Media Declares Another Code-Red on DeSantis

David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense
@davereaboi
"Ron DeSantis has a Florida Problem" because... he's too popular here.
This might be the most fantastical concern troll of the week--and there's stiff competition.

The article is about Ron DeSantis' popularity in Florida permitting him to go "too far" on social issues like abortion and wokeness.

Ron DeSantis would seem to have everything going for him in the Republican presidential primary. There's just one small question: Will the good vibes now result in election doom later?
As the Florida governor cast out to early nominating states in recent days, even some of his supporters could see a problem brewing for him back home. Lawmakers in his home state are advancing controversial bills on gender and diversity policy -- base-pleasing issues for Republicans, but a potential liability in a general election. And on one cultural issue that did hurt Republicans in the midterm elections -- abortion -- DeSantis is going even further to the right, preparing to sign a bill banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape and incest if victims offer proof of a crime.
"Wow," said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."

"I'm pro-life but I'm against limiting abortion." This is said all the time.

In the run-up to the primary, DeSantis solidified his place as Trump's chief rival for the nomination largely based on an electability argument. He was MAGA, like Trump, but without the former president's baggage or toxicity to moderate Republicans and independents -- the kind of voters Republicans will need to run Joe Biden from the White House next year.

But as DeSantis edges closer to announcing, he is testing the limits of how hard right he can go without undermining his rationale for running in the first place. It's a significant risk in a primary in which Republican voters -- sore from losing the White House in 2020 and a less-than-red-wave midterm two years later -- are desperate to nominate a candidate who can win.
"In a way, the Republican dominance of the Florida Legislature may end up hurting DeSantis because his proposals can become reality," said Barrett Marson, a Republican strategist in Arizona. "That may help him in a primary in Iowa or Texas or South Dakota, but in a general election in Arizona, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, it could be ruinous for him."
That fear isn't lost on Republican primary voters, either. In hypothetical matchups with Biden in a Morning Consult poll this week, DeSantis fared no better than Trump, with each trailing the incumbent Democrat by 1 percentage point. Moreover, when asked in arecent Yahoo News/YouGov poll who had the best chance of winning in 2024, DeSantis didn't stand out against Trump, either, with about as many Republicans and Republican-leaning independents naming Trump as DeSantis. That is a major shift from December, when far more Republicans viewed DeSantis as the more electable Republican.

David Strom reports on other media attacks on Meatball Ron from last week.

What's worse than Donnie Two-Scoops?

Well, Three-Fingers Ronny, that's what!

The Daily Beast also informs:

At any given fundraiser or VIP room where he's present, Ron DeSantis is usually easy to find--in the corner, keeping to himself.
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During his donor retreat in Palm Beach in late February, an attendee stood up and called him "DeSatan," according to Republicans familiar with the outburst.
At his recent book tour stop in Davenport, Iowa, a volunteer English teacher and seasoned caucus enthusiast posed for a photo alongside the governor with the term "fascist" carved out within her design of a paper snowflake.

DeSantis has been slimming down -- another sign he's running for president -- so the leftwing media is now claiming, without evidence, that he's on Ozempic for weight control, and he must be, because he's totally a Fatty-Fat-Fatty by nature:

Tara Palmeri
@tarapalmeri
Is DeSantis on Ozempic? He's lost a dramatic amount of weight since his inauguration two months ago

I don't know if he's on Ozempic and neither does this whore; she's just doing her duty as a Brave Media Truth-Teller to flood the zone with anti-DeSantis stories.

Another hit: DeSantis can only prove that he's ready to be president by repudiating Trump's policies and creating "separation" from him.

Um, yeah, so this is what I think they call the Bargaining phase of grief, isn't it? They're demanding DeSantis be a George Bush-like "a thousand points of light" Democrat Lite to prove he really deserves to be president.

The Daily Beast has another hit: If DeSantis is so "anti-woke," why has he not yet eliminated it from every single agency and bureau in Florida? He must be a liar! He must be a Secret Wokie!

Ron DeSantis -- why is he politicizing communism?!?!

NBC's Chuck Todd accused DeSantis of playing politics when he told an audience in Vegas that every November 10th, Florida schools teach kids about the dangers of communism.
"He's going out of his way to politicize something," Todd cried. pic.twitter.com/AQWUMeomIC
-- Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) March 12, 2023

These are the same people who insist that students must hear about slavery non-stop, but when you mention that communism was bad too, they cry in outrage: "Stop indoctrinating children with your political lies!!!"

Adam Kinzinger is now boasting that Trump will "wipe the floor" with DeSantis when we get to the "battle of personalities."

So apparently there is someone Adam Kinzinger hates more than Trump.

I wonder why.

David Frum
@davidfrum
Fascinating to watch Governor Ron DeSantis walk his nervous, wavering line on Ukraine. He's so tough against Disney!

The Washington Post is even in "Second Look at Trump" territory, positively comparing Trump's "free-wheeling" campaign style with the "scripted" DeSantis.

Trump campaign staffer Jason Miller even calls this a "Must Read"!

That headline is much more pro-Trump than the actual article. The article is mostly just a neutral comparison of styles -- but "free-wheeling" is almost always taken to be good, and "scripted" as bad -- he's lying! -- so it's not completely neutral. Just more neutral than the headline would suggest.

This is the first neutral-to-good article the Post has written about Trump in eight or ten years -- and of course it's only because they hate DeSantis more.

And that's not the first time the media has complained about this. A few weeks ago they complained that DeSantis was too "careful" in his remarks. Sub-text: He won't make gaffes and give us easy Hit Pieces on him! What a scumbag!

This is not really related to the main subject, but just to get this out of the way: Trump responded to DeSantis' barely-a-dig dig.

He said that DeSantis is a groomer, citing the leftwing account Meidas Touch, and also floated the idea that he might have some sexual allegations coming his way, from a man.

Note that Trump pushed the DeSantis-Might-Be-A-Groomer claim from the left months ago. He gave it more prominence than "Meidas Touch" ever did. So no, this is not Trump "counterattacking;" it's just him repeating an attack he's made a few times before.

I'm not super-complaining about this -- I supported Trump completely in 2016 and 2020, knowing he did this kind of thing, so I bought the ticket, and am now obliged to take the ride -- but I continue to be perplexed at people insisting that it's not fair to do the same to Trump in return.

And Trump demanding that people treat him fairly is just, well, too much.

Jason Miller, by the way, is delivering some real body-blows on DeSantis over the past week.

“But on Monday afternoon, the campaign told News4Jax that it's pronounced Dee-Santis. “Hard D: DeeSantis. Just the way he pronounces in the ads," a campaign spokesperson wrote in an email.”https://t.co/3Vv1yU1zgz https://t.co/ZkgdcseVWP
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) March 17, 2023

He's correcting reporters about the pronunciation of his name. This shows that he's a weak and insecure man, most likely with profound homosexual tendencies.

The signature too??? https://t.co/S2ayGXcrWi
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) March 17, 2023

This shiftless homo doesn't write his name the same way every time. Obviously he has a low character. This is the sad signature of someone wholly owned by Globalist Backers.

Posted by: Ace at 03:25 PM

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1 He also has a Nickelback problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

2 Trump or DeSantis

Anyone else, i stay home and buy ammo

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:28 PM (VTu1l)

3 This just in: abortion is murder.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 20, 2023 03:28 PM (glGDV)

4 YW

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:28 PM (uQPen)

5 He also has a Nickelback problem.

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For God's sake will you let that shit go already

Posted by: MAGA Guy Listening to Air Supply at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (VTu1l)

6 Ron DeSantis -- why is he politicizing communism?!?!

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This is one of my favorite political things.

"Communism isn't political. It's just right. To bring politics into a discussion of communism is reactionary and invalid. Now shut up and work the rice paddies."
-Pol Pot

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (LvTSG)

7 So he likes to eat, bfd.

what Italian doesn't like to eat?

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (dCxaZ)

8 So apparently there is someone Adam Kinzinger hates more than Trump.

I wonder why.

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Did DeSantis say pussy once, too?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:30 PM (LvTSG)

9 From the update desk: Marx is the leading cause of death due to ideas since the 19th Century.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 20, 2023 03:30 PM (glGDV)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

11 5 He also has a Nickelback problem.

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For God's sake will you let that shit go already
Posted by: MAGA Guy Listening to Air Supply at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (VTu1l)

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No. It is a serious issue and must be addressed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (LvTSG)

12 I wonder if the media says that Gavin Newsom is crippled by presiding over such a blue state that constantly passes outrageous left-wing laws.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (2tUFv)

13 when we're not eating, we're thinking about what we're going to eat, or what we're going to cook, or what mom's going to cook, or Zia Letizia or Uncle Tony or somebody who's equally stellar

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (dCxaZ)

14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

15 There is an unfortunately large contingent of the media and people here who believe that being strongly conservative always fails and will doom any candidate, but strangely this is never tried out to find out how true it is.

DeSantis is in a state with the largest homosexual population in America and tons of left wingers in big cities, yet somehow by eliminating voter fraud was able to win reelection comfortably. HOW CAN THIS BE???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (0hOvj)

16 Fatty by Nature. Wasn't that a rap group?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

17 Presumptive evidence: a clean mirror.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (glGDV)

18 Three-Fingers Ronny.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (BvUNN)

19 Eating pudding with 3 fingers?

This is the most sensational expose of a national political figure since that time CNN and others became concerned that a van was blocking their view of Trump.

I'm going to need pads if the media keeps spilling news that hits this hard.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (ppBhU)

20 14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

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Crossbows!

No...Long bows!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

21 'He's fat. He's a fatty."
( -- Joe Fox about Shopgirl's Internet inamorata, in You've Got Mail)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (J2vNu)

22 The article is about Ron DeSantis' popularity in Florida permitting him to go "too far" on social issues like abortion and wokeness.
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What, precisely, do they think is the reason that DeSantis so popular in Florida?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (t0OGg)

23 Fascinating to watch Governor Ron DeSantis walk his nervous, wavering line on Ukraine.

Didn't he say that we shouldn't get involved? I seem to recall that he was being called a Putin apologist over that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (z99Zw)

24 Breaking News: While in the 5th grade, DeSantis once farted in math class.

Posted by: dantesed at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (193FS)

25 >>> He also has a Nickelback problem.

The Prometheus Guy has a problem with someone else's pop culture tastes.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (BvUNN)

26 11 5 He also has a Nickelback problem.

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For God's sake will you let that shit go already
Posted by: MAGA Guy Listening to Air Supply at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (VTu1l)

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No. It is a serious issue and must be addressed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Certainly, DeSantis has not denounced the lifestyle portrayed in 'Rockstar'.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (Bmix2)

27 Don't worry, I'm sure they will hate any conservative candidate for President. They've probably already got signs picked out for all of them.

I kind of just tune them out these days. They're only goal is to harm, so why give them to opening?

Posted by: Voyager at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (4Kkdy)

28 22 The article is about Ron DeSantis' popularity in Florida permitting him to go "too far" on social issues like abortion and wokeness.
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What, precisely, do they think is the reason that DeSantis so popular in Florida?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (t0OGg)

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Fox News, obviously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

29 Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.

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When are we gonna see Trump v Haley threads?

I have so many Nikkiback jokes that are just sitting there waiting to be used too

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (VTu1l)

30 Willowed: The Admiral Levine creature is coming to town here and will speak at a conference we're sponsoring. Of course when my colleague, the one who is organizing this, spoke of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, she was careful to use "she" and "her."

I was on camera last week during our monthly Chinese Spy Video meeting, so I had to be careful with my expression.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (J2vNu)

31 and no way did DeSantino's staffers lure him into meetings with cupcakes.

It was the calzones he couldn't resist.

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (dCxaZ)

32 hmm accent on the De part doesn't ... well whatever he's American not Italian I guess

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (w0NJk)

33 25 The Prometheus Guy has a problem with someone else's pop culture tastes.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (BvUNN)

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Nickelback is too far!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

34 Lawmakers in his home state are advancing controversial bills on gender and diversity policy -- base-pleasing issues for Republicans, but a potential liability in a general election.
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If they are "base-pleasing issues," then how do those magically transform into liabilities when it comes to popular support? Is the another form of the "but moderates won't like it" argument?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (t0OGg)

35 It is my contention that the very large majority of the population in America are repulsed and horrified by the tranny agenda, are uncomfortable with homosexual marriage, are protective of unborn babies, and are repelled by the left's extremist stances.

Opposing that stuff isn't some crank hard right extremism, its just NORMAL. The first politician with any kind of ability who taps into this will do very well... oh wait, HE ALREADY HAS

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (0hOvj)

36 AH! Here's the DeSantis movie review!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:33 PM (N1tpc)

37 A "climate advocate" in Portland has the sadz:

I know we’ve had a pretty rough ride the last four years with other emergencies but it’s sort of horrifying to consider how much zeitgeist we had built for climate action in 2019, and how little it exists in any political public discourse (nationally or locally!) in 2023

That's because the Democrats are in power, grasshopper.

Can't make them look bad.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (2tUFv)

38 regular homo?

no, profoundly homo.

gator aint never played that shit

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (MLrvz)

39 >>>t was the calzones he couldn't resist.

best calzone is meatball and mushroom (with ricotta, if they have to make you choose that as an ingredient).

Try it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (BvUNN)

40 "Wow," said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."
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I think I found the problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (t0OGg)

41 Who of us didn't know DeSantis will be a Democrat Propaganda Ministry magnet?

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (xhxe8)

42 Just fucking lies all the time.

Posted by: Mrs Lincoln at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (Xgg6e)

43 They sure are attacking a person who is not running for President. They must be terrified of him announcing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (ncXxy)

44 I have it on the best authority that DeSantis masticates regularly. I hate to be so crass in front of the ladies, but it needed to be said, so that we can protect our children

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

45 I would think if anything the Left is trying to balance the two to set up a longer more drawn out primary.

What any given action of theirs is meant to do is more ambiguous, since it's not clear if they understand that their criticisms function as an endorsement and their endorsements function as a negative.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (eYoxG)

46 A metric crapton of people are on Ozempic for weight loss now. I know several people from my church who have to call around to the local pharmacies whenever they need to pick up their Ozempic. It's a crapshoot who's going to have stock.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (V1QHJ)

47 A lot of people have been saying Dah-Santis, not Dee-Santis. Including the man himself, if you actually watch johnny maga's video. As for signatures, I like his new version. Good for him.

But RDS is done anyways. He's constantly dropping the ball on major issues like the January 6th prisoners and now the Trump indictment. You'd have to be magic to turn that around, and he just doesn't have that going for him. Especially not if he relies on the MAGA base, which any successful GOP candidate requirea now.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (DTm0P)

48 So Trump goes and tweets a stupid one about DeSantis's statement.

Question for you, Donald. Whose election did you prevent by calling them demeaning names?

And where was your toughness and name-calling when Fauci, Birx, and all the rest were bulldozing you into supporting the shutdowns that ruined your own economy, and the lives of your nation's children.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (KiBMU)

49 odd thing, I constantly have trouble remembering DeSantis's first name

I keep thinking it's Bob for some reason

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (VTu1l)

50 Just imagine if the marxist media had done an in-depth and thorough examination of Barack Mugabe's anal cavity back in 2008.

The things they would have found in there...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (OgB1i)

51 14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

That's the way I like it. Uh huh uh huh.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (M3hSG)

52 By the time we're done Trump will be calling DeSantis a book-banning homophobe.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (xPl2J)

53 Didn't he say that we shouldn't get involved? I seem to recall that he was being called a Putin apologist over that.

Yeppers.

Anything other than reflexive, unwavering support for anything Ukraine chooses to do is treason.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (2tUFv)

54 I can appreciate Ron not wanting to get into an extradition battle over something that's not even happened.

but it would be good to show some GOP warrior skills.

start arresting visiting new yorkers and make up shit like Bragg is. "Oh yeah, your rental car is stolen bc you went over the speedlimit, invalidating your contract."

take prisoners.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (MLrvz)

55 The media and Dems know they can beat Trump...again.

DeSantis is who they are scared about. They know he's not going to be like Trump that is just a rolling dumpster fire every day of the campaign.

They also know he's further to the Right than Trump and actually gets shit done instead of just tweeting his outrage.

Posted by: Indrid at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (9BmSv)

56 DeeeSantis, the shiftless homo who is supported by Jeb!, can't sign his name consistently? Are we sure that's really Ron? Maybe he's an alien.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (kvTlp)

57 Maybe by now though DeSantino has acquired a yen for those yummy Cubanos they serve in South Miami.

*the sandwiches you pervs*

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (dCxaZ)

58 43 They sure are attacking a person who is not running for President. They must be terrified of him announcing.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (ncXxy)

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I do not think the institutional left is afraid of any Republican winning the presidency. I think they are just in need of an Emmanuelle Goldstein at all times.

There must be an object of hate, or else their followers will get complacent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

59 You all seen/heard that conspiracy that Biden has a body double?

One of the proofs is a pair of photos, one where his earlobes are detached and another where they are.

IDK. I think it's legit. You have the fake WH set, always going to DE, most days he can't get through 10 minutes w/o a flub but then goes on a 90 speech other days, and-- and this is the biggest-- he never takes question off-script.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (vGwDa)

60 Losing weight to run for President.

That's just crazy.

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (PiwSw)

61 So, now it is a bad thing to be on a successful diet?

Posted by: Chuck C at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (xttsV)

62 "Soft-skills problem" means one thing: he's abrasive, commanding, not very nice, and doesn't listen to bullshit.

A leader shouldn't nasty and an unpleasant all the time - see Kamala Harris for why - but he *needs* to be fairly direct and cut through the bullshit any leader is constantly bombarded with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (t0OGg)

63 Mahomes' being a good quarterback may be a problem for him in the NFL.

He may win multiple SuperBowls.

Posted by: davidt at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (SYTee)

64 I don't know if he's on Ozempic and neither does this whore; she's just doing her duty as a Brave Media Truth-Teller to flood the zone with anti-DeSantis stories.
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Yup. Brave truth-telling is the same as mean-spirited and wild speculation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (t0OGg)

65 soft person skills...not as important as being a very successful, popular governor

just saying

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (MLrvz)

66 Who changes the pronunciation of their own last name in their 40’s?

Posted by: Gary Hartpence at March 20, 2023 03:36 PM (ZBPE2)

67 And Trump demanding that people treat him fairly is just, well, too much.

I'd like to point out that Trump said DeSantis could be "unfairly" attacked with "false accusations".

Trump isn't saying that DeSantis is guilty, merely that he's not either.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (z99Zw)

68 Obviously, we need to run Ted Cruz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (C7jzY)

69 Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party

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White Karens everywhere

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (VTu1l)

70 I will not fight for either man, but when one wins the primary I will back him.
Incidentally, who says Ron can't bite back at Trump?
It's been referenced hard today (even I noticed), but other than folks who are trying to get a fight started within the base who of any credibility really backs Trumps attacks but no one elses?
Not trying to start static, really just asking.

Posted by: Inogame at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (53oGX)

71 A lot of people have been saying Dah-Santis, not Dee-Santis. Including the man himself, if you actually watch johnny maga's video. As for signatures, I like his new version. Good for him.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (DTm0P)

YouTube closed captioning told me his name is actually Rhonda Sanchez.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

72 always going to DE

ugh we just got the extended TFR info I guess it's shore house time for the Biden's! we will never be able to use our cute little airport here again (until winter I guess)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (w0NJk)

73 well, i wish trump wasn't going after Darth Santis like he is, but i get it's what he does.

but the leftists in media can choke on a bag of dicks. and he must be doing something right that has them all scared shitless if they're going this hard this early.

but as said above, PDJT or Dath Santis are the only 2 i'll vote for baring some AMAZING revelation.

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (Mkvkw)

74 The press is little more than a haggle of concern trolls, hoping to push everyone just a little bit to the left.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (lTGtQ)

75 These are the same people who insist that students must hear about slavery non-stop, but when you mention that communism was bad too, they cry in outrage: "Stop indoctrinating children with your political lies!!!"
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Unischool will never be purged of its long history of just fucking *adoring* the communists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

76 Wow," said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."
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I think I found the problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Is she a towel-biter?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (Xgg6e)

77 A metric crapton of people are on Ozempic for weight loss now.

Countdown until it is found out that it causes bone cancer or makes your head fall off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (0hOvj)

78 Try it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (BvUNN)

I'll wait until I'm in a meaty mood, since most of the time I don't eat the cloven hoof-ed mammals.

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (dCxaZ)

79 apparently ozempic has some strange side effects on people's faces.

all the hollywood types are freaking out over it

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (MLrvz)

80
heh, I-uh just thought of-uh something...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (vwCZJ)

81

Meatball is the new Garrett. Fag.

Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (6hhYd)

82 DeSantis = Hard D

definitely should be on a bumper sticker

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (fs1hN)

83 Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada

She got booted for endorsing the Democratic candidates for attorney general and treasurer.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (2tUFv)

84
That's the way I like it. Uh huh uh huh.
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (M3hSG)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/6c5iLo1oKQA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

85 you know who this helps...

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (MLrvz)

86 Did DeSantis say pussy once, too?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:30 PM (LvTSG)

Yes.
To Kinzinger

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (FCbAQ)

87 Puddingate. A guy who eats pudding with his fingers is a freewheeler.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (FVME7)

88 well, i wish trump wasn't going after Darth Santis like he is, but i get it's what he does.

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

Im fine with it being politics

THE ALL CAPS THING NOT SO MUCH

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (VTu1l)

89 "Wow," said Amy Tarkanian... "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."

For comparison, my wife knew the minute the egg implanted. She got nauseas and high beams that would cut glass, each time she got prego (six times total).

"it's a spectrum" of body responses i'd guess, unique to each woman (see TV show, I didn't know i was pregnant). For Amy to 'speak' for all women is very pretentious. But you know that already.

Posted by: Scott_T at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (2waQ7)

90 That headline is much more pro-Trump than the actual article. The article is mostly just a neutral comparison of styles -- but "free-wheeling" is almost always taken to be good, and "scripted" as bad -- he's lying! -- so it's not completely neutral. Just more neutral than the headline would suggest.
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Yet this wasn't the case - at all, ever - during Obama's Reign of Error and if you ever complained that he was an automaton regurgitating whatever was on his prompter but had no ability to think or speak on his own, you were a nasty racist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (t0OGg)

91 Trump likes pie. He's the winner.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2023 03:38 PM (C7jzY)

92 One of the proofs is a pair of photos, one where his earlobes are detached and another where they are.

yeah its like the Hillary doubles. Definitely exist, and either those pics are photoshopped (videos, even) or that's not the same dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (0hOvj)

93 Wow," said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."
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****

I just want to live long enough for science to discover how women get pregnant.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (wb1YC)

94
Meatball is the new Garrett. Fag.
Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (6hhYd)

Curious as to what happened to garrett.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

95 >>>Question for you, Donald. Whose election did you prevent by calling them demeaning names?

I think it did work in 2016. But things were different then. For one thing, this was new. It was like having a Real-Life Bullworth come on the stage and light up everyone in the crooked system. Noting that Hillary was crooked, for example -- obviously she was, but so few actually said so.

For another thing, conservatives were sick of the GOPe and they applauded him lighting up the GOPers. Even where I didn't agree with Trump -- no, Bush didn't "lie us into Iraq" -- Trump's saying of unsayable things (even if they were wrong) was bracing. It was liberarting. Free speech means the right to say "the wrong thing." If it only gaurantees the right to say the things our Social Masters approve of, there is no free speech.

I don't find that either of these apply now. The Nickname Game isn't new, and it's no longer liberating; it just seems unserious. And DeSantis has molded himself after Trump. Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (BvUNN)

96 RD yesterday hammered the idea PDJT may be indicted and arrested by the scum-of-earth Demofascists. He managed to defend impartial justice, attack George Soros, impugn the integroy of those mofo's in the Manhattan DA's office, and all without making Trump sound like a hero martyr.

Very deftly done defense of the Republic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (kvTlp)

97 So, are you saying that Trump is acting like (a left wing) media ?

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (EeVCB)

98 For comparison, my wife knew the minute the egg implanted. She got nauseas and high beams that would cut glass, each time she got prego (six times total).
------------------
I knew my wife was pregnant before she did. Had to pull over to buy a pregnancy test. I was fucking right.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (C7jzY)

99 Our country is so fat someone losing weight must be drugs or something nefarious.

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (j5Tg0)

100 DeSantis = Hard D

-
Hardy har har.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (FVME7)

101 Incidentally, who says Ron can't bite back at Trump?

Not trying to start static, really just asking.
Posted by: Inogame at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (53oGX)

It wouldn't be hard for DeeSantis to say that Donald Trump is an annoying elderly pain in his ass with the fashion sense of a rhinoceros with a winning Powerball ticket. And then say "while none of that is illegal, it's a bigger crime than Alvin Bragg's Soros-funded bullshit."

Instead, he's doing the reverse of political grandstanding while making no moves against the actual attack from the left.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (DTm0P)

102 BREAKING: Dan Rather has .pdf documentation proving that DeSantis was born as an illegitimate bastard to a Mafia Don in Sicily -- making him ineligible to be POTUS! Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (Gs0Tz)

103 David Frump on Twitter which I thought he'd quit.
@davidfrum
Fascinating to watch Governor Ron DeSantis walk his nervous, wavering line on Ukraine. He's so tough against Disney!

Disney is a greater threat to America than Russia. Prove me wrong.

And if you say "but muh WWIII". Well guess what, that's being provoked by the same prog-media-Uniparty complex *in the USA* moreso than by Ukr or Rus. Bonus, Disney is an integral part of that prog-media-Uniparty complex

Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (786Ro)

104 14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

========

Crossbows!

No...Long bows!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (LvTSG)
.........

Mary Ann

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

105 What's worse than Donnie Two-Scoops?
Well, Three-Fingers Ronny, that's what!

Yeah, well, you don't want to know what hunter uses three fingers for.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

106 She got booted for endorsing the Democratic candidates for attorney general and treasurer.

sounds like former PA GOP head's wife. When Trump ran in 2016 she created the Latinos for Trump group, fast forward to 2023, she has a cushy job in demorat Josh Shapiro's admin.

they are all snakes

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (dCxaZ)

107 >>>Curious as to what happened to garrett.......

I hope he's okay. And I hope he didn't leave because of my Anti-Garrett Agitation.

I can barbecue Jack Straw instead. Maybe when Jack Straw smokes the wacky tabacky, he "feels like a man," if you know what I'm saying.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (BvUNN)

108 I have it on the best authority that DeSantis masticates regularly. I hate to be so crass in front of the ladies, but it needed to be said, so that we can protect our children
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

I guess it was tapioca.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (z99Zw)

109 104 14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

========

Crossbows!

No...Long bows!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:32 PM (LvTSG)
.........

Mary Ann

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

with a long bow or cross-bow?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

110 104 Mary Ann
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

========

Mary Ann + Ginger is the correct answer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (LvTSG)

111 -
Desantis ate pudding with his fingers!!
something...something... BILL COSBY!!!!

Posted by: Teh Press at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (SchQD)

112
'Sticky Fingers Ron' has a nice ring about it.

Might not cause some toilets to need to overflow at 3 am in Georgia.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (enJYY)

113 I don't know if he's on Ozempic and neither does this whore; she's just doing her duty as a Brave Media Truth-Teller to flood the zone with anti-DeSantis stories.

I looked her up. I'd let her earn the $20 the hard way.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (anj39)

114 Ozempic is for the gheys.

I heard.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (jGGMD)

115 The article is mostly just a neutral comparison of styles -- but "free-wheeling" is almost always taken to be good, and "scripted" as bad -- he's lying! -- so it's not completely neutral.

Unlike the famously whimsical and off-the-cuff Hillary.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (eOEVl)

116 >>>Disney is a greater threat to America than Russia. Prove me wrong.

yup. I mean, we HAVE been invaded and we ARE being controlled by a soviet politburo.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (BvUNN)

117 Our country is so fat someone losing weight must be drugs or something nefarious.

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

I lost 80 pounds taking a dangerous drug called keto

its made with narcotic substances derived from pigs and other toxic carbon emitting animals like cow

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (VTu1l)

118 This just means DeSantis is over the target.

Bombs Away, Ron!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (Wl6Ns)

119 Ron De Homo

Posted by: Trumpers at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (OaZlZ)

120 Fear Factor II

People need to realize the more they throw at the wall, the more we want to take a look.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (uQPen)

121 He's correcting reporters about the pronunciation of his name. This shows that he's a weak and insecure man, most likely with profound homosexual tendencies.
++++
HAHAHA. And he doesn't know how to spell. I'd assume that for "Dee-Santis," the spelling would be D'Santis.

But pronunciation of proper names is always a best-guess. I call him - and read his name as - Deh-Santis. I will probably keep doing so because it's basically ingrained at this point, but whatever. Correcting the pronunciation of your name isn't a big deal, nor is it a sign of weakness. It happens all the damn time for people who have a name pronunciation that is even remotely ambiguous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

122 Florida turned blood red under Ron. He single-handedly removed it from the electoral college map.

That bitch from Nevada can STFU and STFD.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (KbCG3)

123 5 He also has a Nickelback problem.

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

For God's sake will you let that shit go already
Posted by: MAGA Guy Listening to Air Supply at March 20, 2023 03:29 PM (VTu1l)

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No. It is a serious issue and must be addressed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (LvTSG)

I don't understand the Nickelback hate.

I've heard a song of two of theirs and it's very anodyne and forgettable LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE MEDIA.* (*Except for the stuff that's purposely offensive but forgettable crap.)

Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

124 Y'all know these articles are just plausible deniability for when RDS loses. And y'all know in your heart of hearts he will lose. The powers that be will not allow a win.

That being said, I'll still vote, but I'll still be black pilled.

Posted by: InZona at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (jTX/8)

125 105 What's worse than Donnie Two-Scoops?
Well, Three-Fingers Ronny, that's what!

Yeah, well, you don't want to know what hunter uses three fingers for.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

Is it a shocker?

Posted by: Bill "Five Finger Willie" Clinton at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (cupoy)

126 YouTube closed captioning told me his name is actually Rhonda Sanchez.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

Now THAT would be a hilarious ad. God knows there are enough crossdressers for DeSantis to hire to drum up awareness.

"No, dammit, it's DeeSantis!"

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (DTm0P)

127
I hope he's okay. And I hope he didn't leave because of my Anti-Garrett Agitation.

I can barbecue Jack Straw instead. Maybe when Jack Straw smokes the wacky tabacky, he "feels like a man," if you know what I'm saying.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (BvUNN)

Ah, so he could dish it out, but couldn't take it.

That strikes so typical. Oh well. He was good for a chuckle on distant occasion.

I wish him the best, tho.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

128 I admit it, I do like Miami. I like Key West too but it's a totally different vibe. Miami is more big city than Key West, but with the bonus that it's on the ocean!

woo-hoo

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (dCxaZ)

129 It's amazing that these leftist clowns can both choke on their own dicks while stepping on them.

Posted by: Roy at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (Pj9mr)

130 When Ace passes out pudding cups to us, I use just TWO fingers. Take that Ronnie D!

Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (786Ro)

131 What does it matter if he is taking ozempic to lose weight? Or he isn’t? I am glad he decided he needed to get a little healthier. Men also lose weight more quickly than females, damn that patriarchy!

Ps. Larry Hogan? Maybe try it.

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

132 Good that they can't help themselves and are going after RDS this early.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (EeVCB)

133 All politics is bullshit

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (F9x34)

134 Instead, he's doing the reverse of political grandstanding while making no moves against the actual attack from the left.

Good Lord, are you still here? That horse has ceased to be. It is an ex-horse. It's pining for the pastures.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (eOEVl)

135 i sort of wonder if trump going after desantis won't benefit both of them by sucking all attention away from the others. trump is pretty good at burying the hatchet with people he's trashed in the past.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (kFrCu)

136 Looking into the multiverse of potential futures, I see a hypothetical situation where DeSantis is the Republican nominee for 2024...

...and Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) say DeSantis is the new Hitler, and while Trump had issues, he had some good points, could negotiate and compromise, and wasn't as extremely right wing.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (JCZqz)

137 Did I read that Trump poked DeSantis about his weight?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (eGTCV)

138 Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?

I think its just one of those things that caught on socially like pretending you always were afraid of clowns or really like women with an ass so big she needs two chairs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (0hOvj)

139 Jardiance may cause a skin infection of the perineum which if you look up is gangrene of the taint, right where you want it.

Posted by: x at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (ZBPE2)

140 Yes, Trump smells like desperation. But it's the greatest, most fragrant desperation you've ever smelled! You'll get tired of all the desperation you'll smell!

Posted by: Wally at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (FJYfm)

141 Does my love of seltzer water contribute to global warming because of the CO2 it releases every time I pop a tab?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (t0OGg)

142 Amanda Bynes on the loose again. Beware falling bongs. If you see two pounds of lipstick carrying a can of gasoline toward you, flee for your life.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (MvF+J)

143 9 Wait till they get a load of me.

Posted by: Rona Vax at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (mxrFC)

144 He also has a Nickelback problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

Paid a nickel and only farted ?

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (T4tVD)

145 I have never seen DeSantis tricked or taking the bait yet.

He knows his enemies. He deals with them directly.

This is one reason they are so scared. He is not beholden to anyone. You just know the abc's are creating many accusations from whole cloth.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (uQPen)

146 They sure are attacking a person who is not running for President. They must be terrified of him announcing.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (ncXxy)

I keep asking for links to his announcement, but *crickets*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (BdMk6)

147 I seem to recall Joey Knuckles having a finger-related problem in the past, but the media's never seemed much interested.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (ppBhU)

148 Sounds like Amy Tasmanian is too fat and too stupid to know she's pregnant after missing her period for two months.

No wonder the GOP under preformed in NV.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (nnp+f)

149 130 When Ace passes out pudding cups to us, I use just TWO fingers. Take that Ronnie D!

Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (786Ro)

Third finger is for the backside of the pudding cup...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

150 ace, were you mean to garrett?? Were you cruel??

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (PCK5/)

151 Everyone knows that the best way to win the presidency is to stay in your basement, go to poorly attended rallies, and lie a lot.... oh and to shutdown vote counting in the middle of the night but mostly....

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (17s+e)

152 So there's a bunch of polls out there showing Ron DeSantis will beat Trump in the primaries?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (vGwDa)

153
Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

Because they started out alright, then the lead singer started banging Jewell, or somesuch, and started writing songs with his penis and went all pussified.

At least that's what I heard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

154 Lindsey Graham said some absolutely insane stuff on Ukraine today at a SC forum, and got some heckling. I'm sure there's video somewhere, it was on C-Span.

transcript:

"First, does it matter to america? How many of you believe china is an enemy to the united states? If you believe pulling the plug and ukraine, makes china less provocative, you should not be allowed to drive in south carolina. China is watching. Why did he do it? Putin. Biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. -- biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. This is why it matters for us. What did putin get accused of yesterday? Territorial dispute? international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of russia for kidnapping children in ukraine and sending them to russia. Do you believe in family values? How would you like that to happen to your family? If you believe in family, stand up for families everywhere. Don't you think god made us all in his image?"

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (V6W16)

155 Good that they can't help themselves and are going after RDS this early.

You just don't understand politics. They're really terrified of Vivek Ramaswamy. You can tell because they're ignoring him.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (eOEVl)

156 I for one did not expect that the big topic of the day would be how to pronounce Meatball Ron's last name.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (jGGMD)

157 apparently ozempic has some strange side effects on people's faces.

all the hollywood types are freaking out over it

Have you seen the buccal fat removal thing Hollywood types have been doing? It's weird as hell.

https://youtu.be/eGSrkzYCMQs?t=20

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (V1QHJ)

158 I've heard a song of two of theirs and it's very anodyne and forgettable LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE MEDIA.* (*Except for the stuff that's purposely offensive but forgettable crap.)

Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?

their corporatized cookie-cutter songs that were heavily overplayed on radio were the last gasp of rock music as an important part of our culture. rock has lost that place since at least 2012. nickleback gets a lot of the blame, but were just wrong place and time

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (j5Tg0)

159 DeSantis is a Russian Agent!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (F9x34)

160 123 Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

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I don't think I've ever heard a Nickelback song. It's just a funny meme.

I like to use it because it's just a silly, stupid reason to oppose DeSantis, like many reasons people put out about many candidates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

161 Wut? Wut? In the but?

Posted by: David Frum's Favorite Workout Jam at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (OZjDX)

162 Looking into the multiverse of potential futures, I see a hypothetical situation where DeSantis is the Republican nominee for 2024...

...and Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) say DeSantis is the new Hitler, and while Trump had issues, he had some good points, could negotiate and compromise, and wasn't as extremely right wing.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 20, 2023 03:43 PM (JCZqz)
++++
And then they steal the election anyway, rendering the point moot and leaving a lot of people certain that DeSantis didn't really lose, but increasingly sure that he never stood a chance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (t0OGg)

163 old and busted: grab them by the p*ssy
new hotness: pudding by the fingers

Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (786Ro)

164 Meh... I still subscribe to the notion no Republican can overcome the Democrat's fraud/ballet harvesting op.

Unless the GOP is willing to ramp up their own ballot harvesting and fraud op. But current signs don't suggest that's even being contemplated.

Trump mentioned it... but that's about all I've heard.

If the GOP would put half as much effort into that as they do into undermining their own candidates who "are of lesser quality" than the GOP leadership thinks deserves to be elected they might stand a chance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)

165 i had already tuned out of popular music by the time Nickelback came along so I never had them pushed in my face to have a strong negative reaction. Yeah, they seem lame, but I never was forced to listen to the lameness, so to me, they're just another lame band.

for a while I thought they were coldplay. I don't know if I could tell the two apart. I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (BvUNN)

166 I changed my signature too when people started asking me for my autograph.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (NpAcC)

167 Screw em both. I'm going Vivek Ramaswamy

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5m5FR)

168 David Frump is scum.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (eGTCV)

169 You know who is more scared of DeSantis running for president than the unhinged left?

Trump.

I get the left's hard no. DeSantis is diametrically opposed to everything they stand for. But Trump's derangement is eerie because it is driven by selfish ambition and bitter jealousy. Losing to Retard Biden would not sting like losing to a better man.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (sI15f)

170 141 Does my love of seltzer water contribute to global warming because of the CO2 it releases every time I pop a tab?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (t0OGg)

Not as much as pulling my finger

Posted by: Eric Fartswell at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (ynpvh)

171 DeSantis focused on securing the entire electoral system in Florida. He addresses almost every problem with a solution, not a pejorative and self adulation. I'm frankly sick of the latter two.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (M5z+9)

172 "Ron DeSantis has a Florida Problem" because... he's too popular here.

-
Lori Lightfoot proved what an advantage being hated by your constituents is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (FVME7)

173 Ron likes the "hard D", doesn't he?

Posted by: Trumpers at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (OaZlZ)

174
Ron DeSantis for President

A chicken in every pot and three fingers in your pudding.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (BvUNN)

175 You know that the Russians are supporting DeSantis, right?

Posted by: Christopher Steele! at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (2tUFv)

176 Fomenting a fight between Trump and DeSantis is so typically Leftist.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

177 Fingers in pudding cups? Am I reading the wrong blog?

Posted by: davidt at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (SYTee)

178
but Ron DeSantis said "pudding"!

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (BvUNN)

179 This is one reason they are so scared. He is not beholden to anyone. You just know the abc's are creating many accusations from whole cloth.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (uQPen)

You need to hold this as a fact: DeSantis will be bound to his large donors. And he will need large donors.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (BdMk6)

180 David Frump is scum.
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (eGTCV)

His name is Frump.

Isn't that what you called the kid that used to eat the bubbles in the bathtub?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Have you seen the buccal fat removal thing Hollywood types have been doing? It's weird as hell.

Yeah I am really confused by it. It makes you look cadaverous or like Zoolander's Blue Steel stare.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (0hOvj)

182 So there's a bunch of polls out there showing Ron DeSantis will beat Trump in the primaries?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (vGwDa)

Sure. Governor with almost no presence in alternative media, a commitment to ignore the press (which isn't bad, btw), and less votes in his own state than Donald Trump managed is out polling Trump. Pure hopium.

Fox is pretty strongly for DeSantis, but that's not going to be enough.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (DTm0P)

183 172 Lori Lightfoot proved what an advantage being hated by your constituents is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (FVME7)

=======

Even the machine gets tired of your bullshit and boots you from office through the machinery of a primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

184 DeSantis urinated on a couple of prostitutes in a hotel room in Moscow.

Posted by: Christopher Steele! at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (2tUFv)

185 Too much drama. Let's get off this train.

Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, JD at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (i6shs)

186 ace, were you mean to garrett?? Were you cruel??
Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (PCK5/)

More than usual, you mean?

Posted by: Dr. T at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (jGGMD)

187 for a while I thought they were coldplay. I don't know if I could tell the two apart. I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

This is an almost weird level of unawareness. It's like saying "I always get Loretta Lynn and Lita Ford mxed up." Are you feeling well, Ace? Have you drank any water in the last 48 hours?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (ppBhU)

188

Garrett got banhammered for threatening to kill Peach's pet goldfish...

Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (6hhYd)

189 So when does Marianne Williamson start call Biden a stupid crooked pedo?

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

190 the news is extra retarded today,

Posted by: no 6 at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (PXvVL)

191 178
but Ron DeSantis said "pudding"!

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:46 PM (BvUNN)

It becomes a problem when he sticks his finger in your pudding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

192 >>>You need to hold this as a fact: DeSantis will be bound to his large donors. And he will need large donors.

are we still pretending Trump didn't take money from the exact same people...?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (BvUNN)

193 150 ace, were you mean to garrett?? Were you cruel??
Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (PCK5/)
*****
You were mean to the 'ettes this morning with artwork suggestion.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (NpAcC)

194 Trump said he's on the crack pipe. Lmbo

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (ytSiK)

195 I don't think I've ever heard a Nickelback song

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

oh you heard them alright, they're just so forgettable that you can't remember hearing them

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (VTu1l)

196
Garrett got banhammered for threatening to kill Peach's pet goldfish...
Posted by: Hypnogogic Jerk at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (6hhYd)

Well, he did threaten to kill me, so I guess there was a pattern there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

197 DeSantis took a secret flight to Moscow to kiss Putin's ring and ask for his endorsement.

Posted by: Christopher Steele! at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (2tUFv)

198 3 fingers in the pudding sounds like something Biden did.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (Y5qcH)

199 Ron should be correcting people in Harvey Korman's voice when he says "That's Hedley!"

"That's hard-D"

Posted by: 496 at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (sd0/R)

200 "14 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h) "

Yay.
I'm'a just leave that for the people who enjoy it, bbl.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (QNv15)

201 193 150 ace, were you mean to garrett?? Were you cruel??
Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (PCK5/)
*****
You were mean to the 'ettes this morning with artwork suggestion.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (NpAcC)

Heh.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

202 They are trying to split the MAGA vote, but it's not really necessary..2016 was the last time American voters had a say in an election.

Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (VD8D9)

203 > I lost 80 pounds taking a dangerous drug called keto

That's amazing!

I've lost about 27lbs since the end of November by counting calories.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (V1QHJ)

204 for a while I thought they were coldplay. I don't know if I could tell the two apart. I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

ok that's funny, they couldn't be more different

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (j5Tg0)

205 190 the news is extra retarded today,

Posted by: no 6 at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (PXvVL)

Goodnight. Me...again?

Posted by: Fettermonster at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (ynpvh)

206 "Screw em both. I'm going Vivek Ramaswamy"

I like John Dutton, but I draw the line at getting branded.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (MvF+J)

207 >>>This is an almost weird level of unawareness.

you must be younger than me. You will soon find this level of unawareness very normal.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (BvUNN)

208 Why the hate for this specific group of talentless hacks?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

Culture-signaling. In certain circles (Mostly, but not exclusively, Leftie), there are certain things that must be considered property of the rubes.
Nickelback
Olive Garden
Watching network TV (Except The Bachelorette, for some reason)
Driving a full size pickup
Dane Cook's comedy (Don't get me wrong. I don't find him funny either, but I don't hate the ones who do)

Posted by: Wally at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (FJYfm)

209 for a while I thought they were coldplay. I don't know if I could tell the two apart. I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (BvUNN)

They also do "Speed of Sound," not to mention every other song you've probably heard in umpteen different elevators.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (jGGMD)

210 I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (BvUNN)

I hate that song.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (DRSnL)

211 >And where was your toughness and name-calling when Fauci, Birx, and all the rest were bulldozing you into supporting the shutdowns that ruined your own economy, and the lives of your nation's children.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (KiBMU)

Same place it was when it came to the McGOP. Let's face it: the McGOP could help him grab some power, so they didn't get put on blast, yet DeSanctimonious threatens his personal power even thought they in theory are quite closely aligned on policy, therefore DeSatan gets the full measure of being shat upon.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (mGabY)

212 Have you seen the buccal fat removal thing Hollywood types have been doing? It's weird as hell.

https://youtu.be/eGSrkzYCMQs?t=20
Posted by: bonhomme

Death camp chic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (FVME7)

213
are we still pretending Trump didn't take money from the exact same people...?
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (BvUNN)

We? There must be a mouse in that guy's pocket......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

214 I like DeSantis and if he's the nominee I'll vote enthusiastically for him. But I'm already tired of the "Trump without the baggage" trope because by the time the MSM is done with him, he'll have baggage.
They'll create it

Posted by: Cat at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (mR6Gs)

215 Does my love of seltzer water contribute to global warming because of the CO2 it releases every time I pop a tab?

We go through so much of that stuff in the house we finally got a little device to make our own, and it works amazingly well. I highly recommend it. We got this Soda Stream unit

https://tinyurl.com/2xa2endk

Its a lot cheaper overall than buying the cans.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (0hOvj)

216 I saw Republicans Familiar With The Outburst open for Seasoned Caucus Enthusiast at the Roxy in 1983.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (wzAuc)

217 this is totally Trump's fault

Posted by: REDACTED at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (us2H3)

218 198 3 fingers in the pudding sounds like something Biden did.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (Y5qcH)

Don't eat the brown pudding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

219 DeSantis sucked the pudding off the fingers of Russian whores!!!
Totes.legit!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (anj39)

220 Three in the pink one in the stink... puddin that it.

Posted by: Ron DeathSantis at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (17s+e)

221 the last time I was listening to what was currently on the radio was... I dunno, whenever Queens of the Stone Age released "No One Knows." Like that era.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (BvUNN)

222 Joe Biden recently issued his first veto, ending a Trump-era ban on federal managers of retirement plans considering factors such as climate change, social impacts or pending lawsuits when making investment choices.

Biden tweet: This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don't like. Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not.

MTG Tweet: No one has put our retirement at risk more than you, Joe. American families can’t count on checks from China to pay their rent and groceries like your family does.

Did MTG just accuse President Biden of receiving money from China? Does she have any proof? Otherwise that seems like defamation, doesn't it?

The evidence must be in Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails 🙄

How and why did this pass the Senate? How did I miss such an outrage?

MTG suffers from swallowing handfuls of horse dewormer pills and thinks everything is woke, whatever that means.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (JCZqz)

223 I thought Frump's last name was Audereduofece

Which roughly translated from the original Latin means "one who fucks zebras"

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (VTu1l)

224 130 When Ace passes out pudding cups to us, I use just TWO fingers. Take that Ronnie D!
Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:42 PM (786Ro)

When it's pudding time, I also put two..

wait, did you say "fingers"?

I mean, you do you, but it seems a waste of perfectly good pudding.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (cupoy)

225 for a while I thought they were coldplay. I don't know if I could tell the two apart. I know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (BvUNN)
++++
Nothing like Coldplay. But Coldplay - unlike Nickleback - has a special position on my altar of hate. Nickleback is just a band that has one song they keep making over and over again. They do well with it. It doesn't bother me at all. I'm not fond of Nickleback, but I don't hate them.

Coldplay, though, is another story. In 2000, when that bullshit hit "Yellow" hit the scene, it marked the beginning of the end of popular music. Slow. whiny, boring, self-impressed pap so far up its own asshole it violated physical laws. This trash didn't become the universal norm for quite a while, but it was a haunting vision of things to come.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)

226 I admit it, I do like Miami. I like Key West too but it's a totally different vibe. Miami is more big city than Key West, but with the bonus that it's on the ocean!

woo-hoo
Posted by: kallisto

You know what Miami and Key West have in common?

They both host the only "Garrett's Crocks and Gay Apparel" stores in the western hemisphere.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (FyTt0)

227 Garrett got banhammered for threatening to kill Peach's pet goldfish...

is this real life?

Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (dCxaZ)

228 128 Kallisto - we usually don’t go all the way down to Key West except for a day trip. We have stayed at Isla Bella in Marathon the last 2 times we went. Recommend it highly for a relaxing experience over the party vibe of Key West or Miami, though that is fun, too.

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

229 221 the last time I was listening to what was currently on the radio was... I dunno, whenever Queens of the Stone Age released "No One Knows." Like that era.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (BvUNN)

Which is interesting because they're a huge band that has never really received much radio play.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (KbCG3)

230 Ron signs his name differently sometimes! That bastard just lost my vote. Second look at Mitt Romney?

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (GwxCX)

231 I actually don't get the Nickelback hate. Not really my thing, but in a reality that allows Creed and Pearl Jam to exist, what's the point in being put out by Nickelback?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (ppBhU)

232 222 Did MTG just accuse President Biden of receiving money from China? Does she have any proof? Otherwise that seems like defamation, doesn't it?

The evidence must be in Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails 🙄

How and why did this pass the Senate? How did I miss such an outrage?

MTG suffers from swallowing handfuls of horse dewormer pills and thinks everything is woke, whatever that means.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (JCZqz)

========

That they don't know about the materials that the House pulled from the executive branch is not really a surprise, but I guess it's true that Joe himself didn't get the money. It just came to everyone around him but not him because he's honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

233 there are certain things that must be considered property of the rubes.

Other than the pickup thing I mean, I find no fault with that list.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (0hOvj)

234 I've got Nickelback losing to UCLA in the Final Four in my bracket.

Posted by: Hands at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (786Ro)

235 227 Garrett got banhammered for threatening to kill Peach's pet goldfish...

is this real life?
Posted by: kallisto at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (dCxaZ)

Or just a Fanstay….

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (PCK5/)

236 > A chicken in every pot and three fingers in your pudding.

If a buddy of mine did that, I'd definitely tease him about it. But does it change anyone's vote?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (V1QHJ)

237 If DeSantis ever forcefully distances himself from the McConnell/Jeb portion of the party, I'd be bothered by Trump's attacks. Until that happens, this is just playing by the new rules. Trump received more intra-party bashing than any candidate or President in modern history.

Mike

Posted by: MBunge at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (2tWdQ)

238 Whew, isn't it wonderful to live in a country in which everything is going so well journalists have to focus on issues like how many fingers one should employ when partaking of one's pudding?

Four years ago.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (pqB/I)

239 know coldplay does "Clocks" and that's it.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (BvUNN)

I hate that song.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (DRSnL)

Coldplay is a crappy band, but their first album came out of nowhere in 1999 and it's pretty good.

"Clocks" is probably their last good tune, and it's a U2 rip-off

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (mR6Gs)

240 Its a lot cheaper overall than buying the cans.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (0hOvj)
++++
I've considered it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (t0OGg)

241 215 Does my love of seltzer water contribute to global warming because of the CO2 it releases every time I pop a tab?

We go through so much of that stuff in the house we finally got a little device to make our own, and it works amazingly well. I highly recommend it. We got this Soda Stream unit

https://tinyurl.com/2xa2endk

Its a lot cheaper overall than buying the cans.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (0hOvj)

Fun Fact: Most of the CO2 used in beverages come from an inactive volcano under Jackson, MI. Except now it's contaminated and there is a CO2 shortage.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (UuD2k)

242 In 2012 it was decided that all music should be hip hop. I think destroyed music more than Nickleback or Coldplay ever did.

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (j5Tg0)

243 This is why DeSantis should run. It dilutes the sewage they can spray at Trump.

They make a good combo. They are different enough, but the same enough to work in a complementary way.

Trump's got his issues. That's for sure, but warts and all he's not a pushover even with the deep state/media in full swing. Deesantis is promising but untested nationally. This is going to be super fun. So much weirdness. But but but he eats PUDDING with is fingers.

Posted by: Pudding Cup anyone anyone? at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (O8c0E)

244 Word on the street is Ron DeSantis' father killed JFK.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (NpAcC)

245 240 Its a lot cheaper overall than buying the cans.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:49 PM (0hOvj)
++++
I've considered it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (t0OGg)

=========

Will a man pay you to sing into his can?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (LvTSG)

246 What happened to Hadrian VII? Seems like he hasn’t been around for a while.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (DSB5h)

247 If you don't beat your meat, you can't have any pudding

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (mR6Gs)

248 In reality I really don't understand the logic behind a Trump DeSantis War. Maybe because my logic isn't being applied or it's something other than logic at work.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (OZjDX)

249 Oops, that should have been Jackson, MS. My geography teacher is ashamed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (UuD2k)

250 Biden recently issued his first veto, ending a Trump-era ban on federal managers of retirement plans considering factors such as climate change, social impacts or pending lawsuits when making investment choices.

Biden tweet: This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don't like. Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not. ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (JCZqz)
++++
FEED ME

Posted by: The ESG Machine at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (t0OGg)

251 What happened to Hadrian VII? Seems like he hasn’t been around for a while.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (DSB5h)

How boat Insomniac? Broseidon?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (mR6Gs)

252 Coldplay, though, is another story. In 2000, when that bullshit hit "Yellow" hit the scene, it marked the beginning of the end of popular music.

Yeah but even that was better than... whatever we have now in pop. As terrible as it was, it was at least performed by a band who wrote their songs and performed them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (0hOvj)

253 "First, does it matter to america? How many of you believe china is an enemy to the united states? If you believe pulling the plug and ukraine, makes china less provocative, you should not be allowed to drive in south carolina. China is watching. Why did he do it? Putin. Biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. -- biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. This is why it matters for us. What did putin get accused of yesterday? Territorial dispute? international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of russia for kidnapping children in ukraine and sending them to russia. Do you believe in family values? How would you like that to happen to your family? If you believe in family, stand up for families everywhere. Don't you think god made us all in his image?"
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 20, 2023 03:44 PM (V6W16)

"territorial dispute" is a slam at DeSantis for those who are keeping score. That's how he described it in his note to Tucker.

Lindsey is veering pretty wildly there, and you have to be a high class of dumb to think that getting stuck into a tar baby in Ukraine enhances our ability to counter China.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

254 Pudding Fingers vs Salad Comb

Posted by: davidt at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (SYTee)

255 Coldplay, though, is another story. In 2000, when that bullshit hit "Yellow" hit the scene, it marked the beginning of the end of popular music. Slow. whiny, boring, self-impressed pap so far up its own asshole it violated physical laws. This trash didn't become the universal norm for quite a while, but it was a haunting vision of things to come.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)

Then they signed with U2's producer and started to sound exactly like U2........that's unforgivable. I mean, U2 largely blows, but made a lot of money, so mimicking them is lazy and pretentious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

256 Will a man pay you to sing into his can?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (LvTSG)

Ten dolla apiece.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

257 You need to hold this as a fact: DeSantis will be bound to his large donors. And he will need large donors.

are we still pretending Trump didn't take money from the exact same people...?
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (BvUNN)

no
including BigPharma
it's all relative in the end

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (uQPen)

258 all I know about Nickelback is Rockstar is a serious earworm of a song

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (V6W16)

259 "Joe Biden recently issued his first veto, ending a Trump-era ban on federal managers of retirement plans considering factors such as climate change, social impacts or pending lawsuits when making investment choices."

Um, that's not what a veto is.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (UuD2k)

260 All the serial killers gush over Stalin.
If they all look up to these guys means you too can enjoy history.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (MoYQF)

261 Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (BvUNN)

Yup. And that is so off-putting in this cultural climate.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (sI15f)

262
How boat Insomniac? Broseidon?
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (mR6Gs)

Insom took time off to concentrate on his life and personal well being.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

263 What happened to Hadrian VII? Seems like he hasn’t been around for a while.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (DSB5h)

How boat Insomniac? Broseidon?
Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (mR6Gs)

Thought someone said Hadrian has a time out for Lent. Or maybe that was someone else.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (eoQWY)

264 Yeah but even that was better than... whatever we have now in pop. As terrible as it was, it was at least performed by a band who wrote their songs and performed them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (0hOvj)
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Yeah, no question. I hate Coldplay but they are a band. A real one, who can play their instruments and write and sing and shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)

265 He also has a Nickelback problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:28 PM

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

266 I actually don't get the Nickelback hate. Not really my thing, but in a reality that allows Creed and Pearl Jam to exist, what's the point in being put out by Nickelback?

***

I'm fairly certain that Green Day is mentioned in Revelations.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (wb1YC)

267 You need to hold this as a fact: DeSantis will be bound to his large donors. And he will need large donors.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (BdMk6)

What's interesting is a view at Donald Trump on Open Secrets. He got outfunded in both campaigns, yet managed a massive popular vote increase in the second campaign- one that couldn't be covertly cheated away, so they had to go loud. And both times he didn't actually need donor money to win the GOP primary.

By contrast, DeSantis needs Clinton-style New York book deals to pump his fundraising numbers. Which tends to hurt candidates with the MAGA base. The better play would be to actually get the volunteer grassroots on board without relying on consultants, but clearly RDS is taking the Paul Ryan approach to controlling major parts of Con Inc., like Fox News.

Not a bad plan, IF he wasn't facing competition for the Vichy vote from Mike Pence and Nikki Haley.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (DTm0P)

268 215 I've seen broken links, but that one takes the cake. Closes the browser tab in Chrome on Linux.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (MvF+J)

269 I do not think the institutional left is afraid of any Republican winning the presidency. I think they are just in need of an Emmanuelle Goldstein at all times.

There must be an object of hate, or else their followers will get complacent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:35 PM (LvTSG)
==
Yeah, I'm very much on record it doesn't matter who runs, the left and GOPe will make sure they do not win.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (UVyKP)

270 I don't think I've ever heard a Nickelback song. It's just a funny meme.

I like to use it because it's just a silly, stupid reason to oppose DeSantis, like many reasons people put out about many candidates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

Trolling.

That's a cause I can get behind.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (N1tpc)

271 In reality I really don't understand the logic behind a Trump DeSantis War. Maybe because my logic isn't being applied

There isn't any reason behind it. Its just gut level cheerleading, its the same reason people get into fights over football teams.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (0hOvj)

272 What happened to Hadrian VII? Seems like he hasn’t been around for a while.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:53 PM (DSB5h)

Hadrian gave us up for Lent last year. Maybe he did it again, I'm not sure.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

273 Screw em both. I'm going Vivek Ramaswamy
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5m5FR)

That is not how you spell my name.

It's J E B Bush Jeb! Bush....Jeb!

Please clap!

Posted by: Jeb! An Inbred Tool at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (OgB1i)

274 This trash didn't become the universal norm for quite a while, but it was a haunting vision of things to come.

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

When i learned about the millennial whoop, I wanted to burn down the human race starting with millennials

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (VTu1l)

275 Whew, isn't it wonderful to live in a country in which everything is going so well journalists have to focus on issues like how many fingers one should employ when partaking of one's pudding?

Four years ago.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos
====

I thought all the great and smart "journalists" were up in arms about Musk's tweeting back the poop emoji to any "journalist's" questions.

Posted by: Ron DeathSantis at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (17s+e)

276 My signature changed ever since they changed the credit card machines.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (NpAcC)

277 Trump's schtick is just old and played out.

It was fun in 2016 because it was something fresh, but now it's like Jim Carrey doing another Ace Ventura movie. It's just pure cringe now. I'm embarrassed i ever liked it at all.

Also, I think there is a real hunger for a serious, competent leader right now if we're going to beat Biden. In 2016, it was a bit of a "holiday from history" and Trump wildcard made way more sense. Now we have the backdrop of WW3, massive inflation, and a recession. This is not the right time for Trump and his WWF act.

Posted by: Indrid at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (NAhYT)

278 This black lady in a dress has no problem with DeSantis:
https://is.gd/KjiG0x

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (t0OGg)

279 Word on the street is Ron DeSantis' father killed JFK.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (NpAcC)

Obviously.
De Santis= Italian surname= mob connection=JFK assassination

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (mR6Gs)

280 Then they signed with U2's producer and started to sound exactly like U2........that's unforgivable. I mean, U2 largely blows, but made a lot of money, so mimicking them is lazy and pretentious.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

My man!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (KbCG3)

281 212 just wait until they get old and start to lose fullness on the face naturally. It will look really odd then. Suddenly we will have buccal fat transfers!

One of my best friends is married to a plastic surgeon, he is getting a lot of requests for this from the 30 year set. He tells every one of them the risk of looking haggard at 50.

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

282 WHAT KIND OF PUDDING!!!!

Posted by: Bosk at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (ZVuYy)

283 Biden put his fingers in Tara Reade's pudding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (zzRkQ)

284 all I know about Nickelback is Rockstar is a serious earworm of a song
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 20, 2023 03:54 PM (V6W16)
.......

all I know about them is one of the guys has a head shaped like a lightbulb.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

285 Trolling.

That's a cause I can get behind.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (N1tpc)

(Also, I didn't think anyone here ACTUALLY hated DeSantis because of Nickelback. I was just curious how they became a meme, which has been nicely answered "Wrong place, wrong time for a bad band.")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (N1tpc)

286 What kind of animal eats pudding with 3 fingers?

It's 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink - for crying out loud!

Posted by: lorien1973 at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (Lavx8)

287 Biden tweet: This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don't like. Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not. ...

Great. Give me the choice and I'll decide whether I want their "protection" or not.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (eOEVl)

288 Lindsey Graham said some absolutely insane stuff on Ukraine today at a SC forum, and got some heckling. I'm sure there's video somewhere, it was on C-Span.

transcript:

"First, does it matter to america? How many of you believe china is an enemy to the united states? If you believe pulling the plug and ukraine, makes china less provocative, you should not be allowed to drive in south carolina. China is watching. Why did he do it? Putin. Biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. -- biden has been the weakest president since jimmy carter. This is why it matters for us. What did putin get accused of yesterday? Territorial dispute? international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of russia for kidnapping children in ukraine and sending them to russia. Do you believe in family values? How would you like that to happen to your family? If you believe in family, stand up for families everywhere. Don't you think god made us all in his image?"
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything

If I understand correctly, we need to fight the Russians in Ukraine or else China won't fear us and that's the family values that God likes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (FVME7)

289
>>> I don't think I've ever heard a Nickelback song. It's just a funny meme.

they do this one called "She Keeps Me Up" or something where they go "she's a twisted little minx, she's the mister's sister." I know it because all the Thots use it in YouTube shorts. It's annoying.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (BvUNN)

290 270Trolling.

That's a cause I can get behind.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (N1tpc)

=======

I've never denied it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

291 A lot of people died and are dying still because of Trump being beholden to BigPharma. He pushed more for that vaccine than he has for the release of the Jan 6 political prisoners.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (sI15f)

292 I've seen broken links, but that one takes the cake. Closes the browser tab in Chrome on Linux.
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (MvF+J)
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Odd. I'm on a Chrome derivative on Linux and it came up fine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (t0OGg)

293 Senate seats open in 2024 with most likely possible pick ups for Rs...if we don't openly sabotage ourselves at the top of the ticket...

Arizona (Sinema)
Michigan (Open - D retiring)
Montana (Tester)
Nevada (Rosen)
Pennsylvania (Casey)
Virginia (Kaine)
West Virginia (Manchin)
Wisconsin (Baldwin)

I know we never strategize, but really, we need McConnell to lose power by being stuck with a majority who will never vote for him (since he'd need 51 votes, and he's got no shot at that if he's still there)...

So, we need a candidate that does not instantly turn off Rs in these states nor rabidly bring out Ds...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (exHjb)

294 I mean, U2 largely blows, but made a lot of money, so mimicking them is lazy and pretentious.

It takes some real effort to be more pretentious than U2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

295 Trump's schtick is just old and played out.

I actually agree with this.
It won't stop me from voting for him, but he should try to act a bit more mature.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (mR6Gs)

296 ScarJo burned the SodaStream into my hippocampus. If you say it's actually a good product, I'll take a look.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (MvF+J)

297
There seems to be a purge going on.

Pictures of posters are disappearing from the masthead.

Why, just a few minutes ago I got a

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (QarLh)

298 That they don't know about the materials that the House pulled from the executive branch is not really a surprise, but I guess it's true that Joe himself didn't get the money. It just came to everyone around him but not him because he's honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

Two Bidens remarking that the Big Guy gets his 10 percent says otherwise.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (eoQWY)

299 I'm fairly certain that Green Day is mentioned in Revelations.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM

Ugh, Billy Fuckface. His voice sounds like he has a really bad cold. He's an ignorant little runt as well.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (GwxCX)

300 It takes some real effort to be more pretentious than U2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

Hey man

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (mR6Gs)

301 are we still pretending Trump didn't take money from the exact same people...?
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (BvUNN)

No, I'm not. It's politics. But thinking that DeSantis isn't obliged to outside agendas is delusional.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (BdMk6)

302 Buccal fat… now available at Buccee’s.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

303 Yeah, no question. I hate Coldplay but they are a band. A real one, who can play their instruments and write and sing and shit.

I like a fair amount of Coldplay's stuff off their first several albums. It's listenable adult-contemporary kind of stuff. I like it the same way some people like Peter Cetera and Chicago despite somehow inexplicably not being gay. Now, Dave Matthews Band, there is a group all decent men and women should agree is awful.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (ppBhU)

304 i remember everyone used to bust on Creed. I think people went from busting on Creed right to busting on Nickelback to busting on coldplay.

I honestly couldn't tell them apart.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (BvUNN)

305 At least he didn't dip his balls in pudding. I mean what kind of demented... oh wait.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (wagHN)

306 This is why DeSantis should run. It dilutes the sewage they can spray at Trump.

They make a good combo. They are different enough, but the same enough to work in a complementary way.

Trump's got his issues. That's for sure, but warts and all he's not a pushover even with the deep state/media in full swing. Deesantis is promising but untested nationally. This is going to be super fun. So much weirdness. But but but he eats PUDDING with is fingers.
Posted by: Pudding Cup anyone anyone? at March 20, 2023 03:52 PM (O8c0E)

Yes, a lot of people used to say we need more people like Trump, in terms of speaking his mind, not backing down, calling out the media and bs reporters, and being Pro-American.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (uQPen)

307 Next up, DeSantis colors his hair

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (NtVYv)

308 I'm fairly certain that Green Day is mentioned in Revelations.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM

Ugh, Billy Fuckface. His voice sounds like he has a really bad cold. He's an ignorant little runt as well.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (GwxCX)

Funny how he swerved into the truth though about the media in American Idiot, an album I loathe.

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (mR6Gs)

309 304 i remember everyone used to bust on Creed. I think people went from busting on Creed right to busting on Nickelback to busting on coldplay.

I honestly couldn't tell them apart.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (BvUNN)

Not me, I'm old school. I bust on Rush.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (UuD2k)

310 You all seen/heard that conspiracy that Biden has a body double?
______________

Which one keeps taking headers on steps?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (YqDXo)

311 If I understand correctly, we need to fight the Russians in Ukraine or else China won't fear us and that's the family values that God likes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (FVME7)

The driving in South Carolina twist had me wondering.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (eoQWY)

312 Can anyone tell me how this is any different than a lynching?

https://bit.ly/3LHEgrn

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (V1QHJ)

313 "Ron DeSantis has a Florida Problem" because... he's too popular here.

Nobody likes a popular guy.

Posted by: Yogi Berra, probably at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (e2onP)

314 44 I have it on the best authority that DeSantis masticates regularly. I hate to be so crass in front of the ladies, but it needed to be said, so that we can protect our children
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

And he matriculated from college! The horror!

Posted by: Fox2! at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (8LNFq)

315
It takes some real effort to be more pretentious than U2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

Exactly. Thinking you can do another band's sound better than that billion dollar band........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

316 Oh, then that led to busting on Maroon 5. Unfortunately I have had to hear Maroon 5 enough that I get that one. (I liked "Makes Me Wonder," though.)

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (BvUNN)

317 You all seen/heard that conspiracy that Biden has a body double?
______________

Which one keeps taking headers on steps?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 03:59 PM (YqDXo)

Be funny if its the double, and the staff tells him to do one just for the lols.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (eoQWY)

318 "I'm fairly certain that Green Day is mentioned in Revelations."

Crank it up!

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (MvF+J)

319 i remember everyone used to bust on Creed

the 180 on Creed was pretty amazing

all their albums went multi platinum and then everyone started pretending they never liked them almost over night

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (j5Tg0)

320 Posted by: Indrid at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (NAhYT)

I agree with all of that! I love it when people can put my thoughts on paper better than me. Good post.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (sI15f)

321 So, we need a candidate that does not instantly turn off Rs in these states nor rabidly bring out Ds...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (exHjb)

Which is it, though? Appeal to celebrity status from former liberals (Dr. Oz, who actually ran a great campaign), or stick to MAGA principles (Kari Lake)?

It's a trick question, because Vichy simply will not allow Trump to carry them over the finish line unless you pack the Senate with Thunes, Cramers, and Romneys. It's good job insurance, but completely destroys their legitimacy.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (DTm0P)

322 >>>Not me, I'm old school. I bust on Rush.

i used to not get Rush, but now I like them. The radio hits, anyway.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (BvUNN)

323 Go listen to that Nickleback song "Animals."

Kroeger wants to be such a bad ass but the song isn't awful.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (KbCG3)

324 If I understand correctly, we need to fight the Russians in Ukraine or else China won't fear us and that's the family values that God likes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (FVME7)

Yeah. Apparently we need to go there, lose 50-60 thousand troops just to show the chinks were not afraid to throw away that many lives.
Gawd...this is stupid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (anj39)

325 -
Buccal fat… now available at Buccee’s.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM -
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It makes the best face soap.

Posted by: Tyler Durden at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (SchQD)

326 So I discovered this hot new band from 1995.

Check out Pulp. They're really good!

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (BvUNN)

327 316 Oh, then that led to busting on Maroon 5. Unfortunately I have had to hear Maroon 5 enough that I get that one. (I liked "Makes Me Wonder," though.)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (BvUNN)

I accidently bought a Maroon 5 album once because I confused them with another band.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (UuD2k)

328 "Funny how he swerved into the truth though about the media in American Idiot"

Glad somebody else noticed that.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (MvF+J)

329 Oh, then that led to busting on Maroon 5. Unfortunately I have had to hear Maroon 5 enough that I get that one. (I liked "Makes Me Wonder," though.)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (BvUNN)
++++
I actually kinda like Maroon 5, so long as I hear them only about once per year. It's fine. It's catchy. It's usually upbeat. It's good for one single play and no more.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (t0OGg)

330 www.MitchMcTurtleIsStillAlive.com

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (DMyTF)

331 If I understand correctly, we need to fight the Russians in Ukraine or else China won't fear us and that's the family values that God likes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM (FVME7)

The new calculus is If we don't stop Putin in Ukraine, China is going to invade Taiwan.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (mR6Gs)

332 i remember everyone used to bust on Creed. I think people went from busting on Creed right to busting on Nickelback to busting on coldplay.

I honestly couldn't tell them apart.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (BvUNN)

The funniest thing about Creed is all they did was replace the lead singer and they became a 1000x better band.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

333 No, I'm not. It's politics. But thinking that DeSantis isn't obliged to outside agendas is delusional.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM (BdMk6)

kneejerk

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (uQPen)

334 I can barbecue Jack Straw instead. Maybe when Jack Straw smokes the wacky tabacky, he "feels like a man," if you know what I'm saying.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:40 PM (BvUNN)

I didn't realize Jack was on the naughty list.

Posted by: Inogame at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (53oGX)

335 At least he didn't dip his balls in pudding. I mean what kind of demented... oh wait.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 20, 2023 03:58 PM

LOL

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (GwxCX)

336 40 "Wow," said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the Republican Party in Nevada, where DeSantis traveled over the weekend. "A lot of people don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks. I'm pro-life, but that's pretty extreme."
++++
I think I found the problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Upper middle class women that are career oriented want for themselves and their daughters to be able to remove 'mistakes' in breeding with those that might lower their societal standing.

This has been a feature of Western society for centuries to be able to hide unpleasant biological facts and products of mating and this is largely a product of the upper classes, not the lower ones.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Bmix2)

337 @ace
Ron is starting to get the exact same treatment Trump has got for eight years. Who could have predicted that the 'he's a smoother Trump, more electable' assertion would get challenged by the typical media narrative framing? Did you think he wasn't gonna get the SHOCKING EXTREME REPUBLICAN treatment?

I've seen Ron get exasperated and start laying the wood on journoscum like everyone else. How long before we start seeing the 'Ron is actually no different from Trump in any way' stories, one after another? That assembly line has just started up. What will you do then? Yell it's not true this is BS like you did with Trump for years, until you get tired like you also did with Trump? Who will be the football to your Charlie Brown then? Same good policies as Trump and Ron, but more electable! For reals. Honest!

You dance to their tune like everyone else. You can't help it. I can't help it. No one can help it. They pound our brains until we internalize their narrative and fight on their chosen ground. That's the mistake Trump made in 2020, after he won in 2016 by refusing to play that way. Ron is gonna have to show me he can do a 2016.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (fuJH0)

338 Maroon 5 sucks infected elephant cock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

339 DeSantis starts marching right foot first.

Posted by: davidt at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (SYTee)

340 *picks up guitar*
ding-a-ling a ding-a-ling a ding-a-ling a ding-a-ling a ding-a-ling

Posted by: The Edge at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

341 the 180 on Creed was pretty amazing.

I've always liked Creed. I think I have one of their CD's though.

Posted by: Bosk at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (ZVuYy)

342 Oh, then that led to busting on Maroon 5. Unfortunately I have had to hear Maroon 5 enough that I get that one. (I liked "Makes Me Wonder," though.)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (BvUNN)

Like Gutfeld.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (uQPen)

343 The signature deal made me LOL. WTF doesn't change their signature a bit throughout their lifetime?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (DcKNO)

344 This black lady in a dress has no problem with DeSantis:
https://is.gd/KjiG0x
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (t0OGg)

Hmmmmm!
I should probably help her away from that railing.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (anj39)

345 There really was a slew of terrible, overplayed bands in the 90s, especially the late 90s when Grunge turned into Chumbawumba and the radio stations were playing "truly, madly, deeply" every ten minutes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (0hOvj)

346 Senate seats open in 2024 with most likely possible pick ups for Rs...if we don't openly sabotage ourselves at the top of the ticket...So, we need a candidate that does not instantly turn off Rs in these states nor rabidly bring out Ds...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM

Exactly! A strong, palatable conservative candidate, like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, or the late and great John McCain! We could even get risky with a bit of a colored extremist like Marco Rubio!

Posted by: GOPe at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

347 Trump literally said the accusations against DeSatan would be false and fake. But whatever.

And I'd like to know who all these Trump supporters are that "cry" about "unfair" attacks from other Republicans on Trump.

It has literally been unfair attacks on Trump from Day One. Trump supporters are kind of used to it. Seems to be mainly DeSantis supporters that don't want to be in the ring.

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (BXxcV)

348
all their albums went multi platinum and then everyone started pretending they never liked them almost over night

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM

Nobody will ever admit to owning a Barry Manillow album, yet he sold millions and had a ton of hits.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (GwxCX)

349 326 So I discovered this hot new band from 1995.

Check out Pulp. They're really good!
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (BvUNN)

Pulp is excellent. Stands up very well.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (KbCG3)

350 Hot New band from 2013: Wolf Alice

pretty good. Kind of just barely toes the line to be considered "hard" rock while not being very hard. Good band.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (BvUNN)

351 The funniest thing about Creed is all they did was replace the lead singer and they became a 1000x better band.

I CREATED
I CREATED
I CREATED
I CREATED
I CREATED
MY OWN PRIIIISSSIIIOOOOOOOOOYOOYOYOYON

Posted by: Creed 4 life at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (j5Tg0)

352 One of the best lines from any movie ever, despite how damned awful the movie was:
Do you know how hard it is to make it as an indie band these days? There are so many of us, and we're all so cute and it's like if you don't get on Letterman or some retarded soundtrack, you're screwed, okay? Satan is our only hope. We're working with the beast now. And we've got to make a really big impression on him. And to do that, we're going to have to butcher you. And bleed you. And then Dirk here is gonna wear your face.

The movie was "Jennifer's Body" starring Megan Fox. Oy, what a turd that movie was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (t0OGg)

353 Why would anyone threaten to kill a goldfish? WTF?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (DSB5h)

354 346 Senate seats open in 2024 with most likely possible pick ups for Rs...if we don't openly sabotage ourselves at the top of the ticket...So, we need a candidate that does not instantly turn off Rs in these states nor rabidly bring out Ds...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 03:57 PM

Exactly! A strong, palatable conservative candidate, like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, or the late and great John McCain! We could even get risky with a bit of a colored extremist like Marco Rubio!
Posted by: GOPe at March 20, 2023 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

Notice, I did say "does not turn off Rs"...all of the above also fail...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (exHjb)

355 I didn't realize Jack was on the naughty list.
Posted by: Inogame
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Jack supports OrangeManBad. It is the beginning of the purges using ridicule, hyperbole, and sarcasm as a keen edged cutlass to defenestrate the Orange One's supporters one by one.

We await the Red Wedding MoMeet for a final reckoning.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Bmix2)

356 Ok you guys,I will not be defending 3 fingers in pudding . I have standards you know.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (EeVCB)

357 It was fun in 2016 because it was something fresh, but now it's like Jim Carrey doing another Ace Ventura movie. It's just pure cringe now. I'm embarrassed i ever liked it at all.

Also, I think there is a real hunger for a serious, competent leader right now if we're going to beat Biden.

Posted by: Indrid at March 20, 2023 03:56 PM (NAhYT)

Ugh. Setting aside that Donald Trump absolutely shattered his own ceiling during re-election, we have:

- better trade treaties in North America
- taking on China before America entered an economic death spiral
- the end of Roe v. Wade
- expanding the GOP map well beyond anything the Bush bots could hope to take
- building his own platforms on Rumble and TruthSocial even post-coup

Donald Trump is by far one of the best Presidents, arguably better than Reagan, and the fact we're still talking about MAGA is why his legacy will endure long past Reagan's. And the Trump show is not over yet.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (DTm0P)

358 > i used to not get Rush, but now I like them. The radio hits, anyway.

Same.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (V1QHJ)

359 This is how much of a pussy Romney is: he went down based on a bad dog story and the allegation that he cut a fegs hair 30 years ago.

Kavanaugh withstood the plot line of Risky Business and Trump withstood everything. They had to cheat and pay a billion dollars to get their people to vote just to beat him.

Desantis ins't stupid. He's obviously learned. Expect the absolute worst.

Posted by: MJ at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (zwDuR)

360 352 The movie was "Jennifer's Body" starring Megan Fox. Oy, what a turd that movie was.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:04 PM (t0OGg)

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Didn't even get a good look at Jennifer's Body either.

Bah.

Stupid, subversion of expectations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

361 The signature deal made me LOL. WTF doesn't change their signature a bit throughout their lifetime?
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (DcKNO)

I got a check image from a week after I broke my right arm. I'm amazed it *didn't* get rejected, it looked like a drunken toddler did it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (eoQWY)

362 I liked Creed but they were not great and they wore thin in a hurry, like a lot of bands back then. Very short-lived and nobody has them in an oldies greatest hits rotation.

Even the really lame songs in the 60s were pretty good and many of them memorable but the 90s really hit a rut.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (0hOvj)

363 I made fun of Creed's vocal sound from the beginning. It always reminded me of the sound made when Butthead made fun of someone singing like that.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

364 > Why would anyone threaten to kill a goldfish? WTF?

Let's not be hasty. What did the goldfish do?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (V1QHJ)

365 Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (BvUNN)

yep
I had someone to say to me the other day "Why hasn't he learned? Doesn't he have people around him to control this?"

evidently not
Trump is Trump
They are all narcissists. I guess we see how this rolls out over time.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (uQPen)

366
This is the most sensational expose of a national political figure since that time CNN and others became concerned that a van was blocking their view of Trump.

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hahahahahahha

They cannot, under any circumstances, be taken seriously. They're ridiculous.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (DcKNO)

367 This is me on Green Day, and why I'm nearly deaf:
https://tinyurl.com/2p85mcms

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (MvF+J)

368 When DeSantis does not run, what other alternatives are there?? Can’t think of anyone viable.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

369 are we still pretending Trump didn't take money from the exact same people...?
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I dunno about that, but apparently some people are trying to pretend that RON is a billionaire with a private company to support himself and his family if his politics career doesn't work out. . .

I visited the Desantis Hotel in DC some years back. It was Yuuge. Really really great.

Posted by: No pool, no room service, no restaraunt, no bar at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (z3BPO)

370 It's just horrible!! DeSantis ate a cupcake. He is helping to destroy our precious environment by being slightly chunky and thus using a larger carbon footprint. I also heard the cupcake was not vegan friendly. It used milk and eggs. Can we just imprison him now!!

Posted by: Vegan Veronica at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (FUVRY)

371 Chicks my age love that "Jenifer's Body" movie for some reason.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (UuD2k)

372 Meh... I still subscribe to the notion no Republican can overcome the Democrat's fraud/ballet harvesting op.

Unless the GOP is willing to ramp up their own ballot harvesting and fraud op. But current signs don't suggest that's even being contemplated.

Trump mentioned it... but that's about all I've heard.

If the GOP would put half as much effort into that as they do into undermining their own candidates who "are of lesser quality" than the GOP leadership thinks deserves to be elected they might stand a chance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
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This is what annoys me about Trump. He of all people knows full well what happened. And he's just mentioned it? C'mon man. Do something about it.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (UVyKP)

373 I may wind up voting for this Svengali guy. He seems to make more sense then all of them combined.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (DMyTF)

374 The funniest thing about Creed is all they did was replace the lead singer and they became a 1000x better band.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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This is akin - somewhat - to the story of Audioslave. Chris Cornell teamed up with all the parts of "Rage Against the Machine" that weren't Zack de la Rocha and they made a much better band.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (t0OGg)

375 What could Trump do differently?

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (sI15f)

376 The media hated Bush Jr. so apoplectically, the I began to like him. Not making that mistake this time. DeSantis so far looks too much like Scott Walker to me. Appreciated what Scott did during some dark days during the Lightbringer's regime, but . . .

Posted by: Mitcheja1962 at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (dZepG)

377 Notice, I did say "does not turn off Rs"...all of the above also fail...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM

They seem to be very 'elected' for turning off their party's voters, although Biden got elected, so anything is possible.

Posted by: GOPe at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

378 202 They are trying to split the MAGA vote, but it's not really necessary..2016 was the last time American voters had a say in an election.
Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 03:48 PM (VD8D9)

I mean, I guess Democrats will still use government to try to trick people into voting for Democrats.

They're willing to pencil whip ballots if they have to, but they'd rather not have to.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (GD2xa)

379 Two fellas who never done me wrong: RdS and garrett.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (MvF+J)

380 368 When DeSantis does not run, what other alternatives are there?? Can’t think of anyone viable.
Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2023 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

Youngkin (VA) - he could self fund if he wants...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (exHjb)

381 I've never heard Mish referred to as pudding

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (flINI)

382 346 Senate seats open in 2024 with most likely possible pick ups for Rs...if we don't openly sabotage ourselves at the top of the ticket...So, we need a candidate that does not instantly turn off Rs in these states nor rabidly bring out Ds...
Posted by: Nova Local
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May I ask your credentials for prognosticating? The Senate is essentially under Mitch's call as to candidates if you have not noticed and Mitch is uninterested in a Senate Majority.

Simply put, even aside from fraud issues, it is difficult to prognosticate Senate races and the GOP always seems to find a way to lose with dishonor rather than win with an unacceptable to donors candidate.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (Bmix2)

383 Maroon 5 sucks infected elephant cock.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

Plus, in what universe is Adam Levine the sexiest man alive?!

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

384 RDS has his staffers add a third scoop of raisins to his Raisin Bran.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (F9x34)

385 pet goldfish...
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The things you miss around here. Linky?

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (BXxcV)

386 "I'm pro-life but I'm against limiting abortion." This is said all the time.

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This sticks out for me from supposedly conservative Republicans. They are not pro-life in any sense. After something like this I don't take any statements from such people as having any validity.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (3JfbU)

387 >>>I dunno about that, but apparently some people are trying to pretend that RON is a billionaire with a private company to support himself and his family if his politics career doesn't work out. . .

So Trump took the money but he's super-independent from his moneylenders anyway?

You can see how DeSantis is trying to kiss up to the globalist establishment by destroying their new cult of transgenderism. I mean, that really endears him to them.

Say what's Trump's position on transgender treatment for kids? He doesn't talk about the issue very much, except to say something quick about "CRT and gender stuff." Kind of more of name-check than an actual statement of policy.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (BvUNN)

388 Desantis ins't stupid. He's obviously learned. Expect the absolute worst.
Posted by: MJ at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (zwDuR)

Luckily he has the *inside* view of government.
Remember Trump went in as a business man who thought his former associates would still treat him the same. He was a babe in the woods as far as politics go.
DeSantis has that going for him straight away. Of course Trump did learn somethings, like stabs in the back.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (uQPen)

389 This is akin - somewhat - to the story of Audioslave. Chris Cornell teamed up with all the parts of "Rage Against the Machine" that weren't Zack de la Rocha and they made a much better band.

Cornell also specifically didn't want the band to be political, which is one of the reasons they got so much flak from the music media

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (j5Tg0)

390 >>>1 I've never heard Mish referred to as pudding

every one is saying it now.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (BvUNN)

391 314 44 I have it on the best authority that DeSantis masticates regularly. I hate to be so crass in front of the ladies, but it needed to be said, so that we can protect our children
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

And he matriculated from college! The horror!
Posted by: Fox2! at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (8LNFq)
_______________

And he's a practicing homo sapiens!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (YqDXo)

392 > Why would anyone threaten to kill a goldfish? WTF?

Let's not be hasty. What did the goldfish do?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 04:05 PM (V1QHJ)
........

Stared at me. Stares. All day long. And when I come home he's waiting for me. Staring.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

393 This is akin - somewhat - to the story of Audioslave. Chris Cornell teamed up with all the parts of "Rage Against the Machine" that weren't Zack de la Rocha and they made a much better band.

Much less stupid lyrics as well. Rage Against the Machine is one of the worst bands in existence, despite its genuine skill with music because they sing the stupidest, most in you face offensively lying songs. Just lay off the politics, for God's sake. Sing a love song, sing a song about some place you liked. Sing a song about growing old, SOMETHING else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (0hOvj)

394 Cornell also specifically didn't want the band to be political, which is one of the reasons they got so much flak from the music media
Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (j5Tg0)
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I didn't know that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (t0OGg)

395 Everyone in H’wood and on TikTok, etc. is on Ozempic (hence the shortage for legit diabetics).

DeSantis doesn’t look like that… the shit seems to burn off fat in your head faster the rest of your body, and give you that weird skeleton-face a lot of these chicks are sporting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (oVXUM)

396 DanMa'am pulled out a 1947 Trader Vic's book of drink recipes that was thoroughly loaded with her dad's comments in the margins. I wanted to make an Old Fashioned.

I HAD NO SELTZER!

Posted by: DanMan at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (DB6tu)

397 +++++
This is akin - somewhat - to the story of Audioslave. Chris Cornell teamed up with all the parts of "Rage Against the Machine" that weren't Zack de la Rocha and they made a much better band.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (t0OGg)

I did like several Rage tunes, but it always made me laugh about a not black guy rapping about black oppression and anti white shit.

Audioslave wasn't bad. Never been impressed with mister "I can't play without TONS of effects" guitar player, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

398 I normally don’t like metal, but I have found I really like Gnome. Their riffs are pretty spectacular.

https://youtu.be/LzG-qji05Lc

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

399 We really need to get behind Chris Sununu. David French and MSNBC really like him, so he will get great press during the campaign.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (F9x34)

400 RIP Chris Cornell.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

401 Trump has some of the most retarded Twitter surrogates this time around. Between Loomer and that Alex B- guy...they are just childish and weird.

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (ei7q6)

402 "I'm pro-life but I'm against limiting abortion." This is said all the time.
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"I'm against capital punishment, except for people who really piss me off."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

403 Estee Williams, Tradwife, research her. Move over cake girl.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (GwxCX)

404 This is akin - somewhat - to the story of Audioslave. Chris Cornell teamed up with all the parts of "Rage Against the Machine" that weren't Zack de la Rocha and they made a much better band.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (t0OGg)

I bought all 3 Audioslave albums. 3rd one was kinda a letdown from the 1st 2. But those 1st 2 are really good and were tough acts to follow.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (UuD2k)

405 I was referring to actual pudding]/i]. Sickos.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (EeVCB)

406 Audioslave - Doesn't Remind Me:
https://youtu.be/lBFdX37Qpnk

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (t0OGg)

407 May I ask your credentials for prognosticating?

Could she do worse than the "credentialed" types?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (eOEVl)

408 Plus, in what universe is Adam Levine the sexiest man alive?!

The same one where a dude is woman of the year. We're not in clown world. We're in Madworld.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0hOvj)

409 Um - "and less votes in his own state than Donald Trump managed" - yeah, I don't remember that 20 point beat down in 2020. Please, lots of things to question about RDS, this is just making things up.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (UVyKP)

410 Say what's Trump's position on transgender treatment for kids? He doesn't talk about the issue very much, except to say something quick about "CRT and gender stuff." Kind of more of name-check than an actual statement of policy.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (BvUNN)

NBC headline pulled after googling real quick

"Trump vows to 'stop' gender-affirming care for minors if re-elected president
Trump said he would also push schools to “promote positive education about the nuclear family” and “the roles of mothers and fathers.""

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (eYoxG)

411 May I ask your credentials for prognosticating? The Senate is essentially under Mitch's call as to candidates if you have not noticed and Mitch is uninterested in a Senate Majority.

Simply put, even aside from fraud issues, it is difficult to prognosticate Senate races and the GOP always seems to find a way to lose with dishonor rather than win with an unacceptable to donors candidate.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (Bmix2)

Mitch is in rehab - none of the candidates for the Senate in 2024 are under his control. But the best ones won't turn out if they think it's a waste of time. If the top of the ticket is toxic in their state, they'll wait til the next Senate term up...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (exHjb)

412 I have it on the best authority that DeSantis masticates regularly. I hate to be so crass in front of the ladies, but it needed to be said, so that we can protect our children
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

And he matriculated from college! The horror!
Posted by: Fox2! at March 20, 2023 04:00 PM (8LNFq)
_______________

And he's a practicing homo sapiens!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (YqDXo)
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Psssstttt! Rumor has it his wife was a thespian in college.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (anj39)

413 >>>Gnome
https://youtu.be/LzG-qji05Lc

i linked them a while ago, they're pretty wild.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (BvUNN)

414 I don't know if it has been mentioned, but you eat poi with your fingers.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (iayUP)

415 Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 03:39 PM (BvUNN)

If that was true, Donald Trump and RDS would have put equal time into remembering the Jan 6th protestors. Federal pardons would have been nice, but that would be an admission of guilt that would see them jailed for life at the state level (Soros would find a way).

"Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest “scoops” as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY. Pelosi & McConnell failed on security. The Police story is sad and difficult to watch. “Trump” and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!"

- Ron De (haha, just kidding, of course it's from President Donald Trump)

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (DTm0P)

416 You need to hold this as a fact: DeSantis will be bound to his large donors. And he will need large donors.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 03:47 PM (BdMk6)
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Yep, every POTUS candidate is.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (UVyKP)

417 The guitarist for RATM, Tom Morello, is a Harvard PoliSci grad super leftist.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (F9x34)

418 Poi is just taro root pudding.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (iayUP)

419
Plus, in what universe is Adam Levine the sexiest man alive?!
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (DRSnL)

Bikini Bottom on Opposites Day?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

420 I bought all 3 Audioslave albums. 3rd one was kinda a letdown from the 1st 2. But those 1st 2 are really good and were tough acts to follow.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:10 PM (UuD2k)
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Ditto. Those first two records are killer. The third is merely pretty good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (t0OGg)

421 Oh boy. Another DeSantis v. Trump thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 20, 2023 03:31 PM (DSB5h)

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This will now be the name of the game until both are knocked out. The aim is to nominate Nikki Haley and then lose gracefully and in a ladylike fashion.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (3JfbU)

422 My wish: that Trump and DeSantis would team up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

423 This is what annoys me about Trump. He of all people knows full well what happened. And he's just mentioned it? C'mon man. Do something about it.
Posted by: Black JEM

It was more than vote harvesting. Essentially, had counting not stopped, Trump would have been president. The pause was to manufacture votes which happened in state after state in urban machine areas--Milwaukee, Phoenix, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit.

Correcting this issue is a state by state party push, not a candidate because essentially even as Prezzie, they are not superman. Notice no other candidate has as much admitted vote fraud just like quite a few commenters here (one in particular). It is best to start with what have you done in cleaning up the voting rolls in your state.

As for me, I donated and gave some time back in 2020 and later to people trying to fix elections in my state.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (Bmix2)

424 409 Trump did get more votes in Florida in 2020 than Ron in 2022

Crist just got much, much fewer votes than Joe did

Posted by: Deepelemblues at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (fuJH0)

425 The guitarist for RATM, Tom Morello, is a Harvard PoliSci grad super leftist.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (F9x34)

The biggest reason I think he sucks. But his guitar playing helps.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

426 I thought all the great and smart "journalists" were up in arms about Musk's tweeting back the poop emoji to any "journalist's" questions.

Posted by: Ron DeathSantis at March 20, 2023 03:55 PM (17s+e)

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You can't hurt yourself with normal people by taking on the media, but since the media live in a self-affirming incestuous cocoon, this truth is largely lost on them.

I much prefer DeSantis to Trump down the line, but even on handling the media, DeSantis has proved himself better than Trump.

Undebatable is the age difference. Assuming Biden is the Democratic nominee, one of the strongest arguments against him for an actual swing voter is his age. I'd rather have a 44 year old trying to use that than a soon-to-be 77 year old.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (pqB/I)

427 Trump Scandals: He had sex with a porn star

DeSantis Scandals: He ate pudding with his hand

Biden Scandals: He f*cked his daughter and took bribes from China

Hillary Scandals: She made billions off graft, had the CIA create a fake dossier on her political opponent

damn look how scandal free Democrats are!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (lc5cP)

428 Dr. Science speaks!

Greg Price@greg_price11
Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

429 422 My wish: that Trump and DeSantis would team up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

=======

My wish: that Philly would run a clean election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

430 I'm voting for whoever is the conservative candidate. Trump, DeSantis, or the Indian American guy whose name I cannot remember or spell.

If he's our candidate, I will make the effort.

Anyone else can go eff themselves. I'm looking at you, Pence, Haley, Scott, any of those pretenders and I know there are thousands of them.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (DcKNO)

431 The guitarist for RATM, Tom Morello, is a Harvard PoliSci grad super leftist.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (F9x34)
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But I didn't know that from listening to Audioslave. As it should be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (t0OGg)

432 and give you that weird skeleton-face a lot of these chicks are sporting.

THe buccal fat thing is a contributor as well. NOT a good look, and going to be tough to reverse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (0hOvj)

433 >international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of russia for kidnapping children in ukraine and sending them to russia. Do you believe in family values? How would you like that to happen to your family? If you believe in family, stand up for families everywhere. Don't you think god made us all in his image

Oh, so he's ready to imprison Zelensky for seizing 16-year-old boys off the streets by force to be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder, no?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (mGabY)

434 The guitarist for RATM, Tom Morello, is a Harvard PoliSci grad super leftist.

Rage Against My Daddy's Trust Fund

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (lc5cP)

435 Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

436 >>>
"Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest “scoops” as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY. Pelosi & McConnell failed on security. The Police story is sad and difficult to watch. “Trump” and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!"

- Ron De (haha, just kidding, of course it's from President Donald Trump)

say how much has Trump donated to the J6 prisoners' legal defense?

When did he first mention the J6 prisoners? Would you say it was like... this past January?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BvUNN)

437 428 Dr. Science speaks!

Greg Price@greg_price11
Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

========

"We need to break the people from doing what they want to do."
-America!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

438 430 I'm voting for whoever is the conservative candidate. Trump, DeSantis, or the Indian American guy whose name I cannot remember or spell.

Me too.. I actually like what the Indian Guy has to say....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (bs+z0)

439 Poi is rated on it's thickness as "one-finger", "two-finger", or "three-finger".

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (iayUP)

440 @greg_price11
Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)
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Fuck off, you creepy little tyrant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (t0OGg)

441 I am also in the camp that doesn't believe we can overcome cheating. So, my vote is obviously to do my citizen's duty and will do nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (DcKNO)

442 435 Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (UuD2k)

443 Pudding with his hand or was it poi with his fingers?

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (gmo/4)

444 Fauci: "They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

Oh F*CK YOU, you little troll.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (DRSnL)

445 There was lots of whining in the music press in the 00s that America "needed RATM right now" because of Bush, etc etc

Cornell said in interviews he didn't want to be RATM and he didn't want to get into politics with the band

So the music media called Audioslave boring, "too radio friendly", etc etc

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (j5Tg0)

446 RDS would be a great AG, then 2028 candidate.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (F9x34)

447 international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of russia for kidnapping children in ukraine

One of the first signs that the Ukraine thing was a bunch of BS was when it turned out about a quarter of the refugees from Ukraine went to...Russia.

For being the Hitleryist Hitler since Donald Trump, Putin sure doesn't know how to Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (lc5cP)

448 "Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him."

We're blessed to have two excellent candidates to squabble over. Dems got jack squat. 2 > 0. Count blessings.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (MvF+J)

449 Classic Lefty Projection--he's so good that it's obviously his problem. Hardy-har-har!

Posted by: MikeG at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (VsUo2)

450 444 Fauci: "They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

I need to break his tiny empty skull

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (w0NJk)

451 are we really at the point where we're praising Trump's HEROISM on the J6 prisoners?

i know the background on this. People have repeatedly tried to interest Trump in this. He only very recently mentioned them.

Don't sell me on him being a hero. He was willing to cut them loose like he eventually cuts anyone who's inconvenient loose.

But we all have to have "loyalty" to him, for reasons.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (BvUNN)

452 I would like to know where Dave in Fla stands on this.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (fjPRN)

453 441 I am also in the camp that doesn't believe we can overcome cheating. So, my vote is obviously to do my citizen's duty and will do nothing.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (DcKNO)

========

Local and state level voting is still vitally important across most of the nation.

Unless people want our safe red areas to turn into Arizona.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

454 Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (UuD2k)

I hate Pearl Jam with the fire of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

455 Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

Proof again the the best rock was in the 1970s & 1980s.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (gmo/4)

456 430 I'm voting for whoever is the conservative candidate. Trump, DeSantis, or the Indian American guy whose name I cannot remember or spell.

Me too.. I actually like what the Indian Guy has to say....

Sanjay something, I think.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (j40lz)

457 446 RDS would be a great AG, then 2028 candidate.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (F9x34)

He'd never accept AG...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (exHjb)

458 There was lots of whining in the music press in the 00s that America "needed RATM right now" because of Bush, etc etc ...
Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (j5Tg0)
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And yet, I get no credit for manfully filling the void.

Posted by: Billy Joe Armstrong at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (t0OGg)

459 >>>Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

yes they were very Emotive. And growly.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (BvUNN)

460 Greg Price@greg_price11
Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

Put Fauci in a box and send him to Sweden.

More likely to die of Muslims than the pox.

Posted by: JEM at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (8erNz)

461 eddie vedder started that, right? Were they all just imitating eddie vedder?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (BvUNN)

462 My wish: that Philly would run a clean election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (LvTSG)
____________

If we're going to go whole hog on wishes, I wish California would return to its conservative past.

Yeah. I know.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

463 When did he first mention the J6 prisoners? Would you say it was like... this past January?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BvUNN)

His position that he'd pardon them has been open well before this January. I'll go look things up again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (eYoxG)

464 427 Trump Scandals: He had sex with a porn star

DeSantis Scandals: He ate pudding with his hand

Biden Scandals: He f*cked his daughter and took bribes from China

Hillary Scandals: She made billions off graft, had the CIA create a fake dossier on her political opponent

damn look how scandal free Democrats are!
Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (lc5cP)

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This is exactly right.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (DcKNO)

465 Coldplay, though, is another story. In 2000, when that bullshit hit "Yellow" hit the scene, it marked the beginning of the end of popular music. Slow. whiny, boring, self-impressed pap so far up its own asshole it violated physical laws. This trash didn't become the universal norm for quite a while, but it was a haunting vision of things to come.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)
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More reason's to listen to Little Steven's Underground Garage. Either on Sirius/XM or the podcast. Yeah he's an umitigated lefty, but the playlist is rock, R&B, and it's various offshoots. I'm pretty sure neither Coldplay or Nickelback are anywhere near his playlists.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (UVyKP)

466 452 I would like to know where Dave in Fla stands on this.
Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (fjPRN)

He's smart enough to stay out of it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (bs+z0)

467 440 @greg_price11
Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)
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Fuck off, you creepy little tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Ah, that last part. Scratch a Progressive and a Totalitarian is screaming to get out.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (sAmhv)

468 >>>4 Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.

oh there you go

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (BvUNN)

469 Plus, in what universe is Adam Levine the sexiest man alive?!

The same one in which 3-foot-tall black leprachaun Prince was routiely haled as sexy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (ppBhU)

470 462 If we're going to go whole hog on wishes, I wish California would return to its conservative past.

Yeah. I know.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

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I wish people would realize the brilliance of the Ridley Scott work...

1492: Conquest of Paradise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

471 Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (UuD2k)
***

Kids!
Sheesh!

Posted by: CCR at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (anj39)

472 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

And when the academics cry out about people "not believing in Science anymore", point this out as Exhibit 1,483,084.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (Rl7KJ)

473 I'm voting for whoever is the conservative candidate. Trump, DeSantis, or the Indian American guy whose name I cannot remember or spell.

Me too.. I actually like what the Indian Guy has to say....

Sanjay something, I think.

*makes obvious Apu joke*

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (eOEVl)

474 -
and give you that weird skeleton-face a lot of these chicks are sporting.

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They stole it from me!

Posted by: The Jigsaw Killer at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (SchQD)

475 My neighbor takes Ozemprec for diabetes and said she lost her ability to taste food. Same thing happened to me when I had the Kung Flu. Lost a bunch of weiight too.

Coincidence?

Posted by: Regular joe at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (nnp+f)

476 398 I normally don’t like metal, but I have found I really like Gnome. Their riffs are pretty spectacular.

https://youtu.be/LzG-qji05Lc
Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 04:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

If you like really riff heavy rock, check out Camp Kill Yourself (CKY).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

477 "Trump is not lighting up a corrupt establishment, he's attacking someone for personal reasons, for having the audacity to not be "loyal" to him."
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I'm sorry I must have missed the part where Trump - or anyone really - is kind and gentle to people trying to beat him in a competition.

We leave that shit to GOPe running against Democrats, who lecture us on how wonderful it would be to see them in the WH, and how we should shut up about it.

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (BXxcV)

478 When did he first mention the J6 prisoners? Would you say it was like... this past January?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BvUNN)

Donald Trump's been talking about it for a while. I'm not your research assistant, so you'll have to look that up yourself- maybe with Sundance. I'd have a much harder row to hoe if RDS had taken advantage of Tucker Carlson's irrefutable video evidence to demand the freedom of the January 6th prisoners, especially deploying legal aid for them, but that apparently isn't a priority for him.

Setting aside the inhumanity of not taking on the issue, we can't afford GOP candidates who don't know how to appeal to the base. Especially when it could get them easy authenticity and allegiance.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (DTm0P)

479 We're blessed to have two excellent candidates to squabble over. Dems got jack squat. 2 > 0. Count blessings.
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (MvF+J)

^this^

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (AiZBA)

480 Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

--

What smoldering outbreak?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (sVtYq)

481 Let's see, the very first few resources on page 1 of the Goole search of Trump pardoning the J-6 people come from September 2022, Jun 2022, and Jan 2022.

Probable there's earlier stuff but I'd need to actually dig to try and identify when he first started talking about it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (eYoxG)

482 RATM or SOAD?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

483
Mitch is in rehab - none of the candidates for the Senate in 2024 are under his control. But the best ones won't turn out if they think it's a waste of time. If the top of the ticket is toxic in their state, they'll wait til the next Senate term up...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Nova, have you ever even worked on a political campaign at the state or federal level? As a party member? Too many people here are looking for a savior and guess what Ron ain't it nor is Trump unless you mebbe want to go all Sulla on them.

People that are running for the Senate will make their decision in late 2023 or early 2024 in order to gather the funds needed as most if not all of them do not self fund a lot of it like Trump did in 2016. You also need to sign up campaign crew and a variety of other staff in which incumbent officeholders at the state level have somewhat of an advantage.

FWIW, I directed a large empirical project back in the early 00's as to what causal factors existed for candidates to win their primary (leaving aside the general) and it was money, past experience as a candidate, incumbency, and the political environment in a particular state.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (Bmix2)

484 DeSantis ate chicken?!! I simply can't deal with this horror of a man. I need to go have a soothing cup of chamomile tea and then go lie down in a darkened room.

Posted by: Vegan Veronica at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (FUVRY)

485 The fake news hacks and NeverTrumpers don't hate DeSantis more than Trump. They only like DEAD conservatives and they believe - wrongly - that Trump is mortally wounded. Whereas DeSantis just ran out into the meadow = open season. If the fake news hacks ever believe that DeSantis is dead, they will immediately start praying over his carcass like a Noble Savage thanking the Great Skywolf for giving them this fresh meat.

Posted by: Bamanarama at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (uH1aC)

486 I find it amusing that Wikipedia describes Audioslave as a "supergroup."

"Chris Cornell and 3/4 of Rage Against the Machine" is not exactly a "supergroup."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (t0OGg)

487 479 We're blessed to have two excellent candidates to squabble over. Dems got jack squat. 2 > 0. Count blessings.
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (MvF+J)

^this^
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (AiZBA)

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Dems also don't have to worry about appealing to the voters of AZ, MI, PA, and GA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

488 For being the Hitleryist Hitler since Donald Trump, Putin sure doesn't know how to Hitler.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (lc5cP)

They've also already built apartment blocks in the fought over city Mariupol with Russian contractors and have given the apartments away free to residents in destroyed housing. Putin just drove himself into town to inspect them.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (eoQWY)

489 I thought that abortion in Florida was illegal with no exceptions for rape or incest! (No, I didn't. Because their no-exceptions limit is 15 weeks, iirc, and if you can't figure out you've been raped in 15 weeks, that's a problem.)

I believe that six weeks is a developmental marker, like heart beat or something, which is why people talk themselves into wanting the limit at six weeks.

And it's true that women often don't know they're pregnant at six weeks.

So an "I don't really like it but sort of figure there ought to be a narrow window of legality for all the 'hard cases' out there," which seems to be the majority opinion including people who claim to be pro-choice but understand that at some point that clump of cells is a baby and there's no getting around it, isn't a surprising opinion to find someone has.

But those complaining really aren't going to be less upset about an 8 week limit, or 10 week limit. After all, they're insisting that abortion is illegal and that DeSantis has taken women's rights away when there's a nicely European 15 week limit.

Posted by: Synova at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (BD/yx)

490 429 422 My wish: that Trump and DeSantis would team up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

=======

My wish: that Philly would run a clean election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

My wish: The AZ GOP weren't lazy POS that only care about their incomes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (DMyTF)

491 I'm voting for whoever is the conservative candidate. Trump, DeSantis, or the Indian American guy whose name I cannot remember or spell.

If he's our candidate, I will make the effort.

Anyone else can go eff themselves. I'm looking at you, Pence, Haley, Scott, any of those pretenders and I know there are thousands of them.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (DcKNO)

yep

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (uQPen)

492 Dems don't need a good candidate.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

493 eddie vedder started that, right? Were they all just imitating eddie vedder?

Basically. Except he is an amazing singer with some really great songs and they were just knockoffs mimicking him. Its like every damned metal singer alive now either sounds like Coldplay or the Cookie Monster with a sore throat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (0hOvj)

494 454 Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (UuD2k)

I hate Pearl Jam with the fire of a thousand suns.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

I liked some of their early stuff, but they got too full of themselves. I do have to give them some respect for their fight with Ticketmaster.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (UuD2k)

495 >>>Donald Trump's been talking about it for a while. I'm not your research assistant, so you'll have to look that up yourself- maybe with Sundance. I'd have a much harder row to hoe if RDS had taken advantage of Tucker Carlson's irrefutable video evidence to demand the freedom of the January 6th prisoners, especially deploying legal aid for them, but that apparently isn't a priority for him.

so no answer on how much Trump has donated to the January 6th prisoners defense fund, huh?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (BvUNN)

496 One of the first signs that the Ukraine thing was a bunch of BS was when it turned out about a quarter of the refugees from Ukraine went to...Russia.
_____________

You know that Russia imported a boatload of Russians into Ukraine over the last yumpty-yump years, in an effort to pacify Ukrainian nationalist sentiment, right?

So this is not surprising. It was like the Democrats trying to turn Texas blue.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (YqDXo)

497 471 Didn't all the male 90's lead "rock" singers have that hurrrr durrrrr murrrrr sound for a time?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BXxcV)

Yes, there was a plague of dramatic angst in singing. I blame Pearl Jam.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (UuD2k)
***

Kids!
Sheesh!
Posted by: CCR at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (anj39)

Opening line of Nirvana's In Utero album says it all:

Teenage angst has paid off well / now I'm bored and old

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (KbCG3)

498 NYT article says Trump, based on transcripts was already considering "blanket pardons" for the protestors while he was still in office.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (eYoxG)

499 Adam Levine is about as sexy as Richard Levine.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (DRSnL)

500 Don't sell me on him being a hero. He was willing to cut them loose like he eventually cuts anyone who's inconvenient loose.

But we all have to have "loyalty" to him, for reasons.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (BvUNN)

Had he pardoned those guys, he'd been toast.

Of course, he's toast anyway. As is the Republic.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (lTeRN)

501 What smoldering outbreak?
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (sVtYq)

Good health, probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (eoQWY)

502 > The buccal fat thing is a contributor as well. NOT a good look, and going to be tough to reverse.

Not only does the result look weird, it's risky. There's a whole spiderweb of facial nerves right over the site they pull the fat from. If the surgeon messes up a little bit, your face can end up partially paralyzed.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (V1QHJ)

503 Had Andrew Wood not OD, Pearl Jam would never been a thing. I admit to liking the first PJ album. It was good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (sAmhv)

504 "Johnny McEntee, Mr. Trump’s director of personnel, recalled in an interview how, during his final days in office, the former president had floated the idea of a “blanket pardon” for the breach of the Capitol, but Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, had rejected it."

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:19 PM (eYoxG)

505 Donald Trump's been talking about it for a while. I'm not your research assistant, so you'll have to look that up yourself- maybe with Sundance.

No you aren't, but I notice a lack of citations in your post. Perhaps you should do your own research for your own posts.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (eOEVl)

506 AH! Here's the DeSantis movie review!

Chuy sure can crank 'em out when he's on fire.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (Xrfse)

507 If we're going to go whole hog on wishes, I wish California would return to its conservative past.

Yeah. I know.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

It could happen. Just need to get white people out of the state and convince the Asian kids to be skeptical at the universities. The blacks are already on their way out.

Posted by: JEM at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (8erNz)

508 492 Dems don't need a good candidate.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

John Fetterman nods his head and lump in agreement.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

509 Both Rage Against the Machinw and System of a Down can just go away please. And SOAD was what I was thinking of with the metal lyrics now, not Coldplay.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (0hOvj)

510 say how much has Trump donated to the J6 prisoners' legal defense?

When did he first mention the J6 prisoners? Would you say it was like... this past January?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BvUNN)

Jesse Kelly has been tweeting this.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (uQPen)

511 Mitch is in rehab - none of the candidates for the Senate in 2024 are under his control. But the best ones won't turn out if they think it's a waste of time. If the top of the ticket is toxic in their state, they'll wait til the next Senate term up...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:11 PM (exHjb)

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Then they will be waiting a long time, these critters live well into their nineties and can only be carried out of the Senate in a body bag.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (3JfbU)

512 So Trump's attitude towards the J6 protestors seems to have been pretty consistent over time.

Now obviously they're still imprisoned and maybe doing something different would have been better. But he wasn't intending to abandon them from the start and still hasn't.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (eYoxG)

513 Don't sell me on him being a hero. He was willing to cut them loose like he eventually cuts anyone who's inconvenient loose.

But we all have to have "loyalty" to him, for reasons.
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:14 PM (BvUNN)

Now that's just being an asshole. Chansley, among many others, have been basing their legal defense on not being connected to Trump. Which would be a lot harder if he was pushing for their release since leaving office.

Even then, RDS isn't meeting the standard of basic humanity you claim Trump is only just finding. That's not exactly a boost for him.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (DTm0P)

514 They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

Now imagine any conservative pol said something like this. It would be THE story any time the Republicans proposed anything.

Also, any time a Republican office holder says something like, "That would give the appearance of impropriety" over doing something we should demand they resign.

The best of the GOPe are stuck in the mid-90s. Though most of them are working for the same people Denis Hastert did...and doing the same sorts of things

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)

515 508 492 Dems don't need a good candidate.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

Yup

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (bs+z0)

516 " My wish: that Trump and DeSantis would team up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara "

It should be their #1 priority over EVERYTHING else. If that team can't win, nobody can.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (iayUP)

517 Eddie Vedder did a song on Twin Peaks The Return which was really freaking great

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (w0NJk)

518 I wish people would realize the brilliance of the Ridley Scott work...

1492: Conquest of Paradise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

John Milius leaves Scott in the dust.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (gmo/4)

519 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

520 The buccal fat thing is a contributor as well. NOT a good look, and going to be tough to reverse.

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I've read it's impossible to reverse. It's a hideous look/trend...whatever you want to call it. Very unnatural.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (sVtYq)

521 You know that Russia imported a boatload of Russians into Ukraine over the last yumpty-yump years, in an effort to pacify Ukrainian nationalist sentiment, right?

So this is not surprising. It was like the Democrats trying to turn Texas blue.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (YqDXo)

I think the traditional means the USSR used to modify Ukrainian national sentiment was mass starvation and shooting them in carload lots.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (eoQWY)

522 Nova, have you ever even worked on a political campaign at the state or federal level? As a party member? Too many people here are looking for a savior and guess what Ron ain't it nor is Trump unless you mebbe want to go all Sulla on them.

People that are running for the Senate will make their decision in late 2023 or early 2024 in order to gather the funds needed as most if not all of them do not self fund a lot of it like Trump did in 2016. You also need to sign up campaign crew and a variety of other staff in which incumbent officeholders at the state level have somewhat of an advantage.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (Bmix2)

I have never said Ron is it. I've said Trump is NOT it. He's toxic. It can't be helped. If I was GOPe and I wanted a shot at winning 2024 and the Senate, I'd put Kemp up. He'd probably win and he is Uniparty. I'd prefer to do better, so Youngkin and DeSantis are in my orbit, but I'm not sold on any one person - I'm just sold against certain people (including Haley, who is toxic to the base, a reverse Trump problem)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (exHjb)

523 John Fetterman nods his head and lump in agreement.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 20, 2023 04:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

Weekend At Bernie's might be the only time Bernie wins.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (uQPen)

524 Chris Cornell > Layne Staley > Eddie Vedder

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (j5Tg0)

525 519 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

This is correct.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (KbCG3)

526 Oh well. Nap time.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (anj39)

527 Now that's just being an asshole.

That's an excellent choice of words to apply to someone who controls the site. I encourage this trend. You should do it early and often.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (eOEVl)

528 If wood didn't kill himself, there would have been no temple of the dog, and no pearl jam, since Temple was Vedders impromptu audition.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (F9x34)

529 My wish: The AZ GOP weren't lazy POS that only care about their incomes.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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AZ GOP, like Jeff Flake, make their money from an open border---Flake came out and admitted that his family hired illegals for farm work as did a lot of the big fish in the agri and construction industries and when you add in cartel control of drugs and people trafficking along with sex trafficking through the border. You have a perfect trifecta that will act to corrupt politicians if only to keep their miserable lives.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (Bmix2)

530 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

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Yup.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (2YtOq)

531 All bad theater that I wouldn't pay a dime for even with a bag of hot buttered popcorn, a box of chocolates, and a large drink. Very tiring. Full disclosure, I don't sign my name the same every time - Burn the witch!

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (oiNtH)

532 Nirvana was never my thing singing/songwriting wise, though I'll admit Grohl et al have done great since.

Was much more a Hole fan.

Top ten lifetime for me: https://youtu.be/85nWO5aE3vs

Posted by: JEM at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (8erNz)

533 Nova Local Im with you FWIW

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (w0NJk)

534 Dems don't need a good candidate.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

They prefer drooling idiots they can manipulate.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (j40lz)

535 395 how does that even work? You can’t target a body place to spot reduce. If you could, oh boy would I make money! I wonder if it’s older people using it vs. 20 somethings so they don’t have much skin laxity? That would show up pretty quickly in the face and neck area.

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

536 Fauci is letting the monkey pox outbreak smolder. in his dirty dick sucking little wop mouf.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (oINRc)

537 519 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

Peral Jam was more mainstream palatable, while AiC was hard rock/heavy metal until Jar of Flies and Unplugged.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (UuD2k)

538 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.

AIC was a more creative, powerful, and talented band for sure, but they lacked that sexy face and voice to lead. I love the singing for AIC but its kind of dissonant and unnerving rather than smooth and sexy. Women are the biggest drivers in music purchases, like most consumerism, so if you don't make the girls happy you won't make it as far in music

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (0hOvj)

539 480 Fauci: "[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won't get vaccinated]. It's so crazy. They're not doing it because they say they don't want to. They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

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What smoldering outbreak?
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (sVtYq)

Give me Liberty or Give me Death.

But we pretty much all knew Fauci was wrong anyway, BUT even if he hadn't been, there's worse things than dying and becoming compliant is one of them.

Posted by: Synova at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (BD/yx)

540 What smoldering outbreak?
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 20, 2023 04:17 PM (sVtYq)

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I sincerely don't get this at all. Are we still worried about COVID as a country? I never was but I know that people were. But NOW?

And add to that what we know about the "vaccines," who in their right mind would get them?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (DcKNO)

541 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

This is correct.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (KbCG3)

Don't forget SoundGarden.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (lTeRN)

542 I hope Turtles therapy involves learning to read, write, and speak again. Personally, I hope the guy is rotting like an old desicated vegetable.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (DMyTF)

543 -
Dems don't need a good candidate.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy -
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Get out of here.

Posted by: John "My Other Lump Is A Senator" Fetterman at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (SchQD)

544 Stone Temple Pilots - Lounge Fly:
https://youtu.be/ddhpFjyuNWI

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (t0OGg)

545 desiccated

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (DMyTF)

546 nood fetterman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

547 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

This is correct.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (KbCG3)

Don't forget SoundGarden.

Boomer says "who?"

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (eOEVl)

548 It's going to be amusing when, after all is said and done the GOP in their infinite wisdom put Pence on the ticket regardless whether DeSantis and/or Trump run and do well in early polling/debates.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)

549 "Was much more a Hole fan.
Top ten lifetime for me: https://youtu.be/85nWO5aE3vs"

They had four great songs, and that's one of them.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at March 20, 2023 04:25 PM (MvF+J)

550 They're Republicans. They don't like being told what to do. We need to break that."

I watched the videos of Fauci roaming poor neighborhoods with a team trying to convince people to take the poison genetic mutating jab and boy did he and they get a mouthful. People do not trust that little runt. They tried every tactic - "protect your communi-tay"!

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 20, 2023 04:25 PM (uQPen)

551 My wish: that Trump and DeSantis would team up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

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If only! They would be unstoppable.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 20, 2023 04:25 PM (3JfbU)

552 > Hillary Scandals: She made billions off graft, had the CIA create a fake dossier on her political opponent

A lot of people forget about Hillary's FBI file scandal. She had a whole bunch of FBI files on political opponents. They went "missing" then they got "found" randomly in the White House. Someone got the bright idea to fingerprint the files and her prints were literally all over the files.

Nobody really mentions it, but that should have been a MASSIVE scandal.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 04:25 PM (V1QHJ)

553 Chris Cornell > Layne Staley > Eddie Vedder

Mark Lanegan and Scott Weiland have to be in there somewhere as well. But they are all really, really good.

That was the weird part about grunge. Yeah the guitars and the clothing and the heroin and all that got the attention but damn, those dudes could really, really sing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:25 PM (0hOvj)

554 519 Pearl Jam got all the fame and glory that Alice in Chains should have gotten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yep!

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (sAmhv)

555 542 I hope Turtles therapy involves learning to read, write, and speak again. Personally, I hope the guy is rotting like an old desicated vegetable.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

https://youtu.be/mRCe5L1imxg

Turtles therapy, delivered:

https://youtu.be/mRCe5L1imxg

Posted by: JEM at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (8erNz)

556 AIC was a more creative, powerful, and talented band for sure, but they lacked that sexy face and voice to lead. I love the singing for AIC but its kind of dissonant and unnerving rather than smooth and sexy. Women are the biggest drivers in music purchases, like most consumerism, so if you don't make the girls happy you won't make it as far in music
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 04:23 PM (0hOvj)
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Yup, and chicks *love* Eddie Vedder. Weird Al even did a song about that:
https://youtu.be/SEQycU_fk3s

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (t0OGg)

557 You know that Russia imported a boatload of Russians into Ukraine over the last yumpty-yump years, in an effort to pacify Ukrainian nationalist sentiment, right?

So this is not surprising. It was like the Democrats trying to turn Texas blue.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (YqDXo)

Ukraine's immigrant population has been slowly declining for decades. There hadn't been any recent efforts of that nature.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (eYoxG)

558 "If I was GOPe and I wanted a shot at winning 2024 and the Senate, I'd put Kemp up."

!

Kemp is a lunkhead. Granted, he's our lunkhead, but I believe he would be laughed off the national stage.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (iayUP)

559 I have never said Ron is it. I've said Trump is NOT it. He's toxic. It can't be helped. If I was GOPe and I wanted a shot at winning 2024 and the Senate, I'd put Kemp up. He'd probably win and he is Uniparty. I'd prefer to do better, so Youngkin and DeSantis are in my orbit, but I'm not sold on any one person - I'm just sold against certain people (including Haley, who is toxic to the base, a reverse Trump problem)...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Nova, you did not address my question. You have not demonstrated any ability to argue beyond emotion here. Where are your facts--please cite survey information (btw Insta has a very recent one you might take a look at), you might also have some grounding in experience or history in politics--for example, Jesse Helms, in NC, was viewed as a national target for the Dems and the GOP nationally looked at him as an embarrassment. Guess what, he consistently won by about 51-52 percent of the vote in NC for six terms in office.

Labels like toxic, etc. come from Conservative and traditional media who only know the last campaign. Professionals don't use those terms.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:26 PM (Bmix2)

560 It's going to be amusing when, after all is said and done the GOP in their infinite wisdom put Pence on the ticket regardless whether DeSantis and/or Trump run and do well in early polling/debates.

Republicans in 2000: We should close a bunch of federal agencies and reduce the sickly bloated then $2T budget.

Shrub: We need to spend more

Republicans in 2008: BUILD THE WALL

Juan McVain: F*ck your wall

Republicans in 2012: We need to get rid of Obamacare

Mittens Romneycare: Uh...no.

and so on...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

561 NOOD

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (bs+z0)

562 The DeSantis fans are starting to look a lot like the Cruz fans did in 2016.

Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (WiAW9)

563 533 Nova Local Im with you FWIW
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 04:22 PM (w0NJk)

Thanks

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (exHjb)

564 I hate Pearl Jam with the fire of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

Music to my ears..lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (VwHCD)

565 Please define "toxic". Damn, that label get's tossed around a lot. Mostly by the left.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 20, 2023 04:27 PM (Xrfse)

566 say how much has Trump donated to the J6 prisoners' legal defense?

When did he first mention the J6 prisoners? Would you say it was like... this past January?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (BvUNN)

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Since Tucker Carlson's security tapes this is Trump's weakest point. If he doesn't champion these prisoners, loud and often, he can forget anyone else protesting on his behalf.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 20, 2023 04:28 PM (3JfbU)

567 Don't forget SoundGarden.

Boomer says "who?"
Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 04:24 PM (eOEVl)

Born in 60. 90's > 80's.

Posted by: Golfman at March 20, 2023 04:28 PM (lTeRN)

568 Simply put, even aside from fraud issues, it is difficult to prognosticate Senate races and the GOP always seems to find a way to lose with dishonor rather than win with an unacceptable to donors candidate.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:08 PM (Bmix2)
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Yeah - and Mitch can finesse this pretty easily because we will win the senate in 24, the map is just too much against the dems. But he can make sure it only is won by so much, and only by the right people. Or at least try to, and he will be successful to some degree. He wouldn't like those last two years as majority leader to be too distracting.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:28 PM (UVyKP)

569 Never mind. Willowed once again.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 20, 2023 04:28 PM (Xrfse)

570 548 It's going to be amusing when, after all is said and done the GOP in their infinite wisdom put Pence on the ticket regardless whether DeSantis and/or Trump run and do well in early polling/debates.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Probably not. GOPe incorporated would probably rather someone like Youngkin, Noem, etc. I think Nikki's run as well as Pence's are payment for services rendered to GOPe Inc. They will get some grift and attention and promptly vanish after a couple of primaries.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:28 PM (Bmix2)

571 I watched the videos of Fauci roaming poor neighborhoods with a team trying to convince people to take the poison genetic mutating jab and boy did he and they get a mouthful.

I believe the stats on how many people took the clot shot are grossly overstated based on things like this.

In Boston supposedly 90% of the population was clot shotted, so the new mayor implemented a clot shot requirement for restaurants...and immediately repealed it when the restaurateurs told her they'd go out of business in weeks if she didn't...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2023 04:29 PM (lc5cP)

572 Trump mentioned it... but that's about all I've heard.

If the GOP would put half as much effort into that as they do into undermining their own candidates who "are of lesser quality" than the GOP leadership thinks deserves to be elected they might stand a chance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2023 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
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This is what annoys me about Trump. He of all people knows full well what happened. And he's just mentioned it? C'mon man. Do something about it.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:07 PM (UVyKP)

Here's where I am with this... and yes I know this will sound Jack-esque (sorry Ace)
If Don is really running to win in '24 and isn't just grifting then he's working the cheat angles.
If he's not working the cheat, then he's grifting.
I know the GOP is grifting.
I don't know Trump is grifting.

Posted by: Inogame at March 20, 2023 04:29 PM (53oGX)

573 Ace: "These are the same people who insist..."

They aren't really "people" people anymore. They're more like pod people. Or robots. Maybe even mannequins.

I don't relate to them any more. They're foreigners in their own land.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 20, 2023 04:29 PM (aXxgO)

574 Dems don't need a good candidate.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (F9x34)

THIS! The fix is already in.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 20, 2023 04:30 PM (BdMk6)

575 @553

yep, they were all great. it was a fun time to be a kid just getting into music

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2023 04:30 PM (j5Tg0)

576 Someone was talking earlier about the open MI senate seat in the next election. It's not a potential R pick up, no way no how.

Michigan no longer has statewide elections after 2022 Proposal 2. Might not even have local elections since it eliminated precinct counts and mandated ballot drop boxes. Our slate of electors should be rejected until and unless that's repealed.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at March 20, 2023 04:30 PM (UfRqq)

577 Trump will pardon the wrongly imprisoned on Day 1. Will Ronnie?

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2023 04:31 PM (BXxcV)

578 so no answer on how much Trump has donated to the January 6th prisoners defense fund, huh?

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2023 04:18 PM (BvUNN)

From public advocacy to personally bankrolling the legal defense of how many people? I'm surprised you haven't broken your back moving those goalposts, but it's not making RDS look more appealing as a candidate. Quite the contrary.

Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:31 PM (DTm0P)

579 Ron DeSantis was banned from Disney when he denied being a groomer three times.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 20, 2023 04:32 PM (Jg7EG)

580 Jeebus.

Posted by: jeannebodine at March 20, 2023 04:33 PM (qvygb)

581 Trump clearly owes the January 6 people more than DeSantis, but talking about January 6 is a boon to the Democrats. Proof: Who saturated the public with January 6 hearings?

Whereas it's a hot button for partisans, it is not an issue you are going to change minds about (well, except for maybe Naomi Wolf, and she's still not going to vote for a conservative).

It somewhat ties into this "who got more votes in Florida?" There were a lot of voters overall in 2020 because Trump was so polarizing. People registered and came out to vote who never had before. Whether the Democrats committed fraud or not, they did not manufacture all of Biden's votes, and anyone with a brain knows that most people voting for Biden were voting against Trump more than for that corrupt shell of a candidate.

That Trump compares numbers from a heavily favored incumbent in a governor's race to a presidential candidate in one of the most important electoral prizes in the country evidences how facile his thinking can be when it involves his ego.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 20, 2023 04:33 PM (pqB/I)

582 DeSantis is also presiding over the largest increases of home owners insurance, car insurance and power bills in the states history. Housing is not affordable in that state. Any good he's done is going to get washed away by that.

Posted by: Iron-Wombat at March 20, 2023 04:35 PM (lSIb9)

583 Correcting this issue is a state by state party push, not a candidate because essentially even as Prezzie, they are not superman. Notice no other candidate has as much admitted vote fraud just like quite a few commenters here (one in particular). It is best to start with what have you done in cleaning up the voting rolls in your state.

As for me, I donated and gave some time back in 2020 and later to people trying to fix elections in my state.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 04:12 PM (Bmix2)
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I don't disagree with your post. I am fortunate to live in a state where we would be the poster boy for how to run a clean election. But the prez can coordinate efforts to start this action in the states where it matters. He hasn't.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:35 PM (UVyKP)

584 Oh, so he's ready to imprison Zelensky for seizing 16-year-old boys off the streets by force to be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder, no?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 20, 2023 04:13 PM (mGabY)
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SO draft rules imposed in time of war are imprisonable offenses now? Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:38 PM (UVyKP)

585 Local and state level voting is still vitally important across most of the nation.

Unless people want our safe red areas to turn into Arizona.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 20, 2023 04:15 PM (LvTSG)
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Yep - because these red areas are more likely to get SCOTUS to keep remembering the 10th Amendment. We have to save our gas stoves.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 04:40 PM (UVyKP)

586 Weird how all these bulwark NeverTrumper types just flipped and support PDT over RDS all of a sudden... almost as if they realized that they were helping Trump with their endorsement of RDS.
Kinda like the commies and their media finally realized that arresting PDT might make him a martyr thus strengthening his support.

Posted by: VAR1ABLE at March 20, 2023 04:44 PM (yy/IU)

587 Any sign of the release of the kraken because that would fit nicely into today is Klown World Monday.

Posted by: micky at March 20, 2023 04:46 PM (3byMq)

588 kinzinger is the latourette character in stripes, a detestable one,

Posted by: no 6 at March 20, 2023 04:51 PM (PXvVL)

589 larouquette character, although he's gotten as fat as the late tourettes candidate (r ahia)

Posted by: no 6 at March 20, 2023 04:53 PM (PXvVL)

590 Is Ace Gay? Cause he sure has the hots for DeSantis and it’s ridiculous how he dissed the greatest President America has had since the civil war

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 20, 2023 05:11 PM (MwHgU)

591 Wow, Ace is really in love.
I just want justice to come down on the commie brass who disobeyed orders, the Stazi alphabet agencies, the liars in the media, and the liars and crooks within the govt who eventually orchestrated the stealing of the election. Traitors all. PDT has to finish the job, and I want him to exact revenge against them all, good and hard.
That's it.
I realize this is just a fantasy and these dirty commies will never allow another non-uniparty in the WH, so none of this really matters. 2024 may just be the last peaceful gasp.
I have seen for years how much the left viscerally hates Trump; so far RDS has just been treated the same as Romney, McCain, Bush, et al.
Until RDS has been smeared/attacked as viscously and for as long as PDT has, I'll continue support the known quantity.
But by all means, go ahead and fall in love, bro.
Don't let me talk you out of it.

Posted by: VAR1ABLE at March 20, 2023 05:28 PM (utMrO)

592 "From public advocacy to personally bankrolling the legal defense of how many people? I'm surprised you haven't broken your back moving those goalposts, but it's not making RDS look more appealing as a candidate. Quite the contrary."

But he didn't personally bankroll the legal defense of anyone. Even Trump hasn't claimed he has, and even if he did, there's no evidence that he has.

Posted by: Patrick at March 20, 2023 05:38 PM (SZwaM)

593 Nood Libs of Tik Tok

Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 05:39 PM (VD8D9)

594 Gee whiz, the Left (including NeverTrump, natch) are being mean to Sanctimonious Meatball Ron.

Oh the whining of a thousand tears in this post.

F—cking hilarious. Made my Day Duece!

Thanks for the laughs, good for one’s health and gainzzz.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at March 20, 2023 06:17 PM (FkMTW)

595 changed his name to Dee-Santis because the normal way is too easy to turn into Da-sanctimonious ... Trump lives rent free in his head ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at March 20, 2023 06:37 PM (5cMUX)

596 It's interesting to see this blog slowly morphing into another RedState.com and I think the majority of readers here would agree that one shill anti-Trump/pro-Desantis blog is more than enough. If AceOfSpades is going to become RedState2.com, then there's no reason to come here anymore.

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

Posted by: Tracy at March 20, 2023 06:38 PM (KPPbj)

597 Look, I get the UniParty media induced tumult that all of us Morons have been through the last six years; it is great psyops by the UniParty - and make no mistake it is the UniParty. Get that through your heads, and now.

Ace, Buck, CBD, Joe M, MH... We revere you all. Just remember that the UniParty HATES YOU. Period.

Mar-a-Lago was raided and RdS went silent per his establishment controllers. That was the first shot; I am not hating DeSantis here, it is just reality.

At the end of the day the republican establishment makes money by obtaining power - and THAT is all that matters to them. They HATE you for having a voice. Trump has lived this and understands it very well now.

This poor guy is obviously NOT authentic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00GM4gp5N_w

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (ryUqI)

598 Even after Ace explicitly states he's all-in on Trump, here come Trump supporters to scold him for repeating anything unflattering.

This is the kind of Borg Collective hivemind that comes with being a lifelong Pedocrat and two-time 0bama voter.

No Republican can beat the institutional fraud, so it's a moot point, yet those worshippers of the golden calf can't wrap their minds around anything else.

Trump's inability to sense the intentions of others coupled with his almost nonexistent sense of morality means he will always surround himself with dirtbags.

He's great in the moment, and he has an inherent grasp on the emotional state of those in his immediate vicinity, but that's all he's got going for him. Wheeling and dealing requires his physical presence. He cannot tear down the system. That requires someone who understands systems at an abstract level.

This is why DeSantis has been such an effective political leader and Trump has been such a spectacular failure.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (wqbZN)

599 I hate when the Democrats do the cult of personality thing but I especially hate when Republicans do it, particularly when the 'personality' in question is that of an arrogant narcissist (I know we're supposed to pretend not to notice) who is only interested in getting re-elected as part of a revenge arc that has little to do with actual conservatism.

Trump's constant need to troll and insult people could be amusing at first but quickly became tiresome, it does him more harm than good.
He got away with his 'Cruz was the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll' because people weren't used to it but his attacks on Desantis, who has widespread support amongst Conservatives, will, I think, make potential supporters actively dislike him if they aren't already there.

Posted by: stv at March 20, 2023 07:31 PM (/dqoc)

600 it's not making RDS look more appealing as a candidate. Quite the contrary.
Posted by: trev006 at March 20, 2023 04:31 PM (DTm0P)
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It's you fault this guy dislikes DeSantis, Ace. If Leftists didn't have logical fallacy, they'd have no logic at all.

Trump's administration gave rise to Tranny tyranny. Doesn't matter, because he supports all the social programs supported by the Left.

But...but...I'm not a Leftist!! Really? Ever examined any of those #conservative beliefs you supposedly hold? Trumpservatives don't oppose illegals for any other reason than, "they take the gibzmedats meant for Americans, like me."

Pro-union, pro-big-government-spending, so long as it's on their pet causes. Let Antifa burn down the country? Not his fault. Let Pedocrats steal the election? Not his fault. Made sure Socialist Insecurity kept up with inflation? He's a genius!

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 20, 2023 07:47 PM (wqbZN)

601 LOL, insurgens ad opus believes RDS will steamroll both parties and the deepstate commies in D.C. doing everything PDT tried to do but failed, because RDS understands it... not because he was a part of it in the senate. That's cute.
Well, I hope you're right, but I'm not holding my breath.
I want revenge/justice. I don't care who delivers it.
Only one of them has endured every attack the commies have thrown at him (real or manufactured) and survived. The bones are picked clean.
RDS is a new, plump, meaty target for these commies to feast on. We'll see if he caves.

Posted by: VAR1ABLE at March 20, 2023 09:14 PM (AvLev)

602 Wow. That awkward moment when you think you're clever for saying "My weakness? I work too hard and care too much about my fellow employees"

Posted by: Fen at March 20, 2023 09:57 PM (+LcMo)

603 insurgens ad opus - No hivemind here, brother, based on reality that Trump and his people delivered the greates economy since Ronaldus - against the wishes of his party and democrats.

Agreed, this is all prolly moot because of fraud... that the republican party did NOTHING against the last two elections in swing states. My issue is with the republican party establishment who is just as much paid by asians as demonrats.

The AoS staff does a great job of putting it out there, no need to rag on them.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 20, 2023 10:17 PM (ryUqI)

604 Desantis is toothless. Despite having a super majority , and despite republicans having control of the house, senate, and governorship since 1999, he can’t get his legislature to improve our terrible 2A laws; 47 states have open carry in some form or fashion. Florida doesn’t, and won’t thanks to his weak kneed ideology.

His liberal abortion policies have caused us to become a destination state for abortion seekers, part of the reason our abortions numbers have skyrocketed.

We don’t have complete school choice, he caved on Disney and as long you’re a teacher in at least fourth grade, it’s quite okay to talk about gender and sexual orientation.

I guess you have to be from Florida to understand exactly how liberal he has made our state,

Posted by: Bret at March 20, 2023 10:32 PM (VelXf)

605 Can someone please help Jason Miller find his chin? I think he lost it along with his retainer in grammar school.

Posted by: Dolly Parton at March 20, 2023 11:20 PM (QYuAC)

606 Ha-ha-ha!! 😆

Jeff Charles and other RedState writers are losing their minds over President Trump's huge and loyal voter base, with Charles basically whining that no politician deserves anyone's loyalty.
Of course, they are too busy polishing Desantis's grapes with daily, over-the-top articles that might as well be crediting the Florida governor with creating Conservatism, the cure for cancers and the Moon landing. That's how silly their cheerleading has gotten. And that bunch always complains that Trump is hyperbolic! LOOK IN THE MIRROR, REDSTATE.

Posted by: Tracy at March 20, 2023 11:42 PM (KPPbj)

607 Desantis is toothless. Despite having a super majority, and despite republicans having control of the house, senate, and governorship since 1999, he can’t ...

Posted by: Bret at March 20, 2023 10:32 PM (VelXf)

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DeSantis has been governor for only four of those 24 years, which kind of suggests you are spinning more than you are attempting any reasonable analysis. Is DeSantis responsible for what happened, say, during Charlie Crist's term?

I didn't look up all of your claims, but regarding abortion tourism, the number of out-of-state women who came to Florida for an abortion last year was 4,873, which was fewer than 1 out of 1,000 abortions performed in the US and probably closer to 1 in 2,000. But again you are blaming DeSantis for something that only recently he could have addressed (with the overturning of Roe v. Wade).

As for Trump, he has refused to say whether he has personally ever paid any women to have abortions. I bring this up only because you indicate this is an important issue to you. (I do give Trump credit for appointing pro-Life judges.)

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 21, 2023 10:23 AM (pqB/I)

608 Lawmakers in his home state are advancing controversial bills on gender and diversity policy -- base-pleasing issues for Republicans, but a potential liability in a general election.

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Can't they just say they are the party of pedophilia and cutting healthy girls' breasts off?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 21, 2023 07:40 PM (h1jJh)

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