out of the jar. I don't even bother putting them on the salad.
They got some chemicals in them though that can give you a buzz.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (x3GpS)
After I filled their fuckin' gobs with man-goo, is when.
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:21 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:21 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:21 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:21 PM (zyIlW)
yeah the onus is on the guy whose daughter got a rape threat to gain some perspective and take a breath, not the ones baiting him.
well we really like talking about Internet Personalities I guess.
who are your favorite Radio Personalities?!!!?!!
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (XAFOu)
Of course not. The anger was directed at the comedian. It was directed at people who said the comedian was okay saying that.
Wilson did not direct his anger at the person who made the threat. Nor did anyone he directed it at say it was okay to make such a threat. He was using the threat to say the equivalent of that Ace was politically horrible because someone claiming to be a moron made the threat.
What Wilson did is exactly what we complain about the left doing all the time: directing faux outrage at a political opponent instead of the person who deserves the outrage. We mock the left for doing that, and rightly so.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (2lndx)
P.S. Why hasn't anybody else been making these hard hitting ads for, oh, I don't know, the last twenty years.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: The Metaphor Referee at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jack at August 18, 2015 08:23 PM (53CCM)
What I mean is, maybe it was the money, but maybe the message doesn't have as much resonance in the wider world as it does with us here. I
he was outspent 10-1 and won in the county he spent the most time in. He had no ads on tv or radio. He came within 5 in the county he spent the 2nd-most time in.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:23 PM (dciA+)
Apparently Nolte, or Ann Coulter. I'm a little confused at this point.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:23 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:24 PM (kvWer)
Wow, that got out of hand fast..
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:24 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (dciA+)
Not that asshole on Sirius channel 6 that talks all day. I am paying for music not a damn DJ.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:24 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Moctezuma I at August 18, 2015 08:24 PM (ZCFje)
I think that is why the GOPe rushing the election was so important.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:24 PM (rwI+c)
And that's the thing. We don't even know that much, since Rick Wilson won't show the email.
Exactly. But Ace accepted it and he wants us ALL to accept it as truth and fact. But has Ace read the email??
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:20 PM (DxVXo)
Well, and there is no issue nor need to doubt the sincerity of the claim, until Rick Wilson decides to use it to smear people he doesn't like.
I feel like the alleged threat is being treated as the crux of the matter. The crux is the threat used as a smear.
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (tmNLh)
HE READ THE BLOG COMMENTS!
No need to spend money on consultants and lots of money on groups of idiots found on the street by Luntz.
Revolutionary..and it was Donald Trump that did it first.
...Real estate mogul and reality TV star, not politician.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (q52Ma)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (2lndx)
To me, the icing on the cake was that Cantor, rather than hieing himself back to Richmond close to those pesky constituents to ponder on what he done wrong and how he had failed his local citizens, quickly danced across the boulevard to K-Street to make even more serious money than he did in Congress without having to leave his cozy DC life.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (ftVQq)
P.S. Why hasn't anybody else been making these hard hitting ads for, oh, I don't know, the last twenty years.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM (LImiJ)
Although I personally loathe the man, we could do worse than Trump, I think.
In fact, we already have.
Twice, just recently.
If Trump is what it takes to get a few regular R pols to stop sucking their own dicks for a few moments and start paying attention to what's actually going on in the country, then as far as I can see it's all good.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (JvPqF)
I can see the Ewok hairs bristling a bit.
...
no no, not at all, i'm enjoy people pretending to talk about 'politics" when they're really just indulging a need for Drama Involving Internet Personalties and some of their own made-up outrage.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (dciA+)
The whole damn thing is going to crash, it is mathematically certain to do so.
Don't worry, if you're under 40, maybe even a little older, you ain't getting shit. Math is going to reform it, no matter what the politicians try to do.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: dogfish at August 18, 2015 08:00 PM (zFLZx)
This +1000
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (laMCB)
For the record, no I don't condone Scott Walker threatening to rape Rick Wilson's daughter. But I still want to see Ann Coulter's email to Nick Nolte.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (ODxAs)
Latest polls show that 41% of the electorate self identify as unaffiliated or independent.
That is a larger percentage than either of the two main legally advantaged Political Parties who hold ALL the power.
Thus, we have a LARGE percentage who do not feel they are represented, in this supposedly representative Democracy.
You are correct... something is going to give... but I think its going to be the Two party system... other countries all over the world seem to work it out with more than TWO entrenched political parties.
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (qh617)
Of course, this was after he told me Jade Helm was forcing people in Clint, TX to get microchips or be imprisoned. Oh, and that an asteroid was hitting Earth next month.
I have no pity. I laughed in his face.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (q20+R)
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (0FSuD)
And don't forget to mention, La Hoods almost a household name there in the district
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (DxVXo)
Scott Walker was caught raping Ann Wilson's daughter?
Has he no Heart?
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (JvPqF)
387 Who the F is threatening rape???
Apparently Nolte, or Ann Coulter. I'm a little confused at this point.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:23 PM (rwI+c)
Thanks. Thought it was part of the horde. Couldn't care less about those two.
Just saw the Norm MacDonald colonel. Just stop. Please.
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Weasel at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (e3bId)
Posted by: freaked at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (BO/km)
Not even once.
Posted by: A. Lincoln at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (2iV3X)
Nancy Wilson is dead?
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Saltydonnie at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (zBwYh)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:22 PM
Since it's totally irrelevant to the conversation, I haven't had a "favorite radio personality" since Lohman and Barkley went off the air in L.A. And that was decades ago.
I don't remember them ever talking about politics, but they made me laugh, something neither Ann Coulter nor Rick Wilson can do.
And sorry, Ace, but if Wilson got a Real Threat -- in the legal sense -- he should have called the authorities. Going ballistic with twitter messages accomplishes nothing.
Unless Twitter has some as-yet undiscovered magic power.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (0atQl)
I have no pity. I laughed in his face.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 08:26 PM (q20+R)
Fist bump little Sis
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (fgSDS)
My political consultant brain says you should not run for office.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Saltydonnie at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (zBwYh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (kvWer)
OT: I found out a coworker believes in chemtrails. Of course, this was after he told me Jade Helm was forcing people in Clint, TX to get microchips or be imprisoned. Oh, and that an asteroid was hitting Earth next month.
Posted by: DangerGirl
Liessssss. All liessssss.
Posted by: The Space Lizards
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Nip Sip
It's mandated by the broadcasters code.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM (2lndx)
And sorry, Ace, but if Wilson got a Real Threat -- in the legal sense -- he should have called the authorities.
he did, but do feel free to invent premises convenient to your list of Heroes and your list of Villains.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM (dciA+)
Don't worry, if you're under 40, maybe even a little older, you ain't getting shit. Math is going to reform it, no matter what the politicians try to do.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:25 PM (dvuhZ)
Ponzi schemes, which Social Security is, always collapse when they stop growing.
Note, the ONLY real population growth we now have, is immigration.... which is why I believe Washington pushes immigration, both legal and illegal, so much.
Problem is that most immigrants are not high wage earners, and will thus take more OUT of the system than they put in....
but no one ever accused politicians of being overly smart.
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:30 PM (fgSDS)
Whether ace likes him or not, it was a poor choice.
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:30 PM (Xa4vS)
Where o where is Art Bell when we REALLY need him?
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:30 PM (0atQl)
The current politicians just want to buy 20 or 30 more years, then they're dead and it's not their problem.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (rwI+c)
so much Internet Personality based drama -- so much more interesting than anything else in life, like our family, or books, or hobbies!
Or going out for a walk....
let's just focus on that Internet Personality drama... just another little chase of the dragon, all that OUTRAGE we can direct and people who don't share our opinions about everything....
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM (dciA+)
Fast reader are we? How was the book, he he
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: filbert at August
These dreams
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:30 PM (fgSDS)
Tempted to work it back to a Sarah Palin/Saracuda joke, but . . . nah, too much effort involved, not nearly enough payoff.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (Xa4vS)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Giuseppe Garibaldi at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (oVJmc)
Nah. Just greasing the wheel.
One thing about Trump, and I know you're no fan. He hires people that know what they're doing. He knows nada about running golf courses. He knows nada about running hotels. But he puts the right people in the right places. And those people will fire your ass.
What we are currently lacking in leadership.
Posted by: Golfman at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (48QDY)
Not defending Cantor, but don't most of them do that? Once they taste the power of DC they just can't quit it. They've made the connections so it's time to call in favors, get that lobbying job, etc. Pathetic.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Obamaisacommunist at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (qoX4t)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:29 PM
Good night, ace.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (0atQl)
Sounds like Rick Wilson got an email saying "how would you like it if your daughter was raped by an illegal?"
Which only an internet asshole would interpret as a threat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:11 PM (DxVXo)
Right. Like it's a dicked up thing to say, but I mean... come on.
It's the fucking internet. If that's your chosen medium to communicate, you'd better be used to that.
Let's hope this guy never puts on a headset and plays Halo on XBox. He'd have a total meltdown after hearing the taunts and horrible shit gamers say at each other.
Anyways... whatever. I don't know the guy personally like ace does, maybe he's a great guy.
Just saying, I don't see why people are defending him for calling someone a prostitute in explicit terms. I mean, it is what it is. Like I said, it's the internet. But, uh, it's not like we should be defending and encouraging that kind of behavior.
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (AkOaV)
You're starting to sound OUTRAGED that no one else is sharing your OUTRAGE at the OUTRAGE!
I think outrage should concern all of us.
*snaps sunglasses open*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:33 PM (Xa4vS)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (zOTsN)
Because they're now known at the Trump News Network.
They've pretty much gone all in on Trump.
I think they're just taking advantage of the clicks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:33 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:33 PM (2lndx)
It's not the news and it's not entertainment.
It's INFOTAINMENT.
No news and no entertainment. Just lots of outraged outrageyness.
with extra excuses to get all high and mighty and white knighty.
Please. Everyone.
Old adage:
Believe NONE of what you hear and only HALF of what you see.
And what's the internet and TV. why it's audio and pixels
NONE of which can you verify are relating true information/facts/truth.
And much of what you peruse is controlled by people who do so only so as to separate you from your money or your God given Rights or your vote.
And who would likely spit on your grave if they knew you existed.
So don't trust them to be telling you the truth/facts/useful information. They may be and they may not be.
what is it the Gellman Amnesia effect? Where we don't believe the media about one thing then turn around and believe some other thing without question.
And get emotional and ready to fight over it to boot.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:34 PM (x3GpS)
Enjoy a drink & your book. This personality shit war will pass
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:34 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (JvPqF)
but will it? Has it ever?
i'm so fucking sick of it.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (dciA+)
The Jews aren't in control! Natalie Portman is!!!
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (XAFOu)
I still go to Breitbart on occasion, and occasionally will link to it just because the name throws the left in a tizzy, but it is sad just how unfriendly, technologically, the site has become.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (kvWer)
Continuing music thread from last night? That was a fun thread.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (hvf9s)
I don't go to Breitbarf anymore. They can shove the autoplay up their blood drinking vampire asses.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:32 PM (kvWer)
This and The Hill also does it.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (0FSuD)
My reaction to someone talking shit about my kid and others joking about it would be to pound their fking faces in.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: wte9 at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (xYr9U)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (kvWer)
this was a thing said on *this* blog
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (dciA+)
The current politicians just want to buy 20 or 30 more years, then they're dead and it's not their problem.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:31 PM (rwI+c)
Good point.... its like the cooked economic numbers...
No recession even though we have not really grown in a number of years...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:33 PM (Xa4vS)
I know almost nothing about this Wilson guy. Maybe his daughter was threatened. If so, I'd be mad if I were him.
I also wouldn't be talking about it on twitter, or suggesting public figures are being sodomized for pay by Donald Trump because they said something on twitter about me blaming a website for the threat.
But that's just me.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (Dj0WE)
You other Pubbies can't deny!
*bump grind and gyyyyrate*
Trump on it
Trump on it
Kemosabe
Trump on it
Whooooo !
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (Lx5HV)
Remember these are guys who have never actually won political office on their own...or at least of anything major. For example - What major political office has Rick Wilson won in his life.
I love military history, am an armchair military strategist, but I would be ashamed of a U.S. general who needed me to tell him how to invade a certain country, or what his next move should be. If needs my help that much I should be the general in charge.
Our professional politicians have become empty suits who are like actors being fed lines from "writers" so they can look "authentic". We the people need real politicians again...not the actors pretending to be politicians who make up most of the political class these days.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (q52Ma)
Posted by: wte9
Be sure to wear the correct shoes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: King David at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (ZCFje)
Yes! Far too many of them (ex-politicians) continue to avail themselves of the government teat when they should be in jail or at home. Neat thing about Cantor, is that he effectively said, I'm not even going to finish the term I was elected to, I'm off to the glitter and bucks of K-Street as fast as my little feet can carry me, you ungrateful wretches!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (kvWer)
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html
Note the curve flattening at the top, and the little dips, where total assets decreased (even with interest). That's the cash flow negative quarters. Click on the links if you want to get in the weeds.
Again, note the "trust fund" is noting but IOUs from the Treasury. They're not even real Ts, because they are non-marketable. SS couldn't sell them in the open market. Only Treasury can redeem them. They've already spent the money, using it to lower the amount of real money they had to borrow from the real bond market over the decades.
With the demographic collapse of the Ponzi, it goes to shit. That turning down of the curve is the peak of the Ponzi.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (dvuhZ)
And by 'consultants,' I mean their wives.
Posted by: King David at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (ZCFje)
You backstabbing, wife-stealing bastard. I'm GLAD your bastard son died, you hear me!?
Posted by: Uriah the Hittite at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (mx5oN)
Interesting, the protagonist isn't a cop as in Minority Report. The protagonist is the would-be killer. and he doesn't even have a good reason for the murder, just pure greed.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Jake at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (Bzyfx)
I'm not outraged some consultant said someone on the internet used a hypothetical involving his daughters alleged rape. Again, it's the internet.
I'm also not outraged that said consultant took to twitter (his professional means of communication) to call a commenter a prostitute in explicit terms involving anal sex with donald trump.
That being said, can we stop pretending these consultants and "political professionals" are trained professionals who should be trusted as opposed to us amateurs who might hurt the parties "image" with our mean spirited comments by advancing a, say, "war on women" narrative?
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (rwI+c)
this was a thing said on *this* blog
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (dciA+)
LOL
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (uz/Pv)
Posted by: Ying Zheng at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (ZCFje)
And by 'consultants,' I mean their wives.
Posted by: King David at August 18, 2015 08:37 PM (ZCFje)
Consortants?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (MYSVz)
Interesting, the protagonist isn't a cop as in Minority Report. The protagonist is the would-be killer. and he doesn't even have a good reason for the murder, just pure greed.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (dciA+)
Been decades since I read it, but I recall it as being a particularly good book.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:41 PM (W5DcG)
"A murder is a contest between the individual and society, with the target the prize."
(Getting at the real struggle is to not be caught, hence, the battle is against society and its detections .)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:41 PM (dciA+)
Marshall Ney... Bravest of the Brave... stupidest of the stupid...
He kept his Marshall's baton because Napoleon could always count on him to attack... which when he was indisposed at Waterloo, then cost him the battle when Ney sent in a non coordinated attack...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 08:41 PM (qh617)
How come we arent talking about the Penthouse spreadfold saying Trump was FABULOUS in bed? A real EWOK and YUGE!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Proud Harry at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (DGrkU)
Posted by: Tokugawa at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (ZCFje)
Well farther into hell.
So much drama.
My drama for the evening? My dog is mad at me because I came home smelling like the new puppy from around the corner. Even two bacon flavored treats won't make him come sit with me...
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (lboSL)
The AOSHQ design is just unfriendly to the browser, not to the reader. That is, it probably drives the browser crazy trying to make sense of the HTML code, but it doesn't pop up windows like crazy and autoplay ads all down the sidebar.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (2lndx)
this was a thing said on *this* blog
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:36 PM (dciA+)
Oh, well that's part of the charm of aoshq.
It's kind a throw back to the shitty days of the internet.
Like going to the tiny neighborhood bar with a disgusting bathroom and foamy kegs. It's got "character."
Breitbart just has overwhelming cheesy free porno site-level amounts of ads, which makes it unviewable on any device without adblocker.
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:28 PM (kvWer)
They were ghey ghey or was it just their music that was ghey?
I can't name a single REO Speedwagon song. Just never got into them.
That was a great thread last night. 1600+ comments.
Posted by: The Metaphor Referee at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:40 PM (kvWer)
I've been saying SS wouldn't be there when I retired since I was 25. I'm just north of 55 now and see no reason to change my opinion.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (JvPqF)
I don't get it. It is pretty sick if the object is to not get caught, and not some actual gain. Don't want to get caught out in murder? Don't commit the murder.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (rwI+c)
You ever lived in a small town?
Trust me it's hell sometimes. They have nothing to do but mind each other's business. Without all the information or knowledge of the facts your neighbors will have no compunction about telling you what you're doing wrong, when and why and what you should do to correct this fallacy in your thought processes.
And I'm quite sure this kinda shit has gone on for thousands of years. So don't let it make you sick. It just is part of being human and living in proximity for whatever reason and interacting for whatever reason.
It will never get better but sometimes it gets less worse.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:39 PM (AkOaV)
Exactly. Whenever I see "political consultant" or "political strategist" I think, "moronic douchebag with no identifiable skills".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (MYSVz)
Posted by: Chi
I read that as "pussy," not "puppy."
My mind is still reeling from the logical consequences.
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: She looks great in blaze orange at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (pq97T)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:41 PM (W5DcG)
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Posted by: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (zyIlW)
Heh. Now there's a way to make murder sound all rebellious 'n stuff. Sounds like an interesting book...*opens amazon.com*
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (NOIQH)
(St. Augustine's "Confessions" and Deep Eddy's Ruby Red Vodka, if you care)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 18, 2015 08:44 PM (jR7Wy)
They were hacked and ALL their data was released today.
http://tinyurl.com/ozo5xmk
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Ivan IV Vasilyevich at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (2lndx)
George will is part of the problem.
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (BTnAK)
Trump: pfft, have you seen my fabulous poling results?
the rest of the candidates: I need to get in on Trump's playbook
Posted by: Jake at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (Bzyfx)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 08:43 PM (MYSVz)
yet every narrative-driven news story ever quotes the same handful of them pushing the same story line as if they're some kind of professional experts to be trusted, and neutral voices of reason.
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (zOTsN)
They were hacked and ALL their data was released today.
http://tinyurl.com/ozo5xmk
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:45 PM (0FSuD)
Weren't they hit a couple of weeks ago? Or is this a new one?
Posted by: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (JvPqF)
I managed to get a hold of a copy soon after puberty. I hid that sucker good, way out in an old shed out in the woods. If the folks found it, I was dead.
Hell, with all this available on the internet, I don't know what I would've done back then. If possible, I would have jacked myself to death. Hell, I wonder what the 13 yr old boys do with all that stimulation now. Maybe that's why they're all so fucked up.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (0FSuD)
Poor writing, weak plot, predictable.
I guess the classics are classic for a reason.
And anything Oprah suggests is just horrible.
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (Xa4vS)
My mind is still reeling from the logical consequences.
Posted by: zombie
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Well, if I admitted to coming home smelling like the former, it wouldn't be my dog that was mad, I promise!
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (lboSL)
but will it? Has it ever?
i'm so fucking sick of it.
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:35 PM (dciA+)
I'm surprised as an attorney it gets to you this way. The shit wars come and go. Wilson/Coulter will be done shortly. Calm will be present for awhile then something else will come along.
It's your world (blogs & Twitter) do what you have to do, for you
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (lboSL)
My drama for the weekend is finding a home for my Aunts black lab pup only to get the new owners heart set on getting him and my Aunt canceling. Twice this happened. Done with it.
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:47 PM (XAFOu)
Just another reminder that there is no privacy, and every system is likely to be hacked - Target, IRS, OPM, Apple iCloud, Ashley Madison, whatever.
*sigh*
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (NOIQH)
That is what happens to a French Army when you have a real French general leading it...not the guy from Corsica who had a headache...or something like that.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (q52Ma)
My drama for the evening? My dog is mad at me because I came home smelling like the new puppy from around the corner. Even two bacon flavored treats won't make him come sit with me...
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (lboSL)
My cat licks himself raw, so I have to hold him down and put soothing, healing salve on his leg. He spends the rest of the night acting like I'm worse than Hitler.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (Dj0WE)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jayavarman VIII at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (JvPqF)
That's right. They told AM to shut down, AM said get fvcked so they released all the data.
Sounds like some radical Baptist or Feminist.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2015 08:03 PM (jBuUi)
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Heh.
Agree.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (cN9Sk)
Nice. I am going Ye Olde Schoole and reading Tom Jones for the first time. Love it! Can see how it and Crusoe are the great grandaddy of all Western novels. Is bawdier than I thought, heh. I want to weave "misbegotten wench" into a sentence!
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (Xa4vS)
Sounds like some radical Baptist or Feminist.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (0FSuD)
It's the Lutherans. It's always the Lutherans.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Sitting Bull at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (JvPqF)
That or the Amish.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:50 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 18, 2015 08:50 PM (u5gzz)
A lot of good recommendations on the AoSHQ book thread every Sunday. Oregon Muse does a fabulous job, as well as all the suggestions in the comments.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:50 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 18, 2015 08:50 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:46 PM (Xa4vS)
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If anybody earnestly presses a book into my hands and says "You simply must read this!", I know it's A) for my betterment, and how do you improve on perfection?, and B) it will lack spine, vigor, juice, and sexplosions.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 18, 2015 08:51 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08
Tell Tucker that Dreamer came home without nuts today
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:51 PM (fgSDS)
Fuck the GOP.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 18, 2015 08:50 PM (u5gzz)
Whenever I see "Trumpy" I flash back to the MST3K episode "Pod People." One of the funniest ones they ever did, IMHO.
"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!"
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:51 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Julian at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (8ix4D)
In his defense, Walker has been saying this well before Trump; it's just that now he has released a more detailed outline of what he intends.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (Xa4vS)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (xetep)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.
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Oh - he was happy as a pig in shit for a few minutes, then the light bulb went on.
He looked at me like a stabbed his mother, then jumped down and walked away.
No worries - already have plans to walk him over there to meet "Jackson" tomorrow evening. Might be the first time he's ever seen a dog smaller than him! Should be fun.
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (lboSL)
Posted by: william wallace at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (ZCFje)
Oooooh, 15,000 people used .mil or .gov emails as part of their profiles on the Ashley Madison accounts? Oh honeys. You be so screwed.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (hvf9s)
*sigh*
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 08:48 PM (NOIQH)
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It's safer to just trawl the docks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (jR7Wy)
It's government workers because they know the system and take advantage. There's doctors out there and that's all that they do is certify disability.
Cut disability to only those with a real disability and not a headache and watch the viability of SS go back up.
Meanwhile, put all income exposed to FICA but differing rates or something and means test retirement. (if your income from whatever source is above a certain amount, No SS for YOU!)
No double dippers.
Raise the retirement age a couple years to comport with the increased longevity.
Allow opting out if below a certain age. Trouble with this is mismanagement. Perhaps a periodic review would be necessary to make sure people weren't screwing up or getting screwed.
The programs themselves aren't the problem, it's all the tweaks and added coverage that the Dems have loaded on over the years WITH THE GOPe's HELP.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015
Was there jello salad on the server?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: The GOPe at August 18, 2015 08:53 PM (zyIlW)
These assholes just don't get it - the feral government has NO BUSINESS mucking around in the individual health insurance/care market, AT ALL. NONE ZIP. ZILCH.
The feral government's only responsibility is to make regular interstate commerce of health insurance. That's it. Anything beyond that is un-Constitutional and just, plain stupid.
Walker is a turd.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 08:53 PM (MYSVz)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:53 PM (Xa4vS)
Trump: Giving Voice to the American "Subconscious"
Mark Steyn and Diana West are tops.
Posted by: Misfortune & Pestilence at August 18, 2015 08:54 PM (yox0K)
Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 18, 2015 08:54 PM (ZCFje)
Oh shit. Gotta cut out ,you've been a beautiful audience! G'night everybody!
*runs backstage, turns on OReilly , pulls out legal pad*
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 08:54 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 08:54 PM (oFCZn)
The more they beat up the Trump the more sympathy vote he gets.
You get someone like Trump when you continuously crap on your voter base.
Hey GOP and RNC go and fund Obama care again and while your add it exempt yourself from it..
Clowns to left, Clowns to right of me.. Here i am stuck in the middle.
Mitch McConnell same as the old boss.
Posted by: Frodus at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (7OAjN)
I have no pity. I laughed in his face.
Posted by: DangerGirl
So you're sayin' there a chance for SMOD next month?
Posted by: dogfish, thinking of boarding the crazy train at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (CcOmu)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 18, 2015 08:49 PM (Xa4vS)
Just ordered it, in direct contravention of a standing order to NOT buy more books, at least until a few of the existing piles have been cleared away!!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: The Nayden Broad at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (08+Yv)
"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!"
Posted by: filbert
It stinks!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (W5DcG)
And the Feds pay for your attorney to seek SSDI.
Winning!
Posted by: Golfman at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (48QDY)
trumps playbook is right here everyday. free, as Ace says.
But if they don't like free they can hire me for a boatload of money and a helicopter ride.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (zyIlW)
One was a tranny. And she explained what they liked was, well, the clients mostly wanted to be "bottoms". And some of those bottoms were high Pentagon brass.
So just imagine some buzz-cutted general who likes to take it up the ass from a tranny.
That's what goes on in Washington. And Will says Trump is vulgar.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:56 PM (dvuhZ)
Just gonna throw this out there:
TRT
Testosterone Replacement Therapy. T-levels drop dramatically after the age of 40. If you find yourself getting emotional about trivial matters...
Coconut oil is said to raise T. Olive oil, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (hvf9s)
Nah. Not the Democrats, anyway.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: William Eaton at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (q52Ma)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:58 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (DxVXo)
Moreso if you're putting it on a hot chick.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 08:58 PM (MYSVz)
Trumpy episode of MST3K?!?!
Love that one. There's a part when they repeat "...McCloud!" and it cracks me up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:58 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:52 PM (fgSDS)
And lo, there were lemon bars, and rumors of lemon bars, and coffee and punch were being served in the basement Fellowship Hall . . .
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 08:59 PM (JvPqF)
How fucking dumb do you have to be to use .gov or a .mil addy to creep around?
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (zyIlW)
So, so dumb. And they have specific descriptions of what each person requested or asked for in an affair tied to those addresses.
Not saying they deserve to be caught...but they kinda do. So, so dumb.
Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2015 08:59 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 08:59 PM (kvWer)
I can not convert you.
That, like the answer to the question, "Is it ok to dismember living babies before they are born, and sell their hearts before they're dead, as long as 1 party gets the quid prop quo?", is more than you are willing to pay for, if you don't know who I am, given your sufficient means.
You're either an American, or you aren't.
We either have a country-- and a credo-- or we don't.
My bona fides are certain. Pay me an appropriate fee, and I will make it simple for you, fool.
The rest of you, no warriors fallen, blood shed or service rendered, in OUR GLORIOUS CAUSE... you are welcome to prove it. Prove you are not a Commie, boy-loving, cock-sucking, druggie?
Welcome!
Posted by: Son of the American Revolution... also, molon labe at August 18, 2015 08:59 PM (7k1Wh)
Posted by: Shaka ... Zulu at August 18, 2015 09:00 PM (ZCFje)
They were hacked and ALL their data was released today.
"One analysis of email addresses found in the data dump also shows that some 15,000 are .mil. or .gov addresses."
_________________________
Shit.
*hic*
Posted by: John Boehner at August 18, 2015 09:00 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Chi's dog at August 18, 2015 09:00 PM (DGrkU)
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Oops, just answered my own question.
"The Stars My Destination" by Bester would make a great movie, if great science fiction movies were being made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 18, 2015 09:00 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:01 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: logprof's sockpuppet at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: Hot Pockets creative team at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Frodus at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (7OAjN)
I am almost persuaded to believe that after the 2014 election, the lizard people shape-shifted Pelosi and Boehner, and Reid and McConnell because darn if I can see any substantive difference in the "quality" or substance of any piece of legislation that has occurred since Nov 2015.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (kvWer)
So much drama.
My drama for the evening? My dog is mad at me because I came home smelling like the new puppy from around the corner. Even two bacon flavored treats won't make him come sit with me...
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 08:42 PM (lboSL)
My current drama is that one cat keeps peeing on the bed. He's eight years old and just started doing it a couple of months ago. I took him to the vet and he's in perfect health.
I started covering the bed with a plastic shower curtain when it's not in use. That has helped somewhat, but the night before last he did it while I was sleeping. I rolled over during the night, and eww!
Last night I slept with the door closed, which I hate to do because my other cat likes to sleep in the bed rather than pee in it. But I'll be damned if I'm going to use a shower curtain for a bedspread.
So there's some sort of territorial thing going on, and I don't know what to do about it.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (sdi6R)
A bag of popcorn indeed, especially since he seems to be moving the field towards confrontation of the Establishment political class.
Remember this about Walker, he is a man of his word. You can check for yourself at his previous jobs, if he says he will or won't do something and has any control of the situation, that is what will happen.
But back to the point. If not for The Donald, all the candidates will still be playing it polite, quiet, and safe.
Mr. Bluster changed all that, and it's a good thing.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (XmOA9)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (x3GpS)
It's not the most comfortable feeling.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (kvWer)
Credit card charges,
at least that's what a friend told me.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (oFCZn)
While it's hard to have sympathy for Ashley Madison subscribers, the bottom line is that people have had what was promised to be secured business transaction exposed by criminals who were blackmailing a business. They may have been breaking their vows, but they were not committing any crime (that I know of). This is like the hacked and leaked celebrity photos.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 09:05 PM (NOIQH)
They either mind melded or they took some very very heavy acid.
And it was bummer, man.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:05 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:05 PM (kvWer)
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (BO/km)
(eyes a kitten)
Oh! New potato!
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:05 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: dogfish at August 18, 2015 09:06 PM (CcOmu)
seriously...
Posted by: logprof's sockpuppet at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (8CdUx)
One of the funniest things I learned when I lived in New York was that in a lot of the old co-ops, the penthouses were servants quarters. That's why a lot of those buildings have elevators that only go to one or two floors below the top and you have to walk up the rest. Now, those are the most expensive spaces in those buildings. I can only imagine how lefties would have been crying their eyes out for the poor servants who were forced to live at the tops of the buildings ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 09:06 PM (MYSVz)
Posted by: high mark of consultants everywhere at August 18, 2015 09:06 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (kvWer)
Yeah. (Not knowing if your kidding or not). But yeah, she's in it.
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:06 PM (XAFOu)
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 18, 2015 09:07 PM (u5gzz)
So just imagine some buzz-cutted general who likes to take it up the ass from a tranny.
That's what goes on in Washington. And Will says Trump is vulgar.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 08:56 PM (dvuhZ)
The analogy with the late decadent Roman Empire is probably more accurate than we'd like to believe.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:07 PM (sdi6R)
the direct effect fades a bit as you age, but there are plenty of other benefits
the fire's always there, but more like old whiskey
could be worse
Posted by: Feh at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (Uk9e2)
Oops, yeah shoulda been
"Nov 2014"
But I bet it will be true in Nov 2015 as well!
Crawls away...
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (ftVQq)
I pity the fool who sprinkled olive oil and coconut oil on me!
Hey! Why am I levitatin'?
Posted by: Mr. T at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (DGrkU)
Google: remove windows 10 icon.
Yes it's become such a thing that there's whole blogs written about the stupidity of MS doing this and how to remove it PERMANENTLY from your screen.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (x3GpS)
Anyway, mine registered at 225 the last physical and the doc talked me into take some T shots (in the ass, of course). It was that low likely due to some medication I have to take (long story).
Now, about 2 -3 days after the shot, well, I got horny as hell. Hadn't been that damned horny in years. It wasn't like I as 19, where I was dry humping the furniture every 5 minutes, but it was something to see.
Unfortunately there are some other side effects. When your T level shoots up, the feedback system notices and ramps down the signals to make more T, as well as some other hormones that are needed for some other functions. It's complicated.
I don't want to go TMI, but let me say nearly "dry heaves", if you can figure that out. Everything worked before, even at that low of a level, but with the T shots, the function is getting screwed up a little.
This all varies with the individual, mind you. But hormone replacement is a can of worms.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:07 PM (sdi6R)
Too much money, combined with not enough common sense and moral character. Utterly predictable results.
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: rickl
You could try pissing on the cat's bed.
Posted by: Aviator at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 18, 2015 09:02 PM (kvWer)
Credit card charges,
at least that's what a friend told me.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:04 PM (ftVQq)
That's what prepaid debit cards are for.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (mx5oN)
There's a windows update that puts this on your desktop or whatever. Remove the update and it stops coming back.
Kinda like malware IMO.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (x3GpS)
This all varies with the individual, mind you. But hormone replacement is a can of worms.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (dvuhZ)
No shit
Posted by: trannies everywhere
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 08:27 PM (fgSDS)
*fist bump*
(late to the party because watching old China Beach eppys)
And if I'm your little Sis, you must be 50+ years old...old man.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (q20+R)
Posted by: Boss Moss
http://tinyurl.com/o9k9hno
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 09:11 PM (W5DcG)
Mitch McConnell same as the old boss.
Posted by: Frodus at August 18, 2015 08:55 PM (7OAjN)
Won't get fooled again???
Posted by: The Who's Johnny? at August 18, 2015 09:11 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:11 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:12 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 08:38 PM (dciA+)
"Tenser said the tensor!"
The ending blew my mind, back when I read it. I think I was 10. Great book.
Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2015 09:12 PM (cbfNE)
Dayum, they took the brown acid anyway!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:12 PM (ftVQq)
don't look for @clintonemail addresses, don't look for @clintonemail addresses ...
Posted by: some dumpy harridan somewhere at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (8ix4D)
Posted by: Northernlurker at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (4rzL1)
As far as homo sex, his preferred ode, he is a boylover, bacha bazi in re, Paki- L'il Syed, et al, or brown-skinned,- preferred.
That's not to say he won't sell his Wookie-ette daughter to a Chink Commie premiere.
In fact, it almost has to be.
Posted by: Party #47544 at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (7k1Wh)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18
That be me
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Feh at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:07 PM (sdi6R)
Too much money, combined with not enough common sense and moral character. Utterly predictable results.
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (JvPqF)
Which side of the US is going to go Byzantine?
Are we going to go with Mexicans for Germanic barbarians?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 09:14 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:14 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2015 09:10 PM (mx5oN)
For those that think with the right head!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:15 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:16 PM (zyIlW)
I have a funny story about Tucker that is closely related to your cat - but I'm in the middle of Cinderella Man (never saw it) and it just got good.
Basically, after I had him house trained, he would still shit in one spot in the house. Ex's step-dad's bed. We never figured out why (other than that he was a grade-A dickhead).
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 09:16 PM (z8+9E)
Posted by: some dumpy harridan somewhere at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (8ix4D)
Hillary in the AM hacker dump? Wouldn't that just be precious if it were to ensue?
Of course, Huma would be furious. Bill would probably just laugh (since he'd probably be the one who signed Hill up in the first place.)
I have the idea that they're nice people, the Clintons.
Heh.
Posted by: Trumpy at August 18, 2015 09:16 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:13 PM (fgSDS)
Aw, old man. I'm not afraid or ashamed to be your little (asshole) sis.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 09:16 PM (q20+R)
Are we going to go with Mexicans for Germanic barbarians?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 09:14 PM (0NdlF)
Texas would be a good bet to outlast the USA by a thousand years, if it comes down to it. They'd take at least half of the other states with them, too.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:18 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Feh at August 18, 2015 09:18 PM (Uk9e2)
(Reluctantly decides against.)
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:19 PM (JvPqF)
I'd watch the thousand year reference.
No entity yet has made good on that one.
Almost as if some force somewhere was interfering because of PRIDE.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:19 PM (x3GpS)
Some of the released names so far:
Carlos.Danger@huma1.com
Bill.Clinton @ prezzywood.com
Al.Sharpton @ freakhead.com
Remington.Steele @ ironshot.com
That last one seems fake though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk giving political consulting advice for free. at August 18, 2015 09:19 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Feh at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Brenden at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (wa+SP)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:16 PM (zyIlW)
Well hi there.
Hope that door is reinforced.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (sdi6R)
No entity yet has made good on that one.
Almost as if some force somewhere was interfering because of PRIDE.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:19 PM (x3GpS)
Good point. Hubris be bad.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (JvPqF)
Bill prefers to jet off to Friend Epstein's Pedo Island. No fuss, no muss, and *no paper trail*.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: SMFH at it all
Lookin' for a pick a nick basket.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: tart cherry at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (KlwRj)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (zOTsN)
No it isn't okay. But if one guy sends an email about raping my daughter, the response isn't going to be to complain about it on twitter and blame a website. You report it to the cops and say nothing publicly. Why let the loser know he got in your head? Wilson's on the Internet, does he not know that the loonies are loose?
Posted by: WOPR at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (nRvEn)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 09:20 PM (NOIQH)
I request a callback to the chemtrails comment somewhere upthread.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (q20+R)
Posted by: Genetic Freedom at August 18, 2015 09:22 PM (7k1Wh)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at August 18, 2015 09:23 PM (Dwehj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0wSXxa3TlY
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:24 PM (sdi6R)
656 Have a wonderful night, Horde.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod
Kick ass tomorrow DG
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:24 PM (fgSDS)
Yes, this is a special blog - because of the *excellent posts* and the comments.
Some other sites that have decent (if not nearly as numerous or feisty) comments are Neoneocon, Bookwormroon, Michelle's Mirror, Instapundit, and PJ Media's Belmont Club page.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2015 09:25 PM (NOIQH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0wSXxa3TlY
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:24 PM (sdi6R)
Alligators, too. Well, smallish alligators, anyway.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:25 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Telefunken at August 18, 2015 09:26 PM (8ix4D)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:26 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at August 18, 2015 09:26 PM (Dwehj)
A. he did report it. he didn't feel he had to update the world about it.
B. we don't know all that went on there and all of the parties haven't brought any approbation upon themselves by their tweets and emails.
C. It's the internet and the media. Which means who knows what really happened and what was said that isn't being repeated.
Me. I'd leave it lie and let whatever damage that's been done be done and over for whoever deserves it. It's not for us to argue about here because nothing said will change what's been said.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:27 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (oFCZn)
They then gather the evidence and file for insurance. If the puppet goes rogue, they ruin him. And it involved really sick shit, pedo shit. You remember some of the scandals in Hollywood, where some child actor (mostly boys) talks about how the big moguls passed him around like a joint at some of the parties. There was another "elite pedo-ring" thing that broke in the UK recently, I believe.
At any rate, as corrupt as Washington is I've come to realize, I can easily believe this kind of crap now.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (dvuhZ)
Looks like Jared Fogle is going to be choosing between a six inch or twelve inch meatball from now on.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (oFCZn)
$5 dollar foot long
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:29 PM (XAFOu)
That it comes too late betrays a certain... lack of authenticity.
Fool us for 30 years, shame on you; fool us once more, shame on us.
Posted by: Agent J at August 18, 2015 09:29 PM (ueOgE)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 18, 2015 08:14 PM (zOTsN)
I haven't followed this thing at all, but what little I've read makes it appear that this is no different than the question Bernard Shaw asked of Dukakis at the debate.
The thing about Letterman and Palin's daughter was that it was so totally gratuitous and uncalled for, having nothing to do with anything.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 09:29 PM (MYSVz)
667
Looks like Jared Fogle is going to be choosing between a six inch or twelve inch meatball from now on.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (oFCZn)
$5 dollar foot long
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 18, 2015 09:28 PM (0O7c5)
Foot long spicy italian with double meat.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 09:29 PM (oVJmc)
I'm ashamed I defended him. (that was before this latest announcement of his plea deal)
Never go out on a limb for people you don't know. And sometimes not people you do know either.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:31 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Jared at August 18, 2015 09:31 PM (Dwehj)
670 Did you wipe that server Ms. Clinton?
Yes, but I only used one square.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That
Who knew Sheryl Crow was into IT?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:31 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 18, 2015 09:31 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:32 PM (sdi6R)
I haven't followed this thing at all, but what little I've read makes it appear that this is no different than the question Bernard Shaw asked of Dukakis at the debate.
You might've got that impression from me *guessing* what was in the email for argument's sake.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 09:32 PM (DxVXo)
that it was so totally gratuitous and uncalled for, having nothing to do
with anything.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Sure it was. He was counting coup on Palin for his peers.
Go ahead Dave, make fun of the Palin's again.
Atta boy!
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...not Spartacus at August 18, 2015 09:32 PM (+1T7c)
At first blush, you'll wonder if it's real, and he's a Brit at that. But that guy takes the cake, at least of those function and with enough control for the job.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:33 PM (dvuhZ)
They're practically coming out and saying "Eat cake bitches".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:33 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2015 09:34 PM (go6ud)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at August 18, 2015 09:23 PM (Dwehj)
Use both sides!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at August 18, 2015 09:34 PM (+jijM)
Posted by: Brad the car at August 18, 2015 09:34 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Assorted Deadly Malware at August 18, 2015 09:34 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 09:35 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:36 PM (XAFOu)
I guess you mean he's going to prison?
Looks like he'll be getting the 12" Black Forrest Ham from now on...
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 09:37 PM (z8+9E)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 09:37 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 09:32 PM (DxVXo)
Oh. Well ... I trust your conjecture. I've seen so many more unthreatening things that have been promoted to "the greatest threats ever in history" on the net, but then when you read them you are baffled by where the threat might even be. Either an "I wish" is reinterpreted as "I am going to" or somethign else like that.
In any event, now I know even less about the specifics of this twitter spat than before. I think I'll be happy to keep it this way.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 18, 2015 09:38 PM (MYSVz)
Posted by: Uhura at August 18, 2015 09:38 PM (z/Ubi)
...with lots of that special Chipotle sauce.
Posted by: Assorted Deadly Malware at August 18, 2015 09:38 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 09:37 PM (8zCR+)
With a few notable exceptions, the Republican field would over ally make a pretty solid Cabinet for President Cruz (or President Walker).
Needs more John Bolton, though.
Posted by: filbert at August 18, 2015 09:39 PM (JvPqF)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2015 09:40 PM (9mTYi)
>>>
There is an Italian BMT joke here but I'll let you sort it out.
Posted by: Willy J at August 18, 2015 09:40 PM (9ET6q)
You're right. "Repeal and replace" says that people were not happy with their insurance. But we know they were, overwhelmingly.
Posted by: skzion at August 18, 2015 09:40 PM (sLBC1)
Posted by: Assorted Deadly Malware at August 18, 2015 09:38 PM (Dwehj)
Hold the pickle, hold the mayo special orders don't upset us
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 18, 2015 09:40 PM (fgSDS)
Thor versus Storm
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:29 PM (XAFOu)
Storm. Because boobs.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2015 09:42 PM (mx5oN)
I'm sure. Or maybe it's Coulter who reads them, adopts her latest position, and Trump reads her.
Posted by: skzion at August 18, 2015 09:43 PM (sLBC1)
Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2015 09:43 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: RWC - TEAM ANTI-TWANLOC at August 18, 2015 09:44 PM (XAFOu)
*stupid shit I notice
Posted by: RWC
Some one left a dental appliance in Keira Knightly's pie-hole.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2015 09:44 PM (ZCFje)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
------------------------------
BK found that "lettuce" rhymed with "upset us" better.
Don't quit your day job to start writing jingles.
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 09:46 PM (z8+9E)
Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2015 09:43 PM (go5uR)
That's why I think an economic collapse might have a silver lining. Socialized medicine hasn't become entrenched here like it has in many other countries. When the economy implodes there won't be any money for that nonsense.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 18, 2015 09:47 PM (Kucy5)
Trump has always toyed with running. He knows coulter.
We know from interviews that coulter met with him and gave him advance copy of her book. She probably told him this is THE issue.
He read it was shocked and thus his stand now.
He still will ave dinner w coulter once in a while.
Posted by: Prescient11 at August 18, 2015 09:48 PM (VMZsK)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 09:49 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:08 PM (dvuhZ)
I'll most likely be going on T replacement very soon depending upon the results of my recent PSA lab work. Though, I'll be starting with a gel rather than an injectable.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2015 09:50 PM (EHU9F)
Deduction is where you can evaluate the truth of the premises and the validity of the logic.
Induction is where there's a mode in the logic. Truth helps, nonetheless.
Aesthetics is where there's no argument, per se, but a decision is needed.
I have just given you the keys to the Kingdom.
Can you understand?
Posted by: High-quality Philosophy B.A., Law School Dropout at August 18, 2015 09:50 PM (7k1Wh)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 18, 2015 09:51 PM (5HBd1)
*outre music from Incredible Hulk tv show plays*
*slow motion camera pan over tired and scared looking brown faces*
*crying baby with loaded diaper sitting in the mud*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 09:51 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 09:51 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 09:52 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 09:53 PM (BTnAK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2015 09:53 PM (9mTYi)
No more subs. Just hoagies.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2015 09:54 PM (+jijM)
They're practically coming out and saying "Eat cake bitches".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 18, 2015 09:33 PM (x3GpS)
Yes in the days of old, the elites despised the peasants, but their breeding and sense of class, noblesse oblige if you will, constrained them to be somewhat discreet about it!
Our modern rulers, in contrast, delight in flaunting their disdain of the common man and don't mind the peasants knowing.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:55 PM (ftVQq)
"The Shepherd is the Lamb.
Do you understand?"
Have a great night, Horde!
Num 6, 24-6
Posted by: Transhumance Guy, on the prairie-forest ecotone at August 18, 2015 09:56 PM (7k1Wh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 09:56 PM (DxVXo)
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 09:56 PM (BTnAK)
http://goo.gl/Gn3OXO
==================
Watched this last nite. Heavy on the Rumpy Pumpy. Try to make her into some feminist icon when she was just a rich slut.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 09:56 PM (iQIUe)
Trump changes his name to Wile E.Coyote
Sorry i just had to go there. I'm new here..
Posted by: Frodus at August 18, 2015 09:58 PM (7OAjN)
depending upon the results of my recent PSA lab work. Though, I'll be
starting with a gel rather than an injectable.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2015 09:50 PM (EHU9F)
Any worries about long term side effects or drug interactions?
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 09:58 PM (ftVQq)
Walkercare: I am NOT required to buy health insurance and if I don't my taxes will be higher.
DO NOT sell me Walkercare by saying I am not required to buy health insurance, my anti-GOPe mind will resort to murder if you do.
Posted by: doug at August 18, 2015 09:59 PM (IYEs/)
Some argue with that, saying they won't be that stupid, but I'm sure they will. They'll do anything to keep the checks going. Welfare will be the ultimate priority. Cut that off and the cities will be free-fire zones in days once they don't get their checks. Medicare and SS checks will be next priority.
They'll do it, even though anyone with any economic sense whatsoever knows it will go hyperinflation. But they'll do it just to kick the can down the road another day (and maybe try to perfect their own bugout plans to avoid the mobs with pitchforks).
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 09:59 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 09:59 PM (BTnAK)
Posted by: Huma at August 18, 2015 09:59 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Jared at August 18, 2015 10:00 PM (+jijM)
to sign, a Bill saying it is the sense of the Congress and the
Administration that 'under the Jurisdiction thereof' does not include
illegals... and that is THEIR interpretation of the Constitution.
There is nothing in the Constitution which says the Judiciary gets
to over ride the other TWO branches of Government on interpreting the
Constitution....
ie, set up a DIRECT confrontation with the Supremes on just what
limits their self imposed authority (Marbury?) has.... and is there ANY
check and balance upon it...
Posted by: BB Wolf at August 18, 2015 07:50 PM (qh617)
Or let SCOTUS have its way - illegal aliens are subject to the jurisdiction (in the ultimate sense) are when caught are drafted into the US Foreign Legion, trained up for two weeks and dropped into Syria with an old WWII 1911a and one magazine to pound some ISIS ass (see, got Lissy on board with that plan).
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 18, 2015 10:00 PM (NaeCR)
Consultants offer confirmation. They're not going to say, "try this completely new thing. Nobody else is doing it!!"
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2015 10:00 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Willy J at August 18, 2015 10:01 PM (9ET6q)
I'm ashamed I defended him.
There was nothing wrong with defending him while the facts were unknown. Now that they are known...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2015 10:02 PM (W5DcG)
That tragic day at the marina though...
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 10:03 PM (oFCZn)
I've got concerns, sure, but I'm at the point where the brain fog, extreme lethargy, etc. are becoming too much to bear. The only other meds I take are for my thyroid (as the doctor did confirm that my immune system is beating the shit out of it) and blood pressure. So, eh, we'll see.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2015 10:04 PM (EHU9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 18, 2015 08:57 PM (DxVXo)
The body requires dietary cholesterol to produce testosterone.
Eat your eggs. And crab .
Also do manly stuff.
Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2015 10:04 PM (cbfNE)
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 10:07 PM (BTnAK)
I will offer the suggestion to you that a man who has lost exactly 2 elections in 25 years knows how to pivot rhetorically when necessary. Rhetorically. Because it seems that what people are clamoring for isn't actual substance, but a certain kind of rhetoric.
So, Walker, a man with a long history of winning substance, but a similar history of capitalizing on opportunity when presented, is doing just that. Always remember that the % of people in the general public for whom illegal immigration is their top issue is extremely small, but in the online activist community is very vocal. So, Walker notes that he said what Trump is now saying 3 months before Trump was even a candidate, capitalizes on Trump's attention to the issue, and moves on to what he really wants to talk about, repealing Obamacare.
Incidentally, there are four current US Senators seeking the Republican nomination, and when Walker says as he has today and yesterday, "Where is the bill?" it isn't just an indictment of Sen. McConnell, it is an indictment of those four Senators, as well.
Ted Cruz talks a big talk when he is fundraising but he could have introduced a repeal Obamacare bill at any time, himself. Where is it?
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (ljZD2)
I missed that comment, sorry.
I was right there with you defending him - or at least defending against unreasoned attacks . I was waiting for any news of evidence came up.
I guess it would be wise to continue to do so?
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (z8+9E)
to sign, a Bill saying it is the sense of the Congress and the
Administration that 'under the Jurisdiction thereof' does not include
illegals... and that is THEIR interpretation of the Constitution.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 18, 2015 10:00 PM (NaeCR)
Tonight, Mark Levin read the comments by one of the authors of the 14th amendment back in the 1860s, and he made it crystal clear that it was *not* intended to confer citizenship on the children of foreigners.
No "interpretation" is necessary.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (sdi6R)
I have told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding my private server that was obliterated because it was private. As the chief, I made the decision to wipe the server clean because the hostile republican cabal only seek to embarrass me and not get to the truth.
I am not a crook! Screw that horizontal bastard Richard Nixon for lying to the people and the courts of America. I will not tolerate the lies!
Posted by: Sir Edmund Milhaus Clinton at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 10:10 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: My consultant says shit stinks at August 18, 2015 10:12 PM (pq97T)
Posted by: simplemind at August 18, 2015 10:13 PM (BTnAK)
Posted by: logprof at August 18, 2015 10:13 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2015 10:04 PM (EHU9F)
Hope this works for you!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 10:14 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 10:14 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at August 18, 2015 10:15 PM (i7JE3)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 18, 2015 10:16 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: ace at August 18, 2015 07:22 PM (dciA+)
Along the same vein, why didn't he know to at least speak up about the John Doe investigations?
Posted by: East Bay KG at August 18, 2015 10:16 PM (YUrE9)
Tonight, Mark Levin read the comments by one of the authors of the 14th amendment back in the 1860s, and he made it crystal clear that it was *not* intended to confer citizenship on the children of foreigners.
No "interpretation" is necessary.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (sdi6R)
We don't need a new interpretation, but we do need the federal government to enforce the correct interpretation, which is not what they're using now.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 10:16 PM (0NdlF)
Screw TRump, I want to focus on his game. He's playing chess folks and Ace and Comrade Arthur themselves fell for it today on twitter.
Trump issues Sessions' approved gold standard plan on immigration.
Today he tweets out that he is all for talented people and great college students coming to America and becoming Americans.
Some on our side say see, I told you he was going to flip flop, change his position in less than 49 hours, etc., etc., etc.
More importantly, those on the other side, like Geraldo immediately tweet him in support of his efforts and that Trump is a real great guy.
BOOOOOM, then comes the hammer. Trump tweets later that all immigrants must still comply with his policy and quotas, etc., etc. that he already set forth.
So, his position is unchanged from Sessions, but now Geraldo is on record praising him.
Trump literally got Planned Parenthood to issue a statement thanking him for being reasonable, even though his official statement IS NO DIFFERENT THAN HUCKABEE.
It's all about the delivery, motha fuckaaaas.
Posted by: prescient11 at August 18, 2015 10:16 PM (VMZsK)
After that, INS decided to kick her out. She had two children, American citizens who were born here. They had no problem trying to deport her, and the hell with her kids. If she wanted them, she'd have to take 'em back to England with her.
It was only special dispensation that eventually stopped that and Deena Gilbey was allowed to stay.
They'll do that, but get all weepy about doing the same with illegal border sneakers.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 10:17 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2015 10:19 PM (zt+N6)
Pro tip - the support of a known McConnell dicklicker and all-around GOPe shill like you really does not help Walker's cause.
Back to the trough, piggy.
Posted by: fuck off at August 18, 2015 10:19 PM (8ix4D)
Dude I get that you're passionate. But Trump's wife has got to be getting pissed that you are hogging his dick.
Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2015 10:21 PM (zt+N6)
authors of the 14th amendment back in the 1860s, and he made it crystal
clear that it was *not* intended to confer citizenship on the children
of foreigners.
No "interpretation" is necessary.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:09 PM (sdi6R)
That was BB Wolf (way above) not me... anyway, the 14th reads quite clear without commentary from the 1860s. Unless 'under the jurisdiction' was intended to mean nothing at all.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 18, 2015 10:21 PM (NaeCR)
Hope this works for you!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 18, 2015 10:14 PM (ftVQq)
Thanks! The doc warned that it may take a couple of weeks to notice an effect so it may be a while until news of a serial furniture violator being arrested at a Rooms-To-Go hits the web.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2015 10:21 PM (EHU9F)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 18, 2015 10:23 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2015 10:23 PM (cbfNE)
Why exclude Indians not taxed? Not part of the country; they were a separate nation that was not tied down to a specific area.
If we take the current interpretation seriously, an invading foreign army that has pregnant soldiers giving birth will have US citizen hostages we have a duty to defend ... absurd.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 18, 2015 10:26 PM (0NdlF)
Walker CANNOT win the general. Kelly, whatever she is, is a good cross exam questioner, she did what she was sent out there to do, take Walker down. And she did a great job.
It's sad that his campaign doesn't even know it yet.
For all the pearl clutching about Trump's bona fides, his past so called democrat support will be weaponized in his favor come election time.
No other non-E candidate can be elected. I see this now in Cruz's numbers. Trust me, he does too. Walker was just taken out. Carson is literally just copying what Trump does. His game is not that deep, nice, brilliant guy, but that's it.
Posted by: prescient11 at August 18, 2015 10:27 PM (VMZsK)
Back to the trough, piggy."
Nice language. You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Hey, smart guy, why don't you go back to watching Dora the Explorer if you can't do any better than that?
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at August 18, 2015 10:27 PM (ljZD2)
This "should" only happen with anabolic abuse, massive does of Ts, but did you know too much T can make you sprout man boobs? I don't mean flab, I mean real female breast tissue. That seems contradictory, doesn't it? Well, it's real complicated, these hormones. The breakdown of T goes through several pathways. One of those pathways turns it into estrogen.
In most therapeutic level does (ie restore T levels to normal), this shouldn't be a problem. It's just the massive doses. But, if your system is very sensitive, it can be a problem.
I noticed my nipples getting sore, which can be a tell-tale sign that is happening. Doc immediately reduced the dose and frequency. Watch for shit like that.
And it can make you overly emotional too (again, you'd think it would be the girly hormones that would do that, but again, this crap is complicated). Me, I had people saying I was acting more like my old self, laughing and cutting up and shooting the shit like I used to in my younger days before this stupid arthritis took hold.
So, it does shit like that. Which can be good. But it can be bad.
Watch for signs of prostate swelling and painful ejaculation. All that can be signs some of the complicated shit is kicking in.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 18, 2015 10:29 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: cm9000 at August 18, 2015 10:29 PM (8zCR+)
Really? Interesting that everybody is talking about a guy who was "just taken out."
Last time I checked, the guy running his Iowa operation was the same guy that got Joni Ernst elected to the Senate from there. It's gonna be a long 6 months until the first votes are actually cast. Buckle up, chief.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at August 18, 2015 10:30 PM (ljZD2)
Trump is cool now,havent you heard?
I am in love with someone else
You can spit my dick.out now
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (Lx5HV)
Trump literally has set the black and legal Hispanic vote against the illegals.
He is such a buffoon.
Posted by: prescient11 at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (VMZsK)
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2015 07:19 PM (TWXpK)
The world has had strange things happen.
Paraguay, after surviving 30-odd years under President Stroessner, (a bloody dictator supported by a coterie of psychotic henchmen, and who had an outlook on governance and society similar to that of Gen. Francisco Franco) was faced with the President installing one of his sons as his successor.
The Paraguayan military, who found all the options to be vile, held a very quick coup - possibly because the were concerned about Stroessner turning on them for not being enthusiastic enough, and found themselves in control of the country and returned the society back to an elected republic.
Although the generals always stated they acted from the best intentions for the Republic, I have always wondered if they just didn't trust each other enough to form a junta. I wondered that in trying to enlist the public with calls for Democracy, Rule of Law, Fraternite Egalite et Liberte, and return to the Republic, they may have suddenly realized they might wind up being greasy spots if they reneged on the ideas, and that would void their pensions.
Stranger things have happened.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (3pRHP)
Barrel
Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2015 10:32 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 10:33 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2015 10:34 PM (3pRHP)
Trump literally has set the black and legal Hispanic vote against the illegals.
He is such a buffoon.
Posted by: prescient11 at August 18, 2015 10:31 PM (VMZsK)
Uh huh.
I am *really* enjoying this.
We've all been making jokes about "eleven dimensional chess".
Trump is actually playing it.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2015 07:35 PM
LOL Chi, that's a great description.
Posted by: Farmer at August 18, 2015 10:36 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 09:03 PM (sdi6R)"
I know what to do about it. The two of you go to the vet and only you come back.
Problem solved.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at August 18, 2015 10:36 PM (QHgTq)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at August 18, 2015 10:36 PM (m9V0o)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2015 10:38 PM (3pRHP)
Yep. BTW, you almost think Hillary is intentionally fucking this up. She's unlikeable but not stupid.
Posted by: prescient11 at August 18, 2015 10:40 PM (VMZsK)
I know what to do about it. The two of you go to the vet and only you come back.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at August 18, 2015 10:36 PM (QHgTq)
That's not going to happen.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R)"
Then learn to enjoy sleeping in cat pee. What cannot be cured must be endured.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at August 18, 2015 10:48 PM (QHgTq)
Give it a shot. If that doesn't work buy a new mattress and cross your fingers...or just make sure that cat never gets into your bedroom again.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 18, 2015 10:52 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Scott 'Trump' Walker at August 18, 2015 10:55 PM (Lx5HV)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 18, 2015 10:56 PM (iQIUe)
Actually, I am very glad that Trump has given the "conservative" boys cover. Trump has his own money and is not beholden to the CofC-GOPe-corruptocrats. The others -- no one could hardly breathe but that PC would be called on them. I think there is breathing room now, maybe even lots of it, and I am so, so happy. Thanks for the thread, Ace. Wish I had time to read all Moron comments. Great blog. Great investigative journalism. Great witty nastiness, too.
Posted by: pyromancer76 at August 18, 2015 11:13 PM (sPfLU)
Posted by: Reince Priapus at August 18, 2015 11:27 PM (DGrkU)
Posted by: Reince Priapus at August 18, 2015 11:27 PM (DGrkU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBt-nirXQDE
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at August 18, 2015 11:32 PM (wKc1L)
My cats have never peed on the bed, but I like having that extra bit of security. If they ever do, it won't soak into the mattress.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at August 18, 2015 11:36 PM (wKc1L)
Bottom line: try to get your testicles removed before puberty, and then go on estrogen.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 19, 2015 12:10 AM (DGrkU)
Or get it fixed. They spray less.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 19, 2015 12:32 AM (DGrkU)
Before me sits a black man and in each hand is a pill, a red and a blue.
The man tells me that for me to know the truth that I have to take the red pill and once I take that pill there is no turning back.
He says if I take the blue pill, I will return to my old life where the R establishment has total control, will not bend to anyone's wishes except their money masters and continue to advance the entire progressive narrative.
I took the red pill, Trump all of the sudden stood before me.
Thats when the real story started.
Posted by: Drider at August 19, 2015 01:26 AM (6Xbsz)
Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming good for figure, explain whale.
Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' is shape!
Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: If you have body and you have fat, ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, ratio is two to one, etc.
Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU NOT LISTEN!!! Foods fried in vegetable oil. How getting more vegetables bad for you?
Yeah I think Trump is playing chess for sure now..
Well you cant deport the kids born here but you can sure deport the parents, which will have to take the kids with them.
Make it nearly imposable for company's to hire illegals, or free ice tee shirts for everyone. or national turn in a illegals day..
The only 2 places socialism works is in heaven and that's because everything is free, the other place is hell and that's because they all ready got it!!
Posted by: Frodus at August 19, 2015 01:31 AM (7OAjN)
At this point I think we need baby steps. We actually have Illegals on the city council in at least one city.
I take that back, we need leaps and bounds to turn it all back to the way it is suppose to be.
Posted by: Drider at August 19, 2015 01:38 AM (6Xbsz)
Getting into details, unless you've been working on them for a very long time, is dangerous. Doing it fast invites mistakes that can be seized upon by opponents or Democrats later, even if corrected.
Even those with simplified policy outlines run a risk. Cain's "9-9-9" last time became a point of mockery. So most talk in general terms.
Trump is being a demagogue, playing to the angry with what they wish to hear. It's not news they like red meat tossed to them.
Posted by: Adjoran at August 19, 2015 02:03 AM (QIQ6j)
But then again, love and amnesty just doesn't float my boat hen it comes the the illegal immigration policy.
Posted by: Drider at August 19, 2015 04:07 AM (6Xbsz)
Go to petco and get enzymes that attack cat urine. Thoroughly soak the bed and bedding, turn your mattress over and machine wash bedding. Don't let your cat in the room until he gets over it.
Posted by: Ann in the UK at August 19, 2015 05:50 AM (VkNgx)
Posted by: Howard Beale at August 19, 2015 08:47 AM (gB7h6)
This campaign better not be like those of the past. Unless you want another loser nominee. People should be getting specific, especially about the hot button issues. There are too many Repub candidates for them all to espouse generic solutions to very specific issues.
If you are satisfied with bland, vague statements then I think you might be in the minority for this campaign. Because "we're mad as hell and we don't want to take this anymore"
Posted by: Howard Beale at August 19, 2015 08:53 AM (gB7h6)
It's yuuuuuge! Yuuuuuge, I tell ya!
Posted by: D.T. at August 25, 2015 04:32 PM (TYZLQ)
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