Former "Republican" Speaker of the House John Boehner Cries In Tribute of Nancy Pelosi

Note that Nancy Pelosi is not, despite her appearance, dead.

John Boehner is crying just at the... unveiling of her portrait.

And he couldn't wait to brag that both of his daughters are Democrats. He wanted Nancy to know that he taught his girls well.

Former House Speaker John Boehner paid a tearful tribute to Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday at the unveiling of her official portrait in the U.S. Capitol.
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"You've been incredibly effective as the leader of your caucus. The younger generation today has a saying: 'Game recognizes game.' The fact of the matter is no other speaker of the House in the modern era -- Republican or Democrat -- has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results," Boehner said, calling Pelosi "one tough cookie."
"My girls told me, 'Tell the speaker how much we admire her,'" Boehner said, choking back tears as he spoke.

Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Boehner crying in tribute to Pelosi while talking about how his daughters are Democrats is a pretty good summation of Republican leadership over the past couple of decades

In college, in Roman History, my professor raised his voice sternly at the bubble-headed liberal girl in pajama-like sweatpants who kept trying to equate the Roman political parties, the Optimates (Opt-ee-mah-tays) and the Populares (Poh-pyu-lahr-ays), to the Republicans and the Democrats.

"These are both parties of the landowning wealthy elites," he said. "They are all patricians who have been noble and rich for a dozen generations. Both parties are intermarried and they share the exact same economic interests and goals. They only disagree about which wealthy members of which wealthy families should control which high government offices and gain the power to extract wealth from the citizenry through tax-farming. Your insistence on calling the Optimates the 'The Republicans' and the Populares 'The Democrats' is facile and embarrassing."

She was embarrassed. I took a note, "Don't say they're the Republicans and Democrats, he hates that."

Of course... that cute little bottle-blonde was exactly right about claiming the Optimates are the Republicans and the Populares the Democrats, and Professor Imperious was just a Dum-Dum from Bumpkinsville. The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.

How much longer are we expected to put up with this?

How much longer are we expected to pretend?

Amid the Boehner remarks for Pelosi: sobs, sniffles, eye dabbing, handkerchief .. and "as if there's nobody watching, I can't let her rebuff me. So I kind of moved in and made sure I planted that kiss on here." pic.twitter.com/StqloOwuIl
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) December 14, 2022

Nancy Pelosi shows that lovely spirit that makes John Boehner cry in another "documentary" produced by her worthless wallflower daughter.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked her daughter Alexandra if she is a 'b***h' after a sarcastic exchange with then-Vice President Mike Pence on a phone call.
The candid moment was filmed in the forthcoming documentary 'Pelosi in the House,' where the 82-year-old speaker is portrayed glowingly by her filmmaker daughter Alexandra.
During an early 2020 congressional recess, Pelosi listened from home to a phone call where Pence spoke during a coronavirus teleconference. As she listened in on the call the speaker did laundry and tidied her bedroom. Her husband Paul made food in the kitchen.
The couple are both seen in their pajamas in a bedroom at their home as the House Speaker multitasks on the phone.
At one point, Alexandra, 52, asked her mother, 'What is the point of this call?'
'They're checking a box,' Pelosi responded as she continued on with her chores.
At one point Pelosi unmuted herself and to offer her own sarcastic input. 'This has been a useful exchange,' she said, before grilling the vice president on how his administration was tracking the spread of Covid-19. She then signed off with a cheerful 'Happy Easter!'
She put herself back on mute before asking her daughter, 'Am I a b***h?'

Why yes.

She also got bitchy when asked if she'd actually bother completing her term.

"Will you commit to serving your full two-year term for the people of San Francisco?"

NANCY PELOSI: "What is this? What is this? Don't bother me with a question like that. Really. Really, ok? I said what I'm gonna do. Those kind of questions are such a waste of my time." pic.twitter.com/cINT3MWdQD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 15, 2022

Some twitter commenter said she was just holding the seat warm for a bit until her worthless wallflower daughter -- who said she supported Rand Paul's neighbor's vicious assault on him -- could fill the seat. That sounds right.

But don't you dare make jokes about Paul Pelosi.

He's a Democrat. He's of the Roman patrician family you owe respect to, not the Roman patrician family that the council of Caesars demands you publicly mock.

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

Comments

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1

*Perks Ears*

Bukake?!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 16, 2022 02:02 PM (gMabG)

2
FIRST!

Whacks it.

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 16, 2022 02:02 PM (gMabG)

3 yes yes, pretty much.

The GOP has been an op to pacify the dwindling number of people who actually care about what's left of this country.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 16, 2022 02:02 PM (MLrvz)

4 Who is John Boehner? Are they talking about the drummer from Led Zeppelin?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 16, 2022 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

5

I'm under the cornfield, aren't I?

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 16, 2022 02:03 PM (gMabG)

6 which is probably why Ryan and McConnel worked to sabotage Trump. Buhhhr muh judges...now let's push a last minute spending bill making it illegal to use concrete in our border wall.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 16, 2022 02:03 PM (MLrvz)

7 John Boehner is literally a nipple.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2022 02:03 PM (l3U6Q)

8 That's nice. What lawfare to Boehner suffer from the left? Did he get the newt or delay treatment?

Way to kiss that old whore's silicon padded ass.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 16, 2022 02:04 PM (MLrvz)

9 Boehner is just sad Paul was getting some elsewhere.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2022 02:04 PM (v0R5T)

10 I hear Hollywood is rebooting the Crypt Keeper franchise.

Nancy is leading the pack for the leading role.

Posted by: Scott_T at December 16, 2022 02:04 PM (2waQ7)

11 Most senior politicians at the federal level enjoy more money out of office than in. Even Paul Ryan, who was a chump with less staying power than an average intern, has relatively great press and lobbying power.

The Republicans know they're the junior party, and the Senate tends to corrupt anyone placed in it. But when institutions are beyond saving, we don't remedy that with the Constitution. We look to the Declaration.

Posted by: trev006 at December 16, 2022 02:04 PM (igJSL)

12
Who is John Boehner? Are they talking about the drummer from Led Zeppelin?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Bozo?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2022 02:05 PM (63Dwl)

13 Wasn't Boehner referred to as a weepy alcoholic?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2022 02:05 PM (xhaym)

14 My first thought when I saw the portrait of her was that it was going to start aging soon.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2022 02:05 PM (Z7Jj3)

15 Boehner is a gay man with serious mental issues who is jealous of McCarthy's relationship with Frank Luntz.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2022 02:05 PM (pb6ET)

16 Maudlin.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (v0R5T)

17 The GOP and Democraps are all just one big sleazy, ooze-infested group-sex orgy of fuglies crawling with crabs. And we're the ones who have to clean the room when they're done.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

18 Not germane to the thread, but fuck it:

Notice in video clips showing the current assault on the border at El Paso how the invaders cross the Rio Grande, then mass below the border fence? (I used to live in EP; that fence is imposing.)

Why can't someone in the Republican leadership (I won't even humour the notion that any Democrat leader would) follow the Viktor Orban plane and expel illegals inside the USA to that strip of land between the fence and Mexico? It's U.S. soil, so it would not be deportation and trigger hearings in court. Is the U.S. code that different from Hungary's, or is it solely a matter of will?

Posted by: logprof at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (9wWDA)

19 2
FIRST!

Whacks it.
Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 16, 2022 02:02 PM (gMabG)
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It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets whacked again.

Posted by: Buffalo Shep at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (F5ekr)

20 Fukkin guy.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (AiZBA)

21 A "conservative"

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 16, 2022 02:06 PM (ytSiK)

22 Boehner is sleaze, he was part of the worst lobbying problems we have now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (0hOvj)

23 Ah, the long-awaited Crying Boner thread. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (Xrfse)

24 Nancy is looking more and more like a marionette from Team America

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (xhaym)

25

He looks like he has Depends on under his suit. Fecal incontinence, from, you know. Weepy alcoholic chain smoking closet bottom... ask me how I know...

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (gMabG)

26 Pelosi and Palpatine both begin with P. No coincidence at all!

Posted by: Live Long and Pay yer Taxes at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (TqMSU)

27 Boehner is a tanning spray guy too iirc

Posted by: TexasDan at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (jvvro)

28 Watching the frequently pickled and always lachrymose John Boehner leave a trail of hickeys across Pelosi's crinkly caboose is one of the most cringe-inducing spectacles I've encountered in a long time. And his daughters are Democrats? Nice parenting, there, John Barleycorn! Thanks for all you did to create, and fill, the elephant graveyard. I expect, with all the alcohol and his cigarette smoking, he's going to spontaneously combust one of these days; that will really give him something to cry about.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2022 02:08 PM (njExo)

29 History is going to remember Boehner for being a blubbering crybaby.

Great work, John.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 16, 2022 02:08 PM (AD14M)

30 The pre-Trump good old days, when Boehner was the SoH and Michael Steele ran the RNC.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 16, 2022 02:08 PM (qH6FZ)

31 Ace: "How much longer are we expected to put up with this?"

Literally, forever. It explains our government completely. It's also why governments always fail. Force this upon an ever oppressed, growing class and collapse is inevitable. Only the type of collapse is the unknown.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 16, 2022 02:08 PM (aXxgO)

32 "Oh whoa, way to go - Ohio."

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2022 02:09 PM (qoGsy)

33 27 Boehner is a tanning spray guy too iirc
Posted by: TexasDan

It covered up his jaundice from his dissolving liver.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2022 02:09 PM (pb6ET)

34 John Boehner is crying

This is evergreen. Dude bawled like a toddler when he became Speaker. He's got a serious testosterone problem.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 16, 2022 02:09 PM (ppBhU)

35 There hasn't been a Republican Speaker of the House since Newt.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:09 PM (yQpMk)

36 It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
You would cry too, if it happened to you

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (FVME7)

37 Nancy Lugosi did make history, as the first undead Speaker of the House.

Posted by: logprof at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (9wWDA)

38 What a fag.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (ufFY8)

39 Didn't Boehner go to work for some weed company?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (iayUP)

40 Weeping Republicvnts ... what will they stink of next?

Posted by: Marooned at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (w6hJ9)

41 Somebody get this weepy prog-sucking faggit another carton of Camel non-filters.

Posted by: C'mon COPD do at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (HwoXV)

42 Isn't Boehner crying pretty much just a day ending in Y?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2022 02:10 PM (zm+d5)

43 What exactly is admirable about Nanzi other than her remarkable capacity for vodka?

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (eGTCV)

44 "Will you commit to serving your full two-year term for the people of San Francisco?"
.......

If I gave a shit, I would, but I don't so I won't.

Posted by: Nutzi Palsy at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)

45 Pelosi sacrificed the Dem majority in 2010 in order to get ObamaCare through. That cost the Democrats dearly.

Sort of. Obama continued in office for another six years, and a mere eight years after sacrificing the Democrat controlled Legislature, she was back with the gavel in hand and Dem majorities in both Houses. Two years later the Dems got a paper-signing puppet into the White House.

This great sacrifice of the Democrat party for the sake of ObamaCare had them back in power - and more! in just a couple cycles, and ObamaCare is still in place.

The GOP are too fearful of losing the next election, and have never learned how to play a longer game.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (K58O6)

46 Gee, I’m shocked, simply shocked, by Boehner/sarc. Paul Ryan and Willard (Mitt) Romney’s niece is even worse than Boehner.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (nVyp+)

47 Guys a homo.

Posted by: Tulsi Gabbard at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)

48 43 What exactly is admirable about Nanzi other than her remarkable capacity for vodka?
Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 16, 2022 02:11 PM (eGTCV)

She was a great beard for decades.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (9wWDA)

49 Boehner is a tanning spray guy too iirc
Posted by: TexasDan at December 16, 2022 02:07 PM (jvvro)

He was orange man before orange man was cool

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (AiZBA)

50 Earlier this week I mentioned that Miss Linda got caught by some kind of virus or adware when she was on my MacBook Air at home. It locked the computer -- it was not in the browser she was using, Safari -- and told her to call an "Apple Support" fake number. She shut the computer down, and I cleaned the cookies and cache when I got home. Malwarebytes didn't find anything odd.

Today she hit the same thing again -- and it had to be AoSHQ, as it was the only thing she had open in Safari.

Anybody else hit this when using Safari to view AoS? Are there ad blockers for Safari? I can tell Pixy about it, but I may not be up early enough for the Tech Thread tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurellius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (J2vNu)

51 Doesn't Boner lobby for the pro Marijuana Lobby? Also, probably the only person who can out drink Pelosi

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (OgrpQ)

52 Boehner has been a useful for us from the start

Posted by: Satan Klaus at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (/xLeD)

53 There hasn't been a Republican Speaker of the House since Newt.

....

It's such a huge problem. Even in Texas we fail to get even sorta conservative leadership in these positions. I would moan about the Democrats having better game than us but I think the GOP is plenty clever about putting the type of people they want in the positions that actually pull the levers.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (jvvro)

54 I saw Uniparty Tear Bukake open for Vanilla Fudge at Cowtown Winners Circle Bar and Grill in 66

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (SSpZR)

55 Both Boehner and Pelosi are lushes. Its expected that they will cry over anything.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (3FiQa)

56 The sooner we get rid of Trump the sooner this exact set of assfaces becomes our party again.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2022 02:12 PM (7HyDs)

57 Boehner is no longer in Congress and Pelosi is done as Speaker. I'm looking at the glass half full.

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:13 PM (dQoNW)

58 The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.

How much longer are we expected to put up with this?

How much longer are we expected to pretend?
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Preach.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 16, 2022 02:13 PM (YJwUM)

59 "John Boehner is crying just at the... unveiling of her portrait."

I think it was someone on Newsmax who said it was the pot talking. He/she was probably right. That and he's always had Kinzinger Syndrome.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 16, 2022 02:13 PM (aXxgO)

60 John Boehner has got to be heavily medicated with estrogen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2022 02:13 PM (NpAcC)

61

*slap* Don't be such a fag!

Posted by: Agent Smecker at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (gMabG)

62 Well, we knew who he was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (ajH6z)

63 A Pelosi doc? Going to make AOC's $80 per theater look like an opening week of the latest Star War.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (d1p/J)

64 Wow, Boehner is such a loser.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (8QSC/)

65 Go home, John, you're drunk.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (5pTK/)

66 Someone check Boehner's estrogen levels.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (UuD2k)

67 Is there no Republican honest enough to tell Nanzi to not let me door hit her where the Good Lord split her?

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (eGTCV)

68 ... The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.
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Yup. It's called a Uniparty and it is what will cause the death of the country. Whether in ancient times like Rome or in modern times like Venezuela, when you have an essentially undifferentiated Uniparty that are fully aligned on corruption, theft and other rampant criminality with no actual opposition, *anyone* with gumption - whatever his ideas - can gain traction and overthrow the whole repugnant mess and take it for himself. This is what delivered Hugo Chavez - a nobody with a silver tongue and a big following - into power in Caracas.

The same will happen here if this continues. There absolutely *must* be an actual opposition party that does actual work to curtail the excesses of the ruling party. When the opposition party joins in and forms a permanent Uniparty, death is certain. This is why I want McCarthy out of leadership, even if it means the loss of the Speakership or the death of the GOP. We are running out of time for real opposition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (t0OGg)

69 I've met Boehner. He was probably drunk and crying because the bar ran out of scotch.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (J47y1)

70 First, stupid professor, they were NOT all patricians. Words have an exact meaning, especially in cases where they were metaphors.

Patricians were a different class than Plebeans, but by the time of the boni the political advantage was whittled down to almost nothing. There were some offices - religious ones reserved for Patricians, others not. On the other hand, there were important jobs barred to them - like the Plebeian Tribunes. There was also law that major offices - consul could not both be Patricians. One must be a pleb.

There was a long hundred to 150 year struggle by the plebs to get this situation. Regardless, by this time centuries after that the Pleb/Patriciate division was not a political issue. Caesar was Patrician, Pompey and Crassus were not. All three were populares.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (eoQWY)

71 The sooner we get rid of Trump the sooner this exact set of assfaces becomes our party again.
Posted by: ...

Not mine. Never.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (YJwUM)

72 By the way, Ace and CBD seem pretty convinced that DeSantis is not Uniparty. I consider them incredibly naive.

Ace asks “ How much longer are we expected to put up with this?

How much longer are we expected to pretend?”

The answer is obvious: 4EVER.

And Ace and CBD are doing their part. They’re as much of the “grifter” class as the “Ahoy” NeverTrumpers. After all, this is the leading “NeverTrump Watch” site on the Net, but with cute pet tricks.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

73 Excellent post, Ace.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (9qHsE)

74 All of my money goes to food and gasoline these days; so I'm pretty indifferent to the Trump Pokémon gambit. But them selling out in one day while "the right people" sneer and laugh at them "declining in value" is the perfect analogy for the phenomenon of Trump as a politician. Sneer all ya want, but the guy has a following.

Posted by: Catherine at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (ZSsrh)

75 Some twitter commenter said she was just holding the seat warm for a bit until her worthless wallflower daughter -- who said she supported Rand Paul's neighbor's vicious assault on him -- could fill the seat. That sounds right.
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Nepotarchy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (t0OGg)

76 "Of course... that cute little bottle-blonde was exactly right about claiming the Optimates are the Republicans and the Populares the Democrats, and Professor Imperious was just a Dum-Dum from Bumpkinsville. The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices."

Yeah, the ruling actors and decision-makers are generally from the same class of people across history, but more remarkably most of the topics of debate are the same.

Societal madness/meltdown as policy doesn't show up that often, but welfare, price controls, tariffs, relations between business and state, tax policies and so on tend to have the same patterns.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (eYoxG)

77 Anybody else hit this when using Safari to view AoS? Are there ad blockers for Safari? I can tell Pixy about it, but I may not be up early enough for the Tech Thread tomorrow.

I use AdBlock Plus for Safari on the Mac. It removes YouTube ads too, which is nice. Pixy doesn't care - people have complained about the aggressive ads for over a year now. The HQ front page also cripples Firefox on Linux for me, so it's not just Apple stuff.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (zm+d5)

78 Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

Go fuck yourself, retard.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (ppBhU)

79 The younger generation today has a saying: ~~'Game recognizes game.'~~ Grift recognizes Grift

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (9uCBG)

80 By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (PY/t0)

81 A Pelosi doc? Going to make AOC's $80 per theater look like an opening week of the latest Star War.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 16, 2022 02:14 PM (d1p/J)

I fully believe that she had the camera crew on Jan 6 because she wanted them to capture the "historic" day that the evil Trump was officially repudiated via the vote. It was going to be a pivotal scene in whatever documentary she's planning.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (wmDcS)

82 John Boehner is literally a nipple.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

No. Nipples are fun. Fun to have, fun to look at, fun to play with. They are also useful. Can one feed a baby with a John Boehner? I think not!
Boehner is not fun and not interesting and not useful. Ergo, John Boehner is not a nipple.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (Wy1BU)

83 I will bet dollars to donuts that Pelosi accused Boehner of racism and sexism while he was in congress.

I also bet he never returned the favor.

Posted by: EFG at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (Ae67h)

84 I think this is the same worthless wallflower daughter who produced/directed the Dixie Chick documentary, where the big climax was a totally not made up bomb threat being called into one of their shows.
She also just happened to be filming at the Capitol on Jan. 6th.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (ei7q6)

85 The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.

How much longer are we expected to put up with this?

Come off the ledge. I'm not happy with the GOP and never have been and probably never will be. They're politicians. But they are nothing like the Democrats.

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (dQoNW)

86 "did laundry"

This is Juan. I am laborer type slave at pelosi house. They have many type slaves there. I just do laundry type labor. I wash and scrub stains from everywhere.

When she say did laundry, she must mean one of times she (how you say?) yeet bottle at me for being slow. They have many type bottles at pelosi house.

Posted by: Juan at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (aQVbS)

87 There hasn't been a Republican Speaker of the House since Newt.
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And he sat on the Global Warming couch and cried into Pelosi's haggard dangling labia.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (7HyDs)

88 They're retarded and their shit is all fvcked up.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (Y274z)

89 What is good in life, Conan? To see your enemies drunk and hear the lamentations of their twinks.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (3FiQa)

90 Who will be president in 2036? The younger Pelosi or the younger Clinton?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (t0OGg)

91 Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

Your concern is

[X] Noted
[_] Other than noted

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (yQpMk)

92 That cost the Democrats dearly.

Nothing has cost these commies dearly. They have rebounded from every inane move they have made. That's what happens when the electoral process has been compromised and the general populace is dumber than a box of rocks.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (Xrfse)

93 Most politicians are sleazeballs. Boehner is in an abominable class all by himself. He would sell you out in a second, and smoke a cigarette while doing it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (J47y1)

94 And now we've got Trump hawking bad NFT's. Clown world.

About the only thing I've got hope for is the Taurid Meteor Stream bringing us sweet relief.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (zB/T/)

95 More Boner tears please.
#JudasRepublicans was trending on Twitter last night. I think for a different reason, but it seems the Normals are catching on.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (DB16e)

96 Come off the ledge. I'm not happy with the GOP and never have been and probably never will be. They're politicians. But they are nothing like the Democrats.
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This is true. GOPers have some level of shame within them. Not a lot. But some.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (3FiQa)

97 I hate the Uniparty more than I hate, well, just about anything.

And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (xcxpd)

98 There was a long hundred to 150 year struggle by the plebs to get this situation. Regardless, by this time centuries after that the Pleb/Patriciate division was not a political issue. Caesar was Patrician, Pompey and Crassus were not. All three were populares.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (eoQWY)

This presumes a large functional difference between relatively new nobility and old nobility. While this is sometimes asserted or pretended to, particularly by older bloodlines, in practice they're usually very similar. And usually in very short order the new nobility will try to set up new class barriers.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (eYoxG)

99 And there were no political parties as we understand it in late Republican Rome. They were more like loose alliances of factions built around individuals and powerful families.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (eoQWY)

100 He would sell you out in a second, and smoke a cigarette while doing it.
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That seems reasonable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (3FiQa)

101 Come off the ledge. I'm not happy with the GOP and never have been and probably never will be. They're politicians. But they are nothing like the Democrats.
Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (dQoNW)
++++
They are precisely like the Democrats. They insult and write off their base, they steal everything that isn't nailed down and much of what is, they advance an agenda that is counter to American interests (or, at best, do nothing to prevent such an advance), engage in every conceivable perversion and spit in your eye while claiming to be on your side.

The only difference between the two is that the Republicans, as the nominal opposition, doesn't advance new things. They pretend the new things aren't happening and then defend them fiercely when the Democrats advance the next new thing. As a result, they run about 1/2 speed. That's the only difference.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (t0OGg)

102 80 By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.
Posted by: banana Dream

I saw "Softdick Serenade" open for "Listing Turtles" at the Filmore.

Posted by: a moron at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (aQVbS)

103 There hasn't been a Republican Speaker of the House since Newt.
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And he sat on the Global Warming couch and cried into Pelosi's haggard dangling labia.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (7HyDs)

So, Joseph W. Martin Jr. then?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (yQpMk)

104 I've met Boehner. He was probably drunk and crying because the bar ran out of scotch.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2022 02:15 PM (J47y1)

Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (yYFOV)

105 For the life of me I can't figure out why Boehner washed out of BMT. It's a mystery.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (J47y1)

106 80 By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (PY/t0)

My guess is its the kind of ballad soft, limp beta males sing to miladay hoping she'll stop fucking Chad for at least a minute while he's singing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

107 94 And now we've got Trump hawking bad NFT's. Clown world.
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He sold everyone one of them in a day. Lighten up Francis.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (3FiQa)

108 The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.

What gave us away?

Posted by: James Carville and Mary Matalin at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (cupoy)

109 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (yYFOV)

Preach!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

110 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Optimates were the elite,right?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (Kd4bG)

111 I thought it was against the law to parade in the Capitol Building?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (Y274z)

112 By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"?

One of my lesser-known masterpieces.

Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (Xrfse)

113 I seldom use Safari. I use Brave on all my Apple devices.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (uz3Px)

114 Crying Boner

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (ndn1/)

115 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (yYFOV)
++++
:: looks at liquor cabinet ::

What if you have both?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (t0OGg)

116 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
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The Ivies drink Scotch.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (3FiQa)

117 And Ace and CBD are doing their part. They’re as much of the “grifter” class as the “Ahoy” NeverTrumpers. After all, this is the leading “NeverTrump Watch” site on the Net, but with cute pet tricks.
Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

you write like a fag and your shit is all retarded

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (M+Lyo)

118 Not surprising that Boehners daughters are Dems . Every time he tried to discipline them he broke into tears.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (11zNb)

119 Corn >>>> Barley

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (dQoNW)

120 Crying Boner
Posted by: Skip's phone at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (ndn1/)''

haha

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (M+Lyo)

121 99 And there were no political parties as we understand it in late Republican Rome. They were more like loose alliances of factions built around individuals and powerful families.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:20 PM (eoQWY)

I like to use the term feudal to describe this more common and natural set of power relations. True ideological devotion seems rare in elites.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (eYoxG)

122 From a tweet:
Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)

123 110 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Optimates were the elite,right?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (Kd4bG)

Well they championed the Elite, they thought the 'best people' should rule and were strongly against giving power or privileges to the plebs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (xcxpd)

124 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (yYFOV)
++++
:: looks at liquor cabinet ::

What if you have both?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (t0OGg)

Then you're halfway to correct!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (yYFOV)

125 By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.
Posted by: banana Dream

No real idea but I'd bet good money the lead instrument is a tromBONER.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (qoGsy)

126 I seldom use Safari. I use Brave on all my Apple devices.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2022

***
So do I, and on my PCs too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurellius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (J2vNu)

127 Would anyone be surprised if Nancy paid the guy to hammer on her hubby?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (11zNb)

128 Considering the Late Roman Republic is what has me thinking that it maybe there should be limits on how rich someone can be in a Republic.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (yQpMk)

129 But don't you dare make jokes about Paul Pelosi.

Laugh all you want but he's the first guy I've met that could take 3 hammers in him and ask for more.

Posted by: Pelosi's Sex Slave David DePape at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (lc5cP)

130 Weeping boner is a serious condition and he should get that looked at.....

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (yezA1)

131 Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)
___

Good luck trying to dox those who bought them.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (kMPrp)

132 "Daddy, do Democrats cry like you and Afam Kinzinger?"

"Well, no. Not that I recall"

"We want to be Democrats, daddy. They're not little bitches."

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (J47y1)

133 >>> By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2022 02:17 PM (PY/t0)

My guess is its the kind of ballad soft, limp beta males sing to miladay hoping she'll stop fucking Chad for at least a minute while he's singing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

Oh Ok. My attempts at interpretation mostly occupied the female snake-charmer area on the Venn diagram but that works too.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (PY/t0)

134 There hasn't been a Republican Speaker of the House since Newt.
---------

And he sat on the Global Warming couch and cried into Pelosi's haggard dangling labia.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2022 02:18 PM (7HyDs)
*******
And Newt has evolved for the better, like most of us that voted for Romney and McCain

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (NpAcC)

135 Weeping boner is a serious condition and he should get that looked at.....
Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (yezA1)
++++
See Also: Monkeypox

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (t0OGg)

136 The only difference between the two is that the Republicans, as the nominal opposition, doesn't advance new things. They pretend the new things aren't happening and then defend them fiercely when the Democrats advance the next new thing. As a result, they run about 1/2 speed. That's the only difference.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Always remember. The Washington Generals got paid by the same company that paid the Harlem Globetrotters.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (9uCBG)

137 Weeping boner is a serious condition and he should get that looked at.....
Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (yezA1)

Erectile Leakage

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2022 02:25 PM (yYFOV)

138 Mark Andrew Edwards, can you do a post on them ? Maybe open blogger? It would be interesting.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (Kd4bG)

139 Come off the ledge.

I won't. Until things miraculously turn around, I have options up here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (Xrfse)

140 They are precisely like the Democrats. They insult and write off their base, .....
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

There is a difference, The Dems have two bases - the unions, blacks and minorities, working class, recent immigrants,....
And the Very wealthy, gay, American hating decadent commies.

They write off the former, but they deliver everything the latter want.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (aQVbS)

141 That'll rebuff right out.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (Vwz3I)

142 Nancy is a textbook narcisstic sociopath.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (SJsWC)

143 >>> By the way, what is a "Softdick Serenade"? My mind offers up about a dozen scenarios for that phrase but I'm wondering which one ace had in mind when he wrote that on the sidebar.
Posted by: banana Dream

No real idea but I'd bet good money the lead instrument is a tromBONER.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (qoGsy)

Ok, I had to laugh out loud at that!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (PY/t0)

144 On behalf of those of us here in Boehner's old district, I'd like to apologize to America for this weepy drunk.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (YcOm1)

145 Come off the ledge.

I won't. Until things miraculously turn around, I have options up here.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (Xrfse)

and the view is good.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (yQpMk)

146 128 Considering the Late Roman Republic is what has me thinking that it maybe there should be limits on how rich someone can be in a Republic.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:24 PM (yQpMk)

Pure wealth dollar amount seems like a rough approach. Achieving monopoly power over any segment of the economy is very disproportionate to the dollar value. Very tricky to figure out how to handle this though because except for monarchs usually the monitoring entity gets subverted.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (eYoxG)

147 "The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices."

Fucking brutal and absolute truth. To continue the line of questions posed, WHAT are we going to do about this?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (aGGj6)

148 The last time the national Republican party really fought on a domestic issue was welfare reform in the mid 90s.

That's over 20 years of abject surrender.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (lc5cP)

149 Both parties need to break up, they're shambling zombies leading their followers to ruin.

Posted by: CppThis at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (UewuT)

150 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)

375k/hr, not too shabby

Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

151 There is a difference, The Dems have two bases - the unions, blacks and minorities, working class, recent immigrants,....
And the Very wealthy, gay, American hating decadent commies.

They write off the former, but they deliver everything the latter want.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (aQVbS)
++++
Both parties serve the same true base, which is the powerful money men. They serve that base loyally and perpetuate support for it through their revolving doors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (t0OGg)

152 "Duty To Warn", an association of anti-Trump "mental health professionals", has a calm, reasoned, response to Musk suspending the accounts of a few "journalists":

Last night, in a bloodbath, Twitter purged en masse mainstream journalists who cover Elon Musk.
I’m reminded of Kristallnacht.
Free speech was the second Big Lie. This is what bare knuckled fascism looks like.

https://tinyurl.com/ynruk496

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (KCOCK)

153 "Game recognizes game." We recognize it too, asshole.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (rJ48h)

154 145 Come off the ledge.

I won't. Until things miraculously turn around, I have options up here.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:26 PM (Xrfse)

and the view is good.
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can you see your house from there?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (3FiQa)

155 Her husband Paul made food in the kitchen.
========
Pounding veal. 🔨 🔨

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (Vwz3I)

156 When someone has as much wealth as entire countries, they will corrupt the government, if only in self defense.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (yQpMk)

157 The last time the national Republican party really fought on a domestic issue was welfare reform in the mid 90s.

That's over 20 years of abject surrender.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2022 02:27 PM (lc5cP)

How soon we forget Roe v Wade

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (dQoNW)

158 The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices.

What gave us away?
Posted by: James Carville and Mary Matalin

Somebody who asserted 'there isn't a dime's worth of difference' would be my bet.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (5ewfc)

159 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

What I learned the other day. There's a shitload of popular songs translated into Latin on YouTube.

Yesterday

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5fRhwN9jw

Shenandoah

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9M_KnuagU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (FVME7)

160 Considering the Late Roman Republic is what has me thinking that it maybe there should be limits on how rich someone can be in a Republic.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022

***
"Can you afford a private army?"

"Well, no."

"Then you have not reached the limit."

Posted by: Crassus at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (J2vNu)

161 By the way it is easy to project what Republicans leaders will be advocating in 10 years.

Because it is exactly what the Democrats are advocating now.

Though perhaps this is a bit overly optimistic. The Obama re-election platform of 2012 was arguably to the right of Mitch McConnell today.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (lc5cP)

162 Maybe Boehner was crying because Nancy stole the key to his liquor cabinet.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (8QSC/)

163 How soon we forget Roe v Wade

Uh...that was me.

Posted by: Donald Trump at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (lc5cP)

164

My diagnosis is that he has metastatic testicular cancer and is on a testosterone blocker/estrogen supplement.

Or, he's a screaming pansy...

Posted by: Dr Smith-Jones at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (ZzQAN)

165
Kevin McCarthy's relationship with Frank Luntz.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Imagine those two role playing "Monica and Bill in
[ Luntz's replica of ] the Oval Office".

Do they flip a coin to determine whose turn it is to be underneath the desk? Have they each their very own Blue Dress?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (pNxlR)

166 "Optimates" = "Best People"

"Populares" = "Populists"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (J2vNu)

167 Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)

For whom? Were they part of his campaign?

"These Digital Trading Cards are not political and have nothing to do with any political campaign. NFT INT LLC is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates. NFT INT LLC uses Donald J. Trump's name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Digital LLC, which license may be terminated," the company said on a website for the cards.

Posted by: blaster at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (pwExq)

168 "Duty To Warn", an association of anti-Trump "mental health professionals", has a calm, reasoned, response to Musk suspending the accounts of a few "journalists":

Last night, in a bloodbath, Twitter purged en masse mainstream journalists who cover Elon Musk.
I’m reminded of Kristallnacht.

Oh, ffs. Grow a pair and act like a man.

Posted by: 13 year old girls, everywherere at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (eOEVl)

169
Boner was always a weepy, emotionally unstable motherfucker.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (n+4am)

170 has a calm, reasoned, response to Musk suspending the accounts of a few "journalists"

I am reminded of a comment by the first Mayor Daley:

They have vilified me!
They have crucified me!
Yes, they have even criticized me!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (KCOCK)

171 This presumes a large functional difference between relatively new nobility and old nobility. While this is sometimes asserted or pretended to, particularly by older bloodlines, in practice they're usually very similar. And usually in very short order the new nobility will try to set up new class barriers.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:19 PM (eYoxG)

Nobility in Rome came when your family reached a high office, praetor or consul. If you did that, you were a 'new man' but part of the nobiles. Being a new man had a slight stigma in to snobbish types, but usually meant you had real talent. Cicero, for instance was a new man. He orbited the main boni because he was a new man but never really accepted by them.

Voters in Rome tended to be skeptical of new men in general which is why it was so uncommon. There were the odd demagogue who played to the crowd more than standard but as often as not they were from the creme of the Families. Caesar and Catiline were from very ancient familes. Cato and Brutus were old Pleb families, nearly as well thought of. The Claudians were very old, but had some degree of crackpottery.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (eoQWY)

172 "Optimates" = "Best People"

Best as defined by their social status.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (yQpMk)

173 Don't say Trump's a hero; he hates that.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (Vwz3I)

174 Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

Our troll seems not to be very bright.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (XIJ/X)

175 Imagine those two role playing "Monica and Bill in
[ Luntz's replica of ] the Oval Office".

I'm not a smoker, but I gotta think being in a human ass hurts the flavor of a cigar. At least marginally.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (ppBhU)

176 I actually thought the Boehner crying reference was from his crying while he was Speaker. I didnt realize this was a recent thing where he did it AGAIN

go suck on an spent nuclear rod Boehner you soy soaked fuckhole

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (VTu1l)

177 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof

I drink scotch!

When I was a little boy in New Jersey we all drank scotch. My brother drank scotch, my cousin drank scotch. So, what's wrong with that?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (aQVbS)

178 The Obama re-election platform of 2012 was arguably to the right of Mitch McConnell today.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (lc5cP)

-------

I'm old enough to remember DogEater being against same-sex marriage before it wasn't cool.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:32 PM (7wgpR)

179 How soon we forget Roe v Wade

Uh...that was me.
Posted by: Donald Trump at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (lc5cP)

Uh no .

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2022 02:32 PM (dQoNW)

180 can you see your house from there?

My house? Hell, I can see Russia from here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:32 PM (Xrfse)

181
Her husband Paul made food in the kitchen.

With a meat tenderizer.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2022 02:32 PM (n+4am)

182 Of course, he did. 2 speakers, 1 cup

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 16, 2022 02:32 PM (0SYwF)

183 156 When someone has as much wealth as entire countries, they will corrupt the government, if only in self defense.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM (yQpMk)

It is more a problem of enforcement than a specific rule. The obvious workaround is to diffuse wealth through followers and allies and create a power base, which is what wealthy people do already.

Although the problem isn't really that the government is corrupt or that the government is corrupted by the wealthy, it is that the government and certain wealthy individuals are a threat to society/the country.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:33 PM (eYoxG)

184 Posted by: Dummy #43 at December 16, 2022 02:16 PM (nVyp+)

Our troll seems not to be very bright.

Yeah, but you got called out personally by the troll. That's got to count for something.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 02:33 PM (eOEVl)

185 Whenever I read stories about the likes of Boehner, Ryan, McStain and Lynny Graham music from last scene in Platoon plays in my head.. *spit*

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at December 16, 2022 02:33 PM (SSpZR)

186 Let's recap, shall we?

In the last ~30 years, the GOP in the house has been led by:

An ineffectual liberal from California (McCarthy).

An ineffectual unibrow gnome squish from Wisconsin by way of 1313 Mockingbird Lane (Ryan).

A ineffectual blubbering drunk (Boehner).

An ineffectual turd and convicted pedophile (Hastert).

And Newt Gingrich, who was both effective and conservative, and so was made into a pariah and scapegoat by the GOPe because they were so cowed by Clinton and Dick Morris.

Remind me again why I should GAF that the red wave farted out? And why I should ever cast a vote for a Republican running for a Fed office again?

Jesse Kelly is right, I'd give my middle nut for just one leader on our side who is as ruthless and effective as Nancy Pelosi.

GOP delenda est.

Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (1dzqn)

187
"The American political parties are just two indistinguishable hordes of rapacious, swinish intermarried wealthy elites, quibbling over whose inbred retarded nieces and nephews will fill the Senate and the tax offices."

Fixed

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (pNxlR)

188 Watching Boehner blubber makes me feel REAL GOOD about giving up cocktails for the rest of the year (mostly because empty calories).

The guy looks like he'll break down and sob during a performance of 'Mother Machree' by the boys at the VFW bar.

And that he's a few handles of gin away from wet brain syndrome. Awful stuff, wet brain syndrome.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (oedLL)

189 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof

Thanks. I will continue with the Scotch.
*lofts pinky skyward*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (eOEVl)

190 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
--------------
The Ivies drink Scotch.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:22 PM (3FiQa)

Bottom shelf rum is what we drink

#MonarchLife #PlasticFifthsRule

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (xhaym)

191 174 Our troll seems not to be very bright.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (XIJ/X)

=========

I never asserted I was particularly smart, to be fair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

192 I drink scotch!

When I was a little boy in New Jersey we all drank scotch. My brother drank scotch, my cousin drank scotch. So, what's wrong with that?
---------
Ha.

It was inwented by a little old lady in Leningrad.

Posted by: ensign pavel chekov at December 16, 2022 02:35 PM (Vwz3I)

193 What a sickening display...

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 16, 2022 02:35 PM (q2rm2)

194 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof

I drink scotch!

When I was a little boy in New Jersey we all drank scotch. My brother drank scotch, my cousin drank scotch. So, what's wrong with that?
Posted by: Gentlemen

I drink scotch. Only because that was the only booze the ex-wife's coonass family wouldn't touch.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (9uCBG)

195 And Newt Gingrich, who was both effective and conservative

**********

Gingrich once taint licked Pelosi on live TV to promote ending climate change

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (VTu1l)

196 "... and curb this out of control spending" -- JB

"best I can do is sequestration" -- also JB

'fistful conservatism' fo sho

Posted by: micky at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (3byMq)

197 Pounding veal. 🔨 🔨
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:28 PM

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (Wnv9h)

198 My alcoholic father only cried when he was waxing sentimental & nostalgic about his younger "glory days" too.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (7wgpR)

199 I am willing to debate where the line for personal wealth should be drawn, but I think one has to be drawn to protect the Republic.

This is a major change from my half century of belief in meritocracy.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (yQpMk)

200 DOES SHE

LOOK LIKE A B*TCH?

~Pelosi or Jules from Pulp Fiction, I forget who it was

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (44ww/)

201 Gingrich once taint licked Pelosi on live TV to promote ending climate change

_____

And yet he was **still** the most effective and consequential GOP leader in Congress during my lifetime.

Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (1dzqn)

202 I drink scotch!

When I was a little boy in New Jersey we all drank scotch. My brother drank scotch, my cousin drank scotch. So, what's wrong with that?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 02:31 PM (aQVbS)

Who moves from a scotch state to a non-scotch state?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (d1p/J)

203 Nancy has been consumed with seething rage and hatred toward Trump. But in the end, it was her own husband Paul who betrayed her. She has been forced to much wheeling and dealing to clear his name -once for a drunk driving accident in May and now this ever changing story with the man-hammer.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (hlSun)

204 198 My alcoholic father only cried when he was waxing sentimental & nostalgic about his younger "glory days" too.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (7wgpR)

=========

Four touchdowns! One game!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

205 Boner was always a weepy, emotionally unstable motherfucker.

**************

good times create weak men.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of weak men.

And also pedophiles. Most of who are politicians.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (VTu1l)

206 Scotch is for elitists and their wannabes. Drink bourbon. Merica.
Posted by: Doof

Thanks. I will continue with the Scotch.
*lofts pinky skyward*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 02:34 PM

Ditto.

*raises pinky*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (Wnv9h)

207
Pounding veal. 🔨 🔨
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I)

Dammit, you beat me to the obvious joke. Jerkwad.

*snif*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (n+4am)

208 JamesMadison, have you ever watched Big Fish? Your opion is welcomed.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (3FiQa)

209 Gingrich once taint licked Pelosi on live TV to promote ending climate change
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger

Pretty sure that was after Newt became a private citizen and was not when he was Speaker.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (bDjBG)

210 Nancy has been consumed with seething rage and hatred toward Trump. But in the end, it was her own husband Paul who betrayed her. She has been forced to much wheeling and dealing to clear his name -once for a drunk driving accident in May and now this ever changing story with the man-hammer.
Posted by: washrivergal

Pretty cool to watch, too!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (9uCBG)

211 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Optimates were the elite,right?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:21 PM (Kd4bG)

No. They may have thought they were, but the reason why Roman historians stuck "Boni" on them was partly a sneer, "The BEST People" when clearly they weren't.

In the post Carthage era, a few families who were very rich and had lots of kids started to corner the market on the major political jobs - Marcelli, Metelli and their allies started being in charge, while being inept at the empire building / managing jobs in the provinces. Rome had existed by co-opting the talented into the group fairly smoothly. The Boni opposed giving Gaius Marius the power to end a war in Africa, opposed his several year war vs Germans who had destroyed several Armies partly due to Boni lack of cooperation...and they started the game of murdering political opposition using mob violence.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:39 PM (eoQWY)

212 Who moves from a scotch state to a non-scotch state?!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 16, 2022 02:37 PM (d1p/J)

Second law of thermodynamics: Scotch cannot of itself move from a scotch state to a non-scotch state. QED

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2022 02:39 PM (xhaym)

213 "If your Crying Boehner lasts longer than 4 hours ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:39 PM (7wgpR)

214 Pretty sure that was after Newt became a private citizen and was not when he was Speaker.

**********************

Yes to be fair, this isnt a reflection of his time in congress but should have been an immediate disqualifier of him ever being taken seriously as a political commentator on fox

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:39 PM (VTu1l)

215 I just asked the dog if she would like to go for a ride .
She said " oh I would like that ever so much, please and thank you. "
So I best get going.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (eGTCV)

216 Boehner has had whiskey dick for so long that he should go on one of Maury's paternity test shows.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (VbI7r)

217 I am willing to debate where the line for personal wealth should be drawn, but I think one has to be drawn to protect the Republic.

This is a major change from my half century of belief in meritocracy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:36 PM (yQpMk)

Wealth and merit have historically only been loosely connected.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (eoQWY)

218 208 JamesMadison, have you ever watched Big Fish? Your opion is welcomed.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (3FiQa)

==========

It's probably my favorite Tim Burton, right up there with Sweeney Todd.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (LvTSG)

219 I hate to admit I know this, but "bukkake" has three "k"s - you know, just as many as Democratic party history.

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (N66D6)

220 >From a tweet:
Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.

So all this talk about how Trump has lost the plot has aged poorly?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 02:40 PM (44ww/)

221 good times create weak men

True dat.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (Xrfse)

222 "If your Crying Boehner lasts longer than 4 hours ..."
Posted by: ShainS

If your weeping boner last longer than 4 hours...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (9uCBG)

223 Video of the aftereffects...

@TheInsiderPaper
NEW 🚨 Huge Berlin aquarium damaged, water spills into street

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/
1603742773349437445

Bystanders say it smells like the Pelosis' cootches.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (Vwz3I)

224 203 Nancy has been consumed with seething rage and hatred toward Trump. But in the end, it was her own husband Paul who betrayed her. She has been forced to much wheeling and dealing to clear his name -once for a drunk driving accident in May and now this ever changing story with the man-hammer.
Posted by: washrivergal

Nanzi comes from a mobbed up family and her own brother was involved in two gang rapes but hushed up when her dad was mayor. You can read about the family in an FBI vaults release shortly before Trump left office.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (bDjBG)

225 My hope is that we are about to see that change.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (Xrfse)

226 Nancy has been consumed with seething rage and hatred toward Trump. But in the end, it was her own husband Paul who betrayed her. She has been forced to much wheeling and dealing to clear his name

Trump Curse in full effect

Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (dCxaZ)

227 Irish>Scotch.

Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (+krNS)

228 From a tweet:
Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.

So all this talk about how Trump has lost the plot has aged poorly?
Posted by: BourbonChicken

I wish I could make $4.5 million a day.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (9uCBG)

229 Or does the actual spelling get me banned?!?

*grabs umbrella and ducks behind John Boehner*

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (N66D6)

230 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

-------

I read that as Prometheus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (7wgpR)

231 "How much longer are we expected to put up with this?
How much longer are we expected to pretend?"
***
Oh Ace ... you're always saber rattling. Figure out another approach.

Posted by: NipsyAtTheJingoAtMyBaby at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (mslD/)

232 230 I read that as Prometheus.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (7wgpR)

=========

I didn't mention it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

233 Hard liquor makes wobbly men.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (44ww/)

234 228 From a tweet:
Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.

I saw that and laughed

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2022 02:43 PM (bs+z0)

235 A career begun between tumescent Kennedys, ends next to a shriveling Boehner.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 16, 2022 02:43 PM (pF5ye)

236 233 Hard liquor makes wobbly men.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 02:42 PM (44ww/)

=========

Hard men make wobbly women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

237 *picks up copy of Nancy's speech*
Tears it in half.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (anj39)

238 How much longer are we expected to pretend?

-Ace

++++++++

Until we're prepared to hang them from lamp posts.

Posted by: DFCtomm at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (OHy0b)

239 "Optimates" = "Best People"

Best as defined by their social status.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (yQpMk)

Not at all. Familes like the Claudians, Gracchi, and Caesars had 10 times their social status.

It was a self selected group of fairly powerful families and men, but not uniformly rich versus "poor" or relatively poor.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (eoQWY)

240 235 A career begun between tumescent Kennedys, ends next to a shriveling Boehner.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 16, 2022 02:43 PM (pF5ye)

=========

And with millions and millions of dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

241 218 208 JamesMadison, have you ever watched Big Fish? Your opion is welcomed.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:38 PM (3FiQa)

==========

It's probably my favorite Tim Burton, right up there with Sweeney Todd.
-----------
Saw it first on the big screen. Loved it. I caught the end of it last night on TV and just fell back into the spell. Read the book, too. As a book its very similar to Coversations in Sicily. Same sort of story. I thought while watching it that Albert Finney was a great actor. Tom Jones Great. Its a pity he did not gain more roles.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (3FiQa)

242 All, all I know is the Uniparty is sending Patriot missiles and American troops to fire those suckas to Ukraine. To shoot at Russians.

Why? It has me crying.

Posted by: John Boehner's Former Republican Self at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (RRwaK)

243

When George Wallace ran for president as a third-party candidate, he often said “there was not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (63Dwl)

244 Nancy has been consumed with seething rage and hatred toward Trump

***********

women (I use the term loosely here) tend to have an unfathomable rage towards men they secretly wish would boink them

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (VTu1l)

245 241 I thought while watching it that Albert Finney was a great actor. Tom Jones Great. Its a pity he did not gain more roles.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (3FiQa)

========

Finney had a very long and prolific career.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (LvTSG)

246 The earth will breathe easier when that scourge is tossed into the lake of fire.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (sI15f)

247 Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:41 PM (Vwz3I)

replies are actually asking if the fish are OK

oh yeah, they're all doing GREAT! they had been jonesing to go out and stroll the Berlin sidewalks, you know, unconspicuous-like

Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (dCxaZ)

248 243

When George Wallace ran for president as a third-party candidate, he often said “there was not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (63Dwl)

=========

"Opposing the two party system makes you just like George Wallace."
-The GOPe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (LvTSG)

249 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2022 02:29 PM (FVME7)

Cool! I clicked on the guy's channel and he has a "time traveler meets Roman soldier" skit that is fun.
Thanks!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (Kd4bG)

250 246 The earth will breathe easier when that scourge is tossed into the lake of fire.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (sI15f)

I shouldn't have said that. I amend my comment to "The Lord rebuke her."

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (sI15f)

251 239 "Optimates" = "Best People"

Best as defined by their social status.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:30 PM (yQpMk)

Not at all. Familes like the Claudians, Gracchi, and Caesars had 10 times their social status.

It was a self selected group of fairly powerful families and men, but not uniformly rich versus "poor" or relatively poor.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (eoQWY)

Usually the original meaning of "best" is some form of meritocracy. Like 'aristocracy' translates into rule by the best and how the Chinese imperial meritocracy would often not be so meritocratic in truth.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (eYoxG)

252 Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.
---
So all this talk about how Trump has lost the plot has aged poorly?

---

You know how the books that politicians write are mostly purchased in bulk established donors and associated PACs, thereby raising money and creating the illusion of high demand?

I smell a similar scam with these "sold out" NFTs. The bulk probably went to insiders or organizations who agreed to buy them ahead of time. No way Trump would release these things if there was any risk that they *wouldn't* sell out.

Show of hands, how many commenters here actually bought one? Anyone know someone who actually bought one?

Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (1dzqn)

253 245 241 I thought while watching it that Albert Finney was a great actor. Tom Jones Great. Its a pity he did not gain more roles.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (3FiQa)

========

Finney had a very long and prolific career.
---------
What would you say is his best role?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (3FiQa)

254 We need more Opiates in the Populace?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (63Dwl)

255 All, all I know is the Uniparty is sending Patriot missiles and American troops to fire those suckas to Ukraine. To shoot at Russians.

Why? It has me crying.
Posted by: John Boehner's Former Republican Self at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (RRwaK)

Unless the U's can modify them to fire on ground targets, likely what they will be doing is sending a 10 million missile to destroy a 50 K drone, if it can even do that. Or sit there and watch the drones hit the one place in the country they are guarding.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (eoQWY)

256 To hug your enemies
To see them honored before you
To lament for them like women

Posted by: 29Victor at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (BJKQV)

257 And so it ~~begins~~ continues . . .

Providence To Fix Racism With $10 Million Payout For Slavery Reparations…

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2022 02:48 PM (FVME7)

258 And I'm strongly tempted to begin discussion the Optimates and the Populares in depth.

I read that as Prometheus.
Posted by: ShainS

I read the first one as Opiates.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 16, 2022 02:48 PM (KAi1n)

259 Rule by the most capable is nearly universally accepted as a principle by founding generations. It is likewise substantially reduced by the second generation near universally.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:48 PM (eYoxG)

260 Finney had a very long and prolific career.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (LvTSG)

IMDB says 64 roles. I really enjoyed him as Leo in Miller's Crossing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (yQpMk)

261 Optimates Prime was the leader of the Autobots.

That much I remember from history class.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (9UlRk)

262 These problems with GOPE leadership are of very long standing. Yet, we are still expected to dutifully donate our dwindling dollars and give our votes to the scumbags. And, very surprisingly, many of us still do. Anyone up for another thread on the 2024 GOP nominee?What the hell is wrong with this picture? Stop digging

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (j6nJf)

263 236 233 Hard liquor makes wobbly men.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

=========

Hard men make wobbly women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

========

wobbly women make sloppy sandwiches.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (aQVbS)

264 Show of hands, how many commenters here actually bought one? Anyone know someone who actually bought one?
Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (1dzqn)
++++
:: raises hand ::

I know a person who bought one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (t0OGg)

265 What would be amusing is just set a third party and run candidates for the US Senate only. Leave the House and local races out of it to start.

Call it something like the People's party and use a broom with the motto "Sweep out all the trash from the Senate" .

Most of our rot is centered on the role of the Senate--the rot in the House is concentrated on the leadership but the rot in the Senate is through the whole body.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (bDjBG)

266 Anybody else get called dumb, unserious, or a troll back during the first year of Trump for the failure theatre the GOP put on by not running the same ObamaCare defund bill they'd just passed the year before ?

This shit has been going on a long, long time. #VoteHarder

Posted by: Telecaster at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (1k8ns)

267 258 I read the first one as Opiates.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 16, 2022 02:48 PM (KAi1n)

Opiates and Prometheus would go well together!

Posted by: CppThis at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (UewuT)

268 Unless the U's can modify them to fire on ground targets, likely what they will be doing is sending a 10 million missile to destroy a 50 K drone, if it can even do that. Or sit there and watch the drones hit the one place in the country they are guarding.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (eoQWY)

Who gives a crap if it ain't your 10 million dollars?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (9UlRk)

269 Of course that unstable alcoholic goofball Boehner is crying. Her performed only two functions during the Bush years: Cry and be a RINO. Reporters would interview him just to trigger the embarrassing and involuntary man-crying. Then after embarrassing us, he'd promote bipartisanship with Dems who wanted to censor us and teach our children to hate us.

RINO's like him are the reason Trump must be our candidate and not DeSantis. Only Trump can purge the party of freaks like this.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (DBPIP)

270 women (I use the term loosely here) tend to have an unfathomable rage towards men they secretly wish would boink them

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:44 PM (VTu1l)

++++

I don't have that particular wish towards Biden at all.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 16, 2022 02:50 PM (hlSun)

271 I read the first one as Opiates.
Posted by: SFGoth

So did I.

Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 16, 2022 02:50 PM (hnU4t)

272 Said other day when it came up that I see no issues with Trump Trading cards. Not like he will get $25M for a book or speaking deal.
And a comment saw they sold out so maybe a good idea after all

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 16, 2022 02:51 PM (ndn1/)

273 I think the whole Patriot gig is just to use them against the latest Russian missiles and determine what tweaks of effectiveness are needed. The Russkis did that in Vietnam with their air defense systems and later in Syria etc.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 02:51 PM (bDjBG)

274 IMDB says 64 roles. I really enjoyed him as Leo in Miller's Crossing.

------

The best, and most overlooked, Cohen Brothers movie, and it's not even a contest.

Always put one in the brain.

Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:51 PM (1dzqn)

275 The problem with doing nothing is that nothing gets done.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) goes full Yogi at December 16, 2022 02:51 PM (yQpMk)

276 troll the Berlin sidewalks
--------------
Strolling on der Straße

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 02:51 PM (Vwz3I)

277 The Fool, why would anyone talk here about buying something everyone made fun of when they were introduced? I don't discuss politics IRL if I can avoid it, and being above the below and below the upper means most everyone I know is also getting by mainly buying gasoline and groceries. But if I could drop $99 for The Donald, and did, I would not broadcast that here.

Posted by: Catherine at December 16, 2022 02:52 PM (ZSsrh)

278 Usually the original meaning of "best" is some form of meritocracy. Like 'aristocracy' translates into rule by the best and how the Chinese imperial meritocracy would often not be so meritocratic in truth.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (eYoxG)

+++++

Everybody hates competition. They want to be secure and their posterity to be secure, and that is the opposite of competition. Not even the Libertarians truly get it. They keep rattling on about FREE MARKETS, but a monopoly is just the same as competition to the free market. You have to dig a bit before you hit the competition thing, which is the thing that makes the magic.

Posted by: DFCtomm at December 16, 2022 02:52 PM (OHy0b)

279 I don't GAF about PDT's trading cards. Had enough of gestures. Show me the money.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 02:52 PM (Xrfse)

280 49 John Boehner, you sniveling piece of sh*t.

Kill yourself, do it now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2022 05:28 AM (EZebt)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (Wl6Ns)

281 Show of hands, how many commenters here actually bought one? Anyone know someone who actually bought one?
Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (1dzqn)

I did not and would never. Finding one of these "buyers" will be more rare than finding the biden voters on November 4, 2020

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (sI15f)

282 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

No one knows what he means.

Probably just trading cards.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (WVA6a)

283 How much longer are we expected to pretend?

Forever, kulak. Like you must pretend a tranny is a woman.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (DteU4)

284 282 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

No one knows what he means.

Probably just trading cards.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (WVA6a)

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New Tesla model?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

285 The Gracklii were birdbrains.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (8QSC/)

286 Usually the original meaning of "best" is some form of meritocracy. Like 'aristocracy' translates into rule by the best and how the Chinese imperial meritocracy would often not be so meritocratic in truth.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 02:46 PM (eYoxG)

Usually there was respect for family merit, under the assumption the family would respect Roman traditions, with a way in for new blood. Rome used adoption that way - if a respected fam didn't have a good heir they would adopt one from someone who had extra ones and they would carry on that family. And new families could 'ennoble' themselves.

One sign of trouble in the 'boni' era was that the co-opting of Italians from other cities into Roman nobility ended and after some disasters were Italian men died with Romans led by inept generals Italy asked for citizenship the Boni refused point blank. A war = The Social War (Socii = Allies) erupted that even though Rome won Rome decided to grant citizenship to all Italians. The war also led to a lot of talented non-Boni who had saved the country but were still held down by Boni who had not done much in the war.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (eoQWY)

287 New Tesla model?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

I'm going with commercially available rail-gun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (9UlRk)

288
Unless the U's can modify them to fire on ground targets, likely what they will be doing is sending a 10 million missile to destroy a 50 K drone, if it can even do that. Or sit there and watch the drones hit the one place in the country they are guarding.
Posted by: Oldcat

Mark Felton had a yootoob vid up in the last few days talking about how the Russkies are sending up AN-2 biplanes loaded with explosives as pseudo-smart drones (the pilot sets the course and then bails out).

The opposition HAS to shoot at them... with $1M+ missiles, while an AN-2 costs less than $100k, which was paid for decades ago. If they don't shoot, then a couple of tons of explosives will randomly impact in their area.

Breaks my heart because I rather like the AN-2.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (n+4am)

289 272 Said other day when it came up that I see no issues with Trump Trading cards. Not like he will get $25M for a book or speaking deal.
And a comment saw they sold out so maybe a good idea after all Posted by: Skip's phone

It is kind of a litmus test--those wanting Trump to leave the stage think it is awful and demeaning, those that don't care or still support Trump see it as no big deal or even a positive.

I guarantee you though the money he made in something like 12 hours opened some eyes of other politicians and campaign strategists.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (bDjBG)

290 John Boehner's crying episodes are as unseemly now as they were when he was Speaker.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 16, 2022 02:55 PM (hlSun)

291 I don't care if Trump spends that NFT cash on hookers and blow; I'm glad he made $$$

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:55 PM (Kd4bG)

292 To hug your enemies
To see them honored before you
To lament for them like women

Posted by: 29Victor at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (BJKQV)

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Heh. Boehner the Cuckarian.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 02:56 PM (7wgpR)

293 282 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"
No one knows what he means.

He's transitioning, becoming a woman named 'Kaitlyn Jenner.'

Posted by: Agent Smecker at December 16, 2022 02:56 PM (gMabG)

294 I think Musk has the goods on Twitter execs talking internally in the 2010s about how they're the shepherds of digital communism and their job is to manipulate the masses. And lots and lots of collusion with deep-state types.

Posted by: CppThis at December 16, 2022 02:56 PM (UewuT)

295 Who gives a crap if it ain't your 10 million dollars?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2022 02:49 PM (9UlRk)

Its *my* 10 million dollars.

And 5 gets you 10 that some of the system will be sold to the Russians by U politicians for quick cash. Happened to the HIMARs.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 02:56 PM (eoQWY)

296 How much longer are we expected to pretend?

Honestly - most ain't pretending. GOP good, DNC bad is just the paradigm they know, and thus the paradigm they'll take to the grave. GOP good cop, DNC bad cop isn't even an option.

Posted by: Telecaster at December 16, 2022 02:56 PM (1k8ns)

297 I don't have that particular wish towards Biden at all.

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I said unfathomable! Not perfectly rational and wholly justified hatred

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (VTu1l)

298 New Tesla model?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM

SQUEEEE!

When can I reserve one?!

Posted by: Liberals Currently Chanting Death to Musk at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (Wnv9h)

299

DJT's org got paid a licensing fee. The private company that made and sold the cards will keep the lion's share.

Posted by: Agent Smecker at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (gMabG)

300 281 Show of hands, how many commenters here actually bought one? Anyone know someone who actually bought one?
Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:47 PM (1dzqn)

I don't know anyone, but I believe there are plenty Trump "fans" out there.. Probably everyone on Conservative Treehouse bought one...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (bs+z0)

301 131 Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)
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But.... but....so many here said the idea was stupid.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (BdMk6)

302 Ha Keith Olberdouche is among the policy violators who were banned from Twitter last night.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at December 16, 2022 02:58 PM (SSpZR)

303 First you stole my skin tone and now my over-the-top hammy acting?

You will be hearing from my lawyers!

Posted by: George Hamilton at December 16, 2022 02:58 PM (wUHYj)

304 300 I don't know anyone, but I believe there are plenty Trump "fans" out there.. Probably everyone on Conservative Treehouse bought one...

individually, or by pooling their resources?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 16, 2022 02:58 PM (7JdFr)

305 277 The Fool, why would anyone talk here about buying something everyone made fun of when they were introduced?
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The kind of die-hard Trump fans who'd drop a hundo on an NFT are most likely unconcerned with public ridicule.

The stinger fell out of that bee years ago. "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer."

Posted by: The Fool at December 16, 2022 02:59 PM (1dzqn)

306 Ace, I hope you got the bottle-blonde's number.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 02:59 PM (J2vNu)

307 BRB I'm photoshopping the American Psycho scene where they compare business cards.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 02:59 PM (44ww/)

308 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

No one knows what he means.

WE'RE HEADED TO MARS BABY!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (9uCBG)

309 273 I think the whole Patriot gig is just to use them against the latest Russian missiles and determine what tweaks of effectiveness are needed. The Russkis did that in Vietnam with their air defense systems and later in Syria etc.
Posted by: whig

I think it is protection against kiev and key locations. The Russians are likely to escalate their demoralization campaign when they get tired of hitting energy infrastructure. Thinking maybe the public will be swayed if their historical buildings and heritage is wiped out.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (aQVbS)

310 DJT's org got paid a licensing fee. The private company that made and sold the cards will keep the lion's share.
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He had some fun and he cast himself as a super hero. Who is the audience for super heros?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (3FiQa)

311 308 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

No one knows what he means.

WE'RE HEADED TO MARS BABY!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (9uCBG)

Musk NFTs, I'm calling it now.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (eYoxG)

312 Well, I'm staying down here because it 3-mo-clock.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 03:00 PM (44ww/)

313 Uniparty.
-'say it once, why sat it again?'

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (z3WCn)

314 Oh, there's no shortage of people who are personally really into the Trump brand. That is not in question. The concern that some people have is that, in 2016, that famous brand-building walked behind his America-first vision--with great success for all--but in recent years the vision is walking behind the brand.

Posted by: CppThis at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (UewuT)

315 >But.... but....so many here said the idea was stupid.

His big "America needs a superhero" and then dropping the NFT's 24 hours later was stupid. I don't dislike him for making some bank but when America is on fire and he's tossing out digital art? I think it appeals to the "I haven't missed a Trump rally in 6 years!" crowd.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (DB16e)

316 "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer."
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Perfect.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (3FiQa)

317 And 5 gets you 10 that some of the system will be sold to the Russians by U politicians for quick cash. Happened to the HIMARs.
Posted by: Oldcat

As leaky as our system is, the Russians and Chinese probably already have blueprints. That is not the same as being able to manufacture, train, and field them though. Given how short a time that they are in flight, it is also makes them more difficult to figure out countermeasures and implement them in real time.

I am more worried about the Ukies doing something stupid with them like modifying them for greater range to hit well inside the Russian border. That is coming if I don't miss my guess with Russian attacks on infrastructure--Ukraine will probably return serve and the war escalates.

We should be actively trying to shut it down by ceasefire and then treaty instead of throwing more logs on the fire.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (bDjBG)

318 John Boehner, you sniveling piece of sh*t.

Kill yourself, do it now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2022 05:28 AM (EZebt)

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Channeling your inner-ZOD.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 16, 2022 03:02 PM (/hXzK)

319 308 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

Nice try disguising coup as coupe, we're onto you. Indict! Indict! Indict!

Posted by: Democrats at December 16, 2022 03:02 PM (wUHYj)

320 But.... but....so many here said the idea was stupid.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (BdMk6)

What are you planning on doing with it? I'm not sure how NFTs work.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 03:02 PM (sI15f)

321 I think it is protection against kiev and key locations. The Russians are likely to escalate their demoralization campaign when they get tired of hitting energy infrastructure. Thinking maybe the public will be swayed if their historical buildings and heritage is wiped out. Posted by: Gentlemen
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The history of bombing civilian targets alone with no significant invasion generally has a poor track record of forcing compliance. Usually results in retaliation in kind which ratchets up the violence.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 03:03 PM (bDjBG)

322 Finney had a very long and prolific career.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 02:45 PM (LvTSG)
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IMDB says 64 roles. I really enjoyed him as Leo in Miller's Crossing.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 16, 2022

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I've heard that Albert Finney was considered for the role of James Bond in '61-'62, before they cast Connery. Personally I think Richard Burton (albeit 6-7 years before) would have been a better choice than Finney.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 03:04 PM (J2vNu)

323 320 But.... but....so many here said the idea was stupid.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2022 02:57 PM (BdMk6)

What are you planning on doing with it? I'm not sure how NFTs work.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 03:02 PM (sI15f)

NFTs don't really do anything. People do buy and sell them and there are markets for them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 16, 2022 03:04 PM (eYoxG)

324 Musk NFTs, I'm calling it now.
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Perfume/Cologne!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (Vwz3I)

325 Breaks my heart because I rather like the AN-2.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2022 02:54 PM (n+4am)

I was wondering if they were going to use them as artillery spotters. The Swordfish Biplane in WWII was famed for being missed by automatic AA because it flew too slow.

And after the first month or two the Russian plan has been to corner a Ukrainian unit in a village and blast it until it is unable to fight and sweep it out of the rubble with minimal losses. The same militia unit can be used in town after town. And if the U reinforces they just reset to bombarding again.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (eoQWY)

326 His big "America needs a superhero" and then dropping the NFT's 24 hours later was stupid. I don't dislike him for making some bank but when America is on fire and he's tossing out digital art? I think it appeals to the "I haven't missed a Trump rally in 6 years!" crowd.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 03:01 PM (DB16e)

Yeah. Sure. (They're also the ones that vote for him.)

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (BdMk6)

327 Epoch Times
The #CDC removed data on guns—specifically a portion about defensive gun use—from its website after holding a private meeting with #GunControl activists, according to newly disclosed emails.

I am shocked!

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (DB16e)

328 Big Fish is very touching, and the cast is perfect.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (44ww/)

329 I've heard that Albert Finney was considered for the role of James Bond in '61-'62, before they cast Connery. Personally I think Richard Burton (albeit 6-7 years before) would have been a better choice than Finney.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 03:04 PM

Iirc, he played Poirot with a really good cast in the 70's "Murder on the Orient Express".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (Wnv9h)

330 Finney did a passable job as Scrooge.

No Alistair Sim, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (8QSC/)

331 The problem with drawing a line with how much wealth someone may accumulate is that now you've given the Left a line to move. And guess which way it gets moved and if it ever stops.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (wNDOJ)

332 Noodus pedo

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (J2vNu)

333 Unless the U's can modify them to fire on ground targets, likely what they will be doing is sending a 10 million missile to destroy a 50 K drone, if it can even do that. Or sit there and watch the drones hit the one place in the country they are guarding.

The Ukes are shooting down most of the drones (70-90%) with Gepard and other old AA fire (and more of that is being sent). It's the last few ones that get through that cause enormous damage by destroying the electrical infrastructure. Those are the ones they'll use the Patriots for, not the 90%, and I doubt they'll use them until it's absolutely necessary.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (eOEVl)

334 327 Epoch Times
The #CDC removed data on guns—specifically a portion about defensive gun use—from its website after holding a private meeting with #GunControl activists, according to newly disclosed emails.

I am shocked!
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (DB16e)

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I can't think of a better scientist than that woman who runs that one embarrassing anti-gun group.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)

335 I think it is protection against kiev and key locations. The Russians are likely to escalate their demoralization campaign when they get tired of hitting energy infrastructure. Thinking maybe the public will be swayed if their historical buildings and heritage is wiped out. Posted by: Gentlemen
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The history of bombing civilian targets alone with no significant invasion generally has a poor track record of forcing compliance. Usually results in retaliation in kind which ratchets up the violence.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 03:03 PM (bDjBG)

Last I heard they were getting 1 system, which pretty much means Kiev.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 03:07 PM (eoQWY)

336 but a monopoly is just the same as competition to the free market. You have to dig a bit before you hit the competition thing, which is the thing that makes the magic.
Posted by: DFCtomm

yes. free market requires rules, but rules a destined to be distorted to create monopolies.

The commies think free market doesn't work, so just give in to massive gov. to control everything. The libertarians think no rules at all. Both roads lead to the same destination.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 16, 2022 03:07 PM (aQVbS)

337 They're all longtime drinking buddies. Johnny is but another who entered clown world in his 30's and overstayed the welcome.

Democratic daughters? Ha! Remember during 2015 when it was learned his 'health policy director' was sister to the StemExpress (alleged buyer of PPH fetal organs) founder? One p.o.'ed man, he was. He managed to call for a PPH investigation but wouldn't back its defunding.

And Nan's daughter with her BS video that she's been working on the years, is she part of Nan's or someone else's Congressional staff? How was she rountinely permitted in the Congressional offices & allowed to accompany mom & Chuckie S to the army installation for security purposes during the afternoon of 1/6? Further, why did her video appear to indicate Nan was safety away from the mob & under tight security when someone may have given the order to shoot & Ashli B was struck?

Posted by: Lola at December 16, 2022 03:07 PM (NIYa7)

338 Wolfus @ 322-
Nope, John Geilgud. Then they won't surprise the whole world with...the.....you know.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2022 03:07 PM (z3WCn)

339 I've heard that Albert Finney was considered for the role of James Bond in '61-'62, before they cast Connery. Personally I think Richard Burton (albeit 6-7 years before) would have been a better choice than Finney.
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He was of that era. Once I saw Connery as 007 I could not accept any other. Finney is a better actor with greater range. Once I saw Finney as Tom Jones I could not accept any other, as well. Michael Caine is another Brit actor of that time who I enjoy seeing and defines the role.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 16, 2022 03:07 PM (3FiQa)

340 The Trump NFTs are a little too much "Worship the beast and his image" for me.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 16, 2022 03:08 PM (sI15f)

341 Big fire, includes video:

@rawsalerts · 1h
🚨#BREAKING: Major fire breaks out at a Twisted Metal Recycling yard

📌#Palmetto l #Florida

Dozens of emergency crews are currently responding to a massive twisted metal recycling scrap yard fire in Palmetto Florida with reports of thick black heavy smoke seen miles away

https://tinyurl.com/znpe332h

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 03:08 PM (Vwz3I)

342 Musk NFTs, I'm calling it now.
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Perfume/Cologne!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 03:05 PM (Vwz3I)

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Floor wax/ Desert topping

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 16, 2022 03:09 PM (flINI)

343 >Yeah. Sure. (They're also the ones that vote for him.)

Voted for him twice. First, more against Hillary and second time enthusiastically. Never been to a rally. Did not, wouldn't buy a Trump NFT.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 16, 2022 03:09 PM (DB16e)

344 The Ukes are shooting down most of the drones (70-90%) with Gepard and other old AA fire (and more of that is being sent). It's the last few ones that get through that cause enormous damage by destroying the electrical infrastructure. Those are the ones they'll use the Patriots for, not the 90%, and I doubt they'll use them until it's absolutely necessary.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 03:06 PM (eOEVl)

U is running out of loads for their anti air systems which is why the Patriots were given in the first place.

Most of the damage to the electrical system is coming from missiles which the Us aren't stopping despite claims to the contrary.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 16, 2022 03:09 PM (eoQWY)

345 But.... but....so many here said the idea was stupid.

When I see that it made one iota of difference with respect to the imminent perils we face, I will bow my head in contrition and once again admit that I am an idiot.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2022 03:09 PM (Xrfse)

346 Anyone get up in arms when Bill C. made $100.000 in speaking fee or Barky got Millions to make a useless videos?

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 16, 2022 03:10 PM (xhxe8)

347
*trading cards!*

Dammit, why didn't I think of that? That Trump is a crafty character.

Posted by: Zelensky at December 16, 2022 03:10 PM (CiQ6a)

348 The Trump NFTs are a little too much "Worship the beast and his image" for me.
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How about calling them “relic cards”?

||The new merch line includes Ron DeSantis baseball cards and Team DeSantis baseballs, as well as Freedom Team hats, jerseys, koozies and foam fingers.

Of the cards, 10 include an exclusive boot relic and autograph. Twenty-five more come with solely an autograph, and the remaining 500 are regular baseball cards.

Is this a fundraising gimmick? Sure. Is it a clever one? Watch their video below and you be the judge: ||
https://tinyurl.com/z6sntue6

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 03:11 PM (Vwz3I)

349 284 282 Musk just posted "and soon the coupe de grace"

No one knows what he means.

Probably just trading cards.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2022 02:53 PM (WVA6a)

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New Tesla model?

followed shortly by the sedan de grace and the hatchback de grace.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 16, 2022 03:11 PM (7JdFr)

350 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 16, 2022 03:11 PM (Vwz3I)

351 Dozens of emergency crews are currently responding to a massive twisted metal recycling scrap yard fire in Palmetto Florida with reports of thick black heavy smoke seen miles away..
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Probably some discarded oil tanks in there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2022 03:12 PM (CiQ6a)

352 U is running out of loads for their anti air systems which is why the Patriots were given in the first place.

That is true. The loads are made by the Swiss, who won't sell them to Ukraine, because they're contemptible "neutrals".

Most of the damage to the electrical system is coming from missiles which the Us aren't stopping despite claims to the contrary.

Then talking about $20k drones is a red herring.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2022 03:12 PM (eOEVl)

353 314 Oh, there's no shortage of people who are personally really into the Trump brand. That is not in question. The concern that some people have is that, in 2016, that famous brand-building walked behind his America-first vision--with great success for all--but in recent years the vision is walking behind the brand.
Posted by: CppThis
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In 2015, people were laughing at Trump running or claiming he was a stalking horse for Hillary.

We are in the invisible primary stage right now where you line up a campaign team, check your boxes on legal documents to run in each state, and raising funds. You don't begin with detailed policy statements that your rivals will try to pick apart--those are saved for the active primary season and debates.

The problem with the Internet is that everyone wants everything in a hurry and we are just going to have to wait unless you want the Revolution to start today.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2022 03:12 PM (bDjBG)

354 Finally saw the Berlkn aquarium that went kabloosh
That had to be a ride out the doors

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 16, 2022 03:19 PM (xhxe8)

355 An oldie but a goodie.

https://tinyurl.com/bdetnud4

Posted by: DFCtomm at December 16, 2022 03:23 PM (OHy0b)

356 Boner should turn in his man card

Posted by: MikeG at December 16, 2022 03:23 PM (lA4aJ)

357 131 Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out, all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12 hours.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 16, 2022 02:23 PM (Kd4bG)
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I said it was a stupid idea.
I'm going to revisit something

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 16, 2022 04:50 PM (Dk29P)

358
Hind tit again

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